
OR THIS?
SAME DIFFERENCE...
"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."
The IDF and other security forces on Friday quelled several simultaneous riots by Palestinians and left-wing activists on one side and settlers on the other inJerusalem and in the West Bank.DESPITE HOW THE LAST TWO INTIFADAS WENT, THE LEFT AND THE JIHADISTS WANT ANOTHER INTIFADA.
Dozens of left-wing activists and Palestinians descended on the Shepherd Hotel in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to protest what they call the “Judaization” of Jerusalem.
The hotel, owned by Jewish American millionaire Irwin Moskowitz, was rented out to the Border Police for many years, but a recent approval to renovate the building and build Jewish housing units there prompted American condemnation and turned the site into a hot spot for protests.
In Friday’s riots, several demonstrators were wounded and others were detained.
Elsewhere in Sheikh Jarrah, left-wing activists held a protest against the moving into the neighborhood of several Jewish families who entered homes owned by Jews from which Palestinian families were evicted by court order.
Also on Friday, several settlers from Yitzhar, near Nablus, held a parade in the Palestinian village of Hawara, south of the city, to protest the wounds sustained by Shmulik Cohen, a Yitzhar resident who was badly hurt when his car was pelted with stones.
Border police officers arrived at the scene when the residents of Hawara began stoning the settlers. The Yitzhar residents protested what they called thesecurity forces’ “feebleness” in dealing with Palestinian rioters.
The military said some of the settlers threw stones at the soldiers, but that the demonstration was dispersed with no incident.
In Nabi Salah, northwest of Ramallah, Palestinians and left-wing protesters were dispersed by the military. Left-wing activists claimed that two men were wounded by rubber bullets, and others said the IDF used live ammunition.
The military flatly rejected the claim, saying it used only rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protest.
Several hundred protesters gathered in Ni’ilin and Bil’in, two Palestinian villages near the West Bank security barrier where protests are held every Friday. The military last month declared the area where the protests take place a closed military zone on Fridays, but the protesters were not deterred. They stoned soldiers, who responded with tear gas.
“reliapundit on April 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM”
Watch it Dude…the first lady is held in high regard here.
The powers that be are totally in love with her.
Can’t say one bad thing. Especially about her looks.
LtE126 on April 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM
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THE POST THEY DELETED STATED THE OBVIOUS.
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reliapundit on April 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Germany has had a harsh winter with an average temperature of minus 1.3 degrees Celsius, 1.5 degrees below the historical average, according to the German weather service.AND IN IRELAND:
Icy winds of March coldest in 23 yearsTO FLORIDA:
IT was indeed a March of many weathers.
New figures show last month was the coldest March in years in some areas -- but it also had the highest levels of sunshine since the 1950s in others.
It was the coldest start to a year on record for much of Tampa BayTO TEXAS:
The first three months of 2010 were the coldest start of a year on record for most of Tampa Bay, the National Weather Service announced Friday.
Temperatures were six to eight degrees below normal for that period, meteorologists found.
It was the coldest start St. Petersburg has seen since records were first kept in 1914.
Spring is here, but it should be no surprise if the cold is still in your bones.IOW: AGW = BS.
This winter was the eighth-coldest on record, and North Texas hasn't seen 80 degrees since October. In 2009, it had already hit 80 degrees 11 times by March 27.
Here's a look back at the cold winter months:
Coldest day: An average of 23 degrees Jan. 8.
Lowest temperature: 13 degrees Jan. 9.
Snowiest day: 11.2 inches Feb. 11. The 24-hour total for Feb. 11-12 was 12.5 inches, the most in D-FW history.
Snowy days: Seven, third all-time.
Very cold February: On average, the daily high was 10.8 degrees below normal.
Average overall temperature: 42.9 degrees, the eighth-coldest.
THEY WANT US TO MIGRATE TO DEVICES WHICH MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO SHARE CONTENT AND INDEPENDENTLY CREATE CONTENT SO THEY CAN CHARGE US FOR ALL CONTENT AND EVERY DOWNLOAD.
lwcienWELL SAID.
April 1st, 2010 3:31pm
the complete moral bankruptcy of Britain's progressive liberal elite is extremely shocking.
Martin Amis recently at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the meeting place for what passes for the avant-garde in London -
'That liberals cannot make a stand against a global wave of religious mayhem that is ‘irrationally, misogynist, homophobic, inquisitional, totalitarian, imperialist and genocidal,’ to use Amis’s list, is a moral failure as great as their predecessors’ inability to see Josef Stalin for what he was and offer support to communism’s victims
then he asked-
‘Would all those in the hall who think they are morally superior to the Taliban please raise your hands,’ he asked.
Only a third did.
And here'a culture who throw acid in the faces of women who do not wear the veil, execute teachers for teaching girls to read and write amongst other attrocities
Can you imagine if he had asked 'would all in the hall who think they are morally superior to the Israelis please raise your hands,’
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Consider this:
If, 17 years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton or Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin freeze all settlement construction, including in Jerusalem, before Arafat would sit down with Rabin, there would have been no Oslo agreements.
... The same year as the famous handshake on the White House lawn, 1993, the Rabin government completed the construction of more than 6,000 units in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood of East Jerusalem, out of a total of 13,000 units that were in various stages of completion in areas of the city that had been outside Israeli lines before 1967.
So Arafat did sit down with Rabin, even while Israel's construction in Jerusalem continued.
And, on Sept. 13, 1993, the Oslo peace accord was signed -- by the same Mahmoud Abbas who refuses to sit down today.
And on October 14, 1994, Rabin, who built homes for Jews in East Jerusalem, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Altogether, Israel completed 30,000 dwelling units in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem in the four years of Rabin's government.
Even the Jan. 9, 1995, announcement of a plan to build 15,000 additional apartments in East Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the 1967 borders (especially Pisgat Zeev, Neve Yaacov, Gilo, and Har Homa) did not stop negotiations, which resulted in the Oslo II accord of September 28, 1995.
Israeli construction continued while Abbas and Rabin signed an historic accord.
OBAMA AND ABBAS ARE THEREFORE NOW TRYING TO IMPLEMEMENT A NEW POLICY AND TERRIBLE IN ORDERR TO SCREW ISRAEL.
IT WON'T STAND.
A UNITED JERUSALEM WILL BE HERE LONG AFTER BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA IS GONE.
THESE WERE CAREFULLY TARGETED COUNTER-ATTACKS FOR A ROCKET ATTACK BY GAZANS ON ISRAEL ON THE DAY MESHAAL PROMISED RUSSIA THAT HE'D HALT THEM.
Israeli planes and helicopters mounted at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, destroying what a military spokesman described as Palestinian munitions sites.Four air strikes blew up two caravans near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and Hamas officials said. There were no casualties.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is set to meet the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia in Caracas Friday to sign military and energy deals that broaden Russia's footprint in Latin America.Putin's first visit to Venezuela underscores Russia's deepening relations with Latin America's leading leftist regime, and serves as doorway to a region long considered the US back yard.
Russia and Venezuela in 2005 and 2007 signed 12 military agreements worth some 4.4 billion dollars that have raised some concern in Washington.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week thanked Russia for helping Venezuela "bolster its defensive potential" in the face of "threats" from the United States as he announced Putin's visit.
Bolivian President Evo Morales is expected to seek a 100-million dollar loan from Russia to purchase military hardware, including an Antonov aircraft for the president's use, officials in La Paz said.
Russian officials, including deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, arrived in Caracas Wednesday to prepare for Putin's visit.
Putin and Chavez will sign "accords taking us to the next phase of cooperation with Russia, which no longer will be limited to energy and military matters, but now also includes social, cultural and health issues," Vice President Elias Jaua said Thursday on state-run VTV television.
THIS MUST BE COUNTERED.
I HAVE DOUBTS OBAMA WILL DO ANYTHING.
I SUSPECT IT PLEASES HIM TO SEE THE USA'S INFLUENCE WANE.
ALL LEFTISTS WANT TO SEE THE USA WEAKENED.
Assad on Sunday called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ditch negotiations with Israel in favor of “armed resistance.”REPEAT:
Kerry, nonetheless, said in Damascus following a three-hour meeting with Assad that Syria was committed to engaging in peace-making and was essential to the Mideast process.
