Nicola Nasser: US State Department Tactics, Kerry Uses Arabs to Bully Palestinians!

A new tactic by US Secretary of State John Kerry is causing a split within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ranks regarding further talks with Israel. Kerry is apparently using the Arab Leagues Follow-Up Committee on the Arab Peace Initiative (FCAPI) to bully the Palestinians into accepting new ground rules for the talks to which they had objected in the past. In his sixth tour of the region as secretary of state, Kerry did something unusual. Instead of visiting Israel, as he always does, he left it out of his itinerary, deciding instead to hold most of visiting Israel, as he always does, he left it out of his itinerary, deciding instead to hold most of the talks in the Jordanian capital Amman. While there, he conferred with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as well as members of the FCAPI. As the talks progressed, it became clear that Kerry was no longer focussing on Israel, the country that has torpedoed all previous attempts at peace, but on the PLO. His aim is to get the latter to offer more concessions than they have accepted in the past. In order to do this, Kerry wanted to get the FCAPI to accept these concessions on behalf of the Palestinians, a new tactic that may not be working but that so far has succeeded in causing divisions and widespread consternation in Palestinian circles. The tactic is not totally new, for it resonates with the manner in which US diplomats have used the Arab League to justify foreign intervention for the sake of regime change in countries such as Iraq and Libya in the past. Speaking after a meeting with Kerry in Amman, FCAPI diplomats voiced their great support for Kerry's efforts to revive the talks. Their remarks were seen as a victory for Kerry, said the Associated Press. It was a success for his diplomacy, added The New York Times. Kerry, for his part, announced that the gap was narrowing between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and that all that was needed now was to iron out a few kinks. For the Palestinians, ironing out these kinks is going to be quite a job, however. PLO chief negotiator Saeb Ereikat is said to have had a stormy meeting with the PLO leadership concerning Kerry's proposals. The PLO, its back to the wall, is now forming a working committee to decide what to do about the talks. All of this is unprecedented. In the past, the FCAPI used to take its cue from the Palestinians. When the Palestinians were faced with demands for concessions they were reluctant to give, they politely said they needed to consult with the FCAPI, which was a courteous way of turning down unacceptable proposals. Now the FCAPI is getting them into trouble by agreeing to concessions before the Palestinians even have time to discuss them at length. In the absence of FCAPI support for the PLO negotiators, the latter had no option but to play along with Kerry's proposals.

Ronnie Cummins: How Monsanto Can Be Defeated!

The harder they come,the harder they fall, one and all. Jimmy Cliff, reggae classic After enjoying a year of maximum profits, record stock prices, the defeat of a major GMO labeling campaign in California, pro-industry court decisions, and a formidable display of political of political power in Washington, D.C. including slipping the controversial Monsanto Protection Act into the Federal Appropriations bill in March the Bionet Bully from St. Louis now finds itself on the defensive. It is no exaggeration to say that Monsanto has now become the most hated corporation in the world. Plagued by a growing army of Roundup-resistant super-weeds and BT-resistant super-pests spreading
across the country, a full 49 percent of American farmers are now frantically trying to kill these super-weeds and pests with ever-larger quantities of toxic pesticides, herbicides and fungicides including glyphosate Roundup, glufosinate, 2,4D Agent Orange, dicamba, and neonicotinoids insecticides linked to massive deaths of honey bees. Reacting to this dangerous escalation of chemical farming, toxic residues on foods and environmental pollution, over a million consumers and organic farmers have pressed the Obama administration to reject anew generation of GE "Agent Orange" and dicamba-resistant crops, forcing the USDA to postpone commercizalation of these crops, at least temporarily. According to the trade press thousands of US farmers, as well as farmers worldwide, are moving away from biotech crops and searching for non-GMO genetically modified organism alternatives. At the same time US and global market demand for non-GMO organic foods and crops is steadily increasing. Compounding Monsanto's super-weed and super-pest problems, scientific evidence earthopensource.org continues to mount that GMO feed and foods, laced with Bt toxins and contaminated with ever-increasing residues of Monsanto's deadly weedkiller, Roundup, are severely damaging animal and human health. As the June 24, 2013 issue of Green Medical News puts it: "within the scientific community and educated public alike, there is a growing awareness that Roundup herbicide and its primary ingredient glyphosate, is actually a broad spectrum biocide, in the etymological sense of the word: "bio" life and "cide" kill that is, broadly, without discrimination kills living things, not just plants. "Moreover, it does not rapidly biodegrade as widely claimed, and exceedingly small amounts of this chemical in concentration ranges found in recently sampled rain, air, groundwater, and human urine samples, have DNA-damaging and cancer cell proliferation stimulating effects."         

