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"It's costing HOW MUCH? Well, can't we pull out? Oh yeh, that's right, the corporations rule us and not the other way around. God, sometimes I wish we did things the Russian way..."
Corporate media conveniently suppressed Harper's previous affiliation with the fascistic Northern Foundation and the National Citizens Coalition -- an extreme right wing lobby group. The convenient suppression of his past political associations -- enabled by media baron Conrad Black (who was also a member of the Northern Foundation), allowed Harper to present himself as a "moderate" conservative, and to emerge victorious as Prime Minister of Canada in 2006.
Corporate media monopolies, already welded to transnational corporate polities
are now even more powerful. Information streams can be further exploited with the passage of the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) in the U.S.
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Hillary Clinton is known as a champion of women and girls, but one woman who says she was raped as a 12-year-old in Arkansas doesn't think Hillary deserves that honor. This woman says Hillary smeared her and used dishonest tactics to successfully get her attacker off with a light sentence - even though, she claims, Clinton knew he was guilty.
The victim in the 1975 sexual abuse case that became Clinton's first criminal defense case as a 27-year-old lawyer has only spoken to the media once since her attack, a contested, short interaction with a reporter in 2008, during Clinton's last presidential campaign run. Now 52, she wants to speak out after hearing Clinton talk about her case on newly discovered audio recordings from the 1980s, unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon and made public this week.
In a long, emotional interview with The Daily Beast, she accused Clinton of intentionally lying about her in court documents, going to extraordinary lengths to discredit evidence of the rape, and later callously acknowledging and laughing about her attackers' guilt on the recordings.
"Hillary Clinton took me through Hell," the victim said. The Daily Beast agreed to withhold her name out of concern for her privacy as a victim of sexual assault.
The victim said if she saw Clinton today, she would call her out for what she sees as the hypocrisy of Clinton's current campaign to fight for women's rights compared to her actions regarding this rape case so long ago.
"I would say [to Clinton], 'You took a case of mine in '75, you lied on me... I realize the truth now, the heart of what you've done to me. And you are supposed to be for women? You call that [being] for women, what you done to me? And I hear you on tape laughing."
The victim's allegation that Clinton smeared her following her rape is based on a May 1975 court affidavit written by Clinton on behalf of Thomas Alfred Taylor, one of the two alleged attackers, whom Clinton agreed to defend after being asked by the prosecutor. Taylor had specifically requested a female attorney.
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"On June 20, a statement was made in the U.N. Human Rights Council on Russia's initiative in support of local reconciliations in Syria. This document was supported by 15 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Tajikistan, South Africa, and Venezuela," the ministry said.
"The statement stresses that local ceasefire agreements in Syria have helped save lives, have had a positive effect on the human rights situation and have made it possible to deliver humanitarian aid to peaceful people in conflict-torn areas and allowed internally displaced persons and refugees to return home," the ministry said.
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US observers of the Syrian election report at the UN.
US observers of the Syrian election report at the UN.
June 19, 2014 at 11am:
The Syrian Mission to the United Nations convened a press conference featuring people from the US who observed the recent elections.
Five minutes into the opening comments of Syrian Ambassador Bashar Al-Jaafari, the UN webcast cut off. The thousands of journalists, political analysts, and others who view UN webcasts each day from all over the world were denied the ability to watch the press conference, and hear what was said.
This is not the first time this has happened when Bashar Jaafari is speaking. This occurred on June 7th earlier this year, and on numerous occasions throughout 2013. Reporters at Inner City Press reported that this is not accidental, but was ordered by Michele DuBach, Acting Deputy Director-News & Media Operations.
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus pm June 3, 2014, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus pm June 3, 2014, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA.
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The 'WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit' created by artist and activist Clark Stoeckley
The 'WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit' created by artist and activist Clark Stoeckley
Known as a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the draft represents the negotiating positions of the U.S. and E.U. and lays out the deregulatory strategies championed by some of the world's largest banks and investment firms.
According to WikiLeaks:
Despite the failures in financial regulation evident during the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis and calls for improvement of relevant regulatory structures, proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets. The draft Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals - mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt - into other nations by preventing regulatory barriers. The leaked draft also shows that the US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, which would allow uninhibited exchange of personal and financial data.
Comment: The banksters are hell-bent on controlling the world, see also:
Buying up the planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a corporate buying spree
'After you'... 'No, after you'...
The Kremlin said in a statement that al-Maliki informed Putin on Friday about his government's steps to combat the "terrorist groups in the north of the country." It added that the insurgency threatens security of the entire region.
Putin confirmed Russia's "full support for the Iraqi government's action to quickly free the territory of the republic from terrorists," the Kremlin said, adding that Putin and al-Maliki also discussed bilateral cooperation.
Putin's expression of support for the embattled Iraqi prime minister comes as al-Maliki's rivals have mounted a campaign to force him out of office, with some angling for support from Western backers and regional heavyweights.
Source: Associated Press
According to Dr. Yilmaz report which he presented to the hospital administration; in the past four days, it became clear through the meticulous medical examination that around 70% of Islamists who fight in Syria and northern Iraq are diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases due unsafe sexual intercourses, and in accordance with the results of the medical tests, approximately 30% of them are infected with HIV.
Dr. Yilmaz asked the hospital administration to impose more stringent quarantine measures up on those radical terrorist whom have been diagnosed with HIV, and also requested the hospital officials to not receive further numbers of the injured terrorists in the hospital for fear of an epidemic disaster.
Comment: A 'spiritual war', eh?
See also:
Rape, pillage and plunder: Al Qaeda terrorists receive retrospective blessing from extremist Saudi cleric to enjoy hours-long 'intercourse marriages' with Syrian girls
Comment: What more character reference does one need regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton? A stone-hearted, terminally ambitious psychopath who cared (and cares) nothing for the fellow creatures she rolls over on her way to power. The fact that this child's life was destroyed didn't faze her at all. All that mattered was a chalk in the win column for her. She and Slick Willy are a match made in hell.