2015-11-30 Pounding the Table, Israeli Officials Malign International Criminal Court

2015-11-30 Pounding the Table, Israeli Officials Malign International Criminal Court
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James Marc Leas, Truthout: When a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court initiated a "preliminary examination" into Israel's actions in Palestine, the Israeli government began a vigorous campaign to undermine that court and its prosecutor.
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Pounding the Table, Israeli Officials Malign International Criminal Court

When the ICC tried to investigate Israel's actions in Palestine, the Israeli government pushed back hard.

TRUTH-OUT.ORG|BY JAMES MARC LEAS

2015-11-29 Who is funding ISIS? Turkey, Israel, the West?

2015-11-29 Who is funding ISIS? Turkey, Israel, the West?
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An interesting detailed review from a generally reliable blogger.

ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel...

Leading news site for global finance, economics, market, and political analysis.

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2015-11-29 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...

2015-11-29 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...
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Settlers set up camp in a Palestinian man's front yard — and the army joins them.

Under cover of Shabbat, settlers invade Palestinian property in Hebron | +972 Magazine

Neither the army nor the police bat an eyelid when settlers set up shop in the front yard of a privately-owned Palestinian home for an entire weekend. By Michael…

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2015-11-29 FRANCE

2015-11-29 FRANCE
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France puts 24 activists under house arrest amid climate summit security buildup

At least 24 environmental activists have been placed under house arrest to avoid violent provocations while Paris is hosting a high-profile United Nations climate…

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2015-11-29 US: Persecution of whistle-blowers - a cardinal sign of corrupt regime!

2015-11-29 US: Persecution of whistle-blowers - a cardinal sign of corrupt regime!
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Obama's War on Truth By Craig Murray
More whistleblowers have been jailed under Obama than under all previous US Presidents combined. -

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2015-11-29 US: Rahm Emanuel Should Resign Now

2015-11-29 US: Rahm Emanuel Should Resign Now
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel oversaw the withholding from public view -- for more than a year -- of a video of a police murder of a teenager.

The police officer who shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times, continuing to shoot his motionless body on the ground, has now been indicted for first-degree murder.

The video was kept secret for 13 months, during which time Emanuel never corrected the blatant lies by the Chicago Police Department that maintained the victim had lunged at the police with a knife just before he was shot. The video shows this to have been a complete fabrication.

A mayor willing to cover for the murder of his constituent is no mayor at all.
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Demand Rahm Emanuel's resignation.

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2015-11-28 US in El Salvador: Part of the long history of spreading democracy, human rights...

2015-11-28 US in El Salvador: Part of the long history of spreading democracy, human rights...
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CIA Asked to Release Documents Related to Massacre in El Salvador
Carmen Rodriguez, CIP Americas Program: The wounds of war have still not healed in El Salvador. Twenty-three years after the peace treaty that ended a civil war there, two human rights organizations presented a request to the CIA for access to documents that prove the occurrence of a massacre committed during the war in the Central American country.
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CIA Asked to Release Documents Related to Massacre in El Salvador

CIA Asked to Release Documents Related to Massacre in El Salvador | The Americas Program

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2015-11-28 US under the Greater Depression -

2015-11-28 US under the Greater Depression -
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Back burner civil war, and/or social disintegration...

994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

The Oregon school shooting is evidence of ‘routine’ response to gun violence, Obama says. The data reveals an even more shocking human toll

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2015-11-29 Hello world! And welcome Vanuatu!

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2015-11-28 So why spy on all the people all the time???

2015-11-28 So why spy on all the people all the time???
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Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight
Terrorists used tools of everyday modern life to plan attacks on French capital undetected

Paris Attacks: Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight

The terrorists’ operation hinged on their ability to use the tools of everyday modern life to lay out the groundwork for the massacre in the French capital.

wsj.com|By Stacy Meichtry And Joshua Robinson

2015-11-28 US: ‪#‎Blacklivesmatter‬, #15 minimum hourly wage protests on Black Friday

2015-11-28 US: ‪#‎Blacklivesmatter‬, #15 minimum hourly wage protests on Black Friday
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Black Friday protests over Laquan McDonald shooting video, Walmart wages

Black Lives Matter and minimum wage protests are taking place on Black Friday, the kick-off of the Christmas shopping season. Chicago, Illinois remains the center of…

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2015-11-28 US, RUSSIA in SYRIA - effective no-flight zone for the US?

