secretary-of-state-john-kerryMatzav

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview broadcast Thursday on Israel Channel 2 TV: “One thing I know a hundred thousand percent is that you can’t turn to the people of Israel with the prospect that what you are offering is going to turn the West Bank into Gaza. Israel’s security is iron clad as a priority in this issue.”

Kerry said he was not asking Israelis to accept an agreement based solely on hope. “I don’t want this to be a leap of faith, but a leap of rationality and a choice based on a very understandable and tangible set of guarantees.”   Continue reading “Kerry: I Know Israel Won’t Accept Turning West Bank into Gaza”

BBC News

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has invited US President Barack Obama to join him in talks aimed at resolving the problems between the two countries.

Mr Maduro said the meeting would help “put the truth out on the table”.

He has accused US conservatives and media organisations of plotting to overthrow his government.   Continue reading “Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro seeks talks with Obama”

marijuana dea peter bensinger disaster 263x164 Marijuana Legalization a Disaster: Former DEA Chief is really Mad Over Pot LegalizationNatural Society – by Christina Sarich

Have you ever heard the koan: what’s the sound of one hand clapping? It’s the same sound as the former DEA administrator, Peter Bensinger, wailing that marijuana legalization is a ‘disaster.’ His voice is a lonely one.

The man is an anti-drug crusader who served three former presidents, but forgot that our founding fathers grew Cannabis, that the most important documents of this country were written on hemp paper, as were almost 90% of all others before 1883, and that the ‘perils’ of pot, or medical marijuana use, are about as real as his imaginary job was ‘defending’ the nation from marijuana users.   Continue reading “Marijuana Legalization a ‘Disaster’: Former DEA Chief is really Mad Over Pot Legalization”

Before It’s News – by Deborah Dupre

Want to know why children are doing poorly at school? It’s those working moms, according to Mississippi’s Republican governor, who has ignited a heated debate with his claims, including it isn’t a mother’s place to teach a child to read.

Yes, decline of education standards is linked to women in the workplace and women teaching children to read, according to Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, driving his points into homes while interviewed on TV.   Continue reading “Rep. Gov. Sexist Comments On TV Outrages Women”

pit bullHuffington Post – by Eleanor Goldberg

The Devias, of Walnut Creek, Calif., will do just about anything to hold onto their pit bull -– even go so far as to live out of their car.

Carol and Peter Devia and their two sons own two dogs who they’ve raised since they were puppies, ABC News reports. But when the husband and wife were recently fired from their newspaper delivery jobs, they lost their apartment and their pit bull, Rocco, has been standing in their way of securing a new home.   Continue reading “Family Of Four Chooses Homelessness Over Giving Up Pit Bull”

Canada Free Press – by Gail Jarvis

Americans are witnessing the harmful effects of years of unchecked immigration and coerced racial preferences. But these dire consequences were rarely predicted fifty years ago. At that time, such policies were the cause du jour of many 1960s politicians.

The late senator Ted Kennedy vigorously asserted that such policies would greatly benefit society and assured us that they would cause no harm. The mainstream media solidly supported Kennedy’s starry-eyed predictions. Admittedly, there were dissenting voices, but none so vocal and contentious as one voice in England. I am referring to the late English parliamentarian, Enoch Powell. In his famous 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech he correctly predicted dreadful consequences to society as a result of Britain’s loosened immigration policies and proposed expansions to race relations legislation.   Continue reading “What we didn’t hear in the 1960s”

Canada Free Press – by Jeff Crouere

The knock out game has come to New Orleans with a vengeance in recent weeks. Despite police denials, there have been several recent attacks that have all of the hallmarks of the vicious knock out game. In the past several weeks, in the tourist hotspot of the French Quarter, innocent individuals were targeted by black youngsters. These victims were not robbed, but were severely beaten and sent to the hospital in a coma.   Continue reading “Knock Out Criminals Hit a Home Run in New Orleans”

BBC News

Ukraine’s opposition has asserted its authority over Kiev and parliament in a day of fast-paced events.

MPs have replace the parliamentary speaker and attorney general, appointed a new pro-opposition interior minister and voted to free jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Police appear to have abandoned their posts across the capital.   Continue reading “Ukraine crisis: Opposition asserts authority in Kiev”

The Daily Beast – by Caryn James

In John Huston’s classic 1943 documentary, The Battle of San Pietro, American soldiers run into battle, gunfire all around. They fall backwards into trenches, the camera jolting with the concussive force of the explosions. Eventually we see corpses placed into body bags. That harrowing immediacy is one reason James Agee called it “as good a war film as any that has been made,”—but it was entirely fake, staged with the help of the U.S. military to create better propaganda. Along with other staged documentaries, it was presented to the public and swallowed as an authentic work of non-fiction.   Continue reading “Lies the Greatest Generation Told Us”

Fort BraggWRAL 5 News

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — One paratrooper was killed and seven others were injured Friday morning in a training accident at Fort Bragg, officials said.

“While conducting artillery live-fire training, the 18th Fires Brigade experienced an incident with a M777 light, towed howitzer,” officials said in a statement late Friday.   Continue reading “Paratrooper killed in howitzer accident during Bragg training”

Reuters / Gary Hershorn RT News

Any American flag purchased by the US Defense Department from now on will be legally required to have been made in the United States.

The new law, which goes into effect on Friday, is an apparent attempt to curtail flag purchases from China, which spiked following the demand generated by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York.   Continue reading “American military banned from purchasing flags made in China”