Posts In Category World News
Saakashvili pays US firms to lobby for him in Washington
on Yesterday by NW0.eu in World News, Comments (0)
Tbilisi has signed a contract with an influential US lobbying firm, the Podesta Group. Thanks to its efforts, President Saakashvili will reportedly pay his first visit to the US since Barack Obama’s election.
Drudge Report Malware Accusation Coincides With Cybersecurity Agenda
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Democrats in the Senate are attempting to scare people away from alternative news websites by falsely claiming the sites contain dangerous software viruses.
100+ Starlings Drop From the Sky, Lie Dying
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dailymail – It was like a grisly scene from a horror film.On Sunday night, over a quiet Somerset house, scores of swooping starlings tumbled out of the sky and fell, dead, into a single front garden.Covering an area 12ft across, more than 100 birds car…
‘Jihad Jane’: American Woman’s Plot To Kill Swedish Cartoonist
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‘Jihad Jane,’ as Pennsylvania woman Colleen LaRose dubbed herself, was indicted Tuesday for helping recruit a network for suicide attacks and plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Seven Muslims were arrested in Ireland in connection with the alleged plot. Jonathan Adams reports for the Christian Science Monitor:
Authorities unsealed charges in the US against a woman dubbed “Jihad Jane” and arrested seven Muslims in Ireland Tuesday for their alleged involvement in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist.
The allegations highlight the ongoing sensitivity of cartoon renderings of the prophet Mohammad, and are a rare example of a white American woman becoming involved in global jihad over the Internet.
Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort
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From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department.
Ex-Mossad head for military strike on Iran
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The world needs to get ready to use military force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, the former head of the Israeli intelligence service said Tuesday in Berlin.
Japan reveals secret nuclear pact with US
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Japan has verified the existence of a secret nuclear pact with the United States that allows US forces to bring nuclear weapons into the country.
Tel Aviv Seeking Another Nuke Plant Through Jordan
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‘Israel, which is widely deemed as the sole wielder of nuclear arsenals in the Middle East, says it plans to build its third nuclear power plant.
Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau plans to announce Israel’s interest in developing nuclear power at an international nuclear energy conference in Paris, the ministry’s spokesman Chen Lulu said on Monday.
He said Landau would tell the Paris meeting that he sees such a plant as a joint project between Israel and Jordan, with France supervising and providing technology.’
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Anti-Iran Plot Failing, Israeli Envoy Laments
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‘Israel’s UN ambassador says the prospects for imposing crippling sanctions on Iran are “grim” because Russia and China insist on diplomacy to solve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
“The chances now seem grim regarding sanctions that will be crippling,” AFP quoted Gabriela Shalev as saying on Tuesday.
She said Russia and China, which both have a veto at the UN Security Council, “are still looking to the diplomatic track” and appear reluctant to back a new round of tough sanctions on Iran.’
NYC Restaurateur Serving Wife’s Breast Milk Cheese
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Is it just me, or is this a total gross-out? As reported in the New York Post:
This Chelsea restaurant has gone from brasserie to brassiere. Chef Daniel Angerer is letting diners at Klee Brasserie munch on cheese made from his wife’s breast milk.
“It tastes like cow’s-milk cheese, kind of sweet,” he told The Post.
The flavor depends on what the cheese is served with — Angerer recommends a Riesling — and “what the mother eats,” said Angerer, who once bested Bobby Flay on TV’s “Iron Chef.”
Breast milk doesn’t curdle well due to its low protein content, so a little moo juice has to be added to round out the texture, Angerer said. After blogging about his efforts with the human cheese, customers started demanding a sample, he said.
“The phone was ringing…
Waterboarding for dummies
on 09/03/2010 (2 days ago) by NW0.eu in World News, Comments (0)
Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water”
South Africa Imports 42 Million Condoms For World Cup Soccer
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Perhaps taking a cue from the emergency shipment of condoms sent to Vancouver after the Olympic village exhausted supplies, soccer’s World Cup in South Africa, coming up in June, is making sure that the AIDS-ravaged nation has ample supplies, as reported in the Guardian:
Britain is to give 42m condoms to South Africa in response to a request for an extra billion as part of an HIV prevention drive before the World Cup, the government will announce today.
The request for British help in stockpiling sufficient condoms for the expected influx of thousands of football supporters in three months’ time was made during President Jacob Zuma’s recent visit to the UK to meet the Queen.
“Obviously there’s a big focus on the World Cup coming up and a huge increase in the number of…
S.Korea, US launch war games despite N.Korean threats
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Tens of thousands of US and South Korean troops Monday began an annual military exercise despite threats from North Korea, which claims the drill is a preparation for nuclear war.
How the British Establishment is conspiring to prop up the AGW myth
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News has just reached me that the great Professor Ian Plimer, scourge of climate-fear-promoters everywhere, has been suddenly disinvited by the Royal Society of Artists (RSA) from a lecture he was due to give in May before an audience including the Duke of Edinburgh.
Call for Brown to face fresh grilling by Iraq inquiry over ‘discrepancies’ with evidence
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Gordon Brown was last night facing demands that he reappear at the Iraq Inquiry after his top defence official flatly contradicted the Prime Minister’s claims to have always supported troops.
