After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Nixon argued that the government needed to monitor “subversives” in […]
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was Egypt’s commanding general and then Egypt’s Defense minister. Now he is the country’s First Deputy Prime Minister. And he is Jewish. That he is Jewish is left out of all Corporate Media articles. If you knew his mother was a Moroccan Jew and that his uncle was a member of the Israeli Knesset, you might be able to connect the dots and see through the illusions spun by the news.
Terrorist leader in Syria photographed inside a US aid tent
Glenn Beck shows a photo of an Islamic Al Qaeda leader fighting inside Syria against Syrian armed forces. Beck pulled out a photo that has been circulating the internet that seems to show Commander Muhajireen Kavkaz wa Sham, a leader of an Al-Qaeda linked group, inside a USAID tent.
Nile BowieRussia TodayAs political leaders in Washington and Tehran signal they are in favor of diplomacy, is a genuine rapprochement between the two powers actually possible?The speeches at this week’s UN General Assembly by the leaders of Iran and the US, although each striking conciliatory tones, both envisage a vastly different international order.
At least 61 people were killed and 98 were wounded in fresh violence today. Gunmen attempted to storm two government buildings near Kirkuk but were repulsed. A significant bombing also took place in Mosul.
Republican civil war comes to Sacramento CountyMonday I went to a public forum with three of L.A.'s most progressive congressmembers, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Janice Hahn and our old friend Judy Chu.
Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
VIDEO: Rockets Used in Damascus CW Attack Fired from Makeshift Flatbeds, Not Military Vehicles
Video emerges of unmarked truck-mounted launcher surrounded by militants, firing same ordnance used in August 21 Damascus (and other) chemical attacks.
by Tony Cartalucci - Land Destroyer Report
by Judith Curry Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the UK Met Office, has responded to Nic Lewis’ critique of UK Met Office’s report on the pause. On September 14, Nic Lewis posted his critique on this thread Nic Lewis … Continue reading →
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford | September 25, 2013
President Obama went to the United Nations this week and declared war against the UN’s most fundamental founding principles, all the while claiming the U.S. is the world’s one indispensable, unique and exceptional nation.
Kline hates everyone-- young and old!Steve Israel was never a businessman-- nor a farmer. He's always worked in politics. He doesn't know how to make long term plans or how to initiative and follow through on long term goals. He can't see beyond the quarter or, off on his furthest horizon, the cycle. And the DCCC chair isn't the only near-sighted Democrat in power. The whole party is blinkered by strategists who never see the value of long-term planning.
The imprisonment of Johannes Lerle in a German dungeon is not an an issue for Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the US State Department or the liberal and conservative mainstream American media. He is quite simply a non-person. Holocaustianity is a civic religion, the last truly believed religion in the otherwise agnostic West.
The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s co-presidents have sent the following letter to the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, urging him to halt plans for nuclear fuel reprocessing, calling the program “unnecessary and hazardous” and “not consistent with Japan’s stated support for achieving a world freed from nuclear weapons.”
September 23, 2013
Your Excellency,
By Nasser Charara | Al-Akhbar | September 25, 2013
Al-Akhbar has learned that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem’s bid to obtain a US visa to attend the 68th session of the UN General Assembly was rejected by the US State Department.
By Yves Engler · September 24, 2013
Once again Conservative ideology has trumped what’s right.
Prominent Toronto filmmaker/professor John Greyson and London, Ontario, physician/professor Tarek Loubani have been locked up in an Egyptian jail for nearly 40 days.
U.S. Army Spc. Tyler Meehan observes Kenyan trainees
In a discussion on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday, host Steve Inskeep asked Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, an important question regarding the massacre in Kenya by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab:
Watch Daylin Leach's statement on sensible gun control in the video above. It's likely to be the only substantive thing you'll hear about guns in the campaign for the congressional seat being given up by Allyson Schwartz (Northeast Philadelphia and Montgomery County). There are 4 Democrats in this primary-- and aside from Daylin, so one has a record on guns...
If you have been around here for some time you will have grasped at least one constant theme that runs through this blog - 'perception management'. How is your perception managed? The main stream media. Religion. Popular culture would also be a means of managing you.Fashion. Advertising. You get the idea? Being aware of how it is you are manipulated, managed and thusly controlled is paramount to knowing how to resist the mind control.
As I stated in my weekly rant on Sunday, September 22nd, I have been extremely busy concentrating on finishing this work related course....
by Judith Curry Global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere’s chemistry. – Fred Pearce This topic landed on my radar screen this morning with a tweet that announced a forthcoming book from Mike Hulme: From Mike Hulme’s web … Continue reading →
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
September 25, 2013
Steadfast Pinnacle 13: The journey continues
Story by SHAPE Public Affairs Office
Bryan J Fischer, Republican Party psychopath, on Twitter just now: "Last night was Ted Cruz's Mount Carmel moment: Elijah standing alone against all the prophets of Baal."UPDATE: Ted Cruz Changes His Mind-- Votes To Back ObamacareThe Senate just voted on shutting down the filibuster and both crackpots, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee voted "aye," which Cruz had just defined as a vote to support Obamacare.
By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | September 25, 2013
President Barack Obama’s special panel of “independent” experts charged with reviewing the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic spying programs is actually lacking in independence.
