Author: Paul

Bloomberg – by Chiara Vasarri

Clotilde Narzisi and Luca Soliman have run the Caffe Orefici, 200 feet from Milan’s iconic Duomo Cathedral, for 10 years. Forced to sell their business because of high taxes, they say their only hope now is to leave it in Chinese hands.

“They are the only ones who are buying,” said 43-year-old Narzisi during a break after the lunch-time rush of businessmen and shoppers in the heart of Italy’s financial capital. “We want to sell, taxes are too high; we work eight hours a day for the state and one hour for us.”   Continue reading “Italy on Sale to Chinese Investors as Recession Bites”

TASS

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Russia and China will sign on Monday a number of intergovernmental agreements on energy cooperation, including one on a $400 billion natural gas deal agreed in May, a Russian government source said.

The intergovernmental agreement to seal the deal to supply Russian natural gas to China via an eastern route will be signed during a meeting of the two countries’ prime ministers, Dmitry Medvedev and Li Keqiang, in Moscow, the source said.   Continue reading “Russia, China to sign government agreement on gas supplies via eastern route”

IB Times – by Athena Yenko

Speaking from the United Arab Emirates, Defence Head Air Chief Marshall Mark Binskin said that footage showing how Australian forces are pounding the ISIS in Iraq are to be withheld from the public. He emphasised that what is happening in Iraq “is not a video game.” Just as how Australia kept videos of the 2003 mission in Iraq, the same goes for the current mission. While there had been calls for some people to release the footage, he believes otherwise.

“I don’t want to get into glorifying what’s happening out there. This isn’t a video game. This is the real world. That camera film shows people dying and I don’t think we should glorify that,” Binskin said.   Continue reading “Australian Airstrikes Footage Withheld; Headless Corpses Trashed In Streets”

Chemtrail Forecast

Rewind to 2003. The United States postal service released a series of “cloudscapes” stamps. These stamps depicted “new” clouds with “new” names.

Why would the quasi-government postal service issue these stamps?  Who knew years ahead of time that artificial chemtrail cloud hazes would become so common globally?   Continue reading “Chemtrail stamps from 2003 show geoengineering”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

While vaccine makers and drug companies are rushing to bring medical interventions to the market that might address the Ebola pandemic, there’s already a technology available right now that can kill Ebola in just two minutes in hospitals, quarantine centers, commercial offices and even public schools.

It’s called the Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot, and it was invented by a team of Texas doctors whose company is based on San Antonio. (And no, I didn’t get paid to write this. I’m covering this because this technology appears to be a viable lifesaving invention.)   Continue reading “Ultraviolet light robot kills Ebola in two minutes; why doesn’t every hospital have one of these?”

Japan Times

The radioactive water woes at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant got worse over the weekend after the tritium concentration in a groundwater sample surged more than tenfold this month.

A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that heavy rain caused by Typhoon Phanfone probably affected the groundwater after the storm whipped through Japan last week.   Continue reading “Tritium up tenfold in Fukushima groundwater after Typhoon Phanfone”

Investing – by Huw Jones

LONDON (Reuters) – The $700 trillion financial derivatives industry has agreed to a fundamental rule change from January to help regulators to wind down failed banks without destabilising markets.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and 18 major banks that dominate the market will now allow financial watchdogs to apply temporary stays to prevent a rush to close derivatives contracts if a bank runs into trouble, the ISDA said on Saturday.   Continue reading “Banks accept derivatives rule change to end ‘too big to fail’ scenario”

The Gaurdian

Thousands of people marched through downtown St Louis on Saturday, to demand the arrest of the white police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson two months ago and to condemn racial profiling.

The organisers claimed the protest drew about 3,000 people – far fewer than they had predicted – from across the country as part of a “Weekend of Resistance” against police forces in many parts of the country that are seen to target people of colour in general and young African Americans in particular.

“We’re fighting for our lives,” a St Louis rapper, Tef Poe, told the crowd.    Continue reading “Thousands march through St Louis to condemn police shootings of teens”

I am over 65 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing ass-backwards.

Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until you’re at least 35.

For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a month, leaving us more than 280,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.   Continue reading “Drafting guys over 65”

Minutemen News

Vice President Joseph R. Biden said Friday the nation needs another high-profile, respected spokesman for gun control who is able to convince fearful members of Congress to buck the National Rifle Association and other organizations and vote for firearms restrictions.

Speaking at a Washington memorial service for the late James Brady — former White House press secretary who was wounded in the March 1981 assassination attempt against President Reagan — Mr. Biden said the fight to stop gun violence must never end.   Continue reading “Joe Biden: ‘What We Need is Another Jim Brady’ to Push Gun Control Measures”

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and gave the woman the finger.

‘Man, that guy is stupid,’ I thought to myself. I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic, and here’s why:   Continue reading “A Man Who Knows His Math”

ABC News – by MARI YAMAGUCHI

Japan and the United States are revising their mutual defense guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades to respond to China’s military expansion and increase Japan’s role in regional defense.

An interim report released Wednesday says the U.S. and Japan are pursuing a wider partnership that requires “enhanced capabilities and greater shared responsibilities.”

The revision, the first since 1997, comes at a time of heightened Japan-China tensions over islands claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, as well as continuing concern about North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons development.   Continue reading “Japan, US Revising Defense Plans With Eye on China”

Wired – by Kim Zetter

As a much-anticipated documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden premiers in New York this evening, new revelations are being published simultaneously that expose more information about the NSA’s work to compromise computer networks and devices.

Newly-brought-to-light documents leaked by Snowden discuss operations by the NSA working inside China, Germany and South Korea to help physically subvert and compromise foreign networks and equipment, according to a report published by The Intercept. They also suggest the NSA may have undercover agents planted inside companies to provide assistance in gaining access to systems in the global communications industry. And they bolster previous reports that the NSA works with U.S. and foreign companies to weaken their encryption systems.   Continue reading “NSA May Have Undercover Operatives in Foreign Companies”