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Greece on the breadline: cashless currency takes off

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Jon Henley The Guardian In recent weeks, Theodoros Mavridis has bought fresh eggs, tsipourou (the local brandy: beware), fruit, olives, olive oil, jam, and soap. He has also had some legal advice, and enjoyed the services of an accountant to help fill in his tax return. None of it has cost him a euro, because [...]

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The Navy Is Sending Everything It Needs For A War With Iran To The Strait Of Hormuz

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Robert Johnson Business Insider The global signs of a coming military conflict with Iran continue to build, and today the U.S. Navy made clear its intentions by announcing it’s sending four additional mine countermeasure shipsto the Strait of Hormuz. Stars and Stripes reports the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert told the Senate Armed Services [...]

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Gulf Arabs offered bribe to Russia for yes vote on Syria

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Voltaire Network Informed diplomatic sources have reported to the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) that Bahrain, representing the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), offered Russia a bribe of $5 billion if it did not use its veto in the Security Council to defeat an Arab League-sponsored resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. [...]

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Psychiatrist who damned hundreds as ‘unfit parents’ faces GMC probe

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Katherine Faulkner Mail Online A leading psychiatrist faces extraordinary claims he deliberately misdiagnosed parents with mental disorders – decisions which meant their children were taken away from them. Dr George Hibbert faces being struck off over his conclusions that hundreds had ‘personality disorders’ after assessing them at his private family centre. He was paid hundreds [...]

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Manuka Honey The Superbug Killer

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Soren Dreier zen haven Australian researchers have been astonished to discover a cure-all right under their noses — a honey sold in health food shops as a natural medicine. Far from being an obscure health food with dubious healing qualities, new research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at [...]

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App Lets You Rat Out Your Neighbours From Your Smartphone

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AustralianPopSci West Virginia has launched a smartphone app that’s one part clever crowdsourcing and community engagement and one part sinister report-on-your-neighbor Big Brotherism. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Application is exactly what it sounds like. See something that looks like a violation of the law, no matter how insignificant? Snap a pic, tag it with GPS, [...]

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A Transit Point for Cargo or Drugs?

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Dmitriy Sedov Strategic Culture The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign an agreement with the USA to establish a return “trans-shipment point” in Ulyanovsk for goods going from Afghanistan has attracted public attention. A discussion on financial, political and military aspects of the issue has flared up. The issue of drug trafficking is tackled [...]

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UN Environmental Constitution Would Establish Repressive System Of Global Governance

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The American Dream Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws.  This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here. Work on [...]

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KONY 2012 Masturbation Meltdown

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Infowars Jason Russell, head of the viral KONY 2012 video urging military action in Africa, was taken into police custody and later taken to the hospital after reportedly masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and other bizarre activity. TMZ released video showing Russell naked on a public street corner wildly pounding the ground apparently raving mad. [...]

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FEMA Corps To Be Brownshirts For Homeland Security Emergency Response?

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Aaron Dykes Infowars “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Obama, 2008 Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new FEMA [...]

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The Madness of Western Civilization

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Saman Mohammadi The Excavator States of Madness: A good case can be made that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Barack Obama are clinically insane. It turns out that the propagandist behind the KONY 2012 campaign is a raving lunatic. But what about the propagandists behind the OSAMA 2001 campaign that brainwashed the [...]

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Video: Ron Paul supporters say GOP cheated them out of delegates

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Blake Aued Online Athens Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are complaining that other Clarke County Republicans shut out their slate of delegates at the county convention Saturday. The libertarian-leaning Texas congressman’s supporters are trying to win election as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August, libertarian activist Carter Kessler said. [...]

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