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Pentagon to furlough civilian employees
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15.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department will furlough most of its 800,000 civilian employees for 11 days, a decision Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called "difficult" but necessary to meet mandatory federal spending cuts this year without harming national security. |
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Netanyahu flies into turbulence over $127,000 bed on plane
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12.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- Front Page |
| Outcry in austerity-hit Israel over news that 'rest chamber' was installed on plane ferrying PM and wife to London for Thatcher funeral
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has encountered severe turbulence after it emerged that he ordered a double bed to be installed on a plane that carried him and his deeply unpopular wife, Sara, to Lady Thatcher's funeral in London last month – at a cost of $127,000 (£83,000).
The revelation comes amid growing resentment over an austerity budget proposed by finance minister Yair Lapid, a former TV personality who won popular support in January's election by promising to champion Israel's financially-squeezed middle class. Up to 15,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities on Saturday night in an echo of the massive social justice protests that swept the country two years ago.
Following an outcry over the cost of installing a "rest chamber" on the chartered El Al flight, Netanyahu's office said that henceforth no ... |
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Syrian Refugee Crisis Growing
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9.5.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| Having just returned from a visit to refugee camps in Iraq and Turkey, Marc Hanson, a senior advocate for Refugees International, talks to the Times about what he saw on the ground. |
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IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 9
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9.5.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| Demanding more information about clothing’s origins; fighting to keep local traditions alive in Italy; a “new Louvre” north of Paris draws crowds; and a soccer giant’s retirement shakes the worlds of sports and business. |
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Israel holds grand mufti for questioning on al-Aqsa mosque disturbance
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8.5.2013 |
Washington Post: World |
| JERUSALEM — Israeli police took the Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem’s Islamic holy places from his home early Wednesday and held him for six hours to question him about a violent disturbance the previous day at the al-Aqsa mosque, a move that increased tensions with Palestinians at a time when the United States is trying to revive peace talks in the Middle ... |
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In Egypt, a Pungent Ritual Divides Noses
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7.5.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| As Egyptians celebrate spring with Sham el-Nessim, the holiday’s central meal of aged fish brings pride to some and a case of olfactory overload to others. |
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[newstrust :: Gaza Fighting]
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Israel groups monitoring settlements say Netanyahu not approving new construction in West Bank
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7.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: World |
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Israel groups say PM halts new settlement building
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7.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Israel groups say PM halts new settlement building |
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Netanyahu cool to Arab land-swap initiative
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2.5.2013 |
Washington Post: World |
| JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinians could not achieve a peace deal based on land swaps alone and insisted that the most important thing is for Palestinians to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. ... |
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In case you wonder why some Dems cling to austerity
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30.4.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| A couple waits in line free medical treatment organized by non-profit group Remote Area Medical at the Coliseum in Oakland. I have a "feeling" that they don't give a fuck about more austerity.
Some Democrats, however, argue that party faithful are willing to give Obama space to tackle the deficit as he heads into the final years of his term — even if it means proposing some cuts to entitlement programs as part of a grand bargain.
“My feeling is that most voters want there to be a budget agreement,” said Pete Brodnitz, a Democratic pollster. “Most people think something needs to be done to make Medicare and Social Security sustainable.”
Because, of course, there is no data that would find that Democrats want entitlement cuts, or give a rat's ass about any grand bargain. Voters might want a budget agreement, but one that gets rid of this bullshit sequester. And that shit about making "Medicare and Social Security sustainable"? I wish our own people would quit using Pete Peterson language to ... |
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[newstrust :: Public Option]
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[newstrust :: Unemployment]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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Religious fundamentalists could hold the key to Middle East peace | Jonathan Freedland
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26.4.2013 |
Guardian: Comment is Free |
| Israel's ultra-orthodox parties – so long deemed part of the hawkish right – might just unlock the two-state solution
Everybody knows that religious fundamentalists are part of the Middle East's problem. Everybody knows that Muslim and Jewish extremists make a hard situation harder, delaying the day Palestinians and Israelis find a way to live in peace. Everybody knows that the great Israeli writer Amos Oz is right when he says that so long as the conflict is "a battle over real estate" it can be solved, but once it becomes a holy war only catastrophe beckons.
But what if that conventional wisdom is wrong – or rather, what if it lumps together all religious hardliners too crudely, mistakenly including one group that might not be part of the problem at all, that might in fact be the key to the solution?
The question arises because of one unexpected side-effect of Israel's most recent elections and the new coalition that followed. For the first time in years the ultra-orthodox Jewish ... |
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WORLD: Chuck Hagel on Syria’s Chemical Weapons
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26.4.2013 |
NYT > World |
| WORLD: Chuck Hagel on Syria’s Chemical Weapons |
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Fayyad's Choice
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22.4.2013 |
American Prospect |
| AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed
Salam Fayyad
S alam Fayyad has formally resigned his post as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Note the word formally . In the half-presidential, half-parliamentary, mostly improvised political system of the Palestinian non-state, Fayyad will apparently stay on until President Mahmoud Abbas appoints a replacement, or until elections are held, or indeterminately as his resignation fades from memory.
It would be wrong to say that Fayyad has become a caretaker prime minister, because he has always been a caretaker. Abbas appointed Fayyad to head an emergency government in 2007, when the attempt at power-sharing between Abbas's Fatah movement and the Islamicist Hamas movement ended in a brief civil war. The Palestinian parliament, where Hamas has a majority, never approved the appointment. Both the president and parliament have outlived their legal terms of office. Yet Fatah continues to rule the West Bank, just as Hamas keeps ruling ... |
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Palestine PM Fayyad Resigns, a Victim of Israeli and US funding cut-off and backlash against Austerity
(Cached)
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14.4.2013 |
Informed Comment |
| The man recognized by the Palestine government based in Ramallah as prime minister, Salam Fayyad, has tendered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas. The most immediate cause of the dispute between the two was that, under pressure from crowds and from the Fateh party, the minister of finance, Nabil Qassis, tendered his resignation. Fayyad rejected [...] |
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Kerry, Netanyahu claim peace progress
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9.4.2013 |
Washington Post: World |
| JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed progress Tuesday in preparing for possible new peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
“We were pleased with the substance of the discussion and agreed each of us to do some homework,” Kerry said Tuesday, following a dinner meeting Monday with Netanyahu. The two met again on Tuesday. “We're going to do our homework over the course of the next weeks,” Kerry said. ... |
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Editorial Board: Iran heeds Israel’s warning of uranium ‘red line’
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9.4.2013 |
Washington Post: Editorials |
| THE LATEST round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program was, by all accounts, a disappointment. Tehran’s negotiators did not spell out a full response to a proposal by the United States and five partners for limiting its enrichment of uranium, and what they did say revealed a wide gulf between the two sides. In essence, the international coalition is offering Iran a partial lifting of sanctions in exchange for a freeze on the production of medium-enriched uranium, while Iran wants a complete lifting of sanctions in exchange for token steps that would leave its nuclear work unfettered. ... |
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Kerry trying to build support for new Israel peace talks
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8.4.2013 |
Washington Post: World |
| JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John F. Kerry worked Monday to build support for new Arab-Israeli peace talks that would establish an independent Palestinian state and settle many other old Mideast grievances. ... |
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WORLD: Destroying Syria's Past
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7.4.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| Across Syria, the country’s archaeological heritage is imperiled by war, facing threats that range from outright destruction by ordnance to opportunistic digging by grave diggers and treasure hunters. |
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Thousands march in funerals for Palestinians as tensions mount
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4.4.2013 |
Washington Post |
| JERUSALEM — Thousands of Palestinians marched Thursday in funerals for a prisoner who died in Israeli custody and two teenagers fatally shot by Israeli soldiers.
The marches illustrated mounting tensions in the West Bank ahead of a visit this weekend by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry to explore ways to revive peace ... |
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DiEugenio on Parry’s New Book
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30.3.2013 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| DiEugenio on Parry’s New Book |
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