http://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of ... ny/5449378" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Navy is proceeding with its plan to increase the number of women in the service to 25 percent with a similar goal of attaining that ratio in each ship and squadron, the vice chief of naval operations said Thursday.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015 ... squad.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...brass trying to destroy the US military...
The latest whistleblower is David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps intelligence officer, and the second-highest-ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence. He is a former CIA clandestine services case officer, and this is what he had to say: “Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We’ve become a lunatic asylum.”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac7_1431761932" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI did belatedly acknowledge, in a statement to the Post, that it was involved, but denied that anything improper was going on.“The aircraft were specifically used to assist in providing high-altitude observation of potential criminal activity to enable rapid response by police officers on the ground,” the statement said. “The FBI aircraft were not there to monitor lawfully protected first amendment activity, and any FBI aviation support to a local law enforcement agency must receive high level approvals.”
http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/05/09/fbi-sp ... baltimore/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has taken over the main government compound in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq this year, officials have said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/i ... 55079.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To underline the U.S. commitment, Weidley said the U.S. and its coalition partners had conducted a total of about 550 airstrikes in and around Ramadi and Baiji since the bombing campaign began last Aug. 8. In the last month alone, the Baiji area had been targeted by airstrikes 176 times and Ramadi 165 times, Weidley said.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015 ... -isis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
US-Saudi Blockade: Iran’s Yemen-Bound Aid Ship Enters Gulf of Aden
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-saudi-b ... en/5450061" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/0 ... rab-summit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;UNITED NATIONS (IPS)—When the United States sells billions of dollars in sophisticated arms to Arab nations, they are conditioned on two key factors: no weapons with a qualitative military edge over Israel will ever be sold to the Arabs, nor will they receive any weapons that are not an integral part of the U.S. arsenal. But against the backdrop of a White House summit meeting of Arab leaders at Camp David this week, the administration of President Barack Obama confessed it has dispensed with rule number two.
According to Colin Kahl, national security advisor to Vice-President Joe Biden, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flies the most advanced U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes in the world.
“They’re more advanced than the ones our Air Force flies,” he told reporters at a U.S. State Department briefing early this week, without going into specifics.
The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia – which participated in the summit were, not surprisingly, promised more weapons, increased military training and a pledge to defend them against missile strikes, maritime threats and cyberattacks from Iran.
During a decade of war, the Pentagon gave more than $2 billion to commanders to spend as they wished on a broadly defined grab bag of “urgent humanitarian” needs. The goal was to gain support from the locals for both the U.S. military and the nascent Afghan government. It was, the military said: “money as a weapons system.”
https://projects.propublica.org/cerp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on May 17 that 123 soldiers and loyalist militiamen died in the battle, as well as 115 IS fighters and 57 civilians.
http://www.rferl.org/content/palmyra-is ... 21464.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/11/confi ... -in-syria/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi “moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all along.
The war in Syria continues to drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting a myriad of competing foreign interests. Chief among these competing interests, the public has been told, were the US and Saudis on one side, backing so-called “moderate rebels,” and Turkey and Qatar on the other openly backing Al Qaeda and its various franchises including the Islamic State (ISIS).
However, for those following the conflict closely, it was clear from the beginning and by the West’s own admissions that success hinged on covertly providing arms, cash, equipment, and both political and military support to Al Qaeda and other sectarian extremists, not opposed by Saudi Arabia, but rather by using Saudi Arabia as the primary medium through which Western material support could be laundered.
And this fact is now confirmed in a recent article published on the Brookings Institution’s website titled, “Why Assad is losing.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east ... s/1.656702" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Middle East updates / Turkey says shot down Syrian helicopter, while Syrian TV says it was drone. Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz said Turkish jets on Saturday shot down a Syrian helicopter that had violated its airspace.
The United States and its allies conducted six air strikes in Syria and 15 in Iraq since early on Friday targeting Islamic State militants, the Combined Joint Task Force carrying out the operations said on Saturday.
In Syria, air strikes using bomber and fighter aircraft hit near Al Hasakah, the task force said in a statement. In Iraq, air strikes using attack, fighter aircraft and drones hit near Al Hawijah, Bayji, Mosul, Ramadi, Sinjar and Tal Afar, it said.
The statement said the air strikes took place between 8 a.m. local time on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday.
Over five thousand people gathered Saturday morning in central Kiev to protest out-of-control utilities prices
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150516/1022218894.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ukraine economy shrinks 17.6 percent in Q1 as government struggles to cope with conflict
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/art ... takes-toll" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KIEV, May 15 (Reuters) - Foreign creditors must agree to the "legitimate" deal offered by Ukraine in talks on restructuring some $23 billion worth of its debt, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... YY20150515" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Two Typhoon fighter jets have been launched from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept Russian bombers heading towards the UK
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... 1431618824" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The three Baltic countries are asking NATO to permanently deploy an army brigade to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/world/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The United States authorized providing Ukraine defensive lethal aid and training that the country needs to protect its sovereignty, US Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John McCain said in a press conference.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/2015051 ... 57700.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In an interview with FRANCE 24 on Wednesday, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk discussed granting more autonomy to east Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fight "against the Western world” and said that Ukraine is "already at war".
http://www.france24.com/en/20150514-alr ... -france-24" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/china-sea" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;There are seven so far, about 2,000 acres in all, whipped up out of thin air – or rather, whipped up out of sand dredged from the sea floor and built up on top of coral atolls.
