Civil Georgia
October 10, 2013
Rasmussen: NATO Accepted Georgia’s Offer to Join Response Force
Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on October 10 he expects Georgian troops to be available for the NATO’s rapid-reaction force in 2015.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Giuseppe Berto
From The Sky Is Red (1948)
Translated by Angus Davidson
Ikväll är det Humorhimlen live i Malmö. Carpe Fucking Diem uppträder, liksom Tankesmedjan, Anders & Måns, Josefin Johansson, Simon Svensson, Den stora kärleken-gänget med flera. Palladium är platsen, 19.30 är tiden. Först till kvarn är principen som gäller när platserna fördelas. Kom om du vill! Det sänds också i P3, så bor du inte i Malmö så lyssna!
The government shutdown is not an anarchist’s dream. If we don’t get the government back to work, they will sell our secrets. And Washington gunman complained of voices being beamed into his head. Links: The Government Shutdown — Hardly an Anarchist Dream Intelligence Boss: If Budget Cut, al-Qaeda Will Get Us Washington Gunman Recently Told […]
When even David Ignatius of the Washington Post begins to suggest that a possible tectonic shift in US foreign policy just might be impending, it is time to take notice. Ignatius’s piece entitled "The unthinkable is now in motion" in the print edition describes how discussions with Iran over its nuclear program as well as […]
Before you rejoice that the government has seized an alleged terrorist in Libya who was indicted for planning the notorious 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, before you join the House of Representatives in a standing ovation for the Capitol Hill Police who killed a woman whose car struck a White House fence and who […]
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Today James joins Jeff Berwick of Anarchast.com to discuss his journey down the rabbit hole and toward the realization that government itself is the root of the problem. Join us for this wide-ranging conversation on 9/11, the security state, anarchy, and other important topics.
Will Boehner's son-in-law introduce him to Peter Tosh's music?It's not a secret around Washington that Speaker John Boehner is an unstable alcoholic. Anyone who's ever gotten within a couple of feet of him has smelled the booze. Dozens of Members who have been sworn in by him have told me he was somewhere between drunk and staggering drunk when he asked them to put a hand on the Bible and take the oath of office.
At least 41 people were killed and 73 more were wounded in new violence. The largest number of casualties occurred just south of Baghdad, where dozens of insurgents were killed or wounded during a security operation. Meanwhile, a failed assassination attempt against parliament's speaker took place in Mosul.
It must be strange to be Chelsea Manning. The former Army Private (previously known as Bradley Manning) did a very decisive thing by leaking thousands of documents to Wikileaks.
After I posted my last article that had Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds narrate a very good video that shows exactly what the TRUE situation is at Fukushima Japan, I went and checked what a few of my friends and fellow bloggers have been up to.... Believe it or not, but my friend Noor, who writes the excellent blog: Snippits And Snappits, at www.snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca had just posted a great article about Fukushima herself! For this article, I want to bring forward first the video that Noor had posted at Snippits....
Is Justice Nino's great legal mind preparingto further roll back campaign spending limits?"It is what it is."-- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, pressed aboutthe Court's previous mangling of campaign finance lawby KenIs it any wonder that some people herald Justice Nino's as one of the great legal minds of our time? (They must be very stupid people, you say? But of course!)So meanwhile, while we're all wrapped up in the Shutdown Follies, back at the Supreme Court . . . .
In his latest column for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the latest chess moves in the enduring 'great game' for domination of the world - from the invasion of Africa to a new cold war in Asia.
RT | October 9, 2013
If the sanctions against Iran are lifted, the Iranians will look mainly towards American firms in the oil and automobile sector to fill the gap, George Malbrunot, a journalist for French newspaper Le Figaro, told RT.
I've had a lot of feedback-- most of it great-- after Michelangelo Signorile's post last week in HuffPo about how propounding disappointing LGBT freshmen Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ) and Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY) have been. I've been blogging about these two clowns here at DWT all year. No one in New York seems to have noticed that Maloney has the single worst (i.e., most Republican) voting record of any Democratic freshman.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 087. This was my appearance on Michael Shanklin’s Voluntary Virtues Vodcast. We talked about the Stefan Molyneux vs. Zeitgeist guy “Peter Joseph” etc. Jeff Tucker made an impromptu entrance at the end, discombobulating everyone, as is his wont. Background: Zeitgeist Versus the Market – Peter Joseph Debates Stefan Molyneux […]
As the majority of the world’s media have misinterpreted the UN inspectors report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ghouta, it is necessary to look closely at what the report actually says, to ensure the report is interpreted correctly and dispel the widespread perception the trajectories calculated by the inspectors indicate the rockets […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
October 9, 2013
HQ ARRC arrives in Cornwall for Readiness Exercise
Story by HQ ARRC Public Affairs Office
by Judith Curry Time of emergence of a warming signal is a topic that is receiving increasing discussion. The IPCC AR5 discusses this in section 11.3.2.1.2. I don’t particularly suggest reading the AR5 text, since it is typically painful to … Continue reading →
By Ali Haydar | Al-Akhbar | October 9, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a series of threats toward Iran and its interlocutors in the West, including the US, as serious negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program seem more plausible.
When we think about contemporary brothers wreaking damage on America it's natural to immediately focus on the John Bircher extremists, David and Charles Koch, the billionaires financing a relentless campaign against American democracy itself. If they're successful, history will remember them as two of the most vile and destructive characters in American history.
