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Iran Launches Missile Production Line
Post Date: 2010-03-07 18:56:17 by Brian S
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Iran's defense minister has announced the launch of a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles capable of evading radar. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi told state TV Sunday that the cruise missile, called Nasr 1, would be capable of destroying targets up to 3,000 tons in size. The minister said the missile can be launched from the surface but would eventually be modified to be fired from helicopters and submarines. The world is already concerned about Iran's military capabilities, especially the implications of its nuclear program. The US and some of its allies, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency, say Iran is apparently trying to produce nuclear ...
'Iran Developing Massive Launch Site'
Post Date: 2010-03-07 18:52:20 by Brian S
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Iran is building a new rocket launch site with North Korean assistance, Israel Radio quoted IHS Jane’s as reporting overnight Friday. The new launcher, constructed near an existing rocket base in the Semnan province east of Teheran, is visible in satellite imagery, according to the report. The defense intelligence group said the appearance of the launcher suggests assistance from North Korea, and that it may be intended to launch the Simorgh, a long-range Iranian-made missile unveiled in early February and officially intended to be used as a space-launch vehicle (SLV). SLV’s can be converted to be used as long-range ballistic missiles for military purposes. Both the missile and ...
Secret Israeli Report: U.S. Cozying Up To Palestinians
Post Date: 2010-03-07 18:50:10 by Brian S
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The U.S. administration will not put a lot of effort into the upcoming indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, opting instead to focus on the November Congressional elections, according to an internal Foreign Ministry report that was distributed to Israeli diplomatic missions abroad. The classified report claims that in the preparatory discussions for the Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks the Obama administration adopted positions that are closer to Palestinian demands. "The recent American statements point to the adoption of wording in line, even if partially and cautiously, with Palestinian demands in regard to the framework and structure of negotiations," ...
Iceland: Now Finish the Job (Tells bankers to Phuck-off)
Post Date: 2010-03-07 16:25:17 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Iceland: Now Finish The Job Iceland's voters took the first step toward the right thing: Ninety-three percent voted against the so-called Icesave bill, according to preliminary results on national broadcaster RUV. Final results will be published today. The next step would be to quash any talk of a "new accord." There is exactly one accord to take: Tell the Netherlands and British to stick it. They decided to step in on their own without the consent of the Iceland population when Iceland's version of the FDIC ran out of money. It was their decision, not the Icelandic people's to do so. Voters rejected the bill because “ordinary people, farmers and fishermen, ...
Against ‘Special’ Relationships - They're nothing but trouble
Post Date: 2010-03-06 14:54:02 by mininggold
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Against ‘Special’ Relationships They’re nothing but trouble by Justin Raimondo, March 05, 2010 Here it comes again, the Falklands Question: one of those eternal foreign policy problems that seem to have no logical or just solution. What’s surprising is that the Obama administration is taking the right position, for once, and staying well out of it. This drives our Anglophiles, of whom there are quite a few on the neocon right – the Churchill cult and all that – absolutely wild, and the Brits, too. Why, when British troops are fighting side by side with Americans in Afghanistan, won’t the US stand by the Anglo-American “special relationship” ...
Beat The Meatles [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-05 22:12:24 by Biff Tannen
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Okay, I totally stole the title from a National Lampoon article from when I was but a kid. But, anyway, I'm going through my Beatles mp3's with an eye to getting rid of the crap and keeping the gems. I'm an album man, and Abbey Road will survive intact, as will Sgt Pepper, but the rest has to earn its keep. I think Yellow Sub will be okay. The rest better step up or it's going to be deleted. I'm not one to bow to legend, bluesduke be damned. Chime in, you bitches.
Hoping Sanctions Work but Readying Gas Masks
Post Date: 2010-03-05 19:16:35 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM — Preparations for a strike against Iran’s nuclear program are as evident as ever: the introduction of an attack drone capable of flying hundreds of miles, the frequent open talk of a possible attack, the distribution of new gas masks to the public. The distribution of new gas masks to Israelis is one sign of war preparations amid concern over a nuclear Iran. But lately, the real action in Israel on the Iranian issue has been the parade of top American security officials. The chairman of the joint chiefs, the director of the C.I.A. and the national security adviser have all just been here; the vice president arrives on Monday. “Some have described it as a bear ...
Greek Workers Disrupt Transport, Try to Storm Parliament as Lawmakers Vote
Post Date: 2010-03-05 12:45:40 by Brian S
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March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Striking Greek workers shut down transport and tried to storm parliament as lawmakers passed 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in budget cuts, including wage reductions, needed to trim the region’s biggest budget deficit. Police with riot shields fired tear gas as demonstrators wearing biker helmets and ski masks pelted them with stones outside parliament in Athens where lawmakers approved the measures. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou told parliament the cuts will show European Union allies and investors that Greece is making good on its deficit pledges. “We didn’t create this crisis but now we have to pay for it,” said Manthos Adamakis, ...
