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Thursday February 23, 2012

RUSSIA RESUMING NUCLEAR-ARMED MISSIONS
World Net Daily The recent veto by Russia and China of U.S. efforts in the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its violent treatment of protesters has escalated tensions between the United States and Russia, which seeks to maintain its influence in the Middle East by protecting [...]
FBI agents seize computers from Northeast Portland man’s house for alleged threats against controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio
The Oregonian – Stuart Tomlinson Federal agents seized computers from a Northeast Portland man’s house this week as part of in investigation into his alleged threats against controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. FBI agents searched the house of Clifton Dawayne Brooks in the 6500 block of Northeast Prescott Street at 6 a.m. Monday. According to [...]
MIGHT BARACK OBAMA BE ‘THE GREATEST GUN SALESMAN IN AMERICA?’ TAKE A LOOK…
theblaze.com - Christopher Santarelli Gun manufacturers would likely not be the first to come to mind when considering industries who have benefited the most during President Obama’s first term, but a study from Ammo.net finds that firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election. Just to show a few statistics illustrating what those [...]
New York police ‘spied on’ New Jersey Muslims
BBC New York City police secretly collected information on Muslim communities in nearby Newark, New Jersey, police records have shown. Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he was not informed of the surveillance, revealed by the Associated Press. “This raises a number of concerns,” Mr Booker said, promising to investigate. “It’s just very, very sobering.” Earlier [...]
Fitch downgrades Greece on debt swap plan
Reuters Fitch cut Greece’s long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after the country announced a bond exchange plan to ease its massive debt burden. It said Greece would be designated as having technically defaulted after the bond exchange is formalized, but [...]
Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes
Reuters - Kim Dixon and Rachelle Younglai President Barack Obama launched a dialogue with corporate America on Wednesday over business tax reform, offering his first clear plan to cut the corporate tax rate, with little prospect of it becoming law in an election year. The president proposed cutting the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 35 [...]
Battle over EU financial firewall threatens to derail Greek bailout
The Telegraph – Bruno Waterfield A battle over an increased eurozone bail-out fund and International Monetary Fund support for the European Union’s single currency threatens to derail the latest Greek bailout. At a G20 summit in Mexico in two days the EU will plead for increased IMF contributions by non-euro countries to help shore up [...]
Cristina Kirchner told to leave Falkland Islanders alone, by Argentina’s intellectuals
The Telegraph – Fiona Govan Last week, Sean Penn, the Hollywood actor, appeared with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to criticise British actions over the disputed archipelago. But a group of Argentina’s leading intellectuals, historians, journalists, constitutional experts and politicians have published an open letter calling on their own government to rethink policy towards the islands they [...]
Lots at stake in first GOP debate in nearly a month
CNN - Paul Steinhauser Twenty-seven days. That’s how long it has been between the 19th and 20th Republican presidential debates. But that ends Wednesday, when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas face off at a debate hosted by CNN and [...]
Argentina train crash in Buenos Aires ‘kills dozens’
BBC A train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 49 people with hundreds more injured, police say. The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour. “We assume that there was some fault in the brakes”, Transportation [...]
Somalia al-Shabab militant base of Baidoa captured
BBC – Will Ross Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that about 50 vehicles, including some 20 tanks, had entered Baidoa, which was not defended. The BBC’s Mohamed Dhore in the capital, Mogadishu, says Baidoa was the most important al-Shabab base after [...]
Eight more bodies from Costa Concordia wreck found
BBC Search teams have found eight more bodies in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia which capsized on 13 January. The body of a girl of five is among those believed to have been found. Officials say 32 people died in the disaster but only 17 bodies had been retrieved before the new [...]
Six dead in Afghanistan Koran burning protests
BBC At least six people have been killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan after protests spread over the burning of copies of the Koran at a US airbase. One person was killed in Kabul, one in the eastern city of Jalalabad and at least four in Parwan province. US officials apologised on Tuesday after Korans [...]
Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik die in Homs
BBC Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik died when a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the Baba Amr district. Opposition-held [...]
