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    AL’s Resolution : Useless and Valueless

        Let us go deep in what may happen as a consequence of the AL adoption of “Gulf States “resolution over Syria. It is easy to be depressed and desperate from what we heard in the AL headquarter and the impolite  words which Hamad and Saoud has said during the meeting and after it . It is easy also to think and admit they have the magic stick which can overthrow the regime in Syria and obligate it to accept their hopes based on nothing. The transferring of their resolution to the Security Council is the core of the issue. They think that by transferring it to the united nation and calling their western…

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    Saudi Arabia Unable to Fulfill Oil Pledge

      Analysts believe that Saudi Arabia cannot live up to its promise to fill the oil-supply gap in case the US-led European Union imposes a ban on Iranian oil supplies. Analysts said failure could put further price pressure on markets already roiled by tensions linked to efforts to curb Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program. There are encouraging signs that the West is re-examining the prospects for a diplomatic solution. But that does not mean the European Union is likely to drop proposed measures to ban Iranian oil imports from mid-year that are due to be discussed by its foreign ministers on Monday. Iran fired back this week after Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi energy minister, said in…

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    Al-Moallem: The Observers’ Report Didn’t Please Those Plotting Against Syria… the Solution is Syrian and Based on the People’s Interest

    Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Walid al-Moallem said the Arab Ministerial Council’s decision, which stipulates what Syria must do, circumvented the Arab observer mission’s report which didn’t satisfy those plotting against Syria who have tried to draw a future for Syria that is very far from the will of the Syrians as if we are a country whose will is usurped, illustrating his point with the proverb “he who lacks something can’t offer it.” In a press conference held on Tuesday, al-Moallem said that the stance of the Syrian leadership towards what Syria is facing inside and outside is firm and strong, and that the solution in Syria is not that which had been…

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    Syria Rejects AL Council’s Decision as Violation of International Sovereignty, Blatant Interference in Its Internal Affairs

    DAMASCUS, (SANA)- Syria rejects the decisions taken by the Arab League (AL) Council on the ministerial level regarding Syria which are outside the Arab work plan and the Protocol signed with the AL, a Syrian official source said on Monday. The source added that Syria considers these decisions a violation of its national sovereignty, a blatant interference in its internal affairs and a flagrant violation of the objectives for which the AL was established and a breach of Article VIII of its Charter. “Syria condemns this decision, which came in the framework of the conspiratorial scheme carried out against Syria, a scheme which has been revealed to our people and the Arab world,” the source…

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    The role of illiteracy in forming the “Revolutionists”

    The rumors which are spreading that those who are demonstrating against the Syrian authority are paid by coordinators in the Syria’s flash points are real. I have assured this fact myself . going the deep countryside will let you see how those coordinators are working and how they are using the real poverty and joblessness to attract people and distribute money of them . Everyone has his own price. The teen has his own price , the young has aslo a price as well as the adult has its own price . I have observed their mechanism in attracting people through a period of month. I was shocked by what I have seen . The…

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AL’s Resolution : Useless and Valueless

    Let us go deep in what may happen as a consequence of the AL adoption of “Gulf States “resolution over Syria. It is easy to be depressed and desperate from what we heard in the AL headquarter and the impolite  words which Hamad and Saoud has said during the meeting and after it . It is easy also to think and admit they have the magic stick which can overthrow the regime in Syria and obligate it to accept their hopes based on nothing. The transferring of their resolution to the Security Council is the core of the issue. They think that by transferring it to the united nation and calling their western…

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Al-Moallem: The Observers’ Report Didn’t Please Those Plotting Against Syria… the Solution is Syrian and Based on the People’s Interest

Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Walid al-Moallem said the Arab Ministerial Council’s decision, which stipulates what Syria must do, circumvented the Arab observer mission’s report which didn’t satisfy those plotting against Syria who have tried to draw a future for Syria that is very far from the will of the Syrians as if we are a country whose will is usurped, illustrating his point with the proverb “he who lacks something can’t offer it.” In a press conference held on Tuesday, al-Moallem said that the stance of the Syrian leadership towards what Syria is facing inside and outside is firm and strong, and that the solution in Syria is not that which had been…

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Syria Rejects AL Council’s Decision as Violation of International Sovereignty, Blatant Interference in Its Internal Affairs

DAMASCUS, (SANA)- Syria rejects the decisions taken by the Arab League (AL) Council on the ministerial level regarding Syria which are outside the Arab work plan and the Protocol signed with the AL, a Syrian official source said on Monday. The source added that Syria considers these decisions a violation of its national sovereignty, a blatant interference in its internal affairs and a flagrant violation of the objectives for which the AL was established and a breach of Article VIII of its Charter. “Syria condemns this decision, which came in the framework of the conspiratorial scheme carried out against Syria, a scheme which has been revealed to our people and the Arab world,” the source…

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The role of illiteracy in forming the “Revolutionists”

The rumors which are spreading that those who are demonstrating against the Syrian authority are paid by coordinators in the Syria’s flash points are real. I have assured this fact myself . going the deep countryside will let you see how those coordinators are working and how they are using the real poverty and joblessness to attract people and distribute money of them . Everyone has his own price. The teen has his own price , the young has aslo a price as well as the adult has its own price . I have observed their mechanism in attracting people through a period of month. I was shocked by what I have seen . The…

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Destroying the illusion

I have written before about the military solution in Syria and the preparation of the Syrian army to free Syria from the terrorists, who are terrifying people and spread fear in the nation . This was based on my analysis of the Syrian official treatment of the situation in the country and how they are dealing with those killers. The first step in this military solution was the amnesty law issued by the president Assad. This law which freed hundreds is the first step in the solution . the period, which it has given to those who was implicated in the events in Syria, will be followed by a harsh treatment of the militants, who…

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Algerian Foreign Minister: AL Has Some Problems with Armed Opposition in Syria

UNITED NATIONS, (SANA)- Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said that the Syrian government has taken some steps to defuse the crisis in the country, but the Arab League (AL) has problems with the armed opposition in particular. In a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday , Medelci added the government has taken some steps as the heavy weapons were withdrawn from the cities which are facing problems and a few thousand prisoners were released, stressed that there is a genuine openness of the mass media. “The feeling is that the Syrian government is working to exert more efforts,” he said, adding that he visited Syria recently and noticed the calmness in…

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9 Citizens, among them French Journalist, Martyred by Mortars of Armed Terrorist Group in Homs

HOMS, (SANA)- Nine persons were martyred, among them a French journalist, and several others were injured including a Belgian journalist after an armed terrorist group fired mortars at foreign media delegation and a gathering of citizens who were victims of terror at Ekrima neighborhood in Homs.       SANA reporter in Homs said Wednesday that the terrorists fired mortars on foreign journalists while they were inspecting the debris of destruction and chaos perpetrated by the armed terrorist groups in a number of buildings at New Ekrima neighborhood and make interviews with a number of citizens affected by those acts.       The terrorist act left 9 persons martyred, among them French Journalist Gilles…

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President al-Assad: “We are Victorious against Conspiracy”

  DAMASCUS, (SANA)_ H.E. President Bashar al-Assad reiterated here Wednesday Syria’s determination to steadily go ahead with the ongoing reform process. In a spontaneous word to the tens of thousands of the Syrians, who gathered since the early hours of the morning at Umayyad Square, President al-Assad underscored that Syria is also to steadily go forward in fighting terrorism. “We are to be victorious ,with and by you, against the conspiracy,” said President al-Assad to the jubilant Syrians, who hoist the Syrian flag, his posters, and national banners. “I met you to derive the power in the face of what Syria is being exposed to,” added President al-Assad, highly lauding the Syrians’ awareness, power, and strength…

Military solution is coming

A lot have expected what will happen in Syria as well as the future of the unrest Syria is living under  in the last 9 month . At the beginning of the  demonstrations , in the middle of last march , the scene was foggy and there were no enough information about the real situation on the ground . This period had lasted to the end of May when the international media had started  focusing  on the national army and the defection in it . At that point, it has become clear that what we are living in Syria is neither peaceful revolution nor a call for reform. The targeting of the Syria army has…

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Mass Popular and Official Participation:Martyrs Killed in al-Midan Terrorist Bombing Laid to Rest

DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The bodies of the martyrs who fell during the terrorist attack which took place on Friday in al-Midan neighborhood in Damascus were escorted to their final resting places in a solemn mass popular and official procession. After holding prayers for the martyrs at al-Hasan Mosque, official ceremonies were held for the martyrs whose bodies were wrapped in Syrian flags and carried on shoulders among the chants of citizens who gathered to participate in the procession. The gathering citizens denounced the heinous crimes committed by armed terrorist groups and affirmed the Syrian people’s adherence to national unity and determination to remains steadfast to foil the conspiracy targeting Syria.

