Keeping the “peace” ?
 
Jack Mullen  | June 07, 2014 (See all of his articles HERE)

Georgia courthouse shooter once worked for the TSA, official says –Suspect had explosives, assault rifle, sheriff says

Nurse who refused flu shot wins lawsuit against Hackettstown Regional Medical Center

Photo: Sarah Bajc
BEIJING (USA Today) — Relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are launching a crowd-funding campaign to raise a $3 million reward for a whistle-blower to expose key information about the vanished jetliner, the partner of a missing passenger told USA TODAY.
A $2 million fund for private investigators to follow up on promising leads is also being targeted.

53 – The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725) was born.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

A federal judge who ordered the National Security Agency to retain all records of its secret telephone surveillance related to an ongoing case has reversed the order – just a day after it was issued.
RT
“In order to protect national security programs, I cannot issue a ruling at this time. The Court rescinds the June 5 order,” US District Judge Jeffrey White said from the bench on Friday.

Breaking: Shooters at Las Vegas Walmart Kill Three, Proclaim ‘The Revolution Has Begun’

Businessman upset about Tampa Police search of his truck
WFLA News Channel 8
TAMPA, FL (WFLA) –
“You think if anyone is going to break into your vehicle in Ybor, the last person you think, it’s going to be the cops.”
Matthew Heller didn’t know what to think when he found his truck ransacked and torn apart after leaving a concert in Ybor in February. Then, he found a note.

Democrats are rending their garments over Virginia state Senator Phillip Puckett's decision to throw the Senate over to the Republicans by trading his seat for a job as deputy director of the state tobacco commission and for his daughter, Martha Ketron, to get a judicial appointment. But they shouldn't be surprised.

When does “Progressive” legislation become… REGRESSIVE? (Negative effect on the poor?) We have already outlined what some of the problems will be, though as a “Lively Experiment”, we are watching and “hoping” for the best.
Eagle Rising

U.S. Army in Europe
Joint Multinational Training Command
What is Combined Resolve?

U.S. Army in Europe
Joint Multinational Training Command
What is Combined Resolve?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 9, 2014
Statement by NATO Secretary General on the so called elections in South Ossetia, Georgia
NATO does not recognise the election held on 8 June in the Georgian region of South Ossetia.
This election does not contribute to a peaceful and lasting settlement of the situation in Georgia. NATO Allies do not recognise the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia as independent states.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 9, 2014
Statement by NATO Secretary General on the so called elections in South Ossetia, Georgia
NATO does not recognise the election held on 8 June in the Georgian region of South Ossetia.
This election does not contribute to a peaceful and lasting settlement of the situation in Georgia. NATO Allies do not recognise the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia as independent states.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Allied Maritime Command
June 6, 2014
NATO’S COUNTER-PIRACY FLAGSHIP COLLABORATES WITH ROYAL OMAN NAVY

Salalah, OMAN: The NATO counter-piracy flagship ESPS CRISTOBAL COLON helped to provide specialised training to the Royal Omani Navy in the port of Salalah.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Allied Maritime Command
June 6, 2014
NATO’S COUNTER-PIRACY FLAGSHIP COLLABORATES WITH ROYAL OMAN NAVY

Salalah, OMAN: The NATO counter-piracy flagship ESPS CRISTOBAL COLON helped to provide specialised training to the Royal Omani Navy in the port of Salalah.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 9, 2014
Georgian-US Joint Exercise

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 9, 2014
Georgian-US Joint Exercise

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 8, 2014
B-2s arrive at RAF Fairford to train, exercise capability
2nd Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
RAF FAIRFORD, England:- Two B-2 Spirit [sic] flew to the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) area of operations June 8 to train and integrate with U.S. and allied military forces in the region.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 8, 2014
B-2s arrive at RAF Fairford to train, exercise capability
2nd Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
RAF FAIRFORD, England:- Two B-2 Spirit [sic] flew to the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) area of operations June 8 to train and integrate with U.S. and allied military forces in the region.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 9, 2014
Icelandic Air Policing rotation ends
By Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Wilson
48th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs

KEFLAVIK, Iceland: At 6:00 a.m. June 5, the U.S. Air Force’s responsibility ended for the spring rotation of the NATO mission for Icelandic Air Policing at Keflivik International Airport, Iceland.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 9, 2014
Icelandic Air Policing rotation ends
By Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Wilson
48th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs

KEFLAVIK, Iceland: At 6:00 a.m. June 5, the U.S. Air Force’s responsibility ended for the spring rotation of the NATO mission for Icelandic Air Policing at Keflivik International Airport, Iceland.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Wildred Owen: Selections on war
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Wilfred Owen
Smile, Smile, Smile
Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned
Yesterday’s Mail; the casualties (typed small)
And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.
Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned;

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Wildred Owen: Selections on war
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Wilfred Owen
Smile, Smile, Smile
Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned
Yesterday’s Mail; the casualties (typed small)
And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.
Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned;

Have you tried the new CorbettReport.com? New design and features, same great info!

MEMO | June 8, 2014

An Israeli committee tasked with putting forward a law on the “Jewish State” is scheduled to be formed today, Sunday, 8 June.

