Year: 2014

CNBC – by Holly Ellyatt

Greece’s stock market crashed on Tuesday and bond yields spiked after the country’s government surprised investors by announcing a snap presidential vote.

The election was originally scheduled for the new year, but will now take place next week.

The news, announced late Monday, caused the Athens Stock Exchange to close down around 12.8 percent on Tuesday, and the yield on Greek 10-year government debt to rise to 8.158 percent.   Continue reading “Greek stocks crash, yields spike on political strife”

Brietbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas — Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested another high ranking Gulf Cartel member in the U.S. near the Texas Border, making this the third cartel leader caught since October.

Deputy U.S. Marshals, agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and members of the Law Enforcement Emergency Regional Response Team arrested Juan Francisco “Comandante Paquito” Martinez at a house in the Mission-Palmview area, said law enforcement officials that spoke with Breitbart Texas on conditions of anonymity.     Continue reading “Three Mexican Cartel Leaders Caught in Texas Since October”

Breitbart – by Wynton Hall

For the first time in U.S. history, food stamp enrollments have been above 46 million for 36 months in a row.

According to newly released numbers from the United States Department of Agriculture (which oversees the food stamp program), food stamp enrollments in September 2011 were 46,268,250 and never fell below 46 million up and through September 2014 (the most recent month for which numbers are available), when 46,459,998 individuals received food stamps.    Continue reading “46 Million on Food Stamps for 36 Months in a Row”

Variety – by Ted Johnson

A group calling itself GOP posted a message online on Monday that warned Sony to stop “immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the war.”

GOP — which stands for Guardians of Peace — did not specifically identify the movie. Authorities have been investigating whether the hacker attack is in some way be connected to “The Interview,” the movie that has generated condemnation from the government of North Korea.   Continue reading “Sony Hackers Apparently Demand Studio Pull ‘The Interview’”

Engadget

You might not see leaves as hazards, but train operators would beg to differ — foilage on the tracks not only makes it harder for trains to stop, but messes with anti-collision signals. The greenery might not be much of a danger for much longer, however. Dutch Railways is testing a laser system that zaps leaves (and other organic material) before it reaches the wheels, keeping the tracks clean. You can already use water jets and sand gels to do this, but they have limited supplies and sometimes damage the rails. The lasers run so long as the train has power, and they actually help the metal by drying it and preventing leaves from sticking.   Continue reading “Dutch trains get lasers to zap track debris”

Numbers USA

Washington Times — Ben Wolfgang

President Obama insisted Tuesday that his successor won’t take the political risk that would come with reversing his recent executive action on immigration reform.

Speaking at a town-hall meeting in Nashville, the president said it’s “theoretically” possible that the next administration could undo the amnesty Mr. Obama has granted to more than 4 million illegal immigrants, but he assured a crowd of undocumented Americans that such a step it is extremely unlikely. Continue reading “Obama’s immigration taunt: Next president won’t dare reverse my executive action”

Washington Post – by Hunter Schwarz

The Iowa Department of Transportation said it plans to pilot a smartphone driver’s license program that could one day make plastic licenses a thing of the past.

“It’s really moving beyond a static thing,” said Mark Lowe, director of the Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicles Division, in an interview with The Washington Post.

The concept is to not only host the license in an app, but to also be able to send push notifications about, say, traffic, or if a user’s license is about to expire, Lowe said. He said he is “not aware” of any other state that has a similar program.   Continue reading “Iowa’s going to have smartphone driver’s licenses”

The Daily Beast

The CIA’s rendition, interrogation, and detention programs were even more nightmarish than you could imagine.

Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally releasing its review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programs. And it is brutal.   Continue reading “The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’”

Alliance for Natural Health

It will cost twice as much, but they say it will be healthier and more sustainable. Let’s examine those claims.

