In what many see as an obvious attempt to use the legal process to silence investigative journalism that exposes possible wrongdoing, the National Abortion Federation was granted an extension to their temporary restraining order stopping the publication of a secret video recording taken during one of their annual meetings.

Current Women’s Bantamweight Title Holder Ronda Rousey called the September 11 attacks an “inside job” during a 2011 interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

After being questioned on conspiracies surrounding 9/11, Rousey asserted that the event undoubtedly had government involvement.

Documents filed Monday in Probate Court show that the families have agreed to equally divide a $1.5 million homeowner's insurance policy that Lanza had on the Newtown home she shared with her son, Adam Lanza. Each family will get $93,750, records show. The lawsuits were filed by the families of 14 of those who died in the massacre and two who survived

The air campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has killed more than 450 civilians, according to a new report, even though the US-led coalition has so far acknowledged just two non-combatant deaths.
More than 5,700 air strikes have been launched in the campaign, which nears its first anniversary this Saturday, with its impact on civilians largely unknown.
Note: What have we become?

The non-binding resolution, introduced July 30 by Reps. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), respectively the chairman and ranking member of the committee, calls on the administration “to increase the use of its voice, vote, and influence in international organizations and other appropriate international forums to actively oppose politically motivated acts of boycott, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel.”

Freshmen Congress members will tour Israel with their party leaders and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Congress gears up to consider an Iran nuclear deal Netanyahu vehemently opposes.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Whip, will lead another 21 House Democrats on a tour of Israel Aug. 4-10, his office said Monday in a statement.
Note: Treason!

The “US Institute of Peace” is a coven of warmongers.
The Intercept has an article on the “U.S. Institute of Peace,” a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting “nonviolent resolution of conflicts”: author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national security advisor to George W. Bush, wants to arm Ukraine so as to impress Putin with the sight of “body bags of Russian soldiers who have been killed.” Yet the USIP has long been a site of neoconservative infection inside the national security bureaucracy.

The pro-western parties went on form a staunchly pro-EU government, which collapsed after just three months in power over a massive corruption scandal.
The same pro-EU parties managed to name a replacement PM, but now even he is saying poor Russia relations are not in Moldova’s interest.
Moldova’s new Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet has called for a reset in relations with Russia, he said on Saturday, aired by national television.
“Russia is an important partner for our country but today we are lacking mutual understanding. We must bridge this gap, sit at the negotiating table and reset our relations”

"The situation in the Donetsk People’s Republic is heating up, the Ukrainian army has fired 216 122-mm and 152-mm artillery shells on our territory over the past 24 hours," the Donetsk news agency quotes the Defense Ministry as saying. "The overall number of artillery bombardments has totaled 45 over the past 24 hours."
According to the data provided by the Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian army fired 41 tank shells and 171 82-mm and 120-mm mines. In addition to that, they used grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons and small arms.
"Once again Gorlovka came under the most intense artillery and mortar fire," a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said. "The enemy fired 130 large-caliber shells on the settlement of Golmovsky [near Gorlovka]."

Japanese journalist has not exited the Moscow airport Sheremetyevo for 2 months so far, where former CIA employee Edward Snowden used to live.
Tetsuya Abo does not want to leave Moscow because of his convictions. He claims, that in his own country there is no freedom of speech any more, and the American propaganda rules political interests.
The Japanese arrived to the Russian capital on the Victory Day. He was going to fly away at the end of May, but changed his mind at the last moment and decided not to return. Now he lives just in the airport terminal.
It is known that 36-year-old Japanese sent a letter to the local authorities, asking for the Russian citizenship.

The International Olympic Committee will look into issues of sports development in the Crimea. The IOC discussed questions relating to sports in the Crimea at a recent meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
Thomas Bach, the head of the IOC, said that the organization would provide all necessary support to the Crimea. The IOC will start cooperating with the Crimea immediately, if the republic provides its plans and projects to the committee.
The IOC, like many other sports and diplomatic organizations, takes the Crimea as a Russian peninsula.

