Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Iran strike could destabilize Middle East

Iran strike could destabilize Middle East - Pentagon:

"I think that outcome is potentially a very, very destabilizing outcome ... on the other hand, when asked about striking Iran, specifically, that also has a very, very destabilizing outcome," Mullen told a gathering at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07197289.htm

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China: Not the right time for new UN sanctions on Iran:

China's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday made clear that Beijing was not ready to immediately support new sanctions against Iran, as called for by Western powers, saying the issue needed "more time and patience."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1140125.html

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Ahmadinejad calls for new world order

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran and Syria should help create new world order by increasing cooperation. President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Syrian Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash in Tehran on Thursday.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115586&sectionid=351020101

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Is Israel spreading misinformation about Iran?:

Recently reports were circulated that Kazakhstan could be selling uranium ore to Iran for enrichment. Are these stories true or is someone behind them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823ht5X6z2E&feature=player_embedded#

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US to exploit Iran unrest for sanctions:

The United States is planning to take advantage of domestic unrest in Iran and a slowing of the country's nuclear programme to introduce tough new sanctions on Tehran.
http://snipurl.com/tz446

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Iran bans contact with groups involved in soft war:

He went on to say that institutions and media outlets like BBC and VOA are trying to help efforts to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115366§ionid=351020101

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Top Obama official fathers illegitimate child

The White House Budget Director, Peter Orszag, has admitted to having fathered a baby girl "out of wedlock" and has demanded "privacy" over the matter.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115561&sectionid=3510203

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The American Elite

By William Blum

You get the picture? Boy wonder, intellectual shining light, distinguished leader of men, outstanding American patriot.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24342.htm

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Viva Palestina Update From Gaza
Interview With George Galloway

By Press TV

Interview with George Galloway following his entry in Gaza with the Viva Palestina Aid Convoy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24343.htm

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Gaza's suffering is Israel's shame:

Epstein launched a hunger strike alongside about 50 others to highlight the human rights abuses in Palestine and Israeli and Egyptian collusion in the humanitarian crisis for the Strip's 1.5 million population.
http://snipurl.com/tz44o

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Galloway: New Gaza convoys won't cross Egypt

"I cannot see any more visits to Egypt since we find it very difficult to deal with the officials who cheated us. They signed a binding agreement with us in Aqaba, Jordan, and they broke it," Galloway said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115576&sectionid=351020202

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Turks protest Egypt's attack on Viva Palestina

Thousands of angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration in the city of Istanbul to condemn the Egyptian police crackdown on a Gaza-bound aid convoy.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115475&sectionid=351020204

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Mossad chief: Time to overthrow Abbas:

Israeli spy chief Efraim Halevy berated the Palestinian Authority (PA) and President Mahmoud Abbas during an interview with Army Radio on Tuesday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=252096

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Israeli officials delay UK visit over fears of arrest:

Israeli officials complained that the UK government has failed to give it a complete guarantee that its officials will not be arrested on British soil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8441572.stm

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Counterterrorism in Shambles - Why?

By Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowle

Launching PR "wars" on terrorism, drugs, crime, poverty, etc. misleads the average person into believing that these ills can be totally conquered or eliminated. In reality, even if the experts were so enlightened/lucky as to make no mistakes and do everything right, it's only possible to reduce the frequency of such adverse things.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24346.htm

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A Portrait of Social Misery

By Tom Eley

The new decade finds the US working class suffering a level of social misery not seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment, poverty, hunger, utility cutoffs, homelessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies have become common experiences for millions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24345.htm

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Make Us All Citizens of the World

By Paul deLespinasse

We must make it a criminal act to give or sell food to anybody who cannot document that they are a citizen or here with official government approval.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24344.htm

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Nine killed in Afghan market bombing:

A suicide bomber struck a crowded market in restive southeast Afghanistan, killing nine people including a senior Afghan commander, while another blast hit a neighbouring province's governor's office.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0107/afghanistan.html

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Deadly Explosion Arouses New Afghan Anger at U.S.:

