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Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook has begrudgingly admitted that terrorist groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra are one and the same. In reply to persistent questions from reporters at a Pentagon press briefing, as to whether the two terrorist groups that are being targeted by the U.S. are somehow distinct from one another, Cook gave up and said: “Yeah, ok, ok! Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda are one and the same! There I said it.” Russia Insider reports: Well what do you know.

The FOMC minutes from the uberdovish March meeting were just released. Here are the highlights:

By Dana Lyons of My401kPro.com

In terms of global reach, the post-February equity rally has been a fairly broad advance. Some markets, most notably the U.S., have resumed their former relative strength while other regions, like emerging markets and Latin America, have seen strong mean-reversion bounces from very oversold levels, One region conspicuously lagging during this rally, however, has been Europe.

US among world leaders in death penalty, surpassed only by Saudi, Iran & Pakistan – Amnesty

Americans Seem To Love Killing As Long As Government Does It

Actually the US is far ahead of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. The US has spent the entire
21st century killing huge numbers of people in seven or eight countries.

https://www.rt.com/news/338625-amnesty-report-executions-injections/

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US military bases that are stationed in Japan will not be relocated “within the foreseeable future” since the island country still needs security backing from the United States,  the Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe has claimed In an interview with the WSJ, published on Tuesday, Abe said: “I cannot conceive of any situation within the foreseeable future when the US presence wouldn’t be necessary” RT reports: The statement came in response to a question on the possibility of the withdrawal of American troops from Japan – a move recently proposed by Republican presidential front-runner Donal