tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48567874501432679402024-03-07T00:22:02.354-08:00TC PressNothing but the TRUTH...tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-75212097547543298082007-01-30T07:32:00.001-08:002007-01-30T07:32:07.416-08:00Japanese Defence Minister - "The decision to go to war against Iraq was a MISTAKE"UPDATED ON:TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 14:15 MECCA TIME, 11:15 GMT http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4AB9A3E2-134A-47C6-9B34-0758723F8110.htm Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, has warned his cabinet colleagues to "watch your mouths", issuing the warning at their regular meeting on Tuesday after two big embarrassments to his government. Fumio Kyuma, tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-22235961781452611832007-01-30T07:23:00.000-08:002007-01-30T07:24:03.212-08:00Australian Plot to kill Solomon Island Prime MinisterMichael McKenna January 31, 2007 AN Australian Vietnam veteran has been charged with a plot to assassinate controversial Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare for a $50,000 bounty allegedly sponsored by Australia. William Ernest Johnson, 61, appeared in the Honiara Magistrates Court yesterday over his role in the alleged conspiracy to kill Mr Sogavare earlier this month. Mr Johnson,tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-74034172114436700552007-01-29T00:06:00.001-08:002007-01-29T00:06:57.763-08:00Interest rates set for yet another rise! NEW DELHI: Interest rates are likely to go further up as the central bank might resort to increase the rates at which it lends short-term funds to banks in the third quarter review of annual statement on monetary policy for 2006-07 on Wednesday. As inflation continues to be the prime concern of the government, the Reserve Bank of India, a chairman of a public bank said, would also like to slow tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-78634445400292642362007-01-29T00:05:00.001-08:002007-01-29T00:05:45.589-08:00India joins Russian GPS system NEW DELHI: India's quest for a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system has ended. It will access the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), ending speculation that India was considering being a part of the network, formerly a military system, now open to civilian use. India's search for a GPS system had seen it engage in negotiations with the European project Galileo, tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-20589236550001331192007-01-28T23:48:00.001-08:002007-01-28T23:48:49.162-08:00Palestinians students attacked in North Carolina, USA Associated Press Sports Updated: 9:47 a.m. ET Jan. 26, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16826131/ GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -The parents of three Guilford College football players charged with ethnic intimidation defended their sons Friday, nearly a week after an on-campus fight between the players and three Palestinian students. The parents of Michael Bates, Michael Robert Six and tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-488658484977205252007-01-28T22:47:00.001-08:002007-01-28T22:47:14.789-08:00Tehelka - How They Crush Mangalore’s MuslimsAn independent citizens' fact-finding team discovers that attacks on Muslims in coastal Karnataka routinely go unreported. And now, police atrocities are also being overlooked. These are excerpts from the team's report Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was unrepentant about the state police's style of violence-management in Mangalore, when he defiantly said, "Were they to dream of tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-84986792288405601442007-01-28T22:37:00.001-08:002007-01-28T22:37:50.208-08:00Japan carmakers to ride sales riseBy Chang-Ran Kim, Asia auto correspondent TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top two carmakers, Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., are likely to post double-digit profit growth for the latest quarter on strong sales and a weaker yen, while third-ranked Nissan Motor Co. is seen stalling on tepid demand. The domestic Japanese market offered a mixed bag of sales data for October-December, with tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-17720440527331049052007-01-28T22:36:00.001-08:002007-01-28T22:36:03.226-08:00Dick Cheney: U.S. carrier to Gulf sends "strong signal"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf the United States has sent a "strong signal" that it is in the region to stay and working with allies to deal with an Iranian threat, Vice President Dick Cheney said. He repeated the Bush administration's stance that the United States seeks to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program through tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-9234191074254968322007-01-28T22:33:00.001-08:002007-01-28T22:33:19.331-08:00Iran plans to expand ties with Iraq: Tehran envoyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is taking steps to greatly expand military and economic ties with Iraq, Tehran's ambassador to Iraq said in an interview on Sunday with New York Times. The ambassador, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said Iran was prepared to offer Iraqi forces training, equipment and advisers for "the security fight" and was ready to assume major responsibility for the tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-71631352756771839902007-01-28T22:23:00.001-08:002007-01-28T22:23:07.769-08:00Saudi King Invites Fatah, Hamas Leaders to Hold Talks in MeccaBy Paul Tighe Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah invited leaders of the Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah to hold talks in Mecca to try to end fighting between their supporters in the Gaza Strip. The king issued his invitation yesterday, saying the leaders should ``discuss the issues between them in an objective manner without any interference from outsiders,'' tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-6670900450570502922007-01-28T22:19:00.000-08:002007-01-28T22:29:11.880-08:00US forces kill several hundred fighters, US helicopter felledBy Louise Roug and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writers9:40 PM PST, January 28, 2007 BAGHDAD -- "Iraqi" and American forces killed several hundred gunmen Sunday, fighting a daylong battle in which a U.S. helicopter crashed, killing two U.S. troops, Iraqi security officials said.The fighting in the holy city of Najaf on the eve of the Shiite holiday of Ashura came as a mortar attack killed five tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-8277825904358557592007-01-28T03:12:00.000-08:002007-01-28T03:13:00.529-08:00IAEA Inspectors Arrive in IranTEHRAN - Three International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrived in Tehran on Saturday while Iran is getting prepared for nuclear celebrations in early February. http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8511080237 Despite a recent parliament approval allowing government to revise cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran continues cooperation with IAEA and intcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-49063143109885303282007-01-28T03:03:00.001-08:002007-01-28T03:03:48.169-08:00Israel may have violated arms pact, U.S. saysJanuary 28, 2007 David S. Cloud Greg Myre New York Times http://www.thestar.com/News/article/175688 WASHINGTON–The Bush administration will inform Congress tomorrow that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired U.S.-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the U.S. State Department said yesterdaytcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-57759923548701958172007-01-28T02:40:00.001-08:002007-01-28T02:57:40.272-08:00Jane Fonda's speech against US War!Jane Fonda's speech at the end of her visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War This is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life--workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-91573407890093367782007-01-28T00:01:00.001-08:002007-01-28T00:01:04.773-08:00General Leonid Ivashov (ex Chief of Staff - Russian armed forces) - "US plans to launch a NUCLEAR attack on Iran before end of April, 2007" by General Leonid Ivashov Global Research, January 24, 2007 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=IVA20070124&articleId=4581 In the overall flow of information coming from the Middle East, there are increasingly frequent reports indicating that within several months from now the US will deliver nuclear strikes on Iran. For example, citing tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-52473610257693503792007-01-27T21:53:00.001-08:002007-01-27T21:53:20.119-08:00Massive Anti War protest in USA draws thousands!January 27, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq. Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-80454872016896512672007-01-27T04:57:00.001-08:002007-01-27T04:57:19.320-08:00Bold, Sophisticated attack on US Army base in Iraq, Karbala By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 25 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-81431231444010901652007-01-27T04:06:00.001-08:002007-01-27T04:08:15.285-08:00Bush - "I am the decision-maker on troop strength!"DEMOCRATS CONSIDER OPTIONS TO AFFECT MILITARY STRATEGYBy Ron Hutcheson and Renee SchoofMcClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON - President Bush defended his Iraq strategy Friday in a closed-door meeting with Republicans in the House of Representatives and told reporters that he's ``the decision-maker'' on troop deployments even if Congress opposes his plans.Bush brushed off his critics as tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-13236336693262187182007-01-24T08:46:00.001-08:002007-01-24T08:46:53.892-08:00Senators eye rejection of Bush war plan By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Democrats took the first step toward a wartime repudiation of President Bush on Wednesday, convening a Senate committee to endorse legislation declaring that the deployment of additional troops to Iraq is "not in the national interest." "We better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-42637778294822668402007-01-24T08:43:00.001-08:002007-01-24T08:43:21.322-08:00U.S. launches new airstrike in SomaliaBy ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 31 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The United States launched an airstrike in Somalia against suspected terrorist targets — the second such attack this month, defense officials said Wednesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the action was carried out in secret, provided few details about the strike by an Air Force AC-130 gunship earlier tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-24765449124324871912007-01-24T03:12:00.001-08:002007-01-24T03:12:43.056-08:00Ahmadinejad dismisses US 'threats'TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2007 Aljazeera Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, has said that the US is incapable of inflicting damage on Iran, in an interview with state television on Tuesday. The Iranian leader also said that "wise" Americans would not allow George Bush, the US president, to attack Iran , as a US Navy carrier group moved toward the tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-34712075008461621702007-01-24T03:05:00.001-08:002007-01-24T03:05:31.775-08:00Ex US President Carter defends book - 'Palestine: Peace, Not (Israeli) Apartheid!'By Jason Szep WALTHAM, Mass., Jan 23 (Reuters) - Jimmy Carter defended his controversial book on Tuesday, telling a predominantly Jewish university that his goal was revive Middle East peace talks and that attacks on his character had hurt him and his family. Jewish groups have expressed outrage at "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," arguing that its comparison of Israel's treatmenttcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-45876740814742971542007-01-24T03:01:00.001-08:002007-01-24T03:01:10.635-08:00U.S. security company Blackwater's Helicopter crash in IRAQ kills 5 americansUpdated 1/23/2007 8:58 PM ET USA TODAY staff and wire reports BAGHDAD, Iraq — A helicopter operated by the private U.S. security company Blackwater crashed Tuesday in Baghdad, a U.S. military officer said. The officer told USA TODAY that four bodies were found aboard the helicopter. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, the officer said. The Associated Press, however, reportedtcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-15700460507845749252007-01-23T07:31:00.001-08:002007-01-23T07:31:13.028-08:00Israel's President faces rape chargeLast Updated: Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 15:01 GMT Israeli President Moshe Katsav is to be charged with rape and abuse of power, the ministry of justice has announced. Correspondents say a final decision on the indictment will be made only after a hearing, in which Mr Katsav will be able to present his side of the case. Mr Katsav, whose position is largely ceremonial, has denied any tcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4856787450143267940.post-57580745269418334062007-01-22T09:45:00.001-08:002007-01-22T09:45:27.852-08:00India to snub US on Burma arms embargoBruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent January 23, 2007 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21101933-2703,00.html A US-led arms embargo against Burma's military rulers is to be breached by India, with New Delhi indicating yesterday that it will supply a range of military equipment to the regime in return for help in dealing with terrorism in the region. After talks intcmatinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229017549001261noreply@blogger.com0