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Secretary of State John Kerry came off, once again, sounding like "Johnny One Note" on the first-ever visit by an American Secretary of State to Somalia. In his short three hour meeting with Somali leaders, including Somalia's ineffective and powerless president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Kerry was confined to a sandbag-fortified security bivouac at Mogadishu airport because the Somali government has no control over its own capital city. Kerry emphasized to the Somali president the need for Somalia to establish a strong military to unite the country.
South African President Jacob Zuma has hit back at the West's boycott of the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, saying Saturday's events "defines how the globe stands today".
70 years since the great Victory! 70 years since Soviet people saved the world by smashing Nazism.
All accords with Russia were broken, whenever it suited invaders. The Scandinavians wiped out countless Russian lives, and so did the Germans, French, Poles, Brits, North Americans and Czechs, to name just a few. Russians never really 'punished' anybody, in the Protestant, Anglo-Saxon way. Punishment is mainly puritan, Protestant rubbish; the Russian way of thinking is too quixotic for that.
The West lied to Lenin, to Stalin, to Khrushchev and finally to Gorbachev. The West has been lying to Putin and about Putin.
Gellar's 'Draw the Prophet' charade was the perfect bait for any would-be radical trying to make a name for himself, yet they allowed the provocation to proceed under the pretext of 'upholding the first amendment.'
As the Garland police spokesman confessed, this had all been pre-planned months beforehand. Only the very naïve or hopelessly deluded will put any faith in the FBI's lame-duck denials that they deliberately allow attacks of these sorts to take place, or organize them directly by way of informants, such as the one linked to Simpson.
Six children from the Central African Republic recently told authorities about the sexual abuse by French peacekeepers.
"Once again a country "liberated" by the West is sinking deeper and deeper into chaos."
This could be anyone of the countries in conflict, where Washington and its Western and Middle Eastern stooges sow war – eternal chaos, misery, death – and submission.
This is precisely the point: The Washington / NATO strategy is not to 'win' a war or conflict, but to create ongoing – endless chaos. That's the way (i) to control people, nations and their resources; (ii) to assure the west is in continuous need for military – troops and equipment – remember more than 50% of the US GDP depends on the military industrial complex, related industries and services; and (iii) finally, a country in disarray or chaos, is broke and needs money – money with hardship conditions, 'austerity' money from the notorious IMF, World Bank and other associated nefarious 'development institutions' and money lenders; money that equals enslavement, especially with corrupt leaders that do not care for their people.
Valery Kulikov
The recent scandal involving the sexual abuse of African children carried out by members of a UN peacekeeping mission, despite numerous efforts of this international organization to play it down, will not be ignored...
Graham Peebles argues that the Ethiopian government, contrary to the praise from Washington, is in violation of a plethora of international covenants, its own constitution and its primary responsibility to protect its citizens.
Burundi's Constitutional Court on Tuesday validated the president's controversial bid for a third term but the deputy president of the court, who fled to Rwanda ahead of the ruling, called it unconstitutional.
The ruling came amid prolonged demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term. At least nine people have been killed in violent confrontations with the police since last week, according to the Burundi Red Cross. Scores have been wounded.
Burundi's constitution says the president is elected by universal direct suffrage for a mandate of five years, renewable one time.
This may well lead to a civil war in the country, if people do not feel that their concerns and needs are not addressed.
John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Somalia on Tuesday — the first U.S. secretary of state ever to travel to the country riven by decades of war and grappling with an Islamist insurgency.
Translation: Somalia is next on the "to be conquered and given a puppet ruler" list!
It is no coincidence that the most violent assaults and invasions by the Euro-American powers have taken place against the poorest countries in each region of the world. In the Western hemisphere, the Euro-US regimes have repeatedly invaded the absolutely poorest country, Haiti, overthrowing the popularly elected Aristide government, decimating the population via a cholera epidemic spread by UN mercenary 'peace-keepers', killing tens of thousands of poor Haitians and rounding up thousands of protestors. The occupation continues. Honduras, the second poorest country in the region, experienced a US-backed coup d'état deposed their recently elected president and imposed a terrorist puppet regime, which regularly assassinates dissidents and landless rural workers. Peasants are dispossessed; the economy and society are in shambles with tens of thousands of Hondurans (especially children) fleeing the violence.
Marianne Azizi gives an eyewitness account of the violence and tear gas used by Israel's police against Ethiopian Jews peacefully protesting in Tel Aviv on 3 May against police violence and racism.
Ebola could be sexually transmitted as much as six months or more after a patient has fully recovered from the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have now warned based on recent findings. Until further notice, the agencies said, Ebola survivors should make sure they use safer sex practices, such as those effective at protecting against the transmission of HIV.
If one wonders how a desert-crawling line of Japanese open-back trucks gifted by the US filled with countless irregular fighters in plain view could ever have ever made it overnight to the point where Western military and political leaders are saying "the war against ISIL may be interminable", one begins to see through the game. ISIL is a construction financed and trained by covert US and oil-king allies that ruins every place it enters, like Syria once the regime began to win the civil war. Al-Nusra/Al Qaeda was not enough. ISIL is a step up in the US-led control of the Middle East by terror, chaos and social devastation. "The Salvador option" was the first name for the post-war death squads in Iraq, but "Islamic State" stirs much more apocalyptic passions pro and con. Best of all, the ruling foreign war machines of the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and NATO are now far better justified to "fight the barbaric terrorists". Saudi Arabia with US support is now even projecting the "terrorist" and sectarian "Shiite" labels on the popular uprising of the poor in Yemen against a corrupt US-Saudi puppet government. One object alone is achieved. Peoples and resources of the region can be predated without sovereign social defences or unity of collective life purpose, the ultimate target of every US-led aggression. As long as all evils can be blamed on an ever-shifting Enemy, there is no overcoming recognition.
The US Geological Survey recently released findings that show, as many people have suspected, that the process known as fracking is directly related to the incredible increase of earthquake incidence in the United States. According to the study, the amount of earthquakes has increased dramatically over the past few years; between 1973 and 2008 there was an average of 21 earthquakes of a magnitude 3 and larger on the Richter scale in the Central and Eastern United States. This increased to an alarming rate of 99M3+ earthquakes per year between 2009 and 2013, and this rate is continuing to rise.
A group of rights lawyers have filed a legal complaint demanding the arrest of former Israeli President Shimon Peres – who will visit Morocco on 5 May – for war crimes.
"An urgent arrest warrant is required ahead of Peres's entry to Morocco on 5 May," four lawyers – Abdel-Rahman Bin Amr, Abdel-Rahim Al-Gamei, Abdel-Rahim Bin Baraka and Khaled Al-Sufiani – said in a complaint lodged with Morocco's prosecution authority yesterday.
"Shimon Peres has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against [Palestinian] civilians," it added.
Despite having varying degrees of official relations with some Arab countries, Israel is still seen in a negative light by much of the Arab world.
The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a "regime change" war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic, writes Robert Parry.
If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets the same fate as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi or Iraq's Saddam Hussein, much of Official Washington would rush out to some chic watering hole to celebrate – one more "bad guy" down, one more "regime change" notch on the belt. But the day after Damascus falls could mark the beginning of the end for the American Republic.
A damning United Nations report leaked to the Guardian newspaper has alleged that French soldiers deployed as peacekeepers in Central African Republic have been sexually abusing the children they are supposed to be protecting. France has launched an investigation.
A senior Swedish aid worker has been suspended from his job at the United Nations for allegedly leaking an internal report claiming that French soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic have been abusing children.
French authorities have identified some of their troops accused of sexually abusing children in Central African Republic while there on peacekeeping duties, a French judicial source said on Thursday.
The matter, which risks damaging the reputation of France's military operations in Africa, came to light this week when Britain's Guardian newspaper published an internal U.N. report that raised allegations of the rape of boys by French troops.
The source said an initial reading of that report suggested 14 soldiers were involved in the alleged abuse, which took place between December 2013 and June 2014. Subsequent French inquiries had identified some of them, the source said, adding that no soldiers had been questioned yet.
Saudis have been helped by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has relied on the powerful Israel Lobby and his own rhetoric to divert the U.S. Congress from a focus on Al-Qaeda and its hyper-brutal spinoff, the Islamic State, to Iran, which both Saudi Arabia and Israel have designated their primary regional enemy.
Fearful of further offending the powerful Saudi-Israeli alliance, President Obama is deploying the U.S. Navy to seal off poverty-stricken Yemen so the Saudi air force has free rein to pummel its regional rivals from the air while the population faces a humanitarian crisis on the ground, reports Robert Parry.
