The truth is that outside Israel, Washington, D.C. and various other Zionist strongholds, David Harris’s worldview is crumbling. And, as the numbers of those who share his viewpoint shrinks, other counter-groups, such as the boycott Israel movement, grow in number. Sooner or later a tipping point will be reached and then things will change and probably do so rapidly. On that day what will David Harris do? Blame it all on anti-Semitism? Take residence at the top of Masada?

Israel claims that its recent invasion and destruction of Gaza civilians, infrastructure, and society, being only one in an extremely long list of others we must remember, is a just action necessary to protect its citizens from rockets emanating from Hamas militants, “If Hamas does not allow Israelis to live in peace, and then we too will be forced to carry out actions that we don’t fundamentally wish to perform, and that are not our primary goal,” saidIsrael’s Minister

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | July 27, 2014 As nuclear-armed America hurtles into a completely avoidable crash with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, you can now see the dangers of “information warfare” when facts give way to propaganda and the press fails to act as an impartial arbiter. In this sorry affair, one of […]

Substance abuser and New Dem Petey-Pie lets his hair downI don't think even someone as astoundingly incompetent as Steve Israel could lose CA-31-- the Inland Empire congressional district-- for the Democrats again this year, despite having maneuvered to get an ethics-free, corrupt ex-lobbyist,  Pete Aguilar, the nomination.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, with 49 countries having a predominantly Muslim population. Of these countries, 4 have been bombed by Israel, and 4 have been bombed by the US this year alone.

Here are the four countries bombed by Israel in 2014

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 138.  This is my appearance on the most recent episode (376) of Ben Stone’s Bad Quaker podcast, Recorded July 16, 2014, posted July 27, 2014. From his description page: “Stephan Kinsella and Ben Stone have a chat about getting even, property rights, and how many libertarians can dance on the head of a pin. […]

There are quite a few of them but the ones progressives have a stake in, in chronological order, are Hawaii (August 9), Wisconsin (August 12), and then a late super-Tuesday on August 26 for Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma. That same day has primaries in Alaska, Missouri, Oregon and Vermont with interesting races but no races that pit a progressive against a shill from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.Up top is the brand new video from one of the most grassroots campaigns anywhere, the Tom Guild campaign for the open Oklahoma City congressional seat.

By Judith Curry | July 27, 2013 My, the Cook et al. 97% consensus paper is a gift to the climate blogosphere that keeps on giving.  Some insightful new posts provide fodder for additional discussion on this. Ben Pile Ben Pile has a new post Tom Curtis doesn’t understand the 97% paper.  Here are a […]

“Operation Protective Edge”The ongoing holocaust against the PalestiniansPalestinians helped a survivor after Israelis bombed his home in Gaza City on Sunday, July 27.The remans of the home of a Palestinian Christian woman, Jalila Ayyad, which was was bombe

After becoming Director of the CIA (DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh, Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar’s home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the Agency.

…and they were calling for a Free Gaza, Free Palestine.
100% Free…no pathetic smoke-and-mirrors, Swiss-cheese “Two State solution”.

By Michael S. Rozeff | LewRockwell.com | July 26, 2014 According to the Congressional Budget Office, “Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance. Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in […]

By Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute | July 26, 2014 One month ago today, President Obama was congratulating Libya on a “milestone” election — even though the disintegration of the country after the 2011 US invasion was ongoing. Said Obama in June: I congratulate the Libyan people on the conclusion of the elections for […]

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode197 - ISIS In Iraq, Bergdahl Biopic, My Little @Dronie 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.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode120 - Repeat Pleasure which features brand new sounds from How To Dress Well, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Bobby Patterson,

It is Sunday… I am back from a much needed vacation… And it is time to get back to my weekly rants…First of course, I do again want to thank my great friend, Whitewraithe, for her efforts in putting up rants for me over the last two weeks… I did read them and I found them to be both outstanding and in many ways better than some of my own!!!  The lady does know how to write beautifully, and she is a brilliant thinker….

Princess Ida's three "hulking brothers" are bested by Prince Hilarion and his friends Cyril and Florian in Act III of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Princess Ida.

RT | July 27, 2014 Inspectors who came to check the state of Russian troops along the Ukrainian borders have found no violations, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. This came as a response to the US alleging 15,000 Russian troops have amassed in the area. “It has come to our attention that new allegations by […]

by Judith Curry
An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change.  

I’ve written several previous posts about the Cook et al. paper Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature.   See my previous posts on the paper:

By Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice | July 26, 2014 Today in London crowds are gathering to vent their anger in a mass demonstration and march to Parliament to “stop the massacre in Gaza” and call for an arms embargo against Israel. This follows last weekend’s huge protest outside the Israeli embassy and campaigns against […]

By Alison Weir | July 26, 2014 Following are a few short questions for the New York Times in regard to a recent news report: 1. When are you going to cover the killing of Palestinians the same way you cover the killing of Israelis? Israel’s killing of at least 8 civilians in one day was […]

Almost every Senate Republican-- even extremist obstructionists like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Richard Burr-- followed Bernie Sanders' lead last month to pass a bill to address the sordid situation at the V.A. It passed 93-3 with the only dissections from mentally unstable right-wingers Ron Johnson (R-WI), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-KKK) and Bob Corker (R-TN).The House Republicans can't quite get their shit together on the whole V.A.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
July 25, 2014
Third Phase of NATO PDP Program Launched

NATO-Georgia Professional Development Programme (PDP) has moved to a new phase. Starting of a new stage of the PDP program has been solemnly marked today. Deputy Minister of Defence Tamar Karosanidze attended the event. She addressed the audience and stressed importance of the program.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
July 22, 2014
German delegation visits General Staff

The delegation of German Armed Forces Command and General Staff College pays a three -day working visit to Georgia. The German guests visit Georgia in frames of 2014 Bilateral Cooperation Plan between Georgian and German Defence Ministries.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erckmann-Chatrian
The Story of the Plebiscite
Told By One of the Seven Million Who Voted “Yes” (1872)
Translator unknown

International Solidarity Movement | July 27, 2014 Huwwara, Occupied Palestine – On Friday, July 25, an Israeli settler murdered a Palestinian teenager in the village of Huwwara, which lies approximately 10 km south of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Two hours later, an Israeli sniper killed another Palestinian teenager in the […]

Ma’an – July 27, 2014 BETHLEHEM – A draft of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal that was shown to Israeli officials on Friday called for the opening of Gaza-Israel border crossings and ensuring “the economic livelihood” of Palestinians in the Strip, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. The document, titled “Framework for Humanitarian […]

July 27, 2014 (Eric Draitser - NEO) - The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 (MH17) is a tragedy that will be remembered for years to come. However, the way in which the West has distorted the facts about what happened is no mere accident.

July 27, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - RT's article, "90% of aircraft destroyed at Tripoli airport, Libya may seek international assistance," reported that:

Image above: The ruins of the Palestinian village of Najed in the western Negev of Israel.  The  Palestinian villagers of Najd were expelled  and  herded to the Gaza Strip by soldiers from the Jewish Negev Brigade on 12–13 May, 1948 .  The Israeli city of Sderot was founded in 1951 on village land, a few miles to the south of the village site, while Or HaNer was founded in 1957 also on village land, to the northeast.

Face of Demented Zionism yet Again Revealed: Will Americans Keep Funding It? 
By Franklin Lamb
Almanar News
July 23, 2014
Images and captions added by Color Revolutions and Geopolitics

Franklin Lamb

The “up and coming” well-known and much admired
Israeli politician and parliament member Ayelet Shaked of the
ultra-nationalist Jewish Home [political party] has again branded

The whole purpose of the vote Friday afternoon was, euphemistically called the Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014-- and sponsored by 4 corporate shills, Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Devin Nunes of California and Tom Reed of New York-- was to expand tax credits for wealthy families while leaving kids from poor families behind, standard operating procedure for Republicans, of course.

At least 312 people were killed today, mostly militants. However, morgue officials in Baghdad suggest the casualty figures are much higher. Also, a senior Sunni politician may have been arrested today. At least 56 were wounded.

By Jonathon Cook | The Blog from Nazareth | July 26, 2014 Here’s a hugely significant story that I suspect will get almost no play outside Palestinian solidarity sites. Mickey Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, has told BBC reporter Jon Donnison that there are no grounds for believing Hamas ordered the abduction of three Israeli […]

"Here it comes -- blame the mother!" Jennifer's psychiatrist (Kurt Fuller) tries to conduct a repeat session with his patient, Jennifer (Jaime Pressly), and her family -- psychologist mom Maggie (Jessica Walters), brother Wayne (Ethan Suplee), sister-in-law Stephanie (Nora Kirkpatrick), and, ever so briefly, daughter Gretchen (Dylan Gelula), in last week's episode of Jennifer Falls, "Three Dates With My Mother."by KenThe problem with trying to write a regular "TV Watch" feature is that the powers that be seem determined to make sure they're dishing out next to nothing worth writing about.

The slaughter in Gaza continues…. Right now we are approaching the end of a "ceasefire" that will indeed see Israel continue their onslaught on the innocent people of Gaza using US made and US taxpayer bought and paid for weapons of mass destruction…. The death toll so far is well over "1000" including hundreds of innocent women and children, and I have long claimed that due to the population density of the Gaza Strip itself the actual death toll is actually over 20x the reported figure..

 “We have spoken to Israel for more than 18 years and the result has been zero. We have signed agreements here and there at various times and then when there is a change in the government of Israel we have to start again from the beginning. We ask for our life and to be given back our Jerusalem, to be given our state and for enough water to drink. We want to be given more opportunity to reach Jerusalem. I have not seen Jerusalem since 1990.

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio July 26, 2014 [download audio]

Australia’s ahead of Canada, in getting its first explicitly libertarian parliamentarian — Senator David Leyonhjelm. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given Australia’s high Economic Freedom Index rating for several years in a row by the Heritage Foundation, with its 2014 rating of third place compared to Canada in sixth place and the […]

Yes, the death toll in the criminal and homicidal Israeli assault on the innocent people of Gaza is now well above "1000" as reported by the Jew spew press… In my last night discussion with Whitewraithe, I laid it out clearly that since Gaza is so heavily packed with people almost wall to wall, I said that the death toll is actually right now in the tens of thousands.

Yes, I have been keeping track of the Israeli massacre and genocide of the innocent people of Gaza.  It is astounding that the world's so called "media" continues to portray this assault and genocide as Israel's laughably parroted statements that it needs to "defend itself against Hama "rocket attacks"".   It is sad and sick to see thousands and possibly tens of thousands of people being slaughtered by these criminals that are nothing more than monsters….I was sent a very short video just the other day by a friend that asked me to watch it and to give him my impressions….

On his July 23, 2014 Real World of Money appearance on One Radio Network with Patrick Timpone, currency historian and financial analyst, Andy Gause, implied that there’s nothing to World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes’ claims about 50-year gold-backed bonds (starting at 14m). Audio here: Timpone: “We had Karen Hudes, the World Bank whistleblower, she was […]

 
Image above: Khaled Kana’n 13 years old arrested by IOF.
 

For over a year, John Cook and the University of Queensland have repeatedly refused Richard Tol’s requests for information on rater ID and timestamps for the SKS ratings for Cook et al 2013. Recently there have been two events that shed new light on the dispute. First, in mid-May Brandon Shollenberger located the requested information online without password protection, which he placed online a few days ago.

If you''ve been following the narrative over the last couple of weeks here at DWT you may have figured out that my new favorite book-- after Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance-- has been The Invisible Bridge by historian Rick Perlstein. Maybe I'm so fascinated by it because I was living overseas for so much of the time he was writing about-- having felt living in a Nixon-led America not compatible with my personal sense of dignity or honor.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
July 25, 2014
DSACEUR GENERAL SIR ADRIAN BRADSHAW MEETS WITH HUNGARIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Nathanael West: One live recruit is better than a dozen dead veterans
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Nathanael West

By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | July 26, 2014 From military hardware to counternarcotics operations, the United States has invested billions of dollars in Afghanistan to rebuild, if not reshape, the war-torn country. Much of this investment has proved ineffective, and the failings of American policy now include a misguided effort involving soybeans. Four years […]

Palestinians have done it all. We choose resistance, always, in all its forms. We resist because it is our right. Because we are the indigenous people of the land and we have nowhere else to go or belong. Because our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and on and on are buried in this soil. Because we are right and our cause is just.  We resist passively and actively. We resist violently and non-violently.