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Putin slams West for arresting WikiLeaks founder
The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for sexual misconduct illustrates the hypocrisy of the West about democracy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says.
In the strongest comments to come out of Russia in the latest WikiLeaks saga, Putin also took aim at the U.S. for the cables, some of which had derided Russia a “mafia state.”
Assange’s arrest in London earlier this...
Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can't Reach the U.S.
Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit o Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment...
Ex-EU leaders urge Israel sanctions
A group of former European leaders have called for tough sanctions against Israel in response to Tel Aviv’s failure to stop settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land.
Criticizing the European Union’s existing policy toward Israel, in a letter sent to European governments and EU institutions on Monday, former heads of states, ministers and heads of European organizations said Israel...
Veterans Today: Busted - Wikileaks Working for Israel
I pity the fool... duped by Wikileaks and Israel
ASSANGE ACCUSED: “TOOK MONEY FROM ISRAEL”
Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output.
Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange for...
Germany's angst about Islamists goes mainstream
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah’s praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself “Invitation to Paradise” was mounting a defiant response to weeks of public protests against construction of a religious school to teach its austere,...
Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms
These leaders have been a driving force behind the nation's economic policies since the financial crisis of 2008.
The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009.
The...
Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways:
The Washington Post, today:
Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe. But in parts of the world where the leaks have some of the greatest potential to sow controversy, they have barely caused a ripple.
Authoritarian governments...
South Korean Rally Urges Revenge on North Korea for Yeonpyeong Artillery Attack
An estimated 600 former soldiers and police officers turned out on the streets of Seoul in this latest rally to demand revenge against the North for last week’s artillery attack.
The North Korean shelling of a small island that killed four people has prompted outrage among South Koreans, many of whom see their own government’s response as weak.
[Jung Jung-Ho, Secretary General, Korea Disabled...
Sanity Triumphs in Switzerland
As predicted, the Swiss People’s Party (which actually fights for the interests of the Swiss People) has won its latest battle. Foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud will be automatically deported. The law passed with 52.9% of the vote.
Leftists, who love both crime and destroying Western countries, were predictably upset. For example,
Marcelo Kohen, a professor of international...
Dems want to hand $44 billion to illegals
Provisions in Dream Act qualify undocumented for fed money.
Want to know how the lame ducks in Congress plan to “cut” federal spending – which seemed to be a dominating theme of the 2010 elections? They’re proposing a plan to take upwards of $44 billion a year from taxpayers and hand it over to illegal aliens who are in the United States so they can go to college.
The plan is called...
Next Tea Party Target: Corporate America
Jesse Jackson isn’t the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama’s progressive agenda.
In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says:...
British Eurosceptic thrown out of EU parliament
A British member of the European parliament was thrown out of a debate on Wednesday, after quoting Nazi slogans in German in the chamber.
‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer (One People, One Kingdom, One Fuehrer),’ said Godfrey Bloom from the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants Britain’s exit from the EU.
He was speaking in Strasbourg, France, during a debate on plans...
South Korea considers return of US tactical nuclear weapons
A 4 November satellite image shows the site of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility.
Defence minister hints at deploying US weapons on his country’s soil for first time since 1991 after news of North Korean plant.
South Korea’s defence minister today raised the possibility that US nuclear weapons could be deployed in his country for the first time in nearly 20 years, after it was...
Tea party group pressures Congress
A group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don’t speak for the movement.
Last week, POLITICO reported on a letter that GOProud and several tea party activists sent to GOP congressional leaders urging them to pursue fiscal issues over social ones. Now, another group of tea party activists released their own letter to Republican leaders, calling...
North Korea attacks South Korean island; 2 dead
North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least two marines after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said.
South Korea said it returned fire and scrambled fighter jets in response, and said the “inhumane” attack on civilian areas violated the 1953 armistice halting...