Puppet Masters
"Given the close relations between the United States and Israel, there are things we cannot do, and that is unacceptable for us," Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party.
Netanyahu said he had asked for the reports to be verified.
The New York Times reported last week that in monitoring more than 1,000 targets in upwards of 60 countries between 2008 to 2011, US and British intelligence agencies tapped the communications of then premier Olmert, among other foreign leaders, according to secret documents revealed by intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Ron McGerity, a 60-year-old American who has been living in Geneva, traveled at least 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles) over the past 15 years, visiting 61 countries along the way.
The cyclist died on Thursday in a hit-and-run accident in Russia's central Ivanovo region, located some 254 kilometers (157 miles) from Moscow.

An armed member of self-defenses forces stands guard at the site of the crash of the Il-76 Ukrainian army transport plane in Luhansk June 14, 2014
The novelist George Orwell coined the term doublethink in his classic dystopian novel 1984. He defined doublethink as
"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them...To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies."Although the concept is elucidated in a work of fiction, it has clear and unmistakable parallels in the real world that, like Oceania - the supranational state in which the novel takes place - is in a state of constant war, and seemingly has been from time immemorial.
Comment: Amen!

Viktor Stepanenko (69 years) by his house in the township of Snezhnoye that was destroyed by a Ukrainian rocket
The rights organization confirmed four rocket attacks by the Ukrainian military, or Kiev-allied paramilitary, on residential areas in or near Donetsk, which resulted in at least 16 civilian deaths and many more wounded. The attacks were carried out with Grad multiple rocket weapon systems, highly indiscriminate weapons that cannot be used against populated areas.
Judging by the trail of impact the rockets left, "in four attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the Ukrainian army," Ole Solvang, researcher and security adviser for Human Rights Watch told RT.
"We were not able to see any kind of possible military target in that area and it's quite clear that this is a residential area. Everybody that we spoke to said that there had been no fighters, no weapons in that area," Solvang added.
The group released a statement on Friday.
"Although Ukrainian government officials and the press service of the National Guard have denied using Grad rockets in Donetsk, a Human Rights Watch investigation on the ground strongly indicates that Ukrainian government forces were responsible for the attacks that occurred between July 12 and 21," HRW said.
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The report on the Malaysian plane tragedy by BBC Russian correspondent Olga Ivshina was released on July 23. She interviewed local witnesses who told her that they saw military aircraft in the sky before the incident.
"And there was another aircraft, a military one, beside it [the Malaysian plane]. Everybody saw it," said one witness.
"It was flying under it [the Malaysian plane], we could see it. It was going underneath the civilian one," added another.
The report contained a soundbite of an SBU official, saying that the aircraft was shot down by a Buk missile.

This 29-year-old lady was threatened by a mayor to be deported from Holland and finally she fled the country by herself – taking BF Jorrit Faasen, 34, with her. In the current hysteria, the sufficient reason is the following: she is Maria Putin, Putin's daughter.
US General Dempsey: Putin May 'Light a Fire' He Can't Stop in UkraineI could go on and on and on, for hours. Vladimir Putin is perhaps the next Adolf Hitler, maybe Adolf Hitler on steroids. He must have personally shot the Dutch airplane down, too.
Dempsey: Putin's Moves Like 1939 Poland
Putin's voracious appetite is not sated
Putin's Pal [a nasty attack against Stephen Cohen]
Putin's inner circle sheds light on his "sinister, lonely life"
The growing calls to strip Putin and Russia of the 2018 World Cup
Putin's Crime, Europe's Cowardice
Vladimir Putin is responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. His next move will matter most of all.
Comment: Currently there is a controversy going on about the identity of the woman in the above picture.
Mystery of Putin's daughter deepens after Russian embassy claims widely-used image of her with Kremlin leader is someone else
Whether she is Maria Putin or not, It is disheartening to see how western establishments goes after the family members of the politicians whom they want to take advantage of and use the same false flag tactics in the process.

The Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, meets the actor Gérard Depardieu in Grozny last year but Barack Obama is not welcome
On Saturday Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years, said he was placing Obama on a list of people banned from visiting.
The list also includes European Union figures José Manuel Barroso, Herbert van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton.
Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that the ban was in response to US and EU actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called "state terrorism".
Cameron Dalziel's wife Reine has since cancelled her husband's credit cards upon noticing activity in his account, her brother told CNN.
Cameron was a South African travelling on a British passport, who had moved with his wife and two children to Malaysia recently.
The report said that the "heartless" rebels, who allegedly shot the plane down, had been using victims' credit cards, answering their phones and looting their belongings, including jewellery, from the crash site.
Reine's brother, Shane Hattingh, told CNN that, "People are abusing it in the Ukraine. They have no respect for each other, look what they're doing. It's no surprise that they were treating the remains of people like that. It made me angry beyond words".
This only added weight to reports that the pro-Russian rebels have looted the MH17 crash site to sabotage the investigation into the disaster and to cash in on it, the Daily Mail reported.
It was previously reported that relatives of victims of the crash had called their mobile phones only to have them picked up by people with "eastern European-sounding voices".
They then proceeded to instruct the mobile phone companies to shut down the accounts.
Comment: It's worth noting the reports of stolen cell phones and credit cards being used only came days after Kiev forces had access to the victims belongings, not before.
If agreed, EU sanctions would apply to all Russian banks that are more than 50 percent state-owned. Sberbank, VTB, the country's two largest lenders, are both listed on the London Stock Exchange and have offices there.
If Russian banks get hit the ripples will be felt across the English Channel and in the heart of the world's financial center- the City of London.
Between 2004 and 2008, Russia's top two lenders raised $16.4 billion in floatations, and a ban would cost London hundreds of millions of pounds, The Times reports.
"The real question is, why is so much of the burden - even if it is not a massive one - falling on the UK? France and Germany might be talking tougher, but they do not quite seem to be following through with actions," Raoul Ruparel, a senior analyst at Open Europe, a think-tank, told The Times.











Comment: It is interesting to see Netanyahu "upset" over such "news", since by now it is widely known that all NSA-collected info makes its way to Israel and the agency itself seems to be more concerned with Israel's security than that of the U.S.: