Oil generated £19 billion in revenues last year, yet much is believed to have gone straight into the pockets of President Ilham Aliyev and his family Azeri government has threatened journalists and activists are tortured Leaked documents recently compared President… Read More ›
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Thailand anti-government protests quelled by riot police
Thousands of demonstrators accuse government of corruption and call for prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down Hannah Godfrey and agencies guardian.co.uk, Saturday 24 November 2012 07.29 EST Police in Bangkok have fired teargas at thousands of anti-government… Read More ›
North Korea preparing for missile launch: Japanese media
News On Japan via Channel NewsAsia — Nov 24 US satellites have picked up signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range missile, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday. North Korea moved missile parts from its military factory… Read More ›
Record 81% of Japanese feel no friendship toward China, government survey shows
Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012 Jiji More than 80 percent of Japanese harbor no sense of friendship toward China, an annual survey by the Cabinet Office revealed Saturday. Some 80.6 percent of respondents said they have no friendly feelings toward the… Read More ›
Iraqi Kurds send more troops into standoff with Iraq army
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:18 GMT Reuters ARBIL, Iraq, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdish region has sent reinforcements to a disputed area where its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi army, a senior Kurdish military official… Read More ›
Catalonia to vote, CIU wants ‘the power we deserve’
Early elections to move towards independence referendum 23 November, 20:23 Catalonia’s regional president Artur Mas during an election rally (ANSAmed) – BARCELONA – ”Catalonia is the Germany of Spain, but without holding any power. And now we want it,”… Read More ›
Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East
Nov 24, 2012 22:17 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Turkey has asked NATO to deploy “Patriot” missiles on the Turkish side near the Turkish-Syrian border. In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Russian analyst Konstantin Sivkov said: “Deploying these missiles… Read More ›
Morsi’s advisers resign to protest his constitutional declaration
Nov 24, 2012 08:58 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi’s advisers are tendering their resignations to protest against his constitutional declaration. One of them is Morsi’s assistant for democratic transition Samir Morcos. President Morsi made public Thursday his… Read More ›
US intensifies military encirclement of China
Rick Rozoff Nov 24, 2012 11:48 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/Telstar Logistics/cc-by-nc-sa “With the emergence of China as the world’s second-largest economy and its concomitant renewal of (comparatively minor) territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the… Read More ›
Morsi decree makes him Egypt’s ‘new pharaoh’ say critics
‘A major blow to the revolution’ says ElBaradei as president hands himself sweeping new powers LAST UPDATED AT 10:05 ON Fri 23 Nov 2012 EGYPTIAN reformists who risked their lives to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime last year have reacted… Read More ›
India and China row over new map in passport – Claims part of India plus disputed areas of the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan
A fresh row has broken out between India and China over territorial claims in the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin area in eastern Kashmir. In new passports, China’s maps show the two areas as Chinese… Read More ›
Wal-Mart India unit suspends CFO, others pending bribery probe
Posted 2012/11/22 at 11:41 pm EST MUMBAI, Nov. 22, 2012 (Reuters) — The Indian joint venture of Wal-Mart Stores Inc <wmt.n> has suspended its chief financial officer and other employees as it investigates alleged violations of U.S. anti-bribery laws, a… Read More ›
China angers neighbors with sea claims on new passports
By Manuel MogatoPosted 2012/11/22 at 4:58 am EST MANILA, Nov. 22, 2012 (Reuters) — The Philippines and Vietnam condemned Chinese passports containing a map of China’s disputed maritime claims on Thursday, branding the new design a violation of their… Read More ›
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist : The hack that exposed the private information of 860,000 Stratfor clients
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge refused release to one of the men accused of helping Anonymous and others hack various media, government and private-spy websites last year. Jeremy Hammond was one of five so-called hacktivists arrested… Read More ›
All expenses paid: the full scale of MPs’ lavish globetrotting revealed
Special Investigation: Hundreds of politicians have each accepted thousands of pounds worth of trips to exotic locations. So what do their hosts want in return? Oliver Wright, Matthew Macaulay Thursday, 22 November 2012 Backbench MPs have gone on… Read More ›
Czech anti-chemical warfare troops are in Jordan
Posted By John Reed Wednesday, November 21, 2012 – 1:11 PM Czech troops are in Jordan, providing technical expertise in case Syria’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons is somehow unleashed by the Assad regime, rebels, or terrorists. “We… Read More ›
Schools face cuts to pay for £1bn academies overspend