Assad on Sunday called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ditch negotiations with Israel in favor of “armed resistance.”REPEAT:
Kerry, nonetheless, said in Damascus following a three-hour meeting with Assad that Syria was committed to engaging in peace-making and was essential to the Mideast process.
Assad on Sunday called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ditch negotiations with Israel in favor of “armed resistance.”UNBEFREAKIN'LIEVABLE.
Kerry, nonetheless, said in Damascus following a three-hour meeting with Assad that Syria was committed to engaging in peace-making and was essential to the Mideast process.
The number of terror-related attacks in Israel doubled last month, rising from 53 in February to 125 in March, a Shin Bet report published on Thursday said.THOSE WHO THINK THAT THINGS WOULD IMPROVE IF ISRAEL WOULD ONLY GIVE IN TO THIS CONSTANT TERROR ARE INSANE DUPES OR PEOPLE DELIBERATELY ABETTING ARAB INTERESTS.
The most dramatic rise in attacks occurred in Jerusalem, while attacks from Gaza were the most prevalent.
The report said that the rise in terror attacks - which include Molotov cocktails hurled, Qassam rockets fired from Gaza and shooting-related incidents - was documented across Israel.
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The real reason the Democrats are making a CONCERTED effort to smear the Tea Party as racist is to motivate their BLACK BASE top vote in large numbers/high % this November.
One of the MAJOR reasons Obama beat McCain was the black turnout; they need to repeat this to have any chance of holding the House and the Senate.
Here's the back-story:
THE MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR OBAMA WAS THE BLACK VOTE;In last year’s presidential election, younger blacks voted in greater proportions than whites for the first time and black women turned out at a higher rate than any other racial, ethnic and gender group, a census analysis released Monday confirmed.
As a result, in the election that produced the nation’s first black president, the historic gap between black and white voter participation rates over all virtually evaporated.Total turnout in 2008 was about the same as it was in 2004, about 64 percent of voting age citizens.
But with Barack Obama on the ballot, the makeup of the 131 million who voted last year was markedly different.
While the number of non-Hispanic white voters remained roughly the same, 2 million more blacks, 2 million more Latinos and 600,000 more Asians turned out.
Compared with 2004, the voting rate for black, Asian and Hispanic voters increased by about four percentage points.
The rate for whites declined by one percentage point.
IN 2008, THE LEFT HAD A BLACK MAN ON THE TOP OF THE TICKET, AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT. (THEY ALSO LIED, AND TOLD THE ELECTORATE THAT OBAMA - THE MOST LEFTIST CANDIDATE EVER NOMINATED - WAS A CENTRIST.)As Barack Obama trekked through the Philadelphia suburbs, Northern Virginia and Greensboro, N.C., in recent days, his campaign was ramping up a massive parallel effort in big cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Miami.
In the largely black precincts of those metropolises, radio broadcasts blast constant reminders to vote for Obama, field organizers swarm, and megastars including Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and LeBron James have led massive rallies, working to reach not just the substantial portion of the black community who regularly come out to vote but also the younger people and others who have never before cast a ballot.
Though the rallies are publicized, much of the advertising directed at black voters isn't. Get-out-the-vote ads on radio and television aren't released to the media, and the number of new voters Obama has registered is a closely held secret. He is, however, leaving no stone unturned when it comes to registering African-American voters. The campaign has, for example, a major initiative aimed at turning barbershops and beauty parlors into voter registration offices. This week, Kimora Lee Simmons' E! Network reality show, "Life in the Fab Lane," carried a campaign ad at the bottom of the screen reminding citizens to register to vote.
Monday morning, the deadline for registration in several key states, Obama appeared on two of the most widely heard African-American radio programs, where hosts implored listeners to register to vote and Obama directed them to his campaign's registration website.
"The African-American vote can be a game-changer in all sorts of states," Obama told host Steve Harvey. "In Florida, in Indiana, in North Carolina, in Ohio. I just want people to look at the numbers."
Little of this targeted outreach has produced images of Obama addressing black crowds or mingling with black officials, and most has gone unnoticed by the broader electorate.
"If you didn't notice it, then you probably weren't the target," said Obama spokesman Corey Ealons of the targeted advertising. He described the campaign's general voter registration drive — which has focused heavily on young voters, as well as African-Americans — as "a very extensive effort and that's been one of the highlights and major focuses of the campaign."
Why preten to open up domestic oil-drilling? To find someone else to blame (hint: ChevronTexaco, et.al) for the increase in gasoline prices while the crushing economy and job market hammers Americans.
Short version: Obama makes a meaningless announcement while the other wheels of obstruction to domestic energy production gear up to prevent any new production. Who has standing to sue and prevent the actual production? Every damned environmental organization that has been suing to shut down production and refinement for the last 30 years, that's who.
The price of oil is approximately 55% of the price of a gallon of gasoline. Most other costs, delivery, refinement, marketing and distribution, are pretty much fixed.
This announcement from Obama is worth exactly what his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class is worth.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction on Wednesday called for escalating the “popular struggle” against the security barrier and the settlements in the West Bank.
The call came as Palestinians expressed skepticism about a pledge by the recent Arab League summit in Libya to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to boost the Arab presence in Jerusalem.
Veteran members of the Fatah Central Committee, including Nabil Shaath, Mahmoud al-Aloul, Muhammad Dahlan, Hussein al-Sheikh and Jibril Rajoub, said that the decision to escalate popular protests against the security fence and settlements was part of the faction’s political platform.
They said the Sixth General Assembly of Fatah, which met last year in Bethlehem for the first time in over 20 years, had endorsed “popular resistance” as a means of confronting Israel’s measures in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The idea that the government can provide you with a better service or good than a private business - because the private business makes a profit at your expense.
It fell to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to play the role Khrushchev once played in toughening a young American president.
The former Soviet leader thought he could browbeat Kennedy only to discover, in Vienna, that the Kennedy charm was not unalloyed to steel (“It will be a long, cold winter.”) Netanyahu was the first foreign leader to think he could steamroll Obama. He earned a frosty comeuppance.
The Israeli leader toyed with Obama’s unequivocal call in Cairo last June for a “stop” to Israeli settlements. He allowed the ill-timed announcement that 1,600 apartments for Jews will be built in East Jerusalem. Then, rather than scrap that, Netanyahu chose cheap cheers from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee with “Jerusalem is not a settlement.”
(I say cheap because everyone knows Jerusalem is not a settlement. That’s not the issue. The issue is that the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem is rejected by the rest of the world and any peace agreement will involve an inventive deal on its status. To build is therefore to provoke.)
Obama was not amused. He airbrushed Netanyahu’s White House visit. The message was clear: The Middle East status quo does not serve the interests of the United States (or Israel). When Obama says “stop,” he does not mean “build a bit.”
Sometimes mistakes are needed. Through the law of unintended consequences they open new avenues.
So it is with the East Jerusalem housing fiasco. Nothing will happen in the Middle East unless the United States is seen as an honest broker able to criticize both sides when needed. Obama’s anger sped a needed clarification and freed debate.
As Andrew Sullivan has observed, a cultural shift is underway with respect to Israel: “The critics have been called ‘self-hating Jews’ if they are Jewish, or anti-Semites if they are not, but these barbs — once sufficient to end someone’s career — have failed to have an effect this time.”
Yes, indeed.
ANTI-ZIONIST LEFTIST SCUM LIKE COHEN AND SULLIVAN THINK THAT WHEN THE USA TREATS AN ALLY - ISRAEL - SHABBILY AND THE LEADERS OF FATAH WITH DEFERENCE THAT THIS IS BEING AN HONEST BROKER.
THAT SAYS IT ALL.
THE FACT IS: ISRAEL HAS BEEN BUILDING IN JERUSALEM SINCE 1968.
SO BUILDING 1600 MORE APARTMENTS REALLY ISN'T NEW.
THE FACT IS, DURING BIDEN'S TRIP THE PA/FATAH DEDICATED A PUBLIC SQUARE TO A WOMAN WHO COMMITTED ONE OF THE WORST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAEL. AND NEITHER BIDEN OR OBAMA OR HILLARY SAID "BOO".
THEIR SILENCE ABOUT THIS AND MEANS IT MIST BE OKAY TO THE OBAMA AND THE NYTIMES.
