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"There
is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof
against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to
examination.": - Rev. William H. Poole
"And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826) "Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of the state; much more so than riches and arms." - Benjamin Franklin "You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod." - Solon -- (c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece 550 B.C. |
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An Act Of War?
Iran Sanctions Will Halve Oil Sales But May Still Not Succeed
By Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Embargo has led to huge increases in price of staple foods, while currency has lost half its value since 2010. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm
Turkish Jet Downed in Syrian Airspace, U.S. Officials
BY JULIAN E. BARNES, ADAM ENTOUS AND JOE PARKINSON
U.S. Intelligence, Contradicting Ankara, Indicates Aircraft Was Shot Down by Syria in Its Own Airspace, Officials Say http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm
How the Corporate Media is Snookering You on Syria
By Russ Baker
For those versed in the black arts of propaganda, the hijacking of Arab Spring must be a beauteous thing to behold. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31745.htm
Australia is the World's First Murdochracy
By John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch controls most of Australia's media. But even the so-called free press serves only profit and PR. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31746.htm
How The Press Uses Julian Assange's Private Life To Conceal the Real Triumph of WikiLeaks
By Patrick Cockburn
Without the access to the US secret cables, the world would have no insight into how their governments behave. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31747.htm
Video Shows Aftermath Of US Drone Strike In Pakistan
Video
Rachel Maddow shares exclusive, never before seen footage of the site of an alleged U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31749.htm
Son Of Liberty
Born and raised in America
By Tarek Mehanna
I
was born and raised right here in America. This angers many people:
How can an American believe the things I believe, take the positions I
take? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31743.htm
Clusterfuck Nation
Strange Jubilee
By James Howard Kunstler
Is
there a Baby Boomer so dim in this land of rackets and swindles who
thinks that he or she will escape the wrath of the Millennials rising? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31742.htm
In Case You Missed it
Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"
Video
"We have undergone, I think, in the last few decades a kind of slow motion coup d'état." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30141.htm
World's First GM Babies Born
By MICHAEL HANLON
The
disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of
experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about
ethics. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31744.htm
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| Hard News
Kenya: 16 killed and 68 injured in Church attack: At
least 16 people have been shot dead and more than 68 others seriously
injured in two separate attacks by suspected Al Shabaab militiamen on
churches in Garissa town http://is.gd/ZvrfLi
Libya clashes kill 47: "Thirty-two have been killed this week in the two Toubou residential areas," a doctor treating Toubou casualties in Kufra told AFP. "The number of wounded exceeds 100," added Dr Wehli. Abdullah Zwai said his tribe had also suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Toubou. http://is.gd/DloD55
At least 35 killed in Mali clashes: At
least 35 people died in clashes this week between Islamists and Tuareg
rebels in the north Mali town of Gao, according to a new toll released
by a medical source. http://is.gd/elQ4ne
IED kills 10 civilians aboard Afghan bus: Ten
people died in Afghanistan Sunday when a civilian bus was hit by a
roadside bomb in Ghazni province, the International Security Assistance
Force said. http://is.gd/DAdePE
NATO says 3 occupation force service members killed in southern Afghanistan: NATO
says a man in an Afghan police uniform has shot and killed three of
its service members in southern Afghanistan. In a statement, NATO said
the incident took place on Sunday http://is.gd/CttKpF
US kills 8 people in Pakistan: US
missiles fired from a drone in a Pakistani tribal region near the
Afghan border killed eight "suspected" militants early on Sunday,
officials said, as the controversial American strikes continue despite
Islamabad's persistent demands that they stop. http://is.gd/9Vs9e0
97 pct Pakistanis oppose US drone attacks: Report: Ninety-four percent of people believe the attacks kill too many innocent people, the Express Tribune reports. http://is.gd/5289CL
US refusal to apologize for killing Pakistani soldiers costs $2.1 billion: Pakistan
closed the ground route to NATO supplies after a U.S. airstrike
"mistakenly" killed 24 of its soldiers last November. The only other
access to land-locked Afghanistan is through the Northern Distribution
Network, a series of roads through Russia and Central Asia. http://is.gd/gVYoyi
Seven killed in Iraq blast targeting police:
Seven people were killed when gunmen planted two roadside bombs targeting a police checkpoint in central Iraq, security sources said on Sunday, dpa reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/2042351.html
9 killed in clashes across Syria: NGO: At
least nine people were killed in fighting across Syria on Sunday, a
watchdog said, as rebels and regime troops clashed in several provinces
as they battled for control of restive areas. http://is.gd/Emn6qA
World powers agree to Syria transition plan: UN-brokered peace pact leaves open whether President Bashar al-Assad could be part of a proposed "unity" government. http://is.gd/H22qFk
Syrian opposition reject latest peace plan: The
Syrian National Council has rejected a plan by world powers to create a
transitional government in the country. Their cool reaction comes after
the Action Group on Syria meeting in Geneva left open the option for
members of the current regime to play a future role. http://is.gd/1mQc1C
US must arm Syria rebels despite Islamists- "Rebels": Syria's
opposition says the United States must overcome its fear of Islamists
among the rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, and
start arming the resistance movement to show it wants the entire ruling