Former US President Jimmy Carter said he did not consider the present-day United States of America a democratic state.
The 39th President of the United States made the statement in an interview with Tom Hartmann, a well-known radio host and progressive political commentator.
Carter criticized the practice of "unlimited political bribery" that has created "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors."
According to Carter, America has turned into a real oligarchy, where all power is concentrated in the hands of financial elite. This was made possible owing to the decision of the US Supreme Court, which entitled corporations to make unlimited financial investments into the political sphere of the country.

Ukrainian president's envoy for the Crimean Tatars people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, announced the creation of a "Muslim battalion." One should not minimize the threat of unleashing ethnic and religious wars in the former Soviet Union: Turkey is standing behind Dzhemilev's actions.
The so-called "World Congress of the Crimean Tatars" took place in Turkey's Ankara on August 1-2. The organizers of the event were former leaders of the Majlis, Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov. Today, they are personas non grata in Russia for "inciting ethnic hatred." The "Congress" brought together about 200 groups of Crimean Tatars from different countries, Radio Svoboda says. The participants of the event said they were forced to hold their meeting outside the Crimea because of the pressure from Russian special services. All was happening against the background of support from Turkey that said that it would never support the "annexation of the Crimea.'"

Starting out Jackson details an often shared belief that the music industry purposefully takes advantage of celebrities whether it be their good characteristics or their bad. Jackson then goes deeper, highlighting the fact that the news media manipulates the public into thinking what the power structure wants them to think.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry has confirmed the explusion of its diplomat from Russia, the SVT channel said on Monday.
The expulsion will affect the relations between the two countries, SVT quoted Swedish Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Johan Tegel as saying.
Earlier on Monday, the Russian authorities announced a high-ranking Swedish diplomat who worked at the Swedish embassy in Moscow persona non grata. No more details have been available so far.

Moscow confirms expulsion of Swedish diplomat was tit-for-tat move http://tass.ru/en/russia/812431

The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) might have seized more territories if Russia would not have offered military assistance to the Syrian and Iraqi governments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
"The most serious threat in Iraq and Syria is Islamic State," he said. "Yes, we do offer military technical assistance to the Syrian government to repel this threat, we also support Iraq. We have reasons to think that without such assistance Islamic State might have seized much more thousands of square kilometres of territories."

"Four houses have been destroyed. One house was hit directly, and it burned down completely. The other three houses are partially destroyed," Zhukovsky told Donetsk News Agency.
The settlement’s governor Vladimir Cherkas said that Ukrainian forces shelled Alexandrovka all night - from 11pm until 5am. "A shell hit agricultural zone #2, farm buildings are burning. We have been extinguishing fire since 6am and still continue," Cherkas noted.
There is no electricity in the settlement because of last night’s shellings. No information on whether anyone was injured is yet available.
The settlement of Alexandrovka, located near the disengagement line, is often shelled by Ukrainian forces.

The meetings of the Contact Group on settlement of the situation in Ukraine and sub-groups started on August 3 and continued into the night. However, the sides failed to reach an agreement on one of the most pressing issues - signing the document on gradual withdrawal of tanks, armored personnel carriers and weaponry of less than 100mm caliber from the contact line. It was announced that the sub-group will continue negotiations until the final deal is made.

"The results of negotiations confirmed the desire of both countries to build up cooperation in various spheres. We are ready to intensify our ties in the fields of security, law enforcement and finance. We confirmed determination to coordinate actions in the world gas market both at the bilateral level and in the context of a forum of gas exporting countries," Lavrov went on to say.
He added that Russia welcomed the interest of the Qatari partners to intensify the work of Qatari investment funds in Russia.
Russia and Qatar to join efforts to coordinate preparation for 2018 and 2022 World Cups http://tass.ru/en/sports/812363

A team of Russian specialists is expected to go to France in September to dismantle the equipment installed on the Mistral class helicopter carriers, a source in Russia’s military-technical cooperation system told TASS on Tuesday.

