I think Murray Kempton would have approvedof Rachel's WaPo column."It's annoying to pay for information -- I know. But if you don't subscribe to your local paper or pony up to get behind its online paywall, who's going to pay reporters to cover the news where you live? A free press isn't that kind of "free." An accountable democracy doesn't work without real information, gathered from the ground up, about people in power, everywhere.

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode177 - GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.

As Obama finalizes his Friday speech outlining modest NSA reforms, new poll shows most Americans don’t trust government or Obama….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible that generates $15 to PBC Podcast!
–Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) proposes bill called “Big Brother is Not Watching You Act of 2014″ to enact all 46 recommendations from review panel

Obama is expected to propose minor reforms to surveillance in speech, as strong majorities express distrust of government and Obama….Click here for free audiobook downlaod from Audible, and generate $15 to the PBC Podcast!
–Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), proposes 1-page bill called “Big Brother is Not Watching You Act”, requiring adoption of all 46 points of the Review Panel’s report

Jennifer Rubin Wants More War

Just over a week ago, we presented a post featuring JFK ruing the day he had ever decided to keep Allen Dulles as head of the CIA. NOt just that-- JFK was ruing the day he had ever gotten into business with the CIA at all. Incredibly incompetent and determined to run its own unaccountable proto-fascist foreign policy, the CIA, Kennedy came to realize, was the center of evil in American politics.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
January 15, 2014
NATO Defence Leaders Meet, Plan for Future Security Challenges
Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Hendrick L. Dickson
Members of the NATO Defence and Planning team and other NATO leaders met at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, January 14-16 at the annual NATO Defence Planning Symposium (DPS).

by Judith Curry The hearing is now concluded, I’m on a plane flying back to Atlanta. The testimony from each of the witnesses is now online [here].  The link for my testimony is [here]. The content of my verbal remarks … Continue reading →

Wall Street-backed Thaksin regime plans to use armed militants if elections are "delayed." January 16, 2014 (ATN) - Even as the Washington Post calls peaceful protesters "anti-democracy militants," Thaksin Shinawatra's regime openly admits it will use armed violence if upcoming sham elections are delayed.

Stars and Stripes
January 16, 2014
No end in sight for 1-year-old Air Force mission over Mali
By Adam L. Mathis
RAF MILDENHALL, England: The yearlong U.S. Air Force operation over Mali in support of the French mission there is set to continue for the immediate future, officials said.

I did a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread recently, on the anarcho-capitalist sub-reddit, here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/1vd8s9/i_am_stephan…. Previous Reddit AMA’s I did: Reddit Ask Me Anything Thread. One I did a year ago is at My reddit “ask me anything”.

Itar-Tass
January 16, 2014
Moldova’s ethnic region ready for referendum on secession – regional officialWorld January 16, 23:00
CHISINAU: The Central Election Commission of Gagauzia, a region with the status of an “autonomous territorial unit” within the Republic of Moldova, has reported its full readiness for holding a referendum on a possible withdrawal from this country if the latter loses state sovereignty.
The regional polling has been scheduled for February 2.

$1.1T spending bill: 85.2B for military ops in Afghanistan and aid to Israel; funding for Wall St. oversight slashed

Just the beginning?
BBC
Users who have posted negative comments on the online review site Yelp must be identified, a US court has ordered.
The case involved the owner of a carpet-cleaning business who told the court bad reviews written about his company were not from real customers.
The court said anonymous users were not protected by the First Amendment, which allows free speech, if the review “is based on a false statement”.
Lawyers for Yelp said they were disappointed with the ruling.

As a Canadian, I am more and more disgusted with everything I see happening in this country that at one time truly was probably the most free nation on the planet.   It sickens me to see that this great nation has become subverted by criminal Jewish interests and is now nothing more than another slave to the criminal state of Israel!I want to present the following article, that comes from the Winnipeg Free Press online news service, at www.winnipegfreepress.com, that absolutely disgusts me...

Vermont senator notes that agency’s head failed to rule out collection of elected officials’ phone ‘metadata’

We’ve Known for Some Time that the NSA Is Spying On Congress …

NSA Spying on Congress to Manipulate, Intimidate, Blackmail Top Government and Military Officials

Ohio Man Arrested With Bombs and AR-15 Was Intel Analyst With Top Secret Clearance

Although Politico leaked the story yesterday, this morning, Buck McKeon officially-- finally-- announced he wouldn't be running for office again. If you're even a semi-regular DWT reader, you've known that for months. Buck's family has started a war industries lobbying firm and he'll be moving over there.

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:

The Jurist | January 15, 2014

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses two recent decisions on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) metadata collection program …

Wall Street's Washington Post condemns protesters in Bangkok - silently complicit with regime's terror campaign.

 
By Samuel Dowell        Salem-News.com
 
Abbas does not speak for Palestine. He cannot sign or agree to any “agreement” for the Palestinians. If he agrees to a U.S. Framework Agreement that gives away Palestinian rights, he is a Traitor.