China’s artificial islands are its way of aggressively, but quietly, staking its claim to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Calling the Spratlys “Islands” though, is kindof a stretch. There are hundreds of them, but most are coral reefs or atolls, only breaking the surface at low tide.
And yet, they represent “ the world’s most complicated territorial dispute,” says Professor Taylor Fravel, associate professor of political science at MIT and an expert in China’s territorial disputes.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, the Philippines, and China all have overlapping claims.
B-1 bombers coming to Australia to deter Beijing's South China Sea ambitions: US
http://www.smh.com.au/world/b1-bombers- ... 515-gh23zl" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China's smaller neighbors.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7656 ... a-Sea.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
China and the U.S. did not budge Saturday over Beijing’s assertive development in the disputed territories of the South China Sea, with Foreign Minister Wang Ji politely but pointedly dismissing Washington’s push for a diplomatic solution to ease the tensions.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05 ... -activity/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In what could ring alarm bells for the Indian security establishment, a report of the United States Department of Defence (DoD), has warned about China “destructive” space programme of stalling or destroying satellites of other countries and how its nuclear-powered submarines now make forays into the Indian Ocean. Released on May 8, the DoD’s annual report to the US Congress on ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2015’ talks about a mystery ‘object’ that Beijing had launched in space on a ballistic trajectory with a peak altitude above 30,000 km.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation ... 78986.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The people of Poland are expressing outrage on Friday as news spread that their own government is on the verge of paying more than $250,000 to victims of CIA torture which took place at an agency black site in the country even as the U.S. government refuses to acknowledge the crime or take responsibility for the grave human rights abuses that took place under the Bush administration.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/0 ... orture-cia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marking the third straight day of demonstrations, tens of thousands protested in Okinawa, Japan on Sunday against the presence and expansion of U.S. military bases on the island.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/0 ... t-us-bases" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...witnessed one of those in person nearly 2 decades ago...
Russia and China has kicked off the active phase of their naval drill in the Mediterranean Sea. “Russian and Chinese warships have arrived in the sea area allocated for the “Naval Cooperation 2015” military drills,” Deputy Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy Vice Admiral Alexandr Fedotenkov said on Sunday.
http://sputniknews.com/world/20150517/1022238881.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
North Korea boasts of firing ballistic missile from submarine
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... 2V20150509" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nebraska declares state of emergency in bird flu outbreak
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... 9S20150514" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Despite biosecurity measures, bird flu affects South Dakota farm with 1.3M egg-laying chickens
http://www.startribune.com/bird-flu-fou ... 303767451/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Fujian H5N2 Clade 2.3.4.4 In North America
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... NlIM&hl=en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Fujian H5N2 Minnesota Spread - Lincoln County
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05061 ... ln_MN.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The state Senate on Thursday passed a controversial bill that would require many more California children to be vaccinated. The measure, which must still go through the Assembly, would eliminate parents’ ability to opt out of state immunization requirements on the basis of their personal beliefs.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(NaturalNews) The Golden State just inched one step closer towards full medical tyranny after the State Senate, heavily influenced by Merck prostitute Senator Richard Pan, overwhelmingly voted in favor of passing Senate Bill 277 to eliminate personal belief exemptions for vaccines.
http://www.naturalnews.com/049728_manda ... enate.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Michigan Baby Dies, Pathologists Confirm Vaccines Responsible
http://vactruth.com/2015/05/14/baby-die ... -vaccines/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Six Month-Old Baby Dies Just Five Days After Receiving 13 Vaccines
http://vactruth.com/2015/04/23/baby-die ... -vaccines/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jodie’s Story: A Little Girl Lost After Illegally Given an Untested 8-in-1 Vaccine
http://vactruth.com/2015/03/14/illegall ... 1-vaccine/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-s ... icare.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;In a database study of nearly 26,000 beneficiaries of Tricare, the military health system, those taking statin drugs to control their cholesterol were 87 percent more likely to develop diabetes.
The study, reported online April 28, 2015, in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, confirms past findings on the link between the widely prescribed drugs and diabetes risk. But it is among the first to show the connection in a relatively healthy group of people. The study included only people who at baseline were free of heart disease, diabetes, and other severe chronic disease.
Three Foods From Ancient Times With Miraculous Benefits
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http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Waco ... 43711.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;WACO: (May 17, 2015) Rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and 18 were injured..
Waco police Sunday afternoon, assisted by Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in the Central Texas Market Place after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.
