Category: News

Sun Sentinel – by Robert Nolin

Amid the explosions, smoke, roaring vehicles and chattering gunfire of a terrorist attack Thursday afternoon at Port Everglades, one fact became chillingly clear:

These weren’t foreign-born America-hating terrorists. These were native-born America-hating terrorists. And they were making things difficult for the good guys.   Continue reading “Florida Police State Exercise: ‘Sovereign citizens’ assault Port Everglades”

Raymond Ibrahim

Russian President Vladimir Putin has a strange way of speaking straightforwardly, without all the artificial and “morally superior” airs one expects from Western politicians.

Earlier, for example, he wondered why Western leaders were supporting cannibals in Syria:

You will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe for hundreds of years.   Continue reading “Putin Puts Obama in Hot Seat: ‘What Will You Do If Rebels Are Ones Using Chemical Weapons?’”

Kansas City Star – by Jim Salter

Reuters – by Tetsushi Kajimoto and Katya Golubkova

Emerging and developed G20 powers struggled to find common ground on Thursday over the turmoil unleashed by the prospect of the United States reducing a flood of dollars to the world economy.

The Group of 20, which united in response to global crisis in 2009, now faces a U.S. economypicking up, Europe lagging and developing economies facing blowback from the looming ‘taper’ of the Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus.   Continue reading “Emerging market pain dominates G20 economy talks”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: There is another article from the WSJ stating “Iran plots revenge” in case of a U.S. strike on Syria. Supposedly the U.S. “intercepted” communications from Iran. What is the point of that article and this one here? To generate a hate within you, to make you want war with Iran. How dare they protect their neighbor who they have a military pact with. Put this in other terms. If other nations were amassing military assets around Israel and threatening an attack against it and the U.S. stated, “we will plot revenge” that would be quiet obvious since the two nations are close “allies.” Use your mind folks. In either case these wars are going to happen whether days or months away, Syria (Isaiah 17:1) and Iran (Daniel 8).   Continue reading “Iranian Military Chief: ‘We Will Support Syria To The End’”

MassPrivateI

The Acxiom Corporation, a marketing technology company that has amassed details on the household makeup, financial means, shopping preferences and leisure pursuits of a majority of adults in the United States, knows that Mr.Scott E. Howe is 45, married with children, the owner of a house in the 2,500-square-foot range, and is interested, among other things, in tennis, domestic travel, cooking, crafts, sweepstakes and contests. Those intimate details, Mr. Howe says, are entirely accurate.    Continue reading “What data brokers know about you and how you can opt-out”

Huffington Post – by Andrea Rael

“When one door closes, another is opened,” as the saying goes. But Colorado did one better, albeit not very intentionally.

Formerly known as the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility, the 550-acre facility in Bent County, Colorado will now offer supportive housing, health services, substance abuse treatment, counseling and job training for the homeless. From there, it is hoped that participants will be able to transition to independent living — while saving the state money.   Continue reading “Colorado’s Fort Lyon Prison, Closed By Budget Cuts, Reopens To House Homeless”

RT News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has added the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), an active group of hackers sympathetic to the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, to its list of wanted criminals.

Though working largely on the periphery for the last few years, the SEA has recently raised its profile considerably after temporarily disabling major media outlets.

Just one week after the SEA disabled The New York Times’ website for a considerable number of hours on August 27, the FBI issued an advisory warning Americans about the SEA and its capabilities. The statement also reported that any US citizen found to be aiding the hackers will be investigated as a terrorist who is actively aiding attacks against US companies.

The memo, dated August 30, was first published by journalist Matthew Keys.

“The Syrian Electronic army, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, has been compromising high-profile media outlets in an effort to spread pro-regime propaganda,” the advisory stated. “The SEA’s primary capabilities include spearphishing, web defacements, and hijacking social media accounts to spread propaganda.”

While little is known about the SEA, the collective claims it took control of domain servers for the The Times, Twitter, and The Huffington Post last week in its most recent cyber-attack. The SEA also defaced a Marine Corps recruitment website on September 2, posting images of US soldiers holding messages of contempt regarding possible American involvement in Syria.

