Year: 2014

Bloomberg – by Josh Eidelson

Dave Anthony, former writer and director for the megahit video game franchise Call of Duty, wants the U.S. government to explore stationing soldiers in schools.

“The threat now, the invasion, comes from within,” Anthony said Wednesday at a forum hosted by the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington where he is a fellow in international security. Anthony said the soldiers could operate like air marshals on commercial flights. “Imagine the concept of something like a ‘school marshal,’” he said. “Now these guys are U.S. soldiers who are in plainclothes, whose job and part of their responsibility is to protect schools.”   Continue reading “Call of Duty Director Says U.S. Should Station Soldiers in Schools”

Newsday

TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey child who tested positive for a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country has died, although it’s not clear what role the virus played in the child’s death, state health officials said Friday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told New Jersey health officials that a Mercer County child tested positive for enterovirus 68 and died last week, the state Department of Health said in a news release.   Continue reading “NJ child with enterovirus 68 dies, officials say”

Proactive Investors Australia

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), the world’s biggest energy company which has operations in Nigeria and Liberia, fluctuated between gains and losses after saying some of its oil and gas activities in West Africa have been disrupted by the Ebola outbreak, including plans to drill offshore Liberia, the country worst affected by the spread of the disease.

Shares were up 0.4 percent at $93.70 at 2:30 p.m. in New York.

“We had some drilling plans for some blocks offshore West Africa in Liberia,” the company’s chief executive officer, Rex Tillerson, told a news conference yesterday.  “We are having to look at when it would be prudent to resume operations there because you do have to have shore-based support.”   Continue reading “Exxon Mobil says Ebola disrupts drilling offshore Liberia”

Times of Israel

Israel, citing health considerations, turned down a request from the United States to assist in medical relief in Ebola-stricken West African countries.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon rejected the request, which first came to the Foreign Ministry from Samantha Power, the US envoy to the United Nations, Ynet reported on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Israel rejects US request on Ebola relief in Africa”

Revisionist Review – by Michael Hoffman

Mr. William Jasper’s October 1, 2014 article (excerpted below) constitutes Zionist disinformation.

 Putin – No Defender of Christian Faith and Morality

In a key article, William Jasper blows apart Vladimir Putin’s facade of championing Christian values.    Continue reading “Birch Society attacks Putin; Michael Hoffman repliesBirch Society attacks Putin; Michael Hoffman replies”

Yahoo News

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Ten thousand mosquitos immunized against dengue fever have been released in Brazil as part of an innovative attempt to curb the spread of the tropical viral sickness, biologists said Thursday.

Gabriel Sylvestre Ribeiro told AFP that the Aedes aegypti mosquitos were released in Tubiacanga neighborhood in northern Rio state.

“We inoculated them in the lab with the Wolbachia bacteria, which block the development of the dengue virus,” he said.    Continue reading “‘Vaccinated’ mosquitos released in Rio to combat dengue”

The New York Times – by   MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER

The huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million households and businesses was one of the most serious computer intrusions into an American corporation. But it could have been much worse.

Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions — a number that has not been previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said.  Continue reading “Hackers’ Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault”

Activist Post – by Paul Craig Roberts

It is amazing how the government manages to continue selling Brooklyn Bridges to a gullible public. Americans buy wars they don’t need and economic recoveries that do not exist.

The best investment in America is a highly leveraged fund that invests only in large cap companies that are buying back their own stocks. Many of the firms repurchasing their stocks are borrowing in order to push up their stock prices, executive “performance bonuses,” and shareholders’ capital gains. The debt incurred will have to be serviced by future earnings. This is not a picture of capitalism that is driving the economy by investment.    Continue reading “Poverty Report Contradicts GDP Claims”

Activist Post – by Jeff D. Opdyke

A modern historian looking to chronicle the destruction of the America we all once knew could do no better than to deconstruct the U.S. education system today.

Along with providing American students a middling education at best — we rank 17th in the world and well-below-average for developed nations — what’s really wrong with America’s education system is the fact that we’re engineering the next generation to become acclimated to what this country is becoming …    Continue reading “3 Acts of Insanity in the American Education System”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Many Americans, at least those who are moderately informed, may take a look at the current field of potential Presidential candidates and feel that all is lost. Unfortunately, the puppet pool has gotten even worse. This is because Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, and virulent warmonger , police state and drug-war supporter, austerity ghoul , big government proponent, and corporate-banking stooge, has announced that, should he win his re-election in November, 2014, he intends to begin exploring the possibility of a Presidential bid in 2016.    Continue reading “Lindsey Graham Considers Presidential Run”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

On October 2, 2014, Turkey’s parliament passed a resolution to allow the Turkish military to enter the sovereign territory of Iraq and Syria under the pretext of battling Western-backed IS militants.

The resolution will also allow foreign troops to use Turkish territory for the same purpose suggesting that the Incirlik air base may soon be used by the United States for its airstrikes against Syria.

The vote was 298 in favor of the motion and 98 opposed.   Continue reading “NATO’s Dream Coming True – Turkey Pushes For Syria No-Fly Zone; US Approves”

Breitbart

Speaker John Boehner’s office released a statement Friday ripping President Obama for his plans to issue “executive amnesty” after the election, some of the strongest rhetoric the Ohio Republican has used on the topic to date.

The release, authored by spokesman Matt Wolking, says “Why will President Obama grant amnesty after the election? Because he knows the American people oppose it, and he doesn’t want his fellow Democrats to be held accountable on election day.”

The release continues:    Continue reading “Boehner Statement Rips ‘Executive Amnesty’”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

One way cancer develops in breast tissue is through the cancer-resistant protein (BCRP/ABCG2), but there is a way to effectively block this protein, both preventing and treating already existent cancer. Actually, just one food (actually, compound) which you might already eat (or drink) has the ability to inhibit that protein from being taken up by the body and spreading cancerous cells as a ‘side population.’ It’s called falcarinol, and it occurs naturally in carrots.

This is information someone named Ann Cameron already knows. She treated Stage 4 cancer with the use of carrots, and she did it without chemotherapy, radiation, or other drastic dietary changes.   Continue reading “Woman Uses Carrot Juice to Beat Stage 4 Cancer!”

Rick Rozoff

Persistent presence land forces assurance exercises are the first in a series of expanded U.S. land force training activities in Poland and the Baltic region taking place for the next few months and beyond. The exercises, conducted by U.S. Army Europe Soldiers and host nation forces, are a demonstration of U.S. commitment to NATO and to our collective defense responsibilities through increased ground, air, and naval force presence.   Continue reading “U.S.-NATO Move Armored Vehicles Into Baltics”

China Post

WASHINGTON–Washington is releasing some US$26 million to Yemen in military aid and boosting funds to armies in five other nations, waiving sanctions imposed for recruiting child soldiers, a U.S. official said Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday fully waived sanctions and lifted bans on international military, education and training assistance to Yemen, Rwanda and Somalia applied under the Child Soldier Prevention Act, said deputy assistant secretary Michael Kozak.   Continue reading “US waives child soldier sanctions on six nations”

The Epoch Times

BEIRUT— Islamic State militants heavily shelled a Kurdish town on Syria’s border with Turkey on Friday as jihadi fighters prepared an all-out offensive for the strategic site, whose capture would provide a direct link between areas under their control in Aleppo and their stronghold in Raqqa to the east.

The fighting came as Turkey’s prime minister pledged his country would do what it could to prevent the fall of Kobani, although he did not spell out what assistance Turkey would provide. Turkey’s parliament gave the government new powers Thursday to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq, and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group.   Continue reading “Heavy Fighting Hits Syrian Border Town”

Opposing Views – by Lina Batarags

The owners of a farm in upstate New York were fined $10,000 plus $3,000 in damages after they declined to host a same-sex wedding ceremony on their property. Now they’re fighting back.

Cynthia and Robert Gifford open up their farm property every autumn and host fall festivities to supplement their income. The Giffords live in a barn they built on the farm; occasionally, they also allow the bottom portion of their barn and the backyard area to be used for weddings.   Continue reading “Couple Fined $10,000 After Refusing to Host Same-Sex Marriage on their Farm”