Stocks Climb, Treasuries Decline, Dollar Retreats on Jobs Data
Post Date: 2010-03-05 12:20:13 by war
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March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks and commodities climbed while Treasuries retreated and the dollar erased gains after a smaller-than-estimated decrease in U.S. jobs added to evidence the global economic recovery is accelerating. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index climbed 1 percent to 1,134.05 at 11:42 a.m. for a sixth straight advance, its longest rally since the start of the year. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 1.5 percent to extend its biggest weekly increase since the beginning of December. Russia’s Micex Index jumped for a seventh day, the longest streak since July 2006. Oil surged, while Treasury two-year note yields climbed six basis points to a two-week high of 0.92 ...
Fallujah Birth Defects Blamed On US Weapons
Post Date: 2010-03-04 19:38:19 by Brian S
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Iraqi doctors reportedly warn women not to have children; Doctors pressured not to 'embarrass the United States': claimBirth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah have soared in recent years, with doctors saying advanced US weaponry such as white phosphorous and depleted uranium shells may have caused a "massive, unprecedented number" of congenital health problems.A BBC investigative report has found that the incidence of birth defects in Fallujah has reached a rate 13 times higher than that found in Europe. One doctor at a US-built hospital in the city says the number of birth defects has spiked from one or two per month prior to the Iraq war to two or three per day ...
State Income and Sales Tax Receipts
Post Date: 2010-03-04 17:28:15 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Uganda Rejects Obama’s Pro-Homosexual “Change”
Post Date: 2010-03-03 14:48:11 by Jethro Tull
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Uganda Rejects Obama’s Pro-Homosexual “Change” AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 5, 2010 Accuracy in Media’s review of coverage of the so-called “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda finds that it has been completely one-sided, inaccurate, and distorted beyond belief. Ugandan Christian minister Martin Ssempa has issued a strong rebuttal to President Obama's criticism of his country for considering passage of a law to discourage and punish certain homosexual practices. "Sodomy is neither the change we want nor can believe in," says Ssempa, who runs the Family Policy and Human Rights Center in Uganda. Ssempa, a major player in the ...
Foreign Policy: Obama wrong, Bush right.
Post Date: 2010-03-02 09:01:56 by dont eat that
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A common perception is that under President Barack Obama, America ’s image has improved, and perhaps its friends have increased. But such claims are unfounded, as the opposite proves to be true. One would expect the charismatic Obama, with his hand extended to America’s friends and foes, to fare better than the confrontational George Bush, with his simplistic views on “either with us, or against us” and his lumping of nations — wholesale — in this or that axis of evil. International relations, however, are about interests, not sweet talk. As Bush went out recruiting allies, and making enemies, Obama lost America ’s friends while failing to win over ...
US Plans 'Dramatic Reductions' In Nuclear Weapons
Post Date: 2010-03-01 12:38:57 by Brian S
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US President Barack Obama is planning "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said. This would come as part of a sweeping policy review designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, he said. The review "will point to dramatic reductions in the stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent", the official said. He added that it would lead to a greater role for conventional weapons. Mr Obama is to meet his defence secretary, Robert Gates, later on Monday to discuss the new nuclear strategy. Officials say thousands of nuclear weapons could be cut, in many cases by retiring weapons that are ...
Israel: Army Launches Nationwide Distribution Of Gas Masks
Post Date: 2010-03-01 12:15:43 by Brian S
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The nationwide distribution of gas mask kits began yesterday in Or Yehuda, part of a program in which masks will be provided to the entire population over the next three years. In the initial pilot stage, gas mask kits will be distributed over the next month to residents of Or Yehuda, Kiryat Ono and the vicinity. The actual distribution is being carried out by the national postal service, the Israel Post, under the supervision of the army's Home Front Command. The kits may be picked up at distribution centers after presenting an identity card. Heads of households are entitled to receive kits for their spouses and children. For a fee of NIS 25 per household, the post office will ...
Canada Brings Home Hockey Gold, Obama Beer in Overtime Match
Post Date: 2010-02-28 18:52:26 by Brian S
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By Gadi Dechter Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- With an overtime goal by Sidney Crosby, the Canadian men’s hockey team brought home the gold medal -- and a case of Molson’s Canadian lager for Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, paid for by Barack Obama. The U.S. president and Harper made a “friendly wager” on the gold medal game today that pitted the North American neighbors in the final event of the Vancouver Olympic Games. If the U.S. had defeated the hometown favorites, Harper would have suffered the added ignominy of having to buy Obama a case of Yuengling beer, with headquarters in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, said White House spokesman Nick Shapiro. Canada beat ...
Israeli DM: No Need to Coordinate With US on Attacking Iran
Post Date: 2010-02-27 13:28:36 by Brian S
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At his visit to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an AIPAC founded think tank, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak reiterated his calls for Western nations to keep “all options” open in moving against Iran. But more importantly, he suggested Israel might attack Iran even beyond American objections. “I don’t think that there is a need to coordinate in this regard,” Barak insisted, adding later in the speech that Israel has always “felt very proud that we never asked the Americans to come and fight for us.” US officials have repeatedly expressed opposition to a unilateral Israeli attack, noting that it would be perceived ...
