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Call to end military aid to Israel


Kawther.info
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© rt.comRelatives and friends of Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, carry his body to the mosque, a revenge killing by Israelis.
Petition by: James Harris - Berkeley, CA - Congressperson Barbara Lee, who calls herself a "renegade for peace and justice" is on this issue actually a "conformist for war and occupation", a vocal supporter of "robust" US military aid to Israel, as she has received campaign funding from an organization that requires this position before it supports any candidate. While giving lip-service to peace, she supports funding the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. It is time to end this hypocrisy. US law demands that no military aid be granted to governments that uses its weapons against civilians. It is time that Barbara Lee complies with that law and call for an end to this aid to Israel.

Three particular incidents are of great concern. On May 15th of this year the Israeli military shot and killed two youth, Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, as they took part in a demonstration, using live ammunition. Human Rights Watch has called this a possible war crime.

Comment: Since 1967, Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory have lived under Israeli military law and prosecuted in military courts. Israel is the only country in the world that systematically does this. Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years old, are detained, interrogated and imprisoned within the Israeli military detention system. They often suffer some form of physical violence that occurs during the arrest, transfer and interrogation by the Israeli military before they ever appear, unrepresented, in a military court.

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Scotland Yard to acquire three second-hand water cannons from Germany

David Barrett
The Telegraph, UK
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:45 UTC
Scotland Yard will acquire three second-hand water cannon from Germany even though Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has yet to approve their use in mainland Britain
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Police in mainland Britain are to acquire their first water cannon after Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, approved spending more than £200,000 on second-hand vehicles from the German federal police.

But Scotland Yard will be unable to use the controversial machines until Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has completed a lengthy authorisation process allowing the equipment to be used on the mainland for the first time.

The decision to go ahead with the purchase of three German water cannon at a cost of £30,000 each, plus refurbishment costs, fuelled speculation that Mrs May is poised to grant the necessary legal powers required to deploy the machines during riots and other violent incidents.

Papers posted on the Mayor's website this week revealed it was necessary to buy the three cannon now in order to have the vehicles in place in time for the summer, when statistically most riots take place.

Comment: Expecting civil unrest?
  • Rising food prices, climate change and global 'unrest'
  • UK police seeks arsenal of water cannons in preparation for mass social chaos


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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Israel massacres Palestinians (again) - Interview with Miko Peled

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:00 UTC
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This week on SOTT Talk Radio we interviewed Israeli peace activist and author Miko Peled, discussing the latest round of atrocities in Gaza, the circumstances surrounding 'Operation Protective Edge', and Peled's insights into the horror and tragedy of the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict - for Palestinians of course, but also, ultimately, for ordinary Israelis too.

Miko Peled was born in Jerusalem into a prominent Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the IDF, in which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed in a terrorist attack in 1997, you may have expected the family to blame the Palestinians, but surprisingly, they blamed the state of Israel.

Imbued with his father's deep knowledge of Israeli war practices, Peled authored The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, a book that lays bare the myths surrounding the situation in the Middle East. Peled now travels extensively, giving talks about his experiences to audiences across the world.

Running Time: 01:24:00

Download: MP3

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Snakes in Suits

British Defense Ministry outlines new challenges by 2045: Environmental warfare, drone crime, mass surveillance


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:58 UTC
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What challenges could we face by 2045? A UK military think tank predicts there may be significant climate change affects, intensified spying, corporate armies, sophisticated weapons allowing targeting by DNA, and terrorists synthesizing new fatal viruses.

"Widespread and challenging implications for defense and security will almost certainly be generated by this increasingly connected world, with its rapidly advancing technology and evolving societies," the document prepared for the British Defense Ministry says.

Within the next 30 years the world population may surpass 9 billion, which combined with technological progress and a range of other factors, will significantly change the world and result in new threats, according to the fifth edition of Global Strategic Trends by the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC).

Among possible future dangers, the study names "failed and failing cities" posing major security threats for nations, and an increase of flooding and droughts in some regions causing significant damage and loss of life.
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After expulsion of CIA station chief in Berlin, Germany considering overhauled relationship with U.S.


Raw Story
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:39 UTC
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Germany's top diplomat said Friday he would urge a revived US partnership based on "trust and mutual respect" in talks with his American counterpart after Berlin's expulsion of a CIA station chief in a spying row.


Comment: Good luck with that!


Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he would tackle the diplomatic fallout from the latest twist in a more than year-long rift with the US over surveillance when he meets US Secretary of State John Kerry for weekend talks on Iran.

The shock move to kick out the US embassy intelligence chief Thursday followed the emergence of two alleged United States spying cases within days of each other, re-igniting German fury already on a low boil from last year's NSA scandal.

Analysts said the highly unusual move, which came after the US ambassador was twice called in for talks, marked a watershed in German-US ties, with an openly rattled Berlin now ready to publicly take a stand against its NATO ally.
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Bear baiting: Russia vows response after Ukraine shell kills 1, injures 2 in Russian city


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:32 UTC
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© LifenewsAn artillery shell from Ukraine smashed out the windows of a private house in southern Russia on July 13.
An artillery shell from Ukraine has hit a private house in the Rostov region of Russia, killing a citizen and leaving two more injured. The Russian Foreign Ministry promises heavy consequences.

Reportedly up to six mortar shells exploded on Sunday in the small Russian town of Donetsk, which has the same name as the Ukrainian city and is situated right on the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine's charge d'affaires in Russia has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry where he was handed a note of protest in the strongest terms.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the shelling "an obviously aggressive act" on Ukraine's part and warned it could have "irreversible consequences" with Kiev holding full responsibility for the provocation.

Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin promised a "rigorous and concrete answer" to the shelling of Russian territory that resulted in the senseless loss of life.


Comment: The Ukrainian nazi-thugs - on orders from their paymasters and handlers in the US - are hellbent on dragging Russia into an open war. It's not enough for them to kill and displace their own countrymen, now they see themselves driven to attack Russia as well. These people don't realise that they are playing with fire. They feel secure in the knowledge, that "Uncle Sam" is going to be there for them and bail them out, if SHTF. But just have a look at history, and you will see, that the US is only bound to itself. Any second that their "allies" become a real liability, they are left on their own. Besides the fact, that everyone will bite the dust, once the fire starts for real.

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No big deal! Pope Francis says "only" 2 percent of Catholic clergy are pedophiles - That's 1 in 50 Catholic priests


Raw Story
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:10 UTC
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Pope Francis promised "solutions" to the issue of priestly celibacy in an interview on Sunday that raised the possibility the Catholic Church could eventually lift the interdiction on married priests.

Speaking to Italy's La Repubblica daily, Francis also condemned child sex abuse as a "leprosy" in the Church and cited his aides as saying that "the level of paedophilia in the Church is at two percent".

"That two percent includes priests and even bishops and cardinals," he said.

Asked whether priests might one day be allowed to marry, Francis pointed out that celibacy was instituted "900 years after Our Lord's death" and that clerics can marry in some Eastern Churches under Vatican tutelage.

"There definitely is a problem but it is not a major one. This needs time but there are solutions and I will find them," Francis said, without giving further details.

The interview was the third in a series with the 90-year-old founder of the La Repubblica daily, Eugenio Scalfari, a famous journalist and known atheist.

Comment: The Pope is clearly downplaying the role of pedophilia in the Catholic Church. It's highly likely that the level of pedophilia in the Catholic Church is much higher than two percent.

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Bomb

Israel targets home of Gaza police chief, killing his family members and wounding dozens


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:45 UTC
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© Reuters / Mohammed SalemA wounded Palestinian boy, who hospital officials said was injured in an Israeli air strike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City July 12, 2014.
An Israeli airstrike on the home of Gaza's police chief killed 18 people and injured 45 others on Saturday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. It was the deadliest day since Operation Protective Edge began, with the death toll soaring to over 150.

Police Chief Tayseer Al-Batsh is said to be in critical condition and the majority of those killed are family members, Reuters reported, citing a Hamas member. An Israeli military spokesman is reportedly looking into the claims.

People are still trapped under the rubble, according to Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra. Rescue workers are continuing their search operations.

Journalist Harry Fear, reporting from Gaza for RT, tweeted that according to witnesses, the Al-Batsh home strike did not have a warning known as the "roof knock."

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 52 people on Saturday, making it the deadliest day of the offensive. Among the dead were two severely handicapped women in a care facility, AFP cited medics as saying. The total Palestinian death toll now stands at 157.

Early on Sunday, Israeli navy commandos clashed with Hamas fighters as they carried out a raid on a missile launch site in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The Israeli Air Force hit 235 terror-related targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Since the start of the offensive, Israel has hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza. On Saturday, the Israeli military targeted a house belonging to the sister of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, killing two of his nephews and four other people.
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Vader

Ukrainian armed forces launch new big offensive on Lugansk, Donetsk regions


Voice of Russia
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:00 UTC
Ukraine offensive in Donetsk
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Ukrainian law enforcement units have launched another attack on both Lugansk and a Donetsk suburb using Grad launchers, Interfax reports self-defense forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics saying on Sunday. "Immediate reports suggest that Ukrainian forces are storming the city from Aleksandrovka in an offensive supported by 50 tanks and two fighter bombers," a spokesman for the self-defense command in Lugansk told Interfax

"Ukrainian law enforcement units renewed the offensive on Maryinka, a Donetsk suburb, at about 3 p.m. Moscow time, using Grad launchers, tanks and artillery systems," spokesman for the Southeast Front Konstantin Knyrik told Interfax.

"A cameraman of the Anna-News information agency came under fire in an attack launched by Ukrainian forces," he said.

As of yet no official confirmation of these reports were made by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.
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Heart - Black

Heartless: Ukraine urges Russia not to accept orphans fleeing war zones - prefers to bomb them instead!


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:25 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Alexey KudenkoA young Ukrainian refugee, taken to Moscow by a Russian Emergency Ministry plane.
The children's rights ombudsman of Ukraine demanded Russia send back Ukrainian orphans who cross the border after evacuation from battle zones in the country's east. The ombudsman accuses Russia of "kidnapping" and violation of children's rights.

Valeria Lutkovskaya sent an open letter to the head of Russia's border guards, Colonel General Vladimir Kulishov, demanding the passage of orphans leaving eastern Ukrainian war zones be prohibited. She also published the letter on her Facebook page.

Lutkovskaya accused Russia of violating the rights of Ukrainian orphan children, who are being admitted to Russia "without proper paperwork."

She claimed that armed members of the resistance movement in the Donetsk region are forcing the directors of two orphanages "at gunpoint" to let children travel to Russia. The directors of both schools allegedly refused to prepare the proper documents.

Lutkovskaya said that according to her sources, plans were afoot to send 54 children from the Maryinka Educational Orphanage and 93 children from Educational Orphanage # 1 in Donetsk to Russia on Sunday morning.

Comment: 30 civilians killed, orphanage destroyed as Kiev forces hit town near Donetsk

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