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Sputnik

The Russian Defense Ministry has urged NATO and Saudi Arabia to explain accusations that Russian airstrikes had allegedly targeted hospitals in Syria, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Tuesday.

“We have summoned the US, UK, French, German, Italian, Saudi Arabian, Turkish and NATO military attaches today asked to give a formal explanation of these statements or to refute them. This especially concerns a number of outrageous allegations in the English-speaking media about alleged airstrikes on hospitals,” Antonov said.   Continue reading “Moscow Summons US, NATO, Saudi Arabia Envoys Over Civilian Deaths Claims”

11 Alive News – by Christopher B Buchanan

BOULDER, Colo. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a minor solar radiation storm warning on Thursday morning following readings from a weather satellite in orbit around the Earth.

The warning is expected to last from 12:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “NOAA issues solar storm warning”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spearing

The White House is open to the idea of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the next Speaker of the House, saying the Wisconsin Congressman had worked with the administration on issues they care about in the past.

“The president believes that Congressman Ryan is someone who has given considerable thought to the significant issues that must be worked through in Congress,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz explained during a press briefing this afternoon.   Continue reading “White House Praises Paul Ryan for Working with Obama on Trade and Immigration”

Fusion – by Kevin Gray

DREAMers are shaping up to play a prominent role in next year’s presidential election— at least in the Democratic camp.

Bernie Sanders this week become the second Democratic presidential hopeful to enlist a DREAMer to a high-profile campaign position by hiring Cesar Vargas, an undocumented immigrant who became the first without legal status to be approved to work as a lawyer in New York. Vargas has joined the Sanders campaign’s Latino outreach team.   Continue reading “Bernie Sanders’ campaign enlists prominent DREAMer to help win the Latino vote”

Politico – by Jake Sherman and Lauren French

The House Freedom Caucus nixed John Boehner and rejected Kevin McCarthy. But by all accounts, its meeting with Paul Ryan — a confab key to determining the next speaker of the House — had gone pretty well.

At the end of the day, the veteran Wisconsin Republican and rules-obsessed Freedom Caucus members weren’t so far apart. In fact, Ryan agreed with much of what they were saying. In principle, anyway.   Continue reading “How Ryan conquered the Freedom Caucus”

Pew Research Center – by Drew DeSilver

Amid all the coverage of House Republicans’ unruly efforts to select a speaker who can command broad support from their fractious ranks, one name keeps coming up: theHouse Freedom Caucus. But what, exactly, is the House Freedom Caucus?

Pew Research Center has confirmed the identities of 36 Freedom Caucus members through representatives’ public statements, their comments to the media or their offices’ direct responses. A handful of other House members who reportedly belong to the group could not be confirmed. (The communications director for Rep. Darrell Issa of California, for example, said he could neither confirm nor deny Issa’s membership in the caucus.)   Continue reading “What is the House Freedom Caucus, and who’s in it?”

Breitbart – by Julia Hahn

Breitbart News has unearthed another overlooked 2013 video that documents Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)’s aggressive stumping for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s amnesty and immigration-expansion plan.

In a speech at the Erie House in Chicago, Ryan and Gutierrez provided more details about how they aimed to institute a formal open borders policy for the United States—that is, a federal policy of allowing any employer to legally hire any worker regardless of where they live.   Continue reading “Second Video Revealed– Paul Ryan With Luis Gutierrez: America ‘Is More Than Our Borders’”

Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski

The Federal Bureau of Investigation processed a record number of background checks in the month of September, indicating that gun sales were at an all time high for the month.

The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System processed 1,795,102 applications to buy a firearm in September. That represents a new record: 335,739 more checks than the previous September high set in 2012, or a 23 percent increase.   Continue reading “September Sees Record Gun Sales”

Roll Call – by Niels Lesniewski

Updated 4:55 p.m. | Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his wife, Landra, are suing the manufacturer of the exercise band that slipped or snapped, leading to the Nevada Democrat’s eye injury.

According to court documents filed in Clark County, Nev., Reid alleges that the injury resulted from a faulty exercise resistance band, causing more than $50,000 in damages.   Continue reading “Harry Reid Suing Exercise Equipment Firm Over Eye Injury”

Global Research – by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson

Seventy years after the UN Charter was supposed to prohibit wars of aggression, we can see that the only countries that have complied with the spirit of the charter have been the so-called communist block, now non-communist Russia and nominally communist China.

Unlike the Soviet government in 1951, which was inexplicably absent from the Security Council to veto the UN mandate for the US invasion of Korea, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government have rejected any Security Council resolution rubber-stamping of the US war in Syria. That is probably the most remarkable historical aspect of the current situation. This has led to an all-out propaganda campaign to classify Russia as an aggressor although it is merely exercising the same right to collective self-defence that has privileged seventy years of US wars and mercenary actions to impose governments and political-economic regimes on the rest of the world’s population.   Continue reading “Where Did Obama Really Go to School? And What Is Really Happening in Syria?”

Global Research – by Medecins Sans Frontieres

On Saturday 3 October 2015 the MSF Trauma centre in Kunduz was hit several times during sustained bombing by coalition forces, and was very badly damaged.

Twelve staff members and at least 10 patients, including three children, were killed; 37 people were injured including 19 staff members.   Continue reading “Kunduz Hospital Airstrike by US. Washington Admits they Did it. Gravest Violation of International Law. It Was Deliberate, It Wasn’t “Collateral Damage””

Global Research – by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

This article was first published in November 2014.  

Recent developments confirm what is known and documented: Washington is behind the Islamic State (ISIS) and at the same time it is behind the moderate Al Qaeda terrorists, which the Obama administration is supporting as part of America’s campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS). And they expect us to believe that they are committed to waging a campaign against terrorists.   Continue reading “Twenty-six Things About the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About”

Breitbart – by Pamela Geller

On Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced at the United Nations that her office would be working in several American cities to form what she called the Strong Cities Network (SCN), a law enforcement initiative that would encompass the globe.

This amounts to nothing less than the overriding of American laws, up to and including the United States Constitution, in favor of United Nations laws that would henceforth be implemented in the United States itself – without any consultation of Congress at all.   Continue reading “Obama Administration and UN Announce Global Police Force to Fight ‘Extremism’ In US”

Global Research – by Eric Zuesse

U.S. President Obama’s central case against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (and his central argument against Assad’s supporter Russia on that matter) is that Assad was behind the sarin gas attack in Ghouta Syria on 21 August 2013 — but it’s all a well-proven lie, as will be shown here.

President Obama said this to the UN on September 24th: “The evidence is overwhelming that the Assad regime used such weapons on August 21st. U.N. inspectors gave a clear accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin gas at civilians. These rockets were fired from a regime-controlled neighborhood and landed in opposition neighborhoods.”   Continue reading “The War on Syria. Obama Lied When He Said This”