American forces inspecting an engineering project in eastern Afghanistan paused to toss candies to a clutch of curious Afghan children on Wednesday when a large explosion tore through the crowd.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07afghan.html

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Afghan govt. demands arrest of US "death squad":

Kai Eide, UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government's investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military "non-official" troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe.
http://snipurl.com/tzyn1

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Three children killed daily in Afghanistan:

At least three children are killed in Afghanistan every day in attacks, bombings and armed clashes between insurgents and US/NATO occupying forces, Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM),a non-governmental organization said on Wednesday.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/01/08/wld02.asp

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US forces in Afghanistan 'should expect up to 500 casualties a month':

The anticipated increase would produce around 3,000 American casualties this year, and a total for Western forces in Afghanistan of around 5,000 killed and wounded - the equivalent of seven infantry battalions.
http://snipurl.com/tzyn9

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Taliban groups continue to grow:

Local offshoots of the Taliban are cropping up across Afghanistan, where the fight against US-led Nato forces is ongoing.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/20101715516132789.html

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Yankee go home: Hundreds of Afghans rally against NATO occupation forces:

Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.
http://pakobserver.net/201001/04/news/topstories17.asp

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German soldiers 'trained to kill' in Afghanistan: expert:

"Soldiers are trained to kill others, or at least to threaten people in a way that they consider it plausible that they will be killed if they don't do what is expected of them," Ischinger said in an interview with the German Press Agency dpa.
http://snipurl.com/tz43h

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At least six killed, 27 injured in fresh Iraq attacks:

In western Iraq's heavily Sunni al-Anbar province, three bombs exploded in a residential neighbourhood, killing the chief of the local counterterrorism police force, Walid al-Haiti, police said.
http://snipurl.com/tzynj

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Former SEAL killed in CIA suicide attack worked for Xe (Blackwater) :

Jeremy Wise, the former Navy SEAL killed in a suicide bomber's attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, was working for Xe, the Moyock, N.C.-based security company previously known as Blackwater.
http://snipurl.com/tzynl

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US security company (Blackwater) reaches deal over compensation for killings in Iraq:

Settlement amounts to implicit admission that guards were responsible for series of unjustifiable killings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/07/blackwater-xe-iraq-us-security

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15 Civilians Killed in Yemen Attack:

Rebels in north Yemen say 15 civilians have been killed in an air strike by government planes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8446426.stm

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Three policemen killed in south Yemen attack:

A Yemeni officer and two policemen were killed Thursday in an attack by unidentified men in the south of the country, a local security source told AFP.
http://snipurl.com/tzynx

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'Yemen to let US set up air base on its soil':

Al-Ahmed added that his sources have revealed that the Yemeni government has decided to let the US military establish the air base on an island called Socotra located off the coast of Yemen.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115536§ionid=351020206

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Yemeni Jews refuse to leave for Israel:

An official at the World's Jewish Congress Foundation, Moshe Nahum, said they have tried in vain in the past three decades to convince Yemeni Jews to move to Israel.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115462§ionid=351020206

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Clinton says Yemen situation is global threat:

"We see global implications from the war in Yemen and the ongoing efforts by al Qaeda in Yemen to use it as a base for terrorist attacks far beyond the region," Clinton said after a meeting with the visiting prime minister of Qatar.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6033EA20100104

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In case you missed it:

The Power of Nightmares - The Shadows In The Cave:

The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. The programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm

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Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace, fire at areas near borders: -

Israeli military aircraft flew over Lebanese airspace and fired at areas near the southern borders between Israel and Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/tzyo4

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'Israel must compensate Iraq for Osirak':

Iraq will demand that Israel pay compensation for bombing the unfinished nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, an Iraqi member of parliament told the Iraqi al-Sabah newspaper in an article published on Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/tz43w

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Viva Palestina Convoy Report On Democracy NOW!:

Report on the Convoy and interview with George Galloway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84erWtKA74w

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USS Ramage destroyer heads from Norfolk to Mediterranean:

