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Best of the Web: Lavrov tells it like it is: Iraq developments show total failure of American-British 'adventure'

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© Reuters/Leonhard FoegerRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, not afraid to tell the truth, proves that not all politicians are lying dirtbags.
The events in Iraq are a result of the actions carried out by the US and the UK, and the situation has spiraled out of control, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists.

"It has been reported that the UK foreign minister declared that the events in Iraq are, according to him, an illustration that terrorism is rampant in the region due to the absence of reconciliation in Syria," Lavrov said.

"We've known that our English colleagues have a unique ability to twist everything. But I didn't expect such cynicism, because the events that are taking place in Iraq are an illustration of a complete failure of the venture started by the US and the UK that allowed it to spiral out of control completely."

"We express our solidarity with the Iraqi authorities, the Iraqi people who should restore peace and security in their country, but the actions of our Western partners raise a lot of questions," Lavrov marked.

Cult

Australian government yanks $360 million from depositors' bank accounts - US government to follow suit?

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Do you have a bank account that you don't actively use or a safe deposit box that you have not checked on for a while? If so, you might want to see if the government has grabbed your money. This sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true. All over the world, governments are shortening the time periods required before they can seize "dormant bank accounts" and "unclaimed property".

For example, as you will read about below, just last year the government of Australia seized a whopping 360 million dollars from dormant bank accounts. And this kind of thing is going on all over America as well. In fact, all 50 states actually pay private contractors to locate bank accounts and unclaimed property that can be seized.

In some states, no effort will be made to contact you when your property is confiscated. And in most states, the seized property permanently become the property of the state government after a certain waiting period has elapsed. So please don't put money or property into a bank somewhere and just let it sit there. If you do, the government may come along and grab it right out from under your nose.

Bomb

Assassination squads in E. Ukraine: Donetsk leader Denis Pushilin's van blown up

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© RIA Novosti / Maxim BlinovA blown-up minivan belonging to self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk (DNR) leader Denis Pushilin sits near the local administration building in Donetsk.
The minivan belonging to self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk (DNR) leader Denis Pushilin was blown up late on Thursday. Two people were reportedly killed and two others were injured in the blast.

Those wounded include security guards and Pushilin's aid, known only as Richard, RIA Novosti reported. All the injured remain in critical condition.

DNR said on Twitter that two people died after being injured.

"The explosion came from the car beside the minivan. The car lined up right next to the minivan for the purpose of blowing it up," Pushilin told RT.


Comment: All Kiev needs now is a torture program and they'll be just like Uncle Sam!


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Psychopath Bill Gates' silent takeover of American education

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The story about Bill Gates' swift and silent takeover of American education is startling. His role and the role of the U.S. Department of Education in drafting and imposing the Common Core standards on almost every state should be investigated by Congress.

The idea that the richest man in America can purchase and -- working closely with the U.S. Department of Education -- impose new and untested academic standards on the nation's public schools is a national scandal. A Congressional investigation is warranted.

The close involvement of Arne Duncan raises questions about whether the law was broken.

Thanks to the story in the Washington Post and to diligent bloggers, we now know that one very rich man bought the enthusiastic support of interest groups on the left and right to campaign for the Common Core.

Who knew that American education was for sale?

Comment: Our schools were created by psychopaths to be instruments of social control. From The Untold History of Modern U.S. Education, John Taylor Gotto on the Rockerfeller Foundation:
"The power of the individual large foundation is enormous. Its various forms of patronage carry with them elements of thought control. It exerts immense influence on educator, educational processes, and educational institutions. It is capable of invisible coercion. It can materially predetermine the development of social and political concepts, academic opinion, thought leadership, public opinion.

The power to influence national policy is amplified tremendously when foundations act in concert. There is such a concentration of foundation power in the United States, operating in education and the social sciences, with a gigantic aggregate of capital and income. This Interlock has some of the characteristics of an intellectual cartel. It operates in part through certain intermediary organizations supported by the foundations. It has ramifications in almost every phase of education." -John Taylor Gatto, author of "The Underground History of Education" and Thrice NY Teacher of the Year.
See also:
  • A high school students reveals the holes in Common Core
  • You won't believe the method that Common Core is using to teach our kids subtraction Common Core Panelist: "The Children Belong to All of Us"
  • Watch Common Core curriculum destroyed in four powerful minutes by Arkansas mom
  • Common Core stance gets mom suspended from her child's school - threatened with arrest‏



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Video: Criminal Ukranian government uses white phosphorus against its own people


Comment: The US-sponsored Ukranian government crosses yet another line of inhumanity. Don't expect any outcry from the West, given the history of use of white phosphorus - a chemical weapon - against civilians on the part of Israel in Gaza and the US in Fallujah. It's business as usual for the elite.


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Best of the Web: The geopolitics of the World Cup

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Sao Paulo - One of the defining images of the World Cup - so far - has been the sight of the Mannschaft - aka the German team - fraternizing with Pataxo Indians a few hundred meters away from the spot where Brazil was "discovered" in 1500. Call it a European re-discovery of the exotic tropics.

Then there's the English Team frolicking by the seaside, inside a military base, with the Sugarloaf as gorgeous backdrop, backed up by a scientific expert in humidity and industrial ventilators aplenty (after all there's the Rumble in the Jungle against Italy this Saturday "deep in the Amazon rainforest", as British tabloids tell it.)

The World Cup - the greatest show on earth - kicks off just as a relentless Made in the West (client states included) anti-Chinese and anti-Russian propaganda/downright vilification shatters all known hysteria levels.

