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Vigilante violence in Israeli society - bred in the bone

Dan Cohen
Mondoweiss
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:45 UTC
In less than eighteen hours from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon, Israeli racism and xenophobia exploded into three forms of extreme violence. I witnessed two of them.
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An Israeli demonstrator shouts at African asylum seekers in Levinsky Park, Tel Aviv.
Six people were stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man named Yishai Schlissel at Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade. Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Shira Banki succumbed to her wounds. Only three weeks before, Schlissel was released from prison where he served a commuted ten-year sentence for stabbing three gay men at the 2005 parade. Despite a massive security presence, they were unable to prevent him from attacking again. After the parade, right-wing Israelis gathered in Jerusalem's Zion Square to celebrate the stabbing rampage.

While this attack was condemned by Israeli political figures, their statements ring hollow - some of these politicians have incited against the LGBTQ community. During a 2006 Gay Pride Parade MK Belazel Smotrich organized a Beast Parade, marching through Jerusalem with goats and donkeys. Earlier this year, Smotrich said "I am a proud homophobe" while on a panel at a school.

At the Pride Parade, I spoke to a nineteen-year-old Israeli-American named Shmuel who would be enlisting in what he described as the "gay-friendly" Israeli Air Force. He acknowledged the Israeli military specifically targets gay Palestinians in order to coerce them to collaborate, but saw this homophobic tactic as unrelated to the acceptance of gay conscripts into the military. "It's totally separate," he told me. Shmuel's allegiance to the Jewish State and its homophobic tactics deployed against Palestinians outweighed his commitment to LGBTQ rights - a clear display of the racism he professed to be against.

Comment: Israel is shocked, SHOCKED, that such things could happen in 'the only democracy in the Middle East." Except they happen all the time:

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SOTT Exclusive: Dirty bomb in the making, SBU uncovers yet another sinister Russian plot

Ante Sarlija
Sott.net
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:50 UTC
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Yuriy Tandit, chief adviser to SBU Director Vasily Hyrtsak, said: “The DPR plans to use radioactive material to create a dirty bomb with which it can blackmail the international community and the government of Ukraine.”​
In concert with the constant shelling of east Ukraine by the Kiev junta, there is as always a barrage of propaganda coming from the Western media that conveniently shifts attention from the crimes committed by the Poroshenko regime. This time, The Times along with Newsweek and several other outstanding publications are claiming that the rebels in the east of Ukraine are building a dirty radioactive bomb. In this dastardly endeavor, the rebels are allegedly being helped by, who else, the Russians! Now where have we heard that one before?
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine are "building a dirty bomb" with the assistance of Russian nuclear scientists, according to a Ukrainian security service report seen by The Times.

The dossier, which was also seen by IBTimes UK sister publication Newsweek, claims that Russian experts have extracted radioactive waste from a bunker at the Donetsk state chemical plant and transported it to a rebel base.

The experts are allegedly working on combining the hazardous material with explosives to create a dirty bomb.
The source of these outlandish claims are "supposedly hacked emails between rebels and radio communication interceptions and field operatives." Not only could the details, as usual, not be independently verified, Western media hacks received the information directly from the SBU. How's that for an impartial source!

Along with the alleged hacked emails, the following is also reported by Newsweek.
The dossier also contains a report from an undercover SBU agent in Donetsk and refers to intercepted radio and telephone communications. It is this agent's report, based on information apparently gathered during a vodka-soaked night with a separatist fighter and passed clandestinely to an SBU handler, that has sparked fears that the DPR is working on a dirty bomb. (The SBU said it could not provide recordings or transcripts of these conversations to Newsweek.)
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Bad Guys

A review of Ukraine's on-going descent into the abyss, bought and paid for by the US-NATO

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:26 UTC
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We're in the summer doldrums of the news cycle, a perfect time for our government and the media - or do I repeat myself? - to drop certain inconvenient stories down the Memory Hole. My job, of course, is to retrieve them....

Remember Ukraine? I seem to recall blaring headlines about a supposedly "imminent" and "massive" Russian invasion of that country: the Anglo-Saxon media was ablaze with a veritable countdown to D-Day and we were treated to ominous sightings of Russian troops and tanks gathering at the border, allegedly just awaiting the order from Putin to take Kiev. And it turns out there has been an invasion, of sorts - although it isn't a Russian one. It's the Kiev regime's own foot-soldiers returning from the front and turning on their masters.

