The Occidental Observer | March 11, 2014

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Yes, while world attention has been focused fully on the situation in Ukraine, where the US has imposed a puppet government on the people of that once proud nation and the IMF/Rothschilds have begun fleecing that nation's wealth, there is plenty going on elsewhere in the world.....Right now, there have been reports over the last two days of "rockets" being launched from Gaza into Israel itself.  This so called "rocket attack" has most undoudtedly been conducted by Mossad agents once more, and the reasoning is simple...

Who said the Republicans don't want to pass immigration legislation? Emboldened by their big win in FL-13 yesterday, every single Republican (+ 5 scummy Blue Dogs who really are Republicans in all but name) voted against the DREAMers… and against anything else Obama could try to do to solve the immigration problem.

When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women’s delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I’d end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported.

Imagine you commit a heinous crime. Then imagine that, once facing charges in court, you’re allowed to withhold incriminating evidence brought forth by the prosecutors, keeping the jury in the dark about the details of your lawbreaking. Further, imagine you commit more crimes while on trial and imagine the judge enables and covers up these additional offenses.
Who would call this a fair trial? Clearly, it’s nothing but a mockery of the rule of law.

RT | March 13, 2014

Former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service has confirmed allegations that snipers who killed dozens of people during the violent unrest in Kiev operated from a building controlled by the opposition on Maidan square.

Ard Kanaan News Agency | March 12, 2014

Veolia is a French company specialising in environmental work in the fields of water, recycling, energy and transportation. The company has recently had a lot of media coverage given its contribution to supporting Israeli settlements.

This year's Congressional Progressive Caucus alternative budget, the Better Off Budget, was developed by Mike Honda (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Obviously, it's a complex document.

MEMO | March 13, 2014

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waged an unprecedented attack on Wednesday against ousted Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan, accusing him of assassinating several key Palestinian figures, including the late President Yasser Arafat.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Voice of America
March 13, 2014
McCain Wants Faster NATO Integration Of Georgia, Moldova
U.S. Senator John McCain has called for the faster integration of Georgia and Moldova into the structures of NATO amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine’s Crimea region.

Interfax
March 13, 2014
Intl law is in serious crisis – Pushkov
MOSCOW: International law is currently in a crisis and the West only remembers about it when it needs to make accusations against Russia, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma international affairs committee, said.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: At the Cenotaph
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Siegfried Sassoon
Arms and the Man (1918)

Young Croesus went to pay his call
On Colonel Sawbones, Caxton Hall:

Ma’an - March 12, 2014

BETHLEHEM – Dozens of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian militants in the coastal enclave.
The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the operation, which it has named “Breaking the Silence.”

There is a war going on right now and it doesn’t involve guns or the military industrial complex.
It’s a war on consciousness and most people are clueless that it even exists.

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If you loose faith in this generation, this 14-year-old boy may give may restore some of your faith in humanity!
Derek Nichols decided to post the following poem, written by his younger brother, Jordan, which has gone viral on Twitter and the Internet in general.
Check it out:

Here’s the transcript of the poem:
Our generation will be known for nothing.

Image: The West enjoys portraying Qatar as a modern nation-state on the rise.

Imagine if more people were like this!

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In a March 10 USA Today piece, Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) expressed his desire to introduce legislation that would place limits on the Pentagon’s 1033 program which is used to supply police departments with gear that was once used on the streets of Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a long overdue “official” recognition that something […]

The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking into one another’s computers. When the CIA was established in 1947, Congress and President Truman were concerned that it might not confine itself to spying. Its sole statutory purpose was to steal secrets from foreign governments so that […]

Who knows, soon we might see headlines and cable TV shows asking: “Is Dianne Feinstein a whistleblower or a traitor?” A truthful answer to that question could not possibly be "whistleblower." It may already be a historic fact that Senator Feinstein’s speech on March 11, 2014 blew a whistle on CIA surveillance of the Senate […]

This is an excerpt from an interview with the Archbishop of Hassakeh-Nisibi for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Behnan Hindo, where he expresses his anger at Western foreign policy that has been actively backing hardline Wahhabi terrorists to topple the Syrian government while causing all Syrians to suffer as a result.
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Last night a dull, uninspiring centrist advocating the politics of Beltway centrism-- despite the focus-group-tested message in the ad above (the last one run by the doomed Alex Sink campaign)-- was defeated by a weak and generic Republican lobbyist. Sink was defeated on election day by poorer-than-expected turnout among Democrats and left-leaning independents, after a surprisingly decent showing in early voting. Lots of TV ads do not make up for a weak message (Chained CPI, for example) and a weaker ground game.

Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher.

