Russia, Egypt Looking To Create A Free Trade Zone – Putin – 12 August 2014

Egypt and the countries of the Customs Union are looking into creating a free trade zone, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Black Sea city of Sochi.

“An important agreement was reached to establish cooperation between Egypt and the Customs Union [of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan],” said the Russian President. “And now we are looking at a possibility of creating a free trade zone.”

He noted that this subject had been discussed at a meeting of the council of the Common Economic Space on July 7.

Read the full story at: www.rt.com / link to original article

Advertisement

Google, Asian Companies To Build $300 Mn Super-High-Speed Trans-Pacific Underwater Cable System – 12 August 2014

Google has joined five Asian companies to build and operate a new $300 million Trans-Pacific submarine cable system, called FASTER, which will connect the US and two locations in Japan, providing a service 10 million times faster than a cable modem.

The project would see the 9,000-kilometer fiber-optic cable landed at Chikura and Shima in Japan with extensions to other Asian locations in the future, according to the companies.

In the US, the connection will cover major hubs on the West Coast, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

“Sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean,” Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice president of infrastructure, said in a Google Plus post Monday.

Read the full story at: www.rt.com / link to original article

Pittsburgh Airport To Host Fracking Sites Starting This Month – 12 August 2014

The floundering Pittsburgh International Airport is expected to soon begin earning nearly a quarter of its annual operating budget by letting a local energy company conduct fracking operations deep under the once booming air traffic hub.

On Monday, the New York Times reported first that the airport in southwestern Pennsylvania — the second busiest in the Keystone State — cut a deal with Consol Energy that will let the oil and gas company begin drilling next month to extract resources from beneath PIT by way of fracking, or hydraulic fracturing.

Earlier this year in March, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Alleghany County, PA is expected to gain upwards of $500 million during the next two decades by letting Consol drill as many as 60 wells on 8,800 acres of airport property, the likes of which would yield an estimated 280 billion cubic feet to 800 billion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the paper.

Read the full story at: www.rt.com / link to original article

TheIndependent – European Csays UK Ban On Prisoners Voting ‘Breaches Their Human Rights’ – But Won’t Grant Them Compensation – 12 August 2014

The Independent

Judges nonetheless acknowledged the Government had made progress on issue

By Adam Withnall

Quote: Britain’s blanket ban denying all prisoners the vote is a breach of human rights, European judges have ruled – but those jailed will not receive any costs or compensation.

Read the full story at: www.independent.co.uk /  link to original article

 

TheIndependent – Calls For Sir Peter Fahy To Be Suspended During Greater Manchester Police Misconduct Probe – 12 August 2014

The Independent

Sir Peter is facing criminal misconduct proceedings alongside other officers

By Lizzie Dearden

Quote: An MP has called for the chief of Greater Manchester Police to be suspended immediately after an investigation was launched into the handling of a sexual abuse case.

Read the full story at: www.independent.co.uk / link to original article

ActivistPost – Joe Wright – Police Brutality Continues Unchecked Across The Nation: Report – 12 August 2014

The escalation of police brutality continues unchecked across the United States. Literally unchecked, according to the video report and sources posted below.

Citing the Bureau of Justice Statistics data collection of “Arrest-Related Deaths”, it is clear that reports involving potential police misconduct – even including deaths – are submitted on a completely voluntary basis, which has resulted in glaring holes and a long delay in those submissions that are offered.

Read the full story at: www.activistpost.com / link to original article

Wes Annac – The Borderlands: Reviewing Our Lives – Part 1/2 – 12 August 2014

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

This is part of an ongoing series I’ve been writing about the fourth-dimensional realms that are known as the ‘Borderlands’. See The Spirit World Chronicles for backstory on this series.

The ‘Borderlands’ are essentially the ‘beginner’ realm that a lot of people are taken to after they pass on from the third dimension. People are taken to the Borderlands to come to terms with their physical death and adjust to the conditions of the fourth dimension, among other, similar purposes.

Obama Calls Criticism Of His Syria Policy ‘Horses**t’ – 12 August 2014

President Barack Obama has been roundly criticized in recent years for a supposed lack of support for so-called moderate rebels fighting the Syrian government. What does he think of such critiques? “Horseshit,” he recently told lawmakers.

The Daily Beast reported that Obama, in a White House meeting on July 31 over foreign policy with about a dozen House and Senate leaders, was pressed over his administration’s handling of requests for arms and other support made by opposition groups in Syria. During the meeting, Sen. Bob Corker criticized this policy and others related to the administration’s posture in Ukraine and Iraq, according to lawmakers in the meeting.

A “visibly agitated” Obama, according to the report, defended his administration’s foreign policy decisions, saying that any notion of a better outcome had the US offered increased support to rebels in the Syrian civil war against Bashar Assad’s forces was “horseshit.”

Read the full story at: www.rt.com  /  link to original article

Ukraine Ready To Accept Russia’s Humanitarian Aid – Lavrov – 12 August 2014

The Russian Foreign Ministry has received a note from the Ukrainian government expressing its readiness to accept the Russian humanitarian aid. The news came as Moscow agreed on the Ukrainian presence in the humanitarian convoy.

The arrangements for the humanitarian aid convoy have been completely agreed upon, with all of Kiev’s wishes taken into account, including the route, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters at a press conference in Sochi.

“We have agreed on a route convenient for the Kiev authorities. We agreed that our trucks would have Ukrainian number plates during their way through Ukrainian territory. We also agreed to take on board not only the representatives of the Red Cross and the OSCE, but also representatives of the Ukrainian authorities,” Lavrov said.

Read the full story at: www.rt.com / link to original article

NaturalNews – L.J. Devon – Pests Develop Resistance To GMO BT Corn, Leaving Brazilian Farmers With Higher Costs And Lower Yields – 12 August 2014

(NaturalNews) Those who promote genetically modified crops are also quick to promote a common myth about them which says that GMO agriculture uses fewer pesticides and is therefore better for the environment.

Proving this myth wrong are Brazilian farmers who work directly with the failing GM crops, on site, at the farm, on the ground.