US Strikes Khorasan,in Syria,again?! Dead bombmaker and an update
Where is this Khorasan story line going to take us? To Iran? Lebanon? Or into Turkey?Options. So many options.....BBC
Where is this Khorasan story line going to take us? To Iran? Lebanon? Or into Turkey?Options. So many options.....BBC
With a very few exceptions, it was congressmen from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the Wall Street whores who fight alongside the Republicans against working families-- who got the short end of the stick Tuesday. Strong progressives in both Houses tended to win.
MEMO | November 6, 2014 It has been more than three months since the end of the war on Gaza however Fadl Misbah, 41, is still living as others are, in a house which is covered in plastic sheets and which is not suitable for winter. Fadl, whose family is made up of 13 members, […]
U.S. Department of Defense
November 6, 2014
NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Emphasizes Partnerships
By Jim Garamone
WASHINGTON: Collective defense is well and is truly back on NATO’s agenda, the alliance’s deputy secretary general said in South Korea last week.
Alexander Vershbow told the Seoul Defense Dialogue about the results of NATO’s recent Wales Summit and what it means for countries outside the North Atlantic alliance.
Voice of America News
November 6, 2014
NATO Stages Military Drill in Lithuania
LITHUANIA: More than 2,500 NATO troops are taking part in exercises on two training grounds in Lithuania.
Nine countries have sent soldiers to train as part of Exercise Iron Sword, Czech Republic, Estonia, the U.S., U.K., Canada, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary and Germany.
teleSUR | November 6, 2014 International Criminal Court (ICC) lawyers believe that Israel is guilty of “war crimes” for the raid on an aid ship bound for Gaza in 2010 that killed nine Turkish activists. However, they have also decided that the case does not meet their criteria for prosecution, according to court papers seen […]
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arsenal at Springfield (1845)
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling,
teleSUR | November 5, 2014 During a meeting Wednesday with the journalists in the coastal, economic hub of Guayaquil, Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa said that over 309,000 children had quit working to attend school. According to official estimates, the number of working children decreased from 17 to eight percent. Correa reiterated his commitment to eliminate […]
Police State USA | November 5, 2014 ROUND ROCK, TX — A little girl was confiscated from her loving parents because they smoked marijuana, and given away to a foster mother who put her into a coma and killed her. Alexandria “Alex” Hill, age 2, succumbed to her injuries after being “thrown to the ground.” […]
As we mentioned yesterday, election day was bad for the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | November 6, 2014 Verizon and AT&T have been snooping on millions of Americans’ online browsing habits for years, all without users’ knowledge or approval. The activity involves the use of “supercookies” placed on unencrypted web pages by the telecommunications companies that can’t be turned off by cell phone users, […]
If the City Police need to get free advice from RBS on financial crime, then things have truly sunk to a level from which there will be no good outcomes in the foreseeable future, and the City Police should be ashamed of themselves for even contemplating such a move.
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November 11, 2014 (William Engdahl - NEO) - By now even the New York Times is openly talking about the secret Obama Administration strategy of trying to bankrupt Russia by using its oil-bloated Bedouin bosom buddy, Saudi Arabia, to collapse the world price of
Aaron decides to dive headlong into one of the most important questions of human existence. What happens when we die? topics include: death, oblivion, afterlife, reincarnation, philosophy, religion, mortality, faith, existential questions, finding answers
The midterms are over, but the lingering distraction as to their great meaning will last a few more weeks. Ebola and the Islamic State (ISIS) were put on the backburner while everyone wrung their hands over the importance of the political process at home. Once again, in spite of the laughably low approval rate of […]
At least 220 people were killed, mostly in airstrikes and battles, and another 63 were wounded. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama said today that he will ask Congress for specific authority to conduct a military campaign against the Islamic State militants.
There aren't going to be all that many Democratic freshmen next year. Seth Moulton's win in MA-06 yesterday was one of the bright spots. The district is the northeast corner of the state where the 495 and the 95 join up and head up into New Hampshire. It starts in the Boston's northern outer suburbs-- Lynn, Saugus, Wakefield, Burlington and Bedford and shoots north to Salem, Gloucester, Ipswich, Newbury and Merrimac. It's been John Tierney's district since 1997 but Moulton beat him in a primary on September 9.
Kristjan Thorsteinson joins Media Monarchy to talk about his new book, "Flight Path: The Fifth Plane and the Threat to Air Force One", which deals with "the nature of the threat" on 9/11.Download/Subscribe
Dan Dicks of PressForTruth.ca joins us to talk about the recent shooting in Canadian Parliament. We discuss the government’s eagerness to label this a “terrorist act” and use it to help justify new “anti-terror” legislation, as well as the Canadian public’s reaction to this propaganda campaign.
"Isn't this political ad wonderfully false and misleading?"" 'I really think it's time for a change,' said Carol Foyler, a memory-loss sufferer who cast her vote this morning in Iowa City. 'I just feel in my gut that if these people were in charge they'd do a really amazing job with the economy.' "Harland Dorrinson, who voted in Akron, Ohio, and who has no memory of anything that happened before 2013, said his main concern was a terrorist attack on American soil.
After all he should walk his talk? But he won't. Cause he is an elitist power that shouldn't be.I had seen this news yesterday and had intended to post it- So here it isUnlike the paid mouthpiece from the National Post- I DO NOT believe his comments were well intentioned. He is one of the 'entitled' leeches on society.
Midterm election blowout exposes Democratic Party as irrelevant #2 corporate party, with weak, fear-based tactics aimed at wedging liberal base…..
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–Dems spent big on Hagan, Grimes and Landrieu, damaging the brand in desperate effort to hold seats
–in many races, Dems used bad strategy: Udall in Colorado ran solely on choice, Davis in Texas de-emphasized her strongest issue
Their one win, Gina Raimondo, is a corrupt corporate shill as bad as ANY RepublicanThis was a great year for EMILY's List. They accomplished their top goal-- raising an immense amount of money to pay their executives and run their operation. Their candidates mostly lost but winning is only important to EMILY's List insofar as it helps goose the contribution flow.
I really enjoyed recording this interview for the recent TED Radio Hour on NPR on creativity. I’m particularly delighted that Dame Gillian Lynn is in the piece too retelling with me the story of her discovery as a child that she wasn’t ‘sick’, she was a dancer.
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The full program also features interviews with Sting, Elizabeth Gilbert and Charles Limb.
Video by B’Man’s Revolt. Poem by DC Dave Waxing Indignant Over 911 Truth “How dare you!” they said; What else can they say? The facts of the case Will not go away. Skyscrapers came down Like they were demolished. The iron laws of physics Were neatly abolished. They fell straight and fast. It’s never happened […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 160. I was on Ben Stone’s “Bad Quaker” podcast yesterday, episode 449. We discussed IP and then some of Ben’s previous comments on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s views on immigration law. Related links: Bad Quaker podcast: 0448 pc383 Hoppe’s Immigration (corrected) Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “Immigration And Libertarianism” at Lew Rockwell My article Simple Libertarian […]
RT | November 5, 2014 Two schoolchildren were killed and four injured as an artillery shell hit a stadium in front of a school in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, local self-defense forces said. “All the wounded were taken to the Donetsk regional trauma unit,” Natalya Yemchenko, a militia official with the Donetsk People’s […]
For years, I have followed the excellent work by John Kaminski, who writes his posts over at The Rebel online alternative news site, at www.therebel.org..... And yes, I have had some critics put forward outrageous comments about John at this blog, including the false notion that John himself is somehow "Jewish" due to his last name "Kaminski"....
Not my headline,but, certainly an attention grabber.The IMF’s annual report confirms the future belongs to the BRICSKeeping in mind the post from yesterday regarding the attack on the BRICS nations? Saudi Arabia, aids the NATO war machine, more oil price cuts- Attack on the BRICS
I was stunned that Maryland voters gave the heave-ho to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown yesterday. Obama’s “Mini-Me” never recovered from his role as the mastermind of perhaps the most disastrous ObamaCare Internet site rollout in the country.
I accidentally participated with Brown in the Rockville Memorial Day parade earlier this year. It wasn’t my fault – maybe I was distracted by the garish Gaithersburg Police Humvee and did not notice where I was supposed to exit the parade route. Here’s the story-
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested. Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up King James I while he opened Parliament. Plot discovered and Guy Fawkes caught and tortured. By November the 8th, on the rack, Fawkes names 12 co-conspirators. Those not killed where they are tracked down are found guilty of treason later in a trial lasting less than a day. They and Fawkes are hanged, drawn and quartered.
