09/13/14

Permalink US moves to dismiss lawsuit against anti-Iran group

The US Justice Department has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against an anti-Iran group on grounds that the case could reveal national secrets. Lawyers for the government moved Friday to invoke a powerful national security law to intervene in the private lawsuit by a Greek businessman against United Against A Nuclear Iran (UANI), arguing the proceedings could “cause harm to national security.” Victor Restis, Greek businessman and ship owner, sued the New York-based UANI for defamation last year after the non-profit group accused him of violating sanctions on Iran by exporting oil from the country.


Permalink White House: ‘We Are at War With ISIS’

Congressional Hawks Push for Ground Operations. Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry loudly objected to the characterization of the new US war on ISIS as a “war,” insisting it isn’t technically a war. The argument appears to have been totally pointless, as the White House confirmed that, indeed, “we are at war with ISIS.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it was important to draw a distinction between the new war in Iraq and the old Iraq War, even though they both are taking place in Iraq and both involved fighting against the exact same faction, albeit this time after al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) changed its name to ISIS and split with al-Qaeda. He sought instead to draw a parallel between the new war and “success stories” in Yemen and Somalia, two much smaller air wars the US are involved in, and neither of which seems remotely successful.

PressTV: US airstrikes in Syria 'act of war': Former CIA analyst || “The United States is not at war with Syria [and] to attack Syrian territory as they’re planning on doing is an act of war and in fact to do it in this fashion is a war crime,” Giraldi told Press TV on Saturday.


Permalink Russia: Aid convoy sent to Luhansk in Ukraine

217 trucks cross border headed to Luhansk. A convoy of more than 200 trucks that Russia says is carrying humanitarian aid has crossed the border into Ukraine without permission, a senior Ukrainian Border Service official said Saturday. Col. Serhiy Astahov, assistant to the Ukrainian Border Service chief, told CNN that 217 trucks have crossed the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian border guards and customs officer did not have access to them to check what they were carrying, he said. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which has monitors in Ukraine, said that in total 220 vehicles -- 193 cargo trucks and 27 support vehicles -- had crossed the border overnight and into the morning. "The first group of 40 trucks were quickly checked by the Russian border guard and customs services," an OSCE statement said. "The 180 other vehicles were not inspected. All vehicles crossed into Ukraine without being inspected by Ukrainian border guard and customs officers or the International Committee of the Red Cross." Russian state-run news agency Itar-Tass said the convoy had been cleared by Russian customs control staff, citing the press service of the Russian Southern Customs Department. The news agency said 250 trucks in total are due to arrive in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk by the end of Saturday. It reported that the first trucks were greeted by residents waving and even crying.

RIA Novosti: Russia Says Ukraine Border Guards Refused to Inspect Aid Convoy En Route to Luhansk
RT.com: Russia’s 2nd Ukraine aid convoy of 200 trucks arrives in Lugansk


Permalink Handels-Krieg gegen Russland: Der große Verrat von Angela Merkel an ihrem Volk

Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten Die Sanktionen gegen Russland werden nicht die treffen, die sie beschließen oder verhindern hätten können: Politiker, Verbände, die IHK, die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender – sie alle leben von Steuergeldern oder Zwangsgebühren und brauchen keine Konsequenzen zu fürchten. Daher heulen sie, ohne nachzudenken, mit den Wölfen. Bezahlen müssen Unternehmen, Arbeitnehmer und Steuerzahler. Was die Bundesregierung und die EU betreiben, ist Machtmissbrauch im großen Stil. Das ist Verrat am eigenen Volk. Diese gänzlich verantwortungslose „Politik“ zerstört nicht nur, wie Christoph Leitl gesagt hat, das Verhältnis zu Russland. Sie zersetzt die Demokratie in Europa. Sie zerstört Werte, die von den Europäern mit ihren eigenen Händen geschaffen wurden. Sie kastriert die Wirtschaft in einem ohnehin schon knallharten, globalen Wettbewerb. Wenn die Regierungen der EU und die ihnen angeschlossenen, willfährigen Institutionen auf diesem Weg weitermachen, wird das Jahr 2014 auch ohne „heißen“ Krieg als ein ganz finsteres in die Geschichte Deutschlands und Europas eingehen. [H/T: Steigan Blogger]

Gabor Steingart The West on the wrong path/Der Irrweg des Westens (Ложный путь Запада)


Permalink Condoleezza Rice: We need to stop Putin. The United States will supply oil and gas to Europe

Letting the cat out of the bag: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Condoleezza Rice) in an interview with German channel N24 on sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine. 16 May 2014.

