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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
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 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…
rt.com

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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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…
rt.com

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

2015-11-18 SAUDI ARABIA - a moderate Suni regime...
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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…
rt.com

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

2015-11-28 JERUSALEM: Routines of the occupation...
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Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday, several Palestinian homes and searched them, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped seven…
www.imemc.org

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.
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…
972mag.com

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. -
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Information Clearing House has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this a…
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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!
נציבת הביקורת על הפרקליטות קבעה כי הניסיון להכניס שינויים בתצהיר של ראש המכון…
haaretz.co.il

2015-11-27 TURKEY and ISIS

2015-11-27 TURKEY and ISIS
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Pepe Escobar
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
A Turkish convoy, which according to some reports was transporting weapons to terrorist organizations, has been hit by apparent airstrikes in northwestern Syria.
rt.com

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...
For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for indiscriminate murder, 4 vets are under attack from the government.
activistpost.com
Joseph Zernik NYT EDITORIAL
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.

Continue reading the main story
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Times Topic: WikiLeaks
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
A bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity, as Bank of America has done with WikiLeaks, raises troubling…
nytimes.com

2015-11-26 John Pilger on Paris, ISIS and Media Propaganda

2015-11-26 John Pilger on Paris, ISIS and Media Propaganda
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Video Interview
How Washington, London and Paris gave birth to ISIS-Daesh. Plus we examine the media's role in spreading disinformation ahead of a vote in Parliament for UK bombing of Syria. -
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have…
informationclearinghouse.info

2015-11-26 Is Turkey Starting a Proxi-War for NATO? By Peter Koenig

2015-11-26 Is Turkey Starting a Proxi-War for NATO? By Peter Koenig
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It is clear, Turkey hosting the recent G20 meeting and subscribing to the east-west ‘coalition’ of fighting the ISIS / DAESH / Al Qaeda terror, was a loosely disguised farce.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, TeleSur, the Voice of Russia / Ria Novosti, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe.
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Turkey shooting down plane was ‘planned provocation’ says Russia, as rescued pilot claims he had no warning. by Peter Koenig “GR”, “ICH” Did Turkey just provoke a proxi-war on behalf of NATO against Russia? – Turkey knew very well that the…
veteransnewsnow.com

2015-11-25 This Thanksgiving, Let's Say 'No Thanks' to the Tyranny of the American Police State By John W. Whitehead

2015-11-25 This Thanksgiving, Let's Say 'No Thanks' to the Tyranny of the American Police State By John W. Whitehead
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These are abuses that no American should tolerate from its government. -
our elected officials, especially those in the nation’s capital, represent the interests of the rich and…
informationclearinghouse.info

2015-11-25 PALESTINE: [video] Routines of the occupation...

2015-11-25 PALESTINE: [video] Routines of the occupation...
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[via Local Call - Israeli news outlet]
Summary execution has become a routine...
Here: Two Palestinians girls, 14 and 16 tried to stab Israelis in Jerusalem with a pair of scissors. Not very successful. After one was lying on the ground, beaten, she was shot point blank.
UN Rapporteurs sent a letter to the Israeli government last week raising concerns regarding summary executions in the streets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
REPORT:
http://mekomit.co.il/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%…/
CCTV footage has caught the moment the two Palestinian girls, having just stabbed a man, were confronted in the street in Jerusalem, still wielding…

2015-11-25 [video] US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2015-11-25 [video] US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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Family Gets $4.9M After Cops Beat Mentally Ill Son to Death on Video and Walked Free
By William N. Grigg, The Free Thought Project
Cops murder with impunity and the taxpayer is held responsible - and they call this 'justice.' READ MORE»
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Report:
http://www.alternet.org/…/family-gets-49m-after-cops-beat-m…

2015-11-25 [video] US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2015-11-25 [video] US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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2015-11-25 צפו - ארה"ב: משטרה רצחנית - סימן מובהק של משטר טוטליטרי!
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הריגתו של הצעיר השחור לאקאן מקדונלד על ידי שוטר לבן.
Chicago Officials Release Graphic Video Showing White Officer Killing Black Teenager Laquan McDonald (VIDEO)
http://youtu.be/Ix2N6_jLAgA
דיווח:
http://www.alternet.org/chicago-officials-release-graphic-v…

2015-11-24 Physicians for Human Rights-Israel denounced IDF attacks on Palestinian medical facilities

2015-11-24 Physicians for Human Rights-Israel denounced IDF attacks on Palestinian medical facilities
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IDF attacked hospitals to take wounded Palestinians, to take patients' records.
Medical teams were denied access to treat Palestinians, who were wounded by IDF.
הקהילה הרפואית בישראל נהנית מתדמית הומניטרית. עשרות כתבות הראו מצבים שבהם בבית חולים ישראלי מאושפז ילד פלסטיני נניח, שמקבל טיפול מסור לצד פצוע פיגוע. "ברגע שמדובר בחולה, לא משנה מי ומה הוא, מטופל הוא מטופל", מצוטטים אנשי רפואה שונים לאורך השנים כבמנטרה. הסולידריות הזאת נעלמת כל אימת שכוחותינו פוגעים בצוותי רפואה פלסטיניים.
כאשר הופצצו בתי חולים בעזה — הקהילה הרפואית בישראל שתקה. כאשר פרצו כוחות הביטחון לבית חולים כדי לקחת תיק רפואי, הקהילה שתקה. דממה לנוכח עיכוב אמבולנסים במחסומים, וגם לנוכח חטיפת פצועים מבתי חולים דממה.
הקביעה באמנת ז'נבה הראשונה, כי יש לטפל בכל פצוע באשר הוא, מבוססת על הרעיון לפיו מרגע שלוחם נפצע ואינו מעורב עוד בלחימה, הוא זכאי לטיפול שווה. הרעיון הזה עדיין שריר וקיים, והקהילה הרפואית לא ערערה על האמנה מעולם. לאור זאת, פעולות אלו היו אמורות לזעזע את הקהילה הרפואית הארץ.
תקיפות של צוותים ומתקנים רפואיים בעולם נעשות כמעט תמיד במקומות שבהם השירותי...
haaretz.co.il

2015-11-24 ISRAEL: Following right wing threats, police prohibit a public meeting of Breaking Silence

2015-11-24 ISRAEL: Following right wing threats, police prohibit a public meeting of Breaking Silence
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The organization specializes in documenting Human Rights abuses in Palestine.
Breaking Silence: Israel police rewards violent extremists.
ביהמ"ש קיבל את בקשת המשטרה להוציא צו מניעה לאירוע. בתגובה לפרסומים על…
haaretz.co.il

2015-11-24 US: Obama seized the authority to kill US citizens with no due process of law

2015-11-24 US: Obama seized the authority to kill US citizens with no due process of law
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The controversial subject of US targeted drone killings came up again, as an appeals court blocked the initiative to disclose documents that tackle the legality of using…
rt.com

2015-11-24 US: Back burner civil war

2015-11-24 US: Back burner civil war
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A #BlackLivesMatter protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was marred by violence as two protesters were shot, allegedly by racist counter-protesters who attempted to…
rt.com