Russia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply To 6 European Countries
By Tyler Durden
Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian state energy giant Gazprom to cut supplies to and through Ukraine amid accusations, that its neighbor has been siphoning off and stealing Russian gas.
Russia Just Pulled Itself Out Of The Petrodollar
By Tyler Durden's
We await to see which other country will follow Russia out of the Petrodollar next, and what impact that will have not only on the world's reserve currency.
Dying 'Good Career Move' For French Hate-mag
By Finian Cunningham
Over the past week, the Charlie Hebdo hate-rag has been transformed by the French authorities into some of kind of heroic standard bearer and model of Western democratic enlightenment.
Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation
By Media Lens
In all the corporate press discussion of the Paris killings, we have found no mention of Nato's bombing of Serbian TV and radio.
Paris Charlie - the Shock Doctrine par Excellence
By Peter Koenig
The war and killing machine that feeds the propaganda machine, driven by the six Zionist-Anglos-Saxon monster media that control 90% of the western information system, shy not from dishing out lie after lie after lie.
CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinfo
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it's not hard to see that you shouldn't readily believe everything you see, hear or read in the "news."
Down the Plughole
40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart
By Mike Whitney
If you can't keep your tycoons in check, you'd might as well throw in the towel and accept a life of indentured servitude.
What Freedom of Speech?
By Andrew P. Napolitano
What's going on in France, and what might be the future in America, is the government defending the speech with which it agrees and punishing the speech with which it disagrees.
The Changing Face of American Police
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops:
By John W. Whitehead
Just as we witnessed neighborhood cops being transformed into soldier cops, we're about to see them shapeshift once again, this time into robocops.
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Hard News
23 killed as ISIL launches fierce attacks across Iraq:
At least 23, including 16 Peshmerga soldiers, killed in ISIL assault in restive provinces of Nineveh and Diyala.
13 killed in anti IS strikes, bomb attacks in Iraq:
At least 13 people were killed in Iraq Thursday in bomb attacks and strikes by the US-led coalition against the Sunni radical group Islamic State (IS), a security source said.
Iraq: U.S.-led coalition's support 'not convincing';
"Until now our feeling is that the international support is not convincing," Jabouri told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday. "We might see participation here or there, but it is not enough for the tough situation we are passing through."
Isis fighter 'killed in Syria' days after release of propaganda 'execution' video featuring child:
An Isis fighter who appeared in a propaganda video purporting to show a young boy executing two men presented as "Russian spies", has reportedly been killed in the Syrian city of Kobane.
Six Canadian Extremists Fighting For Islamic State Get Killed In Syria;
Canadian extremists are apparently having a tough time while fighting in the Middle East. According to reports, six Canadians fighting in Syria have been killed in the past two months.
Truce reached in besieged Syrian district:
Food aid enters al-Waer, the last rebel-held area in Homs, after rebels and government agree to 10-day ceasefire.
Hezbollah chief threatens Israel over Syria strikes:
In TV interview, Hassan Nasrallah says Hezbollah, Syrian and Iran capable, ready to respond to Israeli attacks at 'any time'
Turkish premier equates Israel's Netanyahu to Paris attackers:
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday compared Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the Islamist militants who killed 17 people in Paris last week, saying both had committed crimes against humanity.
UN calls on Israel to 'immediately' resume tax revenue transfer to Palestinians:
Earlier Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Arab League during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo to give him $100 million a month as a safety net to cover the withheld tax revenues.
Hamas official: Abbas part of the blockade on Gaza: -
Palestinian MP Fathi Hammad said Wednesday that the unity government and President Mahmoud Abbas are part of the siege on Gaza and an obstacle for reconstruction of the war-torn territory.
Hamas officials reactivate separate parliament in Gaza:
The convening of the session, which was attended exclusively by Hamas legislators, represents a major eruption of tensions within the Palestinian coalition government and presents yet another hurdle for officials trying to hold the agreement together.
Israel says Swedish foreign minister not welcome:
Israel said Thursday that Sweden's foreign minister was not welcome for an official visit in the country, with relations strained over Stockholm's recognition of Palestine.
Saudi Arabia publicly beheads a woman in Mecca:
"I did not kill, I did not kill," she is heard to shout repeatedly. Basim then screamed as a sword-wielding man struck her neck. Second and third blows completed the beheading and authorities swiftly removed her body from the road moments later.
5 Yemeni detainees released from Guantanamo Bay despite GOP resistance:
Five detainees were released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week, as the Obama administration continued transferring captives to other countries despite Republican resistance.
"Nigerian military killed 42 insurgents, arrested 5 in Biu":
Forty-two insurgents, including 15 Chadians, were killed when the military repelled insurgents in Biu, Borno, on Tuesday, Mike Omeri, Coordinator, National Information Centre, said on Thursday.
