Watchman News Vladimir Putin talks ‘statehood’ for south-eastern Ukraine as Kiev’s ships attacked

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on the “statehood” of southern and eastern Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean Moscow now endorsed rebel calls for independence for territory they have seized.

The Kremlin leader’s remarks, two days after a public appearance in which he compared the Kiev government with Nazis and warned the West not to “mess with us”, came as Europe and the United States prepared possible further sanctions to halt what they say is direct Russian military involvement in the war in Ukraine.

Germany aired suspicions that Moscow might be trying to create a land corridor to supply Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in March, while the four-month conflict moved onto the sea for the first time on Sunday. The separatists said they had fired on a Ukrainian vessel in the Azov Sea using land-based artillery, and a military spokesman in Kiev said a rescue operation was under way.

“We must strive toward implementing the plan we agreed upon,” Mr Putin said. “We must immediately commence substantive talks and not only on technical issues, but also on the political organisation of society and the statehood status of south-east Ukraine in order to serve the interests of people living there.”

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Watchman News Russia ‘practically in a state of war against Europe’ over Ukraine, EU leaders warn

Russia is “practically in a state of war against Europe,” with the crisis in Ukraine rapidly approaching “the point of no return,” EU leaders warned Saturday night.

At a summit in Brussels, they met to discuss toughened economic sanctions on Moscow, specifically targeting Russia’s finances, oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin and the country’s vast mineral wealth.

Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania’s president and a staunch critic of Mr. Putin, called on the EU to get serious as Russia’s war in the Ukraine menaced peace in Europe for the first time in decades.

“Russia is in a state of war against Ukraine, and that is against a country which wants to be part of Europe. Russia is practically in a state of war against Europe,” she said.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, said that the EU was prepared for new sanctions and pleaded with the Russian president to step back from the brink of outright war with Ukraine.

“We are in a very serious – I would say dramatic – situation. We may see a situation where we reach the point of no return. If the escalation of the conflict continues, this point of no return can come,” he said after a meeting with Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president.

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Watchman News Islamist Militia Now Guards US Embassy in Libya

An Islamist-allied militia group in control of Libya’s capital now guards the U.S. Embassy and its residential compound, a commander said Sunday, as onlookers toured the abandoned homes of diplomats who fled the country more than a month ago.

An Associated Press journalist saw holes left by small-arms and rocket fire dotting the residential compound, reminders of weeks of violence between rival militias over control of Tripoli that sparked the evacuation.

The breach of a deserted U.S. diplomatic post — including images of men earlier swimming in the compound’s algae-filled pools — likely will reinvigorate debate in the U.S. over its role in Libya, more than three years after supporting rebels who toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi. It also comes just before the two-year anniversary of the slaying of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.

A commander for the Dawn of Libya group, Moussa Abu-Zaqia, told the AP that his forces had been guarding the residential compound since last week, a day after it seized control of the capital and its international airport after weeks of fighting with a rival militia. Abu-Zaqia said the rival militia from Zintan was in the compound before his troops took it over.

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Watchman News Hong Kong groups vow ‘era of civil disobedience’ as Beijing rules out open elections

Underlining the potential for escalating confrontation, Hong Kong pro-democracy groups have vowed to ensure the city enters an “era of civil disobedience” in protest against proposed voting reforms imposed by the Chinese government.

Braving stop-start rain under a gleaming Hong Kong skyline, thousands of demonstrators flocked to a rally organised by pro-democracy group Occupy Central outside the offices of the Legislative Council on Sunday night, where they were urged to stage mass sit-ins to cripple the city’s financial district.

It came just hours after Beijing said it would deny voters the right to publicly nominate candidates for the city’s 2017 chief executive election, pushing back against months of rallies and street demonstrations that have increasingly polarised the city.

“This is about wanting a fair and proper election,” said web-page editor Dion Tse, 24, who attended Sunday’s rally with her 50-year-old mother, Wong Chi-yi. “The central government doesn’t respect the voice of Hong Kong people. We want them to hear our voice and to see the determination of Hong Kong people.”

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Watchman News Aviation red alert after Iceland volcano blows again

Iceland has raised the aviation alert at its largest volcano, Bardarbunga, to maximum level red following a new eruption in a lava field nearby.

The alert entails a ban on all flights below 6,000 feet (1.8 kilometres) within a radius of 10 nautical miles (18.5 kilometres) of Bardarbunga.

“All airports are open. The area has no effect on any airports,” the Civil Protection Office said in a statement.

Sunday was the third time in a week that Iceland issued a red alert for aviation due to seismic activity at the peak, prompting fears of global flight chaos like that caused by another Icelandic volcano four years earlier.

In April 2010 Eyjafjoell, a smaller volcano, spewed a massive ash cloud into the atmosphere, triggering the closure of airspace for days and stranding more than eight million travellers.

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Watchman News Spectre of 1929 crash looms over FTSE 100 as traders take on record debts

NOTHING has been learnt from the madness of the 1929 stock market crash as once again traders reach for record amounts of debt to pile into rising share prices.

The level of margin debt that traders are using to buy shares in the stock market reached the highest levels on record according the latest data from the New York stock exchange.

US traders borrowed $460bn from banks and financial institutions to back shares, and once cash and credit balances held in margin accounts of $278bn is subtracted this left net margin debt of $182bn in July

Traders are now more exposed to a fall in share prices than at the height of the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, and just before the financial crisis during the 2007 peak.

Buying shares on margin is often used by hedge fund traders to increase the returns on their investments. As the stock markets have steadily risen during the past five years and the level of risk has fallen, banks have become more willing to lend money for this activity.

