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on May 13, 2015 in World News

‘Nuclear war our likely future’: Russia & China won’t accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns

‘Nuclear war our likely future’: Russia & China won’t accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns The White House is determined to block the rise of the key nuclear-armed nations, Russia and China, neither of whom will join the “world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony,” says head of the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts. The former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, Dr Paul Craig Roberts, has written on his blog that Beijing is currently “confronted with the Pivot to Asia and the construction of new US naval and air bases to ensure Washington’s control of the… View Article

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on May 13, 2015 in World News

Facebook strikes deal with media groups

Facebook strikes deal with media groups Henry Mance, Media Correspondent Facebook has struck a landmark deal with media companies, strengthening its role as a key middleman for news. Nine publishers, including the BBC, through its youth-oriented Newsbeat service, the Guardian and The New York Times, have agreed to publish some content directly through the social network, rather than simply hosting it on their own sites as part of a trial. High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for… View Article

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on May 13, 2015 in World News

Mom sues school district over son’s arrest for NRA t-shirt

Mom sues school district over son’s arrest for NRA t-shirt by Victor Skinner LOGAN, W.Va. – The mother of a West Virginia middle schooler who was suspended for wearing a National Rifle Association t-shirt to school is suing the Logan County Board of Education for allegedly violating her son’s constitutional rights. Tanya Lardieri filed the lawsuit on behalf of her son, Jared Marcum, who was charged with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer in 2013 when he refused to turn his NRA t-shirt inside-out, the Charleston Gazette reports. Those charges were later dismissed by a judge, but Marcum… View Article

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on May 13, 2015 in World News

Anti-Gun Politician Fires Shotgun At Ex-Wife In Domestic Argument

Anti-Gun Politician Fires Shotgun At Ex-Wife In Domestic Argument Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) is in police custody after firing a gun during a domestic argument with his ex-wife. Police responded to a domestic dispute at Smith’s home in Detroit at 1 AM on Sunday morning. Witnesses reported that Smith fired multiple rounds from a shotgun toward his ex-wife’s car, a 2015 Mercedes Benz. Smith reportedly fled the scene after the shooting, but “made himself available” to police the next day. He is expected to face charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and malicious destruction of property. Smith,… View Article

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on May 13, 2015 in World News

Man Shoots, Kills Alleged Home Invader to Save Woman, Baby

Man Shoots, Kills Alleged Home Invader to Save Woman, Baby On May 11, a man in Gwinnett County, Georgia, shot and killed an alleged home invader and injured another to protect a mother and baby. The incident occurred around “just before midnight.” According to AJC.com, the man told police he retrieved his gun after seeing the suspects “walking across his back patio.” Shortly thereafter, he heard a knock at his front door and, when he answered it, the suspects “asked him to step outside” The man told them he did not want to step outside. Gwinnett police Cpl. Michele Pihera… View Article

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on May 13, 2015 in World News

Obama: Jesus Christ Too Cynical About Poverty

Obama: Jesus Christ Too Cynical About Poverty Obama scorned Christians at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Tuesday, twisting the words of Jesus Christ into an insult against the Savior of the believers he was addressing. “It’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing we can do,” Obama said. Lest leftists and liberal Christians say his comment was “taken out of context,” but here are his full remarks: “One of the things I’m always concerned about is cynicism,” Obama said. “My chief of staff, Denis… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them “Mock invasions, mock terrorist manhunts, shootouts, and roundups are not jokes…the last shreds of democracy are at stake” This article originally appeared at Couterpunch Anti-militarism activists are shaking their heads in amazement. We have been working for years to push back against the massive military expansion underway both in the US and around the world, fighting back one threatened community at a time. The national media has barely mentioned these efforts and local media chooses to mostly ignore the work. Militarized violence has become the new normal in… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Russia and China Have Had Enough of Western Banking

Russia and China Have Had Enough of Western Banking CNN notices the major geopolitical shift of our time This article originally appeared at CNN Money President Vladimir Putin approved a new $100 billion reserve fund over the weekend that will specifically aid the BRICS nations: Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa. It’s another step by the BRICS to build an alternative so they don’t have to go to the United States or the International Monetary Fund for any financial help. BRICS leaders first agreed on the new fund — seen by many as a power play against the west… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Just 9 days in U.S., refugee tries to rape woman

Just 9 days in U.S., refugee tries to rape woman U.N. pipeline from Third World continues unabated Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/in-u-s-just-9-days-refugee-tries-to-rape-woman/#6Sl5Vt0DS1aahf4K.99 The U.S. screening process for foreign refugees has once again failed to stop a criminal from entering the country, as indicated by the case of Tchalim Koboya Lidawo of Togo. Lidawo was in the U.S. only nine days when he was arrested in Virginia and charged with two counts of attempted rape and one count of abduction with force related to an incident on Dec. 4, 2014. Lidawo pleaded no contest to the charges May 8 and was sentenced… View Article

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