by James Corbett
GRTV.ca
December 21, 2013

Press TV – December 21, 2013

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors have neither the right nor any duty to inspect Iran’s military and missile sites, a senior Iranian official says.

by Judith Curry Some reflections on 2013 are coming online. I’m sure there will be others over the next few weeks, but here is a starter. Extreme weather events A summary of extreme weather events in 2013 is given by … Continue reading →

In this blockbuster no-holds-barred conversation, Sibel Edmonds, Guillermo Jimenez and James Corbett discuss Edmonds’ recent series of articles on Glenn Greenwald and his connection to billionaire Pierre Omidyar. We talk about the NSA/PayPal connection and Greenwald’s refusal to discuss this issue, and Edmonds reveals specific examples of publicly documented cases that Greenwald has been covering up for years.

International Solidarity Movement | December 21, 2013

Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine – Yesterday morning, Murad Eshtewi, the head of the Popular Committee of Kufr Qaddum and leader of the Friday demonstrations was arrested and is still being held by Israeli forces.

“Denying same-gender couples the right to marry and thus depriving them and their families of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of civil marriage violates the equality demanded by the Equal Protection Clause of the New Mexico Constitution,” Justice Edward Chavez wrote for the five-member court, which ruled unanimously Thursday, making New Mexico the 17th state jun the Union to back marriage equality for LGBT citizens.New Mexico is a pretty live-a

By Hanna Kawas, Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association | December 20, 2013

Open letter to John Baird, Canadian Foreign Minister
Mr. Baird:

From the October 7, 2013 Economic Policy Journal article, Is Bitcoin Money: What Economists Have To Say, Tom Woods said: “Tom Woods: Bitcoin is a medium of exchange but not money. This isn’t an insult to or a value judgment about Bitcoin. Austrians sometimes describe money as the most widely accepted medium of exchange in […]

Monetary historian and reformer Byron Dale is scheduled to be my guest for the full two hours of Exposing Faux Capitalism, on December 22, 2013, from 8 to 10 PM EST. I’m looking forward to speaking with him about his monetary reform efforts in Minnesota, to issue debt-free money in pursuit of legitimate public works […]

Here is my summary of my December 16, 2013 interview on the Power Hour with Joyce Riley: 9m – Iceland was able to have the reform they did because of a severe shock — 80% drop in their currency in just 4 months, and because of their relatively small population 10m – Challenge with banking […]

Originally posted at TomDispatch. The headline – “Bride and Boom!” – was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half. Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation point covering most of the bottom third of the front page […]

GAZA CITY, Dec. 20 2013 (IPS) – Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza’s most heavily populated and poor areas. He asks a man selling socks if he can buy a pair for one shekel […]

You'd want to think twice before bidding on this record. The ABC Command label tells you it's one of the inferior later pressings; you want an original gold-label issue. (Note: Unfortunately, last year's preview-opening video clip of the Nutcracker Suite segment of Walt Disney's Fantasia has disappeared -- not entirely surprisingly, I guess.

At least 42 people were killed and 41 more were wounded in prayer day attacks. The only major attack took place in northern Iraq, and it did not seem to be targeting pilgrims.

By Jack Blood
12.20.13
www.deadlinelive.info
 
UPDATE – 12.28.13
A&E: ‘Duck Dynasty’ resuming ‘with the entire Robertson family,’ including Phil

Jumpin' Jehosophat! I thought maybe it wasDaffy Duck who said those terrible things.by KenAs God is my witness, I thought Duck Dynasty was a cartoon show, and I'm not thinking of live-action animation. No, I thought it was, like, a ripoff of some of our classic cartoon ducks, like maybe Daffy -- that would have fit the story, wouldn't it?

 
Prof. Alan Dershowitz
 
By Franklin Lamb
Damascus:
 

The public response to the broadcast of Utopia on the ITV Network has been widespread across the UK. Many people have asked what they can do to support Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice.I recommend that people write to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling on him to start, without delay, negotiations for a fully constituted Treaty between the Commonwealth of Australia and all the First Nations of Australia.

Former CERN official says 65 prominent IPCC authors have abandoned "scientific rigour."

As unrest continues in both countries, a sharp, hypocritical divide widens for the "intentional community."  December 21, 2013 (Tony Cartalucic) - For audiences around the world watching pro-EU protests unfold in the streets of Ukraine's capital of Kiev, they may have noticed flags bearing a lifted hand giving a "three-fingered salute." This is the reformed Nazi salute of right-winged nationalist group Svoboda.

In podcast #1,000–our last of 2013–we examine Obama’s year-end press conference, his masterful spin on tough NSA questions….Click here for free audiobook download, and generate $15 to PBC Podcast from Audible!  Kickass Kona coffee offer is back for new annual subscribers!
White House press corps finally gets tough on Obama about NSA spying, but he artfully spins the issues and dodges key questions; in any case,  PBC hopes he enjoys his vacation on Lani Kai beach on Oahu…

That Buck McKeon is finally retiring from Congress is no longer news in the L.A. area and especially not up in Santa Clarita. Everyone already knows he cut a deal with sleazy carpetbagger Tony Strickland and everyone knows that GOP McKeon-haters have drafted the most far right and extreme state Senator in California, bizarre hate-monger Steve Knight.

Over at the Huffington Post, I interview Chris Coyne, professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the recent book Doing Bad By Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails, on the humanitarian interventions in Central African Republic.
Here’s an excerpt:

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | December 20, 2013

by Judith Curry It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussionFiled under: Open thread

UPDATE:

Lawmaker Withdraws “Worst Homeschool Bill in U.S. History”

“SB 248 turns fundamental American values upside down…This law replaces parents with unqualified social workers to make educational decisions for children.”

Truth Revolt

Russian Information Agency Novosti
December 20, 2013
Russian Military to Decide on Missile Deployment at NATO Borders
MOSCOW: A decision on whether to deploy tactical ballistic missiles near borders with NATO countries will be made only following a threat assessment by the Russian military, Russia’s top diplomat said Friday.

Venezuelanalysis | December 20, 2013

This is my worst-five list for articles about Venezuela. I couldn’t help but declare ties for a few of the spots, so the “worst five” list actually has more than five articles. I’ve listed them from most horrible to least.

Human Rights Investigations has just launched its first ever fundraising campaign – using the crowd-funding site Indiegogo. In recent times we’ve had the misfortune to see mainstream human rights organisations using their resources in support of military interventions. If you find that annoying, and would like to send a message that human rights should be […]

WARNING: VIDEO VERY BLOODY, PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED NOT FOR SHOCKING BUT TO SHOW THE CRIMINAL AND BARBARIAN NATURE OF THE SO-CALLED “OPPOSITION” THAT ZION/OBAMA/CAMERON/NATO/EU ARE SUPPORTING & ARMING
Adra massacre: Militants show photos of those they beheaded
 
Extremist militants have posted photos of people they have beheaded in Syria’s Adra, located near capital Damascus.

OK, let's get back to where we left off at the 6AM post this morning-- the warning FDR gave us about GOP intentions. Except this time let's home in on healthcare. In fact let's home in on one very red state, Oklahoma and one congressional election in that state, the one that pits right wing extremist James Lankford against progressive Democrat Tom Guild in the Oklahoma City area. This is the most difficult race Blue America has taken on for the 2014 cycle.

 

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Survivors of the horrible carnage in the Syrian town of al-Adra near the capital, Damascus speak about the ordeal to Al-Alam following the attack by al-Qaeda-linked militants.

As we approach the end of 2013 we look back over the first year of The Mind Renewed, and revisit a selection of interviews to draw together a number of strands of thought: Agenda 21, Climate Change, the Smart Grid, Population Reduction, 9/11, false-flag events, the NWO... But, as always, we do so from the Christian perspective of our sure hope in Jesus Christ, whose Kingdom shall one day arrive in glory and put to shame all the technocratic dreams of a utopian New World Order. This episode features music from JJ Jones, and choice excerpts from our interviews.