The war is going badly for the government of oligarch Petro Poroshenko. The east Ukrainians, who rose in revolt after the US-sponsored coup threw out democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych, show no signs of giving up: they've repulsed the "anti-terrorist" campaign launched by Kiev, withstanding relentless bombardment of their cities and enduring many thousands of casualties, not to mention widespread destruction. Indeed, the brutal protracted war waged by Kiev against its own "citizens" has arguably steeled the rebels' resolve and made any thought of reconciliation unthinkable.

Comment: The pathologicals are at each other's throats in Ukraine. This can be expected when the rule of law is torn apart (as in the Maidan coup) and the pathological 'law of the jungle' is the only order left.

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Russian investigators present crimes committed by pro-Kiev forces in Donbass, 2013-2014


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:44 UTC
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Russia's agency for especially important crimes has presented a major report on war crimes committed by Kiev military and volunteers in the southeastern regions of Ukraine that seek self-determination after last year's coup in the capital.

The head of the Investigation Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, said in the Monday press release that the main objective of the project was to attract the attention of the international community and international Human Rights Group and to tell the truth about the "terrible fratricidal war started by the nationalist regime of Ukraine."

He added that the Investigative Committee was looking into 54 criminal cases connected with the civil war in Ukraine and that the combined materials on these cases make 2,500 volumes, including the testimonies of over 100,000 witnesses.

Comment: To read an edition of the White Book, see here.

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U.S. announces new rules of engagement in Syria - Will officially act as 'travelling bodyguard' for terrorists

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:47 UTC
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A Patriot missile is launched during an Israeli-US military excercise in the Negev desert in southern Israel in February 2001.
Fresh on the heels of the establishment of an "ISIL-Free Zone" (aka "No-Fly Zone") in northern Syria along the Turkish border, the United States has quietly announced that it will also extend its airstrike operations to act as the traveling bodyguard of the jihadists it has trained and "vetted."

The policy, reportedly authorized by Barack Obama, would involve the US Air Force bombing any force attacking the so-called "moderate rebel fighters,"including the Syrian military.

The announcement was first reported on Sunday by the Wall Street Journal via anonymous military sources. The senior military official told the WSJ "For offensive operations, it's ISIS only. But if attacked, we'll defend them against anyone who's attacking them. We're not looking to engage the regime, but we've made a commitment to help defend these people."

Comment: No surprise here - it's what the US has been doing across the Middle East as they maneuver ISIS wherever they deem it strategically effective. When anyone says there should be 'boots on the ground' in Syria, that's exactly what these psychopathic terrorists are.

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RT documentary on MH17 probe prompts Dutch Safety Board to ask for help


RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:51 UTC
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© Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters
Emergencies Ministry members walk at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014.
The Dutch agency heading the international probe into Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine has contacted RT over the footage used in our recent documentary on the tragedy. RT's documentary discovered fragments of the plane still in Donetsk.

The RT Documentary film, titled MH17: A year without truth, showed fragments of the crashed Boeing and pieces of luggage still scattered in the area at the time of filming. The RTD crew collected the parts of the plane's exterior they spotted, bringing them to the administration of the nearby town of Petropavlovsk.

"With great interest we watched your documentary, 'MH17: A year without truth,'" Dutch Safety Board spokesperson Sara Vernooij wrote to RT. "In this film, RT shows parts of the cockpit roof which were found near Petropavlivka. We would like to gather those pieces and bring them over to the Netherlands so the Dutch Safety Board can use them for the investigation and the reconstruction."

In the documentary, the RTD crew talked to witnesses, experts and family members of flight MH17 passengers in a bid to understand whether the truth of what caused the tragedy will ever be established.


The documentary also features relatives of those who perished in the MH17 crash who say they have no possibility to get information about the course of the investigation, and believe it is not objective.
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Dominoes

We're navigating a world of dangers

Tom Chatham
Project Chesapeake
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC
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© beforeitsnews.com
Ah, another piece in place...only a few more until "Tyranny" is fait accompli!
There is no shortage of dangers in the world today. It seems every day something else appears from out of the blue and adds to the pile of potential problems we have to deal with. Some of these problems are covered over or ignored all together. They are hidden in the shadows to prevent people from protecting themselves from the dangers.

