Obama’s Jewish Problem

Obama and Netanyahu in public and in private

Israel ready to resume peace negotiations: Netanyahu
Caving.

EGYPT: Obama and, maybe, a mosque

MK Eldad: U.S. Selling Us Down the River
Exactly.

Obama Tells Netanyahu He Has an Iran Timetable

Obama's stance on two-state solution heartens EU
And sickens me.

For Obama, the road to Tehran leads through Jerusalem

When Barry Met Bibi - Mark Steyn

Saudis pushing Obama for new Mideast plan

Palestinians say were promised Jerusalem


Israel abuzz with Obama Plan rumors

Palestinians would have to give up the demand for their refugees' "right of return" to areas that are now part of Israel proper, and would instead have to settle for compensation or the option of moving to the West Bank or Gaza Strip.

The capital of the Palestinian state would be in East Jerusalem, which is currently under Israeli control. Most controversially, the plan includes a proposal that the Old City – with sites holy to the three major monotheistic religions – would become an international zone under the flag of the United Nations. Such an arrangement was proposed in the 1947 UN partition plan but was never implemented.

Oh No He Didn't!! - Gingi Edmonds

Oh yes, he did. Speak at Notre Dame, that is. And of course, we are talking about Mr. Obama, the self-proclaimed bringer of peace and unity (if by peace you mean tax-funded cervical scrapings, and by unity you mean a Nazi-esque socialist regime with no regard for the sanctity of human life).

Obama Accelerates Fuel-Economy Standards, Sets Carbon Limit

Obama Seeks Advice on Nuclear Weapons
Despite claiming he wants them all eliminated.

Will Obama and the Democrats Trigger Another Credit Crunch?
Yeah, and Republicans too.

Obama Says U.S. Economy Showing ‘Return to Normalcy’
Normal my arse :
Meltdown will leave vastly changed economy


Obama approves nuclear energy deal with UAE
Now that the beating tape has been forgotten...

Do You Want Your OTV? - Political Punch

It's perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events -- but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).

Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn't flattering enough?

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they're told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?

No, nothing at all creepy about this, move along...



Video: Border Patrol tasers pastor at traffic stop
Here's my take; guy was looking for trouble, so of course he found it. But that's always how it starts. According to the links, Border Patrol has the right to stop anyone within 100 miles of the border. And that's messed up.

Bill Clinton To Be Special Envoy To Haiti
That's too close. Can't we send him to some Asian hellhole instead?

GM Bondholder Says Deal Stinks

Goldman, Morgan Stanley Said to Apply for TARP Exit

William Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. headline Mideast peace rally
If by "peace" you mean "final solution".

Pentagon: No plans to end don't ask-don't tell
Pre-emptive denial? Hmm...

Bibles Destroyed in Afghanistan... By U.S. Military
If that doesn't make your blood run cold, you haven't read enough history.


Hard Drive Missing From US National Archives

A hard drive containing personal information of White House staff and visitors during former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration is missing from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the agency said.

The hard drive, containing an "as yet unknown" amount of personal data, was discovered missing in April, the National Archives said in a statement. The hard drive contained copies of electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President, the agency said.

Oh, dear, missing information on the Clinton administration? Say it ain't so! Have they checked Sandy Berger's pants?


Fed Sees Hopeful Signs but Downgrades `09 Forecast
As they have been doing at least once a month since the bubble burst.

American Thinker: Revolution
An excellent essay, but I think he overestimates the number of people willing to get involved in politics to counter the liberal agenda. And politics alone won't cut it: we would have to take back the schools, the news/entertainment industries, and the legal field as well. We didn't lose this country with BO's election; his election is a result of this country being lost. And it has been lost for generations.
And when a republic falls, it is replaced by a totalitarian state, whether it be a monarchy or empire or dictatorship.


Uncle Sam's 'F'-rated bonds


California Officials Prepare Budget Cuts After Voters Reject Ballot Measures
--Over and Out - Mark Steyn

Sheriff: La. 8th-grader planned school shooting

Reactor shutdown 'catastrophe' as medical isotopes dry up



Kassam hits storeroom in backyard of Sderot home

Iran says it tests missile, Israel within range
Clinton: Nuclear Iran would 'spark Mideast arms race'

UN Gaza inquiry 'to proceed despite Israel'
*retch*

Israelis warned of online spy threat

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Iran urges media to trigger 'enthusiasm' for poll

UAE Pulls Out Of Gulf Monetary Union: Report
Hmm.

