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(05-17-2013 01:26 AM)Hellfire Awaits Wrote: [ -> ]Ok reading his comments in context, they don't really sound as horrible.

Still insensitive, but not as bad as they were portrayed by the media.



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a lot of these politicians just say crazy stuff to inflame the china/japan/korean relationship. the last thing the NWO wants is a united asia that doesn't need the west.

N. Korea fires 4th short-range missile in 2 days – Seoul

North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day after firing three short-range guided missiles. Meanwhile, South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles on its border islands.

Seoul has placed Israeli precision-guided missiles capable of hitting North Korean targets on its Yellow Sea border islands, Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.

"Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have recently been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands," an official for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. "They can destroy [North Korea's] underground facilities and can pursue and strike moving targets."

The satellite-guided Spike missile has a range of about 20km (12.4 miles) and weighs 70kg (154lbs), according to military officials.

http://rt.com/news/north-korea-missile-sea-494/

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Merkel and Pope talk about a 'strong' Europe

VATICAN CITY (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the importance of Christian voters in September elections, met with Pope Francis on Saturday during a quick trip to Rome that focused on helping victims of Europe's economic crisis and emphasizing the continent's Christian roots.

Merkel spoke privately for 45 minutes with the pope at the Apostolic Palace, after exchanging cordial greetings in German.

Her Christian Democrat party depends heavily on support from Protestant and Catholic voters, and the chat and photo opportunity could be a welcome campaign boost for a leader largely identified by Europe's economically suffering citizens as a champion of debt reduction, including painful austerity across much of the continent.

For its part, the Vatican is eager for allies in its campaign to win over more Catholics. Francis was leading a sort of pep rally for the faith in St. Peter's Square Saturday evening, attended by about 150,000 people.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world...e/2308757/

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Tehran ready to allow experts to Parchin in exchange for deal with IAEA – Iran’s ambassador to Russia

Tehran is ready to explain every “suspicious” point of the country’s nuclear program as well as allow experts to Parchin nuclear facility if the IAEA agrees to sign a protocol detailing all its questions, the Iranian ambassador to Russia says.

The protocol should contain all IAEA’s concerns about Parchin and all other objects which the agency suspects of being nuke-oriented, Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi has told the Russian media. “And if they don’t find anything, let’s close Iran’s nuclear file and remove it from the UN Security Council.”

The ambassador recalled that Parchin, which the Agency suspects could have been the site of high-explosives tests related to nuclear weapons, had been fully inspected by the IAEA, but then, he said, the agency wanted to undertake further inspections.

“We agreed with a condition that such a protocol would be signed,” the diplomat said. “We displayed flexibility. We offered – let’s sign a protocol and spell out in detail all accusations.” But international experts want to visit the suspected facility prior to signing the protocol – “this is a game,” the ambassador said.

http://rt.com/news/iran-parchin-deal-iaea-486/

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Italy's New Government Approval Rating Plummets From 43% To 34% In Three Weeks, Protests Return

It was less than a month ago that the new Italian government of the pseudo-technocrat Letta, of Bilderberg 2012 and Aspen Institute fame, was voted in by a majority of the PD and the PDL parties (the latter agreeing so Berlusconi would get an extension of his much needed political immunity from assorted prison sentences). It may not last too long. As Reuters reports, it took just 20 days for Letta's approval rating to plunge by 25%, dropping from 43% at the start of the month to 34%, according to an SWG institute poll.

It would appear the Italian people (unlike their Japanese peers who at least according to government-controlled media data could not be happier with PM Abe, supposedly because of the bubblelicious 50% rise in the Nikkei225 year to date, even though under 20% are actually invested in the stock market making one wonder just how credible polling, and all other data in Japan actually is) don't have Mrs. Watanabe's childish fascination wth soaring stock bubbles, sexy bonds, mini skirts and 2% inflation bras, and instead demand real economic results. Which also means the protests are once again back.


Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.

"We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience," said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters waving red flags and calling for more workers' rights and better contracts.

Less than a month in power, Letta is trying to hold together an uneasy coalition between his center-left Democratic party and the center-right People of Freedom, led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-18...sts-return

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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes

(Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail.

Activists said it was the fiercest fighting in Syria's two year-old civil war involving Hezbollah, a Shi'ite group backed by Iran which they said appeared to be helping President Bashar al-Assad secure a vital corridor in case Syria fragments.

Speaking from Qusair near the border with Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, activist Hadi Abdallah said Syrian warplanes bombed the town in the morning and shells were hitting the town at a rate of up to 50 a minute. At least 32 people were killed.

"The army is hitting Qusair with tanks and artillery from the north and east while Hezbollah is firing mortar rounds and multiple rocket launchers from the south and west," he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/1...AJ20130519

Quote:Merkel and Pope talk about a 'strong' Europe

VATICAN CITY (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the importance of Christian voters in September elections, met with Pope Francis on Saturday during a quick trip to Rome that focused on helping victims of Europe's economic crisis and emphasizing the continent's Christian roots.

Merkel spoke privately for 45 minutes with the pope at the Apostolic Palace, after exchanging cordial greetings in German.

Her Christian Democrat party depends heavily on support from Protestant and Catholic voters, and the chat and photo opportunity could be a welcome campaign boost for a leader largely identified by Europe's economically suffering citizens as a champion of debt reduction, including painful austerity across much of the continent.

For its part, the Vatican is eager for allies in its campaign to win over more Catholics. Francis was leading a sort of pep rally for the faith in St. Peter's Square Saturday evening, attended by about 150,000 people.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world...e/2308757/

much of europe is still christian at heart, even if on the surface the media is portraying europe as increasingly secular.

you don't kill off 2000 years of something with some perverse fairy tales and psychology.

The nwo might have to assassinate Assad to continue it's plans.

In Asia, there’s a new sheriff in town and he wears five yellow stars

by Wayne Madsen


With China increasingly calling the economic and diplomatic shots, nations that had long depended on the status quo preserved by U.S. military, economic and diplomatic might, including Japan and South Korea, are scrambling to find new protectors, as well as beefing up their own military forces. Waye Madsen analyzes the shifting power dynamics within the region.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article171049.html

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/05/20/rec...de-county/

"What would you do if you came across the longest Burmese python ever recorded in the state of Florida? A Miami man had to answer that question recently and he decided to catch and kill it.

Turns out, it was the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida; it measured 18 feet, 8 inches. The python was a 128-pound female that was not carrying eggs, according to University of Florida scientists who examined the snake. The previous record length for a Burmese python captured in the wild in Florida was 17 feet, 7 inches.

Researchers say Burmese pythons are eating their way through the Everglades, decimating populations of native mammals. The snakes can grow more than 20 feet in length, and they have no predators, other than the humans desperately trying to control their population."

It is just a matter of time before these pythons migrate into the territory of the alligator hunters on "Swamp People".

Did Pope Francis Perform An Exorcism?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20...08839.html

Hanging Gardens Of Babylon Discovered 300 Miles Away In Nineveh

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have long been regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, although not without controversy. It seems that the Gardens have also been regarded as purely legendary, with no evidence that this ancient site ever existed in Babylon.

For centuries, historians, archaeologists and others have imagined what the Hanging Gardens may have looked like and several artists, most notably Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck in the 16th century painted his concept of the Gardens, complete with the Tower of Babel in the background.

Now, a historian with Oxford University may have cracked the case wide open, potentially solving centuries-old theories of the Hanging Gardens.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/111...on-050613/

Wolfgang Puck steal tips:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manha...4SpNBK2DDN

"One of the country’s highest earning chefs is nickel and diming his staff, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.

A Wolfgang Puck catering company was allegedly sticking venues like Irving Plaza and the Gramercy Theater with a 22 percent service charge and then denying its bartenders and servers tips, the suit states.

The company has a contract with events giant Live Nation to provide drinks and snacks like hot pretzels for shows by artists like Green Day and Lana Del Ray and private functions for Google and Rolling Stone magazine.

The Austrian-born celebrity chef is worth $20 million, according to Forbes. His food empire is second only to Rachel Ray and Gordon Ramsey.

Orin Kurtz is representing named plaintiffs Kristin Noriega and Oliver Gummert in the lawsuit. He said all Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events employees who worked private functions going back to 2008 are owed hundreds of thousands in unpaid gratuity.

Noriega, a struggling actress and waitress, and Gummert, a bartender, were paid between $10 and $18 an hour and were not compensated for up to 30 hours of overtime a week, the court papers allege. Both staffers left the job in 2012 after working for Puck for two to three years.

“Any charge for ‘service’ or ‘food service,’ is a charge purported to be a gratuity and therefore must be paid over to service employees,” the legal papers state. Sticking clients with a “service charge” and failing to pass along the fee to servers violates state and federal law.

The practice was even more egregious, the suit says, because a Puck sister company, Restaurant Associates, was embroiled in a federal class action suit in 2011 for keeping tips from employees who worked the US Open tennis championships in Queens."

