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Border battle over illegal immigration shifts to beaches

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Reporting from Ensenada—The immigrants heard the engine slow as the pilot steered through breakers. Twelve hours earlier, they had shoved off from a beach near Ensenada. Now, they were bobbing off Red Beach at Camp Pendleton. Out in the darkness, California beckoned.

“Jump out!” barked the pilot.

The 17 immigrants climbed over the side of the rickety boat, stumbling and splashing their way through the surf where U.S. Marines usually charge ashore in armored vehicles during amphibious assault exercises.

“I couldn’t run because I had been sitting in the boat for so long,” said Maribel Ruiz. “But the pilot kept yelling, ‘Run! Run! Run!’ It was terrible.”

Los Angeles Times

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The fatally flawed logic of a no-fly zone

Friday, March 25th, 2011

President Obama now seems to support a no-fly zone over Libya, but another US military intervention can only bring ruin

Much to his detriment, President Obama has been sitting on the fence regarding the Libyan civil war. The president should have had the courage of his convictions to say that although his sympathies and the sympathies of the American people are with those Libyans who desire freedom, human rights and democracy, this is a fight that only Libyans can win. Unfortunately, if Thursday’s statement from US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice is any indication, Obama has caved to misguided and poorly thought-out arguments for direct intervention.

It is not in the national interest of the United States to institute a no-fly zone. Although a former administration official criticised the president for prioritising oil over human rights, this is not about oil; it is about sensibility and moral hazard. Many of the same people championing intervention in Libya – Senators Lieberman, Kerry and McCain, to name but three – also advocated for the Iraq war. Remember how that turned out? They thought that intervention would be as easy as apple pie; nothing could go wrong, they argued.

Read more at the Guardian.

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Few Americans see Obama as strong military leader

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

(Reuters) – Only 17 percent of Americans see President Barack Obama as a strong and decisive military leader, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken after the United States and its allies began bombing Libya.

Nearly half of those polled view Obama as a cautious and consultative commander-in-chief and more than a third see him as indecisive in military matters.

Obama was widely criticized in 2009 for his months-long consultations with senior aides and military chiefs on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Critics called it dithering, but he said such a big decision required careful deliberation. He eventually dispatched 30,000 more troops.

But Obama is facing mounting discontent among opposition Republicans and from within his own Democratic Party over the fuzzy aims of the U.S.-led mission in Libya and the lack of a clearly spelled-out exit strategy for U.S. forces.

If the Libya mission becomes a foreign policy mess, mixed with perceptions Obama is a weak military leader, it could spell trouble for him in the 2012 presidential election.

Read more at Reuters
SEE ALSO: Williams TEA Party

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Japanese army abandons attempt to cool reactor.

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

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U.S. redirects warships over Japan radiation risk

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

(Reuters) – The U.S. military took new steps to shield personnel from radiation spread by Japan’s crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday, redirecting arriving warships to safer waters and telling some forces to limit time outdoors.

Here are the latest details from the Pentagon on the mobilization of American forces to aid Japan after its devastating tsunami and earthquake.

All times are local to Japan.

WHERE IS RADIATION BEING DETECTED?

* Two U.S. naval bases detected above normal levels of radiation: the Yokosuka Naval Base, located about 200 miles south of the plant, and the Naval Air Facility Atsugi, which is about 150 miles from the plant.

* Rear Admiral Richard Wren, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Japan, said the additional radiation exposure for the past 12 hours at the two bases was about 20 millirem, less than one month’s exposure to naturally occurring background radiation. He is recommending personnel and their families limit outdoor activity and shut down external ventilation systems.

* A day after saying 17 Americans on helicopter missions had been exposed to a month’s worth of normal radiation, the Navy acknowledged several more crew members had been similarly exposed to low levels of radiation. But it said there was no risk to their health and that operations would continue.

Read more: Reuters.

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Pro-abort prof argues babies not ‘persons’ til 18 months, not an ‘offense’ against child to kill it

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Individuals are not special by virtue of their “species membership,” he said, but become “persons” and worthy of protection because they possess certain “ethically salient properties” such as the ability to experience pain or pleasure, self-consciousness, and rationality.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion activists sought, unsuccessfully, to disrupt a debate on abortion at Dalhousie University Tuesday night by ripping down ads, setting off stink-bombs, and covering the ceiling with helium balloons featuring pro-abortion slogans. In the end, they even turned on the pro-abortion speaker.

Representing the pro-life side of the debate was Stephanie Gray, co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform. Facing Gray was Dr. Mark Mercer, chairperson of the philosophy department at Halifax’s St. Mary’s University, who has in the past won the ire of pro-abortion activists for defending the rights of pro-lifers to express their opinions on university campuses.

While Gray argued that the unborn should be protected in law because abortion is the violent killing of innocent human life, Mercer argued that there is nothing ethically troubling about abortion, at one point suggesting that a baby isn’t a “person” until around 18 months of age.

Read more at Life Site News

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Forces Aligned With Somali Government Push Militants From 2 Towns

Monday, March 7th, 2011

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Forces allied with the Somali government have repelled Islamist militants from two towns near the Kenyan border in a string of recent victories, Somali officials said on Monday.

