Do you dare read and pass on? 010917

Rantings from the edge.............

Each day I surf my favorite news sites, some well known, others obscure.
As I do, I detect standard worded stories which seem to be regurgitated in a planned program to muddy the Social & Political waters.

On my Facebook for instance, a certain well known FB poster, continues to regurgitate old stories with new headlines in an effort to confuse and derail the future President of the United States. Democrats across the board in cahoots with their Liberal Hollywood operatives continue to deny that Donald J. Trump is the next President and the Republican party now control all branches of Government. 

I am sure the Democrats are having shredding parties in many DNC held offices throughout the Federal Government and Embassies around the World.Come January 21st 2017, with a new administration in power, all of Clinton's & Obama's skeletons shall be laid bare for the GOP to pick at.

Closer to home, I hear that Jane Fonda is visiting Alberta to support Liberal tree hugging groups as they continue to attempt to further verbally destroy Alberta's largest export.....OIL! 

For those who are old enough to remember Fonda, who has had success in B rated Movies in the 70's & 80's married to CNN founder Ted Turner until he kicked her to the curb.  

Fonda who disrespected Vets and Soldiers serving and those who had fallen during the Vietnam war actually went to Vietnam and visited American POW's -  while cozying up to the enemy and handing off to Vietnam Commanders , notes secretly palmed into Fonda's hand when shaking hands with American POW's.


Fonda who will no doubt have a Private Jet deliver her and her entourage to Alberta, a gas guzzling SUV to the Oil Sands and a Gas guzzling Helicopter ride to view her predetermined condemnation. I am sure her PR firm has arranged a meeting with First Nation elders for photo ops.

The Carbon footprint that Hollywood hacks produce in order to attempt to degrade Alberta's Oil Sands and its export is pathetic.Especially when you understand one of the main funders of anti Oil sand propaganda is the Tide Foundation & the Kennedy's.
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I find it very Interesting how Vehicle manufacturers are suddenly making news by announcing they will expand in the U.S.A. rather than Mexico. The Trump train continues to rebuild America even before officially taking over the White House. Obama continues to sign executive orders in the dead of night, knowing they will all be repealed when Trump takes office. Some orders although repealed will already have transpired, such as the transfer of dangerous Gitmo inmates to Egypt and freedom.

Clinton's Emails continue to produce disturbing issues about Cyber Security and foreign hackers. I watch in amazement how the DNC and the current President in conjunction with Main Stream Media have twisted the Clinton & DNC EMail breach into a Russian Cyber attack, spending Millions of dollars in brain time attempting to justify their flimsy excuse to protect Obama & Clinton's legacies. Using the American Intelligence Service in a Political battle to bury the truth.
 
Hillary Clinton & the Clinton Foundation have allegedly committed heinous financial crimes with pay for play access to the Secretary of State's ear and pen strokes. Turning the position over to John Kerry who continued the practice and attempted to hide his nefarious earnings in his Daughter's business accounts.
In fairness  Kerry's office claims that Dr. Vanessa Kerry’s father, Secretary of State John Kerry, has had no role or influence in the decision making for the Global Health Service Partnership either in the Senate or at the State Department.

As President Elect Trump takes the reigns of power, all the previous sinister Actors are stepping up their attempt to chip away American superiority throughout the World. The regular players are pushing the envelope.North Korea says it will launch a nuke ‘anytime and anywhere… the supreme headquarters’ wants,

Iran are also flexing their muscle in the Middle East as they continue to harass American Naval forces in the Persian Gulf.

President Elect Trump has ordered that the Navy prepare for a Fleet buildup when he becomes President on January 20th 2017 - In fact Trump has publically called for a full Military buildup to regain the ability to react to any issue around the World which could affect American interests.

I for one, shall be glued to my TV on January 20th - I wish to experience HISTORY!

A Millionaire who paid for most of his campaign himself,and refuses to take a salary while President is EXACTLY what small business needs. Trump is EXACTLY what is required to slap some sense into the financial markets. Trump is the EXACT person to re-negotiate poor Trade and Military support deals..certainly not the DNC "old boys & Girls club" of tired old Political hacks who have lost complete touch with voters!

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January 21st 2017 is the beginning of the 

Future prosperity for North America.... 

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The Final Blow

The morning of November 9th 2016 was a sobering moment for many who saw the Trump Candidacy as an irritant while preparing Hillary Rodham Clinton for her ascension to the holy grail of Power.

A year ago, few saw the Trump campaign as a serious threat, and yet November 9th proved them all wrong and the President Elect Trump rolled up his sleeves and began the arduous task of filling a qualified Cabinet and 4000 Federal appointments.

The sobering reality that the Republicans shall be in control of all 3 branches of Government. Something that Obama and his handlers ( in conjunction with the Clinton machine and nefarious enemies  around the world cannot accept.

I have always resisted the notion of the New World Order, however it has become crystal clear that a larger shadow government does in fact control profit and loss(Pl) using  peace and war - Religion and Politics -feast or famine as tactics for citizen control to maximize their demonic outcome.

Agent Provocateurs like George Soros do the bidding of masters by surreptitiously hiring professional protestors to start an anti-Trump movement. It would not have mattered to Soros if Clinton did get in, the demonstrations and finance strategy was already in place....Soros is an enemy of the people.

His professional Protestors swoop in...whip up the crowd and fade away when the protest steam is pressured enough.....and Kennedy playing with Pipeline resistance through the Tide foundation.

Agent Provocateurs continue to perpetuate false stories and Liberal narratives in blind obedience to the Clinton & Obama Machine which continues to spew out their dis-information and threats. Clinton and Obama are now relegated to the bottom feeder level of the murky Political pool.  

Obama and his handlers in conjunction with New World Order financiers through the Clinton Foundation, have put into motion a systematic financial and social collapse for the United States and western world as a Doomsday trigger planted during the Obama administration.

Financial,Political,Social , ethical, landmines have been salted throughout the Obama administrations tenor. Landmines set to be triggered in the event " the enemy" press forward.
 

Clintons job (when elected) was to switch off the Doomsday trigger and siphon funds to the cause while systematically removing the will of the people. To provide Veto block on any Bills which could not be stopped by other methods. The Clinton machine was to be the New World Corruption Bank - Where every action had a price and citizens had no voice.

Fortunately for the hard working, tax paying,law abiding citizen,The Electoral college based upon the successful voting pattern of Donald J Trump determines that Donald J Trump is the legitimate President Elect and the New World order are being derailed.....

Since Congress has blocked Obama's ability to issue executable executive orders and the President Elect Trump team are in mutual control of the Nuclear Codes, Obama has very little opportunity  to further scuttle the mighty ship of state.

I am not an economist, and certainly not as wealthy as I wish to be. I am however a student of Politics and world financial manipulations and shifting powers. All levels of sourcing has led me to believe that even though Clinton and the DNC/New World Order failed to elevate Clinton to the White House they do have a fall back position of collapsing the economic backbone of the American industrial and financial machine.

Watch the stock markets after Trumps inauguration...you will clearly see the NWO manipulation in world events. Please support President Elect Trump and maintain positive wishes for his administration. I am confident that with Trump at the helm, he will steer a course through the artificially turbulent waters of World Politics and find calm seas and sunshine.....President Elect Donald J Trump has the business experience and the vision to recharge the great American way and return respect and prosperity to our vocabulary.

Politically incorrect - 080216

Greetings fellow Politicanauts!

Less than 100 days to the United States election.
Then, (and only then) can the future begin ( and end

- for those who back the wrong horse)


I wonder how many tax payers in North America fully understand the financial impacts either candidate will have ( Positive & Negative) on the Global financial system which appears to be the inevitable future of Western Society.

Having watched both Conventions and the daily political spin doctor assault on Candidates from opposing camps I can't help wonder how deep they will go to secure the Presidency.

Trumps ostentatious approach to Politics and immigration is refreshing, A logical approach to an obvious gaping problem. His opponents want to make it sound Orwellian and unconstitutional which of course is preposterous to anyone who follows Political history.  

Trump does push the boundaries of Political correctness and will have to walk back some statements before his landslide and ascension to President of the United States.However, he has forced campaigns back to the levels of informational truth. 

Democrats ( by party) are in full retreat. The recent polls taken in hopes of showing Clinton in a good light are fading which will result in the Clinton machine ratcheting up the voter fraud caper and false story minefields of lies and innuendo against their opponents.

Make no mistake about it, Skeletons will be unearthed and all manner of verbal and visual assaults will be perpetrated for and against each candidate. Please read thru the chaff that each campaign throws out to deflect possible incoming political missiles from the opposing party. Review and analyze the Main Stream Media Propaganda before concluding a vote..This could be the most important vote in history.

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In Canada, the big water cooler talk is the damn rain!

Canada has experienced some strange weather patterns in 2016 - Winter has not been winter for several years, and summer has been less than stellar. The prairies are flooding! Our neighbors up north in Fort McMurray who are rebuilding a city after a devastating Forrest fire which wiped out a huge swath of homes and businesses, are now experiencing flash flooding! photo courtesy of Derek Walker/Facebook. 

Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Calgary on Tuesday


Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Calgary on Tuesday.
The warning, issued at around 11:45 a.m., suggests thunderstorms are likely to develop in the afternoon.
“Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, damaging hail and heavy rain,” warned Environment Canada.

Not sure if the Canadian Prime Ministers action of late have made International media or not, Justin is in the process of breaking down some long held barriers to segments of our society. His Liberal governments fiscal plans are a mess and unsustainable - his leadership of Parliament is in grave question but his relationship to social groups who desperately need to be recognized for their service to a grateful nation

 

UK’s New Prime Minister Shocks Brits With Horrifying Announcement About Sharia Law

Sharia Law: The UK is getting a new conservative Prime Minister, Teresa May, but she is not getting off to a very good start!

Seems that she made some pretty complimentary remarks about Sharia law and spoke out in support of the Islamic courts operating in the UK.
Now her own Tory party is demanding answers!

Pregnant women warned against travel to Zika-stricken part of Miami
U.S. government health officials warned pregnant women Monday to avoid a Zika-stricken section of Miami and get tested for the virus if they've visited the neighbourhood since mid-June, after the number of people feared infected through mosquito bites in the country climbed to 14.


The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, the Canadian arm of Hillary’s foundation, spent almost 8 dollars for every 10 that it raised on, well, itself.

Approximately 80 percent of the donations to that arm of the Clinton Foundation was spent on salaries, office supplies, expenses, salaries, and consulting fees, Breitbart reports.

The findings were not part of some partisan research project. The statistics were compiled by the Canada Revenue Agency.

Blood money: Hillary Clinton’s latest scandal involves taking $100K from an ISIS sponsor

Benghazi and the email scandals may be the least bit that Hillary Clinton has to be concerned about.

A brand new report found that the Clinton Foundation has accepted at least $100,000 from a company called “Lafarge” and that Clinton herself has been directly involved with the corporation, according to the left-wing British political blog The Canary.

Sanders: 'I hope that I made you proud'

Bernie Sanders on Tuesday expressed his appreciation for people across the country who supported his presidential campaign.
"I cannot say with words how appreciative Jane and I are of the kindness, dedication and love we experienced from so many people across the country. We are deeply touched by it and will never, ever forget it," he said in a Facebook Post."I hope that I made you proud. I know that Jane and I are very proud of you."
  
Clinton Campaign Chair’s Undisclosed $35M Russian Deal

A bombshell report released Sunday by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, developed undisclosed relationships with a Putin-connected Russian government fund.
Podesta served on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited, which received $35 million from a Kremlin-connected entity.

BREAKING: JULIAN ASSANGE CLAIMS NEXT WIKILEAKS RELEASE WILL CAUSE HILLARY’S ARREST

Wikileaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange has claimed that the next wikileaks release will cause Hillary’s arrest.
During a recent interview with ITV, Assange said his next release will “provide enough evidence” to see Hillary arrested.
WikiLeaks has already published 30,322 emails from Clinton’s private email server, spanning from June 30, 2010 to August 12, 2014. While Assange didn’t specify what exactly was in the emails, he did tell ITV that WikiLeaks had “accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton, which could proceed to an indictment.”
  
Trump fires back after Obama criticism

Donald Trump on Tuesday responded to President Obama calling him unfit to be president by lashing out at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying she and the president have compromised national security.

"She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives," Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said in a statement. 

"Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now."

In a press conference earlier Tuesday, Obama said Trump is unfit to be president and called on Republicans to renounce their support of him.

“If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” the president asked.

“There has to come a point at which you say ’enough.’ ”

BREAKING: CHLORINE GAS BOMBS Going Off In THIS Country, Total Chaos… Here’s What We Know

Saraqeb in Idlib province, northern Syria, a helicopter dropped barrels of chlorine gas into the area.
An estimated 30 people have been treated for the chlorine gas attack, it is unknown at this time who dropped it the gas.
Dr Abdel Aziz Bareeh, made a public a public statement that late Monday night, up to 5  barrels of toxic chlorine gas were dropped from a helicopter.

