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The United Nations of Eccentricity: Fascinating portraits of the world's 'Micronations' which have declared independence from the rest of the world
Post Date: 2015-02-09 09:50:09 by cranky
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They're the smallest countries in the world - and they're proud of it.A micronation is a piece of land that claims to be an independent or sovereign nation, but is not officially recognized by the governments of the world. In 2012, fascinated photographer Leó Delafontaine began documenting them, visiting six countries and three continents to capture life inside the unique mini-states. The people he met were eccentrics determined to carve out their own place in the world - and so they did exactly that.There are many reasons for the founding of the micronations, ranging from symbols of defiance, to boost tourism or solely for fun. Current reports put the number of micronations ...
Israeli leader faces pressure to cancel US Congress speech
Post Date: 2015-02-08 22:08:02 by Murron
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Israeli leader faces pressure to cancel US Congress speech JERUSALEM (AP) — A national leader's appearance before the U.S. Congress is usually a source of pride and unity. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned trip to Washington — opposed by the White House and many Democrats — has Israel in uproar. The Israeli leader faces growing calls to cancel the visit as rivals accuse him of risking Israel's relations with the United States in hopes of winning extra votes in next month's Israeli parliamentary election. But Netanyahu has shown no signs of backing down, saying Sunday he would "do everything" to prevent U.S.-led international ...
Jordan Says It Conducted 56 Air Raids In Three Days Against ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-08 19:15:00 by rlk
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Jordan Says It Conducted 56 Air Raids In Three Days Against ISIS Reuters Posted: 02/08/2015 8:04 am EST A Jordanian Air Force fighter jet flies over the village of Ai as Jordanian King Abdullah II visits to offer his condolences to the tribe of the slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at their home village near Karak, Jordan, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Jordan's king vowed to wage a "harsh" war against the Islamic State group after the militants burned a captive Jordanian pilot in a cage and released a video of the killing. * Jordan says raids on Islamist State to continue * Aims to hit IS leader, key logistics centers * Jordan to conduct joint missions with UAE ...
Is Putin Bent on Reshaping the World Order?
Post Date: 2015-02-08 18:57:25 by Pericles
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Is Putin Bent on Reshaping the World Order? by James G Neuger 4:05 PM EST February 8, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- As Russian President Vladimir Putin tightens his hold on eastern Ukraine, speculation has shifted to the next front in his confrontation with the U.S. and its European allies. Intimidation of the Baltic states, pressure on the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, warmer ties with Greece as a way of dividing the European Union -- all are potential options for the former KGB agent bent on recasting the world order. “We see the emergence of dividing lines” in a “very polarized environment,” Lamberto Zannier, an Italian diplomat who runs the Organization for ...
China’s Monumental Debt Trap—-Why It Will Rock The Global Economy
Post Date: 2015-02-08 12:09:11 by nativist nationalist
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Bloomberg News finally did something useful this morning by publishing some startling graphs from McKinsey’s latest update on the worldwide debt tsunami. If you don’t mind a tad of rounding, the planetary debt total now stands at $200 trillion compared to world GDP of just $70 trillion. Source: McKinsey The implied 2.9X global leverage ratio is daunting in itself. But now would be an excellent time to recall the lessons of Greece because the true implications are far more ominous. Today’s raging crisis in Greece was hidden from view for many years in the run-up to its first EU bailout in 2010 because the denominator of its reported leverage ratio—national income or ...
Leaders aim to hold Ukraine summit in Minsk Wednesday
Post Date: 2015-02-08 09:48:44 by Murron
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Leaders aim to hold Ukraine summit in Minsk Wednesday MUNICH (AP) -- The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine aim to hold a summit in Minsk this week as they try to stem fighting in eastern Ukraine, officials said Sunday. The plan for a meeting Wednesday in the Belarusian capital emerged from a phone call between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, described the call as "intensive." The aim is to draw up a package of measures that breathes new life into a much-violated September peace plan. Seibert and the French ...
OBAMA to Subsidize Iranian Nuke Program, Sacrifice Israel, In Exchange for Less Jihad
Post Date: 2015-02-07 21:13:32 by out damned spot
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The Obama administration is going to offer the Iranian regime technical aid for its nuclear program in exchange for less jihad in the region. The move will put Israel in great danger. The Jerusalem Post reported: At a security conference in Munich, the two leaders met to discuss ongoing negotiations over the nuclear program— and that program only, according to American officials. But the warning from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underscored core motivations driving Western diplomats in the talks: The realignment of Tehran towards cooperation with Washington elsewhere in the region, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Lebanon. That is a departure from their original ...
Snowden : "Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agenda" Driving US Gov Since 1945
Post Date: 2015-02-07 12:52:58 by Deckard
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Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed documents providing incontrovertible proof that an alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda is driving US domestic and international policy, and has been doing so since at least 1945, some media reports said. A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the nearly two million highly classified top-secret documents obtained from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) run National Security Agency-Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) by the American ex-patriot Edward Snowden states that this information is providing “incontrovertible proof” that an “alien/extraterrestrial intelligence ...
Jordan Launches New Airstrikes After Vowing Harsh War On ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-05 18:12:11 by rlk
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Jordan Launches New Airstrikes After Vowing Harsh War On ISIS AP | By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Posted: 02/05/2015 8:27 am JORDAN Jordanian Air Force fighter jets fly during the funeral of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, at his home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Dozens of Jordanian fighter jets bombed Islamic State training centers and weapons storage sites Thursday, intensifying attacks after the militants burned to death a captured Jordanian pilot. As part of the new campaign, Jordan is also attacking targets in Iraq, said Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Up to now, Jordan had struck IS targets in Syria, ...
State Department Discusses Banning Alternative Media Outlet
Post Date: 2015-02-05 09:09:37 by Deckard
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Activist Post The US State Department has openly discussed shutting down RT, the Russian news network. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked about the idea of shutting the company down at a meeting at the Brookings Institution. She said no, paying lip service to Freedom of Speech, but citing RT’s limited reach as the real reason. The incident goes to demonstrate exactly how much censorship exists in the United States. RT broadcasts a narrative that is undoubtedly pro-Russian. Now that the pro-Russian narrative is at odds with the Pro-US narrative, the government is willing to openly discuss simply shutting off American access to the network. This isn’t the first ...
Report: U.S. Prepared To Rely Upon Iran For Regional Stability In Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria
Post Date: 2015-02-05 08:51:13 by cranky
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European officials have reportedly relayed a message to Israeli officials about the Obama administration’s plans concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The U.S. and Iran are reportedly closing in on a deal that would allow the Ayatollah’s regime to keep the vast majority of its centrifuges running, while also allowing for Iran to be in charge of stabilizing its surrounding region. Israeli Army Radio reports that the deal is being brokered between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The Iranians would purportedly have to make sure that there are no flare-ups in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. It remains unclear how ...
UAE stops flying airstrike missions against ISIS, US faces pressure to boost Jordan aid
Post Date: 2015-02-04 21:56:15 by Gatlin
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A key Arab partner in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State stopped flying airstrike missions over Syria after a Jordanian pilot -- who was later killed -- was shot down in December, senior U.S. officials and diplomats from the region told Fox News. The decision is a setback for the coalition, even as another member, Jordan, vows to ramp up airstrikes in the wake of its pilot being brutally executed by the Islamist terror group. The Obama administration, though, is facing mounting pressure to move more quickly to provide military equipment to Jordan to help the country respond. According to U.S. lawmakers who met with King Abdullah II on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the king asked ...
No wonder they called it the stone age! Ancient humans were taking drugs - including magic mushrooms and opium - up to 10,600 years ago
Post Date: 2015-02-04 21:55:03 by cranky
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An anthropologist at the University of Valladolid in Spain has compiled evidence of psychoactive drug use in ancient cultures around the world Opium poppies may have been first cultivated by Neolithic farmers in ItalyTraces of opium seeds have been found on human remains 4,000 years oldHallucinogenic cacti may have been used in Peru as long ago as 8600BCAncient carvings of magic mushrooms may also be evidence of their useThe anthropologist believes the substances were used in spiritual rituals Opium, magic mushrooms and other psychoactive drugs have been used by humans for thousands of years, a study has revealed.An anthropologist has discovered that humans have been cultivating and ...
