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British PM Cameron bound in servitude to Israel

Stuart Littlewood
Press TV
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:10 UTC
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British Prime Minister David Cameron
Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist regime, the Jewish Chronicle can be relied on to make the most of it. This week it reports on UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Chanucah/Hanukkah reception in Downing Street when he lit a menorah (that elegant 9-branch candlestick) with the Chief Rabbi.

According to the JC, Cameron took the opportunity to say he didn't have much faith in the interim nuclear agreement struck with Iran.

He told assembled Jewish leaders: "I know there will be great skepticism, I know there will be great worry. I share that skepticism, I share that worry. I don't have any starry-eyed view of what this Iranian regime offers."

He went on to announce: "I am with you and with the Israeli people, genuinely. As far as I'm concerned, an enemy of Israel is an enemy of mine. A threat to Israel is a threat to us all.

Comment: "A threat to Israel is a threat to us all." Is anyone else just a little weary of hearing subservient Zionist bootlickers like Cameron spout this easily refuted garbage?

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Whistle

Witchhunt? Virginia Governor McDonnell

Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Sari Horwitz
The Washington Post
Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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© Ricky Carioti/Washington PostMaureen and Bob McDonnell
Federal prosecutors told Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell last week that he and his wife would be charged in connection with a gift scandal, but senior Justice Department officials delayed the decision after the McDonnells' attorneys made a face-to-face appeal in Washington, according to people familiar with the case.

Dana J. Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, told the McDonnells' legal teams that he planned to ask a grand jury to return an indictment no later than this past Monday, people familiar with the conversations said.

McDonnell (R) and his wife, Maureen, would have been charged with working together to illegally promote a struggling dietary-supplement company in exchange for gifts and loans from its chief executive, the people said.

The plan to seek the felony charges this week changed, however, after attorneys for the state's first couple met with Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole on Dec. 12.
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Attention

Senate passes $630 billion military budget bill


Press TV
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:27 UTC
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The Pentagon building is the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia and is the symbol of the US military.
The United States Senate has approved a massive $632.8 billion worth of military spending, including $80.7 billion for the war in Afghanistan and $17.6 billion for nuclear weapons programs.

The Senate Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, 84-15. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bill last week on a strong bipartisan vote. The spending measure for the 2014 fiscal year will now go to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees had each passed their own version of the bill in June. During late November, Republicans and Democrats on the committees worked out a compromise bill that incorporated elements of their competing versions.

The bill would authorize everything from overall spending on wars and military salary to procurement of weapons systems and military-related foreign policy issues.

Comment: There's plenty of money in the coffers, apparently, for war, plunder and pillage - and it's always the most vulnerable who pay the price and suffer the consequences.

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Cult

Hollande seeks European cannon fodder and money for wars in Africa


Press TV
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:26 UTC
Hollande
© UnknownThe cost of military adventures are staggering! Someone has gotta pay.
French President Francois Hollande has renewed calls for a 'European presence' in the Central African Republic, saying he expects Poland to provide military support for the French troops in the African country.

"At the moment there are some ongoing contacts sometimes to a very good extent. I have Poland in mind ... to provide troops for operations that could add up to ours. If the decision is confirmed tomorrow, then the operation will be considered a European one, opening the way to European financing," Hollande said at the end of the first day of European Union summit talks on Thursday.

The French president also welcomed logistical backing from some European countries including Belgium, Britain, Germany and Poland.
"What I would like to see, politically, is a European presence.That it not be said that 'France is alone,'" he said at a news conference.

Comment: Hollande wants money and cannon fodder from the other European nations, in what is a colonial French aggression to secure resources for French corporations. Remember Hollande won the UNESCO peace prize and is just as eager for war as Obama, another peace prize winner . And like the US, France is virtually bankrupt, so the only way forward for the pathocrats in power is to steal resources where they are and if they can con someone else to pay for the military nightmare, the better.

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Eye 2

MI5 and MI6 face questions over torture of terrorism suspects

Ian Cobain, Richard Norton-Taylor, Nick Hopkins
The Guardian
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:21 UTC
Andrew Tyrie, Conservative MP
© Felix ClayAndrew Tyrie, Conservative MP: 'It is deeply shocking that Britain facilitated kidnap and torture'.

Former government ministers and intelligence chiefs face a series of disturbing questions over the UK's involvement in the abduction and torture of terrorism suspects after 9/11, an official inquiry has concluded.

In a damning report that swept aside years of denials, the Gibson inquiry concluded that the British government and its intelligence agencies had been involved in so-called rendition operations, in which detainees were kidnapped and flown around the globe, and had interrogated detainees who they knew were being mistreated.

MI6 officers were informed that they were under no obligation to report breaches of the Geneva conventions; intelligence officers appear to have taken advantage of the abuse of detainees; and Jack Straw, as foreign secretary, had suggested that the law might be amended to allow suspects to be rendered to the UK.
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Dollar

Tech executives to Obama: NSA spying revelations are hurting business

Cecilia Kang and Ellen Nakashima,
Washington Post
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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© Business Review Europe
Leaders of the nation's biggest technology firms warned President Obama during a lengthy meeting at the White House on Tuesday that National Security Agency spying programs are damaging their reputations and could harm the broader economy.

