RRNews 153: Reddit Died with Aaron Schwartz
China’s richest man loses $15 billion in one hour, and in the US people are being shot for stealing beer. Obama promises to stop militarizing the police, kind of. Peter King calls the kettle black. …
China’s richest man loses $15 billion in one hour, and in the US people are being shot for stealing beer. Obama promises to stop militarizing the police, kind of. Peter King calls the kettle black. …
By Greg Maybury | Consortium News | May 22, 2015 The following anecdote may or may not be apocryphal, but either way given the geopolitical zeitgeist, the “moral” of the “fable” is a telling one. The story goes that during the 1980s a group of American journalists were hosting a visit to the U.S. of […]
From the day I began this blog Dave McGowan (uberfave) has been a constant in the sidebar of the blog. He became known to me via his appearances on Meria- the mouth that roars I can't say with any certainty how many years ago I first heard him talking up his writings?It likely had to be around the time he published his first book -Derailing Democracy So that was at least 13 years ago???
By Eric ZUESSE | Oriental Review | May 22, 2015 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on May 12th, responding to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s assertions that Ukraine will retake Crimea and will conquer Donbass: “I have not had a chance – I have not read the speech. I haven’t seen any context. I have simply heard about it in […]
U.S. Army Europe
May 22, 2015
Georgian partnership strengthened with Exercise Noble Partner
By Sgt. A.M. LaVey, 173rd Airborne Brigade Public Affairs
TBILISI, Georgia: A staff mentorship team from the U.S. state of Georgia is wrapping up a short tour to the European country of Georgia in support of the U.S. Army Europe Exercise Noble Partner.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
May 21, 2015
NATO allies demonstrate defence of Eastern Europe
BABADAG TRAINING AREA, Romania: Romania is hosting Bulgarian and U.S. forces during a multinational exercise designed to demonstrate a collective capability among NATO allies to defend Eastern Europe, May 18-28.
Despite IS expansion to control half of Syria and takeover of Ramadi, Obama maintains “I don’t think we’re losing” as hawks grow more aggressive....
--NY Times maps expansion of Islamic State, with misleading listing of groups in 18 countries that have “pledged allegiance” to IS
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
May 21, 2015
Norway repeats leading role in NATOs Baltic Air Policing mission
Norwegian F-16s fly over the Baltic States alongside Italian Eurofighter Typhoons. NATO Photo by Jake Tupman.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
May 21, 2015
Ukrainian Chief of the Armed Forces visits SHAPE
China’s richest man loses $15 billion in one hour, and in the US people are being shot for stealing beer. Obama promises to stop militarizing the police, kind of. Peter King calls the kettle black. Lindsey Graham is still insane, and how Reddit was destroyed.
Links:
How Reddit was destroyed.
China’s richest man lost $15 billion in one hour
I have been informed by Whitewraithe that she is unavailable for the show tonight... She is having very bad lower back pain and is right now laid up and immobile....Sometimes circumstances do happen, and again my apologies to everyone..We will try again for a show very soon....More to comeNTS*A few quick notes: Whitewraithe has decided to pull the plug on her "Pragmatic Witness" site as of July 1st.... It is understandable knowing the severe hardship that she has endured.....
MEMO | May 22, 2015 Israel’s newly appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely yesterday told ministry employees that all of the land of Israel belongs to Jews only. Israeli media quoted Hotovely as saying that Israeli diplomats around the world need to begin acting according to the principle of “being right and not just smart”. […]
By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH | CounterPunch | May 22, 2015 I recently returned from a six-week trip to Iran. While the primary purpose of my trip was to visit family and friends, I also made some general enquiries into the state of the country’s stagnant economy. These included informal discussions with various strata of economic agents […]
Nu är mormor borta. Tio över åtta i morse, dog mormor efter nån veckas halvt medvetslöst tillstånd. Mamma som var där, berättade att mormor lämnade oss med ett vrål, vilket nästan höll på att skrämma slag på hennes barn. Nånstans, mitt i all bedrövelse, så kan jag inte låta bli att dra på mungiporna så smått. Min mormor var drottningen, hon var matriarken, den dramatiska – alltid en självklar mittpunkt och stark, bestämd och drog sig aldrig för att ta plats.
Ole Dammegård is an author, international speaker, investigator, former journalist, artist and creator of the website Light On Conspiracies. He returns to Red Ice Radio for a special extended segment to speak about his research and thoughts on an extremely controversial subject, the Jewish holocaust.
RT | May 22, 2015 EU proposals to regulate hormone-damaging chemicals linked to cancer, fertility problems and diabetes were allegedly dropped following pressure from US trade officials amid talks on the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Draft EU criteria could have banned some 31 pesticides containing dangerous endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), but according […]
334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
337 – Constantine the Great, Emperor of Christian Rome (306-37), dies at 47
1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1802 – Martha Washington, 1st US First Lady (1789-97), dies at 70
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
Yup, that's an alleged new group of ISIS affiliates if your keeping track.Here is the latest: CBC
One former carer said she had calculated that she had effectively been paid £200 a month less than the minimum wage while working for the company, after her travel time had been taken into account
The post MiHomecare scandal grows: company underpaying carers and ‘clipping’ visits in England appeared first on BSNEWS.
UNIAN
May 22, 2015
US to send missile destroyer to Black Sea
USS Ross
Interfax-Ukraine
May 22, 2015
Riga summit participants confirm sovereignty, territorial integrity of Eastern Partnership countries
Eastern Partnership: The West’s Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union
Jeff Till (fivehundredyears.org) is a business owner, School Sucks listener, and home-educating parent. He recently added a well-researched, concise and easily sharable entry to his blog called "A Complete Case for Home Education (54 Arguments)." He joins me today to discuss the following arguments:
Jeff Till (fivehundredyears.org) is a business owner, School Sucks listener, and home-educating parent. He recently added a well-researched, concise and easily sharable entry to his blog called "A Complete Case for Home Education (54 Arguments)." He joins me today to discuss the following arguments:
Jeff Till (fivehundredyears.org) is a business owner, School Sucks listener, and home-educating parent. He recently added a well-researched, concise and easily sharable entry to his blog called "A Complete Case for Home Education (54 Arguments)." He joins me today to discuss the following arguments:7. The argument against peer pressureConformity training leads to students not wanting to be different and to gain the mass approval of others.
This is all about what the House of Saud, other GCC minions and, crucially, Bibi’s hardcore extremist Israeli government consider an “existential threat” to their survival: the non-existent Iranian bomb.
The post Wahhabis Go Nuclear – Literally appeared first on BSNEWS.
by Chip Knappenberger and Pat Michaels
Understand climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world. It’s now believed that drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East – President Obama
It is important to remember that public order intelligence gathering by the police is carried out with a deliberate purpose: what some criminologists have called ‘strategic advantage’ and ‘strategic incapacitation’.1 Intelligence is used to understand the structures, sustainability and strengths of protest groups, in order to develop ways to undermine them.
The post Why cover up? The case for protest anonymity appeared first on BSNEWS.
The vote of TPP is looming in the House and Obama has Jim Clyburn (D-SC) making all kind of handsome offers to Members of the Congressional Black Caucus to guarantee a big vote score from that circle. You won't find caucus members with integrity, like Barbara Lee and Donna Edwards, playing footsie with Clyburn on this, of course.
Press TV – May 22, 2015 Exxon Mobil is reported to have stationed lobbyists to push the envelope on Iran sanctions with the US government as Western companies are jostling for access to the Middle East country’s massive oil and gas fields. According to Bloomberg, the Texas-based oil company has hired a lobbying firm founded […]
The Sinister Ideology of the Rich By COLIN TODHUNTER | CounterPunch | May 21, 2015 If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people’s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes […]
By Steve Straehley and Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | May 22, 2015 Four major banks—Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland—have agreed to plead guilty in a Connecticut federal court to conspiring to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency market. But instead of sending those […]
U.S. Department of Defense
May 20, 2015
Work, Swedish Defense Minister Discuss NATO, Military Cooperation
WASHINGTON: Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work discussed ways to deepen military-to-military cooperation, NATO partnership initiatives, regional security and other defense priorities with Sweden’s Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist at the Pentagon today according to a DoD news release.
RT | May 22, 2015 Inequality in the developed world is the sharpest in 30 years, a recent OECD research reveals. Yet even in this context, two countries stand out in the disparity between rich and poor: the USA and Israel. “In most countries, the gap between rich and poor is at its highest level […]
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-05-22%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: Stephanopoulosgate demonstrates political media bias; major media gets it wrong on GMO (again); and the BBC admits to broadcasting pro-Israel propaganda.
International Action Center
URGENT! Call the White House! The US and Saudi Arabia Must Not Attack a Civilian Relief Vessel! Let the Aid Ship Pass!
The US and Saudi Arabia are threatening to attack a humanitarian aid ship on the high seas! International observers, including US citizens, are aboard. This would be piracy and an act of war! Call the White House now at 202-456-1414 and 202-456-1111 and say: Let the aid ship pass!
What happens when one courageous attorney and a few citizens try to take down Monsanto? The MSM doesn’t cover it, for starters.
Efforts to publicize a class action lawsuit against Monsanto for false advertising it’s best-selling herbicide Roundup filed in Los Angeles County Court on April 20, 2015 have been rejected by almost every mainstream media outlet.
There is an epidemic of Metabolic syndrome sweeping across America. This may not mean much to the average person who doesn’t know exactly what Metabolic syndrome is, but it’s a big deal.
“Metabolic syndrome is a “perfect storm” of conditions that include high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels, increased levels of blood sugar, and a wider waist circumference .” [1]
With the exception of a few mentions in the mainstream press when the incident originally occurred, Exxon is getting away with murder concerning their most recent snafu. I’m talking about the huge explosion at a gasoline refinery in Torrance, California that rained toxic ash on playgrounds and homes. Exxon assured their employees, and local citizens that “all was well,” though.
On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) “filibustered” for more than ten hours against the PATRIOT Act, the USA Freedom Act, and myriad government violations of the Fourth Amendment. He also daringly added some blistering critiques of the US prison state and its racial disparities. He mentioned civil asset forfeiture and parallel construction. He read from […]
While the world’s attention is focused on the Middle East, as usual, where ISIS – the creation of Washington’s Saudi and Gulf allies – is the focus of the latest alleged “terrorist threat,” a potentially more dangerous crisis is being ramped up by our professional regime-changers in the volatile Balkans. The Russian-Turkish plan to pipe […]
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy. When President Obama declared that we shall "degrade and defeat" the Islamic State, he willed the ends, but not the means. […]
Organisers of Austrian event EARTHtalks plan to live-stream the event in London for the first time, opening up the climate conversation to a wider and more diverse audience
Sunni leaders say they will continue to fight against the Islamic State militants, as they have no choice but to do it, but they will not fight for the Iraqi government. At least 69 were killed and 44 were wounded.