Palestinians Reportedly Kill 30 Suspected Israeli Collaborators

Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man who was killed as a suspected collaborator with Israel, in Gaza City, November 20, 2012

(photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

[From article]
Unnamed Palestinian security sources in Gaza told Palestine Press News Agency that Hamas has managed to apprehend dozens of suspected spies in the northern neighborhood of Shejaiya — which saw heavy fighting with the IDF last week — and summarily executed them following a short investigation. The sources said that many of the suspects were caught with weapons, telephones, and SIM cards from the Israeli cell provider Orange.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-said-to-kill-over-30-suspected-collaborators-with-israel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hamas said to kill over 30 suspected collaborators with Israel
Local spies have helped Israeli aircraft locate and destroy Hamas homes, Gaza security sources tell Palestinian news agency
BY ELHANAN MILLER

July 28, 2014, 5:16 pm

White House Shows Weak Support For Israel

[From article]
"Ladies and gentleman, we heard a presidential statement right now from the Security Council that miraculously doesn't mention Hamas or rockets or Israel's right to defend its citizens," Israeli U.N. envoy Ron Prosor said sarcastically.


http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/28/president_obama_removes_israelis_diplomatic_shield_at_the_united_nations_gaza?utm_content=buffer05fb7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


The United States Lowers Israel's Diplomatic Shield at the United Nations
BY COLUM LYNCH
JULY 28, 2014 - 07:38 PM

Lesbians, Homosexual Job Fair Finds Heterosexuals Offensive

[From article]
But Kidd said that the straight students attending the job fair were “offensive” as LGBT-identifying students overheard things such as “Dude, I’m not gay” or “There needs to be less focus on gay stuff at this event.”Straight students are accused of being 'offensive' and overheard saying 'Dude, I’m not gay' or 'There needs to be less focus on gay stuff at this event.'
Roughly 10 percent of attendees at last year's conference were straight.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5786

LGBT job fair tweaks registration process to prevent 'offensive' straight kids from attending

Kaitlyn Schallhorn Reporter

@K_Schallhorn

on Jul 28, 2014 at 10:08 AM EDT

British Embassy Convoy Attacked in Libya

Smoke billows near Tripoli International Airport as rival factions clash
[From article]
A British Embassy convoy in Libya has been fired at during an attempted carjacking, as UK nationals were urged to leave the country immediately.
All staff escaped unscathed from the attack, which happened on the road between the capital Tripoli and Zawiya, which is en route to the Tunisian border.
Michael Aron, the UK's ambassador to Libya, wrote on Twitter: "There was an attempted carjacking on a British Embassy convoy this morning.
"Shots were fired at our vehicles but all staff safe."

http://news.sky.com/story/1308452/british-embassy-convoy-attacked-in-libya

British Embassy Convoy Attacked In Libya
The Foreign Office urges all Britons to leave as further attacks on foreigners are likely amid a "greater intensity of fighting"

National Leadership Assembly for Israel, Meets in DC

National Leadership Assembly For Israel met on Monday July 29, 2014. It was broadcast on C-Span. Attending and speaking in support of of Israel were U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH); U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD); U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL); U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY); Susan Rice, National Security Adviser; Ron Dermer, Israel Ambassador to the United States; Denis Stevens, Deputy Head of Canadian Embassy; several Rabbis; Rev. Paul de Vries, President of New York Divinity School. Noticeably absent were Mr. Obama, his attorney general and the Secretary of Homeland Security. One man held up a banner and shouted "End the seige." He was quickly escorted out of the room.


http://www.c-span.org/video/?320704-1/national-leadership-assembly-israel

JULY 28, 2014
National Leadership Assembly for Israel
Members of Congress and the Obama administration and other dignitaries spoke at the National Leadership Assembly for Israel, a gathering of the nation’s largest Jewish organizations and communities

Unrest Across the Globe Due to Misguided History?

This opinion piece begins by noting the failure of a dumbed down population to remember history. The he uses the analogy of selective history for his argument. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 was only about 1100 year after the beginning of the religious wars of the Middle East began. If the argument over who owns what land is the issue, one historian makes the case that all people came down from Russia across the former Aleutian Bridges. That means we are all Russians. 