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Watchman News Bankers beware: City ‘will soon be run by robots’

Robots will be running the City within 10 years, rendering investment bankers, analysts and even quants redundant, it has been claimed.

Artificial intelligence is about to outpace human ability, according to Dave Coplin, a senior Microsoft executive. Computers will not only be able to undertake complex mathematical equations but draw logical, nuanced conclusions, reducing the need for human interference, he said.

This will render certain professions redundant, while other “human only” skills will become increasingly valuable.

“I believe in Moravec’s Paradox,” Mr Coplin, Microsoft’s UK-based chief envisioning officer, told The Telegraph, referring to the Eighties hypothesis discovered by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers. “This states that what we think is easy, robots find really hard, and what we think it really hard, robots find easy,” he said. “Complex maths equations are hard for humans but take nanoseconds for a computer, but moving around and picking things up is easy for us, while being almost impossible for a robot.”

Meanwhile, he said, professions currently viewed as commodities will become specialist human skills. “It would be hard to train a robot to be a nurse, or even a chef, but the City could be run by algorithms,” he said. “People who use their hands will have jobs for life.”

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Watchman News ‘UFO’ spotted hovering over Melbourne for more than an hour

E.T. is that you?

An object with flashing red, green and blue lights was spotted hovering over Melbourne’s southeast last night as residents reported they had never seen anything quite like it.

The light sat still over Carnegie for more than an hour.

“It’s really weird,” Toni Koromilas said, taking a video of the flashing lights from her sister’s Carnegie home.

“Someone said it could be a helicopter but it’s not moving, it’s been there for an hour now.

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Watchman News Satellite images show Russian troops operating in Ukraine

NATO has released satellite images which it says show Russian combat forces, armed with heavy weapons, engaged in military operations in Ukraine.

Well over 1,000 Russian troops are operating inside Ukraine, marking a significant escalation of Moscow’s military involvement in the country, NATO said.

“Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine,” Dutch Brigadier-General Nico Tak, head of NATO’s crisis management centre, told reporters at NATO’s military headquarters near Mons, Belgium.

“We assess well over 1,000 Russian troops are now operating inside Ukraine,” he said, referring to Russia’s actions as “incursions” rather than an invasion.

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Watchman News Iceland examines Bardarbunga volcano ‘cauldrons’

Scientists in Iceland say they are examining several ‘cauldrons’ found near Bardarbunga volcano, which could potentially be a sign of an eruption.

The cauldrons, depressions in the volcano’s surface, each between 10-15m (49 ft) deep and 1km (0.6 miles) wide, were seen during a flight on Wednesday.

Iceland’s Met Office said they were formed “as a result of melting, possibly a sub-glacial eruption.”

Bardarbunga volcano has been hit by several recent tremors.

The area experienced a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on Tuesday. Experts say these earthquakes are caused as magma flows beneath the ground, cracking the rocks as it moves.

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Watchman News Giant sinkhole in Durham is ‘becoming bigger’ every second, landowner warns

A giant sinkhole, measuring 115ft wide, has opened up on farmland in County Durham and the landowner warns further wet weather will increase the size of the hole.

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Watchman News Japan’s former PM tells of Tokyo evacuation risk after Fukushima

Naoto Kan was Japan’s prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 and he is in Brisbane on Thursday to warn Queenslanders about nuclear power and nuclear exports.

Uranium from Australia’s Ranger Uranium Mine was in the Fukushima nuclear plant on the east coast of Japan when it was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake, then a 15-metre tsunami on March 11, 2011.

More than 160,000 people had to be evacuated.

For several days after the event – having looked at the damaged Fukushima plant from a helicopter – Mr Kan considered evacuating Japan’s largest city, Tokyo, which has 50 million people.

“We were right on the verge,” Mr Kan said.

“Within the first 100 hours of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, three of the reactors had experienced melt-downs.

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Watchman News Did an ENERGY BUBBLE cause the mystery lights in the Pacific? Seti astronomer says cause may have been solar wind

Earlier this week a pilot and his co-pilot spotted a mysterious orange and red glow while flying over the Pacific Ocean.

The strange lights baffled the pilots, with no obvious explanation available.

But a Nasa researcher has told MailOnline that he thinks the answer may lie in an ‘energised bubble’ in Earth’s atmosphere caused by either solar wind, a powerful microwave beam or even a controversial research station in Alaska.

‘I could imagine that something from the solar wind, possibly a small highly energized bubble that penetrated the protective shield of the magnetosphere, hit the Earth’s uppermost atmosphere and produced this very local effect,’ NASA researcher Dr Friedemann Freund, told MailOnline.

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Watchman News Californian drought is so severe it’s ‘causing the ground to move’

Vanishing water is causing the ground to rise in the western United States, according to a new study.

Scientists estimate that 63 trillion gallons of water has been lost in the west over the past 18 months.

The surface of the Earth is much more springy than you might think. When you put something very heavy on it, there’s a good chance the ground will sink at least a little bit. And in the same way, when you remove something very heavy, the ground will lift.

As it turns out, 63 trillion gallons of water is pretty heavy.

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Watchman News DOJ To Give Money From Bank Of America Settlement To Liberal Activist Groups

Judicial Watch reports that the Department of Justice is giving liberal activist groups money from a $16.6 billion settlement with Bank of America.

The groups benefitting from the lawsuit, according to Investor’s Business Daily, are the National Council of La Raza, Operation Hope, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. The money also went to “delinquent borrowers” in Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Philadelphia, and other major “Democrat strongholds.”

