Tuesday, August 05, 2014

5 August - Blogs I'm Following

September 12, 2005. IDF forces exit the Gaza S...
September 12, 2005. IDF forces exit the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Last Dawn, the final stage of the Gaza Disengagement, which occurred in the summer of 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Israel's Special Forces in Camouflage
Israel's Special Forces in Camouflage (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)
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World News Briefs -- August 5, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 2 minutes ago
*Israel Declares 'Mission Accomplished' As Troops Leave Gaza For Cease-Fire -- CNN* Gaza (CNN) -- Withdrawing its ground forces from Gaza Tuesday for a three-day cease-fire with Hamas, Israel announced that its central goal was achieved. "Mission accomplished," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter. "We have dismantled the underground terror network built by Hamas to infiltrate and attack Israel." The military said 32 tunnels were destroyed in the four-week conflict. The declaration came amid suspicions on both sides over whether the 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire wil... more »

No voice for the Israeli side on BBC Radio 5 Live

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 minutes ago
I I just endured BBC 5 Live's idea of balance in the Israel Gaza conflict. I'll ignore the two very different pieces by ordinary people, one an Israeli soldier, the other a Palestinian doctor - except to say subtle? The main part was an interview with first a Palestinian negotiatior and then a former Israeli negotiatior. Sounds balanced? Don't be taken in. The Palestinian negotiatior, I was driving and so couldn't note down names, I think was Mr Barghouti and he launched into an attack on Israel: they can't be trusted etc etc. For balance the BBC picked a former Israeli negotiati... more »

Ebola Outbreak: Critical Questions About the Pandemic

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 27 minutes ago
There are rumors that there already is a vaccine for Ebola, and many medical companies have been working on finding a cure. NIH ( National Institute of Health ) is going to launch testing in September. Results from the study should be available by January, Fauci said. If the vaccine proves safe and effective, Fauci said he expects that it could be given to health workers in affected African countries sometime in 2015. "We are starting to discuss some deals with pharmaceutical companies to help scale it up, so on an emergency basis, it might be available in 2015 for health wo... more »

Colorado Republicans Are Wondering Who They Actually Nominated To Run For The Senate

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 44 minutes ago
Only 11 Republicans voted against the draconian anti-DREAMers bill that passed Friday night night, mostly Republicans in vulnerable seats with large Latino constituencies like Jeff Denham (R-CA), David Valadao (R-CA), and Joe Heck (R-NV). But one name that stood out on the list of 11 who wouldn't back the Ted Cruz/Steve King anti-Hispanic caucus bill was Colorado extreme right-winger Cory Gardner. Gardner was first elected to represent the very Republican 4th district (basically, the entire eastern third of the state, with a PVI of R+11) in the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse when he d... more »

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 5, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 46 minutes ago
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com *American General Reportedly Assassinated In 'Green-On-Blue' Shooting At Afghan Army Training Base -- FOX News* A U.S. major general was shot and killed Tuesday by a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform who opened fire at an army training academy outside Kabul, the Associated Press reported. At least 15 soldiers -- reportedly mostly Americans and some Germans --were wounded in the close-range assassination-style attack. The attack at Camp Qargha killed the highest-ranking U.S. officer of the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops... more »

Untitled

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 56 minutes ago
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哇: 武林高手擊碎對手

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 57 minutes ago

Ron Jacobs : BOOKS | ‘Technocreep’ and how we are seduced by surveillance

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Thomas Keenan has written a helpful description of the kinds of surveillance undertaken by corporations, governments, criminal enterprises, and just plain creeps every second of every day. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | August 5, 2014 [Technocreep: The … finish reading Ron Jacobs : *BOOKS* | ‘Technocreep’ and how we are seduced by surveillance

The Coyne Helicopter UFO Case

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 hour ago
I have been working on a new book and so I have been reviewing some interesting older cases. One of those is the Coyne case in which the flight crew of an Army Reserve UH-1H helicopter spotted a UFO which might have caused a radio outage and then a sudden, mysterious climb when Captain Lawrence Coyne had entered a descent to avoid a collision. Briefly, they were returning to their home station in Cleveland, Ohio, when Sergeant John Healy, seated in the left rear spotted an object or a red light off the left side of the aircraft. He thought it was brighter than the red navigation li... more »

Historay Major dealing with spunk

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
Its a culture that your giving up overtime you move some where to be better If you are comming from coon porn central I a can appreciate your pain but if you live in a civilized world the big move to create big things is more than likely to be pain Joy breaks through pain like a freight train so if those tracks are so true you are so lucky ' and humakind enveys you We all really know its not so simple where you grew up is a place that you will never forget or displace its blood zero when they take your DNA and maybe, no maybe its so strange to think this way You got country str... more »

Vacation Blogging II: Communicative Action at a Federal Detention Center

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
About two weeks ago I had pledged to go on blogging hiatus in order to vacation with my family, a pledge I only broke once so far. However, while traveling south from Durango, CO with my partner and son last week, I ran across this post by LGM’s Erik Loomis,’ on the treatment of Central Continue reading

President "Ribbon Cutter" is having a big-ass birthday party tonight...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*after having a boys night at Camp David with a whole bunch of unmarried men - one of whom was arrested for soliciting a (male??) prostitute. * Really. Yep, the narcissist-in-chief thinks celebrating his birthday with a big party attended by all the low-life's of Hollywood is just the thing for a sitting president during these perilous times. And in just 4 or so days he's heading off to Martha's Vineyard for 16 days of fun and sun. Of course, he'll manage to round up his two daughters for the requisite trip to the bookstore. Other than that, I doubt he'll even see them. Who the ... more »

美國去瘋狂與憤怒在公交車上在台灣

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour ago
下面是對話: 有一個他媽的問題? 我們開始做吧! 說對不起混蛋 什麼?有一個他媽的問題讓我們去,現在母狗 你有他媽的問題? 閉嘴! (在公共汽車上的人) 嘿,你在看什麼? 他媽的一塊狗屎母親笨蛋 你知道嗎?你知道嗎? (示出了中指) 去你媽的! (然後他猛地站的公交車司機,並隨時就在他面前) 他媽的。你有他媽的問題迪克?! 什麼是你他媽的問題花花公子?我他媽的殺了你婊子! 坐下! 去你媽的! 去你媽的! 你有一個他媽的問題。 只要說你他媽的對不起 他媽的混蛋 他媽的一塊狗屎 住口! 他媽的混蛋 FUCK YOU混蛋! ( 再次,要在總線上的人 )

It’s Official: Being Poor in America Has Been Outlawed

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
Joshua Krause As they say, you can always judge a society by how they treat their weakest members. So I shudder to think of how future generations will judge our society. We’ve become a nation that discards our poor like they are trash, and anyone who doesn’t “fit in” is segregated from the herd. The police are now fining homeless folks for any arbitrary offense they can think of, and city councils across the country are making it illegal to sleep in public. They’ve gone so far as to make it illegal to camp, or even sit or lay down in certain public areas. Worst of all, many citie... more »

IF YOU EAT

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
If you eat beware, there is going to a premium to make up for the Junk Food losses if we ever become heath aware. Yeah we can not go healthy without a healthy perimeter.

“Institutionalized Tyranny and Serfdom”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“Institutionalized Tyranny and Serfdom”* By Joe Withrow “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Modern society does not care much for the individual. National interest, public policy, and the common good are held up as the ideal. We still hear lip service paid to the individual rights of man on occasion, but only within the context of individual servitude towards one or another State-driven collective goal. Of course these goals are presented as moral and upright, but there is a little catch – no one c... more »

The Economy: “What You NEED to Know about the Wealth Inequality Debate “

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“What You NEED to Know about the Wealth Inequality Debate “* by Bill Bonner “Isn't it possible the same savants who now presume to address the problem of wealth inequality were those most responsible for causing it? The question arose as we discussed a publishing sensation: Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” As you will recall, the book – all 700 pages – was recently number one on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Whoever heard of an economics tome that sold so well? The reason, we suspect, is that the book tells us something that a lot of people were waiting to... more »

PET a magic man who foretold this centruty

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
I was born in Canada a place that well known pundint Pat Buchcann pontificated its should be speeled ,Kanukistian I am not sure what he meant was our has that good or did he think we had a soviet goverement Oh that we wood if what Perire Elliiot Tudeau had come to fortod Canada would be like Qtare except the money would not be between the sheets I would be floating in the air free for any citzen to take as much as they needed to be aware Brian Mulroney stopped the PET train to paridse and he was caught taking brown envleolpes in Swiss hotels as advice Yet he never did a dime he wai... more »

In Fighting Between Islamic State And Other Armed Factions Increases In Iraq’s Diyala

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
The insurgency has had great success in the last two months. It has taken over much of Ninewa, Salahaddin, Kirkuk, and Anbar provinces, and has a strong foothold in Diyala and Babil as well. This success has maintained a lose alliance between the major militant groups, which includes the Islamic State (IS), the Baathist Naqshibandi and its Military Councils, Ansar al-Islam, the Mujahadeen Army, and the Islamic Army of Iraq. Behind the scenes IS has been attempting to dominate the other groups by demanding that they pledge allegiance to it, and pushing out its rivals from its bases... more »

It's another 'man'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
The BBC report: 'A man on the Doha to Manchester plane has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat.' It's another of those men... More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28662561

Interest in MH17 Fades as Sanctions and War Edge Closer

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago
Tony Cartalucci It is abundantly clear that a truthful resolution to the tragedy of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was never the goal of Washington, London, and Brussels. Citing baseless accusations surrounding the tragedy, the West has leveled a series of incrementally expansive sanctions against Russia while using the tragedy to justify increased military support for Kiev’s military forces even as they wage total war against their own population including the use of ballistic missiles, airstrikes, artillery barrages, and tanks. Clearly the goal then was to exploit the ... more »

One Hundred Years Later

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
nationalpost.com/ Yesterday, the prime minister attended a ceremony to mark Canada's entry into the First World War. The standard interpretation of Canada's part in that war is that we blindly followed Britain to war. But we emerged from it a mature, independent nation. Andrew Cohen writes that the one hundredth anniversary of that war is a good time to ask some hard questions. After all, It was a wasting conflict – a slaughterhouse, really – killing more Canadians than all of Canada’s wars befo... more »

Afghan Soldier Kills Three 'High Ranking' NATO Officers At British-Run Qargha Military Academy Near Kabul (Update: Two-Star U.S. General Killed)

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 4 hours ago
Afghan National Army soldiers (ANA) stand guard at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. Reuters *Three NATO Officers Killed At Afghan Military Academy, Officials Say -- New York Times* KABUL, Afghanistan — An attacker in an Afghan army uniform killed at least three service members from the NATO-led coalition and wounded a senior Afghan commander on Tuesday in a shooting at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, an Afghan official said. Details of the shooting, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, were sketchy, and the coalition would only confirm that “an incid... more »

When Even The Simplest Things Are Hard..

Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 4 hours ago
Tim Hortons drive-through was nearly empty, so I took advantage. It was one of those new two-lane drive-throughs, only one car in the left land already placing an order and the car right ahead of me went to the right-hand lane. So I went into the left hand lane thinking that car should move on first. And the car in the right lane placed their order and drove on. And another car went into the

Republican Party Civil War Heats Up On A New Front: Meet The Congressional Grifters

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Much to the chagrin of corporate whores who had infected the DEmocratic Party-- think Rahm Emanuel, Harold Ford, the Blue Dogs and New Dems-- Howard Dean coined and popularized the phrase, "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." Here at *DWT* we often talk about the corollary, the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. Over the weekend, former Ohio Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette, a mainstream conservative, sought to duplicate Dean's strategy by terming the now dominant right-wing extremists in his party as the Grifting Wing. In a post he did for *Politico*, The G... more »

Escapism

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
Given the fact that the left is so weak and so despised by our society's leadership, it really isn't the case that the time I spend in escapism is time stolen from saving the world, You know, if I went out today, or to whatever day there's a protest against Israel's mass-murder of Palestinians, it would have exactly zero impact on stephen harper's insane support for the slaughter. At the same time though, I'm getting a little tired of the dedicated escapism of stuff like this: And this: But, you know, that's the job of special effects people, and actors and script writers and p... more »

Britain Remembers The Fallen On The 100th Anniversary Of It's Declaration Of War Against Germany In The First World War

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 4 hours ago
The Houses of Parliament, pictured taking part in a similar scheme in 2007, switched their lights off at 10pm last night as part of an initiative to commemorate Britain entering the First World War *The Night The Lights Went Out Across Britain: Young Royals Bow Their Heads As Millions Take Part In Moving Tributes To The Fallen - Exactly A century Since WWI Was Declared -- Daily Mail* * Idea inspired by former foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey's famous words when war was declared 100 years ago * Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace all took p... more »

I bet that your presstitute mainstream media haven't given you a clue that this has been going on ...or that Obama has provided more munitions to the blood-thirsty Israeli army so that they can continue murdering Palestinian children, like fish in a barrel. I hope that you will finally recognize the need for The Real News, because your despicable faux news intends to keep on keeping you in the dark for as long as you’re willing to let them.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 4 hours ago
------------------------------ Original Here *NO ADVERTIZING, CORPORATE OR GOVERNMENT FUNDING* *Israeli Forces Target UN School Shelter, Children and Hospitals* Pernille Ironside: The Chief of the UNICEF Field Office in Gaza describes the growing death toll and the rising humanitarian crisis - * August 1, 14* More at The Real News *Bio .* *Pernille Ironside* is UNICEF's Chief of Gaza Field Off... more »

Taliban Leader Released For Bergdahl Is Regarded As A Psychopath By Those Who Caught Him

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 4 hours ago
*Obama Freed A Taliban ‘Psychopath’ In Bergdahl Trade, Army Colonel Says -- Washington Times* ‘Petty tyrant’ lost stature after capture in early days of war in Afghanistan In a pointed assessment, an Army colonel advising the National Security Council says one of the Taliban prisoners released in the Obama administration’s deal to free Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal is a “psychopath” who poses a “danger to fellow Afghans.” Army Col. Mark Mitchell, director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, is a Green Beret who helped capture Mullah Mohammad Fazl in the early days o... more »

Israeli Soldier Commended For His Selfless Act Of Not Not Wanting His Comrade's Body Taken By The Enemy

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 4 hours ago
IDF soldiers expose Gaza 'terror tunnel' (file). IDF Spokesperson Unit *IDF Soldier Selflessly Pursued Terrorists in Gaza Tunnel -- Arutz Sheva* The son of olim from New York is the soldier who provided the IDF with the findings that enabled to determine the death of Lt. Hadar Goldin. The findings that enabled the IDF’s Chief Rabbinate to declare the death of Lt. Hadar Goldin were provided by an IDF commander who fearlessly and selflessly pursued the terrorists who abducted Goldin's body. First Lieutenant Eitan, the son of olim (immigrants) from New York, realized following Friday ... more »

Untitled

jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 5 hours ago
*Germantown kindergarten teacher accused of political vandalism identified* Wisconsin Reporter has learned the identity of the suspect accused of politically motivated disorderly conduct at last month’s Jefferson County Fair. April Kay Smith, 38, a kindergarten teacher in the Germantown School District, was issued a disorderly conduct citation for tearing up and stomping on several signs on July 9 at the Jefferson County Republican Party booth after the fair had shut down for the night, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department report obtained by Wisconsin Reporter. Th... more »

Top 5 Ways the U.S. Is Israel’s Accomplice in War Crimes in Gaza

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago
By Juan Cole Shutterstock *This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.* The U.S. State Department became a little testy with Israel on Sunday over the 6th school shelling by the Israeli military, which killed 10, saying “The United States is appalled by today’s disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed,” reads the statement from State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki. “We once again stress that Israel do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian... more »

Brothers In Arms To The End

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 5 hours ago
*Photo: *The late Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris, shown here in 2011 inspecting an oxygen mask, died last year along with Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher in a diving accident at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Jah’mai C.J. Stokes) *Navy Diver Heroic To The Last Breath -- Virginia Pilot* As they slowly asphyxiated at the bottom of a pond last year, two Navy divers shared something extraordinary: the choice to die together rather than abandon a fellow sailor. That selflessness went with Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris and Petty Officer 1st ... more »

Free Trade 36: Taxation, Regulations, Trade and Rule of Law in ASEAN

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours ago
This is my paper presented during the Stratbase Forum on ASEAN Competitiveness last July 23, 2014 in Makati, organized by Stratbase Research Institute (SRI). SRI also published this today and circulated to their friends and clients. The 11-slides presentation including 9 tables and 2 charts is posted in my slideshare wall. I am posting 4 of 9 tables and 2 charts here. *Table 1. Major Taxes in the ASEAN, 2013* Source: KPMG, 2013.ASEAN Tax Guide, Overview, p. 10. *Table 3. Ease and Unease in Starting a Business and Getting Construction Permits in ASEAN-9.* Source: WB-IFC, Doin... more »

Get Visas for the Entire Family with $500,000 to a Charter School

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago
I came across this Reuters story yesterday while researching funding for charters. Don't know how I missed this in October 2012, when it was first printed: . . . .Wealthy individuals from as far away as China, Nigeria, Russia and Australia are spending tens of millions of dollars to build classrooms, libraries, basketball courts and science labs for American charter schools. In Buffalo, New York, foreign funds paid for the Health Sciences Charter School to renovate a 19th-century orphanage into modern classrooms and computer labs. In Florence, Arizona, overseas investment is expect... more »

Artificial Intelligence , Motivation theories discussion and Roko's Basilisk -- heavy stuff to ponder over coffee !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/elon-musk-says-robots-could-be-more-dangerous-nukes/90521/ ( Will Man sow the seeds for destruction ? Fascinating subject , must read pieces sampled but go to the link for the full articles ! ! ) Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space-X founder who is occasionally compared to comic book hero Tony Stark, is worried about a new villain that could threaten humanity—specifically the potential creation of an artificial intelligence that is radically smarter than humans, with catastrophic results: Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk Follow Worth reading... more »

Your Wise Heart by Roxana Jones

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
*YOUR WISE HEART* Oh, if you would only allow your heart to teach your mind all the wisdom you already know… #HealThruWords #Quote #InspirationalQuote #Motivational #DoShare HealThruWords® by Roxana Jones http://roxanajones.com/2014/06/16/inspirational-quote-Your-Wise-Heart/ *TU SABIO CORAZÓN* Oh, si tan solo pudieras permitir a tu corazón enseñarle a tu mente toda la sabiduría que ya conoces… HealThruWords® por Roxana Jones http://roxanajones.com/es/2014/06/16/citas-motivacionales-tu-sabio-corazon/

Hear, See and Speak - No Used eBooks?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours ago
How do industry bodies and major players respond to new entrants who offer something different? Do they go out to squash them in order to maintain the status quo? Do they attempt to reign them in and restrict their influence and impact? Do they invest in them and work with them to create new channels, new markets and new revenues? Some believe that many stick their head in the dark and wish them to go away? This last week we have all read the Amazon Press Release over their ongoing battles with Hachette and one of the most relevant statements came right at the beginning in their r... more »

US is insolvent blasts Charles Biderman - and then demonstrates precisely why and presents the bloody details !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-04/us-bankrupt-blasts-biderman-we-now-await-cramdown "The US Is Bankrupt," Blasts Biderman, "We Now Await The Cramdown" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/04/2014 21:32 -0400 - B+ - Bond - Budget Deficit - Charles Biderman - Cramdown - ETC - Federal Reserve - Federal Tax - Gross Domestic Product - Medicare - Moral Hazard - Precious Metals - Purchasing Power - Real estate - Reality - Tax Revenue - TrimTabs - White House - Z.1 inShare1... more »

USNS John Glenn (MLP 2) Completes Final Contract Trials

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: USNS John Glenn]USNS John Glenn (MLP 2), successfully completed Final Contract Trials (FCT) off the coast of Manchester, Washington July 31. During the trials, the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey along with the ship's crew tested the vessel's various hull, mechanical, and electrical systems to demonstrate that the ship meets Navy standards and requirements, and is materially ready to perform all of its slated in-service missions. John Glenn, the second of the Navy's Mobile Landing Platforms (MLP), was constructed by General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Compa... more »

Lockheed Martin Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb Achieves Objectives in Marine Corps Training Exercises

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb]Lockheed Martin’s Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb (DMLGB) was successfully employed during recent U.S. Marine Corps weapons and tactics instructor training. During the training exercises at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona, AV-8B Harrier aircrews released 19 GBU-12F/B DMLGB weapons. The weapons were released in tactically representative engagements, and used various targeting modes against fixed targets. All weapons performed successfully and met Marine Corps mission objectives. “We partnered with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to support day ... more »

US President justifies CIA torture ( War crimes ) because folks were scared and the CIA is a tough job ? With that reed thin logic put out there - Why not excuse genocide in the future or ANY OTHER CRIMINAL CODUCT - BY THE SELECT FEW ..... because folks were under pressure at the time , tough jobs excuse or any other willy nilly notion ? If you don't grasp how dangerous this line of thought is , God help us all ! ,

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama_Claims_CIA_Torture_Was_Okay_Because_People_Were_Scared_And_The_CIA_Is_A Tough_Job.html SOURCE: TECHDIRT[image: obama-baja-popularidad] On Friday, we wrote briefly about President Obama’s “admission” that “we tortured some folks.” At the time I was going off of the press reports of the conference, but now that I’veread the full transcript of his statement, it’s much worse than just that brief comment. Here’s the relevant portion: With respect to the larger point of the RDI report itself, even before I came into office I was very clear that in th... more »

Defence holding community meeting on JSF upgrades

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: RAAF F-35 Lightning II]The Upper Hunter will today receive an insight into work to be undertaken locally for the arrival of the Australia's next generation fighter aircraft. The Department of Defence is holding three community information sessions across the region this week to outline the new and upgraded facilities required to support the arrival of the Joint Strike Fighters. Denman Visitor Information Centre hosts the first this afternoon with the focus on work planned for Defence Establishment Myambat located just west of the town. Read more

Sukhoi to sign another contract with India on FGFA

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Su-T50 PAK-FA]Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer plans to sign another contract with India in the framework of the joint project for the construction of a fifth generation multipurpose combat jet, Alexander Klementyev, a Sukhoi deputy director general told Itar-Tass. “We hope the contract [for experimental design works] will be signed soon,” he said. The intergovernmental agreement on this project was signed back in 2007. Three years after, the sides inked a general contract on joint design and production and then the first engineering development contract. Works under t... more »

China TA-600 amphibian eyes first flight in 2015

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: AVIC TA-600 amphibious aircraft]China could conduct a maiden flight for the developmental AVIC TA-600 amphibious aircraft in 2015. According to a report in the People’s Daily quoting Fu Junxu, an executive of China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (CAIGA), the design of the four-engine flying boat has been completed, with the aircraft set to enter trial production at Zhuhai in late 2014 or early 2015. The aircraft, to be powered by four turboprop engines, will have a maximum takeoff weight of 53.5t and a range of 5,000km. Read more

EU may buy French warships built for Russia

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Vladivostok LHD]The European Union may acquire two Russian warships currently under construction in France, analysts say. The possibility comes as the United States and Western Europe tighten economic sanctions against Russia, and Monday's denial of a German defense contractor's delivery of military components to Russia by the German government. The first of two Mistral-class ships purchased by Russia -- essentially small aircraft carriers designed for helicopter takeoff and landing -- is nearing completion at the STX Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in southwestern F... more »

