Year: 2014

Yahoo mail – by Michael Isikoff

The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the emaciated, bruised and burned bodies of Syrian torture victims — gruesome images that a top official told Yahoo News constitute “smoking gun” evidence that can be used to bring war-crimes charges against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The photos are “horrific — some of them put you in visceral pain,” said Stephen J. Rapp, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, in an interview. “This is some of the strongest evidence we’ve seen in the area of proof of the commission of mass atrocities.”   Continue reading “Inside Bashar Assad’s torture chambers”

Independent – by KUNAL DUTTA

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who had not been in public for 40 days, fuelling unprecedented speculation over his general health and grip on power, has emerged, according to a state news agency.

North Korea’s official news agency KCNA said their leader “gave field guidance” to the newly built Wisong Scientists Residential District, and visited the Natural Energy Institute of the State Academy of Sciences in Pyongyang. The report, dated Tuesday, did not specify when the visits were made.   Continue reading “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes first appearance in 40 days…but where has he been?”

The Patriot Post

In his 1798 letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of Massachusetts’ Militia, America’s second president, John Adams, made a famous observation about the U.S. Constitution: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Noting its limited scope and enumerated powers, Adams argued such a founding document would adequately govern given the personal and civic decorum and the decency of the citizens of the United States. Flip that coin over to understand that without the absolutes of right and wrong woven into the tapestry of a moral and religious people, an overreaching and excessive government would follow.   Continue reading “We Need Good Preachers Before We Get Good Government”

Last Resistance – by Philip Hodges

A 59-year-old Georgia man is the latest victim of a no-knock police raid.

The police had gotten a warrant to search the house of David and Teresa Hooks for meth. But guess who gave the police this information? A meth addict who had come to the Hooks’ house just 2 days prior to the police raid, burglarized their home, and stole their black SUV. The meth addict burglar told the police that he had found meth in the Hooks’ SUV, which turned out to be a lie.   Continue reading “Another Innocent American Dies in No-Knock Police Raid”

RT

Russia’s Ministry of Defense is planning to form Army Reserve units comprised of experienced volunteers, who will regularly undergo military training and at any moment will be ready to take arms to defend their country, Izvestia reports.

“The personnel of these units, while continuing to work at various positions in their own companies, will regularly participate in military training, and receive certain monthly payment for being enlisted in the Army Reserve,” deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, Franz Klintsevich, told Izvestia newspaper.   Continue reading “Russia to introduce Army Reserve force – report”

CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) – Medical crews wearing protective clothing boarded an Emirates flight that landed at Logan Airport on Monday afternoon. Massport says there were five people with flu-like symptoms on Flight 237 from Dubai.

Ambulances and emergency crews met the flight at the gate.   Continue reading “Sick Passengers Removed From Emirates Plane In Boston”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

At 1532ET today (Columbus Day – with half the market absent), someone – apparently having waited to see if the almost ‘ubiquitous’ 330pm Ramp would occur – decided it was time to dump three-quarters of a billion dollars notional of US equity market exposure in 1 second. The results of this forced liquidation (or utter disregard for fiduciary duty) were as follows…

A complete collapse of all liquidity in the S&P 500 e-mini futures contract – the world’s most liquid equity exposure vehicle…   Continue reading “This Is What Happens When Someone Is Desperate To Sell $750 Million Of Stocks”

Prevent Disease – by Jeff Sutton

Many fitness enthusiasts have already been exposed to Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) as it is commonly found in quality fitness supplements. Used to help improve energy levels, it also repairs oxidative damage, neutralizes free radicals and boosts antioxidant activity.

Antioxidant Activity of ALA

Alpha lipoic acid (ALA) is one of the few antioxidants that is both water and fat soluble, granting it access to every nook and cranny in our body. This proves to be particularly beneficial when looking at cognitive health benefits, as many antioxidants are incapable of passing through the blood brain barrier.   Continue reading “Alpha Lipoic Acid Improves Glucose Uptake, Lowers Blood Sugar and Neutralizes Free Radicals”

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The Vigilant Citizen

Through terrifying headlines and shocking videos, ISIS is being used as a tool to justify war in the Middle East and to cause fear and panic worldwide. No, this is not a “crazy conspiracy theory”, it is simply the oldest trick in the book. ISIS was created by the very forces that are fighting it.

