Duh! By now I am wondering if this whole Arab Spring farce could have been set in motion to set the whole of the Arab world on fire with an endless Sunni -Shiite civil war, stretching from the shores of Lebanon to the borders of India.
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The Greek government is set to issue civil mobilization orders to secondary school teachers who have called a strike which will disrupt university entrance exams. Teachers that refuse to work face arrest.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War II, to formalise the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf.
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According to the NYT, the group leading the new Sunni insurgency in Iraq is called the Men of the Army of the Naqshbandia Order or JRTN. They are said to be led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists and were on the payroll of the US!
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Explosive revelations from a former Greek diplomat.
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The FBI arrested a California ex-convict early Friday as he allegedly tried to blow up a Bank of America branch in Oakland, hoping to start a civil war.
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Former U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer, notable for his role civil governor of Iraq following the 2003 invasion, had shoes thrown at him last week during a meeting in the British Parliament in an attack reminiscent of the 2008 shoe hurling against former President George W. Bush.
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British people, including workers and union members, have been urged to launch a campaign of “civil disobedience” to protest the coalition government’s austerity measures, local media reported.
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He is backed by the Ennahda. These Islamist brownshirts are accused of a reign of terror in the streets of Tunisia, especially against political and spiritual opponents
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