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Norway's Catholic Church reports new abuse claims
Post Date: 2010-04-08 16:28:48 by WhiteSands
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Norway's Catholic Church reports new abuse claims By IAN MacDOUGALL (AP) – 1 hour ago OSLO — Norway's Catholic Church has received new allegations of clergy abuse after revealing that its former bishop had admitted to molesting a minor in the early 1990s, a church official said Thursday. The current bishop, Bernt Eidsvig, told The Associated Press he had received e-mails alleging new cases of abuse, but said the nature and seriousness of the claims remain unclear. "There may be something very serious there. But there may also be things there that lunatics made up," Eidsvig said. "Whether it is abuse of minors or stupid priests doing things which are ...
Haiti in Ruins, Some UN Workers Live Large on 'Love Boat' [Hugo Rents it to UN!]
Post Date: 2010-04-08 16:24:19 by WhiteSands
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The U.N. is spending over $10 million to house some of its Haiti relief workers on a pair of chartered cruise ships -- one of which has been dubbed the "Love Boat" by U.N. staff -- and some of the funds are going to a company closely linked to the government of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. For the United Nations World Food Program, it was a moment of satisfaction: the U.N.'s flagship relief agency announced on its Web site on March 19 that two gleaming passenger ships had docked in ravaged Port au Prince harbor. What the Web site announcement did not disclose was that the vessels were intended to house not homeless Haitian refugees, but employees of the U.N. itself. ...
Obama And Medvedev Sign Treaty To Cut Nuclear Arms, Most Significant Pact In A Generation
Post Date: 2010-04-08 11:34:01 by Brian S
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PRAGUE (AP) — Casting aside years of rancor, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed the biggest nuclear arms pact in a generation, lacing the moment with new warnings of sanctions for an intransigent Iran. The treaty, sealed after months of halting negotiation, is significant not just for what it does but for what it symbolizes: a fresh start for the United States and Russia, and evidence to a watching world that nuclear disarmament is more than a goal. The pact commits their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them. That still ...
Israel Knows Apartheid Has No Future
Post Date: 2010-04-07 20:26:47 by Brian S
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After decades of military rule over Palestinians and theft of our land, Israeli leaders are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall. They are at least acknowledging reality, if not yet grappling with the consequences. In 2007, Ehud Olmert, then prime minister, declared: “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished.” More recently, making a similar point, Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, said “as long as between the Jordan and the sea there is only one political entity, ...
'No Trace Of Israel Will Remain If Iran Attacked'
Post Date: 2010-04-07 19:40:54 by Brian S
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Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has lashed out at the United States for its dual-based nuclear policies. "The US is working on a new generation of nuclear bombs. It also defends Israel that has tens of nuclear warheads but it opposes Iran's peaceful use of nuclear energy. This shows a double-standard in their nuclear policies," ISNA quoted Vahidi as saying on Wednesday. The Iranian minister also rejected the possibility of a military strike against Iran's nuclear sites by Israel or the United States. "The Zionist regime of Israel is too weak to attack Iran," he added. "No trace of Israel will remain if the Zionist regime ...
US Scientist Who Tried To Spy For Israel: I Won't End Up Like Pollard
Post Date: 2010-04-07 19:32:50 by Brian S
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4.07.10, 12:57 / Israel News Former NASA scientist Dr. Stewart Nozette, who was charged with trying to pass classified information to a man he thought was an Israeli Intelligence officer, told an undercover FBI agent that he does not want to "end up like Pollard," the fox news network reported Tuesday. In a newly filed search warrant affidavit the FBI says: "When the (undercover FBI agent) asked Nozette if he was willing to give classified information to the Mossad, Nozette replied, "I just don't want to end up like Pollard (meaning convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard). I'll show you mine, you show me yours." According to the report, the FBI ...
Israel Is 'Main Threat To Middle East Peace': Turkey
Post Date: 2010-04-07 12:32:05 by Brian S
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The prime minister of Turkey, Israel's only ally in the Muslim world, on Wednesday branded the Jewish state the "principal threat to peace" in the Middle East. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks at a breakfast meeting in Paris marked a new low in deteriorating relations between Israel and Turkey, which once had close military and political ties. "If a country uses disproportionate force in Palestine, in Gaza -- uses phosphorous shells -- we're not going to say 'bravo'," he declared, referring to Israel's January 2009 offensive against Hamas-controlled Gaza. Operation Cast Lead, which was aimed at preventing rocket attacks by ...
Obama Traveling To Prague To Sign New Arms Treaty With Russia
Post Date: 2010-04-07 12:02:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has overseas travel plans Wednesday. After a morning meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the usual daily briefings, Obama leaves the White House in the evening for Andrews Air Force Base. He’ll fly from there to Prague, Czech Republic, to sign a new arms reduction agreement with Russia. It replaces the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, agreement.