elite removed. http://is.gd/m4Q7qL
At Syria's border, after months of waiting, the weapons arrive: Weapons
are not the only new arrivals. The rebels acknowledged that three days
ago an American man, believed to be a government employee, passed
through. He had first been shown around a nearby refugee camp and was
brought into Syria by rebels who are not from here; his destination
unknown. http://is.gd/yc6PRC
President Assad speaks: "Foreign intervention is not possible without internal elements in the territory," he pointed out. http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/30-06-2012/121525-assad_speaks-0/
Turkish military: Turkish warplanes scramble on Syrian helicopters: The
statement said one MI-17 and two MI-8 helicopter gunships flew as
close as 4 miles to the Turkish airspace over Mardin and Hatay, adding,
however, that the Syrian helicopters did not violate Turkey's flight
zone. http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/61832--s
Russia helped Syria shoot down Turkish plane: Report: According
a Sunday Times of London, the Russians and Syrians believed the plane
was on a NATO mission to test Syria's airspace and was shot down, in a
split-second decision, to send a message to the organization. http://is.gd/W1ll8j
Iran's food costs soar and unemployment spirals as sanctions begin to bite: Iranians
are abandoning traditional eating habits, being thrown out of work at
alarming rates and face running short of medicines as the nation braces
itself for fresh sanctions aimed at forcing its leaders to scrap their
suspect nuclear programme. http://is.gd/cAF7tC
Iran fights oil embargo with £150bn reserve: "We
are implementing programmes to counter sanctions and we will confront
these malicious policies," Mehr news agency quoted the governor of the
Iranian central bank, Mahmoud Bahmani, as saying. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/01/iran-oil-embargo-reserve
Egypt's New President Vows to Win Release of World Trade Center Plotter: Egypt's
president-elect has vowed to win the release of an Egyptian cleric
jailed by the U.S. for planning the first attack on New York's World
Trade Center. http://is.gd/8VCaW6
Egypt signs $1 billion loan: The
Egyptian government signed an agreement on Sunday with the Saudi-based
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) that will provide $1 billion to finance
energy and food imports, the government said in a statement. http://is.gd/iWO0mA
Israel asks Egypt's Morsi to uphold peace treaty:
Israel wants to strengthen its relations with Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a letter to new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a senior Israeli official told dpa Sunday on condition of anonymity, dpa reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/israel/2042371.html
Death of a Proud, Self-Avowed Terrorist: Former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir Goes to the Great Hague in the Sky http://is.gd/s9hL7O
"Al-Qaeda" planning terror attack on US airline: Report: The
Sunday Times claimed AQAP had recruited a Norwegian Muslim convert and
given him terrorist training in Yemen, and that the group were
believed to have selected a US passenger jet as a target. http://is.gd/CAjxIc
Ecuador still deciding on Assange asylum: "We
are analyzing the case with full responsibility and, as we have said a
thousand times, we have no deadline to make a decision," Correa said.
"That decision will be absolutely sovereign and ... (show) respect for
human rights," he added. http://is.gd/mieUpU
Banking scandal: how document trail reveals global scam: It's
not a comfortable weekend for the men heading some of the world's
biggest banks. Barclays has already been hit by a £290m fine for
rigging interest rates but that could be dwarfed by a series of global
lawsuits which could cost banks billions http://is.gd/wrEfWO
The Barclays scandal is not 'wholly inappropriate'.
It's a crime: If the authorities were consistent, they would punish the banks just as severely as they reacted to last year's rioters http://is.gd/RH98OZ
Cable: The City is a massive cesspit: The
Government was under growing pressure last night to call a public
inquiry into the behaviour of Britain's bankers as the Business
Secretary, Vince Cable, admitted the sector was a "massive cesspit"
that needed cleaning up. http://is.gd/nOJ7vy
Top Tories dragged into banking scandal: Cameron allies linked to City firms under scrutiny over interest rate fixing http://is.gd/1WGLMr
Tony Blair earned £20m in just one year advising business bosses and foreign governments: Mr Blair runs a business consultancy, Tony Blair Associates, which has deals with the governments of Kuwait and Kazakhstan. http://is.gd/hUNkyV
BofA Fined $2.8 Million for Overbilling 95,000 Accounts:
Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch wealth-management unit was fined $2.8 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for overbilling customers by $32.2 million over an eight-year period. http://is.gd/5Iu7yd
77% of JP Morgan's Net Income Comes from Government Subsidies: JPMorgan
receives a government subsidy worth about $14 billion a year,
according to research published by the International Monetary Fundand
our own analysis of bank balance sheets. The money helps the bank pay
big salaries and bonuses. http://is.gd/I0JLqW
The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class: They had good, stable jobs - until the recession hit. Now they're living out of their cars in parking lots. http://is.gd/QR9ppp
Unemployment benefits whittled down: Although
Congress reauthorized federal emergency unemployment benefits earlier
this year, lawmakers reduced the weeks the jobless can collect
payments. The cutbacks come in two phases -- one now and another in
September. This round affects the jobless in at least 24 states, while
all Americans will be affected in the fall. http://is.gd/KkPOSI
US consumer spending and wages flat in May: Americans cut back spending on cars and other long-lasting manufactured goods, even though they paid less for gas. http://is.gd/oGxbEX
America Sets a New Record for Old Cars: The average age of the 245 million vehicles registered in the U.S. in the first quarter of this year was 11 years. http://www.cnbc.com/id/47974815
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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| Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,807
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,067
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,347,963,823,955
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