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IMF, ECB en EU
Ms. Christine Lagarde
Mario Draghi
Mr. Herman van Rompuy
8 august 2014,
Topics: “8-step rescue plan Euro” and “Reindexing European stock exchanges”
Dear Ms. Lagarde, dear Mr. Draghi, and dear Mr. Van Rompuy, Continue reading “Open Letter IMF, ECB and EU – 8-step rescue plan Euro” and “Reindexing European stock exchanges”
Iran has shot down an Israeli spy drone trying to penetrate the “nuclear off-limits area” of the Natanz nuclear site, the Revolutionary Guards said on their website.
“The downed aircraft was of the stealth, radar-evasive type and it intended to penetrate the off-limit nuclear area in Natanz… but was targeted by a ground-to-air missile before it managed to enter the area,” Reuters quotes the statement by the Revolutionary Guards. Continue reading “Israeli spy drone downed near Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant – Revolutionary Guards”
Wall Street OTC – by Nathan Fortin
US President Barack Obama’s healthcare insurance law was once seen as a big political advantage for the congressional Democrats as the Affordable Care Act was touted as “the largest tax cut for healthcare in American history.” But experts have come up with entirely different arguments about health insurance and tax refunds.
According to the experts, the Obamacare has made an already complicated tax system more complex for many consumers as over one third of the nearly seven million American households, receiving tax credits to help pay for Obamacare to get insured, will lose all or a portion of their expected tax refunds this year. Continue reading “Obamacare-related Tax credits to lower Tax refunds of millions this year”
USA Today – by Katharine Lackey
An American held captive for two years by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria was released Sunday, according to the Obama administration and his family.
“For two years, we have kept Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. citizen held hostage in Syria, in our thoughts and prayers,” White House national security adviser Susan Rice said in a statement. “Today, we join his family and loved ones in welcoming his freedom.” Continue reading “American held by al-Qaeda group freed in Syria”
SF Gate – by Debra J. Saunders
The Los Angeles Ethics Commission voted unanimously last week to ask the City Council to consider “financial incentives, such as a lottery system” to draw voters to the polls.
You just know that if the city embraces this new low, then it will spread like a cancer across the land.
The City of Angels has a problem. As Ethics Commission President Nathan Hochman put it, campaign “spending is going up and voter turnout is going down.” Last year, 75 percent of registered voters skipped the mayor’s race, less than 10 percent voted in a recent school board special election. Hochman calls the dismal turnout “a crisis” and says “a crisis requires you to do something.” Continue reading “L.A.’s idea of using a lottery to entice voters is a stinker”
Government leaders are expected to agree in November that the world’s top banks must issue special bonds to increase the amount of capital which can be tapped in a crisis instead of calling on taxpayers to come to the rescue, industry and G20 officials said.
The bonds, known as “gone concern loss absorption capacity” or GLAC, are seen by regulators as essential to stopping the world’s 29 biggest lenders from being “too big to fail”. Continue reading “G20 edging towards deal on ‘bail-in’ bond cushion for banks”
LA Times – by LEE ROMNEY, RYAN PARKER
Long rolling temblor pegged at 6.0 by the U.S. Geological Survey shook a wide swath of the Bay Area awake early Sunday.
Centered about nine miles south of wine country’s Napa at 3:20 a.m., the quake was felt as far south as Santa Cruz and into Sonoma County. It was the largest earthquake to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta temblor of 1989, the USGS said. Continue reading “6.0 quake jolts Bay Area; outages, injuries reported”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The small, northwestern New Mexico city of Bloomfield is choosing orders handed down to Moses over one issued by a judge, but they say it is a matter of history, and not religion.
Leaders in the community of about 8,000, already under fire for refusing to remove a monument in front of City Hall, voted unanimously to appeal a federal court’s order. The 4-0 vote, said city attorney Ryan Lane, stays the judge’s order to remove the monument by the Sept. 10 deadline. Rather than fight the decision from the angle of freedom of speech and religion, Lane is going to present the monument as an historical document just like other monuments in the town depicting the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Gettysburg Address. Continue reading “Ten Commandments part of history, N.M. city leaders to say in appeal of court order”
The Pentagon said Friday that a Chinese fighter jet made “several passes” by a U.S. Navy aircraft earlier this week off the coast of China in international airspace, baring its weapons and coming within mere feet of the U.S. plane.
