By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | September 16, 2013
In addition to everything else it’s collecting, the NSA also has millions of international credit card transactions stashed away in its databases, according to documents viewed by Spiegel.
Press TV – September 16, 2013
The British government has launched a new debate on reintroducing mandatory National Service, or conscription, for the 18 to 26-year-olds, 50 years after the last conscripted British soldier ended his service.
The bill was tabled by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, who said the service can inspire young people with “self-respect, personal reliance, discipline and behavior.”
U.N. Report on Chemical Attack in Syria by Robert MackeyLinkPg 18- The time necessary to conduct a detailed survey of both locations as well as take samples was very limited. The sites have been very well travelled by other individuals both before and during the investigation.
This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.
This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.
This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.
The Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans wants the GOP to take the lead on combating climate change. That's not happening in Wisconsin and it's not happening anywhere else.
Al-Manar | September 16, 2013
In significant remarks made by the president of the Zionist entity, Shimon Peres, he stated that what is happening in Syria today is punishment of the Arab state for refusing to compromise with ‘Israel’.
In statements published by the Zionist daily Yediot Ahronoth on Sunday, Peres said that “the 1973 war had brought peace in spite of its brutality.”
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE | CounterPunch | September 16, 2013
As soon as Kevin Drum at Mother Jones absolved the CIA of spewing poison gas as a provocation, many on the Liberal Left cautiously threw their weight behind Obama and the thrill of waging a punitive war on Syria.
“Perhaps regime change is a good idea,” Tom Hayden speculated in The Nation.
By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice | September 16, 2013
Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites ‘R Us.”
With the Obama administration beating the war drums, Canadian officials are demanding a response to the Syrian regime’s alleged use of the chemical weapon sarin.
In this edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order we welcome Thomas Sheridan, author of The Anvil of the Psyche, to discuss Gaslight, the 1940 British psychological thriller that introduced us to the concept of ‘gaslighting.’ In the discussion we point out how common gaslighting is, ask “
Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014.
The reason, according to the Cato Institute’s Tad DeHaven, “appears to be that the GOP wants to manufacture angst over sequestration’s hit to defense spending, which is a Republican sacred cow.” DeHaven continues:
Last week Tuesday, I took the time to take a close look at the criminal US President's speech to the American public, and honestly it was one of the most revolting speeches I had ever read... I posted an article tearing it basically to shreds and showed clearly that the US President Barry Obama/Soetoro/Davis (take your pick as to what his real last name is) was a liar and a man absolutely bent on war against the innocent nation of Syria....
Al-Manar | September 15, 2013
Three rockets launched by mercenaries deployed across the Lebanese border with Syria hit the Bekaa valley Saturday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
“Three Syrian 107 mm Grad Rockets hit Baalbek District without causing any injuries,” the Army Command said confirming the news in a released communiqué.
“Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture,” Human Rights Watch said in a report this week.
Obama meets with Bahrain King Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa
James Corbett appears on the Great Western Inland Sea YouTube podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on the big picture of the problems facing society. To discuss the New World Order agenda, the social and behavioral conditioning that has made it possible, and how we can really oppose that plan without building up another imperial tyrant.
The IDF insists on not indicting the security officer who killed Bassem Abu Rahme, even though we provided it with enough details to find him
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | September 14, 2013
The just announced U.S.-Russia agreement in Geneva on a “joint determination to ensure the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons (CW) program in the soonest and safest manner” sounds the death knell to an attempt by Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to get the U.S. into the war in Syria.
Missile Defense Agency
September 13, 2013
Successful Missile Defense Test Against Multiple Targets
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
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Arnold Zweig
From Young Woman of 1914 (1931)
Translated by Eric Sutton
This used to be a video. It cannot be found on YouTube and Vimeo. So much for Gentile freedom of speech, thought and conscience. I will re-construct it here as an html file with images and a few videos. Several of these videos have been taken down by YouTube. It is available as a PDF file in Pakistan.
History of Zionist Terrorism All The Way up to 911
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gPKStTzGs
The UN has issued a picture of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon receiving the Chemical Weapons Report on Syria from the Head of the Investigation Team Avi Sellstrom. Zooming in on the letter (as apparently first noticed by journalist Denis Fitzgerald https://twitter.com/denisfitz ) in the photo reveals that it is a “Letter of Transmittal” in which the […]
Unemployed, has lived in UK hotel for over a year, parroting Western talking points - strains limits of credibility - admittedly lodged at the expense of the UK government. Image: "Former Syrian diplomat" Khaled al-Ayoubi, fed, clothed, and housed for the past year by the British government "outside of London," represents the latest unqualified appeal to authority by the propagandists at the London Telegraph.
A Note to My Readers September 18, 2013 I apologize to my readers for the absence of a column today: I’m a bit under the weather. Indeed, that’s all I have the strength to give by way of an explanation. See you on Friday!Anyone who thinks the US regime change operation in Syria is finished […]
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 16, 2013 Note: – The embedded pdf below only displays pp.43-44 » DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT «
The previously scheduled visit to Staten Island's in-development Freshkills Park had to be postponed because of Superstorm Sandy damage. The tour has been rescheduled for November 9.by KenA couple of days ago I promised an update on the fall tour schedule of the Wolfe Walkers, now programmed by the peerless tour guide Justin Ferate.
