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Iran, Israel Flexing Muscles, Turning up Rhetoric in Preparation For Possible War
atimesblogs.latimes.com
Things are not looking good for the possibility of a peaceful resolution between Israel and Iran over the latter’s nuclear ambitions. Oil prices rose and hearts sank across the region this week as Iran began its biggest air defense drill ever and Israel readied a new missile defense system in preparation for a possible three-front war.
Since President Obama was swept into office promising a change toward strong diplomacy to resolve Middle East problems, his policies have faltered and his options narrowed.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank that favors a hard line on Iran, issued a report last week recommending that the Obama administration begin preparing for possible military strikes on Iran next year. If the U.S. does not strike Iranian nuclear and military facilities, the report said, Israel may decide to take riskier unilateral action…more…
Iran Begins 4th Day of Military Drill
www.presstv.ir
Iran’s largest military maneuver has commenced for the fourth day with the country’s defense forces combating supposed enemy attacks on nuclear installations within Iran.
Iran on Sunday launched a five-day drill that will cover some 600,000 square kilometers, spreading across the central, western and southern parts of the country.
During the third stage of the maneuver, that will continue for two days, Iranian servicemen will thwart hypothetical aerial threats against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Throughout the maneuver the hypothetical enemy… sought to dispatch its stealth bombers and fighter jets to the country’s sensitive areas,” spokesman for the maneuver, Brigadier General Ali Moqiseh said on Wednesday.
“Our defense brigades managed to thwart the attack by using defense in depth strategies, thus preventing the aggressor through successive layers of defense from reaching the areas.”
The exercise, covering more than a third of Iran’s territory, is meant to mobilize rapid-reaction army and air defense units and test anti-aircraft and radar capabilities in various parts of the country…more…
Nida a Category 5 Super Typhoon
www.nasa.gov
Typhoon Nida is in a favorable environment that has enabled it to intensify faster and stronger than previously forecast, and has now exploded into a Super typhoon. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Nida and captured a visible image of the storm revealing a clear eye, which indicates a strong typhoon.
The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Nida on November 25 at 0355 UTC (November 24 at 10:55 p.m. ET). The image clearly revealed an eye that showed the surface of the northwestern Pacific Ocean! The MODIS image showed a tightly circulating symmetrical hurricane form.
At 10 a.m. ET on November 25, Super Typhoon Nida had maximum sustained winds near 172 mph (150 knots) with gusts as high as 207 mph! A category five typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson scale has sustained winds greater than 155 mph. Typhoon-force winds extend as far as 45 miles from Nida’s center, while tropical storm-force winds extend out as far as 105 miles from Nida’s center…more…
Israel ‘to Halt Settlement Growth’
english.aljazeera.net
Israel’s prime minister has announced a 10-month suspension to the construction of new settlement houses in the occupied West Bank.
Binyamin Netanyahu told a news conference on Wednesday that he declared the limited halt “out of broad national interests with the aim of encouraging negotiations with our Palestinian neighbours”.
“When the period of freeze ends my government will return to the previous policy of building in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said, using the Jewish names for the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli proposal excludes areas of the West Bank that Israel annexed to its Jerusalem municipality after occupying the territory in the 1967 Middle East war and building projects already under way…more…
‘No God No Problem!’ Holiday Ads to Hit US Cities
www.christianpost.com
Washington, D.C., residents can expect to see ads proclaiming, “No God?…No Problem!” inside buses, rail cars and on the side or tail of buses by week’s end. The campaign, sponsored by the American Humanist Association, will then target the transit systems of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
According to AHA, the holiday ad campaign is the first by a humanist group to go nationwide.
“We’re hoping this campaign will build awareness about the humanist movement and our ethical life philosophy – particularly among the ‘nones:’ the rapidly growing percentage of people who claim no religion,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of AHA.
Speckhardt went on to contend that religion does not have a monopoly on morality and that people can be good without a belief in God.
“We want to change the way people think and talk about nontheists, and to pave the way for acceptance of humanism as a valid and positive philosophy of life,” he said…more…