Israel's widespread practice of recruiting Jewish citizens and officials of other countries to serve as vehicles of Israeli policies has the potential to foment a new and possibly violent backlash, once the greater population has been made aware of such treasonous activities.
Back in early March, the mainstream media was excitedly publishing stories about Liberia purportedly discharging its last Ebola patient and awaiting formal "Ebola-free" status. Of course, back in mid-January, the major outlets were also reporting that Liberia "aims to be Ebola-free by end-February."
How wrong they all were.
I am convinced that a new Declaration of Independence will be good both for the United States and for Israel.
As a prologue to the injuries suffered by the United States, I cannot put it any better than did America's Founders:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation:"
This is an outrage!
Sixteen people killed in cold blood by the Mexican Federal Police; unarmed people of an auto-defense movement – in January 2015; just discovered by a team of investigative journalists.
Mexicans well remember the mass killing of 43 Ayotzinapa students of last September, unarmed students of a college that caters to the rural poor, who were protesting the government's education reform which would make school unaffordable for the poor. Their killing was provoked by the police in connivance with drug cartels.
They train armies and police in their 'client' states to assure oppression whenever there is a chance that people may claim their civil rights. This is what empire does.
"Law" and "justice" are words that seldom if ever pass the lips of our politicians when discussing the 'Palestine Question' — or shouldn't that be properly called the 'Israel Question'? In the UK there is still no rush, it seems, to deliver law or justice to the situation after 100 years of betrayal.
Britain's ferocious warmongering in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and efforts to destabilize Syria, caused havoc in those countries and earned us a reputation for human misery making. This week our misbegotten chickens came home to roost in an unbearably distressing way as desperate refugee-migrants drowned at sea hundreds at a time.
In Latin America, Eduardo Galeano was revered as a giant of letters, as a symbol of rebellion, of revolution, and of the fight for justice.
"Utopia is on the horizon," Galeano once wrote. "I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking."
Galeano told me that he was in love with two ladies, both splendid, both fragile, both tremendously desirable. One was called Utopia, the other, Reality.
Both are dangerous to the masters of the world, to Empire, because one gathers dreams, including dreams for a better world, while the other one bravely tells the truth.
The demonization of Russia and its leader by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, and the rest of the American Propaganda Ministry, by almost the entirety of the House and Senate, and by the White House makes reducing the threat of nuclear war impossible.
How much confidence do you have in Washington? How many times has Washington–especially the crazed neocons–been wrong?
Did you know that Washington keeps 450 nuclear ICBMs on "hair-trigger alert"? Washington thinks that this makes us "safe." The reasoning, if it can be called reason, is that by being able to launch in a few minutes, no one will try to attack the US with nuclear weapons. US missiles are able to get on their way before the enemy's missiles can reach the US to destroy ours.
If this makes you feel safe, you need to read Eric Schlosser's book, Command and Control.
Following an official moment of silence "in remembrance of the dead in the Mediterranean," the leaders of the EU member states reached an agreement on the "ten point plan on migration" that the foreign and interior ministers had prepared on Monday. Its chief aims are to escalate police and military operations against refugees while laying the foundations for a massive military intervention in Africa.
The strategy of the EU is murderous in two respects. After the European powers, in league with Washington's war policy in Africa and the Middle East, destroyed entire societies, they made the conscious decision to let refugees drown to keep them out of Europe.
The war against refugees will now be intensified. The European elite has responded to the chaos in Africa, which they themselves created, and the mass deaths in the Mediterranean exclusively with police and military means. This underscores the reactionary character of the EU and its institutions.
Europe and the US have created the conditions in Africa where dangerous, life-threatening immigration may be the only way out; and yet, these Africans have no way out, courtesy of the EU's response.
Of course, there is one other way of curbing the African population rather than immigration: the forced sterilization of African women via vaccine jabs, as has happened with women in Kenya As reported at globalresearch.ca, 16 April 2015:
Tetanus vaccines given to millions of young women in Kenya have been confirmed by laboratories to contain a sterilization chemical that causes miscarriages, reports the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, a pro-vaccine organization. A whopping 2.3 million young girls and women are in the process of being given the vaccine, pushed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. "We sent six samples from around Kenya to laboratories in South Africa. They tested positive for the HCG antigen," Dr. Muhame Ngare of the Mercy Medical Centre in Nairobi told LifeSiteNews. "They were all laced with HCG." Chemical causes a woman's body to destroy its own fetus with vaccine-induced antibodies HCG is a chemical developed by the World Health Organization for sterilization purposes. When injected into the body of a young woman, it causes a pregnancy to be destroyed by the body's own antibody response to the HCG, resulting in a spontaneous abortion. Its effectiveness lasts for years, causing abortions in women up to three years after the injections. Dr. Ngare explained "…this WHO campaign is not about eradicating neonatal tetanus but a well-coordinated forceful population control mass sterilization exercise using a proven fertility regulating vaccine."
I am almost willing to bet that in other countries in Africa, which contain a great embarrassment of riches the US and Europe are working to rapidly exploit, this has been, or will be, tried.
However, that being said, is painfully obvious that to come to this decision at the EU, every single contributor to this policy has had their conscience surgically removed.
Europe's refugee crisis is just another American bill for the latter's legacy of global conflict – a bill that is being dumped at the European allies' door to pay. Years of US-led wars waged in Central Asia, through the Middle East and across North Africa are arguably the major factor in the droves of migrants now straining the European Union, as they seek refuge from raging conflicts and deprivation. The nationalities of the refugees mirror the trail of countries that America has pulverised over the past decade.
The funding, which began in 2014, comes as part of DARPA's Memex project, a "groundbreaking" search engine designed to best commercial titans like Google at searching the Deep Web and other oft-ignored terrain for the U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and military. To build Memex, DARPA is partnered with universities like Carnegie Mellon, NASA, private research firms, and several Tor Project developers.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, and that appears to be precisely what the Senate had in mind.
Evidently Obama has concluded that a veto-proof majority in both Houses stood behind the Foreign Relations Committee bill, and reluctantly conceded. But that wrests control of the process out of the hands of the Administration. The Iran deal may have died this afternoon.
To make sense of the events that have led to the current negotiations over Iran's so-called nuclear ambitions, certain elemental realities should be highlighted:
Do the math...
Since the beginning of the year, at least 1,700 people attempting to immigrate to Europe have died in transit, 50 times the number for the same period last year. According to the IOM, the number of people dying in the attempt to reach the shores of Europe rose by more than 500 percent between 2011 and 2014.
Of course, 2011 was the year that the US and its NATO allies, principally France and Britain, launched their war for regime change in Libya, under the fabricated pretext that they were intervening to prevent a massacre by the government of Muammar Gaddafi in the eastern city of Benghazi.
This "humanitarian" mission initiated a six-month US-NATO bombing campaign that killed at least 10 times the number who died in the scattered fighting between government troops and armed rebels that had preceded it. This imperialist intervention, which utilized Islamist militias with ties to Al Qaeda as its proxy ground forces, left Libya descending rapidly into chaos and destruction.
The future of Libya should, by rights, belong to the Libyan people; but unending and merciless Western intervention is making this almost impossible.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "resource grab."
Now we know why the people of Africa have been continuously kept down, neglected and taken advantage of over the centuries. A strong, independent and knowledgeable people are not easily exploited.
"Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town," said Ondo state government spokesman Kayode Akinmade.
The disease, symptoms of which include headache, weight loss, blurred vision and loss of consciousness, killed the victims within 24 hours of their falling ill, he said.
Laboratory tests have so far ruled out Ebola or any other virus, Mr Akinmade added.
Someone drop a test tube at the bio-weapons lab?
The Nigerian government said on Saturday that a "mysterious disease" that kills patients within a day has killed at least 18 people in the southeastern town of Ode-Irele town, Ondo state.
As many as 20 South African companies, including manufacturers and chain stores, have ended their security contracts with G4S in protest at the company's links to Israeli prisons and detention centres. The news was announced by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
And it will continue to be looted until we each take responsibility for what our governments do in our names, through the vast and insatiable military industrial complex that is plundering the planet for profit.
Or, if we can't regain control over our governments, then at least let's take back control over ourselves. Boycott these companies. Shun their products like the plague. And let them descend into the pits of hell from where they came.
Tetanus vaccines given to millions of young women in Kenya have been confirmed by laboratories to contain a sterilization chemical that causes miscarriages, reports the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, a pro-vaccine organization.
A whopping 2.3 million young girls and women are in the process of being given the vaccine, pushed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization.
