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'He should've at least informed us as his family': Obama's half-brother reveals disappointment
Post Date: 2015-07-14 07:24:33 by buckeroo
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As President Obama's upcoming visit to his father's homeland, Kenya, is nearing, his half-brother is still waiting to be told by Obama about his trip later this month. 'From what I hear, he is coming now as the president of the United States,' said 57-year-old Malik Abon'go Obama during an interview at his home in Kogelo, Bloomberg reported. 'He should have at least informed us as his family.' While his itinerary has been kept secret and the Kenyan presidency has denied that Obama will travel to Kogelo during his July 24 visit, 193 miles northwest of Nairobi, rumors have been sparked that he will make a trip there. During Obama's first time traveling ...
Advice For Obama/Kerry Deal WIth Iran
Post Date: 2015-07-13 18:11:43 by SOSO
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Poster Comment:And that's exactly what the U.S. et.al. around the negotiating table should do. But you know that they won't.
Right sector in Ukraine takes 6-year-old hostage – standoff with police
Post Date: 2015-07-13 12:06:19 by Pericles
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Right sector in Ukraine takes 6-year-old hostage – standoff with police David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen More from David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen Published on: July 13, 2015 | Last Updated: July 13, 2015 10:15 AM EDT Two gunmen from Ukraine’s notorious nationalist militia Right Sector have briefly taken a six-year-old boy hostage in western Ukraine as a standoff between the gunmen and police entered its third day, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Two people were killed Saturday in a Right Sector gun-and-grenade attack on police in a western Ukrainian city. Police had surrounded some gunmen in a wooded area of the city of Mukacheve ...
Greece news live: Greeks capitulate to austerity and external monitoring after 17 hours of late night talks end in 'a-Greek-ment' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-13 07:47:34 by cranky
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Analysis and reaction of the deal as Greek agreement is reached at last following 17 hours of tense negotiations among eurozone leaders and ministers Latest 12.32 Why the Greeks have blinked My colleague Szu Chan has laid out what exactly creditors are demanding from the Greeks. Key points below: IMF involvement PM Tsipras said he didn't want the Fund to be involved in a new rescue after their involvement is set to end in March 2016. However, any new rescue loan from the ESM requires legal involvement from the Fund. Thus: "Greece will request continued IMF support (monitoring and financing) from March 2016." Sequestration of assets This is a new demand that emerged from ...
There’s A Million Dollar Reward For Dorothy’s Stolen Ruby Slippers
Post Date: 2015-07-12 21:16:20 by buckeroo
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August will mark ten years since somebody stole a pair of the ruby slippers that Dorothy clicked together three times to get home to Kansas in The Wizard of Oz from The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Now an anonymous benefactor has stepped forward and offered a million dollar reward to anyone with credible information about the theft, including the exact location of the slippers and the perpetrator’s name. The slippers, designed for the 1939 film by legendary Hollywood costumer Adrian, were stolen from the museum, located in Garland’s hometown, in 2005 and haven't been seen since. John Kelsch, executive director of the museum told the Associated Press that ...
Exclusive: Europeans tried to block IMF debt report on Greece: sources
Post Date: 2015-07-12 11:04:42 by buckeroo
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone countries tried in vain to stop the IMF publishing a gloomy analysis of Greece's debt burden which the leftist government says vindicates its call to voters to reject bailout terms, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. The document released in Washington on Thursday said Greece's public finances will not be sustainable without substantial debt relief, possibly including write-offs by European partners of loans guaranteed by taxpayers. It also said Greece will need at least 50 billion euros in additional aid over the next three years to keep itself afloat. Publication of the draft Debt Sustainability Analysis laid bare a dispute ...
Staged ISIS Beheading Video Hacked from McCain Staffer?
Post Date: 2015-07-12 00:07:55 by A K A Stone
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Brought to you by Bin Laden Studios and Rita Katz' infamous SITE Intelligence
Editor’s note: The article and video were retrieved from the French language edition of Sputnik News, an official press organization of the Russian government.
We have been unable to locate its counterpart on the English language equivalent, something curious onto itself. The set is reminiscent of the infamous “bin Laden Studios” of Tel Aviv, where depictions of various and sundry “robo-bin Ladens” were featured.