Greenpeace says 95% certainty is the same as 100% certainty. Tell that to people who die on the operating table.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 086. Last weekend I gave a talk “The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender,” at Jeff Tucker’s Crypto-Currency Conference: Bitcoin and the Future of Money (Atlanta, Oct. 5, 2013). See KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender; slides below. Video/professional audio to be released later. Pix here and here. This is […]
The mainstream media. Always months behind. Sheesh.Saudis fear tide of Syria war turning against their interestsIf you read here you're one of the aware individuals that already knows Saudi Arabia has taken the wheel of the killing machine in Syria. FT makes it seem as if this is just happening now. It isn't. This change started months ago. The ouster of Morsi. The selection of a pro Saudi leaders for the Syrian opposition.
And offends the spooky Brown Moses in the process. ( Pleasing me to no end)Could it be that some people, such as Banksy and others, see the rebels as cartoonish characters created to have a certain undeserved appeal to fools and dupes?Thinking, of course, of the mainstream media insisting on these persons really being 'freedom fighters'President Ronald Regan and the media of the day, said the Contras were freedom fighters also?
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: Selections on war
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Erich Maria Remarque
From A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954)
Translated by Denver Lindley
By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | October 8, 2013
Since the Hamas election victory in January 2006 — and particularly after the Hamas-Fatah clashes and split between Gaza and the West Bank in the summer of 2007 — Gaza has undergone a disturbing human experiment, whose toll is unprecedented in the history of the impoverished Strip.
Democrats, from President Obama (who has no relation with House Republicans and doesn't know much more about it than any of us do) to Nancy Pelosi, say there are enough Republicans and Democrats-- 217-- to pass a clean CR. Long Island Republican Peter King agrees. Let's say that the 5 right-wing Democrats who refused to sign Pelosi's letter to Boehner calling for a clean CR-- John Barrow (New Dem-GA), Mike McIntyre (New Dem-NC), Jim Cooper (New Dem-TN), Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT) and Ron Kind (New Dem-WI)-- can be persuaded to vote for it, a reasonable, though not iron-clad assumption.
International Solidarity Movement | October 7, 2013
Deir Sharaf, Occupied Palestine – On the 5th of October, local farmers discovered that the olives from more than one hundred trees had been stolen, and that another ten trees had been damaged or destroyed. Abu Huwar farm, belonging to Yasser Fuqaha, Sidqi Fukaha, Mustafa Fuqaha and other farmers from the Meri family.
A week that began with a blistering denunciation by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Iranian duplicity ended with diminished prospects for Israel to take direct action to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “The Israelis find themselves in a far worse position now than they have been for several years,” concluded Elliott Abrams, a leading neoconservative […]
Sometimes, the world sends you back to school. These last months have offered us a crash course – call it Surveillance 101 – in how Washington, enveloped in a penumbra of extreme secrecy, went to work creating a global surveillance state on a scale almost beyond the imagination. It was certainly beyond the imaginations, not […]
A funny thing happened on the way to a war on Syria – in fact several funny things. First the road to Damascus was blocked by the sentiment of the American people who are fed up with war. Second, international opposition from every corner of the earth, save two or three, joined the barricade, even […]
The founders of the United States envisioned a federal government that was constrained by a written Constitution, which further diluted power within that government into four competing branches. Those branches were the two houses of Congress, which were clearly supposed to be dominant in the federal sphere, and the executive and the judiciary. Unfortunately, over […]
Too much? Even for mainstream Republicans?Conventional wisdom is that congressional teabaggers are in such safely gerrymandered districts that they have little to worry about from their overwhelmingly white, angry, low-info constituents.
At least 38 people were killed and 25 more were wounded in random attacks across the country. Most of them took place north of Baghdad, but heavy clashes took place just south of the capital.
It has been a while since I filed any new articles about the continuing disaster at Fukushima Japan. Yes, this disaster is still going strong with absolutely NO solution anywhere in sight. The three reactors that melted down are still spewing out their deadly radiation into our atmosphere, and TEPCO officials have had absolutely no choice but to dump contaminated radioactive water used to try to keep the cores cool directly into the Pacific Ocean. We are now seeing the result of the world's inexplicable refusal to tackle this world wide life threatening situation with the apparent death
I have hoped that by this time people everywhere would finally see the Sandy Hook "massacre" for what it really was...
I am back to my "normal" blogging routine...
The prompt for a recent Atlantic Community call for articles on utilizing drones for military purposes asks “When do we have to start considering human rights violations and what the consequences of that might be?” As an American whose government has been a pioneer in deploying drones offensively in war zones, that question is of primary importance and ought to be addressed before the practicality of drones comes into question.
John Cornyn must have felt ambushed when mild-mannered centrist, Bob Schieffer threw him onto the grill when he appeared on Face the Nation Sunday. Schieffer just pounded him on the Republicans' whole blackmail and terrorism approach to governance.
Conservative parties are lobbying to remove Palestinian history from school curriculum
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operation
October 8, 2013
NATOs Air Command provides five years of training in the Baltic Region
Amari Air Base in Estonia
Alalam | October 8, 2013
The Israeli regime has produced 690-950 kg of plutonium and continued to build from 10 to 15 nuclear bombs of the Nagasaki type each year, a report says.
Israel, which also develops very sophisticated chemical weapons in addition to biological and nuclear weapons, refuses to sign any international treaty to allow UN to inspect its nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
October 8, 2013
Meeting with Japanese Delegation
The Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia hosted the Japanese diplomats today.
Mikheil Darchiashvili introduced ongoing defence reforms to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Georgia Mr. Toshio Kaitani, Japanese Military Attaché and Attaché COL Kojima Yasuhiro.
Fun fact: NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ metadata doesn’t fight terrorism. A shocker, I know.
Remember a few months ago when it was revealed that the NSA collected the metadata of hundreds of millions of Americans in bulk, and in order to justify this exposed program, the NSA said it had helped prevent at least 54 terrorist plots?
Well, earlier this month the NSA admitted that was a lie. As the Washington Times reported:
