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Monday, 16 February 2015

Greece rejects EU's proposals, talks over debt crisis break down

© Reuters/John Kolesidis Talks between Greece and euro zone finance ministers over the country's debt crisis broke down on Monday when Athens rejected a proposal to request a six-month extension of its international bailout package as "unacceptable".The unexpectedly rapid collapse raised doubts about Greece's future in the single currency area after a new leftist-led government vowed to scrap the 240 billion euro ($272.4 billion) bailout, reverse...

CIA controls mass media like the NY Times, Time Magazine and much more

In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence...

How one Russian farmer repaid his "Lickspittle good-for-nothing" bankers

© pro-sibir.org For Russian farmer Alexander Bakshaev, the crushingly high interest rates the banks were charging him on his loan inspired a smelly protest... As Pro-Sibir reports, the fuming farmer repaid his loan with the equivalent value in manure. the manure was worth 40,000 rubles ($610) - the exact amount he owed the bank, Bakshayev told Sibkray.ru. "The whole of Russia somehow owes something now to these lickspittle good-for-nothing bankers...

Trying to understand the teenage mind

© Thinkstock To their parents, teenagers may seem like the laziest, most foolish, and most self-centered beings on the planet, but according to one prominent UK cognitive neuroscience professor, adults shouldn't hold such behaviors against them - that's just how their brains are wired.Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a professor at University College London and the deputy director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, recently told that when adolescents...

Creepy, calculating and controlling: All the ways big brother is watching you

"You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."— George Orwell, 1984 © artofthewicked.com None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen could be counted on to break at least three laws a day without knowing it, most of us have knowingly...

Jon Stewart on Brian Williams saga: Guardians of the veracity

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USA: New Jersey woman found frozen to death near her home

© facebook A New Jersey woman was found frozen to death in the snow near her home on Sunday morning, authorities said.Olivia Benito, 66, had stopped by a neighbor's house for drinks after they left a benefit event at an Elks Club in Lakewood, New Jersey, Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County prosecutor's office, said in a news release.The neighbor told police that Benito had some alcoholic beverages during the course of the evening, Della...

Man robs 6-year-old girl selling Girl Scout cookies outside gas station

© Scripps Media, Inc Police in Beech Grove, Indiana are trying to identify a man who stole over $300 from a Girl Scout selling cookies outside a gas station, WRTV reports.Six-year-old Whitney Allen was selling cookies outside of a gas station when a man approached her and her mother and began to browse. According to Whitney's mother, Stephanie, the man said "'eenie, meenie, miney, mo,' and once he said 'mo,' he snatched my black [money] book right...

Cop warns other officers not to arrest man until dashcam is turned off

© In dashcam video released as evidence in an excessive force lawsuit against the St. Louis Police Department, an officer is heard warning her fellow officers to "hold up" with the arrest until the camera can be turned off, the is reporting.The video, which has been held back since April 10, shows the suspect being dragged from a car, beaten, and kicked by up to seven officers while resisting arrest.Lawyers for the suspect, Cortez Bufford, 18,...

Court demands woman write letters to man in prison who savagely beat her and cut her throat or face jail

© FacebookNatalie Allman A woman who was savagely beaten and had her throat slashed by the father of her children has been told she must write letters to her attacker in jail or face imprisonment herself, is reporting.In 2011 Natalie Allman, 29, was tortured for over seven hours and had her throat slashed in front of her twins by her boyfriend Jason Hughes, 42, because he wanted to make her look "ugly" after she attempted to leave him. Hughes,...

Wave of anti-Semitism in France: Hundreds of Jewish tombs defaced

© Reuters / Vincent KesslerDesecrated tombstones are seen at Sarre-Union Jewish cemetery, eastern France, February 15, 2015 Hundreds of tombs in a Jewish cemetery have been vandalized in eastern France. The incident follows a rise in the number of attacks against European Jews, including Sunday morning's shooting in Copenhagen.What happened in the town of Sarre-Union was a "despicable act," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Sunday,...

French leadership urges Jews to ignore Netanyahu's calls for Exodus

© AFP Photo/Miguel Medina A recent attack in Denmark has triggered new calls from Israel's PM for Jews to immigrate, provoking a backlash from Paris. French PM Valls asks the Jews living in France to ignore the calls while President Hollande says French Jews "have a place."Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on RTL TV channel.French President Francois Hollande joined, speaking in the northeastern commune of Montry, said thatThe French government's...

