Category: News

RT

The central banks of China and Russia have signed a 3-year ruble-yuan currency swap deal up to $25 billion, in order to boost trade using national currencies and lessen dependence on the dollar and euro.

On Monday, China’s Central Bank announced the 150 billion yuan (815 billion ruble) currency swap between the Russian ruble and Chinese yuan. In terms of the Chinese currency that is $24.5 billion, and in Russian rubles, $20.1 billion.   Continue reading “Defying the dollar Russia & China agree currency swap worth over $20bn”

Breitbart TV

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on further allegations made by a nurses union that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was not put into isolation, allowed his blood to circulate through the hospital’s tube system, and that waste “piled up nearly to the ceiling” inside patient’s rooms on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”

Gupta said that the National Nurses United stated that they were informed by nurses that “Mr. Duncan was not in isolation. He was not in isolation for several hours, despite the fact that a nursing supervisor asked that he go into isolation, and that he may have come in contact with seven patients at that time.”   Continue reading “Nurses Union: Duncan Not Put In Isolation, Waste Piled Nearly Up to Ceiling”

Breitbart – by Chriss W. Street

The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles,” including exhaled breath.

CIDRAP is warning that surgical facemasks do not prevent transmission of Ebola, and healthcare professionals (HCP) must immediately be outfitted with full-hooded protective gear and powered air-purifying respirators.   Continue reading “Medical Research Org CIDRAP: Ebola Transmittable by Air”

CounterPunch – by Mike Whitney

The Saker is an ex-military analyst who was born in Europe to a family of Russian refugees. He now lives in Florida where he writes theVineyard of the Saker blog and is a regular contributor to Russia Insider. The international community of Saker Blogs includes, besides the original Saker blog, French, German, Russian, Oceania and Serbian members and will soon include a Latin American member. – Mike Whitney   Continue reading “The Ukraine, As We Know It, Is Gone Forever”

Information Clearing House – by George Galloway

October 14, 2014 “ICH” – October 11, 2014 – I have been urged by a number of my constituents to support a motion being debated and voted on in parliament on Monday “that this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel”.

As many probably know the Palestinian cause has been central to my political activity for the last 40 years. I appreciate the good intentions many have in urging me to support this motion.    Continue reading “Why I Cannot Support This Motion on Palestine”

Washington’s Blog 

No More Federal than Federal Express

As we’ve reported for over 4 years, the Federal Reserve banks are private, not government agencies.

Indeed, the government admitted 86 years ago that the Fed banks are private. And the Fed hasrepeatedly reaffirmed this fact.

As Matt Stoller points out, they have just done so again … in the AIG trial. Specifically, government lawyers said:    Continue reading “Federal Reserve Bank Admits Again That It Is NOT a Federal Agency”

Wake Up World – by Zen Gardner

Life is a struggle. How much more so is the spiritual life – the fight to remain conscious in an illusory world where deviant forces vie for control more than caring, battering your very body and soul day in and day out on top of your struggle to survive. Oh, we’re going peacefully downstream in the conscious dimensions. There we learn to let go and follow the flow of the Universe and synchronicity. But in this physical, lower density world, we’re fighting directly upstream.   Continue reading “Awakened Warriors, Arise!”

ABC News – by RHEANA MURRAY

A Pennsylvania town has banned trick-or-treating this year while hundreds of cops search nearby woods for accused cop killer Eric Frein.

The Barrett Township said its annual Halloween parade and 5K Scarecrow Race are canceled indefinitely, and trick-or-treating is banned this year, as the dragnet for Frein is now in its fourth week. The suspect is believed to be hiding out in thick woods near the town.   Continue reading “Eric Frein Manhunt Prompts Town to Cancel Halloween”

Guns Save Lives – by Bob Cannon

It must have been a terrifying night for a Baton Rouge, LA homeowner who awoke to a man in his bedroom armed with a gun.

