Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers / Eavesdropping …
Attorney–client privilege is a legal concept that protects certain communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential.
Attorney–client privilege is a legal concept that protects certain communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential.
http://youtu.be/uUGz-8q4stUEric Draitser appears on RT (June 25, 2014) to discuss the release of RT contributor Graham Phillips by the Ukrainian military which took him hostage.
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
–‘Not even death provides a guarantee of getting off the list.’
Russia Today
RT has managed to re-establish contact with Graham Phillips, a news contributor who was captured at Donetsk airport on Tuesday night while covering the Ukrainian conflict. Philips shared firsthand details of his three days in captivity with RT.
PARIS (NYT) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Poland had violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by allowing their transfer to a secret detention center run by the C.I.A. in Poland, where the two men were tortured.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
1655 – Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1741 – Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1746 – John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies
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TweetIsn't it amazing that when the US wants to move its people out of the Tripoli Embassy, all the fighting between militias and tribes is suspended for at least 2 hours while the evacuation takes place. And another amazing fact is that no one, not the tribes, not the government has been capable of stopping the fighting in Tripoli, but suddenly the US wants to leave and all fighting is ceased.
I wonder who is controlling the mess in Libya???
Al-Akhbar | July 28, 2014 Updated 8:08 pm: Palestinian gunmen slipped into Occupied Palestine from the Gaza Strip on Monday and penetrated a village near the border before entering clashes with occupation forces, Israeli television said, adding that five militants had been killed. Hamas said in a statement their fighters had killed 10 Israeli soldiers […]
The Spanish air traffic controller documented the event on Twitter as it happened. He claimed it was not an accident, that the Ukrainian authorities shot down MH17 and were trying to “make it look like an attack by pro-Russians” . His Twitter account was closed down shortly after the tragedy. Although his account has yet to be fully corroborated, some of his claims have been confirmed by Malaysian Airlines and the Russian authorities.
The media are lying to us, but at the same time, they show us that they are lying. It is no longer a matter of changing our perception of facts in order to get our support, but to lock us in the spectacle of the omnipotence of power. Showing the annihilation of reason is based on images that serve to replace facts. Information no longer focuses on the ability to perceive and represent a thing, but the need to experience it, or rather to experience oneself through it.
But for these three nations, and the participants on all sides, Libya's current state must be examined. These "revolutions" have but one logical and predictable conclusion - the plundering, division, and destruction of each respective nation, before it is folded into Wall Street and London's growing supranational order to be exploited indefinitely as much of the US, UK, and EU already are today. For those wondering what will become of Egypt, Syria, or Ukraine, should NATO succeed, one needs only to look at Libya.
The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Was Hitler an atheist? Was he an occultist? Was he a Christian, as some allege today? Or was he, perhaps, something else altogether?
Was Hitler an atheist? Was he an occultist? Was he a Christian, as some allege today? Or was he, perhaps, something else altogether?
Believe me, these women are aware of the terrifying rumours which speak of casualty figures way higher then those mentioned officially. Keep in mind that a lot of Ukie soldiers simply disappear either torn into unrecoverable small pieces of meat and bones, or hastily buried into mass graves by their own officers to cover up their deaths, either quietly killed and secretly buried by the civilians of Novorussia (I have seen a video of Ukie recruits who say that they are terrified of the local civilians who smile at them and then kill them as soon as they get an opportunity).
If there's one district that demonstrates the venality of Steve Israel and his utter unfitness to head the DCCC, it is the race in southwest Michigan between the hereditary multimillionaire chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton, and Paul Clements, a professor at Western Michigan University, an advocate for middle class families and for environmental sanity. MI-06 has a PVI of R+1, one of only a dozen districts in the country with that rank. Five of those seats are held by Democrats and 7 are held by Republicans.
Washington and its European vassals have consistently misrepresented the situation in Ukraine and denied their responsibility for the violence, instead placing all blame on Russia. But it is not Russia that is conducting bombing raids and attacking provinces with troops, tanks, and artillery. Just as Israel’s current military assault against Palestinian civilians fails to evoke criticism from Washington, European governments, and the Western media, Kiev’s assault on the former Russian provinces goes unreported and uncriticized.
Let’s be clear: the only people putting the Palestinians in danger are the Israelis. The only people killing innocent people are the Israelis. Hamas may not be the party that the chattering classes of the West would want to govern them, but they are democratically elected and they have as much right as Israel, Britain, France and America to fight against an oppressor that quite literally wants to ‘wipe them off the map.’
In his video piece, Snow speaks of a necessary 'preparedness to listen, and watch and read'.
But surely journalists like Snow must also have a duty to read and watch and listen to what's long been recorded about the true reasons for the murder of Gaza.
And if he did, it wouldn't, with dutiful moral heart, take much additional effort to amplify the truth that America is not an 'honest broker'. It is financing and backing Israel to the hilt. Therefore, it's the problem.
(Elaboration of my Heartland Climate Conference Presentation) We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. Rutherford Rogers So-called climate skeptics, practicing proper science by disproving the hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming, achieved a great deal. This, despite harassment by formal science agencies, like the Royal Society, and deliberate neglect by the mainstream […]
By Chris Carlson | International Middle East Media Center | July 28, 2014 On Friday, a draft of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal was shown to Israeli officials. The draft apparently called for the opening of border crossings between Gaza and Israel and included measure to ensure “the economic livelihood” of Palestinians […]
Image above: Displaced Palestinians seek refuge at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 27 July. (Ezz Zanoun / APA images)
By Mohammed Suliman | Al-Akhbar | July 28, 2014 Reham is used to not seeing her husband Ayed for several days on end. During war times, she rarely sleeps. Watching over her little children, she sits by her bed horrified as the radio blares out the news of an air-strike that hit somewhere north of […]
By Greg Mitchell | Pressing Issues | July 28, 2014 It’s been a tough week for NBC’s David Gregory. First were reports that his “Meet the Press” was sinking under even weaker ratings and that he would soon be replaced. Then as we noted here yesterday: Gregory, after a weak interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu, […]
Possibly, incorrect because as you will read the investigators are not confirming the claims made by Kiev.Ill-gotten defined as -acquired by illegal, dishonest or unfair means.No confirmation which makes me question the credibility of the information presented. Is this just a psychological operation? Lots of news stories with the sentence "Kiev says".
When Blue America weighs the pros and cons of endorsing a candidate for Congress, we often find ourselves measuring them by how similar he or she appears to be to Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson. Grayson is brilliant, courageous and, more than anyone else in the House, he defines progressivism. And you know what? One Congressman can matter.
Interfax-Ukraine
July 28, 2014
Ukraine plans to introduce temporary 1.5% military law – Yatseniuk
The Ukrainian government intends to introduce a temporary 1.5% military duty, which will be an addition to the personal income tax.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk told a briefing on Monday the duty, if introduced, will stay in effect until the end of this year.
International Solidarity Movement | July 27, 2014 Beit Furik, Occupied Palestine – At 22:00 in the evening of Friday, July 25th, Israeli forces injured 15 Palestinians during a protest in the village of Beit Furik, which is located fifteen km southeast of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Approximately 2000 protesters were marching towards the checkpoint […]
Working for the government was always pitched as somehow being better guaranteed than risky corporations. However, he who makes the laws never goes to jail for breaking them - a plain fact of life. The problem with government pensions has been they promised whatever sounded nice, with zero accountability. The presumption that tax revenue was an endless pit is one of those fallacies that nobody ever investigates.
Azeri Press Agency
July 28, 2014
UN says over 1,100 killed, nearly 3,500 wounded in Ukraine since mid-April
Baku: 1,129 people have been killed and 3,442 wounded in eastern Ukraine since the start of the Kiev’s military operation in April, according to UN estimates, APA reports quoting RT news.
The report also states that these are the minimum casualty toll estimates by the UN monitoring mission and WHO.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Franz Werfel: Selections on war
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Franz Werfel
From Star of the Unborn (1946)
Translated by Gustave O. Arlt
I spoke with the head military lawyer for the IDF, Joel Zinger. And I said … “It’s clear you people are inflicting Nuremberg crimes on the Palestinians. Exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. What’s your explanation?”
He said: “Military necessity.”
Notice, he didn’t disagree with me.
I said: “That argument was rejected at Nuremberg when the lawyers for the Nazis made it.”
And then he said: “Well, we have public relations people in the United States … and they handle these matters for us.”
