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April 12, 2018
Moscow to Trump: Are ‘smart’ missiles an attempt to destroy alleged chem attack evidence in Syria?
“Are the OPCW inspectors aware that smart missiles are about to destroy all evidence of the chemical weapons use on the ground? Or is that the actual plan – to cover up all evidence of this fabricated attack with smart missile strikes, so that international inspectors had no evidence to look for?”
Methinks that at this point Putin has no choice but to destroy those incoming smart missiles. The doomsday clock just went to 10 seconds to midnight.
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Responding to a threat from US President Donald Trump, who said Russia should prepare for “nice new and smart missiles” launched by America at Syria, Moscow said if the weapons were smart, they would target terrorists.
“Smart missiles should fly towards terrorists, not [Syria’s] lawful government, which has spent several years fighting against international terrorism on its territory,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in response to Trump’s tweet on Wednesday.
She added the US may be seeking to undermine an inspection by chemical weapons experts, who are planning to investigate on the ground in Syria after the alleged attack which sparked the current confrontation between Russia…
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Fox News Rails Against Illegal Military Strike on Syria – Would Alienate Trump’s Alt-Right Base
Hmmm. This is looking suspiciously like the ruling class is split over the impending war against Syria. No wonder Trump’s tweets are so schizophrenic.
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On Fox News – Trump’s favourite cable news channel – host Tucker Carlson railed against striking Syria on Monday night.
“All the geniuses tell us that [Syrian president Bashar al]-Assad killed those children, but do they really know that? Of course they don’t really know that. They’re making it up,” he said.
“They have no real idea of what happened. Actually, both sides in the Syrian civil war possess chemical weapons. How would it benefit Assad using chlorine gas last weekend? Well, it wouldn’t.”
He warned that a war to overthrow Assad would lead to chaos and thousands of atrocities.
“In fact we might likely see the genocide of one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East,” he added.
via Illegal Military Strike on Syria Would Alienate Trump’s Alt-Right Base
Exposing Corporate Media Lies About the OPCW Report
The OPCW Report is very conveniently classified, so we’re not allowed to know what it says. The summary says absolutely nothing about “Novochik” or “Russia.” A recent poll shows only 1 in 5 Brits support a missile strike on Syria.
A YouGov study released today shows that only 1 in 5 British citizens support a missile strike against the Syrian régime.______________________________________________________
In turn, the Hague-based Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has just produced a report ‘at the invitation of the British government’ – three weeks ago, it seems – based on blood samples allegedly taken from Yuria and Sergei Skripal.
Being mere citizens, we are not allowed to see the full report….which is classified. Imagine that. But you can read the summary here. I suspect you will agree that it provides more questions than answers. But before I highlight those questions, let me make one overall point.
The Establishment MSM media have all led with reports of the OPCW findings that are shamefully misleading in relation to actual summary content. The Telegraph, for example, claims:
‘….an international watchdog confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his…
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Trump Instructs Top Advisors to Review Joining TPPA
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Donald Trump has instructed United States Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, and National Economic Advisor, Larry Kudlow, to review re-joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) according to declarations given by Senator Ben Sasse to reporters after leaving a meeting on trade that Trump had with lawmakers and governors from farming states just a few hours ago.
“[Trump] said that he was going to deputize, again, Larry Kudlow and Ambassador Lighthizer with reentering the TPP negotiations,” Senator Sasse said. “The president multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us and looked right at Larry Kudlow and said, ‘Larry, go get it done.’ ”
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April 11, 2018
Yulia Skripal: Released from Hospital and Secretly Relocated
‘With a secret resettlement of Mr and Ms Skirpal all opportunities to hear their version of the events of March 4 will highly likely be lost forever.’
Yulia Skripal: Released from Hospital
Introduction — April 10, 2018
The British are doing their best to prevent direct contact between Yulia Skripal and her Russian relatives. Her cousin, Viktoria Skripal, had wanted to travel to Britain to visit Yulia while she was in hospital but the UK authorities refused her visa, without explanation.
No doubt because they feared that free contact with her cousin may have dispelled any notion Yulia had that Russia tried to poison her.