Our Aircraft Carriers Are Not Sitting Ducks

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: USS John C Stennis]The U.S. Navy is greatly endangered by the global proliferation of anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles. Some analysts, like Dennis Gormley, Andrew Erickson, and Jingdong Yuan at the National Defense University, say U.S. aircraft carriers in the western Pacific are sitting ducks for communist China’s missiles, especially their CM-400AKG Mach 5.5 Wrecker cruise missile and their DF-21 ballistic missile, dubbed “the carrier killer.” They are wrong. Simply put, the ongoing improvement of missile defense systems on U.S. Navy warships is keeping pace with t... more »

Russia to conduct unprecedented maneuvers involving 100 combat planes

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Su-34 Fullback]A bilateral command-staff exercise involving Commands 1 and 2 of the Russian Air Force and Air Defense, which are part of the Western and central Districts, will be held under the command of the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force on August 4-8, the Defense Ministry reported. "The training will involve over 100 aircraft of various branches of aviation such as the destroyers Su-27, MiG-31, multi-function complexes Su-34, frontline bombers Su-24, helicopters Mi-8, Mi-24, and Mi 28N," Colonel Igor Klimov, an official representative of the Russian Air For... more »

Narendra Modi to induct indigenously-built warship INS Kolkata in Mumbai

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Kolkata class DDG]Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to induct country's largest indigenously-built warship INS Kolkata in Mumbai in the the third week of August. The Prime Minister has been invited in the third week of August to induct the largest indigenously-built warship, which is constructed by the Mazagon Dockyards Limited and has been designed by Navy's design bureau, defence officials said. The 6,800 tonne warship, which is over three years behind schedule, is a technology demonst .. Read more

Russia Develops Robots for Maritime Defense

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 9 hours ago
[image: Georgy Antsev]Russian scientists have developed and presented to the Defense Ministry a maritime defense system comprising surface, underwater and flying robots, a defense industry official told RIA Novosti on Monday. “The global [maritime defense] command-and-control system, which we are developing, is ready for a large-scale testing phase,” General Director and Chief Designer of the Morinformsystem-Agat corporation, Georgy Antsev, said during the Innovation Day exhibition organized by the Defense Ministry. "A patrol ship or a submarine are not always capable of monitoring ... more »

Can we trust social media in general and Google in particular , in light of learning Google searches gmail for " only certain crimes " and the Bomb Gaza game debacle ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11012008/Paedophile-snared-as-Google-scans-Gmail-for-images-of-child-abuse.html Technology giant Google has developed state of the art software which proactively scours hundreds of millions of email accounts for images of child abuse. The breakthrough means paedophiles around the world will no longer be able to store and send vile images via email without the risk of their crimes becoming known to the authorities. Details of the software emerged after a 41-year-old convicted sex offender was arrested in Texas for possession of child abuse ima... more »

Russian increases sanctions in response to US and EU sanctions this week ( July 18 , 2014 ) - Russian Sanctions Retaliation Escalates: Dumps Intel/AMD And Now Foreign Cars ...... Russia may revise US participation ( divide and conquer as Europe may be carved out of Russia sanctions here ) in hydrocarbon development over sanctions ...... meanwhile russia perfects sanctions defenses for its banks even as clock and calendar tick on natural gas situation !

Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Russian volleys back into the forecourt of the US ... Intel , AMD and Car makers scream ..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-18/russian-sanctions-retaliation-escalates-dumps-intelamd-and-now-foreign-cars Russian Sanctions Retaliation Escalates: Dumps Intel/AMD And Now Foreign Cars [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2014 18:48 -0400 - Newspaper - Reuters - Ukraine inShare Ignoring for one second yesterday disastrous air crash in Ukraine, the 'boomerang' of sanctions continues to be thrown back and forth between the US and Russi... more »

zucchini abundance recipe of the day: zucchini-corn-tomato bake

laura k at wmtc - 9 hours ago
I found a bunch of recipes similar to this, and adapted them to my tastes. This one is easy (especially if you use a food processor to shred the zucchini and cheese), healthy, and tasty. I feel like the ability to tweak and change recipes marks a turning point in my cooking evolution, in both confidence and knowledge. I like it! Also, I don't have measurements for this one. It's down to what proportions you like and what ingredients you have on hand. Zucchini-Corn-Tomato Bake 1 medium-to-large zucchini, grated or shredded 2 large ripe tomatoes, coarsely cubed Kernels of corn, eithe... more »

When is Ebola not Ebola? ... When it walks off an airplane

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2014/08/when-is-ebola-not-ebola-when-it-walks.html *When is Ebola not Ebola? ... When it walks off an airplane* As I pressed the "publish" button on yesterdays Ebola article, I knew that there were several more facts and pieces of information to bring to the public's attention. Here is part II of The Ebola Outbreak: The "Pandemic" that isn't. The more news articles I read, the more blatant the lies and deception become. The main stream media seems to of been caught in their tracks with their "Ebola is an airborne (aerosol) virus" lies and... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 10 hours ago
*Persecution of a skeptic* *John Droz reports on more ruthless Leftism* Dr. Henrik Møller, is an world-renowned expert on infra-sound, and has published several high-quality studies on low-frequency acoustics (like here, here, here, and here). More recently, some of these have dealt with industrial wind energy noise (e.g. here — which was peer-reviewed). He has been praised as Denmark's "leading noise researcher." What’s even more important is that he has been courageous enough to have publicly spoken out against poor government policies, as well as the misinformation disseminated ... more »

Iraq situation ( August 5 , 2014 ) -- Tunnels of Saddam to used by jihadist and Baathist forces to haunt Maliki's Baghdad ? US to now arm and give air support to the Kurds as they battle ISIS forces to retake Sinjar ? Update on the state of play in Iraq ...... Tweets of note for the day......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
Anti War...... Using Tunnels, ISIS Aims at Baghdad From the SouthAims to Take Area South of Baghdad by Jason Ditz, August 04, 2014 Print This | Share This ISIS efforts to encircle the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad continue apace, with their latest operations focusing on seizing the rural Sunni area south of Baghdad, known colloquially as the “triangle of death.” The triangle was a nightmare for US occupation forces in the last decade, and ISIS is said to be using an elaborate collection of tunnels built by the Iraqi government during the Saddam-era to infiltrate areas close to Bagh... more »

India Ignores US Calls For Russian Sanction, Will Go-Ahead With Submarine Purchase

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 10 hours ago
[image: Lada class submarine]India has rejected calls to join the sanctions program against Russia during US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to New Delhi on Aug. 1, according to various media reports. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has maintained that foreign policy will not change with the new government while Kerry added that Washington “will obviously welcome India joining in with respect to [sanctions], but its India’s choice.” A clear blow to the effort, India remains Russia’s largest consumer of military equipment and is reportedly in talks with Rosoboro... more »

Interest in MH17 Fades as Sanctions & War Edge Closer

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
*August 4, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - It is abundantly clear that a truthful resolution to the tragedy of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was never the goal of Washington, London, and Brussels. Citing baseless accusations surrounding the tragedy, the West has leveled a series of incrementally expansive sanctions against Russia while using the tragedy to justify increased military support for Kiev's military forces even as they wage total war against their own population including the use of ballistic missiles, airstrikes, artillery barrages, and tanks. Clearly the goa... more »

Climate disagreements: do PR firms matter?

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
*Off-topic:* Sheldon, Leonard, and Penny have tripled their income to $1 million per TBBT episode. Wow but probably deserved. Climatedepot.com has picked a story of the day, an article in the Guardian World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers written by Suzanne Goldenberg and Nishad Karim. The title is dramatic, including the Holocaust-resembling expletive that similar inkspillers enjoy using, but if you read the article and even if you trust it, you will see that the content doesn't match the title. I know that you expect this discrepancy under any article si... more »

Giveaway: HIPSTER Baby Carrier as seen on Kickstarter

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago
If there is one thing I love, it is baby wearing! I have teamed up with some awesome bloggers to bring you a giveaway for the HIPSTER, the new way to carry your baby. Enter below. Have you heard? There's a new way to carry your baby. One carrier, nine different ways. No more achy arms. No more sore backs. Allow us to introduce you to the MiaMily HIPSTER baby carrier. This innovative new carrier is suitable for children ages 3 months to 3 years old (and/or 44 lbs) and consists of a back supporting belt with an integrated seat for your baby that's designed to help you carry your litt... more »

Did you hear this on the U.S. "mainstream media"? I didn't think so. Their moto: All the news the government wants them to print.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago
------------------------------ Bolivia declares Israel ‘terrorist state’, scraps visa exemption agreement Published time: July 30, 2014 21:58 Edited time: July 31, 2014 02:19 Bolivia has declared Israel to be a “terrorist state” and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Israeli military offense in Gaza which already killed more than 1,300 dead and left over 7,000 wounded. LIVE UPDATES: Israel launches ground incursion in Gaza Strip Canceling the 1972 agreement which allowed Israelis to travel freely to Bolivia *“means, in other word... more »

"We Killed Some Little Folks" Future Title of Barack Obama's Memoirs

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago
*Slayer of children, conqueror of infants, the great Barack Obama! His government of destruction knows no distinction between young and old, male and female, enemy combatant and civilian, Infidel and Muslim. * An excerpt from, *"Greenwald: NSA Docs Show ‘Israeli Action In Gaza Has US Fingerprints All Over It’"* by Jon Queally, MintPress News, August 4, 2014: A new analysis of the intelligence and military relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments—bolstered by new top secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden—exposes the deep complicity of American foreign policy wh... more »

The Case Of A Plane Landing On A Highway In Kenya Ended Up Revealing How U.S. Forces Are Transported In Africa

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*Plane That Landed On African Highway Carrying U.S. Troops Gets Dismantled -- Washington Post* When a cargo plane landed on a Ugandan highway last month carrying U.S. troops, it grabbed attention and shed light on the low-key way in which American forces travel through Africa to carry out missions. But there’s more to the story: The aircraft will be dismantled, likely because it can’t fly from the same location again. A news video of the plane — a CASA-212 aircraft, as the website Medium pointed out — shows it surrounded by Ugandan civilians after it made an emergency landing Jul... more »

How The Crisis In Ukraine Is Shaping How Strategists Study War

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, July 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Alexei Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin *What Ukraine Means For How We Study War -- Joshua Rovner, Washington Post* Last week Marc Lynch wrote a thoughtful commentary on the future of political science after Gaza. He noted that while the ongoing violence seems very familiar, it actually suggests a number of new questions for political scientists who focus on the Arab-Israeli dispute. These include everything from the limits of transnational ... more »

Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Atmospheres”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
Deuter, “Atmospheres” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3UthG-7kM

"Your Silence..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“Your silence will not protect you.” - Audre Lorde

Billboard improvement

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 13 hours ago
Two best things about elections: slagging off politicians to their face, and vandalising billboards. (Slagging off not shown.) [image: The hypnotoad is even included.] [image: Well, not everyone...] [image: And, as always, BATMAN.] [image: Hutt South #Labour #forabetterNZ] [image: #National #TeamKey#Working4NZ] [image: #Conservative "Abuse your party vote"] [image: Mt Eden #InternetMana via Jolisa] [image: We know this to be the truth. #NZPOL] More billboard improvement at someone’s NZ Billboards Tumblr site. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permi... more »

No U.S. - Russia Nuclear Defense For Real-Life ‘Armageddon’ Asteroid Threats

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*U.S.—Russia Tensions Nuke Plans For Real-Life ‘Armageddon’ Asteroid Defense -- Asawin Suebsaeng, Daily Beast* The U.S. Energy Department, apparently, is being forced to close its eyes. Rising tensions between the United States and Russia, stemming from the latter’s recent aggressions, have upended the Obama administration’s ambitious Russia “reset”—and with it, the once-promising U.S.-Russian plans to destroy killer asteroids with nuclear bombs. On Sunday, The New York Times ran a story detailing how the Ukraine crisis has stalled an accord that promised “one of the most expansiv... more »

In A Rebuke To It's Neighbors And The U.S., China Says It Can Build What It Wants In The South China Sea

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
Image from The Economist *China Says Can Build What It Wants On South China Sea Isles -- Reuters* (Reuters) - China can build whatever it wants on its islands in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese official said on Monday, rejecting proposals ahead of a key regional meeting to freeze any activity that may raise tensions in disputed waters there. Southeast Asian foreign ministers this week hold security talks with counterparts, including those from the United States and China, in Myanmar, with escalating tensions over maritime disputes in Asia likely to be a major issue. The Phi... more »

The Ebola Epidemic Is 'Picking Up Speed' In Africa

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*Ebola Death Toll Rises To 887 As Spread Of Disease Picks Up Speed -- L.A. Times* The deadly Ebola virus sweeping through West Africa continues to accelerate, according to numbers released Monday by the World Health Organization. The virus has now claimed at least 887 lives, the WHO reported, with 163 new cases and 61 deaths in just two days. The latest update indicates the disease is picking up speed, with the number of new infections surging by 33% over the last three-day report ending July 27, and three new cases reported in Nigeria, the latest country to be hit by the diseas... more »

As Soon As People With Guns Start Talking About Extermination, You Know There's A Serious Problem

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
Gun nuts will be in ecstasy when they read about civil unrest in western China's Xinjiang Province. The freedom fighters only had knives, axes and swords and were slaughtered by the governmental oppressors with automatic rifles. Many local Muslims want their own country but virtually all local Muslims don't want Beijing interfering with their faith. So they butchered 35 Han Chinese civilians with their knives and swords and then killed two Muslim Uighurs who collaborate with the Chinese as well as a prominent pro-government imam at a major mosque in the old Silk Road city of Kashg... more »

Do you cook at home ... or eat out?

