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The Azov Brigade trains March 7 in Kulykivske.

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WASHINGTON— Late yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives considered H.R. 2685, the “Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2015.”  During consideration of the legislation, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) offered bipartisan amendments to block the training of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary militia “Azov Battalion,” and to prevent the transfer of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles—otherwise known as Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS)—to Iraq or Ukraine.

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Members of the Azov Brigade train in Kulykivske, Ukraine, on March 7.(Photo: Brendan Hoffman for USA TODAY)
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MARIUPOL, — A volunteer brigade with self-proclaimed Nazis fighting alongside government troops against Russian-backed separatists is proving to be a mixed blessing to its cause.
Though the 900-member Azov Brigade adds needed manpower to repulse the rebels, members who say they are Nazis are sparking controversy, and complaints of abuses against civilians have turned some residents against them.
A drill sergeant who would identify himself only as Alex wore a patch depicting Thor's Hammer, an ancient Norse symbol appropriated by neo-Nazis, according to the .
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In an interview with USA TODAY, he admitted he is a Nazi and said with a laugh that no more than half his comrades are fellow Nazis. He said he supports strong leadership for Ukraine, like , but opposes the Nazis' genocide against Jews. Minorities should be tolerated as long as they are peaceful and don't demand special privileges, he said, and the property of wealthy oligarchs should be taken away and nationalized.
He vowed that when the war ends, his comrades will march on the capital, Kiev, to oust a government they consider corrupt.
Alex, a drill sergeant with the Azov Brigade, supervises weapons training. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman for USA TODAY)
Russian media exploit such statements to describe the brigade in this port city in eastern Ukraine as a bunch of thugs who menace the population yet are embraced by Ukraine's national government.
Andriy Diachenko, a spokesman for the Azov Brigade, said only 10% to 20% of the group's members are Nazis. "I know Alex is a Nazi, but it's his personal ideology. It has nothing to do with the official ideology of the Azov," Diachenko said. "He's a good drill sergeant and a good instructor for tactics and weapons skills."
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The brigade's deputy commander, Oleg Odnorozhenko, complained that Alex does not speak for the group. "If he has his own sympathies, it's his own matter," Odnorozhenko said in a former high school serving as a base. "But he has no right to make statements in a way they can be construed as the position of the regiment. He will be dealt with severely for his lack of discipline."
Col. Oleksiy Nozdrachov, a member of the Ukrainian Armed Services' General Staff in Kiev, defended the brigade's members as patriots. "They are volunteers who decided to sacrifice their lives to the country," Nozdrachov said. "They are tough and fierce in battle who stand and fight and won't give up soil."
He conceded that abuses by the brigade could hurt the nationalist cause among residents. "If any cases of misbehavior by Azov Brigade are brought by the local population, it will be investigated," he said.
The Azov Brigade trains March 7 in Kulykivske. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman for USA TODAY)
In one case of alleged abuse, shop owner Svetlana Gudina, 51, said Azov troops detained her two sons, ages 28 and 32, and seized their cars, cash, flash drives and documents while searching for separatists last September. The men were released, and she managed to recover the cars and money, but the experience destroyed her trust in Ukrainian authorities.
"If they have come to defend us, let them defend," Gudina said. "But when they come to molest and humiliate civilians, it's wrong."
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Spokesman Diachenko said he was unfamiliar with the incident, but "such episodes happen because this is war."
Nozdrachov offered to send an investigator to look into Gudina's claims, an offer she accepted.
Similar incidents have been attributed to armed units on both sides of the war. A report March 5 by the ' described "credible allegations of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances, committed mostly by the armed groups but in some instances also by the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies."
Members of the Azov Brigade participate in weapons training at one of the group's training grounds. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman for USA TODAY)
The brigade's recruits, ranging from teens to middle-aged men, come from the separatist-held eastern Ukrainian cities of and , the central city of Kirovograd and the former Soviet republic of . Several said they want to protect their homeland and Europe from the ambitions of Russian President , whom they blame for the war.
Deputy commander Odnorozhenko said the brigade preaches Ukrainian patriotism and independence, strong leadership and accountability. "Ideas like going to Kiev to change the government in an illegal way should be nipped in the bud," he said.
Alex Borisov, 44, a trainer for Ukraine's military, said he spent two weeks teaching shooting and tactics to a group of brigade members who speak mostly Russian.
"I didn't see any fascists or anti-Semites," Borisov said. "And I tell you this as a Jewish guy."
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NYT Whites Out Ukraine’s Brown Shirts
Friday June 12th, 2015 at 11:05 AM

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Exclusive: The New York Times has been more biased on the Ukraine crisis – endlessly promoting State Department propaganda – than when it published false Iraqi WMD stories last decade. Case in point: a story from Mariupol hailing the Azov battalion without noting its neo-Nazi fighters, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
In covering the Ukraine crisis, the New York Times continues its descent into becoming little more than a propaganda organ for the U.S. State Department and the Kiev regime, again refusing to acknowledge the role of neo-Nazi militias in the civil war against ethnic Russians in the east.
On Wednesday, the Times published a long article by Rick Lyman that presented the situation in the port city of Mariupol as if the advance by ethnic Russian rebels amounted to the arrival of barbarians at the gate while the inhabitants were being bravely defended by the forces of civilization. But then the article cites the key role in that defense played by the Azov battalion.
Though the article provides much color and detail – and quotes an Azov leader prominently – it leaves out one salient and well-known fact about the Azov battalion, that it is composed of neo-Nazis who display the Swastika, SS markings and other Nazi symbols.
But this inconvenient truth – that neo-Nazis have been central to Kiev’s “self-defense forces” from last February’s coup to the present – would presumably disrupt the desired propaganda message. So the New York Times just ignores it and refers to Azov as simply a “volunteer unit.”
What’s particularly egregious about this omission is that the connections between the Azov battalion and Nazism have been well-documented for months and even acknowledged by officials of the Kiev regime, who knowingly sent these and other extremists into the battle because they are the fiercest fighters.
Even the Times itself has included at least one brief reference to this reality, though buried deep inside an article. On Aug. 10, 2014, a Times’ article mentioned the neo-Nazi Azov battalion in the last three paragraphs of a lengthy story on another topic.
“The fighting for Donetsk has taken on a lethal pattern: The regular army bombards separatist positions from afar, followed by chaotic, violent assaults by some of the half-dozen or so paramilitary groups surrounding Donetsk who are willing to plunge into urban combat,” the Times reported.
“Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.” [See Consortiumnews.com’s “NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War.”]
Not a Mistake
The conservative London Telegraph offered more details about the Azov battalion in an articleby correspondent Tom Parfitt, who wrote: “Kiev’s use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘people’s republics’… should send a shiver down Europe’s spine.
“Recently formed battalions such as Donbas, Dnipro and Azov, with several thousand men under their command, are officially under the control of the interior ministry but their financing is murky, their training inadequate and their ideology often alarming. The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites.”
Based on interviews with militia members, the Telegraph reported that some of the fighters doubted the reality of the Holocaust, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and acknowledged that they are indeed Nazis.
Andriy Biletsky, the Azov commander, “is also head of an extremist Ukrainian group called the Social National Assembly,” according to the Telegraph article which quoted a commentary by Biletsky as declaring: “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”
In other words, for the first time since World War II, a government had dispatched Nazi storm troopers to attack a European population – and officials in Kiev knew what they were doing. The Telegraph questioned Ukrainian authorities in Kiev who acknowledged that they were aware of the extremist ideologies of some militias but insisted that the higher priority was having troops who were strongly motivated to fight. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Ignoring Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers.”]
But a rebel counteroffensive by ethnic Russians last August reversed many of Kiev’s gains and drove the Azov and other government forces back to the port city of Mariupol, where Foreign Policy’s reporter Alec Luhn also encountered these neo-Nazis. He wrote:
“Blue and yellow Ukrainian flags fly over Mariupol’s burned-out city administration building and at military checkpoints around the city, but at a sport school near a huge metallurgical plant, another symbol is just as prominent: the wolfsangel (‘wolf trap’) symbol that was widely used in the Third Reich and has been adopted by neo-Nazi groups. …
“Pro-Russian forces have said they are fighting against Ukrainian nationalists and ‘fascists’ in the conflict, and in the case of Azov and other battalions, these claims are essentially true.” [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Seeing No Neo-Nazi Militias in Ukraine.”]
SS Helmets
More evidence continued to emerge about the presence of Nazis in the ranks of Ukrainian government fighters. Germans were shocked to see video of Azov militia soldiers decorating their gear with the Swastika and the “SS rune.” NBC News reported: “Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past … when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
“The video was shot … in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2. ‘We were filming a report about Ukraine’s AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers,’ Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for the private television station, told NBC News. “Minutes before the images were taped, Bogen said he had asked a spokesperson whether the battalion had fascist tendencies. ‘The reply was: absolutely not, we are just Ukrainian nationalists,’ Bogen said.”
Despite the newsworthiness of a U.S.-backed government dispatching neo-Nazi storm troopers to attack Ukrainian cities, the major U.S. news outlets have gone to extraordinary lengths to excuse this behavior, with the Washington Post publishing a rationalization that Azov’s use of the Swastika was merely “romantic.”
This curious description of the symbol most associated with the human devastation of the Holocaust and World War II can be found in the last three paragraphs of a Post lead story published in September 2014. Post correspondent Anthony Faiola portrayed the Azov fighters as “battle-scarred patriots” nobly resisting “Russian aggression” and willing to resort to “guerrilla war” if necessary.