“This is a wealth redistribution scheme disguised as a lawsuit,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told The Daily Caller. “And who benefits from the distribution? Interest groups the administration relies on, outside interest groups, allies and politicians in communities trying to benefit as well.”

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Watchman News NATO Not Obliged to Protect Ukraine, Not Going to Discuss Membership at Upcoming Summit

NATO allies do not intend to discuss the status of their relations with Ukraine or take the responsibility for the country’s protection, but will announce consulting and financial aid to Ukrainian military, a high-ranking NATO official told journalists.

“In Wales, there will be an announcement on the form of military consultations and financial support for Ukrainian military forces on behalf of the alliance. There will be no obligations to protect Ukraine,” the diplomat said, adding that since Ukraine was not a member of the 28-party alliance, NATO had “no obligations to react to the violation of its [Ukraine's] sovereignty.”

Such relations satisfy all parties, and no change to the relations between NATO and Ukraine are on the agenda, he said.

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Watchman News IS ‘executes’ 200 captured troops

The Islamic State has released pictures it claims shows the execution of 200 Syrian soldiers after the capture of a key military air base earlier this week.

The unconfirmed reports, which contain pictures and video footage of hundreds of soldiers being led into the desert dressed only in their underwear, were circulated on social media by IS supporters early this morning.

Unlike in previous Islamic State propaganda exercises, no pictures have yet been circulated of dead or mutilated bodies. This comes after Twitter late last week cancelled the accounts of any Twitter user who circulated images of the decapitated photojournalist James Foley.

But the accuracy of the pictures and video footage is being disputed, with some Syrian sources saying the men being marched into the desert were actually Sheytat tribesmen being executed earlier this month.

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Watchman News Chinese fighter jet’s brazen barrel roll over U.S. surveillance aircraft leaves Americans indignant

China’s Defence Ministry has rejected U.S. accusations that a Chinese fighter jet conducted a “dangerous intercept” of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft off the southern Chinese coast.

Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun called the U.S. accusations “groundless” and said the Chinese pilot conducted operations that were “professional and the Chinese jet kept a safe distance from the U.S. planes.”

Yang called the Chinese flights “routine identification and verification.”

Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby gave a different account Friday of the Aug. 19 encounter about 220 kilometres east of China’s Hainan Island. He said the Chinese jet made several close passes by the Navy P-8 Poseidon plane, coming within 9 metres of it at one point.

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Watchman News What the Next Gold Confiscation Will Look Like

You may be familiar with the story of how the US government confiscated gold bullion and then made owning it illegal back in 1933.

Actually this event is more accurately termed a nationalization. Americans were forced under harsh penalties to sell their gold at an artificially low “official price.” If it were an outright confiscation, the government would have just taken the gold without giving anything in return. But no matter how you label it, the end result was the same: the theft of purchasing power.

Many have speculated that the US government could once again turn to gold confiscation/nationalization if it became desperate enough. These fears are not unfounded given the abysmal financial situation of the US government that only continues to get worse, coupled with a total lack of political will to cut spending.

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Watchman News Ebola outbreak ‘going to get worse’ – top medic

A leading American health official has warned that the Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa will get worse.

The disease has already killed more than 1400 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and Doctors Without Borders warned the tremendous influx of patients in Liberia, in particular, is overwhelming their treatment centers there.

“I wish I didn’t have to say this, but it is going to get worse before it gets better,” Dr Tom Frieden, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said of the outbreak at the end of a visit to Liberia. He described the situation as dire.

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Watchman News Gold falls as looming US rate hike weighs

Gold futures closed lower Wednesday as lingering worries about higher interest rates in the US overshadowed support from ongoing geopolitical tensions.

Gold for December delivery, the most active contract, fell $US1.80, or 0.1 per cent, to settle at $US1,283.40 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Gold has retreated from highs set in July, as a renewed focus on the path of US monetary policy uncovered a budding expectation for higher interest rates among gold traders.

Gold doesn’t pay interest or dividends and could struggle to compete with Treasury bonds when rates climb.

“The US interest rate story is what’s really going to move gold over the next five years,” said John Payne, a senior market analyst with Daniels Trading in Chicago.

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Watchman News Bottom of sinkhole at Cowshill, England can’t be seen

A GIANT sinkhole that opened up in north east England is so deep that its bottom cannot be seen.

The huge hole, thought to have been precipitated by old mine works, grew to seven times its size since its discovery and poses a hazard to a nearby farmhouse as well scores of curious visitors, the London Telegraph reports.

The 35-metre-wide sinkhole was first discovered last Thursday by Sam Hillyard, 39, while she was out walking on her property at Cowshill.

Her partner, John Hensby, 71, told the Guardian he went to inspect the hole and described the sound it made as it grew.

“At the time, it was about five metres round. Throughout Thursday night it got bigger and bigger until it was about three times that size on Friday morning.

“It is about 35 meters wide and you can’t see the bottom of it.

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Watchman News Dictatorship: Obama pushing for UN global warming regime that bypasses US Senate ratification

The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.

In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions. The deal is likely to face strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path.

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Watchman News Iceland volcano: Magma moving towards new volcanic system

The magma from Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano could be moving towards another large volcanic system.

Data recorded by a team from the University of Cambridge suggests that 50 million cubic meters of molten rock has moved in the last 24 hours.

If it continues on a northern trajectory it could feed into the Askja volcanic system, potentially triggering a large eruption.

Prof Bob White said: “It’s headed straight for it.”

But he cautioned that volcanoes were hard to predict.

“It’s moving at about 4km a day towards Askja, and if it keeps going it will get there in a few days,” he told BBC News.

