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Friday, October 24, 2014

Someone is dead set against the NWO !!

Putin addresses the Valdai business forum. I am into the first few minutes, but the little I have heard so far is very interesting.

McDonalds vs Organic food

Send this to those snobbish friends (you know you have plenty) who won't step into a McDonalds.

Josh Elliott writing at CTVNews:
Wrap a chicken burger in wax paper and it's fast food, but stick a toothpick in it and you've got yourself some organic, high-class cuisine.
That's the strategy two Dutch pranksters used at a food show in the Netherlands, where they tricked seasoned food critics into believing McDonald's food was actually a new, organic fast food alternative.
In a video posted to YouTube, the two men buy some McDonald's and use a chef's knife to slice up the greasy fast food into bite-sized morsels for a food show. Then, they asked food connoisseurs at the event to compare their "organic" offerings to traditional McDonald's fare.
"It's definitely a lot tastier than McDonald's. You can just tell this is a lot more pure," one girl says in the video, which includes English subtitles.
"Rolls around the tongue nicely," another critic says. "If it were wine, I'd say it's fine."
"It's just a pure organic product, and that makes it very tasty," another man says........

The new and improved Afghanistan

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!

We had 158 soldiers die in Afghanistan. Canadian casualties in that hellhole were the third highest, after USA and UK. Why did all these young men and women die so far away from home? For what? So Canadian politicians can boast about how Canada stands with the USA in all that country's foolhardy wars? Is Canada always supposed to follow the leader (USA) even if that leader has turned rogue? What kind of madness is this? AND, please, PLEASE don't tell me that Canadians do this because Canadians care about the poor Muslims in those far away lands. You know that's not true .... so stop lying.

From Khaama:
Afghanistan issues arrest warrant over blasphemous article
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) and the Ministry of Information and Culture were instructed to take immediate actions for the arrest of The Afghanistan Express newspaper staff.
The decision was taken on Tuesday during the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.
A statement released by the Council of Ministers said the staff of The Afghanistan Express newspaper were charged with blasphemy for publishing an article which desecrated the religion of Islam.
The statement further added that the government of Afghanistan will take strict actions against those involved behind the publish of blasphemous article.
This comes a number of the religious leaders, civil society activists and former Jihadi leaders strongly condemned the newspaper for desecrating the religion of Islam by publishing the article......

From The Guardian:
Afghan opium poppy cultivation hits all-time high
Farmers grew 209,000 hectares of opium poppy despite US spending $7.6bn on counter-narcotics efforts since 2001
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has hit an all-time high despite years of counter-narcotics efforts that have cost the US $7.6bn (£4.7bn), according to a US government watchdog.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime reported that Afghan farmers grew an “unprecedented” 209,000 hectares (523,000 acres) of opium poppy in 2013, surpassing the previous high of 193,000 hectares in 2007, said John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
“In past years, surges in opium poppy cultivation have been met by a coordinated response from the US government and coalition partners, which has led to a temporary decline in levels of opium production,” Sopko said in a letter to the secretary of state, John Kerry, the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, and other top US officials.
“The recent record-high level of poppy cultivation calls into question the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of those prior efforts,” he said on Tuesday.........

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Trying to understand why we are in a totally useless and disastrous war

The more one learns of the countless sections and the segments within those sections in the lands of the damned Middle East, the more any sane person should show aversion to supporting any of these groups or getting involved in wars over there. The fact that we choose to support these religious groups and skip merrily into continuous wars in Muslim lands only goes to prove that our politicians and those responsible for our foreign policies are not sane and sober people. We are being ruled by the worst possible lunatics the world has ever known..... especially in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and the EU. Worst of all, we are letting our mad politicians bring terrorism to our shores by their decisions and actions which are motivated by the puppet masters pulling their strings.

RT's Oksana Boyko talks to Turkish Political Analyst Ceylan Ozbudak on the Kurdish situation and other issues.

How can one tell that a country is going stark raving insane?

Easy...when its judges send people to prison for not mowing their lawns, that's when.
The author below has a long list of other incidences of pure unadulterated madness gone wild in the USA. You gotta see for yourself.

Michael Krieger writing at LibertyBlitzkrieg:
Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Jail for Not Mowing Her Lawn
The trend of average U.S. citizens being incarcerated by overzealous judges and prosecutors within the police state formerly known as America continues with reckless abandon. In fact, these sorts of cases are becoming so commonplace I simply cannot keep up with all of them. The following story is a perfect followup to my piece earlier today, which shows how American public school students are being arrested or harassed by police for the most minor of infractions, such as wearing too much perfume, sharing a classmates’ chicken nuggets, throwing an eraser or chewing gum.

