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Sunday, 7 June 2015

Obama muzzles Kerry on Ukraine Policy: Nuland usurps her boss?

© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Europe      On May 21st, I headlined "Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine," and quoted John Kerry's May 12th warning to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to cease his repeated threats to invade Crimea and re-invade Donbass, two former regions of Ukraine, which had refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime that was imposed on Ukraine in...

2,500-year-old 'Wonder Woman' found on Greek vase

© The University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, David M. Robinson Memorial Collection      A 2,500-year-old predecessor of super heroine has emerged on a vase painting kept at a small American museum. Drawn on a white-ground pyxis (a lidded cylindrical box that was used for cosmetics, jewelry, or ointments) the image shows an Amazon on horseback in a battle against a Greek warrior. Much like the fictional warrior...

Pool party turns violent when police show up and assault and nearly shoot multiple unarmed teens

© YouTube      A weekend pool party in Texas turned violent after a McKinney police officer on a power trip began brutalizing a young woman. According to video post on Facebook, the police were called to a McKinney residence because of the large number of people attending a pool party. The police officers were in some sort of feeding frenzy as they were rounding up young teens, armed only with their swimsuits and forcing them...

Gloves coming off: Russia gets serious on de-dollarizing

     Russia is about to take another major step towards liberating the Ruble from the Dollar System. Its Finance Ministry just revealed it is considering issuing Russian state debt in Chinese Yuan. That would be an elegant way to decouple from the dependence and blackmail pressures from the US Treasury financial terrorism operations while at the same time strengthening the bonds between China and Russia - Washington's worst...

Netanyahu under siege in 'the most embattled democracy on earth'

     Over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has made two statements that demonstrate that a siege mentality has enveloped him due to the progress of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS). First, he issued a statement to the Sheldon Adelson "summit" in Las Vegas aimed at countering BDS to thank those gathered for allowing "young Jews to stand tall" for Israel, "the most embattled democracy...

Missing Evidence of Prior FBI Relationship with Boston Bomber

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s testimony that the FBI had contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev long before Russia’s warning was all but ignored in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Ever since the early days of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, it’s been commonly understood that Tamerlan Tsarnaev first came to the attention of the FBI thanks to a March 2011 “warning” from the FSB, Russia’s security services. We now know this to be false....

The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets

Every great con game eventually comes to an end.  For years, global central banks have been manipulating the financial marketplace with their monetary voodoo.  Somehow, they have convinced investors around the world to invest tens of trillions of dollars into bonds that provide a return that is way under the real rate of inflation.  For quite a long time I have been insisting that this is highly irrational.  Why would any rational...

103 Years Later, Wall Street Turned Out Just As One Man Predicted

In 1910, three years before the US Federal Reserve was founded, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip of National City (Citibank), Henry Davison of Morgan Bank, and Paul Warburg of the Kuhn, Loeb Investment House met secretly at Jekyll Island in Georgia to formulate a plan for a US central bank just years ahead of World War I. The result of their work was the so-called Aldrich Plan which called for a system of fifteen regional central banks,...

The Cost of China's Industrialization: 700 Million People with Diabesity /Cancer /Lung Disease and 225 Million with Mental Disorders

That the China Story is going to implode is already baked into the public health catastrophe that will unfold with a vengeance in the coming decade. The financial pundits gushing over "The China Story"--that the Middle Kingdom's industrialization is a permanent boon to the global economy and China's poor--never calculate the human cost of that runaway industrialization and the vast inequalities it has unleashed. The human cost is staggering: at...

FIFA indicted! Loretta Lynch's hypocritical attitude toward Wall St on full display

© Don Emmert/AFP/Getty New attorney general will prosecute foreign sports officials but not criminal bankers in her own backyard      The U.S.-led investigation of top FIFA officials is commendable for its decisive action to punish blatant corruption. But it should also disgust. Far worse crimes occur every day in the financial sector, but the Department of Justice, while obviously aware of them, has done too little. FIFA doesn't...

Armed open carry activists defy police in Texas

White concealed-carry activists were walking around with assault rifles slung around their backs. When police approached them, one of the activists yelled at the police for approaching them, one of them having his gun drawn. Open Carry Texas, a gun-rights group, posted the video on YouTube. [embedded content] The man behind the camera is the organization's president CJ Grisham. It begins on June 3, 2015, when he notices two Abilene police officers near the street corner where he stands with two colleagues who each have an assault rifle strapped...

BEST OF THE WEB: U.S. creation of its proxy army ISIS in Iraq and Syria part of imperial divide-and-conquer strategy for Middle East

© Eva Bee      The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting. The prosecution abandoned the case, apparently...

45 dead in Saudi-led raids on Yemen capital

© AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais A Yemeni boy stands amidst the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led air strike on a residential area last month, in the capital Sanaa, on May 18, 2015      Sanaa (AFP) - Twenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital on Sunday, a medic said. The raids on the army headquarters in central Sanaa came...

Man Honestly Thought Breakdown Would Be More Obvious To People

© The Onion      MAPLEWOOD, MN—Explaining that he had assumed the deterioration of his physical and psychological state would be readily apparent, 3M sales associate Mark Uhler told reporters Wednesday he honestly thought his ongoing breakdown would be more obvious to everyone around him. "Given how many times in the past month I've showed up to work on two hours of sleep and just stared at my computer in total silence, I'd...

Hypocritical legislation: South Carolina takes action against Israeli boycotts

© Reuters South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.      WASHINGTON - South Carolina's governor has signed into law a bill to stop efforts to boycott, divest and sanction Israel on Thursday afternoon, in a first for the nation on a statewide level. The bill makes no mention of Israel directly, but prevents public entities from contracting with businesses engaging in the "boycott of a person or an entity based in or doing business...
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