Saudi municipal polls put off for 2 years

Iran, Pakistan To Finalize Peace Pipeline Agreement Shortly

Iraq rejects $8 bln Kurdish Nabucco pipeline deal

Iraq, Egypt sign energy agreement

Report: Russia halts sale of MiG-31s to Syria

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Russia's Young Pioneers sign up 3,000
The head of Russia's Communist Party congratulated about 3,000 Moscow kids who signed up for the Pioneer Movement Sunday in a ceremony at Lenin's mausoleum.

Russian adviser criticises Putin's elite
I'm still voting good-cop/bad-cop, but if I'm wrong, Medvedev and this guy and their friends will have an 'accident.'

Medvedev Creates History Commission
Medvedev has created a commission to counter what he says are attempts to rewrite history to Russia's disadvantage, something liberal historians called a return to Soviet-era controls.

Russian officials ordered to reveal annual incomes

Russia to Gays: Get Back into the Closet
Lefties are in for a shock when they get the totalitarianism they keep backing.

Russia pulls out of Georgia talks -agency report

Russia to extend $500 mln loan to Armenia for 15 years

Russia starts building world’s first floating nuclear power plant

Russian Government snaps up shipyard
The Komsomolsk-on-Amur-based plant, which builds nuclear submarines, found itself on the verge of bankruptcy and will be transferred to the United Shipbuilding Corporation, or USC, the government-controlled holding in which the state is consolidating the country’s shipbuilding industry, Putin said.

The coldest war: Russia and U.S. face off over Arctic resources

Russia, Norway discuss Arctic energy development

Gazprom to supply coal gasification technology to Vietnam

Gazprom Will Acquire SeverEnergia

China starts construction of oil pipeline to Russia

Russia's Gazprom to cut dividend sevenfold

Gazprom’s towering ambition for LNG

Russia, Italy, double pipeline plans

Russian gas pipeline to be built before EU's Nabucco project: minister

Moscow sees too much emphasis on Nabucco
Vlad is unhappy with a pipeline to bypass Russia? You don't say!

GDF Suez to join Nord Stream very soon

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US businessman found dead in Armenia

Armenia To Build Nuclear Power Plant

Stinky ship stranded in Black Sea

Waterway is ‘bomb waiting to explode’

Georgian opposition pickets jail housing soldiers

Turkey slams brakes on opening border to Armenia

Azerbaijan Doubles Gas Price for Turkey

The Turks are coming!

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It's a barracks for Obama, and the rest of G8, says Silvio Berlusconi

Spanish wind parks disconnected due to economic crisis

UK - Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours

The £50,000-a-year City worker 'fired for being a mother'

Lithuania set for energy rethink

German Authorities Warn of Rise of 'Anarchist' Neo-Nazis

New figures from Germany's domestic intelligence agency show that the number of far-right crimes in Germany increased by 16 percent in 2008. Officials warn of the rise of Black Bloc-style "anarchist" neo-Nazis who actively seek violence at demonstrations.

Far-left and far-right are the same. Apparently that's news to some people.


Sarkozy: Lucrative in Africa
A short visit to three African countries enables French companies to beat out Chinese competition and gain access to massive uranium mines - a victory for Sarkozy’s nuclear ambitions, a defeat for human rights.

Is the solution to the U.S. nuclear waste problem in France?


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Old order should yield place to new

China Gold Reserves May Back Yuan Internationalization-Report

Brazil, China talks could moot ditching dollar

Crunch Moment for International Accounting

A new paradigm for IMF

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Nigeria: Militants attacks cut gas supplies

Zimbabwe Law Society holds first protest free of police violence

Brazil wants African allies in seabed mining quest

‘Suicidaire’ Gunmen Stalk Diamond Diggers in Congo’s Mining Hub

Sudanese rebel chief surrenders to war crime court
But Bashir won't.