Vladimir Putin steals the show in TIME 100 reader's poll
Western media did their best to hide Putin's stratospheric popularity in their assigned propaganda task of demonizing Russia and Putin over the Ukrainian Western coup , replacing the Iran nuclear weapons threat hoax with the new Russian Bear threat one.
The biggest threat to our national security comes from treasonous cliques within our own ranks and their recent marriage over that last decade into the international corporate crime syndicates.
We are not really biased here at VT. It is just a simple observation to us… it is Putin and Lavrov all the way. No one can touch them and they own this piece of history, something that the spinmeisters cannot lay a glove on.
Western media campaign to demonize Putin has failed to convince its target audience. The Western public are not buying the hysterical political agenda.
The iconic current affairs TIME magazine follows this week's news that Russian President Vladimir Putin came top of the TIME 100 readers' poll.
Western publics have now alternative media sources, ranging from foreign-based professional news services to a plethora of Western-based internet sites. The alternative scope is often critical of Western government policies and capable of ably exposing ulterior, hidden political agenda. In other words, the alternative news sources are often doing the proper job of journalism that is neglected by Western mainstream media who seem to be preoccupied with advancing the political objectives of their governments – no matter how unethical those objectives are.
Any lawyers willing to do it? Support the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) movement, on American university campuses across the nation.
It is high time to engage the enemy with weaponry with which they are not only familiar, but weaponry which can penetrate their defenses and do damage. 'Know thy Enemy', learn from his successes.
Ahmad Saadaldin on Panel 3 (Overcoming obstacles: SJP – Student for Justice in Palestine successes) stood out as an especially inspiring representative of … a younger generation of activists.
The US administration and the US Congress have succumbed to the demands of the Zionists and the Zionist regime. American politicians and media have fallen captive to the Zionist network. This is a lethal ailment that afflicts the US.
Regrettably little is being done to cure this fatal disease.
"Operation Decisive Storm" – yet another Pentagon-style illegal war – has already plunged Yemen into the twin plagues of civil war and humanitarian disaster.
So what we have is the 'Empire of Chaos' 'leading from behind' in the war on Yemen and also de facto 'leading from behind' in the fight against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh; the ones doing the heavy lifting are Iraqi militias supported by Tehran. The hidden agenda is always – what else –chaos; be it across "Syraq" or inside Yemen. With an extra bonus; while Washington is engaged on striking a nuclear deal with Tehran, it also turbo-charges an alliance against Tehran using the House of Saud.
Deep in rural South Africa, a terrifying white supremacist movement is brainwashing teenagers to rise up in defiance of Nelson Mandela's hard-fought dream of a Rainbow Nation.
The far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) is training thousands of youths in military-style bootcamps northwest of Johannesburg to fight for a separate white state.
By day, they are pushed to their physical limits with assault courses and self-defence lessons, all the while being told of the danger from 'the millions of blacks trying to kill you'.
American politicians and media have fallen captive to the Zionist network. This is a lethal ailment that afflicts the US.
C-Span refused to cover the conference? Speak of "Silencing voices of TRUTH" or any exposure of even the most legitimate and reasonable discourse about Israel — Apparently, "The invisible dictatorship (to borrow a phrase) J.I.D., which controls America certainly saw to it!"
Whether it is not already too late to do much about it, we shall see.
Let us get it out on as many Websites as possible, Twitter and Facebook it, as well. We should not underestimate the power of the internet.
Distribution! Distribution! Distribution!
Bill Kristol and John McCain have replaced Robert Novak and Pat Buchanan in Republican foreign policy influence.
When the unexpectedly detailed P5+1 framework agreement with Iran was announced last Thursday, Illinois Republican Mark Kirk made a bizarre comment. "We all know" said the senator, that this is going to end with "a mushroom cloud somewhere near Tehran"—a result of Israel having to go to war to "clean up the mess" made by American and European negotiators. A few days earlier John McCain had expressed the wish that Israel "go rogue" and attack Iran in order to upend the Iran negotiations.
GC: Why is this world so sad? Do you have a religious answer? A faith-based answer?
CO: Life is suffering, and the ancient story of John the Baptist and Herod belongs to modern history…. Our "Herod" (POTUS) stands militarily above all other nations, and only Russia seems to stop the U.S. from cutting off (bombing) any head(s) our Controllers desire.
They intimidate the Vatican, and instead of "putting on the armor of God," (St. Paul), the Roman Catholic Church often acquiesces, and by the "sin of omission," helps hasten the making of a Rich Man & Lazarus world, an inevitable War of Civilizations.
At any rate, how will that "Ole Time Religion" square with this basically unimaginable world towards which we are racing?
Naming and shaming over the Iranian nuclear debacle will call out who just is the real pariah and who is the real partner to world peace.
Reading the Western news media is like swimming in a goldfish bowl. News one day gives way to some other transient story the next, and so on and on. With the result that if one were to rely on the Western media for understanding on any particular issue, there is faint chance of proper assimilation. This is because there is typically negligible context, perspective or continuity – as well as, of course, misleading spin and outright disinformation.
To illustrate: one of the most bizarre – unwittingly bizarre – recent news reports was how US Secretary of State John Kerry made an urgent call to Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Kerry reportedly needed Lavrov for help in clinching a breakthrough in the deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Why is this world so sad? Do you have a religious answer? A faith-based answer?
GC: I agree. And I'm thinking these are threads we can address in a future "Poets Talk." I don't think we've dealt with religion at all (?!). Tough subject, but very necessary. Given your qualms, I wonder: how do you remain in the Church?
Watch the Israel Lobby conference live from your desktop, phone, laptop or tablet! Spread the word!
The "Israel Lobby" conference is too hot for C-SPAN! So watch it from your desktop, phone, laptop or tablet! – Begins at 9AM EST – April 10, live from the National Press Club! Tweet in your questions for speakers to @IsraelLobbyUS or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Be a part of this important event!
The Israel Lobby conference is unprecedented, with the finest speakers on the subject gathered for a day of panels, Q&A and disscusions.
Israel lobby watchdogs like the ADL were outraged at last year's National Summit. Today C-SPAN refused to broadcast it, choosing instead to show re-runs of innocuous content.
So forget C-SPAN! Watch the entire conference from your favorite YouTube device! No cable subscription, no gatekeepers! Then watch the archived video and share it with your friends!
Watch the Israel Lobby conference live from your desktop, phone, laptop or tablet! Spread the word!
The "Israel Lobby" conference is too hot for C-SPAN! So watch it from your desktop, phone, laptop or tablet! – Begins at 9AM EST – April 10, live from the National Press Club! Tweet in your questions for speakers to @IsraelLobbyUS or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Be a part of this important event!
The Israel Lobby conference is unprecedented, with the finest speakers on the subject gathered for a day of panels, Q&A and discussions.
It's time for those Americans who assisted the Israelis with 9-11-01 and who covered it up to be indicted, arrested, tried and convicted for their various roles in the attack on America on 9-11-01 by Israel and its coverup.
This of course means that both of the massive American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were based on the big lies, false-narratives and propaganda dispensed to the American masses by the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) and were completely illegal under international law and thereby constitute abject war crimes for which those.
Numerous former top USG Officials and Members of Congress will someday soon be made accountable for committing espionage against America related to 9-11-01, its coverup and for all their war crimes based on lying about it and falsely blaming Islamics in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Anyone who takes aid is crippled. Aid is meant to cripple people… Governments in Africa and elsewhere are not allowed to write their own programs. And when it comes to implementing programs, it deprives you of building institutions and the capacity to implement your programs…We need to write our own programs in the first place. We need to articulate on the projects we write. We need to have a comprehensive strategy, plans on how to implement those programs…Unless we do that on our own, we can't possibly imagine that we are achieving any of the goals – millennium or non millennium." — President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea
Exposing Lies of the Empire is a monumental work.
Some years back, I was approached to come up with a story that I'd really like to cover. There were many, but right away I was drawn to a story whose angle was completely marginalized in any media I had checked. I was interested to go to Zimbabwe and get a genuine impression from Zimbabweans of how they view the direction of their country under the government of Robert Mugabe. How they viewed the redistribution of land within the country.
In the case of theft, when the stolen property is recovered, the usually accepted, and rightful, custom is that the property be returned to its rightful owner(s).
Follow the Money
Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, based in Kiev, Ukraine.
In 2008, Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects and funding for them but doesn't handle the money. The pledge was to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals "to modernize Ukraine," according to the Clinton Foundation.
It said that if Mr. Pinchuk was lobbying the State Department about Ukraine, "this cannot be seen as anything but a good thing."