“We know it’s chlorine because we were hit by it in the past and we are familiar with its odor and symptoms… We have 28 confirmed cases mostly women and children.”

Operation Vengeance: Russian Air Forces wipe out terrorists who shot down the Mi-8 helicopter 

RusVesna news agency reports that the Russian air forces are conducting a massive bombardment of militant positions from the group "Jaish al-Fath," which claimed responsibility for the downed Mi-8 helicopter and the death of five Russian soldiers. In addition to this the airforces, strike all other terrorists in the area of ​​the fall of the Mi-8.
It is reported that  Russian jets conducted more than 25 air strikes on terrorist positions in the northwestern Idlib, near the crash site of the Mi-8, and the place of death of five soldiers, who were on board. The bodies of the soldiers have been mutilated.
Also the western media have been accusing the Russian-Air forces of using poison-gas, this is a typical example of Western propaganda lies, carried out by the western globalist elite known for their support of terrorism.

DNC cleans house after emails

Three top staffers are leaving the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in a staff shakeup spurred by the leak of damaging emails about the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

The CEO of the DNC, Amy Dacey, is departing, as are communications director Luis Miranda and chief financial officer Brad Marshall, the DNC announced in a statement.
Donna Brazile, who is taking the reins of the DNC following the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-Fla.) as chairwoman, made no mention of the email scandal in her statement, mostly thanking the departing staffers for their service. “Thanks in part to the hard work of Amy, Luis, and Brad, the Democratic Party has adopted the most progressive platform in history, has put itself in financial position to win in November, and has begun the important work of investing in state party partnerships,” Brazile said in a statement.
“I’m so grateful for their commitment to this cause, and I wish them continued success in the next chapter of their career.”

Hillary Is Busted: Read The Real Booklet Hillary’s Man Was Carrying For Years. It Was The Muslim Shari’ah Constitution And NOT The U.S Constitution


Khizr Muazzam Khan’s photo carrying a booklet of the U.S. Constitution made him a celebrity to millions of bleeding liberal hearts. While Khan never once wrote complementing the U.S. Constitution until Trump,  instead, in his booklet, The Sharia Explained (we copied shocking excerpts) of what the media failed to vet:  Khan’s real booklet clearly upholds Shari’ah while denouncing any other including any modern reforms to Islam. He concludes that Sharia should be “upheld in its original form” and that it has “no room for change” insisting that Muslims worldwide must be “subordinated to the Shari’ah”:

“they [Muslims] must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah” (Shari’ah Explained. By Khizr Muazzam Khan, Page 25)

Muslim DNC dad DELETES his website; here’s what he’s HIDING

What a contrast there’s been between two similar speeches, one at the Republican National Convention, and the other at the Democrat National Convention.
Pat Smith, who lost son Sean Smith during the Benghazi attacks, spoke at the RNC. Khizr Khan lost his son in the Iraq War (a war supported by Hillary Clinton, by the way), and spoke at the DNC. The MSNBC writer Steve Benen covered both speeches, albeit very differently. He headlined his piece on the former, “RNC manipulates the pain of a grieving mother for partisan gain,” while the latter was headlined “Khizr Khan’s words won’t soon be forgotten.”

He was hardly the only one biased. If you include media coverage, including Trump’s response to Khan’s speech, the big three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) devoted fifty-five times more attention to Khan’s speech than Smith’s.

 

Gazette 06-03-14

Tuesday June 3rd 2014

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Pakistan MQM leader Altaf Hussain arrested in London

Police in London have arrested the leader of Pakistan's powerful MQM party, Altaf Hussain, on suspicion of money-laundering.

Officers are searching a residential address in north-west London where they say a 60-year-old man was detained.
Mr Hussain has lived in the UK since 1991, saying his life would be at risk if he returned to Pakistan.
His party, which controls Karachi, has urged supporters to stay calm amid outbreaks of violence there.
The British and Pakistani authorities have in the past expressed concerns that any arrest of Altaf Hussain could lead to violent protests in Karachi.

Ukraine launches offensive against rebels in eastern city of Slovyansk

At least two Ukrainian troops have been killed Tuesday amid an ongoing assault against pro-Russian rebels in the eastern city of Slovyansk, according to a spokesman for the country’s anti-terror operation.
Vladyslav Seleznev told Fox News that 40 Ukrainian troops and dozens of rebels have also been injured in the clashes.

Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, said Tuesday that government troops broke through rebel positions around the village of Semenovka on the eastern fringe of Slovyansk. "An active offensive stage of the counterterrorist operation is underway in Slovyansk," he wrote on his Facebook page.
Avakov warned residents in Slovyansk and nearby cities of Kramatorsk and Krasny Liman to stay at home.
An AP journalist just south of Slovyansk heard sustained gun and artillery fire and saw plumes of black smoke rising over the city.
A Ukrainian military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media, said one serviceman was killed and 13 others were wounded when their vehicle came under rebel fire near Slovyansk.
The Interfax news agency quoted rebels in Slovyansk as saying that the government used combat jets and helicopter gunships as well as artillery to bombard their positions.
Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly announced an escalation in armed operations, only to eventually back down. Government forces have in recent days been noticeably reinforced to the north of Slovyansk, however, and deployment of air power over the past week has signalled increased determination.

Syria's 2014 Presidential Election Underway

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Waving photos of President Bashar Assad and dancing with flags, tens of thousands of Syrians pledged renewed allegiance to President Bashar Assad as they voted Tuesday in a presidential election that excluded a vast swath of the pre-war population and was decried by the opposition as a charade.
Some stamped their ballots with blood after pricking their fingers with pins supplied by the government in a symbolic act of allegiance and patriotism. Others chose to vote in full sight of other voters and television cameras — rather than go behind a partition curtain for privacy.
Men and women wore lapel pins with Assad's picture and said re-electing him would give the Syrian leader more legitimacy to find a solution to the devastating three-year conflict that activists say has killed more than 160,000 people, about a third of whom were civilians.
Security was tight, with multiple rings of checkpoints set up around the Syrian capital and its entrances. Troops searched cars and asked people for their IDs.
Even as crowds of Assad's supporters flocked to the polls in Damascus, the sounds of war were inescapable.
At least three fighter jets roared low over Damascus during the voting, which residents said was unusual.
The dull sounds of explosions also reverberated in the distance as pro-government forces and rebels battled in nearby rural towns and ashy plumes of gray smoke marked the skyline. Several mortar hits were reported in the capital, including one that crashed near the Opera House on a major plaza, though the voting was largely peaceful.

Tiananmen anniversary: China tightens crackdown

China has tightened security and widened a clampdown on dissent, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on Wednesday.

Lawyers, journalists and activists have been detained.
Internet search terms related to the 1989 massacre and the protests have been blocked, and access on Google has reportedly been restricted.
The protests were the biggest rally against Communist rule since the People's Republic was founded in 1949.
Hundreds of thousands called for democratic reforms in a peaceful demonstration largely focused on a gathering in Tiananmen Square.
After weeks of protests, the authorities responded on 4 June 1989 with a massacre of hundreds in the streets of Beijing.
Analysts say repression for the 25th anniversary of the protests is much more intense than in previous years.
Related : Artist Guo Jian Detained In China Ahead Of Tiananmen Anniversary

Nigerian generals found guilty of arming Boko Haram

KADUNA, Nigeria –  Ten generals and five other senior military officers were found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, a leading Nigerian newspaper reported Tuesday.
The news follows months of allegations from politicians and soldiers who have told The Associated Press that some senior officers were helping the Islamic extremists and that some rank-and-file soldiers even fight alongside the insurgents and then return to army camps. They have said that information provided by army officers has helped insurgents in ambushing military convoys and in attacks on army barracks and outposts in their northeastern stronghold.

Leadership newspaper quoted one officer saying that four other officers, in addition to the 15, were found guilty of "being disloyal and for working for the members of the sect."
Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. Last week, he denied that senior military officers were being investigated for helping Boko Haram and sabotaging a year-old offensive to curb the 5-year-old uprising that has killed thousands.
Boko Haram has attracted international condemnation and U.N. sanctions since its April 15 abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls, of whom 272 remain captive.

Yemen Violence: Clashes In The North Claim At Least 120 Lives

(Reuters) - At least 120 people were killed in northern Yemen on Monday in fighting between Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels and government forces, a Yemeni official said on Tuesday.
Yemeni planes shelled positions held by Houthi fighters in Omran province and army forces clashed with the rebels, killing around 100 of them, Ahmed al-Bekry, deputy governor told Reuters. Twenty government soldiers were also killed in the fighting, he said.