“We know there is a lot of molten rock sitting under the ground beneath Askja, which is a major volcanic system. If this molten rock hits that, we know it is likely to trigger it to erupt.

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Watchman News North Korea Building Missile Submarine

U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea is building a submarine capable of launching ballistic missiles, potentially increasing the threat posed by the nuclear-armed rogue state.

A missile launch tube on a North Korean submarine was observed recently by U.S. intelligence agencies and is raising new concerns about the missile and nuclear threat from the communist regime in Pyongyang, according to two defense officials familiar with reports of the development.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool declined to comment on the North Korean missile submarine program. “We do not comment on intelligence matters, but we do urge North Korea to become more transparent in their defense sector in order to reduce tensions in the region,” he said in a statement.

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Watchman News PLA to set up new ‘Aerospace Force’ branch

The People’s Liberation Army is expediting plans to set up a new “Aerospace Force” which is expected to be capable of taking on the United States military in emergency situations, according to a report from Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.

The Aerospace Force will be the fifth service branch under the PLA along with its Ground Force, Navy, Air Force and Second Artillery Corps, the report said, adding that it will also lead to the creation of an Aerospace Office under the Central Military Commission.

Since the beginning of the year, Chinese president and CMC chairperson Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized moving progressively toward space militarization.

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Watchman News China makes large strides in satellite intelligence

Russian media say China has become one of the few nations capable of building a high-definition Earth observation satellite after it launched its first, and with existing weapons the system may be one of the most powerful in the world, reports Duowei, an outlet run by overseas Chinese.

The observation satellite Gaofen-2 launched Aug. 19 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, is able to discern one-meter-long objects on the ground with high resolution in full color.

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Watchman News China-Russia team challenges US-Japan militarization of space

President Xi Jinping of China said in April that China is capable of responding to the militarization of space by the United States and other countries. In the meantime, Xi is committed to allocating more budget so that the military has the power to counter threats posed by various space deployments.

The Strategic Assessment 2013 pointed out that threats coming from the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space include space reconnaissance and surveillance, limited or deprived freedom in space operations, and space-to-land attacks.

At present, the United States and Japan are proactively extending their cooperation in forming a real-time space-to-Earth combat system, which has threatened China’s important political, economic and military strongholds.

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Watchman News Mexican President Faces Protest on California Trip

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers Tuesday for approving a series of immigrant-friendly laws, saying California is taking a lead role in the absence of national immigration reform.

He specifically mentioned a law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to obtain driver’s licenses, a law that has yet to take effect because a final decision has not been made about the appearance of the licenses.

California also allows immigrants here illegally to apply for state-funded college scholarships and aid at public universities. And earlier this month, Brown and the Democratic legislative leaders announced a plan to spend $3 million to provide legal help for the estimated 3,900 unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America who are in the state.

Pena Nieto said such actions signaled that California was recognizing human dignity no matter a person’s immigration status.

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Watchman News Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian President for peace talks as war in Eastern Ukraine escalates

The Interfax news agency is quoting Ukraine’s president as saying the leaders he met with in Minsk, which included Russian President Vladimir Putin, support his peace plan.

It was not immediately clear if the support prefigured a quick end to the fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian forces.

Putin, whose country is accused by Kiev and the West of arming and supporting the rebels, was to speak to reporters separately.The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have sat down to crunch one-on-one talks over heavy fighting in east Ukraine as the Kremlin admitted for the first time its troops had entered its neighbour’s territory.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin began a key bilateral meeting on Tuesday after six hours of difficult negotiations alongside top EU officials in Minsk aimed at defusing a crisis some fear could lead to all-out war between Kiev and Moscow.

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Watchman News Venezuelans protest new fingerprinting system to limit food purchases

New protests broke out in the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal, cradle of the anti-government protests that erupted last February, rejecting a recently announced fingerprint-reading biometric system designed to limit citizens’ food purchases.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that all supermarkets, pharmacies and other stores will implement a compulsory “biometric card” using a fingerprint scanner by Nov. 30.

The move is part of the government’s latest effort to fight the oil-rich nation’s chronic food shortages, which it claims result from hoarding by speculators who resell goods at a profit, and from smuggling into Colombia.

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Watchman News ‘Perfect storm’ has allowed Ebola to spread in West Africa

Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, on Tuesday said a “perfect storm” in West Africa had given the disease a chance to spread unchecked.

“We have never seen an (Ebola) epidemic on this scale,” Piot was quoted by the French daily paper Liberation as saying.

“In the last six months, we have been witnessing what can be described as a ‘perfect storm’ — everything is there for it to snowball,” he said.

The epidemic “is exploding in countries where health services are not functioning, ravaged by decades of civil war.”

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Watchman News Ebola outbreak underestimated

The magnitude of the Ebola outbreak has been underestimated because families hide infected relatives in their homes, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Because Ebola has no cure, some people infected with the virus preferred to die at home, the WHO said on Friday in a statement.

This was especially the case in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where stigma and social rejection related to Ebola are massive.

Some West Africans continue to deny Ebola exists, while others believe isolations wards are incubators of the disease, according to the WHO.

In addition, Ebola-affected countries lacked staff, supplies and equipment, including personal protective equipment, the WHO said.

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Watchman News Fears grow as Iran speeds up Hamas arms delivery

Tehran said it would “accelerate” its support for Hamas with weapons and missile-building technology after Israel allegedly deployed a spy drone over Iran.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said: “We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response.”

Iran has confirmed it supplied fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the technology for the rockets being fired relentlessly into Israel from Gaza since July 8.

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Watchman News Gonorrhoea ‘sex superbug’ in Australia

Concerns are mounting over a powerful new form of gonorrhoea after a patient was found to have the highest level of drug resistance to the disease ever reported in Australia.