If you are an adult American slave, you can add not mowing your lawn to the list of prison-worthy crimes in the police state.................

World War 3 updates .... October 23 ..... Canada in the spotlight

At 9:52 a.m. on Oct. 22, two soldiers were on guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa when one was shot. Witnesses reported hearing four gunshots.
Raivo Nommick, who was walking by the memorial, said: "All of a sudden I just heard a shot, turned around and there was a guy with a rifle."
More shots rang out and Nommick saw the other soldier come running over and the first soldier drop.
Nommick says he "immediately called 911."
He says the shooter had "a long-barrelled rifle" and "was dressed in civilian clothes with a hoodie and a bandana."
Jan Lugtenborg, a Dutch tourist, was waiting for a tour bus when he heard four shots.
"The guy who shot, he was a small man with long black hair," Lugtenborg said. The shooter "suddenly crossed the street with his long rifle ... running like hell" towards Parliament Hill......................

From NationalPost:
Ottawa’s secrecy fetish only added to confusion and fear of dangerous situation
The practical effects of the cult of secrecy that has enveloped Ottawa were put on display for all Canadians Wednesday during the shootings on Parliament Hill.
While courageous police and front-line security forces did their best to deal with the chaos that reigned across the core of the capital, a cloak of official silence descended that left everyone below the level of Prime Minister in the dark about what was going on.
Members of Parliament were herded into “safe” areas and left for hours with no better instructions than to “stay away from windows.” They barricaded doors with chairs, hid under desks, fled from one meeting room to another. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair managed to break free in time to record a televised message, but late into the evening – long past any real danger that the halls of Parliament remained unsafe – CBC reported Liberal leader Justin Trudeau might have to deliver his address by phone because he hadn’t been released yet. (He was eventually freed in time to address TV cameras).....

From Globe&Mail:
The attack on Parliament Hill’s Centre Block and the National War Memorial has left one Canadian soldier and one male suspect dead.

From a previous blog post :
Convert to islam Martin Rouleau runs down two soldiers, killing one.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Canadian born convert to Islam was the Ottawa shooter

People on Twitter claim that the man had Algerian origins and had taken the Muslim name "Abdul" .... but our overly politically correct media is still playing dumb on several issues and keeping a lot of details under wraps.

From Globe&Mail:
The attack on Parliament Hill’s Centre Block and the National War Memorial has left one Canadian soldier and one male suspect dead.

Soldier shot at the National War Memorial has died
One suspect confirmed dead
Suspect had passport seized after being designated a “high-risk traveller”
Prime Minister safe and "not on Parliament Hill"
Downtown Ottawa and federal government buildings in lockdown

Several hours later, Ottawa Police and RCMP officers were still searching Parliament Hill and officials declined to say whether the gunman acted alone.

Federal sources have identified the suspected shooter as Michael Zehef-Bibeau, a man in his early 30s who was known to Canadian authorities.

Sources told The Globe and Mail that he was recently designated a “high-risk traveller” by the Canadian government and that his passport had been seized – the same circumstances surrounding the case of Martin Rouleau-Couture, the Quebecker who was shot Monday after running down two Canadian Forces soldiers with his car.

The soldier that was killed was identified as Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, according to his aunt. Cpl. Cirillo, who was a member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, a regiment of Reserve Forces based in Hamilton, was training to join the Canada Border Services Agency, his aunt told The Globe and Mail........

Very sad MT @megunder: On Sunday, we asked a very handsome guard for picture - RIP Nathan Cirillo pic.twitter.com/N4d4acXcmF #OttawaShooting
— TorSun City Editor (@TorSunCity) October 22, 2014

Some of the Blackwater mercenaries convicted for some of the crimes committed in Iraq

Just a stupid band-aid stick-on to appease the hard-hit unlucky Iraqis from decades of USA-lead war on them. The overall injustice done to the country of Iraq can never be undone.

Matt Apuzzo writing at NYTimes:
Former Blackwater Guards Convicted in Iraq Shooting

Four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors were convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.

Federal court jurors found one defendant guilty of murder and three others of manslaughter and weapons charges, roundly asserting that the shooting was criminal. The defendants showed little emotion as the lengthy verdict was read.

Seventeen Iraqis died when gunfire erupted on Sept. 16, 2007 in the crowded Nisour Square in Baghdad. The shooting inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and helped solidify the notion that Blackwater, America’s largest security contractor in Iraq, was reckless and unaccountable.

