Ministry of Defence of Georgia
May 8, 2014
Meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defence

Over the weekend Minnesota Democrats had their congressional district nominating conventions. There were two we were watching. One ended badly and one ended well. The one that ended badly was for the open red district (PVI is R+10) that Michele Bachmann is leaving. Joe Perske, a hopeless conservative won the right to challenge whomever wins the GOP primary, in all likelihood, far right sociopath Tom Emmer.

The former head of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission believes Iran is more than a decade away from a nuclear weapon and that the Islamic Republic may not even want “the bomb,” according to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth (Ynet news).

Dr Jim Willie has been talking about the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa) being joined by other nations to take down the dollar. He says there are now 80 nations in the BRICS alliance who have joined together to end the dollar’s reign as the international reserve currency. China could have taken down the US economy any time it wanted to after it had accumulated more than a trillion dollars in US Treasury bonds. All it had to do was to sell them and buy real assets until the US government collapsed and surrendered.

Dr Jim Willie has been talking about the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa) being joined by other nations to take down the dollar. He says there are now 80 nations in the BRICS alliance who have joined together to end the dollar’s reign as the international reserve currency. China could have taken down the US economy any time it wanted to after it had accumulated more than a trillion dollars in US Treasury bonds. All it had to do was to sell them and buy real assets until the US government collapsed and surrendered.

Fast food employees are set to stage a global strike demanding for better salary and conditions. The protest is to take place across five continents: in 150 US cities and 32 other countries, including Germany, Belgium, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand.
The strike is planned for May 15, and will involve the workers of McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s and KFC.

A new development bank that will complement – and compete with – the World Bank and the IMF is on the fast track. Here’s a primer on why the BRICS Bank is a pretty sound idea.
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Ultimately, this report contains so many contradictions that it is clear that it is no longer possible for Washington to hide its game. Why ignore the role of Abdelhakim Belhaj in Libya? If not to hide his role in the conquest of the country by NATO and in the attack on Syria. Why ignore the financing of Al-Qaeda by embezzled Turkish public funds by the Prime Minister? If not because this country is a NATO member. Why blame Hamas as a terrorist organization against Israel and ignore that it is domiciled in Qatar?

In Germany these days, very many citizens object to the endless Russia-bashing of the NATO-oriented mainstream media. They may point out that the U.S.-backed regime change in Kiev, putting in power an ultra-right transitional government eager to join NATO, posed an urgent threat to preservation of Russia’s only warm water naval base in Crimea. Under the circumstances, and inasmuch as the Crimean population overwhelmingly approved, reinstating Crimea in the Russian federation was a necessary defensive move.

The Ukrainian crisis has not radically changed the international situation but it has precipitated ongoing developments. Western propaganda, which has never been stronger, especially hides the reality of Western decline to the populations of NATO, but has no further effect on political reality. Inexorably, Russia and China, assisted by the other BRICS, occupy their rightful place in international relations.

In May last year, Senator Rand Paul was one of the first to speculate that the truth behind Benghazi was linked to an illicit arms smuggling program that saw weapons being trafficked to terrorists in Syria as part of the United States’ proxy war against the Assad regime.
“I’ve actually always suspected that, although I have no evidence, that maybe we were facilitating arms leaving Libya going through Turkey into Syria,” Paul told CNN, adding that he “never….quite understood the cover-up — if it was intentional or incompetence”.

For weeks now, Western governments and their dutiful news media have been propounding a mantra that Moscow has infiltrated eastern and southern Ukraine to whip up «anti-Kiev», «separatist» or «pro-Russia» demonstrations. The accusation has become almost a doctrinal truth. President Barack Obama says it. His Secretary of State John Kerry says it. The US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power says it… Day in, day out, Western politicians and the news media in the US and Europe echo the mantra of Russian subversion in Ukraine.

There is a certain kind of liberal who places great faith in the ICC as a means of resolving conflicts and holding war criminals and human rights abusers to account. Personally, I think that faith is quite badly misplaced.
The ICC in it’s current incarnation is far too open to political manipulation and pressure from the stronger states of the world to be considered a neutral arbiter. This potential Resolution, which grants the U.S. and Israel immunity from prosecution, demonstrates that clearly.

 
by Stephen Lendman
 
Intense Russia bashing persists daily. It’s official US policy. Resolving Ukraine’s crisis diplomatically is systematically prevented.
 
