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Crown Prince is going to visit Spain. Good. At least one Royal attending. It is rude…
Posted in: Crown prince to visit Spain June 10-17; Masako not going
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Folks, do a little research here. OBL in the newly released video, is using his right hand. OBL was a lefty. Check the ears of the geezer in this video, his are not the same as the authentic photos of OBL online, and they are as unique as fingerprints. (That's why one ear showing are required on a Green Card). The man watching TV was most definitely NOT OBL. His obituary was printed in Arabic (and for which I paid to have translated) in Al Waf'd newspaper on December 2001, saying he'd died on the 14th from health complications (probably kidneys) and then buried according to Sunni Wahabi tradition in an unmarked grave in Afghanistan. No mention of any dialysis machine was made in the haul from this compound last week. Ipso facto proof that either Allah had healed him, or the person killed and dumped at sea was not OBL. C'mon BHO, we can see through this lie. He's dead alright, but since 2001, and you can take that to the bank.
Posted in: Candid videos show rare view of unkempt bin Laden
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With respect Mr. President, you should be listening to Gerald Celente instead, at trendsresearch dot com , and not blowing hot air.
Posted in: Obama tries to reassure public on economy, jobs
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LIBERTAS
"Obama: Japan earthquake potentially 'catastrophic'" Seems the USA has gone from a leader who was a master of the mis-statement to a leader who is the master of the understatement.
Roust yourselves, Japan! There's work to be done. Show your mettle.
Posted in: Obama: Japan earthquake potentially 'catastrophic'
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My position is that there have been so many conflicting statements that it is clear to me that many are lying. So many contradictions indicate that the most unbelievable story is the official one. UPS doesn't fly out of Yemen: fact. Your conclusions are the most off the mark. Just because arrests are made doesn't give any legitimacy to anyone. the USA proves that daily. Read a little wider, and you'll find that credible people both in Yemen and the UAE have categorically contradicted their governments' statements. We're being lied to. Again.
Posted in: Mail bombs 4 times larger than Christmas plot
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LIBERTAS
So young, and so early to be a lame duck president. Ain't gridlock democracy just fine.
Posted in: GOP upbeat, Democrats brace for losses in election
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The REAL reason for this whole ploy: The US military and administration are reportedly considering plans to expand the country's military role in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The decision follows the seizure of allegedly suspicious packages aboard transit cargo flights in Dubai and London destined for the United States, the paper quoted unnamed US officials as saying on Sunday. See a pattern here....another "police action" coming down the pike?
Posted in: Mail bombs 4 times larger than Christmas plot
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BBC is quoting the West Midlands Police as saying that there have been NO explosive devices found, yet Obama is overriding the findings of the officers on the ground and saying that there had been. I know who I believe, not the guy with mid-terms to lose.
And the UAE director of aviation is also contradicting Obama: The United Arab Emirates’ Civil Aviation Authority has rejected claims that a US-bound Emirates’ flight from Dubai contained “suspicious” parcels from Yemen. UAE officials rejected the claim and said the plane was not a source of threat.
“The Emirates plane that arrived today in the United States from Dubai did not contain any packages from Yemen,” the official Emirati WAM news agency quoted an unnamed source with the country’s civil aviation body as saying. “Out of an abundance of caution, the North American Aerospace Defense Command diverted two Canadian CF-18s to track a civilian aircraft that was determined to be an aircraft of interest as it flew into and over Canadian airspace,” AFP quoted a NORAD statement as saying on Friday.
“The civilian aircraft was passed to two US F-15s as it transited into US airspace and its ultimate destination at JFK airport,” the statement added.
According to a White House statement late Friday, Saudi Arabia had tipped it off before “packages from Yemen containing explosive materials” were found on US-bound planes.
US President Barack Obama was informed later on Thursday about a “potential terrorist threat” from suspicious packages from Yemen on two cargo planes, one in Britain and the other in Dubai, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Meanwhile, the US president hinted at boosting the US military role in Yemen following reports about the “suspicious packages.”
One has to ask, if they are this vigilant, why the heck they weren't so vigilant on a fateful Tuesday in September......?
