ACLU | June 25, 2014 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that police must obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a cell phone seized from someone who has been arrested, absent a true emergency situation. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed an amicus brief in the case, Riley v. California. […]
ACLU | June 25, 2014 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that police must obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a cell phone seized from someone who has been arrested, absent a true emergency situation. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed an amicus brief in the case, Riley v. California. […]
To this day, there is no love lost between the IMF and Argentina, since the fund presided over Argentina’s terrible economic collapse of 1998-2002, as well as numerous failed policies in the years prior. But when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of vulture funds trying to collect the full value of Argentine debt that they had bought for 20 cents on the dollar, even the IMF was against the decision.
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On this day in 1876, Gen. George S. Custer led his 7th Cavalry regiment to their demise in Montana. The Battle of Little Big Horn was one of the biggest defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the war against the Indians. It is only in recent years that proper attention has been paid to the role of atrocities by Custer and other military leaders in stirring up the wrath of oppressed Indians.
Although the majority of Iraqis reject balkanization, Sunnis will keep accusing Shi'ites of being Iranian pawns, and Shi'ites will keep accusing Sunnis of being the House of Saud's fifth column. ISIS will keep getting loads of cash from wealthy Saudi "donors". The US government will keep weaponizing Sunnis in Syria against Shi'ites and (perhaps) conducting soft "targeted military strikes" for Shi'ites against Sunnis in Iraq. Welcome to Divide and Rule run amok.
“I think we have to understand first how we got here. We have been arming ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in Syria. ISIS, an al Qaeda offshoot, has been collaborating with the Syrian rebels whom the Obama administration has been arming in their efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”
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The other JebJeb Hensarling-- who has no Democratic opponent in his R+17 suburban Dallas district-- is the chairman of the Financial Services Committee and has accepted $1,121,622 in legalistic bribes (i.e., "campaign contributions") from the financial sector so far this cycle, the 4th most of any Member of Congress.
What is surprising is the position of the European countries, which are tailing the U.S. and doing nothing to prevent a further escalation of the crisis. They should understand better than anybody, that Nazis can only be stopped with force. The sooner this is done, the fewer victims and less destruction there will be in Europe.
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Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military ‘surge’ in Iraq - and less so in neighboring Syria - is being shaped and controlled out of Langley, Virginia, and other CIA and Pentagon outposts as the next stage in spreading chaos in the world’s second-largest oil state, Iraq, as well as weakening the recent Syrian stabilization efforts.
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1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876 – The U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by George Armstrong Custer, were attacked by 3,000 native American Indians consisting mostly of Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse, within one hour of the attack every last one of the soldiers were dead.
1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
1903 – George Orwell, English author (d. 1950) was born.
Press TV – June 25, 2014 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby which is based in Washington, has begun a lobbying campaign to stop US lawmakers from cutting military aid to Egypt. The group already said in public that it wanted aid to Egypt to continue flowing. “In light of the treaty’s […]
Press TV – June 25, 2014 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby which is based in Washington, has begun a lobbying campaign to stop US lawmakers from cutting military aid to Egypt. The group already said in public that it wanted aid to Egypt to continue flowing. “In light of the treaty’s […]
About this opinion piece, author Jamal Kashoggi- Related to uber arms dealer Adnon Kashoggi.Adnon in his hey days was very admired by the Western moneyed classes. As wikipedia says he participated and was revered in 'western high society' Likely because he was gettin' high society, higherJamal Kashoggi served as a media aide to Prince Turki al Faisal while he was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.And surprise of surprises- Interviewed Osama Bin Laden.
Karma's a bitch, y'allStunning upset last night as Thad Cochran's team managed to inspire enough African American Democrats to come to the polls to defeat bigoted teabagger Chris McDaniel by just over 6,000 votes.
Monday demonstration in Leipzig, 1989
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
June 21, 2014
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While the Western media portray the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant as a group of jihadists reciting the Qur’an, the ISIL has started the oil war in Iraq. With the help of Israel, it has cut off Syria’s supply and guaranteed the theft of oil from Kirkuk by the local government of Kurdistan. The sale will be assured by Aramco who will camouflage this diversion as increased "Saudi" production.
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RT | June 24, 2014 SergeyAksyonov, Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea and Chairman of the Crimea Council of Ministers (RIA Novosti / Andrey Iglov) The head of the Crimean government has stressed rejoining Russia is irreversible. Sergey Aksyonov said an EU ban on imports from Crimea and Sevastopol deprives Europe of a market […]
RT | June 24, 2014 SergeyAksyonov, Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea and Chairman of the Crimea Council of Ministers (RIA Novosti / Andrey Iglov) The head of the Crimean government has stressed rejoining Russia is irreversible. Sergey Aksyonov said an EU ban on imports from Crimea and Sevastopol deprives Europe of a market […]
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Image above: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region, on June 24.
June 24, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - AFP reported in an article titled, "EU raps Thailand on coup, cuts official contacts," that:
Does anybody remember "Impossible – Yet It Happened!"? When I was a kid, that was my favorite part of the comics page. It was a series based on the work of Charles Fort, the chronicler of the odd, all about – well, supposedly "impossible" events that nonetheless did occur. I delighted in the unexpectedness of […]
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Imagine the president, speaking on Iraq from the White House Press Briefing Room last Thursday, as the proverbial deer in the headlights – and it’s not difficult to guess just what those headlights were. Think of them as Benghazi on steroids. If the killing of an American ambassador, a Foreign Service […]
EMILY's List has a reputation for being the dirtiest players in politics-- as bad or worse than the Republican sociopaths employed by the Kochs and Adelson. The difference is that the man-haters at EMILY's List don't deploy their vicious nature against Republicans or against conservative Democrats-- only against progressive men in office. Especially Jewish progressive men in office.EMILY's List was once an essential part of the progressive coalition.
At least 4,695 people were killed across Iraq so far in June, and the tally is only going to get higher as ISIS/DAASH militants continue their trek towards Baghdad. The United Nations also released its preliminary figures for the month, but they are much lower in comparsion. Below is our methodology for using the higher […]
Israel’s technical solutions work to an extent. They confine Palestinians to ever smaller spaces: the prison of Gaza, the city under lockdown, the torture cell, or the doctor’s surgery where a feeding tube can be inserted. But the craving for self-determination and dignity are more than technical problems. You cannot force-feed occupation to people to still their hunger for freedom.
In this powerfully dramatic Better Call Saul "first-look photo," we see the man himself, Albuquerque shyster Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), with co-showrunners Peter Gould (who created the character) and Vince Gilligan (who's directing the premiere)."Production on Better Call Saul is underway, and we could not be more proud of, nor more excited about, the work to date.
Ron Johnson is pretty much acknowledged to be one of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate-- and one of the most ideologically stubborn. He's Wisconsin's far right senator whose 52-47% defeat of Russ Feingold in 2010 was one of that very upsetting year's biggest upsets. Many in Wisconsin have been very sorry ever since. Example: 2 weeks ago only 3 crackpots in the whole Senate voted against the bipartisan compromise authorizing desperately needed money for the V.A.
Court Orders Government to Give Plaintiffs in ACLU Lawsuit a Chance to Clear Their Names ACLU | June 24, 2014 PORTLAND, Ore. – In a landmark ruling, a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional the government’s procedures for people on the No Fly List to challenge their inclusion. The decision came in an American Civil […]
Court Orders Government to Give Plaintiffs in ACLU Lawsuit a Chance to Clear Their Names ACLU | June 24, 2014 PORTLAND, Ore. – In a landmark ruling, a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional the government’s procedures for people on the No Fly List to challenge their inclusion. The decision came in an American Civil […]
By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | June 23, 2014 Law enforcement agencies are generally pretty happy with their automatic license plate readers. It allows them to harvest millions of plate/location records without having to exit their vehicles, much less slow them down. It also allows them to spring from their cruisers with guns out and […]
By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | June 23, 2014 Law enforcement agencies are generally pretty happy with their automatic license plate readers. It allows them to harvest millions of plate/location records without having to exit their vehicles, much less slow them down. It also allows them to spring from their cruisers with guns out and […]
CIA’s John Hadden eventually came to be hated by the Mossad and Israeli intelligence services targeting the United States – a feeling that was mutual. He even went public with the CIA’s findings that Israel had stolen large amounts of weapons-grade uranium from a US Navy contracting company called NUMEC run by Israel sympathizers in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
CIA’s John Hadden ignored as Israeli spy Avraham Bendor celebrated
RT | June 24, 2014 Inheriting both the weapons and the mindset of the US military, police are becoming militarized and ‘hyper aggressive’ in their approach to maintaining security on the streets of America. A new study calls on police not to treat people as ‘wartime enemies’. The tragic story of Jose Guerena, 26, who […]
RT | June 24, 2014 Inheriting both the weapons and the mindset of the US military, police are becoming militarized and ‘hyper aggressive’ in their approach to maintaining security on the streets of America. A new study calls on police not to treat people as ‘wartime enemies’. The tragic story of Jose Guerena, 26, who […]
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Luogocomune 19 Giu 2014 [download audio] Argomenti trattati: Elezioni americane di mid-term – Ritorno dei reazionari in America – Frattura imminente nei democratici – Paralleli con l’Italia – Renzi “furbastro e mascalzone” – Iraq: origine dell’ISIS – Attuale strategia imperialista in Medio Oriente – Messaggio per gli indipendentisti veneti – Obama [...]
Just last weekend, I read an article (link here) put up by my friend, Whitewraithe, over at Pragmatic Witness (www.whitewraithe.wordpress.com), that tore at my own heart...
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | June 24, 2014 For more than a month Israel sought to wriggle off a hook that should have snared it from the start. Two children, 17 and 16, were shot dead during Nakba Day protests near Ramallah, in which youths threw stones ineffectually at well-protected and distant Israeli […]
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | June 24, 2014 For more than a month Israel sought to wriggle off a hook that should have snared it from the start. Two children, 17 and 16, were shot dead during Nakba Day protests near Ramallah, in which youths threw stones ineffectually at well-protected and distant Israeli […]
Very recently I did read the reports coming out of the United States and elsewhere that we were false approaching a "crisis" and "tipping point" when it comes to this "Global Warming" fear...It concerned the fear that much of the world's Permafrost regions, especially here in North America and in northern Europe and Siberia were melting and thus would release billions of tons of global warming causing Methane gas into the Earth's atmosphere....
109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be largest battle in the history of Ireland.
We've been trying-- unsuccessfully-- to get the DSCC to understand that they will hold or lose the Senate based on South Dakota, so maybe they should help the Democratic candidate for the open seat there. They don't listen to me. But maybe they'll listen to Washington Post Fix crew-- Chris Cillizza, Aaron Blake and Sean Sullivan.
by Judith Curry
Experts might instead need to pick a side, join the fight, and accept that their claims to knowledge and authority will always and everywhere be contested. – Jason Wilson
Yes, I have been so very busy this last while with a multitude of personal and family issues to take care of... I am trying my best to still present articles at this blog, and even my friend, Digger, out of the United Kingdom suggested recently that I take a "tea up" break.... It is summer time and I will be on vacation very soon, but in the meantime I will continue to put up articles here WHEN I do find the time...Recently, some people asked me to take a look at the "fracking" issue that seems to be in all the news these days...
