44 Combat Vehicles: NATO Trains Estonia For War
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
February 23, 2015
Dutch and Estonian Forces train together in Exercise Baltic Bison 2015
CV-90 Combat Infantry Vehicle
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
February 23, 2015
Dutch and Estonian Forces train together in Exercise Baltic Bison 2015
CV-90 Combat Infantry Vehicle
“Great news! Processed food isn’t as bad as you’ve been told!”
How I wish that could be the headline for this article, but microwave meals and processed convenience foods are still killing us softly, as I’ve reported before. This time, the study points to a considerable increase in auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis, alopecia, asthma, and eczema.
In the continued search for the answer to preventing cognitive decline as we age, scientists from Cambridge University have found that a naturally occurring molecule may be the answer in stopping Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.
Tuna is one of America’s favorite canned fish, but that is quickly changing for many individuals who realize the downfall to buying and opening that small can. From the environmental impact of over-fishing which results in fishery depletion and the accidental catch of other fish like dolphin, to the obvious mercury-contamination we’ve all known about for so long, here is why more people are turning away from canned tuna.
Driving to the Santa Fe, New Mexico health food co-op, I was surprised to hear a “public service announcement” on a local radio station encouraging pregnant women to get the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination during their third trimester of pregnancy in order “to confer that immunity to their newborns”. Recommended by the CDC, of course.
The pertussis vaccination is usually packaged as DTaP or Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis vaccine. So adverse side effects, short or long term, are tripled.
It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. That coup was not only supported by the US and EU governments – much of it was actually planned by them. Looking back at the events that led to the overthrow it is clear that without foreign […]
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tanking in the polls, and the election fast approaching, he and his right-wing Likud party are taking desperate measures to shore up their flagging support. Their campaign is imperiled by Bibi’s underhanded tactics in inveigling an invitation to speak to the US Congress on the eve of the Obama […]
The latest public spat between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government centers on Israeli leaks of details of the U.S. negotiating position in the Iran nuclear talks and the U.S. consequently reducing its consultation with Israel on the talks. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius divulged some of the details of the quarrel this week. […]
At least 272 were killed or reported dead. Another 136 were reported wounded or sickened. Militants released a video in which 21 captives, all of them security personnel, were paraded in cages. It is unclear if the men were executed.
Image: Palestinians ride horse carts as they evacuate their animals in the village of Al-Moghraga after it was flooded by rain water, near central Gaza Strip February 22, 2015. (Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa )
The official "first trailer" for the final episodes of Mad Men. The first of the final seven episodes airs April 5.by KenI have paid abundant tribute to the tight-lippedness of Vince Gilligan, the creator-overseer of AMC's Breaking Bad, which has carried over into Vince and Peter Gould's Better Call Saul. But Matt Weiner, the mastermind of AMC's other great series, Mad Men is no slouch in the keeping-mum department either. As the air dates approach for the final half-season's worth of episodes, which launch April 5, Matt knows he has to feed the insatiable publicity machine.
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Samuel Adams, American revolutionary and leader of the Boston Tea Party.
“Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.”
-Ezra Pound
Book Author: Evaggelos Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins Reviewed by: Carol Van Strum “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts,” Richard Feynman famously declared in 1966. Ever quick to challenge accepted wisdom, he distinguished the laudable ignorance of science, forever seeking unattainable certainties, from the dangerous ignorance of experts ...
The Western media reported that Kiev regime's shelling of Donetsk city halted last weekend...
Shelling of civilians, which has been routine over the past 10 months, constitutes a grave war crime on the part of Kiev's military forces and their commanders. Yet this is never said in the Western media.
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On Saturday, February 21, Tom Secker and I had the great pleasure of joining Kira Young on her live radio show The Bridge.
Mada Masr | February 21, 2015 The Cairo Criminal Court overturned prison sentences which had been issued against the Mubarak-era Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy and other petroleum officials on Saturday, clearing them of any criminal charges pertaining to the massive losses incurred in the course of Egypt’s natural gas exports to Israel. Fahmy had been […]
If you ask your probing questions and show your tough skepticism, you will have your patriotism, if not your sanity, questioned. You will be “controversialized,” “marginalized,” “pariahed.” You will be called somebody’s “apologist,” whether it’s Ho Chi Minh or Vladimir Putiin.
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An old friend who works as a senior manager at an advertising company specializing in social media marketing has been talking with me about how ad agencies are not eager for their clients to find out that only a tiny fraction of people who "like" a brand or follow it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. ever actually interact with the brand. Social media has opened up a whole world of potential ad revenues, but a lot of the tactics are not supported by data.
Image: Mladenov prays against the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City , on 29 June 2010. Mladenov is considered a friend of Israel Photo by EPA/BGNES
PLO negotiators continue to wait for a breakthrough by “peace” envoys that are imposed on them and appointed by the US and the UN, although they represent the occupation state. Mladenov is the most recent. He will not change anything on the ground.
Interesting: A deal with Russia and now a deal with China?
By Mary Papenfuss | WhoWhatWhy | February 20, 2015 Those still wondering what really happened in gonzo journalist Michael Hastings’ fiery demise likely sat up straight during 60 Minutes’ recent piece on how hackers can hijack the controls of a car. After Hastings died in a bizarre one-car crash along a straight Los Angeles street, […]
by Zeke Hausfather
Global temperatures are adjusted to account for the effects of station moves, instrument changes, time of observation (TOBs) changes, and other factors (referred to as inhomogenities) that cause localized non-climatic biases in the instrumental record.
Sunday again... And time as usual for my weekly rant....Here I am sitting in central Canada right now, with the outside temperature hovering around the -35 Celsius mark... That is -31 Fahrenheit for those Americans still using the non-metric scale.... I really have to shake my head when I still see and read all the fools out there that are still trying to push the fraud Global Warming agenda...
This page is far from the only one that isn't available!"The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days. Strelkov's 'We just downed a plane' post lasted barely two hours. It might seem, and it often feels, as though stuff on the Web lasts forever, for better and frequently for worse. . . . No one believes any longer, if anyone ever did, that 'if it's on the Web it must be true,' but a lot of people do believe that if it's on the Web it will stay on the Web.
By Adam Johnson | FAIR | February 20, 2015 … as America debates the possibility of a full-scale ground invasion of ISIS-controlled territory, it’s important to note that much of the ISIS threat — namely that which targets the West — has been habitually overstated by an uncritical media. In no particular order, here are […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc020.mp3"][/audio]In this edition of the "Questions For Corbett" series, James tackles your questions on constitutional challenges to the Federal Reserve, the 28 pages and 9/11, Steve Jobs and the New World Order, political interpretations of "The Lord of the Rings" and much more.
RT | February 22, 2015 Nine months into Barack Obama’s presidency, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation”. Six years on, has the 44th president of the United States lived up to his peacemaker laurels? Humility and Power “… our power alone cannot protect us, nor does […]
Additional women are stepping forward with tales of inappropriate behaviour on the part of Rajendra Pachauri, who has chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002.
Global Research News Hour
February 22, 2015
Ukraine: One Year after the Coup
Azeri Press Agency
February 21, 2015
Security transition in Afghanistan ‘has not gone smoothly’: US activist
Baku: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s visit to Afghanistan indicates that the security transition from the US and NATO militaries to the Afghan forces “has not gone smoothly,” an anti-war activist in Chicago says, APA reports quoting Press TV.
Carter arrived in Kabul in an unannounced visit to meet with Afghan officials. It marks his first overseas trip since taking over the Pentagon this week.
Press TV
February 21, 2015
Security transition in Afghanistan ‘has not gone smoothly’: US activist
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US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s visit to Afghanistan indicates that the security transition from the US and NATO militaries to the Afghan forces “has not gone smoothly,” an anti-war activist in Chicago says.
On his MSNBC show Friday, Chris Hayes, talked with socially conscious celebrity chef Tom Colicchio about the new food guidelines from the U.S.D.A. (above). Does anyone care what the U.S.D.A. suggests? Or, is there a way to implement their guidelines as part of social policy? As a society, for example, we eat way too much sugar. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died every year because over sugar over-consumption. Diabetes and cancer are rampant. As many as two-thirds of Americans are obese now.
Ma’an - 22/02/2015 GAZA CITY – Hundreds of Palestinians were evacuated from their homes Sunday morning after Israeli authorities opened a number of dams near the border, flooding the Gaza Valley in the wake of a recent severe winter storm. The Gaza Ministry of Interior said in a statement that civil defense services and teams […]
RT | February 22, 2015 Another radioactive water leak in the sea has been detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings. The sensors are connected to the gutter that pours rain and ground water from the plant […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 21, 2015 Many current members of Congress, especially progressives, may have envisioned how they would have handled the Tonkin Gulf crisis in 1964. In their imaginations, they would have asked probing questions and treated the dubious assertions from the White House with tough skepticism before voting on whether […]
Reprieve | February 22, 2015 The Home Office is refusing to disclose the part played by UK counter-narcotics funding in facilitating executions in countries such as Pakistan – even though a number of Brits have been revealed to be on that country’s death row. The UK provides counter-narcotics funding to organisations such as Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics […]
In a series of headlines that would pass as virtually unbelievable several years ago, mainstream economists are sounding the alarm over the financial decline of both fast food giant McDonald’s and biotech juggernaut Monsanto.
There is one pivotal point missing from many GMO debates which I feel compelled to bring up. Whether studies somehow determine that GMOs were safe all along, even with mountains of evidence (both scientific and anecdotal) pointing to the great danger of this technology, there is one BIG problem with GMOs.
That BIG problem is that you can’t recall genetically modified corn or soy, apples or papayas, trees or other GM crops – and once they are unleashed, there is no turning back.
IBM’s Watson computer may soon decide if some individuals receive healthcare or not.
IBM, whose stock price has sunk to its lowest in four years, has recently “announced a $1 billion investment to establish the new Watson Group.” IBM’s Watson computer processes large amounts of your information to make a better decision for you. Watson is now embedded in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Data Center in Austin, Texas to “advise doctors on treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.”
There is no doubt that almonds were once one of the healthiest foods on Earth; there are many health benefits of almonds. But before you buy almonds today, here is something you should know: most of the almonds sold in the U.S. have been fumigated with propylene oxide, a chemical that even the CDC has admitted causes cancer.
When I first heard the news yesterday, I was astounded... How in the hell could the Greek Syriza government that was thrust into power by the Greek people with the understanding that it would not capitulate to the Jewish criminal banking monsters that have imposed crushing debt on that innocent nation? To me, this has turned into a travesty for the Greek people, and does not bode well for the Syriza government as a whole...
I have to inform everyone that tonight's planned Turbulent Times show has been delayed again until sometime this coming week...Whitewraithe just informed me that with some family issues going on, she is unavailable for tonight's broadcast....Again my apologies to everyone for this untimely delay.... I will definitely let everyone know if and when our broadcast will occur...More to comeNTS
The new Greek government, so demonized by the capitalist media, isn't exactly acting all that revolutionary. As UniCredit put it this week, "Greece has conceded to pretty much 90-100% of what creditors have asked for." As for "creditors," read Germany. And Germany is looking for blood. 90-100% isn't enough. Jeffrey Sachs tweeted the other day that "Germany is apparently pulling the plug on Greece. Remarkable, dangerous, very unwise in my view.