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Greek Central Bank pleads for deal to avoid Grexit
Post Date: 2015-06-17 15:20:41 by redleghunter
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Greece’s central bank has issued an urgent plea to both sides to hammer out a deal, warning that the country could be forced out of the European Union. In a new report to the Greek parliament, the Bank of Greece said an agreement was now a “historic imperative”. Otherwise, the country risks being relegated to just “a poor country in the European South”. It’s a chilling warning of the risks that Greece currently faces. The Bank says: Failure to reach an agreement would....mark the beginning of a painful course that would lead initially to a Greek default and ultimately to the country’s exit from the euro area and – most likely – from the ...
Former Israeli Ambassador: Obama Has a Problem–with America
Post Date: 2015-06-17 13:32:40 by redleghunter
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The most explosive passage in Michael Oren’s new book on the frayed U.S.-Israel relationship is not about President Barack Obama’s repeated fights with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rather, it is about Obama himself. Struggling to understand how Obama–who has genuine empathy for Israel, Oren says–could adopt policies and postures so hostile to the Jewish state, Oren turns to Obama’s first memoir, Dreams from My Father. What he reads shocks him: More alarming for me still were Obama’s attitudes towards America. Vainly, I scoured Dreams from My Father for some expression of reverence, even respect, for the country its author would someday lead. ...
Insanity’s definition is sending more U.S. ground troops to Iraq
Post Date: 2015-06-16 11:34:50 by nativist nationalist
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There seems to be great Republican resistance to the idea that their interventions in Iraq and the Muslim world are the main cause of both the mess in Iraq and the growing and increasingly powerful worldwide Islamist movement. To the extent that Hillary Clinton and other Democratic senators and congressmen joined the Republicans in illegally delegating the war- declaring power to George W. Bush there is a point to the Republicans’ resistance. The correct formulation of the statement is that both parties are equally responsible for the mess in Iraq and for the formidable Islamist foe that now exists. Also a correct statement is that the bulk of both parties now want the United States to ...
Is A Third World America Inevitable?
Post Date: 2015-06-16 11:14:29 by nativist nationalist
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Thousands of U.S. troops safeguard the border of South Korea. U.S. warships patrol the South China Sea to stand witness to the territorial claims of Asian allies against China. U.S. troops move in and out of the Baltic States to signal our willingness to defend the frontiers of these tiny NATO allies. Yet nothing that happens on these borders imperils America so much as what is happening on our own bleeding border with Mexico. Over three decades, that border has been a causeway into the USA for millions of illegal immigrants who are changing the face of America—to the delight of those who think the country we grew up in was ugly. All sides of this quarrel have been using the figure ...
Russia to get 40 new intercontinental missiles this year
Post Date: 2015-06-16 08:52:17 by Tooconservative
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's military this year alone will receive 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of piercing any missile defenses, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday in a blunt reminder of the nation's nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. Putin made the statement at the opening of an arms show at a shooting range in Alabino just west of Moscow, a huge display intended to showcase the nation's resurgent military might. Russia-West relations have plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War times over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and support for a pro-Russia separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The ...
WHO asks people to stop drinking camel urine until MERS is contained
Post Date: 2015-06-16 08:29:47 by Tooconservative
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Responding to a deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea, the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking people to resist the temptation to drink camel urine. The beverage could be playing a roll in spreading the infection, which has killed 6 people and sickened 87 others. [I]n parts of the Middle East, drinking camel urine is not as uncommon as one might think. In parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the liquid is consumed for its allegedly palliative properties. The Prophet Mohammed is said to have informed his followers to drink camel urine to cure them of disease. In 2013, an intrepid reporter for Vice sampled the substance while in Yemen. “The taste ...
Here comes Trump; will GOP embrace an outsider? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-16 00:47:22 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s dream of the White House is built on the belief that America will turn to a can-do outsider, particularly a successful business tycoon, to fix the mess that is Washington. It’s likely just a dream. Voters enjoy candidates full of outrage and without ties to the byzantine, polarized, money-saturated ways of the nation’s capital. Audiences flock to hear and cheer them in New Hampshire, Iowa and elsewhere. And then they usually vote for a more statesmanlike, experienced choice. Trump, 69, the brash New York City-based billionaire businessman and television show host, plans a “major announcement” Tuesday on his presidential ...
Key Obama enabler Bob Corker: Why, this Iran nuclear deal looks surprisingly terrible
Post Date: 2015-06-15 21:24:24 by Tooconservative
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Corker’s the guy who brokered a “compromise” in the Senate on Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Instead of insisting that the final agreement be regarded as a treaty, requiring the support of two-thirds of the chamber for ratification, Corker proposed letting naysayers try to block the treaty with a resolution of disapproval instead. The resolution could be filibustered by Democrats before it’s enacted, or it could be enacted and then vetoed by Obama. The only way to guarantee that the resolution will become law is to have a veto-proof majority — two-thirds of the Senate — willing to vote against it, a near-impossibility when the GOP controls only 54 seats. ...
