#MorningMonarchy: December 16, 2016
Disputed news, semiotic 'Silence' and 8-bit maestros + this day in history w/"New World Symphony" and our song of the day by Justice on your Morning Monarchy for December 16, 2016.
Disputed news, semiotic 'Silence' and 8-bit maestros + this day in history w/"New World Symphony" and our song of the day by Justice on your Morning Monarchy for December 16, 2016.
Syrian Arab Army soldier helps an elderly civilian to collect her belongings from her ruined home in Sheikh Saeed, liberated the day before from Nusra Front aka Al Qaeda occupation. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley 12/12/2016)
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RT | December 16, 2016 The chairman of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has slammed the CIA’s refusal to brief Congress on allegations of Russian hacking. “It is disappointing that the CIA would provide information on this issue to the Washington Post and NBC but will not provide information to elected […]
Civilians who have escaped from Nusra Front occupied East Aleppo receive food and medical care from Syrian State and Russian medics at Jibreen registration centre. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley 13/12/2016)
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Exclusive: The plight of working-class white Americans, as their jobs have disappeared and self-destructive behavior has shortened their lives, helps explain Donald Trump’s success, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall The shocking new report that U.S. life expectancy declined…Read more →
The back story behind the CIA’s leaked claim of Russia helping Donald Trump is an attempt to hobble Trump’s less-hawkish foreign policy before he even gets into the White House, says ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. By Alastair Crooke It is…Read more →
It is difficult to look at the situation in Aleppo and not see it in a broader context. Not only of Syria, but of Libya, the past several years, and of the entire region. And of international affairs in general. We probably shouldn’t; we should probably view different situations entirely in their own light. But I can’t […]
In this episode, I deconstruct the hidden meaning behind the multi-billion dollar franchise, The Hunger Games. From Agenda 21 and the United Nations, to gladiatorial human sacrifice, the dystopian pheonomenon of The Hunger Games and girlpower heroine Katniss signify more than is apparent on the surface.
We’re shut out now. There hasn’t been an op-ed in The New York Times or Washington Post editorial pages arguing that the United States is at least equally to blame for this new Cold War crisis. They simply will not accept those articles…So this is the problem. In a democracy we fight through discourse. If you can’t get to the mainstream media and make the argument, then there’s no way of slowing the drift toward catastrophe.
– Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University
Monsanto hid what they knew about the toxic chemical for decades.
At best it seems meaningless, at worst sinister. The world of celebrity gets a bad rap from many, but others remain compelled by its glamour. Condemning it won’t kill it, says Sarah Byrne. Could we improve our idols instead?The post Can we improve the cult of celebrity? appeared first on Positive News.
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 15, 2016 The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interventionist […]
Towns urged to move operations centers to underground bunkers.
Cheryl Thallon launched Viridian Nutrition 17 years ago armed with only a small range of products and an intention to create a company with integrity. She speaks to Positive News about doing business with heartThe post Business that’s good enough to bottle appeared first on Positive News.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang addresses the Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing, capital of China. The conference was held in Beijing from December 14 to 16 [Xinhua]
Chinese leaders and senior economic experts concluded the Central Economic Work Conference – a key two-day strategy meeting- by pledging to keep fiscal policy “prudent and neutral” in the coming year.
By Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice | December 15, 2016 Intent and causation are important features in the course of history. The former envisages motive and hope, irrespective of outcome; the latter envisages consequence. Often, these get muddled in the jumbled process of reasoning. An intervention in the affairs of another state goes awry; a […]
December 16, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Parroting the US State Department's rhetoric, almost verbatim to justify the decision, a UK envoy vowed to fly warplanes over, and sail warships through the South China Sea over "concerns" regarding "freedom of navigation there." Reuters in its article, "
Hasn't the Shroud of Turin been exposed once and for all as a Mediaeval forgery (albeit the work of an artistic genius) thanks to rigorous carbon-dating tests carried out in the 1980s? Or is there more to be said?
This week we are joined by attorney and author Mark Antonacci, founder and president of Test the Shroud Foundation, for a discussion on his fascinating book Test the Shroud : At the Atomic and Molecular Levels.