Columnist Preston James PhD: Secret Space War VI: Dead Humans by the Millions,

the Real Alien Agenda? SSG Beyond Black Arm Patch photo by Trevor Paglin. Unless Americans wake up from their slumber and take their country back from Neocon Zionist hijackers who appear to be operating according an Alien Agenda run out of the City of London Financial District, it certainly seemed that they are destined to become dead by the millions in the streets, towns and countryside of the land their forefathers conquered and then freed from England's Colonial tyranny. And the same goes for the rest of the world, especially Africa, where the first large population of aliens has been rumored from highly placed sources to be planning to migrate to if early reports are accurate. However, one thing that does seem exceedingly clear is that zionist Central Banksters from the City of London Financial District have been operating according to an apparent "Alien Agenda". They have hijacked the USG and America, and are now in the process of building up a super-massive internal police state army and surveillance system which they plan to deploy against average Americans as a Bolshevik-style NWO "Red Terror"Cheka mass-murder machine just like what happened in Russia in 1917 that resulted in the torture and murder of approximately 66 million Russians. This is a long article. Bold prints are provided as main point summaries for those that do not wish to read each part of this article. Have Americans actually been financing their own future mass murder by DHS, compliments of a bought and owned, blackmailed, human compromised, Banker controlled Congress and Executive who are serving as puppets of this offshore Bankers force? And is this City of London Central Bankers bunch being controlled by an evil Alien Force, perhaps best referred to as as the Third Force, which has been alleged to have developed a small super class of alien-human hybrids who run all Central Banking of the free world and earn enormous inhuman profits by use of pernicious usury? Doubt this, then consider the recent buildup of the Department of Homeland Security and Northcom, both created to serve a large well-armed military force which will be coordinating functions inside the continental USA to be deployed against all innocent Americans who desire to preserve the Constitution  and Bill of Rights. Is DHS, the New American Gestapo, now being morphed into the New American Cheka? DHS seems completely out of Control with US taxpayers money, spending like a drunken sailor buying up 2 billion rounds of ammo, most hollow point which cannot be used in wartime, 2700 armored vehicles, 30,000 drones which can carry air to ground missiles, and 7,000 fully automatic real assault rifles, not just semi-auto look-a-likes.      

