Something fishy about the "non"-shooting at the DC navy yard.

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/2015/07/02/navy-yard-shooting/29607...

Law enforcement said there was no evidence of a shooter or shooting was found, after reports of possible gunshots triggered a law enforcement search

NASA engineers assess glitch aboard Pluto-bound probe

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/engineers-assess-glitch-aboard-pluto-bo...

Fifteen of the world's largest banks are under investigation on suspicion of rigging the Brazilian currency, Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade said on Thursday 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102808301

The Brazilian investigation comes weeks after six of the world's largest financial institutions agreed to pay $5.8 billion to the U.S. government to settle charges of currency rigging.

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London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/london-is-now-the-global...

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/highlight/xxworlds-34th-richest-ma...

The 34th richest man in the world is giving his 32 billion dollar fortune away to charity.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33353370

The 60-year-old nephew of King Salman is one of the world's richest people. He said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1997. The money would be used to "foster cultural understanding", "empower women", and "provide vital disaster relief", among other things.

http://2016.republican-candidates.org/

With no fewer than 28(!) declared GOP candidates for president, one has to wonder how many of these are going through the exercise with at least some knowledge of the coming passage, and the hope that even "candidate" status will provide them some form of additional protection or consideration.  Given the incredible number and the elite status of all of these individuals, is it safe to assume that PX safety is the main motivator in most, if not all, cases?

Chinese chaos worse than Greece

WHILE the world worries about Greece, there’s an even bigger problem closer to home: China.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/chinese-chaos-worse-than-gre...

A stock market crash there has seen $3.2 trillion wiped from the value of Chinese shares in just three weeks, triggering an emergency response from the government and warnings of “monstrous” public disorder.

And the effects for Australia could be serious, affecting our key commodity exports and sparking the beginning of a period of recession-like conditions.

“State-owned newspapers have used their strongest language yet, telling people ‘not to lose their minds’ and ‘not to bury themselves in horror and anxiety’. [Our] positive measures will take time to produce results,” writes IG Markets.

“If China does not find support today, the disorder could be monstrous.”

In an extraordinary move, the People’s Bank of China has begun lending money to investors to buy shares in the flailing market. The Wall Street Journal reports this “liquidity assistance” will be provided to the regulator-owned China Securities Finance Corp, which will lend the money to brokerages, which will in turn lend to investors.

The dramatic intervention marks the first time funds from the central bank have been directed anywhere other than the banks, signalling serious concern from authorities about the crisis.

At the same time, Chinese authorities are putting a halt to any new stock listings. The market regulator announced on Friday it would limit initial public offerings — which disrupt the rest of the market — in an attempt to curb plunging share prices.

While the exact amount of assistance hasn’t been revealed, the WSJ reports no upper limit has been set.

All short-selling — the practice of betting that stocks will fall — has been banned, and Chinese media has rushed to reassure citizens.

Yesterday, shares in big state companies soared in response to the but many others sank as jittery small investors tried to cut their losses, Associated Press reports. The market benchmark Shanghai Composite closed up 2.4 percent but still was down 27 percent from its June 12 peak.

Experts fear it could turn into a full-blown crash introducing even more uncertainty into global markets as Europe teeters on the edge of a potential eurozone exit by Greece, after Sunday’s controversial referendum.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR AUSTRALIA?

For Australia, the market crash in China is likely to impact earnings on key exports iron ore and coal, further slashing government revenue, while also putting downward pressure on the Australian dollar.

Jordan Eliseo, chief economist with ABC Bullion, said it was important to remember that the amount of wealth Chinese citizens have tied up in the stock market is relatively minor compared with western investors.

Stocks only make up about 8 per cent of household wealth in China, compared with around 20 per cent in developed nations.

“The market crash there is generating headlines, but it’s not going to have the same impact as a comparable crash would in a developed market,” he said.

“What it means for Australia, though, is it’s very clear there are some serious imbalances in the Chinese economy, and the rate of growth they’ve enjoyed in the past is over. There’s no question our export earnings are going to take another hit.”

Mr Eliseo predicts Australia is likely to experience “recession-like” conditions such as negative wage growth for many years to come. “I believe that’s going to be the new norm,” he said.

WHAT ARE THEY DOING ABOUT IT?

On Saturday, China’s 21 largest brokerage firms announced that they would invest more than $25.35 billion in the country’s stock markets to curb the declines.

The brokers will spend at least 120 billion yuan ($25.75 billion) on so-called “blue chip” exchange traded funds, the Securities Association of China said in a statement after an emergency meeting in Beijing.

On Friday the Shanghai Composite Index closed down 5.77 per cent to end at 3,686.92 points. Since peaking on June 12 Shanghai has dropped nearly 29 per cent, which Bloomberg News said was its biggest three-week fall since November 1992.

The Shanghai market had swelled by 150 per cent in the last 12 months and experts had expected a sharp correction, though the rate at which it has occurred is unnerving many.

Middle-class Chinese investors, encouraged by the government, have been pumping money into the stock market. The WSJ quoted 51-year-old Li Ping, who sold her 7 million yuan ($1.5 million) Beijing apartment to plough 4 million yuan into stocks.

Ms Li said she thought the market would stabilise and rise again. “The fund that I have invested in is very mature and professional,” she said.

CRACKDOWN AS PANIC TRIGGERS ‘SUICIDE’ RUMOURS

Underscoring growing jitters amid the three-week sell-off, police in Beijing detained a man on Sunday for allegedly spreading a rumour online that a person jumped to their death in the city’s financial district due to China’s precarious stock markets.

The 29-year-old man detained was identified by the surname Tian, and is a manager at a technology and science company in Beijing, police said in a post on their official microblog.

Police said Tian’s alleged posting of the rumour took place Friday and called on internet users to obey laws and regulations, not to believe and spread rumours, and to cooperate with police.

The state-run Xinhua news agency reported that Tian allegedly posted the rumours with video clips and screenshots Friday afternoon.

The post, which is said to have gone viral, “provoked emotional responses among stock investors who suffered losses over the past weeks”, Xinhua said.

Xinhua added that a police investigation showed that the video in question had been shot on Friday morning in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu where a man had jumped to his death. Local police there were investigating that case, Xinhua said.

The original post was unavailable Sunday on China’s tightly controlled social media, where authorities are quick to delete controversial material.

German-owned Patriot missiles stationed in Turkey were briefly taken over by hackers  http://www.thelocal.de/20150707/german-missiles-taken-over-by-hackers

(Evidence of the hack was left behind when "the missile system carried out “unexplained” orders". But nothing nefarious happened)

this is reminiscent of Kiev's hacking of UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment.

NYSE shut down due to internal system issue. All trading stopped.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/08/nyse-halt_n_7753934.html ;

Space X continues to elude as to the cause of the anomalous failure.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cause-falcon-rocket-accident-still-elude... 

China stock market freezing up as sell-off gathers pace

http://newagebd.net/136848/china-stock-market-freezing-up-as-sell-o...

China’s tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of ‘panic sentiment’ gripping investors.
Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to arrest the sell-off, and the People’s Bank of China said it would step up support to brokerages enlisted to prop up shares.
The CSI300 index of the largest listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed down 6.8 per cent, while the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 5.9 per cent.
With nearly half the market on a trading halt and another round of margin calls forcing leveraged investors to dump whatever shares could find a buyer, blue chips that had been supported by stabilisation funds earlier in the week bore the brunt.
‘I’ve never seen this kind of slump before. I don’t think anyone has. Liquidity is totally depleted,’ said Du Changchun, an analyst at Northeast Securities.

Short Sales Are at Their Highest Level Since the Financial Crisis

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/bears-get-rare-vi...

British Lord Janner Accused of Raping Boys Inside Parliament (this is the same guy who wont be prosecuted because he has dementia. Even though he was participating in parliament, collecting cheques & a director to one of his own boards recently)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/24/lord-accused-of-ra...

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Emails_Show_Secretary_Clinton_Disobe...

Hacking Team: Australian Government agencies negotiating with notorious surveillance company, leaked emails show

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-10/leaked-emails-expose-australi...
The emails show company representatives identifying spy agency ASIO, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the NT Police, NSW Police and Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog IBAC in secret negotiations with Hacking Team, which publishes powerful electronic spying and surveillance software.

For years, Hacking Team has been criticised by security researchers and international NGOs for supplying its intrusion and surveillance software to oppressive dictatorships like Sudan, which is subject to United Nations sanctions.

Hacking Team's flagship product is called Remote Control System (RCS), and works by installing malicious software on a target's phone or computer which can remotely activate microphones and cameras and send the data back for analysis.

Hacking Team's own website promoted the software as "totally invisible to the target", with the ability to "defeat encryption", record Skype conversations, and obtain data like emails and text messages stored on a computer or phone.

'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-largest-human-experiments-history...

(the bacteria was expected to be innocuous, but later found out to be harmful for ppl with compromised immune systems like older aged folks)

US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion'
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jul/10/us-torture-doctors-psych...

The American Psychological Association asked a former US attorney to investigate ‘collusion with the Bush administration to promote, support or facilitate’ torture.

The largest association of psychologists in the United States is on the brink of a crisis, the Guardian has learned, after an independent review revealed that medical professionals lied and covered up their extensive involvement in post-9/11 torture. The revelation, puncturing years of denials, has already led to at least one leadership firing and creates the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.

Sources with knowledge of the report and its consequences, who requested anonymity to discuss the findings before public release, expected a wave of firings and resignations across the leadership of an organization that Hoffman finds used its extensive institutional links to the CIA and US military to facilitate abusive interrogations.

Already out, a past APA president confirmed to the Guardian, is Stephen Behnke, the APA’s ethics chief and a leading figure in recasting its ethics guidelines in a manner conducive to interrogations that, from the start, relied heavily on psychologists to design and implement techniques like waterboarding.

http://rt.com/uk/272935-royal-household-sex-inquiry/

Royal household scrutinized in child sex abuse inquiry

Buckingham Palace in central London 

The Royal household will not be exempt from scrutiny over pedophile allegations and may be asked to provide evidence to a newly launched child sex abuse inquiry, it has emerged.

Justice Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand judge chairing the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, had initially not included the Royal household in a list of institutions to be investigated over historical crimes.

However, a statement from the inquiry, launched on Thursday, later confirmed the monarchy would also be “within the scope” of the investigation.

Judge Orders Pentagon to Get Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos Ready for Release 

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/10/judge-orders-pentagon...

Pentagon video editors are on the clock now that a federal judge has ordered that several hours of “disturbing” force-feeding videos from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay are to be redacted and prepared for public release before August 31.

The trial of a former archbishop charged with child sex offences has been adjourned after the defendant fell ill hours before he was due to appear in court at the Vatican.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33491956

Jozef Wesolowski, 66, is accused of paying for sex with children in the Dominican Republic from 2008-2013.

Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has escalated his war on wind power

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-h...
The Abbott government has ordered the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation not to make any new investments in wind power projects.

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann​ have issued the so-called green bank with a directive to change its investment mandate, prohibiting new wind funding. It's understood the directive was issued without the approval or knowledge of Environment Minister Greg Hunt, angering the minister.

The government has twice tried to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation but has been blocked by the Senate

Abbott government extends renewable energy investment ban to solar power
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/12/abbott-governmen...

A directive banning the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) from investing in existing wind technology will also apply to small-scale solar projects, a move that will effectively throttle the industry.

One-third of the current funding of the CEFC goes to solar projects, the majority of which are small-scale projects.

Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, said head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes.

Exclusive: Israel decides to open dialogue with ICC over Gaza preliminary examination

Senior official tells Haaretz that purpose of contact with ICC prosecutor is only to make its position clear to the court that the ICC does not have any authority to hear Palestinian complaints on the matter.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.665172

Israel has decided to reverse its policy and open talks with the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague over the preliminary examination the ICC is conducting into Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip last summer, as well as the situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel's reason for opening contacts with the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor is only to make its position clear to the court - that the ICC does not have any authority to hear Palestinian complaints on the matter -  a senior Israeli official told Haaretz.

The decision to open a dialogue with the prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda from Gambia, was made in the past few days by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after discussions that included representatives of the foreign and justice ministries, the Israel Defense Forces and National Security Council.

A team of experts from the various ministries will be responsible for the contacts with the ICC.  Members of the team will visit The Hague in the coming weeks to meet with representatives of the prosecutor's office there. Israel intends to keep a low profile on the matter in the press.

"This does not mean we are cooperating with the preliminary examination the ICC is conducting at the Palestinian request," said the Israeli official, who asked to remain anonymous due to the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue.

"The Israeli position, like the position of other countries around the world, is that the International Criminal Court in The Hague has no authority to hear the Palestinian request since Palestine is not a country and because the Israeli judicial system is independent and can handle complaints on the matter of alleged war crimes," he added.

