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Bully Alan Dershowitz protected serial child molester Jeffrey Epstein from his under-age accusers

Rania Khalek
The Electronic Intifada
Sat, 10 Jan 2015 04:23 UTC
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Alan Dershowitz and Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor at the Inaugural Champion of Jewish Values International Awards, honoring Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, 4 June 2013 in New York City.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz always felt children were fair game for Israeli missiles. Now the question is whether he thinks they are fair game for the sexual exploits of his powerful associates and himself.

Dershowitz and the UK's Prince Andrew were accused in a recent court filing of raping a teenage girl who was forced into sexual slavery by Dershowitz's close friend and client, billionaire hedge fund financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The court filing is part of an ongoing civil lawsuit by four of Epstein's victims accusing the federal government of violating the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) when it made a secret 2008 plea deal with Epstein without informing them.

Dershowitz played a key role in negotiating a secret provision in Epstein's plea deal that immunized "any potential co-conspirators" from federal prosecution. In other words, Dershowitz negotiated an agreement that (if the allegations against him are true) shields him from prosecution for participating in a child sex-trafficking ring.

Since there has been no trial to determine whether Dershowitz and Prince Andrew are liable for the allegations against them, which they categorically deny, they should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

That said, while the mainstream press revives its interest in Epstein and reproduces strongly worded denials from Dershowitz and representatives of Prince Andrew, it has overlooked the role of Epstein's social network in building up his influence and shielding him from accountability. Media coverage of Epstein has been particularly derelict in failing to note the pivotal role of Alan Dershowitz, Israel's most aggressive defender, in securing near impunity for a sexual predator and his accomplices by bullying, harassing, intimidating and smearing child victims of rape.

Comment: In his book, Ponerology, Lobaczewski remarked that psychopaths form groups of like-minded creatures:
The average intelligence of the psychopath, especially if measured via commonly used tests, is somewhat lower than that of normal people, albeit similarly variegated. Despite the wide variety of intelligence and interests, this group does not contain examples of the highest intelligence, nor do we find technical or craftsmanship talents among them. The most gifted members of this kind may thus achieve accomplishments in those sciences which do not require a correct humanistic world view or practical skills. [...]
Epstein fits the bill here, in that his skill is in stock trading. No need for a conscience. Dershowitz is able to bend his mind into any shape required for him to defend the lowest of the low..
In spite of their deficiencies in normal psychological and moral knowledge, they develop and then have at their disposal a knowledge of their own, something lacked by people with a natural world view. They learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to them. They also become conscious of being different from the world of those other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance, like a para-specific variety. Natural human reactions - which often fail to elicit interest to normal people because they are considered self-evident - strike the psychopath as strange
and, interesting, and even comical. They therefore observe us, deriving conclusions, forming their different world of concepts. They become experts in our weaknesses and sometimes effect heartless experiments. The suffering and injustice they cause inspire no guilt within them, since such reactions from others are simply a result of their being different and apply only to "those other" people they perceive to be not quite conspecific. Neither a normal person nor our natural world view can fully conceive nor properly evaluate the existence of this world of different concepts.


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South Korea's nukes are a deterrent measure - no threat to other nations


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 08 May 2016 21:21 UTC
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
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It was known to the various experts that North Korea poses no real "nuclear threat". It has sound reason to build nuclear weapon systems and it had never threatened to use them in any offensive capability.

But the "western" public learned little of these issue until now. It is somewhat refreshing to find two newspapers today which explain the basic issues.

First: Why does North Korea believe that nuclear weapon capability is to its people's advantage?
Mr. Kim was using the rare political gathering to rally the party behind his so-called "byungjin" policy. On Saturday, Mr. Kim said that policy was not a temporary step but his party's "permanent strategic line."

The byungjin — or "parallel advance" — policy calls for stockpiling nuclear weapons in the belief that the deterrent would allow the country to focus on economic recovery.
During the Korea war North Korea was totally devastated. Nearly a third of its population died. Its industries were destroyed. Hardly any structure with more than one level had not been bombed. Thereafter North Korea poured an immense amount of human and material resources into the build up and maintenance of a large conventional army. The threat from the U.S. army and its South Korean cannon fodder was perceived as huge. All civil development was subordinate to a "military first" policy.

Comment: See also: Kim Jong-un announces North Korea to 'normalize relations with hostile states,' won't launch nuke strike first

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'Slick Willy's' past can bite Hillary: Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein


The Daily Mail
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:43 UTC
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Latest ladies: Clinton was pictured posing for a photo with Barbie Girl (left) and Ava Adora (right), two known prostitutes who work at the Bunny Brothel in Nevada
A new lawsuit has revealed the extent of former President Clinton's friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage prostitute.

Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who served time in 2008 for his illegal sexual partners, included up multiple trips to the onetime billionaire's private island in the Caribbean where underage girls were allegedly kept as sex slaves.