Phil Greaves: "Progressive" Mainstream Media Supports the Destabilization

and Balkanization of Syria. Since the onset of the Syrian crisis, Martin Chulov of the Guardian has continuously been one of the most prominent journalists whose coverage, to put it kindly, has been skewed beyond any recognition of objective journalism. His narratives have systematically relied on sectarian overtones and cherry picked activist quotes from such bastions of objectivity as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Chulov has gone to great lengths to portray the conflict in simplistic and sectarian terms: Assad the Alawite, versus the Sunni majority. The large part of Syrian society that ardently support their president has gone largely unmentioned in his coverage. The larger still part of Syrian society that simply want the war to end, and the militants to leave their towns and villages so they can attempt to rebuild their lives have been callously brushed aside by war-profiteers such as Chulov, who willingly ignore the much larger sections of Syrian society that don't abide his bias narrative. Chulov perniciously attempts to lead the reader to believe the whole Syrian public is fighting against a regime and its security infrastructure. The simple fact that the majority of men fighting the Salafi/Jihadi dominated rebels within the Syrian Army itself are Sunni Syrians belies his whole false sectarian narrative. Chulovs latest article is no exception. The sectarian melodrama is set in this title: Sunnis fear Assad wants to ethnically cleanse Alawhite heartland, in usual fashion, Chulov plays on manufactured sectarian fear and a growing western narrative that Assad is planning on building an Alawite enclave in the western provinces of Syria reaching to the Mediterranean coast, the heartland of Assad's Alawite sect. The sub-title, illuminates Chulovs simplistic rendering and the basis for his Alawite enclave theory: Homs land registry fire and handing out arms to villagers fuel concerns that an Alawite-Shiah enclave is being formed in Syria. Chulov lays the foundations of his theory with these basic facts, Assad is arming farmers and villagers, ie: Syrian men of military age, that are willing to fight the extremist dominated insurgency Chulov has propagated and promoted for the best part of two years. Yet Chulov is eager to portray these farmers and villagers as evil Shabiha intent on sectarian cleansing. And, lo and behold, the land registry in Homs has burnt down! It seems Chulov has forgotten Homs has been a conflict zone for quite some time, constantly under bombardment from either rebels, or the SAA attempting to remove them. This includes a massive air and artillery campaign on the SAAs part. Again, it is beyond Chulovs wildest imaginations that this particular building may well be under government auspices, therefore a prime target for his beloved rebels. Indeed, since the very first week of the crisis in Daraa, militants attacked Government buildings and offices, often setting them ablaze. In Chulovs investigative mind, there is only one explanation: the Shabiha set the land registry ablaze to remove proof of land ownership, his anonymous source, in an almost Sherlock-Watson moment of journalistic drama confirms Chulovs suspicions.

AlterNet: Shocking Extermination Fantasies By the People Running America's Empire

on Full Display at Aspen Summit. Seated on a stool before an audience packed with spooks, lawmakers, lawyers and mercenaries, CNN's Wolf Blitzer introduced recently retired CENTCOM chief General James Mattis, "I've worked with him and I've worked with his predecessors," Blitzer said of Mattis. "I know how hard it is to run an operation like this." Reminding the crowd that CENTCOM is "really, really important," Blitzer urged them to celebrate Mattis: "Let's give the general a round of applause." Following the gales of cheering that resounded from the room, Mattis, the gruff 40-year Marine veteran who once volunteered his opinion that "it's fun to shoot some people," outlined the challenge ahead. The "war on terror" that began on 9/11 has no discernable end, he said, likening it to the "the constant skirmishing between the US cavalry and the Indians" during the genocidal Indian Wars of the 19th century. "The skirmishing will go on likely for a generation," Mattis declared. Mattis' remarks, made beside a cable news personality who acted more like a sidekick than a journalist, set the tone for the entire 2013 Aspen Security Forum this July. A project of the Aspen Institute, the Security Forum brought together the key figures behind America's vast national security state, from military chieftains like Mattis to embattled National Security Agency Chief General Keith Alexander to top FBI and CIA officials, along with the bookish functionaries attempting to establish legal groundwork for expanding the war on terror. Partisan lines and ideological disagreements faded away inside the darkened conference hall, as a parade of American securitocrats from administrations both past and present appeared on stage to defend endless global warfare and total information awareness while uniting in a single voice of condemnation against a single whistle-blower bunkered inside the waiting room of Moscow International Airport: Edward Snowden. With perhaps one notable exception, none of the high-flying reporters junketed to Aspen to act as interlocutors seemed terribly interested in interrogating the logic of war on terror. The spectacle was a perfect window into the world of access journalism,with media professionals brown-nosing national security elites committed to secrecy and surveillance, avoiding overly adversarial questions but making sure to ask the requisite question about how much Snowden has caused terrorists to change their behavior. Jeff Harris, the communications director for the Aspen Institute, did not respond to questions I submitted about whether the journalists who participated in the Security Forum accepted fees.    

AlterNet: Tom Dispatch.com: Planet Earth Is a US Military Base.

