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  • Athens buildings burn as lawmakers weigh austerity

    02/12/2012 12:53:20 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 61 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 2/12/12 | Harry Papachristou and Yannis Behrakis - Reuters
    ATHENS (Reuters) - Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the public rage by endorsing a new EU/IMF austerity deal. As parliament prepared to vote on a new 130 billion euro bailout to save Greece from a messy bankruptcy, a Reuters photographer saw the buildings engulfed in flames and huge plumes of smoke rose in the night sky. The air over Syntagma Square outside parliament was thick with tear gas as riot police fought running battles with youths...
  • Riots spread as Greek lawmakers OK austerity bill

    02/12/2012 6:04:45 PM PST · by EBH · 66 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 2/12/12
    Legislation will allow country to cut debt; protesters set fire to 34 buildings; deputies expelled for opposing vote The Greek parliament approved on Monday a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid a messy default. The vote occurred after 100,000 demonstrators marched to the parliament and buildings were burned down in central Athens. Following the vote, black-masked protesters created a wall of fire with petrol bombs and set fire to cinemas, cafes, shops and banks. Fifty police officers and at least 55 protesters were hospitalized. Forty-five suspected rioters...
  • Clashes erupt as Greek Parliament debates austerity measures

    02/12/2012 9:39:59 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 4 replies
    CNN.com ^ | February 12, 2012 | By the CNN Wire Staff
    Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Police turned tear gas and stun grenades on protesters outside Greece's parliament Sunday as lawmakers inside debated another round of austerity measures. Riot police dispersed many of the demonstrators, who were protesting plans for new cuts in government spending, wages and pensions in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has urged approval of the deal, warning in a speech to the Cabinet Saturday evening of "social explosion, chaos" if it fails. "The state will not be able to pay salaries and pensions or import basic goods" such as...
  • Iran's Arsenal Of Sunburn Missiles Is More Than Enough To Close The Strait

    02/12/2012 6:52:24 AM PST · by Track9 · 38 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 2/8/12 | Russ Winter
    Any good armchair general with a good search engine and time on their hands can figure out in a hurry that the song and dance about Iran being unable to close the Strait if Hormuz for long is just a plain crock. Worse than a crock. Yet, this big Orwellian lie persists, so once again I have to set the record straight. Iran has the capability of not only closing the Strait for some time, but creating a world of hurt for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Iran possesses a build up of anti-ship weapons called Sunburn missiles, which it...
  • Obama’s Anti-Israel Sell-Out Continues

    02/08/2012 5:19:54 AM PST · by SJackson · 15 replies · 2+ views
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 8, 2012 | Ben Shapiro
    Let’s say you’re Israel. An enemy dedicated to your destruction is developing the means to wipe you off the face of the earth, with the covert and overt help of world powers like Russia and China. It’s only a matter of months before that enemy achieves its goals – and when it does you will not be able to stop the mushroom cloud rising over your cities. So you come up with a sophisticated military plan to strike your foe in an extraordinarily targeted fashion. And you ask for the help of your longtime ally – virtually your only ally...
  • Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

    02/09/2012 4:03:35 AM PST · by Kaslin · 5 replies · 1+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | February 9, 2012 | Victor Davis Hanson
    On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a "reset" policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush and his administration's inability to finesse "soft power" had needlessly alienated the Iranian theocracy. After all, the widely quoted but highly politicized 2007 National Intelligence Estimate claimed that Iran had ceased work on a bomb in 2003 and would not have a weapon for the foreseeable future. That flawed analysis fueled another popular talking point: that the Bush-Cheney warmongers were looking for more phantom weapons of mass destruction in Iran of the sort that...
  • Will Russia introduce new science? (Theology to be Compulsory Course in state schools?)