Viktoria has openly stated that she believes her cousin and uncle “ate something wrong” in a pub.
This is a certainly more plausible than British allegations that Russia had tried to poison the Skripals with a deadly nerve agent. If only because if a nerve agent had been used both Sergei and Yulia Skripal would almost certainly be dead by now, or at least irreparably harmed. Yet both appear to…
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Smart meters cook us with thousands of microwave pulses every day, while collecting our private information for the utility company
While exposing you to this risky radiation, the meters are also transmitting your personal information, and you have no way of controlling this or finding out who can see it.
April 09, 2018 by: Isabelle Z.
(Natural News) If you have smart meters in your neighborhood – and there’s a good chance you do – you’re being cooked with thousands of microwave pulses every day. To add insult to injury, the devices are also collecting people’s private information and transmitting it to utility companies.
These digital meters can now be found in 65 million homes around America, and more and more of them are being installed on a constant basis. They communicate via non-ionizing radiation spikes and collect information several times per minute, emitting their signals at anywhere between 10,000 to 200,000 pulses per day.
This constant bombardment leaves the body without any time to recover from the onslaught. The radiation emitted from these meters is 100 times greater than that given off by cell phones, and unlike cell phones, they can’t be turned off by users.
What…
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NZ Govt Shuts Down Offshore Oil Exploration, Onshore Exploration Outside Taranaki
According to Taranaki Daily News, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an end to offshore oil exploration, with no new onshore permits outside Taranaki.
Ardern said the Government was “taking an important step to address climate change and create a clean, green and sustainable future for New Zealand”
As well as an immediate end to new offshore permits, some onshore will be offered to the industry for the next three years in onshore Taranaki, none of which will be on conservation land.
“This is a responsible step which provides certainty for businesses and communities that rely on fossil fuels. We’re striking the right balance for New Zealand – we’re protecting existing industry, and protecting future generations from climate change,” Ardern said.
The decision to continue to offer onshore permits was partly a concession to Labour’s coalition partners, New Zealand First, which expressly supports extractive sectors. The move is also designed to head off the risk of judicial review.
“All three of the parties in this Government are agreed that we must take this step as part of our package of measures to tackle climate change. I’m grateful for the support of New Zealand First in ensuring the transition away from fossil fuels protects jobs and helps regions equip themselves for the future. I also thank the Green Party for their continued advocacy for action on climate change.
ANDY JACKSON/STUFF – Oil rig between Stratford and Midhurst, in Taranaki.Less than a month ago, Ardern created huge expectation among environmental activists by declaring the Government was “actively considering” a call to end exploration.
Since taking office, Ardern has said the Government will move towards having 100 per cent of electricity generation coming from renewable sources by 2035, while the economy will be carbon neutral by 2050.
Greenpeace said announcement was an “historic moment, and a huge win for our climate and people power”. . .
Read more: Ardern to End Offshore Oil Exploration
This is an important win in a long, difficult battle. It’s disappointing to see that Taranaki (where I live) is still treated as a sacrifice zone. Taranaki Energy Watch has an ongoing case in Environment Court to stop fracking next to our homes and schools. See Fracking: When Fossil Fuel Companies Turn Your Community into a Sacrifice Zone
April 10, 2018
Should Everyone Have a Job? Challenging the Mythology
By Andrew Taggert
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “We must create full employment or we must create [basic, guaranteed] incomes.” More than 40 years later, we talk a lot about the last half of that statement: Technology entrepreneurs like Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes have campaigned for universal basic income (UBI)—the idea that everyone should receive a regular, unconditional, government-issued stipend that would be sufficient to cover one’s material needs—to the point at which it’s become a trendy topic.
There is much less talk about the philosophical underpinnings of King’s other idea—“full employment.”
This view that every able-bodied and able-minded adult should have—and, what’s more, should want to have—a job has become so widespread that it is almost invisible. In our work-obsessed society, most people would say that of course everyone should have a job.
But the claim, I believe, warrants just as much debate as UBI.
