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Kansas City Unanimously Votes to Ban Open Carry

Kansas City Unanimously Votes to Ban Open Carry



The Kansas City Council voted 9-0 to ban open carry in the largest city in Missouri. The vote was lead by the effort of Mayor Sly James.

The mayor said, “Our community is not a battleground” and that the open carry of guns is bad for business and can be intimidating for customers.

Scott Taylor, one of the city’s councilman, said “We’re proud to live in the Midwest, but I’m not sure we want to be the Wild West”.

The mayor then went on to echo Councilman Taylor and said that the Wild West had gun regulations. He said that guns were required to be turned into the sheriff when visitors came to town.

He even went as far as saying that guns have no place where the public gathers, places such as churches, shopping malls, and restaurants. The measure that was passed went to the full council on July 31.

A bill was passed by the Missouri General Assembly that would void any local ordinance that prohibits the open carry of those with a concealed carry permit. The bill was vetoed by Gov. Jay Nixon but the General Assembly is expected to override the veto this fall.

Mayor James:

We’re saying this does not make sense in the middle of Kansas City, Mo. If you want to do this out in a rural area, that’s cool. How much would you shop at the Plaza if you walk down there and every third person had a rifle on their back?

Also added to the bill was to make the city law conform to the state law regarding citizens who are intoxicated. The state law currently allows intoxicated people to carry guns as long as they are not acting discharging it or acting negligently. The city law, which banned drunk people from carrying, will now change to mirror the state law.

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Remembering Robin Williams

Robin Williams was a natural fit for the USO, with a magical ability to connect with every service member he met – he shook every hand, signed every autograph and lifted every spirit.

For 12 years, Robin generously gave his time to create special moments for more than 89,000 servicemen and women. His humor helped ease their loneliness, fear and uncertainty while they served to protect our freedom in remote locations far from home.

Everyone who met Robin has a special memory, and we want to share some of the amazing photos and stories from his USO tours.

Click here to see the USO’s tribute to Robin Williams, “He Brought Them Light,” and learn more about more about his dedication to our men and women in uniform.

The USO holds Robin Williams and his family in our hearts, and we thank him for all he did for those that do so much for all of us – the men and women of our Armed Forces. He will always be a part of our USO family and will be sorely missed.

Thank you,

Brigadier General John I. Pray Jr., USAF (Ret.)
Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff, USO

USO NEWS

“He Brought Them Light’: How Robin Williams Turned his USO Tours into Personal Experiences for Troops

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

By Eric Brandner

Today, the audience gets to tell the story.

The photos of service members posing with Robin Williams flowing through social media feeds the past 24 hours say more than any condolence statement could. 

There is Williams with a pair of female service members in Djibouti in 2004. Posing with a soldier after a long flight at Camp Speicher, Iraq, in 2007. Signing autographs during a holiday tour of Afghanistan in late 2010.

Those were hard times for people in uniform. But for a moment, Williams managed to make almost everyone he met in those conflict zones smile.

“There were these guys behind a fence, across a berm [and] a field, and they waved at him,” said USO Vice President of Entertainment Rachel Tischler, recalling her time with Williams during the 2007 USO Chairman’s Holiday Tour. “And he jumped across the berm and went running over to them. Obviously, our security team completely freaked out. Again – height of the war here.  But he didn’t care. He just wanted to go over and shake their hands and thank them. And that is what he was like.”

A friend and entertainer to American service members around the globe, Williams was found dead in his Tiburon, California, home Monday afternoon in what the Marin County Sheriff’s Office characterized as a suspected suicide. He was 63.

Williams went on six USO tours from 2002 to 2013, including five overseas. He visited troops in 12 foreign countries, making three stops to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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“There’s nothing I enjoy more than traveling with the USO and giving back to our troops in whatever way I can,” Williams said during his 2007 USO tour led by then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen. “They work hard, sacrifice a lot and deserve to be treated like the heroes they are. The very least I can do is bring a smile to their faces.”

The connections didn’t end when he left the stage. One of Williams’ legacies will be the photos with men and women in various shades of camo squinting and smiling at camera phones in the middle of the desert. He openly discussed his struggles with them, too.

“He talked to [troops] who had gone through [Alcoholics Anonymous] backstage,” said USO Senior Vice President John Hanson, who also went on the 2007 tour. “That was the most remarkable thing. It happened in Kuwait, it happened in Iraq, it happened in Afghanistan. People would seek him out and he would take the time to talk to them.”

According to Tischler, Williams was always cognizant of playing to the military audience’s shared experiences.

“What was great about him on tour was that he always took the time to sit down and talk to people about what they were going through, what life on the base was like, about personal experiences,” Tischler said. “And then he’d get on stage and he’d be telling a joke about Mexican Night in the [dining facility].

“He already put on a great show, but now it was just for the people who were there and no one else would have gotten the jokes. … It made the moment even more amazing for them because he’s talking about what they went through.

“We’d land and we had a show in five minutes and in the course of … walking to a stage, he somehow found someone and got that information and put it in a routine. It was absolutely mind-blowing.”

His fellow entertainers were impressed, too.

“His generosity of spirit was as boundless as his comedy,” comedian Lewis Black wrote on Twitter on Monday night. Black also performed on the 2007 USO Chairman’s Holiday Tour. “I will miss him terribly.”

The USO’s Entertainment team estimates Williams performed for or visited with more than 89,000 service members during his 12-plus years of volunteering.

“When our service members had the opportunity to see him in person, they knew they were seeing an icon of comedy, but it was more than that,” said John Pray, the USO’s executive vice president and chief of staff. “It was someone who actually understood their own trials and tribulations and struggles as they dealt with loneliness, fear, uncertainty and a variety of negative emotions.

“He brought them light and took them away for a period of time from those challenges and gave them a chance to recharge.”

** Read about more moments from Robin Williams' 2007 USO tour including a touching exchange with a service member on the USO blog.  **

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Ron Paul and the Liberty Movement have changed the discussion in Washington, D.C.

 

A potential showdown this fall over the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank (or, Ex-Im Bank) could be a bellwether of just how much Ron Paul and the Liberty Movement have changed the discussion in Washington, D.C. over the past six years.

In a post titled “Welcome to Dave Brat’s America: Majority Leader-elect Kevin McCarthy says Kill the Export-Import Bank,” columnist Tim Carney, and long-time advocate for killing the Ex-Im Bank, writes:

[McCarthy's] announcement today shows a clear shift within the Republican Party against corporate welfare.

If McCarthy refuses to bring an Ex-Im renewal to the floor, the agency would expire, regardless of the actions of the Senate and the White House, both controlled by Democrats.

But the fight to take down the Ex-Im Bank, a longstanding symbol of all that is wrong with crony capitalism and corporate welfare, predates Brat’s historic win over Eric Cantor, who successfully attacked the Majority Leader on those grounds.

Back in 2002, Dr. Ron Paul encouraged his colleagues to reject the Ex-Im Bank on economic, moral, and constitutional grounds.

Eximbank distorts the market by allowing government bureaucrats to make economic decisions in place of individual consumers. Eximbank also violates basic principals of morality, by forcing working Americans to subsidize the trade of wealthy companies that could easily afford to subsidize their own trade, as well as subsidizing brutal governments like Red China and the Sudan. Eximbank also violates the limitations on congressional power to take the property of individual TRcitizens and use them to benefit powerful special interests.

As always, Washington, D.C. is a little slow to catch up. By late 2008, in the throws of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were starting to realize the effects of crony capitalism, and began to look for answers. Many found them by reading books like Meltdown and Obamanomics, or by watching old Ron Paul floor speeches on YouTube or in CSPAN’s archives.

In 2012, Senator Rand Paul urged his colleagues to reject the Ex-Im Bank. It passed the Senate that year 78-20, and the House passed it 330-93.

If Carney’s prediction holds, it would be a huge blow to the crony capitalists and a major victory for free markets. And a sign that as Bob Dylan sang,  ”For the times they are a-changin’!”

Take a moment today to contact your representative and urge them to oppose any attempt to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank in 2014.

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Ron Paul and the Liberty Movement have changed the discussion in Washington, D.C.
Tim Shoemaker
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:30:19 GMT

Activist Post: Elites Gather at Google Camp to Discuss Calico Life Extension Tech

Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Elites Gather at Google Camp to Discuss Calico Life Extension Tech
James Hall
Activist Post


When the billionaire tech jet-set decides to let down their hair, what
do they talk about around the campfire? According to the New Your Times,
"Google is sponsoring an elite conference this week at a golf resort in
Sicily, with a guest list of chief executives, investors and
celebrities, all of whom were invited to bring their families. On the
agenda are high-minded discussions of global issues — along with
relaxation by the Mediterranean Sea." How quaint! . . . For the real
scoop, Here's What Went On At Google's Exclusive Conference For The Rich And Famous In Sicily.

Sicilian blogger Tony Siino talked to an attendee about what went on, and told Business Insider via email that the conference, dubbed "The Camp,"
was three-days of intellectual discussions, relaxation, and
sight-seeing. According to Siino's source, morning discussions included a
wide range of topics, including how to extend human life and the design
of cities of the future.Reported by NBC local TV channel
in the Bay Area has "guests include Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd
C. Blankfein, executives from German and Spanish banks, Uber chief
Travis Kalanick, Tesla boss Elon Musk, Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and
Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel. Also on hand is Ben Horowitz, venture
capitalist with Marc Andreessen at make-or-break Silicon Valley fund
Andreessen Horowitz."

Spending quality time with the family
between sessions in the next round of tech discoveries hardly seems to
be the best use of time. Yet, time may well be the ultimate objective if
you can uncover the mysteries of anti-aging research. Life Extension
Magazine reports that Google Life Extension is investing in a venture called California Life Company, or Calico for short, and its goal is to extend human life by 20 to 100 years.


At this point, Google is being highly secretive about their plans for
Calico. All Google would reveal is that Calico will focus "in particular
on the challenge of aging and associated diseases."

Calico could produce startlingly counterintuitive breakthroughs as a result of Google’s strengths in the following areas:

Non-commercial dedication — rather than a focus on commercial marketing of mediocre drugs as pharmaceutical companies now do.
Vast
consumer access and core data-handling skills — with unprecedented data
gathering, pattern-matching, and causal-relationship detection.
Ability
to attract the brightest minds — potentially preferring to work on
life-and-death problems instead of cutesy apps and games. Further
speculation in an essay - How's Google Dabbling in Health, Life, DNA, and Immortality? – cites areas of research has cutting-edge technology pushing the limits of the wheel of life itself.

A CNN article listed a few common subjects,
like cryonics (a process where the body is preserved in liquid
nitrogen), cryotherapy (which exposes injured patients to very low
temperatures for short periods of time), cloning and body part
replacement, nanotechnology (deploying small robots to overcome the
problem of incorrect DNA replication, one cause of aging), and even
research into telomeres, the ends of a chromosome that protect cells
against degradation.Hidden within a "feel good" sentiment behind the
altruism to elevate the life span of the human race is an unconvincing
skepticism. In an article like Google Wants You to Live 170 Years, just does not seem believable to a rational observer.

What Google brings to the table is data. "Not just one set of data, multiple forms," says Harry Glorikian,
founder of life sciences consulting firm Scientia Advisors. "Search
data, GPS data, all sorts of other pieces, electronic breadcrumbs that
you produce all out there to get a picture of you."
This data could be paired with each person's genome — a partial genome can be mapped today for $99 via 23andMe (another Google investment), but many are hoping a full genome will cost as much
in the next few years.Even if such ambitious projections that life
extension might become commonplace for the masses, it does not guarantee
that everyone will be a candidate for future "Camp" invitations. Google
hardly needs to market the secrets of the gods in order to maintain or
enhance their cashflow. The Globe and Mail
describes the gathering, "Like the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland – an annual gathering of the elite at a snowy ski resort –
the upstart conference from Google projects an aura of exclusivity. Its
existence has not previously been disclosed."

Following the
example of other enigmatic elitist stratagems, "The Camp" shows no signs
of a charitable motivation when the onion is peeled. Michael Downey in
the account, Google Wants To Extend Your Life laments that not enough is being done to achieve the holy grail of Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth.

Tragically,
while the government spends over $3 billion annually on "health
concerns" of the elderly, it operates on the assumption that aging is
not a disease. Corporations lack the longer-term view needed. And
extremely few of the world’s 1,426 billionaires, with a total net worth
of $5.4 trillion, have included anti-aging research in their
charities.Do you really believe that the beautiful people, much less,
the corporatist return-on-assets crowd, or the great democracies of the
planet are eager to share any medical, genetic or nanotech leaps forward
with the chattel serfs? Attending boot camp for the peasants is quite
different from rubbing elbows with these Nouveau riche Sicilian Dons in
the global technocratic mafia. The blueblood patricians of the
banksters’ families will enlighten their newly made men into the rules
and ways of the global syndicate.

The Calico family franchise
promises to be more alluring than the temporary ecstasy of a drug high.
Most godless souls want to live forever, since rejecting an afterlife is
automatic to such atheistic masters of the universe. Google has proven
to be a "New Age" android. Hence, it is natural for apps, developed to
manage the life cycle, to become part of the smart set. The key question
is will the source code become available to the masses, or will the
elites maintain the restricted knowledge only for their devil witch
coven?

Original article archived here


James Hall is a reformed, former political operative. This pundit's
formal instruction in History, Philosophy and Political Science served
as training for activism, on the staff of several politicians and in
many campaigns. A believer in authentic Public Service, independent
business interests were pursued in the private sector. Speculation in
markets, and international business investments, allowed for extensive
travel and a world view for commerce. Hall is the publisher of BREAKING ALL THE RULES. Contact batr@batr.org

Poll finds Georgians against online sales tax bill - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Poll finds Georgians against online sales tax bill - Atlanta Business Chronicle


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Dave WilliamsStaff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle

Most Georgia voters oppose legislation pending in Congress that would let states collect sales taxes from online purchases made by out-of-state customers, according to a new poll.

The Marketplace Fairness Act, which passed the U.S. Senate last year and is now before the House of Representatives, would do away with a current law that limits states to collecting sales taxes only on purchases from businesses with a physical presence inside the state.

Brick-and-mortar retailers have been pushing for the bill for years as a way to give them a fair chance to compete with businesses that sell online.

But according to a poll of 400 likely Georgia voters released Tuesday by the National Taxpayers Union, 57 percent “strongly” or “somewhat” oppose the legislation, while 33 percent strongly or somewhat favor the bill. Ten percent were undecided.

“This is the biggest anti-taxpayer proposal that has a chance of passing Congress,” said Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union.

The R Street Institute, a free-market think tank, worked with the National Taxpayers Union on the poll.

Christian Camara, the institute’s state affairs director, said he sympathizes with small brick-and-mortar business owners worried about losing out to online retailers who don’t have to collect sales taxes on the merchandise they sell to out-of-state customers.

But Camara said the proposed legislation would create a bookkeeping burden that would severely hamper all but the largest businesses that rely on online sales.

“If you’re a small- to medium [company] that transacts most of its business online, you’re going to have to change the system you have to comply with the law,” he said. “It could be quite a drain on resources, even a disincentive to get into business.”

The poll found opposition to the Marketplace Fairness Act across political demographics. Self-identified Democrats opposed it in slightly larger numbers than Republicans, 56 percent to 52 percent. An overwhelming 67 percent of independent voters surveyed said they were against the bill.

Not surprisingly, 65 percent of voters who said they shop online frequently opposed the legislation, while 52 percent of those who called themselves infrequent online shoppers were against it.

The poll was conducted June 2-3 by live telephone interviewing. The margin of error was plus-or-minus 4.9 percent.

Wages in U.S. down 23 percent since 2008, report shows | cleveland.com

Wages in U.S. down 23 percent since 2008, report shows | cleveland.com:

Wages in U.S. down 23 percent since 2008, report shows Workers assemble Nissan pickup trucks on the production line at the Nissan manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn. Higher-paying manufacturing jobs lost during the 2008 recession have been replaced by lower-wage jobs, according to a report released Monday by the United States Conference of Mayors. (Josh Anderson, New York Times file photo) Print Cliff Pinckard, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Cliff Pinckard, Northeast Ohio Media Group Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August 12, 2014 at 2:29 AM While 8.7 million jobs have been regained since the 2008 recession, they are paying much less, by an average of 23 percent, according to a report released Monday by the United States Conference of Mayors. The report comes as debate continues about income inequality in the United States. "While the economy is picking up steam, income inequality and wage gaps are an alarming trend that must be addressed," said Conference of Mayors President Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, Calif., in a news release. "We cannot put our heads in the sand on these issues." The annual wage in sectors where jobs were lost, particularly in manufacturing and construction, during the recession was $61,637, but the average wage of new jobs through the second quarter of 2014 is $47,131, the report shows. It represents a loss of $93 billion in wages, according to the report. (Go below to see the full report. Mobile users can see it here.) The losses in construction and manufacturing were replaced by jobs in hospitality, health-care and administrative support. The report shows the gap between low- and higher-income households is growing and likely will continue in the future. In 2012, the latest year for which figures are available, 73 percent of metro areas had a larger share of poorer households (those making less than $35,000 per year) than upper-income households of above $75,000.

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Investigating Gaza War Crimes

 

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Stephen Lendman
Activist Post
On August 11, Human Rights Council (HRC) President Baudelaire Ndong Ella announced the formation of an "independent, international commission of inquiry" into war crimes committed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge.
International human rights law expert Professor William Schabas was appointed to chair a three-person panel. His special focus is genocide.
Other members include international law, criminal law, human rights and extradition law expert, Amal Alamuddin, and former UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Doudou Diene.
Note: According to AP, Alamuddin said she's unable to serve. Expect an alternate appointment to replace her.
The HRC "decided to establish the commission of inquiry at its twenty-first special session on 23 July 2014 to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014, whether before, during or after, to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated and to identify those responsible, to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures, all with a view to avoiding and ending impunity and ensuring that those responsible are held accountable, and on ways and means to protect civilians against any further assaults."
Schabas is a well-known Israeli critic. He praised the Goldstone Committee Operation Cast Lead report. More on it below.
Earlier, he called for putting Netanyahu and former Israeli president Shimon Peres in the dock at the International Criminal Court for committing high crimes too serious to ignore.

Israel failed to influence the commission of inquiry's composition. In response to the appointment of Schbas, Alamuddin, and Diene, it called the panel "biased, misconceived and destructive."
Defrocked and reinstated Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called HRC a "terrorists' rights council." His spokesman Yigal Palmer added:

If more evidence was needed to show this, the appointment of the commission’s chairman, whose opinions and positions against Israel are known to all, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Israel cannot expect justice from such a body, and that the report has already been written and remains only to be signed.

In March 2015, the commission will submit its report. According to HRC President Ella, its mission is also "to establish the facts and circumstances of (human rights) violations and of the crimes perpetrated and to identify those responsible, to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures, all with a view to avoiding and ending impunity and ensuring that those responsible are held accountable, and on ways and means to protect civilians against any further assaults."
MSM scoundrels reported little or nothing about the commission's appointment and mission. The New York Times covered it in one long paragraph only with little context.
Pro-Israeli bias is longstanding MSM policy. An attempt to downplay the potential importance of the commission's investigation shows in failure to give it the attention it deserves.
Following Israel's 2008-09 Operation Cast Lead, the HRC appointed the Goldstone "fact-finding mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip."
On September 15, 2009, the HRC released the commission's 575-page report, titled "Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict."
An accompanying press release said "there is evidence indicating serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law were committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict, and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity.”
Examples included Palestinians shot while waving white flags, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial assassinations and using Palestinians as human shields.
According to the commission:

While the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right of self defence, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a different target: the people of Gaza as a whole.

Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks were minor incidents compared to Israel's onslaught.
The Palestinian death toll exceeded 1,400. Thousands were injured.
Israeli aggression amounted to strictly prohibited collective punishment against a civilian population.
It lawlessly targeted residential neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, mosques, public buildings, factories and vital infrastructure.
It violated the principles of "distinction" between combatants and military targets v. civilians and non-military ones, as well as "proportionality" prohibiting disproportionate force likely to cause extensive damage and loss of life.
Commission findings included numerous examples of disproportionate Israeli attacks against civilians with lethal outcomes.
It called them war crimes for being unrelated to justifiable military objectives. It cited "a justice crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory that warrants action."
It urged referral to the International Criminal Court for further action.
The Goldstone "report conclude(d) that the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population."

The destruction of food supply installations, water sanitation systems, concrete factories and residential houses was the result of a deliberate and systematic policy which has made the daily process of living, and dignified living, more difficult for the civilian population.

Repeatedly, the Israel Defense Forces failed to adequately distinguish between combatants and civilians, as the laws of war strictly require.

Pursuing justice in this case is essential because no state or armed group should be above the law.

Failure to do so “will have a deeply corrosive effect on international justice, and reveal an unacceptable hypocrisy."

As a service to hundreds of civilians who needlessly died and for the equal application of international justice, the perpetrators of serious violations must be held to account.

On October 19, 2009, the 47-member HRC approved a resolution endorsing Israeli war crimes charges.
The vote was 25 in favor, six against (including Washington), 11 abstentions and five no-shows.
On September 21, 2010, an HRC statement said:

It was clear to the Committee that the IDF had not distinguished between civilians and civilian objects and military targets.

Both the loss of life and the damage to property were disproportionate to the harm suffered by Israel or any threatened harm. Israel's actions could not be justified as self-defense.

The IDF was responsible for the crime of killing, wounding and terrorizing civilians (as well as) wonton(ly) destr(oying) property and that such destruction could not be justified on grounds of military necessity.

The HRC called IDF crimes so grave, "it was compelled to consider whether (genocide) had been committed." Its conclusion was that Israel "committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and, possibly genocide in the course of Operation Cast Lead."
This writer calls Operation Protective Edge Cast Lead on steroids. The 2008-09 war lasted 22 days - from December 27, 2008 until January 18, 2009.
Israel's current aggression began on July 8. It remains ongoing. Shaky ceasefires interrupted hostilities briefly. A current 72-hour one continues during talks in Cairo aimed at ending conflict conditions.
A previous three-day suspension of accomplished nothing. Both sides remain at impasse. Israel wants all its demands met unconditionally.
It offers virtually nothing in return except empty promises certain to be broken. On Tuesday, Reuters quoted an unnamed Israeli official saying no progress was made during current talks.
"The gaps between the sides are big, and there is no progress in the negotiations," he said. Hamas had no comment.
According to Maan News, a partial draft on easing Gaza's siege was drafted. Terms include:

1. Letting Gazans fish up to 12 nautical miles from shore.
2. Increasing daily trucks with imported goods to 250.
3. Increasing the number of monthly permits for Gazans to pass through Erez crossing to 500.
4. Permitting money transfers from the West Bank to Gaza via the PA.
5. Opening the Rafah crossing to Egypt.
6. Freeing released prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit later rearrested.
7. According to the Israeli Ynet news site, letting construction materials enter Gaza "under close supervision."
8. Prohibiting construction of a seaport to facilitate imports and exports unless Hamas and other resistance groups agreed to demilitarize.

It's unclear how they'll react to this proposal. It's well short of lifting siege conditions and agreeing to other fundamental Palestinian demands.
It bears repeating what previous articles stressed. Israeli agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Willful violations occur with disturbing regularity. Israel invents reasons to justify the unjustifiable.
Whatever comes out of Cairo talks, expect the pattern to repeat this time. Expect long sought justice to be denied.
At the same time, Israel violated ceasefire conditions by using live fire against Palestinian fishermen off southern Gaza's coast. No injuries were reported.
On August 11, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported 2,008 Palestinians killed. They include 1,670 civilians (83%): 471 were children; 252 were women.
Another 8,150 Palestinians were wounded, many seriously. Other reports said up to 10,000. Thousands of houses were destroyed or damaged.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced. Israel bombed and shelled their homes and neighborhoods to rubble.
It remains unaccountable for crimes of war and against humanity amounting to genocide. Goldstone's Cast Lead report achieved nothing. Expect justice to be denied again this time.
With Western support and US Security Council veto power, Israel is free to commit high crimes against peace whenever it wishes with impunity.
It takes full advantage. Palestinian liberation remains an unfulfilled distant dream. Maybe some day. Not now.
Related Activist Post Article:
The 'Legal Issue' of Operation Cast Lead: ICC Rules That Palestinians Cannot Investigate Israeli War Crimes
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Investigating Gaza War Crimes
Activist
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:14:00 GMT

MEXICANS FIRE HIGH CALIBER WEAPONS AT U.S. BORDER PATROL-THIS IS WAR!

July 20, 2014 by Dean James





U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.

Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert’s account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.

“We don’t have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them,” said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.

“When the shooting stopped, about 40 to 50 people came out on the U.S. side and turned themselves in. So clearly the rounds were being fired to suppress every effort to stop anybody intervening with anyone or anything coming across,” Gohmert added. “We have no idea what or how many or whom came across with the other illegal immigrants.”

Sources said they believe the gunfire came from members of Mexican drug cartels, which include former military members trained in shooting that type of weaponry.

Border Patrol sources said the rounds were clearly identifiable because .50- caliber weapons make a distinctive noise when fired. Sources said they also believe this is the first time that Border Patrol agents have taken direct fire from the Mexican side of the river in this area.

“I don’t know why we’re out here like sitting ducks,” one Border Patrol source said. “We need help.”

via MEXICANS FIRE HIGH CALIBER WEAPONS AT U.S. BORDER PATROL-THIS IS WAR! |.

NEIL KEENAN UPDATE | The Last Line of Defense

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July 29, 2014 / Keenan Team | GroupK / 4 Comments
The Last Line of Defense

An NFK video update

By The Keenan Team






Our hotel here in Jakarta Indonesia is located near a large mosque. Prayer chants can be heard throughout the day and night. Tonight those intonations are accompanied with the sound of fireworks. It is the eve of Idul Fitri, which in Arabic means “newly reborn.” Tomorrow, the last day of Ramadan, is a time of celebration for all the Muslim world.

For those here on the front lines in the global battle to expose and defeat Tyranny it is also a time of celebration. More importantly, it is a time for continued vigilance as we press our adversaries in every direction to the edges of the Earth.

On 11-23-2011, what was to become known as the Trillion Dollar Lawsuit was filed in the US District Court in Manhattan, New York. This action, along with the plaintiff, Neil F Keenan, would provide the catalyst in exposing to the American public gross criminal activities of the Zionist-controlled US government. As the lawsuit process progressed, it would reveal to the world the organized enslavement of humanity and ongoing rape of the planet itself.

