Coalition Strikes Kill Civilians in Mosul; 244 Killed across Iraq
At least 244 were killed and 72 more were wounded.
At least 244 were killed and 72 more were wounded.
In 2008, when Aaron Schock declared his leadership PAC-- the GOP Generation Y Fund-- was open for business, Schock was the youngest Member of Congress and he claimed the PAC was meant to help elect more young Republican Members. Last cycle Schock raised $782,233 and distributed 510,404 to Republicans to House seats. Electing "young" Republicans, however, doesn't seem to have been on his mind. Among recipients of his largesse were elderly conservatives like, to whom he handed out checks in $5 and $10 thousand increments:
So far, it’s been a cool spring. In fact we are headed for a consecutive run of below freezing temps.- 1 C or 30 F. Heading towards the end of April... Yahoo? Not!Thankfully the crocus have made it out.Daffodils have yet to show their teapot/saucer blooms, though, they usually appear in March.Here again like last year- NO leaves on the trees. Buds, yes. Leaves, no.It’s April 21/2015. We are again about a month behind. Hopefully by May we will have leaves on the trees?
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | April 21, 2015 The mainstream U.S. news media is lambasting the Europeans for failing to stop the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean Sea as desperate Libyans flee their war-torn country in overloaded boats that are sinking as hundreds drown. But the MSM forgets how this Libyan crisis […]
Drawings by Brian McFadden for DailyKosby KenI'm going to suggest a police reform of my own, but I thought first we would look at some of Brian McFadden's proposals, posted on DailyKos Friday, which he introduces thusly:
Climate Etc. | April 21, 2015 There is a lot of public debate around the rates utilities charge solar customers, but very little of it shows an awareness of the embedded technical and philosophical issues. This posting will seek to provide a general context to help sort out issues in that ongoing debate. It will […]
UNIAN
April 21, 2015
Ukraine to be given U.S. army equipment brought for international exercises – ATO spokesman
The military equipment which has been brought by U.S. military personnel for international exercises at Yavoriv range in Lviv region will be given to the Ukrainian military, anti-terrorist operation (ATO) spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.
Ukrinform
April 21, 2015
Poroshenko thanks U.S. for sending military to Ukraine
KYIV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has held a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.
This is reported by the presidential press service.
Ukrinform
April 21, 2015
NATO trust to be used to reform Ukrainian army
KYIV: This week, Ukraine and NATO are to agree on start of practical implementation of the Alliance’s trust fund to reform the control and communication system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Mission of Ukraine to NATO has reported this to an Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels.
Grateful for a wave of warm birthday wishes, your humble host comments on AG Holder's dismal legacy and lots more....
--Senate settles dispute over trafficking bill, may finally vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch
--current AG Holder made public statements in support of victims of police shootings, but supported cops in court 100%
--Supreme Court limits use of drug dogs in traffic stops
--FBI’s hair analysis exposed as “pseudo science”, hundreds of convictions may be overturned, 9 innocent men executed
On Thursday, David Petraeus will be sentenced in North Carolina. If all goes as his lawyers and the government have arranged, he will get a year of probation for leaking some of this country’s most sensitive secrets to his mistress.
Musician and author Sand Sheff comes on Trans Resister Radio to talk about his book Real is Good. Technology advances at an exponential rate as a great story unfolds. What is the key to understanding this story, and who exactly is the story-teller? These sorts of questions and more and explored in this interview.
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on RT (April 20, 2015) to provide his analysis of the state of US-Iran relations. Draitser examines the cooling of the relationship due to US-Saudi aggression in Yemen, despite the optimistic feelings after the nuclear framework deal of the P5+1 negotiations. He adds that both domestic politics and geopolitical considerations play into the souring of relations.
The post On US-Iran Relations appeared first on .
Xinhua News Agency
April 21, 2015
Armed group takes over Macedonian police station demanding an “independent state”
Former Albanian National Army chieftain Ali Ahmeti with NATO, EU, U.S. and Albanian flags in the background
SKOPJE: A group of 40 armed, masked people forcibly took over a police station in the Macedonian border village of Goshince early Tuesday morning, Macedonian police confirmed.
