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U.S. Oil Companies Lose Out in Iraq Oil Auction
Post Date: 2009-12-14 23:50:50 by Ibluafartsky
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U.S. Oil Companies Lose Out in Iraq Oil Auction By Carola Hoyos Published: December 13 2009 20:19 | Last updated: December 13 2009 20:19 US oil groups were all but shut out from Iraq as it completed the biggest oil field auction in history. European groups, including Royal Dutch Shell, Lukoil and Gazprom, and Asian groups, such as China’s CNPC and Malaysia’s Petronas, were the main winners at Iraq’s second oil auction, which completed the sale of its large fields. Thamir Ghadhban, a prime ministerial adviser and former oil minister, said: “We haven’t really seen US companies, and that is because of intense competition . . . The issue is financial and ...
Carbon Scheme: Offset Your Jet-Set Lifestyle by Eliminating African Babies
Post Date: 2009-12-14 19:12:06 by borntoweardiamonds
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December 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Population control groups have been using the hype surrounding the Copenhagen climate change conference to promote their solution to hypothetical impending environmental catastrophes. Earlier this month, two pieces appearing in the same edition of the Guardian revisited a report by Britain's Optimum Population Trust (OPT) that suggests that people in wealthy first-world countries should "offset" the carbon cost of their jet-setting lifestyles by paying to prevent the births of poor children in the developing world. John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor, wrote that the OPT's report suggesting a "radical" plan to ...
by Ron Paul, It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-12-14 18:46:51 by Palo Verde
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Statement before the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee on December 10, 2009. Mr. Speaker thank you for holding these important hearings on US policy in Afghanistan. I would like to welcome the witnesses, Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and General Stanley A. McChrystal, and thank them for appearing before this Committee. I have serious concerns, however, about the president’s decision to add some 30,000 troops and an as yet undisclosed number of civilian personnel to escalate our Afghan operation. This "surge" will bring US troop levels to approximately those of the Soviets when they occupied Afghanistan with disastrous result back in the 1980s. I fear ...
by Ron Paul, Who Wants More War?
Post Date: 2009-12-14 18:43:06 by Palo Verde
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If anyone still doubted that this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week’s debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The president’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating the war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons we began the conflict. It is so discouraging to see this coming from our new leadership, when the people were hoping for peace. New polls show that 49 percent of the people favor minding our own business on the world stage, up from 30 percent in 2002. Perpetual war is not solving anything. Indeed continually seeking out monsters to destroy abroad only threatens our ...
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up ("fresh figures" yrs old)
Post Date: 2009-12-14 18:41:01 by borntoweardiamonds
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There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be ...
Making Afghanistan Safe for Heroin by Sibel Edmonds
Post Date: 2009-12-14 18:32:56 by Palo Verde
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by Sibel Edmonds posted on her site Boiling Frogs Post yesterday Making Afghanistan Safe for HeroinSunday, 13. December 2009 by Mike_Mejia US Media & The Perpetual Flip-Flopping on Drug-Related Stories When I read Mizgin’s recent great post about Richard Armitage and his involvement in the Golden Triangle, I rolled my eyes. “Some Daily Kos reader out there,” I thought, “is, at this very moment, shouting ‘conspiracy theory’ at their computer.” The “conspiracy theory” accusation comes up any time a journalist or a whistleblower points out that U.S. officials and agencies have been complicit in the global drug trade. In fact, ...
Allah Akbar: Burka Hussein Osama Wants to Wuss Out on Drone Strikes
Post Date: 2009-12-14 17:53:06 by Happy Quanzaa
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Reports indicate that President Barack Obama intends to block the growth of the CIA’s largely successful clandestine program of using missiles fired by drones to kill key al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan. A debate over expanding the program has reportedly been ongoing among Obama and his advisers for the past year. The president and his advisers worry the spy agency’s desire to expand the strikes into populated areas such as Quetta ³2; reported home to key Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar ³2; would increase the risk of unwanted civilian casualties and increase diplomatic problems with the Pakistani government. The administration reportedly has been encouraged by ...
Your Tax Dollars @ Work: African AIDS jelly fails///Hussein Osama summons Useful Dimmies to !/2 White House
Post Date: 2009-12-14 17:46:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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* AIDS gel ineffective in largest trial to date * Scientists say results disappointing but definitive * Result adds to setbacks for Endo Pharmaceuticals (Adds background, details on Gilead's product) LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - U.S. drug company Endo Pharmaceuticals' (ENDP.O) gel designed to prevent infection with the AIDS virus was ineffective in trials in Africa, Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) said on Monday. The large international trial of vaginal microbicide Pro 2000 in more than 9,000 women in four African countries found no evidence that it reduces the risk of HIV infection. The result is a setback for the specialty drugmaker, whose shares were hit earlier ...
Butt Ugly Nutjob Cindy Sheehan Protests Obama and Begs Him For Money
Post Date: 2009-12-14 10:55:07 by dont eat that
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Dear Mr. Obama, I hear that you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently in Oslo, Norway and that, in addition to that spiffy medal, it comes with 1.4 million tax-free dollars that you are going to "donate to charity." I just want to let you know that there are still some of us in the US who oppose the wars, even though you are president, and its nothing personal, but I vehemently oppose your wars and especially oppose the escalation of troops to Afghanistan and the fact that there has been no de-escalation from Iraq. It has been super-tough being a peace activist since you took office, because a lot of my colleagues supported your candidacy and gave you a "wait and ...
Another flight disrupted by a group of Muslims
Post Date: 2009-12-14 10:48:29 by mel
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It happened again on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, less than a month after the incident aboard AirTran Flight 297. United Airlines Flight 227, scheduled to depart Denver International Airport at 1:50 pm Wednesday for Los Angeles was disrupted when several passengers who were described as Middle Eastern in appearance, confirmed by this investigator to be a group of Muslims traveling together, were removed from that aircraft due to suspicious behavior that originated in the terminal and continued to the airplane. Their behavior was consistent in some respects to the behavior of the Muslim passengers aboard AirTran Flight 297 on November 17, 2009 that caused a flurry of controversy over its ...
Video of Italian PM Berlusconi Being Hit in the Face with a Replica of the Milan Cathedral
Post Date: 2009-12-14 00:43:04 by borntoweardiamonds
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Here is video that shows Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi actually being hit in the face with what appears to be an object thrown at him from a crowd in Milan. The Times Online identifies the object as a metal replica of the Milan Cathedral: VIDEO The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was struck in the face yesterday by a man holding a small replica of Milan's cathedral, leaving him with two broken teeth and forcing him to spend the night in hospital. Witnesses said Mr Berlusconi was attacked after a political rally in the centre of Milan, as he was signing autographs in the square in front of the cathedral, the Duomo. He had just finished giving a speech to rally ...
Human rights group: Hamas disinters Christians in Gaza
Post Date: 2009-12-13 23:53:07 by WhiteSands
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Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. "Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth," said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International (OFWI), who will head a delegation of human rights activists, members of parliament from Canada and religious personalities. During their visit to Israel the delegation will hold a conference on human rights and ...
'Even Atheists Need to Switch Off on Sundays'
Post Date: 2009-12-13 18:29:25 by A K A Stone
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Germany's highest court has ruled that Sunday should be kept as a day of rest and has overturned a Berlin law easing restrictions on Sunday shopping. Most German newspapers on Wednesday greet the ruling, some for reasons of religion and tradition, others out of a concern for workers' rights. Many visitors to Germany can find themselves standing outside a closed department store, perplexed to find that they cannot do a bit of shopping during their weekend trip. This is a result of Germany's long-held resistance to Sunday shopping even in the face of growing consumerism. Yet many of Germany's 16 states have already made some exceptions, allowing stores to open a few Sundays ...
Human rights group: Hamas disinters Christians in Gaza
Post Date: 2009-12-13 18:24:49 by Mad Dog
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Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. Majed El Shafie, who will head a delegation of human rights activists, members of parliament from Canada and religious personalities at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. "Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth," said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International (OFWI), who will head a delegation of ...
Establishment Whore afraid of the rise of Jobbik
Post Date: 2009-12-13 18:12:14 by Thor
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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and activist Elie Wiesel has urged Hungary to consider banning Holocaust denials to improve its image abroad and has expressed concern about growing extremist parties in the country and Europe. Wiesel spoke to BosNewsLife in Budapest after ceremonies marking the revival of Jewish culture since the collapse of Communism in 1989, and the 20th anniversary of the Orthodox Jewish Chabad- Lubavitch movement here. Hungary's 100,000 strong Jewish population is now Eastern Europe's largest Jewish community outside Russia, and young generations are again encouraged by Jewish leaders to be aware of there heritage. Youngsters ...
Italy's Nationalist PM Silvio Berlusconi is bloodied by attack
Post Date: 2009-12-13 13:34:10 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi is bloodied by attack Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after being struck in face Mr Berlusconi was helped to his feet by aides Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan. Pictures showed Mr Berlusconi bleeding from the mouth after the assault. A man has been arrested. The prime minister was helped to his feet by aides and rushed away from the scene in a car. One report said the assailant was holding an object.
Violence Grips South Sudan as Vote Nears
Post Date: 2009-12-13 02:00:35 by WhiteSands
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DUK PADIET, Sudan — The word went out on a Friday. Chibetek was coming, with warriors and a grudge to settle. The whole village sprang into battle mode. Boys grabbed rusty rifles, women ran to the river to hide in the water, old men stood sentry on the village outskirts, training their yellow, rheumy eyes on the vast savannahs and malarial swamps that have kept this region cut off for decades. And when the warriors did come, the villagers said, there were hundreds of them, maybe thousands, pouring through the chest-high elephant grass with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, dressed in crisp new uniforms that implied a level of military organization never seen before. ...
Hundreds of bosses flee UK over 50% tax
Post Date: 2009-12-12 22:20:18 by borntoweardiamonds
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Britain’s financiers and entrepreneurs are quitting the UK at a rate of 10 a week to avoid Labour’s new 50% taxes. The burgeoning exodus threatens to deepen a £178 billion black hole in the public finances and leave middle-class voters with higher taxes for years to come, figures obtained from Companies House reveal. The number of directors of British businesses registered as living in the low-tax centres of Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man has risen by almost 500 to 6,729 in the past 12 months. The British Virgin Islands is also a popular destination, with 615 directors of UK companies now based in the Caribbean tax haven — an 18% rise on a year ago. Related ...
Video: Testimonies from Gaza - 13 year old boy, massacre committed by the israeli army [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-12 20:39:44 by mel
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Boy, 12, suspended for 'crisp dealing' in school that banned junk food
Post Date: 2009-12-12 18:35:52 by borntoweardiamonds
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A schoolboy has been suspended for 'crisp dealing' at a school which has banned fatty drinks and snacks. In sign of pupil disgruntlement over school meal reforms spearheaded by TV chef Jamie Oliver, 12-year-old Joel Bradley was caught allegedly selling a packet of He was suspended from Liverpool's Cardinal Heenan High School because it was the second time he had been caught. His father, Joe, said the boy had been 'victimised' for an enterprise which could earn him as much as £15 a day. 'I think the school has made a beeline for him because of what I've done,' he told the Liverpool Echo. Mr Bradley, from Liverpool's Norris Green district, ...
Furious Reaction To Sick Editorial Calling For Global One Child Dictatorship
Post Date: 2009-12-12 09:43:08 by A K A Stone
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An article featured in Canada’s Financial Post newspaper calling for China’s draconian one child policy, where woman are kidnapped off the streets, drugged, and forced to undergo compulsory abortions, to be imposed worldwide has been met with widespread hostile reaction, yet such measures are being debated at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen. In her editorial published on Tuesday, columnist Diane Francis wrote that, “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate.” Just days later, the Chinese government delegation at the Copenhagen climate change conference argued that the Communist ...
Germany Jails Eight Christian Fathers for Removing Children from Sex-Ed Class
Post Date: 2009-12-11 19:30:10 by borntoweardiamonds
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WESTPHALIA, Germany, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At least eight Russo-German families in Salzkotten, Germany, have suffered heavy fines and now their fathers have been sentenced to prison, because they have refused to send their elementary school-age children to mandatory sexual education classes. The International Human Rights Group, a Christian legal defense organization that defends religious liberty and the right to homeschool in Europe, reports that in addition to refusing to allow their children to attend sex-ed classes, the families also resisted having their children enlisted in a theatre production of "Mein Körper gehört mir" or "My Body Belongs ...
KGB Destroyed Hitler's Remains, Russian Says
Post Date: 2009-12-11 08:57:20 by sneakypete
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The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency's chief, a top Russian security official said this week. The head archivist of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) -- the successor to the former Soviet Union's KGB -- confirmed for the first time the chain of events that led to the disposal of Hitler's body, and who ordered the operation, in an exclusive interview with Russia's Interfax news agency. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov told Interfax in an interview published Monday that previously secret documents show that KGB chief Yuri Andropov, with prior consent from the Soviet ...
Griffin's claim proven true: detractors proven to be liars
Post Date: 2009-12-10 23:02:29 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Recently BNP leader Nick Griffin was taken to task for saying that London was no longer a "English City". Sorry anti-nationalists, there is this thing called the "internet" which can substantiate Griffins asssertion, and thus, as always, proving his detractors to be liars.
I have a way to unlock climate finance: Soros
Post Date: 2009-12-10 21:16:00 by borntoweardiamonds
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-Soros/articleshow/5323212.cms COPENHAGEN: Billionaire financier George Soros told Reuters on Thursday he had found a path to unlock a Copenhagen stalemate on climate finance using International Monetary Fund assets. GREEN BUSINESS UN talks in the Danish capital, meant to agree the outline of a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, are stuck on splitting the bill to cut carbon emissions and prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas. Soros said developed countries could invest a portion of their $283 billion IMF special drawing rights in carbon-cutting projects in developing nations. The projects themselves would pay the ...
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