Thursday, January 28, 2010

Race and Religion: Awkward Friends of the White Man, Part III



Race and Religion: Awkward Friends of the White Man, Part III (plus 88 more items)

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Race and Religion: Awkward Friends of the White Man, Part III

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:46 PM PST

tom sunicEach religion is exclusive and exclusionary, which inevitably results in downplaying or, even worse, in denial of other religions. By definition, all Christian denominations, in order to strengthen their theological credibility, have historically resorted to this type of "negative legitimacy." Yet, despite devastating wars among Whites of different Christian persuasions, Christianity, as a whole, has retained its transcendental value, which has made life more or less liveable.

No longer is this the case with postmodern "civil religions" that ignore the sacred. Their nature of exclusion is already resulting in intellectual terror - that may soon be followed by real state-sponsored physical terror.

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Lebanon and the Middle East continue to reject AIPAC's H.R. 2278 as tensions rise

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:23 PM PST

franklin lambIt is being reported in Beirut this morning that at exactly 3 a.m. Beirut time, a supporter of the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah, on duty above the Mediterranean coastal town of Saadyat, between Damour and Saida was watching the skies of over Beirut for signs of Israeli aircraft, which daily violate Lebanese airspace.

What sources report to this observer was that he saw a Boeing 737-800 aircraft which had taken off from Rafiq Hariri airport gain altitude as it headed for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.   Hezbollah, on full military alert these days,  presumably called in the report to Al Manar (the Dawn) station which it founded in 1991 and which since 2004 has been on one o the various US Terrorism lists.

 

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Houthis initiate truce with Saudi Arabia

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:43 PM PST

Houthi fighters in Yemen initiate a cease-fire offer with Saudi Arabia as fighting in the north continues to take its toll on civilians.

In an audio statement on the fighters' website, Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi said the fighters will retreat from their positions on the Saudi border.

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Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis in Yemen

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

The Red Cross says humanitarian conditions in Yemen are at their worst after five months of fighting between Saudi forces and the Houthi fighters.

The Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday that the war in northern Yemen has dramatically worsened the fate of civilians in the area.

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'Enough fighting in Afghanistan,' says NATO chief

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

Ahead of a London conference on Afghanistan which will discuss a US-proposed military surge, US and NATO's top military commander in Afghanistan calls for an end to combat.

In an interview with The Financial Times published on Monday, US General Stanley McChrystal said that he hoped an increase in the international presence in the war-torn country would intimidate the Taliban into accepting a political deal.

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BBC to air film made by chimpanzees

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:21 PM PST

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is scheduled to air the world's first documentary entirely filmed by chimpanzees.

The film, made as part of a scientific study by primatologist Ms. Betsy Herrelko, aims to reveal part of the way chimps perceive the world and one another.

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Most Americans think stimulus dollars wasted: Poll

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

Many Americans maintain that the stimulus plan presented by US President Barack Obama to salvage the economy has been a waste of money, recent poll finds.

Results of a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll revealed on Monday that 3 out of every 4 Americans believed the stimulus money was wasted to a large extent, with 56 percent opposing the stimulus and just 42 percent still thinking the stimulus was a good idea.

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Iran summons Swiss envoy over scientist assassination

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:02 PM PST

Iran on Monday summoned the Swiss envoy to Tehran over the alleged involvement of a US-based terror group in the killing of a nuclear physics professor in Tehran.

The Swiss Embassy is in charge of the US Interests Section in Iran. The US and Iran ended all relations in the aftermath of the 1979 US Embassy takeover in Tehran.

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London conference communiqué leaked

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:53 PM PST

The London conference on Afghanistan is likely to add five more years to the serving time of British troops in the war-torn country, according to a leaked document.

A leaked draft of the communiqué that will conclude this week's strategy conference will see British Premier Gordon Brown announcing that troops will remain in volatile Helmand province, The Times daily reported Monday.

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UK premier regrets lack of post-war planning in Iraq

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:40 PM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the country's decision to join the 2003 Iraq invasion, but lamented big lapses in post-war construction planning.

Speaking at a monthly press conference on Monday, Brown admitted that it had been a "mistake" to fail to prepare adequately for addressing the aftermaths of the war and the subsequent ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein.

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Mottaki criticizes US policy in Middle East

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:58 PM PST

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday that the White House policies in the Middle East are a "failure."

Mottaki said the war against terrorism and extremism is used as a pretext for the presence of the US military in the oil-rich region.

