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7.0 Magnitude Earthquake off Japan at 6:06pm US EST. Monitoring for any #tsunami concerns
Post Date: 2015-02-17 00:48:13 by out damned spot
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TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER 1 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI 113 PM HST MON FEB 16 2015 TO - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF HAWAII SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT THIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION REQUIRED. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME - 0106 PM HST 16 FEB 2015 COORDINATES - 39.9 NORTH 144.5 EAST LOCATION - OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN MAGNITUDE - 6.9 MOMENT EVALUATION BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI ...
Aggressive HIV strain turns into AIDS within just 3 years say Belgian scientists
Post Date: 2015-02-16 20:29:59 by BobCeleste
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The strain, CRF19, can transform from an infection to full-blown AIDS within just three years. That is considerably faster than the average conversion time of around 10 years - and can be so quick that a person may not even realize they are infected. Scientists were prompted to investigate amid a rising number of patients in Cuba suffering rapid progression to AIDS within three years of infection.
Suite of Sophisticated Nation-State Attack Tools Found With Connection to Stuxnet
Post Date: 2015-02-16 15:40:54 by A K A Stone
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CANCUN, Mexico—The last two years have been filled with revelations about NSA surveillance activities and the sophisticated spy tools the agency uses to take control of everything from individual systems to entire networks. Now it looks like researchers at Kaspersky Lab may have uncovered some of these NSA tools in the wild on customer machines, providing an extensive new look at the spy agency’s technical capabilities. Among the tools uncovered is a worm that appears to have direct connections to Stuxnet, the digital weapon that was launched repeatedly against centrifuges in Iran beginning in late 2007 in order to sabotage them. In fact, researchers say the newly uncovered worm ...
Egypt 'bombs IS in Libya' after beheadings video [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-02-16 07:58:32 by out damned spot
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VIDEO The BBC's Sally Nabil in Cairo says the strikes send "a very strong message" Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the group published video showing the apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians. State TV said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites and weapons storage areas. Earlier, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt had the "right to respond" against IS. A video emerged on Sunday showing a group wearing orange overalls being forced to the ground and decapitated. IS militants claim to have carried out several attacks in Libya, which is in effect without a government. "Egypt reserves the right ...
ISIS closing in? Terror group seizes Iraqi town 5 miles from Marine base
Post Date: 2015-02-15 22:43:31 by out damned spot
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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Islamic State has reportedly seized al-Baghdadi, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, 5 miles from an air base staffed by U.S. Marines, as the terror group continues its push beyond its bases in Syria and Iraq in an attempt to establish militant affiliates in other countries. Hundreds of Islamic State fighters reportedly captured most of al-Baghdadi, which is 55 miles from the capital Ramadi, on Thursday. On Friday, Iraqi soldiers had retaken several government buildings, but the soldiers withdrew early Saturday, handing the town back to the militants, The New York Times reported, citing local security officials. One local Iraqi official told ...
Islamic State beheads 21 Christians in Libya on film, signalling major expansion
Post Date: 2015-02-15 18:23:36 by Pericles
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Islamic State beheads 21 Christians in Libya on film, signalling major expansion Masked supporters of the Sunni jihadi group beheaded all 21 men simultaneously, filming the production in much the way the group filmed its torture to death of Syrian pilot Muath Kassasbeh in January. By Dan Murphy, Staff writer FEBRUARY 15, 2015 Followers of the Islamic State and its self-declared caliph Abu Bakr Baghdadi simultaneously murdered 21 Egyptian Christians in a videotape released today, removing whatever doubt remained that the Sunni jihadi group has established a strong presence in Libya. The text and video were targeted at terrorizing a Western audience as much as Arab speakers, with ...
Report from Valhalla on the War of Fourteen Centuries
Post Date: 2015-02-15 08:54:42 by cranky
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The saga of which I sing today is a tale most remarkable: My song comes from Valhalla, the Hall of the Slain, where war-heroes go to their rest. All those who have fallen in the fight, and borne wounds yet toiled unto death, from the beginning of the world, are come to the company of the great god Odin. Indeed, at a time of troublesome tumult on the earth, there is even greater news from Valhalla: Men should know that Odin has decided that it is now time to win the War of the Fourteen Centuries. That is, the War that began when the Muslims conquered Jerusalem, 1378 years ago. It is time, finally, for vengeance. These are the ways of Odin, Lord of Valhalla. Yes, Valhalla is a wondrous place, ...
SECOND SHOOTING TEARS APART COPENHAGEN
Post Date: 2015-02-15 08:17:56 by out damned spot
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Editor’s Note: This breaking story first appeared on CNN. Breitbart News provides up-to-the-minute updates. Mary Chastain reports (12:30 PM): Mary Chastain reports (11:42 PM): Mary Chastain reports (11:35 PM): Reuters reports (11:16 PM): A second man has died from gunshot wounds. (Reuters) – A man who had been shot in the head multiple times at a Copenhagen synagogue has died from his injuries, Danish police said on Sunday. Denmark was on high alert and a massive manhunt was underway after the shooting on Saturday, in which two police officers were injured. The attack occurred hours after a man sprayed bullets at a cafe hosting a debate on freedom of speech in an ...
1 dead in Copenhagen cafe shooting in 'likely' terror attack
Post Date: 2015-02-14 23:58:01 by nativist nationalist
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At least one gunman opened fire Saturday on a Copenhagen cafe, killing one man in what authorities called a likely terror attack during a free speech event organized by an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. The shooting, which also wounded three police officers, came a month after extremists killed 12 people at a satirical newspaper in Paris that had also sparked Muslim outrage with its depictions of Muhammad. Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has been repeatedly threatened after depicting Muhammad as a dog in 2007, organized and attended Saturday's event but was not hit by gunfire, police said. "I saw a masked man running past," said ...
America already deeply involved in World War III
Post Date: 2015-02-14 14:16:16 by tpaine
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http://www.ldnews.com America already deeply involved in World War III By Frank Ryan FRYAN1951@aol.com @fryan1951 on Twitter Updated: 02/12/2015 06:18:24 PM EST We are at war! World War III has started and apparently our government is unwilling to acknowledge it. Prior to World War II, efforts were made throughout Britain and the United States to avoid war at all costs with disastrous consequences. We will face the same disaster if we do not face reality immediately. In the Britain of the 1930's, Chamberlain attempted to appease Hitler until it was too late for Poland and the world. His appeasement increased the death toll from that war substantially. In the year 2015, the ...
Paraded in cages 'to be burned alive' like Jordanian pilot: ISIS releases video claiming to show 17 Kurdish fighters in humiliating procession through Iraqi city
Post Date: 2015-02-14 08:04:29 by out damned spot
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*Orange clad Peshmerga are driven through crowds of jeering militants *Grim echo of Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh's public burning on camera *Procession reportedly took place in northwestern Iraqi city of Kirkuk *Reports claim ISIS now has a presence in the oil rich Kurdish stronghold Heads bowed in terror the orange-clad Kurdish fighters are paraded through streets filled with jeering militants in the latest horrifying video release from Islamic State. In a grim echo of the terrible fate which befell Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh the captives, reportedly Peshmerga fighters, are dressed in orange jumpsuits and shackled in cages. Just as Lt. al-Kaseasbeh was ...
U.S.: Iraqi forces repel attack on al-Asad air base
Post Date: 2015-02-13 22:01:39 by redleghunter
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PENTAGON U.S.: Iraqi forces repel attack on al-Asad air base By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor Sabah Arar/AFP The Pentagon says a small number of Islamic State fighters who attacked an Iraqi air base that hosts about 400 U.S. forces were killed in a counterattack by Iraqi troops. WASHINGTON — Eight Islamic State fighters were killed when they attacked an air base where U.S. and coalition forces are training Iraqi forces. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said that initial reports Friday showed that all of the IS attackers were killed by Iraqi troops at or inside a gate to al-Asad air base in the western province of Anbar. There are about 400 U.S. troops at the ...
Obama's Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
Post Date: 2015-02-13 09:03:12 by Deckard
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The president is requesting Congress to pass an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) resolution against ISIS. Congress has not issued a similar resolution since 2002, when President Bush was given the authority to wage war against Iraq. The purpose of this resolution is to give official authority to the president to do the things that he has already been doing for the past six years. Seems strange but this is typical for Washington. President Obama’s claim is that he does not need this authority. He claims, as have all other recent presidents, that the authority to wage war in the Middle East has been granted by the resolutions passed in 2001, 2002, and by article II of ...
