Cockpit Door of AA77 Never Opened: Pilots for 9-11 Truth

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 10:11 AM PST

Pilots for 9/11 Truth Forum has posted an examination of the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) supposedly from the Pentagon wreckage of American Airlines Flight 77 that suggests that the cockpit door was never opened during the flight. This discovery appears to be yet another piece of evidence disproving the official story about what happened at the Pentagon on 9-11. The data from the FDR comes from Warren Stutt's website at: http://www.warrenstutt.com/AAL77FDRDecoder/index.html

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 07:01 AM PST

At least 15 people have been killed in Pakistan in the latest US drone attacks that picked up pace after seven CIA agents were killed in late December.

The Sunday attack has reportedly targeted a militant compound in an area near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region. However, the identity of those killed in the air raid has not been confirmed.

Ukraine votes to elect new president

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 06:59 AM PST

Ukrainian voters have started to cast their ballots in the country's first presidential election since the Orange Revolution in 2004.

A total of 18 candidates are contenders in Sunday's election, including the incumbent President, Viktor Yushchenko, and two leading contenders, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Premier Viktor Yanukovich.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 06:44 AM PST

At least 15 people are killed in Pakistan in the latest in a series of US drone attacks that picked up pace after seven CIA agents were killed late December.

The Sunday attack has reportedly targeted a militant compound in an area near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region. However, the identity of those killed in the air raid has not been confirmed.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:51 AM PST

Iran's Ambassador to Moscow says it is unlikely for the Kremlin to give up its friendly ties with Tehran in order to establish closer relations with Washington.

"Russia sees Iran as a regional power. So, it is not likely that Moscow will sacrifice its friendly ties with a trusty neighbor for costly short-term relations with Washington," Mahmoud-Reza Sajjady told Ria Novosti in a Saturday interview.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:12 AM PST

Two NATO soldiers, a Canadian and an American, have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the commanders of allied forces confirm.

A Canadian soldier on foot patrol was slain when he stepped on an explosive device in the southern province of Kandahar, Brigadier-General Daniel Menard, the commander of allied forces in the province, said Sunday.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:45 AM PST

Britain's opposition Conservatives have widened their lead in the opinion polls, having Premier Gordon Brown's ruling Labor Party trail by 13 percent.

A new opinion poll by the Com-Res survey reflects another poll published earlier this week which also gave the Conservatives a 13-point lead over the governing Labor.

More American banks shut down

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:37 AM PST

Three banks in the United Sates have been shut down by state regulators, bringing the total number of bank failures in 2010 to four.

Town Community Bank and Trust of Antioch, Illinois and St. Stephen State Bank of St. Stephen, Minnesota have failed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said on Friday.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:21 AM PST

Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas was bullied by Israel to postpone a UN vote on the Goldstone report last year, an Israeli newspaper says.

Abbas' decision to request the UN Human Rights Council to postpone a vote on the Goldstone report about the Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of Israel's Shin Bet security service.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:12 AM PST

American space agency NASA has launched a full investigation into how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar housing the space shuttle Discovery.

According to a NASA spokesman, the plastic bag was found in a secure part of the hangar at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:01 AM PST

Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares threatens to prosecute the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for using his photo to produce al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's modern image.

Llamazares, the former leader of Spain's United Left communist party and the caucus's current spokesperson in the parliament, has expressed 'stupefaction' over the FBI's misuse of his picture to compose a digitally-enhanced photo of the al-Qaeda leader, warning the agency of legal action unless justification is provided.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:41 AM PST

The US exaggerates the al-Qaeda threat in Yemen as the group's members are too few to turn it into a global threat, a report says.

The report in Le Figaro says that US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's remark regarding al-Qaeda being a threat to world security is an exaggeration.

Ortega warns of US deployment in Haiti

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:31 AM PST

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that the United States has taken advantage of the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the country.

"What is happening in Haiti seriously concerns me as US troops have already taken control of the airport," Ortega said on Saturday.

NASA slashes spaceship price to $US28m

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:13 AM PST

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has slashed the price of its space shuttles from 42 million dollars to 28.8 million dollars apiece.

The 1970s-era spaceships are for sale once their flying days are over, which is scheduled to be this fall.

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 02:51 AM PST

Millions of desperate Haitians are still awaiting food and water supplies after a disastrous quake brought death and misery to the impoverished nation.

The United Nations said on Saturday that it had never before faced such a humanitarian catastrophe.

Jewish Hatred for Non-Jews (Gentiles)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:42 PM PST

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Ahmadinejad warns of 'enemies plots'

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:41 PM PST

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the Islamic world to exercise vigilance against what he called "the enemies' plots."

In a meeting with a group of Sunni Muslims on Saturday, Ahmadinejad said that the enemies were trying to sow discord among Muslims. He also urged Muslims to unite in the face of such plots.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:24 PM PST

Tel Aviv, which is at odds with Ankara, has threatened to expel the Turkish ambassador, should Turkish dramas depicting Israeli brutality continue.

In a series of confrontations between the once-close allies, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that if a Turkish drama — the second of its kind — continue to depict Israeli security forces as brutal, the country's ambassador could be expelled.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:47 PM PST

The chief of the UN mission in Haiti, missing since a devastating earthquake flattened the mission's headquarters in Port-au-Prince, has been confirmed dead.

On Saturday, Hedi Annabi, the Algerian civilian head of the UN mission in Haiti, was found in the rubble, DPA reported.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:43 PM PST

Spectacular fireworks illuminate the skies of Istanbul to mark the launch of the city's nomination as one of three European Capitals of Culture for 2010.

Istanbul on Saturday night officially launched a year of art events feting the occasion with cultural performances, concerts, street shows and firework displays.

Japan's Ozawa snubs calls to step down

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:31 PM PST

Secretary General of Japan's Democratic Party (DPJ) Ichiro Ozawa has refused to resign over a scandal involving his party's fundraising.

"I will stay on to fulfill my given duty, and squarely fight against such an exercise of power [by prosecutors]," Ozawa said.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:57 PM PST

Militants in Pakistan's Balochistan have destroyed parts of a pipeline, disrupting gas flow to nearby towns in the bleak winter.

Militants detonated explosives alongside a gas pipeline in Mastung in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Saturday, law enforcement officials said.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:56 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Haiti where she met with Haitian president Rene Preval and is assessing disaster recovery efforts.

She arrived in a Coast Guard C-130 transport carrying bottled water, packaged food, soap and other supplies.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:37 PM PST

An improvised explosive device was detonated near the office of Khorassan Razavi province's governor general, leaving one person dead.

The bomber apparently detonated his explosives late on Saturday after security forces detected something suspicious about him and moved in his direction.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:56 PM PST

A moderate magnitude-4.9 earthquake has shaken the city of Andimeshk in Iran's southwestern province of Khuzestan, seismologists have announced.

Local seismological centers affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the trembling at 23:53 local time (20:23 GMT) on Saturday.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:52 PM PST

A decision by coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara to stay away from Guinea for several months has been touted as a "positive development" by world leaders.

Camara, who has been in Burkina Faso since Tuesday, released a statement saying he would support the government's transition to civilian rule.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:28 PM PST

El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes has officially apologized for human rights violations carried out by government forces during the country's 1980-1992 civil war.

Funes, speaking on the anniversary of the 1992 peace agreement which ended the war between leftist guerrillas and government forces, apologized for the "grave" human rights violations carried out by government forces against "defenseless civilians" in the Central American nation, AFP reported on Saturday.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:17 PM PST

During an official three-day visit by Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming that began on Thursday, China gave USD 180 million in concessional loans to Tanzania.

"This loan is part of the fulfillment of promises made by China to provide USD 10 billion in concessional loans to Africa between 2010 and 2013," Tanzanian Finance Minister Mustafa Mkulo told Reuters on Saturday.

P5+1 meeting on Iran 'inconclusive'

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:03 PM PST

Diplomats from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) have ended a meeting over Iran's nuclear energy program without reaching an agreement.

"We had a very sober assessment," Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters. "It is inconclusive in the sense that we did not make any decisions right away," he added, AFP reported.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

Democrats are scrambling to shore up the battered candidacy of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the Senate race, which could decide the fate of President Barack Obama's agenda.

Coakley's once-commanding lead has appeared to diminish over the past two weeks. She is now only few points ahead of Republican Scott Brown.

Iraq's Maliki challenged by predecessor

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:16 PM PST

The first post-Saddam Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, claims to be on his way to unseat the current Premier Nuri al-Maliki, contesting the upcoming elections on the frontline of a new parliamentary squad.

Allawi, who served as the acting premier following the 2003 overthrow of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, announced on Friday the list of the candidates his coalition would field in the March 7 event, the AFP news agency reported.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:54 PM PST

At least six soldiers have been wounded in the Pakistani-administered Kashmir valley when a bomber targeted a military vehicle.

The attack took place on Saturday near the town of Rawalakot, near the de facto border with India.

Sound bomb goes off in northeast Iran

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

A sound bomb on Saturday targeted the office of Khorassan Razai's governor general in northeast Iran, a report said.

The explosion left one injured in Mashhad, the capital of the province, Fars News Agency reported.

Egypt's Brotherhood appoints new leader

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:46 PM PST

The Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition movement in Egypt, has appointed Mohammed Badie as its new leader.

The 66-year-old Badie said his group would try to show the world the Islam of moderation and forgiveness that respects global pluralism.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:33 PM PST

The United States says it will submit a formal protest to China over the alleged cyber-attacks against the internet search engine giant, Google.

The US State Department said in a statement that it will seek explanations from Beijing about the nature of the attacks and any related contingency plans.

No deal reached on Iran sanctions

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:29 PM PST

Diplomats from six key powers have failed to decide on new sanctions against Iran.

Officials from the US, Russia China, Britain, France and Germany considered in their meeting at the European Union headquarters in New York on Saturday new possible sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, but no decision was reached.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:17 PM PST

A damning Turkish motion picture, aimed at depicting the "Israeli crimes against humanity," is set to further alienate Ankara from Tel Aviv.

The movie would "depict Israel as it is - with bloody hands, merciless... flouting all human values," against a backdrop of the Palestinian suffering in the blockaded Gaza Strip, the national daily Vatan quoted Turkish scriptwriter Bahadir Ozdener as saying, according to an AFP report.

New Turkish film on Israeli war crimes

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:17 PM PST

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:07 PM PST

An Iran Air plane slid off the runway into the snow as it was about to leave Stockholm for Tehran on Saturday, an official with the airline said.

None of the 173 people, including 149 passengers, onboard Flight 762 were hurt, the official told Press TV on condition of anonymity.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:51 PM PST

The trial of Clotilde Reiss, the Frenchwoman arrested during Tehran's Post election street violence has reportedly come to an end.

The 24-year-old academician who was arrested in July on charges of taking part in a Western plot against the Islamic Republic, was present for the court hearing on Saturday.

Study finds aerobics slows brain aging

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

Apart from its long known health benefits, regular aerobics exercise can ward off thinking and memory problems commonly seen during the aging process.

According to the study published in Archives of Neurology, engaging in moderate physical activity such as brisk walking, swimming and yoga in midlife lowers the risk of developing mild cognitive problems.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:41 PM PST

Compared with couples who have no children, parents are reported to have lower blood pressure levels, a new study finds.

Previous studies had linked having children with greater stress levels due to the constant need for attention, support and nurturing.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:28 PM PST

Ahead of a general election in Britain, the Conservatives Party has censured Prime Minister Gordon Brown for seeking to win the middle class votes.

"Middle Britain won't forget that it was Gordon Brown who destroyed their pensions, increased their taxes and crippled social mobility," Tory Treasury Spokesman Philip Hammond said on Saturday.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:11 PM PST

Iran announces a temporary ban on making the Umrah Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia for Iranians following the souring of relations between the Islamic Republic and the Saudi Kingdom in recent months.

"The Umrah (minor hajj pilgrimage) ceremonies for the next year have been banned temporarily," Fars News Agency reported Saturday, quoting Hojjatoleslam Ali Qazi-Askar, the new representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Hajj Affairs

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST

US authorities have released a long-kept secret list of prisoners held at the notorious Bagram prison in north of the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The names of the 645 prisoners were published in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:18 PM PST

As a limited number of relief flights delivering food, water and other aid are allowed into the quake-hit Haiti, officials are struggling to find alternative routes to distribute aid to angry survivors.

After Tuesday's devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the modest airport at Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, became a bottleneck.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:04 PM PST

A Yemeni parliamentarian accuses the country's leader Ali Abdullah Salih of terrorism, reacting to allegations of Shia Houthi fighters' involvement in the capture of foreign visitors.

Yahya al-Houthi categorically rejected the accusations on Saturday and blamed the kidnapping on the central regime's affiliates and elements with its intelligence service.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:51 AM PST

Experiencing a good night of sleep does not overcome the poor functioning and thinking problems imposed by long-term sleep deprivation, a new study finds.

Previous studies have linked sleep deprivation with various health conditions including high blood pressure.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:05 AM PST

Latest figures have revealed that the rapidly increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity in the US has reached a plateau and stopped climbing in the past decade.

While one in every three American adults is obese, two in every three others suffer from being overweight, stated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials in their recent report.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:05 AM PST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Moscow and Washington have made progress in reaching a new deal over nuclear disarmament.

"In general, we have agreed with Americans on many positions," Medvedev said on Saturday during a meeting with top Russian lawmakers.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:53 AM PST

Members of the Kazakh Senate have asked the government to file a lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP) for falsely reporting that Iran was trying to buy uranium from Astana.

The AP report, which was published On December 29, claimed that Iran had secretly sought to buy uranium from "elements" in Kazakhstan based on a copy of an intelligence analysis it received from an unnamed IAEA member country.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:27 AM PST

A powerful explosion, triggered by an improvised explosive device, has killed two more British soldiers in the conflict-torn Afghanistan.

The British military said in a statement on Saturday that the soldiers were on foot patrol in Helmand province when the attack took place.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:18 AM PST

The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been wounded in the latest American drone attack, a Taliban spokesman has said.

According to the spokesman, Azam Tariq, Mehsud was wounded in Thursday's attack which claimed the lives of at least 15 people in the volatile region of North Waziristan in Pakistan.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:11 AM PST

Russia has lifted its opposition to a long-delayed reform of the European Court of Human Rights in a major gesture towards the West.

On Friday, the Russian Parliament's Lower House, State Duma, overwhelmingly ratified Protocol 14 of the European Human Rights Convention, which will allow the European court to process submitted cases more efficiently and help eliminate a massive backlog of cases in the court.

5.7 Magnitude quake hits Venezuela

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:03 AM PST

Another earthquake has struck - this time in Venezuela, which is also in the Caribbean region. The tremor's been confirmed by the US Geological Survey. It's been measured at 5.6 on the Richter scale, making it a medium-strength earthquake. There have been no reports of any damage or casualties so far. Experts say the new earthquake could be an aftershock of the one which devastated Haiti on Tuesday - which was force seven in magnitude.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:58 AM PST

The US Army has temporarily taken control of Haiti's main airport to prevent chaos as relief workers warn tensions are rising in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Relief workers and some Haiti officials say that if relief aid does not reach Port-au-Prince promptly Haiti capital's situation will become chaotic as survivors become more desperate, waiting for food, water and medical care.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:51 AM PST

Even as Barack Obama makes a public show of calling out major US banks, some analysts remain skeptical about his sincerity. Gerald Celente says that Wall Street owns Washington and real reform has yet to be put in place.

UN confronts 'worst ever disaster'

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:43 AM PST

The United Nations says Haiti's earthquake is the worst disaster it has ever had to deal with. Aid is now pouring in, with a steady flow of relief getting through the nation's only airport. The World Food Programme says it expects to feed a million people. But survivors say help is not happening fast enough as dead bodies lie scattered on the capital's streets. Tarek Bazley reports. January 16, 2010

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:32 AM PST

Police and firefighters have rescued a woman who spent eight days trapped in the elevator of her apartment building near Spain's northeastern city of Barcelona.

The 35-year-old was found conscious but disorientated. She was taken to a hospital after being found in the private lift in the town of Sitges, police said.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:27 AM PST

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has strongly criticized the West for its 'abusive' economic approach that has brought about 'shame' in Haiti.

In a Friday article reflecting the 83-year-old former president's perspective on the recent deadly earthquake in Haiti, Castro wrote, "Haiti is an embarrassment for our times, in a world in which most people still are victims of exploitation and abuse."

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:22 AM PST

The British government has suggested setting up an international trust fund to donate money to those Taliban militants who voluntarily lay down their arms.

According to the The Guardian newspaper, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told UK lawmakers on Wednesday that he hoped the upcoming London conference would agree to what he called a "reintegration program" to help the Kabul government offer a way out of violence for Afghans who had joined the Taliban, but were not committed to its ideology and could be encouraged to return to civilian life.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:19 AM PST

Iran is expected to launch its second trade center in overseas markets by February, says an Iranian economic official.

Hamid Zadboum, an official with the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, said the center would become operational on January 26, 2010 in Oman.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:10 AM PST

Iran has exported 400,000 tons of gas oil (diesel) to Iraq since the beginning of the Iranian calendar year on March 21, 2009.

Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) Farid Ameri said Iran supplies Iraqi power plants with different kinds of fuel.

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:52 AM PST

Now, a row's broken out in the US over the measures to be introduced after Barack Obama called for an overhaul of airport security. The changes were a response to the bomb-plot on a US-bound plane last month. However, critics fear this could lead to racial and religious profiling, which, they say, would be a violation of human rights.