Russia has virtually lost the sales market for its natural gas in the United States of America and runs risks of losing its positions in Europe at this point too. Sergey Dontsov, Deputy Minister for Nature of the Russian Federation, said ... the USA considerably increased the extraction of shale gas last year which can ruin another project of Gazprom – Sakhalin-2. Both Shtokman and Sakhalin-2 projects are being conducted to sell natural gas mostly to the United States.THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO DRILL FOR OIL IN THE USA - IT WOULD FURTHER WEAKEN OPEC AND RUSSIA.Russia ’s gas leadership in Europe is not so stable either. The countries of Western Europe cut their purchase of Russian gas by 29 percent during the first six months of 2009. Germany cut the import of Russian gas by 44 percent, Italy – by 34 percent, France – by 21 percent. Europeans try to boost their gas deals with Norway, the countries of Northern Africa and the Persian Gulf.
A British parliamentary committee on Saturday questioned whether arms exports are approved to[o] easily, the Guardian reported, citing Israel’s use of British equipments and weaponry during last year's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.DIMINISHING THE USA-UK RELATIONSHIP AIDS GLOBAL JIHAD - AND THE LEFT-WING PLAN FOR A TRANSNATIONAL GLOBAL SOCIALISTIC ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT FOR THE WEST - A DHIMMITUDINOUS GOVERNMENT WHICH WILL APPEASE, AID AND ABET THE ISLAMIC WORLD.
... "It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead,” the House of Commons committee on strategic export controls said. "This is in direct contravention to the UK government's policy that UK arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories."
Following the operation, the UK revoked five arms export licenses given to British companies for the sale of military equipment to Israel. The use of the weapons in Gaza, it said, constituted a “contravention” of the conditions of the sale.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that the Gaza conflict would be taken into account in all future sales considerations. The MPs welcomed this, but also called for measures to ensure that such uses do not recur.
Among the equipment under question are components in fighter jet cockpit displays and helicopters, armored personnel carriers and gun parts.
A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.”WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID, "A LIE GETS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH GETS ITS PANTS ON."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her belief that Turkey is not suitable for full EU membership, on the first day of an official Turkish visit.
Turkey should not view her offer of a "privileged partnership" - rather than full membership - negatively, she said.
Turkey, which began negotiations to become a member in 2005, has dismissed that offer as an insult.
There were also disagreements over Iran, Cyprus and educating Turkish children in Germany in Turkish.
Germany is Turkey's biggest trading partner, its biggest foreign investor, its biggest source of tourist revenue, and nearly three million Turks live in Germany.
Brava Angela! MORE:
Turkey's sometimes fraught relationship with the European Union will not be helped by this visit.
On Iran, Mrs Merkel wants Turkish support for international sanctions, which Mr Erdogan argues are counter-productive and hypocritical.
Turkey has recently strengthened its relations with Iran and opposes the tougher sanctions threatened by Western governments.
MAYBE IF TURKEY BEHAVED LIKE A DEPENDABLE ALLY OF EUROPE AND THE WEST THINGS MIGHT BE DIFFERENT VIS A VIS THEIR ASPIRATION TO JOIN THE EU.
BUT THE AKP'S ISLAMIST CORE DOESN'T REALLY PERMIT THEM TO FAVOR CHRISTIAN EUROPEANS OVER THEIR FELLOW MUSLIMS.
WHICH IS WHY - WHILE FIGHTING WW4, WHICH IS A WAR AGAINST GLOBAL JIHADISM - IT'S INSANE TO KEEP TURKEY IN NATO.
TURKEY SHOULD NO MORE BE IN NATO THAN THE EU.
Read more ....A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in farm attacks over past decade.
White Farmers 'Being Wiped Out' -- Times Online
Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate.
THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.
Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.
As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.
In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.The resurrection of Dubula Ibhunu, defended by senior ANC officials as little more then a sentimental old struggle song, has been greeted with alarm by Tom Stokes, of the opposition Democratic Alliance. He said the ANC’s continued association with the call to kill Boers could not be justified.
“Any argument by the ANC that this song is merely a preservation of struggle literature rings hollow in the face of farming families who have lost wives, mothers and grandmothers,” he added.
He was supported by Anton Alberts of the right-wing Freedom Front Plus party: “Malema’s comments are creating an atmosphere that is conducive to those who want to commit murder. He’s an accessory to the wiping out of farmers in South Africa.”
Rossouw Cillier, Pieter’s brother, bristled as he pointed to the bullet holes in the panelled kitchen of the farmhouse near Ceres in the Western Cape. “They shot him through the fridge from the back door — the bullets came straight through here, into his heart. He never had a chance,” he said.
A successful apple and pear grower, he believes his community is living on borrowed time: “More white farmers have been killed than British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yes, we are at war here.”
The African National Congress (ANC) has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a "disciplined force of the left".[2] Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population. John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members. The organization became the ANC in 1923 and formed a military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) in 1961.
It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994. It gained support in the 1999 elections, and further increased its majority in 2004, with 69.7% of the votes. In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65.9% of the votes.
Is this really "post-Apartheid"?
Or, are parts of South Africa still under a new Apartheid pointed in the opposite direction?
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he did not favour imposing economic sanctions to pressure Iran into showing that it has no covert nuclear weapons program.
Erdogan discussed different approaches with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions, but made clear Turkey's reluctance to back the use of sanctions.
"We are of the view that sanctions is not a healthy path and... that the best route is diplomacy," he said at a joint news conference with Merkel.
Turkey is a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and Erdogan said it had not yet reached a firm decision on how it would vote on a U.S.-backed sanctions resolution.
TURKEY IS NOW PART OF THE AXIS OF EVIL AND AN ALLY OF IRAN'S AND NOT PART OF THE WEST.
THEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO AND KICKED OFF THE UNSC.
Mr. Obama, speaking at a health care rally in northern Virginia on March 19, said, “Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
The authors of the law say they meant to ban all forms of discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions like asthma, diabetes, birth defects, orthopedic problems, leukemia, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. The goal, they say, was to provide those youngsters with access to insurance and to a full range of benefits once they are in a health plan.
To insurance companies, the language of the law is not so clear.
Insurers agree that if they provide insurance for a child, they must cover pre-existing conditions. But, they say, the law does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not guarantee the “availability of coverage” for all until 2014.
William G. Schiffbauer, a lawyer whose clients include employers and insurance companies, said: “The fine print differs from the larger political message. If a company sells insurance, it will have to cover pre-existing conditions for children covered by the policy. But it does not have to sell to somebody with a pre-existing condition. And the insurer could increase premiums to cover the additional cost.”
Congressional Democrats were furious when they learned that some insurers disagreed with their interpretation of the law.
“The concept that insurance companies would even seek to deny children coverage exemplifies why we fought for this reform,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
"In a private fee-for-service medical system, a dead patient is a revenue loss. In the National Health Service (UK), a dead patient was a cost savings."
The above quote is from my late father. He had a very unique perspective on the practice of medicine, especially as it relates to the various delivery systems. He was born and brought up in England and entered medical school there in 1950, training under the National Health Service and graduating in 1956. He emigrated to the US in 1957 and went into private practice for 24 years, 8 years pre-Medicare and the period after until 1981, becoming a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical school and a US Citizen along the way. In 1982 he decided he wanted to give something back to his adopted country in gratitude for the wonderful opportunities it had given him, so he joined the US Navy at age 52 and served first as the head of the Radiology residency program (27 residents and the largest program in the military) and then Chairman of the Radiology Department at the Balboa Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego until his retirement at the rank of captain in 1991.
Basic surgical procedures that could improve the lives of thousands of people are being withheld by NHS trusts desperate to save money, according to some of the country's leading doctors.
In a letter in today's Guardian, the presidents of associations representing six of the biggest surgical disciplines claim "patients attend their GP surgeries with conditions that can be effectively treated by surgery and are being turned away".
Some of the patients may not even be told that an operation could help their problem, the surgeons say. Even when the sick are referred to a hospital consultant they can be refused operations because trusts have "arbitrarily defined a number of operations that reduce pain, improve quality of life and prevent serious long-term complications as being of 'limited clinical value'".
THIS IS WHAT OBAMACARE WILL LEAD TO HERE - IF WE DON'T REPEAL AND REPLACE IT.
VOTE GOP THIS NOVEMBER.
THE LIFE YOU AVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!
REMEMBER:
The committee said although Britain and the US still had close ties, the UK's influence had "diminished" as its economic and military power had waned.THEY ARE ALSO DRIVING A WEDGE BETWEEN THE USA AND ISRAEL.
"The use of the phrase 'the special relationship' in its historical sense, to describe the totality of the ever-evolving UK-US relationship, is potentially misleading, and we recommend that its use should be avoided," the committee said.
The US may abstain from voting on a possible UN Security Council concerning the topic of Jewish construction in east Jerusalem, the BBC reported Thursday, citing a US official.
According to the report, the unnamed official spoke with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasim Al Thani last week during talks in Paris.
According to the news network, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was in Paris last week in order to hold talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - hinting that Mitchell was the diplomat who made the previous statement.
The exchange came to public attention during a meeting at the Arab League summit in Sirte, Libya.
The US is one of five permanent members of the Security Council with veto power, and while the US usually blocks any condemning resolutions regarding Israel, their decision to possibly abstain might allow the bill to pass.
Did anyone notice Shepard Smith’s passionate rant against Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs a few days ago? I always thought Smith was just a smarmy, jock-type teeny-bopper. But he obviously knows which side his bread is buttered on, and he is fully capable of getting all lathered up over something about which he is absolutely ignorant.And that's not the only grave mistake they've made lately: Glenn Beck, usually until now one of the better news hosts, turned against the very man he'd once hosted on his show when he called Geert Wilders a fascist, with A.B Stoddard, Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer turning against him as well. In fact, here's a video clip now:
Today on Fox News, Amy Kellogg did another hit piece on Israel, using a cute little heart-strings-tugger about the peaceful Syrian civilians who picnic on the Golan Heights in nostalgic longing for the times when it belonged to Syria. Of course, there was no mention of the carnage and slaughter inflicted on peaceful Israeli citizens when the Syrians were in charge of the Golan. Apparently, there’s no nostalgia in that.
Beck hosted Wilders on his show a year or two ago. If Beck can host Wilders, I don't know why he's concerned that England did.Maybe now we do: if bin Talal's considerable stake in NewsCorp, which also owns the Weekly Standard, if I'm not mistaken, means anything. More from Atlas Shrugs.
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on his first visit to the country since taking office.At a joint press conference, Mr Karzai thanked Mr Obama for US support and said he hoped the partnership would continue.
"The American people are encouraged by the progress that's been made," Mr Obama said, adding he hoped to see more improvement on governance, anti-corruption efforts and judicial process.
He also thanked US troops, and their partners in the Nato coalition, for their efforts in Afghanistan.
"They make tremendous sacrifices far away from home, and I want to make sure they know how proud their commander-in-chief is of them," he said.
The pair are expected to hold one-to-one talks during Mr Obama's visit to the heavily-guarded presidential palace.
The US president is then expected to go back to the US military base at Bagram, where he is likely to address troops and may also visit injured soldiers.
US officials said Mr Obama would discuss benchmarks with Mr Karzai and other senior government figures.
The US president remains unhappy with the direction of the Karzai government and Washington wants to make its frustration known, our correspondent adds.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs also said Mr Obama wanted to get an "on the ground update" about the eight-year-old war from Gen Stanley McChrystal, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
The president was met on arrival at Bagram air base by Gen McChrystal and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry.
Strained relations
Mr Obama travelled to Afghanistan during his campaign for the 2008 presidential election, while still a senator, but this is his first visit to the country since becoming the US commander-in-chief in January 2009.
There were strained relations between the White House and the Karzai government last year over the disputed Afghan elections.
BETCHYA HE WORKS IN A "VISIT" TO A MOSQUE!
Arab leaders on Sunday called for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons during a closed-door session at the Arab League summit in Libya, diplomats at the meeting said.THIS IS A RUSE TO DISARM ISRAEL - WHICH IS A PREAMBLE FOR ATTACKING WITH CONVENTIONAL WEAPONRY AND ARMIES.
Many Arab countries view Israel's alleged nuclear program and Iran's nuclear programs with alarm, and have repeatedly called for an agreement to ban nuclear weapons from the region.
In their closing statements, leaders stressed that the development of nuclear weapons threatened peace and security, diplomats who attended the closed-door session told the German Press Agency DPA.