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/20-6

"Underwater homeowners and hundreds of allies barricaded the front door of the Department of Justice building Monday afternoon to protest the "too big to jail banks" who have shirked punishment despite having destroyed "homes, savings and livelihoods."

Organized by Occupy our Homes, Home Defenders League, Campaign for a Fair Settlement, along with a number of community and faith leaders, the group held a sit-in outside the government building.

"Banks stole our homes so we're moving in to the #DeptofJustice," the protesters announced on Twitter. The protest included the positioning of two couches before the doors of the DOJ.

"Today we have taken over Eric Holder's house. We're sick of the banks taking over our house."

"Five years after Wall Street crashed the economy," said the coalition in a statement announcing the action, "not one banker has been prosecuted for the reckless and fraudulent practices that cost millions of Americans their jobs, threw our cities and schools into crisis, and left families and communities ravaged by a foreclosure crisis and epidemic of underwater mortgages."

(05-22-2013 08:51 AM)Roland Bates Wrote: [ -> ]Wolfgang Puck steal tips:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manha...4SpNBK2DDN

"One of the country’s highest earning chefs is nickel and diming his staff, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.

A Wolfgang Puck catering company was allegedly sticking venues like Irving Plaza and the Gramercy Theater with a 22 percent service charge and then denying its bartenders and servers tips, the suit states.

The company has a contract with events giant Live Nation to provide drinks and snacks like hot pretzels for shows by artists like Green Day and Lana Del Ray and private functions for Google and Rolling Stone magazine.

The Austrian-born celebrity chef is worth $20 million, according to Forbes. His food empire is second only to Rachel Ray and Gordon Ramsey.

Orin Kurtz is representing named plaintiffs Kristin Noriega and Oliver Gummert in the lawsuit. He said all Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events employees who worked private functions going back to 2008 are owed hundreds of thousands in unpaid gratuity.

Noriega, a struggling actress and waitress, and Gummert, a bartender, were paid between $10 and $18 an hour and were not compensated for up to 30 hours of overtime a week, the court papers allege. Both staffers left the job in 2012 after working for Puck for two to three years.

“Any charge for ‘service’ or ‘food service,’ is a charge purported to be a gratuity and therefore must be paid over to service employees,” the legal papers state. Sticking clients with a “service charge” and failing to pass along the fee to servers violates state and federal law.

The practice was even more egregious, the suit says, because a Puck sister company, Restaurant Associates, was embroiled in a federal class action suit in 2011 for keeping tips from employees who worked the US Open tennis championships in Queens."

wow hahaha. I guess I won't be going to the Puck restaurants when i'm back in the US.

Women Riding Brooklyn's B110 Bus Told To Sit In The Back

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/19/women_ri...brookl.php

Thanks To QE Bernanke Has Injected Foreign Banks With Over $1 Trillion In Cash For First Time Ever

We followed that with more analyses, showing explicitly how the Fed was providing a constant cash injection to foreign banks courtesy of the rate on overnight reserves which is the amount Fed pays to banks that hold reserves with it, as the bulk of reserves continued to end up with foreign banks - a situation set to become a huge political storm some time in 2014-2015 when the IOER has to rise and the Fed is "found" to have injected tens of billions of "interest" not into US banks but in foreign banks operating in the US, and which then can upstream the "profits" to insolvent offshore domiciled holding companies.

So it was our expectation that while if not slowing down its rate of money-creation (i.e., reserve-production) - something that won't happen for a long time as it would crash the stock market - the Fed's reserves would at least revert to being accumulated at US-based banks. No such luck. In fact as the latest H.8 report demonstrates, as of the most recently weekly data, the Fed's policies have led to foreign banks operating in the US holding an all time high amount of reserves, surpassing $1 trillion for the first time, or $1,033 billion to be precise.(charts are in the link).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-21...-time-ever

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FBI shoots Chechen dead in Florida, suspect questioned in Boston bombings - report

An FBI special agent has reportedly shot dead a Chechen man in Orlando, Florida who had been questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The suspect was said to have known Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain assailant in last month’s attack

The shooting transpired just after midnight in an apartment complex, after a special agent was reportedly attacked after encountering the suspect.

An FBI spokesperson confirmed that a shooting had occurred and the suspect was deceased, but did not provide any more information.

"We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent. The incident occurred in Orlando Florida. The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time. We expect to have more information later this morning," said FBI spokesperson Special Agent Dave Couvertier.

Early on Wednesday morning, officials at the FBI headquarter in Washington dispatched a shooting-response unit to Florida to help investigators determine what had occurred.

The FBI has not released the name of the suspect, though friends identified the man who was shot and killed as Ibragim Todashev, 27.

Kushen Taramov, a friend of the suspect, said he and Todashev were interviewed by FBI agents for nearly three hours on Tuesday in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.

“(The FBI) took me and my friend, the suspect that got killed. They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they’re going to bring him back. They never brought him back,” WESH Orlando quoted Taramov as saying.

http://rt.com/usa/chechen-shot-orlando-boston-627/

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‘Multiculturalism failing’: Swedish PM pleas for order as riots engulf Stockholm suburbs

Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws.

Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several heavily immigrant-populated neighborhoods of the Swedish capital on Tuesday.

The police said some 300 people are now taking part in riots, which started in protest against the shooting of a man allegedly armed with a knife in the Stockholm district of Husby. The protesters also cited beatings and ‘discriminative’ derogatory remarks of the officers.

“This is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that Sweden adopted around ‘80s and increased in the ‘90s... And this is not a unique one single occasion… we have had these ethnic-based riots against Swedish authorities. We have seen this in Western Europe, that is very sad, and I think we will see more of this, if we don’t change the politics,” the chairman of the Sweden’s National Democrats Party Marc Abramsson told RT.

While not elaborating on the incident that caused the current riots, Abramsson said all such incidents have a common “problem beneath” – that is, the immigrants not identifying themselves with the country’s society, nor accepting the country’s authorities, sticking only to their own ethnic group.

“Sweden has been trying harder than any of the countries in Europe to try to push for integration. We have invested virtually billions from taxpayers’ money into it, we have tried everything that the scientists have presented – and still it’s not working,” the politician argued.

http://rt.com/news/sweden-riots-multicul...rking-598/

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Syria, Israel Trade Fire, Warnings Across Golan Frontier

Israeli and Syrian troops clashed today along the frontier of the Golan Heights, the third time in a week that fire has gone across the de facto border (a ceasefire line established in 1974).

No injuries were reported on either side, though there was some damage to an Israeli vehicle. The incident fueled more warnings from both sides, however, and showed how easily the border troops can end up clashing under the current state of affairs.

Israeli officials insisted that one of their vehicles came under fire first, and threatened “consequences” if the incident is repeated. Syrian officials threatened “immediate and firm retaliation” to any cross-border raids.

Exactly what happened remains a matter of dispute between the two sides, with Syria claiming the vehicle they fired on crossed the ceasefire line and was destroyed, while Israeli officials insisted it only suffered minor damage, and claimed “direct hits” on Syrian targets. Syria, for its part, says Israel’s missile attacks landed near a town but didn’t hit anything

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/21/syria...-frontier/

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CIA will continue drone operations in Pakistan for now: Sources

WASHINGTON: US drone strikes in Pakistan would continue to be conducted by the CIA for the time-being to keep the program covert and maintain deniability for both the United States and Pakistan, several US government sources said on Monday.

The sources added that US President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA. Four US government sources told Reuters that the decision had been made to shift the CIA’s drone operations to the Pentagon, and some of them said it would occur in stages.

Drone strikes in Yemen, where the US military already conducts operations with Yemeni forces, would be run by the armed forces, officials said. However, the administration’s goal would be to transfer the Pakistan drone operations to the military, one US official said on condition of anonymity.

The internal debate within the administration about whether to switch control of drone strikes to the military has been going on for months. Obama is under heightened pressure to show that his administration is transparent, after a series of scandals about civil liberties and allegations of government overreach broke last week.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/552331/cia-w...w-sources/

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/phone-firm...6.html?l=1

"Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.

The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns. Even as Americans browsing the Internet grow more accustomed to having every move tracked, combining that information with a detailed accounting of their movements in the real world has long been considered particularly sensitive.

The new offerings are also evidence of a shift in the relationship between carriers and their subscribers. Instead of merely offering customers a trusted conduit for communication, carriers are coming to see subscribers as sources of data that can be mined for profit, a practice more common among providers of free online services like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.

When a Verizon Wireless customer navigates to a website on her smartphone today, information about that website, her location and her demographic background may end up as a data point in a product called Precision Market Insights. The product, which Verizon launched in October 2012 after trial runs, offers businesses like malls, stadiums and billboard owners statistics about the activities and backgrounds of cellphone users in particular locations.

Chris Soghoian, a privacy specialist at the American Civil Liberties Union, says the ability to profit from customer data could give wireless carriers an incentive to track customers more precisely than connecting calls requires and to store even more of their Web browsing history. That could broaden the range of data about individuals' habits and movements that law enforcement could subpoena, Mr. Soghoian says. "It's the collection that's the scary part, not the business use."

thanks for the updates guys.

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