ITAR-TASS | June 6, 2014
KIEV – Ukraine’s government has closed several checkpoints on the border with Russia in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, explaining the measure by public security considerations.
After running around all morning, including a fascinating meeting with the affable manager of Syrian TV (I will interview him later) one of the prime news presenters, quite a bit of walking, and catching up with the owner of the Bab Sharqi hotel where I’m staying, the bus ride from the old city to city centre is actually a relief. It’s largely not crowded when I get on, and while hot from the day’s searing heat when moving wafts of less-hot air help. Best, Fairouz is playing the entire 45 minute ride.
From the June 3, 2014 Toronto Star article, NRA criticizes ‘open carry’ gun rallies as ‘downright weird’, my comment was chosen as an “Editor’s Pick”: FauxCapitalist American gun culture is not supposed to make sense to anyone else, and that’s because our country was never born in violent revolution, we have nothing like their Second […]
MENDELSSOHN: Notturno from A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music), Op. 61Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), George Szell, cond. Decca, recorded Dec. 2-4, 1957Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond. Broadcast performance, May 23, 1969by KenA much-loved little piece latched onto my brain this weeko. It was the "Nocturne" from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music, and it really still hasn't let go.
RT | June 8, 2014
Bulgaria’s prime minister, Plamen Oresharski, has ordered a halt to work on Russia’s South Stream pipeline, on the recommendation of the EU. The decision was announced after his talks with US senators.
by Judith Curry
After almost four years of blogging at Climate Etc., its time for some reflection
Press TV – June 8, 2014
Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says the United States made a tactical mistake to put pressure on Israel to freeze its settlement activities on the Palestinian territories.
The former US secretary of state made the remarks in her new book ‘Hard Choices,’ scheduled to be released on June 10.
Press TV
June 8, 2014
US policy in Syria ‘cynical, imperial’: Activist
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The Obama administrations is inciting war and violence in Syria to pull apart the country’s social fabric and economic infrastructure, part of Washington’s “cynical, imperial and arrogant foreign policy,” an anti-war activist in Chicago says.
Press TV
June 8, 2014
US policy in Syria ‘cynical, imperial’: Activist
Audio
The Obama administrations is inciting war and violence in Syria to pull apart the country’s social fabric and economic infrastructure, part of Washington’s “cynical, imperial and arrogant foreign policy,” an anti-war activist in Chicago says.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Troyat: Selections on war
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Henri Troyat
From While the Earth Endures (1947)
Translated by David Hapgood
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Troyat: Selections on war
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Henri Troyat
From While the Earth Endures (1947)
Translated by David Hapgood
In her new book, A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren tries really hard to find nice things to say about Tim Geithner. But reading between the lines, it's very clear that she had, at best, mixed feelings about his role as Wall Street's man inside the Obama Administration.
RT | June 8, 2014
Washington is supplying some Syrian rebels with both “lethal and non-lethal” aid, according to National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who confirmed the longstanding suspicion that the Obama administration is arming anti-Assad forces.
The US is “the single largest contributor of humanitarian assistance, providing over $1.7 billion” in assistance, Rice told CNN.
Ma’an – June 8, 2014
GAZA CITY – A Palestinian fisherman shot by the Israeli navy two weeks ago succumbed to his wounds Sunday morning, Gaza medical authorities said.
Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that 52-year-old Imad Shukri Salim was announced dead Sunday morning.
Press TV – June 7, 2014
Officials from Iran and the US will meet in Geneva next week ahead of the next round of talks between the Islamic Republic and the six world powers over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
June 2, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - After the May 22 coup in Southeast Asia's Thailand, the new military-led government has revealed agricultural reforms based on sustainable, organic agriculture - an unprecedented and progressive departure from the unsustainable populist subsidies that proceeded it in Thailand, and t
This morning, writing for the NY Times, Natalie Kitroeff looks at why its so hard for young people in New York to buy-- or even rent-- homes. And her culprit: student debt. "More students," she writes, "are taking out bigger loans than ever before, and in the last 10 years alone, education debt tripled, reaching over $1 trillion. A record number of college students are graduating knee deep in a financial hole before they begin their adult lives."
We have been living for decades under what Catherine Austin Fitts calls the Slow Burn where all of our assets are stolen from us by the Power Elite on Wall Street. She said Wall Street has stolen $40 trillion from us over the years through fraud and coercion. And they will steal more. She was the former Housing Commissioner in the first Bush administration and had been the managing partner at Dillon Read. Catherine was run out of Washington for being too honest. She once found a single block in San Diego with $20 million in defaulted HUD loans.
We have been living for decades under what Catherine Austin Fitts calls the Slow Burn where all of our assets are stolen from us by the Power Elite on Wall Street. She said Wall Street has stolen $40 trillion from us over the years through fraud and coercion. And they will steal more. She was the former Housing Commissioner in the first Bush administration and had been the managing partner at Dillon Read. Catherine was run out of Washington for being too honest. She once found a single block in San Diego with $20 million in defaulted HUD loans.
Tom Toles, Washington Post [click to enlarge]by KenThe political craziness level has, at least for the time being, flipped me out, and I refuse to let it crowd out some swell times I've been having on to such nifty places as The Players, the theatrical club founded by the great actor Edwin Booth on Gramercy Park South (a Municipal Art Society Tour with Matt Postal), Coney Island (a Municipal Art Soci
Militants continued their siege of Mosul today and also attack a university in Ramadi. Later in the day, Baghdad suffered from a series of bombings. Overall, at least 184 people were killed and 183 were wounded.
Been a busy day here..So don't miss-Car bomb in Kiev ?
RT | June 7, 2014
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.
“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.
Right wing hedge fund operator and vulture capitalist Paul Singer may be best known as one of the money bags behind Mitt Romney but the ardent defender of the prerogatives of the one percent and their right to rule without interference from government (he's been on an anti-Dodd Frank jihad, for example) is also one of the biggest supp
By Les Jamieson | sf911truth.org | June 6, 2014
I toured the recently opened 9/11 Museum last night. There is quite a bit to report. The size and scale of the building and many sections are actually impressive. One can see how the general public will be very taken by the entire presentation, and therefore, take what they see as truth.
By James Petras :: 06.07.2014
Introduction
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
Survival Tips from real-life survivors living in war zones not from some business savvy Prepper dreaming up a Survival Plan that sounds good Most Survival Guides are little more than what some business savvy Prepper thinks a good Survival Plan would say. But we want to…Read more →
Officials in Connecticut are investigating what could be the first known case of ID theft related to Obamacare enrollment information, it was revealed Friday.
CNBC
As many as 400 people enrolled in Connecticut’s state-run Obamacare exchange may have had their Social Security numbers and other personal information stolen, officials said Friday afternoon.
OR “Brave New World”….
Via Global Research
The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News.
Following up on the subject of the Trivium as discussed in- Explore- Classical Trivium,Magic Mushrooms,CIA, Zionism and more Jan Irvin has an entire Trivium Study learning section at his site Gnostic Media I have been refreshing myself in this area....the last couple of days.It's good stuff! In all my years of blogging, I had never come across essay until just yesterday?
There were a lot of Democrats who won tough primaries last Tuesday, but there was only one that caused an orgy of twitter ecstasy from the DCCC: Petey Pie, Steve Israel's flawed New Dem who would like to get into Congress so he can help the Republicans cut Social Security benefits for retirees while increasing his perceived value as a lobbyist, when he goes back to his original profession.
Ma’an - 07/06/2014
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian man was injured late Friday after being hit by an Israeli stun grenade during a wedding in East Jerusalem, a local popular committee spokesman said.
RT | June 7, 2014
Over 290 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have been on a hunger strike since April protesting their indefinite detention. Now UN’s Ban-Ki moon demands Tel Aviv to either charge administrative inmates or release them “without delay.”
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Story #1: ‘Hunger Games’ Salute Used as Protest in Thailand
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Thailand Junta: Elections Could Take More Than One Year
A radio host asked me a few days ago why Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of the 17 mostly right-wing Democrats in the House to cross the aisle and vote with the Republicans against a bill to lighten up on medical marijuana in states that have legalized it. I suggested that with anything involving Wasserman Schultz, one of the most transactional politicians in Congress, just follow the money.
Interfax-Ukraine
June 7, 2014
Poroshenko could stabilize situation in Ukraine – NATO secretary general
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he is confident that Petro Poroshenko’s assuming the post of the new president of Ukraine will facilitate the speedy settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.
Interfax-Ukraine
June 7, 2014
Poroshenko could stabilize situation in Ukraine – NATO secretary general
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he is confident that Petro Poroshenko’s assuming the post of the new president of Ukraine will facilitate the speedy settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.
