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Bound to Fail; The Inevitable Collapse of McChrystal's Afghan War Plan
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:39:12 by Brian S
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In the 11 May issue of CounterPunch, apparently based on White House and Pentagon sources, Gareth Porter, one of the most able journalists covering the Afghan debacle, reported that General McChrystal’s war plan is in the early stages of unravelling. To appreciate why this was entirely predictable, consider please, the following:On January 2, during an interview with Drew Brown of Stars and Stripes, McChrystal described his plan to create an ‘arc of security’ in the most densely populated regions of Southern Afghanistan. The green shaded area in the following map of Afghanistan overlays McChystal’s arc on the distribution of population densities. I constructed it from ...
Anti-Israel Coalition Broadens
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:17:58 by Brian S
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While Russia is officially an ally, there can be no question that President Dmitry Medvedev is a staunch ally of the nations that comprise the ‘Axis of Evil’, Syria, Iran and Hizbullah. While shaking the hand of President Shimon Peres and other Israeli state leaders, Medvedev on the other hand is selling advanced weapons to Syria, knowing full well these weapons are being passed along to Hizbullah and Hamas to prepare for the next military engagement with the IDF. In his visit to Turkey, meeting with Turkish President Abdullah Gul, the two announced the need to include Hamas in the Mideast peace efforts, stating the terrorist regime must be an integral part of the process. Gul, ...
Moscow To Build Nuke Plant In Turkey, Considering Syria As Well
Post Date: 2010-05-12 21:36:36 by Brian S
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While Jerusalem lashed out against Moscow on Wednesday for wanting to include Hamas in the diplomatic process, it took a much more low-key approach to news that Russia would build a nuclear reactor in Turkey, and was considering doing the same in Syria. “This is obviously not something people here are overjoyed about,” one official said of the developments, but there is a feeling – at least regarding Turkey – that if the plant is under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, there is much less to worry about. The problem is Syria, the official added, because although it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and under IAEA ...
Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem
Post Date: 2010-05-12 20:35:37 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM - Beset by questions about Jerusalem's future in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's contested claim on the city. Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism's core canon. "As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said. Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "eternal and ...
Obama Loses Iraq
Post Date: 2010-05-12 16:12:24 by no gnu taxes
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This blog was alone in warning of the coming loss of all that Americans invested in the war on terror in Mr. Obama deliberately handing over Iraq to the Islamocommunists there, and the fact is certain that the intelligence and munitions being fed the terrorists in Iraq are well coordinated and adept. In one day, bombings and attacks spread from northern, central and southern Iraq, into the heart of Baghdad. Remote controlled bombs and silencers on drive by shootings, which were so detailed that the terrorists are no wearing government uniforms, all reveal just how well established and flourishing this terrorist group has become under Mr. Obama's dithering. This can not be missed as ...
Welfare System Could Cause Israel To Collapse, Economist Warns
Post Date: 2010-05-12 12:58:29 by Brian S
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Nearly one in five Israeli men between the ages of 35 and 54 do not work, including Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews, says Dan Ben-David. As their numbers rise, so does the economic peril, he says. By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times 5:46 PM PDT, May 10, 2010 Reporting from Jerusalem When people talk these days about Israel's economy, they use words like booming, resilient, even "miracle." Weaning itself off socialist-influenced policies that once brought 400% inflation and 60% income-tax brackets, Israel's economy is now growing despite the international financial slowdown. Debt is manageable, the currency is strong; Israel's high-tech sector is admired ...
Russia: Mideast Tension Could Spark Catastrophe
Post Date: 2010-05-11 16:52:10 by Brian S
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By ALBERT AJI (AP) – 2 hours ago DAMASCUS, Syria — Russia's president said Tuesday that Israeli-Arab tensions threaten to draw the Middle East into a new catastrophe, adding Moscow's weight to a diplomatic push to ease antagonism between Israel and Syria. The Russian and Syrian presidents, meeting in Damascus, also affirmed ally Iran's right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program, as world powers press for new economic sanctions to try to stop what they say is really a drive for an atomic weapons capability. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose country has been building up its influence as a Middle East mediator, pledged its assistance in pushing the ...
UN Experts Says Arizona Law Violates International Human Rights Treaty
Post Date: 2010-05-11 13:08:53 by Brian S
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Arizona's new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday. The basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S. and many other nations, regard issues such as discrimination and the terms under which a person can be detained, the experts said. "A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin," the experts said. Arizona's new sweeping law targeting illegal immigration ...
