Tuesday, April 6, 2010

IRAN KUWAIT PIPELINE

Reading Saddam's Fortune (plus 99 more items)

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Reading Saddam's Fortune

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

In the very first days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, my fixer, Sagvan Murad, was a young and active member of an ancient religious community called the Yezidis. They numbered about half a million people in Iraq, the bulk of them living south of the front line and under Saddam Hussein's government control. Murad told me that community leaders on the side that was free, liberated, and developing since 1991, had or ganized a plan for a smooth takeover of the Saddam-controlled areas. It was his boss in a Yezidi cultural center, a part-time guerrilla chief, who had invited us to accompany them south when Saddam's control collapsed. This offer of open access to whatever awaited these Yezidis presented what I thought was my best bet for an original story about the northern front of the Iraq War. Here was something that might go right, as opposed to what I felt to be the great wrong of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yezidis might seem obscure, but they were as Iraqi as Kurds, Sunnis, Shias, Assyrians, Marsh Arabs, Sabaeans, and all the other subgroups that made up the country's twenty-five million people. After all, if the war was on behalf of human rights and democratic freedoms, the Yezidis were the kind of issue it should have been all about.

New pipeline to bring Iran gas to Kuwait

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:27 PM PDT

Iran and Kuwait are holding talks on the construction of a 570-kilometer pipeline to transfer Iranian gas to the Persian Gulf littoral state.

Reza Kasaeizadeh, the head of the National Iranian Gas Export Company, said negotiations have yielded "positive results" but added that the two sides have yet to agree on the price for Iran's exported gas.

77 people killed in Rio de Janeiro flooding

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:26 PM PDT

Mudslides and flooding caused by torrential rains have killed at least 77 people in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, officials say.

The precipitation which began late Monday is recorded as the worst for the city of Rio in the past 30 years.

Oil prices climb to new 18-month high

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:19 PM PDT

Oil prices have rallied for the sixth consecutive day, surging to a fresh 18-month high on optimism about a global economic recovery.

US crude for May delivery rose on Tuesday to $86.97 a barrel — the highest level since October 2008 — but later stood at $86.94 a barrel, up 32 cents.

PA negotiator: US bid to resume peace talks at deadlock

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says US bid to resume peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians has reached a deadlock with the regime snubbing calls for a settlement freeze.

"It appears that all the consultations that have happened with the Israeli government and the American administration and other states have reached a dead end with Israeli positions insisting on a continuation of settlement," Israeli daily Haaretz quoted Erekat as saying.

Childhood radiation ups breast cancer risk

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Children or adolescents treated with chest radiation for cancers are placed at an increased risk of developing breast cancer as an adult, a new study finds.

Recent studies have reported an average 10-year reduction in the life expectancy of childhood cancer survivors, varying based on their type of cancer. The applied treatment is believed to be an important factor contributing to death in these victims.

Russia warns US on altering missile shield plans

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has underlined Moscow's right to walk out of a nuclear disarmament treaty with the US should Washington alter its so-called missile shield defense system.

"Russia has the right to withdraw from the strategic nuclear weapons treaty if a quantitative and qualitative increase in US strategic missile defense significantly influences the effectiveness of Russian strategic nuclear forces," Lavrov stressed on Tuesday.

75 Indian police officers killed in rebel ambush

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:37 PM PDT

At least 75 police officers have been killed by Maoist rebels in central India in one of the worst attacks by rebels in years.

The police officers were killed in an ambush by more than 700 Maoist fighters in Chattisgarh state on Tuesday.

Oil minister: Iran sanctions promotes self-sufficiency

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:18 PM PDT

Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi says the country has the potential to achieve self-sufficiency in gasoline production amid urgent conditions.

"The oil sanctions against Iran have actually turned out to serve as an opportunity for the country," he said in an interview with Iran's Mehr News Agency published Tuesday.

Iranian hostage released in SW Afghanistan

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:45 AM PDT

The abductors of an Iranian national captured in Afghanistan's Nimrouz province two years ago have eventually released him, a local police official says.

Police raided the house where the Iranian citizen was in custody, rescuing the abducted person.

Jordan's King: Israel's future in "jeopardy"

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:33 AM PDT

Jordan's King Abdullah II has censured Israel for its illegal settlement works in occupied Palestinian lands, warning that the stalled peace talks may put the regime's future in "jeopardy".

Abdullah sharply rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his settlement plans in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), saying the regime's construction efforts in the region could ignite a new regional war.

Iranian Navy rescues oil tanker from pirate attack

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Iran's Navy has rescued an Iranian oil tanker attacked by Somali pirates in the dangerous waters of Gulf of Aden.

