Category: News

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, July 19 (RIA Novosti) – The world’s top five emerging economies, BRICS, will participate in the elimination of Afghani drug production together with the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Russia’s anti-narcotics chief Viktor Ivanov told RIA Novosti Saturday.

“I’m satisfied with the decision taken by the heads of the BRICS countries, to establish a working group … to fight against drugs. I think this is a milestone event that will allow to utilize the enormous political and economic potential of the BRICS countries,” Ivanov said.   Continue reading “BRICS to Help Russia Eliminate Drug Production in Afghanistan”

ITAR-TASS

SAMARA, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia will continue to supply rocket engines to the United States despite Western sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.

“We are not going to shoot ourselves in the leg. They are organising sanctions in such a way that they will boomerang on their head. But we will continue to do (with the US) what benefits us and we will suspend what does not. Presently, the sale of engines benefits our engine-making enterprises in that they use the money for their own modernisation,” Rogozin said.   Continue reading “Russia to continue to supply rocket engines to US despite sanctions”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas–The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approved a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 that includes $5.508 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Included in that amount is more than $87 million for the transportation of illegal immigrants–most often via plane–from the U.S.-Mexico border to federal facilities around the nation.

The FY 2015 bill summary states that the federal government will provide “$87.6 million above the request for the transportation of unaccompanied immigrant children– often via commercial or charter aircraft – from DHS custody to the legally required shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement within Department of Health and Human Services.”    Continue reading “Budget to Transport Illegals Across USA Approaches $100M”

Breitbart TV

Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) announced he is deploying 1,000 Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico, saying he can not idly sit by while “our citizens are under siege.”

Pointing out the tens of thousands pf unaccompanied minors only make up roughly 20 percent of those being apprehended illegally crossing the border, Perry said he can no longer wait for the president to act as gang members and drug cartels flood into Texas, causing crime to skyrocket. Continue reading “‘Our Citizens are Under Siege’: Perry Sends National Guard to Border”

The Guardian – by Jessica Glenza

President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order that bars discrimination against transgender federal employees, and adds people who identify as LGBT to a list of those against whom federal contractors can not discriminate.

“We’re on the right side of history,” Obama said at a press conference. “America’s federal contractors should not subsidize discrimination against the American people.”   Continue reading “Obama signs executive order to protect LGBT federal employees”

Police One – by Jay Green, The Seattle Times

KENT, Wash. — A man was shot dead by Kent police early Sunday afternoon in a shootout near a hotel in the north end of the city.

During the gunfire, one shot hit a propane tank, causing it to explode and injure four of five officers involved in the incident.

Police were called to the hotel near 86th Avenue South and South 228th Street about 10:45 a.m. on a report that someone in the hotel had a firearm, according to Melanie Frazier with Kent police.   Continue reading “4 officers hurt, suspect killed in Wash. shootout, explosion”

Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

Is butter bad for you? Sweet, salty butter has become a decadent treat for many people, something that some have shunned for years for fear of the vilified “saturated fat”. But now that the hype of margarine has been sufficiently shattered, we can take a more honest look at butter. A look that isn’t colored by the companies making margarine, one that might reveal butter to actually be beneficial to our health. At least when it’s in the right form.   Continue reading “Why Butter Isn’t All that Bad”

Prevent Disease – by Marco Torres

General anesthesia works to knock you out and escape pain during oral surgery, elective surgery and other complicated surgical procedures. However, anesthetic agents can be toxic and bring about serious, even fatal complications. The most shocking thing is that doctors and scientists still don’t know exactly how these medicines work in the body.

The clinical state of anaesthesia consists of multiple components that are mediated via interaction of the anaesthetic drugs with different targets on the molecular, the cellular, the network and the structural-anatomical levels.   Continue reading “Why You Risk Your Life Every Time You Elect Surgery and Anesthesia”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Police are still investigating the tragic death of 39-year-old Goldman Sachs Managing Director Nicholas Valtz this weekend. As Bloomberg reports, Valtz, a “novice kiteboarder,” was found dead yesterday by family members who went searching for him after he didn’t return from a kiteboarding outing. While there is no accusation of suicide in this case, it sadly brings the number of young financial services executives deaths to 16 this year.   Continue reading “Goldman Managing Director Found Dead In Apparent Kite Surfing Accident”

Minutemen News

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told a cheering crowd of conservatives Saturday night that the next U.S. president should shutter the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service and turn the agency’s 110,000 employees loose to police the U.S.-Mexico border.

‘That’s slightly tongue-in-cheek,’ he said in Denver at the Western Conservative Summit.   Continue reading “Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’ and Station All 110,000 Agents ‘On the Southern Border’”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Bankers make Debts just as bakers make cakes. That is what they do. Debts are the products of banks just as cars are the products of automakers.

Imagine yourself in a classic movie as one of the bad guys, a counterfeiter. You have no criminal record but the others do. They talk about prison. The first thing you learn is never commit a crime that gets you into a state prison. Only do business with the federal government. They have much nicer prisons. The next thing you learn is the rules for jail time. Never carry a gun. Never defraud a bank in bankruptcy court by hiding cash. People who hide $100,000 in bankruptcy proceedings get 2 1/2 times as long a sentence as someone who counterfeits 20 times that much money. It is who you offend and not the amount of the offense that counts.   Continue reading “Bakers Make Cakes. Bankers Make Debts, Depressions, Hyperinflation and Wars”

RT

Four Palestinian’s have been killed and dozens wounded after an Israeli tank shell hit the third floor of Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, according to a Health Ministry spokesman.

Ashraf Al-Qidra said that the third floor housed an intensive care unit and operating theaters. Other shells had fallen around the hospital, he added, with officials calling on the Red Cross to help evacuate patients.   Continue reading “Israeli tank strikes on Gaza hospital kill 4, scores injured – medics”

RT

A spate of gun violence in Chicago over the weekend left at least 40 people shot and four dead, including an 11-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet during a slumber party.

The weekend shootings occurred between 18:00 CDT Friday and early Monday, according to NBC Chicago. As of Sunday, the Chicago Police Department had not released an official tally of the violence.   Continue reading “40 shot, 4 dead from gun violence in Chicago over weekend”

RT

China has sent an electronic surveillance vessel to international waters off Hawaii to keep an eye on a US-led Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) involving 22 countries, despite Beijing being one of the countries invited to participate in the drills.

The Chinese Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) surveillance ship is stationed outside US territorial seas but within the 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, according to Captain Darryn James, chief spokesman for the US Pacific Fleet.   Continue reading “Chinese spy ship surveys US-led drills off Hawaii”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Four emergency workers involved in the medical response for a New York City man who died in police custody after being put in an apparent chokehold have been barred from responding to 911 calls, the Fire Department of New York said.

The two EMTs and two paramedics removed from the city’s emergency response system are the latest public safety workers to face reassignment as questions mount about Thursday’s death of Eric Garner. Two police officers — including the one who put his arm around Garner’s neck — have been put on desk duty.   Continue reading “‘Modified duty’ for medics after fatal NYC arrest”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — Roused from sleep by the sound of pounding in the wee hours, a suburban Detroit man grabbed his shotgun, opened the front door and blasted a young woman in the face.

Is Theodore Wafer guilty of murder? Or did the 55-year-old use deadly force based on a reasonable fear that he was at risk? Jury selection starts Monday in a trial that will put Wafer’s self-defense claim to a tough test. The 19-year-old woman, Renisha McBride, was drunk but unarmed when she climbed the steps of his Dearborn Heights porch, 3 ½ hours after crashing her car a few blocks away.   Continue reading “Trial to start in death of unarmed woman on porch”