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Lieberman, McCain call on Admin to "lower voices" on Israel
Post Date: 2010-03-18 12:49:36 by mininggold
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Lieberman, McCain call on Admin to "lower voices" on Israel Senators Joe Lieberman, D-CT, and John McCain, R-AZ, , just took to the Senate floor to call on the Obama Administration to end its condemnation of Israel over the actions of a bureaucrat during the recent visit to that country by Vice President Joe Biden. The message from the two was pretty simple: It's time to lower voices and get over the family feud. Both senators, longtime allies and proponents of Israel, particularly Lieberman, said the Administration needs to recognize that the feud opens up a potential avenue for "enemies" of the U.S. (they named Iran mostly, and Syria) to exploit. During a ...
Israel Suffers First Rocket Attack Casualty Since Gaza War
Post Date: 2010-03-18 12:38:32 by Brian S
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A Palestinian rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel Thursday claimed the first fatality in Israel since it launched the Gaza war last year to shut down Hamas rocket attacks. The attack killed a Thai guest worker in the agricultural village of Netiv Haasarah, which is just north of the border with the Gaza Strip. An unknown Gaza group, Ansar al-Sunna, claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters reported. "It doesn't matter what organization takes responsibility for the fire,'' said Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai. "Israel isn't interested in a military confrontation, but it won't allow its residents to be shot at.'' The fatality will ...
GORDON DUFF: U.S. TELLS ISRAEL: “YOU ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA, ENDANGERING TROOPS”
Post Date: 2010-03-18 11:32:52 by war
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Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Clinton and Joint Chief’s Chairman Mike Mullen have all recently visited Israel on two issues, reliable information that Israel was planning an attack on Iran, a plan designed to push America into a war our leaders believe is both wrong and likely to risk a global nuclear confrontation with Russia and the building of a massive housing project on the Arab side of Jerusalem in violation of numerous agreements, a project that is likely to cause a spike in world terrorism and send thousands of new fighters to Afghanistan to face American forces there. This is the worst point in the history of the relationship between the U.S. and Israel since ...
Pooch poser: Dogs originated from Middle East wolves
Post Date: 2010-03-18 10:14:56 by Badeye
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Pooch poser: Dogs originated from Middle East wolves AFP/File – A Siberian Husky. Husky, shar pei, terrier or mutt, today's dogs descended from wolves that probably … .Wed Mar 17, 2:17 pm ET PARIS (AFP) – Husky, shar pei, terrier or mutt, today's dogs descended from wolves that probably lived in the Middle East, not Europe or Asia as many thought, according to a study published Wednesday in the British science journal Nature. "Dogs seem to share more genetic similarity with Middle Eastern grey wolves than any other wolf population worldwide," said one of its authors, Robert Wayne, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California in Los ...
Obama should thank George Bush -- The mission is still accomplished in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-03-18 08:47:03 by dont eat that
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President Obama praised the Iraqi people on Sunday on the occasion of their parliamentary elections. "The future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq," Mr. Obama said. That progress is no thanks to him. Sunday's election was the third since Iraq's liberation in 2003 from Saddam Hussein's dictatorial rule. The event lacked much of the drama of the January 2005 National Assembly election, when the war was hotter and risks were higher. Five years ago, insurgents vowed that they would see to it that the election would fail. "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu ...
Netanyahu's Brother-In-Law: Obama Is An Anti-Semite
Post Date: 2010-03-17 13:13:26 by Brian S
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi on Wednesday called U.S. President Barack Obama an anti-Semite in an interview with Army Radio. "It's not that Obama doesn't like Bibi," he referring to Netanyahu using his nickname. "He doesn't like the nation of Israel." Netanyahu was quick to distance himself from Ben-Artzi's remarks, saying he completely disagrees with his brother-in-law. Netanyahu said he has a deep appreciation for President Obama's commitment to Israel's security, which he has expressed many times, and also for the deep ties between the two countries. Ben-Artzi was interviewed on Army Radio to ...
The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story
Post Date: 2010-03-16 20:47:57 by go65
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On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The team had been dispatched by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. The 33-slide, 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM's mostly Arab ...
Domtar to close Mississippi-based paper mill, 219 people to lose jobs
Post Date: 2010-03-16 15:30:58 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Domtar to close Mississippi-based paper mill, 219 people to lose jobs (CP) – 6 hours ago MONTREAL — Pulp and paper firm Domtar Corp. (TSX:UFS) says it's exiting the coded groundwood paper business by closing a U.S.-based paper mill, affecting 219 people. The Montreal-based company says operations at the mill in Columbus, Mississippi will shut down by the end of April. Domtar says market conditions for coded groundwood paper are "challenging" and says the mill is suffering from a weak cost position. Domtar says it's selling its coded groundwood paper product lines produced in Columbus, as well as the mill's inventory and book of business, to NewPage Corp. ...
