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U.S. military seeks to brain scan troops for "signs of potential betrayal"

Nicholas West
Activist Post
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:21 UTC
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The massive investment in neuroscience undertaken by the U.S. BRAIN project and its sister initiative the Human Brain Project is increasingly taking a turn toward the examination of mental health. In fact, hundreds of European scientists working on the project are threatening a boycott because of this direction.

In their view, the initial directive was to be more focused on repairing organic injuries and disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and physical brain damage sustained in accidents. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be one area that might involve the military.

However, there is a disturbing trend developing in law enforcement and medicine to use what has been learned about the human brain in order to adopt pre-crime systems and predictive behavior technology.

But could a brain scan become standard procedure to see which troops might be inclined to commit insider attacks?

Troops overseas have been working alongside Iraqi and Afghan troops for years, but a new interest is being taken in evaluating potential extremists who are infiltrating to kill from within.
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Israel has right to completely destroy Gaza, right-wing psychopathic rabbi says


RT
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Jack GuezA picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows smoke billowing from the coastal Palestinian enclave following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on July 23, 2014.
A right-leaning Israeli rabbi has issued a religious ruling stating that the total destruction of Gaza is justified if military leaders consider it necessary. Rabbi Dvor Lior is considered to be one of the most extreme far-right religious leaders.

Lior wrote that during any war where the Jewish people deem themselves to be under attack, they are legally allowed to fight back against the nation from which the attack came from.

"Therefore, in a time of war, the attacked nation is permitted to punish the enemy population with whatever measures it deems proper, like blocking supplies or electricity. It may bomb the entire area based on the judgment of the war minister and not wantonly put soldiers at risk," he wrote, adding that "deterrent measures to exterminate the enemy" are allowed, Haaretz reported.
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Time Warner changes bylaws to fend off any future Murdoch takeover bids


RT
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:49 UTC
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Time Warner has changed its bylaws to prevent an unwanted takeover in the future. The move comes after the CNN parent company turned down an offer to be bought out by Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch last week.

The Time Warner board, led by CEO Jeff Bewkes, voted unanimously to remove a provision in the company bylaws that allowed shareholders to call special meetings. The change prevents shareholders from combining their holdings to reach the 15 percent threshold and call a meeting, the Financial Times reported. The bylaws now say that only the CEO or a majority of the board can call a special meeting.

The move delays action by Time Warner investors until its annual meeting in June 2015, a person familiar with the change told Bloomberg.

"They want to keep tighter control of the flow of the process so they are not overwhelmed if something happens that they don't like," Hal Vogel, CEO of Vogel Capital Management, told Variety.

Murdoch's 21st Century Fox conglomerate offered Time Warner $80 billion for the company in late June - a deal which would have awarded the octogenarian from Australia the third largest broadcasting and cable company in the world in terms of revenue.
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Is that evidence?: U.S. discloses intelligence on downing of Malaysian jet

Greg Miller
Washington Post
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Office of the Director of National IntelligenceImages released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claim to show the movements of a surface-to-air missile launcher, and evidence of a buildup of Russian military activity in Ukraine.
The Obama administration, detailing what it called evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysian airliner, on Tuesday released satellite images and other sensitive intelligence that officials say show Moscow had trained and equipped rebels in Ukraine responsible for the attack.

Senior U.S. intelligence officials cited sensors that traced the path of the missile, shrapnel markings on the downed aircraft, voiceprint analysis of separatists claiming credit for the strike, and a flood of photos and other data from social-media sites.


Comment: If the sensors tracked the path of missile, why can't they show the sensor data? Russia has already shown that Ukraine's aircraft were near the MH17 plane. The U.S. is all talk.


The officials also for the first time identified a sprawling Russian military installation near the city of Rostov as the main conduit of Russian support to separatists in Ukraine, describing it as a hub of training and weapons that has expanded dramatically over the past month. The officials said that tanks, rocket launchers and other arms have continued to flow into Ukraine even after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed 298 civilians.

Analysts at the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies are continuing to examine information about the crash, but the officials said the intelligence assembled in the five days since the attack points overwhelmingly to Russian-backed separatists in territory they control in eastern Ukraine.

Comment: In short, the US doesn't have any evidence.

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EU not interested in facts: No reaction yet to Russian Defense Ministry's data on MH17 crash


Ria Novosti
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:49 UTC
Vladimir Chizhov
© RIA Novosti. Sergey SubbotinRussia’s envoy to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov
Russia handed all of its Defense Ministry's data on the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine to the European Union, but has seen no reaction yet, Russia's envoy to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said Wednesday.

"We handed it [data] on Tuesday, as soon as we got it in writing in Russian and English. We forwarded it to all the people concerned," Chizhov told journalists in Brussels.

"There has been no reaction so far," Chizhov added.

Russia's Defense Ministry revealed on Sunday its information on the situation in the Donetsk Region ahead of the Boeing 777 crash last Thursday. The presented data raised questions for Kiev, as it showed an unusual activity of Ukrainian combat forces on the day of the tragedy, a Buk missile system placed near the territory held by independence supporters, and a military plane that approached the Malaysian airliner just before the crash.

The presented data has so far caused only the US reaction with the US authorities questioning the claims Russia made.

"[The reaction] was rather predictable - they [the US] questioned the Russian data. It is their right. But if they are in doubt, they should have presented their own evidence, which they haven't done so far. Let me add that Americans have never presented factual proof in such situations, calling their information surveillance, which can discredit sources if revealed, and so on," Chizhov said.

The envoy recalled the scandal the United States found itself in 1988, when a US missile cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians, as it mistook the plane for a military aircraft. At that time, then US President George Bush Sr. said, "I will never apologize for the United States - I don't care what the facts are."

Comment: Not a surprise. The EU and U.S. have made up their minds, and are not interested in the facts.

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Dangerous cult! Inside the most insanely pro-Israel meeting you could ever attend

David Weigel
Slate
Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:47 UTC
The Christians United for Israel want nothing less than total victory.

John Hagee
© Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty ImagesJohn Hagee, the evangelical pastor who founded Christians United for Israel, attends a CUFI summit in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2010.
July 20 was the 13th day of Israel's Operation Protective Edge, and the deadliest. On the morning of July 21, as they trickled into the annual Christians United for Israel conference, the mostly American supporters of the Jewish state walked past muted TVs blaring the latest damage reports from this-or-that foreign correspondent. More than 100 Palestinians died in one day; more than 445 Palestinians since the operation started.

The supporters of CUFI moved up the convention center escalators and took their seats for a plenary session. Onstage were the first guests, all recognizable from Fox News - Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Bill Kristol, onetime CIA director James Woolsey, and the Council on Foreign Relations fellow Elliott Abrams, a presidentially pardoned veteran of foreign policy disasters on two continents. Sitting right next to them was John Hagee, the burly Christian Zionist pastor who founded CUFI in 2006 He leaned into a microphone, passionately explaining why supporters of Israel should not be tricked by casualty reports.

"Since July 8, more than 1,000 rockets have been launched into Israel by Hamas from Gaza," said Hagee, who speaks with a captivating rumble that could make a brunch order sound like a lost gospel. "Two-thirds of Israel's population has had to run to bomb shelters, having 90 seconds to save their lives."

The objective of Hamas, said Hagee, "is to win the media war with dead civilians. We've come to Washington to ask our government to stop demanding for Israel to show restraint."


Comment: Here we go again with the odious and pathetic 'argument' that Hamas is guilty of 'self-genocide'. It's unbelievable that anyone can take this garbage seriously, especially from a man who follows that with a call to stop the military restraint. What military restraint?? Israel is doing its best to murder as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. And this 'man of God' wants to see more carnage??

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U.S. MH17 scenario, built on tweets and YouTube, unravels

Jason Ditz
AntiWar.com
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:43 UTC
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The Obama Administration's narrative of Russian guilt in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 downing is unraveling like a cheap sweater tonight, under the increasing realization that dubious social media-sourced evidence is essentially all there is, and the admission by US intelligence officials that there is no real evidence pointing to Russia at all.

What is now being euphemistically called "major evidentiary and legal obstacles," but would more correctly be called "completely full of holes," it is quickly becoming a case study in why random videos you found on YouTube are not a great way to build a case in a major international incident.

Take the photograph released over the weekend on social media, showing the putative 9k37 Buk that shot down the plane just hanging out in the middle of a quiet square in a rebel town. It would be pretty damning, if true, but it also would raise a lot of questions, chiefly why the rebels left the vehicle in such a conspicuous place during an alleged coverup.

The photo, like YouTube videos claiming to be the rebels confessing to the shoot-down but built on content created a day before the plane crashed in the first place, was quickly labeled "unable to be verified," and with deeper digging seem probable forgeries.

People who have been on social media for more than a few minutes know how much nonsense is presented as absolute truth there, and the Obama Administration's decision to base its entire case on stuff they read there, going to the extent of arguing with a dubious press, has clearly not served them well.
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Billion dollar asset manager warns: Yellen collapse 'will be unlike any other'


Investmentwatchblog.com
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:37 UTC
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Get your sh*t together people - 401ks, savings, mortgages, whatever. Get outta debt and stock your basements.

"Another horrific stock market crash is coming, and the next bust will be "unlike any other" we have seen.

That's the message from Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO, a Boston-based firm with $117 billion in assets under management.

Grantham pulls no punches when assigning responsibility for the coming financial carnage. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he calls Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen "ignorant" and says the Federal Reserve all but killed the economic recovery.

Grimly, he adds, "We have never had this before. It's going to be very painful for investors."
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Russian State Duma suggests investigating Kolomoisky's activities in connection with MH17 crash


ITAR-TASS
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:06 UTC
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
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The activities of Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky on the day of Malaysian Boeing crash and in previous days should be the subject of close attention, said Sergei Neverov, vice-speaker of the State Duma, secretary of the General Council of Yedinaya Rossia party, to Russia 24 TV channel.

"In connection with the crash of Malaysian aircraft, it is appropriate to recall the fact that the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky owns a number of Ukrainian airlines: Ukraine International Airlines, Dniproavia, Aerosvit. But what is even more interesting is that he fully funds the activities of Dnepropetrovsk dispatcher services responsible for tracking the tragic voyage and, to a large extent, for the technical support of dispatcher services throughout Ukraine," he said.

Neverov thinks that the oligarch, in fact, not only has a direct impact on the dispatcher services of Ukraine, but he is also able to "give direct instructions to a number of them, including those who must have tracked the tragic flight of Malaysian Boeing on July 17."

"Actually, Igor Kolomoisky, his activities, as well as any his orders given on July 17 or in the previous days should be the subject of close attention or even international investigation by a commission dealing with the circumstances of Malaysian Boeing crash," suggested the Duma vice-speaker.

Moreover, as noted by the politician, Kolomoysky has a serious arsenal of weapons and military equipment." Kolomoysky has his own well-equipped armed forces, he certainly has tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, jet-fire systems. And at this point, a question arises, if he also has planes and Buks. I strongly advise the US president and European leaders to carefully look at this," concluded Neverov.

Comment: Yep, this is the same Kolomoisky behind the Odessa massacre. He also has strong ties to Israel, which stood to benefit from the MH17 disaster, timed to distract from the ground invasion of Gaza. Interestingly, the following tweet allegedly appeared on July 13th: "Kolomoysky going to surprise Poroshenko. Something to do with the aircraft."
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Delusional piece of Israeli propaganda states that Gazan 'terrorist' complains that Jewish God changes the path of rockets

Barbara Ordman
The Jewish Telegraph
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:27 UTC
A Mancunian who lives in Ma'ale Adumim on the West Bank

Jewish Telegraph
IN October, 1956, David Ben Gurion was interviewed by CBS. He stated: "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles."

But the Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles.

It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural.

How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles.

As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn't aim their rockets more effectively: "We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air."


Comment: "Was reported", by whom? We could not find any other sources apart from this one, which makes it an unfounded rumor. Notice that a Muslim would not refer to the Jewish God as "their God" and attribute 'Him' any miracles, since Islam is a monotheistic religion. Therefore, he would have either said "God" (or Allah), in the belief that there is only one God for all religions, or he would have not mentioned the matter at all, not believing that "theirs" was a real God capable of miracles.


Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our "start-up nation" is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.

Comment: The Jewish Telegraph, the weekly paper that published this bizarre piece of propaganda, describes itself on its website as 'Britain's only Jewish regional newspaper'. We can only be thankful that, given the articles it publishes, it is released only weekly and is not national in reach.

Indeed, the baseless rumor that a 'terrorist' (there is that word again) has recognized the miraculous powers of the Jewish Tribal God, amounts to a myth or a legend suitable for the Bronze Age. But we live in the year 2014, and a genocide is being committed on the civilians of Gaza because of the political and territorial ambitions of Israel. Fairy tales can only make the situation much worse.

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