According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, the Iran Faraz oil tanker was sailing from the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr to Izmir in Turkey when it came under attack by four pirate boats.

Obama excludes Iran in ban on US nuke strikes

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:54 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama plans to release a review of the US nuclear arms strategy that purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most non-atomic states except Iran and North Korea.

The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which the US Congress requires all US administrations to submit at least once during their tenure, will be issued one day before Obama leaves for Prague to sign a new nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.

Aerial attacks kill 8 militants in restive NW Pakistan

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:33 AM PDT

At least eight suspected Taliban militants have been killed in gunship aerial attacks in the volatile Orakzai tribal region of northwest Pakistan.

Pakistani security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, pounded militants' positions in Orakzai Agency on Tuesday in an area near the Afghan border where the army recently launched an offensive targeting the Pakistani Taliban militants, the Press TV correspondent reported.

40 Taliban militants killed in NW Afghanistan

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:19 AM PDT

An intense overnight battle with Taliban militants in northwestern Afghanistan has left more than 40 of the militants dead.

According to officials, Afghan forces backed by foreign troops attacked a group of Taliban fighters in the restive Bala Murghab district of Badghis province late Monday. Over 40 insurgents were killed while 4 members of the Afghan National Army suffered injuries in the attack, Press TV correspondent reported.

US-led raid kills 4 civilians in Afghanistan

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:12 AM PDT

A US-led air strike has killed at least four civilians including two women and a child in an incident the US military described as an attack against suspected militants in southern Helmand province.

"Insurgents were using the compound as a firing position when combined forces, unaware of the possible presence of civilians, directed air assets against it," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a

Iran rejects new sanctions as 'illogical'

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:08 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has dismissed as "illogical" any fresh sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear work.

Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Mehmanparast said that despite mounting pressure, Iran remained resolute to pursue its nuclear work.

Somali arch-rivals launch fresh attacks

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:05 AM PDT

Deadly clashes have once again broken out between two rival militant groups al-Shabaab and Ahlu Sunnah in central Somalia, leaving at least 41 people dead.

Fighting erupted in the strategic central Somali town of Mataban early on Tuesday, after Somalia's most prominent anti-government group al-Shabab attacked the Ahlu Sunnah-controlled town.

Israel: We protect US troops overseas

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Israel's Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren attributes the relations between the US and Israel to protecting the lives of American soldiers abroad.

Oren noted that Israel supplies Washington with the intelligence it needs in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and provides US troops with the equipment they use in the battlefield.

Terreblanche supporters drop revenge vow

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:56 AM PDT

A South African white supremacist group has withdrawn a threat to take revenge for the murder of its leader, Eugene Terreblanche.

Earlier, the neo-Nazi group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, also called the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), had vowed revenge, describing Terreblanche's killing as a "declaration of war" by South Africa's black community.

Rubble-strewn L'Aquila marks quake anniversary

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:52 AM PDT

People in the central Italian city of L'Aquila are marking the first anniversary of an earthquake that killed 300 people, in a town still strewn with rubble.

The commemorations include night-time vigils and a musical requiem, which will be halted at 0332 (0132 GMT), the exact time the quake struck, for a moment of reflection.

Turkey plays down Iran sanctions, backs diplomacy

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:35 AM PDT

As the US and its allies push for swift UN sanctions against Iran, Turkey urges diplomacy to settle the ongoing dispute over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

"We consider that this affair must be resolved by the diplomatic path," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro published on Tuesday.

US casts doubt on Iran interest in denuclearization

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:52 AM PDT

As Iran prepares to hold an international conference on nuclear disarmament US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley whose country possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons tries to cast doubt on Iran's interest in global denuclearization.

Iran is to hold an international conference on nuclear disarmament on April 17th and 18th.

US coal mine blast leaves 25 dead, 4 missing

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT

At least twenty five miners have lost their lives and four others are reported missing after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in West Virginia.

The blast took place around in the afternoon local time on Monday at Massey Energy's Performance Coal Company mine in Raleigh County, about 50 kilometers south of Charleston.

Israeli settlers attack Sheikh Jarrah protesters

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:22 AM PDT

Israeli settlers have attacked a group of activists protesting Tel Aviv's confiscation of Palestinian land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds).

Five people were slightly injured on Monday after extremist Jews insulted and later clashed with international and Palestinian activists who had gathered to protest the continued demolition of Palestinian houses in al-Quds.

Excavations in Gohar Tappeh resumed

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:20 AM PDT

Archeologists have initiated the sixth round of excavations in the ancient site of Gohar Tappeh in Iran's northern Mazandaran Province.