“The Syrian army should be your ally not your enemy,” a letter on the page read. “Refuse your orders and concentrate on the real reason every soldier joins the military, to defend their homeland. You’re more than welcome to fight alongside our army rather than against it.”

The Marines stated that their webpage had not been infiltrated, although users were in fact redirected to a different site.

The SEA has also claimed responsibility for cyber-attacks on The Washington Post and Thomson Reuters, along with posting false news on the Associated Press’ Twitter feed. As a result of the online attack, the Associated Press – one of the most trusted sources for journalists – falsely reported that US President Obama had been injured in a surprise attack on the White House, causing a brief panic online. The tweet caused the stock market to fall by over 150 points.

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-adds-sea-wanted-list-484/

RT News

The number of arrests made for low-level violations in New York City grew exponentially over the past decade, a result of the so-called “zero tolerance” policy that sought to prevent people from committing future crimes by arresting them preemptively.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent much of his final year in office defending the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge ruled was unconstitutional in August. But while he and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly fended off allegations of stop-and-frisk’s inherent racial discrimination, complaints about severe policing have largely stayed out of the headlines.    Continue reading “Low-level arrests surged under Bloomberg’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy”

RT News

US Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean are “fully ready” to launch cruise missiles into Syria as part of a US military campaign that would not involve “extraordinary” monetary costs, a top admiral said Thursday.

Admiral Jonathan Greenert said that the US was considering using Tomahawk missiles against Syria at a cost of $1.5mn each. His statement confirmed what no other officials had said publicly – though some had leaked similar information anonymously.    Continue reading “US admiral says ships in Mediterranean ‘fully ready’ for potential Syria strike”

RT News

The sky is no longer the limit for US drone warfare, with secret military research agency DARPA considering a conquest of the seven seas with an underwater drone carrier.

America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held a presentation of its new Hydra unmanned underwater drone carrier project at John’s Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. ‘Proposer’s Day’ was set to beef up interest from defense contractors.   Continue reading “DARPA goes deep: New Hydra project to see underwater drones deploying drones”

RT News

Public advocacy groups and farmers have joined forces to challenge biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically engineered seed patents, and to halt the company’s aggressive lawsuits against anyone whose fields are contaminated by their GMOs.

Seventy-three US farmers, seed companies, and public advocacy groups appealed their case against Monsanto Co. to the Supreme Court on Thursday.    Continue reading “US farmers challenging Monsanto patent claims appeal to Supreme Court”

Fox News

Applications for gun purchases in Maryland are soaring ahead of the start of a tough new firearms law that sets new magazine capacity limits and bans the sale of certain types of assault weapons.

The Washington Times reported that state police received 85,141 gun-purchase applications this year through Aug. 31. That’s compared with 70,099 applications in all of 2012 and 46,339 applications in 2011. Maryland State Police have increased staffing to cope.   Continue reading “Maryland gun applications soar as stricter control law looms”

The US military has killed, maimed and made homeless well over 20,000,000 people since the Vietnam War.

Very few countries have violated as many humanitarian laws and codes of war on such a large scale, and for such an extended period. The vast political leverage of the United States, the rising indifference of media coverage, and the alleged need of secrecy for matters of national security have largely enabled one of the bloodiest 50 years in human history.   Continue reading “Infographic: War Crimes in America”

Leftwing-Christian – by Richard Edmondson

Are American Jews raring to get this war started with Syria? Well a newly-published article at a well-known Jewish media outlet would suggest this indeed is the case. But one small problem. People remember that Israel supporters were among the biggest backers of the war in Iraq, and they’re kind of starting to put 2 and 2 together. So what to do? Well…go ahead and openly advocate for the Syrian war, but, uh…ahem…just don’t say anything about Israel while you’re doing it! The following comes from the JTA:   Continue reading “US Jews Back War on Syria but ‘Downplay’ Israel Angle”