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U.S. pushing Israel to stop assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists

 WASHINGTON -- As Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flies to Washington - due to arrive on Sunday (March 2), to prepare for talks with President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday - it's clear that there are several points of friction between Israel and the United States.

Obama Administration - more than a hint - to stop carrying out assassinations inside Iran.

 

The two countries are allies, but their leaders often differ on the details of key issues: Israel's peace talks with the Palestinians, America's nuclear talks with Iran, how to approach political turmoil in Egypt, what might be done to limit Syria's horrible civil war, and a broader issue of whether the Middle East sees President Obama as a powerful, influential leader.

 

Recently, as I sought to update a book I co-wrote about the history of Israel's intelligence agencies, sources close to them revealed that they felt pressure from the

Obama Administration - more than a hint - to stop carrying out assassinations inside Iran.

 

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Tough austerity measures in Greece leave nearly a million people with no access to healthcare, leading to soaring infant mortality, HIV infection and suicide

 Austerity measures imposed by the Greek government since the economic crisis have inflicted “shocking” harm on the health of the population, leaving nearly a million people without access to healthcare, experts have said.

In a damning report on the impact of spending cuts on the Greek health system, academics found evidence of rising infant mortality rates, soaring levels of HIV infection among drug users, the return of malaria, and a spike in the suicide count.
Greece’s public hospital budget was cut by 25 per cent between 2009 and 2011 and public spending on pharmaceuticals has more than halved, leading to some medicine  becoming unobtainable, experts from Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) said.


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Charge people to appeal benefit decision, DWP document proposes

The government is considering charging people who appeal against the decision to withdraw their benefits.

A leaked Department for Work and Pensions document obtained by The Guardian said the “introduction of a charge for people making appeals against decisions to social security tribunals” would be one possibility of raising money.

The newspaper cited figures showing that nearly 900,000 people had their benefits terminated in the last year, the highest figure for any 12 month period since jobseekers allowance was brought in 18 years ago.

Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, accused the government of presiding over a “broken” benefits system. She said that 58 per cent of appeals against DWP decisions to withdraw jobseekers allowance are upheld.



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Gina Robins cooked kitten to death in microwave

Robins (right) had claimed the kitten was shut in the microwave oven by other cats

A woman who microwaved a 10-week-old kitten to death has been found guilty of causing it unnecessary suffering.

The kitten's owner Sarah Knutton told Torquay Magistrates' Court she heard a sound then a "horrendous screech".

Gina Robins, 31, of Salisbury Avenue, Torquay, had denied the charge, claiming the kitten had been shut in the microwave oven by other cats.

Magistrates heard Robins was angry at Ms Knutton for reporting her boyfriend to police over a separate matter.

Robins was released on bail and is due to be sentenced at the court on 14 December.
'Made it worse'
 
Prosecutor Iain O'Donnell, for the RSPCA, told the court: "We say the defendant put the 10-week-old kitten in the microwave and cooked it to death."

Prior to the incident, on 16 February, the court was told that Robins had sent Ms Knutton a text message which said reporting a confrontation involving Robins' boyfriend to the police had "made it worse".
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If America Continues To Go Down This Path, This Is What Life Will Be Like...

Becoming more like Europe is not a good thing.  But that is the path that we are currently on.  For the most part, Europeans live in a socialist “Big Brother” system in which the government completely dominates your life from the cradle to the grave.  Of course there are differences from country to country, but generally speaking the lives of most Europeans are very tightly regulated.  You see, the truth is that high levels of individual liberty and freedom are considered to be “dangerous” by the European elite. 

They believe that if we are all allowed to just do whatever we want that it would result in utter chaos.  They are convinced that life is better when those that are smarter (them) control the lives of everyone else. 

In essence, Europe is like a giant religious cult in many ways (minus the religion).  With each passing year, the number of rules and regulations governing the daily lives of Europeans steadily grows, as does the level of control.  If you try to live outside of that control, you could very well find yourself in a direct confrontation with the authorities very rapidly.

Just consider what is happening in Germany.  Authorities there have stated repeatedly that they do not believe in having any “parallel societies”, and therefore everyone must participate in the system that the government has established.

That includes all children.  In Germany today, almost all forms of homeschooling are illegal.  In fact, one judge shockingly ruled that one set of parents could not have custody of their children because they might move them to another country and homeschool them there…



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US to deploy laser weapon on warship in 2014

In this Feb. 24, 2012 photo provided by the US Navy, a high-speed camera captures the first full-energy shots from an electromagnetic launcher at a test facility in Dahlgren, Va.

