Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Paradigms of Deceit


The Paradigms of Deceit

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The Paradigms of Deceit

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:05 PM PST

The well known houses of Jewish finance were behind the promotion of Communism, Socialism, and the ensuing international political collusion.  Today, this collusion has played out its role.  It is defunct and the effects of international usury are becoming more and more visible to people whose awareness has emerged from the chaos of the Western mass media's "cognitive dissonance".

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The Christmas Bomber and the Fraudulent War on Terror

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:43 AM PST

On 18 November 2009 I published a warning in which I said there was a "very high" risk of a false-flag "Al Qaida" terror attack against Americans. The warning was the thrust of my article, entitled "Terror Risk High as Obama Ponders Afghan Fiasco," which begins with this sentence: "The risk of another false-flag terror attack like the terror atrocities of 9-11 is currently very high." (A "false-flag" terror incident is one that is designed to affect public opinion by being blamed on a third party by the real perpetrators.) On Christmas Day, thirty-seven days after my article was published on Bollyn.com, the false-flag terror incident I predicted occurred on a passenger airliner approaching Detroit's Metro Airport.

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Race and Religion: Awkward Friends of the White Man

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST

sunicThere is a widespread idea among White nationalists worldwide that Whites need to resurrect their Christian heritage in order to be better able to retrieve their racial, religious and cultural identity. Another proposal common among White nationalists is that the liberal system needs to put an end to non-White, non-Christian immigration, which would then pave the way for polishing up the vanishing White gene pool. Another far-flung idea is that the influence of Jews must be curtailed if not stopped altogether, so that all social ills can be cured. Last but not least, the liberal system needs to be replaced by a nationalist, nativist, populist, "right wing", White government.

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Wilhelm Marr's The Victory of Judaism over Germanism: Viewed from a Nonreligious Point of View

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:30 AM PST

Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904) has gone down in history as the first racial anti-Semite. His signature work, The Victory of Judaism over Germanism: Viewed from a Nonreligious Point of View, expresses Marr's views on the conflict between Germans and Jews in a strikingly modern manner.

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Goyland: Where the Wild Things Are

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:47 AM PST

The $100 million-dollar film Where the Wild Things Are was released last October. Older readers might remember the 1963 children's book on which the film is based. The original book was penned by Jewish American writer Maurice Sendak, who grew up in Brooklyn. Today I will consider whether or not the writer's Jewish background played a role in the book's creation.

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Ron Paul on Haiti quake: American people will donate billions

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:09 AM PST

Many thousands are feared dead in Haiti after the country's worst earthquake in two centuries, devastated the capital. The International Red Cross says up to three million people may be affected, and need emergency aid. Congressman Ron Paul shares with RT his view on what should be done to help the Island nation to deal with this tragedy.

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Serbian film festival recognizes About Elly

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:08 AM PST

Iran's acclaimed film About Elly continues its rewarding journey around the world with another film festival in Serbia.

The 2010 Kustendorf Film Festival is scheduled to screen award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's About Elly.

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Iran: Hidden agenda behind border instability

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:08 AM PST

An Iranian Foreign Ministry official says there is a hidden agenda behind the recent destabilizing measures on Iran's eastern borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"Restoration of security to Iran's long borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan is in the best national and regional interest; however, there are some elements who spare no efforts to disturb the peace and security of these borders," Deputy Foreign Minister, Hassan Qashqavi told reporters in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Thursday.

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Haiti struggling with quake consequences

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:08 AM PST

Haiti awaits international aid after its devastating earthquake as President Rene Preval puts the number of the victims at around 50,000.

Haiti remains in shock after three major earthquakes with magnitudes measuring 7.0, 5.5 and 5.9 on the Richter scale hit 16 kilometers (10 miles) southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

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Pentagon: No evidence that Iran seeking nukes

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:08 AM PST

The Pentagon's top intelligence official says there is no evidence that Iran is planning to build nuclear weapons.

The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, says the key findings of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear energy program are still valid.

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Entertaining Apartheid Israel ... U 2 Bono?

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel this coming summer. Two years ago, you were invited by Israeli President Shimon Peres to attend a conference in Israel marking Israel's contributions to medicine, science, and conservation; we urged you then, as a prominent activist on issues of global inequality and a campaigner for basic human rights, to say no to Israel, especially since the invitation coincided with celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state.[1] You did not go to Israel then; we call on you now not to grant legitimacy to a state that practices the most pernicious form of colonialism and apartheid.

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'Our Israel': My Exchange with House Minority Leader John Boehner

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST

Sometimes it is not sufficient to know that our elected leaders simply 'support' Israel. We must read  their own words in order to understand how deeply ingrained are the lies, the false history and the blatant disregard for Palestinian suffering, subsequently manifested in American foreign policy.

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Education under Attack in Gaza

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST

On December 28th 2008 mid-term examinations had been scheduled to take place at the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) in Gaza. When the day arrived, however, the University College's rooms, which usually cater for 8000 students, were void of any life. This was the second day of operation Cast Lead. The University remained closed and examinations were postponed. Concentration, patience and motivation; the three pillars to learning were the main targets of operation Cast Lead as it sought to instill a sense of danger in every spot in Gaza. Operation Cast Lead wholly demolished or rendered unusable several educational facilities across the Strip. Amongst these facilities were 280 kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, the American International School, the library of the Al Aqsa University and the laboratory of the Islamic University. Many other educational facilities were shot at causing facades to become tarnished with indelible war stains and windows to shatter in a deliberate attempt to undermine education.

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Israel's New Rocket Defence System

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST

Israel unveiled 'Iron Dome' last week, a missile-defence system that is designed to strike a knock-out blow against short-range rockets of the variety fired into Israel by Hamas and Hizbullah. In the short term, Iron Dome is supposed to herald the demise of the rocket threat to Israeli communities near Gaza four years after Hamas won the Palestinian elections.

The period in-between has been marked by a series of inconclusive moves by both sides: Israel's crippling siege of Gaza has yet to break the will of Gazans; negotiations for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas more than three years ago, have gone nowhere; reconciliation talks between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have borne no fruit; and even the savage offensive against Gaza last year, Operation Cast Lead, achieved little in strategic gains for Israel.

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An Odyssey for Justice

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST

The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. A bold assertion?

Admittedly, I may not be as in tune with reality as I should be. Born and raised in a Gaza refugee camp where most refugees felt that no one cared about their plight, it was easy to believe that nothing could possibly break away from the ever tenuous and redundant stances by Arab and other countries — whose acts of solidarity went no further than hollow words of condemnation. The recent noble stances by activists from all over the world therefore seem like an unprecedented act of solidarity which, dare I believe, indicates the direct mass involvement of civil society as a real party in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for political and human rights.

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Earthquake follows years of turmoil

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:52 AM PST

Haiti's fate as one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere has not been inevitable. It's history has been marked not only by natural disasters, but by political and economic conflict. It is a story of international intervention that has left the country particularly vulnerable. Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis reports.

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Israeli Democracy or Hypocrisy

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:49 AM PST

steve lendmanAn October 2007 Haaretz editorial titled "Democracy or hypocrisy" contrasted the "occupying Land of Israel to the democratic Israel" in calling for a "debate about Israel's control over the lives of Palestinians deprived of civil rights," saying its democracy is flawed and not addressing it is hypocrisy.

Throughout history, regimes rhetorically embraced democracy as cover for more despotic policies, no different today throughout the world in countries like India, Pakistan, America and Israel practicing what Michael Parenti calls "democracy for the few," (the) "shadier sides of US political life (in which) proponents of the existing social order have tried to transform practically every deficiency into a strength."

He asked, "Who gets what, when, how and why?" Why do so few benefit at the expense of the many? Why are peace, social justice, and real democracy illusions in a nation embracing the opposite of what they represent? Why instead do poverty, racism, sexism, exploitation, rapacious capitalism, and imperialism, in fact, define how America and Israel are governed?

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Pakistan drone attack 'kills many'

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:41 AM PST

A suspected US drone attack has killed at least 18 people and injured 14 others in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, near the Afghan border, security officials say.

The attack took place in Pasalkot village in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked fighters.

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Afghan market blast claims lives

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:40 AM PST

An explosion in Afghanistan has killed 15 civilians and one police officer and left several others injured, police say.

The attack occurred on Thursday in the town of Dihrawud, in Uruzgan province, when the area was packed with shoppers and vendors for the weekly bazaar.

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Malaysia 'Allah' dispute simmers on

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:39 AM PST

Lawyers for Malaysia's Catholic Church have said their offices were ransacked in the latest attack apparently linked to a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" to describe God.

The reported break-in follows a series of attacks on churches in the wake of a court ruling that overturned the government's ban on non-Muslims using the word "Allah".

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Iranian bombing victim buried

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:38 AM PST

The Iranian physics professor who was killed in a bomb blast earlier this week has been buried in Tehran, with hundreds of mourners joining the funeral procession.

Relatives of Massoud Ali Mohammadi were accompanied by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards as they carried his body from his house to a nearby shrine on Thursday.

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Top US bankers admit fault in economic woes

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:37 AM PST

As American bank CEOs enjoy record bonuses, top executives of the US financial institutions admit to mistakes that led to the global financial crisis.

Speaking before a congressional commission on the US financial crisis on Wednesday, heads of the nation's leading creditors acknowledged having failed Americans with their poor oversight on public debts and other risky financial transactions.

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Russia says Turkey backs all its energy projects

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:37 AM PST

Russia says it has won Ankara's backing for the South Stream gas pipeline, considered a rival of the trans-Turkey EU-supported Nabucco gas pipeline.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a news conference on Wednesday that after talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow, Ankara had pledged to clear the way for the Russian gas pipeline project South Stream before November 2010, when building is due to begin.

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Serbian film festival recognizes About Elly

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:37 AM PST

Iran's acclaimed film About Elly continues its rewarding journey around the world with another film festival in Serbia.

The 2010 Kustendorf Film Festival is scheduled to screen award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's About Elly.

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Yemeni clerics call for jihad to resist foreign intervention

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:37 AM PST

Yemeni clergies have issued a decree calling for jihad in case of a foreign military intervention as the prospects of an American military presence in the oil-rich nation grows stronger.

"If any party insists on aggression, or invades the country, then according to Islam, jihad (holy war) becomes obligatory," Yemen's council of clerics said in a statement signed by 150 clerics and read at a media conference on Thursday.

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16 killed, dozens wounded in Afghan blasts

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:37 AM PST

At least 16 people have been killed and several others wounded after a bomb exploded in a busy market district in central Afghanistan.

The blast happened in the town of Dihrawud in Uruzgan province, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

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The United States, Israel and the retreat of freedom

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:50 AM PST

The world is suffering from a "freedom recession" according to a new report from the American think tank Freedom House ("Freedom in the World 2010," 12 January 2010).

Established in 1941, Freedom House markets itself as "an independent watchdog organization that supports democratic change, monitors the status of freedom around the world, and advocates for democracy and human rights." Its board of directors, chaired by a former US deputy director of defense, is a who's who of Democratic and Republican former US government officials, prominent neoconservatives and Israel lobby stalwarts such as Tom Dine, former executive director of AIPAC. In 2007, more than two-thirds of its $16 million budget came directly from the United States government.

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Mongolia moratorium on executions

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:39 AM PST

Mongolia's president has imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, although changing the law to implement a permanent ban on executions will still have to pass Mongolia's opposition-dominated parliament.

Rights groups welcomed the remarks by Elbegdorj Tsakhia on Thursday, hailing the move as a step toward outlawing executions.

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EU delegation to assess Gaza damage

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:38 AM PST

Fifty parliamentarians from across Europe are on their way to the Gaza Strip to assess conditions in the Palestinian enclave following the Israeli offensive a year ago, sources say.

That military assault left hundreds dead and damaged millions of dollars worth of infrastructure.

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Palestinian cleric gets 9 months in jail by Israel

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:37 AM PST

An Israeli court has sentenced senior West Bank cleric Sheikh Raed Salah to nine months in prison for protesting Tel Aviv's construction plans near the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The outspoken critic of Israel and a leader of the Islamic Movement allegedly clashed with Israeli forces who confronted Palestinian protesters during demonstrations held in February 2007 in Jerusalem Al-Quds against excavations near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

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Paris court to decide Iranian's fate in February

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:36 AM PST

A French court will rule on a US application to extradite an Iranian engineer accused of breaking the US trade embargo on Iran next month.

The appeals court in Paris will rule on the extradition application launched against Majid Kakavand by the US on February 17, according to his lawyer.

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Iran world's best futsal team in 2009

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:36 AM PST

Iran's national futsal squad has been named the 2009 Best National Team of the World by Futsal Planet and other sports websites.

Iran's dominance in Asia and beating Japan, Thailand, Uzbekistan and other opponents consistently was one of factors that drove the website to title the Iranian team "the best."

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11 Baghdad bombing suspects sentenced to death

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:36 AM PST

An Iraqi court has handed death sentences to 11 men charged with involvement in Baghdad's August 19 bombings that killed more than 100 people.

"They are sentenced to death for the crime they planned," said Ali Abdul Sattar, head of the criminal court, on Thursday at a hearing in the Iraqi capital.

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Pope forgives mentally ill Christmas attacker

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:36 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI has met and forgiven the mentally disturbed woman who knocked him down during Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter's Basilica.

Susanna Maiolo told the Pope she was sorry for what had happened during "a brief private meeting," the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday.

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Forty die in Papua New Guinea bus crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:36 AM PST

Around 40 people have been killed after two speeding buses crashed head-on in one of Papua New Guinea's worst accidents, reports say.

The two overloaded 25-seat buses collided while travelling in the South Pacific nation's northeastern Morobe province on Tuesday.

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Venezuela halts rolling blackouts

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:11 AM PST

Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, has indefinitely suspended rolling blackouts in the country's capital, Caracas, just a day after they began.

Chavez has also dismissed the electricity minister, Angel Rodriguez, saying he was responsible for supposed mistakes in the way the rationing plan was applied.

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Death sentences for Iraq bombers

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:10 AM PST

An Iraqi court has sentenced 11 men to death by hanging over an apparently co-ordinated series of car bombings in Baghdad that left more than 100 people dead.

The attacks on August 19 targeted the foreign and finance ministries in the capital.

About 600 people were injured in the blasts, which were dubbed "Black Wednesday".

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US senators urge screening of Muslim soldiers

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

US senators have called on the Pentagon to tighten the screening of Muslim American soldiers amid fears that they could attack fellow soldiers.

Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Joe Lieberman, and the panel's top Republican, Senator Susan Collins, called for the overhaul in a letter to the Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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Cries of fraud stir pot before Ukraine vote

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stokes tension before the presidential vote by accusing her rival of anticipated fraud.

In an attack against the former prime minister Viktor Yanukovich, seen as her main challenger, Tymoshenko said a "deliberate disruption of the election process" was taking place.

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Iran suggests dealing with Russia without dollar

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

Iran and Russia should use their national currencies in settling accounts for bilateral projects, an Iranian oil official suggests during talks.

"We want our national currencies to be used in our projects," Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noghrehkar Shirazi told reporters on Wednesday in Moscow, adding that this measure would speed up the implementation of large bilateral projects.

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Erdogan backs Iran's nuclear work, rejects arms

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thrown his weight behind Iran despite recent threats by Washington for new sanctions against Tehran.

Speaking at the State University of Moscow on Wednesday, Erdogan called for fair and just treatment of Tehran regarding its nuclear program and expressed his disapproval of the blatantly unchecked possession of nuclear arms by some 'other' countries in the region.

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Nigerian VP to serve as acting president

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has become the de facto leader of Nigeria while the ailing leader of Africa's most populous country is away.

In a bid to end the power struggle between the advisors and political kingmakers over President Umaur Yar'Adua's succession, a high court judge on Wednesday empowered Jonathan to perform all presidential duties.

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Haitians await rescuers as quake toll may top 100,000

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:42 AM PST

Frantic Haitians awaiting a global rescue effort clawed through the ruins of their capital seeking survivors from an earthquake that left streets strewn with corpses and a death toll that may top 100,000.

Injured and shocked survivors steeled themselves Thursday for a second night on streets and sidewalks littered with the dead from Haiti's worst earthquake in more than a century.

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Defiant China web users back Google

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST

Chinese Internet users flooded the web on Thursday appealing for Google not to close down its operations in the country after the US giant's ultimatum to Beijing over censorship and cyberattacks.

"It?s not Google that?s withdrawing from China, it?s China that?s withdrawing from the world," one Internet user said on Twitter, a sentiment echoed in other tweets.

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China defiant over Google threat

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:09 AM PST

Internet companies doing business in China must abide by the country's censorship rules, the Chinese government has said.

The statement on Thursday is the first official comment on the issue since an announcement by Google earlier this week that it will no longer abide by Chinese filtering regulations and may pull out of China altogether.

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Turkish FM: We oppose Iran sanctions

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:36 PM PST

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara is against imposing further sanctions on Iran over the country's nuclear program.

"Every country has the right to pursue nuclear power for peaceful purposes," Davutoglu told the Guardian newspaper during his recent visit to London.

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Erdoğan Slams Israel Over Violation of Lebanese Airspace

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Lebanese PM Saad Hariri.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at Israel on Monday for violating Lebanon's airspace and using disproportionate force against Palestinians in Gaza, the latest in a series of criticisms Ankara has directed at the Jewish state's policies in the Middle East.

"It is impossible for us to remain silent about what Israel has been doing. We believe that pressure should be exerted on the Israeli administration. According to UN resolutions, Israel has violated rules over 100 times.

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Two held over Hong Kong acid attack

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:14 PM PST

Police in Hong Kong have arrested two people suspected of having been involved in recent acid attacks.

According to a statement late on Wednesday the two men, aged 18 and 23, were allegedly linked to a December 12 attack in the Causeway Bay shopping district on December 12, when corrosive liquid was tossed from a building, injuring six people.

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Iranian academic's death condemned

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:13 PM PST

Two former Iranian presidents have condemned a bomb attack that killed a physics professor who had backed the nation's opposition leader.

They labelled the remote-controlled blast which killed Massoud Ali Mohammadi on Tuesday an act of terrorism, as preparations were under way for his burial.

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Drone attack hits Pakistan village

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:12 PM PST

A suspected US drone attack has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, near the Afghan border, security officials say.

The attack took place in Pasalkot village in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked fighters.

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Obama to announce bank fee plan

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:10 PM PST

Barack Obama, the US president, will announce measures to help recover taxpayer money used to bail out banks, the White House has said.

The announcement on Wednesday was coupled with a call for an apology from bank executives.

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US drone attack kills 10 in Pakistan

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:08 PM PST

At least 10 people have been killed in the latest American drone attack in the volatile region of North Waziristan in Pakistan.

The attack targeted a compound in Pasalkot village on Thursday, according to Pakistan's security forces.

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7 die in stampede during Indian religious festival

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:08 PM PST

Seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a stampede as a religious festival in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal turns bloody.

The incident occurred at the festival on the river Ganges on Thursday, when a large number of pilgrims tried to board a vessel.

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Azerbaijan supplies natural gas to Iran

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:08 PM PST

The National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) has struck a short-term agreement to import natural gas from neighboring Azerbaijan.

The contract signed on Wednesday between NIGEC and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) envisages that gas supplied to Iran would be an approximate total amount of 100 million cubic meters, or about 1.2 million cubic meters of gas per day, by the time the contract ends in March.

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New Saudi air raids claim more civilians in Yemen

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:08 PM PST

Yemen's Houthi fighters say Saudi war planes have once again pounded civilian areas in the country's north, killing three members of a family.

The Houthis have reported 18 airstrikes by Saudi war planes in the northern al-Razih district. The attacks killed a man and his two daughters, they said.

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Car crash TV: 43 vehicles in mass pile-up

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:10 AM PST

In Russia, slippery road and poor visibility resulted in a massive car collision near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. After two cars crashed, there was a domino effect causing forty-three vehicles to pile up. Even the rescue vehicle sent to help the drivers and passengers was involved in a collision. No one was injured and the motorway was blocked for hours before traffic police could reopen it.

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Longevity gene wards off Alzheimer's disease

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:09 AM PST

Individuals carrying a certain gene, long linked to longevity and cardiovascular health, are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.

"We've known for a long time that genetic factors matter in Alzheimer's disease," said lead researcher Richard Lipton, naming gene variants such as APOE4.

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Study finds reason for photophobia in migraineurs

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:09 AM PST

US researchers have discovered the reason for which sensitivity to light aggravates migraine headaches in both blind individuals and those with normal vision.

Light has long been considered as a trigger for migraine headaches; the reason, however, was not known before the recent study's publication in Nature Neurosciences.

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Indian army evacuates Kashmir hospitals, schools

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:36 AM PST

The Indian army has evacuated all hospitals and schools in Indian-administered Kashmir in a bid to "improve security situation" there.

"This has been done to reduce the visibility of the army, without in anyway diluting out counter-militant grid," Defense Minister A K Antony said on Wednesday in a visit to the region.

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Green sea slug is half animal, half plant

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:36 AM PST

Scientists have identified a sea slug Elysia chlorotica able to synthesize chlorophyll like a plant as the first animal with herbal characteristics.

The animal enjoys genes that allow it to be the first animal identified showing plant features. Those genes help the sea slug make chlorophyll; compared to such an ability, its green color is no longer seen as strange.

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Ecuador FM resigns over Yasuni donation row

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:08 AM PST

Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Fander Falconi has stepped down following criticism leveled by President Rafael Correa over his handling of a plan to protect Amazon's virgin forests.

Under President Correa's Yasuni initiative, the Andean nation would not exploit around 900 million barrels of untapped oil in the pristine Yasuni National Park.

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