Supreme Court to hear university race admissions case
James Vicini – Reuters The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether a state university may consider an applicant’s race to achieve a more diverse student body, revisiting a divisive social issue it last addressed nine years ago. The high court agreed to hear an appeal by a white female applicant, Abigail Fisher, [...]
Gallup Finds Unemployment Climbing to Nine Percent in February
Matt Cover – CNSNews.com Unemployment in the U.S. rose to nine percent in mid-February, up from 8.3 percent a month earlier, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said this suggests that it is “premature” to assume the economy will not feature prominently in the 2012 election season. Gallup figures typically provide an [...]
US election 2012: Rick Santorum receives another boost with 27 point lead in Texas
The Telegraph – Peter Foster, Washington The poll is yet another fillip for Mr Santorum, an evangelical Catholic with blue collar roots who has surged in the polls in recent weeks, eclipsing his fellow conservative Newt Gingrich and challenging the long-time establishment front-runner Mitt Romney. Analysts said the Texas poll was yet further evidence that [...]
Letting gays marry would be wrong, Carey tells Cameron as former archbishop says proposal is ‘one of the greatest political grabs in history’
Mail Online – Andrew Pierce A powerful denunciation of David Cameron’s plans to legalise gay marriage is made today by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey. In an article for the Daily Mail, Lord Carey says the proposal to change the status of marriage ‘constitutes one of the greatest political power grabs in history’. He [...]
Sudan’s Jem Darfur rebels ‘seize Unamid peacekeepers’
BBC Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur province claim they have seized 49 African peacekeepers and three suspected Sudanese security agents. Rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) accuse the peacekeepers of entering rebel-held territory without permission. Most of those seized are Senegalese troops with the joint UN-African Union peace mission (Unamid), the rebels say. Two [...]
S Korea holds military drills despite North’s threats
BBC South Korea has held live-fire military drills from islands near disputed sea borders with the North, despite threats of retaliation from Pyongyang. The drills, which North Korea has called “premeditated military provocation”, lasted two hours. There was no reported action from the North, which warned on Sunday that it would retaliate for any attacks. [...]
Boats sink in Belgrade as thaw causes Danube ice chaos
BBC A rapid thaw has brought chaos to the River Danube in the Serbian capital Belgrade, where ice damaged boats, pontoons and floating restaurants. The thick ice covered one of Europe’s busiest waterways during the recent freeze, but began to break up on Sunday as temperatures rose. In Belgrade, boats crashed into each other but [...]
Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger
BBC - Pallab Ghosh Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year. The aim of the research is to develop a more efficient way of producing meat than rearing animals. At a major science meeting in Canada, Prof Mark Post [...]
Iranian ships reach Syria, Assad allies show support
Reuters - Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan Russia, China and Iran showed support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, days before an international meeting likely to pile more pressure on him to step down in the face of an increasingly bloody uprising. Assad met a senior Russian politician in Damascus, who reiterated Moscow’s support for his self-styled [...]
Senator ‘optimistic’ Egypt NGO standoff near end
CNN A key U.S. senator said Monday he has high hopes for a positive resolution soon to the growing diplomatic crisis revolving around 19 American overseas aid workers facing charges as part of an Egyptian crackdown on nongovernmental organizations. “Quite frankly, I’m very optimistic we’re going to get this episode behind us,” GOP Sen. Lindsey [...]
Arizona debate matters for GOP’s final four
CNN – Candy Crawley In no particular order, here are four things you should watch in this week’s desert debate: Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich. The final four have not shared a stage in almost a month: Not since Romney won Florida, Nevada and Maine. Not since Santorum triumphed in Minnesota, Missouri [...]

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RUSSIA RESUMING NUCLEAR-ARMED MISSIONS
22-02-2012 12:36

World Net Daily The recent veto by Russia and China of U.S. efforts in the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its violent treatment of protesters has escalated tensions between the United States and Russia, which seeks to maintain its influence in the Middle East by protecting al-Assad, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. It is apparent now that the United States wants al-Assad ousted as a way to diminish the influence of Syrian ally Iran in the Middle East. Russia, on the other hand, has serious equities in protecting the al-Assad regime...

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