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Boletín Religión Digital
Lunes, 24 junio 2013
"El amor en tiempos de colera...económica" (RD-Khaf)

José I. González Faus: "Hay obispos que ahora dicen cosas izquierdosas porque las dice el Papa"

"Cristo y los pobres me hicieron economista", dice el teólogo
(José Manuel Vidal)- José Ignacio Gonzáles Faus es santo y seña de varias generaciones a las que ha alimentado con su teología. Tiene infinidad de libros publicados, y es un teólogo siempre muy en contacto con la realidad. No es un teólogo de gabinete, sino que pisa tierra y está muy atento al grito de los pobres. De ahí salió su libro, El amor en los tiempos de cólera... económica, el primero coeditado por la editorial Khaf y Religión Digital.
    Mi vocación
  • La muerte de inocentes
  • Desde el justo Abel asesinado por su hermano Caín, porque las ofrendas de éste no eran aceptadas por Dios pues su corazón estaba roído por la envidia; Juan Bautista degollado por el ruin Herodes imbuido por la perversa Herodias; la condena injusta de Jesús porque sus ideas p...
    Buenas noticias
  • Cómo seguir a Jesús
  • Jesús emprende con decisión su marcha hacia Jerusalén. Sabe el peligro que corre en la capital, pero nada lo detiene. Su vida solo tiene un objetivo: anunciar y promover el proyecto del reino de Dios. La marcha comienza mal: los samaritanos lo rechazan. Está acostumbrado: lo mism...
    Nido de poesía
  • El ARCA DE DIOS se posó en Nowa?Huta
  • Sugería, en el último post, que dedicaría una nueva página a referir mi visita, en Cracovia, a la iglesia “Virgen María Reina de Polonia”, popularmente llamada “ARKA PANA”, Arca de Dios. (Pulsar aquí.) Convendría primero referir muy sucintam...
    Aeterna Christi Munera
  • La bella fiesta, el día de san Juan
  • Hoy, día de san Juan Bautista, quiero llenártelo (como pretendo con todos) de buena música. Te he preparado un bello fragmento de una obra no religiosa pero que es igualmente imponente. Seguro que te gusta y, si te llamas Juan o Juana, sirva como felicitación desde este modesto b...
  • Javier Elzo: "No hay forma humana de sostener la situación de la mujer en la Iglesia"

  • (Jesús Bastante).- Javier Elzo es sociólogo, experto en temas de juventud y de valores. Viene a presentarnos su último libro: "Los cristianos, ¿en la sacristía o tras la pancarta?", publicado con PPC. "Las pancartas que llevan los católicos son las del único tipo de familia que se entiende que puede haber, y la pancarta a favor del principio y del [...]
  • Laboa actualiza su "Historia de los Papas"

  • (Esfera de los Libros).- Los papas, sucesores de san Pedro, han heredado las atribuciones que Jesucristo concedió al apóstol y mantienen, desde hace veinte siglos, su autoridad sobre la Iglesia católica. Ésta es la primera crónica completa de los hechos de todos los pontífices que en el mundo han sido, de sus aspiraciones y de sus logros, en ocasiones muy [...]
  • La corrupción, según Francisco

  • "La corrupción no es un acto, sino un estado personal y social en el que uno se acostumbra a vivir". Estas palabras tan vigentes en la sociedad actual las escribió el propio Papa Francisco cuando todavía era cardenal de Buenos Aires, y aparecen en "Corrupción y pecado", que estará a la venta este domingo con cada ejemplar de El Mundo por sólo 5,95 [...]
  • Lecturas para la vida consagrada para este verano

  • (Másdecerca).- Tal y como es ya habitual, desde masdecerca.com hemos encargado a un grupo de expertos seleccionar los diez libros más interesantes para las personas consagradas, de cara al verano, de entre los aparecidos durante los últimos meses en las más de treinta editoriales españolas de libro religioso (ver la lista más abajo). Algunos de los libros [...]
  • Ya a la venta el "Evangelio 2014" de Edibesa

  • (Edibesa).- Un año más, desde 1997, Edibesa pone al servicio de sus lectores y de todos los cristianos el evangelio de cada día con el texto litúrgico oficialmente correspondiente. Se presenta en el doble formato: edición de bolsillo y letra grande. Mantiene la impresión a cuatro colores, lo que le distingue de otros de la competencia en calidad. Y [...]
  • Pensando la religión. Homenaje a Manuel Fraijó

  • (Juan Antonio Martínez de la Fe, en Tendencias 21).- Hablar de un libro en homenaje a alguien supone, por lo general, hacerlo de un número más o menos extenso de firmas que desean adherirse al reconocimiento hacia el homenajeado. Tal es lo que ocurre, en esta ocasión, en la obra que comentamos; una edición a cargo de Javier San Martín y Juan José [...]
  • El Nuevo Testamento en su contexto

  • (Verbo Divino).- La comprensión de los textos del Nuevo Testamento requiere situarlos en su contexto sociocultural, que es bien lejano del nuestro. Ser conscientes de esta distancia y de esta diferencia es defender al texto del lector moderno (evitando lecturas etnocéntricas y anacrónicas) y también defender al lector actual del texto (no obligándole a aceptar [...]
  • 33 días para consagrarse a Jesús por María

  • (Edibesa).- La consagración es una alianza que se construye en el tiempo. Antes de casarse los esposos son simples conocidos, después amigos, después se eligen y se hacen novios...Sucede lo mismo con la Alianza con el Señor, y la Virgen es la casa de bodas de la Alianza. El recorrido que se propone en este libro consiste en tomarse cada día un breve tiempo de [...]
  • Cerebro y trascendencia

  • (Fragmenta).- El ser humano, a diferencia de los primates de su entorno evolutivo, dispone de un cerebro y de una mente con unas capacidades que van mucho más allá de los estereotipos de supervivencia. Los humanos presentamos obsesivamente actividades de lujo: la búsqueda de la belleza, el interés por la ética, la organización de actividades de ocio, el [...]
  • Xabier Pikaza recibe el IV Premio Juan Andrés de la Universidad de Alicante

  • (José M. Vidal).- Lo presentaron como "un gran humanista", pero Xabier Pikaza, siempre humilde, se quitaba importancia, mientras recogía el 'IV premio Juan Andrés de ensayo e investigación en ciencias humanas' de la Universidad de Alicante en la Fundación Pastor de Madrid. Agradecido, reconocía, eso sí, que desde niño había sido un [...]
  • "Corrupción y pecado", el nuevo libro del Papa, a la venta este domingo

  • "Pecadores sí. Corruptos no". Este es el mensaje principal del Papa Francisco en el libro "Corrupción y pecado" (Publicaciones Claretianas), que este domingo sale a la venta con el diario El Mundo. Al día siguiente, el pensamiento de Francisco sobre la corrupción estará a disposición del público en su edición en rústica en [...]
  • Herder publica en español el mayor compendio sobre el Yoga

  • Uno de los mayores compendios sobre el Yoga, escrito por el indólogo alemán Georg Furestein (Würzbuch 1947-2012), considerado como uno de los grandes estudiosos mundiales del yoga y que murió el pasado verano, ha sido publicado por primera vez en castellano por la Editorial Herder. Traducido por la también indóloga Laia Villegas, el libro, titulado "La [...]
  • Xabier Pikaza gana el IV Premio Juan Andrés de la Universidad de Alicante

  • "Religión y globalización" es el libro del teólogo Xabier Pikaza que recibirá mañana el premio Juan Andrés de Ensayo e Investigación en Ciencias Humanas en reconocimiento a una obra que se acerca a uno de los asuntos más "problemáticos" y "difíciles" de la actualidad, la globalización desde la religión. Se trata [...]
  • Sólo quedan "300"

  • "Su yelmo era sofocante. Limitaba su visión. Y necesitaba ver lejos. Su escudo era pesado. Le hacía perder el equilibrio. Y su objetivo estaba lejos."No es nada sencillo salir a vender 1000 libros sin poder dar ni una sola conferencia de él, no es fácil hacerlo sin tener editorial, ni librerías, ni publicidad. Solo Religión Digital se ha hecho eco del [...]
  • Fernando Prado: "Francisco es lo que es, lo que vemos, tal cual"

  • (Jesús Bastante).- Fernando Prado es director de Publicaciones Claretianas, la editorial que está sacando los libros del Papa en España. "Como el Papa es un hombre sencillo decidimos no hacer ediciones de lujo, sino publicar sus libros como habían aparecido en Argentina", explica, y opina que a Francisco se le puede aplicar lo de "what you get is what you see": "es lo [...]
  • Fernando Cordero comenta el "Evangelio 2014" de San Pablo

  • (SP).- El P. Fernando Cordero Morales, sacerdote, periodista y escritor, religioso de la Congregación de los Sagrados Corazones y animador principal de la comunidad parroquial del Buen Pastor y de Nuestra Señora de la Oliva de San Fernando (Cádiz), firma los comentarios y las oraciones del Evangelio 2014. Camino, verdad y vida. Editado, como todos los años, por San [...]
  • El Hombre es lo que vale

  • (Xabier Pikaza).- Entre las coediciones de RD con diversas editoriales españolas ocupa un lugar especial ésta de Bernardo Pérez Andreo, pues nos sitúa en el centro de la crisis económica, social y religiosa de los últimos decenios, abriendo un camino para el Hombre (en contra del Capital), un camino de solidaridad global desde la pobreza, en línea [...]
  • Javier Elzo: "En España vivimos entre un catolicismo rancio y un laicismo excluyente"

  • (Jesús Bastante).- "¿Existe Dios todavía?", se preguntó este mediodía el sociólogo Javier Elzo, durante la presentación, en la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, de su último libro, "Los cristianos, ¿en la sacristía o tras la pancarta?" (PPC), junto a Ramón Jáuregui y el presidente de Metroscopia, [...]
  • González Faus, sj: "Cristo y los pobres me metieron en la economía"

  • (Jesús Bastante).- ¿Pueden dialogar la economía y la teología? ¿Qué opinan sobre la libertad, la fe o los mercados un teólogo, un economista y un sindicalista? ¿Hay soluciones éticas a la crisis económica? ¿Cuáles? Vivir en mitad de "El amor en tiempos de cólera... económica" fue uno de los ejes de [...]
  • Conferencia de José Manuel Vidal en el Ateneo de Santander

  • El próximo viernes, dia 14 de junio, a las 20:00, José Manuel Vidal, director de Religion Digital pronunciará una conferencia sobre el Papa Francisco en el Ateneo de Santander. El conferenciante disertará sobre la nueva etapa que se abre en la Iglesia católica, tras le llegada al solio pontificio del Papa Bergoglio, las eventuales reformas que pondrá en [...]
  • Faus y el Amor en tiempos de Cólera... Económica

  • El Amor. También en los Tiempos del Cólera... Económica, como la que nos está tocando vivir. La crisis, sus causantes y las esperanzas de futuro. ¿Qué diría Jesús al hombre de hoy, azotado por la crisis y la angustia? A estas y otras preguntas responde el teólogo jesuita José Ignacio González Faus en "El amor en [...]

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Newsletter chiesa

24 giugno 2013

I cento giorni di Francesco e l'enigma della poltrona vuota

Il suo improvviso rifiuto di ascoltare la Nona Sinfonia di Beethoven offerta per l'Anno della fede è il suggello di un inizio di pontificato difficile da decifrare. Il successo mediatico di cui gode ha un motivo e un costo: il suo silenzio sulle questioni politiche cruciali dell'aborto, dell'eutanasia, del matrimonio omosessuale

The Hundred Days of Francis and the Enigma of the Empty Chair

His sudden refusal to listen to the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven offered for the Year of Faith is the seal on the beginning of a pontificate that is difficult to decipher. The success that he enjoys in the media has a reason and a cost: his silence on the crucial political questions of abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage

Les cent jours de François et l'énigme du fauteuil vide

Son refus imprévu d'écouter la Neuvième Symphonie de Beethoven qui lui était offerte dans le cadre de l'Année de la foi caractérise un début de pontificat difficile à déchiffrer. Le succès médiatique dont il bénéficie a un motif et un prix: son silence en ce qui concerne les questions politiques cruciales que sont l'avortement, l'euthanasie, le mariage homosexuel

Los cien días de Francisco y el enigma del asiento vacío

Su repentino rechazo a escuchar la Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven, ofrecida con ocasión del Año de la Fe, es el sello de un inicio de pontificado difícil de descifrar. El éxito mediático del que goza tiene un motivo y un coste: su silencio sobre las cuestiones políticas cruciales del aborto, la eutanasia, el matrimonio homosexual

Article 9

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Atlantico.fr, La Quotidienne
Lundi 24 juin 2013
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Sur une poudrière : ces étincelles qui pourraient bien rallumer brusquement la crise de l’euro
avec Pascal de Lima - Jacques Sapir - Marc Touati
La crise de l'euro est loin d'être éteinte. De Grèce, ou d'ailleurs en Europe du Sud, la fébrilité ambiante menace de mettre à plat le fragile équilibre que les autorités européennes ont péniblement construit.
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Zapping politique du jour : Jean-François Copé, Raffarin, Philippot... Tout ce qu'il faut retenir
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Les manifestants antifascistes ont brisé de nombreuses vitrines sur leur passage
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avec Guylain Chevrier
Ce que le capitalisme vous offre, ce que le socialisme vous laisse : seul un tiers de la hausse du coût du travail depuis 1980 s'est répercutée sur les salaires
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Président, poil au dent
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 Tous  les proches de François Hollande ...(Bof) LOL : ce que ses petites blagues révèlent de François Holande
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 Selon un article des Echos, il y aurait près ...Pourquoi les prix de l'immobilier français ne s'effondrent pas
avec Nicolas Costes
La dérégulation avait pour objectif de doper ...Les affaires d’Etat se cachent pour mourir... Et si la vraie grosse escroquerie en bande organisée actuelle était celle de l’alliance entre gouvernements, banques centrales et banques de spéculation sur le dos des peuples ?
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‘STO RENZI SA SOLO ROTTAMARE? – DOPO IL ‘’BACIO DELLA MORTE” DI SCALFARI E D’ALEMA, IL PUPONE DI FIRENZE TENTENNA: TEME IL TRAPPOLONE DEI BERSANIANI

Dal seminario dei renziani a Torino la spinta alla candidatura alla segreteria del Rottamatore che nicchia: “Deciderò più avanti” – Prodi si sfila (“Non sosterrò nessuno”), Epifani potrebbe accettare la ricandidatura mentre i prodiani Gozi e Tocci tendono la mano a Renzi con un consiglio: “Meno cene con D’Alema”…


1. LA SENTENZA RUBY, CON LA PROBABILE CONDANNA DEL CAVALIER POMPETTA A PUTTANIERE CAPO, SCATENERA' IL CONTO ALLA ROVESCIA SULLA DURATA DEL GOVERNINO LETTA 2. L'EDUCATO NIPOTE DI ZIO GIANNI ANDO' A DIRE IN TV CHE VORREBBE GOVERNARE TUTTA LA LEGISLATURA. MA E' GIA' TANTO SE SUPERA L'ESTATE. CHE SIA SULL'IVA, SULL'IMU O SULLA PROSSIMA MANOVRA, POCO IMPORTA: LA CRISI DI GOVERNO E' IN AGENDA 3. IL BANANA E' ASSETATO DI VENDETTA PER ESSER STATO ILLUSO SUL SALVACONDOTTO GIUDIZIARIO E ADESSO C'E' UNA SOLA COSA CHE PUO' ALLUNGARE LA VITA AL GOVERNINO: UNA BELLA AMNISTIA CHE SALVI LE CHIAPPE ANCHE AL PROFETA DEL BUNGA BUNGA

1. GRILLO METTE DA PARTE I SUOI “GRULLINI” E LE TROMBONATE WEB DI CASALEGGIO PER SCODELLARE UNA PROFONDA E AMARISSIMA ANALISI DELLO STATO DELL’ARTE DEL NOSTRO DISGRAZIATO PAESE: SIAMO PRATICAMENTE FALLITI, TUTTO CROLLA, USCIAMO DALL’EUROPA 2. “LA SPAGNA HA OTTENUTO SOSTEGNI EUROPEI PER 100 MILIARDI DI EURO PER LE BANCHE IN DIFFICOLTÀ. L'ITALIA È INERTE. ASPETTANDO GODOT, L'ITALIA AVRÀ COME UNICO RISULTATO L'AUMENTO DEL COSTO DEL SUO SALVATAGGIO CHE SARÀ FATTO INTERAMENTE SULLA PELLE DEI CITTADINI. COME? E’ QUELLO CHE STANNO DECIDENDO. SE CON UNA MEGA PATRIMONIALE, CON UN'ULTERIORE AUSTERITY O METTENDO LE MANI SUI DEPOSITI BANCARI. CHI È RESPONSABILE AL GOVERNO DI UNA STRATEGIA COSÌ MIOPE?”



1. RUSSIA E CINA DICHIARANO “GUERRA” AGLI STATI UNITI: EDWARD SNOWDEN VOLA A MOSCA 2. ACCOMPAGNATO DA DUE LEGALI DI WIKILEAKS, LA TALPA DEL DATAGATE E’ PARTITO A BORDO DI UN VOLO DELL'AEROFLOT PER POI ESSERE PRELEVATO DA DIPLOMATICI DEL VENEZUELA 3. CON UNA DECISIONE DESTINATA A FAR INFURIARE GLI STATI UNITI, IL GOVERNO DI HONG KONG HA PERMESSO A ED SNOWDEN DI LASCIARE IL TERRITORIO DIRETTO A MOSCA 4. PER CONVINCERE LA CINA A NON CEDERE ALLE RICHIESTE DEGLI USA CHE VOLEVANO FOSSE ARRESTATO, SNOWDEN HA SPIFFERATO A PECHINO COME L’AMERICA SPIASSE I SUOI SMS

COME MARZULLO: SI FACCIA UNA DOMANDA, SIA DIA UNA RISPOSTA - L’INTERVISTA “PRECOTTA” A CASALEGGIO: BELLE TEORIE CHE DIMENTICANO CHE LA POLITICA (E LA VITA) E’ L’ARTE DELL’INCONTRO E DEL COMPROMESSO…

Fiato alle trombe! “Le organizzazioni politiche e sociali attuali saranno destrutturate, alcune scompariranno. La democrazia rappresentativa, per delega, perderà significato - Un nuovo contratto tra cittadini ed eletti: referendum per sfiduciare i parlamentari. Oggi temo guerre per l’acqua o il petrolio”…


1. ECCO PERCHÉ L’EX PORNODIVA SASHA GREY FA IL CULO A TUTTE LE SCRITTRICI ITALIANE 2. ECCO PERCHÉ ‘’THE JULIETTE SOCIETY’’ È UN ROMANZO EROTICO SUPERIORE A GRAN PARTE DEI ROMANZI DI ALESSANDRO BARICCO O SANDRO VERONESI O ANTONIO SCURATI 3. ECCO PERCHÉ ‘’THE JULIETTE SOCIETY’’ È L'ANTIDOTO A TUTTE QUELLE FEMMINISTE NOIOSE E SFIGATE DA SUICIDIO CHE VANNO IN PIAZZA PER DIRE SE NON ORA QUANDO E SCODELLANO LIBRI DI NOIA MORTALE. TIPO CONCITA DE GREGORIO, TANTO PER FARE UN NOME. O GIULIA INNOCENZI, DEL CUI LIBRO, ‘’MEGLIO FOTTERE’’, ERA INTERESSANTE SOLO IL TITOLO, IL TESTO ASSOMIGLIAVA AL DIARIO DI UNA STAGISTA DELLA CGIL (VIDEO-SEX)

USA-UK-NATO State Terrorism!

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America Is Running the World’s Largest Terrorist Operation

Global Research, June 20, 2013

Chomsky: “Obama Is Running The Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists”

Leading liberal Noam Chomsky said yesterday:
The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, it’s doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it [...] All of these operations, they are terror operations.
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People hate the country that’s just terrorizing them. That’s not a surprise. Just consider the way we react to acts of terror. That’s the way other people react to [American] acts of terror.
Chomsky is right. Experts agrees that indiscriminate drone strikes are war crimes (more here and here).
The U.S. is not only killing people whose identity it doesn’t even know (more), but it is also killing children. And it is using the justifiably-vilified Al Qaeda tactic of killing people attending funerals of those killed – and targeting people attempting to rescue people who have been injured by – our previous strikes.
Chomsky has previously extensively documented U.S. terrorism. As Wikipedia notes:
Chomsky and Herman observed that terror was concentrated in the U.S. sphere of influence in the Third World, and documented terror carried out by U.S. client states in Latin America. They observed that of ten Latin American countries that had death squads, all were U.S. client states.
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They concluded that the global rise in state terror was a result of U.S. foreign policy.
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In 1991, a book edited by Alexander L. George [the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University] also argued that other Western powers sponsored terror in Third World countries. It concluded that the U.S. and its allies were the main supporters of terrorism throughout the world.
Indeed, the U.S. has created death squads in Latin America, Iraq and Syria.

The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom - noted:
Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
Odom also said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
(audio here).
The Washington Post reported in 2010:
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks.
The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by our CIA and FBI.
Some in the American military have intentionally tried to “out-terrorize the terrorists”.
As Truthout notes:

Both [specialists Ethan McCord and Josh Stieber] say they saw their mission as a plan to “out-terrorize the terrorists,” in order to make the general populace more afraid of the Americans than they were of insurgent groups.
In the interview with [Scott] Horton, Horton pressed Stieber:
“... a fellow veteran of yours from the same battalion has said that you guys had a standard operating procedure, SOP, that said – and I guess this is a reaction to some EFP attacks on y’all’s Humvees and stuff that killed some guys – that from now on if a roadside bomb goes off, IED goes off, everyone who survives the attack get out and fire in all directions at anybody who happens to be nearby ... that this was actually an order from above. Is that correct? Can you, you know, verify that?
Stieber answered:
“Yeah, it was an order that came from Kauzlarich himself, and it had the philosophy that, you know, as Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat, and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don’t know who set it ... the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in stopping people from making these bombs ...”
Terrorism is defined as:
The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
So McCord and Stieber are correct: this constitutes terrorism by American forces in Iraq.
The U.S. has been directly supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorists and providing them arms, money and logistical support in SyriaLibya, MaliBosniaChechnyaIran, and many other countries ... both beforeand after 9/11. And see this.
Torture – which the U.S. has liberally used during the last 10 years – has long been recognized as a form of terrorism.
Wikipedia notes:
Worldwide, 74% of countries that used torture on an administrative basis were U.S. client states, receiving military and other support to retain power.

Some Specific Examples ...

The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news reportthe official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Nine months earlier, a false flag attack was discussed in order to justify an invasion of the Dominican Republic. Specifically, according to official State Department records, Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles wrote on June 3, 1961:
The Vice President [Lyndon Johnson], [Attorney General] Bob Kennedy, Secretary [of Defense Robert] McNamara, Dick Goodwin [who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs], [head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] General Lemnitzer, Wyn Coerr, and Ted Achilles were here. Bob McNamara and Lemnitzer stated that under the terms of the contingency paper, they were required to be prepared to move into the island on short order if required to do so, and this, in their opinion, called for substantially more troops that we had in the area. After some discussion we considered two more aircraft carriers, some destroyers, and 12,000 marines should be moved into a position some one hundred miles off the Dominican Republic shore...
The tone of the meeting was deeply disturbing. Bob Kennedy was clearly looking for an excuse to move in on the island. At one point he suggested, apparently seriously, that we might have to blow up the Consulate to provide the rationale.
His general approach, vigorously supported by Dick Goodwin, was that this was a bad government, that there was a strong chance that it might team up with Castro, and that it should be destroyed–with an excuse if possible, without one if necessary.
Rather to my surprise, Bob McNamara seemed to support this view ...
The entire spirit of this meeting was profoundly distressing and worrisome, and I left at 8:00 p.m. with a feeling that this spirit which I had seen demonstrated on this occasion and others at the White House by those so close to the President constitutes a further danger of half-cocked action by people with almost no foreign policy experience, who are interested in action for action’s sake, and the devil take the highmost ...
[At a subsequent meeting], Bob McNamara went along with their general view that our problem was not to prepare against an overt act by the Dominican Republic but rather to find an excuse for going into the country and upsetting it.
Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
As Chris Floyd and many others have noted, this plan has gone live.
United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.
And there is substantial additional evidence of hanky panky in Iraq.
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L’esercito Uk ha poche risorse per difendere la Regina

Tagli da 1,3 miliardi su personale, flotte e basi sottomarine, le forze armate inglesi non ci stanno  continua la lettura

“Tagliamo i trasferimenti alla Pa, non al cittadino”

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Giovani e in età da matrimonio, gli stranieri in Italia

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Casaleggio, da “vate” oscuro a imitazione di se stesso

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Anche nel 2008 disse che si sarebbe ritirato, ma alla fine c'è sempre stato. E dopo Napolitano?   continua la lettura

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Letta-Alfano, il gioco delle parti tra tasse e processi

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Il pessimismo cosmico degli investitori italiani

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Per fermare Erdogan riapriamo negoziati adesione all'UE

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Pornobello

Ho sempre pensato che le cose “giuste” non siano né di destra né di sinistra. Sono giuste perché razionalmente e logicamente giuste e non perch...  continua la lettura

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Anche i Visco Boys dicono la loro sulla Idem!

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Hai un cellulare? Sei stupido

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Il Grande Fratello non spaventa gli onesti

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Università, formazione, lavoro: dov'è il merito?

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24.06.2013
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Tajik Underground Madrasahs FoundTajik Underground Madrasahs Found 
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Surprise! Surprise! The U.S. Has Been Secretly Training Syrian Rebels for
Months.

I'm not sure why this '*Atlantic Wire/Yahoo News*' news story - despite
the months of ongoing U.S. government lies, denials and feigned ignorance
and innocence - ie even really "*news*", except perhaps to the most
obtuse and politically naive and ignorant, But just in case anybody out
there didn't already know or suspect, here it is....
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http://news.yahoo.com/u-secretly-training-syrian-rebels-months-190232036.html

The Atlantic Wire, via Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com.

The U.S. Has Been Secretly Training Syrian Rebels for Months

By Dashiell Bennett | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Jun 21,

President Obama has ignited a debate about if and how the U.S. should get
involved in the Syria Civil War, but it turns out the debate might have
ended a long time ago. The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that CIA
agents and Special Forces units have been giving Free Syrian Army soldiers
a crash course in using anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry at secret U.S.
training bases in Jordan and Turkey.

The training began last November and involves taking a couple dozen rebels
at a time, and teaching them how to use the heavy weaponry. Around 100
total rebels from across Syria have taken part.

While the Americans did not give the Syrians weapons to take back to the
front, arms shipments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar were meant to supply the
rebel forces. However, the L.A. Times report says the heavy weapons were
slow to arrive and small in number.

The training programs also apparently served a dual purpose, as it they
gave CIA officers an opportunity to talk to the rebel fighters and learn
what they could about the situation inside Syria.

The U.S. has publicly stated that the Assad government has
used chemical weapons (a claim not everyone is buying) and is now
considering increased support to the rebel armies. That could include
versions of the very weapons these rebel groups were trained on, but many
are worried if those weapons might someday be used against American or
their allies. But those concerns, or the concerns of the Russia, the United
Nations, or anyone else in the international community, have obviously not
been enough to stop the U.S. from trying to influence the outcome of the
war.

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The delegation will hold meetings with the Georgian President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Parliament, foreign minister, defense minister and secretary of the Security Council.

A meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission with Georgian Prime Minister will be also held.

Delegation members will meet with representatives of international, non-governmental organizations and the media.
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NSA leaker Snowden arrives in Moscow en route to 'third country' with WikiLeaks help

Get short URL <http://rt.com/news/snowden-fly-moscow-aeroflot-125/>

Published time: June 23, 2013 07:47
Edited time: June 23, 2013 15:34

Journalists show an iPad with the picture of Edward Snowden, former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, to passengers of a flight from Hong Kong trying to find out if Snowden was aboard the plane, in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, June

The plane carrying whistleblower Edward Snowden has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The former CIA contractor, who left Hong Kong in a bid to elude US extradition on espionage charges, is on his way to a ‘third country’ via Russia.

Interfax news agency is citing an unnamed source in Sheremetyevo airport management, saying that Snowden is still at the airport.

"Snowden is a transit passenger, his next flight is to Cuba, he remains in the airport complex – where he’s supposed to be, waiting for the next flight," the source said.

A source in the Aeroflot company told the agency that the whistleblower, who is accompanied by WikiLeaks representative, Sarah Harrison, has rented a suit at the airport’s «V-Express» Capsule Hotel.

“He arrived. But he can’t leave the terminal because he doesn’t have a Russian visa,” the source said.

Two cars with diplomatic numbers of Ecuador – the country named among Snowden’s possible destinations – were spotted at Sheremetyevo airport.

RT’s source reported a doctor from the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow has examined Snowden on his arrival in the Russian capital.

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, told Australian Sydney Morning Herald paper that Snowden will be met by “diplomats from the country that will be his ultimate destination” in the airport, who’ll accompany him on a further flight to his destination.

Two cars of the embassy of Ecuador in Moscow are parked outside the terminal where Edward Snowden, the former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, is believed to have landed in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, June 23, 2013. (Reuters / Maxim Shemetov)

Earlier on Sunday, a spokesperson from the Hong Kong government confirmed that Edward Snowden had "legally and voluntarily" left the country.

“Mr. Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel,” said the Hong Kong government in a press release. The statement also said the documents for Snowden’s extradition submitted by Washington “did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.”

“As the HKSAR Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for a provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr. Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.”

WikiLeaks legal aid

Whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks has rallied behind Snowden and said they are assisting him in his bid for political asylum in a “democratic country.” The group announced on Twitter that they helped obtain “travel documents” and ensured his safe exit from Hong Kong. Diplomats and legal advisors from WikiLeaks legal team were also accompanying the NSA leaker on his flight to Moscow, WikiLeaks said in a statement.

A source from Aeroflot told Interfax that Snowden took flight SU213 to Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was unaware of Snowden’s plans to fly to Moscow. The US has filed an extradition order against Snowden for espionage, theft and conversion of government property.

It is understood that Moscow will not be Snowden’s final destination, he could potentially fly on to Ecuador or Iceland where he has allegedly seeking asylum through intermediary. A diplomatic source told the Russian news agency Itar-Tass that no request for asylum in Russia had been received from the former CIA employee.

Citing a source close to Snowden, Russian news agency Interfax reported that the whistleblower’s final destination will be Venezuela with a transfer in Havana, Cuba. He will reportedly be on flight SU150 to Havana, leaving Moscow on Monday and then on flight V-04101 to Caracas.

“He chose such a complicated route in the hope that he would not be arrested on the way to his final destination of Venezuela,” the source told Interfax.

The US will seek cooperation with governments of countries where Snowden may go, Justice Department Spokeswoman Nanda Chitre stated on Sunday.

“We will continue to discuss this matter with Hong Kong and pursue relevant law enforcement cooperation with other countries where Mr. Snowden may be attempting to travel,” she said, as cited by Reuters

http://rt.com/news/snowden-fly-moscow-aeroflot-125/

Too easy to be understood... There is a tight cooperation between the USA and the PRC on State Terrorism, and Chinas are US and British puppets. If China let Snowden to leave , it is because sectors of the U.S. government and the British Empire wanted him free

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