January 2012
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“Iran is determined to more forward toward a nuclear military program,” he said...”
– Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, at Davos Conference
Now Netanyahu and Barak are delivering the same message in unison. No nuance. Very clear.
Jot: BBC World Service covering Somalia's modern...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00n1j3t
BBC WS World Update Jan 27 2011
Question of ‘Clan power’, comparison with Somaliland etc. Northern Somalia - where indigenous conflict resolution capacity etc remained intact, reconciliation took place - and Southern Somalia - where traditions were gone.
Upcoming? London Conference?
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“Education” is such a trashy concept and practice. Finally figured that out.
It turns humans into ‘recipients’ of education contents (usually just bunch of memorization materials). Turns people into passive beings, receptacles. (And then ‘better receptacles’ presides over ‘inferior receptacles’.
We got to have expression/word for ‘growing...
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Keep thinking about
comparison between Tahrir and Tiananmen
Wish already we had few major global conferences on this. Cultural/history experts on both sides - and then tons of young architects, city-design planning students.
[ I tend to suspect that the field of architecture might be very very reactionary. (Castle builders/contractors for rich ppl or wasters of chunky state money.) ]
“I informed the cabinet we have no ability to hit the Iranian nuclear program in...”
– Will Israel Attack Iran? (And If It Does, Can It Really Stop Tehran’s Nuclear Program?) | Global Spin | TIME.com
The key word is”meaningful.” The working assumption behind Israel’s military preparations has been that, to be worth mounting, a strike must be likely to delay Tehran’s nuclear...
Bin Laden raid commander McRaven seizes moment to... →
“If it means handing more over to the military, it could be an improvement from a transparency perspective,” said Andrea Prasow, counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch, which has also pushed for the White House to make public how a suspect ends up on the target list.
“But if the public still cannot find out what’s happening, it’s not good enough,” Prasow said.
materialpossibilities:
>Palestinians are “invented”
>Then what the fuck are Americans?
hangama:
what kind of parents name their son newt though
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Girl's fight for justice breaks silence on incest...
umalik:
After her father began raping her, Mariam felt scared, ashamed and vulnerable.
The Pakistani teenager, who was around 13 or 14 when the attacks began, couldn’t have known her case would lift the veil on an explosive issue long-shrouded in stigma and bereft of justice in her country – incest.
In 2009, the year the attacks began, a trio of human rights organisations took up her case:...
On Gingrich's comments about Palestinians.
roxygen:
While his comment is misinformed and enraging, its not particularly surprising in lieu of American foreign policy and that extends to many life-long Democrats.
Newt Gingrich making this remark for the umpteenth time now is as shocking as your shoes getting wet on a rainy day.
In a sense, when you have US politicians like Barack Obama playing out policies that keep Palestinians...
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I still can't believe that Mitt Romney is a...
akio: didn’t know D:
“Palestinians are an invention of the late 1970’s”
– Newt Gingrich (via phredology)
Jesus Christ.
(via thenoobyorker)
A distinct Palestinian national identity has existed since the mid 1870s and the existence of a Palestinian people has been documented in recorded history thousands of years prior. You know the Philistines, those guys mentioned in...
Iran May Cut Oil Sales to EU Before July - Reuters →
[Iran’s] Parliament will debate on Sunday a bill that would oblige the government to halt oil exports [to EU] ahead of the July 1 deadline the EU set in order to soften the blow to the ailing economies of Greece, Italy and others to whom Iran is a major supplier.
“All European countries that made Iran the target of their sanctions will not be able to buy even one drop of oil...
“In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian...”
– [Aug 31 2011] Quds day in Berlin - PAIC - Progressive American-Iranian Committee
Not really corroborated etc but. Berlin is also has been seeing return of many (young) Jews.
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[Hybrid/Cross-over Anti-Semitism in Germany]... →
[Dec 04 2011] BERLIN - The German publicly funded radio station RBB’s decision in late November to dismiss Ken Jebsen, a well-known leftist radio host who denied the Holocaust occurred and bashed Israel, has brought to the fore a growing expression of hybrid anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic. A telling example of where the intersection of right-wing, left-wing and Islamic...
Sources: 30 Pounds Of Cocaine Found At United... →
samuelfromtheshire:
NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Sources tell CBS 2 authorities are investigating a delivery of cocaine to the United Nations.
Sources say 30 pounds of cocaine were received by the UN in their mail room. It was delivered as a package on January 16th.
The New York Police Department and Drug Enforcement Agency are investigating.
No other details are immediately available.
Not a news.
...
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German report: 20% of Germans are anti-Semitic,... →
*This is from Jerusalem Post, Israel’s quite right leaning outlet.
But when *current* Germany says 1 out of 5 person is ‘Antisemitic’ - I wondered can it be simple ‘white’ phenomenon based on Christianity or - something more complex than that. Need more clues. But probably the original report published in German won’t become available in English, and there...
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Foreign Policy: Stop The Madness, YOUSAF BUTT →
Well, current non-proliferation regime, NPT (codes and clauses on papers) are very imperfect
Executing/implementing agency (IAEA) is also - not so thorough
Many loop holes
also (too) many problems at reinforcement
Then in that ‘slack’ or very loose regulative environment, thus very political, and psychological question is that: Can West allow Iran’s nuclear development...
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roxygen replied to your post: roxygen replied to your quote: Put simply, the NPT…
Of course its critical. Hence why it caught my attention. Though my real thought in stating “butt” is that its really such a bastardized English word whose connotations were originally not so silly.
Please. Butt out already
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roxygen replied to your quote: Put simply, the NPT — as enforced by the IAEA via…
Butt.
No.
Joke aside. It’s a critical issue.
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“Put simply, the NPT — as enforced by the IAEA via the various safeguards...”
– Yousaf Butt, Foreign Policy: Stop the Madness
In reality, however, Iran is not doing anything that violates its legal right to develop nuclear technology. Under the NPT, it is not illegal for a member state to have a nuclear weaponscapability — or a “nuclear option.” If a nation has a...
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[IAEA visit to Iran, scheduled to start Jan 28... →
Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, but suggested that Tehran’s foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate.
Iran’s insistence that it will never give up uranium enrichment — the process that makes material for reactors as well as weapons — scuttled...
Anti-Semitism still haunts Germany [A study finds... →
I’ve re-read this BBC piece few times over two days. But still can’t understand what it’s trying to convey. It only reads like copy-paste of irrelevant shallow facts and has no meaning.
It doesn’t even cite the original report published about anti-Semitism (Maybe it’s not available in English, still it should explicitly put out author’s name etc.)
Have to find...
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