It is understood the patient, a tourist from central Europe, contracted the “sex superbug” in Sydney and was eventually treated in Cairns.

The discovery of the case in Australia, which resulted in a health alert in July, has also prompted warnings in New Zealand, where sexual health clinics are on high alert amid fears the new strain will spread there.

NZ Sexual Health Society president Edward Coughlan warned the patient involved, who is believed to have left the country, had the highest level of gonorrhoea drug resistance ever reported in Australia.

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Watchman News Hypersonic Weapon Explodes Seconds Into Test

A hypersonic weapon being developed by the US military was destroyed four seconds after launch following a malfunction, the Pentagon has said.

Controllers aborted the test after detecting a problem as a rocket carried the weapon from a test range in Alaska , the Department of Defense said.

Witnesses said they saw the rocket lift off then explode.

The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is designed to travel at five times the speed of sound and destroy targets anywhere in the world within an hour of launch.

The glider-type craft will soar almost into space before diving into the atmosphere to its target, it is envisaged.

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Watchman News ‘You are all pagans and we will kill you’: Boko Haram leader claims Nigerian town is ruled by Islamic law

The leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured north-eastern town of Gwoza “by Islamic law”, in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection. His message also contained taunts for Western governments and compared democracy to incest.

The Nigerian military denied Boko Haram had taken control of the town during fighting over the past week, although security sources and some witnesses said police and military there had been pushed out.

Abubakar Shekau’s forces have killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, and are seen as the biggest security threat to the continent’s leading energy producer.

The militant leader’s often rambling videoed speeches have become a regular feature of his bid to project himself as public enemy number one in Africa’s biggest economy.

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Watchman News The robot brain to rule them all: Plans for giant ‘central knowledge server’ to power millions of machines around the world revealed

Researchers have begun work on a giant ‘robot brain’ they say could be used by millions of machines around the world.

It will be a central store for everything from images to details of how to change a plug.

Hosted on a server so any robot can access it, the system is currently downloading and processing 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.

‘Robo Brain is a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources, computer simulations, and real-life robot trials,’ the researchers behind it say.

‘It accumulates everything robotics into a comprehensive and interconnected knowledge base.’

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Watchman News Medical dilemma of ‘three-parent babies’: Fertility clinic investigates health of 17 teenagers it helped to be conceived through controversial IVF technique

A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were born as a result of a controversial IVF technique that produced the world’s first “three-parent” embryos more than 15 years ago, The Independent can reveal.

The technique – which the US government halted in 2002 – involved mixing the eggs of two women so that the resulting IVF babies inherited genetic material from three individuals in a similar process to that planned in Britain for women carrying maternally inherited mitochondrial disorders.

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Watchman News Sony hit by cyber attack that closes PlayStation Network as plane carrying top executive is diverted following bomb threat

Federal investigators in the United States were attempting on Monday to get to the bottom of a fresh cyber-based assault against the Sony Corporation on Sunday that saw a brief a shut-down of its PlayStation Network and the emergency diversion of a commercial airliner that was carrying one of its top executives.

The company said its network had been fully restored and that no customer information had been compromised in what it said had been a “large-scale” attack, which normally involves an intruder using multiple computers to overwhelm the system forcing it to shut down. Meanwhile, John Smedley, its Online Entertainment President, was safe after what appeared to be a false bomb threat against his plane.

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Watchman News Surveillance system being sold that can track mobile phones across the world

Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a mobile phone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.

The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all mobile phone networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them. Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people’s travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing documents and experts in surveillance technology.

The world’s most powerful intelligence services, such as the National Security Agency in the US and Britain’s GCHQ, have long used mobile phone data to track targets around the globe. But experts say these new systems allow less technically advanced governments to track people in any nation with relative ease and precision.

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Watchman News California passes law mandating smartphone kill switch

Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the event they are lost or stolen.

The demand is the result of a new law, signed into effect on Monday, that applies to phones manufactured after July 1, 2015, and sold in the state.

While its legal reach does not extend beyond the state’s borders, the inefficiency of producing phones solely for California means the kill switch is expected to be adopted by phone makers on handsets sold across the U.S. and around the world.

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Watchman News RET USAF General Warns of Possible 9/11/14 Coming

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” network military analyst Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney told host Uma Pemmaraju that in order to address the current threat ISIS posses, the Untied States should “go to DEFCON 1, our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11,” because he warned “we may even see a 9/11/14.”

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Watchman News Report: Suspect in Foley beheading was once rapper known as ‘L Jinny’

Assessments by Britain’s two intelligence and security agencies has led to the positive identification of the British-born jihadist who it is believed beheaded freelance journalist James Foley last week.

According to The Sunday Times, a combined investigation by MI5 and MI6 led to a terrorist nicknamed “Jihadi John” by his colleagues, a 23-year-old named Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary.

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Watchman News Nigerian town seized by Boko Haram ‘part of Islamic caliphate’, leader says

Boko Haram’s leader said a town in the north east of Nigeria seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under an Islamic caliphate, in a video obtained by AFP on Sunday.

“Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in (the town of) Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic caliphate,” Abubakar Shekau said in the 52-minute video.

The military however rejected the claim, saying in a statement the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nigerian state is still intact”.

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Watchman News State of Emergency After Northern California Shaken by Biggest Earthquake in 25 Years

Northern California was shaken awake this morning by its strongest earthquake in 25 years, a jolt that damaged historic buildings and hurt dozens of people, including a 13-year-old critically injured by a crumbling fireplace.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency after the South Napa Earthquake, which struck about 3:20 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was located about six miles south-southwest of Napa, California, and 51 miles west-southwest of the state capital, Sacramento. Officials have variously referred to the earthquake’s magnitude as 6.0 and 6.1.

