Here Is What Putin Thinks Of The West

Here are some astute observations by Russian President Vladimir Putin which were not previously reported in the West:

Putin said that Russia is willing to be a partner of the US and EU, but the partnership must be based on equality, not on America’s partners following Washington’s orders. “We are not going to stop our relations with the US. The bilateral relations are not in the best shape, that is true. But this – and I want to emphasize – is not Russia’s fault.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/01/guest-column-vladimir-putin/

I think Putin has been the only reasonable party in what has been going on. Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are power-mad thugs. And as Dr. Paul Craig Roberts goes on to wisely state:

As I have previously observed, Americans live in The Matrix, not in the real world. One day Americans could wake up stunned by reality, or they could die from weapons of mass destruction and not wake up. Americans are nothing but cannon fodder for the neoconservative drive for Washington’s world hegemony. The media on which Americans rely lies to them and prevents them from knowing any significant truths. Americans can learn that they lost the World Cup, but they cannot learn of their government’s crimes and drive toward war, or of the responses of other powerful countries whose governments are unwilling, unlike England, Germany, and France, to be Washington’s vassals.

Will China Save Vegas ???

Americans no longer have money to gamble, but rich Chinese are flocking to Las Vegas gaming tables:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-02/did-las-vegas-just-become-chinas-billionaire-new-money-laundering-mecca

Are the games still legit, or does someone get a kickback from the players' losses? How does that work?

Facebook "Research" Violated Ethical Principles

Here is an MD's assessment of Facebook's recent "experiment":

The WMA Declaration of Helsinki, “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects“ defines the parameters for human research. Vague generalized references to “research,” such as those in the Facebook TOS, are completely inadequate for informed consent. And it is universally accepted that the Declaration applies to both physical and mental human experimentation (see The American Psychological Association’s (APA) "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct").

The infliction of emotional discord on a human being for research purposes without informed consent is a violation of the Declaration, as is the lack of ethics committee oversight. This is S.O.P. for human research. It’s very strict. The paper should never have been accepted for publication in a scientific journal.

http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/7/1/doctors-perspective-facebooks-own-monster-study.html

I doubt that any of the big players in social media or Silicon Valley really give a shit about We The People. They make a huge amount of money using things that for all intents and purposes they stole from us in the first place. Now that they apparently also have become whores for the US government, it's time to boycott, divest, and sanction them too.

Is Plastic A Bigger Threat Than Climate Disruption ???

There is a hell of a lot of plastic in our oceans, and now it is "disappearing" from sight:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0701/Plastic-garbage-on-ocean-s-surface-is-vanishing.-Where-is-it-going

If this stuff kills off the oceans, we'll be dead long before climate disruption gets to us.

Why isn't Obama ad-Dajjal all bent out of shape about that?

By the way, to those of you who don't give a damn about DU in Iraq (see http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2014/07/our-toxic-legacy-in-iraq.html): this is everyman's version of DU. The trash and radioactive debris we have been dumping in the oceans eventually will do to us what DU is doing to the Iraqis. By then it will be too late to do anything about it.

Our Toxic Legacy In Iraq

Those of you who do not understand why ISIS might appeal to Iraqis should read about what we did to the Iraqi people, including widespread use of the radiological weapon depleted uranium:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/depleted-uranium-iraq-wars-legacy-cancer/193338/

And in spite of US and UN lies to the contrary, we may even have used more toxic weapons there:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-new-type-of-nuclear-weapon.html

The US public either doesn't know about this stuff or doesn't give a damn. The Iraqis, on the other hand, have to live with it every day. It's unlikely they will ever forgive us.

Hell, it's unlikely G-d will ever forgive us.

Settlers Are Always Murderers

Realistically, the entire settler-related conflict in Israel is identical to what always happens when "settlers" take the land from its original inhabitants - somebody gets killed, their deaths are "avenged", and back and forth until everyone on one side is dead (or at least reduced to a ghost of their former selves). This is exactly how European settlers took over North America, and it is exactly what Israeli settlers are doing in Palestine:

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/2/palestinian-teenabductedmurderednearjerusalembyisraelisettlers.html

So it should not surprise anyone that the US has no problem with what is going on there. Our ancestors were murderers, too.

Update: Here is a supportive message from Rebecca Vilkomerson of the Jewish Voice for Peace:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/prominent-us-jewish-group-speaks-crisis-palestine/193438/

Has Science Gone Mad ???

A researcher in the US apparently has intentionally created a pandemic virus which can evade the human immune system. And he did it in a lab which does not have the highest bio-safety level:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-controversial-us-scientist-creates-deadly-new-flu-strain-for-pandemic-research-9577088.html

Professors who challenge the actions or policies of the US government or Israel are being forced out of their jobs, while researchers who threaten the lives of all of us apparently are left alone to do whatever they please.

To me this sounds extremely dangerous and irresponsible. What do you think?