Free Tarek Loubani & John Greyson | September 28, 2013

Obama and Boehner are both victims of the rise of far right populism in the U.S. Boehner, much like the mainstream conservatives in Weimar Germany in the 1930s, has buckled under to it. Obama hasn't. The same exact strain of toxic right-wing populism-- whether you want to call it Tea Party, Nazi, Fascist or Golden Dawn-- has catapulted to the third biggest party in Greece, with 18 Deputies in Parliament.

Obama Must Follow District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray: Declare the Entire Federal Government Essential and Keep It Fully Funded at Current Levels While Citing Multiple States of Emergency; Obey Fourteenth Amendment Against Unconstitutional Debt Ceiling and Default Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio September 28, 2013 [download audio]

PRESS CONFERENCE 9/24/13 Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman,US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Torgen Johnson,Citizens’ Representative, San Diego Forum
Tetsuro Tsutsui,Member, Nuclear Regulation Sub-committee,
Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) /
Nuclear Power Plant Technical Experts’ Group

Suicide bomber vests strapped to their chests, congressional Republicans have a message for the American people: "Give us our way, or we'll blow the whole damn thing up!" And by their way, they're talking about a lot more than defunding the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, the NY Times Editorial Board was aghast at the Republican demands-- and they called it what it is A Republican Ransom Note.

Voice of Russia
September 28, 2013
Obama deserves Nobel War Prize – Bolivian President

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alberto Moravia
From Two Women (1958)
Translated by Angus Davidson

Israeli Army sprays sewage on Palestinian streets
 
Israeli army sprays sewage on the streets of the Palestinian town of Abu Dis

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | September 27, 2013

Senator Feinstein: First Amendment is a Special Privilege, Not a Right!

 
 by Anthony Lawson
If you have ever had any doubts about what might be happening to your “freedoms”, the ones that George W. Bush spoke about so grandiloquently, just after 9/11, you must watch and listen to this:
Feinstein: First Amendment is a Special Privilege, Not a Right!

Maybe you already started getting the desperate and pathetic e-mails from multimillionaire congressmen, like Scott Peters, begging for your money to finance his career-- which is all about supporting Wall Street corporate special interests. Or maybe you got one of those ridiculous Steve Israel e-mails telling you that [fill in the blank] is the most important race of the cycle and please give more money.

by Judith Curry Diagnosis: paradigm paralysis, caused by motivated reasoning, oversimplification, and consensus seeking; worsened and made permanent by a vicious positive feedback effect at the climate science-policy interface. In a previous post, I discussed the IPCC’s diagnosis of a … Continue reading →

Press TV – September 28, 2013

A political analyst has warned of efforts by anti-Iran political figures and the Israeli lobby in the US to impede the positive process which has begun on the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

The IPCC has released its latest assessment of the state of climate science, and this time it’s even more dire than their 2007 assessment. Global warming is “unequivocal” and humans are the “dominant cause” to a certainty of 95%. But how are these uncertainties calculated? And how does the IPCC process work anyway? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we dissect the latest IPCC hype and examine the organizations processes and conclusions.
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Martin Luther's revolt against the Church of Rome gained firm purchase among the German people in part due to the perception that the papacy was traditionally biased toward the German nation.Here is an excerpt from an interview with Eco published Sept.

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | September 28, 2013

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a seven-year-old child lost his right eye after being shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday.
The sources added that the child’s mother was also shot by a rubber-coated metal bullet in her shoulder.

Obama’s Al-Qaeda Rebels To Christians: “Convert To Islam Or Be Beheaded”
Christian Nuns at Convent in Maaloula
Syrian rebels have taken control of historic Christian villages near Damascus. A new report from a ministry worker confirms that rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad for control are imposing Islamic law, giving Christians the choice to convert or die.

by Judith Curry Earth is in a lot of pain, folks.  Time to think about sending it off peacefully, for its own sake.  Look, at the end of the day, Earth is 4.5 billion years old and had a great … Continue reading →

Let me say that Blue America has enthusiastically endorsed state Senator Barbara Buono for governor of New Jersey. We've seen what a terrible governor Chris Christie has been and what a consistent and independent voice for progressive policies Barbara has been and it was really a no brainer. And we're glad Barbara has put his polling lead in half.

RT | September 28, 2013

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution outlining the details of taking under international control and ultimately destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal.
“Today’s historic resolution is the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council immediately after the vote.

Iran shows truth is winning out
President Rouhani pictured above on NBC news with Ann Curry. President Rouhani also sat down for an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose. He gave a brilliant answer to the burdensome MSM question : Do you believe in the holocaust?.
 

Sudan Tribune | September 27, 2013

KHARTOUM/WASHINGTON – Sudan’s foreign minister has called on the United Nations General Assembly to condemn the United States “denial of entry visa” to the Sudanese president Omer Al Bashir, as the foreign ministry in Khartoum summoned the American chargé d’affaires to protest the delay on the same day.

We are joined this week by Alaskan-based author, researcher and blogger Niki Raapana, whose investigations into the mind-bending philosophy/religion of Communitarianism led her (with her daughter Nordica Friedrich) to pen The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto and 2020 : Our Common Destiny.

We are joined this week by Alaskan-based author, researcher and blogger Niki Raapana, whose investigations into the mind-bending philosophy/religion of Communitarianism led her (with her daughter Nordica Friedrich) to pen The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto and 2020 : Our Common Destiny.

