On April 15, seven police officers in Peoria, Illinois raided the home of Jon Daniel and his roommates. They took various electronics, and kept several residents of the house cuffed for hours. The reason for this raid? Any good student of the current state of American policing might have guesses – was it drug trafficking? […]
Psychologists call it projection, which is defined as a defense mechanism that involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people. Non-psychologists just call it being two-faced. Either way, both perfectly describe what the US is doing to Russia regarding Ukraine. Whether it’s accusing Russia of distributing anti-Semitic leaflets, violating […]
The lion's share of fatalities today came out of Anbar province, where security operations and clashes killed dozens of militants. The number of casualties in Anbar cannot be independently confirmed, because there are few to no reporters there. The most dramatic attacked, however, occurred in a Shabak community in northern Iraq. Also, a Diyala province councilman was shot dead in that restive province
The gas-operated AA-12 has little more kick than a .22 caliber rifle, allowing for accuracy formerly unheard of with a shotgun Assault rifles are all well and good, but when you really need to tear a person to pieces, nothing fills…Read more →
by KenLast night Howie passed on the news that the Sidney Hillman Foundation has chosen Digby as the recipient of this year's Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, "for incisive commentary on the struggle for economic justice in the U.S." Does it get any better?If you haven't already read the citation, which Howie included in his post, I can only encourage you to read it
TweetA new report just out says that the Benghazi attack could have been prevented if the US had not changed sides and started supporting Al Qaeda.
The Libyan people have been saying this for 3 years since the beginning of the NATO war when the US/CIA brought in 250,000 Al Qaeda mercenaries to take over that country. The US has been and continues to this day supporting Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Ansar Al Sharia and all other Islamic Extremist groups in Libya and other countries.
Few people noticed that government changed the First Amendment to really mean that you can assemble in a designated Free Speech Zone and sign a petition which you cannot present to an elected official without committing a felony. The Federal government has been revising the Bill of Rights to such an extent that the original might seem unrecognizable to older generations. Rather than wait for the Revised Bill of Rights to appear in 2020 I have written the document now from current trends.
The First Amendment used to be:
Few people noticed that government changed the First Amendment to really mean that you can assemble in a designated Free Speech Zone and sign a petition which you cannot present to an elected official without committing a felony. The Federal government has been revising the Bill of Rights to such an extent that the original might seem unrecognizable to older generations. Rather than wait for the Revised Bill of Rights to appear in 2020 I have written the document now from current trends.
The First Amendment used to be:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Maritime Command
April 23, 2014
NATO DEEPENS COOPERATION ON COUNTER-PIRACY WITH OMAN
Story by HQ MARCOM Public Affairs Office
Muscat, OMAN: Last week, ITS MIMBELLI, currently deployed in NATO’s counter-piracy Operation OCEAN SHIELD, conducted a port visit to Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman’s capital city. The aim of the visit was to pursue NATO’s ongoing cooperation with regional states to combat piracy at sea.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Maritime Command
April 23, 2014
NATO DEEPENS COOPERATION ON COUNTER-PIRACY WITH OMAN
Story by HQ MARCOM Public Affairs Office
Muscat, OMAN: Last week, ITS MIMBELLI, currently deployed in NATO’s counter-piracy Operation OCEAN SHIELD, conducted a port visit to Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman’s capital city. The aim of the visit was to pursue NATO’s ongoing cooperation with regional states to combat piracy at sea.
Subsequent to my brief summary of the first hour of Dr. Ricardo Duchesne’s April 18, 2014 Red Ice Radio appearance, here is a full summary of his second hour appearance, available to members only: - What about exploration of North and South Pole, and world’s tallest mountains by Europeans without violence? Critics of Western civilization […]
Xinhua News Agency
April 24, 2014
CSTO chief says Russia, NATO confront directly
MOSCOW: Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have arrived at the state of direct confrontation, head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said Wednesday.
Xinhua News Agency
April 24, 2014
CSTO chief says Russia, NATO confront directly
MOSCOW: Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have arrived at the state of direct confrontation, head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said Wednesday.
There is a growing movement among many conservatives and right wing state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention to pass a ‘balanced budget amendment’ to the US constitution.
Despite the attempt by many on the right to frame the issue as one of fiscal responsibility, in reality it is merely the latest attack on working people and the poor in the US.
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660) Born
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1731 – Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
The Koch brothers prefer a veneer of respectability. Their skins crawl when they are publicly called out by name as fascists and Birchers intent on destroying American democracy. It drives them mad when the media mentions how difficult they have made it to follow the trail of cash they use to bribe right-wing legislators.
I have updated the post to include the video of the entire interview- with thanks to Saker for bringing it to my attention. It's well worth taking the 30 minutes needed to watch it entirelySergei Lavrov has way more class then John Kerry!Video below Sergei Lavrov in his own words- straight shootin'
Americans ‘not ready to admit they cannot run the show’
Americans ‘not ready to admit they cannot run the show’
Keep in mind that the legal drinking age is 19 in OntarioConservative values?PM residenceNotice the media sat on this story? Why?
