Post by Michael James Stone on Sept 5, 2012 6:41:57 GMT -8
05 Sep 12
Iran will seize back assets from Great Satan: Iran Cmdr.
A senior Iranian commander has censured the blocking of Iran's assets by the US as “economic terrorism” and reaffirmed Tehran’s determination to seize its national wealth back by all means necessary. -The Iranian commander noted that the US must be gullible to imagine that it has looted Iran's assets permanently, adding, “They should be sure that we will seize back our assets from the Great Satan.”
Iran says it treats Israeli military threats as American
Iran makes no distinction between U.S. and Israeli interests and will retaliate against both countries if attacked, an Iranian military commander said on Wednesday. -"The Zionist regime separated from America has no meaning, and we must not recognize Israel as separate from America," Ali Fadavi, naval commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying'
Erdogan: Israel strike on Iran - 'apocalypse'
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear installations would cause an "apocalypse," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "But I'm sure that I don't want to see anything like that happening in the region because in this day and age, that region needs peace and prosperity and stability," the Turkish leader told Amanpour.
Dems drop language on Jerusalem from platform
Democrats have dropped from their platform recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has opened President Barack Obama to criticism from Republican rival Mitt Romney.
Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus
Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.
Flights on alert as volcano erupts in central America
No evacuations have been ordered, but aviation authorities have been alerted about a potential ash cloud, and air traffic is expected to be hindered.
Quakes hit hydropower plant area in Quang Nam
Experts at the plant are analyzing data collected from earthquake observation stations in the area but have yet to announce how powerful the quake was on the Richter scale, said Tran Van Hai, head of the Management Board of Hydropower Project 3.
Hundreds of homes damaged in Philippines quake
More than 800 homes and businesses were damaged when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines early Tuesday, officials said.
Earthquake swarm detected north of Virgin Islands
Between 3 a.m. Monday and continuing throughout the day Wednesday, more than 50 very minor to moderate earthquakes were recorded near Latitude 19 degrees north, north of the Virgin Islands, according to a statement VITEMA issued Wednesday. Those tremors included a 5.2-, 4.6- and 4.7-magnitude earthquake between 3 and 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Leslie May Impact Bermuda Island as a Hurricane, High Waves to impact U.S. Coast
Bermuda Island can take a beating, and it has in the past ... so no question about it that Leslie will not be anything different for the area and the people should be well prepared.
U.S. bases targeted if Israel hits Iran
Iran "would not be forgiving" if Israel were to attack Iran. He said the United States would be held responsible for any Israeli attack. Israeli leaders have raised the possibility of a unilateral strike against Iran, and the United States says it will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons capability.
U.S. officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus risk
U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist said on Tuesday.
Iran: Zionists spread homosexuality to control world
A report in a state-controlled Iranian paper last week asserting that the “Zionist regime” “spreads homosexuality” across the globe in order to pursue its goal of world domination has sparked fierce criticism from experts on Iran because of its homophobia and anti- Semitism.
Russia Prepared for Possible Economic Meltdown – Putin
“In the United States, the engine of the world economy, the situation looks better but macroeconomic indices that are vital for the economy’s sustainability are no better than in Europe. Their debt state [in the United States] is 104 percent [of U.S. GDP],” he said.
U.S. Social Security orders 174,000 hollow-point bullets
It didn't take long for the internet to start buzzing with conspiracy theories after the Social Security Administration posted a notice that it was purchasing 174,000 hollow-point bullets. Why is the agency that provides benefits to retirees, disabled workers, widows and children stockpiling ammunition? Who are they going to use it on?
UN Raises Alarm Over Global Food Prices
Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08, when price protests and riots occurred in a number of countries, has escalated in recent weeks. The fears are prompted by a severe drought in the US Midwest, which has sent grain prices to record highs, fuelling a 6% surge in the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) July food price index.
Revolt Is Our Only Option
... the vagueness of critical terms in the NDAA could enable the federal government to interpret the law in a way that authorizes them to label journalists and political activists who interview or support outspoken critics of the Obama administration’s policies as “covered persons” who have given “substantial support” to terrorists or other “associated groups.”
Millions of Apple UDIDs recovered in FBI laptop breach
The group claims to have obtained the information from a Dell Vostro notebook belonging to FBI Special Agent Christopher Stangl, who once appeared in a video urging people with computer science backgrounds to become cyber security experts.
The Racist, Bloody Truth About Democrats
I don’t how Democrats will lie and misrepresent their own history and the history of their political opponents this week in North Carolina. But you can be sure it will be a major part of the Democratic convention.
$5.4 Trillion Added Under Obama.
The United States Treasury reports that the total public outstanding debt is: $16,015,769,788,215.80. This is the first time in American history debt has eclipsed the $16 trillion mark. The debt has increased approximately $5.4 trillion since President Obama took office on January 20, 2009.
Exclusive: Democrats Drop 'God' From Party Platform
Guess what? God’s name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.
Clinton and China leaders fail to resolve differences over Syria crisis and sea row
Talks between US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and Chinese leaders have failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and how to resolve Beijing's territorial disputes with its neighbours in the South China Sea.
Media: Japan gov't agrees to buy disputed islands
The Japanese government has agreed to buy several privately owned islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, media reports said Wednesday.
Hurricane Isaac sweeps tons of dead rats onto Mississippi beaches
Tens of thousands of rats killed by Hurricane Isaac have washed up onto the beaches of Mississippi and created a foul-smelling mess that officials say will take days to clean up. When the hurricane lifted the tides, the water washed across the marshy areas in Louisiana where the semi-aquatic rats live and forced them to ride the waves into Mississippi until they succumbed to exhaustion and drowned, said David Yarborough, a supervisor for Hancock County on the Gulf Coast.
