Psychopathic semantics: US providing 'non-lethal assistance' to Kiev forces (not to mention military advisors and paid mercenaries)

© RIA Novosti/Valeriy MelnikovLocal residents, obviously terrorists, escape from a fire in the house destroyed in the Ukrainian armed forces' air attack on the village of Luganskaya on July 2, 2014 As the US is debating whether it should send lethal military aid to Ukraine, some political analysts say current claims that Washington is only providing Kiev with non-lethal military assistance are nothing more than a red herring, because that aid is...

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Willful ignorance: Scientists banned from advising the EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment. Established under Nixon in 1970, the EPA is another one of those agencies that sounds like a good idea, until you peel off the shiny friendly top layer to discover the stench of corruption underneath. Up until now, they at least pretended to be there to serve as watchdogs,...

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Veiled threat? Palestinian state recognition will be a 'grave mistake', Netanyahu warns France

© RIA Novosti/Sergey GuneevIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it would be a "grave mistake" for the French parliament to follow the suit of several other European nations in recognizing a Palestinian state in a vote scheduled early December."Recognition of a Palestinian state by France would be a grave mistake," Netanyahu told reporters in Jerusalem. "Do they have nothing better to do at a time of...

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TASS interviews Putin: 'We are strong because we are right'

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS In the TASS special project Top Officials, Vladimir Putin talks about healthy lifestyle, the "fifth column" and oil prices "plot" and argues with Russian philosopher Nikolay Berdyayev.On health, wrong statement and the other side of the coin - What's your health status now, Vladimir Vladimirovich? - All worries are in foes' dreams!- The foes are making hints... - Really? It's the first time I hear about it. What are they saying?...

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Infographic: Live Drug Stats: Visualizing Drug Use in America

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Gold, gold, gold! Dutch gold boosted, Ukrainian gold looted, Russia buying BIG, Swiss vote gold-quake

Gold has been in the news a lot in the last week. Most interesting was the fact that the Dutch government secretly got 122.5 tons of gold back from Uncle Sam. © Bullionstar.comSource: the WGC, DNB DNB states it has changed allocation policy from 11 % in Amsterdam, 51 % at the FRBNY, 20 % in Canada and 18 % at the Bank Of England (BOE); to 31 % in Amsterdam, 31 % at the FRBNY, 20 % in Canada and 18 % at the BOE. According to the World Gold Council's...

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