Voice of Russia | April 23, 2014
A lawsuit, filed on behalf of four different men, blames the United States of violating their rights by keeping them on the no-fly list after they declined to spy on local Muslim communities, notably in New York, New Jersey and Nebraska. Some view the move as a punishment, though more likely this is a rigid coercive tool, plaintiffs argue.
I was alerted just the other day from a comment and an email about a very interesting incident that supposedly just happened last week which was not reported by the liars in the mainstream media because it made light of the fact that the US is entirely unprepared for war with Russia (no surprise here). I want to share some very interesting details about this incident in this article...According to the following report from the Russian Radio website, at www.indian.ruvr.ru, it appears that an American Aegis guided missile cruiser, the USS Donald Cook
Ma’an – 22/04/2014
JERUSALEM (AFP) — President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that he would extend faltering peace talks with Israel only if it agreed to conditions, including a settlement freeze, which it promptly rejected.
Abbas listed his demands during a meeting with Israeli journalists at his headquarters in Ramallah just a week before a nine-month target for a peace deal.
Ma’an - 23/04/2014
GAZA CITY – PLO and Hamas representatives announced an historic unity deal on Wednesday to bring to an end more than seven years of political division between the main Palestinian political parties.
RT | April 23, 2014
Ahead of a two-day Net Mundial international conference in Sao Paulo on the future of the Internet, Brazil’s Senate has unanimously adopted a bill which guarantees online privacy of Brazilian users and enshrines equal access to the global network.
Mulally vs. PikettyBy Holman W. Jenkins Jr.The Wall Street Journal • April 23, 2014, p.
Several friends had been telling me about what an outstanding candidate Bonnie Watson Coleman, running for the New Jersey seat Rush Holt is giving up. What I was hearing most of all was that she isn't just a strong and committed progressive bout that she's an intrepid and well-tested fighter. Then, a couple of days ago I heard from our old friend, Barbara Buono, who will no doubt recall as the progressive and very prescient candidate beaten by Chris Christie.
HANDS OFF!
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spoke at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston about how it is essential and appropriate for Supreme Court Justices to consider politics when deciding on Constitutional questions.
Making Vaccination Mandatory for All Children
This year, 150,000 children will be added to the list of victims of forced vaccination. The leaders of New York City have mandated that all children under the age of six years old who attend day care or preschool must be vaccinated with the flu vaccine.
25 actors — all of whom must be U.S. citizens and be able to adapt to multiple scenarios — are being sought for the exercises, which will also feature the use of AK-47s with blank ammunition provided by BKM Enterprises.
21 Apr 2014
NY court: US must release targeted killings memo 21 Apr 2014 The U.S. government must publicly disclose in redacted form secret papers describing its legal justification for using drones to kill citizens suspected of terrorism overseas, because President Barack Obama and senior government officials have commented on the subject, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S.
A 49-year-old pornography addict, Kelly Swoboda, turned his van into a mobile dungeon. He stalked and abducted women. Swoboda shot a police officer in Portland, Oregon and died in the gun battle: Swoboda already was wanted by police because he was the suspect in bank robberies as well as a January kidnapping at a tanning salon southeast of Portland. A 23-year-old woman was working alone at the salon when a man beat her, forced her outside to a van and bound her ankles and wrists with duct tape. The woman escaped by jumping from the moving vehicle.
Over at The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi worries that Obama’s trip to Asia this week “will increase perceptions in Beijing that the U.S. seeks to contain China’s rise.” It’s difficult to counter that perception because it happens to be correct.
By Anthony Watts | Watts Up With That? | April 22, 2014
In Bjørn Lomborg’s latest oped: Global Warming’s Upside-Down Narrative Lomborg points out the following:
34 – Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1616 – William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor (b. 1564) died.
1616 – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1791 – James Buchanan, American politician, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868) was born.
I have stated in my rants and several previous articles the obvious about the insane push for war by the criminal US adminstration...
Press TV – April 23, 2014
The Obama administration plans to resume some military assistance to Egypt and deliver 10 Apache helicopters after the military-backed government in Cairo upheld its peace treaty with Israel.
I have been looking this last week at what the liars in the Jewish run mainstream media have been bullshitting about the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370, and I am astounded...
Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 23, 2014
US Troops to Arrive for Exercises in Lithuania
VILNIUS: US troops will arrive this week in Lithuania for a series of training exercises, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said Wednesday.
Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 23, 2014
US Troops to Arrive for Exercises in Lithuania
VILNIUS: US troops will arrive this week in Lithuania for a series of training exercises, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said Wednesday.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Maurice Druon: The dual prerogatives of minting coins and waging wars
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Maurice Druon
From The Strangled Queen (1955)
Translated by Humphrey Hare
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Maurice Druon: The dual prerogatives of minting coins and waging wars
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Maurice Druon
From The Strangled Queen (1955)
Translated by Humphrey Hare
