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Star of David

Zionism continues to degenerate, taking Judaism with it

Lawrence Davidson
American Herald Tribune
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:48 UTC
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Part I - From Bad to Worse

Zionism's range of influence is shrinking. One can see this progression worldwide. At a popular level the Israelis have lost control of the historical storyline of Israel-Palestine. They may teach their own citizens their version of the story, the one wherein the Jews have a divine and/or historical right to all of Palestine's territory. But beyond their fellow Zionists and the loony Christian right, no one else believes this story. Significantly, an increasing number of Jews no longer accept it either.

None of this means that the Zionists are not still influential. Yet their influence no longer has a broad popular base. It is now largely restricted to Western government circles. Of course, that is still impressive, and such lobby power does a lot of damage in the West through the corruption of elites and the perversion of state policies. We are seeing examples of this in the many stories of American police officers being trained by Israelis while (coincidently?) episodes of police brutality in the U.S. multiply.

It is to be noted, however, the Zionist ability to maintain a close connection between Western governments and Israel is now based on their ability to spread around enormous sums of money, and not on what once was popular emotional admiration for the "Israeli experiment." In truth the Zionists are left with a narrowing base of support for a country that is increasingly seen as, at best, inhumane and racist and, at worst, ruthless and criminal.
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Russian future fighter jet will 'burn homing missiles with laser defense'


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:55 UTC
PAK FA T-50 5th Generation Sukhoi jet fighter
© Alexei Druzhinin / SputnikPAK FA T-50 5th Generation Sukhoi jet fighter manufactured at the Sukhoi Company.
A future Russian sixth-generation air superiority fighter jet, currently in early development, will have laser point defense to burn down the guidance systems of incoming homing missiles, a defense contractor involved in the project said.

Russia is currently introducing its first fifth-generation fighter jet, the PAK FA, into series, but even so early R&D work is underway on its future replacement.

While even prototyping a sixth-generation fighter is still some way off, contractors involved in the project occasionally drop hints of what the future aircraft may look like.

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UN investigators accuse Saudi-led coalition of attacking Somali migrant boat off Yemen in March

Michelle Nichols
Reuters
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:25 UTC
Somali refugees
© Abduljabbar ZeyadSomali refugees who survived an attack on a boat off Yemen's coast in the Red Sea hug each other as they sit at a detention center in the Houthi-held port of Hodeidah, Yemen
U.N. investigators accused a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition of carrying out a deadly March attack on a Somali migrant boat off Yemen and said the alliance had become a cover for some states to avoid individual blame, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

The coalition fighting the Iran-allied Houthi militia in Yemen has denied striking the boat in the Red Sea near the port of Hodeidah. The investigators said the attack killed 42 people and injured 34 of the more than 140 people onboard.

"This civilian vessel was almost certainly attacked using a 7.62 mm caliber weapon from an armed utility helicopter," the investigators, who monitor sanctions in Yemen, wrote in a 185-page report to the U.N. Security Council on Monday.

"The Saudi Arabia led coalition forces are the only parties to the conflict that have the capability to operate armed utility helicopters in the area," the report said. It said the helicopter was likely operating from a naval vessel.
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Ron Paul: 'Trump should veto foolish new anti-Russian sanctions bill'

Ron Paul
Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:18 UTC
Senate hearings
© Carolyn Kaster/AP
This week's expected House vote to add more sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea is a prime example of how little thought goes into US foreign policy. Sanctions have become kind of an automatic action the US government takes when it simply doesn't know what else to do.

No matter what the problem, no matter where on earth it occurs, the answer from Washington is always sanctions. Sanctions are supposed to force governments to change policies and do what Washington tells them or face the wrath of their people. So the goal of sanctions is to make life as miserable as possible for civilians so they will try to overthrow their governments. Foreign leaders and the elites do not suffer under sanctions. This policy would be immoral even if it did work, but it does not.

Why is Congress so eager for more sanctions on Russia? The neocons and the media have designated Russia as the official enemy and the military industrial complex and other special interests want to continue getting rich terrifying Americans into believing the propaganda.
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Cardboard Box

US interfered in elections of at least 85 countries worldwide since 1945

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
Vocativ
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:39 UTC
America has a long history of meddling in the elections of foreign countries, new research shows

The simmering tit-for-tat has kept the issue of election meddling burning bright in the national spotlight, fueled even further by the belief among U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia wanted to help Donald Trump capture the presidency. Yet neither country is a stranger when it comes to directly trying to sway the election of other nations. In fact, the U.S. has a long and stunning history of attempting to influence foreign presidential elections, recent research by political scientist Dov Levin shows.

us interference elections
© Vocativ
Levin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie-Mellon University, found that the U.S. attempted to influence the elections of foreign countries as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000.


