Al-Akhbar | July 3, 2014 ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) increased its grip on “Wilayat al-Raqqa”, the capital of the Islamic State. It is setting the foundation of its rule through courts, resolving disputes between civilians, and social committees serving the “Muslims” inside the...
July 3, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - RT's article, "Vaccines don’t cause autism, complications extremely rare – study," states that:
There is no evidence that immunizing vaccinations cause autism while any complications arising from their administration to...
President Obama requested $500 million from Congress on Thursday to train and equip what the White House is calling...
After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko – by thumbing his nose at the leaders of Russia, Germany and France as they repeatedly appealed to him to renew the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine – has left himself and his U.S. patrons isolated, though that’s not the version of the story that you’ll...
One of the easiest ways to confirm that there is no difference between (mainstream) Republicans and Democrats is to compare the latter’s vision of perfectible economic meddling with the former’s right-wing dreamworld of international democracy and low, low oil prices. Now, even a statement this...
UK Methodists sidestepped a proposal to “strengthen the Church’s commitment to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a peaceful and effective method to persuade the State of Israel to end its military occupation of the Palestinian territories… by applying BDS to Israel in...
There's supposed to be this huge chasm in the Maine Republican Party between the business-oriented moderates and the far right extremists (with another split in their for the Ron Paul libertarian branch). The moderates have been the home base for respectable political leaders like Senators...
Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com July 2, 2014
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Zombies will be Your Neighbors, Friends and Family who didn’t Prepare for Societal Collapse Who will Kill You for Food, Water and other Supplies when the SHTF Few people know that the CDC actually maintains a prepper blog, maintained by their Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response,...
Supposed allies fought allies today in Iraq. The Shi'ite-led government tried to arrest a Shi'ite cleric, but they only managed to have a violent clash with his followers. Meanwhile, Naqshabandiya Army militants fought with ISIS/DAASH members. Although the two militant groups have tried to...
How does the news on the Internet make you feel?
What sounds like a frivolous question, the kind you might be asked in a bar after a few drinks, is actually a profound and powerful one. If the Internet’s content can affect your feelings, the manipulation of that content can exert powerful...
Palestinian teen murdered: Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir was walking to morning prayers for Ramadan after 3 a.m. Wednesday morning when a car pulled up and a number of passengers forced him in. Police later found his burned body in a Jerusalem-area forest. Speculation that the killing was a...
House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Conaway (R-TX) -- a fine ethicist who grasps the evil of "duplicative paperwork"
"These kinds of backroom deals and changing of the rules in the middle of the night is exactly why Congress has a lower approval rating than cockroaches and traffic...
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode196 -
Hunger Games Thai Style, Van Gogh's Ear, DIY Internet
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
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♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode116 - Hold Tight which features brand new sounds from FM Belfast, Conor Oberst, Liam Bailey, Sinkane, Meshell Ndegeocello, Peter Matthew Bauer, Hamilton Leithauser, Dub Thompson, Happyness, Pete Molinari, Atmosphere, Tom Vek,...
1/2 hour of Blood rants + 1/2 Hour with Guest James Evan Pilato of www.mediamonarchy.com Conspiracy comedy….
Show gets shut down after 1st hour…….
by Judith Curry
Yet not once has overconfidence by actual scientists been demonstrated. You just keep making that up. – Chris Colose
Below is the sequence of tweets that have motivated this post:
Judith Curry @curryja Jun 28
Jay Ambrose: Climate scientist (Mann)...
When I was a child, I obsessed with socialism. It was not only because my father was a self-proclaimed socialist who read every book that a good socialist should read, but also because we lived in a refugee camp in Gaza under the harshest of conditions. Tanks roamed the dusty streets and every...
Someone-- or a few someones-- must be responsible for the rules change that allows Members of Congress to take bribes in the form of lobbyist-sponsored travel without reporting it on financial disclosure...
Bipartisan criticism of the Export-Import Bank is all the rage these days, after new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy spoke publicly about his intention to end its very existence. From the standpoint of a libertarian, the criticism and the shedding of light on such a blatant corporate welfare...
By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | July 2, 2014 For too many years, the copyright industries fought hard against the changes being wrought by the rise of the Internet and the epochal shift from analog to digital. Somewhat belatedly, most of those working in these sectors have finally accepted that this...
By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | July 2, 2014 For too many years, the copyright industries fought hard against the changes being wrought by the rise of the Internet and the epochal shift from analog to digital. Somewhat belatedly, most of those working in these sectors have finally accepted that this...
Ex-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner spoke at a 2010 government conference where Lerner’s underling Nikole Flax announced the new IRS program scrutinizing groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Both Lerner and Flax experienced “computer crashes” that led...
Ruling Lauds Intent of Legislation, But Sees It as Too Broad, Violating First Amendment
WSJ
New York’s top court struck down a law that made cyberbullying a crime, in what had been viewed as a test case of recent state and local statutes that target online speech.
The New...
By Tom Anderson | Corporate Watch | July 1, 2014 Brighton’s Ecostream store has closed down after a two year campaign of demonstrations, street actions and direct action. Ecostream issued the following statement this morning: “SodaStream confirms that the EcoStream store, located on Western Road...
