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Israeli warplanes have carried out fresh airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving at least 10 Palestinians injured.

The Israeli military said its war jets targeted 15 areas in the northern part of the blockaded enclave on early Thursday morning.

Gaza’s emergency chief Ashraf al-Qedra said at least 10 civilians were wounded as a result of the Tel Aviv regime’s offensive, one of them being in critical condition. A pregnant Palestinian woman was also reported to be among those injured.   Continue reading “Israeli war jets strike Gaza, injure 10”

Information Clearinghouse – by Katie Glueck

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul blasted the White House’s response to a kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in a strongly worded column designed to highlight his pro-Israel credentials.

Paul, a potential GOP presidential contender who is often leery of interventionist foreign policy, has been highly critical of the more hawkish wing of the GOP, most recently in the debate over what to do in Iraq. But Paul also has been trying to show the Republican establishment that his overall approach to foreign affairs is not out of the mainstream, and his tough rhetoric in the National Review op-ed could be seen as another overture.   Continue reading “Rand Paul Rebukes White House in Pro-Israel Column”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

He may be “richer than you“, but when it comes to cancer everyone is equal. Moments ago, Dow Jones and Bloomberg broke news that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has been diagnosed with throat cancer.

  •  J.P. Morgan JPM Chairman, CEO Jamie Dimon Tells Employees, Shareholders He Has Been Diagnosed With Throat Cancer, Condition Curable
  • Dimon Says Prognosis “Excellent,” Cancer “Caught Quickly”
  • Dimon Says Cancer Confined, No Evidence Elsewhere
  • Dimon to start Radiation and Chemotherapy Treatment at Sloan Kettering, treatment to last 8 weeks
  • Dimon advised able to continue to be actively involved in the business

Continue reading “Jamie Dimon Diagnosed With Throat Cancer, To Start Radiation And Chemotherapy”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

“It’s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly,” warns Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, telling The Telegraph, the situation in Las Vegas is “as bad as you can imagine”. After a devastating, 14-year drought drained the reservoir that supplies 90% of the city’s water, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion as Las Vegas population has soared. As Barnett ominously concludes, “unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere, Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they’re still building, which is stupid.”   Continue reading “Las Vegas Is “Screwed”; The Water Situation “Is As Bad As You Can Imagine””

National Journal – by Shane Goldmacher

It’s going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers’ annual financial-disclosure forms.

The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement by the House Ethics Committee, reverses more than three decades of precedent. Gifts of free travel to lawmakers have appeared on the yearly financial form dating back its creation in the late 1970s, after the Watergate scandal. National Journal uncovered the deleted disclosure requirement when analyzing the most recent batch of yearly filings. Continue reading “Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take”

A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza.The Guardian – by Peter Beaumont

Israeli jets and helicopters launched dozens of air strikes across theGaza Strip overnight on Monday, just hours after the bodies of three abducted Israeli teenagers were found in a shallow grave near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

The air strikes, ostensibly in response to an ongoing barrage of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel, came after the Israeli prime minister,Binyamin Netanyahu, vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, would “pay a heavy price”.   Continue reading “Israeli jets pound Gaza as Netanyahu blames Hamas for teenagers’ deaths”

A woman cries near her burning house after shelling in east Ukraine's Donetsk Region, Jun. 30ITAR-TASS

KIEV, July 01. /ITAR-TASS/. After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko unilaterally terminated ceasefire, the military forces began an operation “on destroying terrorist groups” in the south-east, UNIAN agency reported.

The agency said that aviation and artillery strikes are made on strongholds and positions of the self-defense forces.   Continue reading “Ukraine’s military carry out artillery strikes on positions of self-defense forces”

Candles placed next to a picture of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed, in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square June 30, 2014. Israeli forces found the bodies of the three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep against the Islamist Hamas group that Israel says abducted them. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)Yahoo News – by Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group.

Israel’s security cabinet, which held an emergency session late on Monday and was due to meet again on Tuesday, was split on the scope of any further action in the coastal enclave or in the occupied West Bank, officials said. The United States and regional power-broker Egypt urged restraint.   Continue reading “Israel launches Gaza air strike after bodies of missing teens found”

RT News

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has decided to not prolong the ceasefire with Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, announcing an end to a fragile deal to deescalate tensions in the eastern regions of the country.

“We will attack and will free our land,” Poroshenko said. The ceasefire officially ended at 19:00 GMT, according to a statement that appeared on the president’s website shortly after midnight.   Continue reading “Ukraine president terminates ceasefire”

web page from crowdfunding site that has bought drone for ukrtainian army The Guardian – by Oksana Grytsenko in Kiev and Luke Harding

It has been used to raise money for films, rock bands and aspiring performance artists. Now Ukrainians have taken the concept of online crowdfunding to a new and giddy level, raising enough money to buy the country’s first “people’s drone”.

With Ukraine’s army battling pro-Russian militants in the east, ordinary citizens have launched a new initiative to supply Kiev’s beleaguered and badly equipped troops. Over the past three months volunteers have provided uniforms and bulletproof vests for government soldiers whose army-issue fatigues have fallen apart. Villagers have offered food, bottles of water and bags of crisps. Then, last week, Ukraine’s crowdfunding site The People’s Project said that it had received enough donations to fund a drone. It will be used for reconnaissance in the skies above the rebel Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, and on the border with Russia, the scene of numerous recent shootouts between troops and separatists.   Continue reading “Ukrainians crowdfund to raise cash for ‘people’s drone’ to help outgunned army”

RIA Novosti / Aleksandr MaksimenkoRT News

Over 1,000 protesters led by the Ukrainian army’s Donbass Battalion fighters gathered for a rally in central Kiev on Sunday. The demonstrators are demanding that President Petro Poroshenko end the ceasefire and impose martial law.

The Sunday rally was organized by Donbass Battalion Commander Semyon Semenchenko, who told the pro-Kiev protesters on his Facebook page to gather near the presidential administration building. Some Azov Battalion fighters also reportedly took part in the demonstration.    Continue reading “‘Let’s wage war!’ Huge crowd rallies in Kiev for end of ceasefire, martial law”

Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

The Department of Justice has spent $1.2 million on a website which depicts cartoon cellphones engaging in real-life dating scenarios, in an effort to help teens define their “digital line” as it pertains to relationship abuse.

The website, ThatsNotCool.com, which is operated through the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women, is perhaps the cheesiest government-funded ad campaign in recent memory.   Continue reading “Justice Dept Uses Lesbian Cartoon Characters To Teach Kids About Cell Phone Safety”