"Training" foreign troops seems to be some magic solution for various foreign policy problems. "Training" a new Iraqi army against the Islamic State is the latest of such a hoped for miracles. But all recent "western training" has been more problematic than successful.
The various foreign troops trained at the infamous U.S. Army School of the Americas, turned out to be capable, but only as torturers and death squads.
By Anthony F. Shaker | Mittag’s Journal | October 26, 2014 A recent poll by the Beirut Center for Research and Information (BCRI) found that two thirds (62.6%) of Lebanese Christians feel that, contrary to its vilification by members of the NATO alliance, Hizbullah has in fact protected their country from its most determined enemies—Israel, IS […]
No surprise that McConnell won. And not a surprise that that was the very first race called last night. The Democrats had a weak, inauthentic, poll-driven candidate who didn't inspire anyone who didn't already hate McConnell or who wanted a family friend of Bill and Hill to win or just a generic woman in office. McConnell won by a bigger margin than most pundits were predicting-- 754,777 (55.7%) to 557,652 (41.2%).
[Update: see Kinsella on the Chicago Sit-in: “Shoot ’em” (Freedom demonrats); Shoot the looters!, LewRockwell.com (Sept. 22, 2008)] In the June 15, 1969 issue of The Libertarian Forum, in an article “Massacre at People’s Park,” Murray Rothbard writes: The cry has gone up that all this was necessary to defend the “private property” of the University of […]
Part 1 of this article examined the nature of Azerbaijan’s political and economic development since the end of the Soviet Union nearly twenty five years ago, with specific attention paid to the country’s relations with the West.
Ma’an – November 5, 2014 JERUSALEM – Dozens of Palestinians suffered tear-gas inhalation and several others were injured by stun grenades, shrapnel and rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound area on Wednesday, an official said. Palestinian Red Crescent official Amin Abu Ghazaleh told Ma’an that Red Crescent ambulances moved nine injured […]
I am sick by what I am watching happening in America right now....
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-11-05%20Caravan%20To%20Midnight.m…"][/audio]James Corbett joins John B. Wells on Caravan To Midnight to discuss his documentary, "Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve." Topics discussed include the history and function of the Federal Reserve, how the Fed can be supplanted, and how the current petrodollar paradigm is maintained at the barrel of a gun.
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on Press TV to provide his perspective during the midterm elections in the US. Draitser explains that there is no democracy in the US as both major parties collude in order to enrich the ruling class at the expense of everyone else. He explains that the two parties are really two wings of the same party, and that the elections are just an affirmation of the continued hegemony of Wall St. and the military-industrial complex.
By Alastair Sloan | MEMO | November 5, 2014 Not much, as British parliamentary records reveal – the ruling Al-Khalifa family shelled out just £5,400 per head for British parliamentary grandees Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Lord Gulam Noon, Hazel Blears MP, Lord Patel of Bradford and Lord Clive Soley to visit the Kingdom in April. […]
Al-Akhbar | November 5, 2014 Prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague have told a Turkish organization that Israel is guilty of “war crimes” for attacking a Turkish aid ship for Gaza in 2010. In May of that year, Israeli commandos killed nine peaceful activists, eight Turkish nationals and an American of […]
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It can be very misleading to compare the energy costs for wind and solar to the energy costs for more conventional generation technology and assume the difference is the cost of providing for “clean” energy.
Interfax-Ukraine
November 4, 2014
NSDC: Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, nine wounded in past 24 hours
Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the east in the past 24 hours, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) said.
“We have lost two servicemen killed and nine wounded over the past day,” NSDC Information and Analytical Center Spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
November 4, 2014
14th Annual CD&E Conference Kicks off in Budapest
More than 150 military and civilian leaders from NATO nations and organisations gathered in Budapest, Hungary, November 4 for the 2014 International Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) Conference.
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RT | November 5, 2014 The first of four sets of spent nuclear fuel rods has been removed from a damaged reactor building at Japan’s Fukushima power plant, scoring a major success in an effort to dismantle the quake and tsunami-wrecked facility. The 1,331 spent fuel rod assemblies weighting some 400 tons have been recovered […]