Space Alert!
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Winter-Spring 2014
Newsletter #29
Perilous Pivot: Pentagon Positions Itself For Confrontation With China
Rick Rozoff
The U.S. deploys long-range B-52 strategic bombers to the East China Sea only days after China declares an air defense identification zone in the region.

By David Morrison | Friends of Lebanon | January 16, 2014

It is British policy to extend the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to every corner of the earth, except the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, that is, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

Invitation to Join a Movement:

I have become increasingly alarmed over the last while from the reports about how some US bought and paid for Jewish shill Senators are about to push a bill forward for vote that will basically give the criminal state of Israel the green light to go ahead and attack Iran.   For the longest time these criminals in the US government along with their Jewish masters have continued to lie to the public about Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons facilities, and have continued to promote the lie that Iran is "several months" away from actually building a nuclear bomb...

The German government and its intelligence services no longer believe the United States will stop spying on German citizens. Resentment is running deep.

RT | January 16, 2014

A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from government controlled areas.

By Felicity Arbuthnot and Dr. Ang Swee Chai | Palestine Chronicle | January 15, 2014

Civil Georgia
January 16, 2014
PM Comments on NATO MAP
Tbilisi: If NATO refuses to grant membership action plan to Georgia now, it will happen later, it is not “a principle” issue, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on January 16.

I'm not certain if the report about the coal industry's latest toxic spill in West Virginia heading downstream towards Cincinnati is true or not, but I do know that when Compton educator Roland Charest saw the photo above, he could be heard saying, "I wouldn't be drinking anything that came out of those taps for at least a year."

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
January 16, 2014
170th NATO Chiefs of Defence meeting
[Past chiefs of defense staff meetings at NATO headquarters in Brussels have included 65-70 heads of national militaries]

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)
January 15, 2014
Officers’ Union: Strong support for NATO membership
According to the Finnish Officers’ Union, the professional organisation for officers of the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard, current resources are seriously lacking and NATO membership is a solution that is strongly supported by the union.

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

Turkey- IHH, terror and tables being turned? Part 1A bit of an update at the bottom of the post ..........The IHH office raid is highly suggestive to me that Erdogan is going to be shown the door. Unless he makes appropriate changes. Having to do with state banks and EU acquiescence. Fettulah Gulen made it possible for Erdogan to take office in Turkey. And so it seems he can make it possible for Erdogan to be removed from office.

If we do not get Pension Reform done right, we will be losing tens of millions of Canadians, Americans and Europeans over 40 years of age to starvation and healthcare Death Panels.  Depressions are caused by the accumulation of Unpayable Debts through fractional reserve banking and the charging of interest on money created out of nothing by bankers. There are three ways out of a Depression. One is by Hyperinflation (Weimar Republic). Another is bankruptcy and default on bad debts (US 1930s). A third way is to systematically cancel bad debts on a scientific basis.

In what looks to be a clear victory – at least for now – for President Barack Obama, a major effort by the Israel lobby and its most powerful constituent, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to pass a new sanctions bill against Iran has stalled in the U.S. Senate. While the legislation, the […]

Above you see a new 6-figure Club for Growth ad for one of their threatened incumbents, Michigan Ayn Rand fanatic Justin Amish. They are attacking his Establishment opponent Brian Ellis who is backed by Karl Rove and "business interests" openly-- and by Boehner and Cantor surreptitiously.

At least 115 people were killed and 145 more were wounded in a continuing bomb spree in Baghdad and ongoing clashes in Anbar province. Several cities near the capital were also targeted today.

 

 
As the conflict in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria enters its 200th day, the United States Palestinian Community Network’s (USPCN’s) National Coordinating Committee expresses great concern regarding the escalating crisis. USPCN calls on all parties to allow aid into the camp to meet the humanitarian needs of the refugees there.   We call for an end to the hostilities in the camp, and for food and medical supplies to be delivered immediately to those in need.

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James Petras
 
Introduction

As I have said before, I will bring forward to this blog any new evidence that shows that the Sandy Hook "shooting" of December 14th, 2012 was an operation where NOBODY died.....To me it is still shocking that over a year after this "operation" there are those out there that still believe this to have been a real "shooting"!Just the other day, I was sent the following video for my own assessment.... After watching it, I knew it belonged here at this blog for everyone to view for themselves.... It is entitled: "Just Released Newtown Evidence Shows Shooting Was Fake!

UPDATE: Who knew what about thefall of the "Evil Empire"? (See below)The thing to remember, looking at this portion of Wikipedia's table of U.S. SecDefs (click on it to enlarge), is whom Bob Gates replaced -- as if anyone could replace Donald Rumsfeld.by KenLike most of our readers, we spend a lot of time here at DWT criticizing President Obama. Goodness knows, there's plenty to criticize.

Ma’an - 15/01/2014

JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities on Wednesday agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners’ committee spokesman said.

Ma’an – 15/01/2014

BETHLEHEM – Members of an academic delegation were held for 10 hours by Israeli security forces when crossing into Palestine from Jordan, a statement said Tuesday.
A delegation of six academics and a labor activist came to the West Bank to conduct meetings with Palestinian scholars “in order to better understand conditions on the ground and to facilitate future collaborations,” one of the members said in a statement.

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