Interceptor Missiles: NATO’s Top Military Commander In Turkey
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Force Africa
May 18, 2015
Breedlove visits NATO forces in Turkey
By Airman 1st Class Cory W. Bush
39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Force Africa
May 18, 2015
Breedlove visits NATO forces in Turkey
By Airman 1st Class Cory W. Bush
39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Force Africa
May 19, 2015
A-10s, Airmen deploy to Slovakia as part of TSP
By Senior Airman Dylan Nuckolls
52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs
Ukrinform
May 19, 2015
More than 47,000 soldiers already receive status of combatant
KYIV. 47,406 military soldiers, who have participated in the anti-terrorist operation, have already received the status of combatant.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Petro Mehed said this at a briefing in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
Ukrinform
May 19, 2015
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry asks for another 7.7 bln
KYIV: The Defense Ministry of Ukraine has appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with the request to provide additional funding in the amount of UAH 7.7 billion in 2015.
Xinhua News Agency
May 19, 2015
NATO to help Libya with defense capacity-building
BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO was ready to help Libya build it’s defense capacity when conditions allowed for it.
He made the remarks before attending a European Union (EU) foreign affairs meeting during which EU ministers were to discuss intervening in human smugglers’ attempts to pirate people across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya.
Xinhua News Agency
May 19, 2015
Bulgarian defense minister calls for raised budgets amid “real challenges”
SOFIA: Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev here on Tuesday said he wanted more money to develop the rapid defense capabilities of the country’s armed forces amid “real challenges” from the east and south.
The dangerous underfunding of US infrastructure was underscored by a fatal train derailment on May 12th. The tragedy did not deter the House Appropriations Committee from voting to slash Amtrak funding the very next day. There are ways Congress could fund its massive infrastructure bill without raising taxes. But the conservative-controlled Congress seems to have other plans for the nation’s profitable public assets.
by Judith Curry
Do we have the resources (from, say, economics or ethics) to answer these sorts of questions?
U.S. Department of Defense
May 18, 2015
NATO Allies U.S., Bularia Demonstrate Capabilities in Eastern Europe
By Terri Moon Cronk
WASHINGTON: U.S. and Bulgarian military personnel began an exercise today in the host country of Romania, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters today.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Sidney Lanier: Selections on war
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Sidney Lanier
From Tiger-Lilies (1867)
Those claims that Monsanto made – that glyphosate was harmless to humans – well, the company is about to pay for that ‘false advertising’ in the form of a class action lawsuit put forth by the offices of T. Matthew Phillips in Los Angeles, California.
In the lawsuit filed in California, Monsanto is accused of:
The deliberate falsification to conceal the fact that glyphosate is harmful to humans and animals.
Want proof that our representatives are likely taking handouts from Syngenta, Bayer, and other Big Ag makers of bee and butterfly killing neonicotinoids? Elected representative Rodney Davis of Illinois, who also happens to be the bee health committee chairman appointed to study pesticide and herbicide connections to colony collapse disorder, is singing the praises of neonicotinoids (neonics).
(Natural Society) A turtle recently received a new 3D printed jaw that will allow it to eat on its own again – just one example of how this new technology will change life as we know it.
A study from Microsoft involving more than 2,000 people has found that the average attention span has dipped to a low 8 seconds – down from 12 seconds in 2000. A goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds.
There are many effects from smartphones and the like on the human body which are never written about. Information technology (IT) is much more powerful in unrecognized ways than is generally acknowledged.
Although many in the United Kingdom thought that the Conservative Party would ultimately lose control of the government to a coalition of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party in the recent election, Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservatives won an outright majority of seats in parliament and will be stronger than in […]
Amid the 1948 war that would establish the State of Israel and dispossess the Palestinians (celebrated by Israel as its War of Independence and mourned by Palestinians as al Nakba, or “the catastrophe”), the great German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt warned that a Jewish state established in this way would “degenerate” into a “Sparta.” She […]
Today, 40 years after the American war in Vietnam ended in ignominious defeat, the traces of that terrible conflict are disappearing. Traveling through Vietnam during the latter half of April 2015 with a group of erstwhile antiwar activists, I was struck by the transformation of what was once an impoverished, war-devastated peasant society into a […]
The NFL is accepting your tax money to promote patriotism and nationalism at the beginning of football games. Seymour Hersh is back to say the government is wrong, kind of. Osama Bin Laden is dead, …
On Monday, Shi’ite militias were gathering at the Habaniya military base, ahead of an assault on Ramadi. At least 55 were killed and five more were wounded.
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo26-lq.mp3"][/audio]Satire? Farce? Romance? Comedy? Documentary? Dream? Mundane reality? A subversive critique of the system, or merely more predictive programming of an inescapable tyranny? Join us on this month's edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order as we attempt to answer the deceptively simple question: What is "Brazil"?
I've posted a piece on last night's Mad Men finale, and the experience of watching it as part of an audience of enthusiasts, on my Sunday Classics blog. -- Ken#
Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Chile, Finland all provide free college educations for qualified students. That's socially very healthy and encourages an egalitarian society. Free college education for all Americans shouldn't be looked at as a unicorn and, in fact, Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in the Senate this morning that would do just that-- and more.
Ed Opperman, host of The Opperman Report discusses the Jeffrey Epstein case and its wider implications. We discuss elite pedophilia, blackmail-as-statecraft, the apparent connections between the Occult and the various intelligence agencies.
Gilad Atzmon is a British jazz artist and author born in Israel and trained in composition and jazz at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem. He is a member of the Blockheads, founded the Orient House Ensemble in London, and has recorded and performed with many rock music legends. Gilad also writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity and culture.
On this episode Christoph and I discuss several recent Gladio B revelations from Russia, China and even Kyrgyzstan. First we update listeners on the Boris Nemstov assassination investigation. We discuss how the case has hit a brick wall in terms of suspects and progress. We explain how the main suspect, Zaur Dadev, has recanted almost his entire story. We also discuss how alleged ringleader Ruslan Geremeev has vanished from Russia and is most likely hiding out in Dubai. We then move onto our first Gladio B story with the recent “revelation” from Putin that the FSB has intercepted commu
RadioWHO #6 | Shawn Carrie, a journalist based in New York, shares his story of covering the Baltimore riots and being shot in the head by a police pepperball and then arrested and held without charge. Carrie recounts how Baltimore police were quick to remind him that under a State of Emergency your rights "go out the window."
Federal appeals court finally declares the obvious: bulk collection of phone records is illegal, but Mitch McConnell is oblivious….
--media promotes false narrative that Congress is making real reforms to domestic surveillance
--McConnell gets desperate, says full renewal of Patriot Act is needed so US doesn’t “go dark”
--new poll shows broad bipartisan support for surveillance reform
--Senate Dems showed moment of promise, as all but one Dem voted against TPP cloture vote—then most flipped in less than 24 hours after pressure from Obama
*Tim Anderson graphic
Interesting FB discussion, prompted by Eric Draitser (StopImperialism.com ) sharing an article [Syrian Regime is Going Down in Flames] and asking, particularly from Syrians, for feedback. He gave his own critque of the artilce afterwards.
332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131) Born
Here’s what he said on SNL. “Child molesters are very tenacious people,” he began. “They love molesting childs. It’s crazy. It’s like their favorite thing. When you consider the risk of being a child molester — there is no worse life available to a human than being a caught child molester. And yet they still do it! Which you could only really surmise, that it must be really good.”
I've wanted to get this post up since I left the comment below here:PennyMay 12, 2015 at 3:59 AM
by Ali Abunimah The Electonic Intifada
Thousands of young Israelis, many of them children, rampaged through the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday chanting “Death to the Arabs” and other racist and anti-Muslim slogans.
Some attacked bystanders and journalists and banged on the shutters of Palestinian stores that had been ordered to close at midday.
The Grexit. Will it happen? Is it possible? The writer of this oped presents a case in which the EU traps Greece within it's structure and by virtue of it's edicts forces Greece's Syriza government to deliver more misery to the Greek people.(I beg to differ, there are always ways around the banking tyranny) How Greece will be trapped inside the euro
May 18, 2015, Counter Punch
-Eric Draitser
If there was one race that indicated that the 2010 midterm GOP sweep was a sign of the end times, it was the fact that Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold had been unseated by a Tea Partying cretin by the name of Ron Johnson.
CalebMaupin.info
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is mercilessly slaughtering people
in Yemen, has absolutely no right to inspect this vessel. Neither does
the United States of America or Israel. The Iranian government has
made that absolutely clear, and all of us in the delegation of peace
activists from Germany, France, and the United States absolutely agree
with this decision.
Editors may believe that negative news sells, but Denise Baden’s research indicates that it is having adverse effects on our wellbeing. This is an ethical issue, she says, and suggests that more constructive reporting could present a solution
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Maritime Command
May 18, 2015
NATO Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise Concludes
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Thursday May 15th , ships, submarines, and maritime patrol aircraft successfully completed the annual NATO anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Exercise DYNAMIC MONGOOSE, in which 10 Allied nations participated alongside partner nation Sweden.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
May 18, 2015
Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prior to the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in the format of Ministers of Defence and Ministers of Foreign Affairs
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talking to the media prior to the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in the format of Ministers of Defence and Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Good morning.
I’m glad to be back at the European Council.
by Judith Curry
When did the EPA become our Nation’s energy regulator? When did the EPA acquire both the statutory mandate from Congress and the required subject-matter expertise to do FERC’s and the States’ jobs? When did the EPA gain the expertise to determine the optimal and most reliable mix of coal and natural gas power plants? When did the EPA acquire the expertise to determine how much power can (or should) be reliably generated using wind farms and solar arrays? – Forbes
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Ellen Glasgow: Selections on war
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Ellen Glasgow
From The Battle Ground (1902)
As said by Dr. Jesse Henley, pesticides kill pests by damaging their cellular structure. Though pesticides, fungicides, growth regulators, and herbicides were meant to control how a plant grows, there is no doubt that they affect us too – and we are using more pesticides and herbicides than ever.
Strangely, these chemicals aren’t destroying pests – they are likely destroying us.
A formal letter to the United States Department of Agriculture reports that scientists are being harassed and their research on bee-killing pesticides is being censored or suppressed by the Monsanto-infiltrated agency (the USDA). Surprised, anyone?
You may not know it until you try it, but meditation or yoga can bring about some amazing health benefits. One recent study even shows how meditation can actually help with the gut disorders, irritable bowel syndrome and irritable bowel disease, by altering genetic signals.
“Countless celebrities are wearing shapewear in their selfies, but what does it to do our bodies long term?”