What Putin Is Not Telling Us

Pepe Escobar | RT | 18 Dec 2014 Even facing what under any circumstances is a perfect storm; President Putin delivered an extremely measured performance at his annual press conference and Q&A marathon. The perfect storm evolves in two fronts; an overt economic war – as in siege by sanctions – and a concerted, covert,…

Judge Advises Circumventing Law on Fluoride

Scoop | 19 Dec 2014 Friday, 19 December 2014, 1:23 pm Press Release: Fluoride Free New Zealand Media Release Fluoride Free New Zealand www.fluoridefree.org.nz 17th December 2014 Judge Advises Circumventing Law on Fluoride Justice David Collins has taken it upon himself to advise the NZ Ministry of Health’s legal team on how best to circumvent…

It’s Quiet; Too Quiet

David Round | NZCPR | 14 Dec 2014 … if Maori did not agree to the sovereignty of the Crown, it follows that all Treaty settlements so far ~ even though they are based on reports of the Tribunal ~ are actually based on a completely false premise There is always that pause, that moment…

West behaviour as bad as Isis

Bruce Bisset | Hawkes Bay Today | 20 Dec 2014 [AM editor’s note: the probably fake and certainly staged beheadings by ISIS serves the Western elite’s imperial agenda in much the same way that the CIA used torture to extract false intelligence in an attempt to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and justify in the…

Thaw in US-Cuba Relations?

Stephen Lendman | Global Research | December 18, 2014 On December 17, the Havana Times headlined “Obama Announces New US Approach on Cuba,” saying: “In a surprise announcement today US President Obama has taken sweeping steps to re-launch US relations with Cuba.” “Talks between Washington and Havana have actually been going on secretly in Canada for a…

New code for water fluoridation

Paloma Migone | Radio NZ | 19 Dec 2014 A new code of practice for the use of fluoride in drinking water supplies has been released by Water New Zealand. The code was partially funded by the Ministry of Health, and includes measures such as having independent checks of water fluoridation plants and an automatic…

Foreign Bankers Rape Ukraine

​​​​F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook | December 18, 2014 If it were not for the fact that the lives of some 45 million people are at stake, Ukrainian national politics could be laughed off as a very sick joke. Any pretenses that the October national elections would bring a semblance of genuine democracy of the…