Russian expert: Mistral without Russian equipment to remain clumsy box afloat http://tass.ru/en/russia/767198

Russia has delivered to the United States the first two rocket engines RD-181 for the Antares carrier rocket under the contract signed previously.
"On July 15 the first two RD-181 engines were sent from Russia and delivered to the United States on July 16," the press service said. Before departure to the United States the engines underwent pre-delivery checkout and firing trials. Russia plans to deliver four RD-181 engines to the United States this year, another four will be delivered in 2016.
According to previous reports, Russia’s Energomash Corporation plans to supply the new RD-181 rocket engines to the U.S.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation. The relevant contract was signed in January 2015. The agreement envisages restrictions on the use of the engines in military programs - rockets with the Russian-manufactured engines must not be used for military space missions.

It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized by Washington. The real purpose of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to advance Washington’s hegemony by destabilizing the two countries capable of resisting US hegemony.

"A message needs to be sent to the world of banking," said UK Judge Jeremy Cooke on Monday as he handed down a 14-year sentence to former Citibank and UBS trader Tom Hayes, convicted in a London court on eight counts of conspiring to manipulate a global benchmark interest rate known as LIBOR.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses church let “repentant” child sex abusers return to the congregation, who were then kept in the dark about their crimes, an alleged abuse victim has claimed.

It’s so ridiculous, no intelligent and informed person would give it any serious consideration whatsoever. It insults the public’s intelligence.

Here’s a typical example of the ridiculousness of U.S. propaganda: On July 16th, the U.S. State Department issued a “Ukraine Travel Warning.” It says:

(CNN)After nearly 15 years of development and a half-dozen years of testing, the first squadron of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is officially operational.

The decision was formally announced by Marine Commandant General Joseph Dunford on Friday, making the Marines the first military branch to declare its version of the aircraft combat-ready.

Police are being investigated over sensational claims they covered up child sex allegations against former prime minister Edward Heath.

The probe was launched after a retired ‘very senior’ officer raised concerns that a criminal trial was derailed in the 1990s to protect the former Tory leader.

As a result, it is alleged, he was never interviewed by police – let alone arrested – and his home was not searched.

Hackers have started exploiting an extremely severe vulnerability in a widely used software utility, touching off concerns that the in-the-wild attacks could affect the stability of the Internet.

The attacks are exploiting a denial-of-service bug in all versions of Bind, the most widely used software for translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses used by servers.

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The only way administrators can ensure they don't fall victim is to install a recently published patch.

What’s the population of the United States? About 320 million, you think? No, that statistic is both woefully out-of-date and grossly unjust. The actual, ethical population of the US is seven billion and rising. Funnily enough, that’s also the ethical population of the United Kingdom – and of Canada, France, Sweden and Australia. In fact, all European-majority nations have an ethical population of seven billion. Just ask Stosh Cotler, CEO of “Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice”:

As the race for the White House heats up with the first Republican debateset for Thursday, there appears to be a growing number of supporters showing up at campaign speeches and appearances. The increasing pressure to gain an edge has some candidates paying actors to be faces in the crowd, CBS News' Carter Evans reports. When Donald Trump entered the presidential race, spurred on by an energetic crowd, apparently not all were true believers. According to an email obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, actors were offered $50 to wear T-shirts, carry signs and cheer.

China is assembling what has been hailed as the world's largest radio telescope, state media reported. The 500-meter tool will boast a dish the size of 30 football pitches, overtaking Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, “only” 305 meters in diameter.

We're right smack-dab in the middle of the federal government's "Decade of Vaccines" (2010-2020), and things couldn't be moving any faster in the direction of total medical tyranny. California Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law SB 277 to force vaccines on nearly all school-age children; some members of Congress are now pushing for a national mandatory vaccination plan; and corporations and health groups all across the country are increasingly ostracizing employees and other individuals who refuse the jab.

