How does the new climate report compare to the last one? Has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change pulled up its socks?

Open letter to Omar Barghouti, Co-founder, PACBI

Rep. Mike Rogers, one of the most doggedly pro-NSA figures in Congress, is once again making claims for which he presents zero evidence and which contradict findings from the intelligence community. Specifically, he is going on television to claim Edward Snowden is a double agent for the Russians.
New York Times:

The Ukraine Revolution was planed and created in the capitals of the United States and European Union member states to distract their populations from the US and EU inevitable economic implosion. Both the United States and the European Union are at the brink of collapse, economically, politically and socially, so that their leaders feel they have no choice but to self preserve at any cost.

The Ukraine Revolution was planed and created in the capitals of the United States and European Union member states to distract their populations from the US and EU inevitable economic implosion. Both the United States and the European Union are at the brink of collapse, economically, politically and socially, so that their leaders feel they have no choice but to self preserve at any cost.

By Samah Jabr | Palestine Chronicle | March 23 2014

Franklin Lamb
Latakia, Syria
 
Recent reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the accuracy of which have been conceded by the White House, but denied in Tel Aviv, have it that slightly less than half of Syria’s chemical weapons have already left the country and 100% of the country’s stockpiles are believed to have been neutralized. Well along the path to meet the June 30 agreed discard date.

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | March 23, 2014

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News | March 23, 2014

A Palestinian journalist has reported that he and two of his colleagues were used by the Israeli military as ‘human shields’ during an Israeli military invasion of the Aida refugee camp, near Bethlehem.

The National Security Archive, an organization founded “to check rising government secrecy,” has awarded its annual Rosemary Award to James Clapper “for worst open government performance in 2013,” chiefly for his now infamous lie to Sen. Ron Wyden that the NSA doesn’t collect information on millions of Americans.

 
WARNING: VIDEO VERY BLOODY, PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED NOT FOR SHOCKING BUT TO SHOW THE CRIMINAL AND BARBARIAN  NATURE OF THE SO-CALLED “OPPOSITION” THAT ZION/OBAMA/CAMERON/NATO/EU ARE SUPPORTING & ARMING
 
Executed, even if it is a completely inappropriate term for what is a real mass murder. And ‘the dramatic and tragic fate of Syrian soldiers who were guarding Kindi hospital in Aleppo.

Press TV – March 24, 2014

A court in Egypt has sentenced 529 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for various charges including murder, judicial sources and a defence lawyer say.
“The court has decided to sentence to death 529 defendants and 16 were acquitted,” lawyer Ahmed al-Sharif said on Monday.
He added that the ruling can be appealed.

On April 2, the Senate Finance Committee is planning to renew 55 major tax breaks worth $700 billion over 10 years, which is mostly to the benefit of the corporations like General Electic, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, which underwrite the political careers of our political elite in general and the members of the Senate Finance Committee in particular.

RT
March 24, 2014
15 years on: Looking back at NATO’s ‘humanitarian’ bombing of Yugoslavia

An explosion followed by a huge fire rages in the south-west part of Pristina in the early hours March 25, 1999 after NATO forces launched a missile attack against Yugoslavia (Reuters / Yannis Behrakis)
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(1975) – A documentary on the Tule Lake Japanese Relocation Camp presented through interviews with Japanese Americans who were interned there.
Link for video

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Maurice Duplay
From Our Doctors (1926)
Translated by Joseph Collins
“Reviewing the past, said Frémond, “we are justified in believing that future generations will laugh at tuberculosis and at cancer.”
To this Daruel, still wallowing in his pessimism, replied:

March 24, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - While human right crusades are dominated by headlines involving the “homophobic” Russian government and tales of homosexuals being strung up across Iran, there is a larger, more sinister violator of human rights operating right within an intentional, self-imposed media blackhole created by the West.

What to do about Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea? This is the question of the hour for the War Party, and they are tearing their hair out in a paroxysm of frustration about what course to take. The Obama administration, for its part, seems content to get up on its high horse and issue feckless […]

Dear Mr. President, As you ponder your potential moves regarding President Vladimir V. Putin’s annexation of Crimea (a large majority of its 2 million people are ethnic Russians), it is important to remember that whatever moral leverage you may have had in the court of world opinion has been sacrificed by the precedents set by […]

Republicans want to elect a delusional convicted sex offender governorYou may have missed the charming story out of England last week by Bobby Viteri, Eating Goat Penis With America's One Percent (at the Waldorf Astoria in New York).

At least 98 people were killed and 34 more were wounded across Iraq today. In Diyala province, security forces are trying to prevent militants from taking over Buhriz.

The world has been teetering on the verge of total economic collapse and possible world war for quite sometime now, and we know that the present economic system is headed to ruination thanks to the Jews and their criminal Usury financial system.  Throughout history, any nation that has ever adopted such a horrific system of crushing debt has always collapsed.  We are about to watch history repeat itself again.But just before the collapse happens, we can be sure that the criminals responsible for the world's demise would make sure that their minions and followers are protected and that they

by Alan Hart
On the face of it that’s a silly question and the speculation it represents – that Palestinian “President” Abbas could replaced by an Israeli agent or asset – is not worthy of discussion. But before dismissing it readers might do what I did and consider two things.

An American rabbi has censured Israel’s apartheid expansionist policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying such measures run counter to Judaism, Press TV reports.
“Judaism does not permit us to oppress other people, steal their land, or in any manner being uncompassionate to the people,” Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a New York-based activist and spokesman for anti-Zionist group Neturei Karta, said in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Saturday.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.