It could be any week on yjat great US Military base we know as Planet Earth and here's the remarkable thing: there's always news. Something/s always happening somewhere, usually on more than one continent, as befits the largest, most destructive, most technologically advanced and in many ways least successful military on the planet. In our time, the US military has been sent into numerous wars, failed to win a single one, and created plenty of blow-back. But hey, who has to win a specific war when it's "wartime" all the time? These last weeks were the American military equivalent of a no-news period. Nothing really happened. I mean, yes, there was the war in Afghanistan, the usual round of night raids, dead civilians, and insider attacks. Nothing worth spending much time on, other than whether the US might, in frustration over Afghan President Hamid Karzai, exercise the "zero option" after 2014 and leave, or not. And yes, there was that drone attack last week in the tribal borderlands of Pakistan that killed three "militants" or so we're told, despite the complaints of the country's new government. I mean, what say should it have in the matter? And there was the news that Washington was seeking an "expanded role" for its military in the Philippines, where the question of the month was: Could the Pentagon "position military equipment and rotate more personnel" there, while avoiding the contentious issue of reestablishing American bases in the country" so said "officials from both countries," according to the New York Times. After all, if we call the places where our troops are stationed "Philippine bases," what's the problem? And believe me, no one wants to hear a lot of whining about it from a bunch of Filipinos either! And don't forget about those American drones now flying over Mali, from a base recently established in Niger, part of a blowback generating set of Pentagon operations on the African continent. They got a little attention last week. And one more thing, conveniently on the same continent: since Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey put in calls to their Egyptian counterparts as they has, it seems, never been less than in touch with its Egyptian military pals, a crew significantly trained, advised, and paid for by Washington. And that's just what made it into the news in the most humdrum military week of 2013. On the other hand, in "Iraq Invades the United States" Eduard Galeano, one of the great global writers, offers a little upside-down tour of US military history, from 1916 to late tomorrow night, via eight little excerpts from his new book, Children of the Days: A  Calendar of Human History, reminding us what some really newsworthy moments were like. Think of it as a kind of highlight reel from almost a century of the American way of war.  

Dr. David Halpin: The Unnatural Death of Dr. Kelly, the Subversion od Due Process Continues!

