Information Clearinghouse – by Robert Fisk

October 30, 2014 “ICH” – “The Independent” – Phones were ringing through the army headquarters in central Damascus and a veteran of Syria’s 1982 war with Israel in Lebanon was explaining how all wars involved victories and defeats – that Syria’s forces also suffered setbacks in their war against “terrorism” – when the news arrived at his own desk. A flurry of calls established that Jabhat al-Nusra rebels had stormed into the centre of Idlib, the surrounded but still government-held city west of Aleppo; that they had captured the governor’s office and were beheading senior Syrian officers. Our interview was not intended to have gone quite like this. It was a good day to see the general. Which means it was a bad day.    Continue reading “Isis, Jabhat al-Nusra and Other Islamist Groups Are One And The Same: Senior Army Officer”

Four Winds 10 – by Christopher Bodeen

BEIJING (AP) — Twenty-one Asian nations have signed on to a China-driven initiative to create a new development bank for Asia that’s aimed at boosting infrastructure investment of all kinds. Beijing sees that as a way to raise its international standing, but Washington opposes the move as an unnecessary and potentially damaging rival to established institutions such as the World Bank.   Continue reading “China, 20 Other Countries Initiate New Asian Bank”

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USA Today – by Michael Winter, John Bacon and William M. Welch

Eric Frein, suspected of killing one Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another in a September ambush, was captured Thursday after 48 days on the run, the state police confirmed.

The 31-year-old Frein, who was one of the FBI’s 10-most-wanted fugitives, reportedly was armed when U.S. Marshals found him at a hanger at a small, abandoned airport in Tannersville. That’s about 35 miles from the scene of the Sept. 12 attack on the state police barracks in Blooming Grove.   Continue reading “Accused Pa. cop-killer Eric Frein captured”

The Asahi Shimbun

A town in southwest Japan became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station on Oct. 28, a step forward in Japan’s fraught process of reviving an industry left idled by the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011.

Kagoshima Prefecture’s Satsuma-sendai, a town of 100,000 that hosts the two-reactor Kyushu Electric Power Co. plant, is 1,000 km (600 miles) southwest of Tokyo and has long relied on the Sendai nuclear power plant for government subsidies and jobs.   Continue reading “Kagoshima nuclear plant 1st to be approved for restart after Fukushima crisis”

Paphos Attracts Chinese Investor AttentionGold News

Chinese investors have reportedly shown an interest in investing in Paphos, according to Chairman of the Paphos Chamber, Andreas Demetriades.

This interest follows the completion of a visit made by a delegation from the Chamber and Paphos Municipality to China, where they hosted presentations regarding the investment potential of the town.   Continue reading “Paphos Attracts Chinese Investor Attention”

Torrent Freak – by Andy

For many months the New Zealand courts have been dealing with the thorny issue of Kim Dotcom. The entrepreneur’s case has traversed the legal system, with claim and counterclaim, decision followed by appeal.

The key topic of Dotcom’s possible extradition to the United States aside, much of the courtroom action has centered around the Megaupload founder’s assets. On the one hand Dotcom has been trying to reclaim his property, and on the other United States-based entertainment companies have been trying to lock it down in preparation for any future damages payout.   Continue reading “Dotcom Tries To Reclaim Millions Seized in Hong Kong”

nstoLibya 360 – by Wayne Madsen

The 9/11 attacks on the United States undoubtedly benefited a number of actors, including the American military-intelligence complex, Israel, and most definitely, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Cold War-era, the area of responsibility for which had long been confined to Europe and North America, used the provisions of Article 5 of the NATO Charter – which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all – to extend NATO’s power deep into Eurasia, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan.   Continue reading “NATO’s Global Offensive”

goldcore_bloomberg_chart4_11-09-14The China Money Report – by D. Collins

– China officially imported over 1,500 tons in 2013 with some estimates as high as 2,200 tons. This is in addition to the 400 tons they produce annually which is never leaving the Mainland.

– China has now declared that its citizens are privately holding more than 6,000 tons of Gold turning China into the “Gold Consumption Super-Power”   Continue reading “Chinese media: “We are the Gold Consumption Super-Power.” Chinese citizens now holding over 6,000 tons”

Eric Matthew Frein. (credit: Pennsylvania State Police)CBS Philly

CANADENSIS, Pa. (CBS) — Pennsylvania State Police say they have apprehended a man they say ambushed and killed one Pennsylvania state trooper and left another wounded.

Eric Frein, 31, was taken into police custody Thursday.

