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Liberty Unyielding – by J.E. Dyer

For the third time in 22 months, Russian strategic bombers have flown out across the Pacific to circumnavigate Guam, where the U.S. maintains one of our most important bases in the Pacific theater.

The latest incident occurred on 13 December.  It occurred in concert with a series of Russian bomber flights against Northern Europe and into the Alaska air defense identification zone (ADIZ), which started on 7 December.  The Russian aircraft penetrated the Guam ADIZ during the 13 December flight.  (The Guam ADIZ is defined as a radius of 250 nautical miles, or 290 statute miles/460 km, around Guam.)   Continue reading “Incredibly, U.S. forces fail to intercept Russian bombers circumnavigating Guam”

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

– Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

ROAR Mag – by Santiago Carrion

On Wednesday, the Associated Whistleblowing Press published a new leak revealing US attempts to undermine privacy rights, net neutrality and internet freedoms through top-secret negotiations over the little-known Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). Even a quick glance at the leaked document is already extremely revealing. At the top of its front page, in capital letters, the word CONFIDENTIAL is highlighted — and further down the full extent of the treaty’s secret nature is revealed: “Declassify on five years from entry into force of the TISA agreement.”   Continue reading “New TISA leak: secret trade deal threatens privacy rights”

Business Insider

Bruce Rauner, a Republican, liked to talk tough about unions and public-sector pensions when he was campaigning for governor in Illinois.

“The system is full of fraud and self-dealing and abuses, such as folks who have a pay rise in the last years of their career [so their pension is higher] or folks who moved in and out of certain jobs, so they could get a pension,” he said in August 2013.

With two or three pensions, some are making as much as half a million dollars in retirement pay, he claimed. This, he thundered, is a rip-off of taxpayers and other workers.   Continue reading “Public Pensions Are America’s Greece”

Dollar Collapse – by John Rubino

The Greek financial/political crisis is becoming an annual event. For a sense of just how long this unfortunate little country has been struggling to survive under the relative sound money regime of the eurozone, here’s a Greek Crisis Timeline that CNN published in 2011. Even back then the pattern of near-collapse followed by temporary respite had been repeating for seven years.

The most recent lull seemed longer than usual, so long in fact that many people probably assumed that Greece had been “fixed” and was now a more-or-less fully-functioning member of the eurozone, ready to settle back into its enviable lifestyle of hosting tourists, drinking ouzo and avoiding taxes.   Continue reading “Really, Greece Again?”

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Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

It’s known to pop up as a persistent weed in gardens, on lawns and even in driveway cracks. But plantain is one of the most medicinally powerful “nuisance” plants that you probably aren’t taking advantage of for your health, perhaps to your own detriment.

Those bushy green leaves and small, stalk-like buds bear unique nutritive potential that could help you overcome difficult menstrual cycles, clear up skin acne and even treat painful arthritis. For hundreds of years, plantain has been used as one of nature’s most powerful medicines, and for very good reason.   Continue reading “Plantain, a common driveway weed, is one of nature’s most powerful medicines”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

The shamelessness of vaccine pushers knows no limits. Even when the vaccine admittedly doesn’t work — as the CDC has openly admitted — the mainstream media, drug companies and vaccine zealots keep pushing it on everyone.

All those same people and institutions are simultaneously attacking Dr. Oz, primarily because Oz refuses to promote pharmaceuticals as the answer to everybody’s health problems. Dr. Oz teaches people how to eat healthy, make informed choices and prevent degenerative disease. In response to that, the Washington Post shamelessly posts a hit-piece story on Dr. Oz entitled, “Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says.” [1]   Continue reading “Shameless health authorities keep pushing flu vaccines even after openly admitting they don’t work”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

We are sure it’s nothing – since stock markets in China and The US are soaring – but deep, deep down in the heart of the real economies, there is a problem. The Baltic Dry Index has fallen for 21 straight days, tumbling around 40% since Thanksgiving Day.     Continue reading “The Baltic Dry Index Has Never Crashed This Fast Post-Thanksgiving”

The Daily Beast – by Rebecca Dana, June 15, 2010

George Clooney, Oscar winner and star of such films as Syriana and Three Kings, is bringing his sly charm and rugged good looks to an expanded arena this summer: U.S. foreign policy.

The heartthrob has been accepted for life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, the independent nonpartisan think tank whose ranks include Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Clooney was nominated to the Council by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and TV host Charlie Rose. He joins fellow Hollywood heavies Michael Douglas and Warren Beatty as a member of the vaunted organization.   Continue reading “George Clooney at the Council on Foreign Relations”

New York Times – by Damien Cave

HAVANA — President Raúl Castro declared victory for the Cuban Revolution on Saturday in a wide-ranging speech, thanking President Obama for “a new chapter” while also reaffirming that restored relations with the United States did not mean the end of Communist rule in Cuba.

In a televised speech before Parliament and a group of favored guests — including Elián González, the center of a tug of war in 2000 between Cuban exiles and Havana, and the three men convicted of spying in the United States who were released as part of the historic agreement announced on Wednesday — Mr. Castro alternated between conciliatory and combative statements directed at the United States.   Continue reading “Raúl Castro Thanks U.S., but Reaffirms Communist Rule in Cuba”

Godfather Politics – by Dave Jolly

Never before in the history of our nation have we been in the severe constitutional crisis as we face today. Thanks to liberal public education and even more liberal mainstream media, few Americans are aware of it or if they are they just don’t care.

Over the past six years, Obama has repeatedly taken it upon himself to decide what laws he would enforce and what ones he doesn’t want enforced. The first ones that come to mind are the Defense of Marriage Act and immigration laws.   Continue reading “White House Says Courts have NO Power to Review Obama’s Decision-Making”

Yahoo News

London (AFP) – The Islamic State extremist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Financial Times newspaper said Saturday.

An activist opposed to both IS and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is well-known to the British business broadsheet, said he had “verified 100 executions” of foreign IS fighters trying to leave the jihadist group’s de facto capital.   Continue reading “IS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report”

The Anti-Media

Remington Alessi was arrested on Saturday December 13 in Houston, Texas. He was arrested while engaging in a nonviolent protest against police brutality. He gives us his account of what he learned in the back of a squad car.

“We’re going to go ahead and turn off the personal video devices going forward, so be sure all officers have them turned off when engaging the protesters.” The words cut through me and chilled my spine as I sat, helplessly handcuffed in the back of a Houston Police cruiser after being arrested in the midst of a protest.   Continue reading “Houston P.D. Orders All Officers Turn Off Body Cameras During Protest”

Russian Radio

Russia’s nuclear deterrent naval group has received a new vessel. The nuclear-powered Vladimir Monomakh submarine was commissioned into the group. On December 19, St. Andrew’s flag was hoisted on the submarine.

While handing over the flag to the commander of the submarine, Deputy Navy Commander Alexander Fedotenkov wished that the flag would never haul before an enemy.   Continue reading “Russian Navy gets a new ballistic missile submarine”