The article found nothing objectionable about Azov’s plans for “sabotage, targeted assassinations and other insurgent tactics” against Russians, although such actions in other contexts are regarded as terrorism. The extremists even extended their threats to the government of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko if he agrees to a peace deal with the ethnic Russian east that is not to the militia’s liking.
“If Kiev reaches a deal with rebels that they don’t support, paramilitary fighters say they could potentially strike pro-Russian targets on their own — or even turn on the government itself,” the article stated.
The Post article – like almost all of its coverage of Ukraine – was laudatory about the Kiev forces fighting ethnic Russians in the east, but the newspaper did have to do some quick thinking to explain a photograph of a Swastika gracing an Azov brigade barracks.
So, in the last three paragraphs of the story, Faiola reported: “One platoon leader, who called himself Kirt, conceded that the group’s far right views had attracted about two dozen foreign fighters from around Europe.
“In one room, a recruit had emblazoned a swastika above his bed. But Kirt … dismissed questions of ideology, saying that the volunteers — many of them still teenagers — embrace symbols and espouse extremist notions as part of some kind of ‘romantic’ idea.”
So, why did the New York Times excise this well-documented history as it touted the Azov battalion to its readers on Wednesday? Isn’t the role of neo-Nazis newsworthy? In other contexts, the Times is quick to note and condemn any sign of a Nazi resurgence in Europe. However, in Ukraine, where neo-Nazis, such as Andriy Parubiy served as the coup regime’s first national security chief and neo-Nazi militias are at the center of regime’s military operations, the Times goes silent on the subject.
It can’t be because the Times is unaware of what has been extensively reported about the Azov battalion. The Times could even find a brief reference in one of its own prior stories. The only logical answer is that the Times is committed to a propaganda position on the Ukraine crisis and doesn’t want the facts to get in the way of its preferred storyline.
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com). You also can order Robert Parry’s trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-wing operatives for only $34. The trilogy includes America’s Stolen Narrative. For details on this offer, click here.
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    House representatives also voted to prohibit training of Ukraine's Azon Battalion
    US Congressmen have banned the supply of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, with some House representatives also labelling the Ukrainian paramilitary Azov battalion as 'neo-Nazi'.
    They voted on the amendment of a defence bill late on Thursday. The decision means all American training and funding for the unit is now prohibited.
    One of the authors of the amendment said: "If there's one simple lesson we can take away from US involvement in conflicts overseas, it's this: Beware of unintended consequences. As was made vividly clear with US involvement in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion decades ago, overzealous military assistance or the hyper-weaponization of conflicts can have destabilizing consequences and ultimately undercut our own national interests".
    Now approved by congressmen, the law must pass the Senate and be signed by President Barack Obama before it becomes enshrined into law.

    U.S. House Passes 3 Amendments By Rep. Conyers To Defense Spending Bill To Protect Civilians From Dangers Of Arming and Training Foreign Forces - Press Releases - News
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    WASHINGTON— Late yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives considered H.R. 2685, the “Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2015.”  During consideration of the legislation, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) offered bipartisan amendments to block the training of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary militia “Azov Battalion,” and to prevent the transfer of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles—otherwise known as Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS)—to Iraq or Ukraine.
    “If there’s one simple lesson we can take away from US involvement in conflicts overseas, it’s this: Beware of unintended consequences.  As was made vividly clear with U.S. involvement in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion decades ago, overzealous military assistance or the hyper-weaponization of conflicts can have destabilizing consequences and ultimately undercut our own national interests,” said Rep. John Conyers.  “I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions.”
    Ukraine’s Azov Battalion is a 1,000-man volunteer militia of the Ukrainian National Guard that Foreign Policy Magazine has characterized as “openly neo-Nazi,” and “fascist.”  Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine’s armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the Pentagon in Operation Fearless Guardian, prompting significant international concern.
    Since their initial use on a battlefield in 1978, MANPAD attacks have resulted in nearly 1,000 civilian deaths.
    Added Conyers, “Both U.S. and Israeli officials have feared that these weapons could be used by terrorists to bring down commercial jets.  As the boundaries are increasingly blurred between insurgents fighting the Syrian government and those fighting the Iraqi government, providing additional arms could further destabilize the Middle East.  The same can be said for Ukraine, where an anti-aircraft missile allegedly downed Flight MH17 last September, killing 298 civilians. The possibility that MANPADS—or any weapon—could fall into the hands of radical groups in Iraq, Syria, or Ukraine, would unquestionably increase the already-devastating human toll in both of these volatile regions.”
    According to Reuters, The Azov battalion originated from a paramilitary national socialist group called "Patriot of Ukraine", which propagated slogans of white supremacy, racial purity, the need for authoritarian power and a centralized national economy. Azov’s controversial founder, Andriy Biletsky, organized the neo-Nazi group the Social-National Assembly (SNA) in 2008.
    “The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites,” wrote The Telegraph.  Since Azov was enrolled as a regiment of Ukraine's National Guard in September and started receiving increased supplies of heavy arms, however, Biletsky has toned down his rhetoric, Reuters reported. According to the Washington Post, battalion members “could potentially strike pro-Russian targets on their own — or even turn on the [Ukrainian] government” if it pursues a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.
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    DC Mansion Murder Housekeeper Adds New Details to Mysterious Timeline
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    A housekeeper for the Savopoulos family is providing new insights about the day the three members of the Washington, D.C., family and another housekeeper were killed inside their fire-damaged home, as investigators continue to sort through the case’s mysterious circumstances.
    Nelitza Gutierrez was a housekeeper for the Savopoulos family for 20 years but was not at the family’s D.C. mansion on Thursday, May 14, the day Savvas Savopoulos, his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and housekeeper Veralicia “Vera” Figueroa were found with multiple injuries inside the home after it had been set on fire. Savvas, Amy and Phillip Savopoulos were pronounced dead at the scene. Figueroa was given CPR and transported to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
    Gutierrez told ABC News’ “20/20” in an interview that she believes the suspects broke in the day before the fire, based on bizarre messages she received from Savvas and Amy Savopoulos.
    “When I got that message on Thursday, I was thinking, and I started calling them,” Gutierrez said. “I focused on Vera, I don’t know why… I call her and I say, ‘Hi, Vera, What’s going on?’ No answer.”
    PHOTO: Savvas and Amy Savopoulos at the Starlight Children’s Foundation MidAtlantic’s Wine Dinner in 2008.
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    PHOTO: Savvas and Amy Savopoulos at the Starlight Children’s Foundation MidAtlantic’s Wine Dinner in 2008.
    Gutierrez said she normally worked for the family on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and sometimes on Wednesdays if Figueroa or Amy needed help. Gutierrez said Figueroa was a friend, and they were constantly in touch. She said she even helped Figueroa get the job with the Savopoulos family about five years ago.
    “Vera, she always was happy,” Gutierrez said. “She was so responsible and she really cared about her job.”
    Gutierrez described the Savopoulos family as happy. Amy was a very active, loving mother who enjoyed cooking dinner for the family and always put her “children first.” Savvaas was a “nice man” who was outgoing and liked to socialize, she said. Gutierrez added that Philip was “very mature,” and a “very happy little boy.”
    PHOTO: The mansion in an upscale neighborhood in the northwest section of Washington, D.C.
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    PHOTO: The mansion in an upscale neighborhood in the northwest section of Washington, D.C.
    The Savopoulos’ two teenage daughters were away at boarding school at the time of the killings.
    Gutierrez said she last spoke to Figueroa on the night of Tuesday, May 12 -- two days before the fire. She said Figueroa told her she would be working at the family’s home on Wednesday until 3 p.m., which was her normal schedule.
    On Wednesday, May 13, Gutierrez said she went with Savvas Savopoulos to his new martial arts studio in Chantilly, Virginia, because he wanted her help getting ready for the studio’s opening. But around 5:30 p.m., Gutierrez said Savopoulos got a phone call from Amy and said he had to go home and take care of Philip because Amy had plans.
    At the time, Gutierrez said Philip was home recovering from a concussion after a go-kart accident, but normally he would have been at an after-school activity.
    PHOTO: Philip Savopoulos is seen in this undated photo posted to his Facebook page.
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    PHOTO: Philip Savopoulos is seen in this undated photo posted to his Facebook page.
    Around 9:30 p.m., Savopoulos left Gutierrez a voicemail, saying Figueroa was staying overnight, and that Amy “is in bed sick,” so Gutierrez didn’t need to come in for her shift the next day. Gutierrez said this raised red flags for her, but nothing in Savopoulos’s tone seemed to indicate something was wrong.
    “It wasn’t normal [for] Vera [to] stay overnight,” Gutierrez said. “But he wasn’t, like, shaking or something, like strange. No, he was normal. But it wasn’t normal to me that Vera has to stay overnight.”
    She and Figueroa had never stayed at the family’s home before, Gutierrez said, so she called Figueroa as soon as she woke up on Thursday and two more times that day. But each time she said it went to voicemail.
    Then at around 9:56 a.m. Thursday morning, Gutierrez said she got a text message from Amy saying, “Hey, you don’t need to come in today.” Having Amy text her like that was “strange,” Gutierrez said.
    Gutierrez now believes Figueroa never left the house on Wednesday.
    “I think she, you know, she [was] caught in the middle before-- because she used to leave around 3:00, 3:00, so everything happened before she can go home,” Gutierrez said.