The Ultimate Enemy of ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-13 00:18:31 by nativist nationalist
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The president’s request for the authorization to use military force against the Islamic State has landed in a Congress as divided as the country. That division was mirrored in the disparate receptions Obama’s resolution received from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. To the Times, Obama’s AUMF is “alarmingly broad. It does not limit the battlefield to Syria and Iraq.” Moreover, Obama “seeks permission to attack ‘associated persons or forces.'” This would give the White House “virtually unrestricted power to engage in attacks around the globe as long as it can justify a connection, however tenuous, to the Islamic State.” ...
Yemen rebels seize US weapons, vehicles after embassy staff leave – reports
Post Date: 2015-02-11 20:45:30 by Hondo68
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Houthi fighters. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) Houthi rebels have reportedly seized all the US embassy’s vehicles in Sanaa and the weapons of the Marines, who were guarding it, after the American ambassador and diplomats left Yemen’s capital earlier Wednesday. Over 20 vehicles were taken by the militants after the Americans left for the airport, Yemeni members of the US embassy staff told Reuters. A top Sanaa airport official told CNN that the Houthis also prevented the departing US Marines from taking their weapons on the plane with them. Some of the weapons were seized by the rebels, while the rest was handed over to random airport employees by US troops, he added. The night ...
WEST: NORAD Head Says Russia Increasing Arctic Long Range Air Patrols
Post Date: 2015-02-11 17:23:13 by redleghunter
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SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – While Russian military aircraft have stepped up their activity everywhere from the North Sea to the Baltic to the Black Sea in the last year they have also been spotted more frequently closer to the U.S. territory in the Arctic, the head of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told USNI News on Tuesday. In particular – flights of Tupolev Tu-95 Bear ‘H’ Bombers have increased recently NORTHCOM’s Adm. Bill Gortney said. “They’ve been very aggressive – under my NORAD hat – for us in the Arctic,” he said to USNI News following a keynote address at the WEST 2015 conference. ...
The Mindset of Top Government Officials
Post Date: 2015-02-11 05:55:46 by Deckard
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Even Hayek, who famously argued that top government positions tend to attract those of dubious moral character, might have been surprised by former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. DSK admits to participating in numerous orgies — “only a dozen or two” — during his stint with the Fund, and insists that these did not distract him from his important work. “These afternoons took place between 2009 and 2011, a time when Strauss-Kahn told the court he was ‘saving the world’ as head of the IMF at the height of the global financial crisis.” DSK maintains he could not possibly have known the young women attending the orgies were paid for their ...
Dead Kayla Mueller Was a Left Wing Cult Member of International Solidarity Movement
Post Date: 2015-02-11 01:40:12 by Pericles
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Ever watch those 70s Palestinians hijack a plane movies? There was always some left wing liberation movement nuts as part of the terrorist team. Kayla Mueller seems to belong to such a left wing cult. I never understood the naive bleeding heart westerners and learned to hate them during the Bosnia wars when they were used to justify the murder of Serbs at the hands of NATO because of the war lies NATo put out of Serbs raping Muslim women in rape camps. These leftist cult members do serve a purpose for the Democrat led American govt under Clinton and then under Obama. You get cute white women into war zones (sometimes Angelina Jolie and it used to be Bianca Jagger till she got to old to ...
Egypt to join Russia-led Eurasian free trade zone
Post Date: 2015-02-11 01:05:21 by Pericles
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Update: 17:14, 10 February 2015 Tuesday Egypt to join Russia-led Eurasian free trade zone World Bulletin / News Desk Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday that his country had signed several agreements with Russia for stepped-up cooperation in the fields of energy, trade and security. Russia and Egypt have agreed to create a free trade zone and a Russian industrial zone near the Suez Canal. President Sisi of Egypt announced the plan at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new canal is part of the Suez Canal Development mega project, which includes the development of several seaports in the three governorates bordering the canal – Suez, ...
