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After Health-Care Reform Victory, Emboldened Obama Standing Tall Abroad
Post Date: 2010-03-30 00:08:38 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The passage of a historic piece of domestic legislation has given U.S. President Barack Obama his mojo back, and in a surprising area - foreign policy. An emboldened Obama, fresh off his health-care reform triumph at home, is now flexing his muscles abroad, displaying a confidence that undoubtedly resulted from his steely determination to win a long and bruising legislative war with Congress. "It appears he feels he now has the wind to his back," Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, said Monday. "Internationally, it's definitely being played that he stared down his opponents eyeball to ...
Iran Blasts West's Support for Israel's "State Terrorism"
Post Date: 2010-03-29 19:02:13 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- West's double-standard policies on terrorism and its support for Israel's "state terrorism" have created an atmosphere of hatred for certain western countries among other nations of the world, a senior Iranian legislator said on Monday. The United States and other Western states' unilateral policies over terrorism and also their support for Israel's "state terrorism" have culminated in widespread hatred towards these countries, member of Iranian parliamentary delegation to inter-parliamentary Union meeting in Bangkok Javad Jahangirzadeh said. "The image of terrorism has changed. Economic terrorism, state terrorism, assassination of ...
Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings
Post Date: 2010-03-29 09:52:38 by war
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At least 38 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow Metro trains in the morning rush hour, officials say. Twenty-four died in the first blast at 0756 (0356 GMT) as a train stood at the central Lubyanka station, beneath the offices of the FSB intelligence agency. About 40 minutes later, a second explosion ripped through a train at Park Kultury, leaving another 14 dead. The FSB said it was likely a group from the North Caucasus was responsible. The BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow says no group has yet said it carried out the attacks, but past suicide bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on Islamist rebels fighting for ...
Obama in Afghanistan as US Steps Up Taliban Fight
Post Date: 2010-03-28 15:50:54 by Brian S
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By Hans Nichols March 28 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama landed in Afghanistan today on an unannounced visit to press for progress from Afghan leaders and get a first-hand look at U.S. progress in the eight-year-old war. While saying he’s “encouraged by the progress that’s been made” in Afghanistan, Obama said after meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul that the Afghan government must do more to root out corruption and improve governance. In a later speech to U.S. troops, Obama said the battle in Afghanistan is “essential” to U.S. security because if the region slides into chaos, al-Qaeda and the Taliban will have a haven from which to attack ...
I Hate My Job (But There Are Benefits)
Post Date: 2010-03-26 15:53:13 by Biff Tannen
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.... for instance, It's clean up day at work. We have to tidy up our work area. The inspectors go around inspecting and give us beer if they are pleased with our progress. Yes, I'm drunk.
Netanyahu And Obama Are At Point Of No Return [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-26 14:02:57 by Brian S
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The strife between Israel and the United States concerns something far bigger than the proximity talks with the Palestinians. As far as President Barack Obama and his senior advisers are concerned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame for nothing less than damaging the standing of the U.S.in the Middle East and the Muslim world. Just as Netanyahu received his standing ovation at the AIPAC conference, Obama and his advisers were ruminating over an altogether different convention - the Arab League begins a meeting Tripoli on Saturday. For the Americans, Netanyahu's Likudnik speech and the Shpeherd Hotel project matched in embarrassment the scandalous announcement of construction ...
Did IDF General Cut Short Probe Into U.S. Activist Corrie's Death?
Post Date: 2010-03-26 13:39:34 by Brian S
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The Military Police interrogation of a key suspect in the killing of American human rights activist Rachel Corrie was cut short by a direct order of then GOC Southern, Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, army documents obtained by Haaretz suggest. The documents come from the Military Police investigation file and were submitted as evidence to the Haifa District Court when a member of the MP investigation team testified in court during the civil lawsuit case Corrie's family has brought against the State of Israel. The Corries' attorney, Hussein Abu Hussein, confronted the former investigator with a protocol of his questioning of the commander of the D9 Caterpillar bulldozer that drove over the ...
South Korean Naval Vessel With More Than 100 Aboard Sinking, North Attack Suspected: Report
Post Date: 2010-03-26 12:17:29 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo attack by the North, South Korean media said. (Reuters) - A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo attack by the North, South Korean media said. Broadcaster SBS said many South Korean sailors on the stricken vessel were feared dead. South Korea's YTN TV network said the government was investigating whether the sinking was due to a torpedo attack by the North, and Yonhap news agency said the ...
