ClandesTime #18 | Guillermo Jimenez joins Tom Secker, host of ClandesTime, to discuss his progression through alt media. We talk about getting started in media, the time spent as a live radio host on RBN, the problems with network radio, podcasting, the future of media, and advice for budding hosts.
Taylor Report
February 13th, 2014
Ukraine on the Grand Chessboard
“A Phase Beyond” the first wave of colour revolutions
February 10th, 2014
Featured Guest: RICK ROZOFF
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Rick Rozoff discusses NATO’s “Eastern Partnership” program, which targets ex-Soviet countries, including Ukraine, for military and economic integration with the U.S.
What is happening in Ukraine is “a phase beyond” the first wave of colour revolutions, and is something qualitatively different.
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by Judith Curry [W]e have a field of sort-of-science in which hypotheses are treated as facts because they’re too hard or expensive to test, and there are so many hypotheses that what journalists like to call “leading authorities” disagree with … Continue reading →
Will know who’s “naughty” or nice…..
By James Smith
Prepper Podcast Radio Network
12 Feb 2014
Itar-Tass
February 12, 2014
Foreign factor behind events in Bosnia and Ukraine – expert
Tamara Zamyatina
MOSCOW: Dismissal of the prime minister and all federal authorities as well as early elections are ultimatums put forward by participants in massive protests staged in a country situated in Central Europe. This is not Ukraine, but a small country of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, events in these two countries are almost identical.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced this week that he is suing the Obama administration in a class-action lawsuit over the surveillance excesses of the NSA, as revealed by documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Specifically, he is challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata.
The recent anti-NSA, anti-surveillance protests were the latest manifestation of a burgeoning movement for freedom from mass surveillance and the liberation of information. It is this new resistance movement, comprised of myriad individuals and organizations, which is perhaps the greatest measure of the legacy of Aaron Swartz.
With thanks to freethinker!lengthy but a worthy read A Bosnian Spring- Let’s call it a putsch.Feb 09/2014I have added additional links to the post
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:
Do you find it odd that there are some labor unions who contribute to Republicans? By far the building trades unions are the biggest culprits, especially when it comes to Mafia-backed candidates like Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm.
Before you feel to sorry for JP Morgan or Jamie Dimon, you should probably know that since this case came to light Investment Firms like JP have been given INTEREST FREE loans worth HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF “DOLLARS” that YOU pay interest for. Those ones and zeros transferred via the Federal Reserve’s “discount window” have been used to hedge monopolies in every sector, and are re-loaned at interest 10 times over using “Fractional Reserve Lending” policies. The White House and the Fed claim that these TRILLIONS were “injected” to grow the economy… What a SCAM!
A rush to trial, and announcement that the state is seeking the Death penalty in the case; is likely meant to shake up the defense team so they will move into a Plea Agreement. The Actual “evidence” would be damning. Prosecutors are being told to head that off no doubt…
A US federal judge has set a November trial date for Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Source: AAP
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Feb 13, the Corbett Report
**note: James was very kind to accommodate interviewing me on Palestine in short notice; much appreciation to his well-documented work on Palestine
BRICS Post | February 13, 2014
Brazil is pushing ahead with plans to boost its Internet security by developing an undersea fibre-optics communications cable that would reroute its online traffic directly to Europe, bypassing the United States.
By Tamara Pearson and Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | February 12, 2014
Merida – Violent opposition groups attacked government buildings and civilians, and clashed with police and government supporters following peaceful marches commemorating the Day of Youth.
The violence has claimed two deaths and left 23 injured across the country. Thirty arrests have been made according to government sources.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
February 12, 2014
NATO Military Committee visits National Training Centre “Krtsanisi”
The first visit of NATO Military Committee finished in the National Training Centre “Krtsanisi”.
Commander COL Levan Beraia delivered presentation for the NATO MC members on the “Krtsanisi” National Training Centre. The foreign visitors also viewed the simulation classes and Artillery School there.
Helsingen Sanomat/Helsinki Times
February 13, 2014
Finland’s territorial defence not a hurdle to Nato membership
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of Nato, assures in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat that Finland would not be required to revise its territorial defence upon seeking membership in the military alliance.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: Selections on war
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Erich Maria Remarque
From The Road Back (1930)
Translated by A.W. Wheen
"Josh Lanning has the worst job"A year or so ago, I found myself at the fabulous Beverly Hills restaurant of one of the world's most celebrated chefs, José Andrés, The Bazaar. But my dining companion was even more famous-- perhaps infamous-- than Andrés who has won James Beard awards and who beat Bobby Flay on Top Chef.
Press TV – February 13, 2014
Pro-Israel lobbies in Germany have reacted angrily to a decision by the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) to honor a director who supports boycotting the Israeli regime.
The 64th annual film festival is set to grant on Thursday an honorary Golden Bear to Ken Loach, the British film director critical of Tel Aviv’s policies.
By Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Corporate Watch | February 7, 2014
An appeal to the Supreme Court by two campaigners against the Ahava store in London has been unsuccessful.
