Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday, 26 July 2013

“Patrick Buchanan: Weiner & Spitzer, Now More Than Ever! – OpEd” plus 20 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:22 PM PDT
“Progressivism leads inevitably to utter irrationality and eventually political, as well as moral, chaos.” So writes editor R.V. Young in the summer issue of Modern Age, the journal of which Russell Kirk was founding editor. The magazine arrived with the latest post from our cultural capital, where the front-runner in the mayoral race, Anthony Weiner, [...] The post Patrick Buchanan: Weiner & Spitzer, Now More Than Ever! – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:23 PM PDT
A team of experts from ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal) have installed flood early warning systems (FEWS) enabled by wireless technology along the Jiadhal and Singara rivers in Assam, India. The installation was carried out under the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) and is intended to minimize the flood risks [...] The post Communities Involved With Early Warning Systems To Minimize Flood Risk In India appeared first on...

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:16 PM PDT
Let us remove the mask and without them let us look at the people who live on this rough soil. Where are we? What we are? Who has left us with nothing of value? Despair and hopelessness has been a part of our daily lives through the heritage of anger and stress due to rude, [...] The post C.V. Vigneswaran: The New Pop Star – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:04 PM PDT
The Egyptian army issued a stern ultimatum, on July 1, 2013, which was ostensibly a stark warning to both, Morsi, the elected president of Egypt – who represents the Muslim Brotherhood MB – and on the other side the Tamarod Movement and the National Salvation Front – which is a loose coalition of secular parties. [...] The post Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood First Casualty Of US Verdict: Saudi Arabia Not Qatar, To Lead Arab World – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:59 PM PDT
The political peddlers, think-tank experts and media professionals are all back in full force. They want us to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry has done what others have failed to do. On his sixth trip to the Middle East during his post, and following intense shuttle diplomacy likened to that of Henry [...] The post Back To Square None: Netanyahu, Abbas To Resume ‘Peace Process’ That Never Was – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:57 PM PDT
By Manoj Joshi Last week, Border Security Force personnel guarding a section of the railway being built to link Jammu to the Kashmir Valley fired on a crowd of protestors at Dharm Sharti village near Ramban, killing four and injuring a dozen. The circumstances around the case are murky. Some allege that the BSF desecrated [...] The post Unfamiliar Territory – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:55 PM PDT
In contrast to years of serious underinvestment in America’s public drinking water works that has invited takeover drives by large corporations hustling city governments, George S. Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, or DC Water for short, is leading a comeback in the nation’s Capital. A career environmentalist, Mr. [...] The post Ralph Nader: What!? A Charismatic, Public Drinking Water Manager – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:52 PM PDT
Yesterday President Obama chose Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (originally founded by anti-slavery activists in the 1830s) to float the economic program he has been working out with Wall Street investment bankers. His aim is to wrap this program in a democratic rhetoric. The speech’s actual content boils down to: “I’m doing fine and housing [...] The post Obama’s Master Class In Economic Demagogy 101 – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:13 PM PDT
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain visited the victims of the train crash which claimed 80 lives on Wednesday evening in the city of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. Thursday evening saw the King and Queen, in company of the President of Galicia, Alberto Nunez Feijoo and Public Works Minister, Ana Pastor, [...] The post Spain’s King Juan Carlos Visits Train Accident Victims appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:12 PM PDT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has formally launched the Australian WikiLeaks Party and announced its federal election candidates. Assange has now officially declared his candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate. Speaking via Skype from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the 41-year-old whistleblower has been holed up for more than a year due to [...] The post Assange Launches WikiLeaks Party, To Run For Australian Senate appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT
What would a hypothetical person know after diligently reading the newspaper, watching television news and reading online news sources for the past week? That person would know that someone named Trayvon Martin had been murdered and that he looked like or could have been or would look like the son of the president. This anonymous [...] The post The Corporate Media’s Mass Hypnosis – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:55 PM PDT
Portions of an airport in Miami, Florida were evacuated after depleted uranium was discovered early Thursday. Firefighters cleared a 150-foot area of the Opa-locka Executive Airport in south Florida after a 55 gallon drum located either on or near part of a dismantled aircraft was discovered to be containing exposed, depleted uranium, NBC 6 South [...] The post Florida Airport Evacuated After Depleted Uranium Discovered appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:51 PM PDT
Its appellation bears close resemblance to a pre-existing evangelical video. On July 23, Al Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab, released the English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling upon the Indian Muslims to join the jihad in Syria. Titled, “Why is There No Storm in Your Ocean?”, the video features [...] The post India: Al Qaeda’s Call To Muslim Youth – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:48 PM PDT
Leaflets calling for Tibet’s independence from China have been found scattered on a mountain pass in Tibetan-populated Kardze prefecture in Sichuan, prompting a security crackdown and searches of Tibetan vehicles and dwellings in the area, according to local sources. The discovery five days ago came just two weeks after Chinese security forces fired on unarmed [...] The post Security Tightened In Tibetan Area Following Leaflet Campaign appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:46 PM PDT
U.S. President Barack Obama says he had a “very candid” conversation with his Vietnamese counterpart about human rights when he hosted Troung Tan Sang at the White House. Thursday’s meeting earned Sang the honor of being only the second Vietnamese leader to hold talks with a United States president in Washington since the former wartime [...] The post ‘Candid’ Talks With Vietnam’s Sang On Human Rights, Obama Says appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:22 AM PDT
By Namrata Hasija Bo Xilai has been formally charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power today according to Jinan City People’s Procuratorate in east China’s Shandong province. The indictment paper delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate People’s Court today has again brought what has been named ‘China’s Trial of the Century’ into the limelight. [...] The post China And Bo Xilai: The Trial Of The Century – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:11 AM PDT
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership envisions a giant free trade area encompassing the major Asian economies. India stands to benefit, but must move forward positively in both its domestic organisation and external negotiations to optimise its gains. By Rahul Mishra ASEAN HAS been encouraged by the progress of its bilateral FTAs with the ‘Plus Six’ [...] The post RCEP: Challenges And Opportunities For India – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:56 AM PDT
Unless it is averted by transcendental intervention or by the collective effort of those who possess the political or economic capacity to influence the Egyptian Army, the stage in Egypt is set for bloody massacres, or worse, a civil war. The excerpts below would underline a thinly-veiled pretext. On July 24, 2013, General Abdel-Fattah El [...] The post The General’s Pretext – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:51 AM PDT
Tunisian opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi was shot dead outside his home in Tunis on Thursday in the second such assassination this year, setting off mass protests against the Islamist-led government in the capital and elsewhere. “He was shot in front of his house when he was with his disabled daughter,” Mohamed Nabki, a member of [...] The post Thousands Take To Streets In Tunis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:48 AM PDT
A Montenegrin Orthodox priest has consecrated part of the town of Budva where the country’s first Gay Pride march took place in order to prevent “the disease spreading”. Orthodox priest Boris Radovic consecrated the area in front of the Old Town in Budva on Montenegro’s coast a few hours after the first gay-rights march was [...] The post Montenegrin Priest Consecrates Budva After Gay Pride appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:44 AM PDT
Last Monday was the 50th anniversary of Sarawak independence from Britain. Although it isn’t a gazetted public holiday, local newspapers over the preceding week highlighted the upcoming reenactment of the independence ceremony, in which the last British Governor, Sir Alexander Waddell, formally handed sovereignty over to Tuan Haji Openg, the first Yang di-Pertua (Governor of [...] The post Sarawak Reenacts Independence From Britain 50 Years Ago – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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