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Suicidal attacks in Damascus :Criminals and Terrorists

It is not a joke. The external opposition accuses the Syrian authority by the suicidal explosion hit Damascus yesterday . The bankrupted can do anything and can justify any action he do . What is clear from yesterday terrorist attack that this opposition is a terrorist opposition contains a lot of Wahhabis figures and Muslims brotherhood figures who have a bloody history in Syria . Those who are classifying themselves as opposition figures had implicated in the terrorist attacks in early 1980’s and flee from Syria after the Syrian government had destroyed their terrorist organization in 1980’s . You can ask any of those who had lived that era and ask them about what had…

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Turkish government is Responsible about Tense Atmosphere in Region

ANKARA, (SANA) – Official spokesman of the Turkish Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) Mustafa Yilmaz said that Syria and Turkey are neighboring countries brought together by deep-rooted fraternity, but recently there were attempts to destroy the historic relations between them which upset the Turkish people. In an interview with the Syrian TV’s correspondent in Ankara, Yilmaz said that the recent stance of the Justice and Development Party caused concern among the Turkish people and politicians, stressing that the biggest winners if a confrontation occurred between Syria and Turkey are Israel and the United States. He pointed out that the Turkish people believe that Turkish media isn’t portraying the reality of what is happening in Syria, and that media…

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Saudi Arabia Unable to Fulfill Oil Pledge

  Analysts believe that Saudi Arabia cannot live up to its promise to fill the oil-supply gap in case the US-led European Union imposes a ban on Iranian oil supplies. Analysts said failure could put further price pressure on markets already roiled by tensions linked to efforts to curb Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program. There are encouraging signs that the West is re-examining the prospects for a diplomatic solution. But that does not mean the European Union is likely to drop proposed measures to ban Iranian oil imports from mid-year that are due to be discussed by its foreign ministers on Monday. Iran fired back this week after Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi energy minister, said in…

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Oil Sanctions against Iran to Harm European Consumers

The Iranian oil ministry in a statement downplayed the effects of the US and EU’s unilateral oil sanctions against Tehran, and said such embargoes will merely harm the European economies and oil consuming countries. European sanctions against Iran’s oil exports will affect world economy and hurt European and non-European countries, the statement said on Monday. “Hurried decision by EU states to use oil as a political tool will have a negative effect on the world economy and especially on recovering European economies which are fighting to overcome the global financial crisis,” it added. The statement continued that since just 18 percent of oil produced by Iran is exported to European countries, Islamic Republic can easily…

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Iran Adopts Necessary Measures to Protect Scientists

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said that Tehran has adopted proper measures to protect its scientists and elites against terrorist attacks.           “The president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) issued strict orders to relevant officials at the beginning of the current (Iranian) year (started on March 21) to put protection of nuclear scientists on their working agenda,” Rahimi said on the sidelines of a ceremony held here in Tehran on Tuesday to commemorate the martyrs of Iran’s nuclear industry.   “Some remarkable measures have been taken in this regard and all people active in the nuclear sector have come under a special protection plan accordi ng to the very same order,”…

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Fujairah pipeline test in May

Abu Dhabi has set May as the start of trial operations of a pipeline that will cut across much of the UAE’s barren desert to transport massive quantities of crude from its oilfields straight to the Indian Ocean. Oil from the emirate’s massive onshore fields will begin flowing on a trial basis in May before the project is fully commissioned a month later to allow Abu Dhabi to bypass the Hormuz Strait through which nearly a fifth of the world’s crude exports pass every day. “The trial stage for the pipeline will begin in May…an agreement has already been signed between Adnic and I[ic,” the semi-official Arabic language daily Alittihad said, quoting ADNOC sources. International…

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Oil up on Iran, Nigeria supply worries

LONDON (Reuters) – Brent crude rose more than $1 to over $113 on Thursday on worries a showdown between Iran and the West in the Middle East Gulf and a strike in Nigeria could disrupt oil supplies. Tension between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program has increased after an Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and U.S. agents. Brent crude futures for February rose $1.64 to a high of $113.88 a barrel and was trading close to that level by 1225 GMT. U.S. crude oil was up more than $1 above $102. Iran has threatened to close…

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First nuclear fuel rod tested in Iran

