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Ex-NSA Director, US Intelligence Veterans Write Open Letter To Merkel To Avoid All-Out Ukraine War
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/01/2014 20:55 -0400
Alarmed at the anti-Russian hysteria sweeping Washington, and the specter of a new Cold War, U.S. intelligence veterans one of whom is none other than William Binney, the former senior NSA crypto-mathematician who back in March 2012 blew the whistle on the NSA’s spying programs more than a year before Edward Snowden, took the unusual step of sending the following memo dated August 30 to German Chancellor Merkel challenging the reliability of Ukrainian and U.S. media claims about a Russian “invasion.”
Via AntiWar and ConsortiumNews, highlights ours
MEMORANDUM FOR: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Ukraine and NATO
We the undersigned are longtime veterans of U.S. intelligence. We take the unusual step of writing this open letter to you to…
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Defending arming of Kurds, Merkel calls Islamic State a threat to Europe
(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her government’s taboo-breaking decision to send arms to Kurds fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, telling parliament on Monday that the group posed a major security threat to Germany and Europe.A day after Berlin announced it would send anti-tank rockets, assault rifles and hand grenades to the Kurds, Merkel said Germany had a responsibility to intervene in the conflict to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq, citing evidence of ethnic cleansing by Islamic State fighters.”The far-reaching detribalization of an entire region affects Germany and Europe,” Merkel said in a speech to the Bundestag lower house, noting that the Islamist group controlled an area in Iraq and Syria that was half the size of Germany.”Ladies and gentlemen, when terrorists take control of a vast territory to give themselves and other fanatics a base for their acts of terror, then the danger rises for us…
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Pentagon expands operations in Africa
Putin Boasts: “My Russian Troops Can Capture Kiev in Two Weeks”
Peace Challenge: Taking Action
A wonderful way to foster peace around the world.
Many of you have been Blogging for Peace with me for over a year and a half now. I have no doubts that our posts have had an effect on countless individuals in ways we may know or never know. I thank you for all you have done for peace.
Now, I’m going to ask you to take a step further. I am inviting you to take action.
As some of you may know, I’m launching a new website called RaisingCompassionateBoys.com. This is my effort to bring peace back to our schools where violence, bullying, and viral humiliations have run rampant.
So here is my challenge:
- Watch the videos on RaisingCompassionateBoys.com about how to cultivate compassion in boys and ourselves.
- Find a boy or group of boys to raise, mentor, befriend, coach, or teach. Some of you may have sons. Others might be youth leaders, coaches, counselors, aunts and…
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NFL Player Ray McDonald Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges
There is never a reason to hit a woman. Domestic Violence is a crime. You can’t hit a woman.
Finding It…
Finding it
In any situation,
take the colors
take the smears
take the smudges
take the spaces
and find the heart
of the matter.
Labor Day
Videographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2014.
The Cleveland Orchestra will now begin their world tour. Friday night they will be in London performing at the Prince Albert Hall. I wish them a great tour.
“Hope gives people courage.” —President Barak Obama
Cleveland Orchestra at their summer home at Blossom Music Center
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Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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Cleveland Orchestra performing Brahms at Blossom Music Center
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Audience at Labor Day Concert at Blossom Music Center
Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2014
Happy Labor Day to all of my readers whether you celebrate Labor Day or not. You all work hard to support your families and to provide for your children. It isn’t easy to get up every day and punch a clock; to work all day at jobs you may enjoy or you may not. Kudos to everyone of you. Labor Day was made a holiday here in America to honor the millions of workers who build our streets and bridges, who build our cars and keep our society running. In the early 1900’s factories worked people hard. We had sweat shops here. Children were forced to work 12 to 20 hours a day. And they all worked for cents per day. This is why we now have child work laws, to prevent this abuse. America finally decided that it was wrong for the children to be working like this. They deserved better…they deserved an education.
My Croatian grandfather immigrated to America and learned English and became a tool and die maker. He told me they weren’t allowed to use the restrooms during the work day. He would list for me all the inhuman things that factory owners thought were right for the workers to do. Like today, the wealthy looked down upon the poor and the working poor. He helped to start unions in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Unions improved the lives of workers a great deal.
I admit that over time, unions attracted some less than moral people. So corruption found a home. State governments began to try to break the unions. We need the unions to protect the workers. We need the unions to ensure full time workers are making enough to be out of poverty. Forty hours of work a week should keep people out of poverty. I have no problem with rich people, I just feel no one should live in poverty. Right now, in 2014, there are 16 million children living in poverty here in the richest country in the world. This is so wrong.
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