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ASCF Veteran's Appreciation Golf Festival

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF February 8, 2012 @ 9:58am

This year's event will be held Saturday, March 10th at Grand Harbor Golf & Beach Club in Vero Beach, Florida.

 Proceeds from this event to benefit the Indian River County Veterans Council.



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Syrian Activists Say Troops Continue Deadly Homs Assault

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF February 8, 2012 @ 9:58am

Syrian activists say government troops have killed scores of civilians in Homs, continuing a months-long siege of the city that has been a hub of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year autocratic rule.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the shelling Wednesday also heavily damaged more than 20 buildings in the city's Baba Amr district.  The bombardment follows days of assaults on Homs that activists say killed hundreds of people

BP Reports 2011 Gains As It Braces for Oil Spill Trial

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF February 8, 2012 @ 9:56am

British oil giant BP says it made nearly $40 billion in profits last year even as it prepares for the opening of a massive trial later this month about damages that resulted from the company's 2010 oil rig explosion off the southern U.S. coastline.

With higher oil prices through much of last year, BP chief executive Bob Dudley said Tuesday the firm's revenues are increasing and it was able to erase nearly $4 billion in 2010 losses. BP raised the dividend it pays stockholders by 14 percent.

 

Obama Campaign Returning Funds Linked to Mexican Fugitive

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF February 8, 2012 @ 9:48am

U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign says it is returning some $200,000 in donations made by the family of a Mexican casino owner who fled drug and fraud charges in the U.S.

The campaign announced Tuesday that it was refunding all contributions linked to Chicago brothers Carlos and Alberto Rojas Cardona after The New York Times raised questions about them.

 

Anti-Nuclear Campaign in Japan Moves Forward, Acknowledges Struggles

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF February 8, 2012 @ 9:44am

A citizen's group in Japan says it has collected five million signatures - halfway to its goal - on a petition calling on the government to permanently shut down all nuclear power plants in the country. But amid traditional apathy among Japanese toward political movements and longstanding strong ties between power companies and lawmakers in a resource-poor country, anti-nuclear campaigners are acknowledging an uphill struggle.

The meltdowns of three reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant 10 months ago have helped energize millions of people here to sign a petition calling for an end to reliance on atomic energy in the country.