The UN Security Council agreement on the destruction of all chemical weapons held in Syria, by both government and rebel forces, and the measures adopted to try to prevent the terrorist groups operating in the country from getting their hands on chemical weapons are welcome. However, these agreements need to be followed up by an […]

Protests are smokescreen for unfolding US-Saudi-Qatari backed violence seeking regime change in Sudan. September 28, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - The Associated Press reveals that recent and ongoing "Arab Spring-style" unrest in Sudan's capital of Khartoum is led by Sudan's Western-backed opposition, the National Umma Party, and the various faux-NGO's and "independent media" organizations created by the West to prop it up. This reveals yet another Western-engineered uprising designed for regime change in favor of a new, Western friendly client regime.

As a result of over thirty years of intense propaganda against Iran, many are used to a cartoonish image of Iran and its people as extremist fanatics, an image drawn by the War Party and Israel’s lobby in the United States. The Party and the Lobby are interested only in a war with Iran. Thus, […]

Lawrence Tibbett sings the Pagliacci Prologue from the 1935 film Metropolitan.LEONCAVALLO: I Pagliacci: Prologue: conclusion

At least 21 people were killed and 59 more were wounded in fresh violence. The worst attacks took place near two Baghdad mosques.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 083. This was my appearance on Daniel Rothschild’s youtube channel on Sept. 27, 2013; we discussed a variety of topics, including “Intellectual Property, Government, National Defense, and Other Scams”.

by Judith Curry It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion. I’m still wrapping my head around the SPM, will have a new post on this up sometime tomorrow. Blog traffic is very high right now;  please keep your comments … Continue reading →

"It is clear to [Father Tom] Reese," writes Sally Quinn, "that Francis would not have been Benedict's choice to succeed him.""I was running a journal of opinion and they only wanted one opinion.

Al-Manar | September 27, 2013

US President Barack Obama and Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani spoke by phone Friday as the latter was wrapping up his visit to New York.
Rouhani received the call from Obama on Friday as he was in a car heading to the John F. Kennedy International Airport to fly back to Tehran, IRNA reported.

By Ken Meyercord | Dissident Voice | September 27, 2013

Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
 
by FRANKLIN LAMB
Damascus
Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days  question the urgency and enormity of the task of  reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage  already more than half as long as World War I and approaching half as long as World War II.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
September 27, 2013
ACT Hosts Historic Visit by Polish President

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), French Air Force General Jean-Paul Paloméros welcomed the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski, at his headquarters (HQ) in Norfolk, Virginia, September 26th.

The Republican base is restive. They're also dumber than a pile of dog poop. In a recent poll, half the participants were asked if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the Affordable Care Act.

People involved in politics almost invariably engage in confirmation bias. It’s easy to welcome ideas that bolster what you already believe, than to deal with facts and evidence that seem to puncture your own opinions.
If there are two seasoned politicians in Washington, surely they are John Kerry and John McCain. So we’d expect them to be confirmation bias professionals. And that’s exactly what they were doing when they were citing Elizabeth O’Bagy, an alleged “expert” at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), to elucidate the make-up of the Syrian rebels.

Antiwar.com columnist/reporter Kelley Vlahos appeared on Russia Today’s Crosstalk program today. The subject was blowback triggered by Western-supported Kenya intervention in Somalia. Also on the show were occasional Antiwar.com contributor Stephen Zunes and Richard Barrett of the Soufan Group.

More stunning pictures of Al Gore’s mansion at link

By Willis Eschenbach | Watts Up With That? | September 27, 2013

At the Pike County Justice Court in Mississippi, Judge Aubrey Rimes expelled Mr. Jageet Singh from the courtroom, telling his attorney that he’d better remove “that rag” (his turban) from his head or go to jail.
That sounds bad enough, right? But how’d he get into the courtroom to begin with? The ACLU with the details:

The diplomacy with Iran is proceeding slowly in the days following the almost-handshake at the UN earlier this week. While skepticism is warranted, as I’ve written, there is a chorus of right-wing fear-mongers really upset about the prospect of detente with Iran.

The IPCC has released its latest assessment of the state of climate science, and this time it’s even more dire than their 2007 assessment. Global warming is “unequivocal” and humans are the “dominant cause” to a certainty of 95%. But how are these uncertainties calculated? And how does the IPCC process work anyway? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we dissect the latest IPCC hype and examine the organizations processes and conclusions.

By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | September 27, 2013

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is in trouble again, this time for losing more than 400 million cigarettes.

Martin County won't care... They love Rand Paul there anywayRepublicans just can't help themselves when it comes to their latest bout of nihilism-- the fake battle to "defund" the Affordable Care Act and deny health insurance to millions of Americans. It's not just their instinctual hatred for minorities and poor people. It's a business model.

Canada’s Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump Next to Lake Huron

Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament
Delivered by Nosizwe Lise Baqwa of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on behalf of civil society
26 September 2013, New York
The use of a nuclear weapon on a major populated area would immediately kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of people—women, men, and children.

Children tend to have a tough time focusing on too many ideas at once. The same goes for adults who have the brain capacity of children.
Syria stories obviously soared in the media over the past month, and rightly so given that the Obama administration was going drag the U.S. into another unnecessary war based on false pretenses. Iran, too, has shot up in the body of international stories the U.S. media is covering, given new developments towards a possible diplomatic settlement to long simmering tensions. And again, rightly so.