Oh certainly, all you have to do is take a brief look at Ukraine to see what a wonderful thing it has been.
"America's last taboo" Edward Said.
Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere; but do not lose hope just yet. Join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, and a representative of Hamas. The picture would not be complete however, without a discussion of "America's last taboo" (as Edward Said once referred to it): the USA's role as Israel's best – and only – buddy in the world (Ok, together with Australia). Featuring special cameos from prominent American Jewish scholar, Dr. Norman Finkelstein, and Palestinian rap legends, DAM, this is an episode for the ages. Join us as we bravely (or perhaps stupidly) take on one of the most bitter, divisive and controversial conflicts of our times: Israel & Palestine.
It doesn't take much effort to acknowledge that an assault on a University that kills nearly 150 people is a tragic and unjustifiable event, but we must not stop there—as most news outlets do. Appeals for emotional outrage, hollow tropes of "they hate us for our freedom," and pointless/bellicose statements declaring "We will keep hitting them until their spine is completely broken… and we will relish that moment" have no place in a serious sociological analysis, past or present.
Graham Peebles says the UK government – a major donor to Ethiopia – is complicit through its inaction in the illegal detention and probable mistreatment of Ethiopian opposition leader and British citizen Andergachew Tsige.
U.S and Tehran disagree over Sanctions lift.
Tehran accuses the U.S. of spinning the nuclear deal.
Iran was never in violation of the NPT.
Most importantly, we must think about (upholding) the International treaties.
International treaties are being held hostage by the west.
There has been a lot of interference inside Iran by Washington. The nuclear issue is just an excuse to undermine the Islamic Republic and has very little to do with anything else.
Russia is opposed to snap back inspections and phased out sanctions.
Russia is a UN Security Council member and is present in the negotiations.
A closer look at the details of the so-called framework accord to emerge from Lausanne shows that Iran falls short on both counts of sanctions removal and nuclear rights.
After investing so much political capital in achieving a nuclear deal, it is understandable that all sides of the stand-off would claim the Lausanne accord arrived at this week to be an "achievement".
However, a closer look at the details of the so-called framework accord to emerge from Lausanne shows that Iran falls short on both counts of sanctions removal and nuclear rights.
Kenyan authorities had intelligence that a university in Garissa could be attacked, but after the alarm sounded during last week's massacre, the country's rapid response team was stuck in Nairobi for hours arranging for transport, a police source told CNN on Monday.
Waiting for hours to arrange for transportation......... think Norway
Ebola has struck again in the district where the epidemic originated in Sierra Leone, dashing hopes of a recovery after more than three months during which no cases had been reported.
The ministry of health and sanitation confirmed a case of the virus on Saturday in the eastern Kailahun district of the country. A nine-month-old boy was tested positive for Ebola after his death, authorities said.
A massive series of NATO War Games simulations took place at the Operation Flintlock 2015 AFRICOM Conference, where thousands of US and African soldiers began intensive training programs. As the conference concluded, Boko Haram declared its allegiance with ISIS. Major media latched onto that story and ran with it like a constipated greyhound. A report published by one of the world's largest audit, tax, and advisory firms, KPMG Africa, a subsidiary of KPMG International, outlined in explicit detail the plans and tax incentives of razing the impoverished and unstable region for oil and natural gas.
As usual, western media are deliberately confusing in communicating on the latest Mid-East conflict which eventually led to the recent atrocious bombing of Yemen by the US-directed Saudi alliance, including Qatar and other Gulf monarchies. They are proxies, to be sure, for their Washington masters. My heart is bleeding for Yemen, a country of warm and generous people I got to know well, working with them in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Yemen, like Ukraine, is just another square on the geopolitical chess board which the exceptional nation aims to dominate.
It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos
It's a good one – but can it survive the US Congress?
Israel has been threatening to attack Iran unilaterally for years, including during these negotiations, and they are not above launching a provocation – one that will ignite a conflict that would envelope the entire Middle East and much of the world.
As I said in my last column, the US Congress is the catch, the fly in the ointment that could nix this deal and lead us down the path to another war in the Middle East. Nothing has been signed. What we have is a framework, one that will lead to a fuller agreement in June – if Congress doesn't step in and stop it.
Southampton University, after giving permission to hold a ground-breaking academic conference on International Law and the State of Israel, has been bullied into cancelling.
"The University claims that it does not have enough resources to mitigate the risks despite a clear statement from the Police confirming that they are able to deal with the protest and ensure the security of the event...."
The university must fulfill its legal obligation to protect free speech and academic discussion...
The closing of this multi-billion-dollar company can be one of the greatest BDS victories yet.
In June, 2010, when Israeli forces attacked unarmed aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, killing ten passengers (including one who died this year from injuries), dockworkers around the world refused to unload or load Israeli ships or cargo.
Based on the results in the US, we believe that if ten ports worldwide are closed to Zim, the company's losses may cause it to close its doors. If Zim and the state of Israel are worried that this movement may become infectious, we can all be proud to spread the virus.
The Senate panel is scheduled to vote on April 14 on the legislation he co-authored with Corker demanding congressional review of an Iran agreement.
Israel lobby influences "the United States' foreign policy by intervention with certain of their assets within the Senate,"
Harris said if you look at the people who are opposed to normalizing relationships with Iran and lifting the sanctions against the Islamic Republic, "you'll find that among the biggest campaign contributors are usually AIPAC and other assets that Israel lobby dictates and controls."
The West worked very hard to turn the Middle East into what it is now. It took centuries to transfigure this culturally deep and great part of the world into the horror show. But it is done!
There is nothing, absolutely nothing right in the Middle East these days. There seems to be no hope left, and no fervor. All that was pure was dragged through filth. All that was great here was stolen or smashed by the outsiders. Enthusiasm had been ridiculed, then drowned, or burned to ashes, or shattered by tanks and missiles.
When will the world's largest and longest Ebola outbreak end?
Tunisia on April 2 accused Turkey of facilitating the transit of fighters bound for neighbouring Syria and Iraq, where thousands of its citizens have joined the ranks of jihadist groups.
The accusation by Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche comes just two weeks after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on tourists at the Bardo National Museum.
Tunisia says 3,000 of its citizens are fighting alongside jihadist groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and that 500 battle-hardened veterans have returned to the country where they are considered a security threat.
The latest Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, overseen by Washington, has been condemned by Iran, Russia and China.
Both the Arab League and the United Nations have fully transformed themselves into the ill-fated League of Nations that more than 70 years ago disgraced itself into oblivion when it failed to condemn foreign aggressions that eventually led to the cataclysm of World War Two.
As delegates gathered in Egypt's resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the Arab League last weekend, nearly half of its member states were at the same time openly engaged in an aerial blitz on one of the League's weakest countries – Yemen.
Author's note: The New York Times' Room For Debate poses the question "Is Yemen America's fight?" and asks whether the United States should be involved in regional efforts to fight the Houthis in Yemen.
Here's my short essay on why the US has no business being there – and why Washington needs to rein in the Saudis before they embroil us all in an even bigger mess.
At the rate the Saudis are escalating, any full-on war in Yemen will cripple the entire Arabian Peninsula, and that would be a disaster for all key U.S. policy interests in the region.
Call it an irony, if you will, but as the Obama administration struggles to slow down or halt its scheduled withdrawal from Afghanistan, newly elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is performing a withdrawal operation of his own. He seems to be in the process of trying to sideline the country's major patron of the last 13 years — and as happened in Iraq after the American invasion and occupation there, Chinese resource companies are again picking up the pieces.
All those Zionist 'wise-guys' of both genders, who think they have been so clever using their high office to serve Israel, are fooling themselves. More and more citizens are becoming aware that Israel's espionage, its dictates to the US Congress and its manipulation of Executive powers are harming America. At the present, highly placed Zionist officials hold sway over the Obama Cabinet, but in the future they may find themselves facing charges of being agents of a foreign power, and a threat to US national security. They may find themselves sharing a cell block with Jonathan Pollard!
Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola, an official said. The long-running Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 10,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Liberia has no Ebola patients at this point, and Sierra Leone has recently seen a fairly steady decline in cases. But the disease remains entrenched in Guinea. Guinea's president, Alpha Condé, said over the weekend that emergency measures would be "reinforced" for 45 days in five districts, including some on the Sierra Leone border. Its closing was part of those measures, Cmdr. Mamadou Alpha Barry, spokesman for the national gendarmerie, said.
Former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki is expected to take part, organisers said.
Tunisians have held a mass rally against terrorism attended by tens of thousands of people including some world leaders, as the country is reeling from a recent terror attack that killed close to dozens in the national museum, Press TV reports.
