The missing, ugly reality is that over the last 13 years, on average, one Palestinian child has been killed by Israel every 3 days. Since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, 1,523 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel's occupation forces. Over the same time period, 129 Israeli children have been killed. Thus, the ratio of Palestinian children to Israeli children killed is more than ten to one. You would be forgiven for not having the slightest inkling of this from Western media coverage.

Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
Ukrainian defense ministers claims 29 troops captured in southeast
A total of 29 Ukrainian troops have been captured by illegal armed groups in southeast Ukraine, Ukraine’s Acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval said.
“To date, 29 military hostages are in captivity,” Koval said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian side is doing all it can to secure their release, he added.
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Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
Ukrainian defense ministers claims 29 troops captured in southeast
A total of 29 Ukrainian troops have been captured by illegal armed groups in southeast Ukraine, Ukraine’s Acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval said.
“To date, 29 military hostages are in captivity,” Koval said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian side is doing all it can to secure their release, he added.
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GSK and it's filthy production facility in Canada kept on providing flu vaccine for human  beings in Canada and the US.-Salmonella with your flu vaccine, Canada? What other dirt has been dished up by GSK in recent years?Found an older interesting news article- Our drugs don't work on most people You will notice that hasn't stopped GSK from manufacturing acknowledged u

1566 – Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.

RT | July 2, 2014 Tony Blair has reportedly agreed to advise coup-appointed Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as part of a United Arab Emirates-funded program which promises lucrative “business opportunities” to those involved. Blair is set to give Sisi advise on economic reform in tandem with a UAE financed taskforce in Cairo, the Guardian […]

RT | July 2, 2014 Tony Blair has reportedly agreed to advise coup-appointed Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as part of a United Arab Emirates-funded program which promises lucrative “business opportunities” to those involved. Blair is set to give Sisi advise on economic reform in tandem with a UAE financed taskforce in Cairo, the Guardian […]

The BRICS Post | July 2, 2014 South Korea’s senior presidential secretary said on Wednesday that visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will exchange notes on detailed measures towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during their upcoming summit talks. Ju Chul-ki, senior foreign affairs and security advisor to Park, told […]

The BRICS Post | July 2, 2014 South Korea’s senior presidential secretary said on Wednesday that visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will exchange notes on detailed measures towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during their upcoming summit talks. Ju Chul-ki, senior foreign affairs and security advisor to Park, told […]

Press TV – July 1, 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened Iran with tightened sanctions and deepened isolation as he says time is running out for a “comprehensive” nuclear agreement with Iran. In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Monday, Kerry said failure to reach a comprehensive agreement over […]

Press TV – July 1, 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened Iran with tightened sanctions and deepened isolation as he says time is running out for a “comprehensive” nuclear agreement with Iran. In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Monday, Kerry said failure to reach a comprehensive agreement over […]

By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service | July 1, 2014 WASHINGTON — With only a few weeks remaining before the July 20 deadline, the Barack Obama administration issued a warning to Iran that it must accept deep cuts in the number of its centrifuges in order to demonstrate that its nuclear programme is only for peaceful […]

By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service | July 1, 2014 WASHINGTON — With only a few weeks remaining before the July 20 deadline, the Barack Obama administration issued a warning to Iran that it must accept deep cuts in the number of its centrifuges in order to demonstrate that its nuclear programme is only for peaceful […]

UNIAN
July 2, 2014
Avakov’s counselor: More than 1000 fighters eliminated in first days after truce
Counselor of the Interior Minister of Ukraine Zoryan Schkiryak states that on July 1, on the first day of antiterrorist operation after termination of the truce in Donbass the ATO forces caused considerable damage to separatists.

UNIAN
July 2, 2014
Avakov’s counselor: More than 1000 fighters eliminated in first days after truce
Counselor of the Interior Minister of Ukraine Zoryan Schkiryak states that on July 1, on the first day of antiterrorist operation after termination of the truce in Donbass the ATO forces caused considerable damage to separatists.

