Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday 15 September 2012

“Pashtun Awakening: Defeat The Taliban By Changing The Narrative – Analysis” plus 29 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:18 PM PDT
By NWSC Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan by undermining the sacred tribal structure of the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group, by attempting to replace it with the extremist ideology and practices of the Taliban – a process we refer to as “de-Pashtunization”. The only way to stop this process is by changing the narrative [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:05 PM PDT
An expert assessment of China’s nuclear weapons strategy highlights the risk of escalation to nuclear war from a conflict beginning with conventional weapons, due to the unusual structure of the nation’s military. The new study, previously only available in Chinese, appears in the latest edition of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE. [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:02 PM PDT
Microsoft has announced plans to open a dedicated tablet gaming studio in London, Digital Spy said citing MCV. The new studio will focus on developing games for Windows 8 tablets and will be headed by former Rare production director Lee Schuneman. Opening in November, the studio is currently hiring staff, including a creative director, incubation [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:01 PM PDT
Several dozen protesters briefly stormed the U.S. embassy compound in Tunisia’s capital Friday, Sept 14, setting fire to cars and raising a flag with the Muslim profession of faith written on it as part of violent demonstrations in the region against an anti-Islam film, The Associated Press reports. Outside the embassy, thousands of demonstrators gathered, [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:58 PM PDT
The recent Democratic National Convention was a demonstration of marketing at its worst, that is to say, at its greatest level of effectiveness. It was also an awful celebration of white washed history, dubious assertions and Orwellian levels of propaganda. The best example of foolishness masquerading as substance was the overwrought reaction to first lady [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:53 PM PDT
By Rajeev Sharma Two new books have been published in the United States on the killing of al Qaida founder chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. The books’ launch coincided with the 9/11 anniversary and have already ignited politics in the US as well as Pakistan. While one book throws barbs [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:49 PM PDT
By Zin Linn Dr. Sein Win, Prime Minister of ‘The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma’ in exile, released a press statement declaring dissolution of the NCGUB today. The NCGUB is a “parallel government” formed in Manerplaw on 18 December 1990 by elected representatives of various political parties, including the National League for [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:46 PM PDT
China’s banging of the nationalist drum over an islands row with Japan is a prelude to a much bigger historical claim. By Philip Bowring China’s outburst of nationalism over the group of Japanese-administered rocks known as the Senkaku islands—or Diaoyu in Chinese—is not just another worrisome indication of the frictions in East Asia which have [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:40 PM PDT
By Peter Aung Burma’s ‘parallel government’ in exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), announced its dissolution today in an effort to support “national reconciliation”. The NCGUB’s Foreign Minister and spokesperson Bo Hla Tint said the group’s dissolution was intended to aid the country’s reform process, and that the decision was [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:38 PM PDT
Yesterday on The Beacon I noted that the Federal Reserve’s new “quantitative easing” measure, QE3, is an example of crony capitalism: the use of public policy to increase the profitability of specific firms and industries. Today I want to compare QE3 with another example of crony capitalism to reinforce the point. General Motors provides a [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:29 PM PDT
By Boris Volkhonsky The recent tragic developments in the Middle East have quite expectedly given a new impetus to the campaign of President Barack Obama’s rival Mitt Romney. Romney himself and his advisers launched an aggressive assault on Barack Obama’s “softness” claiming that things like these would not happen if America had a Republican president. [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:27 PM PDT
British Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have launched a legal action against French gossip magazine Closer over its publication of topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, British media reported. The magazine published Kate’s pictures taken when the couple had been on a private holiday in southern France. A spokesman for the royal [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:25 PM PDT
Students at two universities in the US have been allowed back on campus after the premises were evacuated due to bomb threats. Officials at the University of Texas at Austin say the man who targeted their school claimed to be a member of al-Qaeda. ­The Director of Communications at the University of Texas-Austin, Rhonda Weldon, [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:22 PM PDT
By Dan Robinson President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday received the bodies of four Americans killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya this past week. Tough questions continue to be asked about security in Libya and U.S. diplomatic facilities elsewhere as unrest linked to an anti-Islam [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:09 PM PDT