DWN: Putin zieht den nächsten Joker: Russland kann Staats-Pleite der Ukraine auslösen

RT.com: Lavrov Says Russia Not Losing Battle With US for Influence in Europe || Although the Unites States are trying to do their best to disrupt the economic relations between the EU and Russia, Russia is not losing the battle for influence in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. "There is a big battle going on," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russian TVC channel. "The United States want to use the current situation in order to separate Europe from Russia economy-wise and bargain the most favorable conditions for themselves in the context of the ongoing negotiations on the creation of a transatlantic trade and investment partnership." The Russian foreign minister said that such talks have been going for several years. "Europe has been persistent enough in defending its interests. According to the Europeans, the United States wanted to gain unfair profit. Now, however, these [US] efforts have intensified, including through the attempt to force Europe to purchase the American liquefied natural gas at prices that cannot be competitive with the price of the Russian gas. This was definitely motivated by economic interest. Still, geopolitical calculations play a huge role, a key one," the minister said. Answering the question on whether Russia is losing Europe to the United States, the Russian Foreign Minister said, "I think not."


Permalink He's Dotcom's little henchman: PM attacks journalist's spy claims

Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald drops NZ bombshell
Claims GCSB has misled New Zealanders over mass surveillance
PM says Greenwald is wrong and that he can prove it
Calls Pulitzer-winning journalist "Dotcom's little henchman"

Prime Minister John Key says he will prove Glenn Greenwald's claims by the GCSB was involved in mass surveillance on New Zealanders are wrong, dismissing the prominent US journalist as "Dotcom's little henchman". Mr Key was responding to Greenwald's comments on The Nation this morning that on Monday he would reveal information showing the GCSB had misled New Zealanders by claiming it had not conducted mass surveillance. Greenwald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, said that New Zealand's spying agencies had been conducting mass surveillance on New Zealanders as part of the Five Eyes arrangement between the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Mr Key said that was wrong. "There is no mass surveillance of New Zealanders by the GCSB and there never has been. Mr Dotcom's little henchman will be proven to be incorrect because he is incorrect." [sic!]


Permalink All Ashkenazi Jews Alive Today Descend From The 350 Jews Who Lived Approximately 800 Years Ago, Study Finds

A model based on the genetic sequencing of 128 Ashkenazi Jews has found that Ashkenazi Jews descend from the fusion of Europeans and Middle Eastern Jews in the medieval era approximately 600 to 800 years ago, Ha’aretz reported. The study – authored by a team of scientists headed by Columbia University's Shai Carmon and published today in the journal Nature Communications – also found that the approximately 10 million Ashkenazim alive today all descend from about 350 people who lived between 25 to 32 generations ago – sometime about 1200 to 1300 CE. Ashkenazim have a slightly higher rate of genetic diseases than other Europeans because of the recent population bottleneck. But the study also found Europeans experienced their own bottleneck 20,400 to 22,100 years ago – about the time the last Ice Age was at its worst.


Permalink Oregon Man Arrested for Recording Militarized Police Raid in Neighborhood

In a chilling show of militaristic thuggery, police in Oregon arrested a man for attempting to video record them blasting their way into a neighbor’s home as they served a search warrant.

The Gresham Police Department, which serves a city of just over 100,000, rumbled down a residential street at 4 a.m. Tuesday with several armored vehicles, blasting flash grenades into a home, jolting the entire neighborhood awake. One man, who goes by Skylow Production on Youtube, said he was sleeping in his girlfriend’s apartment when he was awaken by all the ruckus. He grabbed his iPad and ran outside, standing across the street as the cops surrounded the home dressed like soldiers, issuing orders through a megaphone. When they spotted him, they accused him of “interfering” and ordered him back inside. When he asserted his right to be there, he was arrested. He said he was jailed for interfering and resisting arrest, two bogus contempt-of-cop charges.

Update: The man’s name is Fred Marlow and he is a 27-year-old Gresham resident who needs to find an attorney to prepare for his upcoming hearing, which is scheduled for September 30. In a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime, Marlow said the officer body slammed him before handcuffing him. The officer, who he identifies as Sgt. McGowan, also insinuated in his report of being drunk. “He wrote in his report that I was probably drunk because I was walking funny,” Marlow said. “But I was walking funny because I have a titanium rod in my leg.” Marlow said the titanium rod stems for a traffic accident at the age of 18. He also said he told the cop to give him a breathalyzer, but the cop refused. After he was thrown in the back of the car, his girlfriend stepped out of the apartment looking for him, but was ordered back inside under threat of arrest. Marlow is not sure what prompted the raid on his neighbors but said he read reports in the local media that the police department had been conducting drug raids during that time. He has launched a fundraiser to raise money for his legal defense fund.


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