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Israel's Response to Everything: Collective Punishment
by Stephen Lendman
International law is clear. Fourth Geneva's Article 33 states:
"No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
It doesn't matter. Israel systematically ignores all international human rights, humanitarian and other laws it objects to - as well as dozens of earlier Security Council Resolutions condemning or censuring its actions and demanding they end, none in recent years because of US vetoes. It attacks entire Palestinian communities because of alleged crimes committed by one or more residents. It wages wars based on phony pretexts. It commits numerous other high crimes against humanity because it knows who'll stop its abusive practices.
Your Radiation This Week No 12
by Bob Nichols
June 12 to June 19, 2015
(San Francisco) Jun 19, 2015 – Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. Let’s get right to it.
Storm on Kebler Mountain - Colorado
Storm on Kebler Mountain – Colorado
RADIATION CPM* CITY STATE
*Listed in Counts per Minute, a Count is One Radioactive Decay Registered by the Instrument.
Partial Counts are noted. Uncounted radiation would make the actual Count higher.
Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [6]
488 CPM Concord, NH Gamma and Beta Radiation Combined.
342 CPM Boston, MA Partial Radiation Data Only.
296 CPM New York City, NY. Partial.
624 CPM Pittsburgh, PA. Gamma and Beta Radiation Combined. Welcome
“Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards”: The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements
by Ellen Brown
Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
`No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’
`Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!’
`Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple.
`I won’t!’ said Alice.
`Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
— Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Fast-track authority is being sought in the Senate this week for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), along with the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and any other such trade agreements coming down the pike in the next six years. The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years, respectively, after the deals have been passed into law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated?
Israel Bombs Lebanon
by Stephen Lendman
Sunday reports indicate an Israeli warplane bombed a remote Lebanese Bekaa region to destroy one of its drones apparently downed.
An IDF spokeswoman declined to comment. A Lebanese security source said it's not entirely clear what happened "but most probably it was an Israeli airstrike to destroy its downed drone" - whether because of mechanical failure or by Hezbollah isn't known.
America, its rogue NATO partners and Israel unilaterally or together bomb other nations in blatant violation of international law.
The latest Israeli incident may be nothing more than what's reported. At minimum, it reflects illegal Israel surveillance or other unauthorized flights over a sovereign nation as well as bombing its territory - whatever the reason.
None are acceptable. Multiple Israeli violations of Lebanese air space occurs daily. Israeli warplanes bomb Syria and its border areas with Lebanon at its discretion - for any contrived reason it chooses. These are lawless belligerent acts short of full-scale war. More on this below.
Mossad is notorious for carrying out targeted assassinations - numerous times throughout Israel's history. In recent years alone, car bombings and other means were used against Palestinian, Hezbollah and other officials regionally. In 2004, Israel killed Yasser Arafat by polonium poisoning.
The Polio Vaccine: A Global Scourge Still Threatening Humanity
By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
During the past several months as a slew of draconian vaccine bills have been aggressively pushed upon state legislators to legally enforce vaccination against Americans freedom of choice, I have had the opportunity to debate publicly pro-vaccine advocates on a number of occasions. When faced with a barrage of peer-reviewed scientific facts confirming vaccine failures, and its lack of efficacy and safety, representatives of the vaccine establishment will inevitably raise the issue of the eradication of polio and smallpox from the US as case examples of two vaccine miracles. Yet neither case, has their been scientifically sound confirmation that the demise of these two infectious diseases were the result of mass population vaccine campaigns.
WikiLeaks Releases Secret Saudi Documents
by Stephen Lendman
The more we learn about the secret workings of despotic regimes and faux democracies like America, Britain and Israel among others, the better we understand how they extrajudicially serve powerful monied interests at the expense of popular ones.
On Friday, WikiLeaks began releasing around half a million Saudi documents - including Foreign Ministry communiques and top secret intelligence and interior ministry reports. An initial 70,000 documents were released with much more to come. The organization said information learned shows how Riyadh "managed its alliances and consolidated its position as a regional Middle East superpower (because of its immense oil wealth), including through bribing and co-opting key individuals and institutions."