IMF Chief Pushes For More Power, New Global Currency
Post Date: 2010-02-27 13:22:01 by Brian S
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The International Monetary Fund wants more power to police the global financial system and a bigger role in emergency financing, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday.In a speech to the Bretton Woods Committee, a finance reform think tank in Washington, D.C., he claimed that a stronger IMF also warrants a new global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar."Strauss-Kahn said such an asset could be similar to but distinctly different from the IMF's special drawing rights, or SDRs, the accounting unit that countries use to hold funds within the IMF," ABC News reported. "It is based on a basket of major currencies.""One ...
Hawaii Blasts Sirens, Warns Of Possible Tsunami
Post Date: 2010-02-27 13:14:29 by Brian S
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(02-27) 10:03 PST Ewa Beach, Hawaii (AP) -- A tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, threatening Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast as well as hundreds of islands from the bottom of the planet to the top. Sirens blared in Hawaii to alert residents to the impending waves, with authorities asking people living near the water to evacuate. On several South Pacific islands hit by a tsunami last fall, police evacuated tens of thousands of residents from the coast. The first waves in Hawaii are expected to hit shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday (4 p.m. EST; 2100 GMT) and measure roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) at Hilo. Most Pacific Rim nations however did ...
Identification Of Agents By Dubai Police Embarrasses Mossad
Post Date: 2010-02-25 11:52:33 by Brian S
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To have a dozen of your agents identified in police tapes after an extrajudicial killing is embarrassing. To have almost 30 operatives left with their covers blown — as appears to have happened after Dubai police released fresh details of the Hamas assassination last month — might be considered reckless. On the official website of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, is the biblical verse from Prophets, 11:14 — “where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety”. Unfortunately, so many of its “counsellors” seem to have been caught on CCTV, wearing wigs and other disguises, that it was as if an early Purim carnival was ...
Greece admits deficit figures were fudged to secure euro entry [2004 article]
Post Date: 2010-02-25 11:16:49 by war
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Greece admitted yesterday that the budget figures it used to gain entry to the euro three years ago were fudged. The Finance Minister, George Alogoskoufis, said the true scale of Greece's budget deficit was massively understated enabling Athens to dip below the qualification bar and into the EU's single currency. Greece admitted yesterday that the budget figures it used to gain entry to the euro three years ago were fudged. The Finance Minister, George Alogoskoufis, said the true scale of Greece's budget deficit was massively understated enabling Athens to dip below the qualification bar and into the EU's single currency. "It has been proven that the deficit had not ...
Blackwater guards stole weapons in Kabul and went on deadly rampage
Post Date: 2010-02-25 08:31:44 by war
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Private American security guards working for the US military in Afghanistan removed hundreds of handguns and automatic weapons from stores intended for the exclusive use of the Afghan police and used them on drunken shooting rampages that killed two Afghan civilians and injured at least two more. The guards included a former US Marine with a criminal record of assault and battery and a former soldier discharged from the US Army after testing positive for cocaine, Congress heard yesterday. Justin Cannon, Christopher Drotleff and a guard using the name “Eric Cartman” from the cartoon South Park were employees of a subsidiary of the Blackwater Worldwide group, implicated in a ...
Global warming Guru Admits It's All Bullshit
Post Date: 2010-02-24 12:12:15 by dont eat that
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In case you don’t know, Phil Jones was the director of CRU, the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit(CRU), until they removed him from that post because of climate-gate … In today’s BBC — “Climate data ‘not well organised‘”, and here is the Q&A part of the interview he gave to investigators: First question labeled ‘A’” A – Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical? And the response: So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly ...
Israel Faces Growing Fallout Over a Hamas Hit
Post Date: 2010-02-23 12:50:28 by Brian S
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Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 It's always possible that someone besides Mossad carried out the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas military commander, in a Dubai hotel in January. Israel has refused to comment; on Monday Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman explained the silence by saying there is "no proof" Israel was responsible. But the Dubai police insist they are "99%" certain that Israel's famed intelligence agency did the deed. The Dubai authorities say they caught the 11-member hit team on videotape moments before and after they allegedly smothered Mabhouh with a pillow in his hotel room — some reports have it as an injection of a chemical that ...
An American Attack On Iran Would Lead To US Collapse Says Top Russian General
Post Date: 2010-02-22 14:27:00 by Brian S
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By Juan Cole21 February, 2010 Juancole.comIt appears that, the International Atomic Energy Agency is at least allowing for the possibility that documents allegedly found on a laptop some years ago --but discounted by the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency as of dubious provenance and incompatible with other intelligence gathered in Iran -- point to a nuclear weapons program that no one has been able to locate. Some close observers have concluded that the laptop documents are forgeries. A new IAEA report that declines to dismiss the alleged documents will certainly cause the war lobby in the United States to redouble its efforts to get up an attack on ...
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