In an investigation for the Guardian, John Pilger expands the evidence in his new film, 'Utopia', to reveal the scandal of a second Stolen Generation.

Curiously? Or, not really?  The only article mentioning the pondering of US annexation of Canada is from the Guardian. I looked and didn't find this 'debate' reported on at any Canadian news websites.

Military sex trials at Ft. Bragg and Annapolis produce wrist slap and acquittal; our military justice system is badly broken….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Gen Sinclair beats the rap, gets demotion, fine and reprimand instead of jail time and expulsion from military
–midshipman acquitted of sexual assault where victim was put on trial
–Rachel Maddow airs excellent, long story about murder of Colorado prison chief last year, and links to white extremist gang and Saudis

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | March 20, 2014

Not since Feb. 6, 2003, the day after Secretary of State Colin Powell wowed the world with his slam-dunk speech “proving” that Iraq was hiding WMD, has the Washington Post’s editorial section shown this unity of “group think.” On Thursday, the Post presented a solid phalanx of denunciations directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And the Democrat still isn't worth voting for!Joe Manchin (WV) is the most conservative Democrat in the Senate. According to ProgressivePunch, his lifetime crucial vote score is 60.71, pretty dreadful. He's the 55th "most progressive" member of the Senate. Every Republican is worse. The 5 Democrats almost as bad as Machin-- from bad to worse-- are Kay Hagan (NC), Joe Donnelly (IN), John Walsh (MT), Mark Pryor (AR), Mary Landrieu (LA), all in red or purple states.

Marine Forces Europe and Africa
United States Marine Corps
March 16, 2014
USAG Stuttgart, Germany Unpredictable weather creates unique training adaptations during Cold Response 14
By Sgt. Tatum Vayavananda | Marine Forces Europe and Africa

Marine Forces Europe and Africa
United States Marine Corps
March 20, 2014
USAG Stuttgart, Germany 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment kicks off Black Sea Rotational Force 14 deployment with non-lethal weapons sustainment training
By Lance Cpl. Scott Whiting | Marine Forces Europe and Africa

Navy NewsStand
Department of the Navy
March 19, 2014
Navy Commences Participation in ICEX 2014
From Commander, Submarine Forces Public Affairs

NORFOLK: Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) announced Virginia-class attack submarine USS New Mexico (SSN 779) and Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767) commenced Ice Exercise 2014 (ICEX 2014) in the Arctic Ocean March 19.

There are 54 different countries on Earth that the U.S. is legally obligated to militarily protect and defend if they get into their own conflicts. Below is the State Department’s list of them (via Micah Zenko):

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
March 20, 2014
Lieutenant General Richard Tryon at National Defence Academy

Within the two day long visit to Georgia, Commander of the United States Marine Corps Forces in Europe visited Davit Agmashenebeli National Defence Academy. Chief of General Staff of GAF, Major-General Vakhtang Kapanadze and NDA Rector Zurab Agladze hosted Lieutenant General Richard Tryon.

Interfax
March 20, 2014
Time to end the condoning of Ukrainian Right Sector militants, Svoboda activists – Lavrov
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told United States Secretary of State John Kerry by telephone on Thursday that Washington should stop condoning Ukrainian nationalists and extremists.

A research paper doesn't talk about increased crop damage by insects. But as occurred in the Himalayan glacier incident, the erroneous claim remains in the about-to-be released report.

by Judith Curry If Silver’s data-drive approach gets in the way of your political aims, so much the better. – Michael Brendan Dougherty Nate Silver has a new blog FiveThirtyEight (well a relaunch and extension of his blog, which is now … Continue reading →

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | March 20, 2014

Collection of print and radio interviews with and on Iymen Chehade’s struggle for academic freedom at Columbia College Chicago:
petition: Respect Academic Freedom!
forum: Why is Palestine taboo at Columbia College
Interviews with Professor Iymen Chehade:

Collection of print and radio interviews with and on Iymen Chehade’s struggle for academic freedom at Columbia College Chicago:
petition: Respect Academic Freedom!
forum: Why is Palestine taboo at Columbia College
Interviews with Professor Iymen Chehade:

If you quickly survey the media coverage and political rhetoric surrounding the Ukraine crisis, you find there is nothing easier than to condemn Russia for its opportunistic and illegal incursions into Ukraine’s sovereign territory of Crimea. And this is correct: it is very easy to see these acts as unfair and unlawful. Russian troops, deceitfully hiding identifying marks, occupied Ukrainian police and military posts and basically took control of the territory before pushing for a referendum. That the referendum was strongly in favor of Russia is a separate issue. (If the U.S.

Stars and Stripes
March 19, 2014
Biden signals plans for more US military drills in the Baltics
By John Vandiver
STUTTGART, Germany: The U.S. is crafting plans to deploy rotational ground troops and naval forces into the Baltics as part of an effort to bolster the capabilities of regional allies and reassure nations shaken by Russia’s intervention in nearby Ukraine, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said.

Clothcap @ Clothcaps place asked if I wouldn't mind terribly bringing this to readers attention?Not a problem Clothcap!NO NATO- Newport- check'em out!

 
Mac Slavo
March 19th, 2014
SHTFplan.com
On Monday the U.S. government took steps to seize the US-based assets of Russian lawmakers and anyone else that the US government deemed complicit in supporting the Crimean secession movement.

Mark Levine, former Chief Legislative Counsel to Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, is currently running for Congress himself to represent the 8th Congressional District of Virginia.

By Gilad Atzmon • August 3, 2009

By James Petras :: 03.17.2014

Introduction

Dear Neil
We are Palestinian students and youth from the besieged Gaza Strip; we write to you now on a night engulfed by huge explosions ripping through our houses and neighborhoods again, more common than the thunder and hard rain also filling the night air.

MEMO | March 20, 2014

A delegation from the Egyptian army and Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Israel last week against the backdrop of consolidating relations between the two countries following the July 3 military coup.

By helping to manufacture the consent of the public for that war, and by helping to intimidate opponents of the war, you were complict in sending thousands of young American men and women abroad to kill and be killed; thousands of them died, tens or hundreds of thousands were injured or mentally traumatized, not to mention up to a million Iraquis who died as a result of the war.

The Western press is beating the war drums over the incident. But – given that that snipers are a common form of false flag terrorism – shouldn’t we wait to find out who was really behind the violence?
The post Unknown Snipers Once Again Stir Up Violence … This Time In Crimea appeared first on BSNEWS.

It is not just all about the money…..
By Dave Lindorff on Mar 19, 2014
Who What Why

New York police attack unemployed workers in Tompkins Square, 1874

By David Edwards (Media Lens) News that 2015 might turn out to be the first year since 1914 when British troops will not be fighting a war somewhere in the world appeared to come as a shock to many. But in fact, the British record of Permanent War stretches back much further. Seumas Milne commented in the Guardian that empire […]
The post Killing Trend – The Cruise Missile Liberals appeared first on BSNEWS.

Interfax-Ukraine
March 20, 2014
NATO secretary general fears Russia may “go beyond Crimea”
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen believes that Crimea’s accession to Russia is part of Russia’s global strategy and fears that “Russia will go beyond Crimea and the next goal will be the eastern provinces of Ukraine.”

3 Stooges: Yellen, O’Busha, Helicopter Ben…. Bringing Indentured Servitude to the 99%
(Via Zero Hedge)

Interfax
March 20, 2014
Ukraine seeks joint military drills with its security guarantors on Ukrainian territory – NSDC decision
KYIV: Kyiv is drafting an address to the guarantors of its security, sovereignty and territorial integrity asking them to help arrange joint military exercises on Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Andriy Parubiy said.

The South Caolina Senate race may be more of a tossup than anyone realizes. With Patty Murray, the architect of the DSCC's stunning series of victories in 2012, having turned over the reins of the committee to one of the Senate's weakest, lamest and least capable members, Michael Bennet, there are ominous signs ominously pointing to the possibility that Democrats will narrowly lose the Senate this year.

