International Solidarity Movement | July 22, 2013
Hebron, Occupied Palestine – On Saturday the 20th, whilst taking his sheep out to graze on his land, 56 year old Abd Al-Karim Ibrahim Al-Jabari was stopped and harassed by settlers and soldiers before being taken for questioning to the police station in Givat Ha’avot, an illegal settlement in occupied Hebron.
James Corbett: Personal ResponsibilityOr, keep blaming McDonalds for making you fat???Updated
RT | July 22, 2013
RT has conducted an interview with Annie Machon, a former intelligence officer with the UK’s MI5 who resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle. She is now a writer, public speaker and a Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Press TV – July 22, 2013
A report has revealed that German intelligence services themselves used one of US National Security Agency’s most valuable spying programs.
The new information was published by German weekly Spiegel on Sunday and was based on secret documents from the US intelligence service.
The rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) as an alternative to Bush era GOP dead-enders has the two principal anti-libertarian factions in American politics snarling and spitting in fury – and real fear. The progressives – in the drivers’ seat at the moment – are especially miffed that this upstart ophthalmologist, and son of Ron [...]
Former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden should not throw any more stones, lest his own glass house be shattered. His barrage Friday against truth-teller Edward Snowden and London Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald invited a return rain of boulders for Hayden committing the same violations of constitutional protections that he is now excusing. Writing as [...]
An alternative to thisMany people-- other than folks in rural areas and hipsters in a few big cities-- think of "public broadcasting" as "college radio." That started changing in the 1940s and the whole genre took a great leap forward with the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and the subsequent founding of National Public Radio (NPR) in 1970.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s failed underwear bombing on Christmas of 2009 has fueled the imagination of many a TSA agent. Not that the TSA really did anything to foil him, mind, the underbomber’s explosive parcel managed to start a small fire that burned his genitals pretty bad, but that was about it.
Voice of Russia
July 20, 2013
McCain harangues Dempsey, Obama wants invasion plans for Syria
John Robles
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war
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Roger Martin du Gard
From Summer 1914 (1936)
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
At least 25 Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in the latest violence, which included two attempted jailbreaks just outside Baghdad.
Helen Thomas, who died yesterday at 92, was ready for business in the front row of the White House briefing room this day in August 2006."How the hell do they expect us to believe that?"-- a favorite aside of Helen Thomas during White Housepress briefings, as remembered by CBS News's Bill Planteby KenI'm happy to see how positively Helen Thomas is being remembered -- more positively, prob
I am back... Suffering from a bit of jet-lag, and in need of sleep to readjust to this time zone... Other than that, it was a much needed vacation and something that I desperately needed to recharge my batteries...Several people already know that I went to Hawaii... Yes, Hawaii in the summertime! We decided to go to Honolulu as a present for both my better half, and my son. It would have been hard to take him out of the Canadian education system during the fall-winter with him entering his last year of High School...
Several years ago, Blue America invited Alan Grayson to speak at the Brave New Films studio in Culver City. For many of the attendees, myself included, that was the first introduction to the 20th century's greatest mathematician, Alan Turing. You can watch the 4-minute Turing part of the chat above.
Anti-lukewarmers/anti-skeptics have a longstanding challenge to lukewarmers and skeptics to demonstrate that low-sensitivity models can account for 20th century temperature history as well as high-sensitivity models. (Though it seems to me that, examined closely, the supposed hindcast excellence of high-sensitivity models is salesmanship, rather than performance.)
Unfortunately, it’s an enormous undertaking to build a low-sensitivity model from scratch and the challenge has essentially remained unanswered.
Clifford Curzon plays the first two sections of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, in a 1949 Decca recording. You'll find the rest of the performance below.by KenA couple of weeks ago we celebrated "Fantasy Week at Sunday Classics" with a fantastic roundup that included the Choral Fantasy (for piano, soloists, chorus, and orchestra) of Beethoven, the Hungarian Fantasia (for piano and orchestra) of Liszt, and the Scottish Fantasy (for violin and orchestra) of Max Bruch.
Not a single Democrat voted for John Kline's anti-education bill, H.R. 5. It passed Friday, 221-207, a dozen Republicans crossing the aisle and voting with Team Pelosi. The bill, which Kline and the rest of the GOP zombies call the Student Success Act, was supposed to rewrite No Child Left Behind. If anything, they've managed to make a terrible law even worse.Even Obama's way too corporate Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, couldn't stomach it. He said that beside locking in crippling cuts to education funding.
While the so-called “New Atheists” are spending their energies warning of the violence that is justified by religious belief, they miss the most dangerous, the most irrational, and the most pervasive religion on the planet: statism. Modern-day government is a god and statism is a religion that is responsible for 260,000,000 deaths last century alone. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we commit the heresy of denying the statist religion and disproving the government god.
Press TV – July 21, 2013
A senior Syrian Kurdish leader has rejected earlier reports that Kurds are planning to establish an independent Kurdish government in northern Syria.
China’s Xinhua news agency on Sunday quoted Salih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), as saying, “There is no intention among the Kurds to form their own government, nor to secede from Syria.”
Den amerikanske komikern Judah Friedlander, känd från komediserien 30 Rock kommer till Oslipat i augusti. Han giggar i Uppsala 20 augusti, Stockholm 21 augusti och i Lund 22 augusti (i samarbete med Humorfalangen).
MEMO | July 20, 2013
Israel’s Planning and Construction Committee has issued licenses for 165 settlement units in Nafea Yacob Settlement in occupied Jerusalem.
For the first of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, we are again joined by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this interview, Dr. Erdmann introduces the technocratic movement of 1930s' America under Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert, and traces its intellectual roots to the positivistic, anti-supernaturalist and utopian ideas of the 18th/19th-Century French philosophers Henri Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte. But, explains, Dr.