Comment: That's just till 2000! The US has gone nuts since then.

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Poland accuses EU of 'blackmail' over judicial reform after voting rights threat


RT
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:34 UTC
Polish and EU flags
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
In the latest jab aimed at Brussels, Warsaw has accused the EU of blackmailing it over controversial judicial reform. The European Commission said it was ready to suspend Poland's voting rights at the EU.

The confrontation came on Wednesday, after Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law a bill allowing the justice minister to hire and fire chief justices in common courts.

The bill was one of three reforming Poland's justice system pushed ahead by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), with the other two tightening government control over the Supreme Court and a special body protecting the independence of judges.
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Vader

Interfering in foreign elections, anyone? US slaps sanctions on Venezuela... for holding elections!


RT
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:53 UTC
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Venezuela's leaders: 'Wanted, dead or alive' by the USA since 1999
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions against 13 senior Venezuelan officials and threatened "strong and swift" measures if Caracas goes ahead with elections for the constitutional assembly, the move US officials call a threat to democracy.


Comment: Uhm, what?


Among the 13 officials placed on the Treasury Department's sanctions list for "undermining democracy" are President of Venezuela's National Electoral Council Tibisay Lucena, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol, national police chief Carlos Perez, army commander General Jesus Suarez, and National Guard commander Sergio Rivero.

The vice-president for finance of Venezuela's state oil corporation PDVSA, Simon Zerpa, also made the sanctions list.

"Anyone elected to the National Constituent Assembly should know that their role in undermining democratic processes and institutions in Venezuela could expose them to potential US sanctions," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.


Comment: Ok, just so we're clear; that's a US govt official passing judgment and justice on Venezuelan govt officials...

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Truman would have agreed with Trump on the CIA's role in Syria

Ilana Mercer
Katehon
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:22 UTC
Burning Syria flag
Said the president: "For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and, at times, a policy-making arm of the Government. ... [T]his quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue."

This dire warning about the propensity of the Central Intelligence Agency to go rogue came from Harry S. Truman.

Truman's call to "limit the CIA role to intelligence" was published in December 22, 1963, by the Washington Post (WaPo). The same newspaper is now decrying Presidents Trump's decision to "end the CIA's covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials."

The move is a good one. The WaPo threw Russia into the reportorial mix purely to sully President Trump (and due to the intellectual deficiencies of correspondents incapable of teasing apart policy from political intrigue).
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Duterte's threat to bomb Lumads' 'communist' schools bewilders indigenous groups


RT
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:14 UTC
Rodrigo Duterte
© Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Indigenous tribes have responded to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's threat to bomb their schools because he believes they're teaching "subversion and communism."

Duterte made the threats against the native, non-muslim, Lumad people from the southern island of Mindinao.

"Get out of there, I'm telling the Lumads now. I'll have those bombed, including your structures," he said in a press conference on Monday, according to AP.

"I will use the armed forces, the Philippines Air Force. I'll really have those bombed... because you are operating illegally and you are teaching the children to rebel against government."
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy: Ukraine strips Saakashvili of citizenship


RFE/RL
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:03 UTC
Mikheil Saakashvili
© Sputnik
Ukraine's migration agency says Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who later served as governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship.

In a statement posted on July 26 on its website, the State Migration Service said the decision to revoke a person's citizenship could be made only by Ukraine's president.

It also explicitly mentioned Saakashvili, and suggested that paperwork received from Georgian officials had been included in the decision.

Ukraine's TSN news agency quoted unnamed officials in the migration agency as saying that Saakashvili gave false information when he filled out application forms to obtain citizenship in 2015.


Comment: That story doesn't hold water; it was publicly known at the time that Saakash-villain was wanted in Georgia. More likely, they've booted him out because he's too nuts, even for the Ukies.


Comment: So without Georgia or Ukraine citizenship, is Saakashvili stateless? In the meantime, he's apparently hiding in the USA, Land of the Free...

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