Bahrain slams Iran over summit speech translation debacle

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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi ( AFP Photo / Pool)

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Bahrain has demanded an apology from Tehran after the mistranslation of a critical speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by Iranian official translators, which replaced the word "Syria" with the word "Bahrain."

­Morsi gave the speech on Thursday during at the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran.

It was an Egyptian head of state's first official visit to Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It was also only Morsi's second official visit abroad as president since being elected this June.

“Our solidarity with the struggle of the Syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy is an ethical duty, as it is a political and strategic necessity,” he said at the meeting. His speech also included a call for the Syrian opposition to unite.

However, during his speech, the translator for Iran, where Persian is spoken, substituted the word "Syria" for "Bahrain."

“This is a violation, fabrication and unacceptable media behavior that shows how Iranian media is interfering in Bahrain’s internal affairs,” the BNA, Bahrain’s government-run news agency, said on Saturday. 

The speech was transmitted live with a Farsi (as Persian is called in Iran) translation on two Iranian channels, IRIB Channel One and IRINN, although the Bahraini statement didn’t mention which channel it said changed the words. 

The head of Iran’s state media, Ezatollah Zarghami, admitted the mistake but insisted it was mistranslated on only one of the country's channels, IRIB Channel One.

He added that while President Morsi was addressing the summit, a technical error occurred that caused the translator to make the mistake.

Zarghami added that the Western media were quick to seize upon the error. “In a verbal mistake, the translator said 'Bahrain' instead of 'Syria,' and this became a pretext for Western media,” he said. 

The scandal has become an embarrassment for Iran, which found itself in the international spotlight due to the summit, which brought representatives from 120 nations.

Iranian media activist Ameed Maqdam expressed astonishment at the error. Maqdam said he heard "Bahrain" mentioned three times in the simultaneous Persian translation broadcast on Channel One.

“For us who were listening on the radio, whenever Mursi said 'Syria' the Persian translator, who did not have the required integrity, translated it as 'Bahrain!!'” one listener complained online to the Asr-e Iran newspaper, as quoted by Reuters.

The incident is diplomatically sensitive because Iran, a Shi’ite Muslim power, is an ally of the Alawite religious minority that rules Syria. Alawite Islam is an offshoot of Shia Islam.

Iran has previously expressed sympathy with the democratic protest movement in Bahrain against the ruling al-Khalifa family, which put down a democratic rebellion in 2011 by the majority Shiite population.

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Pepe Escobar : Obama bashing China

Pepe Escobar : every time I watch a republican debate my cat runs out of the room in absolute terror , these people they do not travel they have no idea of other cultures they cannot understand , ...these guys they cannot understand the other , The other for them is a threat be it a Chinese a Muslim an African a south American you name it .... Unfortunately The United States government has become the largest and most prolific terrorist state? in the world. It has overthrown more democratically elected government than the Nazis, Soviets, and "Red" Chinese? could combined. It has orchestrated and supported more genocide than any other national government. Iran has not attack another nation for over a century. What Pepe Escobar forgets to say is that China has opened Major Gold Mines in Africa as well. China is also drilling for oil in Uganda. There is more going on out there than what is being revealed? here. Let China do as the West and devalue its currency while? the West tries to drive China out of Africa and South America, as was just done in Libya.

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Zombie Banks Drain Celente's Account! 3/3

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MF Global Looted Customers' Accounts Via Internal Bank Run

Big players got warning ahead of time that financial broker was set to collapse

Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Days before the doomed financial broker filed for bankruptcy, MF Global conducted "unexplained wire transfers" that led to a $900 million shortfall in client funds, leading customers like Gerald Celente to learn that their accounts had been looted and setting the precedent for internal bank runs as more big firms go bust.

According to Bloomberg, "Examiners from CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures exchange, found unexplained wire transfers at MF Global Inc. and a $900 million shortfall in client funds during the weekend the failing broker was talking with possible buyers, a person briefed on the matter said."

CME noticed the missing funds on October 30, but MF Global didn't inform the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until the day after, suggesting that the transfers were made, "in a manner that may have been designed to avoid detection," according to CME.

The suspicious cash movements are now being probed by the U.S. Justice Department.

MF Global trustee James Giddens said in a court filing yesterday that customers would get back 60 per cent of their account funds, prompting fury amongst clients, many of whom used their accounts for business collateral and living expenses.

Although individuals were burned by the broker's downfall, larger clients were protected from the fallout because they had the miraculous fortune of withdrawing all their funds just weeks before the collapse.
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Joel Skousen : World War 3 Will be Nuclear

Joel Skousen on Radio Liberty 10 Nov 2011 : Joel Skousen joins Dr. Stanley Monteith to discuss the state of the world economy, the current field of Republican presidential hopefuls including Chris Christie, and other recent world and national news.Joel Skousen is a political scientist , the editor and publisher of World Affair Brief, a weekly news analysis service dedicated to providing an understanding of the hidden agendas behind the actions of world leaders and other powerful individuals who influence government from behind the scenes. Skousen has written several books, including Essential Principles for the Conservation of Liberty, and Strategic Relocation -- North American Guide to Safe Places .Secret Governments have their own security and assets. They can make anything happen anywhere and blame whoever they want, all they need is for it to be big enough to awe the masses. How many nukes are missing, how many nations have them? How hard would it be for the super rich, with their super assets to get a nuke to go off anywhere they want? They'll do it because they're becoming easier to expose and they're running out? of time. Technology made them super rich but it could kill them as well?