France asks Libya to ease Sudan Chad tension

UN should impose Somalia air, sea blockade: regional bloc

Australian navy prevents pirate attack off Yemen

Somali pirates embrace capture as route to Europe

German cargo ship released off Somali coast

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Brazil Turns to China to Help Finance Oil Projects

Brazil merger to create major world poultry giant
Call for Super Chicken!

Police Find Severed Heads of 3 Men Near Mexico Highway

Anti-Semitic violence erupts in Buenos Aires

Peru oil pipeline halted on protests in Amazon

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Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says

Pakistan not using US funds to buy nuclear arms: US
Uh-huh.

Sats Show Pakistan Super-Sizing Its Nuclear Weapons Complex

Canada considering end to ban on military exports to Pakistan

PAKISTAN: Heat, disease, snakes hound IDPs in Jalala camp

Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan summit postponed

Karzai brother 'survives attack'

The Long Arm of Kazakhstan's President

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Taiwan protest targets leader's pro-China policies

China releases last Tiananmen 'hooligan'
But what about their families?

Eastern China authorities downplay student protest

China on the rise once more across the East

China: Next Stop, Superpower? - John Bolton on Glenn Beck

Armed ship with nuclear fuel arrives in Japan: witness
You see that/ That's called ARMED. That's how you keep the pirates away.

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GPS system 'close to breakdown'
Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010

VeriChip shaves 3mm off human RFID chips

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'Religious violence' a small part of the story

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Kenya risks Marburg flare-up with Mt Elgon excavation

U.S. health officials troubled by new flu pattern

Vietnam - Cholera outbreak continues spreading north

Malacca declared free of meningitis (Update)


Plague of giant rats invade UK seaside resort town


Dust storm kills 1 in Gurgaon, triggers powercuts in Delhi

Elephants suffering in Mali drought
People too.

Western NSW farmers in limbo on drought support

Here's Looking @ Earth: The Devil's In The Diversions : Aral Sea


Price worries again threaten world food outlook

Grain markets flashing warning signs

Soy prices set to increase because of poor crops in South America


Man dies as record rains flood Queensland

Hail costs kiwifruit growers $10m


Philippines landslide kills 26

Landslide Kills Six In Northeastern Bangladesh


Mexico - Fires ravage Gulf state

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Magnitude 4.7 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Map Centered at 34°N, 118°W - Los Angeles
Los Angeles shaken (but not stirred) by mini earthquake
LA-area earthquake prompts fault concerns

Magnitude 4.1 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Another earthquake felt in downtown Los Angeles
LB Building Evacuated Due to Quake Aftershock


Magnitude 4.6 - CENTRAL PERU

Magnitude 5.0 - SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Three light quakes hit traumatized Yogyakarta

Magnitude 5.8 - NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU
Magnitude 4.9 - NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
Earthquakes Shake Southern Peru

Magnitude 3.0 - NEW YORK
Magnitude 2.1 - NEW YORK
Magnitude 1.6 - NEW YORK
Earthquakes not uncommon in Albany County
Magnitude 1.9 - NEW YORK

Magnitude 5.1 - SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

Magnitude 5.0 - SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

Magnitude 5.0 - SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE


Saudi Arabia evacuates 5 villages in volcano scare
Magnitude 4.9 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
Magnitude 5.6 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
Moderate earthquake rattles Al-Ais region

Magnitude 4.6 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
Magnitude 4.6 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
Two tremors hit Saudi volcano region, no injuries
Residents told to leave Al-Eis amid stronger tremors


Magnitude 5.1 - MID-INDIAN RIDGE

Watching volcanoes

Redoubt still likely to blow

4.0-degree magnitude quake hits Caracas

Earthquakes rock the south - NZ

Series of earthquakes rattle Kodiak Island over the weekend

Earthquake strikes just outside Jeffrey City Wyoming

Magnitude 4.9 - EASTERN KASHMIR

Magnitude 4.3 - PUERTO RICO REGION

Magnitude 5.2 - TONGA REGION

Magnitude 5.1 - MID-INDIAN RIDGE

Magnitude 5.2 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION

Magnitude 4.5 - ORURO, BOLIVIA

Magnitude 4.8 - CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO REGION

Magnitude 3.0 - NEVADA

Magnitude 1.6 - SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
Magnitude 2.2 - SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI

Indonesia : Over four dozen houses develop cracks in JK due to earthquake