According to a report by Nigerian Watch, a UK-based magazine for Nigerian communities, hundreds of US Marines are now being stationed in Ghana as the Nigerian elections begin to take place.
The Marines are allegedly being stationed in Ghana so as to be available to remove American personnel from Nigeria if the elections result in violence, a possibility that some analysts are expecting.
Police fired tear gas at an angry crowd fighting over food supplies in Sierra Leone on Saturday, while other residents defied a three-day national lockdown that the government hopes will accelerate the end of the Ebola epidemic.
Sierra Leone has reported nearly 12,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths since the worst Ebola epidemic in history was detected in neighboring Guinea a year ago.
New cases have fallen sharply since a peak of more than 500 a week in December but the government says the lockdown, its second, is necessary to identify the last cases and to buck a worrying trend towards complacency.
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The Marines are allegedly being stationed in Ghana so as to be available to remove American personnel from Nigeria if the elections result in violence, a possibility that some analysts are expecting...
Sierra Leone's 6 million people were told to stay home for three days beginning Friday, except for religious services, as the West African nation attempted a final push to rid itself of Ebola.
This idea that we can run an Empire with military threats, missiles, and economic sanctions is a fallacy.
The Civil War in Yemen is rapidly expanding. We have been forced to close our embassy and military base located there. It is now clear that Obama's optimism for fighting terrorism in Yemen was misplaced. It hardly sets a standard for dealing with constant conflict and chaos throughout the Middle East.
So far the various factions that we have supported over the years have been poor choices, as usual.
Hopefully someday our government officials will wake up. The counterinsurgency doctrine that was supposed to be the answer to all our military shortcomings is a total failure.
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra says Algiers will not get involved in the Al Saud regime's military invasion of Yemen, calling for dialogue among all Yemeni political parties in order to resolve the crisis.
Smith, who heads the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, reportedly said he thinks this is the first time the US government has officially confirmed that Israel is a nuclear power, a status that Israel has long been widely known to have despite being undeclared.
In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel's nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.
The World Health Organization and the Liberian government say they are checking into the possibility that a woman infected with Ebola virus caught it from a survivor she was dating.
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda issued an emergency message to U.S. citizens Wednesday, warning of possible terror attacks at places in the capital where Westerners gather.
The embassy said it received information "that an attack may take place soon" in Kampala, and it canceled non-essential events scheduled at hotels over the next few days.
Reality crashed down on those who had hoped the March 17 Knesset elections might lead to a more moderate future Israeli leadership.
The election returns brought the news, Benjamin Netanyahu had won again.
He won in large part by revoking his earlier pledge to support a Palestinian state, and by using last-hour racist warnings to bring out hard right voters.
"Something like scales" must be made to fall from the eyes of the American public which has been endorsing, funding and supporting a brutal military occupation for almost five decades. How will that be accomplished?
God works in mysterious ways, and sometimes She causes scales to fall and opens the eyes of those who do not yet see.
Conference organizers are the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy.
This unprecedented gathering will focus on the Israel lobby in America. How big is it? How fast has it grown? How interconnected are the organizations and individuals? How much revenue does it raise and where does the money go? What are the common objectives of the lobby? What laws apply to lobbying to benefit a foreign government and are they vigorously enforced? Do coordinated campaign contributions cause American policymakers to act more on behalf of Israel than the United States? What fallacies underlie the assertions that U.S. and Israeli interests are the same? What are the Israel lobby's public and private, short-and-medium-term policy objectives? And what can Americans who do not believe pro-Israel slogans, activities and policy objectives do?
Because Netanyahu's Likud party won the largest number of seats (30) in the new Israeli parliament (120 total), he will play the major role in organizing the next government.
Even liberal Zionist Thomas Friedman had to acknowledge that Netanyahu won with "dirty" politics and the use of "dog-whistle" language. Friedman wrote in his New York Times column that "You cannot win that dirty and just walk away like nothing has happened".
God works in mysterious ways, and sometimes causes scales to fall and opens the eyes of those who do not yet see.
Worries have widened in recent days over the number of people in Liberia who may have been exposed to the country's first Ebola case in more than two weeks, a street vendor who lived in a one-bathroom house shared with 52 others in a Monrovia suburb and who had sold food at a school where more than 1,900 students are enrolled.
Find out why neither Egypt was the land of the Israelites' Exodus nor Palestine their promised land.
"The Zionist paradigm is founded on the distorted story of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt and their persecution by the Assyrians and Captivity by Babylonians. But the truth is that the Israelites never set foot in Egypt or Palestine. Actually they never left Ancient Arabia and North Yemen, their origin land, before the Babylonian Captivity"
Is Israeli intelligence behind the massacre in Tunis? Ask yourself, why would Tunisians commit such a monstrous atrocity that harms no one - but Tunisia? Cui bono?
The senseless terrorist attack on innocent civilians at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in fact, bolstered no one except Benjamin Netanyahu, whose duplicity had been utterly exposed the day before the attack - when he was re-elected to head the Zionist state that occupies Palestine.
No group had even claimed responsibility for the murderous attack on tourists visiting the Bardo National Museum in Tunis until the Israeli website, SITE Intelligence Group, "interpreted" the terrorist attack for the Western media - and blamed Islamic State - the following day.
The Israeli interpretation, from Mossad's SITE, of the attack in Tunis could have come straight out of one of Netanyahu's books from the 1980s about "Fighting Terrorism."
Some £600 million in UK aid money courtesy of the taxpayer is helping big business increase its profits in Africa via the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. In return for receiving aid money and corporate investment, African countries have to change their laws, making it easier for corporations to acquire farmland, control seed supplies and export produce.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are sponsoring a secret meeting Monday in London to promote a recent report detailing in clear terms how to privatize the seed and agricultural markets of Africa– without African stakeholders having a seat at the table...
Libya's recently established ISIS affiliate released a video last month showing their execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians near the coastal city of Sirte. The massacre prompted immediate and justified condemnation from governments around the world. But missing from most of the coverage was the fact that Sirte was the hometown of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, and was practically destroyed by NATO air-strikes and a rebel offensive in the last days the 2011 Libyan intervention.
When empires weaken, they don't merely withdraw. Rather, they leave behind a trail of broken promises and confusion.
When columnist Thomas L. Friedman suggests the U.S. should arm ISIS – thus joining the Saudi-Israeli regional war on Iran and the Shiites – it seems time to question the sanity of U.S. opinion- and policy-makers. But that is where the muddled U.S. post-9/11 strategy has led, explains Daniel Lazare.
On 17 December 2014, President Obama declared that 55 years of embargo didn't work in bringing 'freedom' to Cuba. He proposed reestablishing diplomatic relations with the southern neighbor. An emotion of joy shook the world, especially Latin America. Raul Castro received wires and calls of congratulations. Cubans cheered "we won, we won!" – The US Congress right wing was not quite ready for this initiative and, indeed, there was no concrete mention of how and when the 'blockade' would be lifted.
Two days after Obama's bold initiative, on 19 December 2015, he went to the Washington Press Club to tell a horde of puppet journalists, conservative politicians and onlookers that soft measures, like reestablishing diplomatic relations with Havana might be more successful in bringing the desired regime change to Cuba than more years of isolation. He couldn't have been more direct and more honest about his intention. The Cuban Government and whoever else listened didn't miss the point.
The death of Danny Schechter, "the News Dissector," at age 72 from cancer marks a sad moment for independent journalism. Schechter's was a strong voice against the empty platitudes and blatant hypocrisies that have come to define modern American media and politics, as he explained in an article last year.
The word "Oligarchy" has finally come home. For years, it was a term only used in connection with those big bad and sleazy Mafioso-type businessmen in Russia. Russia had Oligarchs; we didn't. That became a big difference between the official narrative of what separated our "land of the free and the home of the brave" from "them" in the post-Soviet period.
Unfortunately, the prognosis is that if Merkel cannot see the glaring truth of the situation by now... then there is not much hope of the chancellor ever coming to a realistic political position on Ukraine...And, grimly, that means the outlook for further conflict is not good.
Kiev President Petro Poroshenko unveiled a new dimension of international sanctions against Russia this week, while being royally entertained by German leaders in Berlin. The oligarch-turned-politician now wants the Western allies of the Kiev regime to boycott the 2018 World Cup Finals to be held in Russia.
Why have Western countries only now decided to vote to recognize the state of Palestine? What will be the outcome? Will a legitimate Palestinian state bring peace to the region? Is an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan a dead end?
CrossTalking with Amir Oren and Norman Finkelstein (author of the new book 'Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza').