The earthquake was the largest one to shake the Bay Area since the 1989 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake. Dozens of aftershocks followed.

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Watchman News US Geological Survey Reports Magnitude 7 Earthquake in Central Peru

US Geological Survey Reports Magnitude 7 Earthquake in Central Peru.

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Watchman News Tropical Storm Cristobal Moving North, Hits Parts of the Bahamas

Tropical Storm Cristobal was moving slowly northward near the southeastern Bahamas Sunday afternoon, and was expected to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to the Turks and Caicos as well as portions of the Bahamas.

According to an advisory from the National Hurricane Center late this afternoon, the storm had sustained winds at 45 mph and was moving north at 8 mph. Tropical Storm Warnings were issued late this afternoon for the central Bahamas and discontinued for southeastern portion of the Bahamas as well as the Turks and Caicos.

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Watchman News Category 5 Hurricane Marie Forecast: Dangerous Beach Conditions Possible in Southern California

Marie strengthened into the eighth hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season on Saturday morning.

Tropical Storm Marie became the 13th named storm in a busy eastern Pacific hurricane season on Friday morning after organizing into a tropical depression on Thursday night.

Located about 500 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, Marie is expected to maintain a west-northwest heading over the next five days, remaining a safe distance from the Mexican Pacific coast.

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Watchman News Invasive insect threatens iconic Florida citrus

Throughout the decades, the citrus industry has always stood strong — through freezes, hurricanes and rampant development.

But now the $9 billion industry is facing its biggest threat yet, putting at risk the state’s economy but also its very identity. Blame a mottled brown bug no bigger than a pencil eraser that carries a lethal disease.

In China, where the problem was first discovered, it’s called huanglongbing. Translation: “the yellow dragon disease.” In Florida, it’s known simply as “greening.”

It arrived here via an invasive bug called the Asian Citrus Psyllid, which carries bacteria that are left behind when the psyllid feeds on a citrus tree’s leaves. The tree continues to produce useable fruit, but eventually disease clogs the vascular system. Fruit falls, and the tree slowly dies.

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Watchman News Iceland volcano: 2 earthquakes shake Bardarbunga

Iceland lowered its aviation alert level to orange from red Sunday, saying there was no sign of an imminent eruption at the Bardarbunga volcano. And scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office said their announcement Saturday that the volcano had experienced a subglacial eruption was wrong.

However, the office cautioned in a statement that seismic activity at the volcano, which has been hit by thousands of earthquakes over the past week, was not slowing, and an eruption remained a possibility in coming days.

Two earthquakes measuring greater than 5 in magnitude — the biggest yet — shook the volcano beneath Iceland’s vast Vatnajokull glacier early Sunday. The Met Office recorded earthquakes of 5.3 and 5.1 in the early hours.

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Watchman News China hosts largest ever military drill with Russia, other SCO nations

China’s Inner Mongolia is hosting the biggest military drill ever held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The training of 7,000 servicemen from five SCO member states is set to test troops’ effectiveness in fighting terrorism.

The Peace Mission-2014 drill, being conducted from August 24 to 29 in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was declared open by Deputy Chief of Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s General Staff Wang Ning, who is supervising the military training.

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Watchman News Physicists Say Fukushima Reactors Pose Eternal Threat to Humanity

The three molten cores at Fukushima plant, each weighing a hundred tons, are so radioactive, that no one can approach them, including robots, which melt down immediately, Dr. Helen Caldicott, the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, physician and anti-nuclear advocate, states in an interview to Radio VR:

“And no one ever will, and the contamination will go on for hundreds of years,” Ms. Caldicott cites top physicists as saying.

Initially, TEPCO, the Japanese power provider wanted to erect an ice wall around the perimeter of the Fukushima complex, as ground water the underneath the reactor is absorbing radiation and then flowing into the ocean.

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Watchman News Chinese Jet Threatened U.S. Intelligence Aircraft

A Chinese jet fighter flew dangerously close to a U.S. Navy P-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft near Japan this week in an encounter that highlights China’s continued aggressiveness in the region.

The P-8, a new, militarized Boeing-737 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, was conducting routine surveillance of the Chinese coast over the East China Sea on Monday when the incident occurred, said U.S. defense officials familiar with reports of the encounter.

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Watchman News Has Ebola arrived in Ireland? Man dies after returning from Sierra Leone

The man, who is thought to have been living in Dublin, had recently returned from Sierra Leone.

Locals, who named the man as Dessie Quinn, may have been getting treatment for suspected malaria, although it is not thought that he was an inpatient at any medical facility.

It is believed that the father-of-one, who was between 43 and 45 years old, was originally from Doorin, outside the Mountcharles area, near Donegal town.

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Watchman News ‘God saved me from Ebola’

THE two American Ebola victims have been discharged from hospital with Kent Brantly saying it is a miracle that he survived the virus.

“Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary I never imagined myself in this position,” he said.

“God saved my life, the direct answer to thousands & thousands of prayers. I am forever thankful to God for saving my life.”

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Watchman News Reserve SEAL Slams WH for Releasing Info on Failed Hostage Rescue

Daniel O’Shea, a reserve Navy SEAL Officer who served as Coordinator for the Hostage Working Group at the United States’ Iraq Embassy criticized the Department of Defense and the White House for releasing details about a failed hostage rescue mission for recently murdered journalist James Foley.

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Watchman News Atlantic slows global warming with temperature rises seen resuming from 2030

The Atlantic Ocean has masked global warming this century by soaking up vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere in a shift likely to reverse from around 2030 and spur fast temperature rises, scientists said.

The theory is the latest explanation for a slowdown in the pace of warming at the Earth’s surface since about 1998 that has puzzled experts because it conflicts with rising greenhouse gas emissions, especially from emerging economies led by China.

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Watchman News Dominican Republic bans Miley Cyrus concert

ominican Republic (AP) The Dominican Republic government commission that oversees public performances is banning a Sept. 13 concert by Miley Cyrus on morality grounds.

Cyrus often “undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican law.”

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Watchman News Massive hail storm dumps on Mexico City

An intense hail storm rained on Mexico City causing floods.

The storm began late Sunday with heavy rain and quickly turned into a massive hail storm.

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Watchman News N.Korea Moves Tanks, Armored Vehicles to Chinese Border

North Korea has moved scores of tanks and armored vehicles to an Army corps near the border with China in Ryanggang Province. The 12th Corps, which was established in 2010, is tasked with responding to movements of Chinese troops in an emergency.

A source on Monday said about 80 tanks have been deployed in Ryanggang Province, where there had not been a single one before.

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Watchman News James Foley’s Parents: ‘We Know He’s In Heaven’

The father of James Foley has said that he knows his son who was beheaded by militants “is in heaven”, in an emotional tribute.

John Foley was speaking with his wife Diane and James’s brother hours after a video emerged of an Islamic State (IS) militant murdering their son.

As he did so, US President Barack Obama said that the US would continue to do what was necessary to protect its people.

With his voice cracking up and standing next to his wife Diane at their home in Rochester, New Hampshire, John Foley said: “It’s difficult to find solace at this point in time, but Jim is free. We know he’s in God’s hands and … we know he’s in heaven.

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Watchman News UKIP: Strip Islamic State militants of their British citizenship

Britain’s right-wing party UKIP have formally called for the British government to block the return of UK nationals who left British shores to fight alongside Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

In a formal statement issued on Wednesday, the party emphasized the UK government can and should strip all militants who hold dual nationality of their official UK citizenship. The coalition could also withdraw the passports of Jihadists whose sole nationality is British – while those who do not hold official UK citizenship but have been granted the right to live in Britain should have that right revoked immediately, it added.

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Watchman News ‘MH370 search data hacked’

Malaysia is investigating the alleged hacking of computers and email accounts of officials involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The hackers siphoned off classified information related to the plane a day after it disappeared on March 8, and transferred the data to a location in China, Amirudin Abdul Wahab, Cybersecurity Malaysia chief executive, was quoted as saying.

The head of the government cybersecurity agency told The Star newspaper that 30 computers belonging to those involved in the international search for the jet were infected by malware. The malware was disguised as a news article about the disappearance of the plane, and sent to ranking officials, he said. The hacked emails “contained confidential data from the officials’ computers, including minutes of meetings and classified documents”, The Star quoted Amirudin as saying.

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Watchman News Richard Dawkins: It’s immoral to allow Down’s syndrome babies to be born

Richard Dawkins, the atheist writer, has claimed it is “immoral” to allow unborn babies with Down’s syndrome to live.

The professor posted a message on Twitter saying would-be parents who learn their child has the condition have an ethical responsibility to “abort it and try again”.

His comments were dismissed by charities and prompted fury online from opponents but he insisted his stance was “very civilised” because foetuses do not have “human feelings”.

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Watchman News Poll: 60% of Dems Afraid of Being Dumped into Obamacare

A recent poll found that 60 percent of Democrats are afraid of losing their favored healthcare plans and being forced into the Obamacare exchanges. The majority also worried that Obamacare was bad for them, no matter what.

The analysis by Morning Consult found that Republicans were more worried than Democrats about losing their healthcare; nonetheless, a majority of both were worried. Independents were a little less worried than either but still represented a majority.

“Across all parties, respondents believe that the shift to health insurance exchanges will have a negative impact on the quality of health coverage,”

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Watchman News Fed minutes signal growing pressure to raise interest rates sooner

Feral Reserve officials at their last policy meeting debated an earlier-than-expected move in raising interest rates, suggesting the central bank may be shifting to a more aggressive stance in light of the recent pick-up in job growth and inflation.

Although Fed officials remain divided in their assessment of the labor market, the minutes from the last policy meeting, released Wednesday, reflected a growing acknowledgment of the recent progress in the employment situation as well as the rise in inflation.

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Watchman News Hundreds evacuated after more than 300 earthquakes herald another ash cloud

Scientists detected about 300 earthquakes in the area around the Bardarbunga volcano since Tuesday, which could herald an eruption.

The volcano, in the north-west region of Iceland’s Vatnajokull glacier, could be set to spew out a huge ash cloud.

Now more than 300 people near to the volcano have been evacuated by the national civil protection agency as a “precautionary” safety measure.

It said: “It cannot be ruled out that the seismic activity in Bardarbunga could lead to a volcanic eruption.”

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Watchman News China Secretly Conducts Second Flight Test Of New Ultra High-Speed Missile

China recently conducted the second flight test of a new, ultra-high-speed missile that is part of what analysts say is Beijing’s global system of attack weapons capable of striking the United States with nuclear warheads.

The latest test of the new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) known as Wu-14 took place Aug. 7 at a missile facility in western China, said U.S. government officials familiar with details of the test reported in internal channels.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool said when asked about the test: “We routinely monitor foreign defense activities, however we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapons systems.”