Image: Syrian forces have made irreversible gains across the country
against  foreign-backed militants. Such gains began long before the
August 2013 “chemical weapons attack” in Damascus – exposing the
pivotal event as not only a false-flag attack carried out by the West and
its proxies, but as a  result of not Syrian desperation, but rather Western
desperation. 

RT
March 20, 2014
US, UK military to stage NATO exercises in Ukraine
Ukraine will play host, but the US military will call the shots, in an upcoming military exercise called Rapid Trident that will bring together some 1,300 international forces in Ukraine for a long-planned exercise.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alfred Neumann: Four thousand miles of fratricidal murder
Alfred Neumann: Sacred recalcitrance toward the black hatred of war

Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Messiah Complex. Nero Complex. Sociopathic Personality Disorder. Pathological Liar.  Like people say, Obama is deeply damaged.
ABC News personality, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will, said it best in a Washington Post article:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Messiah Complex. Nero Complex. Sociopathic Personality Disorder. Pathological Liar.  Like people say, Obama is deeply damaged.
ABC News personality, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will, said it best in a Washington Post article:

Image: Syrian forces have made irreversible gains across the country against  foreign-backed militants.

Editors Note: This is not an isolated incident.  The ethnic cleansing ,colonial expansion, occupation,  and apartheid policies by the Israeli occupation forces and colonist settlers  against the Palestinian people is conducted on a daily basis .  War crimes are being committed and the west is silent.
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Wall Street has built a Pyramid of Greed. It is upside down with very few people down below supporting the many above them. At Giza the Egyptian architects built a pyramid with all the weight on the bottom supporting a small capstone on the top. That is because they were builders and not Bankers. I wrote 6 Levels Of The American Government. Level F is where people who work and pay taxes are. F literally stands for those who must be Flogged to get them to pay taxes to support those who appointed themselves to rule.

Wall Street has built a Pyramid of Greed. It is upside down with very few people down below supporting the many above them. At Giza the Egyptian architects built a pyramid with all the weight on the bottom supporting a small capstone on the top. That is because they were builders and not Bankers. I wrote 6 Levels Of The American Government. Level F is where people who work and pay taxes are. F literally stands for those who must be Flogged to get them to pay taxes to support those who appointed themselves to rule.

Initially, I was gratified to learn that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was unafraid to take on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the issue of domestic spying. The CIA is limited by its charter to stealing secrets from foreigners outside the U.S. However, in a recent dust-up, Feinstein […]

According to American Senator John McCain, "We are all Ukrainians now!" Of course in the United States it is of comparatively little significance what you actually are while of eminent importance what someone calls you; we having long since given up achievement in lieu of imagery. Therefore in interest of providing equal time to the […]

 
by PATRICK COCKBURN                           Counterpunch
It is a chilling five-minute film made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), showing its fighters stopping three large trucks on what looks like the main highway linking Syria and Iraq. A burly bearded gunmen takes the ID cards of the drivers who stand nervously in front of him.
“You are all Shia,” he says threateningly.

I have no idea why, but corrupt conservative New Dem Colleen Hanabusa has me on her mailing list. Usually I just delete all the EMILY's List-generated spam she sends out, but this morning I opened one because "minimum wage" was in the subject line. A consistent shill for Big Business and K Street lobbyists, I wanted to see if she was using Republican talking points in her argument. As it turned out, she claimed to be in favor of raising the minimum wage-- just not as much as any other Democrats!

At least 115 people were killed and 128 more were wounded in attacks and clashes today. A large number of people were killed or wounded during shelling in Falluja, and Baghdad saw a number of bombings agian.

Image: Provoking a confrontation with Russia allows the West to furtherarm and aid the regime in Kiev - not against a military conflict it has nohope of winning against Moscow, but against the inevitable uprising itfaces from the Ukrainian people.