NATO Marks Decade Of Military Penetration Of Persian Gulf
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
December 11, 2014
NATO Secretary General hails Gulf partnerships in Qatar
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
December 11, 2014
NATO Secretary General hails Gulf partnerships in Qatar
CounterPunch
December 12, 2014
Operation Trident Lance
Is Kaliningrad NATO’s Real Target?
By Diana Johnstone
Rick Rozoff’s vitally informative site, Stop NATO, just forwarded a Stars and Stripes report on “NATO’s largest training exercise since the end of the Cold War”.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Richard Aldington: Pools and ponds of blood, the huge black dogs of hell
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Richard Aldington
The Blood of the Young Men (1919)
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Image: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas | Photo: Reuters
In response to the Israeli army killing of a Palestinian minister, Palestinian officials expressed anger and grief.
Originally posted at TomDispatch. There’s finally good news when it comes to the renewal of the Faith. I’m talking, of course, about the nuclear faith. In case you happen to have forgotten, that’s the Cold War belief that a U.S. arsenal big enough to destroy several Earth-sized planets and on a hair-trigger alert remains crucial […]
“I want you to listen to me,” said George Tenet lunging forward from his chair, his index finger outstretched and pointed menacingly at CBS’ Scott Pelley, “We don’t torture people; we don’t torture people; we don’t torture people; we don’t torture people; we don’t torture people!” Appearing on “60 Minutes” on April 29, 2007, to […]
The number of Arbaeen pilgrims in Karbala this year has reached a record-breaking 17.5 million. Despite the huge numbers, very few attacks have been reported. Still, 182 people were killed in recent attacks and fighting. Another seven were wounded.
As close to prison as Cheney will ever getDespite our best hopes, of course there is no chance Cheney or any of his criminally-minded torturers will be held accountable form anything in the Torture Report. And there's no chance the Wall Street banksters will be held accountable for pillaging the economy.
Does everyone remember when USAID created that “Cuban Twitter” and paid all those guys to start agitating for regime change on it? What if that wasn’t even the most ridiculous thing USAID was doing in Cuba at the time?
Israel’s killing and maiming of tens if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese and other Arabs in the mid-east since its creation in 1948 has yet to be matched by the likes of ISIS and affiliated groups. In addition to its direct victims, Israel is also to blame for much of America’s bloodletting in the region, principally the war in Iraq whose “American” masterminds in both propaganda and policy-making were by and large Jewish-Zionist dual-citizens with passionate links to the regime in Tel Aviv.
The mascot of the Australian Skeptics. Climate-science disinformers don't qualify as "skeptics," say these 48 prominent scientists and thinkers, because they aren't interested in evidence -- just denial."Proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. It is foundational to the scientific method.
This month on the Geneva Business Insider, James and David discuss the results of the Swiss gold referendum, the Netherlands gold repatriation, the empty Ukrainian gold vaults, Russia’s gold buying spree, and the plunging price of oil.
by Planning Engineer
Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources.
This story, from Washington Post today, caught my eye. Reading the piece linked below it is clear that Washington Post is spinning this as that "learned helplessness" theory created by Seligman. But this one tiny paragraph suggests so much more. What happened to the man specifically mentioned below goes well beyond 'learned helplessness' It would only make sense that there were several more experiments going on besides 'learned helplessness' . It appears as if learned helplessness is the one being acknowledged.
Brinksmanship, backroom deals, delay tactics, and DeLay’s tactics in budget vote, stark preview of GOP muscle in next Congress....
--modest NSA reforms were secretly deleted from final spending bill
--remarkable, lengthy story in The Guardian reveals that US-run prisons in Iraq were the “factory” where IS was formed—17 of 25 top dogs in IS are former prisoners
--Under fire to resign, CIA director Brennan offers lame excuses, denials
Tuesday the House passed David Valadao's misleadingly-named California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014, 230-182. It was co-sponsored by 6 clueless right-wing California Republican ideologues, Ken Calvert, Paul Cook, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Tom McClintock and Devin Nunes, plus the most right-wing fake Democrat in the California delegation, Blue Dog Jim Costa.
Desecrating cultural and religious monuments is normal Greenpeace behaviour.
Yesterday's NY Times has a rather thin account of the civilian contractors (James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen) who are alleged to be architects of the CIA’s torture program. Here’s a more in-depth exposé from a local newspaper in Spokane, Wash. where the “psychologist” thugs were based.
Judy Curry recently noted that Phil Jones’ 2014 temperature index (recently the subject of major adjustments in methodology) might be a couple of hundredths of degree higher than a few years ago and alerted her readers to potential environmental NGO triumphalism. Unsurprisingly, it has also been observed in response that the hiatus continues in full force for the satellite records, with 1998 remaining the warmest satellite year by a considerable margin.
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...Discussed:-What is archeology?-What are crypto-archeology and pseudo-archeology?-The short history of archeology-Why is archeology important?
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...
It is that time of year again where our governments are pushing people to go out and get their seasonal "flu shots".... I was just at the local store/pharmacy the other day, and again I saw a small queue of people lined up like brain dead sheep ready to obediently, like lemmings, roll up their sleeves and allow poisonous and deadly "vaccines" to enter their bodies....
The redacted, but still horrifying, Torture Report that the Senate Intelligence Committee released Tuesday, isn't the same as the stunning revelations that Senator Mark Udall made on the Senate floor yesterday. The disclosure of portions of an internal CIA review, the so-called Panetta Review, by Udall was absolutely riveting-- and stunning. The review backs up the Senate report and puts to the lie all the Cheney, Yoo, Hayden apologist palaver dominating corporate media since the release Tuesday.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
December 9, 2014
North Atlantic Council in Jordan: Mediterranean Dialogue is ‘more important than ever’
I am a very disgusted Northerntruthseeker these days... We have witnessed over the last while the so called rioting in Ferguson Missouri where it should be obvious to everyone by now was fomented by agent provocateurs to basically raise hell and to have small mom and pop businesses in Ferguson itself burned to the ground to make room for a corporate strip mall....
On this week’s appearance on Financial Survival with Alfred Adask, James discusses the Senate report on CIA torture and what it says about the overturning (or revelation) of “American values” and the normalization of immorality. We also talk about the plummeting oil price and begin exploring its economic and geopolitical implications.
SHOW NOTES:
Senate report: Harsh CIA tactics didn’t work
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:
Story #1: FBI Report Accidentally Exposes the Severity of the Police State
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FBI Report On ‘Law Enforcement Officers Killed & Assaulted’ In 2013
http://ur1.ca/j047u
Story #2: Made In The USA – How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country
Kalle Lind och filmvetaren Mariah Larsson pratar i det fjärde avsnittet av Snedtänkt om varför porr var så populärt på sjuttiotalet.
Often in this space, the subject of militarized police comes up. The connection between America’s domestic cops and its war-making actions abroad is psychological, aesthetic, and literal. The country has a police force and a criminal justice system that react aggressively to minor or consensual criminal behavior, and even expressions of rights such as the […]
When the head of the CIA’s torture unit decided to destroy videotapes of his team’s horrific work, he unwittingly set in motion a series of events that led to the release this week of the most massive, detailed documentation of unlawful behavior by high-ranking government officials and intentional infliction of pain on noncombatants by the […]
At least 196 people were killed and 86 more were wounded.
It isn't easy to figure out who is the most corrupt politician in America. But it also isn't impossibleWe write about political corruption a lot here at DWT. Yesterday we saw the bipartisanship of corruption by looking at corrupt Cuomo Democrats in New York and corrupt oil-sell outs among Republican attorneys generals in red states like Oklahoma.
TweetToday a Libyan politician from the Tobruk Government named Al Feturi , who was acting like he is against the radical Islamists in Libya, was caught on camera meeting with a Muslim Brotherhood leader, Wajdi Guneem in Egypt. You can see in one of the photos that the Feturi attempts to cover his face but too late - he has been exposed!
The were caught on camera along with their Qatar co-conspirators.
TweetThere is no amount of scrub cleaner that you can apply to Khalifa Haftar to remove the stink of the CIA. Haftar is and always will be an underhanded, lying, traitor and operative of the US CIA.
Mark Matcho for ESPN The Magazine"Since 2005, North American municipalities have allocated more than $8 billion to stadium projects without so much as a public vote, says Tim Kellison, an assistant professor at the University of Florida studying stadium financing. 'A lot of it happens under the radar,' he says.
By Jay Syrmopoulos | The Free Thought Project | December 10, 2014 To date the most reliable data anyone has about law enforcement killings in the U.S. was the FBI’s statistics on homicides by law enforcement. But therein lies the problem. Those numbers are voluntarily given to the FBI by police, and many jurisdictions simply […]
U.S. Army Europe
December 9, 2014
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment to lead Land Forces in next Operation Atlantic Resolve rotation
By U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs
U.S. Air Force
December 10, 2014
Incirlik provides important NATO capability
By Jim Garamone
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey: Readiness is the main mission for Airmen stationed at this sprawling air base in southern Turkey, according to Col. Craig Wills, the commander of the 39th Air Base Wing here.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
December 10, 2014
NATO and Mediterranean partners discuss partnership, regional security with the King of Jordan
'Journey' is an overworked word these days, but I can think of none other to describe the making of a documentary film. Ten years ago, a film of mine could be made in six months, even less. The main work was the research, the journalism.Whenever I felt confident I had the basis of a 'story', I would go to the ITV Network in the UK and seek a broadcast commission. If that was forthcoming, ITV would fund the production.
Senate torture review is limited-hang-out, but sparks calls for prosecution, and purging the torture team from CIA, other agencies…..
--report confirms that CIA used bribes, deception to run torture programs, and asserts that Bush and other top officials were kept in the dark
--Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) calls on Obama to “purge his administration of high level officials” complicit in torture
--Feinstein deserves some credit for forcing this partial disclosure, but she should have known most of what CIA was foing, did not try to stop it
By this morning, progressives started signaling that they're not getting on board with the two corrupt Beltway party establishments' intention of using the last minute/must pass omnibus appropriations bill-- to keep the government open-- as an excuse for some especially ugly legislation they could otherwise not pass.
For three years Hawaiians lived under repressive Army rule and without any constitutional protections Police State USA HAWAII — Islanders suffered under nearly three years of martial law from 1941-1944; so oppressive that it was later described by a federal judge as a “military dictatorship.” All manner of civilian liberties were replaced by oppressive military […]
I think the British and the American governments for the past ten years have been protecting each other, and we know why - because George Bush and Tony Blair would have been implicated - they are all implicated.
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By Mark P. Fancher | Black Agenda Report | December 10, 2014 When news broke of the grand jury’s refusal to indict Eric Garner’s killer, Spike Lee told CNN interviewers that because the death was video recorded he remains hopeful that the U.S. Department of Justice investigation will produce the results thousands of protesters crave. […]
1294 – Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 – League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate.
1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.