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John Kerry controlled like a puppet by Israel

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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but "leave us alone."

He called the US peace efforts "not worth the paper it is printed on," and accused US Secretary of State John Kerry of being a glory hound "messianic" and "inexplicably obsessive."

His statement - likely with the tacit approval of Israeli prime minister - was quintessential Israeli tactics to publicly influence American policy, and it did.

Receiving the message loud and clear, Kerry cancelled a visit scheduled this week to the region. Failing to commit the Israelis on a written framework agreement, his aides are already talking about extending the negotiation past the April deadline.

Each of Kerry's visits was greeted by an Israeli policy decision to undermine his efforts. Since last July it has authorised building 7,500 "Jewish only" homes on occupied West Bank and demolished 200 Palestinian residences. A ministerial committee led by the governing Likud party has overwhelmingly voted to annex the occupied Jordan valley.

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America's bloody meddling: Pakistan jets bomb North Waziristan area

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A number of people have fled the area to take their families to safety
Pakistani military aircraft have bombed suspected Taliban positions in North Waziristan, following a wave of attacks against security forces.

A military official said 40 militants had been killed in the air strikes in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The figure cannot be confirmed.

On Sunday, at least 20 soldiers were killed in an ambush on an army convoy.

Pakistan's Taliban vowed to step up attacks after a drone strike last year killed their leader Hakimullah Mehsud.

Comment: And the Pakistan's Taliban are...!

CIA Agent Caught Red-Handed Aiding Pakistani Terrorism?

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Involvement of CIA with Raymond Davis is beyond any shadow of doubt. It has been learnt through western and Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) sources that not only was Raymond Davis the acting CIA chief in Pakistan, but was part of the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region. SVR claims that Raymond Davis supplied Al-Qaeda terrorists "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents", which are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West's hegemony over a Global economy that is warned is just months away from collapse."
US, Pakistan near open war, Chinese ultimatum warns Washington against attack
One way to provide the provocation needed to justify a US-Indian attack on Pakistan would be through an increase in terrorist actions attributable to the so-called Taliban. According to the mainstream Pakistani media, the CIA, the Israeli Mossad, and the Indian RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) have created their own version of the Taliban in the form of a terrorist countergang which they control and direct. According to one account, "Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives have infiltrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda networks, and have created their own Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) force in order to destabilize Pakistan." The former Punjab Regional Commander of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), retired Brigadier General Aslam Ghuman, commented: "During my visit to the US, I learned that the Israeli spy agency Mossad, in connivance with Indian agency RAW, under the direct supervision of CIA, planned to destabilize Pakistan at any cost."7 Was this countergang responsible for last week's double bombing in Waziristan, which killed 80 paramilitary police?
Washington's Terrorists: US 'diplomats' arrested for transporting weapons in Pakistan


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'Remorseful' Toronto Mayor Rob "I quit drinking" Ford gets absolutely wasted (again) - Caught on video ranting Rasta-style in late-night takeaway

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A framegrab from video, which was posted to YouTube by "Toronto TheCity" on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford slurring words while talking to people in a takeaway on Monday night, January 20, 2014. He later admitted that he had been drinking.
On Monday, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was videotaped in a bizarre exchange at a Toronto fast food restaurant that is notable not only for the mayor's drunkenness, but for his liberal use of Jamaican English.

Through careful analysis of the audio - and translation via sources in Jamaica - the National Post presents this approximate transcript of Mr. Ford's exchange with an unknown citizen, along with explanations.
FORD: C**ksuckers. Fuckin' Chief Blair and them all. Cha, man. They chase me around for five months, man. Bumbaclot man. I said, me and him, ya raasclat bumbaclot.
In this opening diatribe against Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, Mr. Ford uses no less than three expressions common to Jamaica, but virtually unknown among Canadian-born English speakers. The first, "cha," is a disdainful expletive, the Caribbean equivalent of "bah!"


Comment: Some of Rob Ford's greatest hits:




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U.S. serial killing: airstrike kills woman, seven children in Afghanistan

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© Associated Press/Anja NiedringhausAfghan President Hamid Karzai demands end to U.S. airstrikes.
The government of Afghanistan has denounced a US airstrike on an Afghan village that took the lives of seven children and one woman on Wednesday morning.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai linked the incident to the continuing tensions with Washington over his postponement of signing a bilateral security agreement (BSA) that would allow some 12,000 US troops to remain in the country indefinitely after the formal deadline for withdrawing all foreign occupation forces at the end of this year.