Sources tell CBS 3 Eyewitness News U.S. Marshals arrested Frein as he tried to enter a building in the Poconos. Sources say he was taken into custody without any resistance.   Continue reading “Pa. State Police: Accused Trooper Killer Eric Frein Taken Into Custody”

EbolaNatural News – by Mike Adams

First we were told that Ebola wouldn’t come to America. Then we were promised the best way to keep Ebola out of America was to eliminate quarantines and travel restrictions. Now, to the astonishment of nearly everyone, the U.S. government is planning to deliberately transport Ebola-infected foreigners to the United States for treatment in U.S. hospitals. Taxpayers will foot the bill, estimated at half a million dollars per patient.

This has all come out in a four-page memo acquired by the Washington Times. “The State Department has quietly made plans to bring Ebola-infected doctors and medical aides to the U.S. for treatment,” the Times reports. [1] ” The memo even details the expected price per patient, with transportation costs at $200,000 and treatment at $300,000.”   Continue reading “U.S. State Dept. to transport foreign Ebola victims to U.S. hospitals for treatment”

Reason – by Nick Gillespie

Award-winning videographer Sean Malone had a raygun belt buckle confiscated recently by the good folks at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). You know, because all of the 9/11 hijackers were packing rayguns or something.

Malone emails that the pinch happened at LAX:   Continue reading “TSA Confiscates Raygun Belt Buckle BECAUSE TERRORISM!”

Are we closer to AI? (Wikipedia)Beta Beat – by Sage Lazaro

In college, it wasn’t rare to hear a verbal battle regarding artificial intelligence erupt between my friends studying neuroscience and my friends studying computer science.

One rather outrageous fellow would mention the possibility of a computer takeover, and off they went. The neuroscience-savvy would awe at the potential of such hybrid technology as the CS majors argued we have nothing to fear, as computers will always need a programmer to tell them what to do.   Continue reading “Google’s New Computer With Human-Like Learning Abilities Will Program Itself”

CNBC – by Rob Garver

The world has no shortage of doom-saying economists ready to advise investors to stock up on gold against a coming financial catastrophe. Until recently, none of them could claim to be a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

On Wednesday, though, as the Federal Open Market Committee prepared to announce the end of the years-long asset purchase program known as Quantitative Easing, Alan Greenspan, the near-legendary Fed chair whose every utterance used to be parsed by market watchers, spoke before the Council on Foreign Relations and advised listeners that under current conditions, gold is probably a good investment.   Continue reading “Alan Greenspan, Former Fed Chair, Goes for the Gold”

hickox bikeThe Organic Prepper

That nurse in Maine sure does love the spotlight.

After Kacie Hickox returned from Sierra Leone, where she was treating Ebola patients, she was outraged when she was put in isolation by the state of New Jersey.  After railing about her civil rights, she was then transferred to her home in Maine, where she was asked to remain home for the remainder of the 21 day incubation period.

Well, you can’t tell Kacie Hickox what to do. No sir. She knows her rights.   Continue reading “We Prep for Ebola Because of Irresponsible People Like Kacie Hickox”

metallicbug.jpgNSA Drone Insects are being used in Long beach and Carson, California and have been seen in swarms both small and large. My friend Jack invited me to stay at his house and to go walking with him late at night with his dog as guide. Lady is an English Hunting Cocker/Terrier mix and is obedience trained. Jack said the dogs keen interest in sent trails and pointing at places with strong scents is a natural trait that he rewarded with praise and treats when the dog was young.

Jack walked me to a freeway underpass and showed me some cockroaches that do not run away but simply stared the dog down and both of us down. Based on looks, I still cannot get past feeling that they are just big roaches from the port of Long Beach. Jack handed me the leash and said the dog had found the roaches. Lady started tugging on the leash and off we went. The street names I remember were Peach, Pine, Long Beach Blvd and Cedar. We came to an “Airgas Company* industrial site that smelled like a gas leak and like high-stench compost.   Continue reading “NSA Drone Insects in Long Beach and Carson, California”

Sent to us by the author, Robert Quinn

Barack Obama uses anyone or anything to avoid revealing any document which would supposedly help prove he was eligible to seek the Presidency of America. Why he did this? He knew disclosure would reveal a deception beyond belief. He deliberately fought against producing a valid “Certificate of Live Birth” from Hawaii which should have confirmed he was born there and was a natural-born American citizen. He could have brought a divided Nation together. Instead, he chose lying, falsifying documents (including an ineligible “Certification of Live Birth” which he, a former Constitutional teacher, knew was an ineligible document for a presidential aspirant. The deception had begun!   Continue reading “The Man Who Stole America – Part Three”