July 26, 2011
It’s not exactly a secret that I’ve long been a fan of professional wrestling. These days, this also means being a fan of Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and its current top star John Cena. But not every fan likes Cena. In fact, some downright hate him. Though packaged as the ultimate good guy—whose [...]
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hulk Hogan, John Cena, Julian Assange, Marc Thiessen, Mitch McConnell, WikiLeaks, World Wrestling Entertainment
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July 26, 2011
One million Pakistanis are still homeless and in need of aid after last summer’s floods. Photograph: David Berehulak/Reuters Last summer aid workers in Pakistan battled with epic floods that affected 20 million people, destroyed crops and inundated one-fifth of the country. A year later they find themselves in a very different imbroglio: the escalating spy [...]
Tags: Catholic Relief Services, Central Intelligence Agency, Humanitarian aid, Inter-Services Intelligence, National Disaster Management Authority, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States
Posted in Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
A no entry sign outside Heysham nuclear power station in Morecambe, Lancashire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Christopher Thomond Why must the UK choose between nuclear and renewable energy? That was the question George Monbiot asked recently in a blog that challenged me to answer four questions. Here is a concise version of my answers: the full version of [...]
Tags: Committee on Climate Change, Economics of new nuclear power plants, George Monbiot, Government of the United Kingdom, Low-carbon economy, Mott MacDonald, nuclearpower, Renewable energy
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July 26, 2011
Ed Balls has accused George Osborne – pictured above visiting Brompton Bicycle Ltd in Brentford, west London – of being ‘breathtakingly complacent’ after GDP data showed the economy grew by just 0.2% in the spring. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Ministers insisted there would be no backsliding on the government’s hardline austerity programmes after data showed that [...]
Tags: David Cameron, Downing Street, Economy of the United Kingdom, Ed Balls, George Osborne, Gross domestic product, Jeremy Heywood, London
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Imperial Project, Imperialism, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Marching for Anzac in the 51st State 20 April 2011 The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played Aussies-and-Japs. Pete’s father was an object of awe. He weighed barely 100 pounds and shook with malaria and [...]
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July 26, 2011
New US Envoy: No Rush to Leave Afghanistan Denies Plan for ‘Permanent Bases’ by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in his first comments after being sworn in, new US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker insisted that the US is in “no rush” to leave the country, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq, Obama administration, Ryan Crocker, Taliban, U.S. Embassy Kabul, United State
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July 26, 2011
Under Cover of “Crisis” Obama‘s Ambush on Entitlements By MICHAEL HUDSON You know that the debt face-off is as staged as melodramatically as a World Wrestling Federation exhibition when Obama makes the blatantly empty threat that if Congress does not “tackle the tough challenges of entitlement and tax reform,” there won’t be money to pay [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, CBS Evening News, Democratic, Democratic Leadership Council, Erskine Bowles, Federal government of the United States, Obama, Republican, Social Security, United State, United States Treasury security, Wall Street
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Democracy, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, US economy, voodoo rhythm economics | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
World Food Bank Programme director Josette Sheeran says that many of the children arriving at refugee camps are already in Stage four malnutrition, meaning they have a less than 40 per cent chance of surviving [EPA] In Somalia, where civil war has ravaged the country, where conflict continues to claim victims, a new hardship is [...]
Tags: Africa, Barbara Stocking, Horn of Africa, Josette Sheeran, Somali people, Somalia, United Nation, World Food Programme
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July 26, 2011
“We’re going to see major changes in industrial civilisation … anything with a parking lot is going to be in trouble” [EPA] Energy derived from oil reaches, quite literally, every aspect of our lives. From the clothes we wear, to the food we eat, to how we move ourselves around, without oil, our lives would [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, International Energy Agency, M. King Hubbert, Peak oil, Petroleum, Richard Heinberg, United States, World Energy Outlook
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July 26, 2011
Several activists and journalists were injured in clashes with the police during last Friday’s protests in Amman [Reuters] In a rare outbreak of violence, a protest in Amman last Friday demanding political reforms ended in broken bones and cameras. Several pro-reform protesters and journalists were injured in clashes with the police, leaving the media and [...]
Tags: Abdullah II of Jordan, Amman, Bedouin, Demographics of Jordan, Jordan, Muslim Brotherhood, Protest, Reuters
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July 26, 2011
As the song says: You may leave here for 4 days in space But when you return, it’s the same old place The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace And… [...]