The Iranian team will study the historical process and cultural development the site at the Caspian Sea has been through since the prehistoric era.

Afghan official: Foreigners behind corruption

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:16 AM PDT

An Afghan official says a large proportion of the widespread corruption in Afghanistan is due to foreign involvement in fomenting the crisis.

The head of Afghanistan's High Office of Oversight and Anti-corruption, Mohammad Yasin Osmani, in remarks addressed to the Senate on Monday said that foreigners are responsible for 80 percent of the corruption in the country, the Afghan Voice Agency reported.

5 massive blasts jolt central Baghdad

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Five heavy explosions have rocked through Baghdad with one of them hitting near a ministry building in the center of the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official says.

The blast in the center of the city occurred on Tuesday near the public works ministry close to Haifa street in Salhiyeh neighborhood, AFP reported.

US seeks maximum fine against Toyota

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:29 AM PDT

The US says it would seek a 16 million dollar fine against Japanese carmaker Toyota for its failure to promptly notify the government about vehicle safety problems.

In a statement released Monday, the US transport department urged Toyota to pay a $16.4 million fine, the largest allowed, as the company "knowingly" hid a "dangerous" defect from regulators for four months that unnecessarily put motorists at risk.

Clashes in Peru leave 6 dead

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:37 AM PDT

At least six people have been killed in Peru during clashes between protesting mine workers and riot police, according to officials.

The clashes also left more than 20 civilians and nine policemen injured in the southern province of Arequipa.

DR Congo troops retake Mbandaka airport

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:31 AM PDT

Government troops and UN forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have regained control of Mbandaka airport from local fighters, in an operation that killed nine.

The airport in the country's volatile northwestern Equateur province was overrun on Sunday in an unprecedented militant attack which led to the deaths of two UN workers and several civilians.

Gunmen kill 6 policemen in NW Afghanistan

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:26 AM PDT

At least 6 Afghan policemen have been killed and two others reported missing during a fierce firefight with suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan's Baghlan province.

Six policemen were killed before dawn on Tuesday when militants opened fire on a checkpoint in the Puli Khumri district of the northeastern Baghlan province.

Netanyahu vows more settlement construction

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:24 AM PDT

Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is determined to push ahead with the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

"We will continue developing in the North and the South, and certainly in Jerusalem (al-Quds)," Netanyahu said at a ceremony marking the end of Passover.

Another bomb rocks Baghdad, one person killed

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:16 AM PDT

One person has been killed and five others sustained injuries in a bombing in central Baghdad a day after multiple bomb attacks near foreign embassies in the Iraqi capital left dozens of people dead.

The blast near Iraq's national theater took its toll on pedestrians and commuters, AFP quoted an Iraqi Interior Ministry official as saying.

Britain to set May 6 for general elections

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:42 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to call the country's general elections for May 6 amid the ruling Labor Party's sinking popularity.

Government sources say the British premier will go to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning to ask the Queen to dissolve the parliament.

Unmasking Obama's Middle East policy

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:26 PM PDT

What's going on in Israel U.S. relations? Since Israel's recent slap in the face of their greatest protector and supporter during VP Biden's visit, there's been a lot of noise in the media about the incident's effect on U.S. Israeli relations. But since there's no visible policy change either in Tel Aviv or in Washington, we can surmise that the brouhaha is simply a distraction from the Obama administration's deeply hostile intentions towards the Palestinians in their struggle for justice and for their human and national rights.

Israel cites 'Tactical error' for killing Palestinians

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:08 PM PDT

An Israeli military inquiry claims that the last-month killing of four Palestinians by Tel Aviv forces had been prompted by 'tactical failure.'

An investigation launched into the March incidents claimed the deaths had been caused by lack of preparedness on the part of the forces, said the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Monday.

The Jewish Hutaree Militia Hoax

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:06 PM PDT

Jewish operatives posing as a "Christian Militia" in Michigan, stage a psy-op, for jewish media and government cointelpro.

I don't think names like, "Stone" and "Bryant" are of any gentile origin, which were some of the names of the alleged militia, with what the jewish media called "pro-christian/anti-muslum" views.

India, Pakistan to launch parallel war games

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 10:47 PM PDT

India and Pakistan are set to simultaneously hold major war maneuvers involving thousands of troops, in a possible coincidence.

Both countries aim to test offensive strategies in the event of an armed conflict with the other side and will have active participation of their respective air forces.

US coal mine blast leaves 6 dead, 21 missing

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 10:22 PM PDT

At least six miners have lost their lives and 21 others are reported missing after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in West Virginia.

