By Jim Lobe | LobeLog | July 18th, 2013

There's undoubtedly a wisecrack to be cracked about the spectacle of a grinning Maureen and Bob McDonnell pawing checks, but I don't have the heart to crack it."[U]nder Virginia law, elected officials do not have to notify the state about gifts to immediate family members.

Are Palestinian Students in Lebanon Being Pressured to Choose Kalashnikovs Over College?
Outside Ein el Helwe Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, July 2013. Image courtesy Salem-News.com


by Franklin Lamb
Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian Camp.

PressTVGlobalNews · July 19, 2013

It has been revealed that Canada’s Prime Minister Steven Harper has drawn up an “enemies list” identifying political opponents of the Conservative Party. Bureaucrats, judges and other members of the Canadian establishment are named on the list.

A Wajihiya mosque was the scene of a significant attack that left over 100 people dead or injured today. Wajihiya itself, which is in restive Diyala province between Baquba and Muqdadiya, has witnessed a surge in violence this week, but no group has taken credit for it yet. Meanwhile, random attacks continued across the country. Overall, at least 57 people were killed and 106 more were wounded in them.

By Dr. Kevin Barrett | Press TV | July 18, 2013

The FBI apparently wanted Ibragim Todashev to sign a false witness statement implicating the Tsarnaev patsies. Todashev refused, presumably because he (like everyone else who knew the brothers) was convinced of their innocence. So the FBI murdered Todashev, execution-style, as a message to others involved in the case: “Cooperate with our frame-up of the Tsarnaevs, or else…”

U.S. Army Europe
July 19, 2013
Exercise Rapid Trident 2013 comes to a close
By Maj. Mike Weisman, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs
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Several of the forces rotating through the situational training lanes were formed into multinational companies consisting of one or more platoons from one nation combined with troops from other nations, under a single company commander.

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode161 -
War Games, David Kelly, Drug Deaths
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Neo-fascist Denver oil heir/billionaire Philip Anschutz owns 2 far right propaganda sheets in DC, the Weekly Standard and the Washington Examiner (which failed as a newspaper as of June 14 and is currently just a bizarre right-wing blog). Anschutz, who is being sued for his role in the death of Michael Jackson, is obsessed with homosexuality and pours countless millions of dollars into destroying the lives of gay men and women.

Press TV – July 19, 2013

The Iranian Oil Ministry says Tehran and Baghdad have agreed to explore and develop oil and gas fields lying along the common border between the neighboring OPEC members, Press TV reports.
The ministry added that the two sides have agreed to work together to settle territorial and ownership differences.

In a recent post, I noted the discrepancy between the UK Met OFfice contribution to IPCC AR5 and observations (as many others have observed), a discrepancy that is also evident in the “initialized” decadal forecast using the most recent model (HadGEM3). I thought that it would be interesting to examine the HadGEM2 hindcast to see if there are other periods in which there might have been similar discrepancies. (Reader Kenneth Fritsch has mentioned that he’s been doing similar exercises.)

On 911 WTC Towers 1, 2 and 7 almost completely disappeared except for one small corner of the 47 story WTC 7 building. It is a fact that these buildings did turn into dust. Science must account for that fundamental fact. There exists somewhere the ability to direct energy to disrupt the bonds of matter. This technology could be used for free energy. The Towers did not collapse. Dr Wood says the Towers were turned into dust in mid air by a Directed Energy weapon. But her conclusion that Directed Energy was used is not why I am posting her latest video.

RT
July 19, 2013
Kerry vows to put the screws to Venezuela over Snowden – report

US Secretary of State John Kerry has reportedly promised his Venezuelan counterpart to close NATO airspace to the country’s flights and stop crucial oil product deliveries if Caracas grants asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

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.

Nearly 12 years after the 9/11 attack, virtually every single element of national security policy – from the occupation of Afghanistan, to the drone war, to a massive NSA surveillance apparatus, to a defense budget that outpaces the rest of the world combined – is justified by citing terrorism as a threat. Together these policies amount to trillions of dollars, the decay of the rule of law, rampant government criminality, and the evisceration of the the constitutional rights of millions of Americans.
What does this terrorist threat really amount to though?

Nick Ruiz is a dedicated progressive and lifelong environmentalist running for the central Florida congressional seat currently held by GOP hack John Mica. Blue America has endorsed Nick and if you'd like to contribute to his campaign, you can do it on this Act Blue page.

Welcome to edition of New World Next Week http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the news series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Russia Amasses ‘Full Combat Readiness’ Strategic Bombers
http://ur1.ca/eox8e
Russia in largest war games since Soviet era
http://ur1.ca/eox8q
Turkish F-16 fighter crashes near Syria, killing pilot

U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
June 18, 2013
Polish air force identifies strategic need for US Av-Det
By Staff Sgt. Daryl Knee
52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs

Several of the 48 F-16s purchased by Poland in the nation’s largest-ever arms expenditure.

Secretary of State John Kerry has now gone to Israel-Palestine six times in five months in an attempt to restart negotiations between the two parties. One wonders what in the world he is saying in these private, one-on-one meetings.

Either Christ will be supreme or the devil. The sodomites will never tolerate us as we have, unfortunately, tolerated and now legalized their anal sex and raised it to respectability in a legal farce which designates it as the state of matrimony. The queen of England, the head of the Church of England, ratified homosexual matrimony this week.Where are the millions of Christians to take to the streets in protest?