And that means the BRICS are a target; in the case of Brazil, an emerging power sitting strategically over the bulk of the Amazon rainforest just as progressive Latin American integration has dared to turn the Monroe Doctrine into (branded) toilet paper.

Recently, Brazil brought at least 30 million people out of poverty. China invests in medical care and education. Russia refuses to be bullied as in the drunkard Yeltsin years. In the past few years, the World Cup has been all about the BRICS: South Africa in 2010, Brazil now, and Russia in 2018. Qatar in 2022 - if it ever happens - is more like a Gulf petrodollar-fueled bribery racket gone wrong.

It's amusing to check how the City of London - which loves Russian cash, craves Chinese investment and has a soft spot for Brazilian soft power - takes it all in. With an added strand of British humor, they could easily have interpreted the Rumble in the Jungle as NATO battling it out in the middle of the much-coveted rainforest (think the water wars of the near future).

MIB

Shadowy group affiliated with Chinese military spent 7 years hacking U.S. aerospace industry

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A shadowy hacking group believed to be affiliated with the Chinese military has spent years infiltrating the American aerospace industry and US trading partners in the space industry, a US cybersecurity company said Monday.

Officials from CrowdStrike accused the Shanghai-based unit 61486 of the People's Liberation Army 12th bureau of attacking American and other western networks in cyber-assaults that date back at least as far as to 2007. The space, aerospace and communications sectors were targeted via "popular productivity applications such as Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office to deploy custom malware through targeted email attacks," CrowdStrike said, according to a Reuters report.

A full list of accusations, including phishing emails and Trojan horse documents were outlined in a 62-page report published Monday by CrowdStrike, which conducts forensic investigations for customers who have endured invasive security breaches. When a target downloads or clicks on a certain document, for instance, they could find their entire computer taken over. The hackers then use that power to steal housing blueprints, consumer lists, servers, and other sensitive data, Ars Technica reported.

The group in question is unofficially known as Putter Panda.

War Whore

Chaos spreading: Iraq under attack by US, France, Saudi Arabia

ISIL area of operation
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The Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Emirate of Iraq and the Levant (IEIL, Arabic الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام whose acronym is pronounced "Daesh"), launched on 6 June 2014 a large-scale attack on Iraq. After taking control of Fallujah, it has now seized the district of Nineveh (including the capital Mosul) and is pursuing its offensive in the provinces of Kirkuk and Saladin. More than 150 000 civilians have fled ahead of the jihadists' advance.

On 10 June, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on parliament to declare a state of emergency.

The Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on behalf of Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal, the brother of the current Saudi Foreign Minister and of the Saudi ambassador in Washington. He is funded and supervised jointly by U.S., French and Saudi officers. Over the past month, he has received new weapons from Ukraine, where Saudi Arabia has acquired a weapons factory, and via Turkey, which has created a special rail line alongside a military airport to supply the IEIL.

Comment: See also: A Neocon dream come true: Iraq open to US airstrikes against US armed and trained jihadists


War Whore

A Neocon dream come true: Iraq open to US airstrikes against US armed and trained jihadists

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© AFP Photo / Safin HamedIraqi military kit litters the ground close to the Kukjali Iraqi Army checkpoint, some 10km of east of the northern city of Mosul, on June 11, 2014, the day after Sunni militants, including fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran the city.
Iraq has privately indicated to the Obama administration that it would welcome airstrikes with either drones or manned aircraft that target Al-Qaeda offshoot militants in Iraqi territory, US officials say.

A senior US official said the Obama administration is considering options in aiding the Iraqi government's fight against Islamist militants, who have fought for and won major gains in the nation's Sunni-majority areas in recent days, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Those options include "kinetic support" for the Iraqi military in its fight against an Islamist group formerly allied with Al-Qaeda - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL). The group seized two major cities north of Baghdad this week, handily defeating Iraqi security forces along the way, according to reports.

No decisions on action in Iraq have been made, according to the senior official.

The Wall Street Journal sources did not specify whether airstrikes would come from unmanned drones or manned aircraft.

Comment: The U.S has trained and armed ISIL with financing from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to confront the Syrian government and depose Assad. It has not been able to make any headway and China and Russia have consistently been blocking armed intervention or a no-fly zone in Syria, nor has it been possible to overtly supply heavy weapons to these terrorists.

So plan B has obviously been put in place with the take-over of U.S.-war-weakened Northern Iraq by same militants. These militants along with taking over Mosul, also raided the banks of $400 million and weapons warehouses with Black Hawk helicopters and lots of modern American weaponry. So they are now well-armed and well-financed and have a major oil field as well.

The U.S. and the military industrial complex will be happy with the developments as it will energize the fight against Assad, secure defence orders, weaken the Shia government in Iraq and ensure much more mayhem and chaos in the Middle-East. Something Israel will not be unhappy about. Destabilisation and military destruction are the commonly used tools for the psychopaths in power. It will further serve as a welcome distraction from the Ukraine regime's terror campaign in southeastern Ukraine.


Attention

Secret trials in Britain: What are they hiding?

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© UnknownCourt of Appeal of England and Wales
Whenever the term "national security" is cited as justification for the introduction of more secrecy you can feel another tranche of our freedoms and liberties slipping away.

I can barely recognize the British legal system anymore and wonder what happened to the fearless judiciary which once jealously guarded the courts from political interference.

Now it seems the top jobs are going to those craven career-minded individuals willing to become political tools serving no one's interests including the general public.

Comment: If a government has the ability to accuse someone of terrorism, hold a secret trial, and basically do as they please without reprimand or recourse then it is safe to say that individual rights are no more.