According to both the Karzai government and the governor of Parwan province, where the massacre took place, the incident began when US special operations troops attempted to enter a home in the Ghorband district, about 25 miles north of the capital of Kabul.

Comment: The U.S. slaughters innocent civilians in a sovereign country for the sole purpose of keeping their military force in the region, and amass the profits of opium trade. How's that for psychopathic behavior?

Read also: U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to 'protect women'? Really?


USA

U.S. plans to rescue Americans if terrorists strike Sochi Olympics

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© The Asahi Shimbun via Getty ImagesSochi lies on the western edge of the Caucasus mountains on the Black Sea in southern Russia.
Pentagon believes Russia's reluctance to allow foreign forces on its soil would seriously hamper any evacuation attempt

US military and intelligence officials have been studying contingency plans for evacuating Americans from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, south Russia, next month in the face of concerns about possible terror attacks by militants.

The officials believe there would be major obstacles to mounting a large-scale rescue effort as Russia has historically been reluctant to allow foreign military forces - especially those of the US - on Russian territory, according to a source familiar with Obama administration discussions.

The White House thinking was revealed as a video published on a Chechen extremist website on Sunday claimed to show two would-be suicide bombers warn of a "surprise package" for Russia and Olympic spectators in Sochi next month. The pair, dressed in ordinary clothing, said those attending the Games would not be safe while forces sent by President Vladimir Putin occupy the North Caucasus region. The US was reported by ABC News to be studying the video.

US officials say Russia unquestionably has primary responsibility for protecting everyone, including Americans, attending the Sochi Games, which start on 7 February.

"No matter what happens [the Russians] are not going to welcome with open arms" any intervention by outsiders, the source said.

Red Flag

Hacking expert David Kennedy says he cracked HealthCare.gov in 4 minutes

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The man who appeared before Congress last week to explain the security pitfalls of HealthCare.gov took to Fox News on Sunday to explain just how easy it is to penetrate the website.

Hacking expert David Kennedy told Fox's Chris Wallace that he determined he could gain access to 70,000 personal records of Obamacare enrollees via HealthCare.gov within about 4 minutes - and it required nothing more than a standard browser, the Daily Caller reported.

"And 70,000 was just one of the numbers that I was able to go up to and I stopped after that," he said. "You know, I'm sure it's hundreds of thousands, if not more, and it was done within about a 4 minute timeframe. So, it's just wide open."

"You can literally just open up your browser, go to this, and extract all this information without actually having to hack the website itself," he said.

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Pennsylvania Republican celebrates MLK Day with proposal to legalize discrimination

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A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is seeking to invalidate the state's nondiscrimination law by adding a faith based amendment that would allow discrimination for religious reasons. According to RH Reality Check, state Rep. Gordon Denlinger (R) proposed the amendment on Monday, the federal holiday observing the birthday of slain civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philly.com wrote that under Denlinger's proposed Freedom of Conscience Amendment, "employers, store owners, realtors, motel managers, etc., could deny jobs, groceries, homes or rooms to anyone (tall, short, pregnant, Catholic, Jewish, gay, Goth, Democrat, newspaper columnist) offending their beliefs. Just as long as those beliefs are 'sincerely held.'"

In a memo circulated on Monday, Denliger wrote, ""Specifically, I plan to propose a new section in Article I - the Pennsylvania 'bill of rights' - that will prohibit government from punishing an individual or entity if the individual or entity makes hiring or other employment decisions, or provides services, accommodations (including housing accommodations), advantages, facilities, goods or privileges based on sincerely held beliefs."

The arch conservative state politician's inspiration for the conscience exemption arose out of his efforts to block the reproductive health mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Denlinger is close friends with a Mennonite family that runs a lumber company.