The National Enquirer has released new details about the two men's friendship, which seems to have ended abruptly around the time of Epstein's arrest.
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Western press deliberately hiding the reality of terrorist attacks in Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 08 May 2016 21:11 UTC
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The independent French geopolitical analysis website Voltaire Network has compiled a gruesome list of terror attacks against Syrian civilians which took place between January and April 2016. The list, nearly a dozen pages long, begs the question: why does the Western mainstream media continue to remain silent over Syrian civilians' plight?

The Syrian ceasefire, which stepped into force on February 27, 2016, has been holding, with some exceptions, for almost two-and-a-half months.

Unfortunately, Voltaire Network explains, Syrian civilians continue to face attacks and to die at the hands of the jihadists, some of whom have been "described as the 'moderate opposition'" by Western governments and media and been "invited to participate in the 'inter-Syrian' negotiations in Geneva."

In a comprehensive listing of terror attacks on civilian areas that have taken place in the country since January 1, 2016, Voltaire Network calculates that over 120 such attacks took place leading up to February 27.
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German FM on Syria: More progress in recent weeks than past five years


RT
Sat, 07 May 2016 15:09 UTC
Steinmeier
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister
Ongoing negotiations on the Syria peace process have achieved more progress in the past few weeks than during the five years before that, the German foreign minister said in a newspaper interview. "We have a framework acceptable to all," Frank-Walter Steinmeier acknowledged in an interview with Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung daily newspaper. He mentioned the US, Russia, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia among the key players in the Syria peace process.

"This is far from a guarantee of success, but it's more than we had achieved in the past five years," Steinmeier said, adding: "We must build on." The civil war in Syria has been going on for five years and cost an estimated 270,000 lives. "There is no military solution; only political negotiations can restore peace to Syria," Steinmeier acknowledged, adding "We cannot afford another five years of war, displacement and destruction in Syria."

Berlin is working more intensively with the other participants in the talks to achieve humanitarian access to the warzones and to create conditions for the negotiations to continue, Steinmeier said, adding that he is pleased with Germany's contribution to the peace process, which made the Syria talks in Berlin on Wednesday possible. "Giving up and looking away is not an option," Steinmeier said.

Comment: "We cannot afford..." That is correct. The cost of war, the cost of lives, the cost of militancy, the cost of fear, the cost of refugees, the cost of arms and ammunition, the cost of reputation and independence. But for some countries, such as Israel and the US, the costs, apparently, are not high enough. There is still room for more destruction, loss of life, deceit and manipulation, agendas, and war chests to fund radicals and proxy armies and pull off a global scam on their people. There are funds to guarantee the obliteration of the entire world if need be. War junkies in high stakes games. Desperadoes, fooling themselves more than others.

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Maine votes to abolish influence of superdelegates


RT
Sun, 08 May 2016 20:57 UTC
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L), U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
The Maine Democratic Party have voted to abolish the influence of superdelegates, a group with the power to choose the party's presidential nominee irrespective of the voters' choice.

The rule change was passed by a vote during Saturday's Democratic Party convention in Portland, followed by chants of "Bernie, Bernie!" However, the amendment won't take effect in time to officially guide superdelegates in the current presidential election.

Hillary Clinton has consistently received more support from superdelegates than Bernie Sanders - a lot more. Clinton has so far received 523 superdelegate endorsements to Bernie's measly 39, with 152 still uncommitted, according to Associated Press' tally.

Maine has five superdelegates: three are currently pledged to Hillary Clinton, one to Sanders and one is undecided. This means that Clinton is most probably in line to receive the state's nomination, despite Sanders winning the Maine caucus with 63 percent of the votes.
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Former French intel boss: France recklessly followed the orders of Washington by joining anti-Russian sanctions and supporting terrorists in Syria


RT
Sun, 08 May 2016 20:51 UTC
Alain Juillet
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Alain Juillet
The French government ignored its own intelligence in dealing with crises in Ukraine and Syria, and recklessly followed Washington's lead by joining anti-Russian sanctions, dealing a huge blow to its agriculture, said a former French intelligence boss.

Alain Juillet, former deputy director of intelligence at France's General Directorate for External Security, accused French authorities of making a range of poor foreign policy choices, such as its pro-rebel stance in the Syrian crisis and anti-Russian response to the Ukrainian turmoil, which he says have proven detrimental to French citizens.

"The French were certainly wrong on Syria and Ukraine," Juillet told Paris Match on Thursday, while citing two possible reasons for the authorities' policy blunders. One potential explanation he offered was that the government had received inaccurate intelligence. The other was that "despite the information, the politicians wanted to go in a direction not connected with the reality. On the Syrian issue, we simply ignored the reality," he stressed.