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours ago
[image: Cooking at home is Eco-friendly]*Cooking at home is Eco-friendly!*When we cook at home, we can control all aspects of a meal. We determine everything from the type of pots and pans we use, to the ingredients we buy, to the amount we prepare. Eating out, on the other hand, is a bit harder on the environment. Restaurants use a lot of energy, waste ingredients, and don't always use local, whole foods in their recipes. So I'm wondering ... how many times, in a week, do you cook at home? Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.... more »

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago

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Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours ago
METRO | Alice Embree reports on a moving memorial for the victims of the UT Tower shootings.

911

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 14 hours ago
this is an orange solving the mystery of wtc7 zero: an investigation of 9/11

Disease Expert Warns That Terrorists Could Make A 'Dirty Bomb' Containing Ebola

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 14 hours ago
*Terrorists Could Use Ebola To Create Dirty Bomb To Kill Large Numbers In The UK, Says Cambridge University Disease Expert -- Daily Mail* * Dr Peter Walsh says group such as Al Qaeda could use virus to create bomb * Biological anthropologist says risk of Ebola reaching UK is small * 'Bigger risk' is that terrorists manage to harness virus, says expert * Bomb could cause 'large number' of horrific deaths The deadly Ebola virus could be used by terrorists to create a dirty bomb capable of killing large numbers of people in the UK, a Cambridge University disease expert has warned. As fe... more »

The Islamic State Is Focusing On Saudi Arabia

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 14 hours ago
*ISIL Targets Saudi Intelligence -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon* Officials: ‘Crowd-sourced’ assassination campaign aimed at destabilizing Saudi Arabia The ultra-violent al Qaeda offshoot group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) has targeted Saudi Arabian intelligence officers for a campaign of assassination as part of plans by the group to expand activities inside the oil-rich kingdom. A Twitter campaign by ISIL terrorists was launched Friday that sought information on Saudi intelligence officers. It followed a fatal knife attack against a Saudi police off... more »

The Continuing Israeli Genocide Of Gaza: Exposing Israeli Lies - How A "Kidnapped" Soldier Ilustrates Israeli Deception!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours ago
Today, the reports coming out of Gaza seem to be going from bad to horrific... It seems that as I have already stated as fact is coming true... The insane and very criminal Israelis are out to exterminate the entire population locked up in what is truly the world's largest open air concentration camp. There should be absolutely no doubt in anyone's minds any more that this has always been the purpose of this Israeli operation against innocent and mostly helpless human beings.. Every single lie that the Israelis have used to this date that they have used as their "excuse" to attack... more »

The Rise Of The Islamic State Is Unprecedented In The History Of Extremist Organizations

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 15 hours ago
*Islamic State ‘Now Controls Resources And Territory Unmatched In History Of Extremist Organizations’ -- Terrence McCoy, Washington Post* It’s a pattern of territorial expansion that has now become familiar. After the Islamic State captured Sinjar on Sunday, came the executions. Then arrived the orders to convert or die, the flash of the movement’s black flag, the fleeing of thousands — and, finally, the jubilant and chilling images on social media. One showed a destroyed Shiite shrine, which had long sat in the ancient city of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. Another depicted the exe... more »

Machinery of the day: Waterview spoil

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago
Here’s the latest video showing the construction of the Waterview tunnel, this time highlighting the removal of spoil from the tunnel face. An almost wholly mechanised process, at the rate of one trailer truck load every ten minutes. It reminded me of the observation that capital goods – machines and the like – all that good stuff that Thomas Piketty and his crowd think are unnecessary and irrelevant to production – are in fact tools by which human effort is vastly leveraged,, making work like this possible. (Not just more roundabout production, but production that wouldn’t be pos... more »

(Mary's Mosaic?) Who Rules Washington? (The Rise to Power of the National Security State )

Speaking of good books for a long weekend's indulgent read, I recommend Peter (son of CIA head Wistar, who was probably involved) Janney's detailed explication of what happened before and after the murders of JFK and his very good friend - and college chum of Janney's Mother at Vassar - Mary (ex-wife of CIA very-scary-guy Cord) Meyer. The storyline also exposes (among many other subjects) much

Israel Is Turning Gaza To Ashes; ISIS Terrorists Threaten To Turn Iraq Into A Wasteland Like Afghanistan; The Authors of These Disasters Are On The CIA's Payroll

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago
"So, as I terrorize Gotham Gaza, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's Zionism's destiny... We will destroy Gotham Gaza and then, when it is done and Gotham Gaza is...*ashes*... then you have my permission to die." - Israel to Palestinian leaders. *Source of quote: The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Warner Bros. Pictures).* An exce... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
“This shock wave plows through space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Moving toward to bottom of this beautifully detailed color composite, the thin, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a sheet of glowing gas seen almost edge on. Cataloged as NGC 2736, its narrow appearance suggests its popular name, the Pencil Nebula. *Click image for larger size.* About 5 light-years long and a mere 800 light-years away, the Pencil Nebula is only a small part of the Vela supernova remnant. The Vela remnant itself is around 100 light-years in diameter and is the expanding debris cloud... more »

"The Wonder Of Life"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
"We live in radical times surrounded by tasks that seem impossible. It has become our collective fate to be alive in a time of great tragedies, to live in a period of overwhelming disasters and to stand at the edge of sweeping changes. The river of life is flooding before us, and a tide of poisons affect the air we breathe and the waters we drink and even tarnish the dreams of those who are young and as yet innocent. The snake-bitten condition has already spread throughout the collective body. However, it is in troubled times that it becomes most important to remember that the wond... more »

"One Big Road..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!” - Bob Marley

"Reality..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.” - Anwar Sadat • "Reality is certainty or authenticity which gives a support to our argument on any matter. Reality can also be defined as the one that the majority of the people have agreed upon. But for argument sake, we may also say that facts are different from reality. “Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, does not go away” said Philip K Dick. But it also seems that reality depends upon the perspective with which we view them. ... more »

The Poet: Joy Harjo, "Eagle Poem"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*"Eagle Poem" * "To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And know there is more That you can't see, can't hear Can't know except in moments Steadily growing, and in languages That aren't always sound but other Circles of motion. Like eagle that Sunday morning Over Salt River. Circles in blue sky In wind, swept our hearts clean With sacred wings. We see you, see ourselves and know That we must take the utmost care And kindness in all things. Breathe in, knowing we are made of All this, and breathe, knowing We are truly blessed bec... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
Boise, Idaho, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Paulo Coelho, “Choosing The Way We Will Depart”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*“Choosing The Way We Will Depart”* by Paulo Coelho "As you probably know, we are all going to die one day. As we become aware of that, we should surrender to life with much more joy, making things we always postpone, respecting the precious minutes that are passing by and will never come back, disclosing and discovering horizons that can be interesting or disappointing, but deserve at least a little bit of our effort. It’s normal that we try to avoid death. It isn’t only normal, it’s the healthiest attitude we can adopt. It is an aberration however to deny it, as the awareness of ... more »

Jus Ex Bello in Gaza

Heather Roff at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
The New York Times recently reported that unidentified Israeli officials claimed that Israel is looking to unilaterally end the conflict with Hamas in Gaza. After more than 1800 Palestinian casualties in three weeks of fighting, international pressure to cease hostilities appears to be working. However, this strategy of the “silent treatment,” rather than a negotiated settlement Continue reading

"I Soon Found Out..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
"I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it." - Henry Miller

“Living With the Contradictions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*“Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary* * Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress”* By Charles Eisenstein "Last week I sat down for a telephone conversation with Joseph Chilton Pearce, an author who has had a big influence not only on my work, but on the way I have raised my children. He alerted me early on to the damage that hospital birthing, day care, television, and modern schooling do to the developing brain. A World War Two veteran, he could be considered one of the elders of the human potential movement, although he brings to it... more »

Chet Raymo, "Why Not?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*"Why Not?"* by Chet Raymo "A reader named Liz asked: "If we are all one and made out of the same material- then the things that we make are made out of the same material. But they are not animate. Why not?" At first glance, this might seem like a naive question, one that we all know the answer to. On reflection, it turns out to be terribly profound. Or should I have said, "wonderfully profound"? Yes, everything, animate and inanimate, is made of the same stuff - the 92 naturally-occurring elements - but all of the animate things we know about are made mainly of carbon compounds - ... more »

Monsanto Paid Female Bloggers to Attend Panel

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Heather Callaghan Writers are often barraged with email invites to attend conferences to become better writers with promises that, in time, their efforts will produce a lucrative income. There are niche writing workshops as well, such as "food blogging." The hitch, of course, is that one must pay for tickets to enter said workshop. In a notable flipside, however, Monsanto recently paid female bloggers $150 if they attended "an intimate and interactive panel." The goal here not being a way to a successful writing career, but rather an incentivized way to shape public opinion. The... more »

The Dog that Did not Bark: American Airlines Flight 587 - by Webster G.Tarpley

Spike EP at News Spike - 16 hours ago
The Dog That Did Not Bark - American Airlines Flight 587 from Spike EP on Vimeo. *The Dog that Did not Bark* "Two months after 9/11, American Airlines Flight 587 -- an Airbus 300-600 -- left John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to the Dominican Republic. Less than three minutes after takeoff, the aircraft crashed in a blazing inferno in the heart of a Queens neighborhood. All 265 people aboard perished. According to the NTSB, the tail fin and rudder of the plane sheared off as it accelerated. *This was the second deadliest crash in U.S. history, but it also "was the fi... more »

DHS Funded Report: Sovereign Citizens Greatest Threat To U.S.

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Brandon Turbeville Back in April, 2014, I wrote an article entitled “FBI Visiting Gun Shops To Investigate ‘People Talking About Big Government,” where I reported the fact that FBI Counterterrorism agents were visiting South Carolina gun shops in order to gain information regarding potentially “suspicious” customers. These “suspicious” people were not those suspected of Muslim extremism but Americans who were concerned with big government. The agent who approached the gun shop discussed in my article was actually quoted as saying “If you see some Middle Eastern guy come in. You d... more »

Would Elizabeth Green Approve of A Book I Might Write on the Art and Craft of Journalism?

