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Forced? William Hague steps down as UK foreign secretary


RT
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:21 UTC
William Hague
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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced he is standing down from his post to serve as leader of the House of Commons.

He has announced that he will not stand as an MP in the May 2015 general election. "After 26 years as an MP, the time will be right for me to move on," Hague said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would like to pay an enormous tribute to Hague, adding that he will remain the PM's de facto political deputy and "play a key campaigning role and be leader of the House of Commons."

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond will most likely become the new foreign secretary according to multiple sources, including Sky News and the Guardian.

Hague's departure comes as a surprise to most, who expected the foreign secretary to remain at his post until the election. However, a few expected him to take on further political roles. The outgoing minister confirmed as much during his comments on Monday.

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Star of David

Whitewashing the Gaza massacre: Yet another online propaganda squad set up by Israeli students

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:09 UTC
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It's Gaza invasion season again, and the trolls are out in force!
As the death toll from Israel's savage bombardment of Gaza continues to climb, Israel has once again turned to students to sell the slaughter online.

"Although they haven't been called up to the army yet, they've decided to enlist in a civilian mission that is no less important - Israeli propaganda [hasbara]," Ynet's Hebrew edition reported about a massive initiative organized by the Israeli student union branch at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC Herzliya), a prestigious private university.

Hasbara war room

"Hasbara," literally "explaining," is the term used in Israel for government propaganda aimed at overseas audiences.

"The goal is to deliver a very clear message to people abroad - Israel has the right to defend itself," Lidor Bar David told Ynet.

Bar David, a student, and one of the organizers of the "war room," adds, "We want people abroad who don't know our reality to understand exactly what is going on here."

Comment: If you're wondering where much of the online "debate" actually comes from, this is it. There simply aren't enough people who are psychologically sick enough to support the Israeli machine, despite their revered status in western newspapers and televisions. Therefore, groups like this must work tirelessly to create the illusion of popular support for genocide.
  • US military caught manipulating social media, running mass propaganda accounts

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Arrow Down

Blood for gas: Why Bibi is punishing Gaza

Pepe Escobar
RT.com
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:35 UTC
Gaza City_1
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Smoke billowing from buildings following an Israeli air strike as a projectile falls in the background in Gaza City.
So Bibi's got his brand new war. Operation Protective Edge, the current slow motion ethnic cleansing super production conducted in Gaza by the Israeli Attack, sorry, Defense Forces (IDF), is Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's wet dream.

A quick recap is essential. US Secretary of State John "Bullhorn" Kerry was conducting a sham exercise known as "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine. As expected, it failed miserably. Hamas and the PLO in Palestine then formed a technocratic unity government. Bibi was, predictably, furious.

Then two Palestinians - not Hamas - kidnapped three Israeli teenager settlers hitchhiking at night near Hebron. One of the hitchhikers somehow managed to call an Israeli police emergency number on his mobile. The kidnappers freaked out and shot the hitchhikers on the spot, dumping their bodies.
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Attention

Big Corporations have an OVERWHELMING amount of power over our food supply

Michael Snyder
theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:19 UTC
Corporations controlling Food Supply
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From our fields to our forks, huge corporations have an overwhelming amount of power over our food supply every step of the way. Right now there are more than 313 million people living in the United States, and the job of feeding all of those people is almost entirely in the hands of just a few dozen monolithic companies.

If you do not like how our food is produced or you don't believe that it is healthy enough, it isn't very hard to figure out who is to blame. These mammoth corporations are not in business to look out for the best interests of the American people. Rather, the purpose of these corporations is to maximize wealth for their shareholders.

So the American people end up eating billions of pounds of extremely unhealthy food that is loaded with chemicals and additives each year, and we just keep getting sicker and sicker as a society. But these big corporations are raking in big profits, so they don't really care.

If we did actually have a capitalist system in this country, we would have a high level of competition in the food industry.
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Pistol

More dead bankers: Three new JP Morgan IT deaths include alleged murder-suicide

Russ Martens and Pam Martens
Wall St on Parade
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:03 UTC
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Julian and Alita Knott: From Alita Knott’s Public Facebook Page
Since December of last year, JPMorgan Chase has been experiencing tragic, sudden deaths of workers on a scale which sets it alarmingly apart from other Wall Street mega banks. Adding to the concern generated by the deaths is the recent revelation that JPMorgan has an estimated $180 billion of life insurance in force on its current and former workers.

Making worldwide news last week was the violent deaths of JPMorgan technology executive Julian Knott and his wife, Alita, ages 45 and 47, respectively, in Jefferson Township, New Jersey. However, two other recent, sudden deaths of technology workers at JPMorgan have gone unreported by the media.

The bodies of the Knott couple, who have a teenage daughter and two teenage sons, were discovered by police on July 6, 2014 at approximately 1:12 a.m. According to a press release issued by the Morris County Prosecutor's office, Jefferson Township Police Officers Tim Hecht and Dave Wroblewski responded to the Knott home located in the Lake Hopatcong section following a "report of two unconscious adults."

Who made the call to police and whether the children were home at the time has not been announced by the police or the prosecutor's office. After a preliminary investigation, the police announced on July 8 that they believe Julian Knott shot his wife repeatedly and then took his own life with the same gun.

Comment: Lots of dead bankers in a very short time, and all from JP Morgan. Seems suspicious when you consider the life insurance policies...

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Rocket

Russia Considering 'Surgical Strike' on Ukraine: "Our patience is not boundless"


RIA Novosti
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:08 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Sergei Pivovarov
A house in Donetsk, a town in southern Russia’s Rostov Region, hit by a shell fired from the Ukrainian side of the border
Moscow is considering "surgical retaliatory strikes" on the Ukrainian territory after the standoff has led to first civilian victims among Russians on Russia's territory, a Kremlin source told Kommersant Monday.

"Our patience is not boundless," the source told the newspaper, stressing that "this means not a massive action but exclusively targeted single strikes on positions from which the Russian territory is fired at."

The Russian side "knows for sure the site where the fire comes from," the source said.

The proposed plan echoes a statement by a deputy speaker of Russia's upper house, Yevgeniy Bushmin, who told RIA Novosti Sunday that using precision weapons in response to Ukraine's shelling would prevent further Kiev's attacks of Russia's territory.

There is a feeling that if before firing was not aimed against Russian border guards, now provocations have been on the rise as there is no other means of forcing us to join in the standoff with Ukraine's security troops," said Bushmin who represents Rostov Region in the Federation Council.
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Star of David

Seventh day of bloodshed in Gaza


PressTV
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:43 UTC
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Israel has continued its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip for the seventh straight day, killing a total of at least 173 Palestinians in the besieged enclave so far.

On Monday, the Israeli jets bombed three sites around the coastal territory, which reportedly belonged to the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.

The Israeli aircrafts also struck buildings in Gaza City, Deir el-Balah and Jabaliya and wounded several Palestinians.

A man and a woman died on Monday of injuries sustained in the Israeli airstrikes a day earlier.

At least 1,230 people have been injured since Israel began its aerial assaults on Gaza on Tuesday.

People have held protest rallies across the globe to denounce Israel for its aggression against Palestinians in Gaza.

Despite international calls for an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Tel Aviv regime was hitting Gaza "with growing force" and that there was no end in sight. "We do not know when this operation will end," he said.

The Israeli military has called up thousands of reservists for an all-out invasion of the impoverished territory.
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Ambulance

Israel murders 40 more Palestinians in last 24 hours


PressTV
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:37 UTC
Rafah

Smoke billows from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 14, 2014.
Some 40 more Palestinians have been killed in Israel's ongoing airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

This comes after Israeli warplanes targeted several residential areas of the besieged enclave.

Palestinian officials say at least three people including a woman were killed on the seventh day of Israeli airstrikes on Monday. Two of the victims died of injuries sustained in the air raids on Sunday.

The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombardment to 175. Latest figures show over 1,270 others have been also injured in the ongoing Israeli assaults.

Gazan homes, mosques and schools are also being targeted by the Israeli army operations. According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, more than three-quarters of the victims are civilians.

Meanwhile, the Arab League is urging the international community to end Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. The League's foreign ministers are due to hold a meeting on the crisis later on Monday.
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Whistle

Germany investigates second suspect of spying for U.S.

Phillip Oltermann
The Guardian
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:20 UTC
Merkel
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A tense German Chancellor Angela Merkel contemplates implications of CIA role in Germany spy affair.
German authorities are investigating the second case of a government employee suspected of spying on confidential government affairs for US secret services within a week.

Public prosecutors confirmed that the home and office of a defence ministry employee in the greater Berlin area had been searched on Wednesday morning.They told the Guardian that a search had been conducted "under suspicion of secret agent activity" and that evidence - including computers and several data storage devices - had been seized for analysis. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed that no arrest had yet been made.

According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency. The news came just days after a member of the German intelligence agency BND confessed to having passed more than 200 confidential files to a contact at the CIA.

The new case is not thought to be directly related to that of the BND staffer. However, one government insider familiar with the case told Süddeutsche Zeitung that the new case being investigated was "more serious" than that of the BND spy, in which the sold documents are thought to have been of limited value.

Comment: Espionage is a two-way street even if countries are "cooperating" with each other. In the midst of friendly alliances there are still secrets to be had while serving covert agendas. Is the U.S. looking for signs to determine the relationship between Germany and Russia? Are politicians playing a "sound and fury" deflection game with the public, and/or Russia, rather than quietly eliminating the problem? Or, could these spy incidents be a relic of an old paradigm giving way to a transnational security state? ...speculations at best.

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Alarm Clock

Ukraine military plane shot down from Russia as warning to US puppet regime in Kiev


BBC News
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:53 UTC
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A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with pro-Russian separatist rebels, Ukrainian officials say.

They say the An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m (21,325ft).

The plane was targeted with "a more powerful missile" than a shoulder-carried missile, "probably fired" from Russia. The crew survived, reports say.

Russia has made no comment. Separately, Nato reported a Russian troop build-up near the Ukraine border.

A Nato official confirmed to the BBC that the alliance had observed a significant increase of Russian troops, bringing their number to up to 12,000.

Russia denies supporting and arming the separatists, and has invited officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor its border with Ukraine.
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