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As part of negotiations, US reportedly proposes Israel lease border region for 7 years; MK says, "Why do I need to lease land that belongs to us?" Talkbacks (24) Israeli sources on Monday confirmed that the US proposed that Israel lease parts of the Jordan Valley from the Palestinians for an additional seven years, Army Radio reported. According to the Monday report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to the idea, but demanded that the arrangement be for a longer period of time than the original offer. "Seven years is not enough - an arrangement like this needs to last for...

NEWTOWN, Conn --(Ammoland.com)- All Gun Owners, Hunters and Shooters: With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must...

Franken was elected to the U.S. Senate after the Democrat received 312 more votes than Norm Coleman in a recount. However, a subsequent investigation by Minnesota Majority found that hundreds of felons participated in the 2008 election even though they are not legally entitled to vote. This is significant because felons historically prefer Democratic candidates 85% of the time, so Franken’s narrow margin of victory may have resulted from lax enforcement of voting laws in Minnesota. Investigators found that 393 felons voted in just two of Minnesota’s 87 counties. If you consider only the first two counties, it is very...

Reconciliation with the Taliban will ultimately be a goal for Afghanistan once U.S. and Afghan forces create conditions to allow it, Gen. David Petraeus said Wednesday. Speaking in Afghanistan to Fox News' Jennifer Griffin -- in her first overseas assignment since recovering from breast cancer -- Petraeus said that orders approved by provincial governors and local leaders Wednesday enable implementation of measures ordered by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reintegrate the "$10-a-day Taliban" into society. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said those low-budget fighters are the first to return to society's fold since they are "local individuals, almost...

When the Lockerbie bomber was convicted, Brian Flynn and his family felt they had finally gotten some small measure of justice. Little did they know they were being betrayed. I will never forget the scream I heard from my mother in the other room in January, 1989: “My son will NOT die in vain! Do you hear me? He will NOT!” At that moment, she was talking to a U.S. senator about how the government planned to respond to the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am 103. Two weeks before, my older brother had been murdered on his way home for...

Excerpt: SAM: The word “Soebarkah” as it was presented in the article that you wrote in brackets under the name “Barack Hussein Obama” signifies to me a different name for Barack, so it’s his other name. Now that is an Indonesian name, and the majority of Indonesians have only one name. When I first saw it, knowing or having read about some people’s contentions that he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, I thought it might be his given name when he was adopted: Soebarkah. SHARON: ...But it occurred to me that during the time right after his adoption, things...

STATEMENT Dear Friends, This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into Gaza the blockade has been lifted. This is not the reality. Gaza is still under siege, vital building materials and other supplies are banned, exports of goods from Gaza are denied and neither ships nor people can travel without permission from Israel, permission which Israel will not give. Gaza is essentially...

AUSTIN — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday invalidated the air quality permits of 122 plants across Texas, throwing out one of the state's key environmental permitting processes. The action sparked complaints from representatives of the petrochemical industry who called the move a "backdoor" attempt to bring the facilities under federal greenhouse gas regulation.

NEW PROGRAM IS CRUCIAL FIRST STEP TO HELP SMALL RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS The White House has announced that a new, independent claims process will be created with the mandate to be fairer, faster, and more transparent in paying damage claims by individuals and businesses affected by the massive oil spill currently hitting the Gulf Coast. This fund was established after the NAACP had issued an emergency resolution at the May meeting of the National Board of Directors expressing concern that whenever a disaster strikes like hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we must remain vigilant to expose...

Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, "Don't Taze my granny!" an El Reno police officer told another cop to "Taser her!" and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed," according to the complaint. Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he...

The video taken June 3, immediately after cutting the casing to place the Tophat shows a totally different pipe than what is happening today. Compare the current feed to the video and it looks like the casing is cracked down the side. http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/Skandi_ROV2.html http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/raw-video-hd-video-of-gulf-spill-released-20247596;_ylt=AqoZxACeArMvgaVQb2UIer2p_aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTB2bW42Z3BoBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9mZWF0dXJlZARzbGsDaW1hZ2U-#video=20247596

House Democrats will not pass a budget blueprint in 2010, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will confirm in a speech on Tuesday. But Hoyer will vow to crack down on government spending, saying Democrats will enforce spending limits that are lower than what President Barack Obama has called for. In the scheduled address to the progressive think tank The Third Way, Hoyer will acknowledge that the lower chamber will do things differently this election year. “It isn’t possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we’ve considered the bipartisan commission’s deficit-reduction plan, which is expected in December,” according...

There are glimmers of hope for Democrats battling to retain control of Congress in this fall's elections, with the party holding a slender edge in public trust for shepherding the economy and small gains in those saying their finances are healthy, according to a new poll. The reeling economy remains the American public's top concern, according to an Associated Press-GfK Poll conducted earlier this month, making public attitudes about it crucial for both parties' hopes in November. The good news for Democrats: By a slim margin (47% to 42%), people trust them more than Republicans to guide the economy. And...

Corexit EC9527A is 30-60% 2-Butoxyethanol by weight. 2-B ( I will use the abbreviation 2-B ) is a main ingredient in many fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides ( especially Roundup ), insecticides, fuels, fungicides, cosmetics & leather treatment , and oddly enough, it is commonly used for " handling " oil spills . It has never been tested on any type of marine life for longer than 9 days, and the effects that are known, is that it's mutagenic , teragenic and carcinogenic. As far as the testing on humans or other mammals , there is plenty, it's all below. In the...

The rising tensions along the United States border with Mexico took on a painful, human face with the shooting death Monday of a young Mexican man attempting to cross the border near El Paso, Texas. Pierre Thomas on the shooting death of a Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.Grainy cell phone video released today showed four young Mexicans running from the U.S. border patrol on Monday, June 7, at 6:30 p.m. On the video is the sound of gunfire, and then it shows 14-year-old Sergio Huereka lying on the ground, dying. His mother is seen screaming. In a later...

President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States was to unveil a 400-million-dollar civilian aid package for the Palestinians, as he called the situation in the Gaza Strip "unsustainable."

More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier — it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. ********** It extends to often futile intensive care at the end of the life. In between: _Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, much of it from repeated CT scans. Too many scans increase the risk of cancer. _Thousands who get stents for blocked heart arteries should have tried medication first. _Doctors prescribe antibiotics tens of millions of times for viruses such as colds that the drugs can't help. _As major health groups warn...

The boarding of the Rachel Corrie containing activists and aid for Gaza was described by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday as a quiet operation. Netanyahu was quick to distinguish between the boat of Irish and Malaysian activists and the Turkish-sponsored Mavi Marmara which was boarded May 31 in an incident that left nine dead and scores wounded. "The different outcome we saw today underscores the difference between peace activists who we disagree with but respect their right to express their different opinion and flotilla participants [on the Mavi Marmara] who were violent extremist supporters of terrorists," said Netanyahu. IDF...

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a third of the nation's gasoline and billions of dollars of petrochemicals. In a step it called unprecedented, the agency barred Texas from issuing an operating permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi — a power it has traditionally delegated to state regulators. The EPA said it would do the same in dozens of other cases in which it believes the state's permits violate the Clean Air...

Last week, I told you about Rima Fakih, the Hezbollah-supporting Miss Michigan USA who will compete in tonight’s Miss USA pageant owned by Donald Trump on NBC. I told you about Fakih’s many relatives who are top Hezbollah terrorists and some who “martyred” themselves against Israel.