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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt Sunday back to Turkey after ceremonially planting the country’s crescent-and-star flag.

In a one-line report on the incident, Syria’s state news agency denounced what it called a “blatant aggression” by Turkey. The mission, saving Turkish soldiers reportedly stuck for months at the tomb of the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, saw hundreds of troops backed by tanks cross the border near the border town of Kobani once besieged by the Islamic State group.   Continue reading “Turkish military enters Syria to evacuate troops, tomb”

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KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Officials say a 45-ton humpback whale entangled with fishing line in Hawaii waters for more than a week is finally free.

The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary said Saturday that its craft got within 10 feet of the mammal a day earlier and the crew used a pole equipped with a knife to saw the line free.   Continue reading “Crews free humpback whale tangled in fishing line off Hawaii”

IBM_Watson_735_350Natural Society – by Jefferey Jaxen

IBM’s Watson computer may soon decide if some individuals receive healthcare or not.

IBM, whose stock price has sunk to its lowest in four years, has recently “announced a $1 billion investment to establish the new Watson Group.” IBM’s Watson computer processes large amounts of your information to make a better decision for you. Watson is now embedded in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Data Center in Austin, Texas to “advise doctors on treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.”   Continue reading “New Computer Will ‘Decide If You Receive Healthcare’”

Preparedness UpdateDefensive Training Group

It’s been about 6 years since I wrote this under my since retired ‘nom de guerre’, and a very good friend of mine at Western Rifle Shooter’s Association asked me if I’d mind updating it.  This is a good base plan for folks you might know just waking up to the fact that things are spinning faster in the vortex than ever before, and this might be the best chance for them to get themselves in gear.  Feel free to add or take away as your situation and local area conditions may require.

You may be thinking, “WORST case??  What could POSSIBLY get any worse than this?? There’s nothing I can do.  Things being the way they are, it’s basically over…all we can do is wait for the hammer to fall.”  Well, for one thing, that’s just not true!  Many folks just like you don’t agree with or believe that perspective in the slightest!  There’s a lot you can do!  And, if this plan helps get you thinking of what you can do instead of what you can’t do, we all might just benefit from youraction!  In fact, if enough folks begin to think about what they can do, we just might avert the “worst case” and many more of us may live through these ‘interesting times’!  So, while you’re reading this, keep that thought in mind, ok?   Continue reading “DTG’s Updated 10 Week Plan to Prepare for the Worst Case Scenario for Beginners”

marijuana_cannabis_hemp_735_350Natural News – by Christina Sarich

Finally, a farmer in Eagle Point, Oregon has received the first permit to legally grow industrial hemp that has been issued by state regulators for over 75 years.

Edgar Winters and his non-profit group, Oregon Agriculture Food & Rural Consortium will be able to plant their 25-acre field with hemp this spring, and harvest it by late summer.   Continue reading “Oregon Farmer Gets First Hemp Growing License in 75 Years”

EggLA Times – by Melissa Healy

Go ahead and make that omelet. A new draft of the federal government’s healthy eating guidelines is poised to scramble some long-standing advice on cholesterol-rich foods.

Nutrition and public health experts advising the federal government recommended Thursday that cholesterol no longer be labeled a “nutrient of concern” — a designation that for decades has prompted health-conscious Americans to avoid eggs and other foods that are high in the fat-like substance.   Continue reading “Cholesterol is back on the menu in new federal dietary guidelines”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Friday said he’s ready to sign so-called right-to-work legislation that Republican lawmakers aim to fast-track next week.

Walker’s announcement marks a shift from previous statements on such legislation; theAssociated Press says that it’s a move “the likely 2016 presidential candidate initially said should be delayed to avoid re-igniting massive pro-union protests.”   Continue reading “Wisconsin’s Walker Says Ready to Sign Right-to-Work Bill”

MINA

In a year beginning with the notorious February military coup in Ukraine, also known as the Euromaidan revolution, the Ukrainian economy has come to the brink of default.

