Yahoo News

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cyber security conference in San Francisco, saying it would give the Pentagon access to “the brightest technical minds focused on innovation.”   Continue reading “Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board”

RT

Six military personnel have been killed and one seriously wounded in an explosion that hit a military convoy in the southeast of Turkey, the armed forces said in a statement. The convoy was traveling along a highway linking Diyarbakir and Bingol.

The military also said that a handmade bomb was detonated by remote control while the military vehicle was searching for mines on the highway linking Diyarbakir to the district of Lice, Reuters reports.   Continue reading “6 dead, 1 injured as blast hits military convoy in SE Turkey”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: Sure enough, AKP says this is being treated as “an act of terror” and we also have news that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has setup an emergency security meeting in Ankara, Turkey.

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With Turkey on the brink of going to war with Russia and, implicitly, Iran, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking for an excuse to invade Syria.    Continue reading “At Least 5 Dead After Massive Explosion In Turkish Capital, Military Dormitory Targeted”

SuperStation 95

A serious development in Russia today as President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s Southern Military District to Combat Readiness near Turkey’s Border.  Put bluntly, Russia is preparing for war.

“In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin, today from five o’clock in the morning the troops of the Southern Military District, the individual components of Airborne Troops and military transport aircraft are on alert, Complete. ” said General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.   Continue reading “Russia Mobilizes Troops Toward Border with Turkey: “Combat Alert””

ABC News – by DESMOND BUTLER AND VADIM GHIRDA, AP

Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks.

It was earlier this year, and the two men were plotting their deal at an unlikely spot: the terrace of Cocos Prive, a dance club and sushi bar in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.   Continue reading “AP Investigation: Nuclear Smugglers Sought Extremist Buyers”

Members of the emergency services wait outside a metro station following an accident on the subway in Moscow July 15, 2014. REUTERS-Sergei KarpukhinReuters – by ANDREY KUZMIN

Nineteen people were killed on Tuesday and up to 120 injured when a Moscow underground train derailed between two stations during the morning rush hour, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Russia’s investigative committee said it was looking into the causes of the accident. It said, however, there was no suspicion of a militant attack, the cause for scores of deaths in Moscow’s underground in years past.   Continue reading “Nineteen killed, 120 hurt in Moscow subway accident”

The Daily Beast

The United States has proof that the Russian government in Moscow is running a network of spies inside eastern Ukraine because the U.S. government has recordings of their conversations, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a closed-door meeting Friday.

“Intel is producing taped conversations of intelligence operatives taking their orders from Moscow and everybody can tell the difference in the accents, in the idioms, in the language. We know exactly who’s giving those orders, we know where they are coming from,” Kerry said at a private meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Washington. A recording of Kerry’s remarks was obtained by The Daily Beast.   Continue reading “Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow’s Calls to Its Ukraine Spies”

So many people in America are out of work.

While I was researching something completely different I found this.

They’re looking for a manufacturing base.

Sadly we are unable to produce our hand crafted noggs at present but are looking for manufacturing opportunities instead.   Continue reading “Nogg”

Real Jew News – by Brother Nathanael Kapner

‘UKRAINE’S’ NEW HERO is touted as the man to rescue ‘his country’s’ future.

But Vitali Klitschko, that ‘Ukrainian’ boxer…’Ukraine’s’ so-called opposition leader…has been living in Merkel’s Germany and Jewry’s USA for the PAST FOURTEEN years.   Continue reading “Klitschko…Merkel’s Boxer Boy In Ukraine”