By Noah Cohen | August 23, 2004

The big, scary terrorism argument for having an unwieldy and unconstitutional NSA surveillance apparatus has been slowly

Palestinian Center for Human Rights – December 19, 2013

Israeli Naval Forces stationed off Beit Lahi shore, in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in 4 separate incidents, while sailing between 600 meters and 3 nautical miles. Israeli naval forces also confiscated 24 fishing nets.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) expresses concern over the continued targeting of fishermen and their livelihoods.

By JOHN LAFORGE | CounterPunch | December 20, 2013

Four more innocents were released from America’s Robben Island this month. Our offshore penal colony at Guantanamo Bay still holds 158 prisoners, 84 of whom have been cleared for release. The men sent home were never charged with a crime and were cleared four years ago.

Rock star Roger Waters Speaks Out on Israeli Supremacists Roger Waters is the co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, whose music album "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" topped the Billboard chart in the U.S. for fifteen weeks.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
December 19, 2013
Statement of U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of State made a joint statement of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission Working Groups. In the statement essential attention is focused on meetings of Defence and Security working groups.

Voice of Russia
December 19, 2013
Amid US spying we are living with information totalitarianism – Rick Rozoff
John Robles
Audio

The above FDR reelection speech from 1936 warning voters about GOP intentions towards the popular social insurance policies they had fought so hard against, is no less relevant today than it was then. Roosevelt went on to win 60.8% to 36.5%, taking every state but Vermont and Maine and winning the electoral college 523 to 8. Democrats continued winning seats in Congress and wound up with a margin of 334 (+ 10 left-leaning independents) to 88 in the House and 76 (+ 2 left-leaning independents) to 16 in the Senate.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Gabrielle Roy
From The Tin Flute (Bonheur d’occasion) (1945)
Translated by Hannah Josephson

“There was never any lack of work to be done. Nor men either. I’ve seen fifty men fighting for one job. I wonder then what was lacking.”
“Money,” said Azarius.

“Neo-isolationism is the direct product of foolish globalism. … Compared to people who thought they could run the universe, or at least the globe, I am neo-isolationist and proud of it.” Those are not the words of an old America Firster, but the declaration of that icon of the liberal establishment Walter Lippmann in 1967, […]

You may not remember Dick Gephardt, once a powerful congressman from Missouri with ambitions to be Speaker and vice president and president. None of that worked out for him and he's just a sleazy K Street lobbyist now working for Goldman Sachs and other criminal enterprises… but he was the House Democratic leader from 1989 until 2003.

In this blockbuster no-holds-barred conversation, Sibel Edmonds, Guillermo Jimenez and James Corbett discuss Edmonds’ recent series of articles on Glenn Greenwald and his connection to billionaire Pierre Omidyar. We talk about the NSA/PayPal connection and Greenwald’s refusal to discuss this issue, and Edmonds reveals specific examples of publicly documented cases that Greenwald has been covering up for years.

This is my recent appearance on the ALP Live Show. Hosts Ali and Ellen invited me to discuss the topics of conspiracy theories, skepticism, and historical research.

This is my recent appearance on the ALP Live Show. Hosts Ali and Ellen invited me to discuss the topics of conspiracy theories, skepticism, and historical research.

This is my recent appearance on the ALP Live Show. Hosts Ali and Ellen invited me to discuss the topics of conspiracy theories, skepticism, and historical research.The Agenda:-I point out Penn and Teller's bullshit on their show, Bullshit-the utility of conspiracy theories-Libertarian dismissal of conspiracy-Let's change the language: forensics (both groups)now we may be avoid to avoid confirmation bias-Forensic science (often known as forensics) is the scientific method of gathering and examining information.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 109. This is the audio for episode 005 of Liberty Talk, a weekly-ish Google hangout-based podcast with Jeffrey Tucker and me (Google Plus page; Youtube Channel). Though it’s been a month since our last one. Hey, it happens. Today: we discuss Adam Kokesh and his recent brush with the “law” (see FDR2561), Liberty.me, […]

From TheAgeOfTransitions.com: The new series of interviews about alternative media has come to Trans Resister Radio. James Corbett is the guest on this installment of the series. Learn a little bit about what drives the hardest working man in alt media to do what he does. What is alt media at present and what could it become? These questions and more are explored in depth.