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Washington fears losing Greece to Moscow
Post Date: 2015-06-22 06:45:43 by Tooconservative
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Throughout the prolonged showdown between Greece and its creditors, the Obama administration has largely sat on the sidelines, issuing the occasional warning about the potential economic impact of a default. But with Greece now on the verge of bankruptcy, the US is also beginning to worry about the political fallout from a deeper crisis and the potential for Russia to gain increased influence over a Nato member. As Washington tries to maintain a united western front in support of sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, a Greek default could provide Moscow an opportunity to sow new divisions among America’s European allies. “You can easily see how geopolitically this would be a gift to ...
Police in Brazil do the right thing - We need this here!
Post Date: 2015-06-22 03:28:39 by Vinny
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'Restored Honor': A World War II Pilot's Long Road Home
Post Date: 2015-06-21 22:06:00 by Gatlin
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It was in the middle of the burial ceremony for Lt. John W. Herb when a commercial airline roared overhead and among the dozens of family members, it was perhaps the most unlikely guest who felt the sting of nostalgia. The sound took Manfred Romer back to April 13, 1945, when as a 5-year-old he heard a plane flying just a few hundred feet over his head. He watched it catch fire before disappearing out of view and crashing close to his home in Amt Neuhaus, Germany. “There was a huge plume of smoke,” Romer told ABC News through a translator. “So this is something that ust burned in my memory.” That memory would stick with Romer until after his retirement, when he decided ...
The Pope joins the EU in a sad world of make-believe
Post Date: 2015-06-21 13:36:09 by Tooconservative
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What has a Papal Encyclical calling on the world to end its use of fossil fuels and to pray to God for the success of the global “climate summit” in December got in common with the Greek euro crisis, the ominous rift between the West and Russia, and the shambles Europe is making over the desperation of African and Syrian refugees to find safety this side of the Mediterranean? They are all different aspects of the two greatest acts of political make-believe of our time, so all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect they are having on all our lives. When future historians come to look back on our age, few things will puzzle them more than the extent to ...
A chronology of major moments in the spread of the Islamic State group
Post Date: 2015-06-21 11:09:35 by buckeroo
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April 18, 2010 — U.S. and Iraqi forces kill two top leaders of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi becomes the terror group's new leader. March 2011 — Syrian conflict erupts following an uprising against President Bashar Assad that turns into an insurgency and eventually civil war, attracting scores of al-Qaida militants from Iraq. April 2013 — Al-Baghdadi announces his group has taken over the Nusra Front, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria. The combined group is variously called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS; eventually it is known as the Islamic State group. Nusra denies the takeover, ...
TRUMP SLAMS OBAMATRADE, STANDS UP FOR AMERICAN JOBS
Post Date: 2015-06-20 20:30:34 by A K A Stone
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In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump slammed President Obama’s trade agreements – especially the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which Obama argued the United States needs in order to better compete with China. However, according to a recent report by Politico, China may be trying to enter the TPP – defeating Obama’s main argument for finalizing the deal. “Of course China wants to join the trade negotiation because the deal is so pathetic and so bad,” Trump told Breitbart News. He added that China would continue to take advantage of America’s stupid politicians, who ...
World entering 6th mass extinction, species disappearing 100 times faster: Study
Post Date: 2015-06-20 09:28:58 by buckeroo
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The world is witnessing the sixth mass extinction that threatens even our very own existence, warns a new study. The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate. The world has seen five recognisable mass extinctions till now and the final one wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. RelatedStudy shows Cats, foxes behind Australia's alarming extinctionsWhen 96 per cent of life diedIs Earth due for a mass extinction? “(The study) shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,” said ...
Donald Trump And The Crisis Of The Regime
Post Date: 2015-06-19 10:01:53 by nativist nationalist
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At the declaration by Donald Trump that he is a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, media elites of left and right reacted with amusement, anger and disgust. Though he has been a hugely successful builder-businessman, far more successful than, say, Carly Fiorina, who has been received respectfully, our resident elites resolutely refuse to take Trump seriously. They should. Not because he will be nominated, but because the Trump constituency will represent a vote of no confidence in the Beltway ruling class of politicians and press. Votes for Trump will be votes to repudiate that class, whole and entire, and dump it onto the ash heap of history. Votes for ...
THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND THE END OF THE WORLD
Post Date: 2015-06-18 21:56:02 by Pericles
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HE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND THE END OF THE WORLD A Lecture given at the Youth Conference of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, San Francisco, August 3, 1981 by Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) 1. THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND THE END OF THE WORLD 2. OUR TIMES 3. THE END OF THE WORLD 4. THE END OF THE WORLD IN CHRISTIAN PROPHECY 5. THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA 6. RUSSIA'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD 1. THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND THE END OF THE WORLD Every Orthodox Christian is placed between two worlds: this fallen world where we try to work out our salvation, and the other world, heaven, the homeland towards which we are striving and which, if we are leading a true Christian life, gives us ...
Russia angered by freezing of accounts in Belgium and France in $50 billion Yukos case
Post Date: 2015-06-18 21:22:49 by buckeroo
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian government on Thursday strongly condemned the freezing of Russian accounts in France and Belgium as part of an effort to enforce a $50 billion judgment for the destruction of the Yukos oil company. An arbitration court in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled last year that Russia must compensate the former shareholders of Yukos, which was destroyed in a politically driven legal onslaught that also sent its chief executive, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to prison for 10 years. The Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned Belgium's ambassador and warned that Moscow would consider taking similar action against Belgian accounts and property in Russia if the accounts of the ...
How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes
Post Date: 2015-06-18 12:36:36 by Willie Green
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A groundbreaking report reveals that Walmart has built a vast, undisclosed network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings. These secretive subsidiaries have never been subject to public scrutiny before. They have remained largely invisible, in part because Walmart fails to list them in its annual 10-K filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Walmart’s preferred tax haven is Luxembourg, dubbed a “magical fairyland” for corporations looking to shelter profits from taxation. The report, The Walmart Web: How the ...
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 ...
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