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
Somehow I doubt it, especially since I am not a journalist, haven't studied or practiced journalism, and know almost nothing about the origins, history, theoretical base, or conceptual understanding and shared knowledge of the craft and art of journalistic writing. I hope Elizabeth will forgive me, then, for being skeptical about her finally-published Columbia journalism research paper on pedagogy and teaching, the "meat" of which was published in the New York Times Magazine over four years ago. I read a sampling of Elizabeth's "new" book at Amacon, and it is clear that Elizabeth'... more »

The Truth is Rising About Global Destabilization

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
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James Brady (1940-2014)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*Sign a remembrance card on the BradyCampaign to Prevent Gun Violence website* *"I come before you today as not just another pretty face, but out of sheer talent."* *-- Jim Brady, to a press corps aware that First Lady-to-beNancy Reagan had wanted a Ken doll as press secretary* *"Neurosurgeon Arthur I. Kobrine later recalled telling the president's personal physician about Mr. Brady: 'It's a terrible injury. I don't think he has a chance. I don't think he's going to make it, but I think we should try.' "* *-- from Jon Thurber's Washington Post obituary* *"The bullies have suc... more »

"How It Really Should Be"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago

9/11 and Global Terrorism - A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida

Spike EP at News Spike - 16 hours ago
*"Derrida is the kind of philosopher that gives bullshit a bad name"* *Foucault* "In the winter of 1989, during Bush’s first hundred days in office, *Fukuyama* delivered a lecture to the Olin Foundation which was later published in *The National Interest*quarterly under the title of “The End of History?” Imperial administrator *Fukuyama* had studied under the reactionary elitist *Allan Bloom, *and was conversant with the French neo-enlightenment semiotic (or semi-idiotic) school of *Derrida, Foucault, and Roland Barthes,* whose zero degree of writing *Fukuyama* may have been striv... more »

Faux outrage by the US and President Obama regarding Gaza ( August 4 , 2014 ) --- US, UN Outraged as Israel Strikes Another Gaza School ..... All the while US cash , weapons and surveillance involved in the same attacks ! Snowden outs Obama's charade !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Just a masquerade folks........ Retweeted by Anonymous Operations *Dr.Bassel Abuwarda* ‏@DrBasselAbuward 2h Latest updates from #Gaza : 1867 killed -429 children -243 are women -70 elderly 9567 injured !! 10080 destroyed pic.twitter.com/BQWyXXePTD View photo - Russia Today...... Obama's 'helplessness' an act: Snowden reveals scale of US aid to Israel Published time: August 04, 2014 07:37 Edited time: August 04, 2014 17:42 Get short URL [image: US President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Edward Snowden (Reuters/AFP Photo)] US Presi... more »

Sunset of US Hegemony and the rule of King Dollar -- ( August 4 , 2014 ) Lead Articles --- India Slams US Global Hegemony By Scuttling Global Trade Deal, Puts Future Of WTO In Doubt ; De-Dollarization Continues: Russian Oligarchs Shift Cash To Hong Kong Dollars On Sanctions Concerns ....... additional items to consider !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-04/de-dollarization-continues-russian-oligarchs-shift-cash-hong-kong-dollars-sanctions- De-Dollarization Continues: Russian Oligarchs Shift Cash To Hong Kong Dollars On Sanctions Concerns [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/04/2014 18:31 -0400 - Bank of America - Bank of America - Currency Peg - Hong Kong inShare Last week we noted the very significant activity by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as it bought USDollars in size to support its peg. It appears we have found at least one smoking gun fo... more »

Israel And Hamas Agree To A 72-Hour Ceasefire

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 17 hours ago
Israeli soldiers arrive at a staging area near the border with Gaza Strip August 4, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Nir Elias *Officials: Israel, Palestinian Factions Accept 72-Hour Cease-Fire In Gaza -- CNN* Gaza City (CNN) -- Will it, or won't it, hold? That's the question following word late Monday that Israel and Palestinian factions, including Hamas, agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire proposed by Egypt. Even as both sides agreed to the cease-fire, scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, both sides appeared suspicious of one another. "The onus is on Hamas," Israeli government spok... more »

Illinois' next governor may make Romney look like a saint

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 18 hours ago
Does the name Bruce Rauner ring a bell? No, me neither. It turns out he's the Republican nominee for governor in Illinois, which under normal circumstances would mean he's a nobody. But he's been leading incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn in polls all summer, and could actually end up as the state's next governor. This is a problem, because he is even more out of touch with the middle class than Mitt Romney (Rauner is a private equity near-billionaire) whose idea of transparency is to release the first two pages of his 1040 tax return for 2010-12, and nothing else. Romney at least release... more »

World War One ... historical stupidity that seemed like a good idea at the time

leftdog at Buckdog - 18 hours ago
*I see that the Canadians are being brainwashed into thinking that World War One was a great and glorious moment in Canadian history. You are being told that Canadian soldiers died for Canada's 'freedom' during the First World War ... to 'protect and preserve our nation'. Nonsense!!!* *Any one with even a fleeting knowledge of history will struggle with this interpretation of the pointless, meaningless conflict known as 'the First World War'.* *Stop any citizen on the street and ask them what the reason for the First World War was ... and see if they know. Essentially, three Royal... more »

Call For Genocide Adds to Israel's Mounting Public Relations Problem

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 18 hours ago
It's not like Israel has enough of a public relations problem with the mounting "collateral damage" from Operation Protective Edge but when moronic bloggers are openly calling for genocide it doesn't help the cause. In a deranged screed that was published by The Times of Israel and then rapidly removed after mounting outrage triggered by the ill-advised posting by Yochanan Gordon. The piece also appeared on The Five Towns Jewish Times, a Long Island based newspaper and website founded by his father. Both rapidly sites issued apologies for the piece and should hang their heads in ... more »

Arabs not supporting Hamas?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
Elan Journo observes that Arab regimes in the past “would pounce to vilify Israel’s efforts at defending itself from Palestinian aggression, but curiously, many have been quiet amid the Gaza war.” Why so? One explanation, sketched in this *New York Times* piece, is that the Arab states view the Islamists of Hamas (whose patron is Iran) as a major problem, a higher priority than their (unwarranted) enmity toward Israel. If so, that implies these regimes understand the Islamist threat better than many in the West. An exception of course is , pointed out by the *Washington Times*, ... more »

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 4, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 18 hours ago
*Why Are So Many Civilians Dying In Hamas-Israel War? -- Ashley Fantz, CNN* (CNN) -- Images from the conflict between Israel and Hamas depict apparent civilians, innocent people caught in the middle. Often, the dead are children. The Palestinian death toll in Gaza stands at more than 1,800, with nearly 10,000 wounded, Gaza's Health Ministry said Sunday. More than 300 children have died, the ministry has reported, as the United Nations repeatedly raises concerns about the high number of deaths in Gaza. On the Israeli side, 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have died since fi... more »

Ebola

Spike EP at News Spike - 18 hours ago
FTR 4 Excerpted from the One Step Beyond show of 8/18/96, this broadcast highlights the possible use of genetically-engineered micro-organisms for the purposes of biological warfare and genocide. Beginning with the research of Doctors Garth and Nancy Nicolson, the program discusses an (apparently) genetically mutated mycoplasma that figures prominently in the mysterious "Gulf War Syndrome". This micro-organism has had a gene from the HIV spliced into its genome, making it much more destructive. Most of the segment focuses on the remarkable recent book Emerging Viruses - AIDS and E... more »

"Refugee camps" in Kurdish/Iraq- Kurds request No-fly Buffer Zone & Armed US Assist

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours ago
*I am having a bit of deja vu. Deja vu, as in, this seems somewhat familiar...........* *Turkey plans refugee camps, in Kurdish held territory, in Iraq.* The deja vu, for myself, and perhaps for long time readers here comes from the fact that *Turkey built "refugee camps" *at it's border with Syria. Those camps were only maybe a tiny bit for refugees. *Mostly those camps served as a base of operations for NATO backed Islamist fighters to destroy Syria.* Since some in Turkey have already embedded themselves with the Kurds, there is no need to build "refugee camps" for NATO backed ... more »

World News Briefs -- August 4, 2014 (Evening Edition)

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 19 hours ago
Palestinians dig through the rubble of a building searching for bodies after what police said was an Israeli air strike at Shati (Beach) refugee camp in Gaza City August 4, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly *Israel And Hamas Agree To A 72 Hour Ceasefire -- BBC* Israel and Palestinian groups including Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza, officials and Egyptian mediators say. The ceasefire will start at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday. On Monday Israel held its own seven-hour "humanitarian window" in Gaza but then resumed its military operations. H... more »

The Medicine Man - Ebola, Project Coast and the Depopulation of Africa

Spike EP at News Spike - 19 hours ago
Larry Ford was a regular at those gatherings, and the technology he handed over that day, Bouwer chortled, could prove invaluable: a sampler of virulent, designer strains of cholera, anthrax, botulism, plague, and malaria, as well as a bacteria he claimed had been mutated to be *“pigment specific.” “Kaffer-killing germs,” *Bouwer confided, using the derogatory Afrikaans term for blacks. *“Dr. Ford has done my country a great service.”* Anthrax War - Project Coast, Dr. David Kelly and the Ethnic Weapons Program from Spike EP on Vimeo. The Assassination of Dr. David Kelly of MI6 ... more »

Who writes this shit?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours ago
Reading the commentariat slagging off the shouting match Joyce v Robertson on this weekend’s *The Nation* – the interview show that’s only shown at the time when most decent people are either in bed being hungover, or at least not spending their Sunday morning in front of a bloody television – I headed over to the website to enjoy the blood sport, and stayed to lament the idiocy. The blood sport was ill described, purportedly a debate about “the wealth of the nation” – Joyce and Robertson going “head-to-head on their parties' prescriptions for prosperity.” It wasn’t that at all; ... more »

Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered By The Islamic State

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 20 hours ago
*Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered And ISIS Just Captured The Last Town Giving Them Shelter -- Andrew Slater, Daily Beast* ISIS just captured the Iraqi town of Sinjar in the first major defeat of Kurdish forces. Religious groups that had taken refuge there are in imminent danger of being massacred. In a major defeat for Kurdish forces the Iraqi town of Sinjar was captured Sunday by the group known as ISIS, now calling itself the Islamic State. This is the Kurds first major loss to ISIS and a catastrophe for the religious minorities who had taken refuge in the area ... more »

After Fleeing Advancing Islamic State Forces Humiliated Kurdish Leaders Have Ordered Their Forces To launch A Counter-Offensive

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 20 hours ago
Photograph: Guardian *Humiliated Kurdish Leaders Order Counter-Strike Against Advancing Islamic State Fighters -- The Telegraph* Questions asked about Kurdish Peshmerga troops after extremist militants execute lightening strike and send thousands fleeing for their lives. Kurdish leaders ordered a major counter-offensive against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq yesterday after being humiliated by a lightning Jihadist surge into their supposedly “safe” areas. Tens of thousands of members of the region’s patchwork of minority groups were said to be in flight in the deserts an... more »

Never A Good Sign: "My Men Are Brave And Honourable; Their Cause Is Holy"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
Kaiser Wilhelm II allowed zeppelins to bomb Liège in Belgium in August, 1914, right at the beginning of WW I and soon the zeppelins were dropping bombs on Paris as well, even damaging Notre Dame Cathedral. Willy was ok with bombing English military installations and docks but forbade targeting London in the fear that a bomb might hoot one of his royal relatives but by 1915 he was already being ignored by the military and they began a terror bombing of London. Watch the video from documentary sources above. In all, Britain suffered 1,413 civilian deaths and 3,409 injuries from the ... more »

The Economy: “Middle Class? What Middle Class?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“Middle Class? What Middle Class?”* by Bill Bonner “We have reached the age where we have to resist the urge to give unwanted advice to younger people. Just this morning, a young woman was crossing the street: "Hey, none of my business, but that's a dangerous place to cross. The cars whip around the corner here... and they can't see you because of the scaffolding." "Thanks," came the polite brush-off. And now we are about to give you, dear reader, some advice. Not a stock tip. Not a trade. Nope... This is advice about crossing the street, circa 2014. And this advice could be wort... more »