Russia says may build nuclear power plant in Syria
Post Date: 2010-05-11 12:02:17 by A K A Stone
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Russia may help build a nuclear power plant in Syria, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told Reuters on Tuesday as the Kremlin moved to strengthen ties with a Soviet-era ally in the Middle East.
On the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev played up prospects for nuclear power cooperation and said Washington should work harder for peace in the Middle East.
"Cooperation on atomic energy could get a second wind," Medvedev said at a news conference with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after their talks.
Assad said he and Medvedev "talked about oil and gas cooperation, as well as ...
Report: IAEA To Discuss Israel's Nuclear Activities For First Time
Post Date: 2010-05-10 15:23:02 by Brian S
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Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press. A copy of the restricted provisional agenda of the IAEA's June 7 board meeting lists Israeli nuclear capabilities as the eighth item - the first time that that the agency's decision-making body is being asked to deal with the issue in its 52 years of existence. The agenda can still undergo changes in the month before the start of the meeting and a senior diplomat from a board member nation said the item, included ...
Pope accepts resignation of German bishop in sex probe
Post Date: 2010-05-09 04:19:49 by WhiteSands
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Pope Benedict on Saturday accepted the resignation of a German bishop who has been accused of sexually abusing minors, the latest in a string of Roman Catholic prelates forced to resign over an abuse scandal. World A Vatican statement said the pope agreed Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg in Bavaria should step down. He became the first bishop to quit in the pontiff's native Germany over the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Church in several European countries and the United States. In recent weeks, a Belgian bishop resigned after admitting he had sexually abused a boy and three Irish bishops quit over their handling of sexual abuse cases. German prosecutors and church officials ...
Explosive Traces Found On Sunken S.Korea Warship: Report
Post Date: 2010-05-06 11:34:59 by Brian S
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Traces of explosive from a torpedo have been found on debris from a sunken South Korean warship, fuelling suspicions that North Korea sank the vessel, a report said Thursday. Aluminium fragments from a torpedo casing have also been found, Dong-A Ilbo newspaper quoted a member of a team investigating the blast as saying. President Lee Myung-Bak hinted Tuesday that North Korea was involved in the sinking, which cost 46 lives. He promised a "resolute" response when the cause is established following the multinational probe. The unidentified team member was quoted as saying the explosive traces were found on a funnel that was torn off the Cheonan by the blast on March 26 near the ...
Russian Paper Suggests ‘Nuclear Explosion’ To Cap Gulf Oil Geyser
Post Date: 2010-05-04 21:17:21 by Brian S
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As British Petroleum scrambles to affix a four-story, 70-ton dome over the massive oil geyser venting toxic sludge into the Gulf of Mexico, people everywhere are wondering what else can be done to stem the deadly tide.Komsomoloskaya Pravda, Russia's best-selling daily publication, has an idea: Why not just nuke it?During the Soviet years, Russia's communists had to deal with numerous oil disasters and on five different occasions they employed controlled, underground nuclear blasts to quickly solve the problem.[The] underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well’s channel," Pracda reported."It’s so simple, in fact, that the ...
Leftist Fisting gone awry or Man Dies After Eel Is Inserted
Post Date: 2010-05-04 18:10:27 by Happy Quanzaa
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Leftist Fisting gone awry? or Man Dies After Eel Is Inserted Link: A Chinese man has died after an eel that was inserted in his rectum gnawed away at his intestine.The 59 year-old chef–whose name has not been disclosed– was taken to a Sischuan hospital with severe anal bleeding, abdominal pain. See: TEABAGGERS vs. FISTERS: The Debate Is Over Comrades, coming out of that great Progressive country China, a true leftist fister has gotten more than he bargained for..... Remember comrades, all things in proportion.
McDonald's Happy Meal 'came with cigarette'
Post Date: 2010-05-04 11:34:49 by no gnu taxes
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Nicky Holloway spotted the unsmoked cigarette at the bottom of a box of food her one-year-old was happily tucking into. ‘I went straight back to the restaurant and demanded to speak to the manager,’ the 21-year-old said. She claimed she heard the girl who had served her yell to a colleague: ‘Leave me a fag,’ before she picked up her son Jack’s French fries, cheeseburger and plastic toy. ‘I saw the girl but, when I told her what happened, she just laughed. To me it wasn’t funny. I was so angry they weren’t taking me seriously,’ said Miss Holloway, of Southampton. ‘My son can feed himself and I was watching him eat but he could easily have ...
Can the U.S. Beat Israel at their Game?
Post Date: 2010-05-02 12:53:26 by mininggold
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Can the U.S. Beat Israel at their Game? April 25, 2010 posted by Jeff Gates Americans can now see the light at the end of a long dark tunnel—if only they will look. We entered this tunnel in 1948 when an enclave of religious fanatics induced President Harry Truman to portray them as a “state” meriting recognition, aid and protection. We were warned not to do so. These extremists had just inflicted on the Palestinians an ethnic cleansing that rivaled in its savagery the fascist abuse of ethnic groups during WWII. In December 1948, Albert Einstein and 27 other concerned Jews urged us “not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.” Our failure to heed that ...
Bolivia nationalises three private electricity firms
Post Date: 2010-05-01 15:50:40 by A K A Stone
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered the nationalisation of four private electricity companies. Police moved into the offices of Corani, Valle Hermoso and Guaracachi firms, following Mr Morales' decree. Corani is half owned by a subsidiary of France's GDF Suez. Guaracachi's main partner is Britain's Rurelec, while ELFEC and Valle Hermoso are local. President Morales said that the government now controlled 80% of electricity generation in the country. Last year, Mr Morales announced the takeover of a subsidiary of British oil company BP, which supplied jet fuel across the Andean nation. He has recently nationalised oil and gas reserves to redistribute wealth to ...
G-8 Chefs Baffled By Laura Bush's 'Poisoning' Claims
Post Date: 2010-05-01 15:10:36 by Skip Intro
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G-8 Chefs Baffled By Laura Bush's 'Poisoning' Claims In her new memoir, former first lady Laura Bush writes that she, her husband and the American delegation may have been poisoned at the 2007 G-8 summit hosted by Germany. German federal investigators as well as the kitchen staff at the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm refute her account. Steffen Duckhorn still remembers well the day Laura Bush thought she might die. He was feeling a bit worked up because he had heard that President George W. Bush, who was attending the G-8 summit in June 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany, wasn't feeling well. Duckhorn had cooked for the president, and Bush was now complaining he had a stomach ...
White woman gets brutally raped by black man -- blames white men for it
Post Date: 2010-04-27 14:16:55 by no gnu taxes
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Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for. It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could ...
Does A K A Stone Like His Site?
Post Date: 2010-04-27 08:40:50 by Biff Tannen
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I was wondering if A K A Stone likes his new site. It's changed a lot and I hope he likes it.
Deadly New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container
Post Date: 2010-04-26 19:51:17 by Brian S
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier. Potential customers for the formidable Club-K system include Kremlin allies Iran and Venezuela, say defense experts. They worry that countries could pass on the satellite-guided missiles, which are very hard to detect, to terrorist groups. "At a stroke, the Club-K gives a long-range precision strike capability to ordinary vehicles that can be moved to almost any place on earth without attracting attention," said Robert Hewson of Jane's Defense Weekly, who first ...
Obama Invites Abbas To Visit US In May
Post Date: 2010-04-25 18:11:30 by Brian S
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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received an invitation from US President Barack Obama to visit Washington next month, a Palestinian official said Sunday. "The exact date is not yet set up but it will be in May," Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Xinhua. He added that George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East peace process, carried the invitation to Mr. Abbas who accepted it. It will be Abbas' second visit to the United States since President Obama took office last year. However, it comes at a time that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are stalled. Last month, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) approved a US offer to start ...
Five Israelis Charged With Organ Trafficking; Ring 'exploited desperate condition of sick people', say Israel police...
Post Date: 2010-04-25 14:06:59 by Brian S
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Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering. The indictment says that the ring exploited the desperate condition of sick people and called it a "form of modern slavery." traffickers allegedly offered up to $100,000 per kidney but in at least two cases did not pay the donors, who were sought through advertisements and then flown from Israel to Europe, South America or Southeast Asia, where the organs were extracted in illegal procedures. Israeli law bans organ ...
Sanctioning Iran Is an Act of War
Post Date: 2010-04-24 13:47:35 by mininggold
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Sanctioning Iran Is an Act of War Before the US House of Representatives, April 22, 2010, Statement on Motion to Instruct Conferees on HR 2194, Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act. I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to ...
Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal Fallout Spreads In Europe
Post Date: 2010-04-22 14:05:43 by WhiteSands
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Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Fallout from the Catholic child sex abuse scandal spread across Europe on Thursday as the Vatican retired an Irish bishop, a German offered to step down and prelates in England and Wales apologised for the "terrible crimes" of priests. The Vatican said Pope Benedict, under criticism from victims for not doing enough about past cases of abuse by priests now being revealed, had accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty, the third Irish bishop to leave over the scandal. In Germany, Walter Mixa, who is bishop for Augsburg and for the German armed forces, offered to resign late on Wednesday after admitting he physically abused children ...
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