Election victory puts the country on a collision course with the EU and international creditors Radical left party Syriza swept to power in Greece on Sunday promising to end years of painful austerity policies, in an election victory that puts… Read More ›
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Planets outside our solar system more hospitable to life than thought
Public Release: 15-Jan-2015 TORONTO, ON – A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought. “Planets… Read More ›
German Double Agent Stole Names of 3,500 Spies World-Wide
Wednesday, 14 January 2015 Investigators have found a list reportedly compiled by a BND agent accused of working for the US, containing the names and aliases of 3,500 German intelligences employees, Bild newspaper reports. The 32-year-old, identified as Markus… Read More ›
Princeton Study: US No Longer a Democracy
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political… Read More ›
Multiple researchers potentially exposed to biological warfare agent at USAMRIID
EEV: Further details will be posted on evesdrift.com when and if available Posted: Sunday, January 4, 2015 2:00 am By Sylvia Carignan News-Post Staff While sitting in a boiling hot water bath in a Fort Detrick lab, a plastic tube… Read More ›
Petraeus-compromise the Archive
The Link: Petraeus-compromise the Archive All my links have been busted under categories. You can test the Category links yourself on the right side of the main page. This will give you the link to the full 53 archived articles….. Read More ›
Infamous study of humanity’s ‘dark side’ may actually show how to keep it at bay
Public Release: 9-Jan-2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. — In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on obedience and reprehensible… Read More ›
US Airport Gun Smuggling Scheme Raises Concerns Amid Increased Shootings
US 02:24 25.12.2014 1900 The recently uncovered gun smuggling scheme in the United States raises concerns of increased violence in the country amid recent shootings of police officers in New York. MOSCOW, December 25 (Sputnik) — It was revealed on Tuesday that… Read More ›
Islamic State Publishes Handbook for Female Slave Ownership
The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State has released guidelines on interaction with non-Muslim female slaves, equating them to disposable property, allowing them to be beaten but however putting some restrictions on their use. MOSCOW, December 14 (Sputnik)… Read More ›
Can organic crops compete with industrial agriculture?
“no significant differences in organic and conventional yields for leguminous crops, such as beans, peas and lentils.” PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 9-Dec-2014 Study finds smaller than expected gap in yields between organic and conventional farming Berkeley — A systematic overview of… Read More ›
Greece’s stock market just suffered its worst collapse ever
Greek stocks fell more than at any point during Europe’s debt crisis today after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras gambled his political future on bringing forward a parliamentary vote on a new head of state. Greek stocks are now down 13%… Read More ›
Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans? New research says no
Disappearance of Neanderthals likely the result of competition from Homo sapiens, and not from poor adaptation to cold In an extensive, multi-institution study led by SUNY Downstate Medical Center, researchers have identified new evidence supporting the growing belief that Neanderthals… Read More ›
Ukraine Admits Its Vast Gold Reserves are Gone
Tuesday, 18 November 2014 Back in March, at a time when the IMF reported that Ukraine’s official gold holdings as of the end of February, (just as the US State Department-facilitated coup against former president Victor Yanukovich was concluding), amounted… Read More ›
Harvard gets record donation from Hong Kong billionaire brothers
English.news.cn 2014-09-09 10:04:52 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Harvard University announced Monday its school of public health has received 350-million-U.S.-dollar donation, the largest in Harvard’s history, from a charitable foundation run by Hong Kong billionaire brothers Ronnie and Gerald Chan…. Read More ›
Which countries don’t like America and which do
Which countries don’t like America and which do | Pew Research Center// // // July 15, 2014 By Bruce Stokes . Sacré bleu! France makes the list of top 10 fans of the U.S. and Germany makes the list of… Read More ›
Ukrainian PM and Cabinet Resign
Thursday, 24 July 2014 Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned after two leading political parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition. The far right Svoboda party and the UDAR movement led by former boxer Vladimir Klitschko both… Read More ›
IMF pronounces Bulgaria’s banks safe just two weeks before Bank Run
Friday, 11 July 2014 Earlier this summer, IMF bureaucrats went to Sofia, Bulgaria to study the country’s economic progress. And roughly a month ago, they released an official report which stated, among other things, that Bulgarian banks are “stable and… Read More ›
Spain to charge 0.03% Tax on Bank Deposits
Monday, 07 July 2014 Spain on Friday said it would introduce a blanket taxation rate of 0.03 percent on all bank account deposits, in a move aimed at harmonising regional tax regimes and generating revenues for the country’s cash-strapped… Read More ›
Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park
Controversial entrepreneur sets out to change Americans’ perceptions about wealthy Chinese .PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 18 June, 2014, 1:16am Mimi Lau in Guangzhou mimi.lau@scmp.com . // Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park | South China… Read More ›
Will the IMF headquarters move to Beijing?
