15.7 million US kids live in poverty
PressTV Between 2009 and 2010, a million more American children have joined the ranks of those living in poverty, bringing the number of poverty-stricken US children to 15.7 million, a new study finds. Researchers at the Carsey Institute of University of New Hampshire reported on Friday that nearly one in every four children aged less [...]
Read More →UK prison population hit record high
PressTV Official figures released by Britain’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have revealed that the prison population in England and Wales has hit a record high for the third consecutive week. The prison population reached 87,214 outnumbering last week’s all-time high of 87,120 and falling 1,600 short of British prisons’ 88,818 usable capacity. The astronomical rise [...]
Read More →#OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
The Dissenter The one week milestone has been reached. Occupy Wall Street has struggled and toiled through the week and made through to the weekend. The occupation survived: pouring rain, police harassment and intimidation, a media blackout, media coverage aimed to diminish the significance of the occupation, lack of supplies necessary for holding an encampment [...]
Read More →Al-Jazeera Top Officials Resign for fabricating news on Syria
SANA Director-General of al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, Waddah Khanfar, resigned on Tuesday after he was found directly in contact with the US intelligence as well as fabricating news on the events in Syria, Yemen and Libya. Moreover, Director of al-Jazeera Mubasher Channel, Aiman Jaballah, was fired because he took part in escalating the situation in Egypt, [...]
Read More →Martial Law drill evacuates children to FEMA stadium
A Homeland Security drill in Denver federalizes the response to terrorism, including operation to relocate students under siege by a shooter to a FEMA-led Sports Stadium center for ultimate reunification with parents. Aaron Dykes reports for Infowars Nightly News.
Read More →Second giant chunk of space junk heading for Earth
The Telegraph A defunct German space telescope weighing over two tons is forecast to collide with Earth less than five weeks after a satellite the size of a bus hits the planet. [...] The 2.4-ton Röntgensatellit, or ROSAT, has been spinning through space for 12 years after it was switched off in 1999 after its guidance system [...]
Read More →Why Stocks and Gold Crashed
Washington’s Blog Stocks and Gold Have Worst Week In Years. The Dow had its worst week since 2008. Gold and silver tanked as well: Gold futures dropped 5.8% Friday, the biggest one-day loss in five years, as investors rushed to cash out of some of their most profitable investments in the hopes of making up for losses [...]
Read More →Serial blasts rock naval yard in Tripoli
PressTV A series of blasts at a warehouse for military vehicles in the Libyan capital Tripoli have sent a vast plume of black smoke into the sky. “We’ve heard at least 12 explosions,” Ahmed Mohammed, a resident of the Abuseta district in the east of the Libyan capital told AFP on Saturday. Meanwhile, a member [...]
Read More →Missile may have downed airliner over Italy in 1980
The Independent A plane crash off the island of Ustica in 1980, which killed all 81 people on board and triggered numerous conspiracy theories was probably caused by military aircraft, a court ruled yesterday. Itavia flight 870 was flying from Bologna to the Sicilian capital, Palermo, when the DC-9 plunged into the sea 80 miles [...]
Read More →EU announces new sanctions against Syria
AFP via Ynet News European Union, Switzerland set to impose seventh series of sanctions against Assad regime. New sanctions against Syria came into effect on Saturday, in wake of a recent maritime arms shipment seizure by Turkey. Both the European Union and Switzerland have targeted Syria’s oil sector in new sanctions, with the EU banning new investments there [...]
Read More →India Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile
Defense News India tested a medium-range nuclear-capable missile along its eastern coast on Sept 24, an official said, as part of the nation’s efforts to build up its atomic deterrent. The indigenous surface-to-surface Shourya missile was fired from a range in the eastern state of Orissa as a trial for the Indian army, said SP [...]
Read More →Strong solar activity
Spaceweather New sunspot 1302 is crackling with strong solar flares. This morning it unleashed an X2-class flare–its second X-flare in two days–quickly followed by an M7-class eruption. So far the blasts have not been Earth-directed, but this could change in the days ahead as the sunspot turns toward our planet. The sunspot is [...]
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