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Watchman News Exclusive: NRA launches anti-Bloomberg ad campaign

he National Rifle Association is taking aim at former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s biggest gun control advocates, in a new national ad campaign that seeks to paint the billionaire as an out-of-touch elitist.

NRA officials say the campaign, which kicks off Wednesday, is the first part of a multimillion-dollar push extending beyond November’s elections to drive up negative perceptions of the magnate among voters. They’ve dubbed the effort, “Meet the Real Michael Bloomberg.”

Bloomberg, who left office in January, announced plans this year to spend $50 million to build a grass-roots network of activists who feel strongly about reducing gun violence with a goal of beating the powerful gun rights group in political fights.

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Watchman News Iraqi Militants Threaten Revenge Attacks On US

Iraqi militants have threatened to respond to US airstrikes by attacking American targets, posting a video in which they warn: “We will drown all of you in blood.”

The message, which was accompanied by photographs of beheadings, came as Barack Obama announced Kurdish peshmerga troops, supported by US jets, had recaptured the strategically important Mosul dam.

The US president said Islamic State (IS) fighters remained “a threat to Iraq and the entire region” and said Iraqis “must reject them and unite by pushing them out of lands they have occupied”.

“They claim to represent Sunni grievances but they slaughter Sunni men, women and children,” he said, adding limited military missions would continue.

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Watchman News Islamic State message to America: ‘we will drown all of you in blood’

The Islamic State militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the first American air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has warned the United States it will attack Americans “in any place” if the raids hit its militants.

The video, which shows a photograph of an American who was beheaded during the US occupation of Iraq and victims of snipers, featured a statement which said in English “we will drown all of you in blood”.

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Watchman News Pope lifts ban on ‘left-wing’ bishop

Pope Francis has lifted a ban on the beatification of murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.

For years, the Roman Catholic Church blocked the process because of concerns that he had Marxist ideas.

An outspoken critic of the military regime during El Salvador’s bloody civil war, Archbishop Romero was shot dead while celebrating Mass in 1980.

Beatification, or declaring a person “blessed”, is the necessary prelude to full sainthood.

The bishop was one of the main proponents of Liberation Theology – an interpretation of Christian faith through the perspective of the poor.

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Watchman News American flights banned from flying to Syria

The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a flight ban to Syria and Syrian airspace on Monday.



The FAA cited threats from armed extremist groups with anti-aircraft weapons, as well as a lack of demand to fly into the region.

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Watchman News Muslim engineer banned from French nuclear sites

A Muslim engineer working for a firm subcontracted by French energy giant EDF has been banned from accessing French nuclear sites where he normally works, a move his lawyer says is “pure Islamophobia”.

The 29-year-old project manager had been granted access to nuclear installations as part of his job throughout 2012 and 2013.

But in March 2014 the engineer, who cannot be named according to French law, had his pass to enter the Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear power station revoked without explanation.

The decision, made by the local administration, was covered by “Secret Defense” – which means the authorities are not required to publicly justify the decision.

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Watchman News UFO spotted in B.C. forest fire news report

A July 17 news report on the B.C. fires has gone viral, thanks to a UFO that makes an appearance at the 37-second mark.

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Watchman News Friday August 15, 2014 – Walid Shoebat

Topic : What is driving the mad march toward World War III? Gerald Celente and Rick discuss the question. In the second half of the program, Retired U.S. Army Brig. General Douglas Lee gives Rick an update on the order to remove Gideon Bibles from U.S. Navy lodges.

Monday August 18, 2014

Trends Research Institute

Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty

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Watchman News Islamic State Executed 700 People from Syrian Tribe

The Islamic State militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human rights monitoring group and activists said on Saturday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported beheadings were used to execute many of the al-Sheitaat tribe, which is from Deir al-Zor province.

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Watchman News Yazidis say villagers massacred for refusing to adopt Islam

Up to 80 Yazidis have been reported killed by Isis (Islamic State) fighters in the biggest massacre so far of the Iraqi minority.

Kurdish and Yazidi sources reported that dozens of people in Kocho village, about 25km from Sinjar city, had been summarily executed after refusing to convert to Islam.

As the men were rounded up and shot, several hundred women and children were reportedly taken hostage.

Hoshyar Zebari, a senior Iraqi official who said he had spoken to witnesses, said the jihadists had “committed a massacre”.

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Watchman News Obama Plays Another Round of Golf Before Brief Return to D.C.

Before making a mysterious trip back to the White House on Sunday, President Barack Obama squeezed in another round of golf with Alonzo Mourning, Joe Paulsen, and aide Marvin Nicholson.

According to pool reports, Obama arrived at Farm Neck Golf Club around 1 PM, leaving him just enough time to get in a round before he interrupts his vacation to return to Washington, D.C. Obama will reportedly go bacl to Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday.

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Watchman News Zombie Survival Camp seeks to train you for an undead apocalypse

f you’re afraid of a zombie apocalypse, this camp is a no-brainer.

It’s called Zombie Survival Camp, and it shambled its way through Winnipeg, Man. this weekend to offer a three-day crash course in surviving an undead apocalypse.

Zombie Survival Camp is about more than just tying knots and building fires – it’s about life and (un)death.

The camp’s undead-fighting “experts” teach campers how to shiv a zombie, dress a bite wound and outrun a horde of the walking dead, all over the course of three days.

“Our mandate is to make Canada the most zombie-prepared nation on Earth,” fieldcraft instructor Deidter Stadnyk told CTV News on Sunday.

Stadnyk, a five-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, said campers learn more than just how to take down a zombie. They also pick up skills that are applicable to other, more likely disaster situations, like a flood or a power outage.

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