(People’s Daily Online) 09:19, June 17, 2014 The International Monetary Fund’s headquarters may one day move from Washington to Beijing, aligning with China’s growing influence in the world economy, the fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde said early this month. Attaching… Read More ›
New study finds Internet not responsible for dying newspapers
June 10, 2014 We all know that the Internet has killed the traditional newspaper trade, right? After all, until the general population started interacting with the web in the mid-90s, the newspaper business was thriving—offering readers top notch journalism and… Read More ›
Anti-EU party UKIP wins British Poll / UKIP has won 27.5 percent of the votes, leading all political parties
Monday, 26 May 2014 Britain’s anti-EU political party UK Independence Party (UKIP) topped the European Parliament elections in Britain, marking the first time that a national election in the country has been won by a party other than the Labor… Read More ›
Transdniestria Asks Russia to Initiate Independence Recognition Procedure
Thursday, 17 April 2014 The parliament of Transdniestria, a de-facto independent former autonomous republic of Moldova, passed on Wednesday an address to the parliament and president of the Russian Federation to initiate the procedure for the recognition of the republic’s… Read More ›
Democracy, Human Rights in Europe at lowest level
Wednesday, 16 April 2014 The rule of law in Europe is going through its most severe crisis since the Cold War, a report by the continent’s top human rights and democracy watchdog warns. Most of the European countries are facing… Read More ›
Athens bans protests for EU meeting
Greek police have banned protests in central Athens ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers in the capital. Demonstrators will be barred from areas including Syntagma Square, the focus of recent anti-austerity protests. EU finance ministers are expected… Read More ›
Former deputy CIA director denies being part of politically driven Benghazi cover-up as his ties to Hillary Clinton are revealed
CIA station chief in Benghazi, Libya told CIA that the al-Qaeda-linked attack was not the product of a spontaneous protest Morell, then the deputy CIA director, said Wednesday that he overruled that report and sided with analysts who weren’t… Read More ›
Europe says No to drug data access ” arguing that this would undermine commercial interests and that there was no overriding public interest in disclosure”
Public release date: 10-May-2011 – Request Repost Drug regulators are protecting profits over patients, warn researchers Analysis: Opening up data at the European Medicines Agency Medicines regulators are protecting drug company profits rather than the lives and welfare of patients… Read More ›
Venice: 89% vote for independece from Italy
Sunday, 23 March 2014 Over 89 percent of residents in Italy’s Veneto region have voted in an unofficial referendum in favor of independence from the rest of the country as Venetians seek to restore the glory of the old days… Read More ›
If Russia Gets Crimea, Should Germany Get Kaliningrad?
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Mar. 20 2014 21:29 Vladimir Filonov / MTA view of the Gothic-style Konigsberg Cathedral in Kaliningrad, Russia. In the tug-of-war between Russia and the West, some states are apparently more equal than others when it comes to correcting “mistakes” of the… Read More ›
Venice wants to secede from Italy
Sunday, 16 March 2014 Voting begins Sunday on a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic. La Serenissima — or… Read More ›
3 South Ukrainian Cities Want to Join Crimea – Lawmaker
– Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odessa Tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea (Archive) © RIA Novosti. Taras Litvinenko 02:47 04/03/2014 SIMFEROPOL, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – A senior Crimean lawmaker said on Monday that representatives of three southern Ukrainian administrative capitals expressed willingness… Read More ›
Crimea Council Resolves Region To Become Part Of Russia
(13:42, Thursday, March 6, 2014) Ukrainian News Agency The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea at the closed meeting on Thursday has resolved the region to enter Russia as a constituent territory of the Russian Federation, reads the… Read More ›
EU matches Putin’s €11 billion financial offer to Ukraine
Published 05 March 2014 Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced today (5 March) a financial package for Ukraine of approximately €11 billion, matching Russian President Vladimir Putin’s previous offer, which led to Kyiv not signing the Association Agreement with the… Read More ›
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet tells EU’s Cathy Ashton about claim that provocateurs were behind Maidan killings
Russia Tries to Woo Back Moldova
By Christian Neef As Moldova prepares to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, Russia is stepping up attempts to keep the country in its fold. It has found some willing helpers in the country. If Mihail Formuzal had… Read More ›
Billionaire Kolomoisky takes over in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, blasting Putin and Yanukovych
– Kolomoisky referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a small-sized schizophreniac” who “went insane” and whose attempts to “revive the Russian Empire to the 1913 borders can bring world to disaster.” March 3, 2014, 9:36 p.m. Ukraine — by … Read More ›
USAID got Maidan coup up and running – media
3 March 2014, 11:29 EEV: Needs to be validated, separating propaganda (i.e. Voice of Russia) from fact requires time. George Soros has a long history of interfering in national politics (i.e. Balkan Conflict ), Open Society in the Ukraine, U.S. Presidency… Read More ›
China gives Russia it approval on the Ukranian incursion
China FM clarifies stance on Ukraine situation(Xinhua) 19:47, March 03, 2014 BEIJING, March 3 — China’s stance on the current situation in Ukraine is objective, just, fair and peaceful, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Monday. “China upholds its… Read More ›
Germans mock new Italian PM – the new Mr Bean?
Friday, 28 February 2014 German newspapers mocked the new Italian PM Matteo Renzi(39) for having women for half of his cabinet Ministers, which is somewhat bizarre since Germany for the past 8 years is ruled by a woman Angela… Read More ›
Belgium must pay for asylum-seeking families to rent on the private market when federal housing facilities are full
– the EU high court noted that respect for human dignity requires providing asylum seekers with housing, food and clothes, regardless of the cost to the state. EU Touts Human Dignity for Asylum Seekers By WILLIAM DOTINGA ShareThis (CN) –… Read More ›
Switzerland rejects Croatia free movement deal after immigration referendum
Sunday, 16 February 2014 Switzerland has refused to sign a protracted deal with Croatia, initially agreed over a year ago, which would have given Croatians unrestricted access to the Swiss employment market. The Swiss say it’s not viable “in its… Read More ›
Green MEP Staes: ‘GMO clearly not wanted by majority of members’
Despite 19 out of 28 EU member states opposing a genetically modified crop, it was authorized due to the bloc’s voting system. Green MEP Bart Staes says the Commission would be ill-advised to go against the majority. The European Food… Read More ›
Human trafficking: The EU’s dirty secret
European Union citizens from Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary are the most common victims of human trafficking in Europe. Many of them are women who are sexually exploited. Most Europeans would agree with the first paragraph of the EU’s strategy paper… Read More ›
EU rules “mean children can’t get life-saving cancer drugs”
Source: Reuters – Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:00 PM Author: Reuters * Adult medicines not licensed for children under system * Yet such drugs may be effective in paediatric cancers * Researchers want children’s trial opt-out abolished
Switzerland bucks European Union, votes to limit immigration
GENEVA – Voters in Switzerland on Sunday narrowly backed a plan to limit immigration, in a blow for the government after it had warned that the measure could harm the Swiss economy and relations with the European Union. Swiss public… Read More ›
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