2015-11-28 US, RUSSIA in SYRIA - effective no-flight zone for the US?
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No US airstrikes in Syria since Russia deployed S-400 systems

Both the American and Turkish air forces halted their strikes on Syrian territory around the time Russia deployed S-400 air defense complexes at the Khmeimim…

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2015-11-18 SAUDI ARABIA - a moderate Suni regime...

2015-11-18 SAUDI ARABIA - a moderate Suni regime...
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Black Friday Saudi-style: Riyadh to behead more than 50 people

Saudi Arabia is planning to execute more than 50 people, found guilty of terrorism, in a single day. The move was immediately slammed by Amnesty International, which…

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2015-11-28 JERUSALEM: Routines of the occupation...

2015-11-28 JERUSALEM: Routines of the occupation...
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Soldiers Kidnap Seven Palestinians, Including Five Children, In Jerusalem - International Middle...

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday, several Palestinian homes and searched them, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped seven…

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2015-11-28 PALESTINE: Jews, Arabs protest - calling for ending the occupation

2015-11-28 PALESTINE: Jews, Arabs protest - calling for ending the occupation
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Only one Israeli news outlet covered this non-violent protest in the West Bank.

Jews, Arabs march on Israeli checkpoint to demand an end to occupation | +972 Magazine

Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians march along a major West Bank highway as part of a non-violent protest against the occupation, settlements and the recent…

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2015-11-28 Appointment of stuffed calves - the new medieval era...

2015-11-28 Appointment of stuffed calves - the new medieval era...
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I have been reading Ivanhoe again. As a teenager, I only followed the wildly dramatic plot. Now I also notice the comments along the way...
The book, written around 1800, describes corruption of government in England around 1100... Among the features: appointment of "stuffed calf" bishop in order to rob the assets of the church... A stuffed calf used to be placed before the cow after the real calf was taken, in order to stimulate ongoing milk production, hence the name "stuffed calf" bishop...
So how many "stuffed calf" government officials do we have today in order to enable the robbing of the people - regulators, law enforcement, judges?

2015-11-28 Why Turkey Stabbed Russia in the Back By Pepe Escobar

2015-11-28 Why Turkey Stabbed Russia in the Back By Pepe Escobar
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There's no way Erdogan will have his EU-paid "safe zone" inside Syria unless he goes to war against Russia. -

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2015-11-27 ISRAEL: Corrupt courts

2015-11-27 ISRAEL: Corrupt courts
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Here: Prosecutors in the Roman Zadorov case were working to adulterate the testimony of senior forensic medicine expert. In the case of a second senior forensic medicine expert in the Roman Zadorov case - prosecutors harassed and retaliated the doctor, whose testimony undermined the entire case of the prosecution.
Such conduct by prosecutors is distinguished criminality - typical of organized crime. But in Israel, a report was published today, saying the prosecutors were involved in "inappropriate conduct".
The justice system was working together for the past 10 years to accomplish the false murder conviction of Roman Zadorov....
2015-11-27 רומן זדורוב - נכלולים בבתי המשפט...
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התנהלות הפרקליטות המתועדת כאן היא התנהלות פלילית למהדרין, וידועה כהתנהלות טיפוסית לפשע מאורגן... אבל אצלנו זה חלק מהשיטה... לכל היותר מפרסמים דו"ח של הביקורת, אבל איש לא יעמוד לדין...
העניין של המערכת הוא למנוע חקירת אמת של רצח תאיר ראדה, כיוון שהחשודות והחשודים המרכזיים ברצח הן נערות ונערים מבית ספרה של תאיר ראדה, שהם בנות משפחה או קרובות משפחה של אנשי משטרה.
מפחיד!