[From article]
Because memory, particularly historical memory, fails unfailingly, this summer feels like a uniquely horrific season of dissolution and blood
[. . .]
President Obama was asked how he could claim that Al Qaeda had been “decimated” when jihadi flags were now aloft in Falluja, he resorted to a blithe formulation. “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” the President told this magazine.
[. . .]
As Bernard Avishai wrote on our Web site last week, “You can unspool this vendetta back to the Balfour Declaration, in 1917.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/aflame-2

Comment AUGUST 04, 2014 ISSUE
New Yorker

Aflame
BY DAVID REMNICk

Desperate Attempt To Connect Science With Psychiatry

"Mental illnesses are only accessible to researchers through new understandings of genetics." Gasp! Decades of using human subjects for psychiatric research were simply all exercises in sadistic criminal abuses? "progress in the study of mental illnesses seems more attainable than ever, those involved with the center say." $650 million will fund more researchers to look for progress in studying mental illnesses? Much cheaper to simply continue consensus definition of mental illnesses, and pizza parties to study progress? “'Human genomics has begun to reveal the causes of these disorders,' said Stanley, the founder and chairman of MBI, a company that sells collectibles," The founder of a collectibles company founded the psychiatric research center? Yikes! Prior to discovery of the human genome, causes of mental illnesses were unknown? "The topic of mental health is personal for Stanley. His son, Jonathan, suffered from severe bipolar disorder," There is an national lobbyist entity for drug companies which promotes drug treatment founded by parents of mental patients. Why are persons with disabilities prevented from speaking for themselves? Do homosexuals, black people and women need their mentors to speak for them, to tell others what they need? These alleged illnesses, created by consensus, are symptoms, protected behavior and speech, which are treated with drugs. How will these drugs affect the human genome? Will future treatment be genetically enhanced humans to "cure" mental illnesses, i.e., to curb undesirable speech and behavior? The goal of connecting psychiatry to science, without evidence, is getting exponentially obtuse and absurd. More, more money is needed. Is obsession with fund raising a possible new mental disorder? 
[From article]
Mental illnesses are only accessible to researchers through new understandings of genetics.
[. . .]
progress in the study of mental illnesses seems more attainable than ever, those involved with the center say.
[. . .]
“Human genomics has begun to reveal the causes of these disorders,” said Stanley, the founder and chairman of MBI, a company that sells collectibles,
[. . .]
“This kind of commitment makes it possible to take risks...to design projects that are high-risk but would be transformational if they succeed,” McCarroll said.
The topic of mental health is personal for Stanley. His son, Jonathan, suffered from severe bipolar disorder,

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/7/27/broad-record-psychiatric-gift/

Record-Setting $650M Donation Paves Way for Psychiatric Research at Broad
By TYLER S. OLKOWSKI

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
July 26, 2014

Reality of Tax Code, Exposing Obama's Tax Lies

[From article]
Taxes are only one reason that companies relocate abroad. When President Obama uses labor regulators to attack businesses pursuing strategies he finds objectionable, when Elizabeth Warren proposes to employ the SEC as a weapon in her own endless political vendetta, when the IRS is targeting politically unpopular organizations, a forward-thinking firm with any level of financial and political sophistication might decide it would rather deal with Switzerland’s FINMA or the Central Bank of Ireland than with the people who inflicted Dodd-Frank on the world.
[. . .]
We might do any number of things to improve our economic situation, from education reform — an absolute necessity for our future prosperity — to stabilizing our public finances and allowing our national energy renaissance room to flourish to its full potential. What stands between us and those worthy goals is Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi — and, not least, Barack Obama, whose idea of patriotism is a strange and unaccountable one.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383887/bismarck-potomac-editors

JULY 28, 2014 4:00 AM
Bismarck on the Potomac
By The Editors

Comparing Risks of Alcohol to Marijuana

[From article]
Drinkers get to enjoy their intoxicant, while marijuana smokers have to fear arrest. This injustice should be rectified by letting marijuana users have their drug under the same terms as alcohol. As we see, if one can’t make a compelling case for marijuana on its merits, at least one can denounce alcohol, cry hypocrisy, and expect parity.
[. . .]
Marijuana is the second-leading drug-related reason for a visit to a hospital emergency room, trailing only cocaine. In fact, with about 450,000 emergency room mentions a year, marijuana now exceeds heroin.
[. . .]
virtually everything that the New York Times thinks they know about marijuana’s effects is based on old anecdotes (including personal experimentation), cultural perceptions, and in some cases, even legitimate research derived from a time when marijuana was, on average, one-fifth to one-sixth as powerful as it is today.
[. . .]
We won’t really know what potential crisis we have already sown in this emerging generation of youth for at least a decade.
[. . .]
There is now sufficient evidence to establish that we are putting our children – all our children, including the minority and the vulnerable — at risk by increasing access to a poison.

http://www.hudson.org/research/10478-comparing-alcohol-and-marijuana-seriously

Comparing Alcohol and Marijuana: Seriously
David W. Murray
Hudson Institute

Hamas Uses Children To Dig Terror TunnelsTo Israel, 160 Died

[From article]
Because of their size and agility, children make good tunnel-diggers. The English knew this when they were digging coal mines during the Victorian era; Hamas knows it now.
Thus, the Journal of Palestine Studies (edited by President Obama’s pro-Palestinian friend Rashid Khalidi) reported in 2012 that Hamas uses children to help dig tunnels into Israel. The finding appears in a paper called Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel’s Siege.
[. . .]
He also found that “at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials.” And, as noted, this was as of the end of 2011. How many more Palestinian children have died digging tunnels for Hamas since then?
It’s not surprising that Hamas endangers Palestinian children by having them engage in highly dangerous child labor. Hamas is willing to use children as human shields, so why would it not use them to dig tunnels?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/07/report-at-least-160-children-died-digging-hamas-tunnels.php

POSTED ON JULY 28, 2014

BY PAUL MIRENGOFF
REPORT: AT LEAST 160 CHILDREN DIED DIGGING HAMAS’ TUNNELS

Convicted Chicago Man Claims Innocence Fights for Freedom

This saga reveals the underside of American Society, where police abuse their power, and criminals work along with them. If these abuses area as widespread as suggested, there is an institutional problem with the Chicago police. Once read that when there are a lot of homicides in a city it suggests high levels of police corruption.  

[From article]
Over the years, Brzeczek said, he had watched the Cook County state’s attorney’s office fight several “nasty, protracted battles” on cases that “it eventually lost.” He added, “Most of the decisions were based not on legalities or what’s right or what should be done but, rather, on ‘How is this going to wash politically?’ ”
[. . .]
If you have a proven instance where an officer lied to put an innocent person in jail, it calls into question all the other cases in which his word has been a primary source of information.” He said of the Conviction Integrity Unit, “Its record is pretty dismal.” He added, “Was it simply a P.R. move? Thus far, there’s no evidence of more than paper reform.”
[. . .]
In 2009, Gayle Horn and another lawyer, Karl Leonard, filed a petition for post-conviction relief for Hood, arguing that the evidence against him had “unraveled,” and that the officers involved had “a long history of similar misconduct.” Morgan, Sr.,’s most recent murder conviction, they argued, demonstrated a “clear modus operandi: Morgan, Sr. has killed close friends and loved ones for financial gain by shooting them . . . and leaving their partially or fully nude bodies to die in and around abandoned cars.”
[. . .]
He said he realized a while ago that “this thing is bigger than me,” and that “there’s a chain of corruption.”
[. . .]
He couldn’t help feeling that justice was a kind of lottery, and that he was stuck holding a bunk ticket. “Do I have something written on my forehead saying, ‘Y’all can just do something to me’?” he pleaded. “What’s wrong with me?”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/crime-fiction

AUGUST 04, 2014 ISSUE
Crime Fiction
Did the Chicago police coerce witnesses into pinpointing the wrong man for murder?
BY NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE

FBI Arrest Texas Man For Sending Hundreds of Threats Over Five Years

[From article]
According to the complaint, since December 2008, more than 500 hoax letters were mailed from the North Texas area to cities across the U.S. and to U.S. Embassies abroad. The initial letters, sent out on December 4, 2008, had a “Dallas, Texas” postmark and contained a white-powder substance. Law enforcement has identified more than 15 batches of similar letters sent from the Dallas area from December 2008 to the present. The language used in the letters as well as the method of sending the letters, indicate that one person, Truong, is responsible for sending all of the hoax letters. In all but two of the batches of letters, a white-powder substance was included in the envelope.
[. . .]
These letters were sent to pre-schools and elementary schools across the country as well as to Lockheed Martin in Grand Prairie, Texas. HAZMAT responded to the location of many hoax letter recipients, including Mi Escuelita Preschool Crossover in Dallas.
In June 2013, 28 public schools in Boston received letters that resulted in HAZMAT responses. That investigation resulted in the identification of an IP address in Rowlett associated with Truong.