Tags: Aish Hatorah, Center for Security Policy, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Frank Gaffney, Islamophobia, Middle East Forum, Pamela Geller, United States
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July 26, 2011
In Jaffa, Palestinians and left-wing Jewish supporters protest government plans to demolish illegally-built Arab houses [GALLO/GETTY] During the last week angry young residents of Tel Aviv have been staging a sit-in, or, more accurately, a tent-in, along fashionable Rothschild Boulevard to protest their being priced out of the housing market in Israel’s cultural and economic capital. The [...]
Tags: Ajami, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, middle east, Palestinian people, Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, Warfare and Conflict
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July 26, 2011
Although the UN General Assembly will probably vote for Palestine’s admission to the UN, the Obama administration plans to veto the measure using its position on the UN Security Council [GALLO/GETTY] “Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states,” notes the UN Charter. The admission depends on “a decision of the [...]
Tags: Israel, List of United Nations member states, Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, United Nations, United Nations Charter, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377, United Nations Security Council
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July 26, 2011
A way forward for Palestinians and Palestine Published today (updated) 26/07/2011 10:29 By Jamal Saad How far can we, the Palestinian people, take our struggle for freedom? The obvious answer is as far as it takes to achieve our self-determination and our liberation. But this is dependent on all the Palestinian people in the [...]
Tags: Israel, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Palestine, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, Proposals for a Palestinian state, United Nations, United States
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July 26, 2011
Fatah says party members blocked from leaving Gaza Published today 20:28 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Fatah on Tuesday said Hamas officials refused to allow Fatah revolutionary council member Amal Hamad to leave the coastal enclave for a PLO central council meeting in the West Bank. However Hamas did allow 18 PLO central committee members [...]
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July 26, 2011
Poll shows majority of Palestinians support UN bid Published today (updated) 26/07/2011 19:14 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A public opinion poll released Tuesday has found that a majority of Palestinians support going to the United Nations in September to ask for recognition of a state. The results of the poll showed that 65.4 percent of [...]
Tags: Beit-Sahour, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Ma'an, Palestinian people, Salam Fayyad, United Nations, West Bank
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July 26, 2011
The discovery that Greece‘s debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100 per cent has caused the government to impose severe austerity measures – leading to many violent riots by its citizens [EPA] Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble. Usually there is an element of truth in what they say. But the public [...]
Tags: Carmen Reinhart, Debt-to-GDP ratio, Greece, Gross domestic product, Kenneth Rogoff, Keynesian economics, Robert J. Shiller, United States
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July 26, 2011
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (along with Ted Kaczynski, Lucas John Helder, Jim Adkisson, Andrew Joseph Stack, Jared Lee Loughner, and others) is yet another example of a non-Muslim terrorist [GALLO/GETTY] Dozens of innocents were murdered by a terrorist act in Norway. But not all the casualties were human. Other casualties included some dangerous but commonly-held assumptions [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Islamism, Islamophobia, Jared Lee Loughner, Ted Kaczynski, Terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, United States, Utøya, Warfare and Conflict
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July 26, 2011
The plane Raquel Gutiérrez was travelling in was turned out of US airspace last week. Photograph: Itani Images/Alamy On Wednesday 20 July 2011 at 10.35pm, I boarded Aeroméxico flight 033 in Mexico City to go to Barcelona. I was to connect from there to another Alitalia flight to Italy, where I was meeting friends to [...]
Tags: Aeroméxico, Alitalia, Barcelona, Bolivia, Federal Police (Mexico), Mexico, Monterrey, United States
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Criticism of the Israeli government, Gilad Atzmon, Islamophobia, Israel, Lauren Booth, Palestine, Palestinian people
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July 26, 2011
George Osborne has attended 16 meetings since the 2010 general election at which News International executives were present. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA George Osborne met Rebekah Brooks on five occasions in the year following the 2010 general election, according to figures released on Tuesday afternoon, that show how the chancellor cultivated relationships with senior figures at News [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, British Sky Broadcasting, George Osborne, James Murdoch, News Corporation, News International, Rupert Murdoch, Vince Cable
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July 26, 2011
Norway: The Enemy Within Scandinavians have a dual reputation for tolerance and homogeneity: a population of pale, polite people who speak English perfectly. But that’s your grandfather’s Scandinavia. Over the last several decades, the region has become a great deal more diverse after a steady influx of immigrants from the east and south. And the [...]
Tags: Bruce Bawer, Crusades, Islam, Jens Stoltenberg, Multiculturalism, Norway, United States, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
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July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
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July 26, 2011
This page has been saying for quite some time that voodoo rhythm economics is realy about making those lower in the enforced hierarchy as per the inoculated delusion pay for the lifestyle of the rich and the elite. The contribution to the general fund by the rich is inordinately small and often non-existent, as these [...]