Police initially said three gangs were involved, but later said factions from at least five gangs took part in the melee.
KWTX reported eight people were killed at the restaurant and one other person died at a hospital, according Swanton.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/waco-police ... -shootout/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 7-17-16-49" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Swanton said at least five rival gangs gathered at Twin Peaks for a meeting that he said focused on turf and recruitment, two areas where the groups have often clashed. Preliminary findings indicate a dispute broke out in a bathroom and then spilled into the restaurant where it escalated to include knives and firearms, he said. There were 150 to 200 gang members inside the restaurant at the time.
Police were aware of the meeting in advance, and at least 12 Waco officers in addition to state troopers were outside the restaurant, part of a national chain that features scantily clad waitresses, when the fight began.
"We've been made aware in the past few months of rival biker gangs ... being here and causing issues," Swanton said.
Officers shot armed bikers, Swanton said, adding that the actions of law enforcement prevented further deaths. It was not known if any of the nine dead were killed by police officers.
A G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm Watch has been issued for 17 May, due to the anticipated arrival of a CME associated with a filament eruption observed leaving the Sun on 13 May.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g1-minor- ... 7-may-2015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NOAA forecasters estimate a 45% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on May 17th when a CME is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. The CME was hurled in our direction by a magnetic filament, which erupted away from the sun on May 13th
http://www.spaceweather.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.solarham.net/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Good morning. Solar activity during the past 24 hours was at very low levels. Region 2339 is now turning onto the west limb and will soon be out of direct Earth view. All other visible regions are non threatening at this time. A northern hemisphere filament eruption on Saturday flung a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and was directed well north of the Sun-Earth line.
A minor geomagnetic storm watch remains in effect. A faint, slow moving CME observed last Wednesday may deliver a glancing blow to our geomagnetic field. I do not personally expect much to come from this event. Hopefully I am proven wrong. Sky watchers should remain alert nonetheless
At least 19 tornadoes touched down from Texas to Minnesota as part of large band of severe weather moving across the Plains states Saturday night. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102685405" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Federal Government has confirmed the death of 28 children following a fresh outbreak of lead poisoning in Niger state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the latest incident had brought the number of deaths from lead poisoning in the country to 191, including 139 children. Briefing newsmen on the latest development in Abuja, the Minister of State for Health, Mr Fidelis Nwankwo, said that 68 fresh cases of the lead poisoning were recorded in Kawo and Magiro villages of Rafi local government area of the state. "Sixty eight cases have been recorded as at May 12, 2015, and 28 deaths had occurred giving the case of fertility rate of 43 per cent,'' said Nwankwo. According to him, all the deceased were children below the age of five and comprised 17 females and 11 males. He said the affected children were found to have a high serum lead level between 17 and 22 times higher than the acceptable limits established by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The minister, however, said that the federal government adopted an eight-point strategy to tackle the situation upon receipt of the report from the Niger Government.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index ... -48222-NGA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A new eruption, so far small, began this Sunday at 13:45 from a fissure vent at the the southeast slopes of the Dolomieux crater inside the Enclos next to the Chateau Fort cone. An intense seismic crisis with 5-7 earthquakes per minutes started 55 minutes before the onset of the eruption, as magma pushed its way to the surface. A few minutes after the beginning of the quakes, significant deformation of the Dolomieu crater rim could be measured as well. The prefecture of La Reunion triggered alert phase 2 and closed access to the Enclos. The new eruption seems to be similar in its (small) size and vent location as the last one that occurred between 4-16 February this year. Both probably originate from a same shallow magma reservoir that by early 2015 had grown enough to produce eruptions at the surface. Frequent (several per year), but generally small eruptions have been a typical feature of Piton de la Fournaise during much of the volcano's recent past decades.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index ... -48251-REU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Five more aftershocks hit Nepal as toll in fresh quake tops 100
http://articles.economictimes.indiatime ... tude-quake" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nepal Suffers Another Earthquake On Saturday, Four Days After A Major Aftershock From Quake That Killed Thousands
http://www.ibtimes.com/nepal-suffers-an ... ke-1925640" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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What's erupting? List & map of currently active volcanoes
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Super Typhoon Dolphin intensified into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 925 mb at 2 pm EDT Saturday May 16, becoming Earth's fifth Category 5 storm of the year. Dolphin hung on to Category 5 strength for twelve hours before increasing wind shear helped knock the storm down to a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds by Sunday morning. The eye of Dolphin passed through the channel between the islands of Guam and Rota Friday morning when the storm was at Category 2 strength with sustained winds of 110 mph. May 16 is exceptionally early to be getting our third Category 5 storm of the year in the Northwest Pacific. The global record for Category 5 storms is held by the El Niño year of 1997, which had twelve Category 5 storms--ten of them in the Northwest Pacific. The third Cat 5 of 1997 in the Northwest Pacific occurred on July 22, so we are more than two months ahead of that year's record pace.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2992" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
At least nine people have been injured and dozens of homes damaged in a hailstorm in southern Germany
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32736480" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Volcano Watch: Restless activity beneath Mauna Loa continues
http://www.hawaii247.com/2015/05/14/vol ... continues/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Guatemala's Fuego volcano becoming more active: officials
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/guatemalas-fu ... ml#MaoNrOg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
MADRID (AP) — Sunny Spain and Portugal are seeing record high temperatures for May, hitting levels normally only reached in mid-summer. Up to 20 Spanish cities have been hit by scorching temperatures and several regional governments are worried about the effects the heat wave could have on crops, Spain's meteorological agency said Friday.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/art ... 265462.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A MASSIVE forest fire in a mountain valley above the Costa Blanca has left an entire village covered in ash and residents being given oxygen masks. The blaze broke out in the Vall d'Ebo, in the far north of the province of Alicante, early yesterday afternoon (Thursday) in the Solana de Garrofar area close to the neighbouring valley, the Vall d'Alcalà.