http://www.fbi.gov/dallas/press-releases/2014/rowlett-man-arrested-for-sending-hundreds-of-hoax-white-powder-letters

Rowlett Man Arrested for Sending Hundreds of Hoax White Powder Letters
U.S. Attorney’s Office
July 28, 2014
Northern District of Texas

Christians, Politicians Rally For Israel At United Nations Plaza

[From article]
Carrying a "Christians for Israel" sign was Dr. Martha Smith, who said she was visiting from Oslo and had heard about the rally on Christian radio.
She started by calling the widely acclaimed 1993 Oslo Accords, which brought a fleeting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, "an anti-Semitic pact to destroy Israel." Taken aback, I asked if she opposed the peace process and she said yes, adding that "I believe that Mr. Kerry is on faulty ground and I know many of my fellow Christians who are fighting for Israelis survival feel the same."
Needless to say her support for Israel was quite vigorous. As was her belief that President Obama is Muslim and that Hillary Clinton is pro-Palestinian.

http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/07/searching-for-falafel-outside-the-new-york-stands-with-israel-rally/375194/

Searching for Falafel Outside the 'New York Stands With Israel' Rally

ADAM CHANDLER

July 28, 2014

Christian Leaders Fear Destruction In Iraq

[From article]
The vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq has warned the end for Christians in the country appears “very near” as he appealed for help after a deadline set by Islamic militants to convert or be killed expired.
Canon Andrew White, dubbed "the bishop of Baghdad" for his work at St George's church in the capital, spoke after the ultimatum handed to Christians in the northern city of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq Levant (Isis) to convert, pay a tax or be put to death passed last week.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-crisis-bishop-of-baghdad-warns-end-could-be-very-near-for-christianity-after-isis-takeover-9630554.html

Iraq crisis: End 'very near' for Christianity after Isis takeover, says Bishop
HEATHER SAUL
Saturday 26 July 2014

Is CIA Interfering With Whistleblowers, Thwarting Congressional Investigations?

[From article]
The CIA got hold of the legally protected email and other unspecified communications between whistleblower officials and lawmakers this spring, people familiar with the matter told McClatchy. It’s unclear how the agency obtained the material.
At the time, the CIA was embroiled in a furious behind-the-scenes battle with the Senate Intelligence Committee over the panel’s investigation of the agency’s interrogation program, including accusations that the CIA illegally monitored computers used in the five-year probe. The CIA has denied the charges.
The email controversy points to holes in the intelligence community’s whistleblower protection systems and raises fresh questions about the extent to which intelligence agencies can elude congressional oversight.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/07/25/4040370/after-cia-gets-secret-whistleblower.html?sp=/99/217/&ihp=1

After CIA gets secret whistleblower email, Congress worries about more spying
BY MARISA TAYLOR AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Washington Bureau

July 25, 2014

WI Police Chief Gets Personal With Tea Party Leader

[From article]
A police chief in Wisconsin pleaded no contest Friday to a charge that he signed a local tea party leader up on gay dating, pornography and federal health care websites.
Prosecutors charged Town of Campbell Police Chief Tim Kelemen earlier this month with one misdemeanor count of unlawful use of a computerized communication system. The La Crosse Tribune reported Kelemen entered the plea in a deal that calls for the charge to be dismissed in two years if he doesn't commit any new crimes, continues counseling and completes 40 hours of community service.
The charge stems from a feud between Kelemen and tea party leader Greg Luce. It began last fall when the tea party began holding protests on an interstate overpass in Campbell. Concerned the protests were distracting drivers, Kelemen persuaded the town board to ban signs on the bridge.
Kelemen told investigators Luce urged tea party supporters across the U.S. to bombard his department with harassing phone calls and threats in retaliation for the ordinance.
Kelemen told investigators he tried to get back at Luce this winter by using his name, address, phone number and email address to create accounts for Luce on homosexual dating, pornography and federal health care websites. He told investigators he didn't think what he was doing was a big deal.

http://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/7405081-Police-chief-charged-in-bizarre-feud-with-tea-party-leader/

July 26, 2014
Police chief charged in bizarre feud with tea party leader
The Wis. chief pleaded no contest to a charge that he signed a local tea party leader up on gay dating, pornography and federal health care websites
Associated Press

Iraqi Christians Seek White House Support

It is unlikely Obama will support Christians under attack by Muslims. The White House indicates it is a strong supporter of CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas. Christians may consider taking up arms to protect themselves. The White House is occupied with assisting illegal aliens, spreading same sex marriage and issuing executive orders. Protecting Christians from Muslims is a low priority. 

