Rob Ford has spent a week ducking a media storm over footage that allegedly shows him smoking crack David Usborne Friday, 24 May 2013 Toronto’s mayor denied accusations of drug use, breaking a week-long silence over a raging media storm… Read More ›
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Eric Holder PERSONALLY approved the seizure of Fox News reporter’s emails
An unnamed sourced claims Eric Holder personally signed off the warrant to seize James Rosen’s emails The Justice Department believed Rosen to be a ‘possible co-conspirator’ Holder had previously denied any knowledge of his department’s decision to obtain the phone… Read More ›
How JFK secretly ADMIRED Hitler: Explosive book reveals former President’s praise for the Nazis as he travelled through Germany before Second World War
EEV Note: We need second confirmation on these claims A new book reveals President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis Embarrassingly close to visit being paid to Berlin next month by Obama Comes… Read More ›
Parents of U.S. software engineer found dead in Singapore quit inquest saying the police evidence is fake and they do not trust the country’s legal process
Shane Todd, an American working on an 18-month assignment in Singapore, was found hanged in his apartment in June 2012 Dr Todd was researching new technology that could be used by the military His family believe he was murdered over… Read More ›
Report: Michelle Obama once dated inspector general at the center of IRS investigation into anti-tea party political favoritism
By David Martosko PUBLISHED: 15:33 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:45 EST, 22 May 2013 A young Michelle Robinson, the future first lady of the United States, may have dated Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George at… Read More ›
Courts? US Admits killing 4 Americans in Drone strikes
Wednesday, 22 May 2013 One day before US President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in… Read More ›
In tense Mexico state, vigilantes refuse to drop guns
22 May 2013 COALCOMAN, Mexico (AFP) Farmers wearing bulletproof jackets and toting assault rifles ride in pick-up trucks emblazoned with the word “self-defense” to protect this rural western Mexico town from the Knights Templar drug cartel. The federal government deployed… Read More ›
Disney Channel forced to pull episode of hit TV show Jessie that ‘mocks’ and ‘humiliates’ child on gluten-free diet
A Change.org petition calling on Disney to ‘stop bullying gluten-intolerant characters’ attracted 2,137 signatures By Sadie Whitelocks PUBLISHED: 10:51 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 21 May 2013 The Disney Channel has pulled an episode of its popular… Read More ›
Commander of Army base in South Carolina suspended after ‘fighting with his mistress’
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:39 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:41 EST, 21 May 2013 The commanding officer of a South Carolina army base was suspended after he got into a fight with a woman he is… Read More ›
US tornado: devastated city’s storm shelter programme was put on hold
The devastated city of Moore developed a plan to help residents build storm shelters but it was put “on hold” as local authorities battled for scarce federal dollars and through a maze of regulations, city authorities said. By Raf… Read More ›
China’s One-Child Policy Affects Personality
China’s one-child policy has affected the personalities of a generation of only children By Carrie Arnold | Monday, May 20, 2013 | In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial… Read More ›
Disabled Chinese toddler ‘imprisoned for four years’
A four-year-old disabled Chinese boy was put in a prison for over three years because his parents were protesters, his foster father has claimed. Disabled Chinese boy Chen Ya, now eight, was imprisoned for over three years because his parents… Read More ›
China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN National May. 20, 2013 – 06:49AM JST ( 25 ) BEIJING — China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is… Read More ›
Angelina Jolie gene flaw: British businessman makes medical history after having healthy prostate removed
Earlier this week, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she’d had a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA 1 gene Liam O’Brien Sunday, 19 May 2013 A British businessman has made medical history by having his healthy prostate… Read More ›
N. Korea fires 4th short-range missile in 2 days – Seoul
Published time: May 19, 2013 09:01 Edited time: May 19, 2013 11:36 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) (Reuters / KCNA) North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day… Read More ›
Taxes in France top 100% of Income
Sunday, 19 May 2013 More than 8,000 French households’ tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data. The newspaper said that the exceptionally high level… Read More ›
Obama administration knew IRS was harassing tea party groups since JUNE
Revealed: Obama administration knew about investigation into claims that IRS was harassing tea party groups since June 2012 as ousted head of the agency insists it was not illegal Appointee in charge of screening tax-exempt applications is now in charge… Read More ›
Japan confirms report N. Korea fires 3 short-range missiles
© Flickr.com/doraemon/cc-by-nс-sa 3.0 Japan confirmed the report of the launches, saying its military had detected them too. The South’s military says it is maintaining high level of readiness amid the developments. The Korean Peninsula is emerging from the latest period… Read More ›
North Korea launches short-range missiles, South says
© Photo: «Vesti.Ru» South Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range guided missiles by North Korea, it said. Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news agency. The missiles… Read More ›
Obama’s media shield law makes prosecuting journalists even easier
Published time: May 17, 2013 21:16 US President Barack Obama. (AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan) United States President Barack Obama is encouraging Congress to take up a media shield law that was abandoned at the start of his administration, but… Read More ›
Somali drug dealers demanding $100,000 for video ‘showing Toronto mayor smoking crack’
According to reports Rob Ford has been filmed inhaling what appears to be a glass crack pipe Lawyer for Ford has said the allegations are ‘false and defamatory’ By Tara Brady PUBLISHED: 09:52 EST, 17 May 2013 | UPDATED: 09:57 … Read More ›
Russia’s FSB reveals identity of CIA Moscow station chief
Russia’s Federal Security Service has publicly revealed the identity of a man it calls the CIA station chief in Moscow, in what experts say is a serious breach of intelligence protocol. A man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle… Read More ›
Romanian thieves stole $1 billion from accounts in 2012
Friday, 17 May 2013 Valentin Boanta, sitting in his jail cell, proudly explains the device he has invented which, he says, could make the world’s ATMs impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals like himself. Boanta, 33, is six months into… Read More ›
Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan
Politics May. 17, 2013 – 06:45AM JST ( 72 ) BEIJING — A senior Chinese military officer has said the Ryukyu Islands—which include Okinawa and its U.S. military bases—“do not belong to Japan”, as a territorial row mounts between the… Read More ›
Suspicious Death Of British Girl In Indian Hospital Raises Specter Of Illegal Human Organ Trade
By Palash Ghosh | May 15 2013 7:23 AM An eight-year old British girl of Indian descent was allegedly murdered by health care workers in India so they could harvest her organs, her grieving parents claim. According to a report… Read More ›
U.S. hospital ICU admissions up 50 percent since 2002
Published: May 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) — Admissions to U.S. hospital intensive care units jumped 50 percent from 2002 to 2009, but researchers are not sure why. Lead author Peter Mullins of George Washington University’s… Read More ›
François Hollande calls for ‘European political union’ within two years; Calls for a more federal Europe
John Lichfield Thursday, 16 May 2013 A beleagured President François Hollande went on the offensive today calling for an “economic government” for the Eurozone and “political union” in Europe within two years. Stung by accusations that he has been too… Read More ›
Christian teacher to be tried in Egypt for insulting Islam
Egypt’s prosecutors on Tuesday referred a Christian schoolteacher to trial on charges of insulting Islam, judicial sources said. Dimiana Abdel-Nour, who was arrested on Wednesday, was accused by her Muslim students’ parents of insulting Islam and comparing it to… Read More ›
Saudi religious police boss condemns Twitter users
The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis. Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites – and especially Twitter – “has lost… Read More ›
US attorney general defends AP seizure citing major security threat to public
Eric Holder says story related to subpoena of phone records was ‘very, very serious’ while Obama faces scrutiny on press rights Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Tuesday 14 May 2013 14.33 EDT US attorney general Eric Holder pauses… Read More ›
Mayan pyramid bulldozed by road builders
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract rock for a road-building project. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology says the destruction… Read More ›
BP and Shell raided over allegations of petrol price-fixing
Oil giants targeted by European Commission in probe into suspected market manipulation Tom Bawden, Oliver Wright Tuesday, 14 May 2013 The European Commission today raided the offices of BP and Shell on suspicion that they are playing a central role… Read More ›
‘A massive and unprecedented intrusion’: Associated Press condemns US government for seizing journalists’ telephone records without explanation
John Hall Tuesday, 14 May 2013 The Associated Press news agency has condemned the US government for the unexplained seizure of records of telephone calls made by its journalists. Describing the seizure as “a massive and unprecedented intrusion”, AP’s… Read More ›
High Court Won’t Chuck Farmer’s Monsanto Debt – A WARNING to all Farmers!
By BARBARA LEONARD WASHINGTON (CN) – An Indiana farmer owes Monsanto more than $84,400 for infringing its patent by saving genetically engineered seeds, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. In addition to selling a glyphosate-based herbicide called Roundup to farmers who… Read More ›
Red-faced Bloomberg admits ‘inexcusable’ privacy breach
Gideon Spanier Monday, 13 May 2013 Bloomberg was today forced to issue a grovelling apology to clients for its “inexcusable” decision to let its journalists use internal customer information in a scandal that has rocked Wall Street and the… Read More ›
IRS targeted 298 nonprofit US groups critical of government and involved in political activities
Statue of Liberty © Photo: Voice of Russia The US Internal Revenue Service singled out for scrutiny groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names as well as nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans… Read More ›
Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 agents targeted political groups, report says
Inspector general findings seems to contradict public statements that Tea party and others were flagged for additional scrutiny Associated Press in Washington guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 May 2013 11.18 EDT White House spokesman Jay Carney has brushed aside calls for the White… Read More ›
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets 05.10.13 6:30 AM The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a… Read More ›
Markets erode moral values
Contact: Dr. Armin Falk armin.falk@uni-bonn.de 49-228-739-240 University of Bonn Researchers from the Universities of Bamberg and Bonn present causal evidence on how markets affect moral values Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production… Read More ›
US government orders Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed to remove blueprint for 3D-printed handgun from the web
Last week Wilson printed and fired the “Liberator” handgun James Legge Friday, 10 May 2013 The US government has demanded the removal of online files which allow users to 3D-print their own unregistered gun at home. The blueprint has so… Read More ›
Japan protests to China over Okinawa claim
Politics May. 09, 2013 – 07:00PM JST ( 55 ) Graphic showing US military bases in Japan’s OkinawaAFP TOKYO — Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over an article in a state-run publication that challenged Japan’s ownership of… Read More ›
China refuses to confirm Okinawa Island belongs to Japanese
Bloomberg — May 09 China refused to confirm that Okinawa belongs to Japan after two Chinese scholars suggested re-examining the ownership of the archipelago that includes the island, adding to tensions over a separate territorial dispute. Agreements between… Read More ›
China should reconsider who owns Okinawa: People’s Daily – China may claim rights to Okinawa
Politics May. 08, 2013 – 05:00PM JST BEIJING — China’s top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan’s sovereignty over the island of Okinawa—home to major U.S. bases—with the Asian powers already embroiled in a territorial… Read More ›
US Air Force stripped 17 officers controlling intercontinental nuclear missiles
© Photo: ru.wikipedia.org US Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control – and, if necessary, launch – nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit’s launch skills…. Read More ›
Military Sex Crimes Investigator Arrested as Congress Cracks Down
By ADAM KLASFELD (CN) – The sexual battery arrest of the U.S. airman who heads the Sex Assault Prevention and Response Unit shook up the coincidentally timed hearing Tuesday of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Lt. Col…. Read More ›
UN Counters Misinformation by Media: Syrian ‘Rebels’ used Chemical Weapons, not Govt
Monday, 06 May 2013 UN human rights investigators have spoken to the victims of Syria’s civil war and gathered medical testimonies which point to the Syrian terrorists having used sarin nerve gas, while any allegations of its use by… Read More ›
China-Japan Island Dispute Could Become Flashpoint
May. 4, 2013 – 11:15AM By WENDELL MINNICK TAIPEI — While North Korea has garnered attention as Asia’s top hotspot, experts worry that the real problem is between Beijing and Tokyo over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which China calls… Read More ›
Syria vows to retaliate against Israel
Photo: EPA A series of massive explosions illuminated the dark sky over Damascus early Sunday, igniting renewed claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country. Syria’s government said the explosions were the second Israeli airstrike in three days…. Read More ›
Poll: 29% of Registered Voters Believe Armed Revolution Might Be Necessary in Next Few Years: Only 47 percent said they disagreed
Twenty-nine percent of registered voters think that an armed revolution might be necessary in the next few years in order to protect liberties, according to a Public Mind poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University. The poll, which surveyed 863 registered voters… Read More ›
Israeli strike killed 300 Syrian soldiers – news portal
The Sea of Galilee is seen in the background as an Iron Dome, a short-range missile defence system, is positioned on a hill in northern Israel, on May 5, 2013. Photo: AFP The damaspost.com news portal has quoted Syrian sources… Read More ›
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