How about the “fact checkers” and apologists look into why the White Helmets recycled an image claiming to show a victim of “Russian airstrikes” after having previously used the same image before Russia even began bombing ISIS in Syria.
Massachusetts and New Jersey are currently considering “millionaires’ taxes,” which would significantly increase top rates and spark a “race to the top” for revenue at a time when the federal government is actively lowering rates.
On Friday, while the Senate was trying too figure out how to not shut down the government, the House voted to table-- like in kill-- another impeachment resolution. Just so we're all on the same page here, a vote to impeach Trumpanzee is not the same as removing him from office. It just begins the process with hearings and an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee. Why would anyone deny that is warranted.
Coverage of Ahed Tamimi obscures Israeli violence and occupation Gregory Shupak | FAIR | January 17, 2018 Israeli soldiers shot 14-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Tamimi point-blank in the face with a rubber-jacketed bullet on December 14, 2017, in Nabi Saleh, a small village in the occupied West Bank. The boy had to undergo six hours of […]
Sputnik – 20.01.2018 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the United States was ignoring the objective evidence of chemical weapons’ use by terrorists in Syria, targeted against the civilian population and the country’s government troops. The ministry went on by saying that the US attempts to blame the Syrian government for the use of chemical […]
January 20, 2018 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call "primacy" over Asia.US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China's borders and along China's geopolitical peripheries to divide and destabilize the immense
January 20, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Syrian government with support from its Russian, Iranian, and Lebanese allies has embarked on a major military operation to retake parts of Syria's northern governorate of Idlib.
People are arguing that the system needs a bit of grease to work better. Tyler Cowen suggests that earmarks are cheap compared to potential alternatives like new entitlements. But won't the existence of earmarks seduce members of Congress into supporting higher overall levels of spending?
By Canadian Union of Public Employees / Socialist Project.
The collapse of Carillion, a global privatization corporation, illustrates the risky nature of public-private partnerships (P3s) and contracting out. Carillion is involved in 10 P3s across Canada, primarily in hospitals in Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. Two hospitals are still in development.
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Qatar airbrushed from map in UAE / Credit: Simon Henderson
Prominent US constitutional lawyer and scholar Alan M. Dershowitz raised eyebrows when he described Qatar as “the Israel of the Gulf states.”
From mass shootings to terrorism, shame and humiliation underlie most acts of extreme violence. Understanding this may be the key to defeating extremism and crime before it even begins.
One does not need to have grown up in the age of “duck and cover” to understand that the nuclear scare that we are now experiencing could have been inspired from the script of Dr. Strangelove, written by of Stanley Kubrick as a black comedy that reflected the reality of nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released 1964, the film’s plot caused a good deal of controversy because it was too close to what could have been reality.
What effects did restrictive late-19th-century trade policies in the United States have on industrialization in the US?
By Helena Cobban | Just World News | January 18, 2018 This week, US media have contained many glowing obituaries of a 91-year-old medical researcher called Mathilde Krim, who in the early 1980s played an apparently huge role in publicizing and destigmatizing the then-new disease of HIV/AIDS and in mobilizing funding for NGOs and research […]
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On Jan 19th, US Defense Secretary James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis rolled out what appears to be a ‘blank cheque’ US defense strategy, complete with all the bold platitudes and promises of ‘greater security’ for America. But how in-tune with reality are defense ‘experts’? Is the NDS anything more than a Christmas ‘wish-list’ for US defense contractors?
As reported on RussiaFeed.com
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin marked the celebration of Theophany (sometimes called “Epiphany” in the West) in the usual way – by immersing himself in freezing cold water in Lake Seliger at a monastery near Tver, some 200 miles north of Moscow.
Last weeks news of the FISA memo was a bombshell that appears to connect all the dots behind the real US election collusion of 2016.
The real collusion appear to have taken place between the Obama White House, the FBI, the DOJ, and the Clinton campaign in na effort to sabotage presidential candidate Trump.
GOP Reps are now demanding the FISA memo be made public stating that Americans deserve to know the truth about the Russia investigation.
In a previous piece we reported the outgoing Arizona Republican Senator (and Never Trumper) Jeff Flake giving a 14 minute speech to an all-but empty Senate floor. This speech was attended by all of two – yes, only two Senators, both of them not big Trump fans, either, these two being Dick Durbin and Amy Klobuchar.
However, the good Senator lied. What is particularly sad about this is that he lied while giving a speech that was about truthfulness.
Most media covering the speech that US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, gave at the Hoover Institution on January 17, 2018 merely points out that he said that the United States would stay in Syria – open-ended – in the future and until President Bashar al-Assad has left the scene. Read the full speech here.
The co-founder of PR smear machine Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, stated in testimony that it “makes sense” to him that the FBI paid for a trip to Rome by the former British spy who was contracted by Simpson’s company to produce the discredited “Trump dossier”.
