China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security might be compromised via the US-based company’s servers, a Bloomberg report has revealed. The new request comes amid an intensified spy scandal between China and the US. The People’s […]
Archive for May, 2014
Indonesia volcano disrupts flights in Australia
Flights across Australia have been affected by a vast ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in neighboring Indonesia. According to reports, the majority of flights in and out of the city of Darwin in northern Australia were cancelled on Saturday due to the volcanic eruption. Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at […]
US media now pushes for transgender as new civil rights task
Movement leveraged by establishment, along with push to legalize illegal immigration, will be a tool of political domination. Time, the weekly news magazine founded by CIA operative Henry Luce, is pushing the transgender agenda as the next civil rights movement. A photo of Laverne Cox, the star of Orange Is the New […]
UK threatens to exit EU over European Commission head
British Prime Minister David Cameron Te British prime minister has threatened that his country will exit the European Union if former Luxembourg premier Jean-Claude Juncker becomes the president of the European Commission. According to German news magazine, Der Spiegel, David Cameron made the comments on the sidelines of an EU summit in […]
California fracking ban bill fails despite strong public support
The California Senate killed a bill that would enact a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state. The ban’s proponents blame lobbying by the oil industry, which spent nearly $1.5 million in three months fighting the bill. The proposed legislation, introduced by Democratic state Sens. Holly J. Mitchell and Mark Leno, […]
Police Throw Grenade into Home and It Lands in Baby’s Crib
From the Associated Press: Officers raiding a Georgia home in search of a drug suspect used a flash grenade not knowing children were inside, severely burning a toddler who was sleeping just inside the door, authorities and the boy’s family said. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said the officers were looking for a suspect who […]
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 05-29-14
Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, May 29, 2014: Alexandria, Virginia: A deputy sheriff was arrested for sexually assaulting an inmate. ow.ly/xmF2b Update: Bridgeport, Connecticut (First reported 01-28-13): Video of officers kicking a man on the ground made national news and triggered protests. It also launched an FBI investigation into […]
Fissures in the Great Wall & The Illusion of Ordinary Life
Image Source V. Susan Ferguson, ContributorWaking Times In modern times we have all accepted a reality based solely on and limited to the five senses. During the past 6,000 years, the period known as the Kali Yuga, our innate abilities to perceive the Invisible Realms have atrophied to […]
‘Squirming’ John Kerry excused from testifying on Benghazi terror attacks
US Secretary of State John Kerry.(Reuters / Carolyn Kaster) House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa released the Secretary of State from a subpoena to testify before a committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, alleging Kerry was attempting to “distract” from the panel’s work. Rep. Issa, (R-Calif.), said Kerry agreed to appear before the Oversight […]
Supreme Court justices linked to BP lawyers in multi-billion Gulf spill settlement
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Fracking moratorium fails in California despite strong public support
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New federal database would contain details on 227 million Americans
Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP Two independent federal agencies are coming under attack after calling for the creation of a nation-wide database that would collect the Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information of as many as 227 million Americans. That’s what the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked for, at […]
Kerry: Israeli Hostility to Palestinian Unity ‘Appropriate’
Secretary of State John Kerry today defended Israel’s hostility to the incoming Palestinian unity government, insisting their response was entirely appropriate, and saying he thinks the US can get peace talks restarted. Though Kerry claimed “Netanyahu and Israel are waiting to see what happens,” the Israeli government reacted to initial reports of a unity deal […]
US Military’s Satellite Launches Still Depend on Russia’s Rockets
One of the many secret shames of the US military is that their military spy satellites and spacecraft, though nominally provided by a domestic partnership of Lockheed and Boeing called the United Launch Alliance (ULA), is dependent entirely on Russian-made rockets. ULA has a virtual monopoly on US government launches, but buys its RD-180 rocket […]
Calm But Tense: Situation in East Ukraine’s Donetsk Mixed
A city of about 1 million people that has found itself smack in the middle of a growing Ukrainian civil war, reporters in Donetsk are finding a situation of contrasts, with rebel officials struggling to maintain control in the city’s big business districts, but life going on more or less as normal elsewhere. There are […]
Upbeat Ukraine Claims Much of Separatist Region ‘Cleared’
Ukrainian acting DM Mykahailo Koval offered an unusually upbeat assessment of the ongoing military invasion of the eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk today, insisting the troops had “cleared” large portions of the region of separatists. Koval’s report conspicuously covered the northernmost parts of Luhansk and the southwest of Donetsk, two places where the separatist […]
Russia Arrests Ukraine Ultra-Nationalists Over Crimea Bomb Plot
Russian officials have reported the arrests of four members of Ukraine’s Right Sector, a neo-Nazi styled ultranationalist organization, on suspicion of arson attacks and plotting bombings in the Crimean Peninsula. Russia annexed Crimea in March, after the peninsula held a referendum splitting itself from Ukraine and asking for accession into the Russian Federation. Ukraine has […]
This is Why So Many People Did NOT March Against Monsanto
The Free Thought Project Justin Gardener May 30, 2014 How do you come to dominate the majority of commodity crops in the U.S.? How do you convince government that your products are the savior of agriculture? How do you convince people that your products pose no danger to their health, […]
This Guy’s Sister was Being Harassed by Cops, So He Showed Up to Save the Day
May 30, 2014 Activist Trent Goodbaudy is trying to incite change in the town of Hillsboro, Oregon. His activism has made him and his family quite the targets for harassment by Hillsboro police. When Goodbaudy’s sister got a traffic ticket, they attempted to beat the fine by stating that their authority only […]