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Monday, 25 August 2014

Russian lawmaker: Kiev parade shows aggressive plans to escalate crisis

Ukraine celebrated the 23rd anniversary of country's independence on Sunday © ITAR-TASS/Maxim NikitinIndependence Day parade in Kiev © UnknownUkraine ‘to spend billions of hryvnas’ to upgrade its military hardware - president The speaker of Russia's parliament lower houseState Duma Sergei Naryshkin believes that a parade held in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, on the occasion of Independence Day of the country was a manifestation of aggressive plans to...

Westminster bullying: UK to withdraw independent Scotland's right to use English language

© www.pprune.org The government has this week threatened to withdraw an independent Scotland's right to use the English language. The announcement is the clearest sign yet that, in the event of a pro-independence vote, the remainder of the UK could hesitate to allow a 'linguistic union' with the new Scottish nation.Insiders at the anti-independence Better Together campaign are reportedly confident of the gambit's strategic effectiveness. One consultant...

Lugansk, Ukraine: Thank you Russia! Please come back soon (with more humanitarian aid)!

© © RIA Novosti/Maksim BlinovA wonderful sight for sore eyes; the first group of trucks, that have delivered humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine, return to Russia Residents of Luhansk People's Republic hope to receive morehumanitarian aidfrom Russia, Vice Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Luhansk Vasyl Nikitin told RIA Novosti."Our republic has almost no food provisions left," Nikitin said. "We hope such food...

Collective punishment for accepting Russian food and medical supplies? Kiev massacres hundreds in Lugansk, city being razed to the ground

© AP Photo/ Petro ZadorozhnyyTour of destruction: Ukrainian military in the city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine Hundreds have died in artillery attacks on eastern Ukraine's key city ofLuhanskas government troops continue to lay siege to the militia stronghold, according to a senior official of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic."As of today, thedeath toll has climbed into the hundreds.Hundreds of homes have been torn down, including more...

Casualties of seafloor methane gas release? Hundreds of thousands more fish found dead in Plymouth tidal pool, UK

Walkers found 'hundreds of thousands' of dead whitebait in the tidal pool at Devil's Point Bebused walkers found "hundreds of thousands" of whitebait fish trapped in a tidal pool near Devil's Point yesterday.It is the second time a shoal has been trapped in the same pool in less than two weeks.Peter Wilkes and his fiance Carla Hosking were out enjoying a Sunday morning stroll with their 20-month-old son James when they thought they saw the pool...

Discontent spreading: Cornel West blasts Obama as being a "brown-faced Clinton"

© Unknown"We ended up with a brown-faced Clinton. Another opportunist", says Cornel West about Obama Outspoken Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West goes where very few 'thinkers-of-color' have had the courage to go in this interview with Salon's Thomas Frank:"The thing is, [Obama] posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - 6km NW of American Canyon, California

© USGS Event Time2014-08-24 10:20:44 UTC2014-08-24 03:20:44 UTC-07:00 at epicenterLocation38.220°N 122.313°W depth=11.3km (7.0mi)Nearby Cities6km (4mi) NW of American Canyon, California8km (5mi) SSW of Napa, California13km (8mi) NNW of Vallejo, California14km (9mi) ESE of Sonoma, California81km (50mi) WSW of Sacramento, CaliforniaScientific data...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.9 - 43km ENE of Tambo, Peru

© USGS Event Time2014-08-24 23:21:45 UTC2014-08-24 18:21:45 UTC-05:00 at epicenterLocation14.586°S 73.578°W depth=101.0km (62.8mi)Nearby Cities43km (27mi) ENE of Tambo, Peru61km (38mi) ENE of Puquio, Peru105km (65mi) S of Andahuaylas, Peru129km (80mi) SW of Abancay, Peru467km (290mi) SE of Lima, PeruScientific data...

Snake sightings on the rise in New Mexico this year, including more venomous Mojave rattler

© Erik EndersonMojave rattlesnake The Mojave rattler, one of the most lethal rattlesnakes in the Southwest, has been gradually moving into new territory in Southeastern New Mexico.The snake is a type of pit viper that has recently migrated from California and Arizona and appears physically similar to the area's native Western diamondback rattlesnake and black-tail rattlesnake. Mistaking the Mojave rattler for the other rattlesnakes could mean the...

As war rages in Gaza, West Bank routine of violence and arrests unabated

© APPalestinians complaining to Israeli soldiers during clashes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers, seen in the back, in the West Bank. Arrests, expulsions, home demolitions, land seizure and settlers harassing Palestinians continues: Since the beginning of the fighting in the south on July 8, soldiers and police have injured 2,139 Palestinians in the West Bank.Last Wednesday, about an hour and a half after midnight, a group of armed men in...