Secret War on Cash: “Discussions at Bilderberg Centered Around Capital Controls, Abolition of Cash”
Post Date: 2015-06-15 10:19:46 by Deckard
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According to some, a very quiet stealth war on cash has begun. May your bank account, debit card and gold reserves be on guard… The world’s elite are meeting in secret this week at the Bilderberg meeting, set at a luxury resort in Telfs-Buchen, Austria. Investigative journalists have confirmed that the private discussions among top power brokers across the globe include arrangements to restrict currency and penalize – or ultimately even ban – cash. Read the attendees list… real power and wealth are running with the movers and shakers. With bankers, equity giants and financiers all present, the agenda is quite in line with recent reports, as SHTF has long reported. ...
Will Turkey stop backing the Islamists in Syria?
Post Date: 2015-06-14 23:09:30 by Pericles
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Will Turkey stop backing the Islamists in Syria? Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2015 8:00 am By Gwynne Dyer For Turks, the burning question after last weekend’s election is whether they will now get the fully democratic, pluralist country that so many of them want. The defeat of President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s AK Party does open that prospect, although translating it into reality will be very difficult. But for everybody else, the question is whether Turkey will stop backing the Islamist insurgents who are on the brink of winning in Syria. Compared to the head-choppers of ISIS and the only slightly less extreme Al Nusra Front that now dominates the military campaign against ...
American Red Cross faces more suspicion after defending aid program in Haiti
Post Date: 2015-06-09 20:27:36 by Gatlin
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SANTO DOMINGO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The American Red Cross (ARC) has aroused even more suspicion of its credibility after the relief agency moved to defend its aid program in Haiti. An independent investigation, conducted jointly by two well-known U.S.-based media organizations -- ProPublica and NPR News, claimed that the ARC has raised nearly 500 million U.S. dollars to help rebuild Haiti in the wake of a major earthquake in 2010, but in the past five years the agency only built six houses in the country. Faced with suspicion that the ARC may have mismanaged the fund, the relief agency on Friday responded on its official website. It is true that with 488 million dollars of aid money, the ...
America 'preparing for asteroid impact with massive army training exercise to stop apocalypse riots'
Post Date: 2015-06-09 16:28:19 by redleghunter
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Conspiracy theorists are claiming a controversial US military exercise is in fact preparation for an asteroid that could wipe out mankind. Next month a huge military exercise called Jade Helm will take place across multiple US states with 1,200 troops participating - but details of its purpose are scarce. Now Armageddon conspiracists are linking Jade Helm to their predictions of a huge asteroid hitting Earth this September - which end-of-time bloggers claim will obliterate civilisation. One blogger on the Whistleblower800 website, which claims to lift the lid on government corruption, claimed to have cracked the reason for the Jade Helm exercise. The author suggested Jade Helm was an ...
Imperial Overstretch
Post Date: 2015-06-09 15:19:14 by nativist nationalist
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Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world–the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad. Our Cold War adversary was breaking apart into 15 countries. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Germany was reunited. The captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe were breaking free. Bush I had mended fences with Beijing after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were friends. The president declared the coming of a “new world order.” And neocons were chattering about a new ...
US Supreme Court rejects law to allow 'Jerusalem, Israel' on passports
Post Date: 2015-06-08 12:19:25 by Willie Green
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Vote seen as a victory for US President Obama who claims that law would set a precedent harming his ability to set foreign policy. The US Supreme Court has struck down a disputed law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their US passports. It's an important ruling that underscores the president's authority in foreign affairs. The court ruled 6-3 Monday that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law in 2002. It would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans. An American passport can only express 'Jerusalem' as a ...
Teenage girl soldier hailed as Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' by Elle magazine is revealed as neo-Nazi and is arrested over cop killing
Post Date: 2015-06-07 04:32:15 by Pericles
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Teenage girl soldier hailed as Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' by Elle magazine is revealed as neo-Nazi and is arrested over cop killing Vita Zaverukha, 19, arrested after a failed attempt to rob a petrol station Two police officers killed and three injured after ensuing chase in Kiev Vita is a known to be a neo-Nazi, spreading her views through social media But she featured in French magazine Elle praising female Ukrainian fighters By WILL STEWART IN MOSCOW AND FLORA DRURY FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:35 EST, 8 May 2015 | UPDATED: 09:16 EST, 8 May 2015 A neo-Nazi portrayed as Ukraine's version of Joan of Arc by French fashion magazine Elle for her 'brave' fight ...
Want to see why the Japanese are afraid of China?
Post Date: 2015-06-06 20:19:42 by BobCeleste
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Want to see why the Japanese are afraid of China? Watch this movie.
New Look At Pot-Smoking Pygmies Suggests Marijuana Helps Deter Parasites
Post Date: 2015-06-06 17:46:05 by Gatlin
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"The Aka pygmies of Africa's Congo basin are known to smoke a lot of pot, and a new study suggests there may be a big benefit to all that toking, at least for the men: those who smoked the most marijuana were significantly less likely to be heavily infected with parasitic worms. Taste for drugs. The researchers behind the study believe the finding helps explain why humans have a taste for all sorts of drugs. Previous research conducted by the team found that Aka who smoked more tobacco also had fewer parasites. "The gist is that most popular drugs, including nicotine, THC [tetrahydrocannabinol, pot's main psychoactive component], cocaine, caffeine, and opium, are plant ...
Is ISIS Coming to Damascus?
Post Date: 2015-06-06 11:27:57 by nativist nationalist
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Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more imperiled than at any time in this four-year civil-sectarian war that has cost the lives of some 220,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians, and made refugees of millions more. Last month, ISIS captured Palmyra in central Syria, as it was taking Ramadi in Iraq. A coalition, at the heart of which is the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, seized Idlib province in northern Syria and is moving toward the coast and ...
Vietnam Seeks Western Warplanes to Counter Potential Chinese Threat
Post Date: 2015-06-05 13:19:05 by BobCeleste
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SINGAPORE: Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defences in the face of China's growing assertiveness in disputed waters. The battle-hardened country has already taken possession of three Russian-built Kilo-attack submarines and has three more on order as part of a $2.6 billion deal agreed in 2009. Upgrading its air force would give Vietnam one of the most potent militaries in Southeast Asia. The previously unreported aircraft discussions have involved Swedish defence contractor Saab , European consortium Eurofighter, the defence wing of Airbus Group and US ...
Syria the last chance saloon
Post Date: 2015-06-05 09:06:38 by Pericles
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Syria the last chance saloon Publish Date: Jun 02, 2015 By Gwynne Dyer The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State troops recently was not a big deal. The city was deep inside IS-held territory, IS fighters had controlled 80% of it since March and we already knew that the Iraqi army can’t fight. Even so, Islamic State is not going to take much more of Iraq. What it doesn’t already hold is either Shia or just not Arab at all (Kurdistan) and that is not fertile ground for Sunni Arab fanatics. The fall of Palmyra on Friday was a very big deal, because it was clear evidence that the Syrian army’s morale is starting to crumble. It was doing quite well until last summer and even ...
Turkey's Erdogan vows to punish journalist behind Syria trucks video
Post Date: 2015-06-01 09:38:58 by nativist nationalist
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. Related Stories Turkey's Erdogan threatens daily over Syria arms video AFP Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas Reuters Turkish daily accuses government of sending arms to Syrian rebels AFP Turkey probes alleged links in army with U.S.-based cleric, defense minister says Reuters The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie and police officers opening crates of what it described as weapons and ...
Global Study: Atheists in Decline, Only 1.8% of World Population by 2020
Post Date: 2015-05-31 21:37:54 by GeorgiaConservative
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(CNSNews.com) – Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Click for Full Text!
The only thing missing is the sign saying "Come and Get it Five dollars." [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-31 15:42:25 by BobCeleste
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Taylor Swift Turns Up the Heat In Sky High Heels In NYC Taylor Swift leaves her NYC apartment in sky high heels. Photo: Getty Images When leaving your apartment is akin to stepping onto a high fashion runway, you know you’ve got to put your best foot forward. So on Saturday afternoon, amid a crowd of paparazzi and superfans, that’s just what Taylor Swift did. En route to Detroit for the fifth stop on her 1989 World Tour, the singer took to the streets in a seriously racy ensemble that consisted of a striped crop top, hot pants, sky high heels, cat eye sunglasses, and a yellow handbag slung ever-so-daintily over her left wrist. We all know that Swift has a penchant for crop ...
Kerry breaks leg in Geneva bike crash, flying back to US
Post Date: 2015-05-31 08:03:15 by out damned spot
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Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bike crash outside Geneva Sunday, where he had been holding nuclear talks with Iran’s foreign minister. Kerry called off the rest of his four-nation trip and will fly back to Boston. State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Kerry is stable and never lost consciousness. Kerry should make a full recovery and is in good spirits, he said. The accident occurred near Scionzier, France, outside the Swiss border. Paramedics and a physician were on the scene with his motorcade at the time. Kerry was transported to Geneva’s main hospital HUG, where he was being evaluated, Kirby said. A paramedic traveling with his motorcade ...
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