Israeli foreign minister Liberman: 'I hope all the world's Jews will come to Israel'

Liberman: 'Come home, Jews, you will be safe here' Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday said that he hopes that all of the world's Jews will eventually make aliya to Israel.Speaking to Army Radio from Paris, where on Sunday he participated alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other world leaders in an anti-terror march following a violent week in France, Liberman said that "Israel's message is that we are here with them. We won't...

Serial complainer about anti-Semitic graffiti left on and near his home in Paris... caught daubing cars with anti-Semitic graffiti

'Jew' was painted on some 20 vehicles before the man was apprehended A 73 year old man was caught Monday trying to tag the word "Jew" on vehicles in the upmarket 16th district of Paris. The man and his wife, who is Jewish, had previously filed filed complaints in July and August when anti-semitic graffiti was "discovered in their building."On Monday around 4pm, a man was caught writing the word "Jew" on vehicles parked on Avenue du General-Clavery...

Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident

© EyevineThe truth is out there? The Rendlesham UFO incident is the subject of a new film Dubbed "Britain's Roswell", the Rendlesham Forest incident, which took place over a series of nights in December 1980, continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. It is easy to understand why. Consider the following three statements, for example:1) "This was not some vague 'lights in the sky' sighting - the UFO actually landed." - Nick...

Propaganda: CIA fears "hostile nations" manipulating weather to trigger droughts and floods

If it seems like it never stops raining, blame the Russians. Or even the North Koreans. CIA chiefs fear hostile nations are trying to manipulate the world's weather, a conference heard.A leading academic has told how he got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding. Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: 'Consultants working for the CIA rang and said we'd like...

Russian opposition plans 'anti-crisis' rally in Moscow

© RIA Novosti / Vladimir PesnyaAlexei Navalny The opposition coalition Solidarity has submitted a request for a major march against the authorities' anti-crisis measures on March 1. Moscow City Hall is yet to grant approval for the rally.The news about the application was reported by one of Solidarity's key activists, Sergey Davidis. He told Interfax the event would be named simply 'Spring' and the maximum turnout is estimated at 100,000. The main...

FLASHBACK: In strange twist, Venezuela arrests '7 police agents' and rabbi's bodyguard in connection with Caracas synagogue attack

Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on the walls of the Caracas synagogue Venezuelan investigators on Sunday said seven police agents and four civilians were arrested in connection with an attack on a synagogue that sparked international condemnation.The Venezuelan public prosecutor's office said the civilians included at least one security official from the synagogue and that all had been captured in raids over the weekend."These people were apprehended...

EU leaders worried about Syriza 'Virus' spreading across Europe

The Greek Solidarity anti-austerity protests are spreading. As anti-austerity protests continue to build in numbers across Europe (and not just in Spain where Podemos now holds a commanding poll lead over the status quo) reports that Greek parliamentary spokesman for Syriza, Nikos Filis notes "The wave of protests indicates a new beginning... And it scares the dominant forces in Europe. Because Syriza virus can spread and in their communities."...

Libya may halt pumping oil as violence intensifies

© Reuters / Ismail Zitouny Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) says it could suspend production at all its oilfields if the government fails to curb the rising number of attacks by militants.The company is worried about the safety of its employees and the possibility staff might leave the extraction sites after repeated armed attacks. NOC wants the country's Defense Ministry to protect the oil pumping facilities."If these incidents continue,...

Outrage as UK's Selfridges department store installs 'anti-homeless' spikes

The UK's biggest department store, Selfridges, has provoked outrage after it installed "disgusting" anti-homeless spikes outside its Manchester branch."Anti-homeless" metal spikes placed outside the Manchester department store make it impossible for homeless people to sleep there.Residents in the area have confirmed homeless people "used to sleep" in the exact same place where the spikes are now situated.This isn't the first time these "inhumane"...

Congress planning to let Homeland Security funding lapse

© Reuters / Kevork Djansezian In a move that could have ramifications for domestic anti-terrorism efforts, US House Speaker John Boehner said he would let funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse on Feb. 27 in order to reverse Obama's immigration reform actions.House Republicans have passed a Homeland Security appropriations bill, but it is contingent upon defunding Obama's 2012 and 2014 executive orders that negated the threat of deportation...
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