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Kremlin campaign revives Stalin's reputation in Russia
Post Date: 2009-12-22 21:22:28 by A K A Stone
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The standing of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has risen to its highest level in more than a decade following a sustained Kremlin campaign to stress the tyrant's achievements, a new poll shows. More than one third of Russians believed Stalin's leadership during the Second World War vindicated his murderous reign at the helm of the Soviet Union. Almost as many believe that Russia needs a leader like Stalin today. The survey was released as the Russian Communist party, the second biggest party in parliament, celebrated the 130th anniversary of Stalin's birth. Supporters laid wreaths at Stalin's grave by the Kremlin wall as party leaders compared his "immortal" ...
Chavez says US spy plane violated Venezuela's airspace, tells military to shoot down others
Post Date: 2009-12-21 19:54:49 by A K A Stone
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the U.S. of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft in the future. Speaking during his weekly television and radio program, Chavez said the aircraft overflew a Venezuelan military base in the western state of Zulia after taking off from neighboring Colombia. He did not elaborate, but suggested the plane was being used for espionage. "These are the Yankees. They are entering Venezuela," he said. "I've ordered them to be shot down," Chavez said of the aircraft. "We cannot permit this." ...
Hamas helped British lawyers secure arrest warrant for Israel's ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni
Post Date: 2009-12-21 19:04:12 by WhiteSands
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Hamas militants helped British lawyers secure an arrest warrant against former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, it emerged today. The Palestinian terrorist organisation admitted providing information to sympathisers who last month handed the information to Westminster Magistrates Court. Ms Livni, who was a cabinet minister during the Israeli offensive in Gaza that started last year, was forced to cancel a trip to London last week. A diplomatic incident was averted only after Ms Livni, now Opposition Leader, was alerted to the warrant and pulled out of a speaking engagement at the last minute. The incident was a major embarrassment for Gordon Brown, who phoned the Israeli MP last ...
Carter apologizes for 'stigmatizing Israel'
Post Date: 2009-12-21 18:13:21 by WhiteSands
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Carter apologizes for 'stigmatizing Israel' Former US president offers US Jewish community heartfelt apology for any contribution he may have had to Jewish nation's negative image Yitzhak Benhorin WASHINGTON – Former US President Jimmy Carter on Monday asked for the Jewish community's forgiveness for any negative stigma he may have caused Israel over the years. Carter, who is not a popular character in Israel, enraged the American Jewish community's in the past with various statements made in his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." In the book, Carter blamed Israel for impeding the Middle East peace process via settlement construction, further ...
Executive Order 12425 [ Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement, exemption from US taxes, and immunity from FOIA ]
Post Date: 2009-12-21 03:22:28 by WhiteSands
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EO: AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the ...
Putin Spars with Russian Olympic Judo Team (Real man and patriot)
Post Date: 2009-12-20 18:36:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Say what you want about Putin, but you can't call him an effeminate queen like our effeminate Obama. What a fag.
Obama's strike on terror: the body count [ 49 civilians were killed, including 23 children and 17 women ]
Post Date: 2009-12-20 18:03:33 by WhiteSands
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Thursday's American air strike on two suspected al-Qaeda training camps in Yemen killed 30 members of al-Qaeda., including Mohammed Saleh al-Kamini, the commander of one of the camps. A ground raid on Thursday killed four more. Early reports were that the ground raid was carried out by Yemeni forces. One missile missed its target and hit a village of shepherds. A local official said that 49 civilians were killed, including 23 children and 17 women. He said the strike was carried out "indiscriminantly". “Al-Qaeda has chosen to build its training center on land where bedouin nomads pitch their tents, and the government forces believe the nomads harbor Al-Qaeda ...
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi had secret Ł1.8m
Post Date: 2009-12-20 15:37:54 by Happy Quanzaa
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A total of 259 people died when the 747 Pan Am jet exploded over Lockerbie,Scotland, in 1988 The Lockerbie bomber had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed. The Crown Office, Scotland’s equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service, has confirmed it refused to grant bail to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi as recently as November last year because of concerns he might try to gain access to the money. The existence of such a large sum in a personal account casts doubt on claims by the Libyan government that Megrahi was a low-ranking airline worker. The disclosure also raises further questions about the wisdom of the Scottish ...
Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists [ Obama starts a war in Yemen ]
Post Date: 2009-12-20 04:11:53 by WhiteSands
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On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned." The Yemen attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama administration's campaign against al Qaeda. In his speech about added troops for Afghanistan earlier this month, President Obama made a brief ...