Petraeus denies saying Israel endangers lives of U.S. troops
Post Date: 2010-03-26 10:54:46 by dont eat that
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Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Military's Central Command, telephoned Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi Wednesday to deny the reports he had blamed Israeli policy for the failure to reach a regional solution and for endangering the lives of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East. This was not the first conversation between the two generals. The two had met at Petraeus' initiative not long ago, but in Israel they were surprised that the commander of CENTCOM broke the news of the conversation yesterday before a lecture in New Hampshire, as here efforts were made to adhere to an American request to keep exchanges under wraps. Advertisement Earlier this month, Petraeus warned the ...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Post Date: 2010-03-25 16:17:20 by war
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On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons, is being towed to Israel as I write. Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest concentration camp.” It is home to 1.5 million ...
Israeli Rightist MKs: 'British Are Dogs, Who Are They To Judge?'
Post Date: 2010-03-25 12:00:21 by Brian S
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Members of Knesset were outraged with Britain's accusations against Israel over the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai and its threats to expel an Israeli diplomat from London over the stolen passports affair. MK Arieh Eldad said on Tuesday that the British were behaving hypocritically and compared them to dogs. Eldad also gave an interview to the British Sky network, and said that a British diplomat should be expelled in response, "maybe the military attaché". British media has been covering the crisis since Tuesday morning. When asked of the comparison, Eldad said, "I was just quoting what was said in Latroun 62 years ago. I think the British are ...
Israel Fears Further Mossad Expulsions Over Forged Passport
Post Date: 2010-03-24 19:35:55 by Brian S
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There were growing fears in Israel yesterday that other countries whose passports were forged for use in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas militant could follow Britain’s lead and expel suspected Mossad operatives. The killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of the Palestinian group’s armed wing and its suspected liaison for arms shipments from Iran, used forged British, Australian, French, German and Irish passports to gain access to their target in a Dubai hotel in January. “We take this matter very seriously. But we will take it in a sensible, methodical approach,” Stephen Smith, the Australian Foreign Minister, said. “Obviously we’ll take into ...
Anybody Remember the Honduras "Coup"
Post Date: 2010-03-23 20:32:50 by dont eat that
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended a five-day tour of Latin America Friday with a lightning trip to Guatemala, where she promised Central American presidents more help to fight drug trafficking and repeated her call for more countries to recognize the new government of Honduras. The new Honduran president, Porfirio Lobo, attended the meeting in Guatemala City, an appearance that signaled a step toward normalizing relations with neighbors El Salvador and Guatemala. Many countries in the hemisphere have refrained from recognizing Mr. Lobo’s government because it came to power with an election held under a government installed by a coup last June. Washington has argued that Mr. ...
Canada to Ann Coulter: Watch Your Mouth /// Coulter: I’m Victim Of 'Hate Crimes Against Conservatives’
Post Date: 2010-03-23 18:47:03 by Brian S
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If there’s anyone who knows how to turn America’s freedom of speech laws into a payday, it’s Ann Coulter. The sometimes incendiary and always controversial conservative commentator has made millions on books and speeches that refer to liberalism as "a mental disorder" and progressives as "godless." But does her ability to incite at the expense of others end when she leaves the country? Apparently it does. This week, a group of conservative students invited Coulter to speak at the University of Ottawa in Canada, which has very different free-speech laws than its southern neighbor. To avoid potential problems (or even Coulter landing in jail), one of the ...
1st Sikh in decades graduates Army officer school
Post Date: 2010-03-23 13:52:17 by Fred Mertz
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SAN ANTONIO – The soldiers in standard-issue fatigues and combat boots stood side-by-side repeating their creed: "I am an American soldier. I am a warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army values ...." Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan was no different except that he wore a full beard and black turban, the first Sikh in a generation allowed to complete U.S. Army basic officer training without sacrificing the articles of his faith. He completed the nine-week training Monday after Army officials made an exemption to a policy that has effectively prevented Sikhs from enlisting since 1984. "I'm feeling very humbled. I'm a ...
US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
Post Date: 2010-03-22 18:20:07 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, PRNewswire — The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC’s immediate registration: AIPAC is a spinoff of an organization already ordered by the DOJ to register as an Israeli foreign agent. In November of 1962 the American Zionist Council was ordered by the Attorney General to begin filing disclosures as an Israeli foreign agent under the 1938 ...
British Inquiry Into Iraq War Turns Toward Bush
Post Date: 2010-03-22 12:35:45 by Brian S
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Senior Bush administration officials, including former President George W. Bush himself, have been asked to give testimony before a British committee investigating the basis for the invasion of Iraq, according to a published report.Other officials contacted by the panel include former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Bush adviser Stephen Hadley, among others."Members of Sir John Chilcot's panel are believed to be willing to travel to the US to take evidence – almost certainly in private – on the administration's policies between the 2003 invasion of Iraq and 2009," The ...