    If true, it may differ from investigators' theory of the crime that the family was taken captive around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13.
    Daron Wint, 34, is the only named suspect in custody. He is charged with first degree murder, but police said in a criminal complaint that they believed others participated in the crime. Wint has not yet entered a plea and remains in custody without bail.
    Gutierrez has since set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of Figueroa. She says the money will be giving to Figueroa's husband to help pay for her funeral and bring her body back to El Salvador.
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    » The OPM Hacking Scandal Just Got Worse
    12/06/15 00:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The XX Committee. The other day I explained in detail how the mega-hack of the Office of Personnel Management’s internal servers looks like a genuine disaster for the U.S. Government, a setback that will h...
    » Senate Democrats block cybersecurity amendment to defense bill
    12/06/15 00:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. U.S. Senate Democrats blocked a proposal to shield companies from lawsuits when they share cyberattack information with each other and federal agencies.
    » Stalin makes a resurgence in Putin’s Russia
    12/06/15 00:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Josef Stalin’s 29-year reign, generally seen by Russians in recent years as a dark and bloody chapter in the nation’s history, has lately been applauded by Vladimir Putin and his support...
    » DOD: $2.7B spent on Islamic State fight so far — $9M a day
    12/06/15 00:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. The Defense Department is releasing a detailed breakdown of the costs of the war against the Islamic State, showing that the Air Force has borne two-thirds of the daily spending.
    » Special Forces officer: US 'failed' American hostages held overseas
    12/06/15 00:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Washington's effort to recover American hostages held overseas is "dysfunctional" and mired in failures hidden by bureaucracy, an Army officer once involved in the Pentagon's part of the...
    » Delicate balance for Pope Francis as he meets Putin - CBS News
    12/06/15 00:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBS News Delicate balance for Pope Francis as he meets Putin CBS News CBS News' Jonathan Vigliotti reports that at a time when much of the world has slammed the door on Russia over it...
    » Intrusions in Baltic Sea Show a Russia Challenging the West - New York Times
    12/06/15 00:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Intrusions in Baltic Sea Show a Russia Challenging the West New York Times Cutting the region's dependence on Russian energy — long one of Moscow's main levers to squee...
    » Russia says US coerces Kiev and violates arms treaties - Reuters
    12/06/15 00:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Deutsche Welle Russia says US coerces Kiev and violates arms treaties Reuters MOSCOW Russia accused the United States on Thursday of coercing Kiev into pressing on with the conflict i...
    » US encircling Russia with bioweapons labs, covertly spreads them – Russian FM - RT
    12/06/15 00:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT US encircling Russia with bioweapons labs, covertly spreads them – Russian FM RT The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a...
    » Will Russia force Germany to become a European power once more? - Vox
    12/06/15 00:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Politico Will Russia force Germany to become a European power once more? Vox As one of the relatively few Russia experts in Germany, Meister is impossibly busy, shuttling between the ...
    » Defying Obama, Many in Congress Press to Arm Ukraine
    12/06/15 00:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces. The Senate has included provisions in its military policy bill to arm Ukraine with antiarmor systems, mortars, grenade launchers and ammunition to aid in...
    » Trainers Intended as Lift, but Quick Iraq Turnaround Is Unlikely
    12/06/15 00:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). President Obama’s plan does not call for American troops to accompany Iraqi fighters onto the battlefield to call in airstrikes or advise them on combat ope...
    » Anxiety and Pain Meds Linked to Homicide Risk
    12/06/15 00:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Anti-anxiety and pain medications may be linked to an increased risk of committing murder, according to a new study by Finnish researchers.
    » Senator Sessions to Obama: Stop Fast Track Push, Release Secret Trade Documents
    12/06/15 00:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Senator Sessions notes TPP creates a new transnational governance structure known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, similar to the sovereignty-destroying European Union, and Fast Track viol...
    » Orwellian Double-think in the War on Terrorism
    12/06/15 00:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. The war on terrorism, which the United States has been waging since 2001, is a failure for a myriad of reasons, but chiefly because it is a farce. Setting aside the idiocy of waging war on a tactic; t...
    » Secretive Globalist Bilderberg Conference June 11-14 in Austria
    12/06/15 00:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. From June 11-14 approximately 140 of the world's most influential people will gather in Telfs-Buchen, Austria, for the 63rd secretive Bilderberg policy conference, just 16 miles south of the G7 summit...
    » China Hacks Government, Corporate Networks to Build Database on Americans
    12/06/15 00:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Only a week after Russian "crime syndicates" hacked the IRS database and stole information on the tax returns of more than 100,000 people, China was blamed for "one of the largest thefts of government...
    » Border Patrol Union Leader Sees Surge in Unaccompanied Children Coming
    12/06/15 00:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. The huge surge of illegal aliens that crossed the southern U.S. border last spring and early summer and then went into temporary decline is showing signs of being on the rise once more.  
    » Obama’s Justice Dept. Wants Names of Internet Commenters Who Trashed Judge
    12/06/15 00:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Increasingly in America, it's not what you say that gets you in trouble, but who you are when you say it.
    » Obama Has a Plan Against ISIS, but Not “a Complete Strategy”
    12/06/15 00:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. President Obama told reporters during a news conference at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Germany on June 8 that success against ISIS forces in Iraq is dependent on an “effective partnership” betw...
    » Hackers nabbed data on every federal employee, union claims
    12/06/15 00:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Now Playing White hat hacker: Data breach more serious than gov't admits A major cyberattack on U.S. federal personnel data was far graver than the Obama administration has acknowledged, with hackers obtainin...
    » Dozens of new Ebola cases reported in West Africa
    12/06/15 00:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Story highlights At least 45 new Ebola cases have been reported in West Africa this month "The outbreak is not over and the response efforts must be sustained," a U.N. mission says (CNN) It seemed like the nu...
    » The Bilderberg conference: world government or mythical secret clique? | News | DW.DE
    12/06/15 00:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . What was Jürgen Trittin's business in Chantilly, US in 2012? His fellow Green party members demanded of him at the time. The question itself revealed a certain amount of dissatisfaction, because the answ...
    » Obama looks to save his legacy from the Supreme Court
    12/06/15 00:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Washington (CNN) It's the constitutional law professor in the Oval Office versus the Supreme Court, again. President Barack Obama's politicized, difficult relationship with the court's conservative wing is ba...
    » Iran Backs Taliban With Cash and Arms
    12/06/15 00:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . KABUL—When Abdullah, a Taliban commander in central Afghanistan, needs more rifles and ammunition, he turns to the same people who pay his $580-a-month salary: his Iranian sponsors. “Iran supplies...
    » Dawn of the Drones | The National Interest
    12/06/15 00:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . We are living in a drone saturated world. In recent years, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proliferated rapidly around the globe in both military and civilian spheres. Today, eighty-seven coun...
    » Riyadh flays meddling in Badawi case
    12/06/15 00:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday denounced the interference of some countries and organizations in its internal affairs and its judiciary, saying it is unacceptable. An official source at the Foreign Ministry...
    » Pentagon Puts Cost of US War Against IS at $2.7B
    12/06/15 00:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . FILE - A plume of smoke rises above a building after an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group in Tikrit, Iraq, March 27, 2015. The U.S. has spent more than $2.7 billion on the w...
    » Russian banker asks judge to reject charges that he's a spy
    12/06/15 00:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press - Thursday, June 11, 2015 NEW YORK (AP) - A Russian citizen who worked in Manhattan as a banker asked a federal judge Thursday to toss out charges that he participated i...
    » 2015-06-10Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight Islamic state
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-10 Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight Islamic state Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight Islamic state Wednesday June 10 th , 2015  at  12:05 ...
    » 2015-06-10TV5 Monde attack 'by Russia-based hackers' - BBC | "An investigation by
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-10 TV5 Monde attack 'by Russia-based hackers' - BBC | "An investigation by the French news magazine L’Express has claimed French authorities now believed that the attack came t...
    » 2015-06-11Middle East News
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-11 Middle East News "Your new widget 1" Powered by RSS Feed Informer _______________________________________________ Archive Middle East News "Your new widget 1" Powered by RS...
    » 2015-06-11"Simply put, we have been witnessing the revival of the slave trade
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-11 "Simply put, we have been witnessing the revival of the slave trade in the 21st century." - Zainab Hawa Bangura: Opinion: Women were 'examined like cattle' | "We will conque...
    » 2015-06-11Ukraine News: Equal rights for gays still distant dream in Ukraine
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-11 Ukraine News: Equal rights for gays still distant dream in Ukraine | EU lawmakers slam Russia, demand sanctions maintained | IMF says still discussing next review with Ukrai...
    » Defying Obama, Many in Congress Press to Arm Ukraine: The Senate
    12/06/15 00:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. Defying Obama, Many in Congress Press to Arm Ukraine: The Senate has included provisions in its military policy bill to arm Ukraine with antiarmor systems, mortars, grenade launchers a...
    » Record Number of Americans Renounced Their U.S. Citizenship in 2015
    12/06/15 00:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Infowars. 1,336 Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship, according to a quarterly report by the Internal Revenue Service.
    » Video: The Madness of King Obama
    12/06/15 00:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Infowars. Presidency paved with lies and fraught with cowardice...
    » Isis’s deadliest atrocity: 600 bodies confirmed found following ‘worst massacre’ by jihadists
    12/06/15 00:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Infowars. The bodies are all those of young air cadets.
    » Political Watershed in Turkish Elections?
    12/06/15 00:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. By Brett Daniel Shehadey Special Correspondent for In Homeland Security At first glance, it appears that the Turkish people (86 percent) have spoken in a recent national elections to ...
    » How should U.S. respond to Chinese hacking?
    12/06/15 00:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Espionage by a foreign government falls into a different category than attempting to steal trade secrets
    » Second man arrested in connection with Boston terror case
    12/06/15 00:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. FBI says Nicholas Rovinski was plotting with two other men, including one killed last week in Boston, to attack police officers and others
    » Russia Threatens 'Consequences' If US Deploys Missiles
    12/06/15 00:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Russia on Thursday warned the United States of consequences if it moves to deploy land-based missiles in Europe in contravention of a key Cold-War era arms control treaty.    ...
    » Pentagon Planning for Potential Iraq Expansion
    12/06/15 00:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. The Pentagon is laying the groundwork for a greater presence in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed, one day after announcing an increase in personnel in the al-Anbar province.  ...
    » Top Chinese Officer Meets With SecDef Carter
    11/06/15 23:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. A top Chinese military officer met with US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the Pentagon on Thursday, but Beijing asked for limited media attention around the visit amid strains over...
    » Man Found Dead in Queens Park Was Killed
    11/06/15 23:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . The death of a 23-year-old man found in a Queens park this week has been ruled a homicide, the police said on Thursday. Passers-by found the man, Diego Piedrahita, lying face down in Forest Park shortly befor...
    » lethal aid ukraine - Google Search
    11/06/15 23:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . US Senators And Ukraine Prime Minister Ask Obama For Lethal Aid ... International Business Times - Jun 10, 2015 Congress wants Ukraine to receive lethal aid from the U.S. Pictured: Ukrainian soldiers stand gu...
    » US Senators And Ukraine Prime Minister Ask Obama For Lethal Aid Again, But Pew Poll Says NATO Citizens Against It
    11/06/15 23:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from International Business Times. U.S. senators have once again called on Barack Obama to give weapons to Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian rebels in the contested region of eastern Ukraine. The request co...
    » Armenians, Yazidi, Roma in Turkey's diverse new parliament - DAWN.com
    11/06/15 22:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. DAWN.com Armenians, Yazidi, Roma in Turkey's diverse new parliament DAWN.com ANKARA: The new Turkish parliament will show greater diversity than before, with three Armenians elected fr...
    » U.S. Prepares Plan to Send Hundreds More Trainers to Iraq
    11/06/15 22:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. President Barack Obama is poised to send hundreds more American military advisers into the heart of the Islamic State stronghold northwest of Baghdad to help devise a counterattack to ...
    » Islamic State Rule Transforms Mosul
    11/06/15 22:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Iraq’s second-largest city has never looked so good thanks to strict laws enforced by Islamic State. But beneath the veneer, residents live in fear.
    » Russia to Maintain Sanctions Against the West
    11/06/15 22:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Russia will keep sanctions against the West in place and may even expand the penalties if the political tensions of the Cold War nature deepen, officials said.
    » France Says Evidence Suggests Russians Hacked Broadcaster
    11/06/15 22:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. French investigators suspect a group of Russian hackers posing as Islamic State militants were behind an April attack that crippled a French-language TV broadcaster.
    » Ukraine Warns Bailout Could Be Derailed
    11/06/15 22:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Ukraine’s leadership warned Wednesday that the likelihood of prolonged conflict against Russian-backed separatists and deadlocked creditor negotiations threaten to derail the West’s $4...
    » U.S. Considers Opening Network of Bases in Iraq
    11/06/15 22:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The Obama administration is considering opening a network of new bases in Iraq like the hub being established west of Baghdad, the nation’s top military officer said Thursday.
    » Barack Obama approves additional troops for fight against Isis in Iraq, says White House - video
    11/06/15 22:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. The White House confirms on Wednesday that US president Barack Obama has authorised up to 450 additional military personnel to be deployed to Iraq's eastern Anbar provinc...
    » US Weighing More Military Bases in Iraq to Fight ISIS, Top General Says - New York Times
    11/06/15 22:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. New York Times US Weighing More Military Bases in Iraq to Fight ISIS, Top General Says New York Times NAPLES, Italy — The United States is considering establishing a new network of Ame...
    » Pentagon Calls for China to End Island-Building, Seeks More Military Contact
    11/06/15 22:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on Thursday and repeated a U.S. call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea while stressing that the Pentagon re...
    » US Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World's Largest Oil Producer
    11/06/15 22:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United States is now the world’s largest oil producer. A report by the BP Energy Company credits the “shale revolution” for a surge in American oil and natural gas production that has...
    » US Deploys 450 Additional Troops to Advise Iraqi Forces
    11/06/15 22:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 02:34 The Obama administration has announced it will send 450 additional U.S. troops to Iraq to train, assist and advise local forces in their fight ...
    » IS Recruiters Target Central Asia
    11/06/15 22:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 02:08 Central Asia has become an increasing source of foreign fighters for radical militant groups operating in the Middle East, notably Islamic Stat...
    » Hackers nabbed data on every federal employee, union claims - Fox News
    11/06/15 22:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Hackers nabbed data on every federal employee, union claims Fox News A major cyberattack on U.S. federal personnel data was far graver than the Obama administration has ...
    » Can the U.S. Military Train the Iraqi Army to Victory Over ISIS?
    11/06/15 22:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. The U.S. military likes to say that when it comes to war, the enemy gets a vote. President Obama made that clear Wednesday as he continued to retool his strategy to “degrade and destroy” ...
    » Besieged 
By ISIS
    11/06/15 22:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. The people of Deir ez-Zor are surrounded—and scared. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria already control about 40% of this city in Syria’s eastern desert and have en...
    » U.S. Adapts ‘Lily Pad’ Strategy to Defeat ISIS in Iraq
    11/06/15 22:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. The top U.S. military officer likened the expanding American footprint in Iraq Thursday to “lily pads” that will sprout across the pond known as Anbar Province, where the Islamic State of...
    » The Most Evil Quotes From Bilderberg Insiders
    11/06/15 22:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. If you want to know the evils lurking within the Bilderberg Group, look no further than the following quotes from Bilderberg insiders and those who’ve ...
    » Americans support military force against Russia if necessary
    11/06/15 22:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Ukrainian soldiers take part in exercises near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region on March 27, 2015. A majority of people ...
    » US encircling Russia with bioweapons labs, covertly spreads them
    11/06/15 22:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The US is obstructing international efforts to eradicate biological weapons, seeking to involve other nations covertly in research on weaponized diseas...
    » Europe tries to compete with China's influence in Latin America
    11/06/15 22:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Unable to match China's offer of $250 billion in investment in Latin America, the EU sought ways on Thursday to avoid being marginalized in the region, offering ne...
    » Iranian court upholds jail term for son of ex-president Rafsanjani: IRNA
    11/06/15 22:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ANKARA (Reuters) - An Iranian appeals court upheld the jail sentence of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, on corruption and security charges, ...
    » Pentagon repeats call for China to end island building, seeks more military contact
    11/06/15 22:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on Thursday and repeated a U.S. call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea while stre...
    » Family: Body Of Tariq Aziz Missing In Iraq
    11/06/15 22:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The body of Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison in Iraq, reportedly went missing on June 11 while en route to Jordan for burial.
    » Son Of Iranian Ex-President Rafsanjani To Be Jailed For Ten Years
    11/06/15 22:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. An appeal court in Iran has upheld a 10-year jail sentence against Mehdi Hashemi, the son of Iran's ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, following his conviction on corruptio...
    » Russian Charged With Spying In U.S. Asks Court To Dismiss Case
    11/06/15 22:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Russian citizen who worked in Manhattan as a banker asked a federal judge June 11 to toss out charges that he participated in a Cold War-style Russian spy ring.
    » U.S. House Rejects Move To Force Vote On Waging War Against Islamic State
    11/06/15 22:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The U.S. House of Representatives June 11 rejected a measure to force lawmakers to vote by the end of March on providing the president with war powers to fight the Islami...
    » World Briefing: Saudi Arabia: Blogger’s Allies Rebuffed
    11/06/15 22:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Saudi Arabia rejected foreign criticism of the flogging punishment of Raif Badawi, a blogger who has come to symbolize the kingdom’s oppressive restraints on free speech.
    » AP Top News at 9:50 p.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 9:50 p.m. EDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's attorney general is insisting on a third trial for the last of the "Angola Three," calling the prison activist...
    » AP Top News at 5:41 p.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 5:41 p.m. EDT What has Louisiana got on the last of the Angola Three? NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's attorney general is insisting on a third trial for the...
    » AP Top News at 1:26 p.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 1:26 p.m. EDT The Latest on prison escape: Officials link worker, getaway 11:30 a.m. (EDT) A person close to the investigation says authorities believe a N...
    » AP Top News at 9:17 a.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 9:17 a.m. EDT General: New US hub in Iraq could be model NAPLES, Italy (AP) - The new U.S. military hub setting up in Iraq's western desert could be a mode...
    » AP Top News at 5:10 a.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 5:10 a.m. EDT Official admits: 'No information' on escaped killers DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities searching for two escaped killers who have been on th...
    » AP Top News at 1:03 a.m. EDT
    11/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 1:03 a.m. EDT Lawyer: Prior calls took 'emotional toll' on Texas officer DALLAS (AP) - A Texas police officer had answered back-to-back suicide calls and w...
