From quiet stillness comes positive action
‘Doing’ without ‘being’ has led humankind down a troublesome path, says Giles Hutchins. Now is the time to transform the way we exist in the world
‘Doing’ without ‘being’ has led humankind down a troublesome path, says Giles Hutchins. Now is the time to transform the way we exist in the world
At least 161 were killed and 12 were wounded. Militants execute seven elders from the Abu Sakr tribe in Baiji. Fifteen militants were killed as troops advanced into the city. In Baghdad, a double bombing wounded four people in Karrada. A policeman was killed and two more were wounded in a blast at Jisr Diyala. […]
April 21, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) For months after the 2014 military coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra from office in Southeast Asia's nation of Thailand, the West has attempted to destabilize and undermine the military-led government that has since then worked ceaselessly to uproot the political machine that had granted the Shinawatra's impunity and maintained their grip on power for over a decade.
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ISIS the Islamic state has moved itself very close to the acting capitol of Libya, the city of Tobruk in Eastern Libya
** All Libyans be alerted, the man known as Haftar is doing nothing to restrain (stop) ISIS, be alerted that this man is a spy with the CIA and this is known to all countries. It is well known that ISIS was founded and is supported by the CIA so you have a traitor in your midst and he will steal your country from you. PLEASE WAKE UP
Feel free to watch if you like. I don't want to, and thanks to Erik Wemple's vigilance, I don't have to."If that consensus was wrong, I think you can’t blame either reporters for reporting what the consensus was or the intelligence analysts who got it wrong."-- former NYT dimwit Judith Miller, in her bookby KenThere's ample reason to feel general gratitude to washingtonpost.com's Erik Wemple for the watchful eye the Erik Wemple Blog keeps on the hamsters who turn the wheels in their cages to power the infotainment noozemedia. But there are times when I have to positively bless the man.
Mike Campbell spent nine years as an active-duty Navy print and broadcast journalist and 21 years as a Navy civilian writer and Air Force public affairs officer. He is the author of With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart, and his second book on the Earhart case, Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, greatly expands upon the important eyewitness accounts of former American GIs who participated in the 1944 Battle of Saipan.
TweetThe EU is having emergency meetings today to discuss how to address the flood of African immigrants passing through war torn Libya and attempting to make their way to the coast of Italy and Greece.
Yesterday more than 700 immigrants drown when the "fishing' vessel they were in capsized. This is not the first tragedy, there have been others in the past few years. Some of the dead bodies drifting up on the shores of Tripoli, Italy and Greece.
By William K. Black | New Economic Perspectives | April 9, 2015 The Clintons’ Unlearned Lessons of the Keating Five Meeting On April 9, 1987, twenty-eight years ago today, my colleagues and I from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBSF) met with five senators at the behest of the most notorious savings and […]
Onsite, SlashGear's Chris Burns will show you how to get to this box (click to enlarge) and how to double-check and if necessary fix your Direct Messages setting.by KenTwitterWorld appears to be all atwitter over a feature that apparently has been long talked about but is only now being gradually introduced: "Direct Messages from anyone." Now, I don't re
Take this inoculation against warmongering. Think of Madeline Albright’s “price was worth it” quote, the US blockade of Iran, and the Israeli blockade of Gaza, then watch the autobiography-based Studio Ghibli anime Grave of the Fireflies in which a 5 year old girl slowly dies of malnutrition after her mother is napalmed to death by Curtis LeMay and company during our “Good War.”
Being a bit under the weather yesterday & today, I'm just going to make a quick post while apologizing for not addressing the comments- Sorry :(But, thanks for leaving them :)An interesting read via Bloomberg & if anyone wants to offer up some insights, well, that would be very much appreciated! Bloomberg
Thousands of African refugees attempt fleeing to Europe, more than 700 feared dead in three separate shipwrecks over weekend…
--Italian coast guard scrambles to rescue boats that foundered off coast of Libya
--last week, Muslim refugees crossing the Mediterranean threw 12 Christians overboard
--6 Somali-Americans arrested for allegedly trying to join IS in Syria, but who bought their airline tickets?