Netanyahu's outright rejection of a Palestinian state and his promise to go on building more and more illegal settlements leave Obama without any wriggle room.
"Love him (Netanyahu) or hate him, this is the face of Israel." That's how Uriel Heilman concluded an article for the JTA (Jewish Telegraph Agency) on Netanyahu's election victory after noting that he had shown his true colours by declaring that there would be no Palestinian state while he is in charge. What President Obama now has to decide is whether or not he will allow Netanyahu to remain in charge of American policy for Israel-Palestine.
Graham Peebles argues that unity, organisation and peaceful resistance, not violent rebellion, is the way to get rid of Ethiopia's repressive and discredited regime, which now emulates the military dictatorship it ousted.
Armed militants disguised as soldiers attacked the Tunisian parliament and Bardo Museum, taking hundreds of tourists hostage. Fifteen tourists have been killed, and explosions were heard at the scene. Tunisian security forces eliminated the ISIL attackers and concluded the special operation.
The Islamic State jihadist group has taken the responsibility for the deadly attack in Tunisia.
Or to be more accurate, the actors playing ISIS took credit.
So now we get to invade Tunisia!
So now we get to invade Tunisia!
The terrorist massacre in a museum in Tunisia left 21 dead and dozens injured tourists.
On Wednesday, the capital of Tunisia was the scene of a deadly terrorist attack that killed 21 people. Among the victims are two Colombians. Eight Mexicans and four Argentines, who were also present at the time of the shooting, managed to escape unharmed.
At least 15 Americans were exposed to Ebola from a single, infected U.S. healthcare worker and have been brought back to the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
They all work for Partners in Health, a nonprofit group that's been helping fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa
Kalashnikov-wielding gunmen stormed a popular museum near Tunisia's parliament Wednesday afternoon, killing at least eight people and taking hostages. Security forces say they have two gunmen surrounded inside the Bardo Museum which adjoins the parliament.
Gunfire rang out Wednesday in the capital of Tunis after gunmen attacked a tour group near the parliamentary compound. Initial reports say seven of the killed were foreign visitors.
Ten health care workers with a Boston-based nonprofit organization responding to Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak are to be evacuated to the United States after one of their colleagues was infected with the deadly disease.
Partners in Health said in a statement Saturday that the 10, the largest group to be evacuated to the United States over possible Ebola exposure, would travel on non-commercial aircraft and be isolated in Ebola treatment facilities.
Germany's second biggest bank, Commerzbank, is to pay $1.45 billion (€1.36 billion) in fines to settle US Justice Department charges over transactions with sanctioned companies in Iran and Sudan.
Russia can perceive, rightly, the continuum of aggression.
NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve paced ahead this week with the latest arrival of more US military forces in the Baltic region.
Under the guise of defending eastern Europe from «Russian aggression», more than 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley armoured personnel carriers rolled into Latvia. Last month, a similar motorised display of military support was deployed in Estonia – in the town of Narva – with American flags flown by the US Army's Second Calvary Regiment just 300 metres from the Russian border.
In 1995, WHO come to Kenya through the ministry of health and offered to run a similar campaign. On the backdrop of what had happened in South America and the fact that the campaigns details were identical,
the Catholic Church in Kenya requested the ministry of health to have the vaccine tested before it was administered. The ministry of health agreed with the Church and ordered for the vaccine to be tested before administration. WHO opted to withdraw the vaccine and cancel the campaign instead of submitting it for testing!
Nigeria has recaptured 36 towns from Boko Haram since the start of a military operation by regional West African countries against the Takfiri group, an official says.
It is writing such as this, which illustrates and illuminates the extent of Zionist infiltration in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave," which will drive home to the "American" public what has happened to their "dream, which may eventually stir them to action of some sort to bring it to an end... if anything will!
It is certainly past time to push back against an organization that is brazenly promoting the interests of a foreign government at the expense of the American people.
Shutting Down AIPAC
I would like to concentrate on two issues. First is the nature of the special relationship between Israel and the United States and second is the role of the Israel Lobby and most particularly AIPAC in shaping that relationship.
So, did Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland mislead Congress or just play a propaganda game, asks Robert Parry.
An early skill learned by Official Washington's neoconservatives, when they were cutting their teeth inside the U.S. government in the 1980s, was how to frame their arguments in the most propagandistic way, so anyone who dared to disagree with any aspect of the presentation seemed unpatriotic or crazy.
During my years at The Associated Press and Newsweek, I dealt with a number of now prominent neocons who were just starting out and mastering these techniques at the knee of top CIA psychological warfare specialist Walter Raymond Jr., who had been transferred to President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council staff where Raymond oversaw inter-agency task forces that pushed Reagan's hard-line agenda in Central America and elsewhere.
The ideological arsenal of pretexts for US military interventions are depleted, redundant, spent or thoroughly disgraced.
Is the defence of world heritage sites in Iraq the new «responsibility to protect» (R2P) doctrine to justify Western intervention in the geo-strategically important region? The timing coincides with renewed admonitions from the United States and Saudi Arabia for a coalition of ground forces to defeat the Islamic State network in Iraq and Syria – and just when Iraqi and Syrian forces appear to be decisively pushing back the extremists in both countries.
The US and its Western allies have long used the doctrine of «responsibility to protect» or «R2P» as a flimsy pretext for military intervention.They found success with various tropes, including the «War on Terror», the elimination of «weapons of mass destruction», and the Responsibility to Protect» human rights.
In the United States we may be approaching a tipping point in the struggle against Zionist racism and Israeli oppression.
The struggle is against racism, discrimination, oppression, occupation and illegal colonization because they are evils no matter who perpetrates them.
The Israeli case has to be prioritized because Israel and its Zionist allies have bought and bullied our own government and political parties in a corrupting manner.
The head of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) said Monday that the regional bloc is in total support of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro following the U.S. government's declaration of Venezuela as a national security threat.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying the deal establishing the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), according to a document published on Monday on Russia's official website for legal information.
There is much idle chatter from liberals, leftists and progressives, claiming that Netanyahu's 'brazen intervention'would backfire;
There have been times when history has played tricks with man and…has magnified the features of essentially small persons into a parody of greatness--Rabindranath Tagore(on Benito Mussolini)
How is it that the ruler (Benjamin Netanyahu) of a puny country (Israel) of 8.2 million (6.2 million Jews) with the 37th biggest economy (GDP in current prices) in the world dictates war policy and secures the willing submission of the legislature of the largest economy and most powerful military empire in the world?
What significance does Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress have, beyond the fact that he uses it as a platform to attack the elected President of the US, to denounce US peace negotiations and to demand that Congress adopt policies designed to precipitate a war with Iran?
Graham Peebles decries the intolerance, paranoia and hate that greets people from Africa and the Middle East who risk life and limb to flee the hell that has become their wracked countries.
Berlin and the rest of Europe need to move fast to underpin diplomacy with Russia and to head off Washington's death-wish plunge into the abyss.
Washington's reckless attempts to scuttle the shaky ceasefire in Ukraine are unnerving Germany. The German government feels, with good reason, that the Americans are trying to undermine its recent efforts to mediate a political solution to the nearly year-old conflict, which has caused at least 6,000 deaths and up to one million refugees. Not only that but the violence between the ultranationalist regime in Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists in the east is threatening to spillover into a wider war that could involve Russia and the rest of Europe.
Iran and the West are close to accomplishing what so many in Washington and Tel Aviv are terrified of – a negotiated end to the Western standoff with Iran.
CrossTalking with Mohammad Marandi, Gareth Porter, and Chuck Freilich.
The enemy is not Russia or Vladimir Putin. The enemy is hypocrisy.
It has been just over a year of growing and escalating crisis in Europe since the Maidan Square protests in Kiev succeeded in toppling Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.
It saw the likes of US Senator John McCain – a man whose quest for a new Vietnam War never ends – travelling to the country to personally urge on the demonstrators in Kiev alongside Britain's Catherine Ashton, representing the EU.
Iran has no intention of destroying Israel and has actually saved the Jews three times in history, but the current Israeli regime is a threat to Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said.
"Israel threatens to use force against Iran almost on a daily basis… Of course, if they did use force against Iran, we would defend ourselves, as we have done with great sacrifice in the past. But we are not invading, we are not threatening anybody. We have not threatened anybody for 250 years," the Iranian FM said.
"We never had the bomb. We will never have a bomb. We're not looking to have a bomb. We do not believe a bomb is in our interest. Whereas [Netanyahu] does have a bomb. He has 200 nuclear weapons," he said.