    » OVERNIGHT CYBERSECURITY: Up to 14 million exposed in federal hack
    11/06/15 20:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Welcome to OVERNIGHT CYBERSECURITY, your daily rundown of the biggest news in the world of hacking and data privacy. We're here to connect the dots as leaders in government, policy and industry wrap their arm...
    » U.S. Weighing More Military Bases in Iraq to Fight ISIS, Top General Says
    11/06/15 20:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . NAPLES, Italy — The United States is considering establishing a new network of American military bases in Iraq to aid in the fight against the Islamic State, senior military and administration officials...
    » Sending More Troops to Iraq
    11/06/15 20:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . It’s hard not to draw parallels between the Obama administration’s decision to deploy 450 troops to Iraq’s Anbar Province and the effort to empower Sunni fighters during the 2007 troop surge...
    » Analysts question whether Conservative government’s talk about joining NATO rapid reaction force is election posturing
    11/06/15 19:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Ottawa Citizen. Defence Minister Jason Kenney speaks with the media following a ceremony to re-name a government building the Valour Building Monday May 25, 2015 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS The Harper go...
    » Britain gets cold shoulder with Canada’s talk of joining NATO force
    11/06/15 19:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Globe and Mail - Politics. The Harper government is considering joining NATO’s rapid reaction force, but doing so could mean spurning a traditional ally who's been courting Canada to be part of i...
    » News: Women, Peace and Security agenda in the spotlight at NATO, 01-Jun.-2015
    11/06/15 19:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . The participation of women in Allied armed forces has been steadily increasing over the past few decades, and significant strides have been made towards the recruitment and retention of women. However, women ...
    » Georgia's NATO accession to be decided at political level
    11/06/15 19:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . By Aynur Karimova The decision on Georgia's accession to NATO will be adopted at a political level. This remark was made by General Jean-Paul Paloméros, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, ...
    » This chart should terrify Russia's neighbors
    11/06/15 19:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Vox - All. The promise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is written into Article V of the group's charter: an attack on one member, it says, is an attack on them all. This principle, known as colle...
    » Would Russia Really Invade a NATO Country? Ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine Says Maybe
    11/06/15 19:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from VICE News. This week, NATO readies itself. On Tuesday the alliance launched the final part of NOBLE JUMP : a 10-day military exercise mostly in Poland which is meant to test the association's ...
    » Georgia Questions NATO Ambitions Amid Russia Conflict
    11/06/15 19:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: After 10 Years And 30 Deaths, Georgia Question It’s NATO Ambitions. After 10 Years And 30 Deaths, Georgia Question It's NATO Ambitions by EurasiaNet Georgia has paid a high price for its ambit...
    » IMF says still discussing next review with Ukraine
    11/06/15 18:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . <iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-W9SLGS" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe&amp...
    » EU lawmakers slam Russia, demand sanctions maintained
    11/06/15 18:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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    » Right Sector, Putin take same view on gay rights
    11/06/15 18:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from KyivPost / Independence. Community. Trust. Ukraine’s Right Sector, in trying to get a June 6 Kyiv gay pride parade cancelled, wrote that "sodomite orgies are unacceptable in Kyiv" and other statement...
    » Russia warns US over missile deployment near its borders
    11/06/15 18:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from KyivPost / Independence. Community. Trust. A picture taken on May 23, 2015 shows Russian military vehicles at a camp at the Kuzminsky training ground in the Rostov region, some 50 km from the Russian-Ukrai...
    » An eyewitness account of the attack on Kyiv gay pride
    11/06/15 18:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from KyivPost / Independence. Community. Trust. Although his face was beaten and his nose broken, Nick Storchay a 17-year-old homosexual, says that the attack only makes him stronger. He was marching in a gay r...
    » Yatsenyuk does battle with Firtash, ally of Yanukovych
    11/06/15 18:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from KyivPost / Independence. Community. Trust. More woes are coming to gas mogul Dmytro Firtash, who is already facing U.S. criminal charges of racketeering and attempted bribery. Ukraine’s government is...
    » Equal rights for gays still distant dream in Ukraine
    11/06/15 18:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from KyivPost / Independence. Community. Trust. Weekend summer mornings along the riverside promenade in Kyiv's Obolon district usually include scenes of strolling families and 20-something crowds. But on June ...
    » Britain Surveillance Law Reform Urged in Government-Ordered Report
    11/06/15 18:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . LONDON — Amid growing debate in Europe over electronic spying, an independent report on Thursday called for changes to Britain’s surveillance laws, arguing that they are undemocratic and opaque, a...
    » Ukraine's president Poroshenko visits Mariupol trenches
    11/06/15 18:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from IBTimes.co.uk : Top News. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko today paid a visit to his country's war stricken Donetsk region to inspect progress on defence capabilities, as violence in nearby towns conti...
    » Pedro Zerolo: Activist who helped Spain become first country to recognise same-sex marriage passes away aged 55 - Europe - World
    11/06/15 18:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Pedro Zerolo passed away on 9 June, 18 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which one Catholic priest described as being “a punishment from God”. Mr Zerolo, a politician and lawyer...
    » U.S. Says Russia 'Arming, Bankrolling, Fighting' Alongside Ukraine Rebels
    11/06/15 18:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. T he U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says Russia is "training, arming, bankrolling, and fighting alongside" pro-Moscow rebels battling government forces in eastern ...
    » Washington accuses Russia of 'outright lies' on Ukraine
    11/06/15 18:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Kiev (AFP) - Washington's UN envoy accused Russia on Thursday of spinning "outright lies" on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin's direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev's pro-Western drive. ...
    » Dominique Strauss-Kahn verdict: Court to announce whether former IMF chief is guilty of 'aggravated pimping' - Europe - World
    11/06/15 18:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . 1 / 1 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was tried for "aggravated pimping" PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images The verdict will close a 4-year-long legal saga Note: We do not store your email address(es) b...
    » Bill Bradley: 5 Steps for Peace in Ukraine
    11/06/15 18:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: feed-explorer. Bill Bradley is a former U.S. senator. In Ukraine, lives continue to be lost, families are split, property is destroyed, the economy is decimated, ethnic divisions proliferate, ...
    » The U.S. should send aid to democracy’s front lines in Ukraine
    11/06/15 18:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev, Ukraine, this month. (Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency) By Editorial Board June 10 at 7:27 PM IN THE past several months, Ukraine’s freely ...
    » Foreign Intervention Can Make Us Less Secure
    11/06/15 18:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan recently made a startling but little-noticed admission: A belligerent foreign policy can actually make the United States less safe. Appearing on...
    » House Passes Defense Spending Bill
    11/06/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Politics. The House on Thursday approved a $579 billion defense spending bill that reflected deep divisions on budget priorities and whether President Barack Obama needs new war powers to fight I...
    » Opinion: Women were 'examined like cattle'
    11/06/15 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Story highlights Zainab Hawa Bangura visited refugees who fled Iraq, Syria conflict Sexual violence is being committed against women strategically, she says Zainab Hawa Bangura is the United Nations special r...
    » Rumsfeld and GOP: Still clueless on Iraq
    11/06/15 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Story highlights Paul Waldman: Rumsfeld's remarks, GOP candidates' saber rattling appear to show they think there's virtually nothing to learn from Iraq War Graham wants 10,000 troops in Iraq; Walker: no deal...
    » IMF Says Can Support Ukraine Without Private Debt Deal
    11/06/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. T he International Monetary Fund says it could continue bailout funding for Ukraine even if Kyiv does not reach a debt-restructuring deal with private creditors. IMF spok...
    » DC Mansion Murder Suspect’s Stabbing Victim Recalls Nearly Deadly Attacks
    11/06/15 17:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: U.S.. A man stabbed twice by Daron Wint, the only named suspect in custody for the murder of Washington, D.C., businessman Savvas Savopoulos, his wife, their son, and a family housekeeper, descri...
    » Bundestag counting cost of cyber attack | News | DW.DE
    11/06/15 17:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Germany's parliamentary speaker Norbert Lammert has dismissed media reports that all 20,000 computers in the country's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, would need to replaced. The job would cost mill...
    » Protests in Berlin over Saudi punishment of Badawi | Germany | DW.DE
    11/06/15 17:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Florian Oswald, the spokesman for the Berlin chapter of Amnesty International, is standing on the edge of the pavement, his back turned to the Saudi embassy. Every Thursday since February, Oswald and others h...
    » Tariq Aziz Family Says His Body Has Gone Missing in Iraq
    11/06/15 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: International. The body of Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison in Iraq, went missing on Thursday after it was snatched in Baghdad while en route to Jordan fo...
    » U.S. considering more military bases in Iraq: top general
    11/06/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . NAPLES, Italy The United States is considering building more U.S. military bases in Iraq to drive back Islamic State militants in a move that may require a further increase in American forces, the top U.S. ge...
    » Pentagon 'lily pad' strategy could up troops in Iraq - CNNPolitics.com
    11/06/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . By Barbara Starr and Alexandra Jaffe, CNN Updated 3:28 PM ET, Thu June 11, 2015 | Video Source: CNN Email Facebook Twitter Share
    » Off-Ramp | Ray Bradbury's biographer: FBI spied on the author's kids
    11/06/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from All News | 89.3 KPCC. Ray Bradbury's biographer, Sam Weller, says he was shocked by the FBI's incompetence and perfidy. First, they got Bradbury's name wrong in their documents, consistently calling him "R...
    » U.S. House panel to address criminal justice reform piece by piece - News
    11/06/15 15:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After nationwide protests against police and years of debate over sentencing guidelines, the U.S. House of Representatives' top judicial lawmaker plans to consider crim...
    » House panel eyes criminal justice overhaul
    11/06/15 15:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . The House Judiciary Committee is planning a wide-ranging review of the nation’s criminal justice system, against the backdrop of heightened national tensions around violence involving police. Starting w...
    » FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Documents
    11/06/15 15:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Techdirt. The FBI doesn't just stonewall FOIA requesters . It also stonewalls its in-house investigator. Remember all those deferrals to "lawful authority" and "rigorous oversight" the agency makes when no...
    » US Government Notifies American Muslims, Who Refused to Be FBI Informants, of Removal from No Fly List
    11/06/15 15:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Firedoglake. The United States government sent four American Muslim men letters notifying them that they had been removed from the No Fly List. The men had no criminal records when they were put on the lis...
    » Does FBI Use No-Fly List to Supply Informants?
    11/06/15 15:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Al Jazeera America. The U.S. government recently removed four law-abiding Muslim men from the no-fly list just days before a New York federal district court hears their case, scheduled for Friday. Tanvir v...
    » sexual slavery isis - Google Search
    11/06/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . ISIS Sells Women And Girls Into Sexual Slavery For 'As Little As A ... Huffington Post - Jun 9, 2015 The United Nations envoy on sexual violence detailed Monday how Islamic State militants are selling teenage...
    » US Supports Ukraine on ‘Two Fronts’
    11/06/15 11:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United States supports Ukraine’s efforts to counter Russian aggression and build an open government, says Washington’s envoy to the United Nations. "The message of the Uni...
    » Map: Is Islamic State in a neighborhood near you?
    11/06/15 11:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Since the creation of the Islamic State in early 2014, the terrorist group has blitzed social media with propaganda aimed at luring adherents overseas to join the fight in Iraq and Syria, take up arms at home...
    » Russian Groups Crowdfund the War in Ukraine
    11/06/15 11:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON — The Novorossiya Humanitarian Battalion boasts on its website that it provided funds to buy a pair of binoculars used by rebels in eastern Ukraine to spot and destroy an armored vehicle. Ano...
    » What jihadis plan for women
    11/06/15 11:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Story highlights Frida Ghitis: ISIS and other jihadi groups see women as crucial in role of caliphate they want to create She says the groups want to enslave women, tie them to a long outdated view of how soc...
    » Ex-Rhode Island House Speaker Gets 3 Years for Corruption
    11/06/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Politics. Former Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for corruption, bringing to a close the federal investigation into a man once considered the...
    » American Keith Broomfield Killed Fighting Against ISIS in Syria
    11/06/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . An American man killed fighting alongside Kurdish forces against ISIS believed it was "God's will" that he go to Syria, his mother told NBC News. "I didn't want him to go but I didn't have a choice in the mat...
    » Russian journalist Konstantin Goldenzweig resigns from state-funded channel NTV due to 'propaganda madness' - Europe - World
    11/06/15 11:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Konstantin Goldenzweig was formerly a reporter for NTV, a pro-Kremlin TV channel owned by state gas company Gazprom. Announcing his resignation on his Facebook page , he wrote in Russian: "I'm leaving NTV, wh...
    » Alexandria, Virginia ISIS recruiter teen pleads guilty
    11/06/15 11:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) Ali Shukri Amin, from Alexandria, Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal court to providing material support to ISIS and faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced ...
    » Terror Watchdog Calls on UK to Draw Up New Surveillance Law
    11/06/15 11:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . LONDON — Britain's terror legislation watchdog concluded Thursday that the country needs a new law on monitoring online communications, arguing a fresh approach is necessary to address the concerns of b...
    » Female prison worker, in love, agreed to drive getaway car: NBC News
    11/06/15 11:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . NEW YORK (Reuters) - A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned t...
    » Deaths of soldiers and civilians strain Ukraine's ceasefire
    11/06/15 11:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . KIEV Three civilians and two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine, renewing pressure on Thursday on a four-month truce in the separatist conflict, and international monitors said violence co...
    » Calls for aid to Syria's Druze after al Qaeda kills 20
    11/06/15 11:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . BEIRUT/AMMAN Fighters from Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra Front, have killed at least 20 Druze villagers, raising fear for one of Syria's minorities as insurgents including Sunni Islamists gain ground aga...
    » AFP assessing reformed Islamic radicals as potential counter-radicalisation poster-boys and girls
    11/06/15 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . You can't negotiate with IS: Abbott The Prime Minister foreshadows Australia playing a greater role in the fight against Islamic State during a counter-terrorism summit in Sydney. PT1M16S 620 349 Video will b...
    » OPM Hack Far Deeper Than Publicly Acknowledged, Went Undetected For More Than A Year, Sources Say
    11/06/15 11:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Politics. The massive hack into federal systems announced last week was far deeper and potentially more problematic than publicly acknowledged, with hackers believed to be from China moving throu...
    » Despite recruitment struggle, Pentagon confident ‘Sunnis will come to them’ this time
    11/06/15 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Now Playing President Obama authorizes 450 additional US troops to Iraq The Pentagon is ready to try what appears to be a "Field of Dreams" strategy in Iraq, hoping to entice Sunnis to join the fight against ...
    » Besieged by ISIS: Photographs From Inside the Syrian City of Deir ez-Zor
    11/06/15 11:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: feed-explorer. The people of Deir ez-Zor are surrounded—and scared. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria already control about 40% of this city in Syria’s east...
    » Syria's Al-Qaida Branch Kills 20 Minority Druze Villagers
    11/06/15 11:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . BEIRUT — Al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria has killed at least 20 villagers belonging to the minority Druze sect after a confrontation in northwestern Idlib province, where the militants have forced hundred...
    » Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as C.E.O. of 21st Century Fox
    11/06/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Rupert Murdoch , the 84-year-old chief executive of 21st Century Fox, is planning to hand over the media company’s reins to his son James, two people briefed on the plans said Thursday. The elder Mr. Mu...
    » Rupert Murdoch preparing to step down as Fox CEO: reports
    11/06/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year-old chief executive of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, is preparing to step down and name his son James as successor, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing sources close to the Murdoch f...
    » Murdoch 'to step down' as 21st Century Fox chief executive
    11/06/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from BBC News - Home. Rupert Murdoch is preparing to step down as chief executive of 21st Century Fox, according to reports. His son James will take over the role, while his other son Lachlan will become execut...
    » Russian-Occupied Ukraine Is Consumed by Chaos
    10/06/15 21:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. Opinion A shrapnel-hit bus belonging to Ukraine's "Donbas" battalion is seen in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaysk August 24, 2014. Most educated, skilled and wealthy people have fled the Don...
    » What is at stake in Ukraine if Russia continues its onslaught
    10/06/15 19:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . A Ukrainian serviceman is seen at a checkpoint at the frontline with pro-Russian separatists in Novotoshkivske, eastern Ukraine, on June 8. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters) By Arseniy Yatsenyuk June 8 Ukraine is fight...
    » yatsenyuk - Google Search
    10/06/15 19:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . CNN: Yatsenyuk says 10000 Russian military boots on our soil ... Kyiv Post - 7 hours ago Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk attends a press conference after a meeting with German Chancellor on April 1...
    » Yatsenyuk Pledges to Reclaim Crimea, Donbass, Pleads for Washington's Help / Sputnik International
    10/06/15 19:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Sputnik International. World Get short URL According to the head of the Ukrainian government, his country “is fighting a war on two fronts: the one you see on television is taking...
    » Yatsenyuk Again Plays ‘Russian Aggression’ Card in Plea for More US Aid / Sputnik International
    10/06/15 19:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Sputnik International. World Get short URL “I want to be very clear – more than 10,000 Russian military boots are on Ukrainian soil. In addition, about 30,000 are Russian-le...
    » 10,000 Russian military boots on Ukrainian soil, Premier says < News < Home
    10/06/15 19:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The National Radio Company of Ukraine. 10-06-2015 12:43 There are 10,000 Russian military boots on the Ukrainian soil, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in an interview with CNN. The PM is c...
    » US pledges additional USD 1bn loan guarantees to Ukraine - watch on
    10/06/15 19:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uatoday.tv. Yatsenyuk says the funds will go towards purchasing defensive weapons for the army Washington has pledged to provide an additional one billion dollar loan to Ukraine to support the country's br...
    » Ukrainian prime minister says Putin wants to control all of his country
    10/06/15 19:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . In early June, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk listens to President Petro Poroshenko during his annual address to Parliament in Kiev. (Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA) Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseny...
    » Ukraine Seeks Arms as Putin Makes Russian Troop Losses Secret
    10/06/15 19:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top news - SWI swissinfo.ch. (Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed to the U.S. and Europe to arm his country in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists, as the Kremlin ordere...
    » Ukrainian delegation in USA for more IMF talks - watch on
    10/06/15 19:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uatoday.tv. PM Yatsenyuk is leading the tour to gain support for economic and social initiatives A Ukrainian delegation in the USA – for negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and to gain ...
    » Senators call for more aid to Ukraine
    10/06/15 19:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called for more U.S. aid to Ukraine, after senators met with a Ukrainian official to discuss the ongoing crisis.  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the Se...
    » Ukraine Is In Crisis. Here’s Why the West Can’t Save It.
    10/06/15 19:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . [ X ] Undertone works with online advertising companies to provide advertising that is as relevant and useful as possible based on your browsing activity. Undertone is committed to providing you with transpar...
    » The Other War in Ukraine
    10/06/15 19:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. For more than a year now, Ukraine has been at war, as Russian-backed separatists have battled Western-leaning Ukrainian nationalists in the East. But what’s happening to the country’s...
    » Vice President Joe Biden Returns to White House For First Time Since Son's Death
    10/06/15 19:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Politics. Vice President Joe Biden returned to the White House for the first time today since the death of his son Beau two weekends ago. On his first day back to work, Biden joined the president...
    » Can Pope Francis Work a Vladimir Putin Miracle?
    10/06/15 18:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: feed-explorer. Christopher Hale is executive director at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and the co-founder of Millennial. In light of Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin meeting Wednesd...
    » Obama’s Big Talk on ISIS and Putin Isn’t Matched By His Actions
    10/06/15 18:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: feed-explorer. The U.S. is dispatching around 450 additional military instructors to help Iraq’s government recapture Ramadi and Mosul, adding to the approximately 3,500 US military pers...
    » Next round of Iran nuclear talks 'pretty tough': U.S. official
    10/06/15 18:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON The next round of Iran nuclear negotiations will be "pretty tough," a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday ahead of new talks including top diplomats from the seven countries involved. Iran and s...
    » U.S. officials looking into possible seventh Takata air bag death
    10/06/15 18:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators said on Wednesday that they are looking into a possible seventh death linked to defective Takata air bag inflators, a Louisiana woman who die...
    » Islamic State Sells Captured Teen Girls Like 'Packs Of Cigarettes'
    10/06/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. T eenage girls abducted by Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria are being sold in slave markets "for as little as a pack of cigarettes," the UN envoy on sexual violen...
    » Pope Urges Putin to Commit to 'Sincere, Great Effort' for Ukraine Peace
    10/06/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Putin Visits Pope Francis at The Vatican 1:16 autoplay autoplay VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to commit himself to a "sincere and great effort" to achie...
    » Can the U.S. Military Train the Iraqi Army to Victory Over ISIS? | TIME
    10/06/15 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: feed-explorer. The U.S. military likes to say that when it comes to war, the enemy gets a vote. President Obama made that clear Wednesday as he continued to retool his strategy to “degra...
    » US Orders More Troops to Iraq, but No Overhaul of Strategy
    10/06/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an escalation but...
    » AP Top News at 4:50 p.m. EDT
    10/06/15 17:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 4:50 p.m. EDT US orders more troops to Iraq, but no overhaul of strategy WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more ...
    » Pope Francis Urges Putin to Make ‘Sincere’ Peace Efforts in Ukraine
    10/06/15 17:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vatican on Wednesday, using the talks to call for a sincere effort aimed at bringing peace to Ukraine. V...
    » Liberal Clergy Lobby Vatican Ahead of Pope’s U.S. Visit
    10/06/15 17:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. A group of liberal clergy and union leaders headed to the Vatican this week to lobby for Pope Francis to address race relations, income inequality and immigration reform, among other issues, in his u...
    » ‘Russian hackers’ cripple Bundestag computer network | The Times
    10/06/15 17:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Russian hackers were accused yesterday of being behind a damaging cyberattack on the German parliament that could require a complete overhaul of computer equipment, costing millions of euros. The invasion of ...
    » IS growing in numbers, money
    10/06/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Full Feed. Fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State carry their weapons during a parade at the Syrian town of Tell Abyad, near the border with Turkey, Jan. 2, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Yaser Al-Kho...
    » Islamic State releases first Turkish publication
    10/06/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Full Feed. An Islamic State fighter walks near a black flag belonging to the Islamic State as a Turkish army vehicle takes position near the Syrian town of Kobani, as pictured from the Turkish-Syrian borde...
    » Eastern patriarchs meet in Damascus
    10/06/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Full Feed. Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X Yazigi delivers a speech at a ceremony to pray for peace, during a Christmas mass at Al-Maryamyeh Church in Damascus, Dec. 25, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/SANA/H...
    » Obama’s cyber silence leaves US unprepared
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    mikenova shared this story from AEI » Latest Content. Although many details of the massive cyberattack against US government personnel records are still not public, its strategic implications are plain. Washington remains unprepared in c...
    » Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and the siren song of after-the-fact bankruptcy
    10/06/15 16:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AEI » Latest Content. Sometimes debt burdens become deeply burdensome. And if you’re the debtor, wouldn’t it be nice to find a way to avoid hard decisions by reneging on past agreements on repayment, that ...
    » A nation’s flag, a national idea
    10/06/15 16:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AEI » Latest Content. “A yearly contemplation of our flag strengthens and purifies the national conscience,” declared President Calvin Coolidge. Echoing sentiments Woodrow Wilson expressed in his 1916 proc...
    » Democrats and Europeans forget what NATO means
    10/06/15 16:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AEI » Latest Content. If the findings of a new Pew poll are to be taken seriously, one ought to think twice about buying that second vacation home in one of the Baltic states or the Polish countryside. Acc...
    » NATO public opinion invites expanded Russian aggression
    10/06/15 16:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AEI » Latest Content. A just-released Pew Research survey of eight major NATO members does not bode well for peace in Europe, as almost half of each country’s population would not support the use military ...
    » The New Egypt - Egypt Summons U.S. Ambassador Over MB Visit
    10/06/15 16:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Cutting Edge News. Egypt asked the U.S. ambassador in Cairo to account for the Obama administration's allowing Muslim Brotherhood officials to visit Washington for a private conference this week sponso...
    » The Caliphate - As ISIS Brutalizes Women, a Pathetic Feminist Silence
    10/06/15 16:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Cutting Edge News. Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS's latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a libera...
    » Obama Bending Over Backwards to Preserve Iran Nuclear Deal
    10/06/15 16:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Commentary Magazine. On April 2, the State Department released a “fact sheet” on the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran that included this pledge : “U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights abu...
    » Obama at War
    10/06/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from FRONTLINE - Programs | PBS. Inside the Obama administration's struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria.
    » Secrets, Politics and Torture
    10/06/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from FRONTLINE - Programs | PBS. The dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture.
    » The Trouble with Chicken
    10/06/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from FRONTLINE - Programs | PBS. FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our poultry.
    » Are Ukraine and the U.S. Allies or Not?
    10/06/15 16:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Latest From the Wilson Center. At this critical moment for the future of Ukrainian, European and U.S. interests in the region, the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership lacks both strategy and partnership. Th...
    » Putin visits Italy after G7 snub
    10/06/15 15:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Europe. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has welcomed Russian president Putin in Milan, despite ongoing tensions with Western powers over Ukraine. Putin is also to meet Pop...
    » The Ebola Review, Part I
    10/06/15 15:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CFR.org - Op-Eds. The G-7 is gathering to tackle the world’s biggest problems. It’s world’s biggest problems. It’s starting with Ebola -- and what the World Health Organization did wrong.
    » The Ebola Review, Part II
    10/06/15 15:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CFR.org - Op-Eds. Germany's Angela Merkel is leading the G-7 charge to seriously reform the World Health Organization. But will her campaign actually lead to lasting change?
    » Alan Greenspan: US real estate is stagnating
    10/06/15 15:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com. Construction usually pulls America out of a recession, but not this time.
    » Misha’s moment
    10/06/15 15:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Economist: Europe. Saakashvili riding into town THE new governor of Odessa in southern Ukraine has many useful attributes. He once implemented a boldly successful anti-corruption campaign, sacking all ...
    » 'Iran has no interest in nuclear weapons due to edict by Khamenei'
    10/06/15 15:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from JPost.com - Home. The remarks were made by Brigadier General Hossein Salami during a defense conference at a Tehran university.
    » Ukrainian commander says captured drones are Russian - video
    10/06/15 15:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Drones (military) | The Guardian. The commander of the Ukrainian Aerorozvidka unit, Natan Chazin, explains the the importance of a drone his unit shot down this month. Chazin explains that the recovery of ...
    » France probes Russian lead in TV5Monde hacking: source
    10/06/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARIS (Reuters) - French investigators are looking at a possible Russian lead in an inquiry into a hacking attack on French public television station TV5Monde in April, a judicial sour...
    » AP Top News at 12:45 p.m. EDT
    10/06/15 15:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 12:45 p.m. EDT US to send up to 450 more troops to train Iraqis WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says the United States will send up to 450 more troops to...
    » russians hacked french tv - Google Search
    10/06/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . In the news TV5Monde hack: 'Jihadist' cyber attack on French TV station could have Russian link - Europe - World The Independent ‎ - 2 hours ago Read more: French TV network ' hacked in unprecedented at...
    » TV5Monde hack: 'Jihadist' cyber attack on French TV station could have Russian link - Europe - World
    10/06/15 14:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . The invasion of the computers of TV5Monde was claimed by “CyberCaliphate” on behalf of Isis. French judicial sources said that the “the investigations are at this stage looking towards a gro...
    » TV5 Monde attack 'by Russia-based hackers'
    10/06/15 14:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from BBC News - Home. A cyber attack on the French television network TV5 Monde may have been carried out by Russian-based hackers, police believe. Jihadist propaganda was posted on the station's website in Apr...
    » Committee Convening Hearing on Iran’s Enduring Ballistic Missile Threat | House Committee on Foreign Affairs
    10/06/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from House Committee on Foreign Affairs - Ed Royce, Chairman. Chairman Royce’s opening statement Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com...