By Tom Anderson | Corporate Watch | July 1, 2014 Brighton’s Ecostream store has closed down after a two year campaign of demonstrations, street actions and direct action. Ecostream issued the following statement this morning: “SodaStream confirms that the EcoStream store, located on Western Road...
Storm the Gates!
By Barry Donegan
Via Ben Swann
Ever since Janet Yellen took over as Chair of the Federal Reserve, life has changed for the other well-to-do residents of her Georgetown-area, Washington DC gated community. The Wall Street Journal notes that an armed...
http://youtu.be/Tg8riylNBrsEric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his analysis of the recent arrest of two US citizens on charges of “perpetrating hostile acts” against the country. He explains that, though the US has provided no specific information regarding what these men were doing...
As mentioned in yesterday’s post- The Ceasefire that wasn’t- Fascist Kiev continues it’s ethnic cleansing
“Putin and the Europeans could not convince Poroshenko that peace does not come through war- Because Poroshenko takes his advice from war mongers”...
Russia has demanded an investigation into claims that chemical and phosphorus weapons have been used by Ukrainian troops. People showing symptoms of chlorine poisoning were admitted to hospital following an alleged attack carried out by Ukrainian Special Forces near Slavyansk, according to...
Constantin Costa-Gavras' 1982 film, Missing, had some pretty big stars-- including Jack Lemmon, Charles Cioffi and Sissy Spacek-- and won some pretty big awards-- including the Palme d'Or at Cannes for best male actor and the Academy Award for best writing-- and had a hugely acclaimed score by...
The missing, ugly reality is that over the last 13 years, on average, one Palestinian child has been killed by Israel every 3 days. Since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, 1,523 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel's occupation forces. Over the same time period,...
Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
Ukrainian defense ministers claims 29 troops captured in southeast
A total of 29 Ukrainian troops have been captured by illegal armed groups in southeast Ukraine, Ukraine’s Acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval said.
“To date, 29...
Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
Ukrainian defense ministers claims 29 troops captured in southeast
A total of 29 Ukrainian troops have been captured by illegal armed groups in southeast Ukraine, Ukraine’s Acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval said.
“To date, 29...
GSK and it's filthy production facility in Canada kept on providing flu vaccine for human beings in Canada and the US.-Salmonella with your flu vaccine, Canada?
What other dirt has been dished up by GSK in recent years?
Found an older interesting news article- Our drugs don't work on...
1566 – Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel...
RT | July 2, 2014 Tony Blair has reportedly agreed to advise coup-appointed Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as part of a United Arab Emirates-funded program which promises lucrative “business opportunities” to those involved. Blair is set to give Sisi advise on economic reform in...
RT | July 2, 2014 Tony Blair has reportedly agreed to advise coup-appointed Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as part of a United Arab Emirates-funded program which promises lucrative “business opportunities” to those involved. Blair is set to give Sisi advise on economic reform in...
Author Wei Ling Chua has written two interesting books contrasting western government and media narratives toward China, which Chua exposes as disinformation: Democracy: What the West Can Learn from China (review) Tiananmen Square “Massacre”?: The Power of Words vs. Silent Evidence (review)....
The BRICS Post | July 2, 2014 South Korea’s senior presidential secretary said on Wednesday that visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will exchange notes on detailed measures towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during their upcoming summit...
The BRICS Post | July 2, 2014 South Korea’s senior presidential secretary said on Wednesday that visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will exchange notes on detailed measures towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during their upcoming summit...
Press TV – July 1, 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened Iran with tightened sanctions and deepened isolation as he says time is running out for a “comprehensive” nuclear agreement with Iran. In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Monday, Kerry said failure to...
Press TV – July 1, 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened Iran with tightened sanctions and deepened isolation as he says time is running out for a “comprehensive” nuclear agreement with Iran. In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Monday, Kerry said failure to...
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service | July 1, 2014 WASHINGTON — With only a few weeks remaining before the July 20 deadline, the Barack Obama administration issued a warning to Iran that it must accept deep cuts in the number of its centrifuges in order to demonstrate that its nuclear...
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service | July 1, 2014 WASHINGTON — With only a few weeks remaining before the July 20 deadline, the Barack Obama administration issued a warning to Iran that it must accept deep cuts in the number of its centrifuges in order to demonstrate that its nuclear...
UNIAN
July 2, 2014
Avakov’s counselor: More than 1000 fighters eliminated in first days after truce
Counselor of the Interior Minister of Ukraine Zoryan Schkiryak states that on July 1, on the first day of antiterrorist operation after termination of the truce in Donbass the...
UNIAN
July 2, 2014
Avakov’s counselor: More than 1000 fighters eliminated in first days after truce
Counselor of the Interior Minister of Ukraine Zoryan Schkiryak states that on July 1, on the first day of antiterrorist operation after termination of the truce in Donbass the...
Yesterday everyone was hating on poor little Belgium. It was over that ballgame in Brazil. I'm not in the Ann Coulter camp or anything, but I just don't get any more excited about soccer than I do about baseball or football or bad mitten. And Belgium… well, I have to admit, was...
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 30, 2014
Meeting with the U.S. Senate Advisors’ Delegation
Today, Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia has hosted the United States Senate Advisors’ Delegation. At the meeting with the Senate Military Committee representatives...
