Press TV – October 24, 2013
The UK government is mulling over changing the course on whether it should win parliament’s consent before engaging in acts of war, media reports said.
A convention was created as per former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision in 2003 to seek MPs’ approval before joining the US-led invasion of Iraq in March that year, according to which the parliament was given the right to vote over the use of force.
The NFL is a legal version of organized crime, defrauding charities and tax payers alike. Obama was in the CIA, and currently specializes in helping EMS workers find and help “fainting people.” And hunger strikes …
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Hey, Private First Class Dorothy: when that next tornado hits Kansas, it’s slated to transport you not to Oz, but to somewhere in Africa, maybe Chad or Niger or Mauritania. And that’s war, American-style, for you, or so reports the New York Times’s Eric Schmitt from Fort Riley, Kansas, where an […]
A pall of fear hangs over American journalists, one that threatens to smother the feeble flame of investigative reporting and insulate government officials against any sort of accountability. The Obama regime is taking a hard line against "leakers," and their penchant for secrecy out-does even Richard Nixon at his most paranoid. This administration, which came […]
If recent news from the Balkans sound stale, that is only because the problems of the region never really get solved. The political class of the peninsula – as well as that of the European Union and the Empire – has a vested interest in keeping problems alive, so they can pretend to be the […]
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. C-SPAN Video Library October 25, 2013 Recorded by C-SPAN3 on September 24, 2013 Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley talked about the contribution of Russian Tsar Alexander II to a northern victory in the U.S. Civil War. He said that the Imperial Russian government had issued an ultimatum to Britain and France specifying [...]
The Dallas Morning News reported on a Republican judge, Carlo Key, getting so fed up with Republican extremism that he switched parties.
At least 24 people were killed in shootings and bombings across the country. Another 54 were killed. The worst attack took place in Mosul.
With the war on Syria on hold (for now at least) the psychos in Israel and their tribal members in the United States have gone back to slamming Iran, and its non-existent nuclear weapons program. It has been amazing how much the sick Jewish media over the last while has racketed up the rhetoric about the need to destroy that innocent and peaceful nation.
For years now, I and others have been trying to get everyone to understand that this man made "Global Warming" scare has been nothing more than a massive hoax and swindle by some very nefarious individuals just to get people to sign onto their "Carbon Tax" scam, to swindle people out of BILLIONS of dollars for "Green" policies, and for the criminal "elite" to bring in their criminal "One world government".
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | October 24, 2013
Despite repeated warnings from experts, the federal government under President Barack Obama has continued to allow farmers to pump livestock with antibiotics intended for humans, which has increased health risks for Americans.
This week I had dinner with Eloise Reyes, the grassroots progressive running in the CA-31 jungle primary against two conservatives: corrupt GOP incumbent Gary Miller and the DCCC recruit who lost to Miller last year, Pete Aguilar. I stay away from DC with a vengeance so I don't go out to meals with many politicians. But I talk to them on the phone all day-- usually not Republicans though.
Does a responsible organization make videos in which children call adults enemies?
MEMO | October 24, 2013
The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a complete closure of Kabsa neighbourhood in Abu-Dis on the outskirts of the holy city of Jerusalem in response to activists smashing a 2.5 metre wide hole in the Apartheid Wall.
by Judith Curry Well, this is an interesting twist on climate denialism. The National Review has an article entitled Liberal denial on climate change and Energy, subtitle A new poll reveals conservatives are the open-minded ones. Excerpts: According to the Hoover … Continue reading →
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
October 23, 2013
NATO Exercise ‘Steadfast Jazz’ Primed and Ready
ACO PAO
United States European Command
October 24, 2013
525 BfSB and multinational soldiers test readiness at Silver Saber
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cody Harding 4th Public Affairs Detachment
By JP Sottile | News Vandal | October 23, 2013
Imagine if you will… an epic government failure.
Chronic mismanagement and cost over-runs. Incomplete software coding, timely political donations and undelivered promises. And zero accountability.
Now, imagine the outrage.
No, really. You will actually have to imagine the outrage.
This week the Blue America team met with Colton attorney Eloise Gomez Reyes who's running for Congress in California’s 31st District. This is the only deep blue district in America with a Republican incumbent. The reason right-wing extremist (and carpetbagger) Gary Miller won last year is because the new jungle primary functioned badly and resulted in the two top vote getters both being Republicans.
By Paul Craig Roberts – Press TV – October 23, 2013
Americans, even well-informed ones, don’t know all of the mistakes made by neoconized and corrupted Washington in the past two decades. However, enough is known to see that the US has lost economic and political power, and that the loss is irreversible.
“Slight” conflict of interest huh?
NYT
23 Oct 2013 -
T.S.A. Security Check Starts Long Before You Fly
–Details of program have not been publicly announced
(Reuters) – The husband of the mayor of Montebello, California, has been
arrested on suspicion of selling methamphetamine near a school, police said on Friday.
Ruben Guerrero was arrested on Thursday while driving away from his home, his reported base of operation in the small Southern California city, said Los Angeles Sheriff Department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
–The studies aim to genetically modify the virus to see what it needs to give it more of a deadly pandemic kick.