Major 7.8 Quake Hits Indonesia, Tsunami Watch Issued
Post Date: 2010-04-06 19:49:58 by Brian S
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A major 7.8-magnitude quake hit Indonesia's northern Sumatra early Wednesday, US seismologists said, triggering a local tsunami watch. The quake struck at a depth of 46 kilometres (29 miles), just off northern Sumatra, at 5:15 am (2215 GMT Tuesday), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a watch for local tsunamis but said a widespread destructive tsunami was not expected. Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.
Israel Distributes Biochemical War Protection Kits
Post Date: 2010-04-06 18:52:08 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel Tuesday began distributing millions of protection kits against biochemical warfare, Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai announced, stressing the campaign was not linked to any imminent threat. "We have equipped ourselves with millions of protection kits against biological or chemical warfare, and a massive distribution programme for the population started today," Vilnai told army radio. "Every family in Israel can receive these kits at home and be instructed on how to use them by Israeli postal workers, at an average cost of 25 shekels (five dollars), or pick them up free of charge at post office counters." The distribution came as an ...
Elian Gonzales -- Re-educated
Post Date: 2010-04-06 13:12:38 by dont eat that
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Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez captivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana. Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive ...
No Joke: Karzai Threatens To Join The Taliban
Post Date: 2010-04-06 11:57:45 by Brian S
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has slammed Western backers for the second time in a week, accusing the United States of interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. In a private meeting with up to 70 Afghan lawmakers Saturday, Karzai also warned that the Taliban insurgency could become a legitimate resistance movement if foreign meddling in Afghan affairs continues, the Journal said, citing participants in the talks. During the talks, Karzai, whose government is supported by billions of dollars of Western aid and 126,000 foreign troops fighting the Taliban, said he would be compelled to join the insurgency himself if the parliament does not back his bid to take over ...
Former IAEA Chief ElBaradei: Iraq War Killed “A Million Innocent Civilians”
Post Date: 2010-04-05 15:38:52 by Brian S
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The former head of the UN’s chief nuclear agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian Wednesday that those who launched the war in Iraq were responsible for killing a million innocent people and could be held accountable under international law. He was clearly referring to US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and their top military and security aides. It was his first interview with an international publication since ElBaradei returned to his native Egypt, after a decade heading the International Atomic Energy Agency, where he won the Nobel Peace Prize, in large measure because of his opposition to the efforts by the ...
TERRORISM, ALWAYS SUSPECT A “FALSE FLAG” FIRST
Post Date: 2010-04-04 14:29:06 by mininggold
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GORDON DUFF: TERRORISM, ALWAYS SUSPECT A “FALSE FLAG” FIRST REAL TERRORISTS ARE RARE AND USUALLY EASILY CAUGHT ALWAYS ASK: “WHO GAINS FROM THIS? Every time there is a terrorist attack, the nations blamed say that it was a “false flag” operation. This is what America did to cover up My Lai. We were lying. Germans claimed Poland invaded Germany in 1939. An educated guess is that 75% of terrorist attacks we hear of were staged, never happened or were done by “radical groups” that were first infiltrated, then controlled and eventually financed and supplied by intelligence agencies. Intelligence agencies are, in actuality, the biggest terrorist ...
Feds Say Homes Built With Chinese Drywall Must Be Completely Gutted (Free Trade Follies!)
Post Date: 2010-04-02 17:08:00 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Feds Say Homes Built With Chinese Drywall Must Be Completely Gutted x * Vince Veneziani | Apr. 2, 2010, 4:51 PM | 106 | comment 1 Over the past year, especially on NPR, there's been a big debate about the quality and safety of cheap Chinese drywall that was used to build homes in states like Florida and Louisiana. Residents claim that it made their homes stink like rotten eggs and some homeowners became ill. Well no more. The Consumer Product Safety Commission released new guidelines today that states that homes using the drywall won't be safe unless they are completely gutted. It must feel awful as a homeowner to hear that your house now needs to be gutted, but it's out ...
Trree German soldiers killed in Afghanistan clashes
Post Date: 2010-04-02 13:22:13 by Nebuchadnezzar
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German soldiers killed in Afghanistan clashes Map of Afghanistan Three German soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, officials say. They died during fierce fighting with Taliban insurgents in the north of the country, the German military said. A number of other German soldiers were seriously wounded in the incident, which happened near Chahar Dara, south-west of the city of Kunduz. Germany has more than 4,000 soldiers in the country - making it the third-largest foreign contingent after the US and UK. Friday's clash happened when the Taliban attacked a German patrol, according to officials. One local official was quoted as saying that a mine had exploded under the patrol, ...
