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Monday, January 27, 2014

Joint N.J. legislative committee probing Christie"s "Bridgegate"

(Reuters) – New Jersey state legislators voted on Monday to merge parallel investigations into the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal ensnaring Republican Governor Chris Christie.


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Monday, December 30, 2013

US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq

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US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq

Saturday, September 28, 2013

In a Fast-Food Joint, Please Don"t Be This Guy


(Newser) – Blogger Charles Clymer makes a plea for decency by recounting in the Huffington Post a recent visit to McDonald’s. A man sitting at a nearby table spilled his drink, let it pour onto the floor, and then simply moved to another table. “Don’t clean it up,” he told his wife. “That’s what these people get paid to do.” Clymer’s response: He asked the manager for a mop and bucket, and cleaned up the mess himself as the couple watched.


The wife looked chagrined and apologized, but the husband said nothing and left the store. “These people” are often hard-working, low-wage workers who do not double as slaves, writes Clymer. “It doesn’t matter your station in life: You do not get a pass on being considerate to others,” he concludes. “Don’t be that person who gets publicly embarrassed because you were a jerk.” Click for the full post.




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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Israel says it conducts joint missile test with US








Syrian refugees arrive at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. Routine prevailed at a US-Turkish airbase in southern Turkey on Monday, a day after the US alleged that sarin gas was used in an August chemical weapons attack in Syria. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)





Syrian refugees arrive at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. Routine prevailed at a US-Turkish airbase in southern Turkey on Monday, a day after the US alleged that sarin gas was used in an August chemical weapons attack in Syria. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)





A girl with the Syrian flag painted on her cheek attends a demonstration by adults protesting any military action in Syria by the U.S., outside the U.S. embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)





Venezuelans of Arab descent hold up photographs of Syria’s late President Hafez Assad, father of Syria’s current President Bashar Assad, right, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, outside the U.S. embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. The demonstrators are protesting any military action in Syria by the U.S. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)













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(AP) — Israel and the U.S. conducted a joint missile test over the Mediterranean on Tuesday, an apparent display of military prowess as the Obama administration seeks congressional support for strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.


Any U.S. strikes, in retaliation for alleged chemical weapons use by the Assad regime, are not expected before next week when Congress gets back from summer recess.


The Israeli Defense Ministry said the test was performed together with the U.S. Defense Department. A Sparrow missile was launched successfully at 9:15 a.m. and followed its planned trajectory. The Arrow missile defense system successful detected and tracked the target, the ministry said. It was not clear from the statement if the Sparrow was shot down.


The Sparrow is a medium-range guided missile that can be launched either from the surface or the air to hit aerial targets, according to the manufacturer.


In Washington, there was no immediate White House comment.


The missile test came at a time of heightened tensions as Washington weighs sea-launched strikes against Syria. Israel has been increasingly concerned that it will be drawn into Syria’s brutal civil war which has repeatedly spilled over into neighboring countries.


Since the weekend, the Obama administration has been lobbying for congressional support for military action against the Assad regime.


The administration says it has evidence that Assad’s forces launched attacks with chemical weapons on rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Aug. 21. The U.S. has alleged that the nerve agent sarin was used and that at least 1,429 people were killed, including more than 400 children.


Last week, President Barack Obama appeared poised to authorize military strikes, but unexpectedly stepped back over the weekend to first seek approval from Congress, which returns from summer recess next week.


On Monday, the U.S. administration won backing from French intelligence and reportedly also from Germany’s spy agency for its claim that Assad’s forces were responsible for the suspected chemical weapons attacks.


A nine-page intelligence synopsis published by the French government concluded that the regime launched the attacks involving a “massive use of chemical agents” and could carry out similar strikes in the future.


In Germany, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) also believes Assad’s regime was behind the attacks. On its website, the magazine reported that BND head Gerhard Schindler recently told top government officials in a secret briefing that while the evidence is not absolutely conclusive, an “analysis of plausibility” supports the idea of the Syrian government as the perpetrator.


The Assad regime has denied using chemical weapons, blaming rebels instead. Neither the U.S. nor Syria and its allies have presented conclusive proof in public.


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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

North Korea says it will reopen joint industrial zone with South


(CNN) — North Korea said Wednesday it will allow South Korean companies to return to the Kaesong industrial zone, where it had suspended activity during a period of high tension earlier this year.


The North said it would lift measures it imposed in April that halted operations at the shared manufacturing complex, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.


Pyongyang will guarantee the safety of South Korean personnel in the zone, the statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said.




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Friday, August 2, 2013

U.S. Senate confirms Obama"s head of Joint Chiefs of Staff


U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies at a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on ”Department Leadership.” on Capitol Hill in Washington June 11, 2013.


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