    To be or not to be the science of theology at Russian institutes and universities? At a meeting with a group of spiritual leaders, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed to introduce this subject to their curriculums. However, the possibility of the doctrine of God appearing in the curriculums of higher educational establishments has already stirred controversy in Russian society. The introduction of theology in curriculums in secular institutes and universities is necessary, says the rector of Orthodox University, Hegumenos Pyotr Eremeev in an interview with the Voice of Russia. “This will help students to get acquainted with the treasures of...
  • Russia accuses West of arming Syrian rebels

    02/10/2012 4:24:31 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies
    Reuters Africa ^ | Friday, February 10, 2012 | by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; ed. by Alistair Lyon
    Russia said on Friday that the West was stoking the conflict in Syria by sending weapons to the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad. In an attempt to deflect criticism of Russia for blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution urging Assad to give up power, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Western states were stirring up trouble in Syria, where Assad has pursued a violent crackdown since March on protests against his 11-year rule. "Western states inciting Syrian opposition to uncompromising actions, as well as those sending arms to them, giving them advice and direction, are participating in the process of...
  • A Kosovo Model for Syria (Bill Clinton stood up to Milosevic. Barack Obama can confront Assad)

    By FOUAD AJAMI The bloodshed and the brutality of the dictatorship in Syria are at long last beginning to challenge the passivity of the Obama administration. The word is out that the Pentagon has launched a "scoping exercise" to determine what could be done should the president want to respond to the Syrian catastrophe. For months, the administration pursued the mirage of a United Nations Security Council condemnation of Damascus, when there was no chance that Russia and China would go for it. The administration persisted even though a similar effort last October ended in failure. There was no need...
  • Putin's Unruly Children: A New Generation Aims to Revitalize Russia

    02/10/2012 2:09:27 AM PST · by LibWhacker · 1 replies
    Spiegel ^ | 2/9/12 | Anna Skladmann
    Russia's young people are growing up with more freedom than ever. Twenty years after the end of communism, the first post-Soviet generation is transforming the country -- whether the once and future president likes it or not.It's just before dawn at the Kremlin, and Marat Dupri is about to climb a monument to Czar Peter the Great. The 20-year-old with brown, curly hair is wearing a green, plaid jacket and blue gloves to fight the icy wind. He is standing on the bank of the Moskva River, facing the 98-meter (321-foot) colossus of dark, gray steel. Marat and his three...
  • Documentary - Churchill Saw Stalin As a Greater Threat To Western Civilization Than Hitler.

    02/09/2012 7:59:37 AM PST · by pinochet · 20 replies
    There is a great World War Two documentary, that was made in 2005, that shows the diplomatic disputes between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, as they planned their military campaigns against Hitler. The 4 part documentary is titled: Warlords. The DVD version was released in 2007, and it shows Winston Churchill as the true defender of freedom, democracy, Christianity, and Western Civilization - against three socialist dictators - Stalin, Hitler, and Roosevelt. Here is a an Amazon link to the documentary: http://www.amazon.com/Warlords-Churchill/dp/B000NVKZUG Churchill noticed the obvious - that Stalinist Russia was more oppressive than Nazism. While Nazism was brutal in its...
  • Russian Navy to Drop Lada Class Subs – CinC Vysotsky

    02/09/2012 4:03:25 AM PST · by sukhoi-30mki · 4 replies
    Ria Novosti ^ | 09/02/2012
    Russian Navy to Drop Lada Class Subs – CinC Vysotsky The Russian Navy has decided against construction of Lada class submarines (Project 677) and will instead modernize its existing boats, Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said in an interview with RIA Novosti. The design of the diesel-electric Lada class was completed at the end of the 1990s, but none of the planned boats have entered service, although the lead ship in the class, the Saint Petersburg, is undergoing trials with the Baltic Fleet, Vysotsky said. “The Russian Navy does not need the Lada in its current form,” he said. Vysotsky...
  • 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia

    02/08/2012 2:52:34 PM PST · by Red Badger · 139 replies
    The Sun - UK ^ | Wed Feb 08, 2012 | Staff
    A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all. The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia. The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed. He filmed the elephant-sized creature as it struggled against the racing water. Its hair matches samples recovered from mammoth remains regularly dug up from the permafrost in frozen Russia....
  • JSF 'no match' for latest Russian fighters or Chinese radar

