One civilian injured while shielding her children

Jeremy Corbyn - Response to the Chilcot Inquiry report

On the eve of the Chilcot Report, a song and picture thread

On Wednesday, the massive Chilcot Report is finally going to be released.

To commemorate it, the lies that pushed us into the Iraq war and the many lifes lost, I though I would post a song and picture thread as a passionate reminder of the wrong done.

Please feel free to add any song that speaks to you about this.

Here to start, Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name version)

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More about Lord Ashcroft - a combo of Rove and Koch

Brexit vote shows deep divide

Video from SPU shooting shows hero stopping shooter and motivation of hatred

from shooter's interrogation.

This newly released video is from the 2014 shooting at Seattle Pacific University.

Two points particularly struck me: that Meis was able to confront the shooter because he had to stop to reload and how clearly the motive was hatred. There's no doubt that Meis halted what would have been an even more tragic event that day.



http://www.nwcn.com/news/local/court-releases-video-from-spu-shooting-showing-students-heroic-actions/244204703

Ex-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’

Interesting article about political shift in Austria

The article is interesting both for the information it presents and the slant it takes.

The article is about the recent election for the Austrian President. As the article notes, this is a mostly ceremonial role, but the choices being made by the electorate point to a change in the direction they want their leadership to take.

Instead of voting for candidates from the centrist parties, the votes were split between candidates further to the right and left. This demonstrates some dissatisfaction with the centrist political stances that have held sway for a long time.

Van der Bellen,the leftist candidate, won in a very tight race.

However, most of the article is about the right wing candidate and the rise of right wing sentiment and party support there. There's very little about Van der Bellen's views and the policies he and his party will put forth. That scant amount is mostly used in contrast to the right wing views or, oddly, in support of continuance of centrist policies.

Really, would it kill Bloomberg to even acknowledge a few positive aspects of the Austrian people's embrace of a more leftward direction to state policies?


http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/austria-tight-presidential-election-reveals-a-split-nation/

"Sting of Myself" New Yorker article exposes O'Keefe's botched sting

Looks like this is the reason O'Keefe has been tweeting about having done this. He's been trying to do damage control because he knew this article was coming out this month.

Note: the article has much, much more than just info on O'Keefe's latest ploy. Mayer digs into Brock's network and into the conservative American Rising as well.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself

“Hey, Dana,” a voice began. The caller sounded to her like an older American male. “My name is, uh, Victor Kesh. I’m a Hungarian-American who represents a, uh, foundation . . . that would like to get involved with you and aid what you do in fighting for, um, European values.” He asked Geraghty for the name of someone he could talk to “about supporting you guys and coördinating with you on some of your efforts.” Requesting a callback, he left a phone number with a 914 area code—Westchester County.
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The accidental recording reached farcical proportions when Kesh announced that he was opening Geraghty’s LinkedIn page on his computer. He planned to check her résumé and leverage the information to penetrate the Soros “octopus.” Kesh said, “She’s probably going to call me back, and if she doesn’t I can create other points of entry.” Suddenly, Kesh realized that by opening Geraghty’s LinkedIn page he had accidentally revealed his own LinkedIn identity to her. (LinkedIn can let users see who has looked at their pages.) “Whoa!” an accomplice warned. “Log out!” The men anxiously reassured one another that no one checks their LinkedIn account anyway. “It was a little chilling to hear this group of men talking about me as a ‘point of entry,’ ” Geraghty says. “But—not to sound ageist—it was clear that these people were not used to the technology.”

Geraghty forwarded the voice-mail recording to Chris Stone, the president of the Open Society Foundations. “The Watergate burglars look good compared to these guys,” Stone told me last month. “These guys can’t even figure out how to use an Internet browser, let alone conduct an undercover operation. You read the transcript and you can’t help but laugh.” He went on, “But the issues here aren’t funny. There’s some kind of dirty-tricks operation in play against us.”

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O’Keefe portrays himself as a rigorous journalist who is dedicated to furthering “a more ethical and transparent society.” He refuses, however, to be transparent about who is funding him. According to tax records obtained by PRWatch.org, an investigative watchdog group run by the Center for Media and Democracy, in recent years hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to Project Veritas have come through a fund in Alexandria, Virginia, called Donors Trust, which specializes in hiding the money trails of conservative philanthropists. In its promotional materials, Donors Trust says that it will “keep your charitable giving private, especially gifts funding sensitive or controversial issues.” The records obtained by PRWatch.org also show that one donor, a conservative political activist in Wisconsin, contributed fifty thousand dollars just before Project Veritas undertook a sting of one of his political enemies—a state senator.

Boris Johnson accused of burying study linking pollution and deprived schools