Updated at 4:35 p.m. EDT, Sept. 16, 2013
The start of the workweek began with a series of bombings across Baghdad and the Shi'ite south. At least 90 people were killed and 227 more were wounded. Shootings and bombing also took place throughout the country, but most of the casualties occurred south of the capital.
Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) can make a case that there isn't another congressman as extreme right-wing as he is. Last year he won an open Democratic seat after reactionary Blue Dog Dan Boren retired. A 36 year old plumber and radio talk show host, Mullin is probably best known as an arch-hypocrite who railed incessantly against Obama's stimulus program while his company secretly look $370,000 for the program.
RT | September 15, 2013
A North Carolina policeman has been detained after shooting dead an unarmed African-American man, who was trying to get help following a car crash.
On Saturday morning, three police officers in Charlotte, NC responded to a 911 call from a woman, who said that an unknown male was knocking on the door of her house, the local media reports.
Last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer broke the story that Boehner's PAC is under investigation by the FEC. Basically, every kind of shady special interest-- from the coal and oil barons to organized crime and gambling operations, not just donated to Friends of John Boehner but gave more than legally allowed.
"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode076 - Wild Whim which features brand new sounds from J.
UPDATE AT BOTTOMAfter negotiations Kerry hightails it to Jerusalem (1st stop!)See url below indicating original published headline. Note the original headline, pointing out of this visit as the 1 stop, straight from Geneva to Israel?
UPDATE: Summers had to withdraw his nomination because he could not get support in the Senate. But this essay is still relevant as it covers the three exit strategies the Federal Reserve faces. And all will devastate us in the near future.
Terrorists operating in Syria have threatened to "block" UN inspectors, any bloodshed will be on the hands of the US who is now openly arming them. September 15, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - In Reuters' "Syrian Rebels Slam U.S.-Russia Deal, Say Assad Is Moving Chemical Weapons To Lebanon And Iraq," Qassim Saadeddine of the so-called "Free Syrian Army" rejected t
MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer:No. 4, "Die zwei blauen Augen" ("The two blue eyes")Thomas Allen sings the last of Mahler's Wayfarer Songs, "Die zwei blauen Augen" ("The two blue eyes"), with Václav Neumann conducting the Mahler Youth Orchestra, in Frankfurt's Alte Oper, 1991.Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, cond. EMI, recorded Oct. 18, 1958Maureen Forrester, contralto; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, cond.
Sunday again, and luckily this last week the world did not go to heck...Therefore I am alive and well and able to put up my weekly rant!I am glad to say that my cohort and fellow collaborator, the Whitewraithe, is back.... She had to take a long hiatus from blogging and doing her own articles over at Pragmatic Witness just to get her own personal issues and life in general back into order...
Xinhua News Agency
September 15,2013
NATO Military Committee Conference held in Budapest
BUDAPEST: The weekend meeting of NATO’s Military Committee, the organization’s top decision-making body, was held in Budapest on Saturday, with a focus on topical issues such as the Middle East and North Africa, including Syria.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Ernest Hemingway: Selections on war
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Ernest Hemingway
From A Farewell to Arms (1929)
On the 12th anniversary of 9/11, the 9/11 truth movement seems as far away as ever from bringing any of the actual perpetrators of those attacks to justice. Now, investigators like Kevin Ryan are beginning to piece together the story and identify the prime suspects in any real criminal investigation of September 11th. Find out more about Kevin Ryan’s research in this week’s GRTV Feature Interview.
CLICK HERE for the mp3 audio of this interview
In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on Syria, anarchy, gold reserves, Noam Chomsky, prosecuting 9/11 criminals and more.
CLICK HERE for the mp3 audio of this podcast.
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Questions For Corbett from jjsmith3s
Al-Nusra Commits to al-Qaida
The other day a Democrat who I respect and admire had a staffer call me and ask if Blue America would be up for doing a fundraiser for him. He had certainly earned it by his unrelenting work on behalf of working families. My first instinct was to go, "Of course, how much does he need?" But then I thought about it for a second and said, "I know no Republican is running against him; does he have a primary?" He didn't.
Palestine Information Center – 15/09/2013
GAZA — The Egyptian naval forces opened fire on Saturday evening at Palestinian fishermen and physically assaulted two of them during an incursion into the territorial waters of the Gaza Strip.
While much of the foreign policy elite here sees the tide of public opposition to US air strikes against Syria that swept over Washington during the past two weeks as evidence of a growing isolationism, veteran pollsters and other analysts say other factors were more relevant. A variety of surveys have shown that the public […]
A couple of weeks ago the Charleston Daily Mail speculated that if West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant enters the race for the open Senate seat, the Democrats will have a chance to hold onto it. Citing a telephone survey, they said Republican Shelley Moore Capito got the thumbs up from 45% of the voters and Tennant from 40% (which is within the margin of error), with 15% unsure.
Members of the Shabak ethnic minority group were killed in two separate incidents in northern Iraq. Across the country at least 46 Iraqis were killed and 67 more were wounded.
The just announced U.S.-Russia agreement in Geneva on a “joint determination to ensure the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons (CW) program in the soonest and safest manner” sounds the death knell to an attempt by Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to get the U.S. into the war in Syria.
