Category: News

BBC News – by Patrick Jackson

Russia is widely accused of orchestrating the separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces despite the Kremlin’s attempts to portray it as a home-grown movement and its repeated denials of involvement.

After two months of fighting and the loss of hundreds of lives, Moscow’s strong propaganda campaign against the new leadership in Kievnow comes with mounting evidence of Russian military engagement in the two provinces just across its border, Donetsk and Luhansk.   Continue reading “Is Russia orchestrating east Ukraine violence?”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The married couple with a taste for exotic travel set out for Central Asia in the summer of 2012, moving as tourists through a region not normally visited by Westerners.

It was a risky venture by any standards, not least because the young travelers were expecting their first child. They crossed into Afghanistan, and at one point, Joshua Boyle emailed relatives from a part of the country he said was unsafe.   Continue reading “Pair in Afghanistan video plea say they’re parents”

New York Times – by Elizabeth A. Harris

Thomas A. Mars, formerly the chief administrative officer for Walmart in the United States, stepped down. José Luis Rodríguezmacedo Rivera, once the general counsel at Walmart’s Mexican division, quietly left the company. And H. Lee Scott Jr., who was Walmart’s chief executive, will retire from the board this month.

These men belong to a list of executives from the uppermost reaches of Walmart’s management who held critical positions when corruption scandals engulfed the company’s international division. Come July, almost every person on that list will no longer be with the company — but no departure has been cited by Walmart as a way to clean house after those scandals.   Continue reading “After Bribery Scandal, High-Level Departures at Walmart”

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

Very few know what has been hidden from public view regarding CDC lies, cover-ups, and congressional investigation. Probably those who don’t know don’t want to. Well, here are some examples of CDC corruption for those who do want to know.   Continue reading “Why Trust an Organization that Lies and Cheats: The Silly CDC”

Mint Press – by Katie Rucke

MINNEAPOLIS – On May 28, 126 police officers in Seattle filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that restrictions placed on the department by a federal court in 2012 regarding officers’ ability to use excessive force was a violation of their constitutional rights as officers.

Although the restrictions were put in place by the feds to curb the rampant unconstitutional policing the city was experiencing — especially when it came to the use of excessive and deadly force against mostly minority suspects — the officers argue that having to restrain themselves while on duty only leads to an increase in the number of citizens and officers killed.   Continue reading “Trained To Kill: The Policing Tactics The Public Isn’t Supposed To Know About”

CNN – by Laura Smith-Spark and Jim Acosta

Warsaw (CNN) — U.S. President Barack Obama voiced his support for Ukraine’s newly elected president and called for the international community to “stand solidly behind” him Wednesday, on a visit to Europe dominated by the crisis in Ukraine.

Obama’s meeting in Warsaw, Poland, with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko can be seen as a sign of U.S. support for the government in Kiev as it battles to quell a pro-Russian separatist uprising in Ukraine’s East.   Continue reading “Obama vows to stand with Ukraine as he meets President-elect in Poland”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown, March 4, 2013

Freedom Outpost’s Constitutional scholar Publius Huldah recently explained why Federal gun laws are unlawful. She noted that the first gun control measures put in place in the United States did not take place until 1927, when Congress banned the mailing of certain weapons. We went from 1776 to 1927, 150 years after our founding, when Congress decided, “We better start disarming the American people.”

Huldah goes through the history of the Federal government’s unlawful actions to regulate firearms in America and she points out that when it started, the Progressives had already begun a takeover. I’ll also note the Federal Reserve had been established in 1913 as well.   Continue reading “All Federal Gun Laws Are Unconstitutional”

CBC News – by Emily Chung

The main cause of the monarch butterfly’s decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified crops is indirectly killing the monarch.

This past winter, the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico fell to its lowest since 1993, when records first started being kept, the World Wildlife Fund and Mexico’s Environment Department reported in January. That report blamed the loss of milkweed owing to genetically modified crops and urban sprawl in the U.S. and illegal logging in the butterflies’ Mexican wintering ground.   Continue reading “Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops”

Idaho Statesman – by BRIAN SKOLOFF AND RAHIM FAIEZ

HAILEY, IDAHO — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns over the prospect of big crowds — both for and against the soldier.

The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls over Bergdahl, whose release after five years of Taliban captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero’s welcome or punished as a deserter.   Continue reading “Bergdahl’s hometown cancels celebration amid furor”

Press TV

The vote was “meaningless, because you can’t have an election where millions of your people don’t even have an ability to vote,” said Kerry, who landed in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Wednesday on an unannounced visit.   Continue reading “Kerry calls Syrian presidential election ‘meaningless’”

Press TV

On Wednesday, Syrian People’s Assembly speaker Jihad al-Laham announced that Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote, or 10,319,723 of 11,634,412 votes cast in Tuesday’s election, the official SANA news agency reported.   Continue reading “Assad wins Syrian presidential election”

Press TV

The UN health agency said on Wednesday it has registered 328 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola, including 208 deaths, in the West African country.   Continue reading “Ebola kills 208 people in Guinea: WHO”

CNBC

Time – by Denver Nicks

Chester Nez was one of 29 Native Americans whose work creating a secret code was instrumental in World War II

Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original band of Navajo Native Americans whose code helped the Allies win World War II, died Wednesday. He was 93 and suffered from kidney failure, Reuters reports.   Continue reading “Last of the Navajo Code Talkers Dies at 93”

Syracuse – by Michelle Breidenbach

Albany, NY – Opponents of New York’s new gun laws are demanding answers about how Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York state Legislature can rush bills into law with little time for anyone to even read the bill.

The NY Safe Act was passed with no hearings, no testimony, no time for opponents to make a case to their legislators.

It’s not the first time a controversial bill was turned into a midnight emergency.   Continue reading “The Safe Act “emergency”: How Cuomo, past governors bypassed public to make laws”