But for Joseph Stalin, it was also a good war. From his pact with Adolf Hitler he annexed parts of Finland and Romania, and three Baltic republics. His armies stood in Berlin, Prague and Vienna; his agents were vying for power in Rome and Paris; his ally was installed in North Korea; his protege, Mao, was about to bring China into his empire. But it was not so good a war for the inmates of Kolyma or the Russian POWs returned to Stalin in Truman’s Operation Keelhaul.”
As the number of cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea approaches 100 (with 7 deaths), the virus has begun to receive serious attention. The World Health Organization has begun a joint mission with the Korean government to analyze the virus and formulate an organized and effective response to it.
First identified three years ago, MERS is caused by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. This virus comes from the same family that caused the SARS(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in Asia some years back. MERS originated in the Middle East and has been linked to respiratory disease in camels: A recent study reports that 75% of camels in the area have evidence of past exposure to the virus. Little, however, is known about methods of transmission. To date, there have been about 1200 cases of MERS in 25 countries, almost all in the Middle East or in travelers from that area. Continue reading “MERS: What You Should Know”
Port Huron, Michigan. A parapet wall at the top of the Sperry’s building is mostly gone. Part of a green tiled awning on the east face of the building is collapsed. And a few of the historic building’s storefront windows are shattered.
More than 500 motorcyclists rallied in downtown Waco on Sunday afternoon, uniting in the message that bikers are not criminals and protesting the treatment of the 177 bikers arrested after the May 17 shootout at Twin Peaks restaurant.
While at least 50 of those arrested have been released after their bonds were reduced from the original $1 million each, the fact that so many more remain behind bars is an injustice that is nothing short of criminal, protesters at the “All for 1” rally said. Continue reading “Hundreds of bikers protest at McLennan County courthouse”
In Fredensborg, Denmark, ten official cars from the Tax Administration Office were set on fire and destroyed overnight in a protest. As ExstraBladet reports, police received notification Wednesday night at 3:09 a.m. that the Tax Administration offices on Kratvej were on fire. So far, there are no suspects. But, as Martin Armstrong notes, the police will undoubtedly hunt for someone retaliating against the Tax Man. Continue reading “The Danes Are Revolting: Tax Administration Set On Fire”
Yesterday, Brigadier General Malcolm Frost announced that the US Army’s Website, Army.mil, had been hacked. “After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily.” The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacker group that has been critical of US foreign policy, took credit for the attack on Twitter. Continue reading “Hackers Hijack US Army Website”
Do not be confused. Globalists whether Wall Street capitalists, corporatists, collectivist authoritarians or devoted internationalists, all share a common mindset – a worldwide financial system must control commerce and dictate economic activity. Under this formula, trade has little to do with free market transactions. Monopolies are the rule and real competition is fatal. So when the financial press emphasizes the difference between the IMF – World Bank faction and the newly aligned BRICS association, the conclusion usually misses and ignores that all the players are part of a globalist cabal committed to a New World Order. Continue reading “Global Trade War US/EU against BRICS”
I once saw the Blue Angels do their air show over Coney Island beach. There’s nothing too notable about that, until you consider that at the time, I had never heard of the Blue Angels, and I was only at Coney Island because that’s where we often hung out when we didn’t have enough money to go anyplace good.
I was only expecting a civilized afternoon of sipping wine and judging the bikini competition, when four fighter jets came screaming toward me from somewhere out in the Atlantic, for no possible reason other than to kill us all, and it was safe to assume that rockets fired at the Boardwalk would be next on the agenda. Continue reading “Fear”
New York (AFP) – A New York police detective and another man were found guilty Tuesday over a road rage chase that ended with a banker beaten in front of his wife and toddler in broad daylight.