Month: February 2015

Fox News

BRUSSELS –  The International Monetary Fund has agreed with Ukraine on a new bailout deal worth $17.5 billion that could climb to around $40 billion over the next four years with help from other lenders like Europe and the U.S.

Ukraine has so far received $4.6 billion as part of a $17 billion aid package from the IMF agreed on last year, but that program has run into trouble as the war ravaging the country’s eastern region has weighed on its economic prospects.  Continue reading “IMF, Ukraine agree to $17.5B bailout deal”

ABC News – by Justin Pritchard

Seaports in major West Coast cities that normally are abuzz with the sound of commerce are falling unusually quiet.

Companies that operate marine terminals said they weren’t calling workers to unload ships Thursday that carry car parts, furniture, clothing, electronics — just about anything made in Asia and destined for U.S. consumers. Containers of U.S. exports won’t get loaded either.   Continue reading “West Coast seaports mostly shut down amid contract dispute”

Reuters – by PAVEL POLITYUK AND ELIZABETH PINEAU

The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukrainehave agreed a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the summit talks said on Thursday.

The deal reached after all-night negotiations in the Belarussian capital Minsk included a ceasefire that would come into effect on Feb. 15, followed by the withdrawal of heavy weapons.   Continue reading “Ceasefire agreed for eastern Ukraine after Minsk summit”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, JOSEPH STEPANSKY, BILL HUTCHINSON, DENIS SLATTERY

60 Minutes” reporter Bob Simon, a survivor of numerous close calls as a war correspondent, was killed Wednesday in a horrific car crash on the West Side Highway.

The 73-year-old CBS veteran, who won 27 Emmy Awards in a career spanning five decades, had to be cut from a mangled livery cab that rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz and slammed into a concrete median near W. 30th St.   Continue reading “Bob Simon, ’60 Minutes’ reporter and veteran war correspondent, killed in horrific crash on West Side Highway”

The Daily Telegraph

The US Navy is considering a plan to base warships in Australia and would like to broaden yearly maritime exercises with India to permanently include close regional allies Japan and Australia, in an expansion of security ties that could risk exacerbating strategic rivalries with China.

Visiting Australia to inspect port facilities the US would like to use to support a regular Marine training presence in the northern city of Darwin, US Chief of Navy Operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said military officials from both countries were looking to increase maritime cooperation.    Continue reading “US considers basing warships in Australia”

The World Post

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate of a top terrorism concern.

Intelligence agencies now believe that as many as 150 Americans have tried and some have succeeded in reaching in the Syrian war zone, officials told the House Homeland Security Committee in testimony prepared for delivery on Wednesday. Some of those Americans were arrested en route, some died in the area and a small number are still fighting with extremists.   Continue reading “20,000 Foreign Fighters Flock To Syria, Iraq”

Digital Journal

The US Navy said it has censured three admirals for their roles in a widening bribery scandal, the highest-ranking officers to be punished in the case so far.

Although a criminal investigation did not result in charges for the three officers, the admirals had failed to uphold the standards of conduct and would receive letters of censure from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, officials said.

The three officers “demonstrated poor judgment and a failure of leadership in prior tours,” Mabus said in a statement.   Continue reading “U.S. Navy censures three admirals in bribery scandal”

Prevent Disease – by DAVE MIHALOVIC

History is being made on how the world is responding to vaccination. Even long-term health professionals are refusing to vaccinate themselves in the face of continued injury and death being caused by the practice. Almost half of healthcare professionals are now refusing to vaccinate and children’s uptake for HPV, influenza, chicken pox and many other vaccines are reaching historic lows as the awakening spans across the planet. One thing is for sure–those who have stopped vaccinating will never start vaccinating again. So the challenge for the pharmaceutical industrial complex is now aggressively shifting to holding on to the remaining vaccinators before they convert to the anti-vaccine position. How will they do this? Fear of course.    Continue reading “As Vaccine Uptake Reaches All-Time Lows, Public Health Policy Now Shifts To Mandatory Enforcement and Criminalization To Those Refusing Vaccines”