The US Navy is prepared to deploy its first laser weapon on a warship for the first time later this year, a new option for replacing missiles and smart bombs with the advanced system.

The Navy also planned to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within two years.
The laser weapons can be fired continuously and they won’t run out like missiles and bombs.

"It fundamentally changes the way we fight," Capt. Mike Ziv, program manager for directed energy and electric weapon systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

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UK fraud agency charges 3 ex-Barclays bankers over Libor

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said criminal proceedings had started against Peter Charles Johnson, Jonathan James Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas, alleging they conspired to defraud between June 2005 and August 2007.

Barclays paid $450 million in July 2012 to settle charges it had manipulated Libor interest rates, and several more banks have followed and regulators continue to investigate the scandal.

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Nanomotors controlled inside living human cells for the first time

California's New 'Dust Bowl': "It's Gonna Be a Slow, Painful, Agonizing Death" For Farmers

"It's really a crisis situation," exclaims one California city manager, "and it's going to get worse in time if this drought doesn't alleviate." 

 

For the state that produces one-third of the nation's fruits and vegetables, the driest spell in 500 years has prompted President Obama to make $100 million in livestock-disaster aid available within 60 days to help the state rebound from what he describes is " going to be a very challenging situation this year... and potentially some time to come."

As NBC reports, Governor Jerry Brown believes the "unprecedented emergency" could cost $2.8 billion in job income and $11 billion in state revenues - and as one farmer noted "we can't recapture that." Dismal recollections of the 1930's Dust Bowl are often discussed as workers (and employers) are "packing their bags and leaving town..." leaving regions to "run the risk of becoming desolate ghost towns as local governments and businesses collapse."

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US streets have become ‘war zones’: Peace activist

The “militaristic” policies of the United States government, as well as rising inequality, racism and widespread access to weapons, has turned American streets into “war zones” for many years, a peace activist says.

“The problem with the war on the streets of the United States has been going on for a very, very long time,” said Tighe Barry, a member of CODEPINK, a social justice movement working to end US-funded wars and occupations.

“It has its roots originally in the racist policies of the US government, the policy of the rich dominating the poor and also the fact that our government has been a militaristic government for a very, very long time,” Barry added.

“The streets of the United States are basically a war zone right now, people take their lives in their own hands whenever they go out the door,” he added.



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Family of Woman Who Led Cops on Capitol Car Chase Suing Police

Miriam Carey’s sisters, Valarie, left, and Amy, Right, speak to the media outside a family home in Bedford-Stuyvesent, Brooklyn. (Photo by Michael Graae/Getty Images)

LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC) — The family of Miriam Carey, the woman who was killed in October after ramming White House barricades with her car and then leading authorities on a high-speed chase to the U.S. Capitol, is suing the Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police.

The New York City-based Sanders Firm, P.C. is representing the family, and recently announced that Carey’s sister, Valarie Carey, has filed a wrongful death claim seeking $75 million.

Police say Miriam Carey rammed her car into a White House checkpoint barricade on the afternoon of Oct. 3. She fled the scene to avoid law enforcement, leading officers through the streets of D.C. toward the Capitol.

The Capitol building was placed on lock-down and Capitol Police issued a shelter-in-place order following reports of shots fired near the building.

A Capitol Police officer and a Secret Service agent suffered non-life threatening injuries during the incident.

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High dose vitamin C benefits cancer patients

Laboratory study has illustrated that high-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy and develop patients’ treatment.

The study, conducted by the scientists of the University of Kansas, showed that getting vitamin C shot kills cancer cells without harming normal ones.

They achieved the result through vitamin C injection into human ovarian cancer cells in the lab, into mice as well as into patients with advanced ovarian cancer, according to the report appeared in Science Translational Medicine.

However, vitamin C has long been known as an alternative therapy for cancer, taking vitamin C by mouth failed to replicate the effect.

Clinical trials of oral taking of vitamin C indicate that the human body quickly excretes the vitamin when it is taken by mouth.


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Medical Nanobots Will Connect Brain to Cloud Computing

 The Human Body Version 2.0 project features none other than arch-Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil as its main proponent. The goals have been openly stated for some time:

In the coming decades, a radical upgrading of our body’s physical and mental systems, already underway, will use nanobots to augment and ultimately replace our organs. We already know how to prevent most degenerative disease through nutrition and supplementation; this will be a bridge to the emerging biotechnology revolution, which in turn will be a bridge to the nanotechnology revolution. By 2030, reverse-engineering of the human brain will have been completed and nonbiological intelligence will merge with our biological brains.