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Clint Eastwood talking to Obama at The Republican National Convention

This Chair person actually looks? like a great candidate. It doesn't make promises it can't keep. It performs well under pressure. It doesn't bullshit anybody and does what it was made to do really well. CHAIR 2012

Clint Eastwood RNC Full Speech 2012, Talks To Invisible Obama Actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood made an unscheduled appearance on the GOP convention stage before a welcoming audience Thursday night ahead of Mitt Romney's acceptance speech for his party's presidential nomination. "I think it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem," said Eastwood, 82, who already endorsed Romney this month at a campaign fundraiser in Idaho. "When someone does not do the job, you have got to let them go." Eastwood remarks were rambling at times and critical of President Obama and Vice President Biden, whom he described as "a kind of grin with a body behind it." was revealed as the Republican National Convention's "Mystery Speaker" Thursday night, talking to the crowd about the need for change and supporting presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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OKC Anniversary: A New Investigative Report by J.M. Berger

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New Ebook – Survive Food Crisis – FINALLY Real Info We Can USE

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November 16, 2011

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Global Chemtrail Secrets Revealed 2/2

The greatest public health threat can no longer be denied

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
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Monday, November 14, 2011

The fact that the planet is being bombarded with chemicals from high-altitude spraying as part of numerous geoengineering programs being conducted by U.S. government agencies and universities that have been approved with no oversight whatsoever can no longer be denied.

The re-classification of global warming, a highly contentious and often scientifically fraudulent pseudo-science, as a "national security threat" has been exploited by governments as an excuse to play God, green lighting secret experiments on a massive scale that carry innumerable dangers to humans and their environment.

However, now that increasing awareness of geoengineering as a result of the chemtrails phenomenon has propagated widely, authorities are slowly being forced to disclose certain aspects of the program. We are now not far away from full disclosure of the true extent of geoengineering experimentation.

Scientists now admit that vapor trails from aeroplanes are creating "artificial clouds" that block out the sun. This is no longer a matter of debate. The chemtrail "conspiracy theorists" were proven correct.

Reading University's Professor Keith Shine told the Daily Mail last year that the clouds "formed by aircraft fumes could linger 'for hours', depriving those areas under busy flight paths, such as London and the Home Counties, of summer sunshine."

"Experts have warned that, as a result, the amount of sunlight hitting the ground could be reduced by as much as ten per cent. Professor Shine added: "Over the busiest areas in London and the South of England, this high-level cloud could cover the sky, turning bright sunshine into hazy conditions for the entire area. I expect the effects will get worse as the volume of air traffic increases."

The report also makes reference to a 2009 Met Office study which found that high-level winds did not disperse contrails that later formed into clouds which covered an astonishing 20,000 miles.

Of course, only the completely naive would suggest that there is no connection between chemtrails that block out the sun, a phenomenon that has been ongoing for over a decade, and open calls on behalf of scientists to 'reduce global warming' by injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.

Mainstream science and academia has gone from dismissing chemtrails as a fantasy of paranoid conspiracy theorists to now accepting that they exist but claiming that they are natural and not artificially induced, despite numerous patents and scientific proposals that focus around using man-made dispersal of aerosols to alter the atmosphere.

The proposal to disperse sulphur dioxide in an attempt to reflect sunlight was discussed in a September 2008 London Guardian article entitled, Geoengineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming, in which Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist based at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California, promoted the idea of injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.

"One approach is to insert "scatterers" into the stratosphere," states the article. "Caldeira cites an idea to deploy jumbo jets into the upper atmosphere and deposit clouds of tiny particles there, such as sulphur dioxide. Dispersing around 1m tonnes of sulphur dioxide per year across 10m square kilometres of the atmosphere would be enough to reflect away sufficient amounts of sunlight."

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This Is How America Treats Its War Veterans

America treats its war veterans like garbage , The rising number of homeless war veterans is a shame for the United States .War veterans in the United States make up a quarter of all homeless people across the nation. It is a whole army of 200,000 people, which is close to the number of the US military contingent deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan .Is this any different than any of the wars initiated by? the industrial military complex? They come back to America where their are no jobs, no manufacturing and very little opportunities and expect to live a civilian life. Sounds a lot like Vietnam vets and these vets probably still don't even know what they were really fighting for. Its a shame and only going to get a lot worse.our soldiers or the government soldiers... they don't fight for my freedom because I'm free.... they fight for government interest... which means corporate and bankers interests who control every government on earth , they do not fight for me... they fight pre-made wars.... controlled wars.... if a country wants war send off the government officials the politicians the bankers and their families to fight any war they are creating.... we? are still fighting fake enemies... fake winners... all interest for the bankers.

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Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon dies at 92

Self-proclaimed messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement, has died aged 92 due to complications from pneumonia.

Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 in a town now located in North Korea. He claimed he was 16 when Jesus Christ called upon him to complete his unfinished work. During World War II, he moved to Japan, where he studied electrical engineering at Waseda University.

Moon returned to the Soviet-occupied part of Korea after the war was over and began preaching his teachings. That soon landed him in jail, and he was given a five-year prison sentence at a labor camp in the newly-independent communist country of North Korea. However, the Korean War cut short his prison sentence as UN troops took control of the camp and set him free.  

Moon founded his religious movement, officially known as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of Christianity, in Seoul in 1954. In 1957 he published Divine Principle, which laid out the foundations of his religious movement and attained scripture status among his followers.

In 1971, Moon moved to the United States. In the following years, his church came into the media spotlight as Moon held mass weddings of thousands of followers.

He also organized a number of mass gatherings. An estimated 1.2 million people gathered for a rally in the South Korean city of Yoido, while some 300,000 supporters flocked to the Washington Monument for another one of his public meetings.  

Later, Moon and the church transformed into a kind of business empire. This included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan and Bridgeport University in Connecticut. In South Korea, a ski resort, a professional soccer team and other businesses were acquired. In North Korea, the church owns a hotel and a fledgling automaker.

Grooms and brides cheer while taking part in a mass wedding organized by Reverend Sun Myung Moon Unification Church, 16 February 2002, at an indoor Seoul stadium. (AFP Photo/Youn Jae-Wook)

The leader of the Unification Church, just as the movement itself, proved to be a highly controversial figure.

Accusations were soon voiced that the church was bilking followers out of money, and that its adherents, many young people among them, were brainwashed into joining. The church only said in response that all religious movements faced these kinds of accusations in their early stages.

Moon’s political ventures were also somewhat controversial. In 1974, as Richard Nixon faced increasing pressure to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Moon told his followers to pray and fast in support of the president under fire. This was at a time when most of the public, and even some of Nixon’s own appointees, had ducked him.

A number of other right-wing politicians appeared to be on very good terms with Moon. He set up the News World Corporation, which was responsible for resurrecting the New York Tribune in 1976, and starting The Washington Times in 1982. Both of these papers were perceived to be right of center, and were often accused of the furthering the agenda of the Reagan administration. A House committee chaired by Democrat Donald Fraser also investigated links between the Unification Church and South Korean intelligence.

Moon’s increasingly warm relations with the Republicans who took control of the Oval Office in the 1980s did not help him avoid jail, however. In 1982, the religious leader was sentenced to 18 months in prison for improperly filling out tax returns. He was released after 13 months for good behavior. During his stay in prison, he found support in televangelists such as Jerry Fallwell, who accused the jury that sentenced him of prejudice.

Nevertheless, his jail sentence did not hamper his relations with the neoconservatives in power. Both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher eventually extolled Moon and his media empire for helping bring down the Soviet Union.

Moon’s closeness with fierce anti-communists the likes of Reagan did not prevent him from traveling to North Korea for a meeting with the country’s longterm leader Kim Il-Sung. Moon reported having a friendly chat about common hobbies and noted that the two had many similarities.

Although Moon returned to South Korea in the 1990s, he continued to run his multibillion-dollar business empire, which by that time had extended its reach across dozens of countries. Operating under the auspices of Moon and his subordinates were hospitals, charities, colleges, sports clubs, think tanks, TV channels and even ballet companies.

And despite being one of the most prominent capitalists and anti-communists of the world, Moon continued to receive birthday gifts, including Rolex watches and pricey flowers, from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. In turn, Moon sent condolence delegations to the funerals of Kim Il-Sung in 1994, and Kim Jong-Il in 2011.

In the late 2000s, Moon largely ceded control of his media empire and other ventures to his wife and sons.

In 2009, Moon returned to his matchmaker roots by marrying some 45,000 people in ceremonies worldwide. He also joined up some 7,000 people the following year in South Korea. However, these ceremonies did not spark the controversy they had brought thirty years earlier.    

A number of other practices the church preaches have also generated controversy throughout the years. Followers are reportedly told to swear blind devotion to the True Father – Moon – and the True Mother – Moon’s wife Hak Ja Han Moon, meaning that they have to give up their lives for their faith if necessary.

In 1990 Moon visited the Soviet Union and met with President Mikhail Gorbachev, praising him for his political and economic reforms. Soon after the Communist empire was dissolved in 1991, branches of Moon's church started putting down roots in the post-Soviet area, most notably in Russia and Central Asia.

At first, Russian authorities tolerated and even endorsed some of the church’s initiatives. In a number of regions, the movement supplied textbooks to schoolchildren and organized seminars for students. However, by the end of the 1990s the Moscow began to grow increasingly wary of the church’s meddling in the education process.

Most of its branches were shut down for breaching the registration process, while the Russian government, just as many of its counterparts in Europe, classified the Unification Church as a sect. And just like in the United States, the churches were also accused of meddling in politics in an effort to cajole lawmakers to adopt favorable legislation.

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Nukes On The Road!

We were driving north on US 285 and noticed a big truck carrying a load marked radioactive.The truck had US Gov plates. Do you know what it is?

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