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Sunday, 8 February 2015

The dirtiest secret of the War on Terror

© AP Photo/William Kratzke Out of the bowels of a US maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaui, currently serving a life sentence, providentially has shed light on what amounts to the dirtiest secret of the "war on terror".In over 100 pages of testimony, filed in a federal court in New York earlier this week, Moussaui drops several House of Saud-related bombs. Not least that among leading al-Qaeda donors...

A day of reckoning for the euro has arrived - 26 trillion in currency derivatives at risk

This is the month when the future of the eurozone will be decided. This week, Greek leaders will meet with European officials to discuss what comes next for Greece. The new prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, has already stated that he will not accept an extension of the current bailout. Officials from other eurozone countries have already said that they expect Greece to fully honor the terms of the current agreement. So basically we are...

US military moral a bit flaccid - Pentagon spends $500k on Viagra for troops

The US Department of Defense (DoD) spent $504,816 on the popular erectile dysfunction drug in 2014, according to government contracts cited by the Washington Free Beacon.The DoD awarded 60 contracts for the drug to Ohio-based pharmaceutical distribution company Cardinal Health Inc. In 2013, the Pentagon spent some $425,000 to supply the pills to troops, a huge lurch from the previous year, when the Department spent a meager $8,000 on the drug.In...

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

© ALAMYThe “vanishing” of polar ice (and the polar bears) has become a poster-child for warmists. When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records - on which the entire panic ultimately rested - were systematically "adjusted" to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.Two weeks ago, under the...

Pot for Pets: Helpful or harmful?

© Unknown Today I'm chatting with Dr. Rob Silver on the subject of medical marijuana for animal companions. Dr. Silver has been a veterinarian since 1982, and a holistic vet since 1987. He sold his practice in Boulder, Colorado, and is now working full-time educating other veterinarians on the advantages of holistic medicine.Back in 1982, Dr. Silver was very excited to start using all the conventional medicine tools he'd acquired as a veterinary...

Iraq's children: Ever expendable - From Madeleine Albright to Tony Blair and "Save the Children."

"It's a hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. " (Madeleine Albright, then US Ambassador to the UN, on the "embargo related" deaths of half a million Iraqi children, 12thMay 1996.)"The most traumatized child population on earth." (Professor Magne Raundalen, Centre for Crisis Studies, Bergen, Norway, February 1992.) © http://bit.ly/1EHkbWo Tony Blair was, mind-stretchingly, presented with Save the Children's Global Legacy Award,...

Kiev 'unable' to provide copies of 'Russian soldier' passports

Kiev has failed to provide Moscow with copies of documents, allegedly belonging to Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine, a Russian foreign ministry official told RIA Novosti on Sunday.Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko showed off covers of Russian passports and military IDs, claiming they prove "Russian presence" in the conflict-torn East Ukraine.Moscow then asked Kiev to provide copies...

The great illusion of free press

© Featureflash/Shutterstock.comGreg Dyke: Former BBC Director-General. I regularly enjoy coffee with two mainstream media editor friends.Neither will carry my articles because of my 'pro-Russian leanings.' I won't play a part in mainstream media's orchestrated anti-Russian rhetoric. Be proud of me; my candid nature suggests that, in the Euro Weekly News at least, you enjoy a free press.A fiction usually directed at Russia is that it doesn't have...

German intelligence: Ukraine casualties 10x higher than official figures

© Sputnik German intelligence estimates that the total number of people who have been killed in Ukraine is almost 50,000, including both civilians and the military, the German media reported on Sunday.The estimates are ten times higher than the officially released death toll figures. The official data is clearly too low, German intelligence sources told a Frankfurt-based newspaper, .Speaking at a Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian...

Staff and customers mystified by strange lights at Bradford pub, UK

© Telegraph & Argus, UKLandlord Barry Gallagher and bar manager Sharon Burton at the Dog & Gun in Wibsey, where mysterious lights have been caught on CCTV. Staff and customers at a Bradford pub have been left mystified by a series of bright lights captured on CCTV.Security cameras at the Dog & Gun, St Enoch's Road, Wibsey, have recorded bizarre white lights, dubbed 'bright disks'.The mysterious lights have been seen almost nightly over...

William Thompson, CDC vaccine whistleblower, given immunity to testify

© waittilyouhearthis.com Patrick Howley at The Daily Caller reports that William Thompson, CDC whistleblower, has been given immunity from prosecution, by the federal government, to testify before Congress about vaccine fraud at the CDC.Cautionary note: so far, The Daily Caller is the sole source on this story.On August 27, 2014, Thompson, a long-time researcher at the CDC, published a statement through his lawyer, Rick Morgan, admitting that he...

Sarkozy says what? Crimeans can't be blamed for joining Russia!

© Reuters/Philippe WojazerFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy Crimea cannot be blamed for seceding from Ukraine - a country in turmoil - and choosing to join Russia, said former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. He also added that Ukraine "is not destined to join the EU.""We are part of a common civilization with Russia," said Sarkozy, speaking on Saturday at the congress of the Union for a Popular Movement Party (UMP), which the former...

Alan Greenspan: "Greece Will Leave The Eurozone; The Eurozone Won't Continue In Its Current Form"

It was another statement by the maestro that has caught the world's attention, this time opining on Greece, when he told BBC Radio's the World This Weekend that "Greece will leave the Eurozone. I don't see that it helps Greece to be in the Euro, and I certainly don't see that it helps the rest of the Eurozone. It's just a matter of time before everyone recognizes that parting is the best strategy.... At this stage I don't see any people who are willing...

Five hours in Moscow: The Hollande-Merkel-Putin talks

Part one (On 6th February 2015) They have apparently continued for 5 hours and are still not finished though it seems some sort of document is being prepared for tomorrow.Three comments:1. If negotiations go on for 5 hours that does not suggest a smooth and conflict free discussion.2. One of the most interesting things about the Moscow talks is that they mainly happened without the presence of aides and officials i.e. Putin, Hollande and Merkel...
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