China pledges to limit carbon emissions for first time

Absolute cap to come into effect from 2016, climate adviser says on the day after US announces ambitious carbon plan

China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government advisor.
He Jiankun, chairman of China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing on Tuesday that an absolute cap on carbon emissions will be introduced.
"The government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five-year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap," Reuters reported He as saying. Though not a government official, He is a high level advisor.
While environmentalists broadly welcomed the remarks, they cautioned that it was far from clear at what level the cap would be set and said it needed to be enforceable.
China's emissions have risen dramatically in the last two decades, overtaking those from the US – the previous biggest producer – in 2006. Although the average Chinese person's carbon footprint is still much lower than the average American's, it is catching up, and is now on a par with the average European's.
He's remarks come just a day after the Obama administration implemented tough new rules to cut carbon emissions from power plants 30% by 2030.
“The timing is very auspicious,” said Frank Jotzo, an expert on the economics and policy of climate change at Australian National University and a lead author on the fifth assessment report from the IPCC, the UN’s climate science panel.

Khamenei blasts 'evil Zionist regime' for sowing discord among Muslims

Iran's supreme leader took to Twitter to denounce the "policy of the enemies of Islam to stir up fratricide and civil war."

Iran's supreme leader accused Israel on Tuesday of sowing dissension and pitting Muslims against one another in Syria.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the "policy of the enemies of Islam to stir up fratricide and civil war in the Islamic countries."

In an apparent reference to Western-backed rebels in Syria, Khamenei wrote: "Some in the name of Muslims are hand in hand w/devils & consented to be an ally of evil Zionist regime to beat their brothers to ground."

British woman reports seeing MH370 ‘on fire’

A British woman sailing across the Indian Ocean in March claims that she may have seen the lost Malaysian Boeing 777 aircraft on fire.
Katherine Tee was sailing from Cochin, India, to Phuket, in Thailand, with her husband, Marc Horn, when she saw what appeared to be a large aircraft crossing the night sky, trailing a plume of black smoke.

Four killed in Pakistan air force plane crash

KARACHI: A Pakistan air force fighter plane crashed at a bus terminal on the outskirts of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring nine, officials said.

The accident happened in the Baldia Town district just west of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub.

"Both pilots embraced martyrdom in the fighter jet crash today," an air force spokesman said.

Police said two people on the ground were also killed and nine injured. Sajid Sadozai, a senior police official said two buses parked at the terminal were destroyed while another was damaged.

TV footage showed plumes of black smoke rising from the scene as rescue teams rushed in.

Another security official said the crashed plane was a Mirage fighter jet. Pakistan has a large fleet of refurbished Mirages.

The air force blamed the crash on technical reasons but gave no details.

Explosives man' held after three-day manhunt

A social media consultant hunted by police for three days due to suspicions he possessed explosives is in custody.

Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II, 42, was arrested on Monday, police said, after they found his car near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
FBI agents told CBS News the arrest was made without incident, following reports he was seen drinking in a bar.
The manhunt began on Saturday after police spent 14 hours searching Mr Chamberlain's San Francisco apartment.
Police asked the public for help in finding Mr Chamberlain, who tweeted on Monday that police claims he was dangerous were false.
'Nice guy' "Anyone who has the means, methods and access to make a bomb should be considered armed and dangerous,'' FBI spokesman Peter Lee had said before the arrest.
"That is the reason why we want to bring him in safely soon."
He gave no further details about the nature of the investigation.
Friends and colleagues of Mr Chamberlain were said to be dumbfounded by the news he was wanted by the FBI.
"He's a nice guy," said Brooke Wentz, his boss at a music rights consultancy group, where Mr Chamberlain handled the company's social media accounts.
But he seemed to be under financial pressure, Ms Wentz added, because he told her that two friends who were renting his apartment had left without telling him.
Mr Chamberlain had worked for years as a political consultant on Democratic campaigns, his friend Randy Bramblett said.
Others said he was well known in the city's political circles and he had also worked on the San Francisco Chronicle.

Obama says 'absolutely' a risk in freeing Taliban inmates, but defends swap

President Obama, in his first public comments on the controversial trade of five Taliban prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl since the deal was announced, acknowledged Tuesday there's "absolutely" a risk that the former Guantanamo inmates will try to return to the battlefield -- but nevertheless defended the deal as in America's interest. 
"I wouldn't be doing it if I thought that it was contrary to American national security," Obama said. 