Washington Post – by Darla Cameron and Dan Keating

A lawsuit claims that Oklahoma’s great increase in earthquake activity has been caused by pumping waste from drilling operations back underground. The suit involves the largest measured quake in the history of the state, a 5.6 tremor that happened in Prague, east of Oklahoma City in November 2011. As the volume of drilling waste pumped underground has grown, the number of earthquakes with magnitude 3 or higher has increased. In particular, as the drilling has intensified along the northern border, the quakes have followed. The Prague 5.6 magnitude quake in 2011 had one 4.8 magnitude foreshock and one 4.8 magnitude aftershock.   Continue reading “Oklahoma’s earthquake problem is getting worse”

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SMITHFIELD (WGME) — Police arrest a man after they say he swore at a police dog and then challenged a cop to a fight.

Officers say they found 22-year-old Jonathan Damon drunk and pounding on the door of a home in Smithfield Sunday morning.

According to the morning sentinel, deputies say Damon started taunting a police dog in the back of a cruiser and challenging the dog to come get him.   Continue reading “Police arrest man after for allegedly swearing at police dog”

Govt Slaves

(Michael Crowley)  In October of 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney issued one of his regular dire warnings that terrorists could use a weapon of mass destruction, including a nuclear bomb, to kill thousands of Americans. “You have to get your mind around that concept,” Cheney said.

One person who didn’t need persuading was Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense. Three years after Cheney’s comment, Carter co-authored a policy paper titled: “The Day After: Action Following a Nuclear Blast in an American City.”   Continue reading “Obama’s Nominee For Secretary Of Defense Lusts For EMP And Nuke Attacks”

Natural Society – by Anthony Gucciardi

The impossible is happening: McDonald’s is quickly diving out of its stable stock position and into a world of financial hurt as citizens of the United States and elsewhere have decided they are completely done with the company’s frankenfoods.

The decision has hit McDonald’s so hard that its own CEO has even stepped down following the news of continued decline in the company’s most recent briefing. The world’s largest restaurant chain is frantically replacing its foundation in an attempt to recover, from removing its CFO and CEO to launching a new ‘trendy’ advertising campaign that premiered at the Super Bowl.   Continue reading “McDonald’s Sales Rapidly Decline As Americans Reject Fake Food”

The Hill – by Kristina Wong

The Air Force deployed a dozen A-10 “Warthog” attack jets and approximately 300 airmen to Germany this week in support of military exercise Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR), according to officials.

The jets and airmen are being sent to Spangdehlem Air Base, a spokesman said.

“The Air Force has been rotating forces as a part of OAR for the past year,” said Lt. Gen. Tom Jones in an Air Force article.     Continue reading “Air Force deploys 12 Warthogs, 300 airmen to Germany”

Trend – by Demir Azizov

The governments of the US and Uzbekistan are holding negotiations on the supply of military equipment to Uzbekistan, Daniel Rosenblum, the deputy assistant secretary for Central Asia at the US Department of State, said.

He made the remarks during a conference call with reporters from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The conference call was organized by a media center in Brussels.

Rosenblum didn’t provide detailed information about the negotiations.   Continue reading “Uzbekistan, US negotiating on military equipment supply”

ABC News – by Josh Ledeman

Police officers and firefighters who helped save lives in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were honored with the Medal of Valor in a White House ceremony Wednesday.

Vice President Joe Biden draped the purple and yellow striped ribbons around the necks of 20 public safety officers, and presented medals to the families of two officers killed while responding to armed robberies. The two were off-duty at the time.   Continue reading “Medal of Valor: Officers Saved Lives in Boston, Wisconsin”

New York Times – by BARRY PADDOCK, EDGAR SANDOVAL, JOHN MARZULLI, LARRY MCSHANE

A rookie cop accused of fatally shooting a man in a Brooklyn housing project stairwell was taunted by the victim’s relatives Wednesday after pleading not guilty.

Officer Peter Liang, 27, was released without bail after a hearing during which he stood silently in a dark gray suit, accompanied by an attorney for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

“Murderer!” screamed Hertencia Peterson, an aunt of Akai Gurley, as Liang was hustled from the courtroom. “He’s a murderer! Why is he out? … If he was a black man, he’d be shackled.”   Continue reading “NYPD Officer Peter Liang pleads not guilty in Akai Gurley shooting”