Why the Great War Was Not Stopped

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 21 hours ago
A century on and the establishment are still soft-soaping it. So no Dave, no. Britain didn't declare war against Germany for the sake of poor little Belgium, the rights of small nations or for the defence of neutrality. Those then groaning under the weight of our empire might have had a thing or two to say about these matters after all. These were the good reasons. The real reasons, which *did not* make war an inevitability, was acting to prevent French and Belgian channel ports from becoming German naval bases, and putting the Wilhelmine upstart back into its box. Cold, hard intere... more »

Iraq's Sunni Militants Are Seizing The Country's Major Dams

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 21 hours ago
*Iraq’s Biggest Dam at Risk as Militants Battle for Control -- Bloomberg* Kurdish security forces clashed with a breakaway al-Qaeda group that’s trying to extend its conquests in northern Iraq by seizing the country’s largest dam. Fighting is raging near the Mosul dam, and it is a “no man’s land,” Sheikh Ahmed Al-Simmari, a resident of the nearby city of Rabia’ah, said in a phone interview. The Kurds have bolstered their forces around the area and are preparing a counteroffensive to retake the Rabia’ah border post with Syria and nearby towns, he said. *Read more* .... *More New... more »

Covert chemical warfare: 100,000 deaths a year

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours ago
image source Jon Rappoport Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US. The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion. Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America. That’s an average of roughly 13 prescriptions for each man, woman, and child. That’s about one new prescription every month for every American. The Medical News Today article concluded, “…the industry should be heartened by the growth of the number of prescriptions and spending.” Yes, I’m sure the drug in... more »

Defining Away Economic Failure

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours ago
Anthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts Last week’s government guesstimate that second quarter 2014 real GDP growth will be 4% seems nonsensical on its face. There is no evidence of increases in real median family incomes or real consumer credit that would lift the economy from a first quarter decline to 4% growth in the second quarter. Middle class store closings (Sears, Macy’s, J.C. Penney) have spread into the Dollar stores used by those with lower incomes. Family Dollar, a chain in the process of closing hundreds of stores is being bought by Dollar Tree, the only one of the th... more »

Doctor: ‘There’s Not Enough PANIC and Customers to Make an Ebola Vaccine’ — Oh Really?

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours ago
Melissa Melton A short two-minute video Bloomberg News uploaded to YouTube attempts to explain why the world doesn’t already have a widely available Ebola vaccine. (Trusting the ingredients of such a thing and whether or not you would personally take it is another matter entirely, but hold on a second.) What’s fascinating about this clip is what Dr. Ben Neuman, University of Reading, says towards the end. Neuman explains that because viruses easily mutate, “It’s not just one drug we need for Ebola. We need a cocktail of drugs and perhaps a nice vaccine that could be used.” Hm.... more »

Luke Rudkowski Interviews David Icke About Consciousness

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours ago
*We Are Change* In this video Luke Rudkowski meets David Icke on the Isle of Wight to continue their conversation from last year about consciousnesses and spirituality. Visit WeAreChange.org Visit DavidIcke.com *Be the Change! Donate Today!* *Get truth delivered to your inbox every week.* *Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter:* *Delivered by FeedBurner*

Rumours

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
We've had a bit of a readership spike today, specifically for the post called Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: "I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields", which quoted the BBC's Middle East Editor saying just that in a *New Statesman* article. This great interest has been generated by a rumour on social media: BBC removed Jeremy Bowen from #Gaza for saying he had not seen any evidence of #Hamas using civilians as humanshields pic.twitter.com/ynoKwQtbXG — Raajje News (@raajjenews) August 3, 2014 Soon the likes of Lauren Booth and Tariq Ramadan were tweeting their ... more »

Lyse, damned lies and dodgy statistics.

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
I bear Lyse Doucet no ill-will. I don’t feel any animosity towards her at all. At one time I found her accent intriguing, and many years ago I listened to a middle-of-the-night broadcast on radio 4, probably BBC World service, about her background and Canadian origins and thought it was fascinating. Of course, since she’s been beating the anti-Israel trail, it is hard not to find yourself disliking her. I mean when she slunk over to the side of the street where the sun don’t shine, you had to wonder what went wrong. Somewhere, somehow she lost sight of the investigate/inquire/ques... more »

Quote of the Day: Education Policy

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago
"Today, education reformers increasingly view our children as fodder for the engines of economic productivity. Leaders of global corporations, education "experts," and political leaders, having lost sight of the true ends of education, promote uniformity of curricula across the nation, validated by high-stakes testing. The time has long passed for us to recognize that these would-be emperors of the mind … wear no clothes." - Lenore Ealy, "Is Education Policy Economic Policy" Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ih... more »

METRO | Alice Embree : A moving memorial for the victims of the UT Tower shootings

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours ago
Whitman survivor Claire Wilson James said, ‘It was so important to me that a student group organized this event, and that a younger generation is carrying these stories forward.’ By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | August 4, 2014 … finish reading *METRO* | Alice Embree : A moving memorial for the victims of the UT Tower shootings

When is Ebola not Ebola? ... When it walks off an airplane

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 22 hours ago
As I pressed the "publish" button on yesterdays Ebola article, I knew that there were several more facts and pieces of information to bring to the public's attention. Here is part II of The Ebola Outbreak: The "Pandemic" that isn't.The more news articles I read, the more blatant the lies and deception become. The main stream media seems to of been caught in their tracks with their "Ebola is an airborne (aerosol) virus" lies and are now quickly backtracking and setting the record straight on that fact. The Associated Press released this article on 5 things you need to know about t... more »

Who can rescue the Labour Party?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
A wise man, not David Miliband who looks shocked that the BBC would allow such an attack on their allies http://youtu.be/zhi-totcVVE

Profiteers on the Move in MA to Expand Charters in 2016

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 23 hours ago
From Lisa Guisbond at CPS: Charter proponents may have been shocked to be handed a rare legislative defeat, but they are not sitting back on the heels of their designer shoes. The State House News Service reported this week that charter advocates "are already eyeing the 2016 ballot" and "reaching out to supporters in the business and education communities, as well as potential donors, to line up the backing necessary to mount a ballot campaign." The report also heralded the arrival in Boston of a new pro-charter school player, called "Families for Excellent Schools," led by a Brookl... more »

TRUTH of Smoking and Tobacco benefits. Tobacco treats Ebola, has many medicinal properties and Good Health Properties

Sherrie at Sherrie Questioning All - 23 hours ago
The Truth of tobacco and smoking. It is beneficial and it is a treatment for Ebola. It is not beneficial to smoke commercial bought cigarettes as they contain over 3000 additives with many of those being carcinogenic. Smoking store bought cigarettes will cause someone to have cancer. But smoking natural pure tobacco is something all together different and can be very good for you health

U.S. Sent Youths From Latin America To Cuba To Stir A Revolt

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 23 hours ago
*AP: Obama Administration Program Secretly Sent Young Latin Americans To Cuba To Gin Up Rebellion -- CBS* WASHINGTON — An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger even after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail. Beginning as early as October 2009, a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes of ginning up r... more »

Ukraine Civil War News Updates -- August 4, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 23 hours ago
*Ukraine Crisis: Army 'Heading For Victory' - Defence Minister -- BBC* Ukraine's defence minister has said his forces are gaining ground significantly against rebels in the country's east. Valeriy Heletey told the BBC there would be victory "very soon". He blamed the rebels for the difficulties faced by international experts in getting access to the MH17 crash site. His remarks came as civilians in the east prepare for a siege as government forces close in on the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. Residents are stockpiling food and supplies and are sleeping in basements, w... more »

Lebanese Army Continue To Battle Syrian Rebels Who Have Crossed The Border From Syria

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*Lebanon's Military Battles Islamists on Syrian Border -- Voice of America* Lebanese troops are battling Islamic militants near the Syrian border in a third day of fierce clashes - the worst spillover of violence since Syria's civil war broke out three years ago. Lebanon's army reported Monday that at least 16 of its soldiers have been killed in the fighting that erupted in the town of Arsal, while another 22 are missing. It said that advancing soldiers have found the bodies of 50 militants. Hundreds of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees crammed into cars and pickup trucks du... more »

The Secret to Amazing Clam Chowder

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
There is a restaurant where my dad grew up in Oregon that is known for their clam chowder. Every summer when we would drive up to visit my grandpa, we would stop for clam chowder. I was convinced there was nothing in the world more disgusting and I refused to eat anything but crackers every time we went. One summer, after watching my parents struggle to get my to try just one bite, my grandpa took a new approach. He offered me $5 to try the soup, one bite turned into bowl after bowl and I have never looked back. After trying clam chowder at just about every place I have been that... more »

Hamas Video 'Shows-Off' Their Ghoul Sniper Rifle In Action (And With A '2km Range')

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*Hamas Militant Video Shows Ghoul Sniper With '2km Range' -- The Telegraph* A video released by Hamas, which cannot be independently verified, shows a huge sniper which militants claim was made in Gaza Hamas' armed wing has released footage of a home grown sniper rifle, nicknamed Ghoul, which it is using to target Israeli soldiers. The footage, which cannot be independently verified, shows what Hamas claims is a 14.5mm caliber sniper rifle, with 2 km (1.2 mile) range. The average range of a typical sniper rifle is just under 900 yards (800 metres). A militant posing next to the ... more »

Campbell Brown Clip from Colbert Show

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Campbell Brown has been named by George Schmidt to the Ann Coulter Chair of Right Wing Punditry. Congrats, Campbell. Below is George's commentary from *Substance News*. George N. Schmidt - August 04, 2014 From one point of view, you could say that Campbell Brown just got a promotion. From an obscure "reporter" at CNN, she has been elevated to what Substance will call the "Ann Coulter Chair of Right Wing Punditry" in American media. (See below for another version of this, based on 20th Century history). One way or the other, four years after "Waiting for Superman" and four years a... more »

Robert Reich And Stanley Chang Want To Solve One Of The Big Problems Endemic To Growing Inequality

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
The debate above on the topic: The Rich Are Taxed Enough-- Robert Reich and Mark Zandi vs Glenn Hubbard and Arthur Laffer-- took place in 2012. At its core, the question came down to whether or not the richest are paying their fair share in taxes. (Spoiler: the audience vote showed a gargantuan win for Reich and Zandi over the two clueless corporate stooges Hubbard and Laffer.) Over the weekend, Reich did an interesting post, Work and Worth that almost anyone who finds himself in a high-paid job contemplates at one time or another. His assertion-- that "what someone is paid ha... more »

Israel - Hamas War News Updates -- August 4, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Netanyahu: Gaza Campaign Continues Until Calm Restored -- Voice of America* Israel will not stop its military campaign in Gaza until long-term calm is restored, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, at the end of a seven-hour humanitarian lull in fighting. “The campaign in Gaza is continuing. This operation will only end when quiet and security is established for the citizens of Israel for a prolonged period," he said on a visit to the army's southern command. Also Monday, in what appeared to be backlash against Israel’s offensive against Ga... more »

The Kitchen Sink was Exposed

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
When I was five or six years old I first became aware there is a world and I somehow are a part of it My question then and now is how do I join will I be a participant a sailor or a Capetian a member of the Columbus tradition as an astronaut, or as a servant even an incredibly elevated one The man realizing that basically told you get back to factory because for you astronomy is a column in the paper on Sunday your fate is in the stars Fate that is spelled Sheeple, come on people be alive There is no magic force that guided you to merry the cheerleader at 23 and give your fortune ... more »

Stop killing people

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
The talk of two-state solutions, displacement, borders, violent Zionism, violent resistance, bombed schools, shelters, houses, kibbutzim, the opinions of various persons both thoughtful and blinkered is maybe just a little teeny tiny bit ahead of the game. The current war on Gaza, for that's what it is, highlights the baseline condition for any peace: Stop killing people. Stop killing people.

