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Israeli police authorize lethal force against Palestinians suspected of throwing stones

Nigel Wilson
Al Jazeera
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:42 UTC

Israeli police have been authorised to use lethal force as a first resort against Palestinians throwing stones, firebombs or fireworks, according to documents revealed by human rights group Adalah.

The latest open-fire regulations for Israeli police officers were approved and sent to officers in December, following two months of sporadic stabbing and vehicular attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces in Jerusalem, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Stone throwers face 20 years in Israeli jail

The regulations include authorisation for officers to use live ammunition against Palestinians, including minors, suspected of throwing stones or firebombs, or those who appear likely to be about to commit such an offence.

Comment: This is basically a green light for Israeli police to shoot any Palestinian at any time and then claim the person "appeared likely" to throw stones.

It also gives police officers authorisation to use lethal force as a first option in such cases.

The Jewish colonization of Palestine: Why Palestinian violence against its illegal occupiers is absolutely justified

Stephen Gowans
what's left
Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:27 UTC

It is easy for us who have never been victims of foreign conquest and are still living in our homes to vehemently denounce the violence of evicted Palestinians." [1]

"Palestine is an occupied land stolen from its native people and time does not make it a property of the thief."[2]

In 1939, Hitler ordered Poland to be depopulated and colonized by Germans. Poland had a substantial Jewish population. Less than 10 years later, in 1947 and 1948, Zionists—who, like Hitler, believed that Jews were a national collectivity, in addition to being a religious one, and that Jews ought to establish a homeland outside of Europe—ethnically cleansed Palestine, a former Ottoman territory, of a large part of its indigenous Palestinian population. The goal was to establish a Jewish state in Palestine to be colonized by Jewish settlers, mainly from Europe. The Zionists used terrorist methods to induce the Palestinian population to flee, and refused to allow them to return, turning nearly a million of them into refugees. The property of Palestinians who took flight and were barred from returning was taken over—that is, expropriated without compensation—by Jewish settlers.

In May of 1948, Zionist forces proclaimed the formation of a Jewish state in the Palestinians' country, a date Palestinians mark as the Nakba, or catastrophe. The Jewish state controlled 78 percent of Palestine. Many of the Palestinians whom Jewish terrorists had forced from their homes lived in refugee camps in the remaining 22 percent of their country. This was made up of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. In 1967, Zionist forces completed their military conquest of Palestine in toto, imposing military rule on parts of the Palestinians' country they had failed to conquer in 1948. Since then, Israel has engaged in a process of creeping Judaization of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, building Jewish-only settlements, connecting them by Jewish-only roads, and denying building permits to Palestinians.

Pure 'coincidence': Clinton offers new contract to attorney general, escapes indictment, cackles with glee

Moon of Alabama
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:13 UTC

Hillary Clinton is under federal investigation for using her private, insecure email server for classified State business. Anybody else handling classified official material on a private server would have at least lost their job and would likely be indicted. But Clinton is not anybody else. She has strings to pull. She has offers to make. And she is successfully doing such. Let's follow the trail.

Naval Reservist mishandled classified information just like Killary -- guess who was prosecuted?

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:21 UTC

In a case that clearly highlights that the rule of law only applies to the general public — and not politically connected elites — the FBI announced they would not refer Hillary Clinton for prosecution under Section 793 of the U.S. code relating to her use of a private email server.

Section 793, subsection (f), "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," makes quite clear that intent is not a key consideration in a case like this when deciding whether to press charges:

Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

DPR hopes elections will increase Europe's sympathy for their plight

Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:41 UTC

Holding primaries in Donbass will increase Europe's interest in Donbass. Such an opinion was expressed by the deputy of the National Council of the DPR, Alla Barkhatnova.

"Alexander Zakharchenko has announced that primaries will be held, and we fully support this. A preliminary survey of the population is necessary so that people know that sooner or later elections will be held and now they need to decide for whom they are ready to vote," she explained.
In addition, the deputy is convinced that primaries are necessary for both the people of Donbass and for those who are planning to run.

"In his statement on the beginning of primaries, Alexander Zakharchenko made it clear to the Ukrainian government that if they will continue to not fulfill the Minsk Agreements and if the Minsk negotiations continue to be held in a counter-productive vein, then we, as an independent state, will do without Ukraine," Barkhatnova remarked.

Comment: Further reading:

From patriots to drunks to mercenaries: Analyzing the collapse of the Ukrainian Army

Yurasamy; Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:34 UTC

On June 24th, 2016 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed Decree No. 271 on demobilization. This military discharge affects 17,000 military servicemen mobilized into the UAF in the framework of the 5th mobilization wave of 2015. Poroshenko stated that those demobilized will be replaced with contract soldiers, and that there is no longer any need for mobilizations. Meanwhile, in Donbass, the war is not over and there is every reason to believe that the end is still far off.

