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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Et tu Poland? Putin excluded from Holocaust commemoration

© UnknownTwo Soviet soldiers escort prisoners on the day of their liberation, January 27, 1945. Auschwitz, Poland Glancing at the headlines one might believe Russian President Vladimir Putin had inappropriately decided not to attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland.In one breathtaking display of misinformation, Reuters would report in its article Putin will not attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland that,In reality, The Russian leader was never...

Poroshenko says 9,000 Russian troops in Ukraine, high-tech invisibility cloaks prevent detection

©So much crazy talk, it makes him sweat Nearly 10,000 Russian troops are in Ukraine according to Ukraine's president, and yet there hasn't been a single reliable independent confirmation of this incredible claimUkrainian chocolate sultan Petro Poroshenko told the World Economic Forum this afternoon that there are currently 9,000 Russian troops in Ukraine, according to a breaking news report from Reuters.Speaking in Switzerland, Poroshenko added...

Fish oil sold in New Zealand is actually more like snake oil

© Danielle SmithFishy: A University of Auckland study has found the bulk of fish oil pills sold in NZ are misleading consumers. The take home? Just eat fish. The bulk of fish oil supplements sold in New Zealand and Australia are misleading consumers with false claims, a study has found.A University of Auckland study found the bulk of supplements sold in the two countries were almost a third lower in omega-3 fatty acids than their labels claimed.Only...

Russia Iran military cooperation: May resolve S300 missile delivery issue

© Ruptly video Moscow and Tehran have signed military cooperation deal that implies wider collaboration in personnel training and counter-terrorism activities. It may also resolve the situation concerning the delivery of Russian S300 missiles, Iranian media reported.Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, signed the document during a visit by Russia's top brass to Iran's capital on Tuesday.Under...

A billionaire lectures serfs in Davos - Claims "America's lifestyle expectations are far too high"

Jamie Dimon If you listened closely this morning, you could hear humanity vomit as JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, began to speak at Davos.In what amounted to some of the most egotistical and delusional statements heard at a conference filled with egotistical and delusional participants, Mr. Dimon didn't disappoint. Here are a couple highlights courtesy of Twitter:*DIMON SAYS 'YOU DON'T WANT A WEAK JPMORGAN' - or else- Tim Backshall (@credittrader)...

Mysterious goo coats hundreds of California seabirds

© Cheryl Reynolds/International Bird RescueA bufflehead duck is seen covered in a mysterious substance at the International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay center. Hundreds of birds in the East Bay area of Northern California have been found covered in a mysterious goo that causes hypothermia.About 100 seabirds had died at the International Bird Rescue's San Francisco Bay center, where rescue workers were cleaning dozens a day."The good news is...

1,700 Private Jets Descend on Davos Economic Forum

Look to the skies this week in Switzerland and you'll see the heavens are cluttered with private jets.Billionaires and world leaders from across the globe are flying en masse to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- and they insist on traveling in style.Roughly 1,700 private flights are expected over the course of the week, which is twice as many as normal, according to WINGX Advance, a tracking firm. Traffic is expected to rise...

The epochal consequences of Woodrow Wilson's war

© flickrPatriotic postcard from World War I. Committee for the RepublicWashington DC January 20, 2015My humble thesis tonight is that the entire 20th Century was a giant mistake.And that you can put the blame for this monumental error squarely on Thomas Woodrow Wilson - a megalomaniacal madman who was the very worst President in American history........well, except for the last two.His unforgiveable error was to put the United States into the Great...

'Expert' explains fireball spotted near Houston, Texas

[embedded content]WEBSTER, Texas - A strange fireball spotted flying slowly over the Houston area raised a lot of questions after images and videos started popping up on social media. They were posted by a Webster man named Jordan Sterling. Sterling is used to the view from his balcony but he rarely see's anything but signs and wires. "I'm always looking in the sky to try to catch something out of the ordinary," Sterling explained. Early Sunday evening that changed. "I look up in the sky and just right there in the sky," Sterling says pointing...

Charlie Hebdo's Zionist agenda and its anti-Gentile allies

In the wake of the terrorist attack against the French satirical newspaper «Charlie Hebdo», it has become apparent that the magazine's editorial chiefs killed in the attack on its headquarters in Paris and groups such as FEMEN and Pussy Riot are all connected in a campaign to disparage Islam and Christianity. In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the occasion of the memorial service in Paris attended...

Terrorism is simply inevitable payback, we're seeing it all wrong

The only way to stop terror is to watch everyone all the time. So says MI6 stooge John Sawers. In this globalised world, if we launch weapons of great destructive power into communities abroad, incinerating and shredding women and children, we cannot avoid the fact that those who identify with those communities - ethnically, culturally and religiously - will take revenge on people here. If we are lucky it will be revenge on combatants. If we are...

Pesticide drift: USDA says "Yes" to Dicamba -tolerant crops

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the sale and planting of Monsanto's genetically engineered dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton. This approval follows that of 2,4-D tolerant soybeans and corn, billed as the next generation of herbicide-tolerant crops to tackle glyphosate (Roundup)-resistant weeds. Dicamba-tolerant soy and cotton are simply the latest example of USDA's allegiance to the biotechnology industry and dependence upon...

Rickards and Powell: Lid on the gold price is for China

In May 2006 the economist R. Peter W. Millar of Value-Trac Research in Scotland published a study, "The Relevance and Importance of Gold in the World Monetary System," arguing that central banks would need to revalue gold upward by from seven to 20 times "to raise the monetary value of the world monetary base and hence reduce the burden of debt" and avert a deflationary depression. GATA published that study here:http://bit.ly/15Atoo3 In May 2012...

Men and women process emotions differently

© MCN, University of BaselRed and yellow indicates the more active areas of the brain when images are rated as highly stimulating. Green indicates the areas that specifically become more active in women. Women rate emotional images as more emotionally stimulating than men do and are more likely to remember them. However, there are no gender-related differences in emotional appraisal as far as neutral images are concerned. These were the findings...

Gilad Atzmon: A personal note on Jewish statistics

The British political establishment is in a state of panic. A poll revealed last week that "a quarter of Jews in Britain have considered leaving the country in the last two years and well over half (58%) feel they have no long term future in Europe." This could be a potential disaster for British political parties. Eighty per cent of the Tories are members of the pro Israeli lobby, The Conservative Friends Of Israel (CFI), and a similar percentage...

Annual address and press conference: Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov

© Sputnik/ Evgeny Biatov Ladies and gentlemen,Welcome to our annual meeting on Russia's diplomatic performance.The situation last year was more complicated than previously, as new dangerous seats of tensions complemented several smouldering chronic conflicts. Especially alarming was the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, where extremist and terrorist threats were growing and spreading to other regions and to which Russia consistently...
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