Noam Chomsky - Information Clearing House - OUTRAGE

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 1 day ago
as ICH or Information Clearing House states in its front-page editorial, "You ain't gonna hear this on CNN," and look who authored this *Gaza-holocaust* article titled... *OutrageBy Noam ChomskyAugust 03, 2014 "ICH" - Almost every day brings news of awful crimes, but some are so heinous, so horrendous and malicious, that they dwarf all else. One of those rare events took place on July 17, when Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down in Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people.* *The Guardian of Virtue in the White House denounced it as an “outrage of unspeakable proportions,” whic... more »

World News Briefs -- August 4, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
Israeli soldiers walk past tanks at a staging area near the border with Gaza Strip August 4, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Nir Elias *Israel 'To Pursue Campaign' As Truce Ends -- BBC* *Israel's prime minister has vowed the campaign in Gaza will continue "until quiet and security are returned to the citizens of Israel".* Benjamin Netanyahu issued the statement after Israel's seven-hour "humanitarian window" for parts of Gaza closed. The truce slowed violence in Gaza, although Palestinians said Israel broke it by hitting a house in Gaza City. Two attacks on Israelis were reported in Jerusal... more »

Im Feeling Intolerant Again

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
Last month I wrote a little screed about why I thought somebody's comment was infuriatingly stupid. I called the piece: "Why I'm So Intolerant." (It turns out that the guy who made the comment has said intelligent things on other matters and that part of what he was saying was correct. It also remains the case that a LOT of what he said in the comment was plain stupid.) I use the word "intolerant" because there is something about my writing style that makes me appear intolerant of difference of opinion and even broadly contemptuous of the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with me... more »

ODE TO A DEAD PALESTINIAN CHILD

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 1 day ago
*Palestinian Child killed by U.S. made Israeli Navy missile on Gaza beach* *"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country." - **David Ben-Gurion** (Polish born Israeli Statesman and Prime Minister (1948-53, 1955-63). * *Ode to a dead Palestinian child* *Yesterday you were playing with your cousins **on this sandy Gaza beach.* *You were playing soccer and you had just scored **a goal with your makeshift cloth beach ball.* *You knew there was danger on the beach but you could **not resist the beach and the cool oc... more »

Congressman Massie: ‘Anger, Frustration, Embarrassment’ When Redacted Portion of 9/11 Report Is Released

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) As reported by Joshua Cook: Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie said that U.S. citizens should have to right to read the 28 redacted pages from a report investigating the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Appearing on The Glenn Beck Program, he said there will be “anger, frustration, and embarrassment when these 28 pages finally come out.” Despite those negative emotions, Massie is fighting for the document’s release. As reported previously on Benswann.com, Massie, Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) are sponsoring ... more »

James Heckman’s Research Argues Against Test-Driven Accountability

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The Myth of Achievement Tests, by James Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz is more than a meticulous work of social science. It also is an objective, but hard-hitting, analysis of the testing that has driven school reform, and a warning about the unintended harm done by ill-conceived policies. One of the best things […]

Netanyahu's Big Lie

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
http://stopthewall.org/ History is full of ugly ironies. Among the ugliest is the Netanyahu government's use of the Big Lie to justify what is happening in Gaza. Chris Hedges writes that, while covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: I saw small boys baited and killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Younis. The soldiers swore at the boys in Arabic over the loudspeakers of their armored jeep. The boys, about 10 years old, then threw stones at an Israeli vehicle and the soldier... more »

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 4, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
Image from VOX *Analysis: Israel Underestimates Hamas' Asymmetrical Tactics -- Barbara Opall-Rome, Defense News* *Tunnels Support Attrition War By Far Inferior, Mini Force* TEL AVIV — Amid mounting casualties and mutual recriminations over the sixth failed ceasefire in their ongoing war, Israel and Hamas continued late last week to battle on parallel fronts: under the sands of Gaza and in the court of public opinion. It’s a battle of competing narratives — a protracted race for the public support and perceived victory needed to deter the other side from the next round of fighting... more »

ON THE RUN FROM FASCIST KIEV'S WAR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
A total of 438 soldiers, including 164 Ukrainian border guards have been allowed to cross into Russia on Sunday night after they requested sanctuary. Previously hundreds of Kiev's soldiers have crossed into Russia - not wanting to kill their own citizens in the civil conflict being encouraged, funded, and directed by the US-NATO war machine. Vineyard of the Saker writes today: There is also information that among those who did not surrender there are Polish mercenaries, which essentially explains the stubbornness of the resistance (a serious international scandal is possible).

Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Vision Quest”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Medwyn Goodall, “Vision Quest” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnOSAIJ1lc

We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Anthony Freda Art John W. Whitehead “Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Mind you, we’re not talking tickets or fines or even warnings being issued to these so-called “lawbreakers.” We’re talking felony charges, handcuffs, ... more »

Depraved Diplomacy

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
Just when you thought the official depravity couldn't get any worse, it gets mind-numbingly worse: *WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger even after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail.* *Beginning as early as October 2009, a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes of ginning ... more »

Stay inside, hide under the bed and play video games

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
*Because life is just too dangerous to live!* By Capt. Fogg Really, this is the safest time to live in the United states there has ever been and I'm guessing that's true of the civilized, "first-world" in general. Your kids are more likely to grow up big and strong and to live longer than you do just as you're likely to live twice as long as folks did a hundred or so years ago, but you'd never know it to listen and to read and to feel the mood of America. Have you seen the recent car commercials where the distracted young mother with child in the back seat ( kids can't ride in the... more »

The Holy Land Is Crying Out

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Free the Holy Land Five! This is a track from David Rovics album, Meanwhile In Afghanistan, which can be downloaded for free or by donation here: davidrovics.com/meanwhile-in-afga…tan/new-album.php The Holy Land Five are still in U.S. prison for feeding helpless Palestinians. David Rovics sings about them: I love this song, David Rovics! "The Holy Land is crying out, leaving little room for doubt; from ruined homes, the kids ask you--what in the world will you do?" ~Cynthia McKinney *You can visit our Gaza article archive here. * *Poll: Does the United States' support of ... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Saints Monday Brief ~Ramon Antonio Vargas * *Fire out at Diamond Green Diesel plant in Norco * *Community Panel Wants Local Jobs From New Airport Terminal Project ~Eileen Fleming, WWNO* *Bayou Corne Waiting to start anew ~David J. Mitchell, The Advocate* *Waters closed for over 4 years reopen to commercial, recreational fishing ~WVUE* *BP files appeal of settlement to U.S. Supreme Court ~David Hammer, WWL*

The spin about the 438 deserted Ukrainian troops

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Lots of dramatic and worrisome events keep on taking place in Ukraine. A million of users saw the monologue by Bogdan Butkevich, a pro-Kiev journalist and a self-described musician, who said (months ago) that people like him knew what the Ukrainian national interests were and 1.5 million people in the Donetsk region (probably referring to all the ethnic Russians) were "useless people" who needed to be killed. "Gentlemen" like this one define the contemporary political mainstream in Ukraine. Meanwhile, four days ago, the Donetsk People's Republic's minister of defense, Igor Strelkov,... more »

Are Russia's Oligarchs Putting Pressure On Putin Because Of Sanctions?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
Gennady Timchenko (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko) *‘No Compromise’: Big Business Won’t Pressure Putin Over Sanctions -- RT* The big Russian businesses hurt by Western sanctions against Russia won’t even think about putting pressure on President Putin, because the interests of the state are at stake in the conflict, says a reputed presidential ‘inner circle’ figure. “This is out of the question,” Gennady Timchenko, who is one of the few Russian businessmen personally targeted by the US-championed sanctions, told ITAR-TASS. “In any situation Putin is guided by the interests of Russ... more »

Russia Begins New Military Exercises Near The Border With Ukraine

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*Russia Staging Military Exercises Near Ukraine: Interfax -- Reuters* (Reuters) - Russia announced new military exercises involving bombers and fighter jets on Monday in a show of strength near the border with Ukraine. An air force spokesman was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying more than 100 planes and helicopters would take part in the manoeuvres from Monday until Friday in its central and western districts. The spokesman, Igor Klimov, said the exercises were the first in a series to improve coordination in the military and made no mention of Ukraine, where pro-Russian re... more »

August interlude: Postcard from Maine!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2014* *Service a bit interruptus:* We've been whisked away by overnight train to sojourn with family from distant parts here in the southernmost part of Maine. With apologies, this is a special event. Making their first-ever North American appearances: A 7-month-old great nephew, live and direct from Dublin (with his parents). Also, and a bit more magically, given relations between the two countries: The 16-year-old daughter of our niece's husband, live and direct from Havana! Also present, but old hat: Two great nieces, ages 2 and 8! (They've embedded thems... more »

CONVERT THE WAR MACHINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Kerith Strano Taylor Wants To Work For Us-- And There's No Doubt She Would Do A Better Job Than Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
As you probably know, Alan Grayson, a congressman who never sells out or bargains away the legitimate rights of working families, has been the most successful Member of Congress in terms of bringing both parties together in moving sensible, bipartisan legislation. Friday I spoke with a progressive candidate in a pretty red Pennsylvania district, Kerith Strano Taylor and her approach to working across party lines reminded me of the way Grayson does it. She won the Democratic primary for PA-05, a district currently represented by a garden variety, lockstep backbencher with no influen... more »

Hundreds Of Ukrainian Troops Have Deserted Their Posts And Defected To Russia

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*Over 400 Ukrainian Troops Cross Into Russia For Refuge -- RT* More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It’s the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev’s military crackdown in the east of the country. According to the Rostov Region’s border guard spokesman Vasily Malaev, a total of 438 soldiers, including 164 Ukrainian border guards, have been allowed into Russia on Sunday night. One of the Ukrainians was seriously injured on his arrival in Russia. He was taken to th... more »

A Look At Hamas's Top Political Leader And The Man Who Heads Hamas’s Military Wing

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*CNN Exclusive: Inside The Mind Of Hamas' Political Leader -- Holly Yan, Steve Almasy, and Ali Younes, CNN* Doha, Qatar (CNN) -- As fighting rages between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, Hamas' political leader, who lives in Qatar, sat down with CNN for an exclusive interview. Khaled Meshaal, a 58-year-old former teacher, has had the role since 2004, after Hamas' then-leader, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Meshaal is known as Hamas' external deal-maker, raising money from supporters in the region. He spoke with CNN's Nic Robertson. Here are highl... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 1 day ago
*To keep grads solvent, take middleman out of student loans* The mounting student debt crisis could cause serious economic damage to the United States. Rising college costs and declining financial aid at both state and federal levels have significantly contributed to the problem. A good deal of responsibility, however, belongs to the financial institutions that service federal student loans, according to a new report. Millions of students use loans underwritten by the Treasury Department and granted by the Department of Education to help make college a reality. Once the loan is app... more »

Tangle-Free Cord Organization

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
“This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Sharpie, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #SharpieBTS http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV” I swear every house has one. You know what I am talking about, that crazy box or drawer that is a tangled mess full of cords. Every time you need to look for a cord you grumble under your breath because you are going to have to go through that entire mess to find the right one. Even if you find the cord easily, the next step is trying to get it untangled from all of the other crazy cords in the p... more »

Gaza attack: 'We were striking a legitimate target' - video

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
*Israel spokesman Mark Regev says an airstrike on a school in Gaza, which killed ten people, was targeted by Hamas terrorists and his government is investigating why civilians died.* *You can visit our Gaza article archive here. * *Poll: Does the United States' support of Israel make Americans less safe?* *Be the Change! Donate Today!* *Get truth delivered to your inbox every week.* *Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter:* *Delivered by FeedBurner*

Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society Over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 Bn/Yr

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
By Juan Cole Shutterstock *This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.* The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement by Western civil society to pressure Israel on its illegal actions toward the Palestinians. A thoroughgoing such European set of sanctions could cost Israel as much as $5 bn a year and more. Roughly a third of Israeli trade is with Europe, and the EU is Israel’s largest single trading partner. Unite, the largest British trade union, has now resolved to campaign f... more »

Musical Interlude: Jason Mraz, “I Won't Give Up”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Jason Mraz, “I Won't Give Up” - https://www.youtube.com/

"What Is Right and What Is Wrong..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may.” – Mark Twain

Obama's jibber jabber on Russia and the debunking of same ......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Moon debunks Obama jibber jabber on Russia ..... August 03, 2014 Obama's Russia Policies Are Based On Ignorance, Illusions Obama's Russia policies are based on ignorance and driven by illusions: President Barack Obama dismissed Russia as a nation that "*doesn't make anything*" and said in an interview with the Economist magazine that the West needs to be "pretty firm" with China as Beijing pushes to expand its role in the world economy. ... *"Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow* in search of opportunity. The* life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years* old. The *populatio... more »

Eat This Obama: Will Russia Ban McDonalds?

