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Fearing work stoppage at U.S. ports, retailers rush to import goods

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Retailers are rushing goods into the nation's ports, fearful labor strife may arrive on the docks and affect the busy holiday season, a trade group said.

The powerful longshoremen's union is negotiating a new contract for its nearly 20,000 dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports. A breakdown in talks led to a 10-day lockout in 2002, shutting ports along the coast.

Fearful of such disruptions, retailers "aren't taking any chances," according the monthly Global Port Tracker report, released by the National Retail Federation.

Imports to large U.S. container ports will likely hit 1.5 million container units this month, the highest level in at least five years, the report said. Imports started surging this spring, as retailers looked to get goods in before the contract expired July 1. Importers have begun to shift cargo to East Coast ports as well, the group said.

Bizarro Earth

Crimea prosecutor: Ukraine is lawless, Kiev kills its own civilians

Natalia Poklonskaya
© ITAR-TASS/Alexandr RuminCrimea Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya
Laws do not work in Ukraine and the authorities are killing people instead of protecting them, Crimea's Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said on Thursday while visiting a refugee camp for Ukrainians in the village of Opushki near Crimea's capital Simferopol.

Asked about a possibility of forced migrants to assert their rights in Ukraine, the prosecutor replied with emotion: "Look what is going on in Ukraine! What is the law there and who are the authorities protecting? A bunch of people who gathered together and dictate their conditions to the others and God knows what they are about?"

"Which law regulates murder of ordinary citizens?" the CrimeaInform quoted Poklonskaya as saying. "Who has given them a right to murder? The law does not work in Ukraine, there is none there."

"The people who came here and are now enjoying protection of Russian law and Russia testify to this fact," she said.

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Netanyahu government knew teens were dead as it whipped up racist frenzy

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© Tali Mayer / ActiveStillsAt a right-wing protest in Jerusalem a sign reads “May God avenge their blood” and a youth wears a sticker stating “Kahane was right,” referring to the Brooklyn-born violent settler movement leader, 1 July.

"Cursed be he who says, 'Avenge!' "

- Chaim Bialik, from "On The Slaughter"

From the moment three Israeli teens were reported missing last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's military-intelligence apparatus suppressed the flow of information to the general public. Through a toxic blend of propaganda, subterfuge and incitement, they inflamed a precarious situation, manipulating Israelis into supporting their agenda until they made an utterly avoidable nightmare inevitable.

Israeli police, intelligence officials and Netanyahu knew within hours of the kidnapping and murder of the three teens that they had been killed. And they knew who the prime suspects were less than a day after the kidnapping was reported.

Rather than reveal these details to the public, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency imposed a gag order on the national media, barring news outlets from reporting that the teens had almost certainly been killed, and forbidding them from revealing the identities of their suspected killers. The Shin Bet even lied to the parents of the kidnapped teens, deceiving them into believing their sons were alive.

Comment:
"Israel does not want peace with Palestinians, it wants to finish the job it started in the 1930s and 40s. It wants every Palestinian either dead or exiled to other Arab nations. When you understand the truth of that (and you can see the truth of it in Israeli actions over the past 60 years) you understand that there can be no peaceful solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict until either the Jews or the Palestinians are wiped out, in one way or another."

Psychopathic 'Morality': The Truth Behind the Kidnapping and Murder of 3 Israeli Teens



Star of David

Not too strong a question: Is Israel planning Gaza's "Final Solution" with "Operation Protective Edge"?

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Yet another massive assault on Palestine is underway, where, of course, according to the Balfour Declaration, the Jewish population are guests not occupiers since: " ...the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of (this) it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ..." (1.)

Overnight (8th/9th July) however, one hundred and sixty targets were initially hit, including the European Gaza Hospital (a war crime without a war.) Twenty eight people were killed and over two hundred injured (2) added to the unending onslaught on Palestine from the day the Zionist cuckoo took over the Palestinian nest, homes, gardens, history, culture, ancient sites, cemeteries, villages, valleys, olive and apricot groves on 14th May 1948 (3) ignoring, jack booting and bulldozing entirely the "civil and religious rights" of the population, accompanied by subsequent decades of mass murder and demolitions.

The current onslaught is apparently in response to the deaths of three youths from settler families, for whom no one has claimed responsibility and many questions remain (4.) However homes of two Palestinian "suspects" were arbitrarily destroyed by the Israeli military with no arrests, trial, recourse to law for the dispossessed victims of any kind.

Subsequently in an apparent revenge killing, Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudair (16) was kidnapped and murdered, his body doused in gasoline, which was also reportedly poured down his throat before setting him alight (5.) Muhammad's cousin Tariq Khudair (15) visiting from Florida was apprehended and beaten so badly by the Israeli police that he reportedly: "woke up in hospital." (6)

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© Yonatan Sindel/Flash90Damage from a "deadly" rocket fired from the Gaza strip in Ashdod, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, July 9, 2014. Photo by
The all led to rockets being fired in to Israel, though no injuries have been reported. Israel responded by targeting Gaza (Palestine of course, has no meaningful defence forces) with: "four hundred tonnes of bombs and missiles" with "four hundred and forty targets being hit" and with: "The battle against Hamas (to) intensify over the coming days; it will exact a huge price." (7) The tiny Gaza Strip is just forty one kilometers long and between six and twelve miles wide and home to 1,816,379 people (2014 figure.)

Israel is clearly planning another "turkey shoot" reminiscent of General Norman Schwartzkopf's infamous boast of his aerial slaughter on the Basra Road, of those seeking safety, with no where to hide, in the first Gulf war.