The corporatization process started with “co-branding” agreements, rationalized by Park Service officials as “aligning the economic and historical legacies” of parks with advertisers. In other words, they’re selling the Park Service’s proud public brand — as well as its soul. First in line was Coca-Cola. In 2007, the multibillion-dollar colossus became a “proud partner” with the Park Service by donating a mere $2.5 million (tax-deductible, meaning we taxpayers subsidized the deal) to the Park Service fundraising arm. In return, not only did Coke get exclusive rights to use park logos in its ads, but it was allowed to veto a Park Service plan to ban sales of bottled water in the Grand Canyon National Park. Disposable plastic bottles are that park’s biggest source of trash, but Coke owns Dasani, the top-selling water, so bye-bye ban. Public outrage forced officials to reverse this crass move, but the Park Service’s integrity has yet to recover.

By Brandon Turbeville

Fresh on the heels of the establishment of an "ISIL-Free Zone" (aka "No-Fly Zone") in northern Syria along the Turkish border, the United States has quietly announced that it will also extend its airstrike operations to act as the traveling bodyguard of the jihadists it has trained and “vetted.”...

Alan Hart explains why only external pressure – as opposed to reason – can bring about a change in Israeli attitudes and policy, and pave the way for a just peace with the Palestinians.

Here is a description of the “Korsun Pogrom” or “Korsun Massacre”: the 20 February 2014 event that sparked Crimea’s breakaway from Ukraine:

Former financial regulator Bill Black mocks Republican claims of ‘bigotry’ against ‘the success of CEOs’

$40 trillion here, a quadrillion there, soon banksters will own it all

Years ago Andrew Nikiforuk, citing experts, warned where Stephen Harper's priorities would lead us.

Economists, an irrational tribe of short-sighted mathematicians, are now calling Canada's declining economic fortunes "a perfect storm."

It seems to be the only weather that complex market economies generate these days, or maybe such things are just another face of globalization.

In any case, economists now lament that low oil prices have upended the nation's trade balance: "Canada has posted trade deficits every month this year, and the cumulative 2015 total of $13.6 billion is a record, exceeding the next highest, in 2009, of $2.95 billion."

But this unique perfect storm gets darker. China, which Harperites eagerly embraced as the globe's autocratic growth locomotive, has run out of steam.

Mike Huckabee, a Republican presidential candidate, is showing what it means to be a cuckservative. God's chosen people have demanded that us worthless White people fight and die in a war with Iran. Obama has refused such a war, so these Republican cucks like Huckabee have started to scream that peace means we are sending "Israelis to the oven!"

Of course, Mike Huckabee is too much of a fat ass to fight for and die for Israel. But he wants your sons and daughters to bleed for an alien nation. Mike is a cuckold. Meaning he would never defend the interests of his people. The idea that White people, like the Jews, have the right to self determination would send this cuck into a screaming fit.

On Saturday, August 1st, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (who now acknowledges that his government is illegitimate and that his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a February 2014 coup), sent greetings to an international conference of supporters of Tatars in Crimea, at the Second World Congress of the Crimean Tatars. He charged the current Crimean government (the government that Crimeans elected on 16 March 2014, rejoining Russia) of discriminating against Tatars. His message attacked the “torn imperial policies of the Kremlin,” and the “temporary occupation of Crimea by Russia.” He said that, “The Crimean Tatar people are again experiencing terror, and tens of thousands are thus forced to flee.” He thanked America’s Sunni ally Turkey for hosting this conference of pro-Saudi, Sunni Muslim, Crimeans.

Savage (aka Weiner) is a nationalist for Israel, who is an utter hypocrite.

On July 28th, Thom Hartmann interviewed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and, at the very end of his show (as if this massive question were merely an aftethought), asked him his opinion of the 2010 Citizens United decision and the 2014 McCutcheon decision, both decisions by the five Republican judges on the U.S. Supreme Court. These two historic decisions enable unlimited secret money (including foreign money) now to pour into U.S. political and judicial campaigns. Carter answered: