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Mr. President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500 (USA)
Mr. President,
In 2013, the day before Thanksgiving, a day of actions of thanks and offering in the United States, after having shilly-shallying between the turkeys “Caramel” and “Popcorn”, destined to end up in the oven, you finished by generously sparing Popcorn’s life.
At the moment when I’m writing this (…)

The website is titled The New Cold War: Ukraine and beyond, and is a project of the international delegates who attended the antiwar, anti-fascist conference that took place in Yalta, Crimea on July 6 and 7, 2014.
It provides information and analysis of the war and political crisis in Ukraine.
That conference adopted an antiwar declaration that serves as a guide to the information assembled and presented on the new website:
http://newcoldwar.org

Question: Why would cops in America shoot, strangle, or beat to death an unarmed person?
Answer: Because they can.
It is a sad reality in today’s America that cops can not only do these things with immunity and impunity, they can actually do them in front of thousands, sometimes millions, of witnesses, and still get away with it.
Don’t take my word for it. Look at the horrific beating death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man in Fullerton, California. Videotaped evidence showed six (…)

Paris Prosecutors Seek to Determine How Much Senior Managers Knew About U.S. Litigation Risks
PARIS—French prosecutors are targeting several senior BNP Paribas SA officials with a preliminary insider-trading probe related to the lender’s record settlement in the U.S., a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday, possibly complicating efforts by one of Europe’s largest banks to draw a line under a difficult chapter.
Paris prosecutors, who opened the preliminary investigation (…)

“Australian History in 7 questions” by John Hirst attempts to summarize Australian history by answering 7 key questions but ultimately fails through Eurocentrism, Anglocentrism and denial - Australian history becomes an aren’t-we-nice, White, Anglo Australian history that ignores Anglo Australian involvement in 30 genocidal atrocities of which some, like the over 2-century, post-1788 Aboriginal Genocide, and the 1-century, post-1914 Iraqi Genocide, are continuing today.
Make no (…)

A couple years ago I entered into an agreement with Virgin Mobile (part of Virgin Media) for a mobile contract deal for my son. Basically, my son wanted a certain mobile phone and so to get it at a manageable monthly cost I agreed to pay £35.85 per month for two years as follows:
Virgin £35.85 200 minutes 500 texts 500MB Mobile Web
Having lost track of the exact contract date I telephoned Virgin three times over the last 9 months trying find out when I could cancel, thinking to move over (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
It is ironic that the annual commemoration of the death of Yasser Arafat should turn into an occasion for rekindling the flames of internal strife. This was clearly the aim of last week’s bombings that targeted the homes of Fatah leaders in Gaza, as well as the podium for the commemorative ceremonies of Arafat, who strove to make Palestinian national unity one of the pillars of his political legacy.
How desperately those concerned need to be inspired by the political (…)

The trio of entertainment industry billionaire, convicted former spy and failed writer who sought to ruin a journalist’s life, are still free because they are beyond the reach of privacy laws. Perhaps the only reason why the story of Jan Pottker has never been made into a movie is that justice has not been served. The popcorn-munching public would be left angry that a circus impresario with too much money could ruin the life of an investigative journalist with the help of a spy-gone-bad and (…)

Support WireNews’ expansion programme and get unlimited press release distribution forever for only £100
WireNews Limited, founded in April 2001, is planning to expand its service to include 5 additional languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. When the new changes are complete, WireNews will be poised to dominate within its market.
Using GoFundMe to raise the capital needed for the development work, WireNews founder Greg Smith said: "I created (…)

LIVING WITH INSANITY Harper, Abbott, and Cameron at the Brisbane G-20
John Chuckman
Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is reported by a spokesman, to have had the following exchange with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the Brisbane G-20 summit: “Well, I guess I’ll shake your hand, but I only have one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine.” Putin is said to have replied, “Impossible. Since we are not there.”
A graceless bit of diplomatic crudity from a truly (…)