US Envoy Cancels Mideast Trip, Israel Feud Deepens
Post Date: 2010-03-16 11:49:26 by Brian S
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(03-16) 04:40 PDT JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) -- A U.S. envoy's postponement of his Mideast trip appeared Tuesday to deepen one of the worst U.S.-Israeli feuds in memory — even as Israel's foreign minister signaled his government had no intention of curtailing the contentious construction at the heart of the row. Hundreds of Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires and garbage bins ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where the construction is planned. Plumes of black smoke billowed and the air reeked of tear gas in the heaviest clashes in the city in months. Youths in one east Jerusalem neighborhood hoisted a giant Palestinian flag and shouted, ...
“Bunker-Buster” Bombs: Final Destination Iran? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-15 17:02:31 by Brian S
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Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran’s controversial nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation that the US military is preparing for such an attack, should diplomacy fail to persuade ...
Israel Envoy Says Crisis With US 'Worst Since 1975'
Post Date: 2010-03-15 13:35:11 by Brian S
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Relations between Israel and the United States have hit a 35-year low, Israel's ambassador in Washington said amid simmering tensions between the two key allies. "Israel's relations with the US are facing the most severe crisis since 1975," the Yediot Aharonot newspaper Monday quoted ambassador Michael Oren, a prominent Middle East historian, as telling consuls in the United States during a telephone briefing over the weekend. That year US calls for a partial Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, then under Israeli occupation, ignited a major crisis between the two allies. The latest diplomatic upheaval started when Israel gave its green light for ...
Israel's Dubai Hit Continues The Country's Moral Decline
Post Date: 2010-03-15 13:23:06 by Brian S
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Israel is facing a revolt from the Jewish Diaspora. "Intifada" is an Arabic word meaning "shaking off", as one would violently discard a scorpion. Israel is managing its own "intifada" from within. I write as a 36-year-old Australian Jew who has recently signed, with 37 Australian Jews, a petition in which I renounced my right of return to Israel. I simply couldn't accept the dispossession of Palestinians while my rights were deemed more important than the indigenous inhabitants. Following similar initiatives in America and Britain, Australia - a country long-counted as a major supporter of Israel - now sees prominent Jews, including world-renowned ...
Himalayan glacier-tastrophe rumour melts away
Post Date: 2010-03-14 20:18:10 by A K A Stone
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Climate stories are arriving thick and fast in the wake of Climategate, but the tale of the Himalayan glacier meltdown that never was must be one of the most strange and interesting of them all. It's a tale that provides an insight into the "certainties" the political and media elites have come to depend on - and how badly the "scientists" have let them down. In its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, the UN's climate change panel the IPCC reported that the Himalaya's glaciers might disappear completely by 2035. It made the prediction on this page, where it proudly stands intact today. The IPCC also noted that the Ganges basin is home to half a billion ...
IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk
Post Date: 2010-03-14 20:13:32 by A K A Stone
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More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists. The UN body came under attack earlier this year for suggesting that 40 per cent of the Amazonian rainforests – dubbed the “lungs of the planet” by some for their ability to turn CO2 into oxygen, and also seen as vital on biodiversity grounds – might disappear imminently. This disaster would be triggered, according to the IPCC’s assessment, by a relatively slight drop in rainfall of the sort to be expected in a warming world. Unfortunately it now appears that ...
Church Abuse Scandal in Germany Edges Closer to Pope
Post Date: 2010-03-13 09:53:23 by war
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BERLIN — A widening child sexual abuse inquiry in Europe has landed at the doorstep of Pope Benedict XVI, as a senior church official acknowledged Friday that a German archdiocese made “serious mistakes” in handling an abuse case while the pope served as its archbishop. The archdiocese said that a priest accused of molesting boys was given therapy in 1980 and later allowed to resume pastoral duties, before committing further abuses and being prosecuted. Pope Benedict, who at the time headed the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, approved the priest’s transfer for therapy. A subordinate took full responsibility for allowing the priest to later resume pastoral work, the ...
Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city (Escalation)
Post Date: 2010-03-12 13:58:24 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city By MARK STEVENSON (AP) – 18 hours ago MEXICO CITY — Eight journalists were kidnapped in a northern Mexican border city over a period of two weeks in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association reported. The group said Wednesday that only three of the journalists kidnapped between Feb. 18 and March 3 in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, have reappeared: Two were released alive and one was found dead with signs of torture. Five are still missing. "The Mexican government must act with urgency and with due force to rescue these journalists alive," said ...
AP Source: Clinton Sends Tough Message To Israel
Post Date: 2010-03-12 13:35:03 by Brian S
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(03-12) 09:50 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A senior U.S. official says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain bluntly about Israel's announcement this week of new housing settlements in East Jerusalem. The official said Clinton spoke with Netanyahu Friday "to deliver a very strong message with regard to events over the past week." She said that Israel is expected to take actions to improve the prospects for relaunching peace talks with the Palestinians. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the call. The Israeli announcement took the U.S. by surprise, and overshadowed a ...