Yesterday everyone was hating on poor little Belgium. It was over that ballgame in Brazil. I'm not in the Ann Coulter camp or anything, but I just don't get any more excited about soccer than I do about baseball or football or bad mitten. And Belgium… well, I have to admit, was always fly-over country for me when I lived in Amsterdam and visited Paris as frequently as possible-- except I drove.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 30, 2014
Meeting with the U.S. Senate Advisors’ Delegation

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 30, 2014
Meeting with the U.S. Senate Advisors’ Delegation

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 28, 2014
Final Panel “Reinvigorating the Alliance at the 2014 NATO Summit”

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 28, 2014
Final Panel “Reinvigorating the Alliance at the 2014 NATO Summit”

As advertised in the National Post (shouldn't be a surprise)  Robert Fisk @ The Independent h/t NTS @NorthernTruthseeker for bringing this to my attention-

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Alexander Herzen: Selections on the military and war
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Alexander Herzen
From My Past and Thoughts
Translated by Constance Garnett

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Alexander Herzen: Selections on the military and war
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Alexander Herzen
From My Past and Thoughts
Translated by Constance Garnett

For the United States, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be over soon. We will leave behind, after our defeats, wreckage and death, the contagion of violence and hatred, unending grief, and millions of children who were brutalized and robbed of their childhood. Americans who did not suffer will forget. People maimed physically or psychologically by the violence, especially the Iraqi and Afghan children, will never escape. Time and memory will play their usual tricks. Those who endured war will begin to wonder, years from now, what was real and what was not.

History is an attempt to narrate the past. A few brave historians aim for a consistent narrative that sets events within the appropriate context which includes ideology, culture and heritage. Most historians however, are engaged in the opposite: the active concealment of the shameful i.e. that which is better to shove under the carpet. Instead of identifying the Zionist crime within the context of Jewish history and culture, Pappe attempts to isolate the Zionist crime by disconnecting it from Jewish history and continuum.

Al-Akhbar | July 2, 2014 A Palestinian teenager from occupied east Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday, hours after Israelis rampaged through the city calling for Arabs to die in “revenge” for the deaths of three settlers by unknown assailants. The killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat sparked […]

Al-Akhbar | July 2, 2014 A Palestinian teenager from occupied east Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday, hours after Israelis rampaged through the city calling for Arabs to die in “revenge” for the deaths of three settlers by unknown assailants. The killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat sparked […]

Much of Kassab was torched by the foreigners who terrorized the city for nearly 3 months. Photo: Latakia News Network
Eva Bartlett, Crescent International

On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the original 1968 version of Rosemary's Baby by infamous director Roman Polanski. At the least this film points out some very real aspects of cult behavior, but to what extent are the darker occult practices it portrays real?
Topics include: cults, 1960s, sexual revolution, witches coven, occult rituals, sex magic, Aleister Crowley, black magic, dreams, consciousness, confusion, psychology, fragility of human psyche, Roman Polanski, satanism
 

“So far as Syria is concerned, it is France and not Turkey that is the enemy.” – T. E. Lawrence, February 1915. It was a curious comment by the oddball but unarguably brilliant British agent and scholar, Thomas Edward Lawrence. The time was World War I, and England and France were locked in a death […]

The article originally appeared at Muftah.org and is reprinted with permission.The recent offensive by forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), along with their allies, opens a new chapter in the conundrum of violence that has devastated Iraq throughout recent history. Without a doubt, the current state of the conflict is directly […]

A recent New York Times account of the reemergence of Ahmad Chalabi as one of the leading candidates to replace Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opined "everything old seems new again in Iraq" – as if to confirm the growing sense here in the US that Iraq is our recurring nightmare. It’s perfectly understandable that […]

The Zionist Anti-Defamation League and their mouthpieces in the mass media verbally assailed Gary Oldman for this lone remark about Jewish control of the movie business and what he sees as the hypocrisy of the Jewish establishment who have expressed clear prejudices against Germans while policing every little negative remark about Jews in the public sphere.

 

 
 
By Brandon Martinez
 

Chris, Nancy, SeanPoor Sean Eldridge! Well, not really… he's very rich. He married Chris Hughes, the former Harvard roommate of Mark Zuckerberg and the ultimate example of being in the right place at the right time.