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Despite months of sanctions applied by the Obama regime and it's EU lapdogs against Russia over the alleged arming of rebels fighting the US puppet government in Kiev, the bear is biting back. In a symbolic shot after last week's latest round of idiotic economic warfare waged by Barry and the boys, the Putin regime is retaliating by going after the iconic American 800 pound gorilla of fast food that is McDonalds. In a Bloomberg piece from last week entitled "Russia Eyes Banning U.S. Chicken And Some European Fruit" it was stated that in addition to American poultry imports that t... more »

Republicans Circle Wagons to Defend Torture

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Most defenders of torture, which is prohibited under the Geneva Conventions are Republicans. This is sad as well as indicative of a deep, self-destructive streak that is going to continue to cost them elections at the national level. The time has never been more right for a serious alternative to to the ongoing wars, mass-surveillance, trampling of the Constitution and redistributing wealth into the military-security industrial complex. This is why so many are terrified of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's increasing popularity within the party. He at least seems to represent a clean ... more »

Thoughts on how Ukraine might have shot down MH 17 !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Saker offers his thoughts on MH 17.... Just the baseless hypothesis of an uninformed amateur, nothing more First, a disclaimer: I am not a pilot nor an air traffic controller, and I never served with air defense units. I did spend some time with an airforce, but my role was one of electronic intercept analysis. So what follows are just the musings of an uninformed amateur. *Caveat emptor*. What I will try to do here is present a possible scenario which takes into account the basic facts established so far. Here goes: The plan was for the Ukies to shoot down the MH17 using a to... more »

US slowly unfolding nuclear disaster ( August 4 , 2014 ) -- Lab Director: Expect radiation spikes coming from US nuclear facility — Gov’t pays for more air monitors to see impact on populated areas — DOE warns of ‘ignitability’ of 368 containers at site; “Significant fire risk” — Top Official: Material at WIPP “just disintegrated… got very hot, very quickly” ........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://enenews.com/lab-director-radiation-spikes-expected-nuclear-facility-govt-pays-air-monitors-impact-populated-areas-doe-ignitability-368-containers-wipp-underground-significant-fire-risk-top-official-mater Dept. of Energy – Carlsbad, NM Field Office (pdf), July 30, 2014: The purpose of this letter is to provide you [New Mexico Environmental Dept.] written notice that the Department of Energy [is] provisionally applying EPA Hazardous Waste Number (code) D001** for the characteristic of ignitability to some nitrate salt bearing waste containers that have been disposed at the WIPP f... more »

Daniel in the lion's den

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
The Today programme announced (several times) that “another strike” had been made by “Israel” on a UN school. The strike they were referring to was the one that happened yesterday and was, yesterday, thoroughly reported and documented on the air. Reported, condemned, explained, condemned. Was it a tiny bit misleading to keep announcing it as “another” strike, leaving the impression that there has now been an additional strike? Was it ‘another’ example of the BBC’s mischief-making? Never mind that for now. Let’s call it disputed territory. Jon Donnison’s report had also been shown... more »

Status Quo & A Broader Vision - A Guest Post by Michael Brine

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
[image: courage-be-yourself] Status Quo & Broader Vision. This article is designed to have us take a deeper look at the world in which we have been raised. To assist us in taking a more objective look at what is happening in the world around us and in which we are inexorably involved. By gaining a broader vision we can collectively affect the outcome which for this writer, given our present course, is not too uplifting! We have the power to create change. Will we be able to rise to this challenge? Here then is the challenge facing us, but not only us, but all life, human and the... more »

"No Bravery"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — "Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip on Sunday in an apparent winding down of the nearly month long operation against Hamas that has left more than *1,800 Palestinians* and more than 60 Israelis dead. Even as Israel said it was close to completing its mission, heavy fighting raged in parts of Gaza, with at least 10 people killed in what U.N. and Palestinian officials said was an Israeli airstrike near a U.N. shelter. The United States lashed out at Israel, saying it was "appalled" by the "disgraceful" attack.” - http://www.huffi... more »

"There Comes A Time..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Ridge Racer Type 4 for the PlayStation

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 1 day ago
It's not news that the fifth generation of consoles left a legacy of some truly ugly games. Something like the first iteration of *Tomb Raider* on the PlayStation or Sega Saturn looks rank by today's standards. Back then it was very well-received and appreciated as a technical achievement, but no one ever thought the game was pretty. Such is the lot of the three dimensional games that appeared on said systems and its contemporary, the Nintendo 64. They were to 3D what the old Atari 2600 was to two dimensional gaming. Great to play, grim to look at. Granted there were a few that lo... more »

Doctor: ‘There’s Not Enough PANIC and Customers to Make an Ebola Vaccine’ — Oh Really?

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/doctor-theres-not-enough-panic-and-customers-to-make-an-ebola-vaccine-oh-really_082014 Doctor: ‘There’s Not Enough PANIC and Customers to Make an Ebola Vaccine’ — Oh Really? Melissa Melton The Daily Sheeple August 3rd, 2014 A short two-minute video Bloomberg News uploaded to YouTube attempts to explain why the world doesn’t already have a widely available Ebola vaccine. (Trusting the ingredients of such a thing and whether or not you would personally take it is another matter entirely, but hold on a second.) What’s fascinating about this clip is wha... more »

“You Only Need To Be A Human To Stand With Gaza”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“You Only Need To Be A Human To Stand With Gaza”* by Abby Zimet “The mind reels. Another atrocity in Gaza: Israel just hit its sixth U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinians, this time in Rafah, killing at least 10 in what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called "a moral outrage and a criminal act." There have been so many, too many to bear. Again, the only succor comes from the courage of those bearing witness: Among them, UN spokesman Chris Gunness, who broke down sobbing on air; Naomi Wolf, ceaselessly reporting, and now adding poems of grief and peace; other journalists ... more »

"Apathy And Evil..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Apathy and evil. The two work hand in hand. They are the same, really... Evil wills it. Apathy allows it. Evil hates the innocent and the defenseless most of all. Apathy doesn't care as long as it's not personally inconvenienced." - Jake Thoene, “Shaiton's Fire”

Two Pallywood duds in one day! - Thomas Wictor

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
When watching the BBC or Channel 4 coverage of the Israel Hamas conflict, you really shouldn't believe everything they say. Read this http://www.thomaswictor.com/two-pallywood-duds/ for some excellent examples.

Nato to strengthen military exercises after Russia 'aggression'

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: NATO flag]Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the transatlantic military alliance will draw up new defence plans following Russia's "aggression" in Ukraine. In an interview with French regional newspaper Midi Libre, published Sunday (4 August), he said that “Russia's aggression was a warning and created a new security situation in Europe.” "We will strengthen military exercises and prepare new defence plans," he said, reports AFP. Read more

Engine rejig to cut Su-30 burnouts

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Su-30MKI Flanker]IAF’s frontline fighter jet Sukhoi-30MKI will be modified under new specifications laid down by its Russian manufacturers to fix mid-air engine trouble in its fleet. The move comes after the IAF faced an unusually high number of mid-air engine failures over the past two years (January 2102 onwards) and asked the Russians to rectify the problem in the fighter jet. The Tribune had highlighted this in its July 21 report. The IAF has a fleet of 200 Sukhoi aircraft and another 72 are on their way from Moscow. Read more

Rs 30,000 crore India-France missile development plan in troubled waters

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Akash SAM]India-France proposed joint venture expected to be worth around Rs 30,000 crore to develop short range air defence missiles seems to have run into rough weather as Indian Air Force feels that its requirements could be met by indigenous Akash surface-to-air missile weapon system. The proposed joint venture is planned between DRDO and the French missile manufacturer MBDA under which they were planning to produce short-range surface-to-air missile (SR-SAM) systems for the Indian Air Force for the Maitri programme. The Akash air defence missile system has already been ... more »

BrahMos missile can be exported to Southeast Asian, Latin American nations

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: BrahMos supersonic cruise missile]In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to export defence hardware, supersonic cruise missile manufacturer BrahMos Aerospace has said that South-East Asian and Latin American countries have shown interest in acquiring the 290-km range weapon system and it is possible to export the missile to certain friendly nations. "Several South-East-Asian and Latin American countries want the BrahMos, expressed interest in it, particularly for the naval and coastal defence versions. A definite list of such countries already exists. We are pr... more »

Why Israel Is Not Trying To Destroy Hamas

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
Smoke: The aftermath of a reported Israeli air strike today in Rafah, which has been pummeled by the military for days in the escalating Gaza conflict *Senior IDF Official: We Could've Taken Down Hamas In 10 Days -- YNet News* Army says Hamas was left in power so that one organization could be held accountable for terrorist attacks coming from Gaza. The IDF did not take over the Gaza Strip or worked to completely destroy Hamas in order to leave an organization in power that would have to answer for terrorism in the Strip, a senior IDF source said on Sunday. "There's an Israeli int... more »

Speculation - conspiracy - is this a WAR WORLD or a FREE PLANET?

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 1 day ago
if War World vs Free Planet were a football game, the scores would be: Free Planet 2 – War World 2 and by that I mean, two of the Free Planet novels and two of the War World novels have been written, edited and published by Chimericana Books. Each book is between 66,000 and 88,000 words, so if these trilogies were to published as one fat paperback each be a whopping 700-page 200,000+ words paperback, which is a nice thought. Here are the scores on the doors so far, converted into relevant Amazon links, click the title below if you're keen on sampling the madness. *FREE PLANET* -... more »

Ukrainian fighter jet downed by eastern insurgents

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Su-25 wreckage]The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said Sunday they confirmed shooting down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet. The jet was found between the towns of Yenakiyevo and Makiivka in Donetsk Region, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted spokesman of the DPR as saying, adding that the search for the pilot is ongoing. The Su-25 was allegedly shot down on Saturday, but the militia could not confirm it until they found the downed plane. Read more

Pakistan diverted US aid to fight India: Ronald Neumann, Ex-envoy

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: P-3C Orion]Pakistan diverted most of the military aid it received from the US for counter-terror to fight against India, a former American ambassador to Afghanistan has alleged Ronald Neumann, former US envoy to Kabul's remarks came while testifying before a Congressional Committee. He said that most of the military aid to Pakistan never went to counterinsurgency and it went to buying equipment to fight India, post 9/11. Pakistan had received $20.7 billion worth of US assistance over the past decade, about two-thirds of it was military aid. Read more

INS Sindhurakshak CO likely to face court martial

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: INS Sindhurakshak]The commanding officer of INS Sindhurakshak is likely to be tried by a court martial for alleged lapses that led to the sinking of the Russian-made Kilo-class submarine last year with 18 personnel onboard. A navy source said the warship’s captain would face disciplinary action for fatal lapses in safety that led to the sinking of the 2,300-tonne fully-armed boat at a Mumbai harbour on August 14, 2013, barely seven months after it had undergone a Rs. 815-crore upgrade in Russia. The punishment could range from loss of seniority, retirement benefits and even... more »

Royal Navy Ship HMS Enterprise to 'Evacuate Britons from Libya'

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: HMS Enterprise (H88)]The Royal Navy is preparing to help British citizens leave Libya as continued fighting and gunfire at Tripoli's airport kills 22. The Libyan interim government said "heavily armed groups" have shelled "civilian targets", putting thousands of citizens in danger and displacing hundreds of families. The Foreign Office has advised British people to leave the country immediately and is temporarily closing its embassy in Tripoli.Read more

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