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British MPs calling for investigation into 1980s dossier on Westminster pedophiles


RT
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:59 UTC
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© Reuters / Eddie KeoghDen of pedophiles.
An alleged network of pedophile politicians active in the 1980s must be investigated say MPs as the Home Office is blasted over 'lost' dossier.

MPs are calling for an alleged network of pedophile politicians active in the 1980s to be investigated.

Those calling for an inquiry believe individuals close to 10 Downing Street helped cover up the sexual abuse of children by politicians and other public figures three decades ago.

Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, who recently published a book about a former Rochdale MP and abuser of young boys Cyril Smith, claims a missing dossier of allegations about pedophiles was presented to then-Conservative Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who served in Margaret Thatcher's government in the role from 1983-85.

Danczuk wants an inquiry into the historical allegations to help identify perpetrators other than Smith. At a home affair select committee hearing this week, he called politics "the last refuge of child sex abuse deniers".

Comment: Good luck! Pedophile rings at this level tend to get away with child rape. Blackmail, fall guys, 'suicides', and corrupt and complicit moles all help, of course.

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Unexploded cluster bomb found in Donetsk, Ukraine


Voice of Russia
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:36 UTC
Donetsk
© RIA Novosti/Andrey SteninArchive photo.
Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) Aleksandr Boroday has claimed that the militia has found an unexploded cluster bomb near Donetsk.

An international convention forbids using cluster bombs. The militia has repeatedly claimed that Ukrainian forces use cluster bombs. "Ukrainian forces have used the BM-21 launch vehicles, uncontrolled missiles with cluster heads and other types of heavy armament," the Russian Investigative Committee says.

"An unexploded cluster bomb was found between the cities of Shakhtyorsk and Tores in the Donetsk People's Republic. We are thinking of how to disarm it," Boroday said.

Comment: Kiev will never be a true U.S.-inspired 'democracy' until it violates every international convention and law on the books. Thankfully, it's well on its way!

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Bundestag inquiry: NSA whistleblowers testify, disclose 'totalitarian' surveillance


RT
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:19 UTC
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Former NSA agents-turned-whistleblowers are testifying before a German parliamentary committee as the Bundestag investigates America's wiretapping methods with one of them branding the NSA approach "totalitarian."

It is hoped that evidence from the two US citizens, William Binney and Thomas Drake, will shed light on the methods of surveillance used by the American National Security Agency (NSA), which eavesdropped on the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leading German and European politicians.

Binney and Drake broke their silence long before ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden leaked revelations about American intelligence agencies' practices last year.
Entering Hall in Bundestag now. #NSA # PUA Mr. Bill #Binney in the house. Palpable tension in the room. #Snowdenpic.twitter.com/fPBggVjGeP
- Diani Barreto (@deCespedes) July 3, 2014
At the hearing in Berlin on Thursday, Binney was first to answer questions and share what he know about the NSA's spying practices. Speaking at length about the NSA's technical refinements, structures and procedures, he denounced the surveillance practices of his former employer.
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Hungarian living standards decreased since joining EU


RT
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:15 UTC
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EU funding to the Hungarian economy is predicted to slow over 3 years. Budapest is looking eastwards to boost trade with Russia & China. RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky reports on a country at the crossroads.

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Israel 'responds' to 'rocket attacks', prepares military operation in Gaza

Tia Goldenberg
Yahoo! News
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/Mohammed BallasIsraeli automatons take positions during clashes with Palestinians in an early morning operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.
Israel began moving troop reinforcements to its border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, defense officials said, raising the possibility of an expanded military operation in the Palestinian territory in response to intensifying rocket barrages.

The movement of tanks and artillery forces came after another night of heavy rocket fire, including barrages that struck two homes in the southern border town of Sderot. Israel's last major operation in Gaza, a territory controlled by the Hamas militant group, took place in late 2012.

The rocket fire comes at a time of heightened tensions following the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. Israel has accused Hamas of being behind the deaths, and arrested hundreds of Hamas operatives in the West Bank as part of a broad manhunt in the largest ground operation in the West Bank in nearly a decade.

The Palestinians have meanwhile accused Israeli extremists of abducting and killing a teenage boy in east Jerusalem in a revenge attack, and stone-throwing youths clashed with Israeli police throughout the day Wednesday.

The weeks since the Israeli teens disappeared have seen militants in Gaza fire scores of rockets at Israel, which has responded with airstrikes against alleged militant targets. Two Palestinian militants were killed in an airstrike last week, and a young Palestinian girl was killed by an errant rocket attack. There have been no serious casualties on the Israeli side.

Comment: In a nutshell: Hamas forms a unified government, Israel stages a minor false-flag, blames Hamas, justifies a harsh 'military operation', riles up the racist and vengeful tendencies of its citizens, re-destabilizing Palestinian authorities and killing a bunch of Palestinians in the process. Mission success!

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Zionist definition of 'sanctity of life': Palestinians don't count

Ali Abunimah
Desert Peace
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:46 UTC
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Since the bodies of three missing Israeli youths were discovered in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli politicians have whipped the public up with demands for "revenge."