The gross interference by Washington in Britain's forthcoming election on the vital issue of budgetary priorities clearly demonstrates that British «democracy» is but an appendage to an American leash. And the leash is being yanked to pull the snarling bulldog into line.
In a brazen show of bringing-to-heel in their «special relationship», American political and Pentagon chiefs are openly rebuking the British government to maintain its huge military spend on the NATO alliance – to the possible detriment of already withering public services in austerity-clobbered Britain. The imposition by Washington raises serious questions about the nature of democracy in Britain – the self-proclaimed «Mother of all Parliaments».
The walls are thick and strong beyond imagining, but the elders who sleep in the bowels of Zion know that this rumbling at their foundation marks well their inevitable fall.
The first great stone has hit the ramparts of Zion. The elders within the walls, down in the bowels of the fortress, have sat bolt upright, as they have felt the unmistakable rumbling vibration. Their eyes, which are usually narrow with the self-regard of the power of their own devious cunning, have suddenly gone wide with fear, as instantly they know that the inevitable has arrived upon them.
As another great stone finds the wall, and shakes the very air, these elders fly from their beds with great alarm.
The walls are thick and strong beyond imagining, but the elders who sleep in the bowels of Zion know that this rumbling at their foundation marks well their inevitable fall.
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Charlie Chaplin's Hat and Cane Nab $60,000 at Los Angeles Auction
Charlie Chaplin's stuff are still highly valued about a century after he began his career as a performer. Two of his memorabilia, a bowler hat and a cane, nabbed $62,500 at auction house Bonhams in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 17. It fetched higher than the initial estimate of $40,000 until $60,000.
The hat and cane are identical to the ones donned by Chaplin when he starred as Little Tramp in 1931's "City Lights" and 1936's "Modern Times". According to auction house Bonhams' memorabilia specialist Lucy Car, it is unknown how many of Chaplin's hats and canes are still left out there. She also said that the relics were from private collection, but they were connected directly to the silent film era legend.
Chaplin's other memorabilia were also sold at this auction. His signature fetched $1,375, while his signed black-and-white photograph nabbed $625.
The event, which was started at 10 A.M., auctioned entertainment relics including animation art. One of the relics was John Lennon's handwritten letter with a nude drawing of him and wife Yoko Ono which was sold for $25,000.
Among other highly-valued memorabilia at the auction were a large archive of Marilyn Monroe's photographs sold for $21,250 and some Charles Schulz Peanuts dailies. While one of Schulz's peanuts dailies fetched $28,750, the other one only nabbed $11,875. Another item auctioned was a Frank Sinatra original painting, which fetched $10,625.
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Preserving, conserving, and restoring the native plants and native plant communities of Florida.
Friday, July 23, 2010
An Appreciation of Scarlet Hibiscus
Yet another reason to add more natives to your landscape--they know what to do as the seasons change from hot to cold or wet to dry.
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- Release Date: Aug 26, 2011
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All of that combines to make Colombiana into a scandalous blend of action, sex and violence. My apologies in advance for having so much fun.
In catsuits, swimsuits, and skimpy underthings, Saldana is as potently elusive as a shadow can be.
The Olivier Megaton-directed Colombiana may not be the brainiest of actioners, but one of the merits of producer Luc Besson's latest brainchild is that fanboys worldwide will come away with a scrap of horticultural knowledge as well as a pretty good time.
Colombiana isn't the last word in action movies, but it's a fun ride. And so wrong.
Zaldana is such a sultry and surprisingly heartfelt executioner that she often finds a way to make this by-the-numbers genre retread feel, if not fresh, then at least sporadically electric.
Saldana is in top form for the acrobatics required in the role, and she makes the gritty determination of her character believable.
Saldana makes this watchable, James supplies a fitful plausibility, and director Olivier Megaton (a former graffiti artist) keeps things racing along, preposterously.
Zoe Saldana makes being an action hero look so easy in Colombiana, you have to wonder why more actresses don't try it.
The jittery aesthetic is a bit grating - there's a three-cut minimum per roundhouse kick - but the spectacularly named Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) still manages to deliver the action-film goods.
It uses a story about family as a vehicle for glorifying gangsterism. In other words, it's empty, amoral, and - in the style of other Besson productions - surprisingly easy to digest.
Possibly worth seeing if you are 13, as the hot Rihanna-looking chick shows sideboob.
It's basically a blaxploitation movie stretched to meaninglessly international proportions that leans on tired Colombian stereotypes. But if Saldana's aiming to be some kind of new Pam Grier, she needs to save more than herself.
Colombiana is silly fun at first, but as her break-ins and escapes grow absurdly complex - and her motivations increasingly muddy - it turns into the same silly stuff we've seen before, a dish of revenge served not so much cold as reheated.
Colombiana, though, doesn't quite qualify as a chick flick. The filmmakers were surely thinking of the guys when they arranged for Saldana to play many of her scenes in a cat suit, a bikini or lingerie.
The overall effect is distancing; there are some early comic moments that have you laughing along with the movie, but eventually the clashing tones and preposterousness just have you laughing.
While most action films fall apart because they succumb to stupidity, Colombiana suffers most because it tries to be too smart.
There are guilty pleasures to be had in this frenzied B starring Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek), who gives an acrobatic performance that makes the overcooked material watchable, if not entirely enjoyable.
A movie so addicted to the crack pipe of delirious cinematic badness that it has real potential as a camp classic.
As straight exploitation, it's amusing, in fits and starts. It's just that Colombiana lacks the kinetic energy of "The Transporter" and the pathos of "La Femme Nikita."
Colombiana is one long megayawn; I'd have garnered more titillating thrills rewatching freckle-faced Russkie sexbomb Natalya Rudakova strut her leggy, sassy stuff in Megaton and Besson's "Transporter 3."
Luc Besson keeps ralphing up scripts about beautiful lady killers, but that doesn't mean you have to keep seeing them. Case in point: Colombiana...[a] dull cable-TV-quality item.
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Mixed: 9 out of 40
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Aug 26, 2011This movie look's like a pseudo spin off of "The Loser's". Where Zoe Saldana ; plays pretty much the exact same character , but without theThis movie look's like a pseudo spin off of "The Loser's". Where Zoe Saldana ; plays pretty much the exact same character , but without the lime light.Although the alluring figure of the actress coupled with gun's and explosions will make the opening week a bro- fest i don't see this recycled vengeance plot , becoming a colt classic.I would much rather watch a "The Loser's 2" with Saldana playing a larger role then the first then a slightly different story starring her completely.… Full Review »
Aug 31, 2011It's cliched, cheesy, and at times a little boring, but for the most part, this movie is stylish and FUN - and that's what matters with aIt's cliched, cheesy, and at times a little boring, but for the most part, this movie is stylish and FUN - and that's what matters with a B-movie like this. If you're expecting high art, you won't find it here. But it's a good time with laughs and a good bit of innovative violence. It's great seeing some alumni from The Unit and Human Target in the mix - two great testosterone-fueled shows whose plugs were pulled before their respective times. Saldana does a perfectly respectable job in her role. Physically, she's spot on. She could have brought a bit more emotional range to the proceedings, but again, it's a B movie action flick. Nailed it.… Full Review »
Sep 4, 2011The stupidity of this movie isn't what make it bad. The fact that it actually think its smart, is what makes this movie so dismal. SittingThe stupidity of this movie isn't what make it bad. The fact that it actually think its smart, is what makes this movie so dismal. Sitting through it was a difficult experience, not even Saldana's beauty and effort could save it. In fact it only makes it more difficult to watch as she's wasting talent on a movie that should have been made for tv. Colombiana is a cliched-ridden mess, with poor dialogue that would make the best of actors look horrible. The movie crumbles as the story progresses, and its surely one of the summer's loudest light-weights.… Full Review »


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EU May Back Delay on Bank-Liquidity Rule Detail in Basel Law
The European Commission is urging legislators to postpone their demands for detailed rules on bank liquidity amid concerns they might increase market pressure on lenders and cut interbank lending.
The commission has made the proposal to help broker a deal on the European Union's implementation of global bank rules before a January deadline. European Parliament members have so far insisted on inserting precise liquidity rules in the law to apply the standards -- a prospect that has raised concerns among governments and central banks.
A less detailed approach in the draft law would have "major advantages," according to the note drawn up by commission officials for lawmakers working on the dossier, and obtained by Bloomberg News. It's "less risky, less susceptible to harmful pressure from the markets and rating agencies."
The EU has struggled to agree on how to implement the revised global rulebook for banks, which was drawn up by regulators in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
In addition to the liquidity rule, EU officials are also working on compromise plans for curbs on banker bonuses and on requirements for banks deemed too big to fail, as parliament lawmakers and governments seek to strike a deal on the plans.
