USA - In an interview with CNN this morning, the pro-life advocate behind the four shocking videos exposing Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of aborted babies for research made a startling claim. The claim makes it appear the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die.
USA - Secretary of State John Kerry testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the US government will not be revealing to the American people the contents of “secret side deals” made with Iran on its nuclear enrichment program. The International Atomic Energy Agency, a unit of the United Nations, has negotiated two side deals with Iran involving critical data collection processes.
GERMANY - Angela Merkel is taking a break. After one of the toughest months of her chancellorship, Mrs Merkel chose to unwind - by watching a five-hour performance of the Wagnerian opera Tristan and Isolde. The German chancellor's summer holiday routine rarely alters. She is an avid opera fan, so it is usually a trip to the Bayreuth Wagner festival followed by a stay in South Tyrol.
GERMANY - If there is one man standing now for the ugly German, it is Wolfgang Schäuble. Ironically, the German finance minister is also the player in the current euro drama who is most dedicated to putting the joint currency on a sustainable footing.
USA - If the neoconservatives have their way again, US ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the US military will take out Syria’s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the US Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but follow that with a massive increase in military spending.
UK/USA - Now that the World Health Organization has publicly condemned glyphosate herbicide as "probably carcinogenic to humans," awareness of this insidious chemical's contamination of the human food supply is suddenly exploding among health-conscious consumers.
EUROPE - Talks over new rescue package are derailed after less than a week as IMF seeks explicit assurances over debt relief from the Europeans. Talks over an €86 billion bail-out for Greece have been thrown into turmoil after just four days as the International Monetary Fund said it would have no involvement in the country until it receives explicit assurances over debt sustainability.
GERMANY - The German FM wants the European Commission to be stripped of some of its powers, a report says. But the Finance Ministry has denied the claim, saying Schäuble only desires the "right balance." German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wants to see the executive body of the European Union, the European Commission (EC), lose some of the core fields of responsibility it has previously borne, such as the legal supervision of the EU domestic market, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
EUROPE - When you are in a hole, you should stop digging. What sounds like timeless advice apparently does not apply in the eurozone. After five tumultuous years of fighting the crisis arising from Europe’s monetary integration, leading European politicians are planning to go full steam ahead with the next level of integration. Their goal is the integration of fiscal policy.
USA - The US central bank may raise its rates sooner than previously expected. The US economy appeared in stronger shape in the second quarter, as economists revised away much of the downturn suffered at the beginning of the year, triggering the possibility of a rate rise from the Federal Reserve as early as September. The Bureau of Economic Analysis said that GDP rose at an annualised pace of 2.3 percent in the second quarter of the year, slightly below the 2.5 percent expected by analysts. But revisions to earlier data meant that the growth picture was brighter overall, priming the US economy for its first increase in interest rates in more than nine years.
USA - While engaging in the mundane task of gathering financial statements for a “secure retirement” meeting with my husband’s and my adviser, this Baby Boomer stumbled upon documented proof that our nation does not have the guts to confront one of its most serious economic problems. The realization came when I pulled from my files a document statement innocently titled, “Your Social Security Statement.”
USA - Could you live without debt? Most Americans say that they cannot. According to a brand new Pew survey, approximately 7 out of every 10 Americans believe that “debt is a necessity in their lives”, and approximately 8 out of every 10 Americans actually have debt right now.
USA - WND reported in earlier this month that the LGBT movement would not be content with the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. The real goal of the activists, with the generous help of corporate backers, is to parlay the court’s ruling into a wide-ranging civil-rights agenda that weaves its way into almost every nook and cranny of American life – schools, the workplace, even the church.
CHINA - China is pressing forward with a plan to control the Internet, even striding toward development of an online “kill switch” that would allow the communist country to basically shut down Web access within its borders.
USA - The measured US temperature data from USHCN shows that the US is on a long-term cooling trend. But the reported temperatures from NOAA show a strong warming trend. They accomplish this through a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering, which corrupts the US temperature trend by almost two degrees. The biggest component of this fraud is making up data. Almost half of all reported US temperature data is now fake. They fill in missing rural data with urban data to create the appearance of non-existent US warming. The depths of this fraud is breathtaking, but completely consistent with the fraudulent profession which has become known as “climate science”.