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You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme: Time to Reboot
by Ellen Brown
One thing to be said for the women now heading the Federal Reserve and the IMF: compared to some of their predecessors, they are refreshingly honest. The Wall Street Journal reported on July 2nd:
Two of the world’s most powerful women of finance sat down for a lengthy discussion Wednesday on the future of monetary policy in a post-crisis world: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Before a veritable who’s-who in international economics packing the IMF’s largest conference hall, the two covered all the hottest topics in debate among the world’s central bankers, financiers and economists.
Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
By Sarah Gillespie
What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the second word war, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy's humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The 'shield' is not the human bodies surrounding the 'guilty' party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others. Such is the case with the Hamas. They are faced with an enemy who is willing to obliterate pregnant women, babies, kids, handicapped people, schools and crowded hospitals in order to smash their target. The Israelis repeatedly demonstrate a pathological disregard for any life that is not a Jewish life, and it is for this reason alone, that the Hamas are utterly incapable of ever using 'human shields.'
Obama's Ukrainian Ploy Collapses; Ukraine Now Seeks Direct U.S. Bailout
Eric Zuesse
The Ukrainian leadership has resigned, because of their unwillingness to impose the IMF's terms, which would impoverish the population within months. That impoverishment would be extracted from the Ukrainian public in order to repay the IMF's loans, which had been skimmed off by Ukraine’s oligarch billionaires into secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other tax-havens.
Two of the four parties in Ukraine's ruling coalition have bolted, refusing those IMF terms on loan-repayment; and, so, on July 24th, Ukraine's Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who had been appointed by Obama's agent Victoria Nuland, tendered his resignation, and he announced: “The fact is that today you failed to vote for the laws, and I have nothing (with which) to pay wages of policemen, doctors, teachers; nothing to buy a rifle with, nothing to fuel an armored personnel carrier with. Today you failed to take a decision to fill the gas storages to allow us to live through the winter, to at last free ourselves from dependence on Russian gas.”
Ukraine - MH17 like Shoot Down Predicted a Month Ago plus Russian Defense Chief in English
Michael Collins
A Ukrainian resistance member provided a chilling prediction of the recent shoot down of Malaysian Air MH17. A YouTube video posted on June 18, 2014 by Anti-Maidan tells the story. Resistance militia soldier Elena from Slavyansk describes the attacks on her city of 100,000 plus by the Ukraine army and the death and suffering those attacks caused. Then, she warns of a frightening tactic used by the Ukraine air force. Here's the text from Militia Soldier - Elena, from Slavyansk English Subs, Published on June 18, 2014, Anti-Maidan
Terrible things are happening. For example, an incident that happened recently. A passenger plane was flying by. A Ukrainian attack jet aircraft hid behind it.
Then he lowered his altitude a bit and dropped bombs on [the] residential sector of Semenovka town. Then he regained altitude and hit behind the passenger plane. Then he left.
They wanted to provoke the militia to shoot down the passenger plane. There would have been a global catastrophe. Civilians would have died. Then they would say terrorists here did it. There are no terrorists here. There are regular civilians here that came to the defense of their city.
Elena is not part of the propaganda war. She's not making arguments for this or that interpretation of the MH17 tragedy. She is simply describing a reckless air combat tactic used by Ukraine's military a month before the airliner was shot from the sky.
This video raises a very interesting question. Were commercial flights routed over Ukraine to provide Ukraine's air force with cover in order to attack military and civilian targets?
Move to Amend and the Double Standard of Corporate Personhood: Overlooking the Crimes of Corporate Rapists and Plunderers
by Gary G. Kohls, MD
". . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."~Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in his dissenting minority opinion against the Citizens United decision, January 2010
"Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person." – Anonymous
In 2010, the NeoConservative, pro-corporate, anti-democratic Roberts Supreme Court “Gang of Five” granted inanimate corporations some of the rights and privileges previously only constitutionally guaranteed to human entities. The decision granted to corporations the right to influence political campaigns by unlimited and anonymous campaign “donations”, aka bribery.
LaRouche to Wall Street: "It's your crap; you eat it"
LaRouchepac
Call it the "Tonkin Gulf Syndrome." First you fabricate a lie about an incident or its authorship to justify military action; then you quickly escalate hostilities; and war is irreversibly underway before anyone has time to think twice about it.
It's what the British Empire did to suck the U.S. into the Vietnam quagmire. It's what Tony Blair pulled off with his "dodgy dossier" about Saddam Hussein's non-existent WMD in Iraq, with George Bush in tow. It's what the British and Obama tried to do again last year with the Syrian government's supposed chemical weapons attack—which was derailed at the eleventh hour by strong opposition from outside and inside the U.S., much of it organized by LaRouche PAC. And it is what the desperate, bankrupt British Empire is once again trying to pull off around the MH17 incident in Ukraine, with a headlong rush towards thermonuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia.
Judge Glen Salter Orders Lexi Dillon Sex Trafficked out of U.S.A.
By Malinda Sherwyn
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, Lamoreaux Judge Glenn Salter ordered the removal of American child sex slave Lexi Dillon from the United States and into the hands of the foreigner Tustin Police said raped and sodomized her repeatedly. Lexi is a very sweet American nine year old girl whose life has been shattered by court-enforced unwanted sex with her father - according to Tustin Police, medical professionals, and TV news reports. Salter went further than ordering the removal of the American child from her native land, knowing it would be for sex. He issued an additional order that would prevent Lexi’s protective mother, a loving, health professional, from saving her daughter from the sex trade. Under the order, the mom could be arrested for just trying to rescue her daughter from the little girl’s unwanted handlers, people reportedly with criminal backgrounds. Recordings have shown the girl begging to be returned to her mother but the little girl’s pleas have fallen on deaf ears, including the uncaring ears of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, in whose district Judge Salter hands down edicts judicially trafficking little American children into the foreign sex slave business.
Where are Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris? Millions of Americans have demanded that they act. Yet they sit frozen, intentionally allowing the sex trafficking of young American minors to other parts of the world. The urgency of the situation means that Kamala and Jerry are the only state officials with the emergency authority to save the little American child. Each of these two has the power to stop the deportation of this nine year old American sex slave and take over the case.
The Middle East: Leaders Who Could Not Lead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD
The contemporary Arab world is devoid of educated, intelligent and effective leadership. Those occupying the helms of power are mostly the former traditional loyalists tribal agents of the European colonial era uplifted to kingship and absolute authoritarianism to protect the vested foreign interests in the new age of the 21st century politics. The US and West European wish to see the colonial order continuing under new faces of puppets regimes as is the case of Egypt under military dictator General Abdul Fatah Al Sisi replacing a popularly elected governance of President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Animosity syndrome is being used by all the parties in the Middle East. People of Gaza are political victims and have every right to resist the occupation. What a shame there are no Arab armies to protect the besieged people. There is no Sultan Salah Uddin in the Arab world to rescue the occupied people. After more than 60 years of so called peace talks between Israel and Arabs on Palestine, the current hostilities signal extreme unpredictability in global affairs. There is no qualified rational and balanced approach to peacemaking between the Palestinians and Israel. Where would the peace come from if both parties are constantly engaged in perpetuating animosity and killings while the US and Europeans look more of a spectator than influential participants to break the deafening silence on increased dehumanization of the Palestinian people under occupation.
We must be honest: Israel is a Nazi state par excellence
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
"On May 27, 1942, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, had been attacked in Prague by Free Czech agents who were trained in England and brought to Czechoslovakia to assassinate him. They shot at Heydrich as his car slowed to round a sharp turn, then threw a bomb which exploded, mortally wounding him. Heydrich managed to get out of the car, draw his pistol and shoot back at the assassins before collapsing in the street.
Heydrich survived for several days, but died on June 4 from blood poisoning brought on by fragments of auto upholstery, steel, and his own uniform that had lodged in his spleen.
In Berlin, the Nazis staged a highly elaborate funeral with Hitler calling Heydrich "the man with the iron heart."
The Graduated Palestinian Genocide
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Israel is at it again. Israel is executing a new phase of its genocidal strategy against Palestinians. Israel’s military genocidal “Operation Protective Edge” is its third major and the most intensified military onslaught, after 2008/09 and 2012 onslaughts, against the largest ever 1.8 million densely populated open air concentration prison camp of the Gaza Strip; Israel’s new-weapons test field, whose population have been starved and bombarded throughout the last seven years.
It is not a secret any more that Zionist Jews had long developed the colonial “Israel Project”; an extremist religiously motivated pure Jewish state of Israel in the heart of the Arabic Middle Eastern region. Palestinians are the Zionist’s main obstacle to this colonial project. The Zionist solution is the ethnic cleansing, forced mass transfer, and total genocide of Palestinians. This genocide is to be graduated for fear of provoking international conscious. Successive Israeli governments have always maneuvered around every peace negotiation and peace offers that could have resolved the Israeli/Arab conflict; even those offers that granted Israel most of Palestine in order to achieve total peace in the whole region.
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