Posted in: Mail bomb investigators push on with Yemen manhunt
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Mohammed al-Shaibah, Air Cargo Director for Yemenia Airways said to Yemen Post, "No UPS cargo plane left Yemeni lands over the land 48 hours. These accusations are false and baseless." He added, "No UPS or DHL cargo packages heading to Chicago through Yemen took place in the last 48 hours as well." "All packages are checked very carefully in Yemen, and there is no evidence to prove that this package came through Yemen." (Source: Yemen Post)
Somebody's lying.
Posted in: Dubai police say mail bomb had al-Qaida hallmarks
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LIBERTAS
Really? A la Karzai, L. Paul Bremmer was responsible for the loss of $1.2 billion. That's at least one bag. How many schools back home would THAT fund? Or hospitals? Or highways repair? America: wake UP! You've been had, big time!
Posted in: White House disputes Karzai on 'bags of money'
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LIBERTAS
That's better. It's always rich to see the US condemning others for what it's doing to others several orders of magnitude worse. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Posted in: Syrian leader says U.S. sows chaos overseas
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LIBERTAS
Mon Dieu! Interrupting holidays is, as you say, inacceptable! Gotta love the French, they have their priorities straight. Give up on empire building and do what you can to live a good life. C'est la vie a la France! Pour me another glass....
Posted in: Strikes hurt travel for France's school holidays
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"Leaked Iraq war files portray weak, divided nation"
I had to do a double-take. I thought this was a reference to the USA in this context. I still maintain my skepticism of Wikileaks. Yes, the people need to know what's being done in their name, but it seems a bit too convenient when it fabricates "evidence" that fits in with warmongers' future plans, without benefit of independent verification. Smells of lutefisk to me.
And yet, murder, rape and pillage all seem acceptable, while condemning it is somehow cowardly. Proving beyond a shadow that Washington DC is 350sq. mi. surrounded by reality.
Posted in: Leaked Iraq war files portray weak, divided nation
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LIBERTAS
A society that tolerates burning of books is one which, in America's case, has already accepted the burning of people. The loud shouts of "Rah Rah Rah!" at burning of this book; I wonder how they'd react to Bible burning, or, preferably Talmud burning? Given that all three emerged from Semitic peoples, at whom would they point the finger and shout that meaningless epithet now?
Really? The Qu'ran is accepting of Biblical truths, unlike the Talmud. And it is radical Christianity and Judeofascism which is wreaking havoc around the world, not Islam. I guess stupid is as stupid does.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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LIBERTAS
Afghanistan: Where Empires go to die slow, painful and very public deaths.
Posted in: Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations
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LIBERTAS
Jeez! Talk about loading the dice. But what about their neighbors' rights to arm themselves against a demonstably belligerent state that has invaded at least two neighbors and killed thousands using banned weapons just in the last 4 years? Is it bigoted to say that the neighbors have the same rights? Or that the neighbors have the same right to pre-emptive strikes against Israel? Or, if Israel has indirectly confirmed its 200-400 nukes, that its neighbors have the same right to have nukes for protection? Who's the bigot now?
IAEA and NNPT Israel's nukes or let their neighbors have them too under the same non-inspection regime that Israel favours. That's called regional balance of power. Time to curb Israel's thirst for war with impunity. They don't like it when they can't bully the locals. Time to stop that bully. See if they can behave like civilized neighbors for a change.
Posted in: IAEA chief asks Israel to join nuclear nonproliferation treaty
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LIBERTAS
It is good that the Ummah, during this Holy Month of Ramadan, fulfill their duty to those less fortunate.
One can only pray that it involves educating the unknowing who spread hatred like:
Posted in: Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan flood relief
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LIBERTAS
7 more families with brothers, husbands, fiance's, fathers who will never return to fulfill their right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And for what? Cheney's vision of Empire?
Posted in: 7 U.S. troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting
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LIBERTAS
Inferiority raises its ugly shaved heads.
Posted in: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers
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LIBERTAS
The Reaganomic trickle-down effect for all this squandering of wealth and hope is now manifesting itself in one simple fact: The once great USA is in such bad shape itself, that soon its infrastructure, economy and international status will easily be comparable with that of Iraq. Defunct on all counts. What a shame!
Posted in: U.S. wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq: auditors
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LIBERTAS
And there is the motive for all this focus on Katrina in the last week, to get Obama off of the hook for the oil disaster by reminding everyone how bad Bush messed up the gulf.
Well, BOTH Presidents fouled up. Bush is gone. Obama is still here wrecking the place.
Posted in: Obama pledges Gulf support on Katrina anniversary