ShareThisSurge in Britons exported for trial --British courts have little power to challenge the warrants. 21 Aug 2010 The number of people in Britain seized under the controversial "no-evidence-needed" European Arrest Warrant rose by more than 50 per cent last year, figures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph show. In total, 1,032 people were detained and extradited by British police on the orders of European prosecutors in the 12 months to April, up from 683 in 2008-09. The Home Office expects a further 70 per cent rise, to 1,700 cases, next year.
ShareThisAir Force plans to quadruple training airspace over Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas 22 Aug 2010 The U.S. Air Force issued a draft environmental impact statement on its plans to quadruple the airspace in which it can conduct training exercises with its B-1 and B-52 bombers stationed in the Dakotas. ...The expanded area would allow crews to operate closer to their bases as they practice bomb runs, defensive maneuvers and evasive actions that have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have said.
ShareThisIsrael says Iranian reactor use 'totally unacceptable' 21 Aug 2010 Israel on Saturday denounced Iran's fueling up of its first nuclear power plant as "totally unacceptable" and called for more international pressure to force Tehran to cease any uranium enrichment. Israel, widely assumed to be the only Middle East country to have nuclear weapons, has said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to its existence, raising concerns Israel could attack Iran's nuclear sites.
ShareThisReagan: Taliban 'moral equivalent of America's founding fathers' Posted by Lori Price 22 Aug 2010 'In 1982, Ronald Reagan dedicated the Space Shuttle Columbia to the resistance fighters [Taliban] in Afghanistan.' (Video) --Taliban still have Reagan's Stingers 26 Sep 2001 One of the most dangerous weapons Western pilots could face in Afghanistan is an anti-aircraft missile provided by the United States during the Reagan presidency. Some 1,000 Stingers were supplied to the mujahideen from 1986 onwards after Ronald Reagan overcame CIA objections that they were too dangerous to be given to the rebels.
ShareThisRape allegation 'dirty tricks' says WikiLeaks boss 22 Aug 2010 The founder of WikiLeaks said he was the victim of a smear campaign last night after Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant involving a charge of rape. The warrant was withdrawn less than a day after being issued, with Swedish authorities saying it was based on an unfounded accusation. The accusation had been labelled a dirty trick yesterday by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified US documents from the Afghan war, despite the [Pentagon's] furore surrounding the last batch released.
ShareThisIsraeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing children 21 Aug 2010 Israeli human rights organizations have joined with Defence for Children International to complain of routine torture of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons. DCI have filed two official complaints over the alleged treatment of a 15-year old boy earlier this year... The Palestinian branch of the Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI ) says it has taken sworn affidavits from more than 100 Palestinian children claiming maltreatment. Fourteen of the statements allege sexual assault and abuse by soldiers.
ShareThisOfficials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan 21 Aug 2010 Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said. Missiles struck two vehicles in Anghar Kala village near Miran Shah in North Waziristan -- the second such attack since massive floods hit Pakistan in late July. The officials said some of the dead militants may be foreigners.
ShareThisFive US-led troops killed in Afghanistan 21 Aug 2010 Five US-led troops have been killed in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours as the Taliban step up their attacks against foreign forces in the country. Two NATO soldiers died in separate militant attacks in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the US-led military alliance said without disclosing the nationality of the soldiers or the exact location of the incident. Three soldiers were killed and two others were injured in Uruzgan Province also on Friday.
ShareThisSwedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled 21 Aug 2010 Swedish authorities have cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape. The warrant was issued late on Friday. Wikileaks, which has been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents, had quoted Mr Assange as saying the charges were "without basis".
ShareThisCIA dirty tricks 101: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape --Swedish authorities issue an arrest warrant for the founder of whistleblowers' website on suspicion of rape and molestation 21 Aug 2010 Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape. The warrant was issued late yesterday, said a spokeswoman at Sweden's prosecutors' office in Stockholm. She said Assange should contact the Swedish police for questioning about the accusations of molestation and rape in two separate cases "so that he can be confronted with the suspicions".
ShareThisIsrael, Palestinians agree to resume Mideast talks 20 Aug 2010 Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to hold direct peace talks beginning September 2 in Washington -- the first such talks since 2008. The talks, also involving other regional and international players, are intended to resolve all "final status" issues for a Middle East peace agreement, "which we believe can be done in one year," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
ShareThisProsecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges 21 Aug 2010 Pentagon lawyers believe that online whistleblower group WikiLeaks acted illegally in disclosing thousands of classified Afghanistan war reports and other material, and federal prosecutors are exploring possible criminal charges, officials familiar with the matter said. A joint investigation by the Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still in its early stages and it is unclear what course the Department of Justice will decide to take, according to a U.S. law-enforcement official. The increasingly confrontational tone could be part of Pentagon efforts to dissuade WikiLeaks from posting online the yet-to-be-published documents in its possession.
ShareThisBushehr plant to be launched on Sat. 21 Aug 2010 Iran's first nuclear power plant, which is located in the southern port city of Bushehr, is scheduled to be loaded with nuclear fuel on Saturday. Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Director Ali Akbar Salehi and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergei Kiriyenko will be attending the inaugural ceremony of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Nuclear fuel will be transferred to the Bushehr reactor under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
ShareThisTwo Australian Soldiers Killed on Afghanistan Patrol 20 Aug 2010 Two Australian soldiers were killed and two were wounded when a device exploded near their vehicle during a patrol in Afghanistan, Acting Chief of the Defense Force Lieutenant General David Hurley said today. The soldiers had dismounted from their vehicle when they were struck by the blast at about 10:30 a.m. local time yesterday, Hurley said.
ShareThisBlackwater/Xe mercs to pay $42mn fine 21 Aug 2010 Xe, the private security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, has agreed to pay a multi-million dollar fine for hundreds of US export violations. The company will pay $42 million for violations that include illegal weapons export to Afghanistan and making unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan, The New York Times reported on Friday. The company, now known as Xe Services, struck a deal with the US state department to pay the fine in order to avoid criminal charges. This will also allow it to continue to obtain government contracts.
ShareThisKennedy favors civilian courts in terrorism cases 20 Aug 2010 Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Thursday that most terrorism cases should be tried in civilian courts. Kennedy addressed participants in the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Maui, where a panel discussion earlier this week reached a consensus in favor of using civilian courts instead of military commissions in most terrorism cases. "Article III courts are quite capable of trying these terrorist cases," Kennedy said, agreeing with the conclusion.
ShareThisBP accused of withholding 'critical' spill data 19 Aug 2010 The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is accusing BP of withholding critical evidence needed to investigate the cause of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press. The new complaint by Transocean follows similar complaints by U.S. lawmakers about difficulties obtaining necessary information from BP in their investigations.
ShareThisIDF soldiers arrested over alleged mistreatment of Palestinian detainees --5 Nahal Haredi soldiers suspected of taking their photographs alongside bound detainees, as well as two cases of drug use. 19 Aug 2010 Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested by military police Thursday, following suspicions of mistreatment of Palestinians detainees, which included taking improper photographs. The soldiers, members of the Nahal Haredi combat unit, were arrested following information received by their battalion commander, which claimed that two of the five soldiers were involved in drug use, while the rest are suspected of taking photographs of themselves alongside cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees using their cellphones.
ShareThisIce-trapped pollutants poison polar bears' diets 20 Aug 2010 The iconic symbol of the Arctic - the polar bear - is under threat from the twin challenges of climate change and lingering chemical pollutants, such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), which are not breaking down in the region's cold waters. A comprehensive review of research on polar wildlife published recently in the journal Science of The Total Environment has concluded that the retreat of sea ice cover in the Arctic as a result of climate change could increase the exposure of species such as polar bears to a range of man-made chemical compounds, including flame retardants and substances used to harden plastics.
ShareThisSalmonella Egg Recall Now Reaches 480 Million Eggs; 2,000 Report Illness --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not investigating any additional egg farms. [Useless is as useless does.] 20 Aug 2010 A second Iowa egg farm has ordered a major recall of eggs today in an effort to stem the outbreak of salmonella. The voluntary recall was announced by Hillandale Farms. The company is located about 100 miles from the Wright County Eggs, based in Galt, Iowa, which has previously ordered a recall of 380 million eggs in one of the largest egg recalls in history.
ShareThisBlackwater Reaches Deal on U.S. Export Violations --The State Department that dealt with the violations as an administrative matter, allowing Blackwater, now called Xe, to avoid criminal charges.21 Aug 2010 The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations. The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers, according to company and government officials familiar with the deal.