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/25 ... for-breath" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
JOHANNESBURG - Southern Africa faces possible food shortages over the next few months due to a severe drought in the 'maize belt' of South Africa, where a lack of rain had caused crop failure rates of over 50 percent, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
http://ewn.co.za/2015/05/12/Drought-hit ... d-shortage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
SÃO PAULO (O Globo) – The main reservoirs of São Paulo, Rio and Belo Horizonte have reached the end of the summer with at least 40% less water than they had at the beginning of April 2014. Although consumption of the population has fallen, experts assess that the water crisis that began last year may worsen throughout the dry season, which should finish in October. Sanitation companies of these cities say they are investing to increase the supply of water.
http://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/inicio-d ... e-15810864" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.ibtimes.com/sao-paulo-drough ... se-1912767" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Instead of rain, São Paulo has cracked earth and chaos as a devastating drought is making enemies out of neighbors in Brazil’s largest city, the site of a historic water shortage the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades. Many residents have gone to drastic measures to hoard the precious commodity in the face of tougher water use restrictions, pinched faucets and declining reservoirs. Local authorities fearing anarchy in the city of 11 million are considering bringing in the military to control what’s quickly spiraling into a war over resources.
São Paulo’s water crisis that began last year is the region’s worst drought in more than 80 years. Brazil is home to roughly 12 percent of the world’s fresh water, yet millions of residents in the country’s most populated metropolis have gone days on end without running water, according to the Guardian. The drought is the result of three consecutive years of record low rainfall, which the city relies on to replenish its depleted reservoirs.
Today, the city’s reservoirs are at just 27 percent capacity, down from 40 percent in May 2014. Other reservoirs that aren’t at dangerously low levels are too polluted for human use.
Polluted waters could force Rio de Janeiro to move 2016 Olympic races
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/wa ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;SEATTLE — Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide drought emergency for Washington on Friday, with mountain snowpack at 16 percent of average and water levels in rivers and streams drying to a trickle not seen since the 1950s. He said that residents should also be prepared for an early and active fire season that could reach higher elevations in the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, where many spots are already completely clear of snow.
“We’re seeing things happen at this time of year we just have never seen before,” Mr. Inslee said in a news conference.
Supercells may again roam the southern and central Great Plains on Friday and Saturday, as they did last weekend. The trigger comes from a strong, cold upper-level low that’s delivering an unseasonably late dose of rain to parts of drought-plagued southern California. Major League Baseball was halted on Thursday night by the first rain delays in four years at San Diego and the first in 11 years in Los Angeles. Following 0.55” of rain for the month up through Wednesday, San Diego’s Lindbergh Field scored 1.51” in less than two hours on Thursday evening. The calendar-day total of 1.63” was a record for any day in May, and as of 10:00 am PDT Friday, Lindbergh Field has received 2.25” for the month thus far, with rain continuing. In records going back to 1850, the wettest May in San Diego was 2.54” in 1921.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2991" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/may ... eservoirs/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Storms that drenched Southern California this month missed most of Northern California, where about a third of the water used in San Diego County comes from.
For example: No rain has fallen this month at Oroville Reservoir, the largest water-storage facility in the state system that links with San Diego. Oroville is at 56 percent of average for the date. That’s not at historical low levels, but it could be headed there. The reservoir’s water level is dropping at a time of year when it should be rising.
It’s because the state’s snowpack, which normally would be melting and feeding reservoirs in May, was at 3 percent of normal — yes, 3 percent — at the start of the month. That’s the lowest level for the date since measurements began in 1950.
The snowpack in the Colorado River Basin, which supplies about half the water used in San Diego County, is not as bleak. It’s slightly smaller than usual.
But long-term drought and a growing population in the region that draws from Lake Mead has made that body of water drop to 38 percent full, its lowest point since the lake was filled in the 1930s.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;As water-starved Californians pump more from wells, groundwater levels decrease. Preliminary data from this spring show that over the course of the last year, the levels of more than 40% of the approximately 4,500 measured wells have declined more than 2 feet — not unusual for the fourth year of a drought, water officials said.
