RT | July 18, 2013
The widening of the spiral of fear and increasing demand for ‘protection’ creates an international protection racket cartel indistinguishable, only in that they call themselves ‘legal’, from organized criminal gangs.
Why Janet Napolitano Should Fit Right In
Another entitled multimillionaire in Congress undermining the lives of ordinary AmericansIf you caught the post Monday about how the DCCC recruits too many damned millionaires who have no way of relating to ordinary working families, you may have noticed that Maryland multimillionaire backbencher John Delaney spent $2,370,556 last year to buy himself a seat, the third most among the wealthy Democ
Consortium News | July 18, 2013
The mainstream U.S. news media has been chuckling over the “irony” of NSA leaker Edward Snowden asking asylum from Latin American countries purported to suppress press freedom. But the smugness misses both the complex realities abroad and the U.S. government’s own assaults on information, says a group of scholars.
An Open Letter to the Media:
A lot of people are up in arms over the announcement that Liz Cheney, daughter of war criminal Dick Cheney, will run against fellow Republican Mike Enzi for his Senate seat in Wyoming. Republicans are upset because it’s uncouth for a Republican to challenge an incumbent Republican in a primary. Democrats are revolted because, well, she’s a Cheney.
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:
MEMO | July 18, 2013
Maariv newspaper has revealed that the Israeli-run Jerusalem municipality has started to develop plans for tourist hotels and related facilities on parts of the historic Ma’man Allah Cemetery in the holy city. The hotels and buildings are to be built in the south-central section of the cemetery, opposite the so-called Museum of Tolerance, which is also being built in the cemetery.
Al-Akhbar | July 18, 2013
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied Thursday previous reports stating that Israel had agreed to a proposed formula for new peace talks with the Palestinians under which the border of their future state would be along lines that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.
On April 29, 2009, the House passed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, 249-175, 18 Republican abandoning their hate-filled and bigoted leaders, crossing the aisle and voting with the Democrats. Boehner, Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy were against the bill and they had support from 17 of the most racist and conservative Democrats in the House:
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
July 18, 2013
Basic Mountain Training Summer Course
The final phase of the Basic Mountain Training Summer Course is underway in the Sachkhere Mountain Training School under the NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PFP) program.
18 military servicemen of the Ukraine, Jordan and Egypt are invited to course.
Trainings will continue until July 19.
GigaOM
July 18, 2013
Are there really two PRISMs, or just one PRISM with NATO involvement?
By David Meyer
Nowhere (U.S. aside) is PRISM a hotter topic than in Germany. With the issue proving central to upcoming elections, some pretty wild claims are flying around — and the rest of the world should take note.
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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
RT | July 17, 2013
The FBI has ordered a Florida medical examiner’s office not to release the autopsy report of a Chechen man who was killed during an FBI interview in May over his ties to one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers.
In this conversation recorded for RT’s Truthseeker program on July 3rd, 2013, Daniel Bushell interviews James Corbett about boycotts as a tool of political resistance. From modern movements like the Big Tech boycott and the Big Food boycott to their historical parallels in the Indian boycott of British goods and the Montgomery Bus boycott, James explains how people can change the course of society by refusing to buy the goods of the globalist mega-corporations.
As President Barack Obama arrived in Berlin last month to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg gate, many Germans were already expressing concern about revelations of NSA spying. Little did they know that they were viewing the tip of the iceberg and that tensions in the Atlantic alliance would continue to escalate to unimaginable heights. [...]
It is sometimes easy to forget that the principal function of government, like any other organism, is to protect itself. In a perfect world a regime that has erred egregiously would admit to its mistake, apologize to the public, and make corrections to prevent any recurrence. By that measure, the United States should have long [...]
Following the amendment of a long-standing US law, people in this country will now be exposed to news which is produced by the US government. On Jul. 2, a change to the US Information and Educational Exchange Act, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act, came into effect, reversing a ban on the State Department and [...]
A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature. According to WHO, 10,800 households were selected as a sample size for the study, which was scheduled to be released early this year but has not [...]
When I was president of Reprise Records I hired a guy to be the first online promotion man in the music business. People thought it was the funniest, kookiest thing they had ever heard. Online was just some silly gimmick that would never take off. The reaction was as if I had hired someone to be a promotion man for Mars, Venus and the moon... you know, just in case.
Iraqis seeking relief from the summer heat have become easy targets for insurgents. Swimmers were again targeted today, as well as Iraqis taking evening breaks at cafes. At least 30 were killed and 42 more were wounded.
Is Duck Duck Go a good alternative to Google and Bing? Does Duck Duck Go keep their users anonymous? Has Duck Duck Go ever had their users search information requested by the government? Join Ben …
Press TV – July 17, 2013
Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi has dismissed reports quoting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that Tehran may be sending weapons to Syria through Iraq’s airspace.
Tanjug News Agency
July 17, 2013
General Ljubisa Dikovic met with NATO General Mieczyslaw Bieniek
Some of NATO’s handiwork in 1999
Time for another news round up. Let’s see what I was able to corral ? Going long I can't get over how often Ireland comes up in relation to the destabilization of the Middle East.They seem an odd affiliate on the surface, but, scratch just a bit deeper............Irish troops are going to Golan as part of UN forceDoes anyone find that odd? Suspicious?