The former contractors said that they were ambushed by insurgents and that civilian deaths were the unfortunate, unintended consequences of urban warfare.

The defendants were Blackwater guards. One of them, Nicholas A. Slatten, who the government said fired the first shots, was convicted of murder. The others — Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty and Paul A. Slough — were convicted on manslaughter and firearms charges.........

.....Manslaughter carries a sentence of up to 15 years per count, or up to eight years for involuntary manslaughter. The firearms charge carries a mandatory 30-year prison term. Murder carries up to life in prison.....

A few of the residents of Ford Nation

The people who vote for Rob Ford and who will hopefully vote for his brother Doug Ford to be the next mayor of this city, are the kind of people that we ordinary folks can relate to and chat with. That's enough for me!

From YahooNews:
Inside Ford Nation

Harry Vandekemp: Trusting the Fords to make 'wise decisions'
Iola Fortino: Believer, anti-bully and proud Ford Nation representative
Albert Wong: Just keep the taxman out of my pocket
Bonnie Luciano: Similar life lessons strengthened her loyalty to the Fords

From YahooNews:
Followers are passionate about politics and quick to forgive
....I’m still not sure I completely understand the Ford phenomenon.
But next time an Ottawa cab driver or a ancouver-based accountant asks me how Rob was elected to lead Canada’s largest city, I might have a better answer.
I’ll say that a large group of Torotonians – many of whom self-describe as Ford Nation – believe that Rob and Doug Ford are looking out for the average Torontonian family.
Despite their privileged upbringings, the Ford’s have cultivated an 'us versus them' mentality, branding themselves as the ultimate protectors against the city’s elite and the big bad media.
And, in doing so, they’ve become political celebrities.......

Updates on attack on Canadian Parliament in Ottawa

#cdnpoli #TOpoli #tcot Live updates from CBC on ongoing Parliament hill attack http://t.co/mL8HWvi1hb
— MariaS Nunes (@Dodocanspell) October 22, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

70 days of unrest in Ferguson

If something is not done to quell this mini uprising, it's gonna blow up in everybody's faces.
And, guess what? A Missouri senator, Jamilah Nasheed was arrested last night with a gun in her possession. This is a senator who is known to be against guns!

From KMOV:
Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed
had a gun in her possession at the time she was arrested Monday night outside the Ferguson Police Department, according to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson.

Nasheed declined comment about the having the weapon, but did tell News 4 she has a concealed carry permit. A Ferguson police officer said Nasheed was carrying a fully-loaded 9 mm handgun and additional rounds.
Sources also told News 4 Ferguson police requested St. Ann to administer a breathalyzer test at the time of her arrest because she "smelled strongly of intoxicants," but Nasheed refused to do so. Nasheed said Tuesday she was not intoxicated at the time......

From CNN:
This is the new normal in Ferguson: Protests, day and night, for more than 70 days now.

Sometimes it's hundreds of demonstrators, sometimes just a handful. But they're always outside the Ferguson Police Department, clamoring for the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
And with new details about the investigation leaked, tensions are escalating.
On Monday night, St. Louis County police detained two protesters, including Missouri State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed. She was detained as she blocked traffic in the middle of the street while protesting outside the Police Department.
Now, there are fears about what could happen next. One protester put it succinctly:
"If there is not an indictment, excuse my French, all hell is going to break loose."..............

Here's another one for the "Believe it or not" file

Frankenstein is kept alive and kicking by the total inefficiency of aid agencies from the Western powers and the UN.

Jamie Dettmer writing at DailyBeast:
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS

Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.

While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “caliphate.”

The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, European donors, and the United Nations. Whether it continues is now the subject of anguished debate among officials in Washington and European. The fear is that stopping aid would hurt innocent civilians and would be used for propaganda purposes by the militants, who would likely blame the West for added hardship.

The Bible says if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him something to drink—doing so will “heap burning coals” of shame on his head. But there is no evidence that the militants of the Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, feel any sense of disgrace or indignity (and certainly not gratitude) receiving charity from their foes.

Quite the reverse, the aid convoys have to pay off ISIS emirs (leaders) for the convoys to enter the eastern Syrian extremist strongholds of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, providing yet another income stream for ISIS militants, who are funding themselves from oil smuggling, extortion, and the sale of whatever they can loot, including rare antiquities from museums and archaeological sites.

“The convoys have to be approved by ISIS and you have to pay them: The bribes are disguised and itemized as transportation costs,” says an aid coordinator who spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition he not be identified in this article. The kickbacks are either paid by foreign or local nongovernmental organizations tasked with distributing the aid, or by the Turkish or Syrian transportation companies contracted to deliver it...........