More concerning, the data show decreases of more than 10 feet in more than 15% of measured wells and some severe decreases of more than 25 feet in some central California wells. And state officials say several groundwater basins in the Central Coast and Southern California also show "significant to severe" levels of decline.
Groundwater provides close to 40% of the state's water supply in an average year, and as much as 60% of supply in some regions during drought years, according to a 2014 state report. As the groundwater table drops ever lower, wells can become prohibitively expensive to drill.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california ... tml#page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;And for decades, the massive concrete structure has channeled water to cities and farms while generating up to 710 megawatts of hydropower, enough to provide electricity for more than 532,000 homes.
But amid four years of drought, the reservoir is drained to 50% of capacity, cutting the dam's power production by about a third, according to federal reclamation officials.
The story is the same at many dams across California, where electricity production at some is expected to be less than 20% of normal because of low water levels.
"Basically, we will not be exporting any water from the Eastern Sierra runoff to Los Angeles this year until November, and when we do it will be only 15% of what Los Angeles would typically receive during an average year," Parsons said. Usually, the aqueduct supplies Los Angeles with a third of its water.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lines in the Sky
https://youtu.be/qMGEn4jdPVU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Forbidden Data - Wyoming just criminalized citizen science
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... g_the.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Even though the United States has certainly seen its share of destructive storms over the past nine years, we haven't gotten slammed by a category three or higher hurricane in nine years -- the longest stretch in which we've been free from such monster storms since 1850. Our last major hurricane -- defined as a major storm with winds in excess of 111 miles per hour -- was Hurricane Wilma, which hit on October 16, 2005.
http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-study-say ... CAD590a51e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
As expected, Greece was able to make the 750M EUR payment to the International Monetary Fund last Tuesday but in order to get its hands on the cash, the country had to force all of its public service departments to fork over the remaining cash they had left.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-1 ... cy-meeting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It is hard to avoid the feeling that our current economic problems are more than just a cyclical downturn. We know that the economy has gone through some bad times. But what exactly are we experiencing? One relatively optimistic view is that observed deficiencies — like slow growth in real wages and the overall economy, persistently low interest rates and low levels of labor participation — are merely temporary. In this view, these problems will dwindle after manageable problems like high levels of public or household debt have been reduced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/upsho ... ormal.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Central bank liquidity lines like those the Fed used to bailout the world seven years ago have become a fixture of the post crisis financial system and as you can see from the following maps, their growth since 2007 has been remarkable. Perhaps the most striking thing about the following graphics is the extent to which China has (literally) covered the world in renminbi swap lines. Essentially, China has used bilateral swap agreements to help embed the yuan in international trade in the the post-crisis era. As you'll see below, counterparty countries have also tapped their yuan liquidity lines when they're cut off from dollar funding, making China a critical lifeline for bolstering FX reserves and helping to alleviate shortages of imported goods.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-1 ... swap-lines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ukraine and China ink $2.4 bn currency swap
http://rt.com/business/258941-china-ukr ... cies-swap/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/05/17/2 ... s-for.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;WASHINGTON — A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law, and could jeopardize the state’s federal funding if not amended.
The Social Security Act requires states to ensure that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, “have adequate access to their cash assistance” and can withdraw money “with minimal fees or charges.”
At stake is about $102 million in TANF block grant funds that Kansas receives every year from the federal government.
Low wage jobs now make up 25 percent of all employment in the United States
http://www.mybudget360.com/low-wage-tsu ... my-income/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Over $1.2 trillion in student loans are now outstanding in the US and this debt class has the highest delinquency rate of all debt classes.
http://www.mybudget360.com/student-debt ... auto-debt/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The number of Americans not in the labor force has hit another new record. The latest figures show that 93,194,000 Americans are not in the labor force. How big is this figure? How about the populations of our three most populated states in California, Texas, and Florida combined and you would still need to find millions more. To be exact, add all three up and you would still need another 8 million people to add up to this figure. This is about a third of the entire United States that is not in the labor force, and this is excluding the 69 million that can’t work (i.e., mostly children).
http://www.mybudget360.com/not-in-labor ... nancially/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Banking assets equaling the U.S. GDP, scary thought. According to Bloomberg, 50% of these assets are off balance-sheet and are compromised of derivatives (bets) and other risky loans. With banking officials not being accountable to the same laws as the U.S. citizenry and this amount of ownership in Dollar assets, will not end well.
http://www.bankreorealestate.com/opinio ... n-gdp.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The home ownership rate now stands at the lowest level in 25 years, and it continues to drop each quarter it is measured. Next week the National Association of Realtors will report April sales of existing homes. The headline numbers will likely be better than they were a year ago and as compared to the previous month; one number, however, does not tell the whole housing story.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102682571" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.bankreorealestate.com/econom ... untry.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;RT - China has passed the US as the world’s biggest trading nation as measured by the sum of exports and imports in 2012. It’s a position the US has held for over six decades.
US exports and imports of goods last year amounted to $3.82 trillion, the US Commerce Department said last week. China’s trade in goods was $3.87 trillion, according to the country’s customs administration report in January.
While the US recorded a surplus in services of $195.3 billion last year and a goods deficit of more than $700 billion, according to Bureau Economic Analysis, China’s 2012 trade surplus, measured in goods, totalled $231.1 billion.
“The main reason for this growth is the Chinese government policy directed at stimulating domestic demand, which improves imports to growth,” Andrey Shenk, an economic expert at Investcafe, told RT. He said China increased its import volumes 5 fold in the last five years, and that allowed it become the biggest trading nation.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/econom ... leveraging" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt continues to grow. In fact, rather than reducing indebtedness, or deleveraging, all major economies today have higher levels of borrowing relative to GDP than they did in 2007. Global debt in these years has grown by $57 trillion, raising the ratio of debt to GDP by 17 percentage points (Exhibit 1). That poses new risks to financial stability and may undermine global economic growth.
Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet? And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is going to be much larger than that. If we took everything that the global economy produced this year and everything that the global economy produced next year and used it to pay all of this debt, it still would not be enough.
China’s debt has quadrupled since 2007. Fueled by real estate and shadow banking, China’s total debt has nearly quadrupled, rising to $28 trillion by mid-2014, from $7 trillion in 2007. At 282 percent of GDP, China’s debt as a share of GDP, while manageable, is larger than that of the United States or Germany. Three developments are potentially worrisome: half of all loans are linked, directly or indirectly, to China’s overheated real-estate market; unregulated shadow banking accounts for nearly half of new lending; and the debt of many local governments is probably unsustainable. However, MGI calculates that China’s government has the capacity to bail out the financial sector should a property-related debt crisis develop. The challenge will be to contain future debt increases and reduce the risks of such a crisis, without putting the brakes on economic growth.
Government debt is unsustainably high in some countries. Since 2007, government debt has grown by $25 trillion. It will continue to rise in many countries, given current economic fundamentals. Some of this debt, incurred with the encouragement of world leaders to finance bailouts and stimulus programs, stems from the crisis. Debt also rose as a result of the recession and the weak recovery. For six of the most highly indebted countries, starting the process of deleveraging would require implausibly large increases in real-GDP growth or extremely deep fiscal adjustments. To reduce government debt, countries may need to consider new approaches, such as more extensive asset sales, one-time taxes on wealth, and more efficient debt-restructuring
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-1 ... ll-crashes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;There has been no long-term recovery. This current mild recovery in the USA has been shallow at best and as the rest of the world declines still from the 2007.15 high with a target low in 2020, the Federal Reserve has been unable to raise interest rates sufficiently to demonstrate any recovery for the spreads at the banks between bid and ask for money is also at historical highs. Banks will give secured car loans at around 4% while their cost of funds is really 0%. This is the widest spread between bid and ask since the Panic of 1899.
We face a frightening collapse in the VELOCITY of money and all this talk of eliminating cash is in part due to the rising hoarding of cash by households both in the USA and Europe.
This is a major problem for the central banks have also lost control of the ability to stimulate anything.The loss of traditional stimulus ability by the central banks is now threatening the nationalization of banks be it directly, or indirectly.
We face a cliff that government refuses to acknowledge and their solution will be to grab more power – never reform.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/cr ... d-vehicles" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Having survived a verbal assault by local citizens and the satirical swift swords of cable TV comics, the Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack (BEARCAT) vehicle that protects, among other things, the city's annual Pumpkin Festival, will remain in Keene, New Hampshire.
"It appears the city council of Keene wants to continue to be the laughingstock of the world," declared the libertarian blog, FREE KEENE, after the council voted, 11-3, against a proposal by Councilman Terry Clark to return the military vehicle the city obtained through a $285,933 grant from the Department of Homeland Security in 2012. The federal agency, created by Congress after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been making surplus military hardware available to communities all over America. The program has received national attention in recent weeks after police in Ferguson, Missouri, a city like Keene with a population of 23,000, turned out in riot gear with assault rifles and armored vehicles in response to the protests and riots that followed the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager during an altercation between the teenager and a Ferguson policeman. The issue of local police armed with Pentagon weaponry has been the subject of both serious and humorous commentary ever since.