The campaign
Those in Washington and Europe who wish to destroy Ukraine’s independence portray an independent Ukraine as a hostage of Russia, while a Ukraine in the EU is allegedly under the protection of the US and Europe. The large sums of money that Washington funnels into NGOs in Ukraine propagate this idea and work the population into a mindless frenzy.
Russia said on Feb. 12 it would veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria in its current form, denouncing the draft as an effort to lay a foundation for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government. The post Russia says Syria aid resolution creates ‘grounds for future military action’ appeared first on BSNEWS.
Environment secretary Owen Patterson should no longer be in his post. His contempt for climate science is well known. It is absurd to leave someone in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing climate crisis who himself believes that "people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries".
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 12, 2014 [download video] [download audio]
Victoria Guland tries to Forget the EU, and The State Department still installs governments worldwide. The NSA forgot to pay their electricity bill, cars that come with drones, and Bitcoin has crashed. Links: Victoria Nuland’s …
"When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid and the bag came off my head," Israa Salah, a detained Iraqi woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW) in her heartrending testimony. Israa (not her real name) was arrested by US and Iraqi forces in 2010. She was tortured to the […]
President Obama is now considering whether to order the Central Intelligence Agency to kill a U.S. citizen in Pakistan. That’s big news this week. But hidden in plain sight is the fact that Amazon would be an accessory to the assassination. Amazon has a $600 million contract with the CIA to provide the agency with […]
Last week, a little noticed clash took place on Capitol Hill involving the fundamental values underlying the First Amendment. The issue was the lawfulness of publishing the secrets that were given to reporters by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The disputants were Cong. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and FBI Director James Comey. Rogers […]
Strickland (R) and Khanna (D)-- 2 crooked politiciansLast week 2 of the biggest names among Los Angeles Democratic Party donors told me why they have such antipathy towards Wendy Greuel-- and it has nothing to do with her platform, her policies or even with the fact that she's one of those "ex"-Republicans who now populates the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. Nope, each had contributed substantially to her political career-- one massively.
At least 35 people were killed and another 41 were wounded across Iraq. Also, the U.N. released an estimate of the number of Iraqis internally displaced by the fighting in Anbar.
February 13, 2014 (ATN) - Having spectacularly failed to defend the incompetent and now terminally ill regime of Thaksin Shinawatra and his nepotist proxy, sister Yingluck Shinawatra, the Western media has resorted to slander, gossip, and deferrals to discredited propagandists passed off as "experts." The British "Independent" newspaper, in their article, "
1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
On 9-11-1990 President George W Bush called for a New World Order. On September 11, 2000 the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) called for a New American Pearl Harbor. Nicholas Rockefeller told Aaron Russo that there was going to be an event that will change everything and allow us to invade Afghanistan. He told Russo that if he played along that he would be exempt from the new security regulations that would be forthcoming after the event. The movie Pearl Harbor reached theater screens in America in May of 2000.
With her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearings to serve as ambassador to the Bahamas coming up Monday, former White House lawyer Cassandra Butts better be prepared to have a genius like Young Johnny McCranky or Marco Rubio ask her "the ever-been question."by KenIt's not exactly news that many if not most of our ambassadors to foreign countries don't count high among their credentials any great familiarity with the countries they're tapped to represen
by PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch
(Damascus) - Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues because their portrayal of human beings is contrary to their religious beliefs.
TOR Radio #92 | Lucy Steigerwald, blogger and VICE columnist, joins us to discuss why heroin (and all other drugs) should be legal and why politicians can "stop pretending to hate weed." Ted Cruz fanboys and conservatives who are anti gun prohibition AND pro drug prohibition: you're on notice.
By Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Corporate Watch | February 12, 2014
Flowers from Gaza being prepared for export (Photo by Corporate Watch)
In politicized publicity stunt, Sen. Rand Paul announces big lawsuit against Obama and NSA metadata collection, funded by Freedom Works…..Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 to support PBC Podcast!
–European Union officials say internet is too “US centric” and call for redistribution of control
–MSDNC shocker: host Krystal Ball explains she supported Hillary in 2008, but won’t support her in 2016
Diplomacy? Is that really what is ongoing in Syria?Obama-Nobel peace prize winner? Which tells us a whole heck of a lot about anything Nobel
TweetThe Vice Chairman of the Zintan Military council warns Al Qaeda,(all criminal extremist militias) the General National Congress and any other suppressor of freedom, that any attempt to harm the Libyan people will be met with the full force, money and power from the Zintan tribe. This statement is made in response to the threat from the GNC (criminal puppet government) to the people of Libya that if they take to the streets they will be fired upon with weapons and killed.
Trend News Agency
February 12, 2014
NATO experts consult Azerbaijani military officers in Baku
By Ilkin Izzet
Baku: A consultation meeting is being held in Baku in connection with the preparation for a NATO training session on the assessment of the second level of an Operational Capabilities Concept battalion that will be completed on Feb.13, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said on Feb.12.
Maybe you read yesterday that the water in tens of thousands of West Virginia homes is still polluted. No perp walks for any of the culprits… certainly not in West Virginia. Kiley Kroh reported at Think Progress that 40% of homes in the area of the toxic spill are still testing positive for the chemicals that polluted the Elk River.
