Suspects Sought After 9 Shot on Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Having lived on Bourbon Street – I can tell you its a pretty violent place, with Street gangs just a few streets away from tourists. ~ JB
Having lived on Bourbon Street – I can tell you its a pretty violent place, with Street gangs just a few streets away from tourists. ~ JB
Blackwater USA changed their name to Xe services, and then Academi. Blackwater founder Erik Prince has founded his own version of the group, “Frontier Resource Group” – now competing with Academi and working for China in Africa.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Members of the US Blackwater private security company fly a Hughes 500 helicopter over the Tigris river in Baghdad, during a patrol 05 May 2004 (AFP Photo / Marwan Namaani)
National Radio Company of Ukraine
July 27, 2014
Rasmussen: Goals of association agreements similar to NATO goals
The North Atlantic Alliance has welcomed the signature by the European Union of association agreements with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, describing this as a contribution to stability and prosperity in Europe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday.
“I welcome the signature of Association Agreements between the EU and Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine,” he said.
National Radio Company of Ukraine
July 27, 2014
Rasmussen: Goals of association agreements similar to NATO goals
The North Atlantic Alliance has welcomed the signature by the European Union of association agreements with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, describing this as a contribution to stability and prosperity in Europe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday.
“I welcome the signature of Association Agreements between the EU and Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine,” he said.
by Judith Curry
The public seems to have gotten the memo that climate scientists believe that humans are warming the planet, and the warming is dangerous. They also don’t seem to care.
Amer Jubran Defense Campaign | June 29, 2014 We received word this weekend that Amer Jubran was finally granted a visit by family at the General Intelligence Directorate detention facility near Amman, Jordan this past Friday–seven weeks after he was arrested. He appeared to be in good health and his spirit remains strong. While this […]
Amer Jubran Defense Campaign | June 29, 2014 We received word this weekend that Amer Jubran was finally granted a visit by family at the General Intelligence Directorate detention facility near Amman, Jordan this past Friday–seven weeks after he was arrested. He appeared to be in good health and his spirit remains strong. While this […]
RT | June 29, 2014 A cameraman for Russia’s Channel One TV station died from injuries after being shot by Kiev troops in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, said the broadcaster’s press service. “Our colleague Anatoly Klyan died tonight… he was fatally wounded in the stomach. He was 68-years-old,” Channel One said on air. […]
A generous Blue America supporter who matched contributions to Maine US Senate Democratic nominee Shenna Bellows in this year’s first quarter, is back again to match the first $1,000 contributed to Bellows through the our ActBlue page between now and Monday night at midnight.This supporter says "
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 30, 2014
EXERCISE COMBINED RESOLVE II WRAPS UP WITH A BANG
Grafenwoehr, GERMANY: Exercise Combined Resolve II ended on Friday, 27 June with a literal bang as over 2,000 troops participated in a combined arms live fire exercise portion of the multinational six week long exercise.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 30, 2014
EXERCISE COMBINED RESOLVE II WRAPS UP WITH A BANG
Grafenwoehr, GERMANY: Exercise Combined Resolve II ended on Friday, 27 June with a literal bang as over 2,000 troops participated in a combined arms live fire exercise portion of the multinational six week long exercise.
By Edward S. Herman | Z Magazine | June 28, 2014 It is enlightening to see how pugnacious the U.S. establishment, led by the Peace Laureate, has been in dealing with the Ukraine crisis. The crisis arguably began when the Yanukovich government rejected an EU bailout program in favor of one offered by Russia. The […]
While she was Editor, and while she was Chief Executive, numerous people who reported directly to her were engaged in an active criminal conspiracy, the results of which she was seeing almost every single day, and to which hundreds of thousands of pounds of company money were diverted without her noticing. The leader of the criminal conspiracy, Coulson, not only reported directly to her, but she was shagging him too. She still noticed nothing.
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War is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
June 30, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Self-appointed prime minister of Ukraine, Arseny Yatsenyuk of the "Fatherland Party," referred to Russians as "subhuman," echoing the racist vitriol of Nazism Yatsenyuk and others in his regime subscribe to.