Hasn't the Shroud of Turin been exposed once and for all as a Mediaeval forgery (albeit the work of an artistic genius) thanks to rigorous carbon-dating tests carried out in the 1980s? Or is there more to be said?
This week we are joined by attorney and author Mark Antonacci, founder and president of Test the Shroud Foundation, for a discussion on his fascinating book Test the Shroud : At the Atomic and Molecular Levels.
Xymphora | December 16, 2016 You need to remember the names Chuck Schumer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Steve Israel. These are all blood-pouring-from-the-fangs Zionists, and, not coincidentally, recently in charge of the people who run as Democrats in national American politics. They have consistently picked extreme right-wing candidates to run, so right-wing that they are […]
RT | December 16, 2016 Barack Obama has vowed to take retaliatory measures against Russia, both public and covert, accusing Moscow of compromising the “integrity” of the US elections through the DNC email hacks. US intelligence has yet to provide any evidence of Russian involvement. “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign […]
Press TV – December 16, 2016 Russia has rejected allegations by the United States government that Russia interfered in the recent presidential race in the US. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned US officials on Friday that they should either prove the claims or stop “indecently” accusing Russia. “Either stop talking about it or finally provide […]
Señor Trumpanzee says he will find a nice little job for McCoryThis year, 5 governors sought reelection nationally and only 1 lost: North Carolina's spectacularly failed chief executive Pat McCrory. Trump won 2,339,603 (50.6%) to 2,162,074 (46.7%) and a mediocre and unpopular Republican senator, Richard Burr, was reelected 2,371,192 (51.1%) to 2,102,666 (45.3%) but Democrat Roy Cooper edged out McCrory 2,281,155 (49.0%) to 2,276,383 (48.9%).
RT | December 16, 2016 Facebook’s News Feed will defer to third parties such as ABC and AP to more closely police for hoaxes and fake news posts, but there are no Russian companies among the fact-checkers, that include two Ukrainian groups, one of which is hardline Russophobic. The list of fact-checkers published online includes news […]
Dear Mr A K Balan I am writing to you because I feel that it is my duty to disabuse you of the ideas you seem to harbour of, and in the name of, Indian nationalism (and not just bark at the portentous approach of the peddlers of ‘nationalism’, the Hindutvavaadis). You are a […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc033-lq.mp3"][/audio]In this edition of Questions For Corbett James (and Sibel Edmonds of Newsbud.com) answer your questions on Iran/CIA connections, climate change duplicity, whether the conspirators think they can survive their own conspiracy and much more. Also, James answers that age-old question: why do Hollywood movies suck so much these days?
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Kids are getting so savvy these days. Masters of Twitter and Facebook, with some even possessing the uncanny ability to tweet about the nuances of geopolitics, in tones of irony and cynicism. Like the 7-year-old Kissingeresque prodigy known as Bana Al-Abed.
The election marathon in Germany does not start until 2017, but many of those involved are already actively preparing for it. As the old German proverb goes, he who starts early is halfway there...
In January 2016 we’ve witnessed a partial withdrawal of sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. It should be noted that the introduction of those was linked to Iran’s nuclear program, which worried the United States and its allies, therefore Western countries were behind the introduction of sanctions that were aimed at applying pressure on Iran back in 1970s.
Wall Street, war-profiteers, neocons infesting the Obama administration, the CIA under John Brennan, NSA head admiral Michael Rogers, and other pro-Hillary dark forces are going all-out to assure no change in US geopolitics - along with wanting Trump denied the presidency he legitimately won...
Nigerian and West African forces have managed to destroy several Boko Haram camps in Borno State in recent months [Xinhua]
The United Nations and a number of humanitarian aid groups have warned that thousands of people face starvation in northeastern Nigeria.
Doctors in such northeastern states as Borno say they are seeing an overwhelming number of cases of malnutrition, especially among infants, amid the ongoing war between West African nations and the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.
Beijing claims 90 per cent of the South China Sea, a maritime region believed to hold a wealth of untapped oil and gas reserves [Xinhua]
China’s foreign ministry has called on the US to live up to its promises not to take sides in the South China Sea gerritorial disputes.
Spokesperson Geng Shuang’s said that the US should respect the efforts of those party to the disputes to resolve the issues on their own.
Admiral Nakhimov, the nuclear-powered Kirov class Project 1144 (NATO reporting name Orlan) battlecruiser, undergoing a refit, will be the first warship of the Russian Navy to be armed with hypersonic missile when it returns to service in 2018. It will be followed by Pyotr Veliky, a sister ship, expected to complete its overhaul in 2022...
Political history is littered with towering figures who never quite made it to the very top of politics. In Britain there are giants of past political eras who make the politicians of 2016 look like pygmies. On the Labour side one need only think of the likes of Denis Healey, Barbara Castle and their SDP renegades Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams. For the Tories Michael Heseltine ranks high. So too, does Ken Clarke, who is the subject of this article and has just released his memoirs 'Kind of Blue.'...
A Trump advisor named David Friedman has been announced as his choice for ambassador to Israel. At least one news story on the event had my picture and I have just gotten an invitation from the Indian embassy to a Hanukkah event.Not me. But the Picture is
Create the meme. And keep repeating it. Don’t worry, Americans don’t read, research and have the attention span of a gnat. They don’t question connections alleged as to Putin and Russia somehow affecting and throwing the election. Why would a voter care what Podesta’s emails contained or alleged? It’s preposterous and redefines specious. And your MSM question not and nothing.
While the world is transfixed on the epic tragedy unfolding in Syria, another tragedy – a hidden one – has been consuming the children of Yemen. Battered by the twin evils of war and hunger, every ten minutes a child in Yemen is now dying from malnutrition, diarrhea and respiratory-tract infections. A new UNICEF report […]
The post Starving Yemeni Children, Bloated US Weapons Makers appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal. The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate the insight. So it is today with Aleppo, where savage reprisals against U.S.-backed rebels are taking place in that hellhole of […]
The post Lessons of Aleppo – for Trump appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
What difference, at this point, does it make? As the frantic attempts by die-hard Democrats, the media, and the CIA to prevent Donald Trump from being sworn into office reach a fever pitch, Hillary Clinton’s anguished cry seems like the only appropriate response. Trump won the election, he’s now announcing his Cabinet, and that’s the […]
The post The Leak That Came in From the Cold appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Guest post by NIKITA AZAD It would be an understatement to say that apart from sexualization of young girls, society infantilizes women on a regular basis. Whether in domestic sphere where men decide what is best for the family and women, or office where men consider their women counterparts as less intelligent and inferior, such […]
Parroting the US State Department’s rhetoric, almost verbatim to justify the decision, a UK envoy vowed to fly warplanes over, and sail warships through the South China Sea over “concerns” regarding “freedom of navigation there.”
Reuters in its article, “British fighters to overfly South China Sea; carriers in Pacific after 2020: envoy,” would report:
A number of dead were found in a destroyed building in Mosul.
The post Bodies Plucked from Rubble in Mosul; 162 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Who REALLY saddled us with Trump, Putin or the Countess?It was a shock to the Clinton Machine when Bernie beat her in the March 16 Michigan's primary. Bernie took 595,222 votes (49.8%) to Hillary's 576,795 (48.3%). He won 73 of Michigan's 83 counties but she won big in the rich suburbs and the in Detroit.
The claims that the Russian government hacked US voting machines are absurd. Voting machines are not connected to the Internet. To hack a voting machine you have to be physically in proximity to the machine and use a hand held device...
Politics as it is by all definitions, the out-going US president’s certain decisions are pointing to the anti-Russia hole he appears to be digging for the president-elect Donald Trump. With the implicit purpose of forcing the ‘politically inexperienced’ president elect into his footsteps, Obama’s last days politics may leave profound implications at both domestic and international levels.
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | December 15, 2016 Guess who the new climate ‘conspiracy theorists’ are? When I first saw this published in the WaPo, I thought it was a joke: Why I’m trying to preserve federal climate data before Trump takes office. Excerpts: Trump is serious about overtly declaring war on science. This […]
Steve Israel, flanked by Steve Horsford & John Ewing, 2 politicians whose careers he ruinedLast week we talked about the experience recent congressional candidate-- and long-time North Carolina Democratic political operative-- Thomas Mills had when trying to deal with an imperious DCCC.