Presumably from the use of ‘depleted Uranium’ use to cut through rock (Also used in Fracking) see more at the bottom of this page…..
 

Last week a new name started popping up on my Twitter feed: Cliven Bundy. Before I had even processed it, he was in a standoff with federal law enforcement officials over unpaid taxes and fees and Harry Reid was calling him a domestic terrorist, Sean Hannity was egging him on to start an armed rebellion and Ted Cruz seemed to be angling to get him to run on his ticket in 2016. It looked too silly/ugly/predictable to pay any attention to. So I didn't. But it didn't go away.

Itar-Tass
April 25, 2014
Ukraine Right Sector activists build checkpoint on Transdniestria-Odessa road
As eyewitnesses say, Ukrainian police stay away from Right Sector’s self-defense units, and don’t approach the checked vehicles

Itar-Tass
April 25, 2014
Ukraine Right Sector activists build checkpoint on Transdniestria-Odessa road
As eyewitnesses say, Ukrainian police stay away from Right Sector’s self-defense units, and don’t approach the checked vehicles

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Recent entreaties by various US politicians to help wean Europe off of Russian gas are simply preposterous. The numbers don't add up, and they never will.
The post US Gas Will Never Replace Russian Gas For Europe appeared first on BSNEWS.

This week Charles Goyette talks with Ron Paul on their weekly podcast about the increasing authoritarianism of the nation-state. From mandating people’s decisions about medical treatment and insurance, to the clandestine gathering of private phone calls, and its deployment of special operations forces around the globe, the state’s heavy hand is everywhere.

The Manifestation of the Serpent, Rome, 4/27 in the 14th year of 21Trinity SightThis Sunday April 27, 2014 represents the culmination of the devolution of Christ's ecclesia, from the Catholic Church into the Church of Rome.The process commenced according to plan in the latter half of the fifteenth century.Two patron saints of child molestation-facilitation, Pope John XXIII an

Ma’an - 25/04/2014

JERUSALEM – Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna and former Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah on Friday urged Christian youth not to enlist in the Israeli military and to ignore Israeli “propaganda” encouraging them to do so.

Today we talk face to face with entrepreneur, investor and Bitcoin proponent Roger Ver of RogerVer.com. In this conversation we discuss Roger’s own journey toward the philosophy of voluntaryism, its main precepts, and the moral arguments in its favour.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 25, 2014
48th AEG takes critical step to validate NATO FOB
By Airman 1st Class Dana J. Butler
48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 25, 2014
48th AEG takes critical step to validate NATO FOB
By Airman 1st Class Dana J. Butler
48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Federal Judges Order Obama to Release Memo Justifying Assassination of Americans
http://ur1.ca/h5w06
John Yoo makes the case that the President can torture children if necessary
http://ur1.ca/h5w1b

U.S. Army Europe
April 25, 2014
173rd conducts unscheduled training with Latvian Army
By Jesse Granger, USAREUR

WIESBADEN, Germany: Approximately 150 Soldiers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) in Vicenza, Italy, arrived in Latvia yesterday, to conduct small unit and leader training with members of the Latvian Army.

U.S. Army Europe
April 25, 2014
173rd conducts unscheduled training with Latvian Army
By Jesse Granger, USAREUR

WIESBADEN, Germany: Approximately 150 Soldiers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) in Vicenza, Italy, arrived in Latvia yesterday, to conduct small unit and leader training with members of the Latvian Army.

Disaster in the making?Three weeks from Tuesday is election day in PA-13. Yes, it's the primary for the seat Allyson Schwartz is giving up to run for governor. But the district is such a healthy deep blue-- PVI- D+13; Obama won against Romney with 66%-- that no one doubts that the winner of the primary will be the next Member of Congress from northeast Philly/Montgomery County.

Operation Dove | April 24, 2014

International lawyers and activists converged at a conference titled The Iraq Commission, in Brussels, Belgium, April 16 and 17, with the primary aim of bringing to justice government officials who are guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
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Navy NewsStand
April 24, 2014
USS Donald Cook Departs Black Sea
From U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs
BLACK SEA: The forward deployed guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) departed the Black Sea, April 24.

Navy NewsStand
April 24, 2014
USS Donald Cook Departs Black Sea
From U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs
BLACK SEA: The forward deployed guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) departed the Black Sea, April 24.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 25, 2014
Ecuador Expels US Embassy Military Group
MOSCOW: Twenty US Defense Department employees serving in the US embassy in Ecuador have been ordered to leave the country by the end of the month, the Associated Press reported Friday.
“All the activities we have carried out have had the explicit approval of our Ecuadorean counterparts,” embassy spokesman Jeffrey Weinshenker was quoted as saying.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 25, 2014
Ecuador Expels US Embassy Military Group
MOSCOW: Twenty US Defense Department employees serving in the US embassy in Ecuador have been ordered to leave the country by the end of the month, the Associated Press reported Friday.
“All the activities we have carried out have had the explicit approval of our Ecuadorean counterparts,” embassy spokesman Jeffrey Weinshenker was quoted as saying.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Louis Aragon: Selections on war
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Louis Aragon
Caravans of Peace (1949)
Translated by Jack Lindsay

All the highways over France

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Louis Aragon: Selections on war
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Louis Aragon
Caravans of Peace (1949)
Translated by Jack Lindsay

All the highways over France

By Eva Golinger | Postcards from the Revolution | April 23, 2014

These events exacerbate the danger of an explosive war, a conflagration that could envelope the planet. The Peace Movement is commemorating the tragedy of WWI. Today’s events are reminiscent of the capitalist and imperialist competitions that led to it. What can we do? Generate local demonstrations. Confront our government and media. Let our elected officials know that we see through the fog. Expose the hypocrisy, lies and war mongering.