After we decouple the claim that “having a job” is an unalloyed good from the desires to survive, to leave some traces on the world, and to make a reasonable contribution to the lives of others, we might see that having a job is at least a sacrifice, if not a Faustian bargain.
The underpinnings of “full employment”
The justification for full employment was a “right to work,” which was written into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 and which some scholars have argued can be traced back to the 1848 French Revolution’s droit au travail.
What the “right to work” actually means remains a matter of debate. Article 23.1 in UDHR reads: “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.” Some have interpreted the right to work as protecting the opportunity to be gainfully employed. Others see it much more as a guarantee of gainful employment: some other entity—the likeliest candidate is the state—has a corresponding duty to actually supply each citizen with gainful employment by availing itself of some means (such as the market) or other (state employment) to bring this about.
Is the right to work actually feasible?
Notwithstanding good intentions behind the right to work, many scholars doubt whether the proposal is actually feasible. The late legal scholar Bob Hepple and the political theorist Jon Elster have both made arguments to the effect that it is not. . .
via The idea that everyone should have a job is so common we forget to question it — Quartz
Brits Apologize to Russian Embassy for London’s Political Offensive on Moscow
Brits are sick and tired of anti-Russian propaganda on TV.
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The Russian Embassy in the UK tweeted a few letters of support, sent by British nationals, amid London’s ongoing smear campaign against Moscow over the Skripal case.
The Russian Embassy in London has been receiving letters of support from British people in relation to the UK government’s premature measures to the alleged poisoning attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
READ MORE: Russian Embassy in UK: London Destroying Evidence Related to ‘Skripal Case’
One of the letters suggested that in 2003 the UK was “tricked into supporting an illegal war in Iraq” after fake evidence of the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the country was presented. He/she proceeded to say that there was no trust in reports covered by the mainstream media, calling the behavior of the government “inexcusable” when referring to the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats.
Another person wrote that the UK government was “harassing” Russia, trying to “divert…
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The Vietnam War in 1970: GIs Kill Their Own Officers While Government Slays Student Protestors
A Sea of Fire, Episode 8
The Vietnam War
Directed by Ken Burn and Lyn Novick
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This week Maori TV showed A Sea of Fire, Episode 8 of the Vietnam War series. It covers the period from April 4, 1969 to May 1970 and the massacre of four students at Kent State and two at Jackson State
By April 1969, there were 543,482 US troops fighting in Vietnam, with thousands more on nearby naval vessels and support bases. By that date, 40,794 GIs had died in Vietnam.
In October Nixon, who privately acknowledged the US couldn’t win, replaced a complicated draft deferment system with a more popular lottery based on draftees date of birth. In December, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced the “Vietnamization” of the war (eg a transfer of responsibility to to South Vietnamese troops) and began drawing down US troop numbers (10,000 by the end of 1970).
The move led many serving GIs to become deeply demoralized about being sent to die in an unwinnable war. Accordingly, 1970 would see a big increase in “fragging,” the deliberate murder of officers by men under them. It would also see a big increase in draftees seeking asylum in Canada (30,000 in total).
I was disappointed this episode failed to cover the role of the CIA and South Vietnamese army setting up a thriving trade selling heroin to US GIs. My former partner served in Vietnam from 1967-1969 and returned to the US addicted to it.
The years 1969-70 would also see a big surge in the US peace movement. The October 15th Vietnam Moratorium was actually a general strike, with hundreds of university campuses closing down and tens of thousands of Americans staying off work in cities around the country. It would be the largest mass protest in US history.
In November, independent journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre, the brutal murder of 400 South Vietnamese civilians, which had occurred 20 months earlier. It would be only one of many civilians massacres in Vietnam.
In 1970, the peace movement, which had died down in response to Nixon’s gradual troop withdrawal, was reignited following the April 30, 1970 invasion of Cambodia by 30,000 US troops. Four million American students protested the invasion, 448 campuses were shut down and 16 states called out the National Guard.
At Kent State, the National Guard fired 67 rounds into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, killing four, including an ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corp) scholarship student who was merely an onlooker.
On the same day, police shot two peaceful African American antiwar protestors at Jackson State University in Mississippi.
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