us and them, them....you decide which is which and who is who, me and you...alians are grey

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." - Noël Coward - (1899-1973) British playwright

"I count myself as a spiritual sister to those the US government has murdered, and I am angry at my powerlessness."  -  Karen Kwiatkowski

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own" Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-196

 [Anonymous is] the first Internet-based superconsciousness. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they're a group? Because they're traveling in the same direction. At any given moment, more birds could join, leave, peel off in another direction entirely.

 

Israel bombs Sudan in Dry Run for Iran Attack

By Uzi Mahmaini, Tel Aviv and Flora Bagenal, Nairobi

Eight Israeli F-15I planes - four carrying two one-ton bombs, escorted by four fighters - struck the giant Yarmouk factory on the southwestern outskirts of Khartoum, the capital, in the early hours of Wednesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32882.htm

How to Bomb Iran

By Philip Giraldi

Some Pentagon spokesmen have suggested that Israel cannot do the job alone, but the problem is much larger than that, leading to the question whether Israel can do it at all.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32884.htm

A Permanent Ceasefire is the Only Hope for Syria

By Jonathan Steele

The US needs to change policy. Its one-sided support for armed rebels may condemn Syrians to years of blood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32883.htm

How US Drones Forge as Many Foes as They Kill

Patrick Cockburn

One of the most important changes in world politics over the past decade is that the US has failed to win two wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan, despite deploying large and vastly expensive land armies. Equally telling, these failures were against relatively puny forces of guerrillas.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32886.htm

Obama's Kill List Expands to Fascistic 'Disposition Matrix'
Murder Inc. has got nothing on the West Wing.

By Libbyliberal

Obama is announcing this chilling expansion of assassinations one and a half weeks before the election. Wow! Talk about hubris. Talk about arrogance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32888.htm

US Detention of Imran Khan Part of Trend to Harass Anti-drone Advocates

By Glenn Greenwald

The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan's most popular politician shows the US government's intolerance for dissent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32885.htm

Pentagon is World's Leading Landlord

By Face the Facts

Worldwide, DOD has more than 2 million people working on 5,000 sites in 41 countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32890.htm

Our Words Are Our Weapons
Against the Destruction of the World by Greed

By Rebecca Solnit

Let's start calling manifestations of greed by their true name. By greed, I mean the attempt of those who have plenty to get more, not the attempts of the rest of us to survive or lead a decent life.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32889.htm

Why I'm Voting Green
Those who rebel are our only hope

By Chris Hedges

The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32887.htm

Hard News  

   

Afghan raid kills 4 Taliban, 3 civilian bystanders: Villagers at the funeral of the civilians told reporters they included a farmer, his wife and their 14-year-old son. Video images from the funeral showed the bodies of two men and a woman.
http://is.gd/qYrWhP

Unknown armed men kill 6 Afghan civilians: Unknown armed men opened fire and killed six civilians in Ghazni province, 125 km south of Afghan capital Kabul, over weekend, a local newspaper reported Monday.
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/2081409.html

5 killed in Afghan-NATO operations, civilian deaths feared: According to local authorities in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, at least 5 Taliban militants were killed and four others were detained following a joint military operation by Afghan and coalition security forces in Ghazni city on Sunday night.
http://is.gd/bVefQ7

2 Afghan soldiers killed following blast in Helmand: According to local authorities in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, at least two Afghan national army service members were killed following a roadside improvised explosive device blast in Garmser district on Monday.
http://is.gd/KUWk1q

Pakistan: Ten killed in Khyber operations: At least 10 people were killed in aerial firing by the Pakistani Army in the Bara sub-division of the Khyber tribal agency on Monday morning. Two soldiers were also killed in the clashes that preceded return of the helicopter gunships to Bara area.
http://is.gd/iD3tJA

5 killed in blast in shrine blast in NW Pakistan: At least five people were killed and over 20 others were injured when a bomb went off near a shrine in Pakistan's northwest district of Nowshera on Sunday afternoon, local media reported.
http://is.gd/ADgAj5

At least 13 killed as Iraq suffers violence on third day of Eid festival: A car bomb blast killed at least 13 people and wounded another 28 in a Shiite section of northwestern Baghdad Sunday, police said, as many residents were at parks and markets observing the third day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
http://is.gd/0MvaIY

10 Dead in Damascus Car Bomb: At least ten people were killed and 41 others were wounded Monday in a car bombing on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The blast blew apart pieces of surrounding buildings in the Christian and Druze suburb of Jaramana.
http://is.gd/xdkmsH

Second Car bomb explosion kills several near Damascus: The attack came shortly after another car bomb hit an area near the capital, killing at least 15 people, including women and children.
http://is.gd/9JT4Nb

Syrian warplanes bombard rebels with 60 airstrikes: Activists say: The army warned late Sunday night that it will strike "remnants of terrorists with an iron fist" after they "repeatedly violated the cease-fire."
http://is.gd/pgRrYM

UN Envoy Urges New Talks in Syria Despite Failed Ceasefire: "The situation is bad and getting worse," a downbeat Brahimi said after a meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as cited by RIA Novosti.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144590