Scientists and researchers at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have successfully tested the first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod containing natural uranium, Iranian news agencies reported on Sunday. According to the reports, the first nuclear fuel rod was loaded into the core of the Tehran research reactor as part of an experiment to test its performance in operation. Now Iran should convert fuel rods into fuel plates to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment. Iran has constructed an advanced plant at the Isfahan nuclear facility for manufacturing nuclear fuel plates. With the construction of the plant, Iran is now among the few countries that can manufacture both nuclear fuel…

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Turkish government is Responsible about Tense Atmosphere in Region

ANKARA, (SANA) – Official spokesman of the Turkish Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) Mustafa Yilmaz said that Syria and Turkey are neighboring countries brought together by deep-rooted fraternity, but recently there were attempts to destroy the historic relations between them which upset the Turkish people. In an interview with the Syrian TV’s correspondent in Ankara, Yilmaz said that the recent stance of the Justice and Development Party caused concern among the Turkish people and politicians, stressing that the biggest winners if a confrontation occurred between Syria and Turkey are Israel and the United States. He pointed out that the Turkish people believe that Turkish media isn’t portraying the reality of what is happening in Syria, and that media…

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“Ties with Islamists” pushes UAE To revoke its nationality form 6 persons

The UAE has withdrawn citizenship from six individuals who were accused of threatening national security, according to a report on Thursday. The citizenship was withdrawn in accordance with an order issued by the UAE president HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dated Dec 4, a source at the General Administration for Naturalisation, Residency and Ports Affairs, told the WAM news agency. The accused, who originally carried the nationality of other countries, were granted UAE citizenship by naturalisation. The source told WAM “those persons had perpetrated over the past years acts threatening the national security of the UAE through their connection with suspicious regional and international organisations and personalities.”   The report added that some…

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‘Iran oil sanctions bad idea if they work’

Any sanctions on Iran’s oil sector imposed over the country’s nuclear program will backfire on the United States, regardless of their outcome, says an energy economist and columnist. “Oil sanctions are a bad idea if they work, and a bad idea if they fail,” wrote Robin M. Mills on the award-winning Foreign Policy website. If the sanctions work, American allies will be punished and some economically vulnerable countries, such as Greece, will suffer a cutoff of oil just at the time they can least afford it, he explained. Or, if they “succeed” more dramatically, and Iran’s exports are really interrupted, oil prices will soar, “plunging the world back into renewed recession,” Mills added. “But most likely, oil…

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ElBaradei: U.S.-Egypt in secret talks

(UPI) — Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said the United States is in talks with Egypt’s military council to try to preserve the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. ElBaradei said Tuesday secret negotiations between U.S. representatives and Egypt’s ruling military council are aimed at ensuring the country’s democratically elected government will maintain the 1979 peace treaty, Haaretz reported. ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the Iranian news agency the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was the focus of the talks between U.S. officials and Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. “The negotiations were completely secret and confidential” and the military council said they were about “bilateral and mutual relations,” ElBaradei told Fars. “But…

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Iran threatens to block key oil shipments

(UPI) — Iran will block all oil shipments through a key Persian Gulf waterway if the West imposes sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, a senior Iranian official said. “If they impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, then even one drop of oil cannot flow from the Strait of Hormuz,” Iranian First Vice President Mohamed Reza Rahimi said. The narrow strait, which includes Iranian territorial waters, is a vital artery for transporting about a third of the world’s tanker-borne oil and about 17 percent of all world oil shipments. About 13 tankers carrying 15.5 million barrels of crude oil pass through the strait on an average day, including crude from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and…

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Iran Displays Downed US Drone

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh Thursday evening appeared in a TV report to explain how Iranian forces downed the United States’ highly advanced radar-evading spy drone last week. “Recently, our collected intelligence and precise electronic monitoring revealed that this aircraft intended to infiltrate our country’s airspace for spying missions,” the General said, and added, “After it entered the Eastern parts of the country, this aircraft fell into the trap of our armed forces and was downed in Iran with minimum damage.” “The wing-to-wing width of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone is around 26 meters with a length of 4.5 meters and height of 1.84…

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US has been defeated in the Middle East

Analyzing the scene In the region , we will reach to a point this America is defeated and the entire middle east is waiting its pull out from Iraq to see the consequence of this defeating . The new axis which is forming in the region is drawing the limit of the western intervention in the middle east . The consequence of the defeating will shack thrones and overthrow others. The allies of the US failure project in the region are finding themselves alone facing  strong and solid powers ,which  have rejected all US policies in the region and fight it. We shouldn’t forget the Year 2003 . It was the beginning of the big clash betweenUS…

