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The United States carried out an airstrike against ISIS militants in Iraq today, targeting artillery, the Pentagon’s press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
Kirby said two F/A 18 fighter jets dropped 500 pound laser guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish province. He said the artillery was being “used against Kurdish forces defending Erbil, near US personnel.” Continue reading “US Carries Out Airstrike Against ISIS in Iraq”
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A Saudi man, who was hospitalized for suspected Ebola infection, died on Wednesday.
The man, in his 40s, had returned recently to Jeddah from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. He was admitted to hospital on Monday and showed symptoms of Ebola virus infection. Continue reading “Saudi man dies of suspected Ebola virus”
The U.S. Border Patrol says it arrested a 42-year-old Rwandan citizen at the border of Maine and Canada who is wanted for war crimes.
A Canadian warrant says Jean Léonard Teganya is wanted for deportation for violating human rights under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act related to the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. Continue reading “Rwandan Sought for War Crimes Stopped at US Border”
Edward Snowden has received a residence permit in Russia, which is valid for three years, starting on August 1, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer announced.
“On the first of August he received a three-year residence permit,” lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told reporters.
He added that Snowden had not asked for political asylum. Continue reading “Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit – lawyer”
Business Insider – by SAM RO AND MICHAEL B KELLEY
Russia just announced a ban on food imports from the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Australia, and Norway.
Russia is specifically banning all beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, dairy, cheese, and fish imports from the U.S. and the E.U.
The ban will last one year from Thursday. Continue reading “IT’S OFFICIAL: Russia Bans Food Imports From The US And The EU”
Two former top leaders in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, which ruled the Southeast Asian country between 1975 and 1979, were found guilty of crimes against humanity by a specially-convened Cambodian court Thursday.
Before the verdict, only one person had been brought to justice over one of the 20th century’s great atrocities.
Nuon Chea, the former Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and Khieu Samphan, the one-time President of Democratic Kampuchea both received life sentences. Continue reading “Top Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of crimes against humanity, sentenced to life in prison”
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I am an ex law enforcement narcotic enforcement and one thing I insist upon is, is there probable cause to believe and what evidence is there, and most of all keeping an open mind. You mentioned Chem Trails and that the media has come forth and said it is for our good????? Any thing our media says is good just figure the opposite. This brings up a question;
If that is so then why is it here in Yuma every year around the 1st of November we get very heavy spraying and it last until around the first of April. In the summer time we get very little if any. During this period of time in the winter is when we get around 100,000 winter visitors from the U.S. and Canada with an average age of around 65 or 70 years. Continue reading “The Chemtrail Conspiracy”
HOUSTON Parents who thought their home was safe are battling with the state over the custody of their kids, and they believe they re being punished because they re poor.
You shouldn t take our kids because we ve fallen on hard times, said Prince Leonard, a married father of six whose family resides in a northeast Houston storage shed. Continue reading “CPS takes custody of 6 kids living with parents in storage shed”
Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson
A whistleblower who claims to work inside the Los Angeles Department of Health Services has told Infowars that L.A. officials are planning to forcibly remove homeless people from the streets later this summer and house them in facilities which they will not be permitted to leave.
The source, an office clerk within the LADHS, said that during a policy meeting on the morning of June 18th last month, his supervisor announced that the Los Angeles County Dept. of Health Services had struck a deal with the government to open up “low cost housing” facilities for homeless people, otherwise known as “FEMA camps.” The source said that his supervisor ordered staff not to use the term “FEMA camps.” Continue reading “Whistleblower: L.A. Planning to Forcibly House Homeless Citizens in Camps”
USA Today – by Donna Leinwand Leger, Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn
LAS VEGAS — Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.
The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer for Hold Security in Milwaukee, Wisc. Continue reading “Russian gang stole 1.2 billion Net passwords”
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas have been arrested and deported numerous times, police sources told FoxNews.com.
One suspect has been arrested no fewer than four times for entering the U.S. illegally, according to federal court records. The other has been deported twice after entering the U.S. illegally, sources said. Continue reading “Suspects in murder of Border Patrol agent arrested and deported numerous times”
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Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and its possible effect on stock exchange rates.
When we consider the characteristics of the phases of a social transformation we may find ourselves at the end of what might be called the third industrial revolution. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation (= 25 years). A transition has the following characteristics: Continue reading “New stock market crash, a pattern?”
Harold Greene has been identified as the US Army major general gunned down in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a military academy near Kabul.
The Afghan National Army soldier opened fired at the British-run training facility in Kabul on Tuesday morning after a dispute broke out, killing the US major-general and wounding up to 15 other personnel, including a German brigadier general and an Afghan general. Continue reading “US general killed by Afghan soldier identified as Harold Greene”
A government audit has revealed that roughly $619 billion in federal grants and loans given out in fiscal year 2012 have not been properly accounted for.
The latest figures come courtesy of the US Government Accountability Office, who on Friday published a report in which it warned that much-needed oversight is all too absent from a federal awards website after it discovered gross instances of ”underreporting and inconsistencies” on USASpending.gov. Continue reading “Government transparency website is missing billions of dollars, watchdogs report”
USA Today – by Teresa Blackman
DUNDEE, Ore. — Missing Dundee mom Jennifer Huston has been found dead in a remote area of Yamhill County near Sheridan, police said.
A property owner spotted her dark green SUV Tuesday morning in a grove of trees near Highway 18. He alerted police around 10:30 a.m., who soon found Huston’s body nearby, according to the Newberg-Dundee Police Department. They said there were no clues which indicated foul play, but this remains “an active death investigation.” Continue reading “Missing Oregon mom found dead in remote area”
El Paso Times – by Luis Carlos Lopez
A convoy of anti-illegal immigration demonstrators was pulled over by El Paso police after receiving a call alleging that one of its members had threatened a pro-immigration activist who was following the convoy through the city on Sunday, officials said.
Police stopped the convoy of about 10 vehicles on Interstate 10 East between Lomaland Drive and Lee Trevino Drive early Sunday evening, backing up traffic to McRae Boulevard. Continue reading “El Paso police stop anti-illegal immigration convoy after alleged gun threat”
USA Today – by Larry Copeland and Doug Stanglin
ATLANTA — Nancy Writebol, the second American medical missionary stricken with Ebola virus in Liberia, arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday after a trans-Atlantic flight in a small jet outfitted with an isolation pod.
Writebol, 59, arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base aboard the same jet that brought the first American patient, 33-year-old physician Kent Brantly, to the medical center from Liberia on Saturday, WXIA-TV reports. The plane made a brief refueling stop in Bangor, Maine. Continue reading “2nd U.S. Ebola patient arrives at hospital in Atlanta”
USA Today – by Jim Michaels and Tom Vanden Brook
WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army major general was killed in an attack at an Afghan military base in Kabul on Tuesday, according to a defense official who asked not to be named.
If confirmed would be the highest ranking American officer to be killed in the war in Afghanistan.
A defense official confirmed the information on the condition he not be named since the family had not been fully notified yet. Continue reading “Man in Afghan uniform kills U.S. general”
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