Author: Wade

Business Insider – by AMANDA MACIAS

The world’s most powerful woman, who oversees the richest EU economy, is hosting the Group of Seven (G7) in the remote Bavarian village of Krün at the Schloss Elmau hotel this week.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will preside over discussions with the leaders of the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, and Japan, as well as European Council president Donald Tusk, EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde.   Continue reading “Here’s a great photo of Angela Merkel and Barack Obama hanging out at the G-7 summit”

RT – by Eva Bartlett

Reports have come out that the UN was considering adding Israel to the list of “grave violations against children in armed conflict.” As detailed below, Israeli army and Israel’s state policies are systematically violent against Palestinian children.

A recent Independent article noted that [Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict Leila]“Zerrougui’s draft report cited IDF attacks on schools and hospitals during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip…”   Continue reading “Israel a criminal offender at large, UN listing or not”

Refreshing News

The saga continues – yet another story has broken involving the Clintons and their on-going scam of the planet.  This time, it’s the country of Sweden and its businesses that shelled out big bucks to Bill and Hill in order to get special favors from Hillary’s State Dept.   Continue reading “Sweden Gives Clintons $26 Million in “Pay-to-Play” Scheme”

Continue reading “High School In 1970 Vs 2015. This Is So Accurate It Hurts.”

Sputnik

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Thousands of people have been evacuated on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island as the alert level over the eruption of the Sinabung volcano was raised to the highest level four, Indonesia’s Jakarta Post reports.

“Until this afternoon the evacuation is still going on,” Commander of the Mount Sinabung Disaster Mitigation Agency task force, Lt. Col. Asep Sukarna told the newspaper on Wednesday, adding that the pile of lava at the peak of Sunabung’s crater amounts to three million cubic meters and could slide down covering an area within a seven-kilometre (4-mile) radius around the volcano.   Continue reading “Mass Evacuation Underway on Indonesian Island as Sinabung Volcano Erupts”

RT

Several massive explosions rocked the Gaza Strip on Thursday night amid multiple reports of Israeli jets buzzing the area. It follows reports that two rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel but failed to cause any damage.

At least three major blasts rocked Gaza city as Twitter got flooded with reports of residents waking up to the sounds of airstrikes and Israeli F-16 jets flying over.   Continue reading “Multiple airstrikes in Gaza after two rockets launched into Israel”

New York Times – by Julia Preston

ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.

While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.   Continue reading “Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements”

CNN – by Tami Luhby

Many are proposing double-digit premium increases for individual policies, with some companies looking to boost rates more than 60%, according to a list posted Monday by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In Florida, for instance, United Healthcare (UNH) wants to raise the rates of plans sold on the Obamacare exchange by an average of 18%. Individual policies available outside the exchange through United Healthcare or through a broker would go up by 31%, on average, with hikes as high as 60% for certain plans in certain locations.   Continue reading “Obamacare sticker shock: Big rate hikes proposed for 2016”

ArsTechnica – by Glyn Moody

WikiLeaks has released 17 secret documents from the negotiations of the global Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), which have been taking place behind closed doors, largely unnoticed, since 2013. The main participants are the United States, the European Union, and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel, which together comprise two-thirds of global GDP.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks releases secret TISA docs: The more evil sibling of TTIP and TPP”