The article seems to assert that this video was hacked from a McCain staffer who accompanied Senator McCain on a trip to Ukraine.
Hackers of the CyberBerkut group have released a video of the ...
How an America-loving country (Kosovo) became a jihadi hub
Post Date: 2015-07-11 20:38:17 by Pericles
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How an America-loving country became a jihadi hub Kosovo owes its existence to the West. Its capital even has a statue of Bill Clinton. But even here, Islamic State is taking root. Michael Petrou June 15, 2015 The Western country that has sent the most recruits on a per capita basis to join Islamic State and other militant groups in Syria and Iraq is one that owes its very existence as a state to NATO’s military intervention on its behalf. An April report by the Kosovo Center for Security Studies (KCSS) reveals that as of January, some 232 Kosovars have joined Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq, a rate of 125 recruits for every one million people living in the country. ...
A*Star scholarship holder Ouyang Xiangyu expelled from Stanford
Post Date: 2015-07-11 15:57:19 by nativist nationalist
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SINGAPOREAN A*Star scholarship holder Ouyang Xiangyu, 26, has been kicked out of Stanford University after being charged with four counts of poisoning her lab mates. The school told The Straits Times she is "no longer a student" there, after it initially banned her from its California campus last November. This puts an end to her time at the top United States university, which she once called "a paradise", according to a lab mate who spoke to the police. Ms Ouyang, who is now out on bail, had been a full-time member of the Nusse Laboratory at the department of developmental biology at Stanford University since June last year. The Agency for Science, Technology and ...
India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group
Post Date: 2015-07-11 00:44:55 by Pericles
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India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group Date July 11, 2015 - 11:40AM Lidia Kelly, Denis Pinchuk Ufa, Russia: India and Pakistan have began accession to a regional security group led by China and Russia after two days of summits which Russian President Vladimir Putin held up as evidence Moscow is not isolated in the world. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, meeting in the Russian city of Ufa on Friday, a day after the BRICS emerging economies held a summit there, said the invitation to the two Asian nations showed a "multipolar" world was now emerging. Those words will have pleased Mr Putin, who says the United States has an outdated vision of a ...
Portugal's Experiment in Drug Decriminalization Has Been a Success
Post Date: 2015-07-10 22:10:22 by Deckard
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This month, Portugal celebrates fourteen years of drug decriminalization. The grand experiment is now considered a happy success considering it was adopted out of desperation and in the face of dire warnings from proponents of the global drug war. What Led to Decriminalization During the mid-twentieth century, Portugal experienced fifty years of military dictatorship, and when leftist democratic control was reestablished in 1974, many expatriate Portuguese returned to Portugal from its colonies. Of course, many of these people were dissidents, outsiders, and outcasts, and many of them used illegal drugs. Over the next twenty-five years, there was a surge in drug use, drug abuse, ...
Casino Capitalists Playing With Fire
Post Date: 2015-07-10 15:13:38 by nativist nationalist
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Patrick J. Buchanan July 10, 2012, 1:53 am Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world`s most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently being investigated. For sports fans, this is like fixing the Super Bowl or doping a horse in the Derby. But it is rather more serious. For the London Interbank Offered Rate is the benchmark interest rate for trillions in loans around the world. Manipulate Libor a small fraction of a point, and lenders reap millions more in interest income on hundreds of billions in loans. How many more such blows to their credibility can the financial elites sustain before people turn on the ...
Trump gets support from mother of teen slain by illegal...
Post Date: 2015-07-08 14:24:47 by nativist nationalist
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My son was murdered by a Mexican illegal immigrant, just like Kathryn Steinle - it's time people listened to Trump,' says mother of gunned-down teenage football star Jamiel Shaw was murdered in 2008 in Los Angeles by a gang member who should not have been in the country. Brilliant high school footballer was shot twice by Pedro Espinoza because he thought 17-year-old's red backpack was sign he was in rival gang Espinoza was freed from four-month sentence day before murder even though he was wanted for deportation. Anita Shaw, an Army sergeant says death of Kathryn Steinle, who was allegedly murdered at random by illegal immigrant, speaks of anger. She tells Daily Mail Online: ...
