Monster and maker meet again.

Editor’s Note: The following article comes to us from our friends at Strategic Relocation and has been contributed by well known relocation specialist Joel Skousen. As is usually the case with Mr. Skousen’s highly informative briefs, this one touches on some key points to be digested by anyone looking to leave the big city in search of greener…

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters begged Neil Young to cancel July 17 Tel Aviv concert ; it’s been cancelled, not by Young…..Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Neil Young concert in Tel Aviv cancelled by police as Roger Waters urged Young to cancel it
–Israel’s pounding of Gaza continues, sometimes every 5 minutes
–as Hamas launches a drone into Israel, claims of Israel’s near-perfect missile defense are hard to believe

U.S. Department of Defense
July 14, 2014
DoD Official Outlines Issues for September’s NATO Summit
By Nick Simeone
WASHINGTON: As NATO prepares for a summit in September, a senior Defense Department official today characterized the alliance as being at a turning point, with questions emerging about the kinds of missions it should take on post-Afghanistan, appropriate levels of defense spending by its members, and whether NATO publics will question the alliance’s relevance going forward.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Charles Yale Harrison: War’s whispered reminder, you must come back to my howling madness

Three of the four Hawaii state senators who voted against marriage equality last year: Mike Gabbard, Donna Kim, Sam SlomLast Thursday night, backward and reactionary congressional candidate Donna Kim told PBS Hawaii viewers she opposes marriage equality based on her Catholic faith.

 
FB link to 40 seconds of intense bombing on the densely-inhabited Gaza City.Filed under: Israel war on Gaza, Israeli attacks on Gaza

 Apologies readers... I misread the date, but, am leaving this posted anyway.Feel free to leave info and comment regarding today's incident, which still features the usual contradictory reports. Then I will update this post accordinglyAgain, my apologies.All kinds of contradictory news about this incident. I tend to think the shot that downed the plane was fired from anti-fascist held territory. That fact won't stop Kiev's fascist from suggesting otherwiseNYT's Europe

By Marcellene Hearn | ACLU | July 14, 2014 Last month, a military judge dealt a significant blow to U.S. prosecutors’ efforts to suppress torture evidence in the Guantanámo military commissions. In a ruling in the U.S.S. Cole case, unsealed last week, Judge James Pohl told prosecutors they must hand over CIA black site information […]

TweetUpdate Libya -July 14, 2014 - Direct From a Libyan National
Why the International Airport of Tripoli Closed down for three days .

Press TV – July 14, 2014 The Pentagon hopes to fund a much more reliable “kill vehicle,” or warhead, for the homeland missile system. Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s top arms purchaser, said decisions had not been finalized on whether to upgrade the existing warheads, built by Raytheon Co., or design a new one, […]

Statistics of #Israel ongoing aggression on #Gaza till yesterday (day 6) by EuroMid ! #GazaUnderAttack #GazaUnderFire
Omar Ghraeib: Day 5-6 of Israeli aggression on Gaza: 172+ killed, 1150+ injured

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh · Muslim Girl · 7.09.14 Bret Stephens penned a column last week in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Where are the Palestinian Mothers?” in which he makes the racist assertion, based on conversations he’s had with three individual women, that all Palestinian mothers raise their children to become “martyrs.” The thing that Stephens […]

I'm not sure when Rick Perlstein started writing his new book, The Invisible Bridge-- The Fall Of Reagan And The Rise Of Reagan, but I'll guess it was at least a year or two before Boehner came up with his lame-brained idea to sue President Obama. In it, though, is a pretty powerful reminder of just what an imperial presidency was, replete with the kind of overstepping of boundaries of which Boehner is accusing Obama.

I have been warning people that their children could be at risk when they go back to school because illegal alien children have been exposing Americans at the borders and at summer schools to active TB, swine flu, lice, scabies and Chagas. Scabies and Chagas are parasitical diseases. Chagas can swell the heart ventricle and can be fatal. The Corporate Media has not issued a travel advisory warning passengers on buses and planes that they are being exposed to diseases that can drastically change their lives. We have already had active cases of TB at two California schools.

People gathering to watch live bombing of Gaza – should make us all uncomfortableSpeaking for myself, I cannot view violence on tell-a-vision or in movies. To sit and watch people being killed in real life, as if it is entertainment, is beyond my moral comprehensionWhat does this tell us about the mindset of Israelis, engaging in such egregious behaviour? 