US military moving more military assets into Iraq to fight ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-04 21:53:46 by Gatlin
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The U.S. military is moving more military assets into Iraq to fight the Islamic State terror group and repositioning search-and-rescue assets to help in the event of downed planes, U.S. officials told Fox News Wednesday. The moves come after reported criticism from the United Arab Emirates over the United States’ handling of the downing of a Jordanian plane in Iraq by ISIS in December. A video this week showed the pilot, Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, being burned to death by his ISIS captors. The United Arab Emirates stopped flying airstrikes over Iraq shortly after the pilot was shot down by ISIS, with reports suggesting the UAE made the decision because the U.S. did not have enough ...
After ISIS execution, angry King Abdullah quotes Clint Eastwood to U.S. lawmakers
Post Date: 2015-02-04 16:21:06 by cranky
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Members of the House Armed Services Committee met with Jordan's King Abdullah Tuesday not long after news broke that ISIS had burned to death a Jordanian pilot captured in the fight against the terrorist group. In a private session with lawmakers, the king showed an extraordinary measure of anger — anger which he expressed by citing American movie icon Clint Eastwood. "He said there is going to be retribution like ISIS hasn't seen," said Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a Marine Corps veteran of two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, who was in the meeting with the king. "He mentioned 'Unforgiven' and he mentioned Clint Eastwood, and he actually ...
New allegations of Saudi involvement in 9/11
Post Date: 2015-02-04 15:41:08 by Gatlin
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Washington (CNN) New allegations have emerged from the man described as the 20th 9/11 hijacker, alleging members of the Saudi royal family supported al Qaeda.Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to six terror-related charges, makes the allegations in a sworn statement contained in a brief submitted Tuesday as part of an ongoing civil case by the families of 9/11 victims. In the late 1990s, Moussaoui says, he was tasked by Osama bin Laden to create a digital database cataloging al Qaeda's donors. Every day for two or three months, he says, he entered names of the group's donors into a Toshiba computer, along with how much they gave. READ: Official says gunman recorded ...
Slaughtered for their entertainment: Crowds gather to watch the barbaric murder of Jordanian pilot on specially erected giant screens on the streets of Raqqa... and CHEER when the airman goes up in flames
Post Date: 2015-02-04 09:03:08 by cranky
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Shocking video shows ISIS supporters gathering to watch murder videoBig screens have been erected in terror group's de facto capital RaqqaFilm of Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive appears to be playing on loopCrowd cheer and shout religious slogans as pilot is engulfed by flamesFilm then shows locals - including children - talking about the atrocity Chilling new release is titled 'Muslims' Joy at Burning of Jordanian Pilot' A sickening video has emerged showing crowds of Islamic State supporters watching the barbaric murder of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh on specially erected giant screens in the terror group's de facto capital Raqqa.The four minute video, titled ...
Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death
Post Date: 2015-02-04 07:54:59 by cranky
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Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists on Wednesday including a female militant in response to an Islamic State video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive by the hardline group. Islamic State had demanded the release of the woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for a Japanese hostage whom it later beheaded. Sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack in Amman, Rishawi was executed at dawn, a security source and state television said. Jordan, which is part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State, has promised an "earth-shaking response" to the killing of its pilot, Muath al-Kasaesbeh, who was captured in December when his F-16 crashed over ...
Jordan announces execution of six ISIS prisoners 'within hours' in retaliation after terrorists release lavish video of Jordanian pilot being TORCHED to death in a cage in yet another new low for humanity
Post Date: 2015-02-03 17:01:57 by cranky
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Video titled 'Healing the Believers' Chests' shows brutal murder of pilotMoaz al-Kasasbeh is filmed being burnt alive while locked in a cageHe was captured in December after his jet crashed over ISIS-held territoryJordan has confirmed pilot was brutally murdered by ISIS on January 3 Barack Obama condemned the killing, branding it 'vicious and barbaric'David Cameron said 'sickening murder' would 'strengthen our resolve'Jordan vowed to execute all six of its ISIS-linked prisoners 'within hours'Security sources said execution of failed female suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi likely to take place tomorrow Militants fighting for the Islamic State ...