Netanyahu's Latest Demagoguery
by Stephen Lendman
He's a world-class thug heading Israel's most extremist government ever - a ruthless apartheid regime on steroids holding millions of Palestinians hostage under brutal military occupation.
His agenda is hugely repressive. He's ideologically over-the-top. His style features demagogic fear-mongering. It wore thin long ago.
He remains prime minister only because multi-party Israeli elections always result in coalition governance. His Likud party got only 25% support in last March's elections (30 Knesset seats out of 120) - for sure no mandate.
He rails against opponents. He rejects the slightest criticism of Israeli policy - especially anything related to ruthless Palestinian persecution including genocidal wars.
He called largely tepid Ban Ki-moon criticism of harm committed against Palestinian children in last summer's Gaza war "a dark day for the UN."
He repeated the same old Big Lies he blustered many times before blaming Hamas unjustifiably for premeditated Israeli aggression - killing over 2,200 Palestinians (mostly civilians), including nearly 600 children and 300 women, wounding over 11,000 more, as well as leaving large parts of Gaza in ruins to this day, its 1.8 million population trapped under lawless siege.
Presstitute Media Support Anti-Consumer Fast Track Authority
by Stephen Lendman
It's easy knowing where corporate media stand on fast track and anti-consumer, environmentally destructive, jobs killing trade bills. They one-sidedly support power, profits and privilege. Popular interests be damned.
Instead of explaining harmful trade bills and outlandish fast track authority Obama wants to ram them through Congress irresponsibly, media scoundrels support passing what demands denunciation.
In mid-May, New York Times editors urged passing TPP and TTIP (Trans-Pacific Partnership and its counterpart Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
They lied claiming both bills are beneficial "in areas like labor standards and environmental protection…"
Israeli Smear Campaign Against Forthcoming UN Report on Gaza War
by Stephen Lendman
On Sunday, Israel released its own distorted version of events during last summer's 51 day Gaza war. The whole world knows it was premeditated naked aggression.
Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) co-founder, physician, political activist and human rights champion Mustafa Barghouti separated myths from reality throughout weeks of carnage.
Hamas didn't start war, he explained. Israel bears full responsibility - 1.8 millions Gazans continue being brutalized under siege. They're being suffocated.
"Entire neighborhoods were completely eliminated last summer in 24 hours," Barghouti said. Dozens of families threatening no one were annihilated to the last man, woman, child and infant. Eight hospitals were attacked. So were clinics, ambulances and healthcare workers. UN refuges were considered legitimate targets.
How Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals Are Designed to End Democracy
Eric Zuesse
U.S. President Barack Obama has for years been negotiating with European and Asian nations — but excluding Russia and China, since he is aiming to defeat them in his war to extend the American empire (i.e, to extend the global control by America’s aristocracy) — three international ‘trade’ deals (TTP, TTIP, & TISA), each one of which contains a section (called ISDS) that would end important aspects of the sovereignty of each signatory nation, by setting up an international panel composed solely of corporate lawyers to serve as ‘arbitrators’ deciding cases brought before this panel to hear lawsuits by international corporations accusing a given signatory nation of violating that corporation’s ‘rights’ by its trying to legislate regulations that are prohibited under the ’trade’ agreement, such as by increasing the given nation’s penalties for fraud, or by lowering the amount of a given toxic substance that the nation allows in its foods, or by increasing the percentage of the nation’s energy that comes from renewable sources, or by penalizing corporations for hiring people to kill labor union organizers — i.e., by any regulatory change that benefits the public at the expense of the given corporations' profits. (No similar and countervailing power for nations to sue international corporations is included in this: the ‘rights’ of ‘investors’ — but really of only the top stockholders in international corporations — are placed higher than the rights of any signatory nation.)
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