Netanyahu: We Can Wipe Out Gaza, But Choose Not To(IsraelNN.com) Likud party Chairman and Knesset opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel has the capability to destroy Gaza, but won’t do it.
“The IDF has the firepower to wipe out an entire population if we want to,” he told an audience at the 35th Zionist Congress, “but we are not doing this.”
If that power were in the hands of the Palestinian Authority, he added, the situation would be very different. “If ... (more)
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Climbdown as Hamas agrees to Israeli state· Negotiator says group recognises right to exist
· Hope for end to crippling sanctions on Palestinians
Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders.
In a bitter struggle for power, Hamas is bowing to an ultimatum from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to endorse the document drawn up by Palest... (more)
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Jim Tucker: Big Surprises at BilderbergBilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose their homes in the months ahead. Meanwhile, they hope they can pressure President Bush to refrain from an all-out invasion of Iran while maintaining oil prices at their current record-high levels of about $70 a barrel.
Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, predicted rising interest rates and difficulties for families that have obtained adjustable rate mortgages, or “variable&r... (more)
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U.S. Back at Full War Footing in AfghanistanThe United States military is quietly carrying out the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001.
"The Taliban has made a comeback, and we have the next 90 days to crush them," said a senior U.S. military official.
The offensive, "Operation Mountain Thrust," involves almost 11,000 U.S. troops and is focused on four southern Afghanistan provinces.
The Taliban has re-emerged as the Afghan government "has cre... (more)
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Ahmadinejad 'has 70% approval rating'The popularity of Iran's controversial leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is surging almost a year after he unexpectedly won closely contested presidential elections, Iranian officials and western diplomats said on Tuesday.
Attributing his success to his populist style and fortnightly meet-the-people tours of the country, the sources said, as matters stand, Mr Ahmadinejad was the clear favourite to win a second term in 2009. The perception that the president was standing up to the US ov... (more)
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N. Korean threat activates shieldThe Pentagon activated its new U.S. ground-based interceptor missile defense system, and officials announced yesterday that any long-range missile launch by North Korea would be considered a "provocative act."
Poor weather conditions above where the missile site was located by U.S. intelligence satellites indicates that an immediate launch is unlikely, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
However, intelligence officials said preparations have ad... (more)
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US rejected Iranian overtures in 2003Officials in US President George W. Bush's administration turned down a 2003 Iranian offer to begin talks with the US, recognize Israel, and end support of Palestinian terror organizations, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
The proposal, which arrived via fax along with a letter of authentication by a Swiss ambassador, was ignored. Reports have circulated in the past that Iran had extended its hand to the US, but the document itself was only recently obtained by the Post - r... (more)
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Japan to Respond Severely to a N. Korea Missile TestJapan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said his government will respond with ``severe'' measures if North Korea ignores calls to abandon its reported missile test.
Koizumi and Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe urged North Korea to return to six-nation talks over its nuclear program that broke off last November. Abe said that the United Nations Security Council may impose economic sanctions should North Korea carry out the test.
``North Korea will gain nothing f... (more)
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Secretive society's big names include Kissinger, Rockefeller and a queenAmong prominent attendees at this year's conference of the Bilderberg group, a secretive society that includes some of the world's most powerful people:
Jacques Aigrain, CEO of Swiss Re.
George Alogoskoufis, finance minister of Greece.
Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and long-time opponent of Saddam Hussein.
George A. David, chairman of Coca-Cola.
Paul Desmarais, CEO of Power Corporation.
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Ayatollah's grandson calls for US overthrow of IranThe grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the inspiration of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, has broken a three-year silence to back the United States military to overthrow the country's clerical regime.
Hossein Khomeini's call is all the more startling as he made it from Qom, the spiritual home of Iran's Shia strand of Islam, during an interview to mark the 17th anniversary of the ayatollah's death.
"My grandfather's revolution has devoured its children and has stray... (more)
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United Nations 'Army' ProposedCrisis management experts are calling for the creation of a "United Nations army” – an international rapid reaction force that could be deployed within 48 hours to intervene in emergency situations around the globe.
Composed of up to 15,000 military, police and civilian staff, including medics, the proposed force would be recruited from professionals hired by the U.N. from many countries, and based at designated U.N. sites.
Its actions would be authorize... (more)
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Iraq: The Continuous War
This German documentary details the work that American troops are actively involved in Iraq as a reporter embedded with them. It details their views and opinions as... (more)
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Foreign Media Picks up Bilderberg Story One Week LateA mainstream news outlet in Portugal has picked up the story of Alex Jones being detained at the Canadian border on the orders of the Bilderberg group.
