Year: 2014

News.AU

Mr Putin’s statement came as the military successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a nuclear submarine yesterday.

Putin accused the West of using the crisis in Ukraine to reinvigorate NATO, warning that Moscow will ponder a response to the alliance’s decision to create a rapid-reaction “spearhead” force to protect Eastern Europe.   Continue reading “Russian President Vladimir Putin promises new weapons will outstrip Western defence technology”

The Wire – by David Ludwig

The parents of a victim in the Aurora, Colorado shooting have filed a lawsuit accusing various websites of illegally selling bullets, armor and other equipment to alleged shooter James Holmes.

Filed today, the lawsuit alleges that the websites were negligent when they sold high capacity magazines, canisters of tear gas, body armor and other equipment to Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 in a Colorado movie theater in 2012.   Continue reading “Victim’s Parents Sue Companies that Sold James Holmes Thousands of Ammo Rounds”

Reuters

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is likely to have its charter renewed through mid-2015 this week, even though lawmakers in both parties said on Tuesday they see the extension as a second-best solution.

Most Republicans said they would support an extension through June 2015 after influential conservative Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who had pushed to shut the export credit agency down when its charter expires on Sept. 30, said he would back the move.

Democrats are also on board with the extension, which the House of Representatives is expected to consider on Wednesday as part of a bill to fund the government past Sept. 30, even though they would prefer a multi-year extension.   Continue reading “U.S. Ex-Im Bank extension seen likely though mid-2015 -lawmakers”

Fox 17 West Michigan – by Jessica McMaster

RICHLAND, Mich. — A mother from Kalamazoo is losing her home after she missed a property tax payment.

It has been a rough couple of years for Deborah Calley, who has overcome physical and mental obstacles following a devastating car accident.

The crash happened in 2008, and it left Calley with several injuries to her arms, wrists, and neck. She said also she had four big bruises on her brain.   Continue reading “Kalamazoo mother loses home over one missed property tax payment”

Yahoo News – by Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two hand-me-down miniature helicopter drones given away for free by Seattle after a political uproar there are now under lock and key in Los Angeles, where a police commission vows to keep the aircraft grounded until it approves rules for their limited use.

The LAPD says the newly acquired Draganflyer X6 pilotless choppers, equipped to carry video cameras and night-vision lenses, are intended for SWAT-team use against armed suspects who may be barricaded alone or with hostages.    Continue reading “B.S. Warning: Los Angeles police try to reassure public on newly acquired drones”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Justice Department will be investigating the Ferguson PD in the wake of an unarmed citizen’s shooting by Officer Darren Wilson. Already, news has surfaced that the police force has a history of discriminatory actions and a problem with deploying excessive force. But should we even trust the DOJ to do this? If the DOJ is going to police the nation’s police, then it should be holding its own agencies and employees to the highest standards. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t even come close.

Documents obtained by McClatchy News Service [pdf link] reveal incident after incident of misconduct uncovered by the Office of the Inspector General. They range from the merely questionable to the wholly unacceptable, but one thread holds them all together: a nearly complete lack of accountability.   Continue reading “DOJ Investigates Law Enforcement Agencies All Over The Nation But Can’t Be Bothered To Police Itself”

RT

WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning believes military action won’t destroy the Islamic State, and thinks that the United States and its allies should attempt to disrupt the militants into self-destruction through containment.

“Based on my experience as an all-source analyst in Iraq during the organization’s relative infancy, ISIS cannot be defeated by bombs and bullets,” Private Manning, 26, wrote in an editorial published Tuesday in The Guardian.   Continue reading “Chelsea Manning on the Islamic State: ‘ISIS cannot be defeated by bombs and bullets’”

RT

US space tourism firm Space Adventures is offering a spaceflight around the moon to private tourists on “proven” Russian Soyuz spacecraft – saying that the sponsors will not have to wait for long for their trip.

Space Adventures has posted a statement describing its ‘Circumlunar’ mission on its website.   Continue reading “Space tourism firm offers flight around the moon on Soyuz crafts”

RT

Some 22 million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2013 – three times more than from conflicts and wars. Asia became the displacement ‘hotspot’, accounting for over 80 percent of those affected.

Currently, twice as many people are displaced than there were in the 1970s, researchers stated.

The main cause behind the surge in numbers is the rapid urbanization, with the growth and concentration of urban populations, especially in “vulnerable countries.”   Continue reading “Hurricanes, quakes, tornadoes displace 22mn people in 2013, 3 times more than wars”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

The U.S. government is putting plans in place right now to invoke extreme emergency actions across the USA in response to an anticipated Ebola outbreak sweeping through U.S. cities. Late last week, the U.S. State Department ordered 160,000 Ebola hazmat suits in anticipation of an outbreak, and President Obama has already called upon the Pentagon to dispatch troops and supplies to Africa.

Earlier this summer, Obama signed a curious executive order that claims to grant federal officers the lawful right to arrest and quarantine anyone who shows symptoms of an infection. Full details of this executive order are explained in this 11-part Natural News article series covering Ebola truths the government isn’t publicly advertising.     Continue reading “U.S. government likely to respond to Ebola pandemic with military force, martial law and forced vaccines”

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1998 – 2000

Powerful elites and influential think tanks forecast a coming period of American aggression. Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks for the Globalist faction of the western PRC (Predatory Ruling Class) in ‘The Grand Chessboard’, a book in which he openly advocates for bolder American action in dominating the Eurasian land mass.   Continue reading “World War 3 for Dummies”

So is this how they are going to try and pass the Amnesty Bill? By possibly slipping in an Ebola provision and saying that it needs to pass in order to protect us from the Ebola crisis? Never let a crisis go to waste. These psychos never give up, do they?

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that a comprehensive amnesty bill would have helped America contain the Ebola epidemic in Africa.    Continue reading “Dick Durbin: Amnesty Bill Will Help Contain Ebola”

Fox News

A federal judge on Tuesday gave another black eye to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, issuing a scathing rebuke of the agency’s handling of the career and security of one of its own — celebrated undercover agent Jay Dobyns, who infiltrated the notorious Hells Angels.

After a costly six-year legal battle, Judge Francis Allegra, with the federal claims court in Washington, D.C., chastised the ATF for failing to adequately protect Dobyns and his family from the gang.    Continue reading “Judge rebukes ATF over treatment of agent who infiltrated Hells Angels”

The Breathtaking Melissani Cave in Greece.   Continue reading “W-O-W Pictures”

Sydney Morning Herald

The Vatican has been left red-faced after it emerged that a car bearing its diplomatic plates had been stopped in France with four kilograms of cocaine on board.

The car – which also contained 200g of cannabis – belonged to 91-year-old Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mejia, emeritus librarian at the Holy See, who retired in 2003 and who is currently bedridden.   Continue reading “Vatican car seized with cocaine, cannabis”