….if we Fail to nail the warmongers 

 
‘Assassination Bureau’ revisited
 

By Nick Alexandrov | CounterPunch | April 25, 2014

By Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute | April 23, 2014

Anna-Marie Slaughter demonstrates that you need not scratch a “humanitarian interventionist” much to uncover the warmongering neoconservative just below the surface.

By Kevin Zeese | Dissident Voice | April 24, 2014

On the line from London, music journalist and author Paul Brannigan joins Media Monarchy to talk about his latest

They don’t make war propaganda like they used to – or maybe it has something to do with this newfangled thing they call the internet – but the latest "evidence" of Russian troops supposedly directly involved in east Ukraine turmoil was debunked almost as soon as it was made public. It turns out that a […]

“Mr. Obama is focused on isolating President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the outside world … and effectively making it a pariah state.” So wrote Peter Baker in Sunday’s New York Times. Yet if history is any guide, this “pariah policy,” even if adopted, will not long […]

To understand how thoughtless the US latest "peace process" drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theater. One particular character who stands out as a testament to the inherently futile exercise is Martin Indyk. Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, was selected by Secretary of […]

Image: Kiev has unleashed heavy armor, warplanes, and gunships on its own population with substantial NATO backing in direct contradiction to the West's policy over the last 3 years of alleged "responsibility to protect." April 25, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Deadly clashed broke out as the unelected regime occupying Kiev attempted to restart what it is calling “anti-terror

“The Boycott is a Moral Substitute for War”  Bertha V Corets

Ex-Republican/BRAVO TV star Tom Ravenel announced he is running as an independent against Lindsey Graham in the general election. If he manages to pull just 10% of the anti-Graham votes, the Democrat will win the U.S. Senate seat.

Once again, many militants were reported killed across Anbar province. While independent figures are impossible to obtain, the numbers hint at the carnage currently underway in the province. However, even more civilians and security members were killed today. Most of the casualties were in scattered violence across Iraq, including Anbar. The worst attacked occurred at a checkpoint in Hilla.

With the world teetering on the edge of a new world war that this time will indeed be caused by the United States of America, I have wondered how the American public could stand almost idly by while their criminal government pushes the entire planet to the edge of oblivion....

On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the movie Transcendence. Johnny Depp stars as a Kurzweil-like Ai researcher who is assassinated only to be given second life by uploading his consciousness into a machine. What seems to be an obvious Singularity sales pitch has a bit of a twist.

Well, if it's a warmer and fuzzier KKK we're hoping for, CNN's revised headline -- the lower one, in case you were wondering -- is, um, fuzzier, no?by KenHowie asked earlier today if I'd thought about writing about Cliven Brady, and I had to say honestly that no, I

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Stars and Stripes
April 24, 2014
US forces take lead in NATO’s response to Ukraine crisis
By Nancy Montgomery
Map of U.S. military deployments in Eastern Europe

Stars and Stripes
April 24, 2014
US forces take lead in NATO’s response to Ukraine crisis
By Nancy Montgomery
Map of U.S. military deployments in Eastern Europe

President Obama with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
President Obama, who is in Japan today, has announced that the U.S. defense treaty with Japan applies to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Japan and China are in dispute over who has sovereignty over the largely uninhabited island chain in the East China Sea, but Obama’s statement, simultaneously meant to reassure Tokyo and threaten Beijing, made clear that the U.S. will go to war against China if the territorial dispute erupts into conflict.

#Terrornoia Update | The proxy war in Syria rolls on with renewed rat-lines to terrorist cells courtesy of the U.S, U.K., & Saudi Arabia (despite Bandar's departure); Drone-terror strikes in Yemen by U.S. CIA & JSOC armchair assassins incinerate dozens of alleged Al Qaeda militants; Africa is hit by terror and counterterror.

In yet another definitive piece for the New Yorker titled What We Left Behind, Dexter Filkins writes about Iraq today, especially Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who the United States helped install. Many Americans blame Iraqis for killing their fellow citizens simply because they’re of a different sect of Islam.

[The video above is Tony Strickland speaking at College of the Canyons in Los Angeles County, after being questioned by Lee Rogers for living outside of the district in Ventura Country and running for the primarily Ventura County district even 4 months ago, forgets which district he's running in.]Tuesday night the College of the Canyons in Valencia hosted a debate for the CA-25 primary congressional candidates running to replace Buck McKeon, not just frontrunner Lee Rogers (D) and his two main GOP opponents, right-wing extremists Steve Knight from Palmdale and Tony Strickland, a carpetbagge

KAKE | April 21, 2014

After Iymen Chehade’s class at Columbia College Chicago was canceled, he realized that his academic freedom had been violated and skillfully protested until his class was reinstated. In this interview, Chehade discusses the importance of recognizing and fighting for academic freedom in schools across the globe.
(Interviewer: Kellen Winters @_ITSKELS @_KAKEME – Filmed and edited by @AndrewZeiter & @FragDfilms.)