Did Russia’s annexation of Crimea on March violate the 1994 Budapest agreement among Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the U.S.? Specifically, in Paragraph One, Ukraine agreed to remove all nuclear weapons from its territory in return for a commitment by Russia, Britain and the US“to respect the independence and sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine?” […]
The recently announced sale of fighter-bombers to Iraq by Russia and Belarus marks a turning point in the country’s escalating conflict. On a structural level, the purchase by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s regime reveals the desperation of the Iraqi military, a force perceived by many analysts as being a largely "checkpoint army" that also […]
The other day Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) was railing against "unilateral disarmament" and declaring "I haven’t heard that kind of talk since the days of George McGovern," or words to that effect. Was he talking about our nuclear policy, or perhaps the revived war in Iraq? Nope. He was on the John Stossel show defending […]
You may have read this weekend that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq.
At least 45 people were killed and 127 more were wounded. Shi'ite "volunteers" sustained the greatest loses in several northern towns. The Kurds referred to them as being part of the old Badr Brigade. It is unclear if they actually were part of the Badr Organization or just Shi'ite volunteers from the region.
I have read the reports over the last two days about how a criminal Jewish scumbag lawyer in the United States has been able to convince a court in the United States to have ALL internet traffic originating from the innocent nation of Iran (all sites ending with ".ir") to be shut down... The excuse from this scumbag in this lawsuit is that Iran is a "terrorist nation" and is responsible (?) for the Israeli led attacks of 9-11! After reading the official statement put forward by the scumbags behind this atrocity, I honestly wanted to puke...
Lee Thompson Young: Tuesday's episode was called "Goodbye."by KenI'm glad I didn't read joyceeng61's June 17 tv.com "Looking Forward" piece, "Rizzoli and Isles Boss on Writing Out Lee Thompson Young: 'It Was Very Daunting,' " before seeing the show's first two episodes of the new season these past two Tuesdays. And if y
By Neil Clark | RT | June 27, 2014 Iraq is in turmoil – with ISIS controlling large areas of the country – but the truth is that it’s been in turmoil since the illegal 2003 invasion. 2013 was Iraq’s bloodiest year since 2008, but as I wrote here members of the elite political class […]
As you know, tomorrow (June 30) marks the end of the FEC's arbitrary reporting quarter. Candidates are hysterical and following DCCC suggestions to burn their lists with a constant barrage of requests for contributions.
By Roqayah Chamseddine | Letters From The Underground | April 6, 2013 I loathe the premise that people of colour should be ‘grateful’ that others are taking notice of their subjugation, or that they should bite their tongues and clench their fists and instead show gratitude because their varied plights are being in some way ‘acknowledged‘ […]
My husband states today "It's as if the US wants war with Russia"I reply "that is exactly what they want" Every opportunity the US and their toadies in the EU could have taken to bring this horrendous situation to a peaceful resolution has been instead used to increase the odds of confrontation- We aren't the only ones noticing.The so called ceasefire has been a ruse Claims by Ukraine of a ceasefire were mere perception management.
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Coast to Coast AM June 29, 2014 [download audio]
Press TV – June 29, 2014 A senior Iraqi military commander says Kurdish Peshmerga forces have seized heavy weapons and military equipment in Kirkuk governorate. Lieutenant Abdul Amir al-Zaidi said on Sunday that the Kurdish forces attacked military bases and disrupted the security situation in Diyala and Kirkuk. This comes after the president of the […]
RT | June 29, 2014 Citing the “collapse” of Iraq amid the ISIS insurgency and sectarian violence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the de-facto independence of Iraqi Kurds. Netanyahu has also called to support the “Kurdish aspiration for independence.” The hawkish Israeli leader said on Sunday that Kurds are “fighting people that has […]
Yes, it is Sunday again, and as usual I am presenting my weekly rant of what I see is really happening in the world around us. It has been a very interesting week indeed, so lets get down to it...First, I am very happy that my son has finished High School here in Canada and graduated with honors last Thursday.... He has not decided yet what to do about his future and/or his future education, but he is definitely not set on going to any University...
The immediate origins of the 1914 war lie in the twisted politics of the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] In June, 1903, Serbian army officers murdered their king and queen in the palace and threw their bodies out a window, at the same time massacring various royal relations, cabinet ministers, and members of the palace guards. It was an act that horrified and disgusted many in the civilized world. The military clique replaced the pro-Austrian Obrenović dynasty with the anti-Austrian Karageorgevices.
Desdemona receives an outpouring of love from the adoring Cypriots in Act II of Cape Town's 2013 Otello.by KenLast week we listened to the opening scene of Verdi's Luisa Miller, as I tried to make my case about the kinship between Luisa and her Verdian cousin Desdemona in Otello, heroines who (to quote myself yet again) --
U.S. Department of Defense
June 26, 2014
Official: U.S. Committed to Training Libyan Security Force
By Terri Moon Cronk
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: While Libya’s unsteady politics and deteriorating security have complicated efforts, the United States remains committed to training the country’s security forces, the Defense Department’s assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs told a House panel yesterday.
U.S. Department of Defense
June 26, 2014
Official: U.S. Committed to Training Libyan Security Force
By Terri Moon Cronk
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: While Libya’s unsteady politics and deteriorating security have complicated efforts, the United States remains committed to training the country’s security forces, the Defense Department’s assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs told a House panel yesterday.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Guy de Maupassant: Selections on war
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Guy de Maupassant
From An Affair of State
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Guy de Maupassant: Selections on war
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Guy de Maupassant
From An Affair of State
Translator unknown
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | June 28, 2014 Did Russia’s annexation of Crimea on March violate the 1994 Budapest agreement among Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the U.S.? Specifically, in Paragraph One, Ukraine agreed to remove all nuclear weapons from its territory in return for a commitment by Russia, Britain and the U.S. “to […]
One down...Mississippi dodged a bullet last Tuesday when Democrats turned out in strong enough numbers to save doddering Senator Thad Cochran from certain defeat at the hands of reactionary white supremacist Chris McDaniel.
RT | June 29, 2014 The US put pressure on Danish authorities to close the Kurdish Roj TV channel in order to appease Turkey. This was done so Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s position as NATO secretary general would be secure, the station’s lawyer told RT amid WikiLeaks revelations. WikiLeaks documents released back in March suggest Rasmussen […]
On the subject of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS (DAASH) Netanyahu expressed the intention of his regime to continue to promote internal strife in Israel’s neighboring states. “We must weaken both [Sunni and Shia Muslims],” Netanyahu said, restating his governments preferred policy to have Muslims continue fighting among themselves. “When your enemies are fighting each other, don’t strengthen either one of them, weaken both,” he told the American public.
The recent Supreme Court ruling put an end to Aereo and those using it’s “antenna-rental-and-streaming” services which let you stream live network television to a computer or mobile device without actually paying for TV service. If you disregard the moral and legal issues, Aereo did provide a huge platform of content available to a number of devices and screens. Of course, if you…
In my previous article : The Jewish Question: A Problem Without A Solution (Part I) - By Lasha Darkmoon, Lasha began this 3 part expose on the Jewish Problem by showing some of their evil machinations throughout history and how in the past many nations tried to solve this parasitic problem through expulsion and then eventually giving them the land of Palestine that was NEVER theirs in the first place! Now the planet is stuck with this tribe and their push for world domination, and the question becomes...
I have indeed been out of the loop for the last while, and now I am beginning to play "catch up" on many important articles ....One article in particular that has come to my attention, is a very important one written by Lasha Darkmoon, over at her site: Darkmoon (www.darkmoon.me). It is entitled: "The Jewish Question: A Problem Without A Solution (Part 1), and I have it right here to share with all of my own readers....
From this week’s Bill Moyers’ Journal:
As the exploding crisis in Iraq spotlights once again the tragic record of American policy in the Middle East, Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis, whose new book, 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity details the many government falsehoods that have led us into the current nightmare.
Government forces could be nearing their goal of liberating Tikrit, which would be a great psychological win, if true. At least 197 were killed and 37 more were wounded across Iraq.