The incident took place one week ago as Alex was traveling to document and protest the elite gathering.
Portugal news is the first mainstream outfit outside of Canada to report anything about the conference which was held in Ottawa last weekend and attracted luminaries from all over the globe, including, reportedly, ... (more)
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Ahmadinejad: Investigate the Holocaust"I think we have sufficiently talked about this matter and these Holocaust events need to be further investigated by independent and impartial parties," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a news conference on Friday following a meeting with China's president.
"An event that has influenced so many diplomatic and political equations of the world needs to investigated and researched by impartial and independent groups," he said.
Speaking in Shanghai, China, he added that Jews... (more)
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Bilderbergers slither awayTEHRAN - They left in silence, blanketed by a near-total media blackout, just as they had arrived.
Very few media outlets covered the June 8-11 meeting of the Bilderberg Group at a hotel just outside of Ottawa, Canada.
Only the alternative media deemed the story to be newsworthy.
It seems that “all the news that’s fit to print” is not always printed.
Tom Spears of the Ottawa Citizen wrote: “The Bilderberg Group, ... (more)
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Did Hillary Clinton Attend Bilderberg Conference?Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Did New York Senator and possible 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attend this past weekend's Bilderberg meeting in Ottawa Canada? Our inside sources coupled with what witnesses saw at the Brookestreet Hotel strongly suggest this to be the case.
On Saturday, the second day of the conference, a large cadillac style amored limousine with U.S. diplomatic plates arrived at the underground parking garage of the Brookestreet Hote... (more)
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Germany Wants Mandate to Revive EU ConstitutionGermany will seek a mandate to revive a constitution for the European Union during its presidency in the first half of next year, a federal government official said today.
EU heads of state and government will probably give Chancellor Angela Merkel the go-ahead in a statement to be approved by the group after a two-day summit that starts tomorrow, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Leaders of countries where the charter has been rejected in ref... (more)
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Chavez to visit Iran, Syria, Russia, China, North KoreaCaracas, 14 June (AKI) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced he will soon travel to Iran, Syria, Russia, China, North Korea and Vietnam to boost bilateral relations before the beginning of an electoral campaign in September during which he will be seeking a re-election for a second presidential mandate on 3 December. Chavez is supporting Iran's right to a nuclear programme in an standoff sparked by international fears that Tehran is trying to build atomic weapons.
Chave... (more)
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Earth Charter InvasionAs I reported in FrontPage Magazine last February, the ACLU decided to challenge the decision of a duly elected local board of education in Pennsylvania to end a United Nations-sponsored International Baccalaureate Program in its public schools that is closely linked to the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter is a New Age spiritual declaration of nature-worshipping principles for living in harmony with the sacred Earth. Its prime sponsors – former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and Mauric... (more)
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Afghan province to provide one-third of world's heroin· Poppy harvest to double in British-patrolled area
· £1.1bn from west since 2001 fails to stop trade
The Afghanistan province being patrolled by British troops will produce at least a third of the world's heroin this year, according to drug experts who are forecasting a record harvest that will be an embarrassment for the western-funded war on narcotics.
British officials are bracing themselves for the result of an annual UN poppy survey ... (more)
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Bilderberg Provocateurs Tried To Instigate ViolencePaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Numerous indications strongly suggest that the Bilderberg Group, in alliance with the Canadian government, deployed agent provocateurs this past weekend to try to infiltrate and discredit legitimate journalists and protesters.
Before Alex and his crew were even able to enter the country, Canadian immigration officials almost deported Alex's crew on the orders of Bilderberg until the media arrived.
Almost as soon as ... (more)
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Today Kanata...YOU MIGHT not care or know about the ultra-secretive meetings that happened this weekend at the Brookstreet Hotel.
Whether you pay attention to the annual gathering of the Bilderberg group -- comprised of royalty, political power-brokers, national leaders, bankers and heads of some of the world's largest companies -- Mark O'Donnell says what they do and decide impacts our lives daily.
"The world we're living in right now is a reflection of some of the decisions th... (more)
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Pataki Joins Bilderberg's ConclaveDon't bother asking Governor Pataki what he was up to over the weekend: It's a secret, and he can't tell you.
After wrapping up the usual state business, Mr. Pataki flew to Canada to participate in the annual conclave of the Bilderberg Group, a clandestine club of the world's business and political elite that has been likened to a shadow government and has been said to shape global events.
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