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, was quick to take credit, even though most of the fighting has been done by militias loosely aligned with Somalia’s transitional government or African Union peacekeepers. In the past few weeks, heavily armed peacekeepers have taken back several neighborhoods here, in Somalia’s capital, from the Shabab, a radical Islamist insurgent group. On Sunday and Monday, government-allied militias drove the Shabab out of Luq and El Wak, both in southern Somalia near Kenya.

“Al Shabab is on the verge of collapse,” boasted Sheik Sharif, at a news conference on Monday. “We shall also sweep them from Mogadishu. Our enemies have suffered a great loss, it is obvious they will run away from many towns.”

Read more at New York Times
SEE ALSO: CBS News, Washington Post

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Threat to Windsor over carbon debate

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

As the war of words ramps up over the carbon tax, key independent MP Tony Windsor has revealed he received a menacing phone message over his role in developing the policy.

Mr Windsor, whose vote will be crucial to passing laws bringing in the government’s emissions trading scheme, said he was disturbed by the phone message.

“You’re a f***ing liar, a dog, a rat … I hope you die, you bastard,” the caller said, in a message played on the Seven Network.
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Mr Windsor said there were some “points of commonality” to the debate over the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement in the United States.

In January a debate raged in the US over whether inflammatory right-wing rhetoric was to blame for a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona that targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and left six dead.

Mr Windsor feared something similar could happen in Australia.

“Just remember you could be responsible for driving someone that’s got a slight degree of mental illness to something that they wouldn’t normally do,” Mr Windsor said.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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Agenda 21 for dummies.

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

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LIBYA: Popular TV cleric issues fatwa against Kadafi

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

February 22, 2011 | 4:10 am

Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, issued a fatwa on live television (Arabic link) Monday night urging the Libyan army to kill the country’s embattled leader, Moammar Kadafi.

“It is not heroism to fight your people and to hit them with missiles,” Qaradawi said in an interview with Al Jazeera, which also hosts his popular show, “Sharia and Life.”

Libyan security forces waged a fierce attack on demonstrators in the two major cities of Tripoli and Benghazi on Monday, with many reports that the regime had ordered air strikes against protesters.

LA Times

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More foreign control of our economy.

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Another sign of the “New World Order?” The Germans buying the New York Stock Exchange. This government has destroyed the industry of America, sold the auto industry (our last remaining major industry) overseas, and installed a communist health rationing system and now are selling our economic markets to the highest bidder.

Achtung Baby! NYSE To Go Deutsch In Biggest Merger On The Planet
Historically, the urge to merge has coincided with major stock market tops

On February 15 Deutsche Boerse AG slipped a $9.53 billion all-stock bid on the “finger” of the New York Stock Exchange. If approved, the merger would create what one news site called “the Goliath Bourse” — or the largest stock exchange on the planet.

So, there’s no time like the present to start learning a few key German phrases to welcome Wall Street’s would-be financial in-laws. The four expressions below make for a fitting introduction:

Wunderbar: “Wonderful,” “super,” “out of this world.”

According to the mainstream experts, the creation of the behemoth German/American bourse is an UBER-bullish event, and reflects the global economic recovery. Here, the following news items capture the overall optimism surrounding the merger:

* New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: “This is one of the better things for New York because what you’ll do is you’ll have the two strongest stock exchanges together… This is really very good.” (NY Post)
* AND — “It seems as if the market has a very strong bid under stock prices. [Mergers & Acquisitions] is a market that people are trying to get back involved with.” (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg is praising the country that brought us the Wiemar Republic which led to the rise of Hitler.

Doppelganger: “A double, or look-alike.”

The mega-deal-zeal surrounding the potential Deutsche/NYSE merger is a spitting image of another time in recent financial history: the year 2007. Back then, M&A activity had soared to an all-time record high, valuing over $1.33 trillion. And much like today, the main focus of consolidation was on global unification. “Merger Mania Is Back With A Vengeance” said a March 30, 2007, Independent cover story, as every one from airlines to metal mines, and banks to bourses aimed to bring east and west together.

The culminating event came in April 2007, with the $14 billion merger of the NYSE and Euronext to create the first trans-Atlantic financial market AND largest stock exchange in the world.

Elliot Wave International

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Iranium

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

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CBS complicit in news coverup

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

My addition: If this does not show the sickness of the American mainstream media, I don’t know what does. When they are willing to sacrifice a reporter on the alter of multiculturalism, there is a real problem in the medium that Thomas Jefferson sought to protect.

By Michael Graham
Thursday, February 17, 2011 – Updated 2 days ago

Dateline — Egypt:

“[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, ‘Jew! Jew!’ as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday.”

Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didn’t run until yesterday, and CBS didn’t run it. The quote is from the New York Post. And it was The Wall Street Journal that reported “the separation and assault lasted roughly 20 to 30 minutes.”

But CBS? They sat on their own story. For five days, as reporters reveled amid giddy celebrations in Tahrir Square, and as President Obama praised President Obama’s handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing.

Read more at the Boston Herald

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CBS News’ Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

(CBSNews) On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.

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Mubarak falls into coma according to reports.

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Egypt’s deposed president, Hosni Mubarak, went into a full coma on Saturday night at his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Monday, quoting well-informed sources.

Mubarak and his family moved to Sharm al-Sheikh on Thursday night following his final speech, in which he handed over executive authority to former Vice-President Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s al-Masry al-Youm reported.

DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)

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