A vast hunk of floating ice has broken away from the Antarctic peninsula, threatening the collapse of a much larger ice shelf behind it, in a development that has shocked climate scientists.
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Satellite images show that about 160 square miles of the Wilkins ice shelf has been lost since the end of February, leaving the ice interior now "hanging by a thread".
The collapsing shelf suggests that climate change could be forcing change much more quickly than scientists had predicted. (…)
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Giant Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses! (2008.03.25 + VIDEO)
8 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Obama Doesn’t Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq
8 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Zmag December 08, 2008
Source: AlterNet.org
By Jeremy Scahill
The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama’s thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my commanders" as Obama prepares to assume actual command of U.S. forces.
Source: blogimages
"At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements (…) -
McCain warns Pakistan of Indian air strikes
7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, the Senator said, India would be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan.
Sunday, Dec 07, 2008 Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.
If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, (…) -
Islamabad to demand 35 most wanted terrorists from Delhi
5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Source : Pakistan Observer
By M A Kaiserimam
London—Islamabad has prepared a list of some 35 top terrorists, involved in a number of terror activities in Pakistan and is set to hand over the names to Delhi seeking an early arrest and handing over of the accused to Pakistan, the British daily The ‘Daily Mail’ reported on Wednesday.
According to well-placed sources, the list has been prepared by the Pakistan Foreign Office and the Ministry of Interior, with the assistance of police and (…) -
Indian citizen don’t accept official version of Mumbay attacks, II
5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Here are are some questions on mumbai events raised by sensible indian nationals on indian website (rediff.com). Some of the questions are pasted below for a thorough and patient reading.
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If the terrorists were Pakistani, how did they have such an intimate knowledge of the terrain?
The two who attacked the CST station on Wednesday night made their way from the CST through a road on the left side of The Times of India building towards the Cama and Albess (…) -
Indian citizen don’t accept official version about Mumbay Attacks
5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Is the senseless attack on Mumbai and the heartless killings of innocent people on Thursday 27 a pretext to unleash a campaign to slaughter Muslims as it was done in the aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York and Pensylvania?
The ever growing Washington. London, Tel Aviv and New Delhi axis buttress this fear.
Will the Hindu extremist forces, which hijacked Indian politics under the umbrella of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, unleash, yet another anti Muslim pogrom or prepare the (…) -
Signs Of An Attempted Coup In New Delhi
5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
With a traumatized nation and a paralyzed government, a core group of secular ideologues and Hindu nationalists are executing a ‘soft coup’ in New Delhi to bring to power hawks who want to pursue America’s agenda of grooming India as a regional policeman, sort out Pakistan and confront China. India will self-destroy in the process. India’s military and intelligence has been penetrated. The man who uncovered the plot, Hemant Karkare, the antiterrorism chief of C police, was the first target (…)
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The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat
4 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat
By Nicola Nasser*
Failing to substantiate for the President of the autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, a credible “legal” basis to extend his term from the Basic Law, which is the constitutional terms of reference that govern the rotation of power and the renewal of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the PA, Abbas in his capacity as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation (…) -
A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible
2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
Palestinian – Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter- Palestinian divide.
Commitment or non-commitment to what the Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russian mediators in Middle East peace – making described as the “Annapolis Process” in a statement they released after their meeting in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on (…) -
Evidence Mumbai Attackers were Anglo-American Intel Operatives
30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Evidence Mumbai Attackers were Anglo-American Intel Operatives
Kurt Nimmo Infowars November 27, 2008
As a BBC report notes, at least some of the Mumbai attackers were not Indian and certainly not Muslim. Pappu Mishra, a cafe proprietor at the gothic Victorian Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, described “two sprightly young men dressed in black” with AK47s who were “foreign looking, fair skinned.”
Gaffar Abdul Amir, an Iraqi tourist from Baghdad, saw at least two men who (…)