Well someone had to be bombed, right?

learn moreRichard Greene, an old friend from Air America days and founder of the 279 for Change Campaign called me from Karachi this morning, the only part of Pakistan I've never visited. He's loving it.

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Two weeks worth of links today.
Opinion/Must Reads
Aide Planted Anti-Bank Comments in One Paid Clinton Speech to Throw Reporters Off the Scent (The Intercept)
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins (The Wall Street Journal)

Quote of the week from our author “No loyal American worth his salt would ever question the basic goodness of dropping bombs on foreigners. Any foreigners (the darker the better),

Financial Times  October 13, 2016 by: David Gardner in Beiruthttps://www.ft.com/content/bed0de7a-9139-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

21st Century Wire says…
This is a bit of an oddity as far as TED talks go…
Investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson actually delivers a TED presentation which calls out the FBI for being the party responsible for creating the majority of so-called ‘domestic terror’ and ‘Islamic terror’ busts in the US since 9/11.

Organizers of a political action committee formed to oppose the potential release of GM mosquitoes in Florida’s Lower Keys say they were sideswiped by Oxitec’s parent company – but vow to fight on

Hundreds of affected and concerned groups have gathered to expose the US agricultural giant's destructive practices

21st Century Wire says…
What a lucky break for Russia, as there will be no protests from anyone in the US over this incident – because it happened to a North Korean vessel. 

IMEMC News & Agencies – October 14, 2016 Palestine Advocacy Project, an NGO based in the Boston area, has launched a series of ads portraying prominent Israeli officials, such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their disregard for the safety and well-being of Palestinians. These ads feature violent and bigoted direct quotations which highlight the […]

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Downey, Jr kidnapped by ISIS

By Nasim Ahmed | MEMO | October 15, 2016 A draft decision by UNESCO, which criticises Israel’s activities at holy places in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, has been denounced by Israeli officials. “It ignores thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem and aids Islamist terror,” claimed Education Minister Naftali Bennett very dramatically. […]

By the 1860s Cuba was the chief sugar producer in the world and by the 1880s the US consumed most of Cuba’s exported sugar. In 1898, following the Spanish-American War, the US effectively acquired Cuba. The U.S. came close to annexing Cuba but sugar beet producers in Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado were able to prevent it so that Cuban sugar wouldn't destroy their profits.

CPTnet | October 14, 2016 Learning Delayed  Pictured here: Israeli Border Police prevented thirty-eight children and two teachers from passing through the checkpoint for almost thirty minutes. As a result, students not only witnessed their teachers’ detention, but they were also late to school. (October 6, 2016) Military Bureaucracy Pictured here: Israeli Border Police stop and demand IDs of […]

Considering their enormous growth potential, the considerable size of their domestic markets and a stable political scenario, four countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – were selected by Goldman Sachs’ chief economist Jim O’Neill in the beginning of the last decade and they were collectively called BRIC.
The first summit of these countries was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia in June 2009.
South Africa (the ‘S’ in the BRIC) joined them formally at the third summit in 2011 and the ‘powerful coalition’ of BRIC bloc became BRICS.

On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined by the one and only John Kaminski. John and I discuss a number of topics impacting the world, including the “refugee” invasion of Europe, a WWIII scenario playing out in the Middle East involving Russia, Syria, and the United States, the 2016 election, Donald Trump and – of course – Jews.
Below are relevant links for this program:

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

From left to right: South African President Jacob Zuma, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Brazilian President Michel Temer [Image: BRICS2016]

By Alexander KUZNETSOV | Strategic Culture Foundation | 15.10.2016 The West is feverishly seeking someone to blame for the catastrophic situation in the Middle East. Following on from John Kerry, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has announced his intention to request that the International Criminal Court investigate Russian «war crimes» in Syria. Hillary Clinton, a […]

By Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice | October 14, 2016 As Western outrage erupts over the relentless destruction of Aleppo and its people, why is there no similar clamour for a halt to the more prolonged pulverising of Gaza and the continuing slaughter of civilians there? The UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, […]

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-10-15%20Newsbud%20Roundtable.mp3"][/audio]James joins the Newsbud roundtable to discuss what is being called the 'worst humanitarian crisis' of our time. We take a peek behind the curtain to find the root causes for why and how millions of people are migrating from war torn countries, and who benefits. We also examine the history and context of synthetically-created refugee crises since 1951.

U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia’s bloody air war against impoverished Yemen has escalated into a direct U.S. attack on Yemeni targets as retaliation for alleged missiles falling near a U.S. warship, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul…Read more →

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been banned in the United States since 1979, but a new study by researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that up to 14 million students in 26,000 U.S. public schools may still be exposed to the toxic industrial chemicals. [1

On October 12, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said in a notice to be published in the Federal Register that it has formally withdrawn plans to ban kratom, an herb used by many as a natural medicine.
In August, the DEA outlined plans to classify mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, two active compounds in kratom, as Schedule I substances, alongside heroin, LSD, and (inexplicably) marijuana.

https://southfront.org/russias-first-year-of-operations-in-syria/

Derrick Broze of TheConsciousResistance.com joins us once again to continue our conversation on agorism and counter-economic activity. Today we discuss Freedom Cells, an idea for self-organized peer to peer groups that assert sovereignty, create alternative institutions, and innovate counter-economic activity.

When it’s times to eat, people with diabetes look to the glycemic index (GI) to tell them how a certain food will impact their blood glucose. However, new research suggests the GI may not be as reliable as previously thought.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is based in New York but the bulk of its work is usually in tyrannical and oppressive regimes in backward parts of the world-- Russia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Iran, Nigeria, Ethiopia, China, Pakistan... But not this week. If you've been listening to Trump's increasingly violent tirades against the media at his hate rallies filled with deplorables, you may have noticed he's riling up his low IQ fascist-embracing supporters.

Press TV – October 15, 2016 Iran’s deputy permanent representative to the UN has warned against continued sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia and Israel, which are in violation of other territories as well as humanitarian laws. “We are deeply concerned about the destabilizing repercussions of the continual entry and export of such weaponry into […]

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Keats: Days innocent of scathing war
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John Keats
From Endymion
There are who lord it o’er their fellow-men

By David Swanson | War Is A Crime | October 13, 2016 Before people had an easy way to see video footage of police murders, headlines crediting the police with just and noble actions couldn’t be effectively questioned. We’re still back there in the dark ages when it comes to war murders, but we can […]

It was the epic “I quit” seen and heard around the world. The year was 2014 when Charlo Greene, a reporter with KTVA in Alaska, took to the airwaves to tell viewers she was ditching her day job to promote pot legalization with a well-timed “f**k it.” But now Greene is now facing 54 years in prison. Here’s the video, but if you haven’t figured it out yet, it contains an F-bomb. [1]

BRICS is home to 43% of the world’s population [Xinhua]BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – account for 43 per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of the global economy.
Despite a global economic slowdown, BRICS has been a main economic engine for the world economy.
Countries such as Brazil and Russia, which struggled with recession in the past two years, are expected to turn the corner and post GDP growth in 2017.

Russia’s economy is expected to bounce back in 2017 [PPIO]
Type of Government: Federal [semi-presidential] Republic
Current Leader: Vladimir Putin
Population: 142,355,415 (July 2016 estimate)
Language(s): Russian
Ethnicities: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9%
Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, and other Christian 2%
Capital City: Moscow

India’s economy was the best performing in 2016 [Xinhua]
Type of Government: Federal parliamentary republic
Current Leader: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee
Population: 1,266,883,598 (July 2016 estimate)
Language(s): Hindi 40%, Bengali 8%, Telugu 7% (see below)
Ethnicities: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%

On October 13, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned that bacteria may have contaminated special devices used during open heart surgery, putting more than half a million heart surgery patients at risk. [1]
Source: The Seattle Times

China is moving from an export-based economy to one that is driven by domestic products and services [Xinhua]
Type of Government: One-party Communist state
Current Leader: Xi Jin Ping
Population: 1,373,541,278 (July 2016 estimate)
Language(s): Mandarin, Cantonese
Ethnicities: Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai and other nationalities) 7.1%

Photo taken on May 6, 2014 shows souvenirs on display in front of a poster of late South African President Nelson Mandela, in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa [Xinhua]
Type of Government: Parliamentary Republic
Current Leader: President Jacob Zuma
Population: 54,956,900 (2015 estimate)

In today’s show originally broadcast on October 14 2016, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews Mike Walsh-McLaughlin in a show of two halves, so to speak. In the first half hour Mike read Rudyard Kipling’s poems, “The Wrath Of The Awakened Saxon,” and “The White Man’s Burden,” which we also discussed. He also revealed that when he published “The White Man’s Burden,” on a flyer in the late 1970’s, he was rewarded with a four month prison sentence.

[Xinhua]Type of Government: Federal republic
Current Leader: Michel Temer, President
Population: 205,823,665 (July 2016 estimate)
Language(s): Portugese
Ethnicities: white 47.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 43.1%, black 7.6%, Asian 1.1%, indigenous 0.4% (2010 est.)
Religions: Christianity 90% (predominantly Roman Catholic) Spiritist 2.2%, other 1.4%, none 8%, unspecified 0.4%
Capital City: Brasilia

4.82/5 (33) Lest we forget, besides strange archaeo-paleographico-geopolitics and space recently, there is the ordinary financial malfeasance in high circles, epitomized currently by the…
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities – Voltaire
Going through the world news everyday as an editor has become a job of running a virtual gauntlet of embarrassment, and this is caused by the repetitive duplicity and irresponsibility of those who claim to wear the mantle of freedom and democracy.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a bilateral summit in Goa, India on 15 October 2016 [PPIO]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in the western Indian state of Goa on Saturday.
Several deals were announced following the talks.
The two countries will set up a joint venture to build helicopters in India, which will also buy surface-to-air missile systems

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have routinely met in recent years to iron out a mutual approach to ending the Syrian conflict, but relations have soured recently [Xinhua]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has downplayed hopes of a breakthrough on Syria when he meets his US counterpart John Kerry in Lausanne, Switzerland later on Saturday.
The two are meeting for the first time since their countries engaged in a war of words with each accusing the other of scuttling a ceasefire they both brokered in early September.

Click here for the CNN site. (Note that the title was chosen by CNN’s editor.) Arthur Miller once said that “an era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.” The faith in trickle-down economics, in the … Continue reading →

Russian President Vladimir Putin lands in Dabolim, Goa, India for the 8th BRICS Summit on 15 October 2016 [Image: MEA, India]
Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa have arrived in the western Indian state of Goa for the 8th BRICS Summit that begins on Saturday.
The group will discuss the global economic and political situation over the next two days.

Values the size of Planet Earth are at stake, as the American presidential election grows ever smaller, ever pettier, ever more certain that rancor triumphs over relevance. Can you imagine, let us say, an issue the size of global nuclear disarmament emerging in this race, somewhere between the groper tapes and the hacked DNC emails? […]
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