Iran will seize back assets from Great Satan: Iran Cmdr.
A senior Iranian commander has censured the blocking of Iran's assets by the US as “economic terrorism” and reaffirmed Tehran’s determination to seize its national wealth back by all means necessary. -The Iranian commander noted that the US must be gullible to imagine that it has looted Iran's assets permanently, adding, “They should be sure that we will seize back our assets from the Great Satan.”
Iran says it treats Israeli military threats as American
Iran makes no distinction between U.S. and Israeli interests and will retaliate against both countries if attacked, an Iranian military commander said on Wednesday. -"The Zionist regime separated from America has no meaning, and we must not recognize Israel as separate from America," Ali Fadavi, naval commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying'
Erdogan: Israel strike on Iran - 'apocalypse'
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear installations would cause an "apocalypse," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "But I'm sure that I don't want to see anything like that happening in the region because in this day and age, that region needs peace and prosperity and stability," the Turkish leader told Amanpour.
Dems drop language on Jerusalem from platform
Democrats have dropped from their platform recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has opened President Barack Obama to criticism from Republican rival Mitt Romney.
Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus
Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.
Flights on alert as volcano erupts in central America
No evacuations have been ordered, but aviation authorities have been alerted about a potential ash cloud, and air traffic is expected to be hindered.
Quakes hit hydropower plant area in Quang Nam
Experts at the plant are analyzing data collected from earthquake observation stations in the area but have yet to announce how powerful the quake was on the Richter scale, said Tran Van Hai, head of the Management Board of Hydropower Project 3.
Hundreds of homes damaged in Philippines quake
More than 800 homes and businesses were damaged when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines early Tuesday, officials said.
Earthquake swarm detected north of Virgin Islands
Between 3 a.m. Monday and continuing throughout the day Wednesday, more than 50 very minor to moderate earthquakes were recorded near Latitude 19 degrees north, north of the Virgin Islands, according to a statement VITEMA issued Wednesday. Those tremors included a 5.2-, 4.6- and 4.7-magnitude earthquake between 3 and 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Leslie May Impact Bermuda Island as a Hurricane, High Waves to impact U.S. Coast
Bermuda Island can take a beating, and it has in the past ... so no question about it that Leslie will not be anything different for the area and the people should be well prepared.
U.S. bases targeted if Israel hits Iran
Iran "would not be forgiving" if Israel were to attack Iran. He said the United States would be held responsible for any Israeli attack. Israeli leaders have raised the possibility of a unilateral strike against Iran, and the United States says it will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons capability.
U.S. officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus risk
U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist said on Tuesday.
Iran: Zionists spread homosexuality to control world
A report in a state-controlled Iranian paper last week asserting that the “Zionist regime” “spreads homosexuality” across the globe in order to pursue its goal of world domination has sparked fierce criticism from experts on Iran because of its homophobia and anti- Semitism.
Russia Prepared for Possible Economic Meltdown – Putin
“In the United States, the engine of the world economy, the situation looks better but macroeconomic indices that are vital for the economy’s sustainability are no better than in Europe. Their debt state [in the United States] is 104 percent [of U.S. GDP],” he said.
U.S. Social Security orders 174,000 hollow-point bullets
It didn't take long for the internet to start buzzing with conspiracy theories after the Social Security Administration posted a notice that it was purchasing 174,000 hollow-point bullets. Why is the agency that provides benefits to retirees, disabled workers, widows and children stockpiling ammunition? Who are they going to use it on?
UN Raises Alarm Over Global Food Prices
Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08, when price protests and riots occurred in a number of countries, has escalated in recent weeks. The fears are prompted by a severe drought in the US Midwest, which has sent grain prices to record highs, fuelling a 6% surge in the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) July food price index.
Revolt Is Our Only Option
... the vagueness of critical terms in the NDAA could enable the federal government to interpret the law in a way that authorizes them to label journalists and political activists who interview or support outspoken critics of the Obama administration’s policies as “covered persons” who have given “substantial support” to terrorists or other “associated groups.”
Millions of Apple UDIDs recovered in FBI laptop breach
The group claims to have obtained the information from a Dell Vostro notebook belonging to FBI Special Agent Christopher Stangl, who once appeared in a video urging people with computer science backgrounds to become cyber security experts.
The Racist, Bloody Truth About Democrats
I don’t how Democrats will lie and misrepresent their own history and the history of their political opponents this week in North Carolina. But you can be sure it will be a major part of the Democratic convention.
$5.4 Trillion Added Under Obama.
The United States Treasury reports that the total public outstanding debt is: $16,015,769,788,215.80. This is the first time in American history debt has eclipsed the $16 trillion mark. The debt has increased approximately $5.4 trillion since President Obama took office on January 20, 2009.
Exclusive: Democrats Drop 'God' From Party Platform
Guess what? God’s name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.
Clinton and China leaders fail to resolve differences over Syria crisis and sea row
Talks between US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and Chinese leaders have failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and how to resolve Beijing's territorial disputes with its neighbours in the South China Sea.
Media: Japan gov't agrees to buy disputed islands
The Japanese government has agreed to buy several privately owned islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, media reports said Wednesday.
Hurricane Isaac sweeps tons of dead rats onto Mississippi beaches
Tens of thousands of rats killed by Hurricane Isaac have washed up onto the beaches of Mississippi and created a foul-smelling mess that officials say will take days to clean up. When the hurricane lifted the tides, the water washed across the marshy areas in Louisiana where the semi-aquatic rats live and forced them to ride the waves into Mississippi until they succumbed to exhaustion and drowned, said David Yarborough, a supervisor for Hancock County on the Gulf Coast.