Khamenei seeks to tamp down the rising political spats that could signal weakness to the West in nuclear negotiations set to resume next week. He also wants to close off any openings for public complaints over the economic pain from the expanding sanctions.
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The Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party said it backed Friday’s rally in a symbolic way but did not mobilize supporters for the event, meaning the numbers were smaller than at previous Islamist protests.
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The time has come for an evaluation of the impact of US aid to the PA Security Forces, however well intended.
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The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-16 00:49:422016-04-11 11:24:34Encroachment: Russian Nuclear Bombers Circle Guam
Tensions are building over Japan’s efforts to drive down the yen, but ministers have resisted a crackdown.
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The latest push comes just days after the ACLJ and its European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice, filed a document urging the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva to call on Iran to immediately release Saeed.
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Ambassador Jacobson “took pains” to note that he was not drawing a direct link to Keystone or suggesting stronger Canadian action on climate change will ensure U.S. approval of the project.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-15 00:38:162016-04-11 11:24:40Ambassador: US Wants More Canadian ‘Progress’ On Climate
The ouster is becoming a trend with this Administration, although it is all very subtle. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said earlier in the day that he told Allen on Tuesday that Allen needs to take time to decide what is best for him and his family. No pressure.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-14 03:00:352016-04-11 11:24:41Gen. Allen ‘Pushed Out’ For Top NATO Post By White House, Source Says
Rising tensions between China and Japan could have serious implications for the US, especially with respect to treaty obligations.
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The assessment is also expected to address whether North Korea will share the mobile ICBM technology with Iran.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-13 01:16:232016-04-11 11:24:47Pentagon Conducting Urgent Assessment Of North Korean Mobile ICBM Threat
The stage is set for Mr. Obama to magically saw the climate-change issue down the middle and come out a winner: approve Keystone to placate one side and impose a carbon tax and other regulations to keep the other side happy.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-13 00:47:402016-04-11 11:24:48Chicago-Style Diplomacy: Obama May Require Carbon Tax of Canada for Approval of Keystone Pipeline
The UN Security Council is holding urgent talks after the latest nuclear test as Pyongyang calls on troops to prepare for combat.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-13 00:33:482016-04-11 11:24:48North Korea Prepares Troops for Combat
The Security Council will meet later on Tuesday to discuss its reaction to the test, although North Korea is already one of the most heavily sanctioned states in the world and has few external economic links that can be targeted.
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The lightning strike was a fitting symbol, as the Pope’s decision is unprecedented. He is the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and no Pontiff in history has stepped down on health grounds.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-12 01:34:432016-04-11 11:24:50A Signal From Above? Lightning Hits St Peter’s Hours After Pope Benedict Stuns Cardinals With First Resignation In 600 Years
Israel has made it clear that it is prepared to do whatever is necessary to stop any flow of weapons to Hezbollah
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He will become the first Pope since 1415 to resign . . .
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-11 06:00:132016-04-11 11:24:54Pope Benedict XVI to Resign at the End of February
The U.S.’s bilateral trade deficit with China, which peaked in 2012, could remain a flashpoint of tension between the two countries.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-11 02:03:282016-04-11 11:24:55China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation Measured in Goods
When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-11 00:51:292016-04-11 11:24:57Putin Turns Black Gold Into Bullion As Russia Out-Buys World
Hundreds of thousands of people marched on Sunday in Tehran and other cities chanting “Death to America” as Iran marked the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed shah.
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Analysts say a “currency war” is under way as major economies take action either verbally or through monetary intervention to weaken their currencies and keep them competitive.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-10 01:01:472016-04-11 11:25:01Has China Quietly Joined the Currency War?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta is pleading for caution and says, “the situation could ultimately get out of hand.” Not everyone believes fighting is inevitable, but it’s perhaps just as likely as not.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-10 00:20:392016-04-11 11:25:02Two Chilling Developments Suggest Asia May Be One Step Away From War
A new British report by investigators with Conflict Armament Research concludes Iran has been expanding its footprint in Africa by secretly supplying unmarked ammunition to fuel regional conflicts.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-09 00:54:392016-04-11 11:25:06Weapons Seizure In Yemen Shines Light On Iran’s Attempts To Destabilize Region (+video)
Iran’s Supreme Leader Steps Deeper Into The Political Fray And Uncharted Territory
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Associated PressKhamenei seeks to tamp down the rising political spats that could signal weakness to the West in nuclear negotiations set to resume next week. He also wants to close off any openings for public complaints over the economic pain from the expanding sanctions.
Islamists Rally For Egypt’s Mursi In Cairo
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Asma AlsharifThe Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party said it backed Friday’s rally in a symbolic way but did not mobilize supporters for the event, meaning the numbers were smaller than at previous Islamist protests.
How the U.S. Aids Hamas Through the Palestinian Authority
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by David BedeinThe time has come for an evaluation of the impact of US aid to the PA Security Forces, however well intended.
Encroachment: Russian Nuclear Bombers Circle Guam
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by Bill GertzThe bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
G20 Summit To Focus On ‘Currency War’ Threat To Economy
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Russell LynchTensions are building over Japan’s efforts to drive down the yen, but ministers have resisted a crackdown.
Lawmakers Urge Kerry To Push Iran For Jailed Pastor’s Freedom
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by FoxNews.comThe latest push comes just days after the ACLJ and its European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice, filed a document urging the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva to call on Iran to immediately release Saeed.
Ambassador: US Wants More Canadian ‘Progress’ On Climate
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by Ben GemanAmbassador Jacobson “took pains” to note that he was not drawing a direct link to Keystone or suggesting stronger Canadian action on climate change will ensure U.S. approval of the project.
Iceland Considers Pornography Ban
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by telegraph.co.ukIceland could become the first Western democracy to attempt censorship of the internet under radical proposals to block online pornography.
Gen. Allen ‘Pushed Out’ For Top NATO Post By White House, Source Says
/11 Comments/in Featured, International /by FoxNews.comThe ouster is becoming a trend with this Administration, although it is all very subtle. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said earlier in the day that he told Allen on Tuesday that Allen needs to take time to decide what is best for him and his family. No pressure.
John Kerry Commanding Respect – Russian Foreign Minister Won’t Return His Call
/15 Comments/in Featured, International /by Josh RoginIt appears John Kerry’s tenure as Secretary of State is off to a rather inauspicious start. How’s that reset workin’ out anyway?
Are China And Japan Moving Closer To War? Japan Proposes Military Hotline With China (+video)
/2 Comments/in Featured, International, Video /by The Extinction ProtocalRising tensions between China and Japan could have serious implications for the US, especially with respect to treaty obligations.
Pentagon Conducting Urgent Assessment Of North Korean Mobile ICBM Threat
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Bill GertzThe assessment is also expected to address whether North Korea will share the mobile ICBM technology with Iran.
Chicago-Style Diplomacy: Obama May Require Carbon Tax of Canada for Approval of Keystone Pipeline
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Terence CorcoranThe stage is set for Mr. Obama to magically saw the climate-change issue down the middle and come out a winner: approve Keystone to placate one side and impose a carbon tax and other regulations to keep the other side happy.
North Korea Prepares Troops for Combat
/6 Comments/in Featured, International /by SkyNews.comThe UN Security Council is holding urgent talks after the latest nuclear test as Pyongyang calls on troops to prepare for combat.
North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test, Drawing New Sanctions Threat
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by David Chance and Jack KimThe Security Council will meet later on Tuesday to discuss its reaction to the test, although North Korea is already one of the most heavily sanctioned states in the world and has few external economic links that can be targeted.
A Signal From Above? Lightning Hits St Peter’s Hours After Pope Benedict Stuns Cardinals With First Resignation In 600 Years
/4 Comments/in Featured, International /by Simon Tomlinson and Richard Hartley-ParkinsonThe lightning strike was a fitting symbol, as the Pope’s decision is unprecedented. He is the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and no Pontiff in history has stepped down on health grounds.
Israel On Alert: Israel Appears To Be Readying For Conflict With Lebanon
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Adam KredoIsrael has made it clear that it is prepared to do whatever is necessary to stop any flow of weapons to Hezbollah
Pope Benedict XVI to Resign at the End of February
/4 Comments/in Featured, International /by FoxNews.comHe will become the first Pope since 1415 to resign . . .
Obama Admin Orchestrated The Arab Spring? (+video)
/10 Comments/in Featured, International /by Kris ZaneBarack Obama couldn’t have planned to install Islamists throughout the Middle East and North Africa, could he?
China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation Measured in Goods
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by Bloomberg NewsThe U.S.’s bilateral trade deficit with China, which peaked in 2012, could remain a flashpoint of tension between the two countries.
Putin Turns Black Gold Into Bullion As Russia Out-Buys World
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by Scott Rose and Olga TanasWhen Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it.
Iranians On Revolution Day Chant ‘Death To America’
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by Al ArabiyaHundreds of thousands of people marched on Sunday in Tehran and other cities chanting “Death to America” as Iran marked the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed shah.
Has China Quietly Joined the Currency War?
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by Dhara RanasingheAnalysts say a “currency war” is under way as major economies take action either verbally or through monetary intervention to weaken their currencies and keep them competitive.
Two Chilling Developments Suggest Asia May Be One Step Away From War
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Robert JohnsonU.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta is pleading for caution and says, “the situation could ultimately get out of hand.” Not everyone believes fighting is inevitable, but it’s perhaps just as likely as not.
Weapons Seizure In Yemen Shines Light On Iran’s Attempts To Destabilize Region (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Catherine HerridgeA new British report by investigators with Conflict Armament Research concludes Iran has been expanding its footprint in Africa by secretly supplying unmarked ammunition to fuel regional conflicts.