The eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, on May 25, 2014. (AFP Photo / Viktor Drachev)RT News

A team of American lawmakers is in Ukraine to observe the presidential election which Washington has called a historic milestone and provided over US$ 11.4 million to support the vote despite ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine.

US senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland) arrived in Ukraine’s capital Kiev as a part of the American monitoring mission. The US team is led by former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.   Continue reading “‘Vote at gunpoint,’ anyone? US keen to legitimize ‘good’ election in Ukraine”

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Donetsk self-defense forces claim on Twitter to have regained control over the international airport in the eastern city after Ukrainian troops launched a military operation there, deploying fighter jets and helicopters.

“The people’s army has the airport in Donetsk back under control. We are rooting out the remaining Kiev’s remaining troops. Airstrikes have stopped for now,” said the tweet from the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk.   Continue reading “Gunfire, airstrikes leave Donetsk Intl airport up in smoke”

Doris BuffettMail.com

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When Warren Buffett announced in 2006 that he would give away his billions, he was flooded with individual requests for help that still flow in today.

Instead of tossing the letters aside, Buffett packages them up and sends them to his big sister Doris. With the help of seven women, her Sunshine Lady Foundation scrutinizes each request to find people who have come upon bad luck through no fault of their own.    Continue reading “Buffett’s older sister works one-on-one to help”

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Europe’s moves to rein in Google — including a court ruling this month ordering the search giant to give people a say in what pops up when someone searches their name — may be seen in Brussels as striking a blow for the little guy.

But across the Atlantic, the idea that users should be able to edit Google search results in the name of privacy is being slammed as weird and difficult to enforce at best and a crackdown on free speech at worst.   Continue reading “Europe’s order to mute Google angers US”

Rina KawaeiMail.com

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s hugely popular female pop group AKB48 canceled fan events Monday after a saw-wielding man attacked two members and a staffer, shocking the nation and raising questions over security.

The two group members, Anna Iriyama, 18, and Rina Kawaei, 19, suffered hand and head injuries, and the male staffer who tried to stop the attack Sunday at a fan event in northern Japan had cuts on his hand. All three left the hospital by late Monday.   Continue reading “Japan pop group cancels events after saw attack”

Yahoo News – by Dana Feldman

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim’s father on Monday blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, was gunned down on Friday night in Isla Vista, California, said similar rampages would continue until lawmakers took action on guns.   Continue reading “Father blames government ‘idiots’ as California town mourns killings”

Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often NecessaryMilitia News – by Brandon Smith

It was the winter of 1939, only a few months earlier the Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich had signed a partially secret accord known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; essentially a non-aggression treaty which divided Europe down the middle between the fascists and the communists. Hitler would take the West, and Stalin would take the East. Stalin’s war machine had already steamrolled into Latvia. Lithuania, and Estonia. The soviets used unprecedented social and political purges, rigged elections, and genocide, while the rest of the world was distracted by the Nazi blitzkrieg in Poland. In the midst of this mechanized power grab was the relatively tiny nation of Finland, which had been apportioned to the communists.    Continue reading “Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often Necessary”

Fox News – by William La Jeunesse

A U.S. Marine who has been held in a Mexican jail for two months after mistakenly crossing the border with guns could have been spared his continuing ordeal with a simple phone call – and the kind of courtesy American border officials extend to wayward Mexicans, including members of the military.

Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, was trying to visit a friend near the border in San Ysidro March 31 when he missed the last exit on Interstate 5 and inadvertently crossed into Mexico. While his mistake was apparently due in part to a poorly marked – and recently changed – sign marking the last chance to make a U-turn back toward the U.S., some reasonable discretion by border officials could have spared him nearly two months in a Mexican prison, sources told Fox News.   Continue reading “Mexican cooperation could have spared Marine from ordeal, say border sources”

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What is an NGO?

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business. Usually set up by ordinary citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations or businesses. Some avoid formal funding altogether and are run primarily by volunteers. Continue reading “Global power structures masterlist of 1,150 NGOs and 300 key people in them”

USA Freedom Act Gutted Before House Passage; Heads to SenateThe New American – by Thomas R. Eddlem

The USA Freedom Act — written in its original form by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and designed to ban the omnipresent collection of private U.S. citizens’ data by the NSA without a judicial warrant — was passed in gutted form May 22. The act is likely to be further watered down as it heads to the Senate, as senators have generally been less skeptical of warrantless surveillance of Americans than have members of the House.   Continue reading “USA Freedom Act Gutted Before House Passage; Heads to Senate”

Rabbi Mendel EpsteinPress TV

Four Orthodox Jewish rabbis were charged in New Jersey with abducting Jewish men and forcing them to divorce their unhappy wives, a US federal court said.

