http://noisyroom.net/blog Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart Sun, 11 May 2008 18:54:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Conservative Rabbi’s CUFI Invocation and a Love Offering for Israel by Jerry Gordon, Israpundit, May 10, 2008 Thursday was Yom Ha’aztma’ut (Israel Independence Day). There were festivities and commemorations across North America, Europe and in Israel. Christians United for Israel (CUFI) held a Night to honor Israel at a ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/american-congress-for-truth-051108/ From Citizen Outreach: By: Chuck Muth PROFILES IN POLITICAL COURAGE "Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden showed great political courage in standing up against mandatory vaccinations in the state Senate a few years back. That brave stand gave the Culinary union all the ammo they needed to bring her down, absurdly claiming the young ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/nevada-news-views-may-11-2008/ From Citizen Outreach: By: Chuck Muth NAACP FIGHTS FOR BUSSING The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County is in contract talks with the Teamsters this week at John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks. And what cataclysmic issue is of such monumental concern in the negotiations that it warranted a full-scale press release ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/nevada-news-views-may-10-2008/ Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” Conference comment by Jerry Gordon The new Palestinian ploy is to trash Israel on the 60th Anniversary by trying to focus the media’s attention on ‘Nakba’- the Disaster referring to the Arab defeat during Israel’s War for Independence in 1948-1949 and the flight of refugees. Of course ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/american-congress-for-truth-051008/ Happy Mother's Day from NoisyRoom.net! We hope that this day is a very special one for each and every Mother out there... 8) Happy Mother's Day from our new home near Hauser Lake, Idaho... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/happy-mothers-day-2/ From Fox News: ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes and artillery units have hit Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, following a rebel raid on a military outpost in Turkey, the military said Sunday. Targets in Saturday's raids included an area just across the border where rebels had allegedly gathered after attacking ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/turkeys-military-warplanes-artillery-strike-kurdish-rebels-in-iraq/ From the DEBKAfile: DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/11/hizballah-received-35-new-iranian-speedboats-shortly-before-current-crisis/ From Iran Focus: By Tom Bergin ImageLONDON (Reuters) - Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has pulled out of a planned gas project in Iran, after coming under pressure not to participate from U.S. lawmakers who were concerned about Iran's nuclear programme. A spokeswoman said on Saturday that the world's second-largest non government-controlled oil ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/shell-pulls-out-of-iran-gas-deal/ From Fox News: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah TV says that Hezbollah-led opposition forces will withdraw all their gunmen from Beirut in compliance with an army request. An opposition statement says the move comes in response to an army order, but the statement said that a "civil disobedience" campaign will continue until ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/hezbollah-heeds-lebanese-armys-calls-for-end-to-violence/ From Yahoo! Finance: ANB Financial banks closed by federal regulators over 'unsafe and unsound' practices BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Federal regulators says they've closed ANB Financial National Association banks after discovering "unsafe and unsound" business practices there. David Barr, a spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says many customers served by the ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/federal-regulators-close-arkansas-bank-anb-financial/ From Iran Focus: WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his warning that the Jewish state will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, but expressed hope the international community would be successful in checking Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "Yes, Israel will not tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of people who ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/israel-will-not-tolerate-nuclear-iran-olmert/ From Iran Focus: BRUSSELS (AFP) — The EU presidency on Friday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" anti-Israeli remarks made by Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called the state of Israel "a stinking corpse". Ahmadinejad's comments, delivered Thursday, "are unacceptable, damaging and uncivilised," the European Union's Slovenian presidency said in a ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/eu-condemns-iran-leaders-unacceptable-anti-israel-remarks/ From Iran Focus: TEHRAN (Reuters) - The weak U.S. dollar is the main reason behind oil prices rising to record levels, not demand or supply factors, an Iranian Oil Ministry official was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We must be aware that it is not the price of crude oil that has ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/iran-official-says-dollar-causes-record-oil/ From Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 - Iran has presented a package of nuclear proposals to the West in a bid to counter a similar offer to be made by major world powers to Tehran to convince it to abandon its controversial nuclear activities. The package was handed to Spanish Foreign ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/iran-offers-west-nuclear-package/ From Iran Focus: Adnkronos International ImageTehran, 9 May (AKI) - Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy were a dangerous triangle, according to an Iranian website close to the government. "The Berlusconi-Merkel-Sarkozy triangle represents a threat," said the website,'Tabnak, considered to be close to the former ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/iran-european-leaders-a-threat-says-website/ From the DEBKAfile: DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Hizballah’s advance on two key Lebanese locations Saturday, May 10 had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel. Sidon in the south, Lebanon’s second largest city, which provides Hizballah with control of a continuous coastal strip from its ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/iran-backed-hizballah-offensive-closes-in-on-israeli-border/ From the DEBKAfile: After four days of fierce fighting in which at least 24 people died, the Lebanese army revoked two government measures in obedience to Hizballah demands: the Shiite group’s independent telecommunication network will not be shut down and the pro-Hizballah Brig. Gen Wafiq Shqeir would keep his job as ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/10/lebanese-pm-opens-door-to-surrender-army-grants-two-key-hizballah-demands/ From WorldTribune.com: China’s rise is posing serious challenges and its military buildup and international behavior could produce an “adversarial” relationship with the world, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said last week. “After two centuries of perceived Western hegemony, China seems to be determined to flex its muscles,” Hayden said. read more... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/cia-chinas-military-could-get-adversarial/ From Iran Focus: BEIRUT (AFP) — Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. Convoys of triumphant Shiite opposition gunmen firing into the air and flashing victory signs took to ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/lebanon-in-turmoil-as-hezbollah-takes-west-beirut/ From Jerusalem World News: Source: Ynetnews.com Lebanon government decision to make Hizbullah communications system illegal incenses Shiite gunmen, who seize control of Sunni neighborhoods, pro-government media; surround home of anti-Syrian leader Hariri. Saudi leaders call emergency meeting Hizbullah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day of ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/hizbullah-seizes-large-parts-of-beirut/ From Citizen Outreach: By: Chuck Muth STOP THE UNION TAX GRAB Citizen Outreach is launching a 10-day informational television campaign in Reno and rural Nevada urging voters not to sign the teachers union’s petition to raise taxes which will primarily go to paying union members more money for the bang-up job their doing ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/nevada-news-views-may-9-2008/ From Bob McCarty Writes: Ever imagined what it might be like to live in a community full of people who once supported Ron Paul for president of the United States? Well, imagine no more. The concept from which late-night talk show hosts and comedians alike will draw material for months is ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/like-minded-people-welcome-in-%e2%80%98paulville%e2%80%99/ From American Forces Press Service: WASHINGTON, May 9, 2008 - More than a dozen insurgents were killed during a coalition forces operation to disrupt Taliban support operations in Afghanistan's Helmand province yesterday, military officials reported. Coalition forces searched compounds in the province's Garmsir district, targeting a Taliban insurgent associated with procurement ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/afghanistan-clash-proves-fatal-for-enemy-attackers/ From Family Security Matters: Steven Emerson The Council on American-Islamic Relations appears to have parted ways with one of its highest profile executives, but no one is saying why. Ahmed Bedier, executive director of CAIR's Tampa chapter, is no longer being identified as such in media reports. He has been quoted three times ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/the-mystery-at-cair-tampa/ From Family Security Matters: Douglas Farah Yesterday, the Associated Press today reported on how thinly spread U.S. Special Forces are in many parts of the world, including Latin America, at a crucial time. “We’re going to fewer countries, staying for shorter periods of time, with smaller numbers of people than historically we have ... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/05/09/iranian-presence-in-latin-america-grows-as-american-presence-shrinks/