It has turned out that a $27 billion bailout, offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and multinational creditors to Kiev, will not be enough to bolster the anemic Ukrainian economy as well. However, new loans, requested by Kiev to keep its economy afloat will only exacerbate the situation, experts say, pointing to the fact that Ukraine, saddled with heavy debts, will not be able to pay them off in the forthcoming decades.   Continue reading “Which Corporations are Benefiting from Ukraine Fiasco?”

Yahoo News

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — As many as 2,800 federal prisoners will be moved to other institutions after inmates seized control of part of a prison in South Texas, causing damage that made the facility “uninhabitable,” an official said Saturday.

Ed Ross, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said the inmates who had taken control are “now compliant” but that negotiations were ongoing Saturday in an effort for staff to “regain complete control” of Willacy County Correctional Center.   Continue reading “As many as 2,800 inmates to be moved from Texas prison”

Hero Dog Who Took 2 Bullets During Home Invasion Expected to RecoverBrandon Patch – by Sherri Lonon

When a group of men forced their way into a Tampa home Tuesday night, Legend the dog wasted no time trying to protect his people.

The gentle giant sprang into action, biting one of the men, as the home’s occupants struggled with their attackers.

Legend, described as a bullmastiff mix, took two bullets in the attack – one in the side of the head. Even so, he was able to help scare the men off.   Continue reading “Hero Dog Who Took 2 Bullets During Home Invasion Expected to Recover”

Cops Stop Teens for Shoveling Snow, Stirring A Heap Of ControversyBridgewater Patch – by Emily Everson

It’s a practice that’s about as common as setting up a lemonade stand. In central New Jersey, local residents would hardly balk at two teenagers knocking on the door with snow shovels and offering to shovel a driveway for a buck or two.

That’s exactly why two Somerset County teens were shocked to learn that they were in violation of government ordinances, after being stopped by local police who ordered the Bridgewater-Raritan High School seniors to put down their fliers and go home.   Continue reading “Cops Stop Teens for Shoveling Snow, Stirring A Heap Of Controversy”

Yahoo News – by Simon Hankinson

America is a relatively new country with few of the buried skeletons of older cultures, but if you spend much time overseas, there are still a few aspects that are tough to get across to the host country. One is race; another is guns.

On the last day of January, a toddler staying with his parents and sister in an Albuquerque, N.M. motel room reached into his mother’s purse, pulled out a loaded gun, and with one shot hit both his father and pregnant mother. At the tail end of 2014, a two-year-old boy shot his mother in a northern Idaho Walmart while shopping with his cousins to spend their Christmas money. Back in August of 2014, a nine-year-old girl accidentally shot the instructor who handed her an Uzi at a shooting range near Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Why Some Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns”

Enemy No. 1Russia Insider – by Ghada Chehade

As the conflict in Ukraine persists and as peace talks between Putin and western European leaders (Merkel and Hollande) continue, it is important to look at theeconomic actors/interests that benefit from conflict and regime change in the Ukraine and how this compares to situations like Syria, Libya and Iraq. There are under-reported angles and interests to these conflicts that we hear little about in western mainstream media and that many do not look for because they are too caught up in political or human dramas. For instance, mainstream media spend so much time demonizing a single enemy, be it Putin in the Ukraine situation, Assad in Syria, Gaddafi in Libya or Saddam Hussein in Iraq, etc., that they do not also critically explore how external actors may exploit or bolster such conflicts and situations in order to secure politic-economic motives such as access to oil, making way for destructively conditional IMF loans, or quashing domestic policies that undermine foreign imperial and economic interests.   Continue reading “Evil Assad, Evil Gaddafi, Now Evil Putin: How the West Sells War (and Makes a Killing)”

Viktor YanukovichTASS

MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich has promised to return to Ukraine as soon as it becomes possible to make the life of the Ukrainian people easierr.

“I regret that I could not do anything,” the former president told Russian television Channel One, recalling the tragic events one year ago.   Continue reading “Yanukovich pledges return to Ukraine as soon as it becomes possible”