Andrew Watt ended his article with the post-mortem examination being carried out by Dr Nicholas Hunt on the evening the body was found 18 July 2003. It was the penetrating smell of Lysol, lights and stainless steel in the mortuary of the John Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, as well as the remains of a fit husband and father. Nine police officers were in attendance, the most senior being Detective Chief Inspector Alan Young who was in charge of the investigation. He was at the scene on Harrowdown Hill where the unidentified body was found by Louise Holmes. In spite of his lead position in the inquiry into a missing person, and then a suspicious death, he was neither called to the Hutton Inquiry which started sitting 13 days later, nor did he submit a statement to it (1). There is no obvious explanation for the presence of nine police officers at this very morbid autopsy given that the police had sprayed the word ‘suicide’ about earlier that day. The size of the squad would surely have fitted better if murder was foremost in the minds of the investigating authorities.
The examination finished just after midnight. Dr Hunt wrote up his report of his findings at the scene and of his post mortem examination the next day, the 19th of July. He would have come to preliminary conclusions as to the cause of death and been helped in that by the early findings of Dr Allan the toxicologist. That first report has never been published; it was not referred to by Dr Hunt when he gave evidence at the Hutton Inquiry (2) The only report, and that is entitled Final Post Mortem Report – 25th July 2003, was published in October 2010, by the Ministry of Justice. The only original copy of this in existence is a very poor ‘scan’. An OCR and tidied version of this is here (3). That the findings in the first report have never been made public was one among three important concerns brought by this author to the General Medical Council in 2011, established by the Medical Act of 1858. (4) This will be discussed later but suffice to say they were dismissed.
Dr Nicholas Gardiner, HM Coroner for Oxfordshire, opened an inquest as the law demands for all violent, unnatural or unexplained deaths on the 21st July. It is surprising that transcripts of coronial hearings are seldom made. The hearing would have been attended by Dr Hunt, the coroner’s officer and the police. It would have been adjourned until more evidence had flowed in. However, it can be inferred that the cause of death had been given by Dr Hunt. (5 )
Whilst this mouse of an inquest moved ever so quietly, an elephant had been trampling the undergrowth for the three previous days, starting at Harrowdown Hill. Within three hours of the body being found, my Lord Hutton had been engaged to chair an ad hoc inquiry, by my Lord Falconer as Dr Watt has already described. Miles Goslett recently reported in the Mail that Hutton had confirmed in a letter to Norman Baker MP that he had been asked to meet Lord Chancellor Falconer in his Lord’s office around noon of the 18th July and that he agreed to serve.(6) At that point the subject, David Christopher Kelly CMG DSc had not been identified and no cause of death had been established. This fixer was a friend of Blair’s when they were in chambers studying law! He had assisted his friend the PM in bolstering the claim that there was a legal basis for a massive bombardment and invasion of Iraq rather than it being a supreme war crime as defined at Nuremberg.
It is salutary to consider that it took six and half years for the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq ‘War’ to be set up in which over one million Iraqi humans died, at least two million were maimed by customary calculation and four million were made refugees in Syria and Jordan. It took the New Labour high command, the sofa cabinet, just three hours after the death of just one man to set up Hutton with the clear intention of containing the inquiry and ensuring safe conclusions. The instruction given to Hutton was to ‘…urgently to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Kelly’. ‘Urgently’ can be interpreted as ‘nail this promptly’, ‘consider’ as ‘without especial accuracy’ and ‘circumstances’ as equalling the ‘media furore’ which obviously drove Kelly to an inevitable suicide. It was not who the deceased was, and how, when and where he died which are the plain duties of a coroner. It was the ‘circumstances’; and if anything showed the mind and the motives of this most evil cabal, that word is the nub.
The words of the two conversations (6) between Falconer in Westminster and his pal Blair on wing to Tokyo in the hour after noon that day have not, of course, been revealed. That it was to do with an awkward corpse in a wood it is fair to assume. After all, it was a central topic at the press conference in Tokyo where blood, or other medium, drained from Blair’s face with ‘Have you got blood on your hands Mr Blair’ from a Daily Mail journalist. The obvious answer was that he had the blood of thousands upon thousands of people on his hands whereas the European only had one white man in mind at that moment.
Correspondence by Ms Albon of Falconer’s other office (he was also the Secretary of State in the Department of Constitutional Affairs – Mikado style) with the Oxfordshire coroner has a dictatorial ring to it. It was recognised he had to reconvene his inquest in law but this mouse then had to be silent until the elephant had trumpeted the findings. All this was engineered by the mechanism of Section 17a of the 1988 Coroner’s Act. It had been applied for multiple deaths of common cause – Shipman, the Ladbroke rail crash and the sinking of the trawler Gaul. It had at its root – efficiency in investigation, thoughtfulness towards loved ones and verdict as to the common cause. There was no justification for invocation of Section 17a on top of this ad hoc inquiry other than to shackle the coroner and thus to subvert due process. With a few ‘phone calls Falconer had made certain with this ad hoc ‘judicial’ inquiry that there would be no evidence under oath, no ability to subpoena witnesses, no cross examination and no ability to call a jury. The last thing he wanted was twelve good women/men and true.