Jordanian pilot burned alive
Post Date: 2015-02-03 13:22:56 by BobCeleste
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Militants fighting for the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq have released a video they claim shows Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh being burnt alive while locked in a cage. The footage, which is titled 'Healing the Believers Chests' appears to show the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight. Flames are seen quickly spreading to the cage where they completely engulf the helpless pilot in images that are far too distressing to publish. ... Click for Full Text!
China’s Secret Strategy Exposed; Beijing Plots to Surpass U.S. in Coming Decades
Post Date: 2015-02-03 03:10:00 by nativist nationalist
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China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting Beijing’s strategy of replacing the U.S.-led world order with a Chinese communist- dominated economic and political system, according to a new book by a longtime Pentagon China specialist. For more than four decades, Chinese leaders lulled presidents, cabinet secretaries, and other government analysts and policymakers into falsely assessing China as a benign power deserving of U.S. support, says Michael Pillsbury, the Mandarin-speaking analyst who has worked on China policy and intelligence issues for every U.S. administration since Richard Nixon. The secret ...
The Civil War in color: A world in black and white brought to life as US celebrates 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
Post Date: 2015-02-02 23:32:06 by A K A Stone
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Some 150 years since Abraham Lincoln outlawed slavery in the U.S., a collection of rare Civil War-era photographs have been brought to life through painstaking colorization. February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing by President Lincoln of a resolution which became the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and abolished slavery. The photographs, seen here, depict the battle-weary men who fought in the bloody conflict between 1861 and 1865, either for the survival of the Union or a strike out into independence for the Confederates. Scroll down for video
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The True Veronica Veil Second Shroud Discovered
Post Date: 2015-02-02 22:59:10 by A K A Stone
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BREAKING NEWS SECOND SHROUD DISCOVERED VATICAN VERONICA VEIL NOT A LEGEND I appeal to Pope Francis to make this discovery known to the world, your people have kept this secret from you. The world needs to know. These incredible images of the abused and tortured face of Jesus Christ were processed from the St Peters Veronica Veil in 2011 by the experimental photographer myself Vincenzo Giovanni Ruello. The link to the Shroud of Turin has been made showing the identical same face. The discovery is gaining prominance world wide. The St Peters Veronica Veil has now been authenticated and is not a legend but the second true Shroud in existance predating the Shroud of Turin by 3 days. The cross ...
Examining the Hatred of Vladimir Putin and Russia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-02-02 09:34:46 by Tooconservative
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A Conservative Analysis Examining theHatred of Vladimir Putin and Russia January 04, 2015 "ICH" - "Unz Review" - Anyone who has followed the ongoing crisis in Eastern Europe and Ukraine knows the very hostile view that the establishment news media and Washington political class have of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and his policies. In the halls of Congress and in the mainstream press—almost every night on Fox News—serious charges are proffered against Russia’s president and his latest outrages. Sanctions and bellicose measures get enacted by the House and Senate overwhelmingly, with only meagre opposition and almost no serious discussion. The ...
Silver Lining Coated in Coal Dust in Eastern Ukraine as individuals now free open back yard coal mines taken from the govt and oligarchs
Post Date: 2015-02-01 23:24:42 by Pericles
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A Silver Lining Coated in Coal Dust in Eastern Ukraine By ANDREW E. KRAMERJAN. 31, 2015 SNIZHNE, Ukraine — Outside Vladimir Moroz’s snug little brick home, winter and hardship grip war-stricken eastern Ukraine. Money is scarce, the store shelves are bare and an icy wind whips over the snowy steppe. Inside, a retired miner smiles broadly. He peels off his gloves and flexes his cold-stiffened hands over a stove and his prized, glowing, once-illicit source of warmth: backyard coal dug from dangerous, unregulated mines. In a region plagued by upheaval and misfortune, coal miners who take pride in their grit and self-reliance have found at least one silver lining in changes ...
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