There are many reasons to distrust the UN’s climate panel. Let’s start with political meddling and authors linked to green lobby groups.
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I have an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today. My concerns about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) aren’t news to regular readers of this blog, but matters are unlikely to improve until this information reaches a wider audience.
Egyptian minister praises Obama’s remarks on Egypt in the UNGA
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September 23, 2013
Preparation for NRF exercise „Steadfast Jazz 2013” has begun in Adazi
The second year of what I'm hoping will become an iconoclastic tradition: thinking on 9/11 in America.
This show has three parts
1. What is inferential distance and what communication problems does it cause?
2. An explanation and examination of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats (a tools process of parallel thinking)
3. A 9/11 "truther" vs. 9/11 true believer role-play using what we've learned
Edward de Bono Presentation: Six Thinking HatsVideo
The second year of what I'm hoping will become an iconoclastic tradition: thinking on 9/11 in America.
This show has three parts
1. What is inferential distance and what communication problems does it cause?
2. An explanation and examination of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats (a tools process of parallel thinking)
3. A 9/11 "truther" vs. 9/11 true believer role-play using what we've learned
Edward de Bono Presentation: Six Thinking HatsVideo
The second year of what I'm hoping will become an iconoclastic tradition: thinking on 9/11 in America.This show has three parts1. What is inferential distance and what communication problems does it cause?2. An explanation and examination of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats (a tools process of parallel thinking)3. A 9/11 "truther" vs.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
September 24, 2013
NATO Secretary General takes part in United Nations General Assembly, discusses partnerships
The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen attended the start of the 68th ministerial session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York on Tuesday (24 September 2013). He also joined other world leaders in a lunch hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Shaughnessy NaughtonAlthough southeast Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district has a small chunk of northern Montgomery County, it is basically the Bucks County district. Along with the neighboring 7th CD, it is the wealthiest party of Pennsylvania, those two districts being the only two in the state with medium household incomes over $70,000. PA-08 is a genuine swing district with a PVI of R+1.
Voice of America
September 24, 2013
NATO Chief Backs US Threat of Force Against Syria
STATE DEPARTMENT: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the United States should keep up its threat of military action against Syria so as to push forward a deal to end Syria’s chemical weapons program.
Rasmussen says it was the threat of a U.S. missile strike that forced Syria into agreeing on a framework to destroy its chemical weapons, so there is no reason to remove that threat.
RT | September 24, 2013
Content-industry giants and internet service providers are teaming up to produce multi-grade elementary school curriculum which will denounce copyright infringement.
The likes of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), AT&T, Verizon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Comcast are behind the pilot project which will be tested in California elementary schools later this year.
CEPR | September 24, 2013
That is undoubtedly the question that many NYT readers were asking when they read an article warning that insurance companies in the exchanges were not paying enough money to attract many doctors. At one point the piece told readers;
Video emerges of unmarked truck-mounted launcher surrounded by militants, firing same ordnance used in August 21 Damascus (and other) chemical attacks.A note of clarification: The US maintains that the chemical weapons attack in Damascus in late August could only have been the work of the Syrian government because the militants do not possess the means to carry out such an attack.
Throwing diplomatic protocol to the winds, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States for illegally infiltrating its communications network, surreptitiously intercepting phone calls, and breaking into the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations. Departing from a longstanding tradition of closed-door diplomacy on bilateral disputes, she dropped a political bombshell on […]
The world waited with bated breath as the day approached: would President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly reflect positively on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s “charm offensive” (as the Israelis derisively dub it)? Would the two meet up at a luncheon arranged by Ban Ki-Moon and – gasp! – actually shake hands? We now […]
“Does Israel have chemical weapons too?” is the question posed by the U.S. publication Foreign Policy, citing a newly uncovered CIA document from 1983 which alleged that Israel is likely to have developed such weapons. Written ten years after the 1973 war in which Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, the CIA document revealed in Foreign […]
AD-DANA, Idlib Province, Syria, Sept. 24 2013 (IPS) – Scorching flames from a makeshift oil refinery sting eyes and the fumes choke throats near the top of a hill in northwestern Syria, where Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters gather for fuel, coffee and phone calls as darkness falls. The population of the nearby town Al-Dana […]
There’s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists, then claim to be reassessing such policies after an avalanche of criticism – and then proceed, as it did this week, to gloat that those policies made possible a long prison sentence for a […]
What did Vladimir Putin get from the United States for saving President Obama from himself during the Syrian chemical weapons "crisis"? Only criticism and ridicule from a reflexive anti-Russian American news media. For example, Fox News Channel, often a proponent of high-testosterone American responses to almost any international crisis, kept poking fun at Putin’s personal […]
Are we just being fooled by Iran? Are we being seduced by a Persian snake charmer only to later be stung by his nuclear bite? According to Israel we are. Israel’s Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz says that newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani "has launched a charm offensive on […]
McConnell doesn't get a lot of good news lately. But he did yesterday. The progressive Kentucky Democrat running for his seat dropped out of the Democratic Party primary against centrist Alison Lundergan Grimes and declared his intention to run as an independent.
At least 35 people were killed and 48 more were wounded in new attacks. No major bombings took place, but dozens of militants attacked two towns in western Anbar province.