Indictment filed by US Attorney Paul Fishmen accuses rabbis Mendel Epstein, Martin Wolmark, Binyamin Stimler and Jay Golstein aka ‘Yaakov’ of abducting or conspiring to kidnap men and torturously forcing them to divorce their wives. These men were a part of a larger group that was charged in the alleged plot.  Continue reading “Four US rabbis indicted on kidnapping charges”

PETER KINGHuffington Post – by Ashley Alman

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) joined the charge of politicians calling for a review of gun control legislation on Sunday in the wake of a gunman’s deadly rampage on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.

King, a longtime advocate of stricter gun control policies, told the Washington Post that the incident reinforces the argument for expanding background checks for gun owners.   Continue reading “Peter King Calls For Enhanced Gun Control Legislation In Wake Of California Rampage”

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An 89-year-old Navy veteran who came under heavy enemy fire aboard a landing craft on D-Day is accusing bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs of slashing his veterans benefits to $6 a month from $300.

Joseph Teson, of Watervliet, N.Y., told WNYT-TV he used to get $300 a month in benefits, about a third of which he would donate to veterans groups. He said the VA cut his benefits to recoup an overpayment of more than $3,000 that he never even noticed.   Continue reading “VA cuts D-Day veteran’s benefits to $6 a month”

CORRECTS DATE: A helicopter dumps water on a portion of the Funny River Fire, Sunday, May 25, 2014, in the Funny River community in Soldotna, Alaska. ...Yahoo News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A wildfire chewing through the forest of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula has expanded in size, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of 1,000 structures, officials said.

The massive fire south of Anchorage covered nearly 243 square miles and was 30 percent contained, according to a posting Sunday night on the Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team’s Facebook page. It was burning in the 1.9 million-acre Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.   Continue reading “Area evacuated as Alaska wildfire grows”

Fox News

Former Florida congressman Allen West told Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros Friday the Obama administration’s reaction to the plight of the Marine jailed in Mexico on gun charges is “very embarrassing.”

Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who grew up in Southern Florida, was arrested March 31 after he says inadvertently crossed into Mexico with weapons in his truck.   Continue reading “Allen West: Obama administration’s response to jailed Marine’s plight ‘very embarrassing’”

Information Liberation – by Chris

Nassau County, New York police officers raided the wrong home and shot an innocent woman in the chest while she reportedly cowered in a closet begging police not to shoot her. The police claim the officer who shot her with his assault rifle did so because his gun fired “accidentally.” 

Rather than risk trial, police chose instead to absolve themselves of any responsibility and loot taxpayers to pay the woman a $650,000 settlement. Continue reading “Cops Raid Wrong Home, Shoot Innocent Woman Cowering In Closet; Absolve Themselves Of Responsibility & Loot Taxpayers For $650,000 To Pay Settlement”

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Salinas, California:  Local police officers claim they had to use lethal force on a man when he didn’t obey their direct orders and then tried to attack them.

However this video, filmed by an eyewitness, shows that the man tried to back away from officers when he was fatally shot to death.

According to the paper, though, witnesses — including the 19-year-old college student who captured the video footage of the shooting — disagree. The source of the Herald clip, Yoanna Prieto, said the man appeared to be backing away from police the entire time she was filming.   Continue reading “Salinas California Police Caught Red Handed On Camera Executing A Man”

Lone Star Watchdog

Memorial Day is a day we reflect on all the men who went to fight wars to secure our God given liberties. Many have given their life and limb for the cause of freedom. The veterans and their families made many scarifies so we can be free. Many families are still enduring these sacrifices because the men or women who were misled to go fight wars for Israel and the Bankers. They return home with limbs missing and illnesses still needing treatment after leaving the service.

What I read about the VA hospitals having a secret list to deny treatment hoping the veterans will die before they can get treatment, this is nothing new, There has been many concerns about how the VA hospitals about its inefficiency. That goes for any government bureaucracy. But when I hear about a VA worker wishing Veterans would just die because it cost money to treat them.  Something is wrong inside the VA that is really bad.    Continue reading “Exposing Political Hypocrites Praising Veterans Publicly While Selling Them Out In Backroom Deals”

Some Anti-Memorial Day RemembrancesLew Rockwell – by Thomas DiLorenzo

One of the tenets of militaristic fascism in America is the oft-repeated slogan that “you don’t have to agree with the wars to honor those who fight them for us.”  Something to this effect is repeated thousands of times during Memorial Day bloviations all across the fruited plain.   And it is all complete nonsense.  “Honoring” paid killers for the state for participating in non-defensive, unjust wars only serves to make it more likely that there will be even more unjust wars in the future.  And it rewards individuals for engaging in some of the most sinful and reprehensible behavior known to mankind.   Continue reading “Some Anti-Memorial Day Remembrances”