|
|
| |
Topic: Clashes in West Bank as
anger over Gaza is directed
at Mahmoud Abbas |
Clashes in West Bank as
anger over Gaza is directed
at Mahmoud Abbas
Guardian [UK], by Rebecca Collard Ramallah
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:SoCalGal, 11/18/2012 3:29:44 PM
|
| Fresh clashes erupted in the West Bank on Sunday as Palestinian youths threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, who responded with teargas. But anger in the West Bank has not only been directed at Israel: many also blame the Palestinian Authority for failing to take action over the Gaza offensive and for co-operating with the Israeli security forces against protesters. Hazem Abu Helal was arrested after joining a protest at the Bet El checkpoint near Ramallah (Snip) Abu Helal was detained not by the Israeli army but by Palestinian security forces, who took him to a Ramallah police station for questioning.
|
Comments:
These protestors believe that the Palestinians are protecting Israel´s interests...
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/18/2012 3:37:27 PM (No. 9022392)
Abbas is a figurehead stooge,there´s no point in crying to him about anything.Islamists are in charge of the Palestinians whether they like it or not.
These people will never understand Israel´s superior intelligence system,let along their having smart bombs.
If we fought the war in Afghanistan the same way Israel goes about things,the war would have been over a long time ago.You´re selling yourself out when you cave to the world´s media.
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "SoCalGal"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "SoCalGal"
|
Afghan President Karzai rejects
peace talks with the Taliban,
suspends talks with US
|
|
Fox News, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/19/2013 11:16:53 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will refuse peace talks with the Taliban in a newly-opened office in Qatar unless only Afghans are involved and violence stops, after the militant group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four American troops. On Tuesday, after months of delays, the Taliban opened a new office in Doha, Qatar, where representatives from the U.S. and the Taliban will hold peace talks on Thursday,(Snip)Karzai is making the moves to protest the way the U.S. is reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war.
|
Obama renews calls for nuclear
reductions in Berlin speech
|
|
Associated Press, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/19/2013 11:11:32 AM
Post Reply
|
|
BERLIN — Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time." In a wide-ranging speech that enumerates a litany of challenges facing the world, Obama said he wanted to reignite the spirit that Berlin displayed when it fought to reunite itself during the Cold War. (Snip) He called for a one-third reduction of U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles, saying it is possible to ensure American security
|
Obama assassination bid fears -
aircraft carriers on standby off
Irish coast during G8 summit
|
|
Belfast Telegraph [Ireland], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/17/2013 11:39:01 PM
Post Reply
|
|
It is understood that a contingency plan is in place for the unlikely event that an attempt would be made on the President’s life. The Secret Service also have diplomatic immunity which will allow them to shoot to kill a would-be assassin without fear of prosecution. As part of the “evacuation route” plan, they would be able to spirit the President by chopper to one of the carriers where a jet is on standby to take him back to the United States.
|
Used to Leading, Vonn Is
Content to Follow for Now
|
|
New York Times, by Bill Pennington
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/15/2013 4:02:46 PM
Post Reply
|
|
ARDMORE, Pa. — Lindsey Vonn sat on a stone wall 20 yards from the first tee at the Merion Golf Club on Friday afternoon. Her boyfriend, Tiger Woods, had just teed off, striding down the fairway with thousands of fans in his wake. Vonn went largely unnoticed. “I can be normal by myself; no one notices me,” she said. (Snip)One thing is bothering her. “Some people seem to forget that I’m not just Tiger’s girlfriend,” Vonn said. “I’m actually a successful athlete. I’m Lindsey. I have my own career and my own life.”
|
Pathological Altruism: A simple
concept that could revolutionize
scientific and social thought.
|
|
Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/14/2013 5:02:04 PM
Post Reply
|
|
We don´t think we´d ever heard of Oakland University, a second-tier institution in suburban Rochester, Mich., but Barbara Oakley, an associate professor in engineering, may help put the place on the map. Earlier this week Oakland´s Oakley published a fascinating paper, "Concepts and Implications of Altruism Bias and Pathological Altruism," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Snip)Oakley defines pathological altruism as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in unanticipated harm." A crucial qualification is that while the altruistic actor fails to anticipate the harm, "an external observer would conclude
|
| |
|
|
Not-for-Profit Propaganda
|
|
Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/13/2013 4:38:32 PM
Post Reply
|
|
A reader received a curious item in the mail the other day: A four-page advertising brochure touting ObamaCare. "Obamacare is working," the cover announces: "NOW IT´S UP TO YOU." Below that exhortation is a photo of the president grinning as broadly as a Pepsodent pitchman. (Snip)The return address identifies the sender as "The California Endowment"? What is the California Endowment? At its website, one can glean the answer from an overview of its history and activities, as well as its 428-page tax filing for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012. The endowment is a nonprofit
|
Stormy Weather Halts Play
During US Open 1st Round
|
|
Asociated Press, by Joseph White
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/13/2013 10:37:26 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Phil Mickelson rolled a birdie attempt 8 feet past the hole at No. 11. Steve Stricker did the same at No. 12. Bogey. Bogey. And that wasn´t even the stormy part. The horn blew at 8:36 a.m. Thursday, halting play after less than 2 hours into the first round of U.S. Open. It wasn´t raining as the players began to leave the course, but soon there were thunderclaps over the Merion Golf Course, and radar showed approaching severe weather that could affect the rest of the day.(Snip)The course was already soaked with 6½ inches of rain over the past week,
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence
in new documentary, claim original
conclusion about cause of crash is wrong
|
|
FOX News, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM
Post Reply
|
|
A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded
|
Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says
Joint Chief’s Chairman Lied to Congress
|
|
Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:06:14 PM
Post Reply
|
|
An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com. “He actually said they were sent to Tripoli. They were needed in Benghazi,” said DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, now with the Washington firm of DiGenova & Toensing.
|
Obama: ´If Catholics Have
Their Schools and Buildings
and Protestants Have Theirs ...
That Encourages Division´
|
|
Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 3:46:48 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Likening religious schools to segregation--a racist system that forced blacks to attend different schools and use different facilities than whites in the American South--President Barack Obama told a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday that there should not be Catholic and Protestant schools because such schools cause division. "Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity--symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others--these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it,"
|
| |
|
Edward Snowden Is In The
Process Of Destroying Any Support
And Sympathy He Has Built Up
|
|
Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information
|
G8: Barack Obama looks like
a president going through the motions
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:58:06 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Listening to Barack Obama give his speech in Belfast on Monday, it was hard not to stifle a yawn. I kept waiting for the part when he would say something interesting, but, about three quarters of the way through, realised it wasn’t going to come. Judging from television pictures some of his young audience felt the same, after the initial rush of euphoria of receiving the rock star president in their midst had passed. This is not surprising, for we had already heard this number about the inspirational role of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Emerald Isle’s
|
Paula Deen admits in deposition using
N-word, telling racist jokes, reports says
|
|
Fox News, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Hobbiest- 6/19/2013 6:03:40 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Celebrity chef Paula Deen admitted in a recorded deposition to telling racist jokes, using the N-word, and planning a slavery-themed wedding, according to multiple reports. The May 17 deposition where she made the alleged admissions is part of a $1.2 million lawsuit brought by Lisa Jackson, the former manager of a Savannah, Georgia, restaurant run by Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers. Jackson alleges in the suit that Deen used the N-word at the restaurant and that Hiers sexually harassed her. According to the reports, in the deposition, Deen replied “Yes, of course,”
|
How Democracies Perish, Deathbed Edition
|
|
American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: steveW- 6/18/2013 6:11:46 AM
Post Reply
|
|
This is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of How Democracies Perish, an analysis of the spread of world communism by Jean-François Revel, one of freedom´s most serious French defenders since Tocqueville. At the heart of this work, Revel details "The Tools of Communist Expansion," among which the most relevant for understanding our current situation comes in Chapter 16, "Ideological Warfare and Disinformation." The profound simplicity of Revel´s nuts and bolts account of totalitarianism´s Cold War advance, far from being obsolete
|
| | |
|
|