Is Your Church Abetting Sanctuary Nation?
Post Date: 2015-07-08 11:40:41 by nativist nationalist
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The random, heartless murder of a young tourist on San Francisco’s Pier 14 by a five-time illegal alien deportee who benefited from the “progressive” city’s sanctuary policy has law-abiding Americans, law enforcement officials and political opportunists of all stripes up in arms. But for decades, feckless government leaders ignored the pleas of families who suffered the bloody consequences of open borders. For every Kate Steinle who died at the hands of an illegal alien sanctuary beneficiary, there is a Tony, Michael and Matthew Bologna in San Francisco. A Jamiel Shaw (age 17) or Xinran Ji (age 24) in Los Angeles. A Marten Kudlis (age 3) in Denver. An Iofemi ...
What Financial Crisis? Greek’s Government Electing A New People Anyway
Post Date: 2015-07-08 11:34:27 by nativist nationalist
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News you’ve not heard from Greece: today (July 7) three parties in the Greek Parliament asked for a delay in new citizenship legislation that will not only legalize about 150,000 immigrants from Asia and Africa—into a Greek population of just 11 million— but will also set the basis for a massive influx of more, because of family reunification rulings. In addition, a “humanitarian” provision actually grants legal status and possibly citizenship to people with health issues, to victims of domestic violence, even to those claiming they were mistreated in their work environments in their countries and so on. The three opposition parties wanted the delay because of the ...
Fear China's stock-market earthquake
Post Date: 2015-07-08 07:50:19 by tpaine
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www.bbc.com Fear China's stock-market earthquake Market movements in China For all my obsession with the probable exit of Greece from the euro and the most important social-security-cutting and tax-reforming UK budget for many years, there is an earthquake happening in China that may end up touching our lives as much. It is the plunge over the past month of Chinese shares - whose value has dropped by around a third since the high of 12 June. So to make an apple-and-pears comparison: the loss in the value of Chinese companies at more than $3 trillion is about 20 times what most economists expect the write-offs of Greek government debt will ultimately turn out to be. The ...
Kenyan Leader Warns: If Obama Preaches ‘Gay Agenda, We Will Tell Him to Shut Up and Go Home’
Post Date: 2015-07-07 19:27:21 by cranky
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Kenyan leaders are warning President Obama not to bring his “gay agenda” with him when he visits his father’s homeland at the end of this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the White House image was cloaked in the militant LGBT rainbow, as was the Facebook profile picture of the U.S. Department of Education. In Nairobi on Monday, members of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya called upon Obama to refrain from discussing the gay agenda, reports CNSNews.com. “It is important for us as Kenyans to know that the U.S. is not God,” evangelical Bishop Mark Kariuki ...
Democrat On The Triumph Of Trump: MSM May Kill The Messenger—But Not The Message
Post Date: 2015-07-07 15:21:08 by nativist nationalist
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The overwhelming silent majority of American citizens who are immigration patriots have been wondering for years when someone would tell the truth and force the Main Stream Media to confront our post-1965 immigration disaster. But probably few of us expected it would be Donald Trump. Trump is the subject of an increasingly hysterical hate campaign for daring to mention illegal immigrant crime. Journalists are calling Trump a “racist” instead of confronting his common-sense message—that a country which can’t control its borders is not a country. This kind of reaction testifies to a kind of psychological problem with our Main Stream Media. “Shooting the ...
Greece should adopt a flat sales tax and end income taxes
Post Date: 2015-07-06 15:11:54 by Pericles
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Greece is a country of small shop owners and wealthy billionaires but few workers in corporate systems where they get paid by a twice weekly check like in most of Western Europe and the USA. The Greeks have also been ruled by many tax greedy empires and have learned to hide wealth as part of their DNA. They won't dutifully pay taxes like a German or Scandinavian (who seem like a very servile people and seem to obey the govt as if it was God). Greeks can't be ruled easily. That is why they invented democracy because ruling them in any other way just did not work. Even the Romans gave up trying and made the Greek city-states autonomous for the most part. Through years of rule by ...
