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Greece On The Edge After Second Failed Presidential Vote | Zero Hedge
Greece On The Edge After Second Failed Presidential Vote | Zero Hedge. A week after the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, was unable to push through his nominee for president, Stavros Dimas, in a vote in parliament that needed 200 votes to pass, hours ago the second presidential vote took place and just like last […]
Former Airline CEO Claims US Military Shot Down MH370 Near Diego Garcia | Zero Hedge
Former Airline CEO Claims US Military Shot Down MH370 Near Diego Garcia | Zero Hedge. A second senior airline industry source has revealed his belief that there is some sort of conspiracy behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. As The Herald Sun reports, Emirates president and CEO Sir Tim Clark made world headlines in October […]
About That Interview – The Automatic Earth
About That Interview – The Automatic Earth. Michael Moore once famously – though by no means famously enough yet, because he was so dead-on – said that ‘you can’t declare war on a noun’. If only Americans had paid better attention. That would have shone a whole different light on, if not outright prevented, insane, […]
Conrad Black: The Saudis believe the West is about to give in to Iranian demands. Crashing the price of oil is how it fights back | National Post
Conrad Black: The Saudis believe the West is about to give in to Iranian demands. Crashing the price of oil is how it fights back | National Post. Responses to the decline in world oil prices have been mystifying — flummoxing, in fact. The secretary general of OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), Abdullah Al-Badri, said […]
China pledges to help Russia overcome economic hardships — RT News
China pledges to help Russia overcome economic hardships — RT News. China’s foreign minister has pledged support to Russia as it faces an economic downturn due to sanctions and a drop in oil prices. Boosting trade in yuan is a solution proposed by Beijing’s commerce minister. “Russia has the capability and the wisdom to overcome […]
North Korea threatens strikes on U.S. amid Sony hacking claims – World – CBC News
North Korea threatens strikes on U.S. amid Sony hacking claims – World – CBC News. U.S. President Barack Obama is “recklessly” spreading rumours of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and “the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism.” Such rhetoric is routine from North Korea’s […]
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism. Washington’s longstanding dispute with North Korea, which for years has centered […]
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism. Washington’s longstanding dispute with North Korea, which for years has centered […]
Hacking Collective Anonymous Says FBI Is Lying, “North Korea Is Not Source Of Hack” | Zero Hedge
Hacking Collective Anonymous Says FBI Is Lying, “North Korea Is Not Source Of Hack” | Zero Hedge. Having confirmed unequivocally, in a statement by the FBI and reiterated by President Obama, that “the North Korean government is responsible” for hacking Sony, it appears the YouTube-less ‘evidence’ the FBI provided is being questioned by the hacking-collective ‘Anonymous’ and former Lulzsec […]
Libya’s official government targets rival forces trying to seize ports | Reuters
Libya’s official government targets rival forces trying to seize ports | Reuters. (Reuters) – Military planes loyal to Libya’s recognized government attacked on Sunday an opposing force that is seeking to seize the country’s two biggest oil ports, officials said. The advancing force, which is allied to a rival government based in Tripoli, moved east […]
2014 Year in Review: Part 2 – David Collum | Peak Prosperity
2014 Year in Review: Part 2 – David Collum | Peak Prosperity. “Printing money out of thin air does not increase wealth, it only increases claims on existing wealth.” ~Charles Hugh Smith In the olden days, claims that the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer were a thinly veiled rallying cry […]
Stratfor founder: ‘US fears a resurgent Russia’ — RT News
Stratfor founder: ‘US fears a resurgent Russia’ — RT News. Washington “fears” a resurgent Russia, which harps back to the Cold War says George Friedman, the CEO and founder of forecasters Stratfor. He also believes the US started to meddle in Ukraine in retaliation for Russia outfoxing Obama over Syria. Friedman says the United States […]
Defiant North Korea Says Can Prove It Is Not Behind Hack “Without Resorting To Torture Like The CIA” | Zero Hedge
Defiant North Korea Says Can Prove It Is Not Behind Hack “Without Resorting To Torture Like The CIA” | Zero Hedge. Just hours after the FBI announced that, with absolute certainty, it had determined that North Korea was behind the Sony hack, a “theory” that has become the butt of global jokes, we learned, in a […]
Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog
Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog. Previously-leaked documents showed that the CIA warned Obama that funding rebels doesn’t work … but Obama decided to fund the Syrian rebels anyway for cynical political gain. Top CIA officers say that drone strikes increase terrorism (and see this). Indeed, virtually all aspects of the American […]
