Author: Wade

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Navy’s Vice-Admiral Kulakov, an Udaloy-class destroyer, is moving to the eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, where it will join the permanent Russian naval task force, Northern Fleet spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Vadim Serga said.

Earlier this month, the Vice-Admiral Kulakov entered the port of La Valetta, Malta, where Northern Fleet sailors celebrated Russia’s Navy Day while berthed in Dock No. 6 at the Maltese shipyard.   Continue reading “Russian Naval Destroyer Moving to Mediterranean”

CNN – by Ralph Ellis, Sara Sidner, Karl Penhaul and Ian Lee

Jerusalem (CNN) — Despite calls for a new cease-fire, fighting intensified in Gaza on Monday and Tuesday morning, with Palestinians saying more than two dozen people died as rockets or mortars struck a refugee camp, a hospital and the center of Gaza City.

Eighteen people died as powerful and continuous air strikes rained down on Gaza City early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Health Authority reported. And the Israeli military reported that 10 of its soldiers were killed Monday.   Continue reading “Dozens die as fighting intensifies in Gaza; children killed at refugee camp”

The Slog – by John Ward

This is what a German pilot-cum-air technology expert Peter Haisenko has just published on the subject of the MH17 disaster (my emphases):

‘The misfortune of the Malaysian MH 017 is known to all. The flight
recorder is in England and is being evaluated. What can come of this?
May be more than you want to accept….if you look at the image of
Cockpit-Fragments, this picture is certainly shocking.   Continue reading “New MH17 Sensation: German experts point finger at Ukrainian air-force jets.”

USA Today – by Yousef Al-Helou, Jennifer Collins and John Bacon

GAZA CITY — Ten Palestinians were reported killed Monday when a missile hit a refugee camp here and nine Israeli soldiers died in multiple clashes as a major Muslim holiday brought no respite from tragedy in this troubled region.

Fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants roared on as Muslims celebrated the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, marking the completion of month-long, dawn-to-dusk fasting for Ramadan. Hamas had agreed Sunday to hold fire ahead of the holiday, but even a strong statement from the U.N. Security Council calling for an “immediate and unconditional” cease-fire failed to keep the peace.   Continue reading “Holiday brings no respite from death in Gaza, Israel”

Aljazeera – by Mohammed Omer

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Umm Ahmed Abu Sahwish holds stones in her hands. They are now all that’s left of her demolished home. “My home is gone and only stones remain,” the 65-year-old says.

Hundreds of homes here have been destroyed, and unexploded Israeli missiles litter the ground at the entrance to the town, at Gaza’s northern tip near the border with Israel. The local hospital, emergency rescue equipment, and infrastructure have also incurred heavy damage from Israeli shelling.   Continue reading “‘Only stones remain’: Gaza lies in ruins”

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Mike Blaskey

A heat-of-the-moment comment in the aftermath of the standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch has cost two Las Vegas SWAT officers their jobs on the elite unit.

The officers were booted back to patrol after a Metro sniper posted an inflammatory comment about Bundy’s militant supporters on social media, the Review-Journal has learned.

Officer Russell Laws, 41, took to Facebook just hours after the April 12 standoff between federal and local officers and armed protesters ended without bloodshed.   Continue reading “Officers kicked off SWAT after Bundy comment”

ITAR-TASS

DONETSK, July 27 /ITAR-TASS/. Several dozen civilians were killed in the Ukrainian military’s rocket and mortar fire on the center of the east Ukrainian town of Gorlovka, the local media reported on Sunday.

The number of deaths varies between 20 and 30 people, the media reported. Information on casualties is being specified.

The media reports say that the mortar and rocket fire was delivered from the outskirts of the town. One shell exploded near the Gorlovka central maternity home.   Continue reading “Several dozen civilians killed in Ukrainian army’s Gorlovka shelling – local media”

Jewish Law – by Rabbi Joseph Stern

 

Do not charge interest (Ribis) while lending money or food. Do not cause your fellow Jew to charge interest (i.e. do not pay interest in return for a loan – a prohibition against the debtor paying interest). Do not act as an accomplice to the charging of interest (an injunction against even consigning or certifying any usurious financial transaction). Continue reading “Ribis: A Halachic Anthology”

I Am The Witness 

Note: For more information, Bollyn has some information about this area; one about Boris Berezovsky and one about Turkmenistan and Ukrainian president, Viktor YushchenkoA site about the Ukraine’s problems with Zionism has been “siezed”: http://ukar.org It is now available only at the Internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20051123102140/ukar.org/index.html

The following was written by Vladimir Borisov, possibly in January 2005

Continue reading “Who controls the Ukraine?”

Reuters – by Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country’s north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to “stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad.”

Nearly 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University, Iraq’s U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the July 8 letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

“Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state,” Alhakim wrote, adding that such materials “can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”   Continue reading “Iraq tells U.N. that ‘terrorist groups’ seized nuclear materials”

Aletho News

Updated 2:00 pm: An Israeli air strike in southern Gaza hours before a humanitarian truce was declared killed 20 people, including 11 children, most of them from a single family, medics said.

Separately, the bodies of at least another 85 Palestinians were recovered from rubble across Gaza on Saturday, raising the overall Palestinian death toll in the 19-day Israeli terror campaign to 985, the overwhelming majority of them civilians.

“Ambulance crews have recovered the bodies of 85 martyrs under destroyed houses, including children and women, across the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of martyrs to 985 as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra wrote on Twitter.    Continue reading “Palestinians pull 85 bodies from under Gaza rubble”

Press TV – by Gordon Duff

Homeland Review – by William Vaughns

Residents of Boston do not need shotguns or rifles, according to Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.

Boston’s top cop made that statement Wednesday on Boston Public Radio in response to Massachusetts state senator Stan Rosenberg’s position that there are already “sufficient controls” on long guns at the federal level, giving no need for new state laws that grant police additional powers to deny ownership to citizens.   Continue reading “Boston Police Say Residents Do Not ‘Need’ to Own Shotguns, Rifles”