Never heard of this presstitute previously. Who can keep track of them all? A dime a dozen like any other cheaply made product. Oh, my! Did I use an adhominem to describe this alleged journalist?Why yes I did! "Presstitute". Obviously a spin off on prostitute- someone who does what ever is asked- for payment.Except with Cathy Young, not a journalist, the label - Presstitute- fits. She did whatever asked, for money. And she put her name to it! I read her entire diatribe. It can't be taken seriously.
In history, as in fiction writing, where you decide to start your narrative plays a major role in shaping your story. The story of the causes of a particular historical event can be shaped by the historians and writers who have access to the media and publishers depending on where they decide to start their […]
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, “we don’t torture people”? Remember a few months later, in October, President George W. Bush saying, “this government does not torture people”? We knew then it was not true because we had already seen the photos […]
At least 374 people were killed today, mostly militants. Another 78 were wounded. The numbers may be considering higher, considering that few reports of security personnel deaths are reported by the government. Also, it appears that yesterday's kidnapping of the Baghdad's council's chairman was perpetrated by militiamen. It is unknown whose orders they were following.
The sling bow is a modified #slingshot used to shoot arrows instead of “shot” or rocks. Though still a relatively new concept, the idea caught on like a wildfire, with countless slingbow clubs, associations and competitions popping up all across America and the world. There are many different versions of the sling bow available out there, with…
The Israeli onslaught and massacre in the Gaza Strip against innocent people continues...
The truth is that outside Israel, Washington, D.C. and various other Zionist strongholds, David Harris’s worldview is crumbling. And, as the numbers of those who share his viewpoint shrinks, other counter-groups, such as the boycott Israel movement, grow in number. Sooner or later a tipping point will be reached and then things will change and probably do so rapidly. On that day what will David Harris do? Blame it all on anti-Semitism? Take residence at the top of Masada?
Israel claims that its recent invasion and destruction of Gaza civilians, infrastructure, and society, being only one in an extremely long list of others we must remember, is a just action necessary to protect its citizens from rockets emanating from Hamas militants, “If Hamas does not allow Israelis to live in peace, and then we too will be forced to carry out actions that we don’t fundamentally wish to perform, and that are not our primary goal,” saidIsrael’s Minister
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | July 27, 2014 As nuclear-armed America hurtles into a completely avoidable crash with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, you can now see the dangers of “information warfare” when facts give way to propaganda and the press fails to act as an impartial arbiter. In this sorry affair, one of […]
Substance abuser and New Dem Petey-Pie lets his hair downI don't think even someone as astoundingly incompetent as Steve Israel could lose CA-31-- the Inland Empire congressional district-- for the Democrats again this year, despite having maneuvered to get an ethics-free, corrupt ex-lobbyist, Pete Aguilar, the nomination.
There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, with 49 countries having a predominantly Muslim population. Of these countries, 4 have been bombed by Israel, and 4 have been bombed by the US this year alone.
Here are the four countries bombed by Israel in 2014
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 138. This is my appearance on the most recent episode (376) of Ben Stone’s Bad Quaker podcast, Recorded July 16, 2014, posted July 27, 2014. From his description page: “Stephan Kinsella and Ben Stone have a chat about getting even, property rights, and how many libertarians can dance on the head of a pin. […]
There are quite a few of them but the ones progressives have a stake in, in chronological order, are Hawaii (August 9), Wisconsin (August 12), and then a late super-Tuesday on August 26 for Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma. That same day has primaries in Alaska, Missouri, Oregon and Vermont with interesting races but no races that pit a progressive against a shill from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.Up top is the brand new video from one of the most grassroots campaigns anywhere, the Tom Guild campaign for the open Oklahoma City congressional seat.
By Judith Curry | July 27, 2013 My, the Cook et al. 97% consensus paper is a gift to the climate blogosphere that keeps on giving. Some insightful new posts provide fodder for additional discussion on this. Ben Pile Ben Pile has a new post Tom Curtis doesn’t understand the 97% paper. Here are a […]
“Operation Protective Edge”The ongoing holocaust against the PalestiniansPalestinians helped a survivor after Israelis bombed his home in Gaza City on Sunday, July 27.The remans of the home of a Palestinian Christian woman, Jalila Ayyad, which was was bombe
After becoming Director of the CIA (DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh, Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar’s home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the Agency.