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Israel murders 40 more Palestinians in last 24 hours


PressTV
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:37 UTC
Rafah
Smoke billows from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 14, 2014.
Some 40 more Palestinians have been killed in Israel's ongoing airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

This comes after Israeli warplanes targeted several residential areas of the besieged enclave.

Palestinian officials say at least three people including a woman were killed on the seventh day of Israeli airstrikes on Monday. Two of the victims died of injuries sustained in the air raids on Sunday.

The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombardment to 175. Latest figures show over 1,270 others have been also injured in the ongoing Israeli assaults.

Gazan homes, mosques and schools are also being targeted by the Israeli army operations. According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, more than three-quarters of the victims are civilians.

Meanwhile, the Arab League is urging the international community to end Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. The League's foreign ministers are due to hold a meeting on the crisis later on Monday.
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Whistle

Germany investigates second suspect of spying for U.S.

Phillip Oltermann
The Guardian
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:20 UTC
Merkel
© www.themoscowtimes.comA tense German Chancellor Angela Merkel contemplates implications of CIA role in Germany spy affair.
German authorities are investigating the second case of a government employee suspected of spying on confidential government affairs for US secret services within a week.

Public prosecutors confirmed that the home and office of a defence ministry employee in the greater Berlin area had been searched on Wednesday morning.They told the Guardian that a search had been conducted "under suspicion of secret agent activity" and that evidence - including computers and several data storage devices - had been seized for analysis. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed that no arrest had yet been made.

According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency. The news came just days after a member of the German intelligence agency BND confessed to having passed more than 200 confidential files to a contact at the CIA.

The new case is not thought to be directly related to that of the BND staffer. However, one government insider familiar with the case told Süddeutsche Zeitung that the new case being investigated was "more serious" than that of the BND spy, in which the sold documents are thought to have been of limited value.

Comment: Espionage is a two-way street even if countries are "cooperating" with each other. In the midst of friendly alliances there are still secrets to be had while serving covert agendas. Is the U.S. looking for signs to determine the relationship between Germany and Russia? Are politicians playing a "sound and fury" deflection game with the public, and/or Russia, rather than quietly eliminating the problem? Or, could these spy incidents be a relic of an old paradigm giving way to a transnational security state? ...speculations at best.

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Alarm Clock

Ukraine military plane shot down from Russia as warning to US puppet regime in Kiev


BBC News
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:53 UTC
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A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with pro-Russian separatist rebels, Ukrainian officials say.

They say the An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m (21,325ft).

The plane was targeted with "a more powerful missile" than a shoulder-carried missile, "probably fired" from Russia. The crew survived, reports say.

Russia has made no comment. Separately, Nato reported a Russian troop build-up near the Ukraine border.

A Nato official confirmed to the BBC that the alliance had observed a significant increase of Russian troops, bringing their number to up to 12,000.

Russia denies supporting and arming the separatists, and has invited officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor its border with Ukraine.
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Light Saber

Moscow will not allow the Euro-Atlantic community to isolate Russia says head of state for international relations


RT.com
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:37 UTC
Alexei Pushkov
© RIA Novosti / Vladimir FedorenkoAlexei Pushkov
Moscow will not allow Washington to realize its plan of international isolation for Russia and many nations will not support the US, the head of the State Duma committee for international relations has said.

Currently the economic and political isolation of Russia is impossible, MP Aleksey Pushkov told the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

"Statements are being made in Washington that the United States are starting to implement a global isolation policy for our country. Now the US administration attempts to attract the European Union to the isolation policy. The ultimate objective is to create a new tectonic rift between Russia and Europe in the spirit of the new Cold War," the senior MP said in the interview.

However, such a scheme would not work, primarily due to the strong economic and financial ties between Russia and Europe that are important for both parties. "We are an important and large country; they have to do business with us. We also need this and we have to prevent the USA from creating the rift," Pushkov emphasized.

Comment: Russia is taking steps to counter US hegemony and it appears that Putin's government is doing well in its attempts to forge new alliances. This may explain the US-led Ukrainian government's increased attempts to create chaos, thus drawing Russia directly into war.

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Mail

Two federal judges order IRS to provide declaration on how 2 years of emails were lost

Lily Dane
Thedailysheeple.com
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:34 UTC
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Two federal judges aren't buying "the dog ate my emails" bs story the IRS is trying to sell.

Finally, we might be getting somewhere with this ridiculous scandal. Congress has been working on this for a year without much success, but on Thursday and Friday, the two U.S. District court judges ordered the IRS to start providing some answers.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered the IRS to provide - within a month - a declaration explaining exactly how the agency managed to "lose" two years' worth of emails belonging to Lois Lerner.

Sullivan issued the order as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a non-partisan watchdog group. He said the IRS declaration must be signed, under oath, by the appropriate IRS official.

"I'm going to hold tight to that Aug. 10 declaration," Sullivan said.

Judge Sullivan also assigned John Facciola, a federal magistrate, to conduct his own query into whether there may be another way to obtain Lerner's emails.

Comment: The answers should be very entertaining. Stay tuned!

IRS emails show Lois Lerner contacted DOJ about prosecuting tax exempt groups

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Megaphone

What the media isn't telling you about Israel's attack on Gaza

AJ+ Labs
YouTube
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:14 UTC
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Israel is responding to rocket attacks out of Gaza! That's the headline you see everywhere. But we show you what the mainstream media isn't telling you about this story.


Comment: This is a good overview, but it's important to stress that the catalyst for every bombing operation on Gaza is a false-flag event or some other convoluted pretext in which Israeli agents precipitate a crisis, in this case by abducting three teenagers, executing them, and pretending they were missing.

Also missing is the reason why the Israeli regime does all this: to prevent peace and integration into a normal one-state solution, at all costs. Yes, at ALL costs, including killing some of their own from time to time. They're psychopaths; what else could we expect?

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Gift

Pentagon gives pink slips to thousands of soldiers


Foxnews.com
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:45 UTC
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The Pentagon is laying off thousands of military officers, including those serving or who have recently served in Afghanistan.

Defense Department officials said the reductions are the result of mandatory spending cuts imposed by sequestration and are part of their larger plan to reduce the number of U.S. soldiers from 520,000 to 450,000.

Roughly 2,600 captains and other officers have or will be laid off, with more expected, Fox News learned Friday.

The decision to send pink slips to soldiers overseas on active duty is dangerous and bad for morale, says retired Major Gen. Robert Scales.

"It puts the soldier, the soldier's family and the men under his command at risk," said Scales, a Fox News contributor. "Young officers look at each other and wonder who is next."

Comment: Engendering support for the military and war? These soldiers are and were death dealers who have caused much suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq. The number deaths suggests that the people of Afghanistan and Iraq have made ALL of the sacrifices. Where is the sympathy for all of the human beings whose homes and lives have been destroyed? What about the innocent people murdered by these solders?

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Top Secret

UK police have details of CIA torture flights to Diego Garcia despite past denials - report


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:07 UTC
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© ReutersAn undated file photo shows Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago
Crucial logs that confirm the British overseas territory Diego Garcia was involved in the CIA's black site rendition program as a secret prison have been passed to the UK police for further investigation, despite earlier claims that there were no logs.

Senate report points to UK 'complicity' in US extraordinary rendition

A Whitehall official was photographed earlier this week carrying documents marked as "sensitive," which have been handed to detectives, the Observer reports.

The documents consist of a number of printed emails and handwritten notes and memos. They were written by an administrator for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's British Indian Ocean Territory section.

In notes scrawled onto the documents, the official suggests the press office of the Foreign Office should become "more active" on the issue. He also asks what information should be released. "What else in public domain?" he asks.
Well fancy that: this document shows HMG responds to #rendition questions by hiding details of flights 2 Diego Garcia pic.twitter.com/MlQ3kni1Xq
- Ian Cobain (@IanCobain) July 13, 2014

Comment: David Vine, author of Island of Shame: the Secret History of the U.S. Military on Diego Garcia writes that Diego Garcia island is a strategic location for the U.S. to maintain its global domination. It is reportedly more secretive and a "black site" for high profile-detainees.
"Through Diego Garcia," Vine pointed out, "the U.S. can project its power throughout the Middle East, and from East Africa to India, Australia and Indonesia. With Guam, the island is the most important American base outside the U.S." He said U.S. bases now number around 1,000, including 287 in Germany, 130 in Japan and Okinawa, and 57 in Italy.

"Bases have been essential tools of U.S. military and economic power since not long after independence," Vine pointed out. "We had bases all the way to the Pacific. After the Civil War, the U.S. began to acquire coaling bases in the Pacific."

Although the Chagossians were forcibly removed in 1971, they still hope to return, Vine says, and refer to their period of exile as one of "profound sorrow." Vine says they would be happy to live on the unused eastern portion of the island and work at the base but the U.S. instead "imports contract labor from other areas so they can send them home when the job is done." The island's exiled survivors and their descendants today number about 5,000.

Long off limits to reporters, the Red Cross, and all other international observers and far more secretive than Guantánamo Bay, many long suspected the island was a clandestine CIA "black site" for high-profile detainees, Vine wrote in a related article. Journalist Stephen Grey's 2006 book "Ghost Plane" documented the presence on the island of a CIA-chartered plane used for rendition flights. On two occasions former U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey publicly named Diego Garcia as a detention facility. And a Council of Europe report named the atoll, along with those in Poland and Romania, as a secret prison.
Diego Garcia - A brief history lesson: U.S. military forcibly transported inhabitants and gassed their dogs

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Japan plans to reopen nuclear reprocessing plant capable of 2,000 bombs a year


RT
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:31 UTC
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© Reuters/Kimimasa Mayama
Reactivating a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant could provide Japan with enough plutonium to produce up to 2,000 atomic bombs a year, a US expert has warned. The "reckless" move could destabilize the region, as Japan's neighbors rush to compete.

Henry Sokolski, executive director at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, urged the House Foreign Affairs committee to hinder the reopening of the nuclear reprocessing facility in Rokkasho, North Japan.

The plant itself was supposed to begin operations in October 2013, but its reactivation was delayed by new safety regulations. The operators of the facility, which, according to the IAEA, has an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium, or 8 tons of plutonium, say it should be up and running by this October.

Allowing the reactivation of the plant would be "insulting" and "reckless," especially when South Korea is not allowed to reprocess or enrich nuclear fuel, the US expert said, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
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War Whore

More Bear baiting: Kiev forces bomb Russian border town killing Russian citizen


RT.com
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:36 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Sergey Pivovarov
The daughter of a man killed by an artillery shell fired by Kiev's forces in a quiet Russian town just across the border from Ukraine is still in shock. In a night of horror, she also had to save her 11-year-old brother from the bombing.

Andrey Shulyatyev, a 46-year-old father of four, was killed on Sunday when an artillery shell from Ukraine hit his private house on the border, in the Rostov Region of Russia.

Irina, 20, was woken up in the middle of the night on Sunday by a sound of an explosion and could not believe it was not all just a bad dream. The girl was crying throughout her whole interview to LifeNews, in which she had to relive the ordeal of her terrible night once again.

"I heard a scream, it was my younger brother, I grabbed him and ran towards the exit. Then I heard my father's scream," the girl said. "When my brother and I ran up to the door, glass from the windows shattered again. We stopped. When we went out to the porch, we saw my father lying there. He was without an arm. I was in shock, I thought it was a dream, I came back into the house, then went out again to see him lying there without an arm. He was screaming. My brother was screaming. We were bombed."
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