The guided-missile destroyer left Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday for a six-month deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a routine deployment, but recent developments have made life somewhat less routine.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_missile_0106jan06,0,1103742.story

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Iraq war inquiry sets date for Blair appearance:

Blair, now "Middle East peace envoy", will spend an entire day answering questions. In his recent interview, he said he understood the opposition to the Iraq war and the anger of some of families of those who were killed.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/-/1068/836510/-/u32mmm/-/index.html

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MI5 'still using threats to recruit Muslim spies':

MI5 faces accusations that its officers have blackmailed and harassed vulnerable immigrants living in Britain as part of a campaign to recruit spies to report on Muslim communities.
http://snipurl.com/tz43q

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Iraq to file US lawsuits over oil-for-food: minister:

Iraq will file lawsuits in the United States against foreign firms for alleged fraud in a UN oil-for-food scheme under Saddam Hussein's regime, the country's commerce minister told AFP Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/tz43r

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Honduran generals face coup charges:

Honduras' attorney-general has charged the country's senior military chiefs with "abuse of power" for a coup that removed Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, according to a supreme court spokesman.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/2010174720841310.html

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Plane suspect 'recruited in London':

A Nigerian man accused of the attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day was recruited by al-Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric in Yemen, a top Yemeni official has said
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/01/201017122253727113.html

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U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route:

U.S. border enforcement officials discovered alleged extremist links in a database while the suspect was headed to Detroit on Christmas Day, new disclosures show.
http://snipurl.com/tzyoh

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Ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago: Baird:

Baird announced Tuesday afternoon that body scanners that can see through the clothes of air travellers will be installed at airports across Canada over the next two months.
http://snipurl.com/tzyom

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Publishers dumbfounded by airplane book ban:

Canadian publishers are dumbfounded by new airport security measures that seem to forbid passengers from bringing books and magazines purchased pre-flight onto airplanes bound for the U.S
http://snipurl.com/tzyoo

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Report: Few U.S. Muslims radical:

A new report released Wednesday by scholars at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill says the number of radicalized Muslim-Americans remains small
http://snipurl.com/tzyov

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Britain threatens to freeze Iceland out of EU as loan payback vetoed:

The Treasury expected Reykjavik to rubberstamp the terms of repayment for the loan extended by Britain and the Netherlands at the height of the financial crisis. The loan meant that 400,000 savers with deposits in Icesave did not lose their money.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6977152.ece

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Six million in the US with no income but food stamps:

Some six million Americans-one in 50 people in the US-are living on no income other than $100 or $200 a month in food stamps, according to an analysis of state data by the New York Times.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j07.shtml

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Severe unemployment worsens in cities:

The number of U.S. metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years.
http://snipurl.com/tzyp7

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Obama's C-SPAN Lie?

See Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/

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Bolivia refuses to be U.S. slave: VP:

"We do not want a market in exchange for them (Americans) telling us who must be the master. We do not want tax preference in exchange for them telling us what must be our economic policy, because that will make us become a slave and a colony again," Garcia said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/05/content_12757492.htm

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Robert Rubin: All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt:

The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former secretary of the Treasury (1995-99) and now serves as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say:
http://snipurl.com/tz44y

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US Pending Home Sales Plunge the Most on Record:

Looking into the initial breakdown, the regional readings all reported declines. The Northwest and Midwest paced the slump with matching 25.7 percent plunges for the month; the Southern sector of the United States saw a 15 percent drop in sales
http://snipurl.com/tz451

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Schwarzenegger Girds for Deficit Fight as Borrowing Costs Soar:

With a $21 billion deficit forecast over the next 18 months, the governor of the most populous U.S. state has said he won't boost taxes again, leaving him reliant on spending cuts and federal help to balance the books next fiscal year, which starts July 1.
http://snipurl.com/tz453

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US job satisfaction has hit 22-year low, survey says:

An annual survey suggets that Americans who still have a job are less satisfied with their work than at any time in the last two decades.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8440630.stm

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