Hi, everybody. I’m here on the factory floor of a business in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, where folks are working around the clock making toys to keep up with the Christmas rush. And I came here because, back in Washington, the clock is ticking on some important decisions that will have a real impact on our businesses [...]
Obama: Urging Congress To Extend The Middle Class Tax Cuts – Transcript
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Investigation, Cleanup Of Hazardous Chemicals On Hold After NJ Bridge Collapse
A New Jersey bridge that collapsed after a train derailed is awaiting cleanup and investigation, just three years after the structure’s first collapse. Officials are determining the best way to remove hazardous chemicals still inside the tanker cars. Environmental experts, train company officials and their contractors are deciding the best way to remove the harmful [...]
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Call For Lindsay Lohan To Apologize For ‘Racist’ Gypsy Remarks
Religious statesman Rajan Zed has asked for an immediate public apology from Hollywood diva Lindsay Lohan for reportedly derogatory remarks against gypsies, indicating that they were thieves. Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was highly unacceptable that an entire community was blamed for no fault of their own. It was [...]
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US Criticizes North Korea Launch Plan
The United States condemned on Saturday North Korea’s plan to launch its rocket calling it “provocative”. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a written statement that “the launch would be a highly provocative act that threatens peace and security in the region”. The reaction followed reports from North Korea announcing that next “satellite” [...]
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Kuwait Heads To The Polls As Opposition Activists Urge Boycott
Kuwaitis are heading to the polls today after weeks of protests over electoral reform. It is the second election this year, as a political crisis mounts in the country. Yesterday opposition activists who are boycotting the elections held a large rally. They complain that new electoral rules will skew the result in favour of pro-government [...]
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Tunisia: Riot Police Fire Birdshot At Protesters
Clashes between police and protesters in the northern city of Siliana on November 27 and 28, 2012, injuring more than 210 people, highlight the urgent need to reform Tunisia’s security forces. The government should ensure that the announced independent commission of inquiry investigates any excessive use of force by the riot police during the protests. [...]
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Georgia: Merabishvili Questioned Over ‘Fake Passport’
(Civil.Ge) — Vano Merabishvili, secretary general of UNM party and former prime minister, left the Interior Ministry’s investigative unit after less than two hours of questioning on Saturday evening. The Interior Ministry said that investigation was launched into alleged use of a fake passport by Merabishvili on November 30. After the questioning Merabishvili made a [...]
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New Mexican President Sworn In Amid Violent Protests
Protesters clashed with police outside the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Saturday, as the country’s new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, took the oath of office. Hundreds of demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, firecrackers and rocks at security forces, who responded by using tear gas to disperse the crowd. At least two protesters were injured, one [...]
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Nature Of N-E Conflict Changes, But New Delhi Strategy Doesn’t – Analysis
On November 25, at least two press releases reached the media houses in the Northeast. The first one from the anti-talk Paresh Baruah faction of the ULFA criticised the divisive policies of New Delhi of creating autonomous councils in Assam under the Sixth schedule of the Constitution. The second one from the breakaway faction of [...]
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Al-Qaeda To Prevent Obama’s 2014 Afghanistan Pullout: Panetta
Members of the notorious al-Qaeda terror network are continuing to make a U.S. pullout from Afghanistan less likely as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the American press on Friday that battling the group would be a national priority well past President Barack Obama’s second-term. Secretary Panetta said that U.S. military commanders are now analyzing the [...]
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A Royal Project To Promote Dynamic Socio-Economic Role In North-East Of Morocco – OpEd
King Mohammed VI chaired Saturday in Nador (north of Morocco) the presentation ceremony of the management plan of Marchica lagoon, which will provide innovative mechanisms in urban planning, and aims to create a new dynamic of global development, balanced sustainable and able to ensure the success of this structuring project. On this occasion, the King [...]
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Israel Violates Ceasefire, Shells Gaza
At least four Palestinians have been injured after Israel reportedly shelled a residential area in Gaza Strip, thus violating fragile ceasefire. This comes after the UN voted to upgrade the Palestinians to a ‘non-member observer state.’ The attack in East Deir Al-Balah occurred around 22:00 GMT. Reports from local media suggest it was a tank [...]
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Why Israel Was So Afraid: Legal Consequences Of Palestine’s UN-Status – Analysis
By Burç Köstem On August 2011 one of the most important scholars of public international law, Guy Goodwin-Gill of Oxford University unsuspectingly published a legal opinion commenting on the legal effects of a Palestinian statehood bid. While the issue was hotly debated between a handful of scholars and some members of the Palestinian diaspora, it [...]
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Syria And Turkey In Crisis – Interview
By By Harriet Fildes JTW Interview with Assoc. Prof. Selçuk Çolakoğlu from USAK USAK security expert, Selçuk Çolakoğlu, discussed the destructive and enduring conflict in Syria and the security dilemma it poses to international involvement and Syria’s neighbouring countries, particularly Turkey. Given the request for Patriot missiles, what is Turkey’s prospective role in this crisis [...]
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The Fiscal Cliff – OpEd
Despite the dramatic terminology and a flood of news stories, the economy is not about to go over a fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is a change in the budgetary status quo that will occur if no agreement is made to stop it. We would go back to a Clinton-era tax structure and have substantial [...]
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The Bomb Returns For A Second Act – Analysis
By Paul Bracken Atomic weapons have returned for a second act. This time the bomb’s spread has nothing to do with the cold war, the first nuclear age that remains the context for so much of our thinking about nuclear weapons. Over the past two decades new nuclear powers have emerged from “natural causes,” the [...]
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Australia Introduces Plain Packaging For Cigarettes, Bans Company Logos
Australia has become the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. From now, all tobacco company logos and colours will be banned from packets, BBC News repoted. They have been replaced by a dreary, uniform, green/brown, colour accompanied by a raft of anti-smoking messages and photographs. The only concession to the [...]
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Metallica Launch Blackened Recordings Own Record Label
After a long wait, Metallica rockers finally gain control of master recordings from their extensive catalog. They leave Warner Music Group which became their home since 1980′s and officially launch their very own record label, Blackened Recordings, AceShowbiz said. “Some of you, who have followed along throughout the years, are aware that in 1994 we [...]
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BRICS Bloc’s Rising ‘Sub-Imperialism’ – OpEd
By Patrick Bond The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) network of governments are coming to Durban, South Africa, in four months, meeting on March 26-27 at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Africa’s largest venue. Given their recent performance, it is reasonable to expect another “1%” summit, wreaking socioeconomic and ecological havoc. And [...]
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Will Santa Be Coming To Gaza? – OpEd
By Kathy Kelly Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City. He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When I asked about the children in his community he told me his church would soon be making Christmas preparations to lift the children’s spirits. Looking at his kindly smile and [...]
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