To highlight the importance of maintaining constructive relations with the Syrian authorities, he mentioned the hostage situation in which four French journalists in Syria spent nearly a year in captivity before being freed in 2014.
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Japan could be snuggling up to the Russian bear in spite of raising the ire of the US Empire

Danielle Ryan
RT
Sun, 08 May 2016 20:28 UTC
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© Pavel Golovkin / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, May 6, 2016
Not everyone was happy about the three-hour long talks between Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe which took place in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday.

While for Abe the meeting was diplomatically significant — a chance to discuss the disputed Kuril islands face-to-face with Putin — for the White House, it was an unwelcome fissure in the united front Washington has instructed its allies to construct against Moscow. It was so unwelcome, in fact, that Barack Obama had reportedly asked Abe personally not to go to Sochi at all.

Island diplomacy

The long-running dispute between Russia and Japan over ownership of the Kuril island chain meant that the two countries never signed a peace treaty after World War II. Russia claims ownership of the strategically important territory under the 1945 Yalta accord and argues that the islands — which Russia refers to as the Southern Kurils and Japan knows as the Northern Territories — were handed over to the Soviet Union with Washington's blessing. Japan disputes this.

The Kremlin kept expectations low for the meeting between the two leaders in Sochi. Russia has plans to build up its military assets on the islands and has singled the territory out for significant socio-economic development. Frankly, no one expects that Putin will suddenly decide to give the islands up — not even Abe.

Nonetheless, Abe believes that if anything will help soften Russia's stance over the dispute, it will be increased economic and technological cooperation between Moscow and Tokyo, which could help revitalize the Russian Far East. Most observers say, however, that despite Russia's economic woes, Abe's hand is weak.
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Number of job cuts at U.S. companies jump 35 percent in April

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Thu, 05 May 2016 20:30 UTC
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Should we be alarmed that the number of job cuts announced by large U.S. companies was 35 percent higher in April than it was in March? This is definitely a case where the trend is not our friend. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. firms announced 65,141 job cuts during April, which represented a massive 35 percent increase over the previous month. And so far this year overall, job cut announcements are running 24 percent higher than for the exact same period in 2015.

Meanwhile, on Thursday we learned that initial claims for unemployment benefits shot up dramatically last week. In fact, the jump of 17,000 was the largest increase that we have seen in over a year. Of course the U.S. economy has been slowing down for quite a while now, and many have been wondering when we would begin to see that slowdown reflected in the employment numbers. Well, that day has now arrived.

At this point, U.S. firms are laying off people at a rate that we have not seen since the last financial crisis. Here is what Zero Hedge had to say about these latest numbers...
While one can debate the veracity of the BLS' seasonally adjusted data, one thing is certain: when a company announces it will layoff thousands, it will. So for all those who suggest that all is well with the US jobs picture based on initial claims reports, here is the latest report from Challenger according to which the pace of downsizing increased in April jumped by 35% to 65,141 during the month of April, from the 48,207 layoff announcements in March.

Looking further back, in the first four months of 2016, employers have announced a total of 250,061 planned job cuts, up 24% from the 201,796 job cuts tracked during the same period a year ago.This represents the highest January-April total since 2009, when the opening four months of the year saw 695,100 job cuts in the aftermath of the biggest financial crisis in modern history.
So what is causing this?

Why are firms laying off so many people all of a sudden?

Comment: The catastrophic events that have a high probability of leading to an American 'apocalypse'

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UK: Government's info warfare supporting moderate Syrian rebels

Carol Adl
InvestmentWatch
Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00 UTC
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Guns & Poses
The British government is waging an information war in Syria by funding media operations for some of the so called moderate rebel fighting groups.

The campaign is aimed at boosting the reputation of what the UK government calls the "moderate armed opposition", those fighting the legitimate Syrian government. Thousands of those moderate terrorists crossed the border into Syria this week.

Moon Of Alabama reports: The U.S. government, via its CIA, has financed the "moderate" anti-Syrian mercenaries fighting against the legitimate Syrian government with at least $1 billion a year.

The Wahhabi dictatorships in the Middle East have added their own billions to finance al-Qaeda's efforts against the Syrian people. The U.S. continues to purchase and transport thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition to feed the war against the Syrian people.It also pays the various fighters and opposition groups.

The U.S. efforts for regime change in Syria have been running since at least 2006 when the U.S. government started to finance anti-Syrian exile TV stations and held intensive planning talks with various anti-Syrian Islamist elements.

Together with the British government it also runs the current pro-mercenary public relation show to influence the "western" public to support its imperial meddling in Syria.

Comment: Media coverage should never be based on, or influenced by, government's daily spew of "fake it until you make it believable." Unfortunately the evolution of Western media, in the hands of a biased few, is a propaganda corruption scheme to obscure the truth, while culturing a whole-hearted, but mindless backing from its followers. The fact-twister mechanism runs deep and long in the US. Dig for the truth if/when you can. It is our only chance for knowledge, equilibrium, protection and defense.

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