This is part three of a series about the Trivium Method for self-teaching. Gene Odening will accompany us through the next three episodes.

Covered today:

This is part three of a series about the Trivium Method for self-teaching. Gene Odening will accompany us through the next three episodes.

Covered today:

Voice of Russia
November 8, 2013
The NSA/US/NATO/Cyber Command are not simply passively spying – Rick Rozoff
John Robles
Recorded on November 5, 2013
AUDIO

U.S. Department of Defense
November 7, 2013
Locklear: U.S. Focuses on Strengthening Asia-Pacific Alliances
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: Declaring the United States’ five alliances in the Asia-Pacific region “as strong and as confident as they have been in history,” the U.S. Pacific Command chief said efforts are underway to bolster the relationships he called vital to the U.S. rebalance to the region.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Lion Feuchtwanger: War to make the world safe for democracy
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Lion Feuchtwanger
From This Is the Hour (1951)
Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter and Frances Fawcett

Press TV – November 7, 2013

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) says Iranian channels have been taken off air from 27 satellites 66 times over the past three years by those claiming to be the advocates of freedom of speech.
Ezzatollah Zarghami made the remarks in an interview with Iran’s Young Journalists’ Club (YJC) on Thursday.

Is democracy just civil war, only with ballots instead of bullets? Like chess, or football, politics is a stand-in for war, designed to ritualize conflict so as to prevent bloodshed. As long as everyone abides by the rules, and accepts the restrictions of the system, that is all fine and good. Once someone decides to […]

After a drone strike had reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud Nov. 1, the spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council declared that, if true, it would be “a serious loss” for the terrorist organization. That reaction accurately reflected the Central Intelligence Agency’s argument for the strike. But the back story of the episode […]

The investigation into the death of Yaser Arafat took a giant step forward the other day when Al Jazeera posted the report of a team of Swiss doctors that pretty conclusively shows he was poisoned. The big news, however, is that this was no ordinary poisoning: the agent was polonium-210, the same radioactive substance that […]

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Back in the distant year 2003, my novel about a world I had inhabited for decades, The Last Days of Publishing, came out. In its last pages, three superannuated book editors huddled in a coffee shop in Manhattan, dreaming about DIY publishing. A decade later – for me – fiction has […]

Harvey Milk warned me not to trust her in 1978Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state.

I have long said that the criminal and terrorist state of Israel is a nuclear armed madhouse of psychopaths and murderers, that was created by a fraud religion under the false beliefs that their "god" had given them all the land of Palestine, and that their "god given" land stretches from the Nile River, to the Euphrates River....

Suicide bombers attacked two separate army bases in Iraq today. At least 58 Iraqis were killed and 82 more wounded. Police, Sahwa members, and civilians were also targeted.

I have been busy the last few days catching up on some family business.... Much has been neglected over the last week while I fought off a sinus infection..... It is now that I am basically doing some catching up on what I have been missing...Just the other day, I was shocked when a coworker of mine finally came forward and told myself and a few others that his wife has been going through chemotherapy treatment for Cancer for the last few years...

"In a cynical age, I still believe that we must summon people to a vision of public service . . .

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins us once again for our monthly conversation on economics, finance and politics. This month we start by talking about Smith’s new interview series, featuring his first guest, John Hancock, discussing the education industrial complex. We also discuss China’s changing role in global geopolitics as it becomes the world’s largest oil importer and prepares for an important party meeting that may plot the course of the Chinese economy for the coming decade.

RT | November 7, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it would require the food industry to phase out the use of artificial trans fats in its products.

The Rolling Stone‘s Matthieu Aikins, who reported on alleged U.S. war crimes of torture, executions, and disappearances in Afghanistan, has posted another short piece and a video depicting U.S. soldiers standing by as Afghan forces whip a detainee.

RT | November 6, 2013

Congress has taken the first step towards expanding the abilities of the United States intelligence community by advancing a draft bill that will ensure the government’s spy budget stays intact into next year.

Run off by some goofballs in tri-corner hats?New Jersey's third congressional district, a swath of the south-central part of the state starting between Toms River and Asbury Park and crossing clear to the Philadelphia suburbs through the Pine Barrens, really is a Democratic congressional district-- despite having a Republican congressman, Jon Runyan.

By Paul Craig Roberts | Press TV | November 7, 2013

“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law.

By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | November 7, 2013

Over at The Nation, a debate is raging over whether students at Brown University acted inappropriately when they shouted down New York police chief Ray Kelly, preventing him from delivering an undoubtedly dull lecture about the power and glory of stopping and frisking brown people in New York City with no more probable cause then, “they’re brown and shifty eyed.”

Another bogus claim from Lewandowsky would hardly seem to warrant a blog post, let alone a bogus claim about people holding contradictory beliefs. The ability of many climate scientists to hold contradictory beliefs at the same time has long been a topic of interest at climate blogs (Briffa’s self contradiction being a particular source of wonder at this blog). Thus no reader of this blog would preclude the possibility that undergraduate psychology students might also express contradictory beliefs in a survey.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts:
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/anti-war-essays-poems-short-stories-and-novel-excerpts/
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Why Ray Kelly Protesters Did the Right Thing

Just three pictures. So interesting.

Becerra, Grayson, Ellison-- actual leaders, not money-grubbersI'm never really comfortable with a corrupt out-of-touch Beltway committee parachuting into an American congressional district and telling the Democrats there who their candidate for Congress should be. In the old days, even the worst DCCC chairmen-- think Rahm Emanuel-- used to tip-toe, at least publicy, around interfering in primaries.

By Peter Watt | NACLA | November 7, 2013

Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was a satire about America 500 years in the future having turned into a nation of morons. Idiots had lots of children and intelligent people stopped reproducing. Obamacare’s deductibles could turn us into a nation of welfare recipients in just one generation.

by Judith Curry “I chose the…title largely in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate substantial and and costly responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the world’s climate faces catastrophe…To them … Continue reading →

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
November 7, 2013
Meeting with Representatives of Military-Industrial Complex

Within the frame of visit in France, Georgian Defence Minister continues working meetings. Today Irakli Alasania held meeting with the representatives of Military-Industrial Complex at Directorate General for Armament.

The other day, we met Jason Thigpen, a progressive Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina who realized his positions are more in line with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party. He switched. Some Republicans, like Jason, become Democrats because of values.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
November 7, 2013
NATO Secretary General observes Steadfast Jazz live military demonstration in Poland

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Giuseppe Berto: A fable: The war was going well, the war was going badly

RT | November 7, 2013

Australian citizen David Hicks suffered torture and brutal beatings at the hands of guards at Guantanamo prison. Breaking the gag order that was a condition of his release, Hicks spoke to RT about his ordeal and how he was coerced into pleading guilty.

BRICS POST | November 7, 2013

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday that Washington’s refusal to tender an apology for the spying led to her cancelling her crucial state visit to the United States.

Published on Nov 7, 2013 The Corbett Report: SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=8215 David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins us once again for our monthly conversation on economics, finance and politics. This month we start by talking about Smith’s new interview series, featuring his first guest, John Hancock, discussing the education industrial complex. We also discuss […]

David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins us once again for our monthly conversation on economics, finance and politics. This month we start by talking about Smith’s new interview series, featuring his first guest, John Hancock, discussing the education industrial complex. We also discuss China’s changing role in global geopolitics as it becomes the world’s largest oil importer and prepares for an important party meeting that may plot the course of the Chinese economy for the coming decade.

Two weeks ago we learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on the chancellor of Germany and on the president of the United States. Last week we learned that it has spied on the Pope and on the conclave that elected him last March. This week we learned that it also has […]

Against a backdrop of cautious optimism, Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 are reconvening here for talks Nov. 7-8 over Tehran’s nuclear program. “This government [of Hassan Rouhani] has a lot riding on the resolution of the nuclear issue because it made it a campaign promise and priority,” Farideh Farhi, an Iran […]

If the United States fails to take advantage of the opportunity to come to terms with Iran over its nuclear program it will be because of pressure from Israel. If the unthinkable happens and Washington actually attacks Iran, initiating another major war that will have far reaching and possibly disastrous consequences, it will likewise be […]

Steve Israel and his latest anti-Choice recruit-- looking for a knock outIndiana's 2nd district-- the north-central part of the state from South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, and LaPorte down to Wabash and Peru-- used to be a swing district with a PVI of R+4. In recent times it was represented by far right extremist Chris Chocola, current head of Club for Growth, and Blue Dog Joe Donnelly who used it for a springboard to an unlikely Senate win last year.

At least 22 Iraqis were killed and 68 more were wounded. The worst attacks in Baghdad and Diyala provinces.

"Everybody, they just don't get it and they think it's crazy.

 Forensics reveal Arafat was killed with polonium, widow says

 
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s corpse.
“We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination,” she told Reuters in Paris.

Saudi ‘House of Pseud’ thrives on deception
 
 
 
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