Iraq's new Parliament met for the first time today, but lawmakers ended the session quickly after failing to select candidates for the important posts of prime minister, speaker of the parliament, and president. At least 82 people were killed today, mostly militants, and nine more were wounded.

Our algorithm is working as designed. – NOAA NCDC

Image above:  Russia President Vladimir Putin meeting with Russian ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry mansion, July 1, 2014. Right: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (RIA Novosti / Alexey Nikolsky)
 
 
 
 
(RT) – Russia’s president has blamed the turmoil in Ukraine on the country’s newly-elected leader Petro Poroshenko. Vladimir Putin also criticized the West for its intention to turn the planet into a “global barracks.”

U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard was understandably dejected after the deciding goal scored by Belgium's Romelu Lukaku in the 2-1 U.S. loss. Poor Tim had himself quite a game, with 18 saves on 27 shots on goal (three times as many shots on goal as the U.S. team managed).by KenWhat a game!No, no, I'm just kidding.

This originally appeared as a response to a column published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It is reprinted with the author’s permission.
In response to the column by Rep. Greg Steube on June 26: The carnage, death and destruction brought about by the Iraq invasion and occupation are heart-wrenching, not only for those who served, like Rep. Steube, but for all Americans.

A GlaxoSmithKline Plc plant in Canada that makes the flu vaccine Flulaval has been cited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for failing to meet quality control standards.GSK said it is working to rectify the problems and does not expect a delay in distributing the vaccine for the 2014-2015 flu season.

By Robert Fantina | CounterPunch | July 1, 2014 The New York Times, in its never-ending fawning over Apartheid Israel, published recently what is obviously meant to be a heart-rending story of a Jewish woman whose son was killed during the intifada of 2001. The article talks about Sherri Mandall, an American living in settlements […]

By Robert Fantina | CounterPunch | July 1, 2014 The New York Times, in its never-ending fawning over Apartheid Israel, published recently what is obviously meant to be a heart-rending story of a Jewish woman whose son was killed during the intifada of 2001. The article talks about Sherri Mandall, an American living in settlements […]

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Several of my friends have been grumbling about Elizabeth Warren's support for conservative border state and Southern Democrats, Alison Lundergan Grimes (KY), Natlaie Tennant (WV), Mary Landrieu (LA), Sam Nunn's daughter (GA), Mark Pryor (AR) and Kay Hagan (NC). On a national level, she's, by far, the biggest star in the Senate. Other than lobbyists, Wall Street brokers and special interests who would go out to a rally headlined by Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein, Joe Donnelly?

Israel recently announced that it planned to resume punitive home demolitions after suspending the practice a decade ago.

By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgThe Talmudic mentality suffuses the Wall Street Journal where there is one standard for The Holy People and another for Palestinians. Columnist Bret Stephens (July 1, p. A11) decrees that the Palestinian people are part of "a culture that celebrates murder" and "is not fit for statehood."Can anyone imagine the Wall Street Journal declaring this about the Israelis, who celebrate most types of violence against Palestinians, and Arabs in Lebanon?

Sen McCain Wants You to Wage War on the Thugs He Embraced.

Arresting or Detaining Clinton, Bush or Obama? It will not happen HERE unless things drastically change! Its fun to imagine though…

Yup.Fascist Kiev. Same as fascist Canada.  Today is Canada day and our fascist leadership has sided with the fascists in Kiev. Same/same and sadly so many Canadian are blind to the tyranny in this nation.  Because they are blinded by bizarre beliefs. Anyway, big sigh...........No flags or fireworks here today.Ethnic cleansing- A policy carried over from the attack in Odessa- Targeting ethnic Russians.Some of the latest news and an excellent informed piece from Stephen Cohen (you have seen him on RT's Crosstalk) to bring it home.

Paul Craig Roberts in an interview with King World News said the US economy is nowhere near the $17 trillion GDP the administration is claiming. He said the government has been lying about inflation and unemployment since 1980. In particular he criticized Michael Boskin who headed the Congressional Advisory Commission on the Consumer Price Index better known as the Boskin Commission in 1995. Boskin had been a Republican appointee but was an acceptable Chairman to Clinton supporters. He supported NAFTA which has since its passage sent more than 12 million jobs overseas.