ShareThisThe Kelly Affair: Anatomy of a conspiracy theory --Claims that we have not been told the full truth about the death of Dr David Kelly have been circulating for years. This week, the fog of rumour thickened. By Paul Vallely 21 Aug 2010 ...[I]n the last two months, a rash of disbelieving newspaper articles, predominantly in the Daily Mail, but also picked up by The Times, have ratcheted up pressure on the Government to re-open investigations into David Kelly's death.
ShareThisGunmen torch NATO trucks in Pakistan 20 Aug 2010 Militants have attacked two trucks carrying supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, burning them in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province. The attack was carried out by a group of unidentified armed men when the vehicles were parked at a depot in Khuzdar district, in the center of the province, local police officials told Press TV. The militants opened fire on the vehicles and then set them ablaze. [No worries. US taxpayers will just fund a new convoy and billions for the mercenaries who pretend to protect it.]
ShareThisMilitants kill 30 Afghan security guards 20 Aug 2010 Afghan police say that 30 security guards have been killed in a fierce battle with militants as the Taliban intensify their attacks against the government forces. The clashes erupted in the southern province of Helmand after the Taliban attacked construction guards on Thursday. Police said at least 15 guards were wounded in the deadly clashes and several guards have gone missing.
ShareThisPew Poll Finds 1 in 5 Americans Wrongly Believe Barack Obama Is a Muslim 19 Aug 2010 Nearly one in five Americans now incorrectly believes that President Obama is a Muslim, evidence of growing confusion among the population about the president's faith. The new poll from the nonpartisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 18 percent of those surveyed wrongly identified Obama as Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. At the same time, the number of Americans who knew correctly that Obama is Christian has declined from 48 percent in March 2009 to 34 percent today.
ShareThisRev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama 'Born a Muslim' --Comments Come As Poll Shows One in Five Americans Wrongly Believes Obama Is Muslim 20 Aug 2010 On the heels of a new poll suggesting that nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believes that President Obama is a Muslim, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders has weighed in with a seemingly lukewarm endorsement of the president's Christian faith. [?!?] The Rev. Franklin Graham waded into the discussion with his own controversial explanation of why people wrongly believe the president is a Muslim. [And, if Obama *was* a Muslim, what's the problem? This mosque/Muslim issue is a teabagging/corporaterrorist weapon of mass distraction from the doubling of mercenaries hired to fight in the Iraq war following the 'pullout' in 2011. --LRP]
ShareThisPoll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan 20 Aug 2010 A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Only 38 percent say they support his expanded war effort in Afghanistan -- a drop from 46 percent in March. Just 19 percent expect the situation to improve during the next year, while 29 percent think it will get worse. Some 49 percent think it will remain the same.
ShareThisPalin defends Dr. Laura Schlessinger, telling her: 'Don't retreat. . . reload' 20 Aug 2010 A day after talk radio host Laura Schlessinger quit her show, following criticism for using the N-word repeatedly in a broadcast, former Alaska [half] governor Sarah Palin told her: "Don't retreat . . . reload!" Palin wrote in a post on Twitter that Schlessinger's First Amendment rights "ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence" her. Such activism "isn't American, not fair," she added. Later she added, "Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists."
ShareThisHomeland Security to conduct gas tests in T system 20 Aug 2010 Scientists will begin releasing airborne, non-toxic [we hope] contaminants into the MBTA subway system today to see how such gases would spread through the nation’s oldest subway system in the case of a terror attack. The test is being conducted in the nation’s 15 subway systems, and in Boston it will run through Aug. 27. While the study will primarily examine what would happen in the intentional release of chemical or biological agents, it will also look at the airflow characteristics for an 'accidental' spill, officials said.
ShareThisHuge pool of hydrocarbons lurks in Gulf of Mexico 20 Aug 2010 A plume of hydrocarbons from BP's oil spill is lurking deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The oily plume was over 35 kilometres long, up to 200 metres thick and up to two kilometres wide, and a kilo-metre below the surface, at the end of June, says a U.S. team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which sent a submersible vehicle down for a close look. The scientists report that the submerged hydrocarbons were not being quickly biodegraded by microbes.
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Arming the Left: Is the time now? By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003 As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into [is] a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against...
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