The coup de grace for the mouse was this Section 17a. There was a further hearing on the 14th of August at which an extraordinary death certificate was conjured up and registered four days later. The hearing was not publicised and again there was no transcript or reportage. This officer of the Crown whose authority and duties stretched back to the 13th Century had been made into a small creature by power and cunning. “The use of these powers to oust the Coroner’s jurisdiction …” is how Frances Swaine of Leigh Day & Co put it an excellent memorandum to the Attorney General in October 2010. (7) (Leigh Day were initially instructed by Dr Frost; they did a large amount of excellent work without charge.)
A letter that Mr Gardiner wrote 6th of August to Ms Albon includes “The preliminary cause of death given at the opening of the inquest no longer represents the view of the Pathologist and evidence from him would need to be given to correct and update the evidence already received.”
(5 – section ONE). This was brushed aside in a letter from lawyers acting for Dr Hunt who were reacting to this long letter from the author to the GMC listing his concerns about Dr Hunt’s performance.(5) Whether his opinion had been changed or not, there was an absolute professional and legal requirement on him to reveal his initial report with its conclusions and his train of thought.
This principle has been tested in the case of Dr Kenneth Shorrock who is currently suspended for unknown reason from the Home Office list of forensic pathologists which was last updated 15th May 2013. This extract from (5 – section ONE) - “He was charged with serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council on eight counts I believe. He had produced a second post-mortem report on a hospital patient which was indicative of negligence by the surgeon without any reference to his first report which had exonerated the surgeon.’
The surgeon was charged with manslaughter but was cleared. He complained to the Home Office whose Scientific Standards Committee of the Policy Advisory Board opined that he had not ‘maintained the standards required’ and simply issued advice, its interest ending in July 2004. The surgeon then complained to the General Medical Council. Mr Vernon Coaker, Minister of State at the Home Office, said in a letter to the author 22 November 2008 “The GMC had been considering the complaint for, I believe, many months (prior to July 2005) and had, similarly, taken no steps to restrict Dr Shorrock’s practice.”
Of the greatest importance is the fact that he was called from Sheffield to examine the remains of Jean Charles de Menezes who had been shot with six hollow point bullets in the head as he sat in a ‘tube’ carriage 22nd July 2005. Sheffield is 150 miles from London which has at least 8 forensic pathologists available. The call to attend a headless Jean Charles was in spite of the fact that a charge of serious professional misconduct was hanging over him; the first hearing by the GMC Fitness to Practice Panel was only six weeks after the killing of Jean Charles. There had been several adjournments of the GMC hearings of this charge which was first heard 5th of September 2005. The nine page summary of the final hearing 19 February 2007 found him guilty of serious professional misconduct. (8 -HALPIN website)
This author wrote to five relevant authorities before the 22nd September 2008 inquest at the Oval, Kennington about this most improper instruction given to Dr Shorrock to take this case in the summer of 2005. There were no replies from any one of the five; this included the Public Solicitor to the inquiry and Justice4Jean. Dr Shorrock’s evidence would be central at this inquest and would include the position and identity of each bullet prior to ballistic studies, and would thus indicate which weapon and which agent had injured Jean Charles beyond recognition IF the evidence had not been contaminated. The Independent Police Complaints Commission does not have a reputation for being just but it did not take possession of the scene until 48 hours had elapsed.
The final hearing of five altogether took place on the 5th of February 2007. The GMC panel found him guilty of the charge of serious professional misconduct. It found his actions “unprofessional, inconsistent, unreasonable, not based upon the medical and pathological information and likely to bring the medical profession into disrepute”.
Two professors of forensic pathology advised the panel:-
Vanezis – ‘He further stated that if a pathologist had reason to change his conclusions or opinion, an explanation should be given as to why he has deemed this necessary.’
Pounder – ‘ Dr Shorrock had a duty to make reference to the existence of the first report. In addition, the second report should have given the reasons for his change of view.
Many had written in support of Dr Kenneth Shorrock. He was simply issued with a reprimand.
The reader has two forensic pathologists in examine.
One was lecturing at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hampshire when he was called to a corpse on Harrowdown Hill which was all about a supreme war crime.
The other was called from Sheffield to a most high profile unlawful killing at Southwell Tube Station, London.
Should the second have been on gardening leave until the GMC had considered the serious charge against him? Or did Jean Charles not deserve the best within our law?
Should the first not have fully revealed the first post mortem report he wrote up on Dr Kelly on the 19th of July? It is certain there was a FIRST report and Lord Hutton referred to it in his introduction. Were the opinions as to the causes of death different in important ways between the 19th of July and the FINAL Post Mortem Report of the 25th of July. It is clear the Coroner thought so. That this gross defect slipped through is typical of much that happened at Hutton. His professional and legal duty was made completely clear later in the case of Dr Shorrock.
We move on next to the Hutton Inquiry and its many defects.