The videos in this post show disturbing footage of significant crowds of young Israelis marching through the streets of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening chanting "Death to the Arabs" - "mavet la'aravim" in Hebrew.

In some of the footage those chanting appear to be young children.


Comment: Herd behavior is unbecoming of you, Israelis. The Paranoia Switch works every time.

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Snakes in Suits

Another half-wit, pin-brained economist sez we need "major war" to save economy

George Washington
Zerohedge.com
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:02 UTC
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Preface: Two weeks ago, well-known economist Tyler Cowen (a professor at George Mason University) argued in the New York Times that wars - especially "major wars" - are good for the economy.

Cowen joins extremely influential economists like Paul Krugman and Martin Feldstein - and various talking heads - in promoting this idea.

Also, many congressmen assume that cutting pork-barrel military spending would hurt their constituents' jobs. It is vital for policy-makers, economists and the public to have access to a definitive analysis to determine once and for all whether war is good or bad for the economy. That analysis is below.

Top Economists Say War Is Bad for the Economy

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that war is bad for the economy:

Stiglitz wrote in 2003:
War is widely thought to be linked to economic good times. The second world war is often said to have brought the world out of depression, and war has since enhanced its reputation as a spur to economic growth. Some even suggest that capitalism needs wars, that without them, recession would always lurk on the horizon. Today, we know that this is nonsense. The 1990s boom showed that peace is economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy.

Stiglitz has also said that this decade's Iraq war has been very bad for the economy. See this, this and this.
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Believe it or not! Bill Kristol PNAC frontman still paid to speak on TV

Peter Hart
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© ABC NewsKatrina vanden Heuvel giving William Kristol a much needed - though unheeded ounce of truth.
A showdown from the June 29 episode ABC's This Week went viral, as Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel decided to confront ABC pundit and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol over his stance on the Iraq War:
And I have to say, sitting next to Bill Kristol, man.... I mean, the architects of catastrophe that have cost this country trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, there should be accountability.

We should not - if there are no regrets for the failed assumptions that have so grievously wounded this nation, I don't know what happened to our politics and media accountability. But we need it, Bill, because this country should not go back to war.

We don't need armchair warriors.
It's clearly a good thing that someone like Kristol is being held accountable for his Iraq advocacy. In the late 1990s, he helped found the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a think tank that played a critical role in planning and selling the Iraq War. His magazine was similarly devoted to the cause (Extra!, 9/09), including making the claim that Iraq and Al-Qaeda were in cahoots (Extra!, 1/04).

Comment: If Bill Kristol's continuing to be hired for jobs giving him a platform to promote war isn't an example of just how controlled the major media is, I don't know what is. He has been so consistently and disastrously wrong about so much over the years that one can practically see "the man behind the curtain" pulling the strings to empower him and give him the wholesale means to disinform. And who - with any measure or ability to judge character and competence - would be a major supporter of Sarah Palin for any position of responsibility? WK is surely an agent of chaos in a suit.

See also:

Controlled Media: CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate People

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Charges of corruption and illegal use of influence laid against Nicolas Sarkozy

Lizzie Dearden
The Independent
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:41 UTC
Sarkozy
© Desconocido
The former French President was kept in custody for hours of questioning

The former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been charged with corruption and illegally using his influence after a day in custody.

The disgraced politician was questioned by police for 15 hours, Le Monde reported, and was left without a lawyer when Thierry Herzog was also arrested along with two senior judges.

Mr Sarkozy, 59, has become the first former French President taken into custody in a criminal investigation, making his widely anticipated political comeback look ever more unlikely.

The right-wing leader has been accused of multiple illegal dealings, mostly linked to the financing of his 2007 and 2012 election campaigns.

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There. He said it. 'US hegemony in world has ended' - Russia's deputy security chief


RT
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:23 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse / Martin BureauUS soldiers board the last C17 aircraft carrying US troops out of Iraq at Camp Adder on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on December 17, 2011.
The deputy head of Russia's supreme security body says US international dominance is being replaced by multiple centers of power. He urged a global agreement on the results of the Cold War, warning that the world could otherwise become engulfed in chaos.

"The United States has an impression that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the only result of the Cold War. This is arguable, and this is possible. But no one has attempted to analyze the results or make any conclusions from the situation. The unipolar world headed by Americans simply appeared," Evgeny Lukyanov told the RIA Novosti.

"However, this status quo was not built to last. New power centers have appeared on the international arena, including the BRICS nations, and Russia itself has managed to regain its stance. Nations openly declare their interests and demand respect to their basic rights. This is how the US hegemony on the international arena has ended and of course Washington officials cannot agree with this," the Russian official stated.

Lukyanov emphasized in the interview that the USSR was no more.

"Russia is a different state, a participant of international processes and we want to have a say, we have national interests which we intend to defend," he said.

"This caused the West to overreact, on the verge of hysteria. But you cannot ignore the 'Russia factor' in the world," the official added.

Comment: Being awash as we are in the political spin that is the western mainstream media, it's refreshing to hear reality-based commentary about the world situation.

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