Iraq launched a massive operation across Anbar and Nineva provinces. According to the government, the mission was to raid al-Qaeda strongholds and strengthen border security. Several al-Qaeda suspects were killed, including two senior commanders. Overall, at least 20 people were killed and 44 more were wounded.
Is it just me, or have others noticed that people today tend to be less intelligent than in previous generations? This is not to be insulting to anyone with intelligence, but honestly it does seem to me that more and more people are less smart today than even those from my "older" generation... It does indeed trouble me immensely and I have wondered if there are any researchers investigating this fall in human intelligence...Well, lo and behold, there does appear that someone else has indeed noticed this slide in human intelligence...
Israel. Torturing and human experimentation.I am not surprised.Human trafficking.Organ trafficking.Israel seems to be involved in the most depraved acts against humankind.. They are not alone in this brutality, of course. But no other country claims to be filled with those chosen by God, as is claimed by Israel's inhabitants. Certainly, not Kosovo... Israel's sometime partner in crime
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio May 25, 2013 [download audio]
Last year Obama beat Romney in New Jersey 2,117,175 (58%) to 1,472,709 (41%). In 2008 he had beaten McCain with 57%. Yesterday Obama supporters in the Beltway media were touting how the Republican plans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act could well backfire on GOP governors and legislators who are obstructing it.
Steve Israel's talking point is "problem solvers." He repeats it like a mantra. But there's something else interesting that he said in his interview with USA Today, in response to a question about what it means that the DCCC spent so lavishly in South Carolina a few weeks ago, only to lose-- and by a wide margin-- to one of the most flawed Republican candidates ever, Mark Sanford.
TheRealNews | May 22, 2013
Among items transferred to local law enforcement agencies have been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns. In fiscal year 2011 alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of materials to domestic law enforcement — near double the previous year’s total.
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RT | May 25, 2013
UK intelligence service MI5 approached Woolwich killing suspect Michael Adebolajo to offer him a job, a friend of the alleged murderer claimed in a BBC interview. Shortly after his statement, police detained the interviewee for questioning.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
May 24, 2013
Security Symposium of Black Sea and Caspian Sea Basins
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The attendees of the Symposium are discussing a number of issues like regional stability…and the possible shift of Middle East crises to the Caucasus region.
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In the Hotel Sheraton, Batumi, the Security Symposium of Black Sea and Caspian Sea basins has opened.
RT | May 24, 2013
Bank lobbyists have a direct influence on financial legislation drafted in Congress, and are in some cases even writing the measures themselves. Citigroup this month drafted a regulation bill that has already passed through a House committee.
To soften financial regulations, bank lobbyists frequently ‘assist’ lawmakers in writing draft legislation that serves to benefit them at the expense of American taxpayers, according to a New York Times investigation.
Stephen Lee Fincher (R-TN), one of the most dishonest crooks in CongressThursday, Dick Durbin's amendment to the Farm Bill passed, rather miraculously, 59-33.
By Daniel C. Maguire | Consortium News | May 24, 2013
In his address on terrorism and America’s counterterrorism policy, President Barack Obama invoked the “just war” theory to justify the continued use of assassination by drones as America’s increasingly favored war policy. The President and most Americans need schooling on just what the “just war theory” (JWT) is.
The Seraphim LP issue of the c1961 Colin Davis disc of Mozart overtures I keep going on about, as in this July 2012 previewby KenI've spent a lot of time and effort trying to find a path into Mozart's two mature efforts to resurrect the opera seria, Ideomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito.
This week on The Corbett Report we look beyond the mainstream narrative of John Kerry and his background to find the real connections that have catapulted him into the corridors of power. From his billionaire wife to his Ivy League education to his Skull and Bones membership, we examine the real agenda of the new Secretary of State.
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I'm in the middle of buying a Tesla. My neighbor swears by his and, to me, it seems like the car least likely to pollute the planet. I have solar energy in my house so it won't even cost me anything to charge up the battery a few times a week. But, I couldn't just walk into a dealership and buy one. I had to do the whole process online. Works for me... but I don't live in North Carolina.
AzerNews
May 24, 2013
Azerbaijan’s security minister meets senior NATO official
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The minister informed the NATO official about…the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its consequences, and stressed that this factor is also a serious threat for the security of the whole of Europe.
Then Mahmudov touched upon the issues of security of oil and gas pipelines…
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Press TV – May 23, 2013
Labour peers have urged British Deputy Prime Minister and Lib-Dems leader Nick Clegg to stop opposing the Communications Data Bill, dubbed the snooper’s charter by the opponents, in the wake of the Woolwich attack.
This week on The Corbett Report we look beyond the mainstream narrative of John Kerry and his background to find the real connections that have catapulted him into the corridors of power. From his billionaire wife to his Ivy League education to his Skull and Bones membership, we examine the real agenda of the new Secretary of State.
For those with limited bandwidth, CLICK HERE to download a smaller, lower file size version of this episode.
Stars and Stripes
May 24, 2013
White House adviser on Afghanistan nominated as new US envoy to NATO
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Louis Aragon: The peace that forces murder down to its knees for confession
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Louis Aragon
From The Bells of Basel (1934)
Translated by Haakon Chevalier
MEMO | May 24, 2013
It has been announced that four Palestinian patients were poisoned by carbon monoxide gas sent to Gaza hospitals as nitrous gas.
Palestinian Health Minister, Mofeed al-Mokhalalati, affirmed that four patients were poisoned by the carbon monoxide gas as they were injected with it in the belief that it was nitrous gas used in anesthesia.
MEMO | May 23, 2013
About a million landmines have been planted by the Israeli occupation in occupied Palestinian West Bank, official Palestinian data has shown.
Boehner puppet, John Kline (R-MN)Last week, we warned that John Kline's House Education and Workforce Committee was dead set on raising the cost of college education. When Elizabeth Warren's amendment to lower the cost of student loans to 0.75%, just like the banksters get, it was voted down, every Republican plus Colorado New Dem Jared Polis voting against it in committee.
Of course, for Russia to be in a race for resources there would have to be other competitor/racers.How many posts have I done on pipeline politics and the race/competition to control resources..?I can’t even answer that myself.
I have been truly surprised by the comments I received thanks to my last article calling into question this entire London "beheading" of a UK soldier in broad daylight in Woolwich, a suburb of London, England. It has been pathetic to see that commentators take pot shots at myself for being the messenger.....
By Damian Lataan | May 24, 2013
In a speech to the National Defense University yesterday outlining his new policies regarding the use of drones in targeted killings US President Obama told his audience;
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | May 23, 2013
At the height of Guatemala’s mass slaughters in the 1980s, including genocide against the Ixil Indians, the Reagan administration worked with Israeli officials to provide helicopters that the Guatemalan army used to hunt down fleeing villagers, according to documentary and eyewitness evidence.
Welcome back 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:
Story #1: Portland voters reject water fluoridation
http://ur1.ca/e0dlw
Did state employees help pro-fluoride advocates on state time?
http://ur1.ca/e0dn1
Tami Canal on #MarchAgainstMonsanto
http://ur1.ca/e0dnf
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 062. This is my speech “Intellectual Freedom and Learning versus Patent and Copyright,” at the 2010 Students For Liberty Texas Regional Conference, University of Texas, Austin. I discussed this previously in my post Kinsella Speech at Students for Liberty – Texas Conference (Austin), on “Intellectual Freedom vs Patent and Copyright”. An edited transcript […]
It was the first day of fourth grade, and my Social Studies teacher told us it was time for the pledge of allegiance. All the students stood up: all but me. I don’t recall if we’d had the pledge before that: if we did I don’t remember it. Whether it was an innovation, or whether [...]
Israel’s crippling blockade of the coastal territory of Gaza is pushing desperate young Palestinians to ever more extreme measures in the search for livelihoods, despite an agreement granting Gazans greater access to their agricultural land. In search of work, some Gazans try to enter Israel by jumping the fence that separates it from Gaza. Others [...]
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria.” Those limitations are [...]
If you're interested in the space where education policy, politics and humor come together, you should be checking out EduShyster.com frequently. The site is premised on that fact that "behind every faddish, jargon-filled plan is a dirty little scheme that ends up making somebody a lot of money.
A clash a joint checkpoint in Garma left three security personnel killed and 18 more wounded. The forces included Sahwa fighters and regular army. What appears to be a separate attack on Sahwa members’ home, left two dead and seven wounded, including women and children. 20 42 Gunmen killed four soldiers and wounded five more [...]
Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio with Tom Kiely I.N.N. World Report May 23, 2013 [download audio]
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The "imported" beer on the left, Goose Island, may be a splendid brew, but imported it's not, unless you count its Chicago provenance as such.by KenAt my very first job, more than a few summers ago, I was stationed primarily in the company's order-processing and accounts-receivable department, one feature of which was an entire long wall lined with file cabinets that contained the order account records.
I can only say...fall out from the Boston Marathon bombing is still falling out?!As if The curious killing of Ibrahim Todashev and the very tenuous link to Boston wasn't enough to pique one's curiosity, we also have the sudden accidental death of two FBI agents involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnev (Thanks Nikola!)
