2G scam: Amid doubts that there are deep divisions within the government's top auditing agency over its report on the 2G scam, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai and former D...
The face of the Israeli terror machine may have reared its ugly head again in the world. This time it may have produced yet another massive act of sabotage (Hebrew original) at an IRG missile base west of Teheran. During transfer of explosives at the Modarres (other sources say the base is called Sajad) garrison, which houses Shihab 3 (Israel Defense says the site is also responsible for development of the new Shihab 4) and Zelzal surface-to-surface missiles, an explosion ripped apart the base and killed anywhere from 14 to 40 soldiers depending on the source (UPDATE: the official number released by the IRG now is 17), and wounded an equal number, some severely. Among the dead were a high level IRG officer, Major General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam (more background here), the director of the IRGC Jihad Self-Sufficiency Organization, which directed base operations. The blast was felt as far away as Teheran, 25 miles distant. Those who experienced the explosion said it felt like an earthquake. Some say there were two explosions.
Ynet raises the possibility that it was a deliberate act of sabotage on not just a missile base, but an intelligence facility. Teheran Bureau says the IRG is telling the Iranian media that the incident was not an act of terror, but purely an industrial accident. An Iranian who worked at the base for several months and was interviewed by Iranian media discounted the [...]
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
Russia To Honor Syria Arms Contracts -- RIA Novosti
Russia will honor all arms contacts with Syria despite continuing violence against anti-government protesters in the country, a senior military official said on Sunday.
"Since there are no restrictions on the supply of arms to Syria, Russia will fulfill its obligations under the contracts signed with this country," Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, deputy head of Russia's Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, told reporters in Dubai.
Read more .... My Comment: After their debacle in Libya .... it appears that my fellow Russians have not learned. Sighhh .... I understand that the Russi [...]
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Delhi was a perfect summation of why West Indies weren't expected to add to India's tally of two home losses in six years. It was the third instance this year of West Indies losing a Test despite ke...
Herschelle Gibbs, the former South Africa opening batsmen, has said Graeme Smith's team could have chased down an even bigger target against Australia in Cape Town Source - Cricket news from ESPN Cricinfo.com
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Romney, Gingrich Would Wage War On Iran -- Washington Times
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Two of the top Republican presidential candidates said Saturday they'd go to war against Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, following a new report that suggests the leaders of the Middle Eastern nation continue to pursue such weapons.
During a debate at Wofford College, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama's handling of the situation, while clearly stating the use of military force is a last resort that has to be on the table.
My Comment: What is my take on the above comments .... I found them depressing .... very depressing. But such is the sad state of affairs in U.S. foreign policy.
Most of the candidates will listen to a question and then answer some question they wish they'd been asked. This is a standard approach to answering questions on television. It's a way to avoid letting the questioner control you, and you create an opportunity to say what you want to say.
That's not what Newt does. He listens to the precise question asked and examines it, then works out, before our eyes, what is wrong with that question and what the real issue is. He has a depth of understanding and flexibility of mind that allows him to do that, he cares about doing that accurately and well, and he has the style to want to perform reasoning for us. I like that. I try to do that all the time in class, and I know how hard it is, what presence of mind and grasp of the material it takes.
As president of the United States, would you sign that death warrant for an American citizen overseas who you believe is a terrorist suspect?
Pelley has framed a yes-or-know question, and instead of saying "yes" (or "absolutely" as Mitt Romney just did), Newt says:
Well, he's not a terrorist suspect. He's a person who was found guilty under review of actively seeking the death of Americans.
Newt says that in a puzzled and slightly peeved way that creates drama about whether he might be confused or combative. It puts us on edge. And Pelley is now required to speak again. Newt didn't launch into a lecture. He even ceded some time to Pelley, who says:
India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won the doubles event at the Paris Masters on Sunday. They beat French pair of Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau in straight set...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Anti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters flooded a city park area in Portland early Sunday in defiance of an eviction order while authorities elsewhere stepped up pressure against demonstrators, arresting dozens of people.
Crowds converged on two adjacent downtown Portland parks where protesters are camped after city officials set a midnight Saturday deadline to disperse. Hours later protesters remained, though the crowd had thinned and obeyed police orders to clear the street and take down two makeshift barricades.
At one point overnight, the crowd swelled to thousands.
As dawn arrived, riot police had retreated and most of the crowds had gone home, but protesters who have been at the two parks since Oct. 6 were still there.
One of the organizers, Jim Oliver, said the night had been a victory for Occupy Portland.
"We stood up to state power," Oliver told The Associated Press, standing on a corner opposite the camp.
Still, the camp is a shadow of what it was before Saturday. A large segment of the campers consisted of homeless people who had been drawn to the free food and shelter offered by Occupy Portland. They are gone, [...]
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In response to a question, based on a report in a national daily, on the screening of former President APJ Abdul Kalam by US authorities, the MEA's official spokesperson issued this statement: ...
French Air Chief: UAVs Taxing Available Satellite Bandwidth -- Defense News
DUBAI - A move to a new standard communications band is needed because of a saturation of current bandwidth, French Air Chief of Staff Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros said Nov. 12.
Increasingly relied-upon unmanned aerial vehicles such as Predators, Reapers and the French Harfang generate huge amounts of data, including full motion video, and complex sensors such as high definition video, laser designators, imaging radar, ground moving target indicators and multispectral imagers demand high bandwidth for transmission, Palomeros told an Air Chiefs conference ahead of the Dubai Airshow's Nov. 13 opening.
For the hippies, the emotion was love: love-ins, free love, the Summer of Love, all you need is love. The social form was utopia, understood in collective terms: the commune, the music festival, the liberation movement.
The beatniks aimed at ecstasy, embodied as a social form in individual transcendence. Theirs was a culture of jazz, with its spontaneity; of marijuana, arresting time and flooding the soul with pleasure (this was before the substance became the background drug of every youth culture); of flight, on the road, to the West; of the quest for the perfect moment.
The punks were all about rage, their social program nihilistic anarchy. "Get pissed," Johnny Rotten sang. "Destroy." Hip-hop, punk's younger brother, was all about rage and nihilism, too, at least until it turned to a vision of individual aggrandizement.
As for the slackers of the late '80s and early '90s (Generation X, grunge music, the fiction of David Foster Wallace), their affect ran to apathy and angst, a sense of aimlessness and pointlessness. Whatever. That they had no social vision was precisely what their social vision was: a defensive withdrawal from all commitment as inherently phony.
And what of these kids today? Are we going to call them the "hipsters?" Deresiewicz prefers "millennials." He diagnoses the emotion as niceness, which doesn't seem hip at all. (Not that hippies were hip.) Is niceness an emotion? Deresiewicz toys with "post-emotional," then comes up with "the affect of the salesman." And that's not very nice at all. What "social form" do these little jerks get? Deresiewicz assigns them: small business.
Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur. (Think [...]
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Israelis Wonder About Deadly Iranian Missile-Site Explosion -- L.A. Times
REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM — Israelis are taking a keen interest in the deadly explosion Saturday at a weapons facility in Iran that killed 17 people, including a high-ranking Revolutionary Guard official who worked on Iran's advanced ballistic missiles.
Iran has said the explosion was an accident, not sabotage or an attack. But Israel's top-three dailies put the "mysterious explosion" on their front pages Sunday.
Even as ticket sales remained abysmally low, the Jagmohan Dalmiya-led Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has distributed 100 t-shirts with prayers for Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international century...
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With the stalemate continuing over the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has now taken the battle for the revocation of the law to the Prime Minis...
1. According to 2011 Human Development Index Report released on 2 November 2011 by United Nations Development Program, the rank of India is a) 128 b) 134 c) 131 d) 136 e) 127
2. What is the name of e-payment system developed by Finance Ministry to provide facilities of direct credit of subsidies to the accounts of consumers of fertiliser, kerosene and cooking gas? a) Computerised Payment and Accounts (COMPACT) b) Centralized Funds Management System (CFMS) c) Government e-Payment Gateway (GePG) d) National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) e) None of the above
3. Y H Malegam committee, constituted by RBI in Oct. 2010 to study the issues and concerns in microfinance sector had submitted its report to RBI. Which of the following recommendations is NOT given by the committee in its report? a) Bank lending to NBFC-MFIs will be entitled to "priority lending" status. b) Not more than two MFIs can lend to a single borrower c) A borrower can be a member of only one Self-Help Group (SHG) d) Total indebtedness of the borrower not to exceed Rs. One Lakh[...]
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