The Coca-Cola Company has created what they claim is a more nutritious milk product called “fairlife” (no capitals, please!), and they plan to sell it for twice the price of regular milk. Calling it the “premiumization of milk,” they say their new milk will have 50% more natural protein, 30% more natural calcium, and 50% less sugar. They also claim that their product is made on sustainable and more humane dairy farms.   Continue reading “Coca-Cola Is Getting into the Milk Business”

Alliance for Natural Health

They’re also telling doctors to supplement with drugs that don’t work and have terrible side effects. This is the same government that wasted billions stockpiling these very drugs.

The flu shot is not a static formulation. It changes each year based on the World Health Organization’s assessment of which flu virus strains (usually three or four) will be the most prevalent that season.The CDC is admitting that the flu shots distributed this year may not be a good match for the viruses currently in circulation.   Continue reading “Government Says This Year’s Flu Shot Is a Dud—But Still Won’t Allow Any Discussion of Natural Alternatives”

Global Research

Ottawa ON – Last week Green Party Leader Elizabeth May presented a petition calling for a Parliamentary review of new forensic evidence regarding the events of September 11, 2001.

This petition was submitted by citizens from four provinces, and is supported by three professional organizations who have been digging into 9/11 evidence for years.

These organizations will jointly deliver a press conference to the Canadian and US media on Wednesday morning at 11:00:    Continue reading “9/11Truth Petition Presented to Canada’s Parliament: New Forensic Evidence”

American Mercenary

Cold weather presents two main challenges for people doing anything in the outdoors. If you live in an area where long deep freezes are normal every winter, such as Alaska, Michigan, or up state New York, then you probably already have all the winter gear you need and laugh at people who have to deal with 35 and raining for months on end. But for everyone else, who generally experience a winter between 0 and 40 degrees F, these are my thoughts on the matter.

Staying comfortable while doing strenuous activities.   Continue reading “Winter Is Coming. Thoughts on nasty weather gear.”

Henry Makow

A protestor at the Eiffel Tower holds signs saying “Everyone is born to a man and a woman”

and “Difference is the key to existence.”  Crowds numbering 340,000 descended on the Eiffel Tower

on January 13th, to oppose a law legalizing gay marriage, which came into effect in June.

As the Illuminati Jewish central banking cartel continues to remold humanity in the shape of a satanic cult, popular resistance is increasing.    Continue reading “Resistance to Judeomasonic Agenda is Growing”

Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo

An alleged weapons maker for the Islamic State (IS) claimed that a “radioactive device” has been smuggled into an undisclosed location in Europe, according to an intelligence brief released Monday by the SITE Intelligence Group.

“A Radioactive Device has entered somewhere in Europe,” according Twitter user Muslim-Al-Britani, who claims to be a freelance jihadist weapons maker now working alongside IS (also known as ISIL or ISIS), according to tweets captured and disseminated by SITE.   Continue reading “Report: Islamic State Claims ‘Radioactive Device’ Now in Europe”

New York Times – by Mark Mazzetti

WASHINGTON — A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, and that its methods were more brutal than the C.I.A. acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to the public.

The long-delayed report, which took five years to produce and is based on more than six million internal agency documents, is a sweeping indictment of the C.I.A.’s operation and oversight of a program carried out by agency officials and contractors in secret prisons around the world in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It also provides a macabre accounting of some of the grisliest techniques that the C.I.A. used to torture and imprison terrorism suspects.   Continue reading “Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program”

The Organic Prepper

Well, our good friends at the FDA are looking out for us again. Thank goodness we have them to fine us, charges us fees, regulate perfectly natural things, and keep us safe.  Heck, who knew that women couldn’t even safely menstruate without them?

The FDA has decided that reusable menstrual pads are Class I Medical Devices. That means those who manufacture these products must pay an annual fee of THREE TO FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS to continue doing so.  Not only must these ladies armed with sewing machines pay taxes on their income, they must pay a fealty charge to the FDA to continue making a living this way. FDA Regulation #884.5435 states that a reusable menstrual pad maker must be “FDA compliant” – which means they must pay a yearly registration fee of $3,646 to remain in business for 2015 and a fee of $3,872 for 2016.   Continue reading “The FDA Gets in Women’s Panties: Reusuable Menstrual Pads to be Subject to $4000 a Year in Extortion Fees”