The map of a truncated Florida, above, is famous already. People who are alive today will have beachfront property in Orlando. It isn't just the Florida Keys that will disappear under the ways. So will every inch-- or in a few cases, almost ever inch-- of the congressional districts currently represented by-- in order of who prioritizes Global Warming most:

During Operation Brother’s Keeper, Palestinians reported numerous incidents of looting by Israeli soldiers. Here’s the first case we documented By Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din | July 13, 2014 During Operation Brother’s Keeper, Israeli soldiers invaded thousands of houses in the West Bank, on the pretext of looking for the kidnapped teenagers. These raids allow […]

Israel claims it is warning civilians about missile strikes by “roof knocking.” Israeli army spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner made that claim to a credulous Wolf Blitzer last night on CNN. We tap harmlessly on roofs, he said, so the residents can leave.
Max Blumenthal just tweeted the video above:
See how Israel “warns” Gazans it is going to bomb their homes and imagine the terror.

Cessation of the incremental genocide in Gaza and the restitution of the basic human and civil rights of Palestinians wherever they are, including the right of return, is the only way to open a new vista for a productive international intervention in the Middle East as a whole.
The post Israel’s incremental genocide in the Gaza ghetto appeared first on BSNEWS.

By Jonathon Cook | July 14, 2014 Three Israeli suspects who have confessed to the gruesome killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was abducted in East Jerusalem and later burnt to death, are going to plead “temporary insanity”, according to Haaretz. Mohammed’s father guessed as much last week, when asked whether he trusted Israel’s […]

Occupation Law prohibits an occupying power from initiating armed force against its occupied territory. By mere virtue of the existence of military occupation, an armed attack, including one consistent with the UN Charter, has already occurred and been concluded. Therefore the right of self-defense in international law is, by definition since 1967, not available to Israel with respect to its dealings with real or perceived threats emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip population.

Thanks to Jan @ Gnostic Media for providing us with this very, very informative and thought provoking interview. The explanation of how we conceive of reality.. how the brain interprets the world, through more then just the 5 senses was quite, quite enlightening. Enjoyable, thought provoking & informative. Certainly got me thinking!

(These are the companies assisting the funding of the Palestinian genocide by the Israeli Defense Force)AOLAPAX partners + Co.ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUBCOCA COLADANONEDELTA GALILDISNEYESTEE’ LAUDERHOME DEPOTIBMINTELJOHNSON + JOHNSONKIMBERLY-CLARKLEWIS TRUST

By Chris Rossini | Ron Paul Institute | July 10, 2014 If you’re a non-interventionist, neocon Michael Ledeen has some news for you. Don’t get too excited about a nuclear deal with Iran: First, our problems with Iran go way beyond the nuclear deal. If we could wave a magic wand and cause the entire […]

First, my apologies for not being able to post the RANT much earlier.  For someone still unemployed, I lead a very busy, controversial family life where there always is a crisis occurring.  Mainly, due in part to my daughter who is very close to my mother and I.  She is my only child and will be 32 in October.  I also have two very active, precocious grandsons who will be 6 and 4 in a few short weeks.  Along with my son-in-law who is a Firefighter, they live two minutes away, which

For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. The rockets being fired from Gaza clearly do have the effect of raising the level of hysteria within Israel. However, not only have the dozens of Grads […]

The media hates Republicans, and so naturally they’re elevating Texas Governor Rick Perry to the status of a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender who must be taken seriously. After his last embarrassing run – embarrassing not only for him, but for the much-maligned state of Texas (see the video above) – one would think he’d […]

July 10, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - When the special interests who created and direct the agenda of the European Union disagree with member states, the true nature of this supranational enterprise becomes painfully apparent - one of dictatorial special interests pursing regional policy that benefits none of its individual member states.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode118 - Lovely Day which features brand new sounds from Sante Les Amis, Bill Withers and Studio Rio, AJ Davila,

Image above: Right-wing nationalists attack a central Tel Aviv protest against Israel’s bombing of Gaza on Saturday, 12 July.(Oren Ziv / ActiveStills
 
 

Though many of the most salient questions about his corruption have never been addressed, Republican former-congressman/DWT star Duke Cunningham is out of prison. Apparently, we will never find out what happened to the $400,000 Thomas "Gus" Kontogiannis gave Cunningham to pay off George W. Bush for a pardon.