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN | Courthouse News | October 22, 2013
Classified TSA documents revealed by clerical error show that the agency does not think terrorists are plotting to attack airplanes, suggesting that nude body scans are unnecessary to protect passengers.
After Rapiscan developed “backscatter” body scanners using Advanced Imaging Technology in 2007, Jonathan Corbett sued the Transportation Security Administration three years later.
Long before American drones were murdering civilians in Pakistan, American pilots were committing similar war crimes in GermanyIn a 1985 autobiography by the American who was the first pilot to break the sound barrier, the author described how, while serving in the US armed forces during World War II in the autumn of 1944, his fighter group was attacking Germany and "...assigned an area fifty miles by fifty miles and ordered to strafe anything that moved...We weren't asked how we felt zapping people. It was a miserable, dirty mission, but we all took off on time and did it ...
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. The incursion into Lebanon was one of the biggest debacles of the Reagan administration. Unfortunately, though Reagan eventually recognized his folly and pulled troops out, other presidents did not recognize the tragic lessons of the pointless loss of American troops.
Read the interview here:http://pauleisen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/erich-priebkes-final-interview-late.htmlToo bad that in the course of the interview Mr. Priebke was not asked about his Catholicism. Was he a Roman Catholic during the war, or did he convert later in life? How did he manage to affiliate with the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's breakaway "SSPX” priests’ group?
JoshUtah may be the most right-wing state in the country. The nuts in Texas may be more vicious and dangerous but Utah only gave President Obama 25% of its vote last year-- compared to 41% in Texas, 44% in Mississippi, 46% in Georgia and even 33% in the 4th Reich Idaho. The least red district in the state, UT-04 (home of hopelessly conservative Blue Dog Jim Matheson) has a PVI of R+16.
Interfax
October 24, 2013
Russian diplomatic activity prevents foreign invasion of Syria – poll
MOSCOW: Russian citizens are aware of the Russian-U.S. agreements concerning Syria, which are supported by UN resolutions, and think the deal has helped prevent a military operation against Syria, sociologists from the Russian Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) said.
Press TV – October 24, 2013
The US National Security Agency monitored nearly 125 billion phone calls from around the world in just one month, including around 3 billion calls from US soil, according to documents released by whistleblower Edward J. Snowden.
The list of former U.S. officials who believe drone strikes create more enemies than they eliminate juts got a little bit longer.
“Drone strikes take out a few bad guys to be sure, but they also kill a large number of innocent civilians,” writes Nabeel Khoury, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen from 2004 to 2007. “Given Yemen’s tribal structure, the U.S. generates roughly forty to sixty new enemies for every AQAP operative killed by drones.”
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Maritime Command
October 23, 2013
NATO Group Exercises with Royal Moroccan Navy
Yesterday, three ships of Standing NATO Maritime Group TWO (SNMG2) conducted a multi-faceted passing exercise (PASSEX) with the Moroccan frigate SULTAN MOULAY ISMAIL.
Press TV – October 24, 2013
Members of the European Parliament (EP) have voted to suspend a security agreement with the United States, amid growing concerns over US spying activities against Europe.
Saudi-US Row: Prince Bandar bin ‘Sulking’ Tries Old Bribe and Threat Trick Again
by Finian Cunningham
Historic allies, the United States and Saudi Arabia, are in the midst of a full-blown row, after the kingdom’s spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan threatened that their strategic liaison was on the rocks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to convince the audience in both the United States and Europe that new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a "wolf in sheep’s clothing" intent on beguiling the west with empty promises while proceeding full speed with a nuclear weapons program. Unfortunately for Netanyahu, few are interested in […]
Every American who values the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, every American who enjoys the right to be different and the right to be left alone, and every American who believes that the government works for us and we don’t work for the government should thank Edward Snowden for his courageous […]
Sen. Rand Paul has introduced a proposed constitutional amendment which specifies that our elected officials are subject to the same laws that rule us plebeians. How could a libertarian — or, really, anybody — possibly object to that?
John Glaser has managed to do it, I’m afraid.
In the last few days, coordinated attacks across the western province of Anbar have left a significant number of casualties, particularly among security personnel. At least 78 Iraqis were killed and 53 more were wounded. Rutba was again the unfortunate target for suicide bombers, as clashes continued. The first bomber killed at least five policemen. […]
Republicans are so scared of women voters right now, they can't see straight." Especially Texas Republicans. So they're doing all they can to prevent as many women from voting. Lawrence O'Donnell and his guest explain what's going on and why. So did Natalie Smith:
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 23, 2013
Moscow Needs More ‘Predictability’ in NATO Missile Defense Plans
MOSCOW: Russia aims to cooperate with Western powers on security issues but needs guarantees that a US missile shield in Eastern Europe would not target its nuclear forces, Russia’s defense minister said Wednesday.
Netanyahu Is Israel’s Ted Cruz
MJ Rosenberg
Last Saturday marked the 18th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On November 22, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Both assassinations were tragedies that altered their respective countries in profound ways.
But there is one giant difference.