Tags: BarackObama, Eric Cantor, GOP, John Boehner, Politics, Republican, United State, United States Congress
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July 26, 2011
Debt Is A Crisis By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/debt-crisis What if the imminent banging of Uncle Sam‘s skull into the looming debt ceiling isn’t a crisis, but the very concept of debt is? The debt ceiling has been lifted numerous times without fanfare or fainting spells. All we face this week is a fabricated opportunity to [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Economic, Great Depression, John Boehner, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Uncle Sam, United State, Wall Street
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July 26, 2011
Israeli restrictions ensure slow pace of Gaza reconstruction Published Thursday 21/07/2011 (updated) 23/07/2011 10:35 [Erica Silverman/IRIN] RAMALLAH (IRIN) – The housing crisis in the Gaza Strip is not going to be resolved any time soon: Only a small number of the 40,000 units needed to meet natural population growth and the destruction of homes [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, International Committee of the Red Cross, IRIN, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
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July 26, 2011
Dope dilemma: should a journalist smoke pot to get a source to open up? Washington Post humour columnist Gene Weingarten has set journalists a problem. I’ve amended it just slightly for a British audience. A reporter is sent to interview a man who can help to reveal a matter of major national importance. It would be [...]
Tags: Cannabis (drug), Gene Weingarten, Journalism, Journalist, Media, Reporter, Smoking, Washington Post
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July 26, 2011
China, now the world’s fastest-growing diamond market, has allowed the sale of diamonds from the Marange fields in Zimbabwe [EPA] The recent approval of Zimbabwean diamonds mined from the $800bn Marange fields by the Kimberley Process (KP) chair, the DRC’s Mathieu Yamba Lapfa Lambang, has prompted a global “human rights” outcry with KP members such as Canada, the [...]
Tags: Blood diamond, Global Witness, Jonas Savimbi, Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Marange diamond fields, Non-governmental organization, Sierra Leone, United States
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July 26, 2011
Although Welikada is technically considered a ‘correctional’ facility, there are serious doubts about whether or not any rehabilitation occurs inside before the women are released [EPA] Monthly “visiting hours” at the female ward of Sri Lanka‘s notorious Welikada Prison are as traumatic for the inmates as they are for their family and friends. A tiny [...]
Tags: Asia, Crime and Justice, Daily Mirror, Human rights, International Crisis Group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, New Delhi, Prison, Rotary International, Sri Lanka, United Nations, United States, Welikada Prison
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July 26, 2011
There is a video of this interview at the Al Jazeera site at: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2011/07/2011725965994172.html Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, was arrested this weekend in connection with the bombing of a government building and a mass shooting at a youth summer camp. The attacks, which have claimed upwards of 92 lives, came as a deep [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Fundamentalist Christianity, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Norway, Old Norwegian, Oslo, Utøya
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July 26, 2011
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, Crown Prosecution Service, Home Affairs Select Committee, Metropolitan Police Service, News of the World phone hacking affair, Peter Goldsmith Baron Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch
Posted in James Murdoch, Media, News, News Corp, News hacking, News international, News of the World, news report, Psycopaths, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert not born in the USA, UK DPP | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Indian farmers are being forcibly moved from their land to make way for rich foreign investors and their environmentally destructive plans [EPA] On June 29, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with editors of a few newspapers. When asked about whether he had been putting pressure on the Environment Ministry to approve environmentally destructive projects, he [...]
Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Forest Rights Act, India, Indira Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, Manmohan Singh, POSCO, United States
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July 26, 2011
The video of the interview can be seen at al Jazeera at: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2011/07/2011725203013539551.html Please note that the death toll has thankfully gone down. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg personally knew many of the victims of Friday’s car bombing in Oslo and mass shootings on a nearby island. He told a grimly defiant crowd amassed in the [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Car bomb, Government, Jens Stoltenberg, Norway, Norwegians, Oslo, Utøya
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush tax cuts, Cancer, Elite, Harry Reid, middle east, Nigeria, Party leaders of the United States Senate, President, Republican, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, United State, War crime, White House
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July 26, 2011
How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 25, 2011 JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to [...]
Tags: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Australia, Benjamin Netanyahu, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Fox News Channel, Israel, Jew, Jewish state, middle east, News Corporation, Palestinian people, Ron Kampeas, Rupert Murdoch, The Times, United State, United States Congress, Warfare and Conflict, West Bank
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
Tags: Fox News Channel, George W. Bush, Gulf Daily News, Reel Bad Arabs, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 26, 2011
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By Mantiq al-Tayr * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 1. As is usually the case all of the experts on terrorism and all the Islam-hating bigots were wrong. Sometimes I am not even sure which group is the more loathsome and of course there is considerable overlap between the two. And even though Will McCants actually seems okay, he [...]
Tags: CNN, Elijah Cummings, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Muslim, New Jersey, United States, Walid Shoebat, Zionism
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July 26, 2011
Muslims Bombed Norway! Where’s the Apology? by MOHAMED KHODR on JULY 25, 2011 This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23, 2011. / AP PHOTO As expected the Washington Post‘s subdued non-hysterical coverage of the horrific terrorist attacks in Norway contrasts sharply with the hysterical coverage of [...]
Tags: Christian terrorism, Israel, middle east, Muslim, Muslim world, Palestinian people, United States, Warfare and Conflict, Washington Post
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July 26, 2011
Goldman Sachs: US Faces Credit ‘Downgrade’ if it Counts Eventual End of War as ‘Deficit Reduction’ Claiming Wars Will End Sooner or Later Not a Real Savings by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Senate Democrats have issued a new “savings” plan that would nominally pare the projected [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Democratic Party (United States), Goldman Sachs, Iraq, Iraq War, Libya, United State, Warfare and Conflict
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
Tags: British Empire, History, Imperialism, James Petras, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Osama BinLaden, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
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July 26, 2011
APNewsBreak: UK Muslims vigilant after Norway The Associated Press E-MAIL PRINTREPRINT 0 COMMENTS TEXT SIZE: LONDON — Extra security will be put up at mosques around the U.K. in the wake of the deadly attacks in Norway, British Muslim leaders said Sunday. Mohammed Shafiq, the leader of Ramadhan Foundation, one of Britain’s largest Muslim groups, [...]
Tags: Associated Press, British National Party, Islam, Mohammed Shafiq, Muslim, Norway, Oslo, Sunni Islam
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July 26, 2011
Back to Basics in the War on the Muslim World John Glaser, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Arguments both for and against, say the war in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, tend to get clouded by whatever tangential political vocabulary is popular in any given week or month (surgical [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Iraq War, Islam, Mohammed Omar, Muslim world, Osama BinLaden, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, United State, United States, Washington D.C
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July 26, 2011
OSLO — In the minutely detailed diary he began compiling May 1, Anders Behring Breivik comes across as obsessive, anxious and narcissistic. Meticulously recording his actions, he describes how he assembled the explosives he would use to set off a car bomb in Oslo and how he prepared for the shooting spree he would then [...]
Tags: Jens Stoltenberg, Labour Party, Norway, Norwegians, Oslo, Utoya, Utøya, Warfare and Conflict
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July 26, 2011
NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital Engineering school also hit, Brits call it ‘spy HQ’ Jeremy Sapienza and Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment [...]
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July 26, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi could stay in Libya but would have to give up power, according to a political settlement plan initiated by Britain. Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA Britain is prepared to agree to a political settlement in Libya that would see Muammar Gaddafi remain in the country after relinquishing his hold on power, the foreign secretary, William Hague, has [...]
Tags: Alain Juppé, International Criminal Court, Libya, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France), Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nick Pope, Wall Street Journal, William Hague
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July 26, 2011
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Harbottle & Lewis, Metropolitan Police Service, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Solicitors Act 1974, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in James Murdoch, Journalism, Manufacturing Consent, Media, News, News Corp, News hacking, News international, News of the World, news report, Political psychopaths, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Rebekah Brooks, Regulating Democracy, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert not born in the USA, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, voodoo rhythm economics | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Holy Land clerics launch interfaith Earth forum Published yesterday (updated) 25/07/2011 15:46 Rabbi David Rosen speaks during a press conference in Rome, 2010. Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in the Holy Land joined forces to launch a multi-faith environmental campaign, citing religious injunctions to protect the Earth across their three faiths. [AFP/Vincenzo Pinto, File] [...]
Tags: Christian, David Rosen, Earth, Holy Land, Jew, Muslim, Sustainable Development, United Nations General Assembly
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July 26, 2011
Germany opens taboo-shattering Wagner festival Published yesterday (updated) 25/07/2011 22:34 By Frederic Happe BAYREUTH, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s 100th Wagner opera festival kicked off here Monday in an edition that will include a taboo-busting performance by an Israeli orchestra. The annual tribute to the works of the 19th-century composer, a fervent anti-Semite who later [...]
Tags: Adolf Hitler, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, Bayreuth Festival, Daniel Barenboim, Germany, Israel, Orchestra, Richard Wagner
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