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Paul Craig Roberts: Washington reeks of the stench of evil

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Alone among the governments in the world, Washington requires sovereign governments to follow Washington's laws even when Washington's laws contradict the laws of sovereign countries.

The examples are endless. For example, Washington forced Switzerland to violate and to repeal Switzerland's historic bank secrecy laws. Washington executes citizens of other countries, as well as its own citizens, without due process of law. Washington violates the sovereignty of other countries and murders the countries' citizens with drones, bombs, and special forces teams. Washington kidnaps abroad citizens of other countries and either brings them to the US to be tried under US law or sends them to another country to be tortured in secret torture centers. Washington tells banks in other countries with whom they can do business and when the banks disobey, Washington blackmails them into compliance or imposes fines that threaten their existence. Last week Washington forced a French bank to pay Washington $9 billion dollars or be banned from its US operations, because the bank financed trade with countries disapproved by Washington.

Washington issues ultimatums to sovereign nations to do as they are told or "be bombed into the stone age."

Monkey Wrench

Missing the point: Why is Obama encouraging illegal immigration when we can't care for millions of our own citizens?

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For years, the Obama administration has been making it abundantly clear that it is a friend of illegal immigrants. Border security is a joke, the federal government refuses to go after "sanctuary cities" even though they are breaking federal law, there is a website that instructs immigrants how to sign up for welfare programs once they arrive in the United States, and the Obama administration has distributed flyers that tell illegal immigrants that their immigration status will not be checked when they apply for food stamps. And Obama has even instructed officials to use "prosecutorial discretion" in deportation cases involving non-criminals. In other words, Obama has been flashing a huge green light to illegal immigrants, and so of course our borders were going to be inundated with them.

Apologists for the Obama administration will debate you all day about what Obama "intended" and what he didn't "intend", but there is no doubt about what message immigrants from Central America have been receiving.

For example, one young mother recently told the press that she heard that if you "go to America with your child, you won't be turned away".

And you can view video of a little boy from Central America telling an investigate reporter that he believes that Barack Obama has "given permission" for him to live in the United States right here.

Comment: The immigration issue, so popular in the news today, is about exploitation. The psychopathic capitalist system is not designed to take care of its own citizens or anyone else. It is contractile and abhorrently greedy, serving only itself.
The first thing that occurred to me as I read some of these items was that the reason people wish to emigrate is because of some situation in their homeland that makes living either uncomfortable or impossible. Let's face it, nobody picks up and emigrates just for fun. And if someone emigrates to "make more money," it's usually because they cannot make enough where they live to survive. Of course, there are those that want to do more than just make enough money to send home so that the family can have a roof over their head and food on the table, but we will get to that.

So, considering that emigration is a symptom of a country's failure in some sense, it's decline in equitable distribution of wealth, what can be at the root of such a problem? Why are so many countries full of people who want to go somewhere else?

Exploitation. The global economy has, by and large, been rigged to benefit a small ruling elite and to begger everyone else.

The fact is, poverty in most of the world is directly caused by large landholdings - the big estates of the ruling elite, and the war mongering of same in their efforts to acquire more land, more resources, more wealth. That is why Mexico has a flood of dispossessed seeking escape to the US; that is why Iran has so many Afghan refugees; that is why there are so many Muslims in France; that is why urban areas are so poor and overcrowded and crime ridden and wages are so low for everyone. And in most cases, it is due to the covert or not-so-covert U.S. involvement in the finances and internal policies of those countries.

In the present day, society is not much different from the time of Dickens when there were huge estates of England and starving, dying masses of people in East End London. Just look at South America and the stupendous land holdings of the Rockefellers and other international bankers.

So, what is at the root of the exploitation problem?

Psychopathy: those who seek to feather their own nest to an obscene degree at the expense of others.

