The D.C. private school attended by the daughters of President Barack Obama says it briefly evacuated after it received a phone call that it considered suspicious. Sidwell Friends School, the Washington school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama, was evacuated after what the school described as “a suspicious phone call.” D.C. police spokesman Araz Alali [...]
Obama Daughters’ School Evacuated
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US Blames Iran For Renewed Attacks On American Banks
Iranian hackers intent on disrupting the United States’ financial sector are once again on the attack, this time with US officials claiming America’s biggest banks have been hit as a cyberwar against the country’s Middle East adversary intensifies. Capital One Financial Corp. and BB&T Corp. are two of the latest targets in a renewed assault [...]
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Winners And Losers Energy Policies – OpEd
We can and must rejuvenate our economy by developing America’s resource bounties By Paul Driessen Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle [...]
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Opposition Leader Expresses Concern For Iranians
Detained Iranian opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi, in a rare meeting with family members, has expressed his concern about the “subsistence” of the Iranian people. The Kaleme opposition website reported that Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, were allowed a meeting with a number of relatives, during which the opposition leader expressed concern about the people’s [...]
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India-Australia: Need To Diversify Cooperation – Analysis
The current three-day visit of Australian Prime Minister Ms.Julia Gillard to India for talks with Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh and other leaders and captains of Indian industry indicates the poverty of bilateral strategic thinking in both the countries in the Government and the non-Governmental levels. Most of the analytical articles that I have read are [...]
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Shouldn’t Tamil Eelaam Be In Tamil Nadu? – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge Tamils in India want a Tamil homeland, Tamils in Malaysia are also voicing similar sentiments, the LTTE Diaspora and TNA in Sri Lanka want a Tamil homeland and probably with time Tamils in Canada and Tamils in the UK may also start joining in the chorus. If this be the case with [...]
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Julia’s Nuclear Tango – Analysis
By Abhijit Iyer‐Mitra As expected, nuclear negotiations took centre stage during Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s visit to Delhi. Much talk of cultural links owing to the English language, cricket, a Westminster style parliament was bandied about. While Australia insists on a multifaceted engagement to build deep interdependencies, India sees only its one point agenda [...]
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Human Flesh Search Engines In China – Analysis
By Namrata Hasija The Shanghai film festival in June 2012 was abuzz with the movie ‘Caught in the Web’, which showcased an emergent phenomenon in China: ‘renrou sousuo yinqing’ meaning ‘human-flesh search engines’ which attract thousands of Chinese citizens across the country. This article tries to answer: what are these human flesh search engines? How [...]
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US Offers $12 Million Reward Offered For Iran-Based Al-Qaeda Members
(RFE/RL) — The U.S. State Department is offering up to $12 million in rewards for information on two men it describes as members of an Al-Qaeda network operating in Iran. The State Department said on October 18 that they are “key facilitators” in sending extremists to Iraq and Afghanistan. It says it will provide $7 [...]
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Syrian Death Toll Hits 34,000
Violence across Syria killed at least 34,000 people, mostly civilians, since the beginning of the uprising against the regime in mid-March 2011, reported today the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR). Sign of intensifying violence, about 1,000 people have died in the last five days, said the London-based organization that relies on a wide network [...]
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Governments Must Protect Religious Freedom – OpEd
By Katrina Lantos Swett The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which I chair, monitors violations of freedom of religion or belief around the world. Earlier this month, I had the privilege of giving the official U.S. statement on USCIRF’s behalf at the religious freedom session of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in [...]
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Romney Death Threats, Riot Warnings Worry Republicans – OpEd
Despite the majority of news media outlets ignoring the story, a law enforcement source claims that the Tweets by Obama supporters calling for the murder — assassination — of Mitt Romney increased in their numbers and in their severity after Tuesday night’s presidential debate. Other supporters are threatening civil unrest in U.S. cities should Obama [...]
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The Justification For War – Analysis
The situation post-Tahrir Square gave a lot of hope about Non-Violent struggle as an alternative for Revolution or War or any such violent conflict across the Globe. Ideologues as Johann Galtung and Gene Sharp and other proponents of Non-violence predicted demise of War as a concept. Here in this essay we try to identify why [...]
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Savile’s Sick Past Haunts BBC/NYT – OpEd
Scotland Yard is hot on the trail of Jimmy Savile’s victims, and there appears to be no end to them. Not only are the top cops pursuing 340 inquiries, dating back to 1959, they are being assisted by 14 other police agencies. Savile, the celebrity BBC icon, was not only a child rapist, he was [...]
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Tanzania Sees Tension And Unrest After Arrest Of Muslim Leader
Unrest and violence broke out in Dar es Salaam and the city of Zanzibar after the arrest of a top member of the Muslim community in connection to Friday’s attacks against churches, according to Father Vic Missiaen, Secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops Conference. “The peak of tension coincided with a [...]
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Palestine: Commission Says 515,000 Registered To Vote On Saturday
Some 515,000 Palestinians have registered to vote in Saturday’s municipal elections in the West Bank, Central Elections Commission director Hisham Khahil said Thursday. At a news conference in Ramallah, CEC chief Hanna Nasser said 10,000 members of police and security forces had registered to vote on Thursday in an early ballot so they could secure [...]
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UN Blasts Israel
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel to stop violating Lebanon’s sovereignty and withdraw beyond the demarcation separating the two countries. “I condemn Israel’s continuing violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon,” said the secretary-general in a report sent Thursday to members of the United Nations Security Council. In addition, Ban [...]
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EU Leaders Agree On Supervisor For Eurozone Banks
The European Union Economic Summit has agreed to the gradual establishment of a bank union in 2013 according to statements for the press by commission spokesman Olivier Bailly. The “EU leaders endorsed the June agreement on a bank union, the creation of a political agreement by the end of 2012 and its gradual introduction in [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: Will Obama Paint Romney As Warmonger? – OpEd
Usually, not always, the peace party wins. Gen. Sherman’s burning of Atlanta and March to the Sea ensured Abraham Lincoln’s re-election in 1864. William McKinley, with his triumph over Spain and determination to pacify and hold the Philippines, easily held off William Jennings Bryan in 1900. Yet Woodrow Wilson won in 1916 on the slogan, [...]
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s First Big Sellout – OpEd
So now we know why the banks fought tooth-and-nail to prevent Elizabeth Warren from heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It’s because they were already planning their next big coup and didn’t want Warren in a position where she could make waves. Here’s the story from the Wall Street Journal: “Federal regulators are considering [...]
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