Category: News

Mail.com

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police charged a British banker on Monday with killing two women, including an Indonesian whose body was found in a suitcase on the balcony of the man’s upscale apartment, authorities said.

The killings have shocked Hong Kong, an Asian financial hub with a reputation as a safe city with a low rate of violent crime. Rurik George Caton Jutting appeared briefly at a preliminary hearing at which he spoke only to confirm that he understood the two murder charges against him.   Continue reading “British banker charged in Hong Kong double killing”

Mail.com

PARIS (AP) — French security officials are investigating a spate of mysterious and illegal flights by drone aircraft over more than a dozen nuclear power stations in France, raising security concerns in a country that largely lives off atomic energy.

In what environmental activists call a worrisome development, authorities have tallied at least 15 overflights of nuclear sites since early October, culminating Friday with five at separate sites, government and utility officials said Monday.   Continue reading “Mystery drones fly over French nuclear sites”

Fellowship of the Minds

A cabbie picks up a nun.

She gets into the cab, and notices that the handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: “I have a question to ask you but I don’t want to offend you.”

She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.”   Continue reading “The Nun and the Cabbie”

The Rich Ten

While this top ten list of beautiful waterfalls is subjective, there’s no arguing that all the waterfalls in this list are out-of-this-world.    Continue reading “Top 10 Most Beautiful Waterfalls in the World”

Cop Block

This content comes to us from our friends at CounterCurrentNews.com, and was originally posted October 24, 2014. It was authored by Jackson Marciana.

Date of Incident: October 22, 2014
Location: Atlanta, GA

Why aren’t we hearing about all these acts of civil disobedience and protest on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation?   Continue reading “Anti-Police Brutality Protesters Shut Down Highway To Highlight Broken System”

Forbes – by David Kroll

Update, 8:54 am EST, Monday, November 3: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting this hour that tests conducted by the State Laboratory of Public Health returned a negative result for Ebola virus in a blood sample taken from a patient, described below, who was transported to Duke University Hospital on Sunday. The patient self-reported to the CDC that they developed a fever after traveling to the U.S. from Liberia on Friday and Saturday.   Continue reading “Preliminary Negative Result For Ebola; Liberian Traveler Still Isolated At Duke Hospital”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Bayer uses the same insecticide that has been banned throughout the EU in one of their best selling flea and tick products, Advantix. They have no problem selling imidacloprid-containing insecticides to U.S. dog and cat owners, even though it has been linked to seizures in anecdotal accounts, and is certainly a neurotoxin which is not entirely safe for your favorite furry friend.

This product is brought to you by the same company that is happy to poison the planet in other ways, too – namely through the creation of neonicotinoid pesticides which coat about 90% of U.S. corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy. These chemicals have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder, as evidenced again here in this NBC News report.   Continue reading “Is Bayer Poisoning Your Pet While They Kill the Bees?”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Dutchman 6

Connecticut on the knife edge of civil war (and nobody has a clue). Dr. Bettelheim’s advice to Red Mike Lawlor’s intended victims.

I spent Friday largely in frustration, receiving advice about my trip to Connecticut that I did not want to hear, trying to get the attention of people who did not want to hear me and chasing down rumors I did not want to believe were true.

As for the advice, medical, political and otherwise, it can be summed up by this email I received from a long-time friend:   Continue reading “There will be raids. “Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!””

News-Press – by Laura Ruane

Lanais, jalousie windows, terrazzo floors: Those were the common elements of a Southwest Florida home built in the 1960s.

A smattering of custom-designed local homes, however, had an amenity folks never wanted to use: a built-in family-size fallout shelter.

No one knows exactly how many there were — perhaps no more than a dozen in the 1960s, said Stanley Ink, a structural engineer who designed a shelter for his North Fort Myers home built in 1968.   Continue reading “Living in a Southwest Florida bomb shelter”

Conra Costa Times – by Julie Prodis Sulek

SANTA CRUZ — Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly should be outraged.

It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn’t like the overtly conservative Fox News — imagine that! — or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter.

At downtown Santa Cruz’s annual parade on Friday night, police said, 29-year-old Sean Kory said “I hate Fox News” before grabbing the victim’s microphone prop. The dreadlocked Kory then made an obscene gesture with it before attacking the victim with an aluminium tennis racket, police said.   Continue reading “Santa Cruz man says “I hate Fox News,” then allegedly attacks victim wearing Fox reporter Halloween costume”

My Budget 360

This week we will be getting the employment numbers.  The unemployment rate is expected to stay steady or even drop which is comical given that we have 92 million Americans not working today and another 19 million that are fully unemployed.  Those not in the labor force continues to grow beyond the basic changes in demographics.  This topic rarely receives any coverage since those not working largely have no funds to back lobbying groups or to put ads out in the media.  Yet we can see this dissatisfaction when Americans are asked about their views on the economy.  The majority think the economy is doing poorly and this is expected given the underlying numbers.  You have young Americans going to college and many are coming out to low wage jobs and hefty student loans.  In the last 4 years alone we have added 12 million Americans to the not in the labor force category.  This measure is used to calculate the unemployment rate and given this group is not factored in, the unemployment rate looks much better than it truly is.  The oxymoron that we have is we have a labor force that is largely not doing labor.   Continue reading “The oxymoron of the labor force when labor means not working”

Sent to us by a reader.