It is psychopaths who have arrogated the world's wealth to themselves. Psychopaths are always and ever monopolists of the world's wealth, and they justify their having the wealth by their various pathological economic theories. It is psychopaths that say that "common" people "breed like rabbits and that if the masses had money and land and leisure they would just increase the population until their new land was just as teaming with poverty and stench as before". What is hidden behind this paramoralistic ideology is the truth that psychopaths fear the population of normal humans with conscience and a feeling of connection to other human beings.
Immigration: Ignota nulla curatio morbi!
See also:
On illegal immigration, more U.S. cities are rolling out a welcome mat
Private US prisons are getting rich by abusing illegal immigrants
Imperial President: Obama threatens to defy Congress on immigration, infrastructure decisions


Pistol

Kiev's genocidal turkey shoot: 478 civilians dead in E. Ukraine

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© RIA Novosti / Valeriy Melnikov
Four hundred and seventy-eight civilians, including seven children, have been killed in Kiev's military crackdown on the eastern regions of Ukraine, the country's deputy health minister said on Thursday.

"The amount on civilian casualties is, unfortunately, greater than the military ones," Vasily Lazoryshynets, deputy health minister, said as cited by ITAR-TASS.

"In the area of the operation in eastern Ukraine, 478 civilians have died, including 30 women and seven children," he said.

According to Lazoryshynets, a further 1,392 people were injured in the fighting, with 104 women and 14 children among them.

"Two hundred and seventy-nine currently remain in hospital," he added.

Earlier in July, Ukraine's National Security Council said that 200 soldiers and law enforcement officers had been killed and over 600 injured during the so-called "anti-terrorist operation."

Quenelle

Germany gives Berlin CIA station chief the boot

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The German government has asked the CIA station chief at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to leave the country, an unusual action between allies that represents a public expression of anger over reported cases of U.S. spying in Germany.

"The representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the Embassy of the United States of America has been requested to leave Germany," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement Thursday.

A day earlier, federal prosecutors in Germany said police had searched the office and apartment of an individual with ties to the German military who is suspected of working for U.S. intelligence. Those raids followed the arrest of an employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service who was accused of selling secrets to the CIA.

Seibert said the request for the CIA official's departure was made "against the backdrop of the ongoing investigations of the Federal Prosecutor General as well as the questions pending for months about the activities of the US intelligence services in Germany, for which the Lower House of Parliament has also established a parliamentary inquiry committee."

German officials have also been angered by the revelations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of widespread U.S. surveillance in Germany. Among the targets was Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone, an operation that has since been halted.


Comment: Is the U.S. finally going to reap what it has sown for so many decades? With signs of discontent popping up in countries the world over, here's hoping!


Water

Collecting rainwater outlawed in several U.S. states

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Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level.

You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.

This is while its scientifically proven that collecting rainwater is to the best of environment and people. Sharon Williams, UH Mānoa's campus architect, who works on the campus's long-range water planning efforts, said the current ideas in the university's Long Range Development Plan focus on collecting rainwater through catchment systems on rooftops and other hard surfaces around campus to filter and use the water. The plan also looks at using unfiltered "greywater" for irrigation on campus, she said. "All of (these) will help to reduce our water bills, recharge the aquifer, limit the discharge of pollutants into the stream (and) ultimately the ocean, and reduce stream degradation," she said.

Bulb

Republican presidential candidate Joni Ernst calls Obama 'dictator' and sez 'impeachment' should be on the table

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© Charlie Neibergall/APState Sen. Joni Ernst waves to supporters at a primary election night rally, June 3, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Republican candidate for the Iowa U.S. Senate seat called the president a "dictator" and said he must "face the consequences"

Sarah Palin might have called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Tuesday, but Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst actually beat her to the punch by six months.

At a Montgomery County, Iowa, candidate forum in January, Ernst told a crowd that she believed Obama had "become a dictator" and that he needed to face the consequences for his executive actions, "whether that's removal from office, whether that's impeachment."

The video, which was previously described to Yahoo News by a source, was posted, removed and then posted again online at AOL. Yahoo News was able to view a cached version of the previously unpublished video before it went live. The clip shows the January Montgomery County GOP Forum in Red Oak, Iowa. The Ernst campaign tweeted out a photograph of the forum Jan. 15.

Cow

Leaving the herd: European countries breaking EU's united front on Russia amid gas needs

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© RIA Novosti/Eduard PesovLavrov visits Bulgaria to discuss South Stream gas deal.
A clutch of countries is breaking ranks with the EU's efforts to put economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia over Ukraine and building a pipeline meant to carry huge amounts of Russian gas to their doorstep.

Their defiance of a European Union stop work order is more significant than just another missed chance for Europe to call out the Kremlin. Russian natural gas already accounts for around a third of the EU's needs. The South Stream pipeline could increase Russian supplies to Europe by another 25 percent, potentially boosting Moscow's leverage long after the Ukraine crisis fades.

Adding to the skein of Russian pipelines already ending in Europe, South Stream would go through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Italy in one leg and Croatia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey in a second. The European Commission, the EU executive, has ordered a construction moratorium over concerns with Russia's dual role as pipeline owner and gas supplier. It has also delayed some political talks on the pipeline amid the crisis in Ukraine.

"Developments in Ukraine and Russia have demonstrated that the EU's priority is to diversify its energy sources," says spokeswoman Sabine Berger of the EU Energy Commissioner's office.

But Austria, Hungary, and Serbia - the first two EU members, the third a candidate to join - have said they will build their sections of the project and others may follow, to the displeasure of the EU and United States. In the wake of Austria's decision last month, Washington urged it to "consider carefully" whether that contributed to "discouraging further Russian aggression."


Comment: We're really getting tired of the U.S.'s veiled threats and political doubletalk.


Vader

France to introduce stricter laws for citizens accused of terrorism

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France plans to introduce stricter anti-terrorist legislation amid growing concern its nationals are fighting alongside Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq.

The bill, if approved, will ban terrorist suspects from international travel as well as websites that recruit radicals.

Individuals who are suspected of terrorism will be banned from traveling abroad for up to six months, says the draft bill to be presented on Wednesday. The passports of the suspects may also be confiscated for some time or invalidated.

"The objective of this bill is to increase the number of hurdles to discourage those who want to go and to stop them [from] actually going," an Interior Ministry source said, reported French outlets.

Also the law, if approved, says that the airlines will have to inform the country's authorities about the alleged radicalized individuals the moment they make a reservation on the flight. The airlines will also be banned from taking on board such suspects.

Comment: It should not be forgotten that France's first 'Muslim radical', Mohamed Merah, was conscripted, funded and 'radicalized' by French intelligence:


Eye 1

Cybersecurity bill that broadens NSA spying powers passes Senate Intelligence Committee

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New cybersecurity legislation cleared the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday during a closed session. Critics fear it may broaden the NSA's already formidable access to Americans' data.

Written by Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), CISA - or Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act - is widely seen as a redux of last year's CISPA bill, which was widely protested by online privacy watchdogs and ultimately defeated in Congress.

A draft of the bill circulated in June granted permission by government agencies to retain and share data for "a cybersecurity purpose," which was defined as "the purpose of protecting an information system or information that is stored on, processed by or transiting an information system from a cybersecurity threat or security vulnerability." According to the Guardian, that language would likely lead the NSA to stockpile weaknesses in digital security.

Megaphone

Top Obama official blasts Israel for continuing to deny sovereignty and security to Palestinians

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© screen shot haaretz.co.ilWhite House coordinator for the Middle East Philip Gordon speaks at the Israel Conference on Peace in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014
'How can Israel have peace if it's unwilling to delineate a border, end the occupation?' asks White House Mideast chief, Phillip Gordon, in blistering Tel Aviv speech

Israel's ongoing occupation of the West Bank is wrong and leads to regional instability and dehumanization of Palestinians, a top American government official said Tuesday in Tel Aviv, hinting that the current Israeli government is not committed to peace.

In an unusually harsh major foreign policy address, Philip Gordon, a special assistant to US President Barack Obama and the White House coordinator for the Middle East, appealed to Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make the compromises needed to reach a permanent peace agreement. Jerusalem "should not take for granted the opportunity to negotiate" such a treaty with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has proven to be a reliable partner, Gordon said.

"Israel confronts an undeniable reality: It cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely. Doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring instability," Gordon said. "It will embolden extremists on both sides, tear at Israel's democratic fabric and feed mutual dehumanization."

Delivering the keynote address at the Haaretz newspaper's Israel Conference on Peace, Gordon reiterated Obama's position that a final-status agreement should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps.