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3/22/2015 6:28:10 PM




Gregg Braden: Science And Spiritually Are Merging


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Gregg Braden is a rare blend of scientist, visionary and scholar with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts. — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

  • New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science, ancient wisdom and the real world!
  • 2015 nominee for the prestigious Templeton Award
  • Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist during the 1970’s energy crisis, he worked as a Senior Computer Systems Designer with Martin Marietta Defense Systems during the last years of the Cold War.
  • In 1991 he became The First Technical Operations Managerfor Cisco Systems.

Since 1986 Gregg has explored high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to merge their timeless secrets with the best science of today. His discoveries are now shared in 34 languages through such paradigm-inspiring books as: The God Code, Deep Truth, and his newest, The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes.

His 2007 best seller, The Divine Matrix, was recently selected as the source for the made-for-television feature, “Entanglement,” and is now a textbook for college level physics courses exploring new discoveries of science and our relationship to the world.

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3/23/2015 12:36:21 AM

Palestinians protest planned Jerusalem evictions

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Israeli, foreign peace activists on March 22, 2015 demonstrate in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to support the Sub Laban family, which is under threat of eviction from their house by Israeli authorities (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)


Jerusalem (AFP) - Dozens of Palestinians and foreign supporters protested in east Jerusalem's walled Old City on Sunday against the threatened eviction of a Palestinian family to make way for Jewish settlers.

"No to the eviction of the Sub Laban family," read banners carried by demonstrators, referring to the eight occupants of the house near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews.

Rafat Sub Laban, who lives there with his parents, his sister and his brother's wife and children, said the family have rented their home since 1953 when the Old City was ruled by Jordan.

Israeli authorities issued an eviction order in September which is currently under appeal, but settlers backed by police tried to gain possession last week, he said.

"Twenty police officers with settlers wanted to evict us," he said in a statement.

Israel seized Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.

It claims both halves of the city as its "united, undivided capital", while the Palestinians want the eastern sector for the capital of a state of their own.

Israeli moves to expand settlement activity in east Jerusalem, both through new construction and by acquisition of existing Palestinian homes, have stirred widespread international condemnation.

Jewish groups have bought property there through shadowy frontmen and straw companies.

Selling land to Israeli settlers is viewed as treason by the Palestinians and carries a penalty of life imprisonment. Some alleged perpetrators have been killed.

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3/23/2015 12:54:38 AM

US trains Iraqi forces as battle for Tikrit continues

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TAJI, Iraq (AP) — As the U.S. mission to Iraq expands, so do its efforts to arm and train the country's security forces to combat the Islamic State group, with large-scale operations continuing to recapture territory from the Sunni militants.

Hundreds of American advisers are working at the Camp Taji military base just north of Baghdad to train Iraqi forces on issues like weaponry and better coordination and integration of ground action with coalition airstrikes.

The goal, U.S. military officials say, is to teach the different divisions of the Iraqi military how to harmonize the operations of its various fighting units.

"This Iraqi commander ... has a company worth of infantry soldiers, he's got some armor assets from the Iraqi army, he's got two helicopters that are flying ... and then he's got engineers and (explosive ordinance disposal)," said Maj. Russell Wagner, one of the U.S. officers conducting training.

They "are all out here working in unison in order to get him through this obstacle and into the town that lies beyond," Wagner said.

In November, President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces, which could more than double the total of U.S. forces to 3,100. The boost in advisers and trainers complements the air campaign launched by the U.S. in August 2014.

The Iraqi military has struggled to recover from its collapse in June when the Islamic State group captured country's second-largest city, Mosul, and swept over much of northern Iraq. In the face of the advance, commanders disappeared. Pleas for more ammunition went unanswered. In some cases, soldiers stripped off their uniforms and ran.

Twelve U.S. advisory teams had been operating in Iraq since August, stationed in joint operations centers in Baghdad and Irbil, as well as in some of the outer provinces, including volatile Anbar province, which has been under partial control of the militant group since early 2014.

The Iraqi military — backed by at least 20,000 Shiite militiamen — is fighting to regain control of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, one of several predominantly Sunni towns to fall to the militants last year. It's one of the first major operations in which the U.S.-led coalition is not taking part, with U.S. officials saying they weren't ask to participate. Iranian advisers have played a prominent role on the front lines of Iraq's Salahuddin province.

If Iraqi forces are unable to push IS back and recover lost territory, Obama would be faced with a choice of accepting failure in Iraq or committing U.S. combat troops — something both U.S. and Iraqi officials have spoken firmly against.

"The soldiers now are absolutely eager to learn, their leaders eager to learn," said Lt. Col. John Schwemmer of the 5th Squadron, 73rd Calvary. "They are eager to get on the training lanes that we have here, to learn the skill they need to go against the enemy."

At the Salahuddin command center at Tikrit University, ambulances come and go with a handful of Iraqi soldiers, injured in clashes with the Islamic State group. Operations to recapture Tikrit have been on hold for nearly a week, with Iraqi officials saying they're trying to minimize casualties by not rushing the final assault.

At the provincial military headquarters, Iraqi soldiers sleep four to a room and pass the downtime by playing backgammon or volleyball — no soccer fields are available — or by listening to music.

Many of the young men fighting alongside the Shiite militias, known locally as Popular Mobilization Units, joined the battle last year when Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called upon Iraqis to defend their nation.

While the U.S. has been working to train Iraqi military brigades, it has not worked with the militias, since doing so would bring them uncomfortably close to Iran, which offers significant assistance to the various militias.

CIA director John Brennan said having the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force direct Iraqi forces against the IS militants is complicating the U.S. mission. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Brennan described Gen. Qassem Soleimani as being "very aggressive and active" in advising the Shiite militias, adding that he "wouldn't consider Iran an ally right now inside Iraq."

Some of the militia fighters had previously served with the Iraqi armed forces, but many have no previous combat experience.

Across the grounds of the university-turned-command center, several bodies lay decomposing on the pavement. The unburied corpses are allegedly of Islamic State militants, and senior military officials say they are kept there to raise fighter morale and remind them of victories past.

The men carry their weapons wherever they go — the mess hall, the latrine, even to bed. They realize their opponent has launched surprise attacks in the past.

"My wife and my kids were crying when I left, but I told them I am not afraid," said Amjad Ali Karim, a 31-year-old member of the militias. "I'm trying not to think of how many days are passing because then it will cause me extreme grief."

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Abdul-Zahra reported from Tikrit, Iraq.



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3/23/2015 1:12:36 AM

Shiite rebel leader vows to fight rivals in Yemen's south

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ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Shiite rebel leader escalated his attack Sunday against the country's embattled president, vowing to send fighters to the south where Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi has taken refuge. The fiery speech came hours after his militia seized the third- largest city of Taiz, an important station in its advance.

Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, who is backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the mobilization is aimed at fighting al-Qaida and other militant groups, as well as forces loyal to Hadi who are in the south intending to further destabilize Yemen.

In his one-hour speech on al-Masirah TV, al-Houthi called Hadi a "puppet" to international and regional powers who want to "import the Libyan model" to Yemen. He named the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar as conspirators against Yemen and other countries in the region.

Libya is torn by warring militias with rival parliaments on either end of the country claiming legitimacy and radicals from the Islamic State group taking root.

Yemen's turmoil has deepened since the Shiite rebel group, known as the Houthis, seized Sanaa in September, putting Hadi under house arrest and eventually dissolving the country's parliament. They now control at least nine of the country's 21 provinces.

Hadi, who is backed by the international community, fled to Aden — the country's second most important city and economic hub — declaring it a de-facto capital earlier this month.

The U.N.'s special envoy for Yemen, Jamal Benomar, warned an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that events were pushing the country "to the edge of civil war." Benomar, appearing in a video briefing from Qatar, said "it would be an illusion" to think the Houthis could take control of the entire country, and he urged all parties to resolve the conflict peacefully.

The escalation Sunday began when forces loyal to Saleh took over Taiz and its international airport. Security officials allied with Hadi said the rebel forces were already mobilizing tanks and fighters on the road from Taiz to neighboring Lahj province, apparently on their way to Aden.

"The decision (to mobilize) aims to confront the criminal forces, al-Qaida, and its partners and sisters, and all those who want to take cover in regions or using political pretexts," al-Houthi said. He accused Hadi of partnering with militant groups to destabilize Yemen.

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Security officials said one person was killed and four wounded when rebel fighters opened fire on protesting crowds in Taiz against their advance in the city, which was known as a hotbed for protests against Saleh in the beginning of 2011 that forced him to step down.

The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the press.

If the rebels hold onto Taiz, the capital of Yemen's most populous province, it would pose a major threat to Hadi in Aden, just 140 kilometers (85 miles) away.

The turmoil has undermined Yemen's ability to combat al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the target of a U.S. drone program, and the country now also faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings killing at least 137 people Friday.

A day earlier, U.S. troops evacuated a southern air base crucial to the drone program after al-Qaida militants seized a nearby city.

All these factors could push the Arab world's most impoverished country, united only in the 1990s, back toward civil war.

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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.





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3/23/2015 10:28:46 AM

Israel launches bid to influence Iran nuclear deal

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks next to his Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (L) at his Jerusalem office on October 26, 2014 (AFP Photo/Abir Sultan)


Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz flew to France on Sunday to try to sway the next round of talks on a deal over Iran's nuclear programme, his spokesman said.

Steinitz was "on a mission from Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) for a short visit to Europe in an attempt to influence the details of the emerging agreement on the Iran nuclear issue," a statement from Eyal Basson said.

There have been reports of divisions between the United States and France, both members of the P5+1 group of powers in talks with Iran set to resume on Wednesday or Thursday in Switzerland.

France has expressed scepticism over the speed of a potential deal in which Iran would place its nuclear programme under severe restrictions in exchange for a stage-by-stage lifting of international sanctions.

Basson told AFP that he had travelled to Paris "on a lightning visit", but would not say who he would meet there.

Israel's Haaretz newspaper said Steinitz was expected to meet French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and members of the French negotiating team in the Iran talks.

It said that he was accompanied by National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen and intelligence and foreign ministry officials.

Netanyahu, who was elected to a third term this week in a close-fought general election, spoke to the US Congress during his campaign to denounce the agreement under negotiation as a "bad deal".

"That deal will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons," he told the US lawmakers.

"It would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons, lots of them."


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