[From article]

Iraqi Christians held demonstrations in a number of cities on Saturday, including Washington, Paris, The Hague, Cologne, and London, in order to bring attention to the current assault on Christians by the Islamic State (IS)-- formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) jihadists. One week ago, Christians were forced out of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and many Christian monasteries, shrines and churches have since been destroyed.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/27/Obama-Obama-Where-Are-You

CALL FROM IRAQI CHRISTIANS: “OBAMA, OBAMA, WHERE ARE YOU?”
by KATIE GORKA

27 Jul 2014, 7:18 AM PDT

Pro Palestinians In Paris Use Violence Against Police and Jews

[From article]
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in French cities on Saturday to condemn violence in Gaza, defying a ban imposed after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police.
A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades.
“We must show that as Muslims, we’re all united" // Shirli Sitbon reports for Haaretz from Paris
Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag. At least one car was set on fire.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.606036

Anti-Israel protesters rally across France, defying ban imposed after synagogue clash
Thousands march through French cities in protest of Israeli operation in Gaza Strip; French president says will not allow violence to spill over into France.
By Nicholas Vinocur, Joe Bavier

Jul. 19, 2014 | 10:40 PM

Eleven Year Old Girl Shot Dead in Chicago

So according to the priorities of journalists and politicians what is needed is more same sex marriage, more illegal aliens, and more executive orders condemning Republicans. Oh yea.

[From article]
Shamiya Adams was sitting on a bedroom floor in her best friend's home, making s'mores after an evening of practicing a dance routine, when the shot ripped through the house in Garfield Park.
The bullet crashed through the wall of the bedroom and struck the 11-year-old in the head. She was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where family kept an overnight vigil until the girl was pronounced dead at 7:33 a.m. today.
"They came out and told us she wasn't going to make it," Shamiya's grandmother said. "Oh, my God."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shootings-violence-girl-killed-on-west-side-20140718,0,7102175.story

22 shot in Chicago over 12 hours, including girl, 11, killed at sleepover
By Mitch Smith, Peter Nickeas and Juan Perez Jr.
Tribune reporters
8:28 p.m. CDT, July 19, 2014

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[From article]
‘I got nothing left to say to these moms,’ Emanuel continued. ‘I don't know where they find the strength to go on, put one foot in front of another. Because she had the... she wanted her daughter to play with her friends. We're a better city than that.’
But statistics paint a different picture.
Despite city officials infamously claiming “crime is down” earlier this year, murders are on pace to at least equal last year’s total.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698781/Girl-11-cut-stray-bullet-making-smores-sleepover-two-dead-20-shot-Chicago-12-hours.html

Girl, 11, cut down by stray bullet while making s'mores at a sleepover among the two dead and 20 shot in Chicago in 12 hours
Shamiya Adams was killed Friday night when a stray bullet blew threw the wall of a house she was inside for her first sleepover
The 11-year-old was making s'mores with friends when the bullet struck her in the head - young children saw the entire thing
A 30-year-old man was also found by police shot to death in a car parked in a grim alley
By RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 23:17 EST, 19 July 2014 | UPDATED: 23:43 EST, 19 July 2014

Israeli Army Discovers Extensive Terrorist Tunnels From Gaza

[From article]
Eight Palestinian militants emerged from a tunnel some 300 yards inside Israel on Saturday morning, armed with automatic weapons and wearing Israeli military uniforms, the Israeli military said. The gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at two Israeli military jeeps on patrol, starting a battle that killed two Israeli officers and one of the militants, according to the military. The rest then retreated underground, back to Gaza.
Hours later, the military says, two more militants entered Israel either through a tunnel or by breaching the border fence. The Israelis said the men were carrying tranquilizers and handcuffs; one militant was fatally shot and the other died when the explosive belt he was wearing detonated, a military spokesman said.
And Saturday night, in yet another incursion, a militant slipped through a different tunnel into Israeli territory and, according to the military, fired on troops who killed him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/world/middleeast/gaza-israel.html?_r=0

Despite Israeli Push in Gaza, Hamas Fighters Slip Through Tunnels
By ANNE BARNARD and JODI RUDOREN

JULY 19, 2014