Leave the Middle East to the Middle Easterns .... let them destroy each other

If you read the article below in full and also the article at the link in the tweet you will surely come away with a feeling that the entire situation in any one of the Muslim countries in the Middle East is a cauldron brewing with poisonous herbs from a million plants. What are the Western powers doing in that shit? Will we ever understand those myriad of tribes and the enmity between the tribes and enmity between various factions within those tribes? What total madness to go into hellholes when we can't understand even a small segment of the utterly mad Muslim world and have to depend on Middle East "experts" and "analysts" who have their own agendum to tell us conflicting stories of these inbred people?
Haven't we have had enough of the madness? Can't we just leave them alone to off each other off?

Liz Sly writing at WashingtonPost:
Syria's tribal revolt against Islamic State ignored fueling resentment........

.....Relations quickly frayed. The crunch came, the tribesmen in Reyhanli said, when Islamic State fighters whipped a local man who was caught smoking a cigarette in the street, a crime under the Islamic State’s harsh interpretation of Islam. The man’s brother, incensed, shot at a passing Islamic State patrol, killing one of its fighters.

The brother was arrested and publicly beheaded, triggering an outpouring of rage. Residents marched on the Islamic State’s headquarters, forcing its fighters to flee. The militants then brought in reinforcements and began shelling the town, using artillery they had captured the previous month in Iraq.

After a three-day barrage, the Islamic State militants moved in. They rounded up all the surviving men and boys older than 15 they could find and set about systematically killing them, the fighters in Reyhanli said.

A photo essay on an Islamic State blog boasted of the different ways tribesmen were killed, including beheadings, mass shootings and a crucifixion. A video shows how the militants lined up scores of captives on a road, their hands bound, then set about clumsily decapitating them, one by one. The executioners, speaking in Tunisian, Egyptian and Saudi accents, taunted those not yet dead by swinging severed heads in front of their faces and telling them, “It’s your turn next.”..........

http://t.co/MOnV1h1hEA Prisoners: Members of the Sunni Shaitat tribe are rounded up and marched to their deaths in Syria by fighters from..
— Loreena (@Louangie) August 16, 2014

The new norm in Canada?

Why do I have this sinking feeling that this kind of one-man jihadi action will be seen again and again?

Thank you dear Government for importing religion-crazed Muslims and letting them and their way of life radicalize Christian Canadians to convert to satanic rites;
Thank you dear Government for not stopping imams from visiting prisons even though you know fully well they go to those dens for the sole purpose of converting the feeble-minded to their depraved creed;
Thank you dear Government for not introducing a law making it illegal for Muslim prayers in the streets of Canada;
Thank you dear Government for not introducing a law making it illegal to wear full burqas in our streets;
etc.etc.etc.

Keep pampering Muslims, dear Government .... it's sure to work in getting many more non-Muslim Canadians killed. The more non-Muslims killed, the quicker Canada can be caliphated, right dear Government? That must be your goal, eh dear Government .... otherwise why would you not impose laws to keep non-Muslims safe?

From CBC:
Soldier struck by Martin Rouleau in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., hit and run dies

Martin Rouleau's Facebook page shows increasingly radicalized beliefs, behaviour
One of two soldiers wounded in a hit and run involving a "radicalized" 25-year-old man in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., has died, provincial police say.
Martin Rouleau, the 25-year-old suspect, was fatally shot on Monday after hitting two soldiers in a parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a city about 40 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
The family of the soldier who died asked that his name not be released.
Police do not fear for the second soldier's life......

......The RCMP said they suspected he had become radicalized after converting to Islam about a year ago.

"This individual was known to federal authorities, including our integrated national security investigations team in Montreal, who along with other authorities were concerned that he had become radicalized," the RCMP said in a statement Monday evening......

Monday, October 20, 2014

World War 3 updates .... October 20

USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan, Yemen, Nigeria, France with (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad ) Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Albania, Estonia, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Republic of Korea, Ireland, Spain, Slovakia, Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Novorussia, Ukraine, Russia, Chechnya, Somalia, Iran, India, South Korea, North Korea, Central African Republic, Kenya, Tunisia, The Philippines, Egypt, Albania, Serbia, China ....

From NaijaCenter:
At least 25 members of the Boko Haram terrorists group were on Sunday night killed by troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state. Security officials have said.
The attack on Damboa had cast much doubts that many concerned had expressed over the much talked- about ceasefire deal the federal government said it signed on Friday with the Boko Haram gunmen.
It would be recalled that Boko Haram had on the 17th of July 2014 hoisted their flags in Damboa after a deadly gunbattle that left, five policemen, several soldiers and Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the military base in Damboa dead with property worth billions of naira destroyed.........

War crimes by USA and Canada supported govt of Ukraine, continue to continue. Vid below shows white phosphorus shot on Donetsk civilian areas.

From BBC:
Kobane: US drops arms and aid to Kurds battling IS
US military aircraft have dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane.
US Central Command said C-130 transport aircraft had made "multiple" drops of supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq.
US air strikes have helped push back IS in the town near the Turkish border.
Correspondents say the airdrops are likely to anger key US ally Turkey.....

From AP:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the Obama administration decided to airdrop weapons and ammunitions to "valiant" Kurds fighting Islamic State extremists in the Syrian border town of Kobani because it would be "irresponsible" and "morally very difficult" not to support them.
Speaking in the Indonesian capital, Kerry told reporters that the administration understood ally Turkey's concerns about supplying the Kurds, who are linked to a Kurdish group that Ankara fiercely opposes.
But, he said the situation is such in the besieged town of Kobani that the resupplies were deemed absolutely necessary in a "crisis moment."...

From IrishTimes:
22 killed in attack on farmers’ market in Xinjiang region
More than 200 have died in restive Chinese province in the past year
Twenty-two people were killed when four Uighur assailants armed with knives and explosives attacked a market in Xinjiang province last week, as ethnic tensions continued to worsen in the northwestern region.
The dead included police officers and the four attackers. The attack, on October 12th, took place at a farmers’ trading centre in Maralbeshi, or Bachu, county in the Kashgar prefecture, the US-based Radio Free Asia’s Uighur-language service reported. The wholesale food market is used predominantly by Han Chinese.
Xinjiang is home to more than 10 million Turkic-speaking Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group that has close linguistic and cultural links to central Asia...........

From AlAlam:
The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units, or YPG, have been retaking ground from IS near Sari Kani, located around 160 kilometres east of Syrian town of Kobani.
British broadcaster Sky News has travelled with a Kurdish armed militia group to the front-line in Syria where Kurdish fighters have been leading the ground offensive against ISIS group......

Read elsewhere that a military vehicle was used by suicide bomber.
From BBC:
Baghdad Shia mosque hit by suicide attack
A suicide attacker has killed at least 18 people at a Shia mosque in Iraq, the latest in a spate of similar bombings.
The attacker blew himself up in a crowd gathered for a funeral in western Baghdad's affluent Harthiyah area.
Dozens have been killed in similar attacks in recent weeks that have been widely blamed on Islamic State (IS).....

From EuroNews:
Several small businesses owned by Albanians in the Serbian cities of Novy Sad and Vrsac were attacked on Thursday night by unknown assailants. This reflects rising tensions in the Balkan region.
In Sombor and Stara Pazova, bakeries owned by Albanians were attacked with a hand grenade and petrol bomb.
The Albanian embassy in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica was also vandalised, earlier. Three people were arrested.
The day before, on Tuesday, an incident wrecked an Albania-Serbia football match being played in Belgrade.
A remotely piloted drone flew over, carrying a map of a “Greater Albania” including Kosovo and parts of Macedonia. It symbolised nationalist ambitions.....

From MEE:
45 percent of Iraq bombers were Saudi nationals
The attacks, which appear to be an attempt to ignite sectarian tensions in Iraq, come as it is revealed that the majority of Islamic State suicide bombers to launch attacks in Iraq in the past 45 days were Saudi nationals.....

A map of the car bombs to hit Baghdad since 2003 (@brilliantmaps / MEE)

From PressTV:
Jordanian former Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit says hundreds of Jordanians have joined the ranks of ISIL Takfiri terrorists fighting against the Iraqi government.
Some 1,300 Jordanians have so far joined the militants out of whom more than 200 have been killed, Bakhit said in speech in the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday.
The former premier estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 Jordanians active in the Takfiri stream.

Ah .... here we go again. Just because the Houthis are aligned with Iran (the presumably world's biggest enemy as designated by warlord numero uno Nethanyahu of Israel and of course by the Israel-owned USA) the Western powers via Saudi Arabia are arming and funding AL QAEDA. Yup believe it folks ... that's how the wind blows in Yemen!
Here's another country all set for an intensified civil war or a proxy war between Iran and Western powers with Western powers allying themselves with Al Qaeda. Wonderful isn't it?

From PressTV:
Syrian army gains ground near Damascus
The Syrian army has gained ground in its fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorists near the capital Damascus, Press TV reports.
Syrian armed forces were able to advance several blocks in the Jobar district near Damascus, were militants had built one of their strongest bases.
“We have just taken control of many new blocks. Our troops also advanced on Zamalka, round about on the Savran Highway, and control the Hirmileh and Jadiah strategic tunnels. The highway is now in our range of fire,” a Syrian army commander told the Press TV correspondent.........

POWs from Ukraine's army used as labor for rebuilding bombed out homes of Russian-speaking easterners.

From NovorossiaToday:
...Donetsk — situation is extremely tense in the capital. Yesterday the city was targeted from the battlefield rocket system “Tochka-U”: Gornyak residential area, the administrative building of the chemical works and mine17-bis (the building of a kindergarten nearby was destroyed). Residential areas of Kiyevskiy, Kuybyshevskiy and Petrovskiy districts have once more been subjected to mortar-gun and artillery fire. The airport was shelled from the MRLS “Grad” and heavy mortar-guns by Ukrainian Wehrmacht. An attempt of a breakthrough of the castigators encircled there was undertaken, accompanied by howitzer shelling. Ukrainian media keeps on harping on about the full control of Ukrainian army over the airport.
Satellite towns and suburbs
Gorlovka — tension remains, local clashes and movement of punitive air force (several MI-8 helicopters) are being observed in this direction from the town of Artyomovsk. Makeyevka — at about 7 AM the town was shelled by the National Guards artillery. Avdeyevka — three fire nests of Ukrainian Wehrmacht were destroyed by People’s Militia. Yenakiyevo — the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the People’s Militia shelled the block-post of the castigators in the area of locality Olkhovatka. The Maryinka district — positions of Ukrainian Wehrmacht in the area of locality Krasnogorovka were shelled from mortar-guns and machine-guns......

From YonhapNews:
South and North Korea exchanged fire
across the heavily fortified border on Sunday, but there was no report of South Korean casualties.
The incident took around 5:40 p.m. when South Korea fired warning shots against North Korean soldiers who were approaching the military demarcation line in Paju after broadcasting warning messages.

From YonhapNews:
South and North Korea will be able to hold another round of high-level talks as scheduled, a senior presidential aide said Sunday, amid growing worries the recent exchange of fire across the tense border could scupper the meeting.
In early October, a high-powered North Korea delegation made a surprise visit to South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, agreeing with South Korea's top security officials to hold another round of high-level talks in late October or early November.

From France24:
Iran has summoned the Pakistani ambassador and demanded immediate steps to stop attacks by "terrorists and rebels" that sparked deadly clashes on the countries' border, state media reported Sunday.
Noor Muhammad Jadmani was called to the foreign ministry on Saturday evening following the deaths in the restive border province of Sistan-Baluchistan, the official IRNA news agency said,.
Two Iranian border guards and a Pakistani paramilitary officer were killed in a shooting on Thursday evening, sources on the two sides said. Iran said rebels had tried to infiltrate the country....

From Annahar:
IS announces it intends to open a consulate in Istanbul, leaving Erdogan’s press officiados stammering
Turkey remains a hotbed of ISIS terror stories, following its controversial hostage exchange deal with the terror outfit plus international media reports that IS has a significant presence and recruiting network in the country.
Turkey's President Recep Erdogan has always firmly denied the IS presence in the country. But now his government is on the back foot after a spokesman would not deny that Turkey is developing formal relations with the extremist organization following ISIS announcing that it will soon open a 'consulate' in Istanbul.
The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) intends to unveil its first diplomatic mission in Istanbul in order to provide consular services for all who wish to join the extremist group in Iraq, reported Turkish daily Aydinlikas saying............

Does Iran Have Legitimate Nuclear Energy Needs?
The Real News Network interviews Dr. Sarram who is the President of Energy Security Consulting Group. Part 2 here

The wonderful world of Prison America

Unbelievable! No .... actually quite believable. No wonder America is becoming a laughing stock all over the world and it's mainly because of its hypocrisy and the chutzpah it has to lecture other countries without being able to see the huge speck of dirt stuck in its own eyes.

Niall McCarthy writing at Forbes:
Nearly A Third Of All Female Prisoners Worldwide Are Incarcerated In The United States
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, nearly a third of all female prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the United States of America. There are 201,200 women in US prisons, representing 8.8 percent of the total American prison population.

China comes a very distant second to the United States with 84,600 female prisoners in total or 5.1% of the overall Chinese prison population. Russia is in third position – 59,000 of its prisoners are women and this comes to 7.8 percent of the total.