For the first of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, we are again joined by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this interview, Dr. Erdmann introduces the technocratic movement of 1930s' America under Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert, and traces its intellectual roots to the positivistic, anti-supernaturalist and utopian ideas of the 18th/19th-Century French philosophers Henri Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte. But, explains, Dr.
Mahdi Darius NazemroayaRussia TodayPrime Minister Erdogan and his AK Party government have a track record of being deceitful, especially in regards to both Israel and Syria. No one should be surprised to hear that Israel and Turkey are collaborating together against the Syrians.
For the first time in many months, supporters of intensified diplomatic engagement with Iran appear to be gaining strength here. Following last month’s surprise election of Hassan Rouhani – widely considered the most moderate of a field of six candidates – as the Islamic Republic’s next president, the possibility of a deal over Iran’s nuclear [...]
At least 88 Iraqis were killed and 242 were wounded in attacks that including coordinated bombings throughout the capital. Mosul also suffered violence, but it was unclear if those attacks were planned together.
Lifelong Republican rich kid, Patrick Murphy, switched parties so he could run against demented extremist and torturer Allen West. His wealthy Republican father started and personally financed a SuperPAC, American Sunrise, to smear the very smearable West. Between Murphy's father and some of his cronies and the Democratic Party, over $3.1 million was spent on negative ads against West.
By Yves Engler | Palestine Chronicle |July 19, 2013
A recently uncovered government document confirms that Ottawa has delivered millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority in a bid to advance Israel’s interests. The internal memorandum also sheds light on Canada’s efforts to build a security apparatus to protect the Palestinian Authority from popular disgust over its compliance in the face of ongoing Israeli settlement building.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio July 20, 2013 [download audio]
Creator-writer-producer Aaron Sorkin talks about Episode 1 of the Season 2 of The Newsroom."What's more frightening than the perversion of our great history is that sensible, smart, strong Republicans, the very men and women who should be standing up to radical fundamentalism, are so frightened of losing primary battles to religious zealots that they've thrown in the towel on sanity."-- News Night anchor and managing editor Will McEvoy(Jeff Daniels), in the Season 1 finale of The Newsroomby KenVery Sorkinesque -- how better to describe the way that creator-writer-producer Aaron Sorkin has w
The LOOTING of Syria – ORGAN Trafficking, WOMEN for SEX trade, OIL theft & MORE
SYRIAN GIRL tells you about the rape of Syria. A must-see:
A miniature documentary on some of the ways Syria has been raped and pillaged.
-The looting of Oil and Industry
-The Sex trafficking of women
– Organ trafficking
– Trafficking of Artifacts
Thursday we saw how Buck McKeon, the Military Industrial Complex's single most bribed politician in American history, forced the Pentagon to waste $2.5 billion on overpriced drones the U.S. military neither needs nor wants.
Syria, Insurgents attempt starving Aleppo into Surrender, Armed Forces keep making Progress
People buy potatoes from a street vendor on the first day of Ramadan, at the Karaj al-Hajez crossing, a passageway separating Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr, which is under the rebels’ control, and Al-Masharqa neighborhood, an area controlled by the Syrian regime, July 10, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman)
Recall just the other day, in this post, Irish Infantry to Golan. Israel everywhere. Samantha Power grovels & moreI stated:
THE PROBLEM SOLVERS (pretty painting by Attila Richard Lukacs)Obama pressured Democrats into a putrid deal with Republicans (and through them, Wall Street) on the student loan debacle.
Missile Defense Agency
July 17, 2013
Unclassified Statement of Vice Admiral James D. Syring
Director, Missile Defense Agency
Before The Senate Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee
[Edited by RR]
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile launch
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Georges Duhamel: Selections on war
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Georges Duhamel
From The Masters (1937)
Translated by Béatrice de Holthoir
By Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm | EFF | July 19, 2013
Twitter was abuzz yesterday when an unknown person published what were alleged to be a group of passwords for the email accounts of Congressional staffers. Multiple journalists, including reporters from the Daily Beast and Buzzfeed, commented on the list while linking to it.
RT | July 19, 2013
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New York Times journalist James Risen must testify in the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking classified national defense information to the media.
Press TV – July 20, 2013
Panama has refused to extradite the former CIA chief of Milan station to Italy where he has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian Muslim cleric on suspicion of terrorist activities.
Italian justice ministry’s press office on Thursday announced that Robert Seldon Lady, also known as “Mister Bob,” has been arrested in Panama. However, it is not clear when and where he has been arrested.
Press TV – July 20, 2013
Venezuela says it has ended the process of normalizing relations with the United States over remarks by Washington’s ambassador-designate to the UN.
During her confirmation hearing before a US Senate committee on July 17, Samantha Power claimed Venezuela, along with several other countries, was conducting a “crackdown on civil society.”
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | July 19, 2013
Mérida – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described comments made by US President Barack Obama’s nominee for envoy to the United Nations as “despicable”, and demanded an apology.
Is America a Free Country?
“America does not have a functioning democracy – Jimmy Carter on NSA
by Justin Raimondo
ANTIWAR.COM
SCHUBERT: "Der Wanderer" ("The Wanderer"), D. 493
From the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence:
Courage, like cowardice, often comes in individual, incremental pieces building toward something great and honorable, or small and dishonorable. The resignation of Brandon Toy from General Dynamics fits into the former category and is so honored by an organization of former intelligence officials.
Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra Front elements will declare an independent Islamic state in the north of Syria.
Foreign-backed Takfiri militants stroll in an unknown location in Syria. (file photo) Image courtesy PRESS TV
PRESS TV
