Fighting the good fight
Fifty six police officers were injured during loyalist riots in Belfast city centre in a night of chaotic violence. The unrest – described by the North’s Chief Constable has described as mindless anarchy – saw protesters run amok through the streets and attack police with missiles. The officers were hit with implements including scaffolding poles […]
MoreSaudi Arabia has reportedly offered to buy arms worth up to $15 billion from Russia, and provided a raft of economic and political concessions to the Kremlin – all in a bid to weaken Moscow’s endorsement of Syrian President Bashar Assad. via Saudi Arabia dangles lucrative arms deal in front of Russia in exchange for […]
MoreNational Security Agency director General Keith Alexander defended the controversial programs disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and said Thursday his agency was taking steps to prevent future leaks by working to reducing the number of system administrators—the same position Snowden held—by 90 percent. via NSA head says agency working to reduce leaks by […]
MoreIt was the largest and most glamorous railway station in the world, a shining jewel of Art Nouveau elegance nestling high in the Pyrenees mountains. But after a chequered history which saw it commandeered by the Nazis during the Second World War, Canfranc International Railway Station has slowly slipped into disrepair and is now little […]
MoreNORFOLK, VA. – An unusually high number of bottlenose dolphins are dying off the East Coast this summer, the deadliest period for the sea mammals since a virus killed off more than 700 in the late 1980s, federal officials said Thursday. via Feds probe unusually high number of dolphin deaths on East Coast | Fox […]
MoreFresh allegations have emerged over the extent of US electronic surveillance. The New York Times reported that the contents of emails to and from the US are being read, despite previous denials from American officials via Report: Americans’ emails being scanned – Americas – Al Jazeera English.
MoreMasked poultry farmers went on a mass ‘egging’ spree in anger at low prices. The furious protesting French farmers threw 100,000 eggs out of the back of supermarket trucks in Cotes d’Armor, Brittany, on Tuesday night. Then they smashed up pallets with another 100,000 eggs outside a tax office in the town of Carhaiz. And […]
More“We are unable to control radioactive water seeping out of Fukushima plant.” – Tepco By Godfrey The environmental impacts of fukushima are still being felt today and will continue to be for many tomorrows. We are literally destroying our planet with toxic nuclear waste in the name of energy, and being charged for it. Fukushima alone is […]
MoreJapan’s government will step in to manage the Fukushima clean-up after it was revealed about 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water a day was leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled nuclear plant. via Japanese PM orders help to stem flow of radioactive water into Pacific from Fukushima – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
MoreThe US Air Force recently airlifted nearly 24 tons of cocaine from Costa Rica to Miami, the cocaine capital of the world, in a program described as being “shrouded in secrecy”. via » US Air Force Transports 24 Tons of Cocaine to Miami Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!.
MorePolice in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo are hunting a gang of thieves who have been targeting woman to steal their hair. According to news site Globovision, the robbers, known as “piranhas”, are responsible for a spate of hair robberies in the South American community, believed to have been triggered by the growing demand for […]
MoreGoogle Glass hasn’t even hit shelves and it’s already getting banned. But, before we get ahead of ourselves. What exactly is Google Glass? And, why are people afraid of it? Google Glass can best be described as a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). By using voice commands the glasses can take pictures, […]
MoreThe California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations noted Saifuddin, a senior majoring in social welfare at Cal Berkeley, participated in CAIR’s Muslim Youth Leadership Program in 2008. She also served as an adviser for this year’s participants. CAIR, according to FBI wiretap evidence from a 1993 meeting of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and activists […]
MorePORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Navy has decided to scrap the USS Miami instead of repairing the nuclear-powered submarine because of budget cuts accompanied by growing costs of repairing damage from a fire set by a civilian worker at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, officials said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Rick Breckenridge, director of undersea warfare, said repairing […]
MoreIran is building an “extensive intelligence and terrorist network” in Latin America that the Obama administration is negligent in ignoring, claims a U.S. congresswoman. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., is chair of the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee and, incidentally, as a Cuban immigrant, the first Hispanic woman elected to the U.S. House of […]
MoreYOKOHAMA, JAPAN – Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. via Japan unveils new carrier-like warship, largest in navy since WWII | Fox News.
MoreTORONTO — A Palestinian community leader in Toronto said Israelis should be given a two-minute warning before being shot. Addressing the annual al-Quds Day rally on Saturday, Elias Hazineh, the former president of Palestine House in suburban Toronto, called for “an ultimatum” to Israelis: “You have to leave Jerusalem. You have to leave Palestine. “We […]
MoreIn what should be front page news blasted out nationwide as a breaking news alert, the DHS has openly established extensive ‘Constitution free zones’ in which your Fourth Amendment does not exist. It’s not ‘conspiracy’ and it’s not fraud, the DHS has literally created an imaginary ‘border’ within the United States that engulfs 100 miles […]
MoreBANGKOK – The Thai government is beefing up security in Bangkok in anticipation of possible violence from a fresh round of rallies by groups of protesters who say a government-backed bill would give amnesty to ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. via Security Increased in Bangkok in Advance of Expected Big Protest – Southeast Asia Real […]
More(Reuters) – A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. via Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans | Reuters.
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