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Monsanto set to become the NSA of agriculture

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Monsanto is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story of the defoliant Agent Orange (the company's long and involved story is well told in the book and film "The World According to Monsanto", by Marie-Monique Robin.) Its shadow also looms large over the current TPP talks: the USTR's Chief Agricultural Negotiator is Islam A. Siddiqui, a former lobbyist for Monsanto. But it would seem that the company is starting to explore new fields, so to speak; as Salon reports in a fascinating and important post, Monsanto is going digital:
Monsanto spent close to $1 billion to buy the Climate Corporation, a data analytics firm. Last year the chemical and seed company also bought Precision Planting, another high-tech firm, and also launched a venture capital arm geared to fund tech start-ups.
Here's the key shift that is behind that move:
Many farmers have been collecting digitized yield data on their operations since the 1990s, when high-tech farm tools first emerged. But that information would sit on a tractor or monitor until the farmer manually transferred it to his computer, or handed a USB stick to an agronomist to analyze. Now, however, smart devices can wirelessly transfer data straight to a corporation's servers, sometimes without a farmer's knowledge.
Data that in isolation is of limited use suddenly becomes highly valuable when aggregated. Here, for example, are some of the ways that companies like Monsanto might use their new stores of knowledge:
details on the economic worth of a farm operation could empower Monsanto or DuPont to calculate the exact value the farm derives from its products. Monsanto already varies its prices by region, so that Illinois farmers with a bumper crop might be charged more for seeds than Texas farmers facing a drought. Bigger heaps of data would enable these companies to price discriminate more finely, not just among different geographic regions but between neighbors.

Cult

Church officials covered up for pedophiles. Documents show Chicago Archdiocese hid decades of child sex abuse

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© M. Spencer Green/APChicago Cardinal Francis George listening to reporters' questions before he left for Rome to meet with Vatican officials and other American cardinals about the child sex abuse scandals in the United States.
After a 13-year-old boy reported in 1979 that a priest raped him and later threatened him at gunpoint to keep quiet, the Archdiocese of Chicago assured the boy's parents that although the cleric avoided prosecution, he would receive treatment and have no further contact with minors.

But the Rev. William Cloutier, who already had been accused of molesting other children, was returned to ministry a year later and accused of more abuse before he resigned in 1993, two years after the boy's parents filed a lawsuit. Officials took no action against Cloutier over his earliest transgressions because he "sounded repentant," according to internal archdiocese documents released Tuesday that show how the archdiocese tried to contain a mounting scandal over child sexual abuse.

For decades, those at the highest levels of the nation's third-largest archdiocese moved accused priests from parish to parish while hiding the clerics' histories from the public. The documents, released through settlements between attorneys for the archdiocese and victims, describe how the late Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin often approved the reassignments. The archdiocese removed some priests from ministry, but often years or decades after the clergy were known to have molested children.

While disturbing stories of clergy sexual abuse have wrenched the Roman Catholic Church across the globe, the newly released documents offer the broadest look yet into how one of its largest and most prominent American dioceses responded to the scandal.

The case of Daniel Holihan is especially alarming. Holihan has been accused of abusing at least 20 victims, but was never prosecuted after the archdiocese persuaded the state's attorney to not pursue charges.

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French state enlists support of Jewish Defense League to crush dissent

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More right-wing than the 'right-wing': members of the JDL hold a rally in Paris.
The upheavals of the "Dieudonné case" highlighted the power of the pro-Israel lobby inside the French State (see here the analysis of Jacob Cohen). A departure from precedent at the Council of State (Supreme Court), which made its decision in a hurry and under pressure from LICRA (read here), massive deployments of police forces around comedy venues and cultural arenas, fiscal and judicial harassment, planned closure of his YouTube channel and eviction from his own theater, not to mention the full range of political and media establishment against him (see here)... guilty of Zionist dissent, nothing has been spared against Dieudonné.

This campaign benefited from the firepower of CRIF and LICRA, ideological state apparatuses (see my post here on this issue) and the mainstream media, but also from auxiliary forces, including the Ligue de Défense Juive [Jewish Defense League]. Terrorizing, beating, and insulting spectators and acquaintances of Dieudonné at truly punitive expeditions outside La Main d'Or theater in Paris - for which, needless to say, police forces are not mobilized for the occasion, and who do not lift a finger to help victims of violence (see here) - this paramilitary militia already has a long history behind it, dotted with violence and abuse of all kinds.