A massive U.S. military drill dubbed “Jade Helm 15” lists Texas, Utah, and part of California as “hostile” or “insurgent pocket” territory. The unclassified information about this drill is causing widespread alarm nationwide, with more than a few analysts suggesting it may be some sort of exercise practicing to impose martial law on Americans fed up with an out-of-control federal government. During the exercises, which will take place over the summer, Special Forces from various branches of the military will work with local law-enforcement in scenarios that, to critics at least, sound suspiciously like they are aimed at subduing rebellious American civilians and states amid a civil war or large-scale unrest. The federal government issued a response dismissing the concerns and saying that the training is to help U.S. forces prepare for overseas missions, but not everyone is convinced.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/co ... arks-alarm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck ... rebellion/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;A right-wing militia inspired by the Tea Party movement has taken over the city of Darlington, South Carolina, arrested the local government, and declared that the federal government should be overthrown. As the militia establishes checkpoints across I-95, other extremist groups across the nation rush to declare their support. South Carolina’s governor – a Tea Party supporter – declines to send in law enforcement to quash the militia, but quietly asks for federal intervention. The President invokes the Insurrection Act to authorize the use of federal troops, as the Pentagon prepares for war at home….
This is a drill, repeat, this is a drill. Actually, it’s a thought exercise by two authors exploring just how the U.S. military would respond to domestic insurrection. It sounds almost paranoid, except that nine days after Obama’s reelection, petitions for secession have sprouted in all 50 states, gun sales have soared for fear of what a second term means for gun owners, and white nationalist groups are elated over Obama’s victory. Add in a stagnant economy, a polarized electorate, and perhaps some disgruntled Afghanistan and Iraq veterans, and domestic strife seems improbable but not impossible.
The scenario appeared last July – before Obama’s reelection – in the respected Small Wars Journal. The article, titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future”, was written by Kevin Benson, a retired Army colonel who teaches at University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Jennifer Weber, a history professor at University of Kansas and a Civil War historian.
Known Unknowns: Unconventional "Strategic Shocks" in Defense Strategy Development
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... ?pubID=890" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KNOWN UNKNOWNS: UNCONVENTIONAL “STRATEGIC SHOCKS” IN DEFENSE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT - "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security"
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... PUB890.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=topnews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Bert B. Tussing, director of homeland defense and security issues at the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership, said the new Pentagon approach "breaks the mold" by assigning an active-duty combat brigade to the Northern Command for the first time. Until now, the military required the command to rely on troops requested from other sources.
"This is a genuine recognition that this [job] isn't something that you want to have a pickup team responsible for," said Tussing, who has assessed the military's homeland security strategies.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the libertarian Cato Institute are troubled by what they consider an expansion of executive authority.
Domestic emergency deployment may be "just the first example of a series of expansions in presidential and military authority," or even an increase in domestic surveillance, said Anna Christensen of the ACLU's National Security Project. And Cato Vice President Gene Healy warned of "a creeping militarization" of homeland security.
I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The service will have to adjust to three major changes: declining budgets, due to the country's worsened fiscal situation; a shift in emphasis to the Asia-Pacific region; and a broadening of focus from counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and training of partners to shaping the strategic environment, preventing the outbreak of dangerous regional conflicts, and improving the army's readiness to respond in force to a range of complex contingencies worldwide. Our reserve component soldiers remain the bedrock of the army's domestic response capability, but where appropriate we will also dedicate active-duty forces, especially those with niche skills and equipment, to provide civilian officials with a robust set of reliable and rapid response options.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles ... transition" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://info.publicintelligence.net/DoD ... cement.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;When permitted under emergency authority in accordance with Reference (c), Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances because:
(a) Such activities are necessary to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and public order; or,
(b) When duly constituted Federal, State, or local authorities are unable or decline to provide adequate protection for Federal property or Federal governmental functions. Federal action, including the use of Federal military forces, is authorized when necessary to protect Federal property or functions.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/military-sa ... ances.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;In essence, this policy change seeks to supersede Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law which forbids the military from being involved in domestic law enforcement “except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.”
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the President may deploy armed forces domestically under extreme circumstances but Congress has to review the action every 14 days.
Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the President cannot commit troops to an armed conflict for a period longer than 60 days without an authorization from Congress of the use of military force or a declaration of war.
Under no circumstances in current US law is it legal for the military to deploy itself domestically without authorization from either the President, Congress or both.
In claiming this power, the Pentagon is effectively opening the door to a potential future military coup.
Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America
http://www.globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fem ... erica/3010" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Martial Law Exposed - Oliver North grilled by Congress about Rex 84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbFHuGlZsVU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/governmen ... ary-drill/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The upcoming “JADE HELM 15 – Master the Human Domain” ‘domestic’ military drill has created a storm of controversy all over the internet, and for good reason. There are LOTS of questions surrounding the motives and details of the exercise which is doing more than just raising a few eyebrows.
Operation JADE HELM 15 will commence July-15 (until September-15) in the American southwest (as in, all of it) (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado) and is a ‘domestic’ military training exercise which some say may violate the Posse Comitatus Act (while others say it technically does not).
The ‘drill’ apparently has the military working in acceptance of, or some cooperation with, state-county-local domestic law enforcement agencies and will include Special Operations Command, the special forces of the military services, the 82nd Airborne, elements of Marine Expeditionary Unit(s), and interagency partners, which refers to other departments and agencies of the federal government, including – reportedly – the FBI and DEA.
