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Saturday, 25 October 2014

Israeli army kills 14-year old Palestinian with U.S. citizenship

© Shadi Hattem14-year old slain Palestinian youth, Orwa Hammad who is also a U.S. citizen, was killed by the Israeli army, October 24, 2014. A Palestinian teen with U.S. citizenship was killed today by the Israeli army at a demonstration in the West Bank town of Silwad, near Ramallah. Fourteen-year old Orwah Hammad was shot with a live bullet that entered his neck and exited through his head, according to Ramallah hospital staff. He died while being...

Putin's keynote speech at the Valdai Club

The Valdai Discussion Club was established in 2004. It was named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the club's first meeting took place. The club's goal is to promote dialogue between Russian and international intellectual elite, and to make an independent,unbiased scientific analysis of political, economic and social events in Russia and the rest of the world.[embedded content]Full Transcript:Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, friends, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the XI meeting of the Valdai International...

Lava stream threatening homes and inching closer to road on Hawaii's Big Island

© AP Photo/U.S. Geological SurveyIn this Oct. 22, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, geologists walk over the surface of the flow to track surface breakouts along a portion of the flow margin, about a kilometer upslope of the flow front. A 13-mile finger of lava from Kilauea Volcano has started to again move quickly, and could hit a secondary road sometime Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Officials on Hawaii's Big Island won't start evacuating...

Rapid fire X-Flares from Sunspot AR2192

Flares have been predicted, sunspot AR2192 has complied. In the past 24 hours, the giant active region has produced two X-class solar flares: X3 (Oct. 24 @ 2140 UT) and X1 (Oct 25 @ 1709 UT). Using a backyard solar telescope, Sergio Castillo of Corona, California, was monitoring the sunspot on Oct. 24th when it exploded, and he snapped this picture: © Sergio Castillo "This flare was so intense that it almost shorted out my computer! Well ... not...

Washington Post beats the war drums for widening US attack on Syria and overthrowing Assad

Two articles in Friday's reporting chemical weapons attacks in Iraq and Syria are part of a general propaganda campaign by the mainstream media to turn the operation against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) into a war to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.A front-page article headlined "Jihadist launched chemical assault" reports that ISIS forces deployed chlorine gas in an attack last month against Sunni police officers...

How convenient! Washington school shooting took place during SWAT drill and two weeks before upcoming gun control vote

What are the odds?Just a few weeks ago, I wrote an article about how a few elite billionaires including Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates have spent some $8 million to make sure Washington's controversial gun control bill, Initiative 594, will appear on the state's November ballot and that voters will be flooded with anti-gun propaganda in the lead up.I-594 would require universal background checks, going so far as a making it so that a hunter would...

Largest sunspot on sun in more than two decades unleashes massive solar flare

© NASA/SDOA massive X3.1 solar flare erupts from the giant sunspot AR 12192 on Oct. 24, 2014 in this close-up view from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a spacecraft that constantly watches Earth's nearest star. The biggest sunspot on the face of the sun in more than two decades unleashed a major flare on Friday (Oct. 24), the fourth intense solar storm from the active star in less than a week.The solar flare occurred Friday afternoon, reaching...

FATCA: More Americans renounce citizenship - 2014 on pace for a record

© Iphoto Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency.There are 776 names on the Treasury Department list published Friday for the third quarter of 2014.That's the third highest quarterly figure ever, according to Andrew Mitchel, an international tax lawyer in Centerbrook, Conn., who tracks the data. The total number of published renouncers so far in 2014 is 2,353, putting...

The U.S. is having it's coolest year on record

The percentage of US HCN stations to reach 90 degrees was the smallest on record this year, with four of the five coolest years occurring above 350 PPM CO2. The most widespread heat occurred in 1931, when more than 98% of stations were over 90 degrees. © Stevengoddard.wordpress.com...

Banker suicides continue: Deutsche banker and former SEC enforcement attorney hangs himself

© Reuters/Luke Macgregor Back on January 26, a 58-year-old former senior executive at German investment bank behemoth Deutsche Bank, William Broeksmit, was found dead after hanging himself at his London home, and with that, set off an unprecedented series of banker suicides throughout the year which included former Fed officials and numerous JPMorgan traders.Following a brief late summer spell in which there was little if any news of bankers taking...

EU fail: Domestic agricultural production soars in Russia after food sanctions

© © RIA Novosti/Sergey GuneevPresident Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have put on a new show of unity ahead of upcoming elections by harvesting corn together at a farm in southern Russia's Stavropol Region When Russian President Vladimir Putin cut off European Union imports of agricultural products earlier this year, one of the rationales was to give a boost to the badly underdeveloped domestic sector - and it seems to be working....

Analyst: World paying for US military adventures

© Duncan Long The whole world is paying a high price for the US military adventurism across the global, says Dirk Adriaensens, author and journalist from Belgium.Russian President Vladimir Putin is "totally correct" in saying that the United States is undermining the global security, Adriaensens told Press TV on Saturday.In a speech to a group of political scholars in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, the Russian president said US foreign...

Record challenging heat surges from Central U.S. to East

After many locations over the Plains feel like late summer this weekend, the record-challenging warmth will expand to the Northeast next week.Millions of people will be reaching for shorts and short-sleeve shirts for a few days as the warmth builds.High pressure over the South is forecast to continue to pump warm air in from Mexico and provide abundant sunshine to Texas and the Plains this weekend. Some major cities will challenge record highs...

Life in the California towns hit hardest by the drought

© Reuters/Lucy NicholsonManuel Rodriguez, 83, watches as workmen install a water pump to carry water from an outdoor container into his home in Porterville, California October 14, 2014. In one of the towns hardest hit by California's drought, the only way some residents can get water to flush the toilet is to drive to the fire station, hand-pump water into barrels and take it back home.The trip has become a regular ritual for East Porterville residents...

How your memory deceives you

© agsandrew/Shutterstock Two beloved sci-fi franchises returned to the screens this fall burdened with shaky memories. In ABC's superhero spy TV series the lead character, Phil Coulson, is still reeling from a case of implanted memories. Meanwhile, the movie adaptation of the young-adult novel opens on a hero with amnesia who is stranded in a dystopian maze.These characters' memories betray them in seemingly fantastical ways, but the recollections...
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