The president is facing heavy criticism from Congress for negotiating the release of the "Taliban Dream Team" and for proceeding with the prisoner swap without telling lawmakers in advance. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in an interview with Fox News on Monday, said the prisoners -- high-ranking Taliban leaders -- are "hell-bent on killing Americans." 
Speaking in Poland at the first stop of a European tour, Obama did not deny that the prisoners could try again to target Americans. 
"Is there the possibility of some of them trying to return to activities that are detrimental to us? Absolutely," Obama said. "That's been true of all the prisoners that were released from Guantanamo. There's a certain recidivism rate that takes place."

US to consider drone licences for film and TV

US authorities have said they are considering allowing the film and television industries to use drones.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said there could be "tangible economic benefits", but cautioned safety hazards must be "mitigated".
Seven aerial video and photography firms have petitioned the FAA for exemptions to the agency's current ban on commercial drone use.
The FAA did not set a timeline for determining the exemptions.
Businesses have been pushing hard for permission to use drones, which are much less expensive to run than manned aircraft.
But the FAA has been cautious, arguing that the US has some of the busiest airspace in the world.
It wants to be sure that drones can be integrated with existing commercial and military traffic.
Congress has given the FAA until 2015 to create rules regarding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.
They are already commonly used elsewhere in the world, including on high-profile movies, including The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which was filmed in New Zealand.

Jeffrey Toobin: Obama 'Clearly Broke The Law' In Bergdahl Deal

CNN legal eagle Jeffrey Toobin said Monday that President Obama "clearly broke the law" in his efforts to free American POW Bowe Bergdahl.
Controversy has flared in the days since Bergdahl's release, with Congress saying it was not given the requisite 30 days notice it should have been given before Obama freed five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in order to swap them for Bergdahl.
"I think he clearly broke the law," Toobin said on "The Situation Room." "The law says 30-days' notice. Give 30 days' notice. Now, it is true that he issued a signing statement, but signing statements are not law. Signing statements are the president's opinion about what the law should mean. Now, it may be that the law is unconstitutional, a violation of his power as commander in chief, but no court has held that. The law is on the books, and he didn't follow it."
On Tuesday, Obama said the White House had warned Congress for "some time" that it might have to exchange prisoners for Bergdahl. The National Security Council released a statement saying that the administration "determined" that the 30-day provision did not apply to Bergdahl's case.

Unions slam Obama EPA rule

Labor unions criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants on Monday, highlighting growing tensions between the environmentalist and working class arms of the Democratic Party.

Those tensions have come to the forefront as leading Democrats embrace environmentalist policies backed by billionaire political donors that are generally opposed by members of the party’s rank and file base.

Some labor unions, groups generally considered loyally Democratic, rebelled on Monday after the EPA released its new regulations, which studies have suggested will carry hefty economic costs.

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) president Cecil Roberts blasted the proposal, saying it would leave tens of thousands of the union’s members unemployed.

“The proposed rule … will lead to long-term and irreversible job losses for thousands of coal miners, electrical workers, utility workers, boilermakers, railroad workers and others without achieving any significant reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions,” Roberts said in a statement.

According to a UMWA analysis, Roberts said, the rule will cause 75,000 job losses in the coal sector by 2020, rising to 152,000 by 2035.

U.S. announces $1 billion program to boost military presence in Eastern Europe

WARSAW — President Obama pledged his ironclad commitment Tuesday to the defense of Europe and proposed as much as $1 billion in additional spending to bolster the U.S. military presence in Poland and its neighbors, part of a strategy to reassure nervous allies and check Russia’s encroachment into the region.

Standing beside Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski at the start of a four-day tour of Europe, Obama warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will face additional sanctions if he escalates the crisis in Ukraine, and urged him to take steps to resolve it diplomatically.

“We have prepared economic costs on Russia that can escalate if we continue to see Russia actively destabilizing one of its neighbors,” said Obama, who will see the Russian leader Friday at a summit marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. “Mr. Putin has a choice to make.”
Earlier, addressing a joint display of U.S. and Polish troops, Obama made the first of several reassurances about U.S. commitment to the defense of the new democracies in Eastern Europe.
“Our commitment to Poland’s security, as well as the security of our allies in Central and Eastern Europe, is a cornerstone of our own security, and it is sacrosanct,” he said, flanked by F-16s that are part of a joint training program between the two countries.
European leaders, especially in the east, have expressed anxiety that the United States will not want to focus attention or resources on the Russian threat — a concern that intensified after Obama seemed to narrow the case for using military action in a high-profile speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point last week.
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