Never before has such a drill of this apparent scope and magnitude occurred on US soil, and while military training exercises happen all the time, and while many or most of them are unknown to the public, this drill has a purpose – Training has purpose. The only reason you would train on this scale and in this place, is to evaluate your operational abilities in an English speaking, Western environment…
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/po ... elm-deceit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;With preparations being made for the massive Jade Helm 15 military training across the American Southwest — exercises that imagine conservative Texas and Utah as “hostile” and more liberal states as “permissive” — the increasingly discredited establishment media has dishonestly seized on a handful of theories and comments to attack everyone expressing concerns about the drills. It is true that some unproven and in some cases wild claims have been made by a handful of individuals online, such as the notion that closed Walmart stores are involved in a nefarious plot with authorities to detain dissidents. However, in its deceitful efforts to demonize Americans who are suspicious of the Obama administration and the unprecedented Jade Helm 15 program, the mischaracterized “mainstream” press has seized on those claims as if they represented the primary or even only concerns being expressed. In the process, it exposed itself as a propaganda machine.
It is hardly a surprise that many Americans have expressed concerns about Jade Helm 15. Polls show more than two thirds of Americans believe the federal government is “out of control” and a threat to liberty. The other third must not be paying attention.
As an aside, I really dig the logo which depicts crossed arrows and dagger (synonymous with Special Forces) set behind a French wooden shoe called a sabot. That wooden clog is where the term “sabotage” comes from. During the French revolution, workers were said to throw these shoes into the works of looms in order to break them. Unconventional Warfare and sabotage go together like peas and carrots.
http://soldiersystems.net/2015/03/30/dr ... -exercise/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jade Helm - Incarceration Concentration Camp FEMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHGwPHg818" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pentagon Prep For Breakdown Of Society Seen Across Country
http://allnewspipeline.com/Pentagon_Pre ... ywhere.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Heads Up! More UN Military Police Equipment Seen Going Through Huntsville, Alabama
http://thedailycoin.org/?p=29702#sthash ... uxYXM.dpbs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jade Helm Personnel Are Terrorizing Small Texas Communities
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/ ... mmunities/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
With the full acclimatization of the American people underway across the nation, accustomizing Americans to the sight of the US military on the streets, even the Pentagon has now admitted that it is preparing for mass civil unrest and we can slowly see the ‘Gray State’ materializing before our eyes. How long will it be until everything changes, overnight? While millions of Americans are oblivious to the military exercises taking place across the nation, the warnings of preparation for economic collapse and America one day being turned into a 3rd world nation have been going out for a very long time… we have all been warned.
http://www.pakalertpress.com/jade-helm- ... overnight/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... n-control/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Retired Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Jeff Hinton was looking for 100 current or retired Green Berets to sign a petition defending Second Amendment rights. What he received was 1,100 special forces operators, all of whom are against bans on the kind of military-style rifles targeted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December.
Military.com reports that Master Sgt. Hinton’s 2,900-word letter has been distributed to media outlets and posted on Professionalsoldiers.com.
In addition to rejecting bans on guns for cosmetic reasons, the Green Berets also take issue with any bans on high capacity magazines, noting that it only takes seconds to reload.
The group’s petition concludes: “We believe that it is time that we take personal responsibility for our choices and actions rather than abdicate that responsibility to someone else under the illusion that we have done something that will make us all safer. … We have a responsibility to stand by our principles and act in accordance with them. Our children are watching and they will follow the example we set.”
Restricted U.S. Army Special Operations Forces Manual
https://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-SF-Ops.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
US Optics Academy Long Range Precision I: Two-Day Precision Rifle/Long Range Interdiction (Sniping) Course with US Marine Corps Sniper/Instructor Tyler Hughes in the Southern California Mountains
http://www.defensereview.com/us-optics- ... mountains/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The latest episode in the Clinton money saga is different than the others because it involves the clear, direct personal enrichment of Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate, by people who have a lot of money at stake in the outcome of government decisions. Her federally required financial disclosure was released to media late Friday, a time government officials and political candidates have long reserved for dumping news they hope will have a short shelf life.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/16/8614881/Hi ... took-money" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In August 2014, The Natural Society featured an article written by Christina Sarich about the 16 years of Monsanto’s lawsuits against farmers. The disturbing part of this history was that the track record Monsanto holds for never losing a single case they brought against farmers.
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2015/05 ... n-america/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Monsanto and the State of Oregon’s Brian Clem are attempting to circumvent the Jackson and Josephine County GMO bans, and make it next to impossible for any county in the state to enact such a ban. In other words, what “you the people” want doesn’t mean a hill of beans compared to what the people who pay us want.
http://farmwars.info/?p=14011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tokyo Electric Power Co. should consider discharging water contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi reactor meltdowns into the Pacific Ocean, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ea-un-says" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;