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Athens mayor attacked over job cuts tied to Greece bailout
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis
Greek staff unionists have physically assaulted Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis amid protests against job cuts tied to Greece’s bailout, officials say.
The mayor’s office said Kaminis was “physically attacked” on Sunday while he was leaving a Confederation of Greek Municipalities (KEDE) meeting, where he held discussions about the austerity measures and their affects...
Hundreds of anarchists carry random attacks in Corinth, Greece
A 70 year old citizen was mobbed by bullies- he is now currently hospitalized in critical condition after suffering severe head injuries and internal bleeding. The fact that these marauders only target Golden Dawn, and have yet to attack a single target of the Memorandum/Troika, shows who they are in service of.
A group of approximately 100 Anarchist “ANTIFA” (“Anti-Fascists”) wearing helmets,...
Mafia launders dirty money in clean energy - Europol
The Italian mafia is ramping up investment in wind farms to launder money and benefit from EU subsidies.
Europol reports winds farms, and renewable energy in general, are the most popular target for laundering money, after analysing the financial activities of Italy’s four mafia groups.
“The Italian mafia is investing more and more in renewable energy, especially in wind farms, to profit...
New Evidence proves existence of Space Wind
Scientists have revealed new evidence of space wind, confirming a theory proposed 20 years ago. ‘Plasmaspheric wind’ is an elusive phenomenon and its existence helps scientists understand how the atmosphere protects us from violent solar winds.
Proof of space wind was uncovered in a study in European Geosciences Union journal Annales Geophysicae. The so-called ‘plasmaspheric wind’ is actually...
Russia top opposition leader faces jail term
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is detained by the police during a protest in central Moscow.
Russian prosecutors have demanded jail term for a top opposition leader suspected of embezzlement.
Alexei Navalny appeared before a court in the central Russian city of Kirov on Friday.
If convicted, the 37-year-old opposition leader could face a six-year jail term. In that case, he will effectively...
Greece March Unemployment Rate Hits New Record 26.8%
The unemployed make up nearly 6 in 10 young people under 25 years of age – unemployment continues to climb.
The nightmare of unemployment does not end, especially among young people. For another month, Greece is … “the champion” in unemployment, with 26.8% of the working population without a job. 26.8% is an increase from the month before, February was 26.7% according to figures released...
French secret services spy on citizens just like PRISM
The logo of France’s Directorate-General for External Security
France’s secret services illegally have been spying on the citizens by monitoring their telephone and internet communications as well as internet searches, a report says.
On Thursday, French daily Le Monde reported that the country’s security services had stored the data from communications on a supercomputer at the headquarters of...
France urges EU-US trade talks delayed over US spying allegations
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden shown in photo on the paper.
France has urged the European Union to postpone talks with the United States on a major free trade agreement due to the recent allegations about US spying on EU offices.
The EU-US trade talks are set to begin in Washington on July 8, but the revelations of US spying on European diplomatic missions have cast them...
Ecuador reveals details on London Embassy surveillance
An image of the hidden microphone used to bug an office in Ecuador’s London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been living for over a year, was revealed by Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino during a press conference Wednesday.
Patino told reporters the recording device was found beneath a desk in the office belonging to Ana Alban, the Ecuadorean Ambassador to the United Kingdom, according...
Imagination can affect sight, sound senses
A new research from Karolinska Institute in Sweden has unveiled that our imagination can change our actual perception of what we hear and see.
The study of 96 healthy participants revealed that what we imagine hearing can alter what we actually see, and what we imagine seeing can affect what we actually hear, according to the finding published in the journal Current Biology.
The research explores...
Eurozone unemployment hits previous high of 12.1% in May
A homeless sleeps at the entrance of a bank in Milan, Italy on June 27, 2013.
Recent figures released by the Eurostat data agency show the eurozone unemployment rate has hit its previous record-high of 12.1 percent in May.
According to the data, the jobless rate rose 0.1 percentage in May after the previous months’ figures were amended down from 12.2 percent to 12.0 percent.
Approximately 19.22...
US threatened by Russia's Christianity
If you ever wonder why the weasel west media always calls Putin a dictator or demonizes him, just look at what has been happening recently. By watching the US news last week one would think all of America has turned gay with the Supreme Court ruling on married same-sex couples. The New York Times called it a, “major victories for the gay rights movement”. Some even compare it to racial...
Snowden Revelations Strike Fear Into Putin
During the past two months I’ve watched in absolute awe and amazement the events which have seen a 30-year-old American high-school dropout consciously declare a personal war against the entire United States Federal Government that to this very day continues to shock the entire world, and so much so that even Russian President Putin is now in fear of what this man may reveal next.
This most unlikely...
Italy unemployment rate hits new record high in May
Italy’s unemployment rate has risen to a new record high in May as the country is struggling with a recession-hit economy following implementation of tough austerity cuts.
The Rome-based national statistics office, Istat, said on Monday that the jobless rate rose to 12.2 percent in May from 12 percent in April, the highest since the institute started collecting data on Italy in 1977.
The eurozone’s...
Germany to charge UK, US over spying
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) attends a meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron
Germany Federal Prosecutor’s Office says it is preparing to bring charges against US and British intelligence agencies over large-scale spying operations on EU offices, a new report says.
The British daily The Independent reported on Sunday that Germany’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor is preparing...