The whole premise of hiding these dangers is that when someone loses in the future, someone else will profit from it. In our case, when many people lose, a few will profit massively. That is how the system has been set up. The people have been set up and the time is near when the plug will be pulled and chaos will be the order of the day. When that day comes many of the seemingly unconnected problems we face will coalesce into a massive problem few will understand or be equipped to deal with, and that is the hope of some. Here are some of the problems that will come together in the future and spell disaster for many:

Comment: There are many articles warning citizens of the upcoming culmination of the PTB plans to hold the USA hostage within its own borders. It cannot be emphasized enough that Americans are in jeopardy and need to be reminded on a daily basis how precarious is the balance and how fragile the illusion that all is still well in the great and mighty USA. As the PTB's cloaking device becomes more and more transparent, hopefully enough savvy citizens will come to their senses. This article is only a partial collection of the serious and heinous operations underfoot. Think about what else you know and multiply it by 1,000.

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Take 2

MH17: A year without truth (RT documentary)


RT
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 23:02 UTC
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© Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters
Emergencies Ministry members walk at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014.
A year ago, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down over the territory of conflict-torn Ukraine. This tragedy shocked the world and affected families in many countries. Today, debris can still be found in the area around the crash and the investigation, shrouded in secrecy, still hasn't reached a definitive conclusion. RTD talks to witnesses, experts and family members of MH17 passengers in a bid to understand whether the truth of what caused the tragedy will ever be established.


Comment: After this documentary was aired, the Dutch Safety Board investigating the crash wrote to RT:
"With great interest we watched your documentary, 'MH17: A year without truth. In this film, RT shows parts of the cockpit roof which were found near Petropavlivka. We would like to gather those pieces and bring them over to the Netherlands so the Dutch Safety Board can use them for the investigation and the reconstruction."
How's that for total incompetence? You'd think the DSB would've made a thorough effort to retrieve all the evidence a year ago. But there's really no need, when you're not really investigating in the first place...

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Attention

Climate Fascism: Obama's emission reduction plan will decimate the coal industry and cost countless jobs

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:37 UTC
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Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? On Sunday, we learned that Obama is imposing a nationwide 32 percent carbon dioxide emission reduction from 2005 levels by the year 2030. When it was first proposed last year, Obama's plan called for a 30 percent reduction, but the final version is even more dramatic. The Obama administration admits that this is going to cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a year and that electricity rates for many Americans are going to rise substantially. And what Obama is not telling us is that this plan is going to kill what is left of our coal industry and will destroy countless numbers of American jobs. The Republicans in Congress hate this plan, state governments across the country hate this plan, and thousands of business owners hate this plan. But since Barack Obama has decided that this is a good idea, he is imposing it on all of us anyway.

So how can Obama get away with doing this without congressional approval?

Well, he is using the "regulatory power" of the Environmental Protection Agency. Congress is increasingly becoming irrelevant as federal agencies issue thousands of new rules and regulations each and every year. The IRS, for example, issues countless numbers of new rules and regulations each year without every consulting Congress. Government bureaucracy has spun wildly out of control, and most Americans don't even realize what is happening.

Comment: See also: The titanic tip of the climate spending iceberg

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Bad Guys

Guns and oil: Britain's secret ties to governments and firms behind ISIS oil sales

Nafeez Ahmed
Medium
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:06 UTC
In the scramble to access Kurdistan's oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in 'Islamic State' oil smuggling.
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Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (ISIS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement according to senior political sources in the region. US and British oil companies are heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle sustaining ISIS' black market oil sales.

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq and Turkish military intelligence have both supported secret ISIS oil smuggling operations and even supplied arms to the terror group, according to Kurdish, Iraqi and Turkish officials.

One British oil company in particular, Genel Energy, is contracted by the KRG to supply oil for a major Kurdish firm accused of facilitating ISIS oil sales to Turkey. The Kurdish firm has close ties to the Iraqi Kurdish government.
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