The Israeli government feels the ICC prosecutor's office made a mistake in deciding to open a preliminary inquiry, said the senior official. "Israel has no obligation to cooperate with the preliminary examination the prosecutor's office is conducting.

"Nonetheless, as has been done in the past with other international organizations that dealt with matters related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such as the UN secretary-general's board of inquiry to examine the attacks on UN facilities in Gaza, we examined the matter and decided that in this case it would be proper to present the prosecutor and her staff with the Israeli position concerning the court's lack of authority in a direct fashion, so that not only Palestinian claims are heard," said the official.

One of the issues raised during the discussions was the possibility that representatives of the prosecutor's office would visit Israel and the Palestinian territories. Such a visit is a normal procedure in preliminary examinations conducted by the prosecutor's office of the ICC.

The Palestinians are extremely interested in having such a visit as soon as possible, but the prosecutor and her staff are still examining the matter, and have yet to set a date for such a visit to the region.

Israel will consider a request for such a visit in its own right, said the official.

"Israel expects the prosecutor's office to act cautiously, professionally and independently without any bias, and will not lend a hand to the Palestinian attempt to turn the court into a political tool or a stage for advertising tricks," emphasized the official.

Israel is not a member of the ICC - neither is the United States - but Israel's military and civilian leaders could now face charges if they are believed to have committed crimes on Palestinian territory. The ICC is an independent international organization based at The Hague in the Netherlands, and is not part of the UN system.

The series of official actions presented by the Palestinians to the ICC began on December 31, 2014, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Statute (which regulates the work of the ICC) and issued a declaration that the Palestinians recognize the court’s authority to examine the possibility that crimes were committed on Palestinian soil starting on June 13, 2014 - the date when searches for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped and murdered in Gush Etzion the night before were launched.

In a surprise move, on January 16, 2015, Bensouda announced she was launching a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine, even though Palestine’s affiliation with the ICC had yet to officially take effect.

The purpose of the preliminary examination is to determine if there is a reasonable basis to the claim that crimes have been committed that are within the court’s authority to investigate. If the prosecution does decide to launch an investigation, it is possible they will not just investigate allegations of Israeli war crimes, but also actions committed by the Palestinians.

On February 7, Abbas announced the establishment of the Supreme National Committee for Coordination with the ICC. On April 1, Palestine’s membership in the ICC became official, making it the 123rd member.

Two weeks ago, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki presented the prosecutor's office with documents to back up the Palestinian claims of alleged war crimes and violations of international law committed by Israel.

Netanyahu lost his Iran bet, but his next gamble may be disastrous

After the deal was announced, the prime minister's appearance was that of a desperate gambler who had lost everything. But now he wants to wreck what’s left of U.S.-Israel relations.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.666048

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks defeated. He was ashen-faced on Tuesday next to the Dutch foreign minister at their joint press conference in Jerusalem; his appearance was that of a desperate gambler who had lost everything. The Iranian nuclear agreement, against which he had vigorously and repeatedly warned, had become a fait accompli. The deal over which he had declared political war on the president of the United States, while breaking all the rules of diplomatic relations between friendly countries, had become a reality, for better or worse.

Even before the details of the agreement were known, and without having any idea what was or wasn’t included, senior Likud officials were firing cannon shells through the electronic media. Talking points that had been sent to them in advance contained three main points: 1. The agreement is bad, terrible, and awful; 2. If not for Netanyahu, the situation would have been much worse, much earlier; 3. The opposition is to blame and ought to be ashamed for not being supportive enough/for being critical now/for not standing tensely quiet at the side of the prime minister, meaning the State of Israel.

Obviously. The opposition is to blame for the centrifuges spinning, the uranium being enriched, and the slaughter during the six consecutive years of Netanyahu’s rule.

Netanyahu deserves credit for stubbornly putting the nuclear issue on the global agenda, significantly contributing to the intensified sanctions on Iran. On the other hand, he lost his brakes when he did not hesitate to hook up with the Republican Party in its campaign against U.S. President Barack Obama. Sometimes it’s hard to know where Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Republican donor, ends and Netanyahu begins.

The prime minister himself hastened Tuesday to call on the opposition to “put petty politics aside and unite for the State of Israel’s national interests,” as if the Iranian nukes hadn’t served as an effective political weapon for him during every recent election campaign.

Netanyahu’s spokespeople said he plans to “kill himself” pursuing the last remaining option for scuttling the deal – preventing its ratification by the U.S. House of Representatives – by persuading Democratic congressmen to defect to the Republican camp and vote against their president. The destruction and devastation he avoided inflicting on the nuclear facilities scattered throughout Iran, he now wants to wreck on what’s left of U.S.-Israel relations. Here we again see his compulsive gambler syndrome: After losing his pants, he’s now putting his underwear on the roulette wheel in a move that experts on American politics say hasn’t much of a chance.

In this context, the call by Likud ministers for “internal cohesion that’s been lacking until now” sounds pathetic. Why exactly is Netanyahu demanding that Labor’s Isaac Herzog, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, Meretz’s Zehava Galon and Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman join him? So they can share responsibility for the worsening of the fight between Israel and the leader of the free world?

Herzog and Lapid were competing with each other on Tuesdayto show whose patriotism was greater. Lapid drew first with an interview he gave to a foreign television network. But Herzog landed a crushing blow on him by tweeting that he had spoken with the prime minister and would soon be traveling to the United States “to advance a package of security measures to suit the new situation.”

Perhaps Herzog has been named defense minister and nobody told us. Perhaps something else is going on between him and Netanyahu, and under the pretext of the “new situation,” the chairman of Zionist Union plans to bring his party into Netanyahu’s government.

Israel slowing illegal settlement construction so that Palestinian Authority will stop its drive for statehood.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-slowing-settlement-construction...

British Foreign Secretary: Israel will complain about any deal reached with Iran because they essentially want war. (Also lots of money to be made by corporations, when sanctions on Iran are lifted)

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/UKs-Hammond-Israel-doesnt-wan...

AIPAC was officially remaining silent on their stance on the Iran negotiations. They've finally shown their true color by urging congress to vote down the Iran deal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/15/aipac-reject-iran-deal_n_7...

(I took liberty to re-write the headlines of the articles)

Obama Scolds CBS (& former FOX) Reporter For Stupid Question

watch the narrative in the media

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3165923/Pictured-Queen-taug...

