USA - Many Americans have turned to a vegetarian diet for many different reasons. Maybe you just think it will make you generally more healthy. Perhaps you want to trim a few pounds. Maybe you want to supplement your already healthy lifestyle. However, will you be happier?
RUSSIA - A gold-backed ruble and gold-backed yuan could start a 'snowball exit' from dollar, F William Engdahl notes, adding that it will diminish America's ability to use the reserve dollar role to finance Washington's perpetual overseas wars.
GERMANY - Worrying figures show most of the violence against refugee homes in Germany, including life-threatening arson, is followed by almost no prosecutions. In 2015 alone, there were only four convictions out of 222 recorded cases, according to Die Zeit. Die Zeit newspaper has released an alarming report suggesting that violence against refugee shelters is on the rise in Germany with hundreds of recorded attacks ranging from throwing paving stones to Molotov cocktails and arsons.
RUSSIA - Russia Insider reports that the ambush on the Russian U-24 bomber was guided by the US Airforce. In an interview with the Russian news agency Regnum, a Russian military expert said that “A US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS plane took off on 24 November from the Preveza airbase in Greece.”
GERMANY - The 1,200-strong Bundeswehr task force’s deployment in Syria approved by the German parliament Friday might be reinforced by elite special forces, the KSK, according to local media.
UK - This is WAY beyond ‘if you see something, say something.’
In a series of pamphlets circulated among local governments in the United Kingdom, British parents are now being encouraged to spy on their own children, and to report any instances of possible ‘radicalization’.
USA - In case you had any inkling of confusion left as to what exactly is going on in the purposeful remapping of the Middle East right now via intelligence agency-created terrorists… John Kerry just told everyone exactly what the true goals are in the Middle East. They are creating chaos to bring order to it, their order, a “world order”. It doesn’t get any more blatant than this.
USA - Random Islamic terror attacks are now going to be part of every day life in America. Once upon a time, those of us that warned that Islamic terrorists were already in this country were branded “alarmists”, but not anymore. When Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez gunned down four US Marines at a Navy and Marine reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee earlier this year, that was just a very small preview of what is coming.
FRANCE - Marine Le Pen has managed to pull the Front National from the extremist fringe into the political center. The right-wing populists could even emerge as France's strongest party in upcoming regional elections. But the real prize is in 2017. It's the Wednesday after the fateful Friday in Paris - 13/11, as people are now calling it - and Le Pen is back in campaign mode. Despite the imposition of emergency laws, regional elections are still set to be held in France next week, and they are widely seen as an indicator for the 2017 presidential election. Le Pen is in the limelight even more than usual, now that her party, the far-right Front National, stands a good chance of securing the largest number of votes nationwide.
ISRAEL - Members of the Royal family regularly visit authoritarian states in the Arab world - but they have not made an official trip to Israel since the country was founded. When Prince Charles threaded through the hallways of last week’s climate change conference in Paris, he swapped ideas with world leaders on how to confront the dangers of a warming planet.
USA - G Edward Griffin: “Gun-control laws do not control crime because crimes are not committed by guns; they are committed by criminals. Criminals will always have guns because they do not obey laws, including anti-gun laws. Those without guns are easy prey for criminals with guns. Gun control encourages crime.”
JAPAN - It's heart breaking. It's devastating. How do you clean up a dying ocean? The predictable tragedy at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, continues to destroy fish, mammals and critically important ecosystems in the Pacific Ocean. TEPCO and the Japanese government have allowed one of the greatest crimes against humanity to spread devastation and destruction not only to the Japanese people in the area who have suffered massive cancer rates, illnesses and loss of their livelihoods, but an ocean now affecting us whether you live on the East coast or San Francisco.
UK - Your fruit bowl could soon look a lot less colourful due to a virulent strain of fungus threatening the world's banana plantations. The fungus is called Fusarium oxysporum f-sp cubense, or Panama disease, and it has already destroyed crops in Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. Experts are now warning it is 'only a matter of time' before the disease reaches Latin America where the majority of exported bananas found in our supermarkets are grown. They discovered that a clone of the Panama disease called Tropical Race 4 is a specific threat to the Cavendish banana. Cavendish bananas account for more than 47 per cent of global banana production and exports.
USA - Natural ginger root contains natural compounds that are hundreds times more effective than anti-cancer chemotherapy drugs, a study published in PLoS journal said. The substance known as 6-shogaol is produced by drying ginger root. This substance is active against cancer stem cells at concentrations that are harmless to healthy cells. This is very different from traditional chemotherapy that is known for its serious side effects mainly because chemotherapy kills both healthy and cancerous cells.
USA - Police in San Bernardino, California, said heavily armed gunmen killed 14 people and injured 17 others during a holiday party for county employees. Here's what we know about the mass shooting. Authorities in San Bernardino, California, saying 14 people were killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting on Wednesday at a center for people with developmental disabilities. This is at least the third mass shooting since the rampage in Colorado Springs last Friday.