The difference between children

© AFPPalestinian mourners cry at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital after an explosion killed at least seven children in a public playground in the beachfront Shati refugee camp on July 28, 2014. It is human that the killing of an Israeli boy, a child of ours, would arouse greater identification than the death of some other child. What is incomprehensible is the Israeli response to the killing of their children.After the first child, nobody batted...

Congo declares an Ebola outbreak, exposing WHO cover-up

© AP Last week,when we reportedon the latest breakout of a mysterious Ebola-like disease, which had claimed at least 70 people's live at last check, we were skeptical by the WHO's attempts to mask the fact that an Ebola outbreak is something else entirely, in a desperate attempt to avoid the panic that would inevitably result from the confirmation that the Ebola virus has officially made its way into the fifth country, this time the second largest...

Russia's Central Bank refuses to replace 100-ruble note showing 'intimate parts' of naked Greek God

© Moscow TimesThe 100-ruble bill with a picture of Apollo. A request to have a naked Greek God removed from Russia's widely used 100-ruble note to protect minors has been turned down by the country's Central Bank, a news report said.Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Roman Khudyakov had appealed to the bank in July, arguing the depiction of Apollo on the banknote showed "intimate parts of the body" and it should therefore come with an "18+" rating.But...

Operation Rescue Russia and a big "UP YOURS" to Eurangloland

© busyminds.aeMore and more of the world’s 85% are happy to give Eurangloland a big, public raspberry – and loving it A funny thing happened on the way to 500 years of Western Empire and colonialism. Russia just boycotted Eurangloland's (The EU, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) food and agricultural products, which in itself is very telling about ongoing trends. But there's more. The oppressed are biting back. Until recently, the ongoing reaction...

Russia Today may launch new channels in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada

© RT The government is ready to spend 1.3 billion rubles ($35 million) to create a French-language service at Kremlin-sponsored television news channel RT, according to a draft bill published Thursday on the government's legislation portal.The new channel will target audiences not only in France, but also Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, according to the explanatory note accompanying the bill."World events in these countries are covered, as a rule,...

Ferguson officer suspended over Facebook post branding protesters 'rabid dogs'

© Reuters/Joshua LottDemonstrators protest against the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. A police officer in a St. Louis suburb has been suspended over a series of Facebook posts, insulting Ferguson protesters, who have been rallying in condemnation of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.The police department in Glendale, Missouri, announced in a Friday statement that it had suspended police officer, Matthew...

California police officers accused of screening women on internet dating sites using police system

© CBS Court documents show that Fairfield Police Officers Stephen Ruiz and Jacob Glashoff used company time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites.The documents also show that two used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System - a statewide police database - to screen the women they liked."I feel like it's an abuse of their power, using it for their own personal gain," said Fairfield resident Carlos Thompson.The...

Dallas cop shoots, kills unarmed man

© Unknown An unarmed man was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in Dallas, Texas on Sunday.According to Dallas police, the suspect charged at the officer before being shot.The slain man is Andrew Scott Gaynier, 26, and the officer is Senior Corporal Antonio Hudson.Corporal Hudon was on Extended Neighborhood Patrol when the incident happened. He was called to the scene in response to a report that Gaynier was making lewd comments to passing...

Israeli bombing intensifies in Gaza as does push for ICC 'war crimes' inquiry

© Reuters/Ezz ZanonSmoke and flames are seen during what witnesses said was an explosion caused by an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City August 23, 2014. Hamas signs off on Palestinian efforts to join International Criminal Court as international legal experts demand accountabilityThe push to engage the International Criminal Court in an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel for it military attacks on the civilian population of...

Ukraine needs 5 Bln cubic meters of Russian gas for the coming winter

© RIA Novosti/Alexander MaksimenkoUkrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk at a meeting of the government. Ukraine needs to purchase additional five billion cubic meters ofgas from Russiafor the forthcoming winter season, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Friday."Can Ukraine now survive without Russian gas? No, it can't. How much Russian gas do we need to buy? About 5 billion cubic meters," he said in an interview with Ukrainian TV...

No end in sight: California's record drought is making Earth's surface rise

© Ruaridh Stewart/ZUMA Press/CorbisCalifornia’s exceptional drought has exposed the bottom of Big Bear Lake. The record-breaking California drought is so bad that monitoring stations used to study earthquakes can detect the drying ground rising up. Measurements of these subtle movements, made using GPS instruments,suggest that the western United States is missing some 62 trillion gallons of water, enough to cover the entire region six inches deep.Drought...
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