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company’s Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker. He didn’t even remember how he got home from the party.

As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did something wrong. Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose! ! Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.   Continue reading “He Thought His Wife Was Going To Kill Him. But Then This Happens…Priceless.”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

There is a good reason that Kellogg’s spent over $1,012,552 on media propaganda in California & Washington to defeat voter ballot initiatives that would have required the labeling of GMO foods, and now are contributing again to the defeat of labeling initiatives in Oregon (contributing $250,000).

A consumer recently sent a box of Froot Loops to a lab for genetic testing and found that the corn and soy used in the cereal are 100% RoundUp Ready GMO. So is the sugar. Never mind the other toxic ingredients in the cereal. This means that in one box of Kellogg’s cereal (and likely all their cereals contain similar GMO products), you are dining on a double dose of glyphosate and Bt toxins – glyphosate being patented as an ‘antibiotic’ by Monsanto in 2011.   Continue reading “Kellogg’s Cereals: Double Dose of GMO Pesticides & Antibiotics”

Vineyard of the Saker

I am getting a flood of emails asking me about the article Putin’s Head – Who will remove the head of Russian President Putin and offer it on a platter to the U.S.? (also here) I normally don’t comment any of the nonsense which circulates on the Internet, but this one seems to have a lot of people worried.

Friends, the key to the entire article is right at the beginning: “It seems that Russian authorities have found a way towards accommodation with the West. Liberals have become more powerful and are leading the talks“.  Every word in these two sentences is utterly false.  For one thing, Putin is “the Russian authorities”.  His power stems from three sources:   Continue reading “Latest Putin-bashing invention: Putin about to be sacrificed”

The Vineyard of the Saker

How is that for a “watch” of human right?

The fact is that western human rights organizations are below contempt. Some are political tools in the hands of the Empire (Human Rights Watch), some are full of western intelligence agents (Medecins Sans Frontieres, OSCE monitors), some are lead by cynical bureaucrats who use idealistic young delegates as cannon fodder (ICRC), some are used by big business as a tool (Greenpeace) while others are quasi-official CIA tools (NED, Freedom House, Open Society Foundation, etc.).   Continue reading “This is why the Russians want to tightly regulate foreign NGOs”

Oil Price – by Nick Cunningham

With oil prices at new modern lows, China is seizing the opportunity to stock up.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a division of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) just completed the largest purchase ever for crude oil on an exchange based in Singapore, securing 40 tanker loads in October alone. The move comes after China’s oil consumption had its second highest month ever in September.   Continue reading “China Filling Strategic Reserve With Cheap Oil”

Senator Ron Wyden

Washington, D.C. –The Central Intelligence Agency’s call to black out all pseudonyms from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture would be unprecedented – and represents an unacceptable effort to obscure key facts, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said.

“This report is about mistakes, misdeeds and falsehoods that were repeated over a period of years.  If you don’t know whether they were repeated by different officials each time, or by the same officials over and over, you really don’t know the full story,” Wyden said. “A lot of officials are intent on burying the full story, but getting the truth out is the only way to keep all of this from happening again.”   Continue reading “Wyden: CIA Demand To Black Out Torture Report Details Would Be Unprecedented”

NEO – by Henry Kamens

Predictably, since the US signed the Bio Weapons Convention it has invented increasingly innovative ways of circumventing it. The scientific community and public have responded by looking the other way, due to fear, ignorance or even personal safety.

One of the most favoured circumvention mechanisms has been to hide bio weapons programmes under the flimsy disguise of civilian research projects with a public health component, as has happened in Georgia and various other countries involved. But all such projects are now being placed under closer scrutiny, and are prompting a wave of denials, unsupported by actual facts, which embassies do not make when there is nothing to deny.   Continue reading “Georgia in the Ebola Zone, “another viral or bacterial bomb waiting to explode?””

The Newspaper

Motorists traveling through Ohio’s speed traps often have no opportunity for their case to be heard in front of a neutral judge. In 310 small towns statewide, the mayor or someone he designates decides guilt or innocence of the accused driver, collects the fine and decides how to spend the revenue.

Ohio and Louisiana are the only states that continue to allow “mayor’s courts” to hear minor cases in towns that do not have their own municipal court. A mayor with some legal training can preside over cases, otherwise he will hand the responsibility over to a lawyer of his choosing. About one out of every five traffic tickets issued in the state comes from towns with mayor’s courts.   Continue reading “Ohio Speed Traps Continue To Thrive Under Mayors Courts”