Funds for struggling schools slashed, report reveals Richard Garner Thursday, 22 November 2012 Funding for struggling schools has been slashed to cover a £1bn overspend in the academies programme, a report reveals today. Spending on a range of education programmes… Read More ›
Osama bin Laden: Navy emails lift the lid on secret burial at sea
The first details of Osama bin Laden’s secret burial at sea have been revealed in internal US military emails which show that no sailor witnessed the covert funeral. President Barack Obama in the Situation Room of the White House… Read More ›
Human Obedience: The Myth of Blind Conformity – followership, results from identifying with authorities who represent vicious acts as virtuous
“Decent people participate in horrific acts not because they become passive, mindless functionaries who do not know what they are doing, but rather because they come to believe — typically under the influence of those in authority — that what… Read More ›
Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant (Insurance against being sued by Monsanto)
Published: 22 November, 2012, 00:09 (Reuters / Robert Pratta) The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto,… Read More ›
Temperature rising in the South China Sea / Territorial showdown overshadows Obama’s trip to Southeast Asia
. Patrick WinnNovember 21, 2012 06:00 BANGKOK, Thailand — China’s largest claimed island in the disputed South China Sea, Yongxing, is just over half the size of New York’s Central Park. Its next-largest claim in the sea, Taiping Island,… Read More ›
Woman Says JPMorgan Gave Rapist Free Rein
By DAVID LEE DALLAS (CN) – A JPMorgan Chase employee says in court that she was raped by a vice president whom the bank allowed “to prey on defenseless women.” Kimberly Schultz sued the bank and Derrick… Read More ›
Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag
Wants to avoid ‘the mark of the beast’ By Iain Thomson in San Francisco • Posted in Security, 21st November 2012 21:06 GMT Free whitepaper – Gartner: Secure Web Gateway Malware Detection Techniques A plan by a San Antonio school… Read More ›
Nicolas Sarkozy ‘could be placed under investigation’ : Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security, did not deny the Elysee Palace hacking allegations
Nicolas Sarkozy faces the humiliating prospect of being placed under formal criminal investigation when he appears before a judge on Thursday to answer corruption charges. Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a number of investigations Photo: AP By Peter Allen, Paris 3:01PM… Read More ›
Report: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers
By Julian Pecquet – 11/20/12 05:59 PM ET The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express. The magazine reported late… Read More ›
U.S. Hangs Citizen Out to Dry in a Cuban Prison
By IULIA FILIP WASHINGTON (CN) – The United States and its contractor left a U.S. citizen to rot in a Cuban prison, failing to warn him that his U.S.-sponsored mission to distribute Internet equipment in Cuba is illegal, Alan Gross… Read More ›
Azeri president says Armenia is a country “of no value”
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev took his verbal attacks on arch enemy Armenia onto Twitter on Tuesday, calling his Caucasus neighbor a “colony” run from abroad. Aliyev and his government have tried to boost their presence online, where dissident Azeri… Read More ›
Attorney General will not review case of jailed SAS soldier
The campaign to free jailed SAS soldier Danny Nightingale was struck a blow after the Attorney General said it would be “inappropriate” for him to intervene in either the prosecution or the length of the sentence. Sgt Danny Nightingale with… Read More ›
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson WILL face court over ‘making payments to public officials’: Four News International staff to be charged with conspiracy
Crown Prosecution Service said that five people are to face action as part of Operation Elveden The others are former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, former Sun chief reporter John Kay and Ministry of Defence employee Bettina… Read More ›
Israeli minister vows Palestinian ‘holocaust’
Relatives of a Palestinian boy killed in an Israeli rocket attack By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem 2:25PM GMT 29 Feb 2008 A senior Israeli politician provoked controversy today when he warned that Palestinians firing rockets from Gaza would be punished… Read More ›
China Challenges West for Arms Trade: ” Over the past 10 years, China has been funneling weapons to some African countries in an effort to secure oil rights “
New, Better Products on Display at Zhuhai Show Nov. 19, 2012 – 09:17AM | By WENDELL MINNICK | Comments Officers of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) watch planes performing Nov. 13 during the ninth China International Aviation and Aerospace… Read More ›
Israeli Hackers Leak Credit Card Data from Palestine ISP
!!EEV: Again, always proceed with caution when clicking unknown links!! Along war with airstrikes between Israel and Palestine, Cyber war between hackers from both country on fire. . First Hackers from all over world who supporting Palestine start attacking Israeli… Read More ›
Japan warns that South China Sea row could damage regional stability: China stalled on a plan to ease tensions
. Reuters Monday, Nov 19, 2012 PHNOM PENH – Japan warned on Monday that a row over the South China Sea could damage “peace and stability”in Asia as China stalled on a plan to ease tensions and disagreements flared between… Read More ›
Not a single penny more for the EU’s begging bowl
The demand for a budget increase amid such an abuse of public funds is outrageous, says Boris Johnson Herman Van Rompuy wants a rise in spending by Brussels of 5 to 6.8 per cent Photo: REUTERS <!– remove the whitespace… Read More ›