Cisco Systems has said it is seeing customers, especially overseas, back away from American-branded technology after documents revealed that the NSA enlisted tech firms and secretly tapped into their data hubs around the world as the agency pursued terrorism suspects. Companies such as IBM, AT&T and Verizon Communications are facing angry shareholders, some of whom have filed lawsuits demanding that the companies disclose their participation in NSA intelligence programs.
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Pharoah

Vlad the Merciful: Putin frees Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky from prison

Shaun Walker
The Guardian
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:53 UTC
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been freed, bringing an end to more than a decade behind bars after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree pardoning him.

Putin made the surprise announcement on Thursday that he planned to pardon the country's former richest man, who is regarded by Kremlin critics as a political prisoner. On Friday morning the Kremlin said the decree had been signed. By lunchtime, Khodorkovsky had left the prison camp in northern Russia where he was serving his sentence, his lawyer said. "He has left the [prison] colony. That's all I can say," Vadim Klyuvgant told Reuters.

The decree, signed by Putin, pardoned Khodorkovsky on the basis of "the principles of humanism".

Putin's announcement that he intended to release Khodorkovsky - who has been in jail since 2003 and was due for release next August - came at the end of a four-hour press conference in Moscow.
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Snakes in Suits

Whitewash! Report finds no evidence of widespread sexual misconduct in Secret Service

Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura
The Washington Post
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:29 UTC
A long-awaited report analyzing the male-dominated culture of the U.S. Secret Service has concluded that the elite law enforcement agency does not have a widespread problem with its employees engaging in sexual misconduct while on official business.

The findings of the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general come 1½ years after more than a dozen Secret Service agents and officers were implicated in a prostitution scandal on President Obama's trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Congress requested the report after agency officials testified that the behavior was an aberration and not indicative of a broader institutional lack of control and accountability within the agency.

The report determined that there have been isolated cases of misbehavior, and investigators recommended that the Secret Service implement 14 new guidelines to identify and address misconduct by employees. Investigators said that the agency has implemented 11 of the recommendations.

"Although individual employees have engaged in misconduct or inappropriate behavior, we did not find evidence that misconduct is widespread in USSS," the Office of the Inspector General's report concluded, according to a copy obtained late Thursday by The Washington Post. "Furthermore, we did not find any evidence that USSS leadership has fostered an environment that tolerates inappropriate behavior."

The report warned, however, that the agency "should continue to monitor and address excessive alcohol consumption and personal conduct within its workforce."
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Eye 1

War economy: BAE Systems fails to win £6bn contract to supply Typhoon fighters to UAE

Sean Farrell
The Guardian
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:04 UTC
Failure is a blow to the company and to David Cameron, who intervened personally to try to secure the order

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© Rui Vieira/PABAE Systems had been in talks with the UAE for more than a year to supply 60 Typhoon jet fighters.
BAE Systems has missed out on a £6bn contract to supply fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, in a blow to British export hopes and David Cameron's own attempts to secure a deal.

The UK arms manufacturer revealed on Thursday that more than a year of talks to supply 60 Typhoon aircraft to the UAE had failed. It also said vital negotiations with the Saudi government over the pricing of an existing Typhoon contract, keenly anticipated by shareholders, will drag into next year.

The news is a serious setback for BAE as it seeks to reduce its reliance on US and British defence markets that have been hit by government spending cuts. BAE's search for new sources of revenue has seen it pursue a failed merger with the Airbus owner Eads and launch a major push into emerging defence markets such as the UAE and India.

In its statement, BAE said: "BAE Systems and the UK Government have been in discussions with the Government of the United Arab Emirates regarding a range of defence and security capabilities including the potential supply of Typhoon aircraft. The UAE have advised that they have elected not to proceed with these proposals at this time."

The news is a blow not only to BAE but also to the prime minister, who intervened personally last month to try to secure a deal that would have represented a significant boost for British exports. During a visit to the UAE, Cameron urged Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, to opt for the Typhoon over a rival fighter produced by France's Dassault Systemes. Analysts thought the prime minister's move could have swung the deal for BAE, raising hopes that the UK will meet George Osborne's target of doubling exports to £1tn by 2020.
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Bad Guys

US lawmakers eyeing $8bn in food stamp cuts


Press TV
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 04:55 UTC
Foodstamp cuts
© George DanbyCulling the population by limiting the food.

US lawmakers are considering a compromise five-year farm bill that would cut the food stamp program by $8 billion over the next 10 years.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Reuters on Thursday that changing eligibility rules and disqualifying up to 4 million Americans who depend on food stamps would also help the US government save $40 billion over a decade.

As part of the new US farm bill, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives proposed to cut nearly $40 billion from nutrition programs, the largest cuts in a generation. However, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted to reduce food-stamp funding by $4.5 billion.

Food stamp benefits are the most politically contentious component of the first US farm bill since 2008.

"From everything I've seen, we are now within a few items of having this agreed to," said Harkin who is a member of the select committee responsible for reconciling the bills passed by the two chambers of the US Congress.

Comment: So the real cuts are likely to be $48 billion, $8 billion in cuts and $40 billion by changing the eligibility rules. The US pathocrats in powers have learned from their fellow pathocrats in Israel, who publicly said that they would starve to death put the Palestinian population on a diet.

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