    THE stealth qualities of the futuristic F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on order for the Royal Australian Air Force are overrated and the plane's combat performance greatly exaggerated, a defence lobby group has claimed. The complaints by Air Power Australia, longtime critics of the $16 billion JSF acquisition, were made last night before a public hearing of parliament's defence sub-committee. Latest-generation Russian fighters such as the Sukhoi T-50 would easily defeat the F-35 in air-to-air combat, Air Power's Peter Goon said, referring to recent modelling tests by his organisation. "The aircraft we are planning to buy is carrying over 2000 pounds...
  • Syria's Christians stand by Assad

    DAMASCUS, Syria -- As the announcement was made Saturday evening that Russia and China had vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the actions of the Syrian regime, some Christians inside the country celebrated. One man from the western Syrian town of Qatana called his relatives to say "mabrook," or congratulations, on the result of the vote. A lounge bar in Damascus offered two alcoholic drinks for one in a happy hour offer. But in Christian homes around the country the prevailing sentiment is one of relief rather than delight -- they link the survival of the Assad regime...
  • Russian UN envoy threatens to destroy Qatar?!

    On the sidelines of the UN talks on the Syria resolution, Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin has threatened the Qatari foreign minister with the demolition of the Arab country, reports the Algeria ISP news agency. So he has, hasn’t he? Talking to Churkin on Saturday, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said: “I warn Russia, if Moscow uses the veto and does not support the UN’s resolution, it will lose all the Arab countries.” “If you talk to me like that, there will be no Qatar today,” Churkin replied in a low voice. That’s Algeria ISP story. Egypt’s Al-Ahram adds...
  • Putin surprised by large show of support (130.000 supporters rally)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAzrlLaLv8 http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/02/04/putin-surprised-by-large-show-of-support?videoId=229640517&videoChannel=1
  • EU: French socialists’ Latin revolt against Germany

    02/05/2012 3:18:23 PM PST · by bruinbirdman · 12 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 2/5/2012 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
    The half-century habits of Franco-German condominium die hard. It is a painful process for French elites to admit that monetary union is asphyxiating their economy and must inevitably trap France in mercantilist subordination to Germany. The Carolingian union is all that anybody in French public life can really remember. It worked marvellously for two generations, levering French power on the global stage, and the euro was of course their own creation, intended to tie down a reunited Germany with “silken cords”. How can they now face the awful truth that this elegant strategy has blown up in their faces, enthroning...
  • Former Member of Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff: Russia Ready to Use Military Power to Defend Iran..

    02/05/2012 9:31:21 AM PST · by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · 55 replies
    MEMRI TV ^ | 2-1-12 | Russia Today TV (Russia)
    Following are excerpts from an interview with Colonel-General [ret.] Leonid Ivashov, former member of the Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff, which aired on Russia Today TV on February 1, 2012: Interviewer: Dr. Leonid, do you think that these preparations and very large maneuvers, which will soon be conducted by Russia, are meant as preparation for war, or rather, a military strike against Iran? […] Leonid Ivashov: These maneuvers and training will demonstrate Russia's readiness to use military power to defend its national interests and to bolster its political position. The maneuvers will show that Russia does not want any military...
  • Former Member of Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff: Russia Ready to Use Military Power to Defend Iran..

    02/05/2012 9:31:11 AM PST · by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · 5 replies · 1+ views
    MEMRI TV ^ | 2-1-12 | Russia Today TV (Russia)
    Following are excerpts from an interview with Colonel-General [ret.] Leonid Ivashov, former member of the Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff, which aired on Russia Today TV on February 1, 2012: Interviewer: Dr. Leonid, do you think that these preparations and very large maneuvers, which will soon be conducted by Russia, are meant as preparation for war, or rather, a military strike against Iran? […] Leonid Ivashov: These maneuvers and training will demonstrate Russia's readiness to use military power to defend its national interests and to bolster its political position. The maneuvers will show that Russia does not want any military...