Palace fury as pictures emerge after 80 years of the seven-year-old Queen and the Queen Mother being taught a Nazi salute by Edward VIII in private film at Balmoral

• Footage has emerged of the Queen being taught a Nazi salute by Edward VIII
• The 1933 photo shows Edward VIII and the girls saluting at Balmoral
• The Queen Mother is also in the photograph, taken as Hitler rose to power 
• Buckingham Palace has slammed The Sun's 'exploitation' of the footage 

Buckingham Palace has reacted with fury after a photograph of the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a young girl was published by The Sun last night.

The shocking 1933 footage shows Edward VIII teaching the seven-year-old future Queen and her three-year-old sister Princess Margaret, how to do the Nazi salute in the gardens at Balmoral.

The publication of the footage, which appears as part of a 17-second film, will cause outrage across the nation.

The Queen, aged just seven when the footage was filmed, cannot be held responsible for her actions as an innocent girl playing with her family.

Buckingham Palace last night slammed The Sun for the publication of the footage, obtained from the family's private archive, saying it is 'disappointing' that the film has been 'obtained and exploited in this manner'.

A palace spokesman defended the footage, saying: 'It is disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago and apparently from her Majesty's personal family archive, has been obtained and exploited in this manner.'

posting this for the censorship angle... Facebook Censors Post on Bill that Could Ban GMO Labeling for Good.

Near miss?  Seems unusual as it was very close and unexpected.  PX debris?

International Space Station Sidesteps Space Debris, NASA Says

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/space-station-space-debris...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station had to sidestep a piece of space junk.

NASA said Monday the space station had to dodge part of an old satellite. Sunday night's firing of on-board thrusters pushed the orbiting lab up a half-mile.

Experts aren't sure how big the junk is. It's from a Russian weather satellite launched in 1979.

After the maneuver, it was determined the debris would have posed no threat. NASA says it preferred playing it safe.

Mission Control says the change in space station altitude will not affect next week's launch of a new three-man crew from Kazakhstan.

A SpaceX resupply mission from Cape Canaveral, meanwhile, has been delayed until the end of the month. The unmanned Falcon rocket was supposed to blast off Sunday.

http://themindunleashed.org/2015/07/25-signs-that-the-global-elites...

25 Signs That The Global Elite’s Ship Is About To Sink

July 15, 2015

Make no mistake about it. The tide has turned on the global elite and there will be no going back. A new day is rising for humanity as those who have planned for complete control are now being exposed, cornered and investigated from many different angles. There is no need to buy into the fear-based propaganda the major media and even several alternative media outlets dispense. Very good things are happening and even better things are coming. Let’s take a look at some of the major stories that have occurred in the last 8 weeks alone. Piecing the puzzle together, we see that the jig is up and the events surrounding it are growing in size and speed.

1. 57 Nations approved as founding members of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Notable countries who signed on June 29th, 2015 include Russia, India, Iran, Switzerland, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Indonesia, the UK, Italy and Austria. Notables who did not join are the U.S. and Japan.

2. May 12th, 2015: Russia asks Greece to join the BRICS Alliance. Notice the BRICS trend in the stories to follow.

3. May 24th, 2015: The Pentagon released documents to Judicial Watch, a government watchdog law firm,
proving that the US Government played a central role in creating ISIL. Interestingly, the mainstream media failed to cover this story. A few weeks later, ex US Intelligence officials confirm the report.

4. May 31st, 2015: Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras writes an open letter, warns European leaders they are “making a grave mistake,” and suggests they re-read Hemingways’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls.”

5. June 2nd, 2015: The U.S. Federal Government was hacked as the personal data of 4 million current, former and prospective employees believed to have been breached. 3 weeks later FBI Director James Comey told US Senators the actual number could be 18 million. Some believe the hack was coordinated to gather further evidence
of crimes by certain government officials. More on that further down.

6. June 2nd, 2015: Kentucky Senator Rand Paul calls for the U.S. Government to declassify 28 pages in the 9/11 attack report that the Bush Administration blacked out.

7. June 3rd, 2015: Famous musician Akon announces his Solar Academy will bring solar power to over 600 million people in Africa. A major victory for clean energy and humanity.

8. June 4th, 2015: Whistle-blower Edward Snowden says a “profound difference” had occurred since releasing the NSA documents and that the balance of power has shifted in our world.  Is he referring to the BRICS Alliance?

9. June 5th, 2015: “There Will Be A Reset of The Financial Industry.” The International Monetary Fund says the Chinese yuan is no longer undervalued. This sets the stage for the yuan to be recognized as a global reserve currency, something the U.S. Dollar (which is backed by war and oil) does not like.

10. June 7, 2015: Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s largest banks, co-CEO’s Jain and Fitschen resign. Two days later, German prosecutors raided the Bank’s headquarters in a criminal tax-fraud probe.

11. June 15, 2015: China says the G-7 Summit in Germany was a “gathering of debtors.” They mean this literally as the Bretton Woods western financial system is based on debt. And in fact, the entire western financial system has been running illegally and is technically bankrupt. For more on the real history of Bretton Woods and its connection to JFK, The Global Collateral Accounts and the gold standard, read here.

12. June 17th, 2015 is quite the day with the next four stories all being reported at that time. First, JP Morgan’s number 2, the Vice Chairman Jimmy Lee, suddenly and une... Since late 2013, the list of high-level banking officials to have passed over has grown to 70. Clearly, something is happening.

13. June 17, 2015: Russia and China announced that all natural gas and crude oil sales between
the two countries will now be done in Chinese yuan( formerly the U.S. Dollar) and will be convertible into Russian Rubles. The U.S. Dollar hegemony is waning.

14. June 17, 2015: The State of Texas has signed a bill that calls for the repatriation of their gold from the Federal Government. When asked what would happen if the government tried to steal back the gold, State Representative Giovanni Capriglione said this: There is a motto in the office of almost every state legislator in Texas, and it’s a flag that we have [from the Texas Revolution], it’s below a cannon and what the motto says is, “Come and Take it.”

15. June 17, 2015: Greece’s Hellenic Parliament’s Debt Truth Committee released a report stating that the debt Greece “owes” is illegal, illegitimate and odious, according to international law. Further, they stated the IMF and ECB ( European Central Bank) having illegally and knowingly imposed these illegitimate debts upon Greece and other nations. A direct call out to the global banking cartel.

16. June 18th, 2015: Baron David de Rothschild has been indicted by a French court over financial fraud. French police have been ordered by the court to track down Baron. The Rothschild family has long been viewed as the family sitting atop the global financial ponzi scheme. Lawyer Antonio Flores told reporters, ” it’s a real breakthrough moment for everyone involved.”

