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Thursday, 12 March 2015

The West's plan to drop Russia from SWIFT hilariously backfires

© onrgaia's/Photobucket If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one...) then he's probably doing so right now.Russia is once again Arch-Enemy of the United States. It's like living through a really bad James Bond movie, complete with cartoonish villains.And for the last several months, the US government has been doing everything it can to torpedo the Russian economy, as well as Vladimir Putin's standing within...

'Underground' ocean confirmed on Jupiter's largest moon

© NASA, ESA, G.Bacon (StScl)An artist's impression of aurora on Ganymede. Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed that the Jupiter-orbiting moon Ganymede has an ocean beneath its icy surface.The finding resolves a mystery about the largest moon in the solar system after NASA's now-defunct Galileo spacecraft provided hints that Ganymede has a sub-surface ocean during exploration of Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003.Scientists...

IMF Ukraine $17.5B bailout links to "reform" and impoverishment of the Ukrainian population

© twitter.com Ukraine will receive total loans of 40 billion dollars from international tax money. For this purpose, Ukraine will carry out "reforms" especially such demands as that the social system be dismantled and privatization [selloff of government assets in order to repay the loans] be performed. The Kiev government is very pleased with the 'help'. A native of the US, Ukraine's Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko wants to buy weapons with the...

Concerned Hawaii residents discuss Trans Pacific Partnership

- A community forum was held in Hilo Wednesday night on the subject of the Trans-Pacific Partnership - a proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty involving twelve countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region currently in negotiations. This week, those negotiations are reportedly being conducted, behind closed doors, at the posh Waikoloa resorts. It was a great opportunity for those opposed to the TPP to speak out. © bigislandvideonews.comJuliet...

American diagnosed with Ebola being flown to Bethesda, MD for treatment

© Michael Duff/APA healthcare worker prepares a colleague’s Ebola virus protective gear at a clinic operated by the International Medical Corps in Makeni, Sierra Leone. An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone will be brought to the US for treatment, the National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday.The healthcare worker is due to arrive at the NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday....

Cops shot by sniper in Ferguson, MO - 'rhetoric' blamed

© Michael B. Thomas/GettyPolice officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015. Two police officers shot and wounded while standing guard outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department early Thursday were deliberately targeted in what a police official called an "ambush." Such ambush-style attacks were the leading method in the surging number of shooting deaths of law...

Cops assassinated by sniper in Ferguson, MO - 'rhetoric' blamed

© Michael B. Thomas/GettyPolice officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015. Two police officers shot and wounded while standing guard outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department early Thursday were deliberately targeted in what a police official called an "ambush." Such ambush-style attacks were the leading method in the surging number of shooting deaths of law...

Russia Insider's Charles Bausman: Germans are fed up with media lies

Russia Insider has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds A poll by German public broadcaster NDR has found out that 63 percent of Germans have little or no confidence in the Ukraine reporting by German media. Of these 63 percent almost every third thinks their reporting might be one-sided or not objective. No wonder given the principles which Germany's largest publishing house follows. Alex Springer SE - among its brands are and newspapers....

30 people feared dead and 40 injured after shopping centre inferno in Kazan, Russia

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a shopping mall in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia Five people are confirmed dead and 25 more are missing and presumed dead after a shopping center in the city of Kazan collapsed in a fire, Russian emergency officials said.Officials said on Thursday that the toll of missing at the Admiral centre is based on reports from relatives and workers in the shopping center, 450 miles east of Moscow.Forty...

Wall Street firm develops new high-speed algorithm capable of performing over 10,000 ethical violations per second

© The Onion New York—Calling it a major breakthrough that will significantly expedite and streamline its daily operations, Wall Street financial firm Goldman Sachs revealed Thursday it has developed a new high-speed algorithm that is capable of performing more than 10,000 ethical violations per second. "With this new automated program, we'll be able to systematically deceive investors, engage in conflicts of interest, and execute thousands of other...

Took 'em long enough! USA Today finds Nazis in Ukraine

© RIA Novosti / Alexandr MaksimenkoAzov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region An Azov Battalion sergeant has confessed to of praising Nazi ideology. He also pledged a march on the Ukrainian capital after the war. A spokesman for the pro-Kiev brigade insists this is a 'personal choice' of no more than a fifth of the unit.visited the Azov Battalion stationed in the...

