27th November, 2011
TEHRAN: A senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says the country will target NATO’s missile defense shield in Turkey if the US or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards’ aerospace division, is quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what it sees as an increase in threats from the US and Israel.
He says Iran will now respond to threats with threats rather than a defensive position.
Tehran says NATO’s early warning radar station in Turkey is meant to protect Israel against Iranian missile attacks if a war breaks out with Israel.
Turkey agreed to host the radar in September as part of NATO’s missile defense system.
November 2011
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CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. increased pressure Friday on Egypt’s military rulers to hand over power to civilian leaders, and the generals turned to a Mubarak-era politician to head a new government in a move that failed to satisfy the more than 100,000 protesters who jammed Tahrir Square in the biggest rally yet this week.
More than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.
Following on from the original ‘climategate’ emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches.
“I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” she says. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’”
At that point, a Seattle police officer lifted his foot and it hit her in the stomach, and another officer pushed his bicycle into the crowd, again hitting Fox in the stomach. “Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. My eyes puffed up and my eyes swelled shut,” she says.
She was fine for a couple days, until she started feeling sick.
Jennifer went to the doctor and found out her baby had no heartbeat. “They said the damage was from the kick and that the pepper spray got to it [the fetus], too.”
I will continue coverage on Egypt’s struggle. I have been with the Egyptians since day one of the major revolution, Jan 25th. I will not give up and I support all Egyptians.
Videos I’ve made for Egypt:
This is one of the most powerful actions I have seen since the beginning of all these protests.
On Friday, November 18th, Campus police of UC Davis told students to move as they were “blocking” a walkway during a protest. They didn’t. Officer Lt. John Pike walked the line of protesters spraying them with mass amounts of pepper spray. The video surfaced on the internet and is now one of the most, if not the most talked about instances in protests worldwide. SEE VIDEO here (keep in mind it is disturbing)
What followed the pepper spray incident was possibly one of the most haunting but beautiful reactions from the students. Students, sitting and standing, thousands of them, remained quiet until Chancellor Katehi got in her car and left the school. SEE VIDEO here
UC Davis Chancellor, Linda Katehi will be addressing thousands of students on Monday the 21st at the General Assembly of OccupyUCDavis.
Cairo (CNN) — Hundreds of Egyptian army and police forces pushed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square Sunday, making thousands of demonstrators flee in the face of tear gas and what sounded like live fire.
Clashes had broken out in the square earlier Sunday, the second day of unrest there ahead of the country’s elections.
By noon Sunday, Tahrir was fully occupied, with demonstrators barricading streets around the square and blocking traffic.
Eighteen people were arrested and transferred to a military prosecutor, Alaa Mahmoud of the interior ministry said before the security push into the square that was the symbolic heart of Egypt’s revolution at the beginning of the year.
The minister of education dismissed schools near the square for the day, according to state TV.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, but before the army joined them later in the day, the situation appeared calmer than on Saturday, when rifts between police and protesters left two people dead in two cities, the health ministry reported.