Irish priest to be jailed for two years for abusing altar server
Post Date: 2009-12-19 20:46:11 by WhiteSands
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DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) -- The priest at the center of the child abuse case that led to the Dec. 17 resignation of Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick will spend two years in jail for sexually assaulting a young altar server. Father Thomas Naughton pleaded guilty in Bray Circuit Court Dec. 16 to five charges of indecent assault on the boy when he was assigned to a parish in Valleymount, southeast of Dublin, between 1982 and 1984. The abuse, which started when the victim was 6 years old, was described by Judge Michael O'Shea as "systematic, shocking and horrific." The court heard that the survivor was abused by the St. Patrick's Missionary Society priest "about 70 ...
50 days to save the world? I might listen to the doomsayers if they weren't such ludicrous hypocrites
Post Date: 2009-12-19 16:59:05 by Mad Dog
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Not many people understand climate change. But they can recognise hypocrisy when they see it, and are also likely to count their spoons whenever wild-eyed politicians invoke the impending end of the world. On Tuesday, Prince Charles flew to Copenhagen to attend the climate change summit, where he delivered a keynote speech. He informed his audience that 'the world has only seven years before we lose the levers of control'. Not at all long, then. Prince Charles used the Queen's Flight to travel to Copenhagen to speak at the climate change conference For the Prince this was an important speech with an important message. If we have so little time, and man-made climate change ...
Copenhagen climate summit: 'most important paper in the world' is a glorified UN press release
Post Date: 2009-12-19 16:39:37 by Mad Dog
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When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do? No contest: stop issuing three rainforests of press releases every day, change the heading to James Bond-style “Do not distribute” and “leak” a single copy, in the knowledge that human nature is programmed to interest itself in anything it imagines it is not supposed to see, ...
Iran admits 3 prisoners were beaten to death [ Lack of concern by antibush Proves they are 100% Fake]
Post Date: 2009-12-19 16:04:57 by WhiteSands
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Acknowledgment follows months of repeated denials by police, authorities TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line judiciary acknowledged for the first time Saturday that at least three prisoners detained after June's disputed presidential election were beaten to death by their jailers, confirming a key claim by the country's opposition movement. The surprising acknowledgment followed months of repeated denials by police and other authorities that the deaths of protesters in Iranian custody were caused by abuse. In a statement, the judiciary said 12 officials at Kahrizak prison were charged — three of them with murder. The prison, on the southern outskirts of the capital, Tehran, ...
Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a 'Red Flag,' Critics Say [scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion]
Post Date: 2009-12-19 15:55:06 by WhiteSands
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By Joshua Rhett Miller - FOXNews.com The top cops in Europe say carbon-trading is an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion -- a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a "red flag" to the U.S., which approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer amid stiff opposition. The top cops in Europe say carbon-trading has fallen prey to an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion -- a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a "red flag" to the U.S., where the House approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer amid stiff opposition. In a statement released last ...
Obama praises a climate flop///Copenhagen talks end with dud of a deal
Post Date: 2009-12-19 06:34:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON -- After a day spent frantically darting around Copenhagen trying to locate world leaders, getting snubbed by China's premier and crashing a meeting where he had initially been kept out, President Obama heralded a last-minute, largely toothless UN global-warming summit deal that drew fast fire from all sides as a sham. Almost no one was happy with the outcome of the two-week confab and even the president, who was slammed by liberals and Republicans alike, along with other world leaders, admitted that the pact doesn't legally commit any of the nations involved -- the point of the summit in the first place. Obama may become known as "the man who killed ...
The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year’s Eve, 2004.
Post Date: 2009-12-19 06:07:14 by Mad Dog
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The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year’s Eve, 2004. He was a stolid, grizzled man in a gray tunic and looked to be in his late-sixties or older. He also appeared to be the veteran of wars or of some terrible accident since he had livid scars on his face and neck and hands, some even visible in his scalp beneath a fuzz of gray hair cropped short in a military cut. One eye was covered by a black eyepatch. Before I could finish dialing 911 he announced in a husky voice that he was a Time Traveler come back to talk to me about the future. Being a sometimes science-fiction writer but not a fool, I said, “Prove it.” “Do you remember Replay?” he ...
Obama emerges from climate talks with slender pact and bruised stature
Post Date: 2009-12-18 23:56:00 by WhiteSands
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Barack Obama emerged from the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit last night having salvaged an agreement for action on global warming – and his own reputation as a politician who can bridge the most challenging of political divides. After 15 hours of negotiations, an exhausted looking Obama said he managed to secure a deal on climate change incorporating America's three main goals of emissions cuts, financial aid for the poorest countries, and a measure of accountability for emissions pledges from developing countries. But he acknowledged the skimpy 2.5 page draft produced at the end of his effort was not the comprehensive agreement he had come to Copenhagen for. ...
Iranians seized Iraqi oil well
Post Date: 2009-12-18 23:28:38 by We The People
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday. The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. The oil field is one of Iraq's largest. Oil prices rose slightly after news of the incident. "We are coordinating with the Oil Ministry regarding this issue. This is not the first time that the Iranians have tried to prevent Iraqis from investing in oil fields in border areas. ...
Copenhagen Ends With A Deal Surrounded By Confusion [A Fraud! Non-Binding "Agreement"!]
Post Date: 2009-12-18 19:40:09 by borntoweardiamonds
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The United Nations climate change summit ended last night without setting any emission reduction targets. President Obama forged a non-binding agreement with his counterparts in China, India, Brazil and South Africa but it was unclear whether all 192 countries would accept the compromise text. Mr Obama said that a “fundamental deadlock in perspectives” had overshadowed the negotiations. He described the deal as “meaningful” but admitted that it would not be enough to prevent global warming. “We have much further to go,” he said. Despite two years of negotiations, the key sticking points — emissions cuts, monitoring of emissions and the legal nature of ...
Castro mocks Obama visit to Copenhagen
Post Date: 2009-12-18 15:15:21 by Happy Quanzaa
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Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama's trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a "show," and complained that the world's poor will shoulder the burden of any summit agreement. Castro's opinion article, titled "The Moment of Truth," also criticizes the "fascist methods" used by Danish police to put down protesting environmental activists. "It is already evident that a great catastrophe threatens our species," wrote Castro, 82. Perhaps the worst part of the summit "is blind selfishness of a rich and privileged minority that intents to impose the bulk of the necessary sacrifices on ...
Canada branded 'Colossal Fossil' at climate talks
Post Date: 2009-12-18 15:13:42 by WhiteSands
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COPENHAGEN -- Green groups on Friday named Canada "Fossil of the Year" -- an award that carried the additional honorific of "Colossal Fossil" -- for what they said was a strategy to sabotage efforts to tackle climate change. "Canada's 2020 [emissions] target is among the worst in the industrialised world, and leaked cabinet documents revealed that the government is contemplating a cap-and-trade plan so weak that it would put even that target out of reach," said Climate Action Network International and Avaaz.org. "This government thinks there's a choice between environment and economy, and for them, tar sands beats climate every time. ...
Venezuela's Chavez 'Still' Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech
Post Date: 2009-12-18 13:53:59 by WhiteSands
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he "still" smelled sulfur after President Obama made a keynote speech at the Copenhagen climate conference Friday, accusing the American president of carrying same satanic Chavez believes followed Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush. Chavez, who was not included on the original list of speakers for the final day of the summit, ended the proceedings with bitter references to the Peace Prize-winning Obama as the "Nobel Prize of War." "The Nobel Prize of War just finished saying here that he is here to act. Well, show it sir. Don't leave by the back door," he said. Three years after Chavez likened Bush to the ...
(BREAKING) Iranian Forces Cross into Iraq and Sieze Oil Well (Oil Jumps to $74)
Post Date: 2009-12-18 11:13:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said. The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well, which is in the al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad. The two neighbors have disputed the border of southeast Iraq for decades. “They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,” General Nazmi said by phone from Basra. “They are still there, they raised the flag.” East Maysan in southern Iraq is an old oil field that is no longer in production, according to Nazmi. Iraq is the third largest oil producer in the Middle ...
BREAKING NEWS: Sydney Morning Herald reports 11th hour Copenhagen deal forged
Post Date: 2009-12-18 05:11:14 by borntoweardiamonds
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Just in time for Obama to announce it, and it only cost the USA 100 billion dollars. Thanks Hillary. Climate draft deal agreed December 18, 2009 – 1:30PM Leaders and ministers from 28 countries including Australia have outlined a draft accord to fight global warming. The details of the draft are not known yet but the move came hours before some 130 world leaders were set to convene in the dying hours of the climate summit at Copenhagen. Representatives from key blocs, covering both rich and developing countries, embarked on late-night negotiations in a desperate bid to hammer out a draft climate change agreement. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was also participating in the ...
Bulgaria Socialists: PM Prepares Nationalist Siderov for President
Post Date: 2009-12-18 01:49:33 by Thor
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The Bulgarian Socialist Party has criticized the intentions of the ruling party GERB and the nationalists from Ataka to organize a referendum over the broadcasting of Turkish-language news on the national TV channel BNT 1. The Socialists reacted to Tuesday’s statement of Prime Minister Borisov in which he supported the idea of the Ataka party leader Volen Siderov for holding a referendum. “The ruling majority can stop the Turkish-language news without a referendum. By declaring his support for the initiative yesterday, the Prime Minister actually opened Siderov’s election campaign for President in 2011,” Socialist Party MP Kiril Dobrev said Wednesday. “We are ...
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