If verified, then this is yet another nail in the coffin of the Mueller Russia investigation, and more proof that the real collusion taking place was between the Obama White House, the FBI, the DOJ, and the Clinton campaign in na effort to sabotage presidential candidate Trump.
Prohibition still faces a legal challenge from Monsanto
This article - a review, really, of the history of blockchain - was shared by Ms. K. M., and I thought I'd pass it…
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While I've not blogged much about this subject, I have hinted from time to time that the next bottle of snake oil to come…
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As most regular readers here are aware, I'm not on the crypto-currency bandwagon. Indeed, I've been struck by the impression that for many people,…
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Twitter sent out an email to users letting them know that the platform is actively working to understand “Russian-linked activities” that took place during the 2016 presidential election.
Twitter claims they have identified and suspended a “number of accounts that were potentially connected to propaganda efforts by a Russian government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency [IRA]“.
This US-Saudi support of jihadists, in order to topple allies of Russia’s Government, and ultimately even to overthrow Russia’s Government itself, continues till the present day, under US President Donald Trump.
Facebook will start ranking news outlets in an new initiative to tackle “fake news” and promote “reputable” pages to FB users.
According to The Gateway Pundit, anyone who knows how the leftist hordes operate on social media knows this is the end of conservative news on Facebook.
Fox Business News has more on FB’s latest foray into censorship and information omission…
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India conducted a successful test of its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a nuclear-capable Agni-5, on Thursday, underscoring a potential threat to China as well as Pakistan.
This was predictable. The Duran has been stating now for over a year that Turkey’s Erdogan would never allow the Kurds to set up any sort of state, quasi-state, or (as Rex Tillerson outlined last week) a “Border Security Force” made up of Kurdish fighters.
The a Kurdish presence south of Turkey is a threat to Turkey’s very existence as a nation state. Erdogan will have no choice but to crush America’s BSF forces.
The question on Pat Buchanan’s mind is what will the US reaction be?
Kosovo will not be asked to fulfill any conditions beyond conducting a cosmetic investigation of Oliver Ivanović’s murder, which will yield no tangible results. Pressure, however, will be on Serbia to disregard the outrage as quickly as possible and go back to "business as usual."
-by NoahFirst, let me, as Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon liked to say, make something perfectly clear: By posting this meme as a Midnight Meme Of The Day!, I am not fat-shaming Señor Trumpanzee. Definitely not. No way. Instead, I am, as I always do, Asshole Shaming him. Got it?Trump, a fat-shamer himself, knows he is obese. What's more, he is ashamed of his obsesity.
Yes, the blockchain is truly revolutionary. Yes, bitcoin is Tulipmania 2.0. Yes, cryptocurrency is a nail in the coffin of the bankster parasites. Yes, digital currency is a tool of the totalitarian tyrants. No, these statements are not contradictory. But don’t worry if you think they are. You’re just a victim of "The Bitcoin Psyop."
Seconde revue de l’année avec, à l’occasion de deux émissions entendues fortuitement et qui se répondaient à distance, un point sur le débat Islam/Laïcité/Immigration réunies sous le thème Réflexion. Côté droit (Raffarin, Institut Montaigne), Hakim El Karaoui, côté gauche (Jospin, PS avant droitisation), Patrick Weil, duquel nous avons ajouté un entretien publié sur le site nonfiction.fr en 2016.
Incoming! Incoming! Uh . . . pardon me while I interrupt this false alarm to quote Martin Luther King: “Science investigates,” he says in The Strength To Love, “religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The … Continue reading "Nuclear Annihilation and the Wisdom of Mass Salvation"
When I first met Yasser Arafat in besieged Beirut, in the summer of 1982, Abu Mazen was not present. But when I met him again in Tunis, a few months later, he asked me to meet Abu Mazen, too. Abu Mazen, it transpired, was the Fatah leader in charge of Israeli matters. My first impression … Continue reading "Mahmoud Abbas’s Strategy of Patience"
Intéressante conférence de Paul Jorion…
Ça se passait à la Cité des Sciences à Paris le 14 novembre.
-by Helen KleinIt is rather surprising that “The Physical” is not getting more attention in the media. The lack of mention in the New York Times is particularly troubling and disappointing.Trump recently had his first annual physical by Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, Navy Rear Admiral. When I saw a brief clip of the doctor’s presentation of his findings on MSNBC, I was surprised and struck by his manner and wording, which seemed weird and veered off toward inappropriate and unprofessional. He was gushing with praise and positivity for Trump and he was rather loose with his words.
Four children were wounded when they came across old explosives.
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Folks, there's a new interview, a panel discussion between Daniel Liszt (Dark Journalist), Alexandra Bruce, Walter Bosley, and me in the members' area.…
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Source : Le Monde, 13.12.2017
« Je peux contrôler ce que font mes enfants, et ils ne sont pas autorisés à utiliser cette merde ! » C’est un discours sévère qu’a tenu, en novembre, un ancien cadre de Facebook à l’encontre des réseaux sociaux en général, et de l’entreprise de Mark Zuckerberg en particulier.
