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House arrest: Israeli court refuses to jail brutally beaten 15yo Palestinian-American

Tarek Abu Khdeir
© Reuters/Ronen ZvulunTarek Abu Khdeir (C), a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent and a cousin of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, the recently murdered youth, is escorted by Israeli prison guards during an appearance at Jerusalem magistrate's court July 6, 2014.
The brutally beaten, 15-year-old US-Palestinian cousin of murdered teen Mohammad Abu Khdeir has been placed under house arrest, despite police demands to keep him in custody. Tarek Abu Khdeir was accused of attacking police officers at a protest.


Comment: The Israelis are more notorious at faking that they've 'been attacked' and grossly exaggerating threats to their safety than professional soccer players. Just looking at an Israeli military or police officer, or not doing anything at all, is enough for them to get hysterical, flip out, and cry about their lives being in 'mortal danger.' It's all BS.


An Israeli court ruled that Tarek Abu Khdeir should be subject to house arrest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Sunday. Court spokeswoman Luba Samri said that police had asked the judge to extend the remand of the teenager, claiming that he attacked police officers during violent protests over the death of his cousin, 16-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammad Abu Khdeir.

Tarek's parents maintained his innocence and claim Israeli police officers committed an unprovoked attack on their son while he was handcuffed. On Saturday a video, showing how two officers violently beat Abu Khdeir while he was lying on the floor, appeared on local television, provoking outrage and condemnation on social media.

Following the uproar, the US government released a statement expressing deep concern over the incident.

"We can confirm that Tarek Khdeir, an American citizen, is being held by Israeli authorities in Jerusalem. [Tarek Abu Khdeir] was visited by an official from the US Consulate General in Jerusalem today," US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement, adding that the US was profoundly troubled by the reports.


Comment: You can bet Khdeir wouldn't have gotten just house arrest if he wasn' an American citizen.


Vader

Tiny dictator: Obama asks Cabinet for 'creative' (unconstitutional) use of executive powers

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What democracy?
President Obama on Tuesday asked his Cabinet to help him find more ways to use his executive powers.

"You've already seen the power of some of our executive actions making a real difference for ordinary families," Obama said at a White House meting. "We're going to have to be creative about how we can make real progress."

The president is increasingly relying on executive orders and regulatory moves to move his agenda, despite opposition from House Republicans, who have threatened to sue him over his executive actions, and the Supreme Court, which ruled last week that Obama's recess appointments were unconstitutional.

The president has raised the minimum wage for federal contractors, and is using regulatory actions to impose tough new carbon emission limits on power plants.


Comment: Carbon emission limits are total nonsense: CO2 does not cause global warming! However, if only we could slap a carbon emission limit on the CO2 Obama expels ever time he opens his mouth to speak, that would be legislation worth passing.


Phoenix

Israeli settlers confess to burning Palestinian teen alive

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A group of six Israeli settlers, who have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Palestinian teenager in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), have reportedly confessed to their crime.

The Israelis were arrested early on Sunday over the death of 16-year old Muhammad Abu Khdeir.

They have admitted to kidnapping the Palestinian teen from a neighborhood of East al-Quds and killing him.

Palestinian sources said on Saturday that postmortem examination findings have shown that Abu Khdeir was burned alive and hit with a blunt object on the head.

The brutal death of the Palestinian teenager has sparked a wave of protests across the occupied territories.


Family

True scale of abuse in child living care revealed in major study

'Shocking' findings spark calls by campaigners for better monitoring
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© AlamyIn residential care the rate of substantiated abuse claims is significantly higher than for foster families.
One in every hundred children living in care is abused every year in Britain, according to the most comprehensive study conducted into the issue.

The research by York University and the NSPCC is the first of its kind to uncover and analyse local authority records on abuse in foster and residential care.

Academics tracked abuse allegations - and their outcomes - between 2009 and 2012. They found that on average there are between 450 and 550 cases of proven abuse every year in foster care and between 250 and 300 cases of confirmed abuse a year in residential care.

In residential care the rate of substantiated abuse claims is significantly higher than for foster families, with an average of between two and three proven cases per 100 children. Steve McCabe, the shadow minister for Children and Families called the findings "shocking", saying that the conclusions of the report "suggests that the current level of supervision, scrutiny and inspection is woefully inadequate".

Comment: Across the globe child abuse is frequently ignored and under-reported. These children are going to spend the rest of their lives dealing with the aftermath of living in such pathological environments.
  • Child Abuse, Most Goes Unreported: Study
"All tyrannical systems depend on the apathy and moral relativism of the inhabitants within their borders. Without the cooperation of the public, these systems cannot function. The real question is, how many of the above steps will be taken before we finally refuse to conform? At what point will each man and woman decide to break free from the dark path blazed before us and take measures to ensure their independence? Who will have the courage to develop their own communities, their own alternative economies, their own organizations for mutual defense outside of establishment constructs, and who will break under the pressure to bow like cowards? How many will hold the line, and how many will flee?"
The Essential Rules Of Tyranny


Eye 2

Flashback Leading British opposition party politicians under investigation for channeling public funds to elite pedophile network

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Sick puppies: Harriet Harman and husband Jack Dromey. They were leading officials in the NCCL, which was linked to predatory pedophile group PIE
  • Harriet Harman, Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt linked to vile group
  • They were key figures at National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL)
  • The NCCL was an 'affiliate' of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
  • PIE members may have abused children on an 'industrial scale'
The full extent of the shocking links between three senior Labour figures and a vile group that tried to legalise sex with children can be exposed today.

The trio held key roles in a human rights organisation that supported the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman, her husband, home affairs spokesman Jack Dromey, and former health secretary Patricia Hewitt were all leading officials in the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Astonishingly this Left-wing group granted 'affiliate' status to PIE and built close links with it.

The group of predatory paedophiles was calling for the age of consent to be cut to just four.

Comment: The Daily Mail is right to highlight these three central figures in the Labor governments of the 90s and 2000s and their alleged involvement in institutionalizing pedophilia from the top down, but this phenomenon spans the entire political-media-security-financial-entertainment establishment in the UK, so this may be part of an effort by the incumbent right-wing Tory government to deflect attention from its members' roles:

British celebrity icon Jimmy Savile sexually abused up to a thousand children on BBC premises

Forget Savile, pedophiles are everywhere in the British entertainment industry

Jimmy Savile scandal exposes pedophile network at heart of British establishment

Update 7 July 2014

...and now we can add another iconic BBC TV children's presenter, artist Rolf Harris:

Rolf Harris gets 6 years for sexually abusing multiple children, third iconic BBC children's TV presenter-pedophile sentenced in two years

But he was just a sacrificial lamb to the wolves... the real scandal surfacing again in the UK is an interlocking network of pedophiles in the Houses of Parliament and the City of London:

About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report

Home Office 'loses' pedophile dossier naming 'big names'


Dollar

Pathological parasites: Obamas have spent $44 million tax dollars on travel and vacations

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The Obamas have spent over 44 million dollars in taxpayer money on travel and vacations. Some are even calling him the "most well-trvaeled, expensive" president in our nation's history.

As Americans head off for the long holiday weekend, let's take a look back at some of the president's holiday spending.

Our president vacations a lot - we're talking $44,351,777.12 worth of "a lot," with most expenses charged to the American taxpayer.

As of March 2014, Obama has spent more time traveling internationally than any other president, taking 31 trips since assuming office in 2009. The 119 days spent overseas have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

At the same point in their respective presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 116 days on 28 trips, Bill Clinton had spent 113 days on 27 trips and Ronald Reagan had spent 73 days on just 14 trips.

Comment: $44 million would be a great deal if they didn't come back!


Bad Guys

Civilians were killed in New Zealand-US raid on Afghan village

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An investigation by journalist Jon Stephenson, broadcast on Maori Television on Monday, found that a raid on an Afghan village on August 22, 2010, involving New Zealand, US and Afghan soldiers, resulted in 21 casualties, all of them innocent civilians.

According to the report - based on interviews with survivors, NGOs and Afghan government officials, and cell phone videos of the dead - six people were killed, including a three-year-old girl, and 15 were wounded.

The night-time raid on the village of Tirgiran in Baghlan province was in retaliation for an insurgent attack on New Zealand soldiers in neighbouring Bamiyan province on August 4 that killed Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell.

The US-led attack, which unleashed awesome firepower against an apparently defenceless village, was typical of the operations of the occupation forces. The war, which has lasted more than 12 years and caused tens of thousands of deaths, is a neo-colonial venture that faces widespread and entrenched opposition. The aim of such attacks is to terrorise the population into submission.

Comment: Oops we did it again, but not really. It was the others, or... there really were some (imaginary) Taliban over there, we kind of had to just blow up the whole village, or... we only killed the (imaginary present) insurgents in that village, and nobody else, or... we did it to protect ''our people'', ...

And the excuses and lies continue to pile up. Meanwhile, innocent people, including many children, keep getting killed on a daily basis by these ''heroes''.


Dollar

Best of the Web: End of the $Dollar: France lashes out against US dollar, calls for 'rebalancing' of world currencies

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French Finance Minister Michel Sapin
The French government wants to break the monopoly the dollar has on international transactions after the country's largest bank, BNP Paribas, was slapped with a record $9 billion fine and a 1-year dollar trading ban.

Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, called for a "rebalancing" of the currencies used for global payments, saying the BNP Paribas case should "make us realize the necessity of using a variety of currencies" the Financial Times reports.

"We [Europeans] are selling to ourselves in dollars, for instance when we sell planes. Is that necessary? I don't think so. I think a rebalancing is possible and necessary, not just regarding the euro, but also for the big currencies of the emerging countries, which account for more and more of global trade," the finance minister told the FT at a conference over the weekend.

Comment: As Sott.net editors made clear on last night's Sott Talk Radio show, there is growing evidence that the USA's days as the dominant world power are numbered, and indeed, that the 'Number 1' position that the USA has enjoyed for the last 100 years has been an aberration, an anomaly that has caused untold suffering on the planet and only came about through manipulation, threats, dirty tactics and aggression.

The reality of the situation is that the majority of the world's resources are found in Eurasia, and that the nations of the Eurasian landmass have been kept artificially divided and 'down' by the machinations of the US elite and their ideological kin in Western Europe. With the resurgence of Eurasian nations, primarily Russia and China, and the increasing exposure of the US economy being backed mainly by military force rather than tangible assets, the old status quo is being seen as no longer tenable, and the USA is increasingly being exposed as a failing and desperate Empire that is acting in increasingly erratic and irrational ways as it sees the writing on the wall.


Bad Guys

Donetsk becomes a ghost town following continued Kiev crackdown

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© Reuters / Shamil Zhumatov
It was like one of the illicit apartment concerts from Soviet days, only with better cocktails. Dozens of young people packed into a basement room, singing along to classic Russian and Ukrainian tunes strummed out by a rotating cast of guitarists.

They had gathered to say goodbye to Izba Chitalnya ("village reading room"), Donetsk's hippest cafe-bar, which was closing due to poor business as a result of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When they belted out the first lines of the beloved No One Will Hear by the Russian band Chaif - "I haven't heard from my old friends, it's sad, and the daily newspaper leaves my soul empty" - it was almost as if they were singing about the turmoil in their own city.

It has been three months since pro-Russian protesters seized the Donetsk regional administration building, sparking the most serious separatist conflict in the former Soviet Union since it fell apart in 1991. At least 423 people have died, according to a June estimate by the UN.


Comment: Well, what really sparked this conflict was the western sponsored coup, and installation of a completely insane Nazi regime, death squads and all.


The upshot for Donetsk, once a city of a million people, is as much psychological as physical. Tens of thousands have fled and hundreds of businesses have closed. A surreal atmosphere pervades the city centre, where ATMs have run out of cash, shops shut early, and it is not uncommon to see men with machine guns posted outside a sushi restaurant or behind the wheel of a city ambulance. People strive to live as normally as possible: on one memorable occasion this month when a firefight endured for hours near the regional police headquarters, locals blithely went about their business in nearby districts as if they couldn't hear the shooting.

Comment: These people just want to be left alone. They are being punished for invoking their right to disassociate from the abomination in charge of Kiev, which is but a tendril of the US/NATO empire.



People 2

Changes ahead? Pyongyang calls for Koreas' federalization & reunification without outside interference

Kim Jong Un
© Reuters/ KCNANorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends an unveiling ceremony of statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during the completion ceremony of Songdowon International Children's camp in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang May 3, 2014.
North and South should no more be victims of outside efforts to exploit Korea's division, Pyongyang has stated, calling on Seoul to make steps toward reunification through federalization in which differing ideologies and social systems would co-exist.

"The north and the south should specify the reunification proposals by way of federation and confederation and make efforts to realize them and thus actively promote co-existence, co-prosperity and common interests," Pyongyang said in a statement.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) says that both nations should seek "reasonable reunification proposals" supported by all "to achieve reunification through a federal formula in Korea where differing ideologies and social systems exist."

Presently a concrete wall runs 240 kilometres along the front line south of the Military Demarcation Line as a barrier across the Korean peninsula. Now the North is calling on the South to "join hands" to settle disagreements and pursue "the reunification issue of the country in line with the desire and wish of the nation."

DPRK urged to focus on the joint declaration of 15 June, a document that was signed in 2000 in Pyongyang between South Korean president Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.