‘Tactical Nuke’ Explodes In Ukraine? Video Footage Shows Giant Explosion, Mushroom Cloud [Video]
Post Date: 2015-02-10 23:30:40 by A K A Stone
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The Ukrainian city of Donetsk experienced a giant explosion last night that left many fearing that Russia was using “tactical nukes” against them. The explosion shattered windows and even caused a brief mushroom cloud to form in the sky. The night’s sky was glowing with orange as the explosion occurred. The entire ordeal was captured on video. In the video above, you can watch as the explosion occurs late last night. The pitch black sky suddenly is illuminated in an orange glow. The blast was so loud that windows in the area shattered. The Daily Mail notes that some in the area feared that Russian had attacked the area with tactical nuclear weapons as a mushroom cloud ...
White House struggles with Obama comment on Paris attack
Post Date: 2015-02-10 19:56:54 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and State Department struggled Tuesday to clarify President Barack Obama's suggestion that last month's deadly shooting at a kosher deli in Paris was random, despite the administration's earlier assertions that the attack was anti-Semitic. Obama, in describing terror threats during a lengthy interview with the online news site Vox, said the American people were right to be concerned "when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris." Administration officials at first defended Obama's comments, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest saying that ...
Marine who vanished from his post in Iraq 10 years ago and ended up in Lebanon to stand trial for desertion
Post Date: 2015-02-10 09:21:11 by cranky
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Prosecutors allege Corporal Wassef Hassoun deserted because he was unhappy with deployment and with the treatment of Iraqi prisoners But Lebanon-born soldier claims he was kidnapped by insurgents in 2004 Reappeared at U.S. embassy in Beirut shortly afterwards, only to disappear again after he was told he would have to stand trial for desertion Handed himself to NCIS investigators last year, saying he feared for his life If found guilty, the 35-year-old could spend up to 27 years behind bars A U.S. Marine who is accused of faking his own kidnapping after vanished from his post in Iraq more than a decade ago is set to finally stand trial - 10 years after he disappeared for the ...
If the Sheep Won’t Rise Up, Maybe Cattle Will (Czech Cow Charges Cop, Isn't Shot)
Post Date: 2015-02-10 05:18:56 by Deckard
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When a Czech cop tries to intimidate a cow instead of his usual human victims, the cow teaches him to stick with two-legged cattle. Fortunately, the dash-cam in the cop’s cruiser, which our valiant Daisy also attacks, captures the hilarious lesson. Sic semper tyrannis! Thanks to Bill Martin for today’s laugh. Update: The Bionic Mosquito thinks I “have this one all wrong.” He “give[s] the Czech cops a lot of credit – in the US, forty cops would have just shot the cow from the safety of a military-grade vehicle and bar-b-qued it for lunch – or, more precisely, made hamburgers and sausage with whatever bits and pieces were found after four-thousand ...
HSBC 'tax dodge' revelations are just tip of iceberg, says leaker
Post Date: 2015-02-10 03:06:12 by Tooconservative
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The former HSBC employee who leaked sensational secret documents alleging the bank helped wealthy customers dodge millions of dollars in taxes warned Tuesday that the revelations are just the "tip of the iceberg".The files created global shockwaves on Monday, spotlighting the financial dealings of the world's ultra-rich and prompting British lawmakers to launch an inquiry into the London-based bank.The cache of files made public in the so-called SwissLeaks case includes the names of celebrities, alleged arms dealers and politicians -- though inclusion on the list does not necessarily imply wrongdoing.Published at the weekend, the files claim HSBC's Swiss division helped ...
Libertarians and Putin’s catastrophic corruption
Post Date: 2015-02-09 13:32:15 by Gatlin
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Over 100,000 entrepreneurs and small business owners are in prison in Russia for not paying bribes to assorted inspectors or because parties to business disputes bribe police to arrest them on trumped-up charges. Russia’s private sector has very little security in law for its property rights. Almost everybody dragged before any court is found guilty. The consequences are minimal re-investment, low productivity growth, and owners who seek security by taking out maximum cash and, if able, stashing it abroad. Consequently, Russia depends upon imports for 90 percent of its consumer goods. Its agriculture is still a shambles, with no secure property rights, lousy roads to get products to ...
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