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Hezbollah Thwarts New Israeli Spy Operation

The Lebanese Hezbollah movement said it has exposed Israeli espionage device in Southern Lebanon, causing the “Zionist enemy” to bomb the equipment with an unmanned drone. Two people were injured after an explosion was heard in Southern Lebanon on Friday – a blast that may have been caused by an IDF drone, the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star reported. Addressing reports on the incident, Hezbollah said in a statement that it “has thwarted an Israeli spy operation by uncovering a wireless device in a valley between the towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa.”  The group said after the device was exposed, “the Zionist enemy bombed it with a drone. No operative was hurt.”  Earlier, a…

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Maliki: Iraq Ready to Take over from US

   Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stressed his country’s capability and preparedness to manage its affairs as soon as the US troops pull out of the country. Nouri al-Maliki told The AP in an exclusive interview Saturday that he has “no concerns whatsoever” about security after all American troops withdraw by Jan. 1. Iraqi security forces have proven themselves capable and able to protect their own country, he said. “Nothing has changed with the withdrawal of the American forces from Iraq on the security level because basically it has been in our hands,” he said. The prime minister said Iraq has been largely responsible for security ever since the American military pulled out of the cities in…

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The US and Israel dominate the Arab League and are controlling it

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Bahraini political activist and opposition figure lashed out at the Arab League’s double-standard policies towards developments in the Arab countries, and said the bloc lacks independence and only complies with the US and Israel’s orders. Speaking to FNA on Sunday, member of the Society for Supporting Bahraini People Qassem al-Hashemi said that the Arab League is exercising double-standard attitudes towards Arab states as it is tough and has adopted an unjust approach towards Syria while it ignores suppression of protesters in Bahrain.  He said the Arab League’s fear from the West and the US has made it unable to adopt correct decisions about developments in the Arab world.  “The US and…

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Iran to Send New Living Creatures into Space

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian scientists plan to send a second biocapsule of living creatures, probably mice, into the space, an academic revealed on Sunday without giving any specific date for the launch. “The plan for sending living creature into space was approved and it is waiting for a final approval,” Mansour Kabkanian, a professor at Tehran’s Amirkabir University, said on Sunday.  “After the final approval, the plan for sending living creatures into space will be implemented,” he said, adding that the country plans to send the living creatures to the altitude of 300km below the 70 degrees orbit.  Kabkanian also mentioned that Iranian scientists have proposed sending mice into space since they are stronger and more…

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Forbes Middle East unveils ranking of Top 63 online newspapers of the Arab world

UAE. Forbes Middle East recently unveiled the much-awaited ranking of the Top 63 online newspapers of the Arab world. At a gala ceremony held in Dubai, attended by editors-in-chief of several newspapers from Arab countries along with senior executives from the corporate world, Forbes Middle East unveiled the coveted list for the second year in a row. The event was sponsored by Qualcomm and Al Tayyar Travel Group. The Egyptian newspaper, Al Youm Al Sabe topped the list for the second consecutive year. During the period of survey, the newspaper attracted more than 15 million visitors to its website. The Algerian newspaper, Chorouk, bagged the second position, moving up from third position last year. Climbing…

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COLUMN-U.S. dreams of energy independence

(Reuters) – Booming output of gas and now oil from shale has raised the tantalising prospect of the United States becoming self-sufficient in energy, even a big exporter — ending its dependence on imports from unstable places in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and giving a big boost to domestic manufacturing. Following the deployment of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques in Texas’ Barnett shale and elsewhere, the United States is now producing so much natural gas that the Department of Energy has granted Cheniere a licence to begin exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its facility on the Gulf Coast. The United States still depends on imports for 60 percent of the…

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Palestinians Ride in the Front of the Bus

Actually, they were merely on the bus as it entered Jerusalem, which is confrontation enough. Free and democratic Israel has such a convoluted and restrictive system of permitting for Palestinians going anywhere that Arabs living in what are considered Jerusalem outskirts are not allowed to ride the Jews-only bus into town without their papers, please. For security purposes, of course. This morning six Palestinian activists, accompanied by a phalanx of journalists, were barred from entering Jerusalem. Police ordered them off the bus, but they refused. After about an hour, they were arrested and pulled off the bus. “My point isn’t go to jail — my point is to have the freedom to get on a bus,”…

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