753 BC – Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date).
43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639) Dies
1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | April 20, 2015 On Sunday evening, CBS’s “60 Minutes” presented what was pitched as a thorough examination of the infamous sarin gas attack outside Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 21, 2013, with anchor Scott Pelley asserting that “none of what we found will be omitted here.” But the segment […]
By Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice | April 21, 2015 There are many illusions about what is happening to the Yarmouk district of Damascus and its Palestinian refugee population. The district was originally set aside in 1957 for Palestinian refugees already living there, whom Israel had expelled from their homes in 1948, with periodic additional […]
Jag har vid tillfällen när frågan dykt upp om jag inte är rädd för “islamiseringen” av samhället, försökt att förklara att jag ser det som att organiserad religion är mer eller mindre döende som företeelse. Som en filosof uttryckte det – religionerna växer inte, den har blivit kraftfull i sin dödskamp.
Legendary music icon Neil Young will be taking a stand against Monsanto in his latest album release, The Monsanto Years. In a move that highlights just how far awareness on the issue of Monsanto’s toxic creations has come, Young will be working with the Willie Nelson sons in highlighting Monsanto’s activities within the new album.
Aref Tohta with the demolition order in his hand and his family International Solidarity Movement | April 20, 2015 Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine – On Wednesday night, the Tohta family received a demolition order for their house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz. After being warned that soldiers would come early on Sunday morning […]
Palestine Information Center – April 21, 2015 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel decided not to meet former US President Jimmy Carter and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland when they visit the region over their expected meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haneyya and over their anti-Israeli views, Yediot Ahranot revealed. Carter and Brundtlend will arrive on […]
19.5% reserves is still double what Fed Member banks allegedly need in the USA. These banks will also get low or NO interest rates to receive fiat currency credits they can loan out AT INTEREST more than 5 times. This is the 3rd cut in the last year, indicating that the Chinese global powerhouse economy is in trouble. Most news orgs are calling this a “Stimulus” – (Jack)
Fractional reserve banking… and why it’s a disaster.
U.S. Department of Defense
April 20, 2015
Military Exercises Begin in Ukraine, Philippines
By Cheryl Pellerin
WASHINGTON: Military training exercises begin today in Ukraine for Fearless Guardian, and in the Philippines for the 31st iteration of Exercise Balikatan, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
U.S. Department of Defense
April 20, 2015
Carter, German Minister Discuss Defense Issues at Pentagon
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Ash Carter today met with German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at the Pentagon, according to a Defense Department statement.
During the 45-minute meeting, the leaders discussed their continuing efforts in NATO and support to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the statement.
Kosovo- Is a criminal state.Kosovo was mentioned just the other day, here at the blog, in the post: Serbian President’s Plane takes Harrowing Plunge- US concerns about Serbian/Russian Cooperation?You're supposed to believe the EU 'failed' to reign in the corruption. This claim of failure is the same as the blowback meme- Hollow words. Devoid of meaning.
By Dr. Cesar Chelala | CounterPunch | April 21, 2015 In his book Century of the Wind, the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano tells how in 1927 the U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to quell a revolutionary revolt by Augusto César Sandino, who led a ragtag army of Nicaraguan peasants to fight the invasion. The […]
My article New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory, originally published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1996,1 which had previously been translated into Dutch, has now been translated, by João Marcos Theodoro (revisão de Marcos Paulo Silva do Nascimento), into Portugese, as Novas Direções Racionalistas nas Teorias Libertárias do Direito. This article discusses and summarizes Hoppe’s argumentation ethics […]
It has become a popular position both in the mainstream and pseudo-alternative media, and among those on the Russophobic left, to downplay the significant fascist influence on the political and military institutions, as well as the cultural character of the “New Ukraine.” Quite often, the reality of Ukrainian fascism is obscured by vague assertions that such conclusions are merely “Russian propaganda,” that they are simply Kremlin talking points, and not statements of objective reality.
Sunday, Maryland state Senate Majority Whip Jamie Raskin declared that he's running for the congressional seat left open by Chris Van Hollen's decision to seek a U.S. Senate seat. “I am running for Congress," explained Raskin, "because America needs effective progressive leadership to renew the momentum of popular democracy in the country. I have a proven decade-long record as an effective progressive leader in Annapolis.