Dawn
July 17, 2014
Nato aircraft violate Pakistani airspace
Zahir Shah Sherazi
PESHAWAR: Two aircraft of Nato forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday evening violated airspace of neighbouring Pakistan by infiltrating into its boundaries by several kilometers.
Intelligence sources told Dawn.com that the aircraft penetrated into the Pakistani airspace through Pak-Afghan Torkham border.
Social Security is the most popular government program in the history of America. But elites have always hated it and have always tried to undermine and destroy it. We can't kill the elites but we must stop them from killing Social Security. Before Paul Ryan began clamoring to cut Social Security, mainstream Republicans had been too scared to touch the "third rail" of American politics.
In yesterday’s post, I observed that Nature’s recent news article on Met Office decadal forecasts failed to show the most recent Met Office decadal forecast and that its inclusion would not have permitted the Nature headline. I also showed the large change from the Met Office submission to IPCC AR5 and their current decadal forecast. Asked to comment by Anthony Watts, Richard Betts of the Met Office did not explain why the Met Office either signed off on or had not objected to the omission of their most recent forecast.
Henrik @ Red Ice Radio provide us with yet another great interviewThanks Henrik!
Stars and Stripes
July 17, 2013
20,000 US troops descend on Australia for training
By Matthew M. Burke
SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan: Talisman Saber 2013 — a joint U.S. and Australian military and humanitarian exercise — kicked off this week as approximately 20,000 U.S. troops descended on Australia’s east coast.
Dr Kelly Inquest Campaign
TENTH ANNIVERSARY SILENT PROTEST
ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE,
THURSDAY 18th JULYb 2013
2pm PHOTOCALL
Interviewer: What is the difference between the occult philosophy and the Christian philosophy at its most fundamental point?Michael Hoffman: I would answer that there are two fundamental differences that come to mind as being most striking.1. The occult will have man play God. Man is a god. Human brain power reigns supreme and has license to tamper with Creation.
You're not going to find anyone in Congress more corrupt than Buck McKeon. True, there are quite a few as corrupt-- on both sides of the aisle-- but no one is more corrupt. He's way up there in the top ranks of major league criminals like John Boehner (R-OH), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm, Fred Upton (R-MI)...
RT | July 16, 2013
Police in Detroit, Michigan have launched an internal investigation after a Detroit Free Press photographer was detained for filming a group of officers as they arrested a suspect on a public street on Thursday, July 11.
In debating a U.S. intervention in Syria, there has been a lot of talk about whether or not it would be comparable to Iraq. Advocates of intervention say “Syria is not Iraq,” and argue we have “over-learned the lessons of Iraq.” Opponents, like myself, say Syria is like Iraq and a direct military intervention would be a similarly catastrophic experience.
PressTVGlobalNews | June 24, 2013
The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has shocked the world and drawn attention to rising Islamophobia in Asia. Now Muslims in Sri Lanka are under dire threat as well.
The similarities with Myanmar are striking and foreboding. Buddhist monks are at the forefront of the rising hatred, the government is taking sides against Muslims and attacks have begun.
I was positively giddy after I started getting to know Maryland sate Rep. Heather Mizeur. She was like the ideal candidate and I could barely contain my enthusiasm. Few candidates for political office are this perfect and she told me she would be running for governor of Maryland.
Nile BowieRussia TodayAs figures in Egypt’s powerful military collude with the political opposition to form a civilian interim government, what kind of political and economic solutions will the new regime offer, and is Washington’s hidden hand at play?Political polarization has reached new heights in Egypt following the dramatic overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
July 16, 2013
Ukraine modernising its military education
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So far, DEEPs [Defence Education Enhancement Programmes] have been set up with Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Initially, the Alliance’s education and training programmes focused on increasing interoperability between NATO and partner forces.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts of brass and feet of clay
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Stendhal
From The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff
Today we’re joined once again by author and researcher Douglas Valentine of DouglasValentine.com to talk about his article “Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up?” We discuss his little-known experience as a Pentagon observer to the CIA’s Revolutionary Development (RD) Program in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, the cast of disreputable CIA officers, drug runners and murderers that he was involved with there, and the accusation that the C
EU to bar all member states from funding Israeli settlements
A 27 February 2013 files photo shows laborers working on the construction of home in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in Israeli annexed Arab East Jerusalem. (Photo: AFP – Menahem Kahana)
An EU directive will bar all 28 member states from dealings with Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem, sparking attacks from Israeli officials Tuesday.
It’s hard even to know how to take it in. I mean, what’s really happening? An employee of a private contractor working for the National Security Agency makes off with unknown numbers of files about America’s developing global security state on a thumb drive and four laptop computers, and jumps the nearest plane to Hong [...]
Both the Muslim Brotherhood and its liberal opponents are using U.S. policy toward Egypt as a whipping boy to rally support for their respective causes during the current turmoil in that country. Liberal demonstrations have claimed that the Obama administration had supported the Brotherhood and its former President Mohamed Morsi. Yet the Brotherhood has claimed [...]
Edward Snowden’s flight to freedom is being watched the world over as a contest of wills between one very determined person and the mightiest empire in world history: so far, Snowden is winning. His personal victory, however, may be short-lived, as he runs up against what may be an insuperable wall: Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Blocked [...]