Despite a Sunni attempt to move forward in creating a new government, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki effectively destroyed hope for a quick resolution. Without a solid government in place and strong leadership for the military forces, Iraq will certainly fall further into chaos. At least 105 people died today and 39 more were injured.

...Palestinians expressed anger over the previous day’s Israeli strikes on a center for people with disabilities and on a home in an attack that killed 17 members of one extended family....the funeral on Sunday (July 13) for the 17 relatives who died in a bombing late Saturday (July 12) when Israel tried to kill Gen. Tayseer al-Batsh, the Hamas police chief.

1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
1790 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

Just wanted to let everyone know that, yes, Sunday's "RANT" is a bit late, obviously.I guess I'm just a little intimidated taking over for NTS these next few weeks because I know what his readers have come to expect and I hope to meet just a few of those expectations.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-07-13%20Truth%20Over%20Comfort.mp3"][/audio]James Corbett joins Carlos Morales on the Truth Over Comfort podcast to discuss the history and development of eugenics. From its ideological origins in the 19th century British gentry to its adoption and application in the United States in the sterilization laws of the 20th century, we discuss the past, present and future of the eugenics-obsessed elite.

 PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) Executive Committee member Dr.

Central Mongolia is where Tim began his 6000-mile westward horseback journey across the steppe to the Danube. With both Russia to the north and the Chinese "autonomous" province of Xinjiang to the south closed to a foreigner in 2004, he continued into giant Kazakhstan, the second-largest of the former Soviet republics (after Russia).

by Judith Curry
Some thoughts on the UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science Report:  Time for Change?

Israel’s use of internationally banned weapons is a blatant violation of human rights and international agreements,” said Youssef Abo al-Rish, Palestinian Health Ministry Undersecretary.

By Laurent Guyénot | Voltaire Net | May 29, 2013 The neoconservative movement, which is generally perceived as a radical (rather than “conservative”) Republican right, is, in reality, an intellectual movement born in the late 1960s in the pages of the monthly magazine Commentary, a media arm of the American Jewish Committee, which had replaced […]

Last February we looked at the possibility-- which seemed remote-- that former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards would run for Congress. And here we are, 5 months later, and he's in the middle of a free-for-all contesting the open seat-- incumbent Bill Cassidy is running against Mary Landrieu for Senate-- in LA-06 (a blatantly ethnically-cleansed Baton Rouge plus Thibodaux).

BBC News
July 13, 2014
Ukraine conflict: Fighting flares near city of Luhansk
Fighting has flared outside the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Luhansk, with rebels saying government forces tried to storm the city with tanks.
Rebel military leader Igor Strelkov was quoted as saying his forces had beaten off columns of government armour attacking from the south and west.
Pro-Ukrainian sources in the city of 425,000 people reported skirmishes in villages to the south and west.
‘Seventy tanks’

Press TV interview:

Xinhua News Agency
July 13, 2014
Russia vows “tough response” after Ukraine’s border shelling
MOSCOW: A cross-border shell fired from Ukraine was an indication of dangerous escalation of tension in border areas and might have irreversible consequences, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
The response came after local authorities confirmed the death of one Russian citizen after a Ukrainian shell hit Russia’s Rostov region earlier Sunday.

Xinhua News Agency
July 13, 2014
Bulgarian-U.S. landing drill kicks off near Plovdiv
SOFIA” A joint exercise involving Bulgarian special operations forces and U.S. C-130J Hercules aircraft started on Sunday near Plovdiv, some 150 km southeast of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
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George Bernard Shaw
From Preface to Heartbreak House (1919)

The Sufferings of the Sane

Interesting tidbit- 

 CNN, Jake Tapper interviews Diana Buttu, a former advisor to the PLO.  After failing to persuade her of Israel’s complete innocence, he tells her that Hamas is instructing women and children to remain in their homes to die as Israel bombs them. She responds by expressing doubt that people want to die.  Oh no, says Tapper, Palestinians live in a culture of martyrdom; they want to die.