Congressman Peter King (R-NY) appeared on CNN on Wednesday night as determined protestors filled the streets of NYC and cities across America to take a stand against the police killing innocent people with impunity.
The Congressman disrespectfully and coldly blamed the unarmed man's death on his weight.
He said "If he had not had asthma, and a heart condition, and was so obese, he would not have died from this."
An article from Think Progress says the congressman, "delivered an extended defense of the police killing of Eric Garner. King said that the officer, who employed an illegal chokehold to bring Garner down, was just doing his job. Ultimately, King pins says Garner was actually responsible for his own death."
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The Press House in Grozny, where law enforcement of the Chechen Republic conducted counter-terrorist operation.
The Press House in Grozny, where law enforcement of the Chechen Republic conducted counter-terrorist operation.
Chechen special forces were then called in, who surrounded the occupied building(s) and killed the 10 militants. In all, Chechen authorities are reporting 10 police killed and 28 wounded in the operation.
Comment: We too gloat along with Patrick Smith, though he fails to mention the work of SOTT.net, which from the very beginning of the U.S./NATO coup d'état in Ukraine, saw what was going on and continually spelled it out.
NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually figured out the truth
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It has been a long and lonely winter defending the true version of events in Ukraine, but here comes the sun. We now have open acknowledgment in high places that Washington is indeed responsible for this mess, the prime mover, the "aggressor," and finally this term is applied where it belongs. NATO, once again, is revealed as causing vastly more trouble than it has ever prevented.
Washington, it is now openly stated, has been wrong, wrong, wrong all along. The commentaries to be noted do not take on the media, but I will, and in language I use advisedly. With a few exceptions they are proven liars, liars, liars - not only conveying the official version of events but willfully elaborating on it off their own bats.
Memo to the New York Times' Moscow bureau: Vicky Nuland, infamous now for desiring sex with the European Union, has just FedExed little gold stars you can affix to your foreheads, one for each of you. Wear them with pride for you will surely fight another day, having learned nothing, and ignore all ridicule. If it gets too embarrassing, tell people they have something to do with the holidays.
O.K., gloat concluded. To the business at hand.
We have had, in the last little while, significant analyses of the Ukraine crisis, each employing that method the State Department finds deadly: historical perspective. In a lengthy interview with Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, none other than Henry Kissinger takes Washington carefully but mercilessly to task. "Does one achieve a world order through chaos or through insight?" Dr. K. asks.
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Iran’s Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Minister of Petroleum, speaks to journalists prior to a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 11, 2014.
Iran’s Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Minister of Petroleum, speaks to journalists prior to a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 11, 2014.
U.S. and European officials said they had a growing sense earlier this year that Tehran and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believed they were weathering the West's international sanctions - despite the halving of Iranian oil exports since 2012, largely driven by a European embargo.
Under an interim agreement reached with the West a year ago, Iran has been receiving $700 million in monthly payments from oil revenues frozen in overseas accounts.
Comment: For a better perspective of these talks, check out P5 + 1 meetings in Vienna over Iran's nukes: Much ado about nothing:
Naturally, Iran wants to reach a deal by the deadline, not wishing to prolong negotiations. After all, it has been on the receiving end of the U.S. and Israel's stupidity-cudgel for over 10 years. Just where do the accusations come from that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, anyway?
The original evidence, passed on to the IAEA by the U.S., was ignored on account of its obviously dubious nature and provenance. It was only after two documents 'came to light' that the anti-Iran campaign went into high gear, despite the fact that a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran had stopped weapons research in 2003 and by 2008, had resolved all concerns brought up by the IAEA as regards its nuclear program. Those two documents were subsequently exposed as having been forged by the Israelis. The cold, hard reality here is that there has never been ANY conclusive evidence that Iran has sought to develop a nuclear weapon, as investigative journalist Gareth Porter makes clear in his book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.
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Shouldn't he be dead by now? John McCain.
Shouldn't he be dead by now? John McCain.
US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Tuesday:
"The news that Russia has pulled back from its South Stream pipeline to southern Europe... is indicative of the mounting cost that Russia is paying for its behavior," Rice said. "As a result, a major project, which had been championed by Putin and the Russian government, is now not likely to materialize."President Obama also crowed on Wednesday:
"When you look at where the Russian economy is, it has suffered over the last year substantially as a result of sanctions and also as a result of declining oil prices and the combination is pretty powerful."
[Obama] doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin will change course until politics catch up with the rough economic situation in Russia.Have mercy! The only way Obama and Rice could have come up with that conclusion is if they were somehow mistaking themselves for Putin and US foreign policy for Russian foreign policy. We can almost hear these two earnestly tell the EU: "Don't worry this is going to hurt Russia more than it will hurt you. So man up!" Meanwhile, EU bureaucrats must be 'sweating bricks' at the projected loss of billions for EU economies as a result of the death of South Stream. But what can they do? It is almost certain that they are being blackmailed by the USA, courtesy of the NSA and its pathological voyeurism. This isn't going to end well.
