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Egypt vows lethal response ahead of nationwide 'March of anger'


RT
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 03:34 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Engy ImadEgyptian riot police move in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi from a protest camp in Cairo's Al-Nahda square on August 14, 2013.
The bloodiest in decade's violence in Egypt has been condemned by the UN Security Council. Meanwhile Egyptian law enforcement has been ordered to use deadly force to prevent further riots as the Muslim Brotherhood is bracing for a "march of anger."

"The view of council members is that it is important to end violence in Egypt and that the parties exercise maximum restraint," Argentine UN Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval told reporters after an emergency closed session of the body. "There was a common desire on the need to stop violence and to advance national reconciliation."

Earlier US president Barack Obama cancelled joint military exercises with Egypt showing the displeasure with current situation, although not cutting off US military aid to the country.

"The United States strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by Egypt's interim government and security forces," Obama said, prompting Egyptian government to fire back saying that his accusations were groundless.

"The presidency fears statements not based on facts may encourage violent armed groups," Egypt's interim office said in a statement. "Egypt is facing terrorist acts aimed at government institutions and vital installations."
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Ambulance

'War zone': Scores killed in Egypt violence, month long state of emergency proclaimed


RT News
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:14 UTC

A state of emergency was declared on Wednesday after Egyptian security forces violently broke up sit-in camps of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo. Officials say at least 281 have been killed nationwide.

There are conflicting casualty reports. According to the Health Ministry, at least 281 people including 43 policemen have been killed and 2,001 injured in Wednesday's violence nationwide.

"The dead are both from police and civilians," said the ministry's spokesman, Hamdi Abdel Karim.

However, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been killed and 10,000 injured in the police operation.

Both major protest camps in Cairo were taken control of by police, with the second one being seized about an hour after a curfew was announced.

The 7:00 pm-to-6:00 am curfew was imposed in major cities including Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. It will last for the next month, or until further notice.

Following the violence, a month-long state of emergency was announced in the country, with the Armed Forces authorized to support the Interior Ministry in imposing it.
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Stock Down

Monsanto: A food stock with a bad aftertaste

Chris Umiastowski
Globe & Mail
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:14 UTC
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As a growth investor with a long-term focus on stocks, it's just as important to know what stocks to avoid as it is to know which ones to invest in. Most growth trends don't last forever and you don't want to be stuck holding the bag when growth disappears or reverses. And perhaps even better, if you're willing to short sell stocks that you believe are negatively exposed to an industry change, you can add a margin of safety to your portfolio in the short term while potentially improving your long term returns.

Normally I write about traditional technology stocks and trends, but you may not realize that what we feed ourselves and our families has a lot of biotechnology baked into it. I'm a firm believer that the generally poor quality of the food we eat, as a population, is the root cause of the vast majority of illness. The food industry, like any other, is about scale and efficiency. But when it comes to food, the techniques used to produce it in higher quantities and at lower cost have plenty of people scared about a tradeoff in quality.
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Stormtrooper

U.S., Russia, China all torture prisoners

Sherwood Ross
Sott.net
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:52 UTC
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The three most powerful nations all operate prison systems that are places of sadism, sickness, and madness unfit for human habitation, much less human reformation.

They also lead the world with astonishing rates of imprisonment far higher than in other industrialized nations. "The U.S. incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 people is the (world's) highest, followed by 611 in Russia," Reuters reports. Compare the above rates with the following nations: Spain, 149; Canada, 114; Australia, 103; The Netherlands, 82; Germany, 80; Norway, 71; Denmark, 68; Sweden, 67; Finland, 60; and Japan, 54.

America has 2.3 million souls behind bars; China ranks second with 1.5 million, and Russia places third with 870,000---a figure Deputy Justice Minister Yury Kalinin says actually is closer to 2 million. Whatever, all three inflict gruesome tortures on their prisoners.

To begin with, one permanent misery that equals torture is overcrowding. California is fighting a U.S. Supreme Court order to slash a prison population 46% over capacity: 119,000 human beings stuffed into 33 prisons. It's a story repeated over and again nationally---in Alabama, Illinois, ad nauseum.

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Newspaper

New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundation: Could be devastating for Bill and Hillary

Tim Stanley
The Telegraph
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:50 UTC
Clinton Foundations
© The TelegraphAn internal review of the Clinton Foundations' workings has proved troubling
Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation - that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this:
For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.
Over a year ago Bill Clinton met with some aides and lawyers to review the Foundation's progress and concluded that it was a mess. Well, many political start-ups can be, especially when their sole selling point is the big name of their founder (the queues are short at the Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center). But what complicated this review - what made its findings more politically devastating - is that the Clinton Foundation has become about more than just Bill. Now both daughter Chelsea and wife, and likely presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton have taken on major roles and, in the words of the NYT "efforts to insulate the foundation from potential conflicts have highlighted just how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons' charity work from Mr Clinton's moneymaking ventures and Mrs Clinton's political future." Oh, they're entangled alright.
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Eye 1

Oliver Stone: Barack Obama is a "snake" for his role in NSA spying programs

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:44 UTC
Oliver Stone
© Getty ImagesFilm director Oliver Stone speaks before press in Tokyo on August 12, 2013.
Film director Oliver Stone - who has made no secret of his liberal political views - called President Barack Obama a "snake" for his role in National Security Agency spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protestors than finding terrorists.

"Obama is a snake," Stone told an audience in Tokyo on Monday. "He's a snake. And we have to turn on him."

"The Boston Marathon, they were so busy tracking down potential protestors...that they missed the bombers," Stone told the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. "It's never about terrorists, it always becomes about the way J. Edgar Hoover did it; he brought all the weight of government to bear against protestors. He didn't like protestors. He thought they were left-wing communists. He never could find the proof, but by the time the Vietnam War came around, as you know, 500,000 people were on the list, and they were being eavesdropped on. And where are we now? Same place."
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Cult

Evangelical pastor who 'accused gays and lesbians of having genocidal tendencies' to stand trial in Massachusetts for alleged crimes against humanity

Eric W. Dolan
The Raw Story
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:32 UTC
Pastor Scott Lively
© ScreenshotPastor Scott Lively
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a crimes against humanity case brought against evangelical pastor Scott Lively of Massachusetts.

Lively is accused of violating international law by inciting the persecution of LGBT individuals in Uganda. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG) in 2012.

"We are gratified that the court recognized the persecution and the gravity of the danger faced by our clients as a result of Scott Lively's actions," CCR Attorney Pam Spees said. "Lively's single-minded campaign has worked to criminalize their very existence, strip away their fundamental rights and threaten their physical safety."
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Arrow Down

The forgotten cold war plan that put a ring of copper around the Earth

Joe Hanson
Wired.com
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:30 UTC
Ringed Earth
© Black Cat StudiosArtist Ron Miller’s rendition of a ringed Earth.
During the summer of 1963, Earth looked a tiny bit like Saturn.

The same year that Martin Luther King, Jr. marched on Washington and Beatlemania was born, the United States launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. It was called Project West Ford, and it's a perfect, if odd, example of the Cold War paranoia and military mentality at work in America's early space program.

The Air Force and Department of Defense envisioned the West Ford ring as the largest radio antenna in human history. Its goal was to protect the nation's long-range communications in the event of an attack from the increasingly belligerent Soviet Union.

During the late 1950's, long-range communications relied on undersea cables or over-the-horizon radio. These were robust, but not invulnerable. Should the Soviets have attacked an undersea telephone or telegraph cable, America would only have been able to rely on radio broadcasts to communicate overseas. But the fidelity of the ionosphere, the layer of the atmosphere that makes most long-range radio broadcasts possible, is at the mercy of the sun: It is routinely disrupted by solar storms. The U.S. military had identified a problem.
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Pirates

400 surface-to-air missiles were stolen from Libya and are now 'in the hands of some very ugly people', says whistleblowers' attorney

Jason Howerton
The Blaze
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:07 UTC
US consulate compound in Benghazi
© AFP/Getty ImagesThis file photo taken on September 11, 2012 shows an armed man waving his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi.
A former U.S. attorney representing Benghazi whistleblowers is claiming that 400 surface-to-air missiles were "stolen" and "taken from Libya" and are now "in the hands of some very ugly people." He also said the Obama administration is "deeply concerned" that the weapons may be used to shoot down airliners.

In an interview with WMAL radio, Joe DiGenova explained that the stolen missiles also represent one of the reasons the U.S. State Department shut down 19 embassies across the Middle East last week.

He said the development has the Obama administration "deeply concerned" and on alert.

Even more potentially shocking, DiGenova claimed the missiles are now in the hands of Al Qaeda operatives, according to his sources. His sources include "former intelligence officials who stay in constant contact with people in the Special Ops and intelligence community."
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Megaphone

Best of the Web: Humanity is drowning in Washington's criminality

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
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Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere. Congress needs to use the impeachment power that the Constitution provides and cease being subservient to the lawless executive branch. The US faces no threat that justifies the lawlessness and abuse of police powers that characterize the executive branch in the 21st century.

Impeachment is the most important power of Congress. Impeachment is what protects the citizens, the Constitution, and the other branches of government from abuse by the executive branch. If the power to remove abusive executive branch officials is not used, the power ceases to exist. An unused power is like a dead letter law. Its authority disappears. By acquiescing to executive branch lawlessness, Congress has allowed the executive branch to place itself above law and to escape accountability for its violations of law and the Constitution.
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