I like to think my grasp of the technology has advanced to the point where if you click on this lovely strip by Ruben Bolling to enlarge it, you'll actually be able to read it.by KenIf I groped hard enough I could find a connection between the offerings above and below. But the truth is that I've had the one above for a few days, since I received it as a pass-along, and knew I wanted to pass it along in turn.

Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. In this month’s conversation:

By Ron Paul| March 23, 2014

It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine. At the time the “Orange Revolution” had forced a regime change in Ukraine with the help of millions of dollars from Washington.

The very reason why Bill’s work lives on and still has such amazing potency is that, in a world full of ‘banality and mediocrity’, of sophistry, of casuistry and speciousness, of the kind of fakery and shallowness Brand Man and his ilk make their stock in trade, his words retain the mark of genuine authenticity. They are like water in a desert to those of us thirsting for something real in a world of fabrication and deception.

Despite the hairdo, Susanne Atanus is not from EMILY's ListEvery good progressive deserves their own opponent like Susanne Atanus. Recall that last January we had a chuckle over the crackpots running against Jan Schakowsky in her Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka, Des Plaines, Arlington Heights district (IL-09).

Hot on the heels of Israel’s incursion into Syria.  Hope that is not a surprise to anyone? Turkey and Israel in cahoots. Shouldn't be a surprise.  Not if you have been paying attention.Recall? It was just a few days ago the vile Israeli attack on Syria took placeIsrael launched airstrikes into Syria- supporting their Islamists, of courseTurkey is doing the same job. Supporting NATO's Islamist mercenaries.

James Corbett joins Tom Secker of SpyCulture.com to talk about the privatization of intelligence and the development of the intelligence industrial complex. In this typically wide ranging conversation James began by breaking down the different layers in the existing discussion on this topic. We looked at the history of private intelligence, how 9/11 turned it into a massive industry, Edward Snowden, Anonymous, so called cyberterrorism and much more.

I know because I had to order Vol. 2 ofthe "Rockford Files Movies" from Germany[Click to enlarge, if you care]by KenTo tell the truth, I didn't care that much about getting any of the Rockford Files movies on DVD. I think I only wound up ordering them because I discovered:(a) that I apparently couldn't get Vol.

This “Incident” is eerily similar to the The great Iraq War lie. A girl told the world under tears that she saw how Saddam Hussein’s soldiers took babies out of their incubators and let them die on the cold floor.
In Novembre 1990 Bush41 told this lie to the poor soldiers.
In truth she hadn’t been in Kuwait at the time. The girl was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington, USA.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 ― Investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator, a Malay daily reported today.
 An unnamed source told Berita Harian that while it was too early to make any conclusions on the new finding, it was still considered an important element in the probe on the whereabouts of the plane and its 239 people.

The IPCC's Chapter 7 was not written by neutral, dispassionate scholars. Three UN employees are among its authors.

Venezuelanalysis | March 23, 2014

In a recent article Amnesty International accused the Venezuelan government of a “witch hunt” when opposition mayor, Daniel Ceballos was arrested. However, Amnesty has yet to use such strong language against the five weeks of human rights violations people in Venezuela have suffered at the hands of violent opposition sectors. The “witch hunt” term demonises the people’s right to bring such criminals to justice.

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Correo del Orinoco | March 22, 2014

Venezuelan ombudswoman Gabriela Ramírez has accused international organizations of misrepresenting human rights conditions in Venezuela.
According to Ramirez, non-government organizations have been part of a campaign of “attacks” on Venezuela.

By Paul J. Balles | August 8, 2009

More insidious than the wars with tanks and guns, aircraft and bombs, missiles and guidance systems, shock and awe campaigns. The wickedest wars are the wars for people’s minds – the propaganda campaigns that exercise thought control.

Sunday and time again for my usual rant….It has been a very long and brutal winter up here in central Canada, and still at this point, Spring is absolutely no where in sight…. There is still about 120cm (4+ feet) of snow on the ground here, and I do wonder why in the hell anyone can still be suckered into believing in the Global Warming fraud at all once they see what I see here….

by Judith Curry Mavericks once played an essential role in research. Indeed, their work defined the 20th century. The Guardian The Guardian has an article We need more scientific mavericks, which is authored by 30 very distinguished scientists (mostly from … Continue reading →

Sofia News Agency
March 21, 2014
USA To Hold Military Exercises in Poland
The US is preparing military exercises in Poland, said US ambassador to Poland, Stephen Mull.
According to Mull, they would include Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Baltics.
Polish radio station Radio Zet, quoted by Reuters, said Mull told them that the exercise will take place in the Lask base in central Poland.

 
The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects has voted to call on the International Union Of Architects to exclude the Israeli Association of United Architects over its refusal to oppose Israel’s construction of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.
 Abe Hayeem, RIBA member and chair of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, said:

Voice of Russia
March 23, 2014
Turkish PM Erdogan confirms Turkish armed forces shot down Syrian jet
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday his country’s armed forces had shot down a Syrian jet after it violated Turkish airspace, confirming media reports.

Sofia News Agency
March 20, 2014
Troops Of 12 Countries To Hold An Exercise in Bulgaria

Land troops of 12 countries will take part in the international military exercise at the Novo Selo range in Bulgaria.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
John Galsworthy: Selections on war
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John Galsworthy
From The Burning Spear (1919)

Voice of Russia | March 23, 2014

Watchdogs from several European countries have noticed no indication of a massive build-up of Russian military that would threaten the security of neighboring states, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Sunday.

Farenthold & GrimmIn January, Bill Maher promised to try to flip a district. I was hoping he would work his magic on the North Shore of Long Island-- the Gold Coast, home to Princesses Long Island-- and go after Steve Israel.

By Jessica Purkiss | MEMO | March 22, 2014