    » Cyber Security Market Worth $170.21 Billion by 2020 -- DALLAS, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
    10/06/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . DALLAS , June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report, "Cyber Security Market by Solution (IAM, Encryption, DLP, Risk and Compliance Management, IDS/IPS, UTM, Firewall, Antivirus/An...
    » CIA says Bin Laden’s porn stash, if it exists, is classified
    10/06/15 14:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . It seems porn counts as classified documents. Shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed four years ago, Seal Team Six reportedly found a “stash of pornography” in his library of “mo...
    » Despite billions spent, US federal agencies struggle with cybersecurity
    10/06/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Christian Science Monitor | World. Federal government spending on cybersecurity has increased substantially over the past several years, but a return on that investment remains elusive. Breaches such as th...
    » Video: Nato fleet performs manoeuvres in Baltic Sea
    10/06/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Defence News and UK Military News.
    » Former US intel chief calls Iran nuclear deal “wishful thinking”
    10/06/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Former US intel chief calls Iran nuclear deal “wishful thinking” DEBKA file June 10, 2015, 6:44 PM (IDT) In written testimony to the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Fl...
    » FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers for Allegedly Beating an Inmate to Death
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    mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;div class="js-message"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the &amp;amp;amp;amp;a...
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    mikenova shared this story . The ambassador of the U.S. to NATO, Douglas Lute said on Tuesday that Sweden will ensure itself with the support of the U.S. and NATO if it joins the pact, in an interview broadcasted by the Swedish state rad...
    » A hacker can give you a fatal overdose
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    mikenova shared this story . The Senate Intelligence Committee’s leaders — Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — have split over the planned path forward for their stalled cybersecurity bill. Bur...
    » Air Force selects 1,574 officers for promotion
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    mikenova shared this story . By Stephen Losey, Staff writer 1:08 p.m. EDT June 10, 2015 Air Force Personnel Center (Photo: Air Force) The Air Force has selected 18 officers for promotion to colonel, 1,499 to be promoted to lieutenant col...
    » Data-collecting spyware reportedly found at Iran nuclear talk venues
    10/06/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Sophisticated spyware widely believed linked to Israel infected computers at luxury hotels used as venues for nuclear negotiations with Iran, a Russian cybersecurity firm said Wednesday, but the extent of any...
    » Hackers Used Computer Virus to Spy on Iran Nuclear Talks: Security Firm
    10/06/15 14:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . A computer virus was used to hack into computers in European hotels that were hosting talks last year on Iran's nuclear program, according to a report released Wednesday from Kaspersky Lab ZAO. The Moscow-bas...
    » Hackers Possibly Gaining in Cyber Attacks
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    » National spirit: The Azerbaijani sport with horse sense
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    mikenova shared this story . CNN's On the Road series brings you a greater insight into countries around the world. This time we travel to Azerbaijan in the lead up to the European Games to explore the culture of sports in the country si...
    » Vladimir Putin, on Visit to Italy, Criticizes Ukraine Sanctions
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    » 2 buses crash inside Lincoln Tunnel, injuring more than 30
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    mikenova shared this story . An ambulance rushes by congested traffic on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehawken, N.J., Wednesday, June 10, 2015. A New Jersey transit bus rear-ended a private bus injuring at least 18 peopl...
    » Hacking Trail Leads to Russia, Experts Say
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    mikenova shared this story . Earlier this year, investigators for Silicon Valley security company FireEye Inc. FEYE 1.45 % visited a U.S. firm to determine who, and what, sneaked into the firm’s network harboring military secrets. ...
    » France Says Evidence Suggests Russians Posing as Islamists Hacked Broadcaster
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    mikenova shared this story . PARIS—French investigators suspect that a well-known group of Russian hackers posing as Islamic State militants were behind an April attack that crippled a French-language TV broadcaster, raising new qu...
    » Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight Islamic state
    10/06/15 12:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the ...
    » Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Digs In To Complex Decommunization Process
    10/06/15 12:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Ukrainian government is pushing ahead with the rapid implementation of new laws banning public-place names honoring Soviet figures. A committee in the industrial city...
    » U.S. considering 500 additional troops in Iraq
    10/06/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. President Barack Obama's administration is considering sending about 500 additional forces to Iraq, with many of them focused on training Iraqi troops, a senior administration official tol...
    » Azerbaijan blocks critical Amnesty visit before European Games
    10/06/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan has blocked a visit by Amnesty International at which it planned to highlight human rights abuses in the south Caucasian republic as it prepares to host the...
    » Putin visits Italy, pope while US encourages Vatican to condemn Russia - Fox News
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    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Putin visits Italy, pope while US encourages Vatican to condemn Russia Fox News MILAN – Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting Wednesday with Italian officials and...
    » Intrusions in Baltic Sea Show a Russia Challenging the West
    10/06/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Since the conflict in Ukraine began last year, Russian warships have regularly entered a zone where cables are being installed to link Lithuania to Sweden’s electricity grid.
    » Iraqi vet who's seen it all: ISIS in Mosul to stay
    10/06/15 12:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. We had just finished up our shoot in Al-Makasib Girls' Elementary School in Baghdad's Saadoun neighbourhood and were loading the gear into the car when a man sitting in a wheelchair across...
    » ISIS women taking leadership roles
    10/06/15 12:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. New intelligence reveals the role of terrorist wives. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
    » Prison guards arrested in connection to beating death of Rikers Island inmate - Mashable
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    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Mashable Prison guards arrested in connection to beating death of Rikers Island inmate Mashable Ap238900427615_0 This March 16, 2011 file photo shows a barbed wire fence outside ...
    » Kerry Tweets 10 Days After Breaking Leg
    10/06/15 11:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. After being out of the public eye for more than a week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tweeted on his condition from a Boston hospital where he is recovering from a broken right  ...
    » Putin's Russia Is Not 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' (Op-Ed)
    10/06/15 11:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Modern Russia cannot be compared to the Soviet Union, writes columnist Ivan Sukhov.
    » AP Top News at 8:42 a.m. EDT
    10/06/15 11:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 8:42 a.m. EDT US to send more troops to Iraq for expanded training mission JERUSALEM (AP) - An expected White House decision to send several hundred more t...
    » Russia has grounded all its Tu-95 strategic bombers after one Bear skidded off ... - The Aviationist (blog)
    10/06/15 11:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Aviationist (blog) Russia has grounded all its Tu-95 strategic bombers after one Bear skidded off ... The Aviationist (blog) The Russian Ministry of Defense has suspended all the ...
    » Putin's trip to Rome underscores Russia's special relationship with Italy - The Guardian
    10/06/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Fox News New York Times Putin's trip to Rome underscores Russia's special relationship with Italy The Guardian In his interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Putin empha...
    » 'Overstretched' Russian air force suffers three crashes in five days - Newsweek
    10/06/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek 'Overstretched' Russian air force suffers three crashes in five days Newsweek A Russian air force TU-95s "Bear" bomber has ignited while on a practice flight, in th...
    » U.S. Ousts Russia as Top World Oil, Gas Producer in BP Data - Bloomberg
    10/06/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg U.S. Ousts Russia as Top World Oil, Gas Producer in BP Data Bloomberg The U.S. has taken Russia's crown as the biggest oil and natural-gas producer in a demonstration of the...
    » U.S. Embracing a New Approach on Battling ISIS in Iraq
    10/06/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The Obama administration is planning to send hundreds of additional military trainers to help Iraqi forces retake Ramadi and repel the Islamic State.
    » China: Staking Claim in the New World Order
    10/06/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. With the help of Western globalists, China is actively pursuing a leading role in the New World Order.
    » Soros Pushes US Bailouts and Weapons for Ukraine
    10/06/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Despite the February ceasefire, Soros is pushing behind the scenes to make sure Ukraine receives top-of-the-line lethal weapons from the United States. Of course it will be up to us to pay the bill be...
    » Seeing Red: Will Communists Take Over Spain?
    10/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from rss. Spain may soon make history with a mistake of the past: becoming the first Western European nation to freely elect a Marxist government.
    » 2015-06-07G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit
    10/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-07 G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit Sunday June 7 th , 2015  at  11:09 AM 1 Share KRUEN,  Germany...
    » 2015-06-07Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Sentenced To Prison - From Incidents
    10/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-07 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Sentenced To Prison - From Incidents, Accidents and Crime Review From  Incidents, Accidents and Crime Review Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Sentence...
    » 2015-06-07» Russia Wields Aid and Ideology Against West to Fight Sanctions
    10/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-07 » Russia Wields Aid and Ideology Against West to Fight Sanctions 08/06/15 00:00 from NYT > Russia - Russia News Review Russia News Review Sources Updated on 3.13.14  »   ...



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    POLITICS F.B.I. Evidence Is Often Mishandled, an Internal Inquiry Finds By  MATT APUZZO  and  MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT DEC. 19, 2014 Photo The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. building in Washington. Auditors have found many problems with how the bureau handles evidence.   Credit Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Share This Page Email Share Tweet Save More Continue reading the main story F.B.I.  agents in every region of the country have mishandled, mislabeled and lost evidence, according to a highly critical internal investigation that discovered errors with nearly half the pieces of evidence it reviewed. The evidence collection and retention system is the backbone of the  F.B.I. ’s investigative process, and the report said it is beset by problems. It also found that the F.B.I. was storing more weapons, less money and valuables, and two tons more drugs than its records had indicated. The report’
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