Michel Barnier, the EU's financial services chief, said yesterday that an accord is possible by the end of this month.
Funding Squeeze
The liquidity standard, called a liquidity coverage ratio, or LCR, is scheduled to apply from 2015, and would require banks to hold enough easy-to-sell assets to survive a 30-day funding squeeze. Lenders would be expected to report on how well they measure up to the rule before it becomes mandatory.
Leaving out details on the LCR at this stage will allow the EU to take into account any changes to the standard at international level, according to the commission document, which points out that the Basel committee is reviewing the measure.
This approach may also prevent the draft standard from harming banks' lending to businesses and each other, according to the document.
The commission note has been circulated to governments and lawmakers ahead of an EU negotiation meeting on the rules tomorrow in Brussels -- the latest in a series of attempts to broker a compromise on the draft law.
Up-Front Detail
A lack of up-front detail on the LCR won't prevent regulators from being able to properly assess the health of their banks, according to the document.
The European Banking Authority will be able to set detailed reporting requirements for lenders, who would be expected to provide data on their liquidity on a monthly basis, the commission said in the compromise plan.
Details of another ratio, scheduled to take effect in 2018, should also be stripped out of the draft law, according to the document. That measure would force banks to seek stable sources of funding.
Stefaan De Rynck, a spokesman for EU Financial Services Commissioner Michel Barnier, declined to immediately comment on the document.
Philippe Lamberts, the lawmaker leading the work on the measures for the parliament's Green group, said he was sent the commission note this week. He declined to comment on its content.
Banks have cautioned that the Basel liquidity measure may force them to scale back loans to businesses if left unchanged. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has also criticized the proposed standard, saying it discourages banks from lending to each other.
The Basel committee, which brings together regulators from 27 nations including the U.S., U.K. and China, is aiming to complete a review of the LCR by the end of this year.


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H.R.5954: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 320 7th Street in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, as the "Sergeant Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Post Office Building".
|Jason Altmire, D-PA
|18 (6 Democrats, 12 Republicans)
|June 18, 2012
|House Education and the Workforce
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- Bill passed in the House
- Bill passed in the Senate
- Bill signed into law
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|Presented to President.
|Dec. 19, 2012
|Message on Senate action sent to the House.
|Dec. 18, 2012
|Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
|Dec. 18, 2012
|Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
|Dec. 5, 2012
|Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|Mr. Gosar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|Considered under suspension of the rules.
|Nov. 28, 2012
|DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5954.
|Sept. 19, 2012
|Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
|Sept. 19, 2012
|Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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Closing arguments are underway in the case of Sandra Layne, a grandmother accused of murdering her grandson.
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A Day of 'Fierce' Fashion
Jason Wu splatters paint, Cynthia Rowley combines fur and feathers
New York
If any iconic looks come from New York Fashion Week, Jason Wu's paint-splattered coats and suits are likely to be among them. Fashion is being driven these days by textile research and development, and Mr. Wu's cashmere seemed to have been dipped in a vat of luminescent paint.
It was a striking moment early in a week that's gotten off to a rocky start, what with the short-lived New York blizzard on Wednesday and then Thursday's news of the shocking death of Lee McQueen, the innovative designer of Alexander McQueen.
Yesterday, the industry showing its fall-winter 2010 season was still digging itself out of the snafus brought on by snow. The shearling, goat hair and pony skin shoes for designer Catherine Malandrino's Sunday presentation were lost somewhere in transit after their flight from Italy was canceled.
"I've got 40 models who could be barefoot," said Ms. Malandrino over breakfast on Friday morning. She worked out a Plan B: to take shoes from previous shows and cover them with socks in keeping with the nomadic, tribal look she's aiming. "If the models are wearing socks on Sunday, you'll know [why]," she said. To her relief, the shoes arrived late Friday afternoon.
Fur designer Adrienne Landau's show, canceled for Thursday and rescheduled for a week later, left her rethinking the entire production and adding new looks. "I feel like I had a baby, and then they told me 'No. Wait a week,'" she said yesterday, as she added new looks like a dusty pink Mongolian lamb vest to the production in her showroom.
New York Fashion Week generally starts slowly with emerging or lesser known designers, then climaxes with the heavy hitters next Monday through Thursday. Friday's lineup, though, included some famous names, such as Yigal Azrouël, who is known for his sexy, body-conscious clothes. He branched into architectural shapes, including a double-faced cashmere cocoon coat. Designers often like to offer startling looks that get the attention of magazine editors—and Mr. Azrouël, who showed looks for men and women, offered Fair Isle long johns along with a number of thick Fair Isle sweaters for men. He also mixed textiles, such as a tweed jacket with leather sleeves, the leather treated to look varnished.
Cynthia Rowley combined fur and feathers, using long colorful tassels and lace, and included pillow-like scarves and gloves. After several looks passed by, Cristen Chin Barker, wife of America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker, leaned to her husband and asked, "How do you suppose you wash tassels?"
Christian Siriano, the biggest star to emerge from the "Project Runway" reality show, showed a collection of organza blouses and lush black pencil skirts, as well as a show-closing fuchsia tulle ball-gown. Known for popularizing the word "fierce" in style, the diminutive Mr. Siriano said his newest collection is about glamour. "You're not going to come to me for jeans and a T-shirt," he said.
But textiles, rather than silhouettes, are offering many of the most arresting designs. Mr. Wu's paint-splattered look was actually polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imprinted onto cashmere. The coat, suit and several dresses were reminiscent of color-morphing clothing shown by Prada several winters ago, although the Prada color-morphing was woven rather than imprinted.
In the case of Mr. Wu's opening look—an overcoat described as "carbon platinum-print" in the show notes—the cashmere was woven at an Italian mill. From there, it went to a Brooklyn factory that imprinted the PVC onto the cashmere. The coat was then sewn in Manhattan, near Mr. Wu's studio.
Other looks included feather dresses overlaid with tulle, chunky knitwear and a full line of cozy winter overcoats.
Mr. Wu's show was chock full of fashion dignitaries from Vogue to Bergdorf Goodman. Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing said the reason is that Mr. Wu focuses on clothes that make women look beautiful. "None of us can look into a crystal ball, but my hope is that he would be one of the great American designers," he said.
—Vanessa O'Connell, Elva Ramirez and Ray A. Smith contributed to this article.
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The Mechanisms and Meaning of the Mismatch Negativity
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a pre-attentive auditory event-related potential (ERP) component that is elicited by a change in a repetitive acoustic pattern. It is obtained by subtracting responses evoked by frequent 'standard' sounds from responses evoked by infrequent 'deviant' sounds that differ from the standards along some acoustic dimension, e.g., frequency, intensity, or duration, or abstract feature. The MMN has been attributed to neural generators within the temporal and frontal lobes. The mechanisms and meaning of the MMN continue to be debated. Two dominant explanations for the MMN have been proposed. According to the "neural adaptation" hypothesis, repeated presentation of the standards results in adapted (i.e., attenuated) responses of feature-selective neurons in auditory cortex. Rare deviant sounds activate neurons that are less adapted than those stimulated by the frequent standard sounds, and thus elicit a larger 'obligatory' response, which yields the MMN following the subtraction procedure. In contrast, according to the "sensory memory" hypothesis, the MMN is a 'novel' (non-obligatory) ERP component that reflects a deviation between properties of an incoming sound and those of a neural 'memory trace' established by the preceding standard sounds. Here, we provide a selective review of studies which are relevant to the controversy between proponents of these two interpretations of the MMN. We also present preliminary neurophysiological data from monkey auditory cortex with potential implications for the debate. We conclude that the mechanisms and meaning of the MMN are still unresolved and offer remarks on how to make progress on these important issues.
KeywordsAuditory cortex Adaptation Sensory memory Predictive coding N1 MMN Event-related potentials (ERPs) Multiunit activity (MUA) Current source density (CSD) Monkey
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- Title
- The Mechanisms and Meaning of the Mismatch Negativity
- Journal
Brain Topography
Volume 27, Issue 4 , pp 500-526
- Cover Date
- 2014-07
- 10.1007/s10548-013-0337-3
- Print ISSN
- 0896-0267
- Online ISSN
- 1573-6792
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Keywords
- Auditory cortex
- Adaptation
- Sensory memory
- Predictive coding
- Event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Multiunit activity (MUA)
- Current source density (CSD)
- Monkey
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- 1. Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Kennedy Center, Room 322/915D, 1410 Pelham Parkway, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA