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Obama Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by Bombing Iraq

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– Obama Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by Bombing Iraq (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 8, 2014):

“Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish!”

– U.S. President Lyndon Johnson commenting on the Gulf of Tonkin incident

Fifty years ago yesterday, on August 7, 1964, Congress passed the now infamous Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which led to a massive escalation of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Without a formal declaration of war, the resolution permitted President Johnson to take “all necessary measures” to support South Vietnam, including armed forces. This resulted in 58,000 dead Americans and well over a million dead Vietnamese, both civilians and military personnel.

The resolution was passed based on President Johnson’s claim that the destroyer USS Maddox had been attacked for the second time in one week. While the Maddox did indeed suffer from a torpedo attack on August 2, 1964 after a raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats, the second attack was a pure fabrication. Furthermore, Johnson never discussed the background on the initial incident to Congress. Had Congress actually knew what happened it may have prevented this resolution from passing, thus saving millions of lives. Here’s a quick summary from History.com:

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38 minutes late: Report reveals firefighters delayed response to deadly Odessa blaze

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– 38 minutes late: Report reveals firefighters delayed response to deadly Odessa blaze (RT, Aug 9, 2014):

Despite desperate calls from witnesses, Odessa fire brigades came to the scene of the notorious Trade Unions House blaze only 38 minutes after it was reported, leaked transcripts of emergency calls show. The fire claimed the lives of 48 people in May.

The leaked transcripts involve calls which local emergency services reportedly received on the evening of May 2.

Read more38 minutes late: Report reveals firefighters delayed response to deadly Odessa blaze

Robots Will Create ‘Permanently Unemployable Underclass’

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– Robots Will Create ‘Permanently Unemployable Underclass’ (International Business Times, Aug 7, 2014):

The advancement of robots that can do our jobs for us will create a class-divide not seen since the 19thcentury, a report by the Pew Research Centre in America has found.

As machines have continued to displace factory workers, personal assistants and receptionists over the last decade, advanced countries must adapt their education systems to turn average students into exceptional ones who can outperform a robot, sociologists told Pew.

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‘It’s Madness! US opposes ISIS in Iraq, supports them in Syria’ (Video)

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Aug 9, 2014

Elite donors of American allies in the Persian Gulf region have poured an immense amount of resources into rebel groups like IS in efforts to advance on three general goals: opposing Iran, its ally Bashar Assad and his government in Syria, and fomenting the Sunni-Shia divides in the region.

Russian Navy ‘forces US submarine out’ of Arctic boundary waters

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– Russian Navy ‘forces US submarine out’ of Arctic boundary waters – report (RT, Aug 9, 2014):

A supposed US submarine was detected and “forced out” by the Russian anti-sub forces after it violated the country’s boundary waters in the Arctic, a high-ranked source within the Russian Navy’s headquarters said.

“On August 7, a foreign submarine, presumably belonging to the US Navy’s Virginia class, was detected in the Barents Sea by the alert forces of the Northern Fleet,” the source told Russian media.

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‘Shock’: Water underneath Fukushima reactors to be dumped in ocean — Attempts to deal with problem have ‘failed’ — Officials: It’s better than radioactive substances just “spilling directly into the ocean” like it is now (VIDEO)

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– ‘Shock’: Water underneath Fukushima reactors to be dumped in ocean — Attempts to deal with problem have ‘failed’ — Officials: It’s better than radioactive substances just “spilling directly into the ocean” like it is now (VIDEO) (ENENews, Aug 8, 2014):

AFP, Aug. 7, 2014 (emphasis added): Tepco ‘running out of space’ for tainted water — [Tepco] on Thursday unveiled a plan to dump scrubbed water directly into the ocean, sparking concerns over whether it would be properly decontaminated. […] {Tepco] has admitted that it’s running out of space. It is also fighting to contain contaminated groundwater around the plant from seeping into the ocean […] [Tepco] said it now wants to start pumping out the underground water, purify it […] and then release it […] the firm has long faced criticism over delays in disclosing key information […]

NHK, Aug. 6, 2014: Highly radioactive water […] is seeping into the earth and mixing with ground water. Experts estimate around 200 [or 400] tons of contaminated ground water are leaking into the ocean each day. [Tepco wants] to decontaminate ground water collected at wells near reactor buildings before releasing it into the ocean. […] They say their plan is an improvement on the current situation, as contaminated water is spilling directly into the ocean.

Read more‘Shock’: Water underneath Fukushima reactors to be dumped in ocean — Attempts to deal with problem have ‘failed’ — Officials: It’s better than radioactive substances just “spilling directly into the ocean” like it is now (VIDEO)

And So It Begins: Canada To Send Military Equipment To Ukraine

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– It Begins: Canada To Send Military Equipment To Ukraine (ZeroHedge, Aug 7, 2014):

And so it begins.

Moments ago Bloomberg reported, citing Defense minister Rob Nicholson speaking in Trenton, Ontario, that Canada, a NATO member, will send military equipment to Ukraine. Ukraine will in turn supposedly use supplies to protect eastern border Nicholson speaking to reporters, although perhaps one should ask ISIS where US military equipment that was meant for Al-Qaeda, pardon, Syrian rebels to dethrone Assad ended up…

Read moreAnd So It Begins: Canada To Send Military Equipment To Ukraine

First BRICS Bank, Now BRICS Food Bank

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– First BRICS Bank, Now BRICS Food Bank (ZeroHedge, Aug 7, 2014):

Despite President Obama’s dictating that Russia is increasingly “isolated,” it appears they have found a whole new set of friends to play with in the global trade sandpit. In retaliation to Western sanctions, Putin yesterday unveiled a total food import ban from all sanctioning nations, and, just as the BRICS created their own ‘IMF-lite’ away from Washington’s prying eyes, Russia plans to substitute banned goods with not just domestic supplies but imports from Latin America, China, and several other nations. Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fedorov said “no food shortages are expected,” but more isolation for the West…

Russia is already turning away trucks at the border and cancelling orders (as FruitNet reports)

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This Is How Putin’s Advisor Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out

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– This Is How Putin’s Advisor Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out  (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

Vladimir Putin’s chief “integration” advisor, Sergei Glazyev, has been regularly featured on these pages in the past (see Putin Advisor Threatens With Dumping US Treasurys, Abandoning Dollar If US Proceeds With Sanctions and Putin Advisor Proposes “Anti-Dollar Alliance” To Halt US Aggression Abroad for two examples). So now that the Ukraine situation has once again escalated, this time with both sides openly engaged in trade war and many suggesting all-out war just over the horizon, how does Putin’s advisor see the Ukraine conflict playing out?

For the answer we go to Bloomberg:

Read moreThis Is How Putin’s Advisor Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out

ISIS Demands American Blood: Jihadists Call For Attacks On US Interests Worldwide

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– ISIS Demands American Blood: Jihadists Call For Attacks On US Interests Worldwide (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

It was all fun and games with the West’s ever escalating sanctions against Russia until Putin finally retaliated, sending the German stock market into a correction and German bunds to record highs. Now, following Obama’s official latest military incursion into Iraq, it is time for ISIS, that ultra-aggressive spin off of Al Qaeda to do the same, and following last night’s Obama announcement ISIS has called for attacks on US interests worldwide.

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Former Obamacare Boss Admits She Deleted Emails Sought By Congress

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– Former Obamacare Boss Admits She Deleted Emails Sought By Congress (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

On the bright side, Marilyn Tavenner – appointed by President Obama to take over CMS within the Department of Health and human Services in 2013 – did not suffer a hard-drive crash. However, as MSNBC reports, she may be unable to cooperate with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenas because she deleted emails.

As MSNBC reports,

A team of HHS officials is now working to reconstruct Tavenner’s inbox by collecting emails from people she typically corresponded with and through other methods. They expect to recover “most, but not all” of Tavenner’s emails, the letter adds.

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German Handelsblatt Releases Stunning Anti-West Op-Ed, Asks If “West Rabble-Rousers Are On The Payroll Of The KGB”

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– German Handelsblatt Releases Stunning Anti-West Op-Ed, Asks If “West Rabble-Rousers Are On The Payroll Of The KGB” (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

Up until this point Angela Merkel, and German media in general, had been staunchly on the side of the west when it comes to dealing with Russia, Putin and realpolitik in broader terms. That changed dramatically today when Gabor Steingart, the chief editor of Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading economic newspaper, came out with a stunning op-ed, in German, English and Russian, titled simply that “The West on the wrong path” in which the editor comes out very vocally against the autopilot mode German media has been on for the past several months and calls for an end to a strategy of sanctions and Russian confrontation that ultimately “harms German interests” and is a dead end.

Some of the “must read” excerpts:

Read moreGerman Handelsblatt Releases Stunning Anti-West Op-Ed, Asks If “West Rabble-Rousers Are On The Payroll Of The KGB”

Obama Wines & Dines Some Of The World’s Most Brutal Dictators At US-Africa Summit

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Obama Wines and Dines Some of the Worlds Most Brutal Dictators at the First Ever U.S.-Africa Summit

– Obama Wines & Dines Some Of The World’s Most Brutal Dictators At US-Africa Summit (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 8, 2014):

Last month, I wrote an article highlighting the fact that President Barack Obama apparently had become so tired of being President that he decided to just hang out and socialize instead. The piece was titled, The New York Times Describes Obama – “A Restless President Weary of the Obligations of the White House…” 

Apparently, Mr. Obama has found a middle ground. A perfect mix of dinner-party diplomacy with some of the world’s most violent and homophobic dictators. Introducing the first ever U.S.-Africa summit, which just ran from August 4-6th. As the Daily Mail points out, President Obama had no problem smiling and hobnobbing with a cornucopia of murders and human rights abusers. If there was a Hollywood celebrity hashtag campaign of outrage protesting the event, I must have missed it.

The Daily Mail highlighted several of the motley crew:

The red carpet was rolled out for Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who shot or jailed virtually all his political opponents, Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who threatened to ‘cut off the head’ of any homosexuals in the country and for Cameroon’s Paul Biya, who has the dubious honor of ranking 19th on author David Wallechinsky’s 2006 list of the world’s 20 worst living dictators.

Read moreObama Wines & Dines Some Of The World’s Most Brutal Dictators At US-Africa Summit

Nigeria Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ As Study Finds West African Ebola Virus Is Previously Undetected ‘New Strain’

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– Nigeria Declares “State Of Emergency” As Study Finds West African Ebola Virus Is Previously Undetected “New Strain” (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

Following the WHO’s warnings, (the ironically named) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a “state of emergency” over the Ebola outbreak that is rapidly escalating in his nation. This comes on the heels of a US medical journal study that finds, as Reuters reports, the Ebola virus that is ravagaing West Africa was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a “new strain” of the disease – raising the specter of further regional epidemics.

Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, and scientists initially believed that Central Africa’s Zaire strain of the virus was responsible for the outbreak. However, as Reuters reports,

Read moreNigeria Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ As Study Finds West African Ebola Virus Is Previously Undetected ‘New Strain’

Iraq Airstrikes Begin Despite Warning ISIS Retaliation Could Put Baghdad Underwater

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– Iraq Airstrikes Begin Despite Warning ISIS Retaliation Could Put Baghdad Underwater (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

Pentagon Press Secretary Admiral John Kirby confirms:

  • *U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT STRIKE ISLAMIC STATE ARTILLERY: PENTAGON
  • *STRIKE CONDUCTED BY 2 F-18A AIRCRAFT DROPPING 500 LB BOMBS
  • *U.S. CONDUCTED AIRSTRIKE IN IRAQ AT 6:45 EASTERN: PENTAGON

We anxiously await ISIS’ response which – as the State Department warns “could leave Mosul under 100 feet of water.”

The aistrikes begin…

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Ukraine Prepares To Impose Russian Gas Transit Ban, Commit Economic Suicide

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– Ukraine Prepares To Impose Russian Gas Transit Ban, Commit Economic Suicide (ZeroHedge, Aug 8, 2014):

While Ukraine has long since ceased being a customer of Gazprom (for the simple reason being that it can’t afford to pay for historical gas purchases let alone future ones, and with a long cold winter just 3 months ahead, Kiev is praying that its brand new Western “allies” will give it the loans it needs to buy Europe-sourced gas), the bulk of Russia-sourced gas into Europe still transits through Ukraine.

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Not surprisingly, Ukraine correctly understands this is the last trump card it has in any negotiation with the west, or the east. It is this trump card that went into play moments ago when Ukraine’s Prime Minister who recently resigned and whose resignation was not accepted, said that Ukraine is considering banning the transit of all Russian “energy resources”, i.e. European gas.

More:

Ukraine ready to impose sanctions against any transit via its territory, including air flights and gas supplies to Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Friday. Ukraine’s Parliament will vote on the sanctions on Tuesday. Kiev has also prepared a list of 172 Russian citizens and 65 companies predominantly Russian to put under sanctions for “sponsoring terrorism, supporting the annexation of Crimea, and violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Yatsenyuk said at a briefing on Friday.

Read moreUkraine Prepares To Impose Russian Gas Transit Ban, Commit Economic Suicide

CDC Bombshell: Ebola Spread To USA ‘Inevitable’

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– CDC bombshell: Ebola spread to USA ‘inevitable’ (Natural News, Aug 8, 2014):

The spread of Ebola to the USA is “inevitable,” said the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. Tom Frieden made the statement in a House Subcommittee hearing, adding that he does not think there will be a “large Ebola outbreak” in the U.S. Does he think there will be small ones?

Ken Isaacs, vice president of program and government relations at the Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse warned “the world is woefully ill-equipped to handle the spread of Ebola,” reports Yahoo News. (1)

“It is clear that the disease is uncontained and it is out of control in West Africa,” he told the hearing. “The international response to the disease has been a failure.”

Read moreCDC Bombshell: Ebola Spread To USA ‘Inevitable’

Follow The Money: Ebola, Crisis of Opportunity

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– Follow The Money – Ebola, Crisis of Opportunity (The Daily Coin, Aug 7, 2014):

We have all been watching the unfolding story of ebola and how it is creating concern on a global scale. What if it were merely an attempt to push a new drug to generate millions of dollars for the global elite and the medical industrial complex? What if I told you 122,000 people died from measles in 2012 without so much as a whimper from either the alternative media or the mainstream media?

A few days ago one of the people that I work with ask me what was going on with ebola, as he knows that I operate The Daily Coin and am a daily contributor at SGT Report. When I explained that we were following, at that time, the latest story of ebola coming to America he stopped me and gave me the governments typical, tyrannical game-plan – problem, reaction, solution. Let’s look at the ebola “pandemic” from a different perspective.

Read moreFollow The Money: Ebola, Crisis of Opportunity

Here’s the dumbest thing you’ll hear all week

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– Here’s the dumbest thing you’ll hear all week (Sovereign Man, Aug 7, 2014):

In an unbelievable display of arrogance and self-importance, the Australian government recently announced the most sweeping changes to their national security legislation since 9/11.

The new laws will give the Australian government more powers to monitor all types of communication, both phone and internet.

What’s more, telecom companies will be required to store searchable metadata of all activity for two years, enabling the authorities to access details of every phone call made and every website visited.

Powers for “extended detention” and ‘preventative detention’, (pre-crime) have also been extended.

I’m sure it makes you feel better knowing that you could be preventively detained without actually committing any crime—you know, just in case…

It will also become a crime now to travel to a country where terrorists are ‘conducting hostile activities’ unless you have a ‘legitimate excuse’.

Read moreHere’s the dumbest thing you’ll hear all week

The US Military And The Ebola Outbreak

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Whoops…here we go again….

First it was AIDS, then the CIA paid Dutch outfit ERASMUS to mutate H5N1 non human transferable virus to contagious airborne….and now….

The cold, slimy hand of the United States Government is found in Liberia & Sierra Leone.

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has coincidentally been operating in the area, carrying out “tests” since 2006.

Call me a cynic but there are just too many coincidences here.”

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– The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak (Economy Policy Journal, Aug 7, 2017): 

I continue to suspect that the Ebola outbreak in western Africa be the result of U.S. military biowarfare research gone awry.

As I previously reported:

The epicentre of the current Ebola epidemic is the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. BeforeItIsNews claims the hospital houses a US a biosecurity level 2 bioweapons research lab. That claim is unconfirmed, however, this we do know.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The findings, published in this month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak,reports Global BioDefense.

According to GBD, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been operating in the area since 2006, supposedly working on “diagnostic tests.”
Author Randal J. Schoepp, PH. D. reports that because the USAMRIID team just happened to be working on disease identification and diagnostics in the area, they had pre-positioned assays in the region to address the ebola outbreak:

We had people on hand who were already evaluating samples and volunteered to start testing right away when the current Ebola outbreak started.

The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.

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Fukushima: Trenches Filled With Thousands Of Tons Of PLUTONIUM Contaminated Liquid Leaking Into Pacific

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– ‘Increasing alarm’ at Fukushima: Trenches filled with thousands of tons of plutonium contaminated liquid leaking into ocean — ‘Biggest risk’ at plant — ‘Exceptionally difficult’ problem — ‘Constant flow’ in and out of trenches — ‘Racing to stop’ more from coming in (PHOTO) (ENENews, Aug 8, 2014)