This is imperial blowback. A mini-Damascus. But it stinks. How come the assassins were so good? And how did they get through?

Pepe Escobar

(N.Morgan) The Global Economy is taking another hit to the global reserve holdings, the Euro fell to the least in more than a decade in the third quarter, according to International Monetary Fund figures. The 18-nation shared currency’s portion of global holdings fell to 22.6 percent, according to the data, the least since 2002. The $1.4 trillion in euros held by central banks worldwide were down from $1.5 trillion in the second quarter. The U.S. dollar, with $3.9…

http://www.infowars.com/breaking-car-bomb-reported-at-paris-synagogue/

Police use battering ram, tasers during raid on ‘young looking people with beer’

A birthday party turns into a nightmare when beverage cops violently show up to a private residence. 

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Subway riders stopped off-duty NYPD cop from fleeing by train after alleged attack on MTA worker

Riders on the train didn’t witness the Dec. 23 assault at a Bronx subway station, but heard enough to surmise that Officer Mirjan Lolja did something wrong when he entered the train. They had seen MTA ads that warned about the penalties of assaulting an MTA employee and then started yelling at Lolja, said the transit worker who was attacked. Lolja then…

Police union pushes for cop killings to be included in federal hate crimes law

Yahoo News – by Liz Goodwin…

(N.Morgan) It has been widely reported that the NYPD has stopped doing their jobs in light of the current civil unrest between the police and the citizenry of New York. In a stunning discovery, it has now come to light how the NYPD has been passing the time away, instead of fighting crime, they've taken up the hobby car surfing on the hood of their squad cars!! Is this what our police forces have been reduced…

Unarmed Kansas Man Shot and Killed By Police After a “Verbal Exchange”

By Mike Sawyer on January 4, 2015

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/unarmed-kansas-man-shot-killed-police-argumentative/…

Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic

“Sustained Skype collection” of voice, video, and messages started in 2011.

(N.Morgan) It has become a dangerous affair to be a a banker in today's society. In the latest banker deaths, Top Hedge Fund Bank,Thomas Gilbert Sr, 70, founder of Wainscott Capital Partners, was shot in the head by his own son, during a heated argument in his multimillion-dollar New York flat. The shooter, Thomas Gilbert Jr, 30, a Princeton graduate, allegedly fled the scene on foot, before barricading himself inside his flat. He was arrested at 10.45pm after…

The term sleepwalker does not always apply to a medical condition associated with the unconscious activity of a sleeping individual who cannot distinguish between the dream state and reality. In this instance a sleepwalker is a person going through the motions of being a living thinking individual without knowing or caring to know what really is going on in the world around them. This term can also be applied to people who do not self actualize their…

  “Walmart’s always hiring,” former Dobbs Elementary School principal Dana Evans told her teachers, according to testimony in the Atlanta schools test-cheating trial today.

The suggestion made her feel “disposable,” former Dobbs teacher Shayla Smith testified.

That is the problem tenure has turned teachers into  "I am special you can't touch me."   No jobs that I know of except for teachers and Professors are permanent. It should never ever be a permanent Job. That…

I ran across this old post from my usenet days and thought I’d share:

I recently finished reading a book called “Witness” by Mansur Rafizadeh (Morrow and Company). Rafizadeh was Iran’s SAVAK (Iranian secret police) station chief in the US, and a covert agent for the CIA, from the mid 60’s until the fall of the shah. He has an interesting slant on things, to say the least .. painting glowing pictures of several heads of savak who he got to know personally (good soldiers who…

Epidemiologist For CDC Says He Would ‘NEVER Give His Pregnant Wife’ A Flu Shot

Considering the surge in police brutality, where would you send the police officers to learn how to treat the people?

U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation: Joint Police & Law Enforcement Training

Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S.…

16 Facts About Al Sharpton the Media Won't Tell You

Dec 2014 

The Rev. Al Sharpton has been praised as a civil rights icon by prominent figures in politics, and "60 Minutes" reported that he has become President Barack Obama's "go-to black leader."…

This Wednesday night on MnRTV Live Show we investigate probably the world's most secret place area 51!   For decades, a U.S. military installation located roughly 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Las Vegas had been one of the worst-kept secrets on the planet. Area 51, as it's commonly known to …

… The hypothesis that German anti-Semitism was the real reason for the [Jewish] Holocaust has been rightly criticized by urging a comparison with the First World War. At that time anti-Semitism was just as strong in Germany but no organized genocide resulted. And why no Holocaust in the other anti-Semitic countries‹Poland, Russia and other parts of Europe? The argument that in the Weimar Republic unemployment and poverty caused immense general frustration that was discharged via…