By Ben Schreiner | Global Research | April 21, 2015 Using the recent spree of high profile police murders as the latest catalyst, calls to outfit all cops with some sort of body camera are once again reverberating nationally. But given the staggering amounts of personal data on the American people police agencies are already […]
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on Press TV to provide his analysis of the continuing Saudi airstrikes on Yemen. He explains that, aside form the ghastly humanitarian crisis the aggression has created, Saudi Arabia has done little to break the Houthi-Saleh alliance. Draitser also comments on the central role of the US in this war, and the fact that Washington has provided both political and military support, including the placement of major naval assets off the coast of Yemen.
I am truly perplexed by what I am watching happen in Greece right now... The Syriza Government in Athens was elected by the Greek people because that political party offered them a way out of the dire economic mess that the previous criminal regime had created...
Gawd bless this man. For this. Dr. Oz dared to discuss the toxicity of the biotech industry’s favorite pesticide “glyphosate” — a dangerous chemical that even the World Health Organization now admits likely causes cancer and the “Monsanto Mafia” was sicced on him.
By Kanya Bennett and Nkechi Taifa | ACSblog | April 16, 2015 “The FOP does not disagree that there is a need for civil asset forfeiture revision.” That is what the Fraternal Order of Police said at yesterday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on civil asset forfeiture. And when Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked if FOP stood […]
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There is a lot of public debate around the rates utilities charge solar customers, but very little of it shows an awareness of the embedded technical and philosophical issues.
2nd Cavalry Regiment
April 17, 2015
US Troopers, Romanian land forces and British soldiers participate in opening ceremonies for Exercise Wind Spring
Story by Sgt. William Tanner
Civil Georgia
April 20, 2015
Georgian Fighting for Ukraine Killed at Shyrokyne
Tbilisi: A Georgian national, Giorgi Janelidze, who was fighting on the Ukrainian side, was killed in combat at the village of Shyrokyne, just east from the port city of Mariupol on April 18.
Janelidze was fighting alongside the Azov Battalion; another Georgian was wounded, according to Georgians fighting on the Ukrainian side.
GM-Free Cymru | April 8, 2015 According to evidence unearthed from the archives of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the United States, it has been established that Monsanto was fully aware of the potential of glyphosate to cause cancer in mammals as long ago as 1981. Recently the WHO’s International Agency for Research on […]
Is the answer to ubiquitous police brutality, robots? Microsoft thinks so. Man kills himself in DC in protest and no one notices, but man land helicopter on White House lawn and its a National Emergency. …
In a strong and surprising action, the World Health Organization (WHO) made it crystal clear that researchers have an ethical mandate to publish all clinical trial results, regardless of their outcomes. This extends to past trials as well as future, and is the latest move in the battle for full disclosure.
According to its Statement on Public Disclosure of Clinical Trials Results, the WHO is calling for:
A line of parents assembled at the SB277 Senate Committee Hearing in California last week running out of the courthouse, into the hall, and out into the parking lot. The group was comprised of concerned citizens who don’t want forced vaccinations for their children.
Some parents carried posters stating “One Size Does Not Fit All” in reference to forced vaccines whereupon parents would no longer have a ‘personal belief’ exemption to refuse vaccinations for their children.
In the age of rapid information, true revolutionary ideas often get lost in the scramble to sensational headlines. One such idea whose time has come was just released from the one-two punch duo Max Keiser and Russell Brand.
The pain-relieving ingredient Acetaminophen, also known a Tylenol and Paracetamol, is one of the most popular pain relievers used today. In present day, it and other drugs like it have become relied on for numerous types of mundane pain or chronic pain relief from degenerative diseases.
However, research suggests that this pain-reliever doesn’t always work – with a recent study showcasing its inability to treat lower back pain as well as osteoarthritis in the knee and hip.
In my essay “The Herd Mind,” I explained how “War is the health of the State,” according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the government. As I mentioned in my talk “How the […]
In addition to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, yet another U.S. military intervention is in shambles: the US drone war against al Qaeda’s most potent regional affiliate – al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Heretofore, despite the rise of the perhaps even more brutal Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), mainly a threat to […]
Last week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important thing in common: they were either part of or friendly with the Yanukovych government, which a US-backed […]