Why have Edward Snowden’s actions resonated so powerfully for so many people?
Portrait of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Click for expanded image. (Painted by Robert Shetterly for his Americans Who Tell The Truth Project)

November 20, 2012

 UK MP and Israel critic David Ward is suspended from party
 
David Ward has been suspended from the Lib Dems
by Stuart Littlewood  -  Intifada Palestine

Israel lobby draws the ‘red lines’ and dictates ‘precise terms’ for future Liberal Democrat debate, apparently

RT | July 19, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry has reportedly promised his Venezuelan counterpart to close NATO airspace to the country’s flights and stop crucial oil product deliveries if Caracas grants asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

By W. T. WHITNEY | CounterPunch | July 19, 2013

Tuesday saw two very important Senate votes. First came Harry Reid's cloture vote to end the nearly two year-long GOP filibuster of Richard Cordray's nomination to be Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The Republicans and their Wall Street masters don't want consumers protected from banksters and they oppose the Bureau itself and have blocked Cordray's appointment for that reason rather than because they found anything wrong with Cordray himself.

Press TV
July 19, 2013
‘US military machine out of control’
AUDIO
The “military machine” of the United States is “out of control” as it is spreading its military tentacles throughout the Asia-Pacific region amid a massive and unprecedented series of war games in Australia, an antiwar activist says.
Approximately 20,000 US troops descended on Australia’s east coast for a joint military exercise this week in the biggest such exercise to date.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

Louis Aragon: Children scattering flowers will some day scatter deadly flowers, grenades

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle | Sudan Tribune | July 18, 2013

ADDIS ABABA – European Union lawmakers on Wednesday criticised the African Union (AU) and Nigeria for allowing Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir to attend a special summit on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria held in Abuja.
The EU delegation held talks with AU and Ethiopian officials on a number of national and continental concerns, as part of an official visit to Ethiopia.

RT | July 18, 2013

The FBI has reviewed thousands of criminal cases and suspects that 27 death penalty convictions may have been secured by using faulty and exaggerated testimonies that may have wrongfully linked defendants to crimes.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode067 - Temporary Paradise which features brand new sounds from Jonny Fritz, La Vida Boheme, Low,

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Osama Files, Subway Psyops, Save The Bees

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With arms tied down and feet shackled, Yasiin Bey writhes in anguish as a feeding tube is shoved into his right nostril. Groaning in extreme discomfort as his handlers push the tube deeper, Bey – better known as Mos Def – breaks into sobs as he begs for the torment to stop. “This is me, [...]

The European Union has proposed new guidelines for how it will do business with the state of Israel that will require any Israeli entity seeking funding or cooperation from the E.U. to submit a declaration that it has no links to any of the occupied territories. Any agreement between the E.U. and Israel would need [...]

Jimmy Carter is making waves: "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,” he told a meeting of the American Bridge, held in Atlanta, when asked about Edward Snowden’s exposure of Washington’s secret global surveillance system. Looks like the only outlet that covered the meeting was Der Spiegel, but word is [...]

Kelly Services, a temp agency, is now the second biggest private employer in the U.S. Only heavily subsidized, socially-toxic Walmart employs more people across the country. Last month, Michael Grabell filed this report for Pro Publica on the state of the temporary work in America.

Getting to the top of a Congressional committee with foreign policy implications is reserved mostly for the lunatic hawks, and Congressmen who are reasonable are usually anonymous.
But maybe a little less anonymous today, after 118 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter calling for talks with incoming Iranian President Hassan Rohani.

At least five Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded. An unknown number of people were wounded at a mosque south of Baghdad as well.

Larken Rose, the author of The Most Dangerous Superstition, joins us today on the program to explore the linkages between statism and religion. Is a belief in governmental authority analogous to religious belief? Or is it simply a religious belief in and of itself? If so, how best can we break the news to the dogmatic adherents of the religion of government that their god doesn’t exist?

See anything you like? Make 'em an offer. (Feel free to low-ball.)"The best analogy I have heard for what is happening in Detroit is that this is a five-decade Katrina. Now, you either get a voluntary agreement from people holding long-term debt, or you get bankruptcy."-- Peter Hammer, Wayne State University law professorand director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rightsby KenThe news is pretty stark.

Lib Dems suspend David Ward as MP over Israel tweet

By Dan Joyner | Arms Control Law | July 13, 2013

I’ll try to stay calm as I write this. I’ll try.

Why the Prawer Plan Is Just a Continuation of the Nakba
Bedouins take part in a protest in the southern city of Beersheba REUTERS/Amir Cohen
by Yousef Munayyer
The Nakba is not a moment in time. The Nakba is an ongoing process.

RT | July 18, 2013

A former station chief with the CIA has been detained in Panama after being on the run from Italian police for more than a decade.

By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | July 18, 2013

(Photo Credit: Pete Souza / White House)

Political scuttlebutt in Santa Clarita is that Buck McKeon is busy sucking up all the benefits of political corruption available and setting himself up as an armaments lobbyist this session and that he won't run against Lee Rogers again in 2014. Rogers came closer to beating him last year than anyone else in McKeon's whole career. And that was without any help from the DCCC.

By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | July 16, 2013

 UPDATE BELOW: SYRIA'S "REBEL" COMMANDER HEADING TO THE USand news of a report from the "FSA" that Assad transferred chemical weapons.... (Of course this pack of lies originates in Israeli media. It does however present a very convenient lie that can be used against Syria, Lebanon &Iran)scroll down The refugees begging is over the top. So, I will save it for last. (before updates) Along with the picture of John KerryTorStar

I’m shocked – shocked! – that Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge who ruled in February that Bradley Manning could be tried on various charges even after being held prior to arraignment for more than five times the absolute longest time specified in the US Armed Forces’ “speedy trial” rules, has now also ruled that Manning can be convicted of aiding an enemy that does not exist.