Category: News

RIA Novosti

KIEV, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s eldest son has made it to the Ukrainian parliament with 64.04 percent of the votes, the country’s Central Election Commission reported Tuesday.

Oleksiy Poroshenko is member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the Ukrainian President’s party. He now becomes Verkhovna Rada member from the single-candidate constituency No.12 from the Vinnytsia Region.   Continue reading “Poroshenko’s Son Becomes Member of Ukrainian Parliament: Central Election Commission”

IBN Live

Balasore (Odisha): India on Sunday successfully test-fired its medium-range nuclear-capable Agni-II missile with a strike range of more than 2000 km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.

“The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range at around 9.40 AM,” defence officials said.

Describing the test of the state-of-the-art missile as fully successful, ITR Director MVKV Prasad said, “It was a user trial conducted by the Army.”   Continue reading “India successfully test-fires nuclear capable Agni-II missile off Odisha coast”

Press TV

“We’re getting a lot of their input as to whether I should run for reelection or not. They know that I am seriously considering it and leaning towards it,” he said after meeting with a group of supporters, the Arizona Republic reports.    Continue reading “Sen. McCain says he is ‘leaning towards’ 2016 reelection”

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RT

Israel has plans to take 3,176 acres of Palestinian land around a West Bank village near central Jerusalem, according to residents of the village who were handed orders signed by the head of IDF Central Command, Ma’an news agency reports.

Beit Iksa residents told Ma’an that the orders, signed by the Israeli military commander in the West Bank, Nitzan Alon, were distributed Saturday morning by the soldiers. They gave residents of the village until 2017 to evacuate the land.    Continue reading “Israel wants to confiscate over 3,000 acres in West Bank ‘for military purposes’ – report”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President George W. Bush is giving even odds about whether another Bush will try to occupy the White House.

Brother Jeb, a former Florida governor, is “wrestling with the decision” of running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, George W. Bush says. “I think it’s 50-50,” the former president told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”   Continue reading “George W. Bush gives 50-50 odds Jeb run in 2016”

Jim Stone Freelance

This is a decent recovery of the news reporting surrounding the attempted Israeli bombing of the Mexican Congress on October 12 2001, an attempt by Israel to get Mexico to jump in on the “war on terror”

Mexican Attorney General Releases Zionist Terrorists
Army general and head of the PGR releases two Israelis arrested with guns and explosives inside the Mexican Congress   Continue reading “Attempted Israeli bombing of the Mexican Congress on October 12, 2001”

The Intercept – by Cora Currier

Privacy and technology groups are sounding the alarm on an obscure government rule with major implications for law enforcement hacking.

Hiding behind the nondescript title “Proposed Amendment to Rule 41″ of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is a dangerous increase in authority for federal investigators to use invasive hacking techniques to spy on computers and access data, according to testimony submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and others to a regulatory panel in Washington, D.C., yesterday.   Continue reading “The ‘Justice Department’ Wants Wider Hacking Authorities for the FBI”

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Reuters

A high school in Colorado, one of the first two U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana use, was put on partial lockdown on Friday after a student’s weed pipe filled a classroom with pot smoke, the school said.

The smoke from the device, known as a “gravity bong” or “bucket,” was released into a classroom at about 9:45 a.m. at Adams City High School in Commerce City, a northeastern suburb of Denver.   Continue reading “Cloud of pot smoke puts Colorado high school on partial lockdown”

Global Research – by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

The World is at a dangerous crossroads. US-NATO is carrying out a fresh set of military drills in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States involving the deployment of several thousand troops.  These drills follow earlier military deployments in the Baltic States in October.  

According to NATO  General  Hans-Lothar Domrose, Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum:   Continue reading “Dangerous Crossroads: NATO Plans Large Scale Military Deployments on Russia’s Doorstep”

Raw Story – by Lisa O’Carroll

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist”.   Continue reading “Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s one big lie, not one word of it is true’”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The Petrodollar just died. Zero Hedge ran an obituary notice for the Petrodollar last week.

Reuters reports  energy-exporting countries are set to pull their “Petrodollars” out of world markets this year. This shift is likely to cause global market liquidity to fall: “this year the oil producers will effectively import capital amounting to $7.6 billion. By comparison, they exported $60 billion in 2013 and $248 billion in 2012. This is according to BNP Paribas calculations. Petrodollar recycling peaked at $511 billion in 2006.”   Continue reading “The Petrodollar Died. So what happens next?”

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Counter Current News – by Jackson Marciana

More police in the schools will make kids safer, right? That’s what a lot of people have been saying for years, but the evidence seems to tell a very different story.

Recently, several children as young as 4-years-old found themselves “accidentally” pepper sprayed by police officers from the Gwent Police Department during a visit to Gilfach Fargoed Elementary School, in Bargoed, Caerphilly county in Wales.   Continue reading “Cop ‘Accidentally’ Pepper Sprays 4-Year-Olds During Kindergarten Visit”