Scattered violence left at least 47 people dead and 33 more wounded across Iraq. The usual clashes and shelling took their toll in Anbar especially. Also, two Iraqiya party members were arrested on terrorism charges. With upcoming elections to take place soon, these arrests could foreshadow significant meddling, as had occurred during the last election […]

1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (d. 1986) was born.
1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

Professor Iymen Chehade joins us to discuss the controversy surrounding the his course on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at Columbia College and the accusations of bias that have prompted the college to interfere with their course in contravention of their own stated policies. We talk about the meaning of academic freedom and “Why is Palestine taboo at Columbia College?“

Sandy Hook was a fraud and a massive hoax perpetrated on the American people... That is absolutely fact now, and there is no denying the facts.... The criminals responsible for this fraud are now being caught daily with new reports revealing the con, and even the disinformation agents that are still out there trying frantically to keep the lie alive are now caught up in their own lies and have lost all credibility in this fight....

Imagine a National Security Council controlled by people whom (it now appears) hired snipers to fire on the Maidan crowd, with the intention of blaming this on Yanukovich’s security forces.) This is not business as usual. This is a leap into darkness.
The post Ukraine: The Sovereignty Argument, and the Real Problem of Fascism appeared first on BSNEWS.

Bryan Cranston portrays former President Lyndon B. Johnson on Broadway in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way, directed by Bill Rauchby KenEven those of us whose strong memories of Bryan Cranston go back beyond Breaking Bad not just to hilariously bumbling but dangerous dad Hal on Malcolm in the Middle but to his appearances as agenda-driven dentist Tim Whatley on Seinfeld, his post-Breaking Bad incarnation as former President Lyndon B.

As if the EU had any feasible Plan B to escape its dependency on Russian gas (not to mention eschew the very profitable financial game played between key European capitals and Moscow). What are they do, import gas on Qatar Airways flights? Buy LNG from the US - something that will not be feasible in years to come? The fact is the minute a gas war is on, if it ever comes down to it, the EU will be under immense pressure by a host of member-nations to keep (and even extend) its Russian gas fix - with or without "our (neo-nazi) bastards" in power in Kiev. Brussels knows it.

"It appears that the US State Dept. gave $5 billion to Ukrainian neo-Nazis who used some of the money to hire mass murderers who massacred protesters, policemen and bystanders in order to provide a rationale for overthrowing the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installing an anti-Russian puppet government."
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By Josmar Trujillo | Black Agenda Report | March 12, 2014

Itar-Tass
March 12, 2014
Belarus plans air defence boost
MINSK: Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko endorsed the proposals of the country’s Defence Ministry to boost air defences of the Belarusian state. Defence Minister Yuri Zhadobin stated this on Wednesday after the Security Council meeting that discussed the preliminary results of the first stage of the Belarusian Armed Forces combat preparedness check.

Feinstein vs. CIA provokes much-needed crisis over who controls our spies–it’s time for Obama to show real leadership….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Gitmo review board says Yemeni should remain, uncharged
–UN report calls for independent investigation of drone attacks
–Ukraine’s unelected leader visits Obama, reminds US of treaty obligations
–rocket barrage from Gaza hits southern Israel, in response to Israeli airstrike that killed 3 Palestinians

by Judith Curry Peter Gluckman, New Zealand’s chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence. Nature News & Comment has an article by Peter Gluckman entitled The Art of Science Advice to Government (full article … Continue reading →

United States European Command
March 12, 2014
Spokesman: F-16 Augmentation Continues U.S.-Poland Partnership

WASHINGTON: A dozen more F-16s and 300 personnel based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, will augment the U.S. aviation detachment at Łask Air Base, Poland, a Pentagon spokesman announced today.

This afternoon, New Mexico Democrat Leslie Endean-Singh ended her race to be the Democratic nominee against right-wing extremist Stevan Pearce. She graciously left the field to DCCC recruit Rocky Lara, another one of Steve Israel's "mystery meat" candidates who stands for nothing much and will inspire as many voters as Alex Sink did last night. Endean-Singh, running a totally positive campaign, never adequately made the case about why the centrist Lara isn't a winning choice for New Mexico Democrats.

Russian Information Agency Novosti
March 12, 2014
US Begins Navy Drills in Black Sea Near Crimea

USS Truxtun
MOSCOW: A US navy destroyer began joint exercises Wednesday with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea, about 130 miles from Crimea, the Reuters news agency reported.

Navy NewsStand
March 12, 2014
USS George H.W. Bush Completes Second Successful Port Visit in Antalya, Turkey
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shaun Griffin, USS George H.W. Bush Public Affairs

USS George H.W. Bush
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) departed Antalya, Turkey March 12, following a three-day port visit.
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Press TV – March 12, 2014

The West is planning a new push against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through funding proxy war on the conflict-stricken country, a report suggests.
The British daily The Guardian reported that a fresh clandestine effort is under way for opening up a “southern front” against the Syrian president.

The Neocons Ride Again

By Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report | March 12, 2014

NYT's

Shoe / Other foot?

Who are the terrorists again?
A number of East Williamsburg and Bushwick residents were surprised by a combined federal and NYPD raid on Devoe Street early Sunday morning. Some were disturbed by a loud, low-flying helicopter, while others were simply stopped from going home because the street was blocked off.

UPDATE: 2 Buildings Collapse After Explosion In NYC...
At least two dead...
'We saw people flying out of window'...
Video...

By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | March 12, 2014