According to NOLA.com,

The resident on the 3000 block of Greenwell Street was asleep at about 11:20 a.m. Monday when he woke up, hearing someone breaking into his house. A man armed with a gun then came into the room, and shot the resident in the leg, Baton Rouge police spokesman Cpl. Don Coppola said. Continue reading “Homeowner is Shot in Leg by Home Invader, but Manages to Return Fire, Ends Incident”

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William Blum

It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don’t forget, that while “wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages” is a war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Air bombardment is state terrorism, the terrorism of the rich. It has burned up and blasted apart more innocents in the past six decades than have all the antistate terrorists who ever lived. Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality. In the United States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the neighborhoods that surrounded them. I went to Iraq after the Gulf war and saw for myself what the bombs did; “wanton destruction” is just the term for it. – C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist  

Continue reading “United States bombings of other countries”

My Fox 8

SURF CITY, N.C. — The Surf City Police Department has confirmed that they are investigating reports of a bomb threat, WECT reports.

“Parts of the town” are being evacuated, officials said.

Officials say they are turning away cars, but wouldn’t say where the cars are being turned away from.   Continue reading “Parts of Surf City, NC evacuated over bomb threat”

Mail.com

SEATTLE (AP) — Police in the Seattle suburb of Auburn say they are still looking for an actress known for her roles in “August: Osage County,” ”Frozen River” and “Django Unchained.”

Misty Upham’s father, Charles Upham, tells KIRO-FM (http://bit.ly/1p8Dq2w ) that his daughter was upset and erratic and had stopped taking medication for anxiety and bipolar disorder. The 32-year-old Native American actress was reported missing by her family Oct. 6, a day after telling police she was suicidal. Her father tells the station he doesn’t believe his daughter would kill herself.   Continue reading “Actress Misty Upham still missing in Seattle area”

Mail.com

UXBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — At least two of the three babies whose skeletal remains were found in a filthy, vermin-infested Massachusetts home may have been alive “for some period of time” before they were found, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday.

Both bodies were found wearing diapers and one-piece infant outfits in closets in the Blackstone home, Assistant District Attorney John Bradley said during a bail hearing for Erika Murray in Uxbridge District Court.   Continue reading “Prosecutors say dead babies were found clothed”

The Hill – by Jesse Byrnes

Ann Romney ruled out another White House bid by her husband, Mitt Romney, even as the two-time presidential candidate remains coy on another run.

“Done, completely. Not only Mitt and I are done, but the kids are done. Done. Done. Done,” the former Massachusetts first lady told the Los Angeles Times.

The comment came after Ann Romney discussed a research center in her name that the couple plans to launch in Boston on Tuesday. It will study diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s and multiple sclerosis.   Continue reading “Ann Romney: ‘Mitt and I are done’”

Yahoo News

The Hague (AFP) – The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime.

“Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it’s no longer forbidden,” public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.   Continue reading “Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State”

Stepping Stones Living – by STEPHANIEBND

Many will remember NBC’s chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman for her public proclamation on the MSNBC Morning Meeting show in 2010.   When discussing the swine flu, she stated that Americans needed to stop questioning medical authorities and pay attention to them.  She fear mongers about how our immune systems are not ready for this new virus and tries to play on individuals fear of getting sick and losing your job because you have to take time off to care for a child.  She also travels down another road trying to combat the people who view this vaccine as just another way for big pharma to make money.  She ends the discussion with……  “There’s no conspiracy here folks,  just get your damn flu vaccine.”    Continue reading “NBC Chief Medical Correspondant Violates Quarantine”

The Fiscal Times – by Brianna Ehley

Scientists across the world are scrambling to develop an Ebola vaccine to quell the deadly outbreak in West Africa, but the top scientist at the National Institutes of Health says his agency would likely have one by now if it weren’t for the steep budget cuts imposed by Congress.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dr. Francis Collins said, “Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”   Continue reading “Biggest Threat to An Ebola Outbreak? Budget Cuts”

Yahoo News – by Maureen Mackey

Mark Zuckerberg, one of the co-founders of Facebook whose personal wealth is estimated at $32.4 billion, announced this morning that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to help fight the battle against Ebola.

In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg, 30, said “we need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.”   Continue reading “Will Zuckerberg’s $25M Ebola Donation Spur More?”