Israel to Prevent UN Mission from Investigating West Bank Settlements

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Palestine News Network
August 7, 2012

Israel has said that it will prevent a UN fact-finding mission from investigating the legality of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it will not cooperate with the mission, and will stop its members from entering Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Ma'an News Agency has reported.

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TSA gone wild

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Published on Aug 9, 2012 by RTAmerica
 

The TSA has become an acronym many Americans have come to dread. From too-close-for-comfort pat-downs to virtually nude snapshots, people are accusing the Transportation Security Administration of going too far time and time again. The federal government has spent an estimated 60 billion dollars on the TSA since 9/11, but the agency has seen an approval rating of only 54 percent as of late which, oddly enough, is more support than even President Obama or Mitt Romney has received in the polls. So why is the TSA more popular than politicians? Amie Stepanovich, associate litigation counsel for EPIC, joins RT's Liz Wahl to discuss this.

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Decades after end of Vietnam War, US begins Agent Orange clean-up

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By NBC News staff and wire reports
August 9, 2012

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U.S. construction representatives, diplomats and reporters tour a dioxin-contaminated at Danang airport, a former U.S. air base, during a ceremony of the joint U.S.-Vietnam Dioxin Cleaning Project on Thursday.

HANOI, Vietnam -- Nearly four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam on Thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical Agent Orange on part of Danang International Airport.

The U.S. military sprayed up to 12 million gallons of the defoliant onto Vietnam's jungles over a 10-year period during the war, and the question of compensation for the subsequent health problems is a major post-war issue.

PLANETS ALIGN THIS WEEKEND: August 11th-13th, 2012.

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Published on Aug 9, 2012 by Skyywatcher88
 

PLANETS ALIGN THIS WEEKEND: The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are lining up in the eastern sky this weekend--right in the middle of the Perseid meteor shower. It's a must-see event. A new ScienceCast video from NASA previews the display.

http://www.spaceweather.com

 

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Report: Drought worsens in key farm states

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Associated Press
By JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer

Aug 9, 5:34 PM EDT

A dry field of corn is seen near Ashland, Neb., Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The latest U.S. drought map shows that excessively dry conditions continue to worsen in the Midwest states that are key producers of corn and soybeans. This is the worst U.S. drought in decades. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday, Aug. 9. 2012 shows that the area gripped by extreme or exceptional drought rose nearly 2 percent to 24.14 percent. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Plains states where the production of corn and soybeans is key are being hit harder by excessive drought conditions in the wake of the hottest month on record in the continental U.S., contributing to a surge in global food prices.

BANKFURT MOLE: Merkel ‘in a prison of her own making’

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The Slog

August 9, 2012 · 4:32 pm

Merkel: “she can’t control Draghi now”

“Germany must desert the eurozone, and the Chancellor must engineer that”

The German Chancellor returns from holiday next week. The Slog’s veteran Frankfurt banking mole says she has made the task of educating the Germans about Euroblown extremely difficult…and has only a limited window in which to do it.

“The ordinary German has no idea what we are taking on,” The Slog’s long-serving Frankfurt Mole ‘Maulwurf’ told me this lunchtime, “They see a grand project and Germany at the centre of a strong Europe eventually. Of all the European nations, they are perhaps the worst informed about the realities of the euro disaster”.

Barofsky: Government Complicity Provides Libor Defense

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Aug. 1 (Bloomberg Law) -- The world's biggest banks are likely to defend lawsuits alleging they manipulated the Libor interest rate by saying the federal government knew it and did nothing, according to Neil Barofsky, former Inspector General for TARP. Rather than put maximum pressure on the banks by suing them individually, the government is likely to try to sidestep arguments it was complicit in the Libor mess by seeking a global settlement, he tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia. Barofsky is the author of the new book "Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street."

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Chevron Fire: Richmond Refinery Under Investigation Amid Criticism (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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JASON DEAREN 08/08/12 09:04 PM ETAssociated Press AP

SAN FRANCISCO — A massive Chevron oil refinery fire that sent hundreds of people rushing to hospitals and is pushing West Coast gas prices higher was just the latest pollution incident at the facility that records show has increasingly violated air quality rules over the past five years.

The refinery is one of three such facilities near San Francisco that rank among the state's top 10 emitters of toxic chemicals, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory.

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Mike Quinsey – SaLuSa – 10 August 2012

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Mike Quinsey – SaLuSa – 10 August 2012

(Lucas : Discernment : Discern youselves as not all told, heard, written and shown, is your truth, it can be a half-truth, a distorted truth and or plain disinformation. This moving times in radio shows, audio, videos, articles and channelings a lot is said that you need to always question before taken it for truth, even that what I say of course.)

The energies around you are speeding to new heights, and those of you that are sensitive to them will feel a great upliftment. It will continue all the way to Ascension, by which time you will be fully ready to ascend. The incredible journey you have made through duality with hundreds of lives is about to come to a conclusion. Every soul is being given the opportunity to leave it behind, and it is preferable to have prepared yourself for Ascension. Many have led their lives with a good intentions to others, and often described as having hearts of gold. They too will be lifted up as Ascension has nothing directly to do with religion, although some devout souls will be of a godly demeanor.

 

Heavenletter #4277 Love Beyond the Borders of the World

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Heavenletter #4277 Love Beyond the Borders of the World, August 10, 2012 

God said: 

 

The Divine Feminine. There is a lot of talk about the Divine Feminine in spiritual circles. It is a name given to love, yet love has no gender. Love belongs to the men in the world. Love belongs to the women in the world. Oneness is love, and men are not excluded from Oneness. As the symbolic story goes, Eve was made from Adam’s rib, yet there is much more to the story, for you as well as Adam and Eve are indisputably far more than your physical body. The physical is marvelous. Yet the physical of you is the least of you. It is a covering of you. It allows physical motion.

I am neither masculine nor feminine, or, We can say that I am both masculine and feminine. I am Love, and you are love. We do not need to call love masculine or feminine or neuter or anything at all but love. There are far more levels than the body. Love is way beyond the borders of the world, the fictional borders of the world. Borders have to be fiction, or love would not exist, and love exists, and love is all.

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