By Jemal Oumar . The Dawa religious sect was set to meet in Bamako on Friday (September 14th). Instead, members from across the region will mourn the sixteen Dawa preachers slain last week in central Mali. “We are going to dedicate this Friday to burying our brothers from Dawa, who died alongside our Mauritanian Muslim [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT
By Sinisa Jakov Marusic Macedonian education minister, Pance Kralev, has ordered four schools in a mainly Albanian part of the capital to remove their new Albanian names on the grounds that they are illegal. The four schools at the centre of the dispute lie in mainly Albanian areas of the Macedonian capital but are currently [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Foreign ministers from five of the European Union’s newest member states have been tasked with monitoring preparations for Georgia’s parliamentary elections on October 1. The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov will join fellow ministers from Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Romania in traveling to Georgia [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT
Pope Benedict XVI says he is arriving in the Middle East with a message of peace as he begins a 3-day Apostolic Visit to Lebanon. “Dear friends, I have come to Lebanon as a pilgrim of peace, as a friend of God and as a friend of men. Christ says, Salami o-tikum, ‘My peace I [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT
“Today in Beirut, in occasion of the Pope’s visit in Lebanon, the Bishops of Aleppo will speak with their absence, testifying the tragedy that is unfolding just a few kilometers away”, said to MISNA Monsignor Mario Zenari, Apostolic nuncio in Syria, referring that not all Syrian Bishops will be able to be present in Beirut, [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:56 PM PDT
Just because someone has the ability to do something, does not mean he or she should do it. We have two examples of such a situation before us at the moment: President Barack Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. Here in Pennsylvania, Terry Williams, a man who has been living on death row for three [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT
By Dr. Kumar David The Rajapakse government called early elections to three provincial councils (PC) as a tactical build up to early parliamentary elections (possibly after another round of PC elections) and early presidential elections. If president and parliament serve out their full term, elections are not due till early-mid 2016. The alleged reason for [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT
Following approval of a new IAEA resolution expressing “serious concern” about Iran’s nuclear activities, agency chief Yukiya Amano called on the Islamic Republic to make serious efforts to relieve international concerns. On Thursday, the head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog said in an interview that it wants Iran to engage with the International Atomic [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT
Nepal’s largest selling daily – Kantipur, referring the Deputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Nepal (MoFN) , reported (September 13,2012) that the ministry will demand clarification from U.S. embassy in Nepal on the alleged meeting of American Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake with Tibetan refugee [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT
The cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was released on bail yesterday on the Mumbai high court’s orders after being held for four days on a sedition charge prompted by his portrayal of the national flag in cartoons used in an anti-corruption demonstration and online campaign. “We hail Trivedi’s release but we call on Maharashtra state home minister [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:13 PM PDT
2008 QE1: It did not work to improve the economy, but Wall Street got richer. 2009 QE1 Extension: The same results as QE1. 2010 QE2: Again Wall Street got richer, but not Main Street or the Middle Class. 2011 “Operation Twist:” The only thing twisting was the Middle Class at the end of Mr. Bernanke’s [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT
In what could prove a landmark ruling for oppressed Christians, the European Court of Justice has ruled that people who are persecuted in their native countries due to their religion have the right to apply for asylum in Europe. Confirming the ruling of a German court, the European Court of Justice – the highest court [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT
n the aftermath of the deadly attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies are involved in beefing up diplomatic security and the investigation of the murders and assaults on U.S. embassy staff, according to a Thursday press conference. During the news briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT
Since September 11, 2012, the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist strikes by Al Qaeda in the US Homeland, there have been violent incidents outside the US Embassies in Cairo and Sanaa in Yemen and outside the US Consulate in Benghazi in Libya. The incidents were triggered off by protests by some of the local [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT
As attacks on U.S. embassies around the region proliferate, President Obama is under increasing domestic political pressure to make some kind of demonstration of American strength. He’s in serious jeopardy of following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton and authorizing a drone strike that “brings justice” to the killers of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Even if [...]

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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:42 AM PDT
Violent events following the issue of a U.S. anti-Islam movie continued on Friday across the Arab world. After the violence that caused the death of four Americans in Libya , including the U.S. ambassador, today at least three people killed in Sudan. Demonstrations took place across the Arab world after Friday prayers. One protester died [...]

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