http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreuters/ en-us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:50:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372017/posts Two Chicago men have been arrested and charged for allegedly plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that published cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. U.S. authorities arrested and charged David Headley on conspiracy charges to commit an act of terrorism and Tahawwur Hussain Rana on a single count of conspiracy, the Justice Department said. al Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372017/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:50:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350140/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States blasted ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya for his "irresponsible and foolish" return from exile before a settlement was reached in the Central American country's political crisis. At an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States to discuss the Honduran face-off, Lewis Anselem, the U.S. ambassador to the OAS, also criticized Honduras' de facto government for its "deplorable" action in barring entry of an OAS mission and declaring a state of siege on Sunday. Anselem also criticized Zelaya for fueling violence by slipping back into Honduras last week and holing up in the Brazilian... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350140/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:16:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308111/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the "elected leader" of Iran on Tuesday when asked whether President Barack Obama recognized the Iranian president after the country's disputed election. "This was a decision and a debate ongoing in Iran by Iranians, they were going to choose their leadership," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "He's the elected leader." Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308111/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:14:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247009/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut 539,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October, according to government data on Friday that signaled the economy's steep decline may be easing. The unemployment rate, however, soared to 8.9 percent, the highest since September 1983, from 8.5 percent in March and job losses in March and February were a combined 66,000 steeper than previously estimated, the Labor Department said. A big 72,000 jump in government payrolls tempered the overall job-loss figure. Private sector employment fell by 611,000 in April after a 693,000 job decline in March. Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247009/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 16:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240666/posts The prospect of Britain repatriating the Libyan it jailed for blowing up a U.S. airliner is seen in Tripoli as a success ~snip~ ....Gaddafi's transition from international pariah once accused by the United States of building banned weapons ~snip~ Rueters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240666/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229046/posts MIAMI (Reuters) - Right-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new recruits by exploiting fears about the economy and the election of the first black U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report to law enforcement officials. The April 7 report, which Reuters and other news media obtained on Tuesday, said such fears were driving a resurgence in "recruitment and radicalization activity" by white supremacist groups, antigovernment extremists and militia movements. It did not identify any by name. DHS had no specific information about pending violence and said threats had so far been "largely rhetorical." reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229046/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:12:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229016/posts MIAMI (Reuters) - Right-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new recruits by exploiting fears about the economy and the election of the first black U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report to law enforcement officials. The April 7 report, which Reuters and other news media obtained Tuesday, said such fears were driving a resurgence in "recruitment and radicalization activity" by white supremacist groups, antigovernment extremists and militia movements. It did not identify any by name. DHS had no specific information about pending violence and said threats had so far been "largely rhetorical." But it... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229016/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:34:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2228051/posts The House of Wisdom By Jonathan Lyons Bloomsbury / 272 pages / $26 Dust will never gather on Jonathan Lyons' lively new book of medieval history - the opening page of his The House of Wisdom cites a cleric scandalized by the Crusader ladies of Antioch and their penchant for the plunging neckline and the bejeweled merkin. If this is the Middle Ages, thinks the reader, bring it on! But this pleasure gradually gives way to another beguilement, to be found in Lyons' subtitle: "How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization." That phrase suggests a brave viewpoint for a historian nowadays,... Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2228051/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224305/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights activist Al Sharpton weighed into a fight over an Arizona sheriff's immigration sweeps on Tuesday, accusing him of racially profiling Hispanics and urging him to step down. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area, where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident. Under a deal allowing them to enforce federal immigration laws, the deputies have arrested more than 1,500 people who they determined were in Arizona illegally, triggering street protests and condemnation from Latino activists... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224305/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:57:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199076/posts BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have launched a nationwide search of more than 200 homes and businesses of people suspected of belonging to the country's extreme right, the Federal Crime Office (BKA) said Wednesday. "The primary aim of the concerted action by crime fighting authorities is to seize and confiscate prohibited items like music in order to move effectively and extensively against the spread of right wing extremism," the BKA said in a statement. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199076/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195637/posts The United States will not attend a United Nations conference on racism that critics say will be a forum to criticize Israel and will no longer attend planning sessions for it, a U.S. official said on Friday. "We will not attend," the official said. A U.S. delegation attended consultations earlier this month on the World Conference Against Racism, scheduled for April in Geneva, Switzerland, although Israel has called for a boycott and Canada has said it will not attend. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195637/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113151/posts Introduction: ...At the outset of a book chapter describing the 2001 analysis from this project (Paterson, 2005), I asked if media convergence and the migration of news consumers to the Internet democratise information flow - as conventional wisdom suggests - or simply disguise a steady reduction in information diversity. Here I seek to approach the problem more definitively. The hypothesis of reduction of information diversity saw preliminary support from my 1999 and 2001 data, and other academic and industry reports. And so I pose the following hypothesis for testing through longitudinal analysis: In the last five years, international news flow... Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113151/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:37:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193712/posts Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees. Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike. The Pentagon said on Monday that it had received renewed reports of prisoner abuse during a recent review of conditions... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193712/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:56:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192823/posts Between the end of Bennett Mornings and the beginning of the Laura Ingraham show, XM166 (America Right) ran AP Radio News with John Belmont. The last or next to last item was a live report with a female AP reporter at the Mardi Gras by the name of Foster. Belmont asked how parade participants could show up at 6 am and last till midnight. Foster laughed and responded that she had to get up at 4am at the hotel so that they could, "...put on our blackface and Afro wigs." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192823/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:45:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160425/posts This is a bloody photo exhibit of the blood letting mourning ritual of the Shiites. The photos are graphic. Retuers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160425/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157777/posts SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, December 30, 2008 “I have not seen such hatred in this country since Selma. That was when I really just shuddered and thought–they (the pro-Hamas-niks) are taking away our country.” (See below for her report, just in). FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA. December 30, 2008 “This is not Gaza, or London, or Paris, or even Detroit. This is downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.” Tom Trento is describing the intense demonstration against Israel that just took place. He made the video by quietly and bravely circulating among the pro-Palestine demonstrators so that we can easily hear their chants. At red-hot levels... The Chesler Chronicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157777/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154743/posts HONOLULU (Reuters) - The resort and much of the island of Oahu where President-elect Barack Obama is vacationing was hit by a major blackout on Friday evening but it was not immediately clear if his compound had a backup source of electricity. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154743/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152607/posts BERLIN (Reuters) - The odds of a "white Christmas" in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said. Even though heavy snow this year will guarantee a white Christmas in many parts of Asia, Europe and North America, an 0.7-degree Celsius (1.3 Fahrenheit) rise in world temperatures since 1900 and projected bigger rises by 2100 suggest an inexorable trend. "The probability of snow on the ground at Christmas is already lower than it was even 50 years ago but it... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152607/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:16:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150017/posts Kennedy hires insider to soothe critics By BEN SMITH & GLENN THRUSH | 12/15/08 7:19 PM EST Caroline Kennedy’s trial balloon candidacy for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat was springing a few leaks over the past few days — so she’s made her ambitions more explicit and hired one of New York’s top political consultants to gain some altitude. After a week of coy courtship and low-key feelers, Kennedy began working the phones in earnest Monday — and signed up major Democratic fixer Josh Isay, who has deep connections to New York powerhouses Sen. Charles Schumer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and... politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150017/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:44:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149083/posts Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:34am EST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani newspapers gave prominent coverage on Monday to a British media report that a retired general gunned down in Islamabad last month planned to blow the whistle on fellow generals' dealings with the Taliban. Jang, Pakistan's biggest selling Urdu-language newspaper, ran a story on its front page headlined: "Gen. Alavi was against pacts with Taliban, Musharraf had sacked him." The reports in Jang and other Pakistani dailies were based on a story published in Britain's Sunday Times, and written by Carey Schofield. Major-General Amir Faisal Alavi, a brother-in-law of Nobel prize-winning... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149083/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:44:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148885/posts Politico, the upstart news source from Washington, and Reuters, the venerable wire service, have joined forces to offer articles to newspapers and sell advertising on the papers’ Web sites, the latest step in the rising competition among electronic news media to fill the void left by the shrinking print business. ~snip~ Politico’s informed political coverage, sometimes spiced with attitude from its writers, complements Reuters’ sober style and Washington coverage that often reads as if written for an overseas audience. And as other news organizations shrink or abandon their Washington bureaus, Politico is expanding from a staff of about 85 people... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148885/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144881/posts Apparently, if one calls an Arab-American an A** H*le, Reuters and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee want all Americans to know that this is to be considered a "violent hate crime." At least that is what it seems when looking over the very lose and sloppy definition of "violent hate crimes" in a recent story on the falling numbers of such crimes against Arab-Americans in the U.S. While ostensibly a good story -- discrimination against Arab-Americans has decreased -- it is still odd that Reuters allows this Muslim advocacy group to define even name calling as a "hate crime" and "violent"... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144881/posts#comment Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:38:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132887/posts We've seen some major cases of left leaning bias in the media, especially during the late presidential campaign. Many of these cases have been blatant and over-the-top in style but, while covering the brazen cases of such bias, it is easy to forget that there are every day cases of the more subtle bias to the left in the media. Today, we have a perfect example of a more subtle left leaning bias in the media with a Reuters story headlined "Obama likely to push courts away from right." In it there are lies, distortions and tricky wording all used... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132887/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:13:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107125/posts (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)(REUTERS/Jim Bourg)< (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107125/posts#comment Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103502/posts Saddam Hussein was hanged for killing 148 Shi'ite men and boys in Dujail in 1982. But today, some people in this town on the Tigris say they miss life under the Iraqi dictator because they felt more secure. Even some of those from Dujail whose family members were murdered and imprisoned during Saddam's iron-fisted rule seemed seduced by the idea of a strong leader after years of chaos, bloodshed and deprivation since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "If someone like Saddam came back, I'd not only support him, I'd invite him to dinner. My uncle was killed in 1982 in... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103502/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:58:38 GMT