Obama said Putin has promoted a nationalist, backward-looking approach to Russian policy that scares neighbors and hurts Moscow's economy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the concluding news conference in Ankara.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the concluding news conference in Ankara.
This "Pipelineistan" gambit will continue to send massive geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. In a nutshell, a few years ago Russia devised Nord Stream - fully operational - and South Stream - still a project - to bypass unreliable Ukraine as a gas transit nation. Now Russia devised a new deal with Turkey to bypass the "non-constructive" (Putin's words) approach of the European Commission (EC).
Background is essential to understand the current game. Five years ago I was following in detail Pipelineistan's ultimate opera - the war between rival pipelines South Stream and Nabucco. Nabucco eventually became road kill. South Stream may eventually resurrect, but only if the EC comes to its senses (don't bet on it.)
Comment: No matter how many times these psychopathic EU leaders shoot themselves in the foot (e.g., with their sanctions on Russia), they fail to realize their mistake. It's the citizens of these nations who pay for it. All because they bought the lies told by their leaders. Or perhaps they do realize, and their leaders just don't care what they think.
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John McCain
John McCain
The ministry called in Chargé d'Affaires André Goodfriend over McCain's comments, in which the Arizona Republican called on his Senate colleagues to block the approval of the new Ambassador to Hungary, Hollywood producer Colleen Bell.
Comment: Hungary is part of EU and a NATO member. EU was concerned about Hungary's drift towards Russia. So it's not a surprise to see war-mongering mad dog John McCain barking at Hungary at the behest of the American empire.
Viktor Orban said regarding his priorities:
"The question is not which side Hungary should take but what the Hungarian interest is," Orban told ethnic Hungarian leaders last week. "Peace, energy security and opportunities for commerce. These are what we have to accomplish."It's not new for the fascist American empire to brand anybody who looks after their own interests, instead of following the empire's orders, or who allies with anybody who defies them as "neo-fascists".
John McCain may be an old fool, but his words generally translate into actions because he is aligned with the most powerful faction in the US. Everywhere he intervenes turns into ask: Egypt, Libya, Ukraine, Bulgaria (he delivered the message in June that Bulgaria was not to participate in the South Stream gas pipeline project), and now Hungary.
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'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart on June 24, 2014
'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart on June 24, 2014
"What would you say to those people?" Stewart asked Wilmore, who will debut as host of the Nightly Show next month.
"I would say they can go f*ck themselves, Jon," Wilmore said. "First of all, can we quit calling it 'Black-on-Black' crime? It's just crime, ok? I mean, 'Black-on-Black' just makes it sound like a category on Redtube."
The conversation about "Black-on-Black" crime, Wilmore argued, is already happening within Black communities.
Comment: Truth from a comedian. Sadly, they're often the best place to look: George Carlin, Bill Hicks... Maybe that's because it really takes a sense of humor to understand the total absurdity of modern civilization.
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A local resident outside his house destroyed in the Ukrainian army's artillery attack in Donetsk's Oktyabrsky district.
A local resident outside his house destroyed in the Ukrainian army's artillery attack in Donetsk's Oktyabrsky district.
The human rights watchdog is dissatisfied with the investigation conducted by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office into the use of cluster bombs by the Ukrainian armed forces in the east of the country, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth told a media briefing in Kiev on Wednesday.
"Instead of analyzing physical evidence," Ukraine's Prosecutor General looked into the"presence of weapons in depots," and said they were not taken anywhere, said Roth.
He explained the watchdog had appealed to Ukraine's Military Prosecutor's Office regarding the use of cluster bombs and Grad multiple rocket launchers by Kiev's military in residential areas. In turn, the prosecutor appealed to the Ministry of Defense. Therefore he said "it's no surprise" the ministry did not find any violations by Kiev's military. In addition, the inspection did not check cluster bombs, but mines, he added.
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Fragments of cluster munitions used by the Ukrainian military to shell the town of Gorlovka, the Donetsk region.
Fragments of cluster munitions used by the Ukrainian military to shell the town of Gorlovka, the Donetsk region.
Human Rights Watch found out during its own investigation that cluster bombs were used by pro-government forces in residential areas in eastern Ukraine, Roth said.
The area affected by the cluster bombs has a distinctive appearance, so the watchdog can say for sure that it was used in the area, Roth added. In addition, during talks with the defense ministry officials they didn't deny the "possibility" of the use of imprecise weaponry, however rejected the evidence provided by HWR, he said.
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A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine is parked at a camp near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region, Aug. 16, 2014.
A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine is parked at a camp near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region, Aug. 16, 2014.
Comment: In other words, American analysts are seeing exactly what they want to see regarding Russia while screening out the realities of contemporary Russia's words and actions. When American foreign policy regarding Russia is built on illusions, the result can only be disastrous, as we are witnessing in real time. Worse, the main effects are being visited on others (the EU and EU aspirants). The architects of these policies have yet to really suffer the consequences of their blindness.
Comment: As SOTT.net's Harrison Koehli speculated recently: