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Saturday, 23 May 2015

Aleksey Mozgovoi, leader of Lugansk "Ghost" militia assassinated

© Sputnik/ Yuriy Lashov      Prominent militia leader Mozgovoi was assassinated on Saturday evening after the vehicle he was traveling in ran into an ambush. Lugansk militia leader Aleksey Mozgovoi was assassinated by unknown gunmen on Saturday after the vehicle he was traveling in ran into an ambush. Mozgovoi was the head of Lugansk's Prizrak ("Ghost") Brigade militia, one of the most prominent militias in the region. "This...

Unites States' spying affair with Germany is turning sour

© Reuters / Thomas Peter Security officers stand outside the U.S. Embassy in Berlin      The US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has ordered a review of cooperation between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the German intelligence agency BND, newspaper reports. Citing an unnamed source in US intelligence, says Clapper is unhappy with Berlin's "inability to contain secret data". According to the report, the...

Ohio cop who shot unarmed civilians cleared from charges, sparks Cleveland protests

© Reuters / Tony Dejak Michael Brelo      An Ohio police officer has been found not guilty of the voluntary manslaughter of two unarmed black motorists. The verdict has prompted protests in Cleveland, with authorities bracing for the possibility of additional demonstrations. Cleveland officer Michael Brelo, 31, faced two counts of voluntary manslaughter after mounting the hood of the suspects' car and firing shots into their...

France passes legislation barring supermarkets from spoiling, throwing away food; 1.3bn tons wasted worldwide

© The Independent      French supermarkets will be banned from throwing away or destroying unsold food and must instead donate it to charities or for animal feed, under a law set to crack down on food waste. The French national assembly voted unanimously to pass the legislation as France battles an epidemic of wasted food that has highlighted the divide between giant food firms and people who are struggling to eat. As MPs united...

Russia will call in Ukraine's $3 Billion in debt obligations should Kiev go into default

© RIA Novosti / Yury Kochetkov Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Prime Minister Medvedev charged with enforcing repayment of $3 billion in Eurobonds      Vladimir Putin is one of those rare world leaders that talks straight, and call it like it is. The man is pure realpolitik to the max, and as red pill as you can get. While the western financial oligarchs fiddle around, trying to find...

Surprised? US has launched a new assault against Russia

© Unknown      If someone had the impression that the visit of Secretary of State John Kerry to the town of Sochi, followed by negotiations with Victoria Nuland, his deputy in Moscow, could be regarded as first steps in the direction of normalization of US-Russian relations, they would be deeply mistaken. In short, Washington, particularly the Obama administration, is trying to solve its problems at the expense or rather with...

Israel follows through with fascist declaration to jail Palestinians who make 'anti-Israel' comments on social media

© Al Jazeera Palestinians mark Prisoners Day in the occupied West Bank.      [Israel] ~Iyab Shalabi, Son of jailed Palestinian activist Iyab Shalabi has only been allowed to visit his father, Omar, in prison once since December, when he and eight other Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem were arrested by Israel for posts they wrote on Facebook and other social media outlets. "Several months went by before they actually...

Cop resigns after body cam shows him pepper-spray & taser a man for having a medical emergency

Fredericksburg, Virginia — One of Fredericksburg's finest will no longer be part of their police department after resigning this month. The resignation took place after the officer violated department policy by tasering and pepper-spraying a man during a medical emergency. On May 4th, David Washington was driving his car down Route 1 near the University of Mary Washington when he experienced a medical emergency. The emergency caused him to black out, hit a jeep, and cross over the median striking a road sign. The driver of the jeep called 9-1-1...

Israel follows through with fascist declaration to jail 'anti-Israel' comments made on social media by Palestinians

© Al Jazeera Palestinians mark Prisoners Day in the occupied West Bank.      [Israel] ~Iyab Shalabi, Son of jailed Palestinian activist Iyab Shalabi has only been allowed to visit his father, Omar, in prison once since December, when he and eight other Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem were arrested by Israel for posts they wrote on Facebook and other social media outlets. "Several months went by before they actually...

Rand Paul blocks extension of Patriot Act, future of illegal NSA spying on Americans in limbo

© NSA.gov Utah Data Center.      While an extension of the Patriot Act, that landmark bill which ushered in the America's , "turnkey totalitarian state" (previewed here long before Edward Snowden's shocking revelations), is just a matter of time, supporters of the Fourth Amendment scored a brief victory last night when following yet another marathon 10 hour filibuster... Will be seeing everyone overnight it seems. My filibuster...

Be very afraid: Islamic State says could obtain nuclear bomb in less than 12 months

© Sputnik/ Mihail Mokrushin      The Islamic State jihadist group (ISIL) could obtain a nuclear weapon within 12 month, according to the latest issue of the ISIL's propaganda magazine . "The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilayah in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region," the article, attributed to British photojournalist...

South Front Ukraine Crisis News 22-5-2015: Kiev STILL shelling civilians in E. Ukraine

     Last night, maintenance party 28 of Kiev's forces started advancement in settlement Mariinka around the city Donetsk. Also, pro-Kiev militant attacked in the sector of Donetsk airport. City Donetsk, settlement Shirokino and town Gorlovka were hard shelled by artillery of Ukraine's forces. Witnesses report about causalities among civilians there. Furthermore, Kiev's military hit passenger-train around town Yasinovataya yesterday....

What a surprise: US blocks nuclear disarmament document over Israel

© Reuters / Desmond Boylan A deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile is displayed at La Cabana fortress in Havana.      Washington has blocked the final document of a UN conference that reviewed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, accusing Egypt of manipulating the gathering to target Israel. Moscow has slammed the US for rendering the four-week meeting futile. The 9th international conference...

California parents explain why they oppose mandatory vaccines

© vaccineimpact.com Mass demonstrations in California against SB277. Photo by California Coalition for Vaccine Choice.      In this video, well-informed and educated parents object to and oppose CA SB277, which would eliminate personal belief exemptions for the vaccination of their children. In its current state, if SB 277 became law it would require parents to have their children fully vaccinated in order to attend public...

'Flying rocks from a quarry' damage homes, businesses in Virginia

     Bob Ryan was driving to get a cup of coffee in Sterling, Va., on Thursday morning when he saw rocks the size of baseballs shower out of the sky. "They hit, and then smaller ones hit in succession like, 'boom, boom, boom,'" Ryan said. At first, Ryan thought maybe kids hiding in a treeline were pelting cars. But he noticed that the rocks appeared to have rained down from the clouds, as if they were meteors. Laura Rinhart,...

Ukrainian terrorists execute NAF militia man and his pregnant wife

These psychopaths are supported by the United States.      Information agency NewsFront posted a video discovered on the cell phone of one of the fighters of the Ukrainian battalion, liquidated by people's militia of Lugansk Republic. His name and the date of liquidation were not disclosed. On the video men in masks and camouflage with Ukrainian markings performed a cold-blooded execution of two people by hanging on a specially...

Huge sinkhole swallows pond and bunkers after appearing on US golf course

© The Independent, UK The hole appeared on the Top of the Rock course in Missouri, where a PGA Tour event was played last month.      A huge sinkhole has opened up on a US golf course where the world's top golfers competed just last month. The crater, which is 80ft wide and 35ft deep, swallowed part of a pond, turf and bunkers on the Top of the Rock complex in Branson, Missouri. Managers told the Associated Press that it would...

Lokon-Empung volcano in Indonesia shaken by violent eruption

     An explosion occurred Wednesday (20 May) at 15:22 local time and produced an ash plume of approx 1.5 km height. The eruption was accompanied by strong explosion sounds, which caused concern in nearby villages and the town of Tomohon. After the initial explosion, mild ash venting continued for a while. The eruption came from two vents, both the Tompaluan crater and the new crater west of it that had formed in October last...

Lokon-Empung volcano shaken by violent eruption

     An explosion occurred Wednesday (20 May) at 15:22 local time and produced an ash plume of approx 1.5 km height. The eruption was accompanied by strong explosion sounds, which caused concern in nearby villages and the town of Tomohon. After the initial explosion, mild ash venting continued for a while. The eruption came from two vents, both the Tompaluan crater and the new crater west of it that had formed in October last...

Senator Explodes When Questioned About His Vaccine Bill

By now, vaccine skeptics are generally familiar with the faces of Congressmen who are attempting to take away their natural rights to determine whether or not they and their children are vaccinated. Congressional parasites like Dianne Feinstein, as well as Presidential hopefuls like Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson, are now regular appearances in the “remove parents’ rights” theatre. But how many people are familiar with the faces of the state level...

Woman rescues 3-year-old girl from coyote attack in Irvine, California

Coyote      A 3-year-old girl was attacked by a coyote Friday while playing with a friend in an Orange County park. It happened around 5:50 p.m. at the corner of Equinox and Silverado, according to Irvine police. The coyote charged at the girl "out of nowhere" and lunged at her neck. It could have ended much differently had it not been for a nearby resident who acted quickly. Ginna McKenna was sitting on her patio when she...

South Front: 21-5-2015 Ukraine Crisis News

     The Ukrainian forces have shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 33 times over the last 24 hours, DPR defense ministry said on Wednesday. According to the DPR defense ministry, the Kiev forces shelled Donetsk (Kievsky district and the airport), Gorlovka, Zhabichevo, Nizhnee Lozovoye, Shirokino, Kalinovka, Ozeryanovka and Belaya Kamenka. The Donetsk People's Republic has returned to Kiev 550 prisoners since...
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