Media scoundrels march in lockstep with what demands condemnation. Stoking conflict is prioritized. Russia is irresponsibly blamed for US-orchestrated Kiev crimes.
 
Orders come from straight from Washington. Coup-appointed putschists salute and obey.
 

413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
1753 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman. Born
1792 – US establishes military draft

Yesterday we correctly predicted that while the world is distracted by this and that, the next real short-term catalyst is the east Ukraine referendum vote on Sunday, whose results would be available as soon as May 11, indicating that, almost with 100% certainty, the Ukraine region would vote to become independent.
The post Here Comes Crimea 2.0: Following Referendum, East Ukraine Votes To Become Part Of Russia appeared first on BSNEWS.

I'm up to the part in Elizabeth Warren's new book, A Fighting Chance, when she's the chairman of the congressional oversight panel (COP) for TARP.

This post contains a ton of info-  Europe Whole and Free, is of course, nothing like it reads. In our Orwellian world of doublespeak. Whole and free  is really Europe subordinated to NATO/US dominance.Europe 'whole and free' is a plan that has long been in the works-Let's go back to 1989 and George HW Bush- If the video below doesn't work for you, I am linking the text directly below the video link*Video- George H.W.

The idea surrounding ancient aliens is that the humans were influenced by a group of extraterrestrials that visited Earth in the past and were directly involved in the evolution of primates, particularly humans. Many believe this was accomplished by way…Read more →

 ‘Sir Nigel’ rides forth….
Is UKIP leader Nigel Farage the ‘white knight’ of British politics? or just another mercenary of the pro-Israel Lobby?

In our campaign against the “Jesus had a wife” profanation of His Holy Name, which originated with a Harvard university professor, we asked to hear from readers concerned about this horror, we asked that they contact the Smithsonian Channel television network to protest the broadcast of the “documentary,” and we asked for donations to continue our crusade.We heard from approximately t

RT | May 8, 2014

The councils of the People’s Republics of two southeastern cities of Donetsk and Lugansk won’t postpone the referendums on their regions’ future as part of Ukraine and will hold them as planned on May, 11, the cities’ anti-government activists said.

Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com May 7, 2014 [download audio] This 1864 painting by Polish patriot Jan Matejko (1838–1893) shows at right the Moses-like figure of Jesuit Peter Skarga (1536-1612) launching a severe condemnation of the princes, cardinals, magnates, and nobility assembled at the Polish Diet. Skarga condemned the magnates [...]

By Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch | May 8, 2014

By James Petras | May 7, 2014

Not since the US and EU took over Eastern Europe, including the Baltic countries, East Germany, Poland, and the Balkans and converted them into military outposts of NATO and economic vassals, have the Western powers moved so aggressively to seize a strategic country, such as the Ukraine, posing an existential threat to Russia.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
May 8, 2014
OPINION: Permanent NATO Deployment to Threaten Peace in East Europe
Lyudmila Chernova
WASHINGTON: NATO’s permanent presence in Eastern Europe will not restore stability and security to the continent, rather it will threaten peace in the region, Martin Sieff, an Irish-American veteran journalist and author, told RIA Novosti.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
May 8, 2014
OPINION: Permanent NATO Deployment to Threaten Peace in East Europe
Lyudmila Chernova
WASHINGTON: NATO’s permanent presence in Eastern Europe will not restore stability and security to the continent, rather it will threaten peace in the region, Martin Sieff, an Irish-American veteran journalist and author, told RIA Novosti.

Goebbels, a family of pillaging psychopaths... real rich onesMy Dutch friend David de Jong is a reporter for Bloomberg. He has an interesting beat: billionaires in general and secret billionaires in particular. And he has some awesome stories coming out over the next few months-- I'm sworn to secrecy but I'll give you a heads up when it's OK.

Ah, the delusional Israelis..... beliefs of 'god given land' and 'choseness' will always lead to a kind of twisted sense of entitlement.  How many stories have I read, over the years, about the rabid haters in Israel and their innumerable crimes against Palestinians?-  Both Christians and Muslim? Attacks on sites important to Christians? Quite a few over the years. But only on occasion does one of those news articles trickle in the consciousness of the western media audience. Israeli media does cover the crimes of it's own citizens. But they lay blame on the 'ultra-nationalists' in Israel.