So why has Ukraine abandoned the idea of a "people's" army and is replacing it with contract soldiers, i.e., mercenaries?

Any army of the mobilized type, if it is not at war, decomposes. This rule has no exceptions. It was the idle sailors of the Baltic fleet and reserves who became the driving force of the February coup in Petrograd in 1917, as a result of which the 300 year Romanov dynasty was overthrown once and for all. Sitting in the trenches was the cause of unrest among the German and French armies. And if the second was cured by mass shootings, then the first followed the example of their Russian colleagues and forced Kaiser Wilhlem to abdicate, thus plunging Germany into revolutionary chaos.

Recently, one of the coordinators of the group "Information Resistance" (Tymchuk's group), Konstantin Mashovets, almost word for word repeated this well-known truth: "A mobilized army, if it is not fighting, begins to decompose. If you carry out a mobilizaiton, then you either have to fight or disband such an army. There is no medium here. Otherwise, the army will decompose and organize a revolution in the country with a Pinochet or something worse."

Comment: Ukrainian society is disintegrating and the army is in shambles. The chairman of the parliament is a former neo-Nazi commander, and the country has lost significant chunks of territory in the Donbass and Crimea due to the promise of mass repression. This is what the 'revolution of dignity' has brought the Ukrainian people. It's the ponerization process in real time, with pathological individuals spell-binding and corrupting the country.

Just a Game? Worry about the return 'of' your money, not the return 'on' it

Bill Gross
Janus Capital Group
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:59 UTC

If only Fed Governors and Presidents understood a little bit more about Monopoly, and a tad less about outdated historical models such as the Taylor Rule and the Phillips Curve, then our economy and its future prospects might be a little better off. That is not to say that Monopoly can illuminate all of the problems of our current economic stagnation. Brexit and a growing Populist movement clearly point out that the possibility of de-globalization (less trade, immigration and economic growth) is playing a part. And too, structural elements long ago advanced in my New Normal thesis in 2009 have a significant role as well: aging demographics, too much debt, and technological advances including job-threatening robotization are significantly responsible for 2% peak U.S. real GDP as opposed to 4-5% only a decade ago.

But all of these elements are but properties on a larger economic landscape best typified by a Monopoly board. In that game, capitalists travel around the board, buying up properties, paying rent, and importantly passing "Go" and collecting $200 each and every time. And it's the $200 of cash (which in the economic scheme of things represents new "credit") that is responsible for the ongoing health of our finance-based economy. Without new credit, economic growth moves in reverse and individual player "bankruptcies" become more probable.

Five revelations from Chilcot's damning report into the 2003 Iraq war

RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:40 UTC

copy of the executive summary of The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, by John Chilcot

The long-awaited findings of Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the invasion of Iraq by Britain in 2003 were finally published on Wednesday.

It has taken seven years, £10 million (US$ 13 million) and 2.6 million words to investigate whether it was right and necessary for the UK to invade Iraq, and whether the UK could and should have been better prepared for what followed.

RT has identified some of the main points of the report.

UK MP Alex Salmond: Corbyn coup was timed to distract him from calling for Blair's head over Chilcot report

Alex Salmond
The Herald
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:33 UTC

In normal political times Wednesday would see the most dramatic event of the year.

Thirteen years after the Iraq war and seven years after the start of his Inquiry, Sir John Chilcot will deliver his findings. In particular for the relatives of the 179 service personnel who died, but also for everyone living with the consequences of this conflict, it has been a long time coming.

However, such has been the all enveloping chaos in Westminster too little attention has been paid to the coming Chilcot report. When the European roof is falling in on one Prime Minister it is difficult to concentrate on just how a previous one destabilised the planet.

Behind his increasingly furrowed brows Gordon Brown might be forgiven for thinking that his own rocky premiership will be reassessed as a period of relative calm between two great disasters.

It would be a mistake to believe that Chilcot and current events are entirely unconnected. The link is through the Labour Party.

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South Front
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:08 UTC

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Puppet Masters

Israeli police authorize lethal force against Palestinians suspected of throwing stones

The Jewish colonization of Palestine: Why Palestinian violence against its illegal occupiers is absolutely justified

Pure 'coincidence': Clinton offers new contract to attorney general, escapes indictment, cackles with glee

Naval Reservist mishandled classified information just like Killary -- guess who was prosecuted?

DPR hopes elections will increase Europe's sympathy for their plight

From patriots to drunks to mercenaries: Analyzing the collapse of the Ukrainian Army

Just a Game? Worry about the return 'of' your money, not the return 'on' it

Five revelations from Chilcot's damning report into the 2003 Iraq war

UK MP Alex Salmond: Corbyn coup was timed to distract him from calling for Blair's head over Chilcot report

South Front: China's Middle East military capability, Russia's Sarmat ICBMs, and Syrian war developments (VIDEO)

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