 

Working toward the first Posthuman: courtesy of Ray Kurzweil and the Lifeboat Foundation
In fact, the reverse engineering of the human brain has already been announced to be well under way via new microchips and accompanying software. 

And, while full nanobot rewiring of the brain is not expected before 2020, Phys.org has reported that our DNA has been successfully targeted by nanobots "for drug therapy or destruction."

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The Mafia State of Mind

 Once the mafia state of mind has seeped into every nook and cranny of the society and economy, it's not even recognized as corruption: it's simply the way the system works.

We recently spent a few days with a friend who was born and raised in Sicily who now lives elsewhere in Europe with his wife (also Italian, from Naples). Though we talked of many things, one of his comments struck me like a bolt of lightning.

The Mafia isn't about shoot-outs, he said; the mafia is a state of mind.

He then pointed to a city trash collection truck driving by. Those guys are mafia.
I should stipulate that our friends are left-liberal in their views, and deeply concerned about the direction of free enterprise, democracy and social equality in Europe. He did not make these comments as a joke but with the utmost seriousness.

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Iran to put three satellites into orbit by yearend

Iran plans to place three indigenously designed and manufactured satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014).

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Monday ceremony marking the National Space Technology Day, deputy head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli stated that Sharif Sat, Tadbir (Prudence) and Fajr (Dawn) satellites will be lifted into space by the end of the year. 

He added that Fajr is a monitoring satellite, which has been developed by Iranian experts at Iran Electronics Industries, known as SAIRAN. 

Fajr is said to be a reconnaissance satellite powered by solar energy. Iran plans to send up the satellite on board the upgraded Safir (Ambassador) carrier rocket.

Fajr satellite will reportedly be placed in elliptical orbit of 400 km in radius, and will remain in space for a year and a half.



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Iran cleric urges ‘crushing’ response to US threats

A senior Iranian cleric has called on the Foreign Ministry to react decisively to US threats against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear energy program. 

“People expect the Iranian Foreign Ministry to give crushing response to rants, lies, accusations and brazenness of the United States,” Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahhedi Kermani said in a sermon to worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran.

He was reacting to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s renewed threat of military action and allegations made by US top nuclear negotiator with Iran, Wendy Sherman, against Iran’s nuclear facilities.



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Kentucky Police Set Up ‘Eating While Driving’ Checkpoints

Operation R.A.I.D. (Remove Aggressive, Impaired and Distracted drivers from Kentucky Roadways), which starts this month, will remain active for one year.

“Law enforcement will be more visible and the number of check points will increase,” reports WBKO.“Not only just texting, but any distracting drivers. 

This includes eating and drinking. We are going to be out looking for those people. You’re going to see a major force when it comes time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend and holiday weekends,” said Trooper Biven of the Kentucky State Police.

Although Kentucky has banned text messaging while driving, there is no state law that bans eating while driving, according to Distraction.gov. Police will be pulling people over and subjecting them to checkpoints over a supposed violation (eating while driving) that doesn’t exist.

Reports concerning the program also made no mention whatsoever of the fact that such checkpoints are clearly a violation of the 4th Amendment.

“Roving patrols and an increase in safety checkpoints” will characterize a “blanket campaign” that “may not work well in certain areas,” acknowledged Captain Nathan Kent, KSP Post One Commander.

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My £430,000 payout is massive - but I DESERVE it': Ex-policeman 'ridiculed out of job' over internet video of him smashing up pensioner's Range Rover says attack was 'not over the top

 

The police officer who was awarded a £430,000 payout after he was filmed smashing a pensioner's car window with a metal baton has conceded that the award is a 'massive' amount of money.

PC Mike Baillon, 47, who served with Gwent Police as a traffic officer, became a viral sensation after a two-minute clip of the incident was uploaded to the internet.
He said that he was ridiculed by colleagues following the incident and was forced to resign after senior officers removed him from frontline duties.

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Samantha Cameron shows off her style credentials in £1,000 designer gown as she joins David Cameron at Conservative Party ball

With London Fashion Week kicking off in the capital next week, Samantha Cameron is already flying the flag for one of her favourite designers.

The first lady of fashion showed off her style credentials in a floor length blue Roksanda Ilincic gown as she arrived with her husband, David Cameron, at the annual Conservative Party Black and White Fundraising Ball.

The dress, which costs around £1,000 and features cream and green colour block panels, is part of the Serbian designers Resort 2014 collection.


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Newborn baby died after mother was ‘kept waiting for more than three HOURS for an unplanned caesarean

 

A newborn baby died at just eight hours old after her mother was made to wait three-and-a-half hours for a caesarian, an inquest heard.

Mary-Jayne Harrison’s baby Jessica died at Southend Hospital, Essex after picking up an infection before her birth.

The one specialist in duty ordered a caesarian but was then called to deal with another birth and midwives decided not to call for another specialist because they 'hoped for a good outcome'.


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Fanatics in Syria vow to bring terror home to UK: Terrorists say they will attack public transport and financial centres

A group of Britons waging jihad in Syria have threatened to carry out terror attacks in the UK.

The extremists warned of atrocities on London’s public transport, at financial centres and also at the White House in the US.

They are believed to be the first direct threats of terrorist strikes in the West to emerge from Syria, where hundreds of Britons are among thousands of foreign fighters who have joined jihadist rebel groups.

  'Sometimes you just got to get up and go': In a series of threats issued online by the Rayat Al-Tawheed group, one image shows a man inside a vehicle with an assault rifle as a red London Routemaster bus passes by

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n a series of threats issued online by the Rayat Al-Tawheed group, the British jihadist faction in Syria, one image shows a man inside a vehicle with an assault rifle as a red London Routemaster bus passes by.


A slogan on the image in English says: ‘Sometimes you just got to get up and go.’
Another appears to make a reference to MI6. It shows a laptop computer with the barrel of an assault rifle resting on the keyboard and ammunition lined up under the screen, which displays an image of a hand gun and the phrase: ‘You only die once why not make it martyrdom.’



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Cop Handcuffs Firefighter For Trying to Protect Crash Victims

The incident occurred on Tuesday night after a car overturned and another fell down an embankment on the 805 Freeway.

Chula Vista Firefighter Jacob Gregoire responded to the accident by following standard protocol of parking his fire truck in front of the crash scene to protect the victims as they were being treated and loaded into an ambulance.

However, when a CHP officer asked Gregoire to move the truck he refused and returned to helping the crash victims, prompting the officer to handcuff Gregoire and temporarily place him under arrest in front of a TV news camera.

“This is ridiculous. CHP is arresting engineer for where he spotted the fire engine,” states a voice on the Fire Department radio frequency. “We’re in the middle of patient care with patients on the freeway and we’re trying to protect our scene and they’re putting him in handcuffs at this time and walking him away.”

Gregoire was detained in a CHP squad car for half an hour before supervisors from both agencies arrived.

“It’s unbelievable that you guys have to treat us like this. We are on the road trying to help people,” states Gregoire as he is being handcuffed.

The CHP say they are investigating the incident but have refused to name the officer involved or say if he has been reprimanded.

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Worldwide Cancer Cases Expected to Soar by 70% Over Next 20 Years

Low- and middle-income countries will be increasingly hit by cancers triggered by infections or associated with more affluent lifestyles. Photograph: Cultura RM/Alamy

 

Cancer cases worldwide are predicted to increase by 70% over the next two decades, from 14m in 2012 to 25m new cases a year, according to the World Health Organisation.

The latest World Cancer Report says it is implausible to think we can treat our way out of the disease and that the focus must now be on preventing new cases. Even the richest countries will struggle to cope with the spiralling costs of treatment and care for patients, and the lower income countries, where numbers are expected to be highest, are ill-equipped for the burden to come.

The incidence of cancer globally has increased in just four years from 12.7m in 2008 to 14.1m new cases in 2012, when there were 8.2m deaths. Over the next 20 years, it is expected to hit 25m a year – a 70% increase.

The biggest burden will be in low- and middle-income countries. They are hit by two types of cancers – those triggered by infections, such as cervical cancers, which are still very prevalent in poorer countries that don't have screening, let alone the HPV vaccine, and increasingly cancers associated with more affluent lifestyles "with increasing use of tobacco, consumption of alcohol and highly processed foods and lack of physical activity", writes the World Health Organisation director general, Margaret Chan, in an introduction to the report.

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The Mini Cheddar Martyr has been expelled

Boy, six, suspended from school after taking a packet of Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox has now been EXPELLED because parents vented their outrage in the press

In stories like this, there is sometimes more than meets the eye. Perhaps the lad has been expelled for some more serious crime than eating cheesy snacks?

The school has insisted a pupil was not excluded 'for just having Mini Cheddars in their lunchbox'

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Iran FM urges end to war, bloodshed in Syria

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has stressed the importance of putting an end to war and bloodshed in Syria through a Syria-Syrian solution.

In a Monday meeting with former United Nations Secretary General and head of a group of ex-global leaders known as the Elders Kofi Annan in Tehran, Zarif called for dispatching humanitarian aid to Syria and countering extremism.

He said Iran plays an “undeniable” role in promoting peace, stability and progress in the sensitive Persian Gulf and Middle East regions and expressed Tehran’s readiness to strengthen cooperation with regional countries.

Annan and other members of the Elders said Iran can play a more constructive role in the region and across the world.

They expressed their serious concern over the current disastrous situation in the Middle East and urged efforts to reduce the suffering of regional nations and counter sectarianism. 
Zarif and Annan called for collective cooperation to counter the spread of extremism and sectarianism in the region.
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Israel demolishes more homes in East al-Quds

Israeli forces have demolished four more Palestinian homes in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhoods of Issawiya and Beit Hanina.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a two-storey 300-square-meter building in Issawiya on Monday, an activist said.

He said residents clashed with police, who fired stun grenades at people in the area. A 70-square-meter house belonging to a Palestinian was also demolished in Issawiya.

Two more houses were razed by Israeli troops in al-Ashqariya area of Beit Hanina, to the north of East al-Quds.

A total of 20 people lived in the buildings.




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CAR Muslim minority extremely helpless: UN

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the Central African Republic's (CAR) Muslim community has come under increasing attack, urging governments to do more to stop the crisis.

“The security and human rights situation has further deteriorated over the past few days…Muslim civilians are now extremely vulnerable. Many are being pushed out of the country," Pillay said in a statement on Monday.
She went on to say that killings were happening on a daily basis and called on the international community to do more to prevent the country being torn apart.

"We simply cannot let the social fabric of this country be torn apart," Pillay said, adding, "I call as a matter of utmost urgency upon the international community to strengthen peacekeeping efforts...Many lives are at stake."

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Suspended Coffees

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:

‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave. I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?” 

My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.” Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in through the door and kindly asks ‘

Do you have any suspended coffee?’ It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm beverage. 

The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal. 

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients.

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Working Age Americans are the Majority of People on Food Stamps for the First Time

When people ask me to describe the state of the U.S. economy, what I always say is that it can best characterized as an ongoing state-sanctioned theft.

This theft consists of the 0.01% oligarch class intentionally leveraging a corrupt monetary and political system in order to funnel all of the wealth of the non-oligarch rich and middle-class upward to them.

The underclasses are kept quiet and in-line via food stamps and other forms of so-called “welfare.”
In reality, I have frequently maintained that food stamps are actually corporate welfare and that the stock market represents food stamps for the 1%.

The entire economy is a gigantic bait and switch in which a handful of people rape and pillage everyone else.

With unemployment and GDP statistics hopelessly manipulated, we must look at other data points in order to gain an understanding of how things really stand. Data related to food stamp rolls is one way to gain real insight into the true state of the U.S. economy.

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UK spent £4bn on drone warfare: Report

An MQ-9 Reaper drone (File photo)

 

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £4 billion ($6.5 billion) to amass a force of 657 military drones despite the controversy over the secrecy of its deadly drone strikes overseas, a new report reveals.

The fleet includes 10 MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are armed with laser-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles and are capable to hover 20,000 feet above targets for over 20 hours, The Sunday People r eported.

It also consists of some 324 Black Hornet Nano micro-helicopters, 222 Desert Hawk UAVs, 63 Watchkeeper drones, 30 Tarantula Hawks, and 8 ScanEagles.

The news comes a month after the MoD opened the doors of its Royal Air Force (RAF) Waddington base, which is being used as a control centre for the country’s controversial drone attacks in Afghanistan. 

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Senior Tory MP Evans in court for sex charges

File photo of British politician Nigel Evans

The former deputy speaker of the British House of Commons is set to enter formal pleas over allegations of sexual offences against seven men.

Nigel Evans, the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire in northern England since 1992, is to appear at Preston Crown Court on Friday for a plea and case management hearing, British media reported.
The court has set March 10 as a provisional date of his trial, which is scheduled to last roughly a month.

Evans, 55, is accused of committing eight sexual offences including one count of rape, five of sexual assault, and two of indecent assault, between January 2002 and April 2013.

He has been released on bail on condition that he does not contact any of his alleged victims.

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2,400 killed in Obama’s five-year drone war: Report

Funeral prayers for the victims of a suspected US drone in North Waziristan

The US drone program has killed at least 2,400 people around the world since President Barack Obama came to office five years ago, according to a new report.

Across Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the Obama administration has launched more than 390 drone strikes since 2009, eight times as many as were launched in the entire Bush administration, according to the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).

The escalating drone strikes under Obama’s presidency have also killed nearly six times as many people as were killed under former president George W. Bush, TBIJ figures show.

In Pakistan alone, between 416 and 951 civilians, including 168 to 200 children, have been killed since 2009, TBIJ estimates.

Under Obama, the CIA and the Pentagon have launched at least 58 drone strikes on Yemen, killing more than 281 people, including at least 24 reported civilians.



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EU oil firms eager to resume Iran ties: Report

The headquarters of French energy giant Total in Paris (file photo)

 

The executives of some major European oil companies have reportedly visited Iran to re-establish energy ties with the Islamic Republic.

The executives of European energy firms including France’ Total and Italy’s Saras have visited Iran in recent weeks to hold talks with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Reuters reported on Thursday.

Meanwhile, other European oil firms have expressed willingness to return to the Iranian market.
“The best way for companies like us to go back to Iran is to follow strictly the sanctions and push both parties to reach an agreement which will lead to the lifting of sanctions one day,” Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni of Italy’s multinational oil and gas company, Eni, told reporters in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

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New Hampshire Rejects Right-to-Know GMO Labeling Bill

(AFP Photo / Robyn Beck)The GMO labeling movement suffered a blow in the Northeast on Wednesday.

A bill that would have required the labeling of all GMO food on store shelves in New Hampshire died in the state's House of Representatives.

The vote not only puts a damper on the labeling fight in the state, but is also a set back for similar fights in the nearby states of Maine and Connecticut.

 Both passed laws this year that require the labeling of GMO foods, but those laws contain within them a limit. In order for the laws to be enacted, at least four other Northeastern states, together totaling a population of over 20 million people, must enact similar GMO laws. Proponents of those clauses claim that it ensures regional adoption of the new labeling system to make it easier on individual suppliers.

Those states could include Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey.

Following Wednesday's vote, New Hampshire, at least for now, is out of the running.




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Astronomers capture the first Image of the Mysterious web that connects all Galaxies

For the first time, Astronomers were capable to see a strand of heated gas acknowledged as a thread that is speculated to be a piece of the mystical hidden formation that precepts the geography of all the galaxies in our universe and stars.

Experts think that elements in the universe is organized into a enormous web-like design. It is labeled as the cosmic web. There are names of this design in the rest of the emission from the design of the universe itself and the Big Bang.

Without some mystical strength stretching obvious matter into this web, galaxies would be randomly thrown around the universe. But their not. Also, we can clearly see that galaxies are formed in societies and those societies combine into larger arrays.

PC copies let us know that those galaxy arrays are transmitted by black matter and high threads of heated gas — a mystical ingredient that we can’t notice because it doesn’t scatter light or diffuse but that forms most of the web.

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School ditches WiFi because of alleged cancer risk

Remember, folks, if (a) it’s new, (b) it’s popular, and (c) it’s invisible, then you know what it is. That’s right. It’s a cancer-causing death ray inflicted by lazy-minded bureaucrats who wilfully want to kill your kids. Or “WiFi”, to you and me.

Yes, WiFi causes cancer now. And that’s official (kind of). How do we know? Well, it said so on the Internet. And, some parents campaigning to have it banned have been getting emails from all over the world “expressing concern” about the dangers of WiFi. Yep. Looks like it’s true alright.

As a result, and in no way an alarmist reaction, a school in New Zealand has decided to remove Wi-Fi from junior classes and replace it with cable-based internet. You know, because electrical cables have never hurt anyone.


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Former DARPA director Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips

infowars.com – Former DARPA director and now Google executive Regina Dugan is pushing an edible “authentication microchip” along with an electronic tattoo that can read your mind. No this isn’t a movie script about a futuristic scientific dictatorship, it’s trendy and cool!

Dugan, who is Head of Advanced Technology at (Google-owned) Motorola, told an audience at the All Things D11 Conference that the company was working on a microchip inside a pill that users would swallow daily in order obtain the “superpower” of having their entire body act as a biological authentication system for cellphones, cars, doors and other devices.

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All European newborn Babies will be Microchipped from May 2014

On May 2014, through Europe newborn children will be compelled to take in a subcutaneous RFID chip.

Public clinics in the European Union are to be alerted. The chip in inquiry will be contributed with the report sheet on the newborn.

This chip will also be an impressive GPS sensor that will task with a micro- disposable battery every 2 years in state clinics. GPS chip grants an edge of error of 5 meters, as a statement that it is excellent.

It will be linked straight to a satellite, which will guide the networks. As forecasted, this chip will be essential for all kids born after May 2014 , but with a present confirmation date until December 2016.

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How to Defund America’s Growing Police State

According to a new report by the Wall Street Journal, the NSA’s vast snooping operation has the ability to spy on 75% of all internet traffic within the U.S. This new revelation contradicts previous statements made by government officials regarding the ability and reach of the NSA’s
internet spying capabilities.

The report explains that the NSA actually retains “the content of emails sent between U.S. citizens and also filters domestic phone calls made over the
Internet.”

Through its cooperation and infiltration of most private telecommunications companies, the Federal government scours the massive data traveling on global communication networks in search of “suspicious” conversations. According to the NSA, “suspicious” communications are calls made to or from countries outside the U.S., as well as international communications that happen to travel through U.S. communications networks.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly been busy working with military contractors on a new face scanning technology that can automatically identify people by their faces within large crowds. DHS claims that this technology, called BOSS (Biometric Optical Surveillance System) is still in its infancy and is not yet fully functional.

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Victim confronts ‘abuser’

In a video that has now gone viral, 28-year-old Jamie Carrillo speaks into a webcam with a phone in her hand, explaining just who she is about to call.

She alleges that she was groomed and abused as a 12-year-old by her teacher – and that it is time for confrontation.

“Why did you do that?”, Ms Carrillo asks a woman who answers as Andrea Cardosa, an assistant principal within the Alhambra Unified School District.

“I was only 12-years-old when I met you. You realise you brainwashed me and you manipulated me? And that what you did was wrong?”

Ms Carrillo confronts the woman with sexual abuse allegations and tells her she ruined her childhood. She alleges that the abuse took place over several years in Riverside, east of Los Angeles, 16 years ago.
 
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Meet The Fortress Hotel That Separates The Davos Billionaires From The Peasants

The theme of this year's Davos meeting where the world's wealthiest and most powerful people meet to enjoy each other's company, a fawning media, and of course the best food and entertainment that money can buy, is social stability, class hatred, and how to fix a world torn by a record wealth inequality.

An ambitious task to be sure, especially for the very people who have benefited the most from the record wealth transfer of the past 5 years. Still, while these true Robin Hoods of the modern gilded age are desperate for a few minutes of humanitarian TV exposure, or at least a soundbite or two, their advice to the peasants out there is quite clear: don't get too close.


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Palestinian Authority rejects talks extension

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has rejected the idea of extending talks with Israel beyond the nine-month timeline set by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

 Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday that it had been agreed that the negotiations would continue for nine months, <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> reported.

“We have had a large number of negotiation sessions, during which we discussed major issues. There is not talk about an extension. We need to focus on the remaining time and not think about prolonging the talks,” he said.
Kerry had given Israelis and Palestinians the nine-month deadline, ending in April, to reach a peace deal. 



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Airport Security More Concerned with Press Than Stopping Terrorists

Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Bottom Half And The Global Elite Like It That Way

Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does?  In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do.  This shocking statistic comes from a new report on global poverty by Oxfam.  And actually Oxfam’s report probably significantly underestimates the true scope of the problem, because Oxfam relies on publicly reported numbers. 

At the very top of the food chain, the global elite are masters at hiding their wealth.  In fact, as I have written about previously, the global elite have approximately 32 trillion dollars (that we know about) stashed in offshore banks around the world. 

That would be about enough to pay off the entire U.S. national debt and buy every good and service produced in the United States for an entire year.  These elitists live on an entirely different planet than the rest of us do.  In fact, according to Oxfam, the richest one percent of the global population has 65 times more wealth than the bottom half of the global population combined.

 There is certainly nothing wrong with making money.  In fact, the founders of the United States intended for this nation to be a place where free markets thrived and where everyone could pursue their dreams.  Unfortunately, this country (along with the rest of the world) has moved very much in the opposite direction.  Today, we have a debt-based global financial system which is dominated by gigantic predator corporations and big banks. 

Working together with national governments, these corporations and banks have constructed a system that I like to call “Corporatism” in which the percentage of all global wealth that is being funneled to the very top of the pyramid steadily grows over time.

The Founding Fathers were very correct to be very suspicious of large concentrations of power.  In the early days of the United States, the federal government was very small and the size and scope of corporations was greatly limited.  Our nation thrived and a huge middle class blossomed.


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LAPD Cops Stood Down Minutes Before TSA Shooting

LAPD officers assigned to the area where Paul Ciancia began his shooting spree targeting TSA agents at LAX Airport stood down minutes before the attack began, leaving for breaks without informing their dispatcher as required.

Departmental procedures require that officers notify a dispatcher before going on break and leaving their patrol area in order to ensure supervisors are aware of their absence and, if necessary, a relief unit can be brought in to cover their area,” reports the Associated Press.

That didn’t happen in the moments before Ciancia began his rampage, with one of the officers on a bathroom break and the other outside on a vehicle traveling to a meal break.

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Number of UK adults living with parents on rise

New figures show more than a quarter of British adults aged between 20 and 34 live with their parents amid high joblessness, soaring rents and strict mortgage criteria.
 

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a total of 3.3 million young adults remained in the family home in 2013, which is 669,000 people more than the figure in 1996, when ONS began to keep records. 

Since the start of the economic downturn in 2008, the number of young adults living with their parents has increased dramatically.

The rise comes despite the fact that the number of young people in the UK remains almost the same as in the 1990s.



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Living costs? Britons can no longer afford costs of dying

 

A new survey has found that the average cost of dying in Britain has increased 7.1 percent compared to previous year with the poor people failing to pay for funeral services. 

The survey was carried out by researchers at the University of Bath's Institute for Policy Research. They found that the average cost of dying, which includes funeral, burial or cremation and state administration, stands at £7,622.

Researchers urged the government to reconsider the system of state support for funeral costs, highlighting the fact that more than 100,000 people will be unable to pay for a funeral this year.

They said that the cost of dying has been increasing in recent years with the average cost of a funeral rising by 80 percent between 2004 and 2013.

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Is FEMA Preparing For a Pandemic?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking for contractors to supply 40-yard size dumpsters along with experts who can dispose of contaminated bio-medical waste during a national emergency.

 The Request for Information (RFI) appears on the FedBizOpps website and asks for, “feedback from waste removal industry vendors that can potentially provide either dumpster service and/or bio-medical waste collection and removal services during emergency response events within the Continental United States (CONUS) area of responsibility.”

FEMA is intending to have one or more contractors provide them with the service as part of an indefinite contract that will initially have a base length of one year with four additional 12 month options.

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Global Unemployment Rise Despite Mild Economic Recovery: UN

The number of unemployed people around the world reached an estimated 201.8 million in 2013, said the United Nations’ labour agency on Monday, warning that new job opportunities were not being created fast enough to absorb a growing workforce.

In its annual jobs outlook report, Global Employment Trends 2014, the International Labor Organization said that the current economic recovery was too weak to tackle joblessness, with youth unemployment a particular concern – as nearly 13.1 percent of people aged 15 to 24 were jobless, almost three times as high as the adult unemployment rate.

The problem "is particularly high in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and Southern Europe," the report noted, highlighting a growing proportion of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)
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Man, 84, dies in handcuffs at deportation centre

Evening Standard newspaper reports: A man in his 80s who died in handcuffs at Britain’s biggest detention centre was travelling via London on a quest to track down his long-lost daughter, it emerged today.

Alois Dvorzac, 84, had left his home in Canada on a last journey to say goodbye to the daughter he had left in Slovenia decades before.

But the mission ended in tragedy when Mr Dvorzac was refused entry to the UK at Gatwick and taken to Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow to be deported.

He was declared unfit for detention or deportation a week later after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s but was held for a further two weeks before being transferred to hospital where he died in February last year, having been shackled for five hours,

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Tony Blair targeted in citizen’s arrest

 

Tony Blair was targeted in an attempted citizen’s arrest last week as he dined with family and friends in a London restaurant.

The former Prime Minister was reportedly confronted by a staff member who accused him of being a war criminal as he ate at the Tramshed restaurant in Shoreditch on Friday evening.

Named as Twiggy Garcia, the staff member said he noticed an “eerie presence” in the upmarket steak restaurant before realising Mr Blair was among the customers. The man then approached the former Prime Minister.

“I went over to him, put my hand on his shoulder and said: ‘Mr Blair, this is a citizen’s arrest for a crime against peace, namely your decision to launch an unprovoked war against Iraq. I am inviting you to accompany me to a police station to answer the charge,’” the former employee told Vice.

 
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