The blast took place around in the afternoon local time on Monday at Massey Energy's Performance Coal Company mine in Raleigh County, about 50 kilometers south of Charleston.

Iran FM urges Italy to free detained Iranians

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 10:10 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has called on Italy to secure the release of two Iranian citizens jailed in Rome on charges of arms trafficking.

Mottaki made the appeal on Monday during a meeting with the families of Iranian correspondent Hamid Masouminejad and Ali Damirchilou, an Iranian living in Italy, who are being held by Italian authorities on charges of arms trafficking.

Forest fire in north India destroys woodlands

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:50 PM PDT

Forest fire in India's northern state of Uttarakhand destroys vast tracts of woodlands, causing breathing problem to residents in the surrounding villages.

The massive fire in the Kumaon mountainous region is disrupting normal life for the villagers. Forest life, wild animals, medicine, flora and fauna have been destroyed in the blaze, divisional forest officer said late Monday.

Erdogan fires another broadside at Israel

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:45 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired another broadside at Israel over its aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"We cannot watch the murder of children in Gaza with indifference. This is not humane," he said as Turkish officials gathered to mark the launch of Turkey's first round-the-clock Arabic language TV network, El Turkiye, Israeli website Ynet News reported on Monday.

Sectarian clash in Nigeria leaves one dead

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:44 PM PDT

A minor clash between Christians and Muslims leaves one person dead and another injured in Nigeria's central city of Jos.

The security forces that were rushed in to control the fighting from escalating said they have brought the situation under control and restored order.

Iran rejects US claim of arms aid to Afghan militants

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:27 PM PDT

Iran has rejected accusations by the top US military commander that it is providing weapons to the militants in Afghanistan.

The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen claimed in a Kabul news conference that Iran has shipped arms to Taliban militants in Kandahar.

Dutch navy nabs 10 Somali pirates, frees German ship

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:45 PM PDT

The European Union Naval Force says one of its frigates freed a German cargo ship that had been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, arresting 10 attackers.

The Dutch frigate, Tromp, rescued the 12,612-ton MV Taipan, which was en route to Mombasa, Kenya from Djibouti, when pirates attacked it on Monday morning and took it over, a Press TV correspondent reported, quoting the Dutch defense ministry.

New video shows US choppers shooting Iraqi civilians

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:25 PM PDT

A new footage of a classified US military video showing the killing of a dozen civilians in Baghdad in 2007 by helicopter gunships has been released.

The secret video, released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, shows US air crew hunting civilians in the streets of the Iraqi capital purportedly mistaking them for 'insurgents.'

Turkey detains more suspects linked with alleged plot

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Turkish police have detained 86 more suspects as part of a probe into an alleged 2003 plot to topple the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Monday, the suspects, most of them serving soldiers, were rounded up in Istanbul, Ankara and a dozen other provinces in the third wave of arrests since the investigation was launched in February, NTV television reported.

Amnesty concerned over jailed Palestinian children

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Human rights group Amnesty International has voiced concern over the rising number of Palestinian children held in Israeli jails.

The rights group said in a report that many Palestinian prisoners suffer medical negligence at the hands of Israeli prison authorities.

In Jordan, ex-minister faces corruption charges

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:01 PM PDT

Jordan's former finance minister has gone on trial in a corruption scandal that has rocked Jordan's political establishment.

On Monday, a military prosecutor accused Adel Qudah of receiving bribes and exploiting a public position for personal gain.

Russia says diplomacy with Iran still viable

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Moscow still hopes that a diplomatic solution to the "standoff over Iran's nuclear program" will work, Russia's deputy foreign minister says.

"We still have not lost hope for a solution to the Iranian nuclear problem through dialogue with Iran," Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's pointman on Iran nuclear talks, told Interfax News Agency.

Post-Genome Princeton

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University and an accomplished molecular biologist, recently spoke about the "vexing issue of race" during a public lecture at Princeton University. The address, "The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era," was sponsored by Princeton's Center for African American Studies.

Brown defends economy policy with football analogy

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has raised eyebrows by comparing the UK economy to the injured international football star Wayne Rooney.

Brown, whose ruling Labour Party is trailing the Conservatives in opinion polls, said the economy faced relapsing into a "double-dip" recession if public spending was cut this year.

Are Leftists Cleverer?

