Year: 2014

Food Babe

I have been to countless holiday meals when I had no control over the ingredients. Of course, I ate what was offered and was polite but knowing what I know now about what’s really in food – it’s hard for me to just shut up and take it. The more we shut up and take it, the more disgusting things like what I am about to share with you continue to happen. That’s why I am sharing these important facts about how to avoid drugged up turkeys this holiday season.   Continue reading “This Drug Has Sickened Thousands of Animals – Will It Be At Your Holiday Feast?”

Yahoo News – by David Porter

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nine rookie police officers have been fired for their behavior at a drunken graduation party in northern New Jersey.

In announcing the dismissals the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Friday the incident has prompted a review of the process for selecting and training candidates. The officers were part of the agency’s largest-ever graduating class.   Continue reading “Drunken party costs 9 rookie cops their jobs”

RT

Beijing says it will spend $40 billion to revive the historic Silk Road and connect China with Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe – but this time, China will be the global power flexing its economic muscles.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said the ambitious project is designed to “break the connectivity bottleneck” in Asia, state media quoted him as saying during a meeting in the Chinese capital with leaders from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Tajikistan.    Continue reading “Marco Polo in reverse: China pledges $40bn for new Silk Road”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress members returning to Capitol Hill next week will face a debate over President Barack Obama’s new $5.6 billion plan to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq and send up to 1,500 more American troops to the war-torn nation.

Obama authorized the deployment of advisory teams and trainers to bolster struggling Iraqi forces across the country, including into Iraq’s western Anbar province where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce. His decision comes just three days after bruising midterm elections for his Democratic Party.   Continue reading “Expanded US role in Iraq? Not without Congress’ OK”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Americans held by North Korea were on their way home Saturday after their release was secured through a secret mission by the top U.S. intelligence official to the reclusive Communist country.

Matthew Miller of Bakersfield, California, and Kenneth Bae of Lynnwood, Washington, were flying back to the West Coast with James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, according to U.S. officials. Clapper was the highest-ranking American to visit Pyongyang in more than a decade.   Continue reading “2 Americans held in North Korea whisked back home”

Mail.com

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country’s emergence as the major power at the heart of Europe.

A 15-kilometer (nine-mile) chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air early Sunday evening — around the time on Nov. 9, 1989 when a garbled announcement by a senior communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the Cold War’s most potent symbol.   Continue reading “Germany marks 25 years since Berlin Wall’s fall”

CBC

Canada and China have signed a reciprocal currency deal that’s expected to dramatically boost exports.

The hub will foster far easier trade between the Canadian dollar and the Chinese yuan, also known as the renminbi. It makes Canada the first country in the Americas to have a deal to trade in the renminbi.

The signing of the deal was announced in Beijing today by Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.   Continue reading “Canada, China sign currency deal aimed at boosting trade”

Yahoo News – by Aruna Viswanatha and Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Saturday picked Brooklyn federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the next U.S. attorney general, praising her as someone who would bring a commitment to criminal justice reform and other key administration priorities.

If confirmed, Lynch, 55, would be the first black woman to serve in the post, bringing with her a family history that stretches back generations to great-great grandparents who were slaves.   Continue reading “Obama picks NY prosecutor Lynch to be next attorney general”

Shark Tank – by Javier Manjarres

California’s new Assembly Bill 60, which gives illegal aliens (14 million) the opportunity to apply for a Driver’s License, is set to go into effect in the coming days.

While the cards stated that there are “federal limits” that apply to their use, and are only to be used to drive a vehicle, you know that these cards will be used for voting purposes.

California only requires illegal immigrants to prove residency, give fingerprints, and have proper identification.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants To Get Driver’s Licenses In CA”

Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

Frustrated with U.S. Attorneys who disagreed with a decision to force a fellow U.S. Attorney to resign in the aftermath of the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder advised in an email that his critics “can kiss my ass.”

Holder sent the email Aug. 30, 2011 in response to a Department of Justice deputy who relayed the news that around 25 U.S. Attorneys throughout the country were “upset” with how the forced resignation was handled.   Continue reading “Eric Holder Email: ‘Some People Can Kiss My A**’”

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”