German Firm Wins Right to Make Beer Called 'F**king Hell'
Post Date: 2010-04-01 15:22:13 by Skip Intro
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Google Changes Name to Topeka
Post Date: 2010-04-01 14:43:30 by Skip Intro
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U.S. & Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves
Post Date: 2010-04-01 14:33:14 by Brian S
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The biggest human rights scandal in years is developing in Colombia, though you wouldn't notice it from the total lack of media coverage here. The largest mass grave unearthed in Colombia was discovered by accident last year just outside a Colombian Army base in La Macarena, a rural municipality located in the Department of Meta just south of Bogota. The grave was discovered when children drank from a nearby stream and started to become seriously ill. These illnesses were traced to runoff from what was discovered to be a mass grave - a grave marked only with small flags showing the dates (between 2002 and 2009) on which the bodies were buried. According to a February 10, 2010 letter ...
“Reporting” on Iran Should Seem Familiar
Post Date: 2010-04-01 12:52:24 by mininggold
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“Reporting” on Iran Should Seem Familiar Fox News currently has an article at the top of its website that is headlined: ”CIA: Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapon.” The report, by DOD and State Department correspondent Justin Fishel, begins with this alarming claim: A recently published report by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iran is still working on building a nuclear weapon despite some technical setbacks and international resistance — and the Pentagon say it’s still concerned about Iran’s ambitions. But, as blogger George Maschke notes, that statement is categorically false. The actual report, to which the Fox article links and which the DNI ...
Erdogan Tells Merkel: “Double Standards in Dealing With Iran and Israel Should Be Stopped”
Post Date: 2010-03-31 15:37:37 by Brian S
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Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, slammed what he called the “double-standard policy” in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, and Israel’s Nuclear arsenal. His statements were made Monday during a press conference with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel who is currently visiting Turkey for talks with its officials. Erdogan said that Turkey rejects any further sanctions on Tran. He stated that the International Community imposed sanctions twice on the Islamic Republic , and that the sanctions proved ineffective as the only way to deal with this issue is through diplomacy. Erdogan also said that his country objects to ...
Pope beset by paedophile cover-up allegations
Post Date: 2010-03-31 14:31:26 by WhiteSands
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Dragged further into a widening child abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic church, Pope Benedict XVI conferred yesterday with his closest aides as media attention focused relentlessly on his personal role in alleged cover-ups. The growing crisis is fast becoming the most serious to confront the Vatican in decades. But with the 82-year-old pontiff maintaining his public silence over controversies surrounding his past management of cases involving paedophile priests in the US and his native Germany, the Vatican appeared to be adopting a fortress mentality, presenting the church and its leader as victims of a media frenzy. The Pope held a private audience with Cardinal William Levada, head ...
Disappointing US jobs data weigh on stock markets
Post Date: 2010-03-31 10:36:02 by Happy Quanzaa
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LONDON (AP) - European and U.S. stock markets fell Wednesday after weak U.S. jobs data stoked concerns that official government figures later in the week will come in below expectations—a sign that recovery in the world's largest economy may not be as strong as many predict. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 12.40 points, or 0.4 percent, at 5,659.92 while Germany's DAX fell 20.17 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,122.28. The CAC-40 in France was 28.22 points, or 0.7 percent, lower at 3,959.19. Earlier, European stocks had been trading high following a bright finish on Wall Street on Tuesday. But the report from the ADP payrolls firm that the U.S. private ...
Vatican and Pope Stumble in Response to Abuse Crisis [ Which of the many: Boston, Germany, Ireland, Mexico...? ]
Post Date: 2010-03-30 21:43:32 by WhiteSands
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has been ramping up its defense of how Pope Benedict XVI and the church have handled a growing sexual abuse scandal. But deflecting criticism has proved challenging for this papacy, which has been defined by missteps and difficulties in conveying its message. Even as the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has said that the crisis has threatened the “moral credibility” of the church, he acknowledged in an interview this week that he had not personally discussed the abuse crisis with the pope, a fact he attributed to the structure of the Vatican’s communications apparatus. “The pope has never avoided the problems of the ...
British MPs Call For Review Of Arms Exports After Israeli Assault On Gaza
Post Date: 2010-03-30 14:41:13 by Brian S
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A cross-party group of MPs will call today for a review of the way arms sales are approved after the government admitted British equipment was "almost certainly" used in the assault on Gaza last year. "It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead [the attack on Gaza]," the Commons committee on strategic export controls says in a report published. "This is in direct contravention to the UK government's policy that UK arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories." The MPs say they welcome the government's subsequent decision to revoke five export licences for equipment ...
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