George W. Bush Deserves Credit
Post Date: 2010-03-12 13:30:10 by dont eat that
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‘Victory has a hundred fathers,” John F. Kennedy said, “and defeat is an orphan.” By that standard, George W. Bush has won the Iraq war. Last month, Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed on CNN’s Larry King Live that the peaceful transition to democracy and the (partial) withdrawal of U.S. forces “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” Initially, I ignored Biden’s comment because, well, he’s Joe Biden. As critical as I may be of the Obama administration, holding it accountable for Biden’s mouth seems grotesquely unfair. But then White House spokesman Robert Gibbs defended the vice president, suggesting that it was ...
Iraq Contender Raises Suspicion of Tampering Amid First Results
Post Date: 2010-03-11 14:32:32 by war
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March 11 (Bloomberg) -- As the first results from Iraq’s election showed blocs led by former premier Ayad Allawi and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki leading in their areas of core support, Allawi complained about possible vote-tampering. The State of Law, a Shiite Muslim-dominated alliance headed by al-Maliki, was ahead in two Shiite provinces in southern Iraq, Najaf and Babil, according to Amal Bairaqdar, a member of the Independent High Electoral Commission. The panel said Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc was leading in largely Sunni Muslim Diyala and Salahdin, and the Kurdistan Alliance in the Kurdish province of Erbil. More results may be out tomorrow, Bairaqdar said. Even before the ...
AIPAC Goes On Iran War Path Bigtime
Post Date: 2010-03-11 12:16:44 by Brian S
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AIPAC comes to town next week for its massive pro-Israel rally and it is already letting Congress know what it main demand will be. This is from today's JTA, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. In a rare move, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has sent a sharply worded letter to every member of Congress calling for an investigation into why three successive administrations have failed under existing law to determine what companies have invested in the Iranian energy sector. The letter demands that the U.S. government "enforce existing sanctions law and impose crippling new sanctions on Iran," including legislation before Congress that "contains provisions barring ...
'24', A Diplomatic Row And A Spy Chief's Lecture On Torture
Post Date: 2010-03-10 19:53:11 by Brian S
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 American officials have reacted with dismay to the charge by the former head of MI5 that US authorities deliberately concealed mistreatment of terror suspects from their British colleagues. The unexpected public statement by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is said to have significantly added to the strains in the relationship between the two countries on intelligence matters. At the same time, the former secret service chief faced criticism from human rights groups who expressed scepticism about her claims of being kept in the dark by Washington. Amnesty International said it was "extremely surprising" that she and her organisation were unaware of the ...
Israeli MKs To Biden: Show Kindness And Mercy For Jonathan Pollard
Post Date: 2010-03-10 19:27:37 by Brian S
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A group of Knesset faction chairmen on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden requesting clemency for Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. after being convicted of spying for Israel. "We are turning to you with a heartfelt request: that you act with kindness and mercy toward the ill Jonathan Pollard, and limit his punishment as a humanitarian gesture to the Jewish people ahead of the Passover holiday, the holiday of freedom," read part of the letter sent to Biden by Uri Ariel (National Union-National Religious Party) and other MKs. Ariel heads the campaign in Israel to free Jonathan Pollard. "Passover, our nation's holiday of ...
Afghanistan Turns To Iran For Help, Despite American Promises
Post Date: 2010-03-10 12:21:28 by Brian S
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With the US struggling to control the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has turned to Iran for help as his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is paying a visit. During the talks with his Iranian colleague, President Karzai called the Iranian nation a "real friend" and promised further peaceful relations between the countries. The two leaders also discussed joint business projects, such as building a road linking Iran and Tajikistan through Afghanistan’s territory. The US has called the visit worrying and accused Iran of undermining US and NATO efforts there. According to Reuters news agency, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this week that Iran was ...
Palin's claim family sought medical care in Canada prompts scrutiny, ridicule
Post Date: 2010-03-08 18:54:59 by Bartcoprules
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WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she's so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the United States. "My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse," the former Alaska governor said Saturday night during a speech in Calgary. "Believe it or not - this was in the '60s - we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and ...
Members of Obama's Favorite Religion Attack Christian Village, 300 Hacked to Death Including Women and Children With Machetes...
Post Date: 2010-03-08 09:04:35 by dont eat that
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Christians are always on the receiving end of these massacres, whether it be in Nigeria, Iraq, southern Philippines, Egypt etc. But don't worry, Islam is totally a "religion" of peace... (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting president Sunday ordered the security forces to hunt down those behind clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers in which more than 300 people may have been killed. Villagers in Dogo Nahawa, just south of the state capital Jos, said Hausa-Fulani herders from surrounding hills attacked at about 3 a.m. (10 p.m. EST), shooting into the air before cutting those who came out of their homes with machetes. A Red Cross official said at least two other ...
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