Prisoners to get the vote regardless, Government human rights adviser says: European Court overrules British Sovereignty
Prisoners will get the vote regardless of David Cameron’s concerns, according to a Government human rights adviser. Lord Lester, a leading member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights as well as the Bill of Rights Commission, told The Daily… Read More ›
More MPs bill taxpayer for rent as they let out their homes
At least 32 MPs have been found to be claiming rent for second homes on their expenses while simultaneously letting out property nearby, an investigation reveals. John Denham, a former Labour cabinet minister, was among MPs found to be renting… Read More ›
Kuwait detains Twitter users for insulting emir
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, November 18, 2012 20:44 EST Kuwait’s public prosecution on Sunday ordered the detention of four Twitter users for 10 days for allegedly insulting the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state, a rights group said. The four… Read More ›
Health, life insurers hold $1.88 billion in fast-food stocks: AJPH article
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Mark Almberg mark@pnhp.org312-782-6006 Physicians for a National Health Program Harvard researchers say insurers put profits over health Just weeks after the passage of a health bill that will dramatically increase the number of Americans… Read More ›
Here’s a Look at the World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots : Bye Bye Many Fast Food Jobs
November 16, 2012 // 6:12 pm // By: Dominique Zamora Earlier this year, we caught wind of a young robotics company out of San Francisco that had created its very own burger making machine. Just insert tomatoes, pickles, onions, lettuce,… Read More ›
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home : A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home Saturday, November 17, 2012 Last updated: Sunday November 18, 2012, 9:51 AM BY JEFF GREEN STAFF WRITER The Record RIDGEWOOD — A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement… Read More ›
The charmer-in-chief: Obama gets flirty as he schmoozes with Thai prime minister on first stop of historic Asia visit
EEV: Saving this one for the creepy photo’s: Plus a great photoshop of Obama viting the reclining Buddha. Obama visits Thailand on first stop of his three-day Southeast Asia tour He was joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Obama will next… Read More ›
Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel strikes gold in the coal business
By Agence France-Presse Saturday, November 17, 2012 23:03 EST They may be known for flashy cars and state of the art weaponry, but Mexican druglords have found an earthy new source of wealth: dirty old coal. They are mining it… Read More ›
Ambassador Nikovski wants EU Chief in Macedonia (Aivo Orav) Expelled
Saturday, 17 November 2012 “He needs to be ignored, by all, at all levels. No institution should have any contacts, if Aivo Orav does not publicly apologize. If he refuses to apologize and remains isolated as he most certainly will… Read More ›
Paris wants to ban old cars – Old being pre-1997
Paris wants to ban old carsDebate over proposal to ban pre-1997 cars from city centre. Sun, Nov 18, 2012 Reuters PARIS: Some of the most famous cars in French motoring history would be banned from Paris under a law intended… Read More ›
Wife of jailed SAS hero appeals to Prime Minister for help
The wife of an SAS sergeant jailed for possessing a war trophy has called on the Prime Minister to help secure her husband’s freedom. Sgt Danny Nightingale with his family By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 17 Nov 2012… Read More ›
Petraeus and Allen ‘asked’ Jill Kelley to wade into diplomatic row over Hulk Hogan sex tape husband’s threat to deep fry a Koran
By James Nye PUBLISHED:02:18 EST, 17 November 2012| UPDATED:09:13 EST, 17 November 2012 As far as degrees of separation go, it is safe to assume that David Petraeus, the disgraced former director of the CIA never in his life thought… Read More ›
Jill Kelley’s world: White House visits, meals with generals, and name-dropping emails to Tampa mayor
By William R. Levesque and Alex Leary, Times Staff Writers William R. LevesqueAlex LearyTampa Bay Times In Print: Saturday, November 17, 2012 TAMPA — Her business card is utterly ordinary. No big titles. No hint of connections with… Read More ›
Egypt’s Mursi to avoid Coptic ceremony, dismays Christians
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will not attend the installation ceremony of the new Coptic pope, the church said on Friday, to the dismay of Christians who fear being sidelined in the new Islamist-led Egypt. Pope Tawadros II, will be installed… Read More ›
Low police commissioner vote turnout ‘a concern for democracy’
PCC elections condemned as ‘complete shambles’ and ‘comedy of errors’, with ‘worst turnout ever’ A poor turnout and spoilt ballot papers have left the police and crime commissioner elections in “complete shambles”, Labour have said, as David Cameron is forced… Read More ›
Petraeus tells Congress that ‘Obama administration altered CIA talking points’ on Benghazi
By Associated Press Reporter and Toby Harnden In Washington PUBLISHED:08:56 EST, 16 November 2012| UPDATED:13:09 EST, 16 November 2012 Former CIA Director David Petraeus has told Congress that the CIA believed almost immediately that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the September… Read More ›
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