Last primary of the cycle pits progressive Angel Taveras against Gina Raimondo from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party in Rhode Island-- September 9Tuesday will see primaries in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia but only two states have races that pit progressives against conservatives, Virginia and South Carolina.

Obama refers to fighting “terrorism” yet his policies have encouraged and promoted terrorism. Washington armed the Islamist terrorists who overthrew the secular Gaddafi government and plunged that country into chaos. Obama backs the Islamist terrorists invading and attempting to overthrow the secular regime Syria. He provides 1.5 billion dollars in military aid to an Egyptian military dictatorship terrorizing its democratic, civilian political opposition, assassinating and imprisoning thousands of dissidents.

Al-Manar | June 9, 2014

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Monday Legislative Decree no. 22 for 2014 granting a general amnesty for crimes committed before June 9, 2014.

We cannot here in Sarajevo make a common peace programme, but we can commit to a common goal. If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be making scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.

During the June 3 TVO debate on issues facing the 416 (Toronto) ridings in the run-up to the June 12, 2014 Ontario provincial election, Green Party of Ontario candidate for York Centre, Joshua Borenstein, mentioned a modified version of John Turmel’s Argentine Solution (at 30m). John Turmel is the founder of the Paupers Party and […]

In the run-up to the June 12, 2014 Ontario provincial election, Allen Small, Ontario Libertarian Party leader, was interviewed by the Sun News Network on June 4. Once again, the private sector continues to lead in providing alternative voices that the public sector claims to offer, despite Ontario’s public broadcaster, TVO, deciding not to provide […]

 From SOTT

It’s time to ask: Is John McCain losing it? At 77, the irascible Arizona Senator has become the "get off my lawn" cranky-old-man symbol of the GOP’s generational problem, but it’s gotten worse lately, with his most recent pronouncements on the Bowe Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner swap calling into question his mental competence. Commenting on the prisoner […]

President Obama’s recent foreign policy speech, delivered at this year’s West Point graduation ceremony, was a disappointment to anyone who hoped the president might be changing course. The failure of each US intervention thus far in the 21st century might have inspired at least a bit of reflection. However, the president made it clear that […]

On June 8, 1967, Israeli leaders learned they could deliberately attack a U.S. Navy ship and try to send it, together with its entire crew, to the bottom of the Mediterranean – with impunity. Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, a state-of-the-art intelligence collection platform sailing in international waters off the Sinai, […]

Did you know that you can produce electricity by just walking?  Angelo Casimiro, a teenager from the Philippines has just invented “smart insoles” for shoes that produce enough electricity to charge small USB devices when you walk. They consist of piezoelectric materials…Read more →

Bill Maher had some fun with right wing hustler and hypocrite Ralph Reed on his show Friday night. Reed, the head of the so-called Faith and Freedom Coalition, a GOP front group dedicated to electing right-wing Republicans to office by suckering paranoid and superstitious rubes, will host well-known libertine and glutton, Chris Christie at their annual conference on June 20.

Clashes continued in Mosul where dozens of militants of were killed, but the worst attack occurred in Diyala province where suicide bombers blew themselves up at a political party office. At least 82 people were killed today and 110 more were wounded.

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US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of mutagenic and neurotoxic chemicals, which are present at a ...

The N.S.A. is Collecting Millions of Faces from Facebook and other Social Media Images The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to…Read more →

The stars in the sky,the moon on high,they're great for you and me,because they're free.The moon belongs to everyone.The best things in life are free.The stars belong to everyone.They gleam there for you and me.The flowers in spring,the robins that sing,the sunbeams that shine,they're yours, they're mine.And love can come to everyone.The best things in life are free.The moon belongs to everyone.The best things in life are free.-- lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva,music by Ray Henderson (1927)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry led the chorus of self-righteous indignation, accusing Russia of the sort of thing his own government is in the habit of doing. “You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests. This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext”, Kerry pontificated. “It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century”. Instead of laughing at this hypocrisy, U.S. media, politicians and punditry zealously took up the theme of Putin’s unacceptable expansionist aggression.

The stories coming out of India and Pakistan about the murders of women last week have been gut-wrenching. Both were primitive and barbaric acts within the context of conservative and patriarchal culture that deem women less than human.

By Winston Warfield | CounterPunch | June 6, 2014

“The future is too good to waste on lies,” Bowe wrote. “And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american (sic). The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”

Sunday, and again it does seem that I have so much to catch up on.... I will cover some subjects that I missed out on this last week during some much needed rest in my usual rant...Yes, I have been taking a lot more time off recently from writing here... I have long decided to take time to get myself into better shape and to actually enjoy this too short summer here in central Canada.  Readers remember back in December of last year when I had that "heart condition" scare that basically did scare the crap out of me...

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Joseph Meyer, author of the Straight Money Analysis newsletter and 40+ years of Wall Street experience, is scheduled to be on the Power Hour with Joyce Riley on June 9, 2014. You can listen live at the appropriate time here. His most recent appearance was on the Josh Tolley Show on May 28, 2014. For […]

By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | June 6, 2014