When first hearing of the lawsuit , Ben Fulford prophetically predicted that this single brave action could bring an end to worldwide financial tyranny. We’ve since learned the implications are even more far-reaching.

In this posting, “The Last Line of Defense” it’s easy to see the interconnectedness of significant geopolitical events. Further, one can see the importance of the Keenan Team remaining focused and vigilant. Failure to stop and bring down the cabal is not an option.

The end is near. To date the Keenan Team has gone from battle to battle and emerged victorious, but the battles which remain have narrowed down to those that will determine who is, and who is not, in position to call the shots on Planet Earth. To the victor belongs the spoils, and we are crossing that line in the very near future.

In this latest Neil Keenan video update, Neil describes more of the details surrounding the cabal’s recent foiled (for now) attempt to steal 240,000 metric tonnes of Dragon family gold. Neil names names and describes how and where the gold was smelted into one kilogram bars as well as who was behind the plot itself.

Neil talks about the ugly breakup between Karen Hudes and Wolfgang Struck. Yes, folks, they’ve broken up. Even Wolfgang now refers to her as delusional! We must have hit a nerve or two in our “Three Strikes and You’re Out!” post.

The speed of the demise of the cabal is directly proportionate to the awakening to the control and atrocities long committed by those pulling the geopolitical strings. China and Switzerland are dumping the US dollar, and as the US economy is about to collapse. Convoys of trucks filled with food and supplies lead to the underground bunkers designed and built to protect the power elite from any catastrophic events which might occur on the surface.

Neil has recently heard of a plan to kill 268 million unsuspecting US citizens!!

Things are speeding up and the heat in the kitchen is being heated seven times hotter than before. As the cabal grows increasingly desperate, intensifying and accelerating their efforts, so do we accelerate our efforts!

The fourth, fifth and sixth elders are revealed and released in this post, as we initiate our plan of acceleration. Elders be forewarned – Japan (the west) has their eyes on the global account assets, and is positioning to come to Indonesia to get them!

At this time Neil would like to thank those who have stood side by side with him, putting their lives at risk. The list begins with Benjamin Fulford and David Wilcock, Drake Bailey, Thomas Williams and Jean Haines, the King of the Kingdom of Hawaii and Doctor Aidun, Michael Dunn, Michael Calhoun and Rob Miller, Peter Eyre, Shirley Pressnell, Jo Hutabarat and Inchul Kim, Tom Clines (deceased) and General Jack Myers (deceased), Richard de Montgomerie, Frank Amadeo, Nasco, Ticho and Ilko, Gregory Khachturian, Rick Bingold, and many more. Special thanks to Lorraine Ferris.

The Keenan Team
Fourth Elder:
FATOER ROHMAN
Identification Code 56400953. A.045
Country Code Djakarta 342009771
Indonesia 45005
Special Code INA 045 A.I. 54445 Bank Tani dan
Nelajan
Transaction Code 340080979
Djakarta , 17 November 1960
Fifth Elder:
ARMAN PANGGABEAN
Identification Code 56400960. A.045
Country Code Djakarta 342009771
Indonesia 45005
Special Code INA 045 A.I. 54445 Bank Tani dan
Nelajan
Transaction Code 3400080979. C.D.
Djakarta 17 November 1960
Sixth Elder:
DOEDI ANDI ANWAR
Identification Code 56400944. A.045
Country Code Djakarta 342009771
Indonesia 45005
Special Code INA 045 A.I. 54445 Bank Tani dan
Nelajan
Transaction Code 340080979. C.D.
Djakarta, 17 November 1960

All Elders assets are to be managed at the UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND
LETTERS signed in accordance to MR. WILLIAM VOUNCHER’S
TESTIMONY

It is possible and most likely that many of the original names to be mentioned are individuals who have since passed away and the assets are now in the hands of their family members.

Therefore, the family members are demanded now to Cease and Desist their attempts to market the assets of the Global Accounts and/or the Soekarno Accounts.

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