17. June 18, 2015: In a 2-1 ruling, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals says Bush era officials can be held liable for detaining innocent people after the 9/11 attack. Will this lead to some major arrests?

18. June 19, 2015: While European leaders try to save face on the debt crisis, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was in Russia and gave a speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, stating that “the economic center of the planet has already shifted” and that ne...* Reread story header number 8…BRICS, anyone? Oh, and Greece and Russia signed a €2 billion gas pipeline deal that day too…a strategic economic and geopolitical game-changer.

19. July 5th, 2015: Greece votes “NO” to the creditors’ bailout offer. This is a massive stance for humanity that Greece just took against the banking elite. As of this writing, a “deal” has been reached but is expected to fall apart in the coming days. Kicking the can down the road does not solve the issue, but rather speeds up the revolution mindset of many frustrated Greek citizens. September/October is when many financial experts are saying that some fireworks are to be expected. 

20. July 7th, 2015: The BRICS Bank officially opens for business.

21. July 8th, 2015: On this day, several strange events occurred. The NYSE was taken down for multiple hours, the Wall Street Journal was taken offline just after the stock exchange went down, United Airlines was forced to ground all of its flights nationwide due to computer “issues,” and 2,500 people losing power in Washington D.C. This whistle-blower journalist just wrote that his Pentagon sources...

22. July 7th, 2015: Backing up one day we see that the hacking group Anonymous tweeted this on the evening prior to the stock exchange hack: Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street….we can only ...
David Wilcock has previously written a detailed document stating that Anonymous is working with certain patriotic US Military forces to legally take down the banking elite.. This aligns nicely with what the whistle-blower journalist, Benjamin Fulford, just wrote this week about the Pentagon and BRICS Alliance in the previous story.

23. July 14th, 2015: Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. reach a... on Iran’s nuclear program. Entire books could be written on the geopolitical, financial and technological implications of this move. There are also reports that the reality of this situation is that Iran has free energy technology and will be using this to help bring down the banking/political/oil industry elite. This would make sense as the strongest opponents to this deal have been Israel and its Prime Minister and several American politicians like the Bushes, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. 

24. July 15th, 2015: Santa Cruz County votes to stop doing business with 5 major banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS. Watch this set off a chain reaction in those who will follow suit.

25. Now: You are here on the planet at this time to make a wonderful contribution. Please continue playing your role for the benefit of us all.

It is clear that something big is happening. Use this information to move forward with optimism and hope. Share with your friends. Discuss with your friends. Continue to search and dig for the truth. Two people I strongly suggest the reader looking into are Benjamin Fulford, the whistleblower who was the Asia Pacific Bureau... and is listed in stories number 21 and 22, and Neil Keenan, who is working with many well connected sources to open up the global collateral accounts. These accounts are what President Kennedy was assassinated over and are what the banking elite does not want the public to know exists. This revolution WILL NOT be televised.

Regulators to seek penalty on Toshiba for false accounting: Nikkei

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/regulators-seek-penalty-toshiba-false...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's financial watchdog plans to seek a financial penalty on Toshiba Corp <6502.T>, currently being investigated by an independent committee over accounting irregularities, the Nikkei reported on Saturday.

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) believes the company falsified financial statements and will recommend as early as September that the Financial Services Agency impose a fine, the business daily said, citing sources.

A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that regulators will begin studying the case to weigh potential penalties after the committee announces its findings on Monday.

An SESC spokesman declined to comment, while Toshiba officials were not immediately available for comment.

A separate source familiar with the matter said on Friday that the committee's report was likely to conclude that top executives - including CEO Hisao Tanaka, and former company presidents Norio Sasaki and Atsutoshi Nishida - had been aware of delays to the booking of losses.

Toshiba expects to take up to $3 billion in charges related to six years of improper accounting.

Now the Royal family faces TV 'Nazi' exposé: As Palace considers legal action over 'Hitler salute' photos, Channel 4 documentary is set to reopen a painful chapter of Duke's family history

• Buckingham Palace bracing for new revelations in Channel 4 documentary
• Comes amid furore over footage showing Queen performing Nazi salute
• It has emerged footage may have been accidentally leaked by the Palace 
• Channel 4 programme will reveal details of Prince Philip's sister's marriage
• Three of his sisters, including Sophie, were married to senior Nazi officers

Buckingham Palace was last night braced for new embarrassment as turmoil continued over leaked footage showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a child.

An explosive Channel 4 documentary is set to reveal details of how Prince Philip's sister met and admired Adolf Hitler, whom she described as a 'charming and seemingly modest man'.

Three of his sisters were married to senior Nazi officers – one a colonel in the SS – and when Philip attended a family funeral in Germany in 1937 he was confronted by crowds giving the Heil Hitler salute. The documentary includes previously unseen extracts from a private memoir in which one sister talks of her early admiration for Hitler.

Meanwhile the footage showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a child could have been accidentally leaked by Buckingham Palace, it has been reported. 

The Duke of Edinburgh, now 94, served bravely in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and his family's history is no secret. But the Palace will not welcome a fresh focus on his sister's links to the Third Reich while controversy continues over the footage of the Queen.

The grainy film was shot in 1933, months after Hitler came to power and six years before the start of the Second World War. It shows the then seven-year-old Princess Elizabeth playing with a dog on the lawn at Balmoral with her sister Margaret, before raising her arm in a Nazi salute. 

Her mother, the future Queen Mother, and her uncle Edward – later Edward VIII – are also shown in the pose. Her uncle appears to be showing them how to perform the Nazi salute, which even then was recognised internationally as a sign of obedience to Hitler.

Royal aides are investigating how the 17-second black and white film clip came to be published by The Sun, and Buckingham Palace has not ruled out legal action. The Mail has learned the footage was obtained by a researcher with 'access to the royal archives'.

It emerged last night that the edited clip was allegedly used in an exhibition at the Palace last year.

It may have been inadvertently released to a documentary maker after a flurry of requests for the unseen royal home movies, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Buckingham Palace is considering taking legal action over the footage.

The Palace has launched an inquiry into how the 17-second black and white film came into the hands of The Sun newspaper. 

Meanwhile the Channel 4 documentary is set to reveal how animosity to the Queen's marriage to Philip was fuelled by fears about his family's links to Nazi Germany. In the previously unpublished memoir, his older sister Sophie – a godmother to Prince Edward – wrote of entertaining both Hitler and his henchman Hermann Goering before they rose to power.

She said she and her husband were 'impressed' by Hitler and his plans for Germany's future, although she wrote they had 'fundamentally' changed their view some years later. Sophie joined the Nazi Women's Auxiliary and was photographed at Goering's wedding, on the top table with Hitler, and her husband Prince Christoph von Hessen was head of the SS in the Air Ministry.

The couple named one of their sons Karl Adolf in Hitler's honour after meeting the Nazi leader in 1931 or 1932, before he became the German Chancellor.

Philip's sister said Goering had been 'very enthusiastic' about the Nazi party and its leader, and had urged her and her husband to meet Hitler in person. She noted in her memoir, written in old age: 'As Germany was going through hard times and there was a lot of poverty and general dissatisfaction everywhere, we were interested to hear about the great improvements his party was planning to do.

'As Goering was insistent we should meet Hitler personally, we decided to ask him to lunch at our flat… I have to say here, that, although Chri [her husband Prince Christoph] and I changed our political view fundamentally some years later, we were impressed by this charming and seemingly modest man, and by his plans to change and improve the situation in Germany.' 

Sophie's memoir was never published and the Channel 4 documentary Prince Philip: The Plot To Make A King – due to be aired on July 30 – is the first time it has been made public by her family.

Three of Philip's four sisters married German officers and when he travelled to a family funeral in Darmstadt in 1937 he was photographed walking through ranks of troops and crowds giving the Nazi salute. His sisters were excluded from receiving invitations to his wedding to the future Queen in 1947 because of their links to Nazi Germany.

But Sophie, whose husband Prince Christoph was killed in 1943 and who remarried to Prince George William of Hanover, was made a godmother to Prince Edward in 1964 and was a frequent visitor to the Royal Family.

Last night Buckingham Palace officials said they 'were not aware' of the Channel 4 documentary and 'have nothing to say'.

There can be no suggestion, however, that the Queen, Prince Philip or the Queen Mother were in any way Nazi sympathisers. Philip served Britain with distinction during the Second World War, while his future wife and mother-in-law became inspirational figures of wartime defiance.

Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece, was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations for her part in sheltering Greek Jews from the Gestapo.

Regarding the Balmoral footage, historians have stressed that Hitler was a much derided figure in Britain in the early 1930s, and that the film appears to show the Queen Mother making fun of the Nazi salute.

Princess Elizabeth would have been too young to understand the gesture. But her uncle Edward, who abdicated to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson, faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser.

The couple, by then the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, were photographed meeting Hitler in Munich in 1937, when Edward was said to have given a Nazi salute, although he later claimed it was a 'soldier's salute'.

Buckingham Palace has said it was 'disappointing that the film, shot eight decades ago and apparently from Her Majesty's personal family archive, has been obtained and exploited in this manner'. 

It is understood its investigation will consider how the film fell into the hands of The Sun and will call in police if there is any suspicion of criminal activity. 

Aides will have to consider if the footage could have been copied or stolen, or whether it could have been inadvertently handed to film-makers for a documentary. 

A senior royal source stressed that they had not yet embarked on legal action but made clear that the Palace was considering 'all avenues', including whether there has been a breach of the Royal Family's copyright.

The Sun has refused to reveal how it got the film but insists the 'original film remains under lock and key'. It said that 'several copies of the clip were made several years ago' and that one of them was obtained by the newspaper. Managing editor Stig Abell said it was obtained 'in a legitimate fashion'.

The publication has led to calls for greater access to the royal archives to help historians to document the Royal Family's wartime role. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said he understood why the Palace was upset. But asked if the newspaper was right to publish, he told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: 'That is a matter for The Sun. It is an editorial judgment. It is up to the Press to decide what is and what is not appropriate to print.'

The Board of Deputies of British Jews said it would be wrong to criticise the Queen over the film. President Jonathan Arkush said: 'It's really important for us not to judge this, even with hindsight. Obviously the Nazi salute now carries horrible memories and bitterness for us, but I do not think for one moment that it would be appropriate for me to suggest that the full horror of Nazi Germany was known at that point.'

Mark Almond, professor of modern history at Oxford University, said: 'Opening up aspects of the Queen's early years is not going to damage respect for the monarchy. It can only reinforce her standing with the public.'

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3167558/Now-Royals-face-TV-... 

Fury after David Cameron admits he knew that British RAF pilots were carrying out ISIS airstrikes 'by stealth' in Syria...Despite Parliament voting against military action in 2013
http://yournewswire.com/british-pilots-will-continue-airstrike-in-s...

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Australia's Channel 9 ran a documentary on the pedophilia scandal/coverup around the UK Parliament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRObgttIyeg&feature=youtu.be

What is he so afraid of?  David Cameron already planning to take the whole of August on holiday, adds more dates to his absence:

David Cameron set to spend most of August chillaxing on holiday

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-set-spend-most-6...

Chillaxing David Cameron will go on holiday for most of August as he enjoys up to three breaks.

The globe-trotting Prime Minister, who has previously spoken of his ability to easily switch off from the daily grind of politics, will don his sandals and shorts on two sunshine breaks.

He and wife Samantha will take their three children for their usual “staycation” in Cornwall.

The family are then due to jet to sun-kissed Portugal for a second break.

He could also stay at his father-in-law Lord Astor’s estate on the remote Scottish island of Jura.

Friends say jet-setting Mr Cameron will “be gone for most of August”, and insisted he deserved a break following his surprise general election victory.

The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter

Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors from a nonprofit dependent on reader generosity.

A Common Dreams investigation has discovered that more than a thousand of these damaging comments over the past two years were written with a deceptive purpose by a Jewish Harvard graduate in his thirties who was irritated by the website's discussion of issues involving Israel.

His intricate campaign, which he has admitted to Common Dreams, included posting comments by a screen name, "JewishProgressive," whose purpose was to draw attention to and denounce the anti-Semitic comments that he had written under many other screen names.

The deception was many-layered. At one point he had one of his characters charge that the anti-Semitic comments and the criticism of the anti-Semitic comments must be written by "internet trolls who have been known to impersonate anti-Semites in order to then double-back and accuse others of supporting anti-Semitism"--exactly what he was doing.

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A user has inflitrated and exposed a pro-zionist group paying large sums of money to manipulate voting patterns on Reddit in favor of Israel. Going as far to specifically target specific users for upvotes and downvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3dsifv/a_user_has_infl...