Images show Boko Haram's massive destruction in Baga, Nigeria:
Satellite images released by Amnesty International show the scale of what it says is Boko Haram's biggest and most destructive assault yet.
US kills at least five suspected militants in Pakistan:
Pakistan often protests that U.S. drone strikes infringe its national sovereignty. But many Pakistanis suspect their government and military give at least tacit approval for the attacks
Deaths reported in Belgium 'anti-terror raid':
Two people killed in police raid in the eastern town of Verviers, according to local media.
2 recent returnees from Syria killed in Belgium anti-terror raid:
Belgian officials said they believed the two men, and another who was arrested, were part of 'operational cell'
Charlie Hebdo founder says murdered editor 'overdid' provocative cartoons:
A founder of Charlie Hebdo has condemned the murdered editor Stephane Charbonnier of "dragging the team" to their deaths by overdoing the satirical magazine's provocative cartoons.
Fighting intensifies at Ukraine airport, two soldiers killed:
Fighting intensified around the international airport in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Thursday as pro-Russian separatists stepped up efforts to dislodge government forces and Ukraine's military said two of its soldiers had been killed.
'People Starving' in Eastern Ukraine as Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds:
Vulnerable people living in east Ukraine are in serious danger of starving if normal government services aren't restored by the government in Kiev. In November 2014 the decision was made to stop social benefits being sent to east meaning, elderly Ukranians in the region are no longer receiving their pensions.
Russia to dispatch 12th humanitarian convoy to eastern Ukraine
The column of trucks will deliver foodstuffs and medicines to Donetsk and Luhansk, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said
Ukraine to Conscript 40,000 New Troops:
These troops are set to be armed with around US$475 million in new arms. In mid-December, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged US$350 million in military equipment, including arms, to Kiev.
Gazprom warns EU to link to Turkey pipeline or lose Russian gas:
Russia's Gazprom giant on Wednesday urged the European Union to link up to its planned energy pipeline to Turkey or lose the gas that now transits Ukraine. "the Turkish Stream is the only route along which 63 billion cubic metres of Russian gas can be supplied, which at present transit Ukraine. There are no other options," he said.
Mogherini suggests détente with Russia:
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has suggested EU states could re-engage with Russia on global diplomacy, trade and other issues in return for gradual steps to defuse the crisis over Ukraine.
Maduro and Putin Agree Action on Oil Prices - Updated:
"We have spoken with President Putin to broaden investment and participation of Russian companies ... We have agreed the widening of investment (including) in the fields of oil exploration between Venezuela and Russia," said Maduro.
US House votes to block Obama migrant plan:
His executive order aimed at providing temporary relief from deportation to four million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
FBI arrests 20-year-old Ohio man for allegedly plotting ISIS-inspired bombing of U.S. Capitol :
Christopher Lee Cornell was arrested for allegedly planning to bomb the Capitol in Washington and shoot people as they ran outside. Authorities said he posted messages online supporting ISIS and discussed his eagerness to attack the Capitol with an undercover FBI informant.
Dad Accuses FBI of Setting Up 'Mommy's Boy' Son in Bomb Plot:
The father of an Ohio man arrested Wednesday for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol says his son is not a terrorist and was set up by the FBI.
FBI Thwarts Terror Plot on Capitol (That They Planned);
The FBI is at it again. Creating fake terror plots to justify their existence. And this plot hits on all the themes one would expect from a good fake terror plot.
San Francisco Buses Running Islamophobic Ads;
Once again, an anti-Islam organization has bought ads on San Francisco buses, this time comparing Islam to Nazis.
"It's Carnage" - Swiss Franc Soars Most Ever After SNB Abandons EURCHF Floor;
Macro Hedge Funds Crushed: Over two decades ago, George Soros took on the Bank of England, and won. Just before lunch local time, the Swiss National Bank took on virtually every single macro hedge fund, the vast majority of which were short the Swiss Franc and crushed them
U.S. Stocks Drop as Banks, Oil Decline; Swiss Franc Gains:
Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. in reporting the worst combined quarterly trading revenue since 2011
Is Keystone Still Viable Amid Low Oil Prices?;
"Right now with oil prices down and a glut of oil on the global marketplace, the answer is no, we don't need Keystone right now," Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago, told a reporter from the San Luis Obispo Tribune last week.
The US Retail Industry is Collapsing: Here's Why You're in Trouble:
Shopping malls across America are going to look a whole lot emptier soon. An exodus of giant retailers is beginning with the announcement of hundreds of store closures and thousands of people newly unemployed.
9-Year-Old Boy Who Stole Gum Was Arrested and Jailed-
The Streets Are Safe Again
Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone:
It was a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. But what the parents saw as a moment of independence for their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, they say authorities viewed much differently.
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