December 2013
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers on ‘Jazz 625’ – ‘Theme for Stacy’
Here’s the Jazz Messengers with Sun Ra’s John Gilmore on tenor saxophone. No date for this one but sometime between 64 and 66. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2013: Racist ringleaders 2013: Israel’s war on Africans intensifies
21 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Killed After Being Struck By Settler’s Vehicle In JerusalemIMEMC – [Saturday Evening December 21, 2013] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child died of severe injuries sustained after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s car near the Al-Eesawiyya town, north of occupied East Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 December 2013: What the Press Should Learn From the "Snowden Effect"
21 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Mission Accomplished?Afghanistan is a Calamity and our Leaders Must be Held to AccountBy Seumas Milne British troops haven’t accomplished a single one of their missions in Afghanistan. Like Iraq and Libya, it’s a disaster.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37185.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 December 2013: Gaza: genocide, food insecurity, sewage flooding, and the usual IOF attacks on civilians
20 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterGaza Still Flooded After StormIMEMC – Fuel donated by Qatar [Friday, December 20, 2013] Areas of the Gaza Strip are still struggling to cope with severe flooding of homes and businesses, reports +972. … Continue reading
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Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole By Alex Doherty
Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media’s impressive avoidance of the context of the Castro-Obama handshake and its significance. Continue reading
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Palestine: Lessons in desert blooming By Jimmy Johnson
Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) Hana Sweid lifted his voice against the Prawer Plan during a 9 December Knesset Interior Committee meeting. In response to Israel’s planned removal of up to forty-thousand Bedouin from their Naqab lands he protested that, “You want to transfer an entire population.” Likud MK and former IDFA spokesperson Miri Regev… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-21 December 2013: India-Pakistan-US / Afghanistan-US / Europe-Iskander / Ukraine-EU-NATO
21 December 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation India, Pakistan Get Rare Chance to Ignore US 21.12.2013 | 00:00 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The meeting of the Director-General of Military Operations [DGMO] of India and Pakistan, which is due to take place on Tuesday at the GHQ in Rawalpindi, becomes a rare event in the chronicle of the fractured relationship Continue reading
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How much did NSA pay to put a backdoor in RSA crypto? Try $10m – report By Neil McAllister
The mystery of why RSA would use a flawed, NSA-championed algorithm as the default random number generator for several of its encryption products appears to be solved, and the answer is utterly banal, if true: the NSA paid it to. Continue reading
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UK reneges on promised independent inquiry on rendition, torture By Paul Mitchell
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has abandoned its promise to carry out an independent inquiry into Britain’s involvement in “extraordinary rendition”, detention”and torture carried out by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Instead, the inquiry will be undertaken by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), whose record is one of covering up the activities of the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 19 December 2013: Racist ringleaders 2013: Israel's war on Africans intensifies
19 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Navy Chases Fishermen, Confiscates Fishing Equipment in Gaza WatersIMEMC – Israeli Naval Forces stationed off Beit Lahi shore, in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in 4 separate incidents, while sailing between 600 meters and 3 nautical miles. Israeli naval forces Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 19 December 2013: Britain’s Involvement In Torture And Kidnap ‘Truly Shocking’
19 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Some Might Call It Treason By Philip Giraldi I am referring to a concerted “betrayal of trust” by a group of American government elected officials in openly advancing policies that serve the interests of a foreign country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37164.htm Continue reading
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End double standards in evaluating GMO safety studies – say scientists
The controversy about the Séralini et al. study, which reported negative health effects of Monsanto’s NK603 GM maize and Roundup herbicide fed to rats over the long term,[1] is still going on. According to a new review published in Environmental Sciences Europe, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) used unscientific double standards to dismiss the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 18, 2013: The Long Death of Nelson Mandela, Obama's Legacy, Snowden Person of the Year
20 December 2013 — Black Agenda Report Nelson Mandela’s Long Death by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As Nelson Mandela lay for nine months near death, the world got an education on his legacy – including the scope of the deal that he and his African National Congress comrades cut to abandon the Freedom Charter. Blacks Continue reading
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Workfare: Britain’s modern-day slavery By Tony Gosling
This new slavery is conducted by “ruthless” individuals housing and feeding Britain’s growing army of destitute citizens in exchange for labor. Home Secretary Teresa May triumphantly tells us the punishment for the modern slave-keeper will be “life imprisonment.” Continue reading
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Syria: The UN is Turning Butchers into Partners for Peace By Ali Mallah
The UN now appeals for help to deal with the refugee crisis in Syria. Two of the main perpetrators of the crisis, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have been asked to provide help by the organization. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, France, the UK and the USA are the same countries that brought death and destruction to… Continue reading
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Media Lean Left, Say Journalists Who Don't Really Say That By Peter Hart
The end of a story in Politico (12/18/13), about a Politico media roundtable featuring CNN’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, and Peter Baker and Mark Leibovich of the New York Times, caught my eye: Continue reading
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European Left selects Tsipras as lead candidate in European elections By Christoph Dreier
The fourth congress of the European Left (EL) took place in Madrid last weekend. The alliance of parties discussed a joint programme for the European elections in May next year and elected Alexis Tsipras, chairman of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), as its leading candidate. Continue reading
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: “A Genius Among Geniuses”
The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency’s logo, with the traditional key in an eagle’s claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird’s ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA… Continue reading
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How the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are Fueling Massive Global Inequality By Steve Rushton
Benjamin works as the local authority manager for the U.K. campaign Move Your Money and is investigating how much public money authorities lost in the financial crisis. Founded in early 2012, Move Your Money — which has parallel groups like this oneoperating in the U.S. — has helped over 2 million people in the U.K.… Continue reading
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