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:46 PM PDT

One common tactic used by Leftists is the characterizing of their opponents on the Right - particularly those who self-consciously identify themselves as White and who maintain that Whites have unique ethnic interests of their own - as, among other things, intellectually inferior. We are all familiar with the stereotype, perpetuated with impunity in the mass media of news and entertainment, of traditionalist, racially-conscious Whites as either tattooed neo-Nazi knuckleheads and Hitler fetishists or inbred, defective, periodontitic, Bible-thumping, Klan-supporting hillbillies from the American South. Those who are interested in White-specific political issues will be familiar also with the common Leftist attitude towards debating said issues: the White advocates' positions are regarded as being beneath contempt - not only morally repugnant, but also so idiotic, so preposterous, so based on fear and prejudice, as to not be worth the dignity of a discussion (unless it is, of course, for the purposes of condemnation).

Israel's choice of lawlessness and defiance

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:35 PM PDT

William_Cook_220_JPG80 Unauthorized statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly Jewish Palestine…

His Majesty's Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. Nor have they at any time contemplated … the disappearance or the subordination of the Arabic population, language or culture in Palestine. They would draw attention to the fact that the terms of the [Balfour] Declaration referred to, do not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a home should be founded in Palestine… His Majesty's Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State. (Command Paper 1922, from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School, 1996–2000).

Reversing Israel's faux legitimacy

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:34 PM PDT

paul j. balles

We all know what illegitimate children have been called. That noun, however, has not been applied to illegitimate countries, especially if the foetus grew out of a media that ignores the illegitimate conception.

There are illegitimate governments. A few years ago, a blogger who didn't use his own name asked the question: "How do we view illegitimate governments that do not have the consent of the governed?"

Obama slim margin race issue: GOP leader

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:33 PM PDT

The issue of race plays a crucial role in assessing President Barack Obama's general conduct, says Republican Party leader Michael Steele, citing his own experience as an African American.

Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday, the embattled GOP leader blamed President Obama's small margin on his race as an African American.

Yanukovych orders halt to NATO ascension plans

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:28 PM PDT

Ukraine's newly-inaugurated President Viktor Yanukovych has reportedly revoked a 2006 executive order for eventual NATO membership, a sore point in relations with neighboring Russia.

Russian media reports said that the president signed a decree dissolving a government commission tasked with preparing the country for NATO ascension.

U.S. Addicted to Oil, An Ominous Drilling Sign for the Truth

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:18 PM PDT

The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:

35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps Highest Since Records Kept in 1969, and that's before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending. (My Budget 360)
18 Million empty houses in the United States and 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work, and that's before Federal Reserve finishes rewriting the rules of American "capitalism" as US Housing, the Automobile Industry and the American Dream are dismantled. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)

Iran speaker promises cooperation on subsidy bill

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:13 PM PDT

As the Ahmadinejad government and Parliament move to iron out the details of the subsidy reform bill, Speaker Ali Larijani said Monday lawmakers would do their utmost to cooperate with the president, asking him to do the same.

In a letter on Monday, Larijani said the two bodies should understand each other's positions to expand "coordination, cooperation and association."

Collateral Murder

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:05 PM PDT

Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com

US: Karzai vote fraud allegations 'troubling'

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT

The White House has rejected the Afghan president's remarks that Washington organized widespread fraud in the country's recent elections.

"The remarks are genuinely troubling. The substance of the remarks, as have been looked into by many, are obviously not true," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday.

Iran warned against cheetah transfer

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned that the transfer of the Persian cheetah from Iran to India could endanger the already threatened species.

According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, IUCN has opposed an Indian proposal to bring a few Persian cheetahs from Iran in return for giving a number of Asiatic lions to Iran.

The Things I Forgot to Carry

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT

I came very close to forgetting to bring hard shoes as well, but remembered them at the very last minute. This led, in turn, to my first, though hardly last, Embarrassing Newbie Moment. At the house rented by the New York Times in Kabul, I discovered, the night before I was to ship off to Kandahar, and then to the U.S. base at Arghandab, that I had left the tag on my Timberlands. Because I couldn't tear through the string and couldn't find a sharp object anywhere nearby, I had to troop down to the kitchen for a knife.

"New boots?" asked one of my battle-hardened colleagues.

Undefender of the Faith

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:07 PM PDT

The United States' 12-year-old policy of advancing religious freedom abroad has received a fair amount of attention in recent months. Two reports one by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the other by the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships have recommended that President Barack Obama emphasize religious freedom in his foreign policy. Yet there is no sign the administration is paying attention. Indeed, nearly 15 months in, Obama has not even nominated a candidate for the position of ambassador at large for international religious freedom.

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Pakistan army accused of unlawful killings

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT

The Pakistani army has been accused of carrying out extra-judicial killings and torture in the country's northwestern Swat Valley.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch says it has mounting evidence of more than 200 unlawful executions in the past eight months.

Shuttle Discovery launches in journey to ISS

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:30 PM PDT

The US space shuttle Discovery has blasted off to join the International Space Station in the Earth's orbit to haul equipments and resources.

The lift-off occurred as scheduled on Monday before sunrise at the Kennedy space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:21 am (1021 GMT).

Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:26 PM PDT

Carl Schmitt

However it is posed, the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.

The political, though, is not to be confused with "politics" or "party-politics," which speaks to individual or special interest in parliamentary gas houses.

"Politics" is tied to rationalism, materialism, economism, and the rule of Mammon, all of which undermine authority, tradition, and the imperatives of the "political."

Separatist, son shot dead in southern Yemen

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:14 PM PDT

A Yemeni separatist, Naji bin Naji and his son Saleh were shot dead on their farm in the southern province of Dalea on Sunday, witnesses and media say.

In a separate incident also on Sunday, gunmen shot dead a Yemeni soldier who was standing guard at a police post in Shabwa Province, local media and witnesses said.

Mottaki meets with freed Iran diplomat

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday met with an Iranian diplomat who was recently freed in Pakistan by Iranian intelligence forces.

During the meeting at the Foreign Ministry, Mottaki praised Heshmatollah Attarzadeh's courage during his captivity.

Leader wants 'unity, harmony' among Iran officials

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Monday the three branches of the government should remain united in making key decision about Iran's future.

In a meeting with high-ranking members of the Islamic system, the Leader said all elements of the government should work together in order to assist the Ahmadinejad administration in providing people with service.

AIPAC'S Wicked Deeds On Capitol Hill

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT

With its $80 million headquarters on Capitol Hill and staff of 275, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a force no politician wishes to oppose.

At its March 22-24, 2010 annual "Policy Conference," ("Demand Conference"), AIPAC was bombarded with Washington grovelers all trying to prove they are the bigger fan of Israel than the rest of the fawning pack of lawmakers.

Pope says Church to come out of abuse scandal

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Embattled Pope Benedict XVI, whose church is ridden with mounting allegations of sex abuse by pedophile clergy, has described Catholic priests as "angles" with responsibility.

"Like all those baptized, our mission is to be angels and Jesus Christ's messengers", but "priests, ministers of Christ, have a special responsibility", Benedict told hundreds of Catholics gathered at Castel Gandolfo near Rome for the Easter Monday prayer.

Thai protesters vow to oust government

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:09 PM PDT

Thailand's Red Shirt protesters, who support former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, say they will step up their rallies to oust the government.

Hundreds of protesters ignored police orders on Monday and forced their way into the election commission building in Bangkok.

In Mexico, 13 inmates break out of prison

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:01 PM PDT

Thirteen inmates in Mexico have broken out of prison after their allies stormed the detention center in the northern border city of Reynosa to assist their escape.

The attorney general's office, which had kept mum on the escape over the weekend, announced on Sunday that the jailbreak occurred Friday after armed men in ten cars stormed the prison in the state of Tamaulipas.

Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:54 AM PDT

We went through a terrifying moment back in the fall of 2008. The financial system in the United States was imploding. It was impossible to predict how the effects would ripple through the rest of the world, but one outcome seemed inevitable: Developing economies were going to take a terrible hit. There was just no way they could escape the maelstrom without seeing millions of their citizens impoverished.

Aussie consortium to develop Iranian oil fields

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 11:49 AM PDT

Iran is to sign a contract with an Iranian-Australian consortium for the development of three onshore oil fields, says a senior official of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

Bahman Samimi, in charge of the development of heavy oil fields projects at NIOC, said the KIPC consortium, financed by Chinese companies, has submitted the master development plan to develop the onshore Kouhmond, Kaki, and Boushgan oil fields in the southern province of Bushehr, Shana reported.

Iran to unveil nuclear achievements

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 10:42 AM PDT

Iran is to unveil a series of scientific achievements on the country's National Nuclear Technology Day — to be held later this week.

"President [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] will have good news for the nation on Friday," the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said on Monday.

Deadly explosions rattle Pakistan

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Several explosions have shaken Pakistan's restive Northwest Frontier Province, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 100 others.

The first blast occurred at the headquarters of an ethnic Pashtun nationalist political party in Timergarah, the main town in the Lower Dir district, on Monday.

Website 'shows video of US attack'

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:14 AM PDT

One of the internet's biggest sources of classified government information has released video of what it says is a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq.

Wikileaks, a website that publishes anonymously sourced documents, released what it called previously unseen footage, on Monday.

Assembly referendum may not happen this year

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:57 AM PDT

DOUBTS were growing last night over whether a referendum on further powers for the National Assembly could go ahead this year.

Yesterday, it emerged that the precise wording of the question that must be asked will not be finally drafted until after the general election.

Trudie Pert on Princeton

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:54 AM PDT

Trudie Pert's current TOO article (Post-Genome Princeton) illustrates once again that all of our elite institutions are essentially enemy-occupied territory. Princeton's president, Shirley Tilghman, is the sort of White person that is absolutely poisonous to our cause. She doubtless feels morally superior as she champions Black causes, investing millions of dollars in faculty and facilities for the Black Studies Department and admitting Blacks with an average of 230 points less on the SAT than Whites. She is also doing her best to absolutely eliminate White males from high-profile positions. My favorite is making a woman dean of the School of Engineering even though she is not an engineer. Non-Jewish Whites are vastly underrepresented as students by a factor of around 4, while Jews are overrepresented by a factor of around 4 (unusually low for an Ivy League University).

Car bomb defused in Northern Ireland, Irish Republicans to blame

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:45 AM PDT

A car bomb allegedly planted by republicans near a police station in the county Armagh was defused on Sunday by Northern Ireland army, it was announced.
According to sources, containers filled with flammable liquid were put on the rear seats of a car which was left near the gates of a police station at Crossmaglen located south Armagh.
Dissident republicans in Northern Ireland are widely deemed to have been behind the thwarted plot.

Saudi poetess receives death threats

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:43 AM PDT

A Saudi poetess, whose poem gained acclaim for being critical of extremist Wahabi muftis, has received death threats from hardliners.

Hosseh Helal had condemned the extremist Wahabi muftis for promoting violence in her one of poems that was presented in a contest in Abu Dhabi.

SNP and Plaid Cymru appeal against BBC debate decision

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:33 AM PDT

The SNP and Plaid Cymru are appealing against a decision by the BBC not to include their leaders in a televised UK general election debate.

Alex Salmond and Ieuan Wyn Jones have written to the BBC Trust to request an oral hearing to appeal against the BBC executive's decision.

Sinn Féin Leadership Easter Statement

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:27 AM PDT

"On this the 94th anniversary of the 1916 Rising the leadership of Sinn Féin extends its solidarity to the families of all our patriot dead. We remember with pride those comrades from every generation who gave their lives for the cause of Irish freedom. We are immensely proud of our patriot dead and of their families.
We are committed to the ideals and principles of the Proclamation. They are as relevant today as they have ever been.
The unity and independence of Ireland remains our primary political objective and Sinn Féin has a political strategy to achieve it.

Irish activists buy boat to break Palestine blockade

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:23 AM PDT

On Tuesday, the Free Gaza Movement bought a 1,200 tonne cargo ship at an auction in Dundalk. The MV Linda had been impounded a year ago following an inspection by the International Transport Federation (ITF), which found that its owners had exploited its Lithuanian crew members – not paying their wages and subjecting them to humiliating treatment.
ITF Inspector and SIPTU organiser Ken Fleming said: "We are pleased to announce that this vessel, which was used to subject workers to modern day slavery, will now be used to promote human rights for the people of Palestine.
The Free Gaza Movement now owns four ships, including three passenger vessels. Its vessels will take part in an international flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip this May. Passenger and cargo ships are also being organised by the Turkish humanitarian organisation I.H.H., and by groups in Greece, Sweden, Malaysia and Belgium.

Antrim Mayor bristled at Tory UUP alliance

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:16 AM PDT

Antrim Ulster Unionist Mayor Adrian Watson whose hopes of candidacy in upcoming General Election were dashed after he had fallen out with UUP`S Tory party partners, denounced his party's alliance with Tories as "dictatorship".
Councilor Adrian Watson, who desperately sought to be the Ulster Unionist Party candidate for South Antrim in the General Election, said he was "totally against "Tory and UUP link-up.
The Ulster Unionist Party and Conservatives has formed an alliance for the Westminster election. The link-up drew criticism from a member of parliament for the constituency of North Down, Lady Sylvia Hermon who on March 25 announced that she was quitting the UUP and would fight in the next election as an independent candidate.

Iran sets annual record in narcotics seizure

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:05 AM PDT

Iranian police have seized more than 557 tonnes of illicit drugs throughout the country in the past calendar year (ending on March 20), a senior commander says.

"Iranian narcotics agents have managed to confiscate 557.622 tonnes of different kinds of narcotics from smugglers across the country," said General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi, the commander of the narcotics squad.

Castro: West manipulating hunger strikers

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT

Cuba's President Raul Castro says his government will not yield to pressure from dissident hunger strikers, denouncing the actions as blackmail organized by Europe and the United States.

"We will never cede to blackmail, from any country or group of countries, no matter how powerful they may be, whatever happens. We have the right to defend ourselves," Castro said, referring to a hunger-striking dissident's call for the release of all "political prisoners."

Iran to privatize over 500 state-owned firms

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:47 AM PDT

The deputy head of Iran's Privatization Organization has announced that the country aims to raise some $12.5 billion by privatizing more than 500 state-owned firms.

Mehdi Oqadayi said that 524 state firms will be privatized during the current Iranian year, which began on March 21.

Mottaki flies to Italy to pursue Masoumi-Nejad's fate

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:35 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is slated to meet the family of Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, a veteran Iranian reporter jailed in Italy on charges of arms trafficking, in Italy.

Mottaki is slated to arrive in Italy on Monday to make necessary efforts to secure the release of Masoumi-Nejad, who stands accused of smuggling weapons to Iran in violation of an international arms embargo.

Pope's immunity challenged in Britain

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:22 AM PDT

More than 10,000 Britons have signed a petition against Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit to the UK, as anti-Vatican sentiments grow over child abuse scandals.

The petition launched on Downing Street's web site challenges the Pope's immunity from prosecution over sex crimes by pedophile priests during his four-day visit to England and Scotland in September.

Risky hotel construction near Susa stopped

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:47 AM PDT

After two years of serious tensions over halting hotel constructions in the Iranian historical city of Susa, archeological experts and media have won and seized the site.

The owner of the Amirzargar hotel project had sought permission to initiate a construction at the site two years ago, but from the beginning faced opposition from the Khuzestan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department (KCHTHD).

Uncle in custody after 12-year-old girl backstabbed to death

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:43 AM PDT

British police arrested a man who is believed to have killed his 12 years old niece using stab and ligature. This is yet another knife-stabbing murder in Britain following several horrid cases reported since early this year.
Murdered 12-year-old girl Tia Rig, was discovered dead in an upstairs bedroom after she went to watch her favorite team's match, Manchester united against Chelsea on Saturday.
Police officers have taken into custody her uncle John Maden, 37 on suspicion of murder, and he is though to have been with the victim alone in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester on Saturday afternoon when a 999 call, believed to had been made by John was answered by police.

2 UN peacekeepers killed in DR Congo attack

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:41 AM PDT

At least two United Nations workers and several civilians have been killed in an unprecedented militant attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive northwest.

According to UN officials on Sunday, clashes erupted after some 30 heavily armed fighters attacked the governor's residence in Congo's northern Equateur province capital of Mbandaka.

David Cameron brushed aside speculations that the forthcoming General Election would result in ...

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:24 AM PDT

David Cameron brushed aside speculations that the forthcoming General Election would result in a hung government, saying an outright Conservative majority was "do-able".
The Tory leader, David Cameron said: "We are fighting for an overall majority; we think that would be best for Britain. We think a hung parliament would be damaging, the uncertainty would be bad for Britain".
The Conservative leader was interviewed by Adam Boulton on Sky News's Sunday Live after the Sunday Time opinion poll earlier on the day showed the party's strong lead over other parties vying for victory in upcoming General Election.

An Indispensable Compendium on the Police State

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:20 AM PDT

Alex Jones' latest documentary, Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA, is nothing short of encyclopaedic. It is a sprawling compendium of facts that breaks down an irrefutable fact — the United States has become a high-tech police state.

Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA begins with a dizzying catalog of executive orders designed to impose martial law on America and turn the nation into a dictatorship.

Iran says legality of N-plans 'beyond any doubt'

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:11 AM PDT

Iran says the legality of its enrichment activities is "beyond reasonable doubt" as world powers explore ways to apply new sanctions on the country in a matter of weeks.

In a late night interview with Al-Kowsar on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast expounded on the country's logical and legal reasoning for continuing enrichment work.

Archbishop of Canterbury panned Irish Catholics

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:10 AM PDT

With the Catholic Church in Europe deeply embroiled in child abuse scandals , the last thing the community needed was controversial remarks by Archbishop of Canterbury, during which he said the Catholic Church's credibility in Ireland had totally vanished in the way the community dealt with embarrassing sex scandal.

As majority of people in Europe commemorate Easter Sunday, a symbolic event marking the resurrection of Christ, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, Dr Rowan Williams used this important festival to lament over the Catholic Church mishandling of sex scandal's case in which hundreds of innocent children are beloved to have been sexually mistreated by a group of paedophile priests.

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