Across the world, 625,000 women and children are being held in penal institutions with the female prison population growing on all five continents.........

Can a pope be impeached ?

Not that I don't agree with a lot this hippie pope has to say, but there are some real weird opinions that no matter how broadminded one wants to be, simply does not hold water. AND, he's so wrong about the jihadi faith.
Furthermore, I hate it when the clergy talks to the faithful like they are 2-yr olds.

From CBC:
Pope Francis beatifies Pope Paul VI, wraps up meeting of bishops
Beatification marks the end of synod that failed to agree on welcoming gays and civilly remarried couples.

........."God is not afraid of new things!" Francis exclaimed in his homily Sunday. "That is why he is continually surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways."..........

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Similarities between Enron in its dying days and the America of today

Ever wondered if America will go the way of Enron? Remember how the "too big to fail" Enron went bankrupt in the shortest possible time? When Enron fell, thousands of Enron employees had no clue that they were working for a company which was just a house of cards. Most Americans are also clueless to the fact that their country has been hollowed out with the never-ending wars and that the top 1% (as usual) will be the only survivors and the rest will be left out in the cold not knowing what happened.
There are so many similarities between Enron and what's happening in today's America. Watch the documentary and see for yourselves.

BTW, please watch any long vids in my blog by clicking on the title at the top within the vid which will take you to YouTube so the YouTube poster can get the view count.

Below is a listing of top 10 energy companies that went bankrupt.
Andrew Topf writing at OilPrice:
Running a multi-billion dollar energy company isn’t easy. Just ask the executives in the corner suites of some of the energy companies that have gone bust over the years. Some, like Enron, were brought down because of insider malfeasance. A few, like ATP, blamed damaging government policies, while others went off the rails due to market forces that left the company and its shareholders flat-footed, deep in debt, and eventually broke. Here are the bankruptcies that will be etched into the tombstones of failed energy fortunes for time immemorial.

1. Enron. Bankrupt December 2, 2001. Assets $65.5 billion
Enron grew from a simple pipeline company into the world’s largest energy trader by using the Internet to buy and sell natural gas and electric power to help utilities and industrial power users hedge against price fluctuations. By 2000, Enron was worth an astonishing $68 billion, but when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission started investigating, it was revealed that much of the money was based on shady accounting practices and un-recorded losses. In one year, Enron’s stock price plummeted from more than $90 to less than $1, resulting in $11 billion in shareholder losses. The subsequent bankruptcy remains the largest in U.S. history. CEO Kenneth Lay and fellow Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in 2006 of fraud and conspiracy. Lay died from a heart attack while awaiting sentencing. Skilling is still in prison........

World War 3 .... October 18

From RTNews:
Four men appear in London court over alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot
Four young men have appeared in a London court in connection with an alleged terror plot to shoot and kill police officers and soldiers in the capital. The defendants allegedly swore allegiance to Islamic State extremists.
The men, who appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday, were arrested in raids conducted by Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command over the past two weeks.
The men allegedly used Google Street View to conduct reconnaissance on Shepherd’s Bush police station and White City Territorial Army Barracks, the court heard. The men also had images of two Metropolitan police officers, the Press Association reported.
The men also possessed a gun with a silencer, ammunition, and a moped – which they were presumably going to use as a getaway vehicle.
Those being charged with terrorism offenses are medical student Tarik Hassane, 21, Nyall Mamlet, 24, Momen Motasim, 21, and Suhaib Majeed, 20. A fifth man, 25-year-old Nathan Cuffy, was only charged with firearm offenses. Police say he gave a converted Baikal handgun and six rounds of ammunition to Mamlet.

The vid below is from YouTube poster Eretz Zen. Worth visiting the channel for some very telling and explosive eye openers.

From AAJ:
Pakistani envoy urges UN chief to help deescalate tensions along LoC in Kashmir and Indo-Pak working boundary
Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan Friday met Secretary General Ban Ki moon to brief him on the latest situation along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and the working boundary between India and Pakistan.
The meeting was a follow-up to the letter sent on Oct 12 by the Advisor on National Security and Foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, in which the the secretary-general’s attention was drawn to the escalation of Indian firing across the LoC and the working boundary between the two South Asian neighbours, and sought U.N.’a intervention.....

UPDATED: 31 suicide bombers in #Iraq in 45 days 46% of them are Saudis. Over 50 tons of explosives used. pic.twitter.com/L49jhLazow
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) October 18, 2014

From ArabNews:
Egypt: 3 policemen killed in blast:
Egypt’s state-run news agency says three police conscripts have been killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in the Sinai Peninsula.
News agency MENA reported that the slain men came under attack late Thursday while they were driving along a northern Sinai highway. MENA says two were killed instantly, and a third died of his wounds in an el-Arish hospital.
A series of attacks, assassinations and suicide bombings has hit Egypt over the past year following the military ouster of Islamist President Muhammad Mursi......

From RIA:
Donetsk Shelling Kills Two Civilians, Clashes Near Luhansk Rage On: Militia
Shelling and clashes continued in Ukraine's turbulent eastern provinces despite the previously agreed ceasefire, killing at least two civilians in the besieged city of Donetsk, the local self-defense forces said in a statement Saturday.
"Ukrainian army troops fired Grad [missiles] at the Kirov district and Savrasov Street [in Donetsk]. Two civilians died after a shell hit a residential house," the statement published on the official website of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) government said.
Earlier reports said that Donetsk had been targeted for shelling throughout Saturday, with a mortar round hitting a pumping station in the Kuibyshev district and wounding several employees, according to the city hall........

From PressTV:
Libyan officials say nearly 100 people have been killed during fighting between rival armed groups across the country over the past week.
The figure was recently released by Libyan Prime Minister Omar al-Hassi, who was elected to the post in August by militias that took control of the capital city, Tripoli.
The Libyan premier currently has the backing of several militia groups.
According to Hassi, some 80 people were killed and thousands were forced from their homes in the western city of Kikla alone.
Hassi has currently taken residence in the capital. His forces are trying to maintain control of Benghazi against attempts for the eastern city by fighters loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar....

From YahooNews:
Tunisia urges Libya to find missing journalists
Prime Minister Mongi Hamdi on Saturday urged Libya to locate two Tunisian journalists who went missing in the neighbouring violence-hit country after their arrest by an armed group.
Investigative journalist Sofiene Chourabi and photographer Nadhir Ktari disappeared on September 8 in the eastern Libyan region of Ajdabiya.....

From vid below you get just a teeny weeny feel for the vast scale of war crimes and human rights abuses going on in Ukraine, most of which are committed by the coup govt and its Nazi battalions.

From AP:
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a gas distribution facility in a stronghold of the Islamic State group set off a series of secondary explosions and killed at least eight people in eastern Syria, activists said Saturday.
The airstrike targeted a distribution station in the town of Khasham in the oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour late Friday, Deir el-Zour Free Radio, an activist collective, said on its Facebook page. The collective named four of those killed and said another four charred bodies were placed in a nearby mosque. It said the slain men were mostly fuel tanker drivers.....

From RIA:
Sweden Steps Up Search for Alleged Foreign Submarine in Stockholm Archipelago
The Swedish Armed Forces have stepped up search efforts in the waters near the country’s capital after receiving “reliable reports” of foreign underwater activity in the area, chief of operations Jonas Wikstrom said Saturday.
“We consider the information to be very reliable. Therefore, we are increasing the number of units in the area,” Wikstrom told reporters Saturday evening.
“This is intelligence work. We are working to determine whether there is or has been foreign underwater activity in the area,” he stated, noting that the search will continue for “as long as it is needed”.
Answering journalists’ questions of whether the alleged underwater activity could have been carried out by Russian forces, Wikstrom stated that he would “absolutely not speculate” on this matter.....

Video: "Dogs are eating from bodies on the streets" Kurdish refugee from #Kobane http://t.co/N1OmeaAMmw
— Conflict News (@rConflictNews) October 19, 2014

From YahooNews:
Hostages arrive at German embassy after Philippine ordeal
A German couple kidnapped by Islamic militants were handed over to their embassy Saturday after a six-month ordeal marked by constant threats of beheading, as the Philippines confronted a security threat it thought it had overcome.

"With the release from captivity of the two German nationals, our security forces will continue efforts to stem the tide of criminality perpetrated by bandit elements," President Benigno Aquino's spokesman Herminio Coloma said in a statement.
The couple had been handed over to the German embassy in Manila, the Philippine military said.
The Abu Sayyaf released the couple on Friday as its deadline for the German government to pay a $5.6 million ransom and withdraw its support for US offensives against jihadists in Syria and Iraq lapsed........

From ZeeNews:
Two killed in southern Philippines church blast
Two people were killed while three others were wounded in a grenade attack on a church in the southern Philippines, police said Thursday.
Church goers at the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, in the farming town of Pikit, were in the middle of a prayer service early Wednesday evening when the explosion occurred, police said.
A nurse, 54, and a teacher, 39, died from shrapnel injuries, municipal police chief Senior Inspector Mautin Pangandigan said.....