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Washington has lodged a protest to China through diplomatic channels, calling the maneuver “very close” and “very dangerous.” Continue reading “‘Very dangerous’: Pentagon says armed Chinese jet did ‘barrel roll’ over US aircraft”
This past week, I have been examining a recently leaked document from the Department Of Homeland Security entitled “Domestic Violent Extremists Pose A Threat To Government Officials And Law Enforcement.” (Yes; the title leaves nothing to the imagination.)
Generally, such documents are not classified. But it is internally accepted within establishment agencies that they should not be shared with the public. Similar documents like the Missouri Information Analysis Center report titled “The Modern Militia Movement” and the Virginia Fusion Center’s Terrorism Threat Assessment are not designed to import in-depth knowledge to law enforcement. In fact, if you actually investigate these white papers thoroughly, you will find they read like a mentally challenged middle-school student’s last-minute book report on liberty groups in America. Continue reading “When ‘Anti-Government’ Violence Erupts, Who Is Really At Fault?”
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Press TV – by Paul Craig Roberts
Having served Washington’s propaganda purposes, the downed Malaysian airliner and the alleged Russian armored column that entered Ukraine and was allegedly destroyed have dropped out of the news even though both stories remain completely and totally unresolved.
Washington’s stooge government in Ukraine has not released the records of communications between Ukrainian air traffic control and Malaysian flight 17, and Washington has not released the photos from its satellite that was directly overhead at the time of the airliner’s demise. Continue reading “What Russia can do about Ukraine”
Business Insider – by Colin Campbell
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) believes the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) may have already sent militants across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Perry was directly asked about this prospect Thursday afternoon after he gave a border-security speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Perry, a potential 2016 presidential candidate who spent much of the speech castigating ISIS after the group brutally executed an American journalist earlier this week, said there was “a very real” risk they were already inside the U.S. Continue reading “Rick Perry: There Is ‘A Very Real Possibility’ ISIS Forces Have Crossed US-Mexican Border”
Tea Party News Network – by Greg Campbell
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In early January of 2007, a young man and woman were abducted from a parking lot, tortured, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. The murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom went widely underreported. Many have felt that this was due to the nature of the crime- Christian and Newsom were murdered by black assailants and the victims were white.
Thanks to a revolving-door American penal policy, one of the murderers may soon be out of prison for “good behavior.” Continue reading “OUTRAGEOUS: Brutal Double-Murderer Eligible for Parole 7 Years After Tortures, Murders”
Thirty states plus the District of Columbia have sought the Center for Disease Control’s help identifying potential cases of Ebola.
The map above is based on a list of those states provided to Breitbart News Thursday by the CDC. The list shows (in bright red) all the states which have asked for the CDC’s help with potential Ebola cases since July 27th.
When contacted for consultation, the CDC examines the patient’s symptoms and travel history to decide whether or not a blood test is needed. In most cases, the CDC is able to rule out Ebola without the need for a blood test. Continue reading “CDC: 30 States plus DC have requested help with possible ebola cases”
The Telegraph – by Sarah Knapton
Sea plankton has been discovered living on the outside of the International Space Station, Russian cosmonauts have claimed.
Scientists on board the ISS are reported to have discovered living organisms when taking samples from windows.
Head of the Russian ISS orbital mission Vladimir Solovyev said the results of the experiment “are absolutely unique”. Continue reading “Sea plankton ‘found living outside International Space Station’”
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The following is taken from a 1989 book by Robert J. Byrne, “Existence in America -The Road Back to Decency & Order”. It refers to the most important rights that all Americans had and must see returned.
1. It is a priority right not to have a crime committed against your person.
2. It is a priority right to go from point A to point B on public streets and/or public transportation, or use public parks, without constantly having a justifiable fear for your safety.
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