RT
May 8, 2014
US pushes to complete ‘project for military domination of entire planet’
United States is doing everything to dominate the world militarily by expanding NATO into Eastern Europe and building up the Pacific Command contingents to keep China in place, political analyst and writer Rick Rozoff told RT.
RT: What do they mean by ‘positioning’ here exactly, after the alliance’s top military commander said NATO may station permanently additional troops in Eastern Europe?

RT
May 8, 2014
US pushes to complete ‘project for military domination of entire planet’
United States is doing everything to dominate the world militarily by expanding NATO into Eastern Europe and building up the Pacific Command contingents to keep China in place, political analyst and writer Rick Rozoff told RT.
RT: What do they mean by ‘positioning’ here exactly, after the alliance’s top military commander said NATO may station permanently additional troops in Eastern Europe?

RT | May 8, 2014

Moscow’s call on pro-federalization protesters in Ukraine to postpone the referendums was welcomed by the West and Kiev, yet they still do not recognize the need to halt the military op in southeast as a prerequisite for national dialogue and elections.

The Corbett Report
May 8, 2014
 

The Corbett Report
May 8, 2014
 

Russian Information Agency Novosti
May 8, 2014
15,000 Ukrainian Troops on Russian Border – Russian Defense Ministry
MOSCOW: Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Thursday there were 15,000 Ukrainian troops stationed near the border with Russia.
“The concentration of Ukrainian troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border is continuing. There is a contingent of 15,000 Ukrainian military personnel,” Antonov said.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
May 8, 2014
15,000 Ukrainian Troops on Russian Border – Russian Defense Ministry
MOSCOW: Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Thursday there were 15,000 Ukrainian troops stationed near the border with Russia.
“The concentration of Ukrainian troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border is continuing. There is a contingent of 15,000 Ukrainian military personnel,” Antonov said.

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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

As Ukraine remains on a knife-edge of military tension, the NATO forces continue their Eastern European expansion and military provocations. In this must-listen interview, Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International breaks down the history of NATO’s global partnership program, its decades-long build-up in Eastern Europe, the people and organizations in whom the fate of the world is increasingly hanging in the balance, and the small glimmer of hope that an informed, galvanized public can derail this headlong rush to war.
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Excerpts from important, revealing, articles on Syria:
 
Syria: The hidden massacre
May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com
“The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011.

Excerpts from important, revealing, articles on Syria:
 
Syria: The hidden massacre
May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com
“The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011.

James joins us for his monthly visit, and a tour through the fantastic!

At last night's Hillman Awards festivities, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, presented Heather (Digby) Parton with this year's prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.by KenIf you're going to be hanging out with a horde of folks for the giving out (and receiving) of prizes, I suppose you can't do much better than a crowd of -- at least theoretically -- unreconstructed lefties like last night's festivities for the bestowing of the 2014 Hillman Awards, im

Today on the program we explore the philosophy of distributism and its attempt to create a decentralized economy based on the widespread distribution of private property. Joining us to help explore this topic is Ryan Grant, contributing editor of The Distributist Review.
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The Distributist Review

Poll reveals that 47 per cent of respondents would like to see Israel’s Arab citizens stripped of their citizenship rights

 

Even if you don't remember EMILY's List's disgraceful foray into anti-Semitic politics in their ill-fated attempt, in 2008, to replace lifelong progressive-- and pro-Choice militant-- Steve Cohen (D-TN) with a conservative woman, Nikki Tinker, EMILY's List jihad against pro

The arrest of a journalist and several political activists in Israel over the past few weeks has provoked a troubling debate: are laws applied differently depending on whether a citizen is Jewish or not? Particularly controversial was the arrest last month of Majd Kayyal, a journalist from Israel’s Palestinian minority who was seized on his return from Lebanon and interrogated for five days without access to lawyers.

by Donald Rapp Why after 400 years of La Niña precedence, did periods of El Niños dominance start in the 20th century? And why did the two periods of strong El Niño dominance in the 20th century occur during a … Continue reading →