מבקרת הפרקליטות: הניסיון לשנות עדות שעשויה להשפיע על פרשת זדורוב - "פגם בהתנהלות"

נציבת הביקורת על הפרקליטות קבעה כי הניסיון להכניס שינויים בתצהיר של ראש המכון…

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2015-11-27 TURKEY and ISIS

2015-11-27 TURKEY and ISIS
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Pepe Escobar

Yesterday at 9:34am ·

NOTHING GOING ON HERE
As reported by the Anadolu news agency, a Turkish prosecutor wants to send the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet paper, Can Dundar, straight to jail.

His crime: last May, Cumhuriyet published January 2014 images of Turkish trucks carrying ammunition to “moderate rebels”.
Imagine if these were Bilal Erdogan’s tanker truck pals carrying stolen Syrian oil.

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2015-11-26 RUSSIA and TURKEY: a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...

2015-11-26 RUSSIA and TURKEY: a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...
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RT reports: Mystery over who bombed Turkish convoy allegedly carrying weapons to militants in Syria

Mystery over who bombed Turkish convoy carrying alleged weapons to militants in Syria

A Turkish convoy, which according to some reports was transporting weapons to terrorist organizations, has been hit by apparent airstrikes in northwestern Syria.

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2015-11-26 US: The War on Whistle-blowers

2015-11-26 US: The War on Whistle-blowers
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It is the same extrajudicial method employed against Assange and Wikileaks in 2010, when they threatened to publishe Bank of America senior executives email trove...
And it led the Christmas day 2010 editorial by NYT (see comment), explaining that they would not dare to publish certain information, in view of such conduct by the banks.
I also consider myself honored, having my bank accounts frozen on behalf of the US and Israeli govs in January 2013, unfrozen only after request for protection by the German gov...

Drone Pilots have Bank Accounts and Credit Cards Frozen by Feds for Exposing US Murder

For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for indiscriminate murder, 4 vets are under attack from the government.

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Banks and WikiLeaks
DEC. 25, 2010
The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down.

Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced in the past few weeks that they would not process any transaction intended for WikiLeaks. Earlier this month, Bank of America decided to join the group, arguing that WikiLeaks may be doing things that are “inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”

The Federal Reserve, the banking regulator, allows this. Like other companies, banks can choose whom they do business with. Refusing to open an account for some undesirable entity is seen as reasonable risk management. The government even requires banks to keep an eye out for some shady businesses — like drug dealing and money laundering — and refuse to do business with those who engage in them.

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But a bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity raises a troubling prospect. A handful of big banks could potentially bar any organization they disliked from the payments system, essentially cutting them off from the world economy.

The fact of the matter is that banks are not like any other business. They run the payments system. That is one of the main reasons that governments protect them from failure with explicit and implicit guarantees. This makes them look not too unlike other public utilities. A telecommunications company, for example, may not refuse phone or broadband service to an organization it dislikes, arguing that it amounts to risky business.

Our concern is not specifically about payments to WikiLeaks. This isn’t the first time a bank shunned a business on similar risk-management grounds. Banks in Colorado, for instance, have refused to open bank accounts for legal dispensaries of medical marijuana.

Still, there are troubling questions. The decisions to bar the organization came after its founder, Julian Assange, said that next year it will release data revealing corruption in the financial industry. In 2009, Mr. Assange said that WikiLeaks had the hard drive of a Bank of America executive.

What would happen if a clutch of big banks decided that a particularly irksome blogger or other organization was “too risky”? What if they decided — one by one — to shut down financial access to a newspaper that was about to reveal irksome truths about their operations? This decision should not be left solely up to business-as-usual among the banks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26sun3.html?_r=0

Banks and WikiLeaks

A bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity, as Bank of America has done with WikiLeaks, raises troubling…

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