Comment: Psychopathic Israel has truly lost touch with reality, expecting the world to rally to its side for the death of three of its children (most likely sacrificed by Israel itself). Her crimes are just too blatant and too long-standing.


Evil Rays

Zionist ABC airs Gaza bombing devastation images - says it's in Israel

Palestinian woman in Gaza after military strike
© AFP Photo / Mahmud HamsA Palestinian woman gestures as she stands amidst destruction following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City on July 08, 2014
In the latest case of Western mainstream media confusing the geographical location of warzones, an ABC News anchor described footage of Gaza homes shortly after their destruction by the IDF as belonging to Israel.

On July 8, veteran ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, 68, opened up a news segment, entitled Under Attack, with the following introduction: "We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel today, as Israel tried to shoot them out of the sky, all part of the tinderbox, Israelis and Palestinians [sic]."

In two images that accompanied Sawyer's narration, she says, "Here are two Israelis trying to salvage what they can, while a woman is standing speechless among the ruins."


There was just one problem: The images of wide-scale physical destruction and human suffering shown in the images were not from Israel, but rather from the Gaza Strip, where the locals have been enduring days of aerial bombings.

Comment: Western media is purely a zionist propaganda organ. Goebbels would be envious at how the Western media again and again get away with blatant propaganda and without any consequences when it is exposed as propaganda.

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Arrow Down

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

William Binney
© Getty ImagesWilliam Binney testifies before a German inquiry into surveillance.

William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington's move towards mass surveillance.

On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations.

"At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US", Binney said. "This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores."

The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.

Binney, who featured in a 2012 short film by Oscar-nominated US film-maker Laura Poitras, described a future where surveillance is ubiquitous and government intrusion unlimited.

"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control", Binney said, "but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone."

Light Sabers

Change of fortunes!: 'At least 30' Ukrainian military killed as militia shell convoy with Grad rockets

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Dozens of Ukraine's government troops have been reportedly killed after local militia shelled pro-Kiev military forces with Grad rocket launchers. President Poroshenko has vowed "killing hundreds" for each deceased soldier.

Self-defense troops attacked a Ukrainian military unit at around 5:00am near Zelenopolye village in the Lugansk region, not far from the Russian border, Kiev's officials reported.

A military official described the consequences of what he called "a bloody terrorist act" as "destruction" saying that about 30 were feared killed.

"About 30 servicemen are thought to have been killed in a shelling by militants using Grad multiple rocket launchers at units of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces near the village of Zelenopolye," Zoryan Shkyryak, an adviser to Interior Minister Arseny Avakov, said at a briefing. "There might be more victims."

Gift 3

Putin's Latin American tour: Russian leader meets Fidel Castro, writes off 90% of Cuba's Soviet-era debt, and signs oil and gas exploration deals

Russian President Vladimir Putin
© RIA NovostiRussian President Vladimir Putin

Russia has written down $32 billion of Cuba's Soviet era debt. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law ahead of his official visit to Latin America, with Havana as his first stop.

The agreement was first signed in October 2013 and draws a line under a twenty-year dispute.

Cuba is now required to pay back $3.2 billion over the next 10 years.

The first payment from Cuba is expected in October, and the money will be transferred to an account of the Russian lender Vnesheconombank opened at the National Bank of Cuba.

The agreement was signed into a law on Friday ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to Latin America, where Cuba comes the first.


Sherlock

NSA bombshell has senators clueless

These are the men and women who are supposed to keep watch over the nation's spies. And they have no idea about the latest revelations of inappropriate NSA snooping.
Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein
© www.politico.comLindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein: a couple of clueless senators
The newest revelations about the National Security Agency may be shocking to the rest of us. To the congressional overseers of the American intelligence services, not so much. They're still catching up from a holiday weekend. Or maybe they've just become numb to the whole spying-on-ordinary-people thing.

Using files provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the NSA scooped up the communications of innocent Internet users, including Americans, and that those not targeted by the agency far outnumber those targeted by the agency.

Personal and intimate information - details on romantic relationships, résumés, pictures - for thousands of non-targeted individuals have all been caught in the NSA's surveillance driftnet, according to the newspaper.

All of that, you might think, would be a matter of some interest to the senators who control the budgets and oversee the activities of the nation's military and intelligence agencies. Or not. Sen. Lindsey Graham - who sits on the Senate's armed services, appropriations, and judiciary committees and is one of the Republican Party's most prominent voices on defense and intelligence issues - wasn't familiar with the Post piece.

Comment: The definition of clueless: having no knowledge, understanding or ability.


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Flashback Israel plans new war crimes to "exact a heavy toll" on Palestinians

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The state of Israel is ready for another war in Gaza following incidents in the Israeli-Gaza borders where it claims that numerous rockets were fired from the Gaza by terrorists groups according to the Times of Israel.

"Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday expressed their satisfaction with the IDF's preparedness for a possible incursion into the Gaza Strip and declared that such an attack would severely incapacitate terror groups" according to the report. The report also indicated that "their statements came amid a recent spike in the number of attacks emanating from Gaza and, subsequently, the number and intensity of Israeli retaliatory strikes."

The Israeli government is in preparation to hit the Palestinians to disable their military capabilities to attack the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in case of any future war with the Palestinians or any of its neighbors in the Middle East. It would also limit the Palestinians fighting capabilities if Israel were to launch attacks on its neighbors as in the case of Lebanon, Syria or Iran. Both Israel and Lebanon have a strenuous relationship for decades. Israel will launch strikes deep into Gaza if new peace talks fail when US Secretary of State John Kerry who is scheduled to arrive this week. Israel recently complained to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Security Council that Lebanon committed acts of terror, including the murder of an IDF soldier by a Lebanese soldier.