--Der Spiegel reports that Islamic State’s takeover of northern Syria was carefully planned by former Saddam-era officer
Russia Insider | April 20, 2015 A day before he was murdered on April 15th Oleg Kalashnikov had organized the protest at the US Embassy in Kiev on April 14th. Oleg Tsarov, his collegue from the former Party of Regions and a fellow dissident Ukraine politician wrote on his Facebook: I BLAME THE US FOR […]
OKC – A Conspiracy Theory Corbett Report | April 19, 2015 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=14347
Ukrinform
April 20, 2015
Three more countries train Ukrainian army – Poroshenko
KYIV: The Ukrainian army, apart from the U.S. military, will be trained by the servicemen from the United Kingdom, Canada and Poland.
Interfax-Ukraine
April 20, 2015
Ukrainian-U.S. Fearless Guardian 2015 military exercise begins in Ukraine
During the Fearless Guardian 2015 international military exercise, Ukraine’s National Guard intends to learn from the United States military the practices they have used in operations worldwide, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.
Patriots’ Day, sometimes spelled Patriot’s Day, is an annual civic holiday, celebrated in Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin, that commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord that occured on April 19th, 1775. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War in the United States. Patriots’ Day is celebrated every year on the third Monday in April.
4/20: How ‘Weed Day’ Got Its Name
The very very wealthy, eating the world (source)by Gaius PubliusWhen we first reported on the introduction of Fast Track legislation — the bill that makes it possible for Obama and corporate Congress men and women to pass TPP, the next NAFTA-style "trade" agreement, by neut
Stars and Stripes
April 20, 2015
US paratroopers train Ukrainian forces to take on Russian-backed militants
By Matt Millham
YAVORIV, Ukraine: U.S. and Ukrainian troops rang in the start of a new training mission here Monday, an effort to beef up the capabilities of Ukrainian forces fighting Russian-backed militants in the country’s east.
By Gabriel Hetland | NACLA | April 20, 2015 Mainstream media accounts of the seventh Summit of the Americas, held last weekend in Panama, provide a deceptively rosy picture of U.S.-Latin American relations, echoing the official viewpoint of the U.S. government. In the mainstream account, the U.S. government’s decision to alter its policy towards Cuba […]
Aaron Franz joined in the conversation as we looked at the film The Recruit, which more than any other film we’re covering in this season was moulded by CIA entertainment liaison Chase Brandon. Like so many films, it tells the story of a young person inducted into a secret world with secret rules and codes of thinking and behaviour, and in doing so inducts the audience into that same world. We discussed this dynamic from various angles – black operations, secret societies, occult or mystery school philosophies – before studying Brandon’s appea
By Rick Sterling | CounterPunch | April 20, 2015 It has been confirmed that TV journalist Richard Engel’s kidnapping/rescue in norther Syria in late 2012 was a hoax. NBC management knew the story was probably false but proceeded to broadcast it anyway. There are at least two good things about “Engelgate”. * It is clear […]
United States European Command
April 20, 2015
EUCOM provides update on the European Reassurance Initiative
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Déjà vu
International Solidarity Movement | April 20, 2015 Jenin, Occupied Palestine – The room was overflowing with people who had come to witness the opening of the play The Siege. Pushing our way through the throng we managed to find some seats, squashed in the middle of a diverse and lively audience. We were sitting in […]
By Alastair Sloan | MEMO | April 20, 2015 Top Hollywood bosses enjoy a strong relationship with the Israeli government and various pro-Israel lobbying groups across the United States, according to a cache of Sony internal emails leaked to Wikileaks and published for the first time last week. The emails reveal a dinner between Sony […]
A lawyer for Rajendra Pachauri says that preventing the former IPCC chairman from delivering a speech at a trade show in Greece will damage India's image and harm Pachauri's reputation.
IMEMC | April 20, 2015 A new report by Defense for Children International-Palestine, titled “Operation Protective Edge: A War Waged On Gaza’s Children”, has displayed documented events proving that that Israel deliberately murdered Palestinian children during its last offensive on the Gaza Strip, this past summer. According to the report, the number of children killed […]
When asked whether he would have supported working with the producers of Zero Dark Thirty, Department of Defense’s Director of Entertainment Media said he would not have recommended working with screenwriter Mark Boal and director Katherine Bigelow, because he was not happy with the way their movie Hurt Locker had presented the military. But he was not given a choice.
RT | April 20, 2015 The US Army has joined Estonian soldiers in NATO ‘Tornado’ drills just before the largest training in Estonia’s history, the Siil war games. A laser training system will be used for simulating actual battle. “On Monday, nearly 2,000 soldiers of the First Infantry Brigade of Estonian Defense Forces, as well […]
Press TV – April 19, 2015 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director John Brennan amid Cairo’s heavy-handed clampdown on opponents of the country’s military-backed government. According to a statement released by the Egyptian government, Sisi and Brennan discussed regional issues, terrorism and “ways of enhancing bilateral relations” in their Sunday meeting […]
By Steve Straehley | AllGov | April 20, 2015 The money-suck known as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will go into service this summer with the Marine Corps with less ground attack capability than the 40-year-old plane it’s meant to replace, Pentagon officials say. The F-35 has cost nearly $400 billion since the beginning of […]
A concept you must understand. The gatekeeper. In my circles this word and term of art have significant meaning. It’s the concept of bottlenecking news and information and data or, better yet, the distraction and deflection of public awareness. Think rodeo clown: “Today in the USA, the job is split into two separate ones, hiring bullfighters who protect the riders from the bull, and entertainers, a barrelman and a clown, who provides [sic] comic humor.” The next time you watch any MSM news show, think this.
By Michael Hudson • Unz Review • April 19, 2015 Karl: Welcome to the Renegade Economists with your host, Karl Fitzgerald. This week we’re stepping back in time, way back some 10,000 years BC into the world of archaeology, Egyptology and Assyriology. Yes, it’s time for another special with Professor Michael Hudson. That’s right, Michael […]
Last Monday we offered to give away a rare, collectible platinum record award for Enya's Paint the Sky with Stars. Today's your last chance to "win" this contest.
RT | April 20, 2015 A Russian government institute has developed a complex program for evaluating the level of corruption, which its authors say is superior to the widely advertised, but very subjective Transparency International index. The new method will be presented by the Institute of Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at the Eurasian Anti-Corruption Forum […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
April 20, 2015
The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps (NRDC)
Press TV – April 20, 2015 The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine has exceeded 1.2 million, the United Nations says as the crisis in the country’s eastern parts enters its second year. Back in February, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated that five million Ukrainians, including some […]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Oliver Goldsmith: Selections on war
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From Citizen of the World (1762)
By Ron Paul | April 19, 2015 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 […]
by Judith Curry
This thread is running parallel to APS members comment on climate change statement, which is open only to APS members.
by Judith Curry
The battle over the American Physical Society draft Statement on Climate Change is heating up.
And the political fare on offer is all manufactured and presented to placate big business, to court corporate approval and to ensure that the ways in which we vent our dissatisfaction is safely-boundaried by QuestionTime-type 'participation'.
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Due to massive government subsidies given to farmers to grow genetically engineered crops in the past, U.S. food manufacturers and farmers are now being caught blindsided by the sweeping demand for non-gmo and organic crops. In a twist of irony, this is driving a massive increase of organic crop imports from nations that are largely free of bioengineering.
Have you ever seen a post, comment, or reply that absolutely reeked of behind-the-scenes compensation by corporations like Monsanto? In the growing age of internet activism, and the expansion of social media as a tool to spread the word on real issues, paid internet trolling is becoming a new career path.
Now, in case you’re not familiar with what ‘trolling’ really is, I think Wikipedia has a great definition. According to Wikipedia, an internet troll is:
Dr. Oz is no stranger to public controversy concerning his comments on GMO foods, pesticides, and the biotech industry. It appears that he is now the center of his biggest challenge yet. Having been adored by the mainstream since his show began in 2009, Dr. Oz is now facing his biggest attack to date.
Let’s get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom’s invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: “A brazen territorial grab by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen – together with a $1-million bank heist, a prison break and capture of a […]
This week I won a dubious distinction: a groundbreaking Supreme Court judgment has been named after me. It is an honor I would have gladly dispensed with. My name appeared at the head of a list of applicants, associations and individuals, which asked the court to cancel a law enacted by the Knesset. Israel has […]
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A London-based surf brand wants to tackle increasing levels of plastic waste along the UK coastline by transforming it into beachwear