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Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists

admin • April 11th, 2009 • world news

Seeing Potential Terror Threat, Officials Debate Their Options
By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 11, 2009; Page A01
Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials [...]



Spanish police seize dinner set made of cocaine

admin • March 21st, 2009 • world news

Spanish police said Friday they had detained a man who received a parcel in the mail from Venezuela containing a dinner set that was made with 20 kilos (44 pounds) of cocaine. source >>>
Pretty amazing how inventive they have become. TM



Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show

admin • March 18th, 2009 • world news

By JONATHAN PETRE, DAILYMAIL
A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’ source >>>
A demonstration of peace and love? TM



Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore’s investment arm

admin • January 2nd, 2009 • world news

By: George Conger.
The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore’s environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.  source >>>
My suggestion is that they put their faith in God, isn’t that where the churches faith should be?  TM



CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory ‘Arrogant’

admin • December 22nd, 2008 • world news

Network’s second meteorologist to challenge notion man can alter climate.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media InstituteUnprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather? source >>>
Listen up, the man is making a point.  TM



Scientists scoff at AP global-warming story

admin • December 18th, 2008 • world news

POSTED AT 11:55 AM ON DECEMBER 17, 2008 BY ED MORRISSEY
Remember that global-warming wet kiss from the AP to climate-change activists and Barack Obama earlier this week?  Even scientists who believe in global warming couldn’t quite believe their eyes.  They called the report by the Seth Borenstein a “polemic” and wondered when research stopped being [...]



Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming ‘Hysteria’

admin • December 17th, 2008 • world news

Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man’s activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it “irrational hysteria,” “horrifically bad” and “incredibly biased.” source >>>
The truth will find it difficult to penetrate the minds of those convinced there is ‘global warming’.  TM



Isn’t it ironic: Mexico lawmakers want to reinstate death penalty; Plus: Mexico cracks down on illegal aliens

admin • December 8th, 2008 • world news

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 5, 2008 02:28 PMIn case you hadn’t noticed, Mexico is in chaos. Beheaded and bullet-ridden bodies are turning up left and right along the southern border. Drug traffickers are running rampant in Sinaloa. Corruptocrats are letting gangs take over their cities. In Tijuana, 200 people were killed in a month. [...]



Russian warships approach Venezuela under US gaze

admin • November 28th, 2008 • world news

Russian warships approached Venezuela Monday for upcoming joint maneuvers — Moscow’s first military presence in the region since the Cold War — as Washington closely monitored the situation.
Venezuelan defense officials said the ships, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and destroyer Admiral Chabankenko, would arrive on Tuesday. source >>>
A very dangerous world indeed, and [...]



RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA

admin • November 28th, 2008 • world news

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s [...]



Venezuelans swamp polls in key vote for Chavez

admin • November 24th, 2008 • world news

By RACHEL JONES
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelans voted to choose state governors and mayors Sunday in elections that could either hand President Hugo Chavez his second straight electoral setback or give his leftist government a new mandate.
He faced an emboldened opposition aiming to break his dominance and win back power in key states and cities. [...]



Pirates Collect $150M Over Past Year at Expense of Global Economy

admin • November 23rd, 2008 • world news

Friday, November 21, 2008
n further evidence of the ongoing creation of a pirate economy, Kenya’s foreign affairs minister said Friday Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, and called on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked. source >>>
Hijack a ship, get 150 million dollars, [...]



Head of Interpol Mexico arrested for drug ties

admin • November 20th, 2008 • world news

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico arrested its head of Interpol on Tuesday for allegedly working for a powerful drug cartel and sent the military to take over police duties in the city of Tijuana in another step to flush out corrupt law enforcement. Ricardo Gutierrez was Mexico’s representative to Interpol, the world’s largest international police [...]



India ’sinks Somali pirate ship’

admin • November 20th, 2008 • world news

An Indian navy warship has destroyed a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it came under attack in the Gulf of Aden source >>>
Finally a nation with the stones to act decisively……MTA



The night we waved goodbye to America… our last best hope on Earth

admin • November 9th, 2008 • world news

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. source >>>
Cuts close to the bone I’d say……TM