Report: Netanyahu To Ask Obama For Weapons To Strike Iran
Post Date: 2010-03-21 18:53:34 by Brian S
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will use a visit to Washington this week to press the U.S. to release advanced weapons needed for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear sites, the Sunday Times reported. Ahead of his departure Sunday night, Netanyahu bowed to U.S. demands and promised the administration of U.S President Barack Obama that Israel will make several goodwill gestures toward the Palestinians. For the first time since Operation Cast Lead, Israel has agreed to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu has also agreed to discuss all core issues during the proximity talks, with the condition of reaching final conclusions only in direct talks with the PA. But according to ...
Supreme Leader blasts Dear Leader, says he plots againt Iran
Post Date: 2010-03-21 13:13:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says President Barack Obama was not qualified to speak about "peace and friendship" with Iran because he was plotting against his country. In a Sunday address broadcast live on television, Khamenei says Iran is watching the "intentions" behind Obama's offer of more educational and cultural exchanges in a message last week marking the Iranian New Year. But Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters in Iran, says U.S. overtures have been deceptive and that Washington has taken the "worst position possible" on Iran's postelection turmoil be calling "rioters" as "civil ...
Human Events Censors Pat Buchanan's Latest Column
Post Date: 2010-03-20 12:11:29 by mininggold
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Human Events Censors Pat Buchanan's Latest Column by Linda Muller – http://Buchanan.org Ed Note: It appears that Human Events, like many of the formerly conservative publications and organizations, have been hijacked by the Neocons. A while back, Google was accused of censoring searches for Pat Buchanan. A member alerted me to this information regarding Google. Liberty66 wrote: Initially Google suggest did reference Pat Buchanan when his name was partially spelled and this was followed by the number of search requests. For example, if you typed “Pat B”, “Pat Buchanan” sorted to the top based on the number of previous searches and it was by far the most ...
Queer Dutch soldiers responsible for Srebrenica massacre says US general
Post Date: 2010-03-20 05:16:45 by Happy Quanzaa
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A former American general blamed "open homosexuality" in the Dutch army for the failure to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. The Dutch government condemned the comments by Gen John Sheehan, a former Nato commander and senior marine officer, as outrageous. Gen Sheehan made the remarks at a Senate hearing where he argued against plans by President Barack Obama to end a ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the US military. Gen Sheehan said that after the end of the Cold War, European militaries changed and concluded "there was no longer a need for an active combat capability." He said this process included "open homosexuality" which resulted in ...
'Lawyer' for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested
Post Date: 2010-03-19 18:35:04 by Skip Intro
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominican police have arrested a fugitive who acted as the lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children. Jorge Puello initially served as the group's legal adviser and spokesman but authorities later said he was wanted for trafficking women and children in the U.S. and El Salvador. The National Drug Control Agency says the 32-year-old Puello was arrested in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant late Thursday in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. Soledad Puello is his mother. She told The Associated Press that she and others had negotiated with Salvadoran prosecutors for Puello to turn himself in. Puello was ...
Israel Uber Alles
Post Date: 2010-03-19 12:19:35 by war
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Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem is a touchy subject, and you don't bring up touchy subjects that might embarrass an honored guest. But it was no more than a gaffe. It was certainly not a policy change, let alone a betrayal. The neighborhood is in Jerusalem, and the 2009 Netanyahu-Obama agreement was for a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements excluding Jerusalem. Nor was the offense ...
Hillary Clinton, Russians Clash Publicly Over Iran Reactor
Post Date: 2010-03-18 19:36:27 by Brian S
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March 19, 2010 Reporting from Moscow Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had barely arrived in Moscow for nuclear arms and Mideast talks when tensions over Iran flared up publicly Thursday. Meeting reporters alongside her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Clinton reproached Moscow for building and fueling a nuclear power plant in Iran. Tehran is not entitled to generate nuclear energy for civilian purposes, Clinton said pointedly, until it puts to rest suspicion that it is secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Earlier Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian-built reactor would begin to generate electricity in Iran as early as ...
Palin to Obama: Hit Reset Button with Israel
Post Date: 2010-03-18 13:52:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Sarah Palin called on the Obama administration to hit the reset button with Israel. In a statement critical of the Obama administration's outreach to countries with which the United States has strained relations, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor wrote, “In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.” Palin criticized Obama for making unilateral demands of Israel while not requiring Arab leaders to make equally demanding ...
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