Greece votes No: The European Union is dying before our eyes
Post Date: 2015-07-06 11:13:35 by nativist nationalist
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It's not just disaffected pensioners: young Greeks have worked out that they don't need the bloated EU Despite the scaremongering and bullying from those in Brussels, we are waking today with Greece having delivered a resounding No. That comes despite EU bosses saying that it would mean a Greek exit from the Euro, not to mention the heavy economic pressure placed on the Greek people to go along with the wishes of Brussels. It is a crushing defeat for those Eurocrats who believe that you can simply bulldoze public opinion. Chief bully-boy Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and other supposed leaders of the European Union did their best to terrify the Greek people ...
GREECE JUST TAUGHT CAPITALISTS A LESSON ABOUT WHAT CAPITALISM REALLY MEANS
Post Date: 2015-07-06 10:30:28 by Willie Green
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Greece has effectively voted to default on its debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union, and it is a massive defeat for Germany's Angela Merkel and the trio of creditors she led that insisted there was no way out for Greece but to pay back its massive debts. The vote is huge lesson for conservatives and anyone else who thinks this is about a dilettante government of left-wing idealists who think they can flout the law while staging some kind of Che Guevara-esque dream: Wrong. This is what capitalism is really about. From the beginning, Merkel and the EU have operated from the position that because Greece took on debt, Greece now needs to pay it back. That ...
Pope Francis to chew coca leaves during visit to Bolivia – minister “await the Holy Father” with the "sacred" leaves
Post Date: 2015-07-05 18:44:33 by Hondo68
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Reuters / Jaime Saldarriaga Pope Francis has made an unexpected request for his upcoming trip to Bolivia – he wants to chew coca leaves, the natural source of cocaine, according to a government official. Bolivia says it will “await the Holy Father” with the "sacred" leaves. Culture Minister Marko Machicao told state broadcasters that the Bolivian government “offered [the Pope] coca tea or something for the altitude” on his upcoming visit. But the pontiff apparently has his sights on chewing coca leaves, which have been used by local people to ward off the effects of altitude for centuries. They are also believed to help with muscle pain and stave off ...
In rebuke to EU, Greece appears to decisively reject bailout terms
Post Date: 2015-07-05 15:49:25 by buckeroo
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Greece looked set Sunday to enter an even more volatile phase of its financial crisis as official projections forecast a resounding win for the “no” campaign in a referendum that could decide the country’s financial fate in the short term and its role in Europe in the long term.. The vote, on a proposed bailout deal from Athens’ international lenders, was a strong rebuke to European Union leaders who had warned that the plebiscite was, in effect, a vote on whether Greece wanted to keep on using the euro as its currency. With 57% of precincts reporting at 10:15 p.m. local time (12:15 p.m. PDT), the “no” camp was ahead by 61% to 39%, according to the Greek ...
Greeks vote for 'destiny' in poll putting euro future in doubt
Post Date: 2015-07-05 11:04:08 by Justified
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Athens (AFP) - Greece voted in a tightly fought referendum Sunday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said will determine its "destiny" in the eurozone, as the EU country teetered on the brink of financial collapse. From remote Aegean islands to the shadow of the 2,400-year-old Parthenon in Athens, Greeks despairing at years of austerity -- and angry at capital controls this week that have closed banks and prompted a clean-out of supermarket shelves -- cast their ballots. Polls show opinion evenly divided between 'Yes' and 'No' with many believing neither result would provide a quick and clear solution to Greece's debt woes. Fear that a 'No' result ...
Bosnia: The cradle of modern jihadism? (The BBC kind of admits the Serbs were right)
Post Date: 2015-07-05 00:53:17 by Pericles
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Bosnia: The cradle of modern jihadism? By Mark Urban Diplomatic and defence editor, Newsnight 2 July 2015 From the section Europe Back in the 1990s something happened in central Bosnia-Herzegovina that inspired people to this day and helps explain why that country now has more men fighting in Syria and Iraq (over 300), as a proportion of its population, than most in Europe. The formation of a "Mujahideen Battalion" in 1992, composed mainly of Arab volunteers in central Bosnia, was a landmark. Today the dynamic of jihad has been reversed and it is Bosnians who are travelling to Arab lands. "There is a war between the West and Islam," says Aimen Dean, who, as a ...
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