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RT on the hasbra (Israeli propaganda) campaign. This inevitably also helps to brainwash the ppl who sign up. (Get em while they're young, and they'll pass on the propaganda they learned well to their kids)

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Israel training Wikipedia editors. (The guy you see in the video below is now the Minister of Education, Economy, Religious Services & Diaspora Affairs. He makes Netanyahu look like Gandhi)

Israel halts medical treatment for members of Syria's Nusra Front
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.666961?utm_source=d...

A senior Israel Defense Forces officer revealed Monday that Israel has stopped treating members of an extremist Syrian rebel group

The policy change concerning the Al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front was made about six weeks ago.

Binyamin Netanyahu's household spending under criminal investigation
Israel’s attorney general announces inquiry after the country’s auditor said running costs for prime minister’s residences were unreasonably high

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/21/binyamin-netanyahus-ho...

Adultery website, Ashley Madison, was hacked & hackers are threatening to release compromising pictures & full names of the ppl.

Incidentally, the Canadian capital--Ottawa--has a very high number of subscribers. Perhaps another one of those COW statements? There must be some of the Canadian elite caught up in this.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/21/canada-ottawa-ashley-m...

Obama on The Daily Show: 'Executive order: Jon Stewart cannot leave'

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/22/obama-on-the-daily-s...

“I can’t believe you’re leaving before me,” Obama told his host, who is due to retire in two weeks after 16 years in the Comedy Central hot seat.

This coincides with David Cameron's August getaway. When Jon Stewart announced his retirement, the Zetas said that this was because he was threatened by the coverup crowd. But Stewart said it was gong to happen later in the year. Now it seems his exit might have been timed prior to the announcement..

Three senior officials lose their jobs at APA after US torture scandal

Governor Scott Walker Issues Executive Order to Arm Wisconsin National Guard
http://walker.wi.gov/newsroom/press-release/governor-scott-walker-i...

The cherished comet lander Philae has stopped responding at one of the worst possible times

http://www.businessinsider.com/esa-rosetta-philae-lander-falls-sile...

Last November, the European Space Agency made history by landing the first probe, called Philae, onto a comet.

But the landing didn't go as planned and Philae, instead of landing in the sunny spot that ESA scientists had chosen for it, ended up in a shadowy corner of the comet. Without sunlight to feed its solar-powered instruments, the little lander remained awake for only about 60 hours after touchdown — not even a fraction of the time scientists had hoped it would live for on the comet.

However, when Philae went silent late last year, scientists anticipated that as the comet approached the sun, the lander might gain new life as the sunlight striking the comet grew stronger. And their hopes were confirmed on June 14 when Philae phoned home for the first time in about seven months.

But now the lander has fallen silent, once again, the ESA announced on its Rosetta mission blog on July 20. They've tried to get the Rosetta satellite, which is in orbit around the comet, to communicate with Philae, but since July 9 the lander hasn't picked up.

This is a bad time for the lander to play shy, because it's just 22 days before the comet will reach its closest approach to the sun — when the most sunlight will be striking the surface of the comet and when Philae has the best chance to fuel up and use its instruments on board to study the comet.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the one the lander is supposed to be exploring, takes 6.5 years to orbit the sun, which means Philae won't get another chance like this for another 6.5 years.

Although scientists are not quite sure what's going on with Philae, they suspect the desk-sized lander has shifted its position and now it's antenna is pointing in a different direction. This could be why the Rosetta satellite has not been able to lock signals and speak with Philae.

If the lander has shifted position, it's plausible that Philae ended up on uneven terrain. Comets are active objects. They have ice beneath their surface, which sublimates — changes from a solid to a gas — and once the ice is gone, the ground above it has less overall structural support and can weaken as a result.

What's more, Rosetta has its own problems. The spacecraft will soon have to distance itself from the comet, which has become increasingly active in the past few weeks, the ESA said. That's because as the comet gets closer to the sun, the ice below the surface sublimates at a higher rate into space and in the process can fling tiny, solid bits off the surface, which could potentially damage Rosetta.

Starting July 24, Rosetta will move farther away from the comet and and will therefore have a tougher time reaching out to Philae. But ESA scientists aren't giving up yet. If Philae's momentous awakening last month taught them anything, it was dare to hope for the best:

"Several times we were afraid that the lander would remain off – but it has repeatedly taught us otherwise," said Stephan Ulamec, the lander's manager, in the ESA Rosetta blog entry.

Leaked Docs Prove MI5 Covered Up for Pedophiles Among Thatcher Government 

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150723/1024946021.html

Britain’s MI5 security service covered up for pedophile members of the UK government under then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to avoid political embarrassment, local media reported Thursday, citing a recently unsealed trove of Cabinet files

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33631594

-Many of the new files found were in a set of previously uncatalogued records called "Cabinet Secretary miscellaneous papers"

-The letter concluded that an MP's denial [of his penchant for small boys] had been accepted and [then head of MI5] Sir Anthony wrote that "the risk of political embarrassment to the government is rather greater than the security danger"

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Home secretary refuses to say whether she asked security service about why it did not follow up suspicions that MP had ‘penchant for small boys’

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/23/theresa-may-mi5-fai...

The June 2015 announcement of the hack on the US Gov databases has a new Wiki page!  This is staggering!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_b...

Office of Personnel Management data breach

In June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people.^[1] Later, FBI Director James Comey put the number at 18 million.^[2] The data breach, which had started in March 2014, and may have started earlier, was noticed by the OPM in April 2015.^[1][3] It has been described by federal officials as among the largest breaches of government data in the history of the United States.^[1] Information targeted in the breach included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers,^[4] as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses.^[5] The hack went deeper than initially believed and likely involved theft of detailed background security-clearance-related background information. One victim wrote that the OPM is the agency that asks your neighbors what they know about you that could be used to blackmail you.^[6][7][8]

On July 9, 2015, the estimate of the number of stolen records had increased to 21.5 million. This included records of people who had undergone background checks, but who were not necessarily current or former government employees.^[9]

Israel accused of killing 75 children during day of 'carnage' and war crimes in Gaza war

A report by Amnesty International on alleged atrocities in Rafah during last year’s conflict with Hamas claims Israeli forces killed at least 135 Palestinian civilians, including 75 children, following the capture of a soldier.

Philip Luther, director of Amnesty International’s Middle East programme, claimed that the “relentless and massive bombardment” that ensured in residential areas of Rafah was a direct response to the capture and displayed a “shocking disregard for civilian lives”.

“They carried out a series of disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks, which they have completely failed to investigate independently,” he added.

“This report presents an urgent call for justice that must not be ignored.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/595420/Queen-terror-threat-secu...

EXCLUSIVE: Queen in terror threat - Security alert as mobile app tracks royal helicopter

SECURITY experts issued a terror warning for the Queen last night after an investigation by Express.co.uk found that detailed flight plans for the Royal Helicopter can be accessed using a mobile phone app.

Terrorists wanting to target the monarch could easily use the downloaded software to track the exact location of the official helicopter in real time – revealing the altitude, speed, GPS coordinates and route of the flight.

Terror analysts are warning the information could lead to a “cataclysmic” incident where the data could be used to initiate a remote controlled drone that could target the helicopter mid-flight. 

Alternatively, would-be attackers could station themselves under the flight path and use a rocket-propelled grenade to bring the chopper down.

Express.co.uk used the £2.99 app this week to follow the Queen’s Sikorsky S76C helicopteras it took off from a location close to her favoured holiday home in Sandringham.

The flight was tracked as it crossed London, flying just a few hundred metres up and clearly visible from the ground, before landing to the south-west of the capital. 

The app showed the aircraft was flying at just 1,307ft – well in range of even a crude surface-to-air missile – and at a speed of just 150 mph. 

FlightRadar24, a live flight tracker that can be used anywhere in the world to follow aircraft in flight, provided the exact route of the official helicopter, alerting people on the ground to the important passenger flying overhead. 

A photograph of the purple chopper also featured next to the detailed flight information.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the potential security breach “could be exploited by terrorists”.

He described the Queen's Helicopter as “an ideal way of transporting members of the royal family to engagements”.

But the expert added: “If its route can be monitored...it poses the problem as to how you combat advances in technology which could be exploited by terrorists. 

“The need is to be one step ahead all the time.”

Royal air travel costs close to £1.5million each year - funded by taxpayers through the Department for Transport.

The Royal chopper, which is based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, stopped using civilian pilots in 2013 amid a security scare after another helicopter crashed into a crane in fog, killing the pilot and a pedestrian in Vauxhall, London.

The Queen’s machine is fitted with just six seats and is capable of a maximum speed of 178 mph with a range of more than 400 miles.

You always have to be aware of the advance of technology

Dai Davies, former head of the Met’s Royalty Protection Squad

It is thought to have sophisticated anti-missile technology including missile approach warnings and laser decoys that would send a radar-guided rocket off course.

But the risk of terrorists targeting aircraft used to transport the Royals remains real.

Detailed flight logs for the aircraft, which carries the registration G-XXEB, are available online and show past movements of the luxury copter, including its exact route as well as take-off and landing timings. 

It shows twelve journeys were made in just the last week, with flights departing from Oxford, Southampton and London listed.

The high-level of transparency has attracted criticism from security experts, who fear criminals could monitor flight routes over time to build up a detailed picture of the Royal Family’s travel schedule.

The former head of the Met’s Royalty Protection Squad, retired chief superintendent Dai Davies, urged the Royal Family’s current protection team to always be “one step ahead”.

He said: “You always have to be aware of the advance of technology – which this illustrates – and the ability of these terrorist groups to think outside the box.”

Former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath is being investigated by three police forces as part of their inquiries into allegations of historical child abuse 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33770021

Jeremy Corbyn: Tony Blair could face war crimes trial over 'illegal Iraq invasion'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-tony-bl...

Here is an article about the latest discussions on detainee torture and the Psychology community, of which many leaders have now resigned over it.

Torture Is Bad. So Psychologists Helped the US Redefine It

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/torture-bad-psychologists-helped-us-re...

After the 9/11 attacks, the US government was willing to do anything to catch the perpetrators. “Anything” included subjecting detainees to simulated drowning, sleep deprivation, and fear-inducing tactics like letting attack dogs snarl and bark inches from their faces. To some, these tactics looked like torture.

But the US doesn’t torture—so the government rewrote its definitions of torture. Not all the necessary revisions came from within, though. A new report says that the nation’s largest professional organization of psychologists colluded with government officials to make its own rules more permissive, allowing health professionals to do what had formerly been ethically off limits.

The Hoffman report (so named because the principal investigator is a lawyer named David Hoffman) was commissioned by the American Psychological Association to examine a 2005 APA publication called the Psychology Ethics in National Security document (PENS). This document, voted into policy by APA leadership at the time, outlined the conditions in which a psychologist could ethically work alongside military and intelligence interrogators. Critics from within and without the APA had—since the document’s inception—suspected foul play. The Hoffman report lays those accusations bare, by showing that the APA’s head of ethics had been directly working with the military to create a back-scratching policy.

Taken on its own, the PENS document doesn’t seem problematic. It was created in response to a seemingly honest query: “The APA has a division of military psychologists, and they were really asking for some guidance,” says Susan McDaniel, the APA’s incoming president, and member of the committee that commissioned the Hoffman report. “And the APA responded to that.” In content, the PENS document approved of APA members advising military and intelligence interrogators, so long as they did it under the APA’s ethics rules.

But taken in context, PENS was the final twig in a regulatory nest that gave members of the US government—including vice president Dick Cheney—the authority to claim that their interrogation tactics were safe, legal, ethical, and effective.

The Hoffman report is 542 pages long. It took eight months to report and write, and contains testimony from nearly 150 sources from current and former APA staff members and leadership, APA critics, government officials, and members of the PENS-drafting committee. But the most damning evidence came from emails recovered from a deceased behavioral scientist with connections both at the APA and the US government.

All together, the report lays bare that APA’s then-ethics director Stephen Behnke had directly collaborated with a military liaison to stack the committee’s deck so they would draft PENS in a way that fit into existing government rules about torture.

Some of the most damning evidence, according to those critics, was apparent from the outset: Six of the nine PENS committee members had worked for the military or an intelligence agency. And five of those six had worked in detainment centers already using enhanced interrogation techniques. PENS was written over just three days, and voted into policy during an emergency session of the APA’s leadership a few days later.

Although the Hoffman report has forced the resignation or retirement of many key APA leaders—CEO Norman Anderson, Deputy CEO Michael Honaker, public relations director Rhea Farberman, and ethics director Stephen Behnke—it hasn’t yet prompted any institutional changes. Those won’t happen until August, when the APA’s Council of Representatives meets to consider the Hoffman report, and the Independent Review Council’s recommendations.

These include, first and foremost, a strict ban on psychologists working with military or intelligence interrogators. It also calls for reviews to the organization’s ethics statement, and systematic checks and balances. With enough attention, the APA hopes it can prevent a PENS-like collusion from ever happening again.