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Evidence on Kelly death sealed for 70 years

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:55 PM PST

The official heading an inquiry into the suspicious death of a British weapons inspector who cast doubts on the main argument for invading Iraq has secretly ordered all evidence locked up for 70 years.

Lord Hutton, who chaired the 2003 inquiry, which controversially concluded that Doctor David Kelly's death has been a suicide, secured a 70-year seal on all major evidence, including medical records — none of which had ever been made public.

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Sri Lankans brace for post-war presidential poll

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:16 PM PST

Violence looms large Sri Lanka is getting ready for a landmark presidential election, following the end of almost three decades of civil war.

At least four people have been killed and hundreds have been wounded in the lead-up to the election, scheduled for January 26.

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Haitians flee capital, quake toll stands at 150K

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:59 AM PST

The devastating earthquake in Haiti has killed nearly 150,000 people while according to the UN many survivors are leaving the quake-hit capital Port-au-Prince for rural areas.

With rescue operations terminated, government officials predict that another 200,000 dead bodies may be recovered from under the rubble.

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'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:40 AM PST

Saddam Hussein's notorious first cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikritieh, also known as 'Chemical Ali,' was executed on Monday in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Majid, a member of Saddam's defunct Baath Party, served as Minister of Interior and Defense and was the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

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Iraq hangs 'Chemical Ali'

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:40 AM PST

Saddam Hussein's notorious first cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikritieh, also known as 'Chemical Ali,' was executed on Monday in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Majid, a member of Saddam's defunct Baath Party, served as Minister of Interior and Defense and was the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

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China denies involvement in Google attack

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:28 AM PST

As the US urges China to investigate a computer attack against the Google search engine, Beijing denies any involvement in the case and defends its online restrictions.

After Google noticed a computer attack aimed at looting its software coding and hacking the Gmail accounts of human rights activists protesting Chinese policies, it threatened to pull out of China unless the Chinese government eases its restrictions on censorship.

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Afghan protester killed as anti-NATO rally continues

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:53 AM PST

At least one person has been killed during the fourth consecutive day of anti-NATO demonstrations in Afghanistan's central province of Ghazni.

On Sunday, police opened fire on angry Afghans that took the streets to condemn the killing of civilians by foreign troops in the country.

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Afghan protester killed as anti-NATO rallies continue

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:53 AM PST

At least one person has been killed during the fourth consecutive day of anti-NATO demonstrations in Afghanistan's central province of Ghazni.

On Sunday, police opened fire on angry Afghans that took the streets to condemn the killing of civilians by foreign troops in the country.

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Karroubi recognizes Ahmadinejad 'government'

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:47 AM PST

Senior Iranian opposition figure and defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi recognizes President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as head of government, reports said Monday.

"I recognize the president," Fars News Agency quoted the cleric, who has accused the government of rigging the presidential election in June 2009 in favor of the incumbent, as saying.

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Baghdad bomb blasts leave 11 dead

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:24 AM PST

Three bomb explosions in quick succession have rocked central Baghdad on Monday, leaving 11 people killed and 21 others injured.

Baghdad's hotel and restaurant district located along the Tigris River was the target of the attacks, Reuters reported.

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Baghdad bomb blasts leave 36 dead

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:24 AM PST

Three bomb explosions in quick succession have rocked central Baghdad on Monday, leaving at least 36 people killed and 70 others injured.

Baghdad's hotel and restaurant district located along the Tigris River was the target of the attacks, Reuters reported.

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Bodies from Ethiopian Airlines crash recovered

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 09:28 AM PST

Lebanese rescue teams have recovered 23 bodies after an Ethiopian plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

Officials with the rescue operation said that by Monday morning 23 bodies were recovered from the crash site but no survivors, the state-run Lebanese National News Agency reported.

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Will Corporatism Destroy Democracy in America?

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 09:19 AM PST

Corporations are not individuals or citizens. They are super-sized entities that are international in scope and size. Many of them are not beholden to any nation. Corporations simply cannot be equated with citizens as they do not belong to any nation. Corporations are concerned with gaining power and wealth and have core interests that are clearly contrary to the national good or public interest. With this ruling corporations will be able to use their general funds to play a super-size role in any political contest in the nation. How can any candidate of the people compete against someone who has the backing of a huge corporation with a war chest of millions of dollars to spend on advertising and television ads? Corporations have business interests in every congressional district in the nation. This ruling will enable them to exercise a massive influence in every congressional race.

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Delays in relief while Haitian quake victims wait

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 08:22 AM PST

Victims of Haiti's massive earthquake are outraged as they wait to receive their share of aid shipments pouring into the country.

Disgusted with the slow, disorganized aid distribution process, Haitians in a relief camp in the capital, Port-au-Prince, say they have not received any water since the quake occurred on January 12.

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Canada's ex-envoy to Iran details cooperation with CIA

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 08:10 AM PST

After admitting to spying for the US during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Canada's former ambassador to Tehran expounds on the controversial revelations in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

Kenneth Taylor said Tehran was of great political and strategic importance to Washington and thus the US embassy tried to keep abreast of Iran's internal developments through regular meetings with the Shah.

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Google founders to sell majority shares

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST

Google co-founders propose to sell 10 million of their shares meaning they will no longer control the company with only 48 percent of shares.

The co-founders will continue to be the company's largest individual shareholders; however, the move will strip them of their current combined control of 59% of the stock. After the sales, they will hold 48% of the stock.

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Europeans say Jews exploit past to extort money

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:52 AM PST

Nearly half of western Europeans believe Jews exploit their 'past persecution' in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says.

The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel's Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that "Jews exploit the past to extort money," Haaretz reported on Monday.

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Four Bulgarian soldiers injured in Afghanistan

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:34 AM PST

At least four Bulgarian soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack at a major international military base in southern Afghanistan.

Officials told Press TV on Monday that the strike occurred outside the city of Kandahar about 300 meters from the place in which Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Mladenov was staying.

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Germany mulls boosting troops in Afghanistan

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:18 AM PST

Senior officials in Berlin have tried to prep skeptical Germans for increasing troops in Afghanistan by focusing mainly on reconstruction and training.

Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Sunday that he would unveil figures for the planned troop increase before a key international conference in London next week.

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Skydiver wants to speed through sound barrier

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:05 AM PST

Felix Baumgartner, the extreme sportsman from Austria, thinks he will exceed the speed of sound for more than five minutes by jumping off a balloon.

Baumgartner made a flight without the aid of a machine across the English Channel in 2003. He now plans to skydive from the edge of space.

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Kuwait interested in linking gas network to Iran's

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:00 AM PST

The Head of Iran's Gas Transportation Company says Kuwait has expressed an interest in linking its gas network to Iran's nationwide gas transport system.

"Iran's gas transportation network has already expanded to Khorramshahr in southern Iran and it's possible to further extend the network to Kuwait," said Reza Almasi in an interview with Mehr News Agency on Monday.

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Report: US mismanagement wastes Iraq money

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:58 AM PST

The US State Department has reportedly failed to properly manage and oversee a two-billion-dollar contract with a private company to train Iraqi police as the war-torn nation inches its way toward reconstruction.

In a report to be published on Monday, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. lashed out at the spending by DynCorp International for the second time in three years, the Washington Post reported.

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Netanyahu: Israel will never quit settlements

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:01 AM PST

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank would always remain part of Israel.

Netanyahu made the remark during a ceremony to mark Israeli Arbor Day in the settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank on Sunday, BBC reported.

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In Britain, the hunt is on for aliens

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:40 AM PST

Leading astronomers in Britain say they have compelling evidence of alien life on other planets, a claim that would mark a breakthrough if proven correct.

Lord Rees, Britain's leading astronomer and the president of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, told BBC on Monday that there is a good chance of discovering life on other planets.

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Mubarak defends Gaza wall despite criticism

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:21 AM PST

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has strongly defended his decision to construct an underground "Iron Wall" on the border with the Gaza Strip.

Mubarak, who has come under international fire for aiding Israel in imposing a blockade on Gaza, said the new barrier would help Egypt protect its national security and sovereignty.

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Japan insists on reconsidering US accord

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:46 AM PST

After an opponent of the US military presence in Japan won a local election, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said he would reconsider Tokyo's accord with Washington.

"The country will start from scratch on this issue and take responsibility to reach a conclusion by the end of May," he told reporters on Monday.

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UK companies warned of bumpy recovery

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:42 AM PST

A global firm warns that even with forewarnings of lessening profits from British-listed companies, UK businesses may still face "a bumpy recovery."

In a report released Saturday, Ernst and Young said only 50 companies issued profit warnings in the fourth quarter of 2009, the lowest level in six years, at the same time advising that this year could be the real test for business.

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UN suggests involving Taliban in Afghan politics

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:25 AM PST

The United Nations has joined some Western countries in laying the groundwork for bringing the Taliban into the Afghan government by suggesting the removal of at least some of their senior leaders from the list of terrorists.

UN special envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide on Sunday offered two suggestions for Afghan and American officials to open the way to face-to-face talks between Afghan officials and Taliban leaders.

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Two Decades of Genocide in Iraq

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:20 AM PST

The American and British populations are comfortably cushioned from reality by the controlled media which censors news and images of the horrendous humanitarian catastrophe that has befallen the Iraqi people as a result of the Anglo-American war of aggression against the oil-rich nation, a military crusade now in its 20th year.  (The recent Dutch judicial report from The Hague on the legal questions surrounding the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003 indicates that the war in Iraq can be legally defined as a "War of Aggression", which is a "Crime Against the Peace" under the Nuremberg Charter.)

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Venezuela to US: Send Haiti vaccine, not troops

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:11 AM PST

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on Washington to send medication to the quake-stricken Haiti rather than troops.

"Obama, send vaccinations, kid, send vaccinations," Reuters quoted Chavez as calling on his American counterpart, Barack Obama, during his weekly television program.

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Beware of Webster Tarpley's Disinformation

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:07 AM PST

A reader sent me a link to a YouTube video of Webster Tarpley being interviewed on Russia Today (RT) television on December 29 about the false-flag "attempted terror" attack that occurred on Christmas Day on Delta's Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to Detroit. The video is interesting because it shows how Tarpley lies to protect Israel and the Mossad by putting the blame for the attempted bombing on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which is currently headed by Leon E. Panetta, a man I have met on several occasions when he was my Congressman for the Monterey Bay area of California.

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Jews, Generals & The US War Machine

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:51 AM PST

Americas changed from a civilian to a military economy reached a point of no return in the 1960s. From then on, a perpetual "war machine" was in motion with Wall Street Jewish investment banks funding US armament industries.

The change can be traced to Truman's National Security Council Paper, "NSC-68", which put forth that America could sustain its economic growth by applying John Maynard Keynes' emphasis on the role of government to the military or "security" sphere.

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Israel bars Belgian minister way into Gaza

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:45 AM PST

A Belgian minister, barred by Israel from visiting the Gaza Strip, has declared that he will take the matter to the European Union.

Israel on Sunday prevented Belgian Cooperation and Development Minister Charles Michel from going to the Gaza Strip on the grounds that his visit would give legitimacy to the Islamic Hamas movement running the territory.

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Iran: No limit on foreign investment

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:30 AM PST

Iran's Economy and Finance Minister says based on Iran's fifth development plan, there is no limit on foreign investment in Iranian industrial or mineral sectors.

"The Iranian government will be trying to remove any obstacle in the financial domain by the end of the fifth development plan (2010-2015) to attract foreign investments," said Shamsoddin Hosseini during a Sunday meeting with South African Parliament speaker, Max Sisulu, in Tehran.

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Iraq bombings kill at least eight people

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:27 AM PST

Three bomb blasts in Iraq have killed at least eight people and injured four others as the country gears up for parliamentary elections scheduled for March.

The deadliest attacks occurred in the troubled northern city of Mosul on Sunday, when a bomb blast targeting a passing police patrol killed four civilians and injured two others in the al-Tahrir neighborhood.

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Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:03 AM PST

steve lendmanHaiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years. The last major one was in 1946 at 8.1 in the adjacent Dominican Republic, also striking Haiti. Earlier catastrophic ones were in 1751 and 1770, both devastating Port-au-Prince, and the 1842 one destroying Cap-Haitien in the north.

On September 25, 2008, Phoenix Delacroix quoted geologist Patrick Charles of Havana's Geological Institute saying:

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What you are allowed to say

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:47 AM PST

john-kaminskiYou can call them bankers, or corrupt politicians, or even Illuminati and still get along nicely in the world, maybe even get a job with one of those high paying media outfits if you're willing to spin the line they want.

You can call them Zionists, or Communists, or Israel Firsters and while receiving slight superficial approbation from mechanisms designed to do that, continue along profitably in the niche market of edgy Internet radicalism.

 

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Israel Creates First 'Army-owned' University

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:33 AM PST

Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine Palestinian confidence in the peace process.

The decision, authorising the first Israeli university in Palestinian territory, is expected to entitle the college to significant extra funding, allowing it to expand its student population.

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Iraq probes UK's defective bomb detectors

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:15 AM PST

The Iraqi government has ordered a commission formed to investigate about a defective bomb-detection device that Baghdad bought from a British firm.

"Everyone will be affected [by this inquiry], not only the Interior Department, but all authorities who contracted or advised the use of such devices," government Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told the state-run al-Iraqiya television channel on Sunday.

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China attacks US for online warfare in Iran

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:56 AM PST

A Chinese Communist Party editorial says the election unrest in Iran was an example of US 'naked political scheming' behind a facade of free speech.

The United States used "online warfare" to stir up unrest in Iran after last year's election, the Guardian cited from a Communist party newspaper article published on Sunday.

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Istanbul to host trilateral, Afghan summits

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:25 AM PST

A trilateral meeting between the presidents of Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan will be held in Istanbul, a day before the city hosts a summit on Afghan security.

Monday's trilateral meeting, which will bring together Turkey's Abdullah Gul, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai, and their Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, will be the first of its kind since the November 2009 presidential election in Afghanistan.

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Huge demo held in Kashmir

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:15 AM PST

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, for a demonstration, accusing the Indian army of killing a civilian.

The protesters chanted "blood for blood" and "we want freedom" on Sunday.

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Ethiopian airliner crashes in Mediterranean Sea

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST

An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 85 passengers on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut airport.

The plane disappeared off the radar in the early hours of Monday morning, Reuters reported.

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Britain goes on high alert

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:43 PM PST

Britain has raised its terror alert level to "severe", the second-highest level, days before it hosts an international conference on Afghanistan in London.

The British intelligence service MI5 got a tipoff warning from an Indian intelligence bureau of a suspected plot, linked to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, to hijack an Air India or Indian Airlines flight from Mumbai to Delhi and crash it somewhere in Britain.

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Afghanistan postpones parliamentary election

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:29 PM PST

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission has confirmed that it will postpone parliamentary elections until September.

Parliamentary polls were originally scheduled for May 22, as required by the Afghan Constitution, but have been delayed until September 18, senior election commissioner Fazil Ahmad Manawi announced in Kabul on Sunday.

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Haiti quake death toll hits 150,000, fear of disease rises

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:53 PM PST

The Haitian government has raised the official death toll for the January 12 earthquake to 150,000.

In addtion, as many as three million have been injured or left homeless as a result of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

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7 civilians killed in Saudi blitz on northern Yemen

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:34 PM PST

At least seven civilians have been killed and dozens more suffered injuries as Saudi fighter jets pounded the alleged strongholds of Houthi fighters in Yemen's rugged northern region of Jebel Razih near the border with the oil-rich kingdom.

According to a statement issued by the Shia Houthi fighters on Sunday, Saudi warplanes dropped several bombs on homes in the conflict area, as a result of which six members of a family lost their lives when their residence was destroyed during the airstrikes. Another local, Nasser Qaed al-Razihi, was killed and two of his family members sustained injuries when a bomb landed on their home.

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Defection blow for Sri Lanka leader

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 08:43 PM PST

Mahinda Rajapaksa has suffered a major blow to his campaign to get re-elected as Sri Lanka's president.

Chandrika Kumaratunga, one of the most senior members of his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), on Sunday threw her weight behind General Sarath Fonseka, Rajapaksa's chief rival.

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Ethiopian jet 'missing' off Beirut

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 07:13 PM PST

Air traffic controllers in Beirut say they have lost contact with an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft carrying 85 passengers shortly after it took off from the Lebanese capital.

Airport sources cited by the Reuters news agency said the aircraft disappeared from radar screens shortly after departing early on Monday morning.

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Is UK child torture case a sign of social disintegration?

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 07:06 PM PST

British child welfare activists have asked the attorney general to double the sentence of the two brothers convicted in the Edlington torture case, which was one of a number of incidents that have raised serious concerns about social and moral decay in the UK.

The 11- and 10-year-old brothers, whose names have not been disclosed for legal reasons, were handed down an indeterminate sentence Friday for a prolonged "sadistic" attack on two innocent children in Edlington, near Doncaster, last April.

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Pakistani tribesmen 'shoot down US drone'

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

Local tribesman in Pakistan's North Waziristan region claim to have shot down a US drone after the unnamed aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in the tribal area.

The crash occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Hamdhoni area of North Waziristan, the Associated Press reported, citing two intelligence officials.

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