Month: November 2014

New York Times – by C.J. Chivers

More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.

The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and potential costs of the United States’ encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military had for more than a decade kept from view.   Continue reading “More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges”

Yahoo News – by Natalia Zinets and Vladimir Soldatkin

KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country’s east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.

Thursday’s cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people since the separatists rose up in mid-April and would call into question Russia’s commitment to a two-month-old ceasefire deal.   Continue reading “Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis”

American Everyman

Life Site News – by Steve Weatherbe

Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government.

According to a statement released Tuesday by the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, the organization has found an antigen that causes miscarriages in a vaccine being administered to 2.3 million girls and women by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Priests throughout Kenya reportedly are advising their congregations to refuse the vaccine.   Continue reading “‘A mass sterilization exercise’: Kenyan doctors find anti-fertility agent in UN tetanus vaccine”

Jim Stone Freelance

Vancouver is now living under threat of Israeli Stuxnet induced train crash

An impossible system wide power outage happened to Vancouver’s skytrain and suddenly BC is kissing up to Israel. I actually happen to have the technical details on Vancouver’s skytrain and can solidly and affirmatively prove the alibi given to explain it all FALSE, with the only real possible explanation being an Israeli computer hack on the system which cut power to everything to send BC a message without killing anyone. This is a complex report, it will take the day to complete it. For starters –
Continue reading “Overwhelming evidence: Stuxnet hack on Vancouver’s Skytrain”

Aljazeera

The highest-ranking US military officer has said that Israel went to “extraordinary lengths” to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza  that killed hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians.

Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged recent reports criticising civilian deaths during the 50-day Gaza war this year but told an audience in New York on Thursday he thought the Israel Defence Forces “did what they could” to avoid civilian casualties.    Continue reading “US general backs Israel on Gaza casualties”

Daily Observer, August 2, 2014

A man in Schieffelin, a community located in Margibi County on the Robertsfield Highway, has been arrested for attempting to put formaldehyde into a well used by the community.

Reports say around 10 a.m., he approached the well with powder in a bottle. Mobbed by the community, he confessed that he had been paid to put formaldeyde into the well, and that he was not the only one. He reportedly told community dwellers, “We are many.” There are  are agents in Harbel, Dolostown, Cotton Tree and other communities around the ountry, he said.   Continue reading “Formaldeyde In Water Allegedly Causing Ebola-Like Symptoms”

Freedom Outpost – by Ileana Johnson

“There is something strange about fighting debt by incentivizing more debt.”
– Jaime Caruana, head of Bank of International Settlements, “the central bank of central banks”

Craig R. Smith and Lowell Ponte’s book, “Don’t Bank on It,” should be a required primer for high school and college students who often graduate economically illiterate unless they major in Economics. The average American’s economic literacy would be tremendously augmented by reading this book, written for the average person who is not an investor or a banker.   Continue reading “The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking”

ShareNet – by Ayman al-Warfalli

BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels who have seized oil ports in the past to press their demand for regional autonomy said on Friday they would declare independence in the east if the world recognised a rival parliament, heightening tensions in the major oil producer.

The actions of rebel leader Ibrahim Jathran are closely watched by oil markets. He and his followers once seized four major oil ports in eastern Libya, accounting for 600,000 barrels of oil, and held them for almost a year.   Continue reading “Libyan rebels threaten to declare independence over rival parliament”

The Daily Beast – by Shane Harris

On Tuesday, Fox News will air a highly-anticipated documentary about a former Navy SEAL named Robert O’Neill, who claims to be the man who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden. Several of O’Neill’s former brothers-in-arms are coming forward to say his story is way, way off.

In interviews with The Daily Beast, former special operations officials, as well as other sources who are familiar with the events of the 2011 raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, accused O’Neill of misstating key facts and wrongly taking sole credit for killing the world’s then-most wanted man.   Continue reading “Bin Laden ‘Shooter’ Story Is FUBAR, Special Ops Sources Say”

Politico

A former veteran U.S. diplomat and expert on Pakistan is the subject of a federal investigation and had her security clearance revoked last month, the State Department said Thursday.

The department said it is cooperating with a law enforcement probe into Robin Raphel, a one-time ambassador to Tunisia and most recently a senior adviser on civilian aid to Pakistan. Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Raphel’s employment technically ended Nov. 2, but that her clearance was pulled in October, effectively ending her employment.   Continue reading “Ex-U.S. diplomat Robin Raphel under investigation”

AOL – by Darlene Superville

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday recognized the heroism of a Union Army officer who was killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, an honor that was more than 150 years in the making.

Obama said he was mindful that he may not be president today if it weren’t for the bravery of First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing and his fellow troops as he awarded First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing a posthumous Medal of Honor.   Continue reading “Obama awards Civil War officer who died at Gettysburg in 1863 Medal of Honor”

RT

Forty-three Mexican students who went missing six weeks ago were likely abducted by police and handed over to a local gang who murdered them and burned their bodies, Mexico’s attorney general said Friday.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang were apprehended last week and confessed to burning a number of bodies near Iguala in the Guerrero state in an effort to remove evidence of the killings.   Continue reading “43 Mexican students likely ‘burned to ashes by gang’: Grisly details of mass murder”

SB Nation – by Seth Rosenthal

On Wednesday, before the Cavaliers’ game in Utah, those following Cleveland noticed Dion Waiters did not join the team during the pre-game presentation, including the singing of the national anthem. When asked by the Plain Dealer’s Chris Haynes, Waiters attributed his absence to his religious beliefs:

Waiters informed Northeast Ohio Media Group that he is a Muslim and that he plans to excuse himself prior to the national anthem from here on out.

Continue reading “Dion Waiters skipped national anthem for religious reasons”

Mail.com

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A World War II pilot whose lost plane has become the target of a stepped-up U.S. recovery effort in Greenland was honored Friday by the Coast Guard Academy, which commended him for heroism shown during daring rescue missions on the frozen tundra before the one that killed him in 1942.

The pilot, Lt. John Pritchard, was inducted into the Hall of Heroes at the academy in New London, where he graduated in 1938. “John was a very friendly, caring person,” said his sister, 91-year-old Nancy Pritchard Morgan, who received an ovation from cadets in dress blue uniforms at the ceremony. “He loved his family, he loved the Coast Guard, he loved flying, he loved life. His actions on the Greenland ice cap read like his whole life.”   Continue reading “Famed rescue pilot honored by Coast Guard Academy”