French terror threat 'high': 10,000 troops to stay on streets

© Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes As the threat of attacks by Islamist extremists remains high in France, President Francois Hollande has decided to continue the deployment of 10,000 troops on the streets across the country."The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high. The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops in support of security forces from the Interior Ministry,"...

Taken to the dark side: How we are coerced into accepting torture

© unknown Cleverly at work for the dark side, the corporate media isn't going into great detail about the recent discovery that the Chicago Police Department has for years been operating a secret, off-site, extra-judicial, unconstitutional detention and interrogation center in a nondescript warehouse on the West side of the Windy City. Americans, so the talking heads would have us believe, have more important things to busy ourselves with.The protest...

Unusual ice heave on Otter Tail County lakes, Minnesota

Ice damage on Otter Tail Lake mostly has been concentrated on the south shore of the lake, according to Dave Sethre, President of the Otter Tail County Coalition of Lake Associations Ice is a normal part of winter along Minnesota's lakes. However, this year, some property owners on Otter Tail County lakes are dealing with more ice, and damage, than usual.Dave Sethre, president of the Otter Tail County Coalition of Lake Associations, called the ice...

Very unusual snowfall forces closure of Puebla, Mexico highway

© Mexico News Daily Snow closed some roads yesterday in Michoacán, but today the wintry conditions have moved to the State of Mexico and Puebla, closing the Mexico City-Puebla freeway early this morning.Officials closed the highway about 4:30am between the San Marcos toll booth, on the outskirts of the Federal District, to Río Frío in the State of Mexico, near the Puebla border.The Federal Highways and Bridges Agency, Capufe, issued a warning via...

Ex-DEA agent claims he was told by superiors to avoid drug busts in wealthy neighborhoods

© Flickr/ U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Rob Simpson. It's all about the race.That's what a former special agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency says in explosive new comments about how the US is handling the so-called "war on drugs" and why wealthier people are treated differently than the poor and working class."We were jumping on guys in the middle of the night, all of that. Swooping down on folks all across the country, using...

12 top Russian inventions that changed the world

Russian inventors have contributed generously to the development of global scientific thought. Many of their inventions have literally transformed the world, enabling us to enjoy such blessings of civilisation as aircraft, cars, computers and television. RIR presents a dozen of such revolutionary innovations that have become an integral part of modern existence.Caterpillar tracks, track assembly In 1837, Russian army captain Dmitry Zagryazhsky came...

Man killed by wild boar and 9 injured in India

The boar which was shot dead with the help of residents. (Inset) Abdul Salam who was killed by the wild animal A man died and nine others sustained injuries in a wild boar attack near Koodaranji here on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Keelath Abdul Salam, 50, alias Abdu, a farmer and a resident of Kalpur. The wild boar was later shot dead with the help of the local residents.According to the police, the wild boar attacked Abdul Salam...

Dead Humpback whale washes ashore in Monterey, California

© CBSA young humpback whale carcass is washed ashore at Sunset Beach in Monterey, March 6, 2015. A dead humpback has whale washed ashore on a Monterey beach close to where a second whale was seen swimming near the shore.The whale turned up Friday morning at Sunset State Beach after being seen floating offshore Thursday night.A marine biologist said it was a young whale about 45 feet long. It had no apparent signs of trauma on the carcass and was...

Russia press secretary answers Putin illness rumors - 'His handshakes break hands'

© Press Service of the Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary has dismissed reports that the Russian president is ill as rumors, adding that the news itself could be a result of "spring madness" among some reporters."No need to worry, everything is all right. He has working meetings all the time, only not all of these meetings are public," Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio. He added that the president...

UK Party Leader Farage: "We poked Russian bear with a stick, unsurprisingly Putin reacted"

© Reuters / Vincent KesslerLeader of Britain's UK Independence Party (UKIP) and member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nigel Farage Britain's Nigel Farage launched a stinging attack on the idea of an EU army to counter Russia. The UKIP leader also placed some of the blame for the Ukraine crisis on EU expansion.The notion of building up an EU army to counter Russia was the brainchild of European Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker. Farage quickly noted...
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