Ever since the creation of democratic nations – where public opinion somewhat matters – the political class is faced with a dilemma: War is needed to gain power, riches, and control, but the general public has a tendency to be against it. What to do? The answer was found decades ago and is still used successfully today: Create an enemy so terrifying that the masses will beg their government to go to war.   Continue reading “ISIS : A CIA Creation to Justify War Abroad and Repression at Home”

Strategic Culture Foundation – by Valentin KATASONOV

Generalised statistics on foreign exchange reserves around the world are no secret, but are published extremely rarely. The main sources of such statistical information are the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and the most recent figures were published at the end of the first quarter of 2014. The total amount of foreign exchange reserves held by all IMF member countries at that time stood at $11.86 trillion. This is approximately equal to 70 per cent of US gross domestic product (GDP) for 2013. According to the IMF, the global gross domestic product in 2013 (calculated on the basis of purchasing power parity) stood at $74 trillion. It therefore works out that the foreign exchange reserves of every country in the world made up 16 per cent of global GDP.   Continue reading “A Panorama of the World’s Foreign Exchange Reserves: Food for Thought”

Defense Now – by WENDELL MINNICK

TAIPEI — As relations improve between Beijing and Taipei, military morale still continues to fall as fewer Taiwan military officers see a future in an ever-shrinking armed forces. Many are beginning to cash in on their intimate knowledge of military secrets, including classified information on US military equipment.

Over the past several years, Taiwan military officers have sold China information on the E-2K Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and PAC-2 anti-ballistic missile systems, Hawk air defense missile system, and the Raytheon Palm IR-500 radiometric infrared camera.   Continue reading “Chinese Espionage Now Rampant in Taiwan”

Bloomberg – by Chiara Vasarri

Clotilde Narzisi and Luca Soliman have run the Caffe Orefici, 200 feet from Milan’s iconic Duomo Cathedral, for 10 years. Forced to sell their business because of high taxes, they say their only hope now is to leave it in Chinese hands.

“They are the only ones who are buying,” said 43-year-old Narzisi during a break after the lunch-time rush of businessmen and shoppers in the heart of Italy’s financial capital. “We want to sell, taxes are too high; we work eight hours a day for the state and one hour for us.”   Continue reading “Italy on Sale to Chinese Investors as Recession Bites”

TASS

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Russia and China will sign on Monday a number of intergovernmental agreements on energy cooperation, including one on a $400 billion natural gas deal agreed in May, a Russian government source said.

The intergovernmental agreement to seal the deal to supply Russian natural gas to China via an eastern route will be signed during a meeting of the two countries’ prime ministers, Dmitry Medvedev and Li Keqiang, in Moscow, the source said.   Continue reading “Russia, China to sign government agreement on gas supplies via eastern route”

IB Times – by Athena Yenko

Speaking from the United Arab Emirates, Defence Head Air Chief Marshall Mark Binskin said that footage showing how Australian forces are pounding the ISIS in Iraq are to be withheld from the public. He emphasised that what is happening in Iraq “is not a video game.” Just as how Australia kept videos of the 2003 mission in Iraq, the same goes for the current mission. While there had been calls for some people to release the footage, he believes otherwise.

“I don’t want to get into glorifying what’s happening out there. This isn’t a video game. This is the real world. That camera film shows people dying and I don’t think we should glorify that,” Binskin said.   Continue reading “Australian Airstrikes Footage Withheld; Headless Corpses Trashed In Streets”

ABC News

Two gunmen walked into a radio station and killed a local activist while he was giving his weekly radio program, prosecutors in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa said. It was the first on-air killing in recent memory in Mexico.

The victim, Atilano Roman Tirado, was the leader of a group of about 800 farm families whose lands were flooded by dam construction several years ago. His group, known as the Displaced Persons of Picachos — after the name of the dam — has been demanding compensation for the land.   Continue reading “Mexican Activist Slain During Radio Broadcast”