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Mays leads Youngstown State over Geneva 88-47

DeAndre Mays scored 18 points and hit four of Youngstown State's 11 3-pointers as the Penguins routed Geneva 88-47 on Tuesday night.

Electric cars center stage at Geneva

GM's troubled Adam Opel GmbH subsidiary presented the lithium-ion battery powered hatchback Ampera on Tuesday at the Geneva Motor Show, where electric-powered vehicles emerged as one way to persuade environmentally aware consumers to buy new cars during the global recession.

GM Official: Saab Brand Won't Be Sold Off

General Motors Corp. won't sell the Saab brand, the head of the automaker's European division said Tuesday, pledging support after an aide to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian suggested that it could be sold.

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Blair War Crimes Foundation addresses Blair Iraq Crimes Petition to UN General Assemby
Source: petitiononline.com

The UK Blair War Crimes Foundation has organized a Petition demanding action against former UK PM Tony Blair for war crimes in the invasion and violent occupation of the sovereign nation of Iraq & urges sign petition!

Clearing Air: An Interview With Wajid Shamsul Hassan
Source: IbrahimSajidMalick

The ISI had plotted a stint to malign the President of Pakistan when the Pakistani High Commisioner to Britain was intercepted in Geneva while retrieving documents for the National Acountability Bureau from Swiss attorneys. He was accompanied by Dr.

Big Bang machine records first hardcore atom smash
Source: New Zealand Herald

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said.

BBC News - Iraq shoe thrower Zaidi faces Paris shoe-ing
Source: BBC News

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack. Muntadar al-Zaidi was speaking about Iraqi war victims at a news conference in Paris, but managed to duck in time.

Re-started collider smashes previous record
Source: IrishExaminer.com

The "Big Bang" machine with which scientists hope to re-create conditions at the dawn of the universe smashed the world record for accelerating subatomic particles today.

Why we have to talk with Tehran - The Globe and Mail
Source: The Globe and Mail

Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?

Hoh, Oho!
Source: Truth Spring

Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war.

Blackwater's Unwritten Death Contract
Source: Consortiumnews.com

Hats off to Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times for reporting that it was after CIA Director Leon Panetta's holdover lieutenants finally told him that, under President Bush, they had farmed out assassinations to their Blackwater subsidiary, that he abruptly stopped the project an …

The Key Teachings of John Calvin
Source:

John Calvin was one of the pillars of the Protestant Reformation, and as such his teachings have had a tremendous influence on many aspects of society all the way to the present day.

Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
Source: Information Clearing House

Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli …

You Can't Say That. At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech :: Anne Bayefsky
Source: Campaign Standard

The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday.

Attack on WFP unjustifiable: UN Secretary-General

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today most strongly condemned the suicidal attack on the World Food Offices in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. According to UN sources, a few have been confirmed dead while the critically injured are being treated in hospital.

Iran Nuclear Talks Begin in Geneva
Source: Wall Street Journal

The U.S. and Iran had one of their highest level meetings in decades Thursday, when the State Department's No. 3 diplomat had a one-on-one session with his Iranian counterpart during talks in Geneva.

US urges Israel to probe Gaza crimes to boost peace
Source: Daily Star

GENEVA: The United States called on its close ally Israel Tuesday to conduct credible investigations into allegations of war crimes committed by its forces in Gaza, saying it would help the Middle East peace process.

Ritter Interview on Iran
Source: Democracy Now!

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins us to discuss what he calls "politically motivated hype" over Iran's nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site.

West Raps Iran Nuclear Site
Source: Wall Street Journal

PITTSBURGH -- The leaders of the U.S., France and Britain charged Iran has built a secret nuclear facility designed to give the Islamic republic the ability to build an atomic weapon, a revelation that significantly raises the stakes in the West's intensifying face-off with Tehra …

Naomi Klein on "Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks and the 'Post-Racial' Presidency"
Source: Democracy Now!

The piece examines the World Conference Against Racism that was held in Geneva this past April, a follow-up to the first racism conference in Durban, South Africa in 2001.

Barack Obama is an accessory after the fact to war crimes by torture non-prosecutions
Source: The Progressive

By not prosecuting the torturers and those who ordered the torture, and now by not even going public with the photo tortures he'd already agreed to release, Obama is an accessory after the fact of torture war crimes

U.S. Infection Rate Set at 50% with 90,000 Deaths
Source: ABC News

Up to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 could die this season, according to a dire report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. More Articles

Mass murder of Afghan infants by US, UK, NATO & Australia

The "annual death rate" for Afghan infants is about 7%, this proving what an utter sham "democracy" is in Occupied Afghanistan and the war criminality of the US Alliance Occupiers, the US, the UK, NATO and Australia.

Arab human rights group barred for year by U.N. | International | Reuters
Source: Reuters

Arab human rights group barred for year by U.N. GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations decided on Monday to bar an Arab human rights group for a year after Algeria argued that it brought in a "known terrorist" to speak on its behalf at a meeting in Geneva.

H1N1 Pandemic Spreading Too Fast to Count
Source: Reuters

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case. More Articles

First 'Healthy' Swine Flu Death
Source: BBC News

"We've all been gritting our teeth, waiting for this to happen, and now it has. This doesn't necessarily mean the virus has mutated. "Whether more patients with no underlying health problems die of the disease really depends on what the virus does next." More Articles

Australian forces killing women and children in Oz- & US-occupied Occupied Afghanistan
Source: The Age

Australian troops face fresh allegations over eight civilians, including women and children, killed in a requested helicopter attack in Occupied Afghanistan, amid unanswered questions about earlier incidents.

The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his family. The interrogator senses the boy is psychologically vulnerable and consults with a psychologist.

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