'Die slowly, Christian dog': "Christians to Beirut, Alawites to the grave".' This chant is so often repeated and reported, it's become almost the official jingle of the civil war.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8708121/die-slowly-christian-dog/

US commanders spark questions over military presence in Turkey: The Turkish military and the minister of defense have quickly denied any US military presence in Turkey after top US commanders said military personnel had been sent to Turkey to assist in handling the spillover of the Syrian crisis and the fight against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
http://is.gd/P2VDrz

Beijing report says Chinese Muslims are fighting in Syria: Chinese Muslim separatists from the northwest region of Xinjiang are battling Syrian government forces alongside al-Qaida and other extremist groups, an official Chinese newspaper reported Monday.
http://is.gd/jYh0wc

Kurdish fighters more involved in Syria's fighting against rebels: Scores of Kurds fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have attacked strongholds of the rebels Free Syrian Army in the northern province of Aleppo in retaliation to similar attacks carried by rebels on Kurds- dominated areas in Syria, media reports said Saturday.
http://is.gd/Wgl9Hp

US admiral in Turkey to discuss closer cooperation in anti-PKK fight: A top U.S. admiral is visiting Turkey today amid increasing military cooperation between Washington and Ankara on the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and mounting tension on the Turkish-Syrian border to Syria's crisis.
http://is.gd/rq3jSd

US has about 70 nuclear bombs in Turkey: Report: The United States deployed around seventy B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey, according to a Turkish news agency citing well informed sources.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/269249.html

Turkey hits Syrian targets after new shell lands in Hatay: The military has again responded to a stray shell fired from Syria that landed in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency said on Monday.
http://is.gd/wmto53

Origin of Syrian shells into Turkey unclear, US general says: "We are not sure if these shells are from the Syrian army, from rebels who want to get Turkey involved in the issue or from the PKK [Kurdish Workers' Party]," he said.
http://is.gd/rwDDWq

Nine killed as Turkish forces, Kurdish rebels clash: Violence between security forces and Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey left one police officer and eight rebels dead, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
http://is.gd/mjZrYC

Turkish police teargas thousands-strong secularist demo (VIDEO): Tear gas and water cannons met thousands of protesters in Ankara who had staged a pro-secular rally on Republic Day. The clashes mark a growing gap between the Islam-leaning government and the country's secular layers.
https://rt.com/news/turkey-police-teargas-protest-506/

US military chief in Israel to oversee countries' largest ever joint maneuvers:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was meeting Sunday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the beginning of his visit. He'll also be meeting with his Israeli counterpart and the country's president.
http://is.gd/jAauJO

Hamas "activist" killed in Israeli air strike: - An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of members of the Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza on Sunday killing one activist and Israeli ground troops bulldozed Palestinian properties at the demarcation line between the strip and Israeli-patrolled territories.
http://is.gd/Q6BmHu

Israeli raids on Gaza draw 18 rocket fires: - Gaza radicals on Monday fired 18 rockets at southern Israel, ending several days of calm, with the armed wing of the ruling Hamas movement saying it was revenge after an air raid killed one of their men.
http://is.gd/nJOsab

Dennis Ross: What Obama has done for Israel's security is 'without precedent': Former top White House official says he supports the U.S. president, and ascribes Jewish hostility toward the president as resulting from'disinformation and polarization.'
http://is.gd/6DgeF9

Iranian warships dock in Sudan, days after alleged Israeli airstrike: Two Iranian warships docked at Port Sudan on Monday, less than a week after a munitions plant in the Sudanese capital went up in flames in what Khartoum has claimed was an Israeli airstrike
http://is.gd/Na2khT

Fact or fiction?
Report: Intel found on slain Hamas official led to Sudan strike: U.K.'s Sunday Times cites military intelligence reports that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, assassinated in Dubai, was in possession of an agreement between Iran and Sudan from 2008 that permitted Iran to manufacture weapons in Sudanese territory.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6228

Palestine set to seek UN observer status next month: "We will go to the UN regardless of any threats," said Tawfik Tirawi, a senior member of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
http://rt.com/news/line/2012-10-29/#id39685

Fact or fiction?
Message with a bang: what Israel told US with Sudan hit: Was Israeli attack on Khartoum missile plant a 'dry run' for Iran - or a memo to the next US President?
http://is.gd/5sa81S

Sudan: a front for Israel's proxy war on Sinai jihadis?: If Israel bombed a Sudanese munitions factory, as Khartoum alleges, the raid was part of its widening proxy war against Islamist militants in neighbouring Egypt which the Jewish state is reluctant to confront directly.
http://is.gd/Tv9bow

Clinton in Algeria to press on Mali, Qaeda: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday to press for a possible military intervention in neighbouring Mali, where Islamists control large areas.
http://is.gd/W9ShXt

Libya: Capture of Bani Walid smacks of revenge: The chaotic, vengeful scenes demonstrated the weakness of the new government's authority over former rebel militias which owe it allegiance but essentially do what they like.
http://is.gd/oTofr4

Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos: The deafening noise of a dozen heavy-caliber machine guns sent demonstrators running and filled the upscale neighborhood with the sounds of battle. Blocks away, shocked bystanders wondered if one year after the civil war ended, Libya had gone back to war.
http://is.gd/dQzu5T

7 killed, 100 wounded in Nigeria church bombing: A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 others in an attack that sparked reprisal killings in the city, authorities and witnesses said.
http://is.gd/i4hg1V

U.S. kills 4 people in east Yemen: Yemeni security officials say an airstrike targeting a vehicle traveling through the country's east has killed at least four suspected militants.
http://is.gd/cCSDbu

US drones are killing many civilians: Op-Ed - When we're told that 16 militants have been killed in a drone strike, it usually turns out that, for example, four of these militants were children and seven were women.
http://is.gd/mFs25t

Yemen's 'Death to America' rebels bring calm to northern Yemen : Many residents expressed enthusiastic approval of Houthi governance, saying the rebels' rule has lead to security and stability. And as the frequent sight of construction attests, some here are confident enough about the current calm to invest, pouring money into infrastructure projects in the impoverished province.
http://is.gd/dbk9J1

Ex-President Allende's granddaughter wins race : Maya Fernandez Allende, the granddaughter of Chile's fallen socialist President Salvador Allende, won her first major political race on Sunday as leftist parties regained lost ground in municipal elections nationwide.
http://is.gd/yJeg4b

Canadian police urge Parliament to pass domestic spying bill: Police across Canada are urging Ottawa to resurrect a controversial Internet surveillance bill that would allow them to monitor Canadians' digital activities in real-time without a warrant.
https://rt.com/news/canada-police-spy-bill-c-30-455/

U.S. Prisons Bursting at the Seams: Uncompromising pictures from inside America's overcrowded prison system show the cramped lives lived by more than two million inmates
http://is.gd/4TYseP

World Series victory triggers mass riots in San Francisco (VIDEO, PHOTOS): Victory celebrations turned into mass rioting after the San Francisco Giants clinched the 2012 MLB World Series. Thousands of frenzied baseball fans lit fires, overturned cars and rampaged through the city.
http://rt.com/usa/news/san-francisco-riots-giants-466/

Climate Change Feeds Hurricane Sandy: Fewer but fiercer and more-destructive hurricanes will sweep the Atlantic Basin in the 21st century as climate change continues, a new modeling study by U.S. government researchers suggests
http://is.gd/r5et2T

Why 'Frankenstorm' Is Just Right for Hurricane Sandy: Sandy, the hurricane that appears set to pummel the East Coast, promises a historic potential for damage and a terrifying look at what may be in store for us-ever more frequent assaults of not-so-natural origin.
http://is.gd/a4TlgF

Naomi Klein: Geoengineering: Testing the Waters: Mr. George is one of a growing number of would-be geoengineers who advocate high-risk, large-scale technical interventions that would fundamentally change the oceans and skies in order to reduce the effects of global warming.
http://is.gd/ppKTcK

Fifth of UK workers "paid less than living wage", says KPMG: KPMG, a leading provider of audit, tax and advisory services, has found that 4.82 million people are paid a wage that does not enable a basic standard of living
http://is.gd/q0hsXX

Tens of thousands protest against austerity in Rome: "We are here against Monti and his politics, the same politics as all over Europe, that brought Greece to its knees and that is destroying half of Europe, public schools, health care," said demonstrator Giorgio Cremaschi.
http://is.gd/TkXE3P

Paul Krugman: Medicaid on the Ballot: Op-Ed: There's a lot we don't know about what Mitt Romney would do if he won. He refuses to say which tax loopholes he would close to make up for $5 trillion in tax cuts; his economic "plan" is an empty shell.
http://is.gd/2kRH1C

10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America: Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.
http://is.gd/C8bQhe

Sympathy for the poor American sandy event?

"You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry.

The leaders stigmatize the enemy with every vice they can think of, every evil and human depravity. They stimulate their people's natural fear of all other men by channeling it into a defined fear of just certain men, or nations. Attacking another nation, then, acts as a sort of catharsis, temporarily, on men's fear of their immediate neighbors.

 

This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide." - Taylor Caldwell -, "The Devil?s Advocate" (1952) - pg. 299

breakingtheset w/abby martin has been muted (CENSORED)

Sympathy for the poor American sandy event?......want to know how many died elsewhere in the world? look at Gaza.
Syria? Lebanon? wtf.....29 dead in u.s. thousands elsewhere in the name of america.  How about drone steikes in afgan, Pakistan? Do you care, drunk drivers and domestic violence  claimed more lives today... how many abortions happened today with tax payers dollars?
Sandy is a distraction most likeky with tax dollars directed via HAARP produced event.  Cannot impede mass outrage, the focus is on global sustained slavery...............for ALL humanity.

DO NOT BUY INTO THIS BULLSHIT, domestic is trivial compared to the mass culling of the world ..............kosmicdebris....... american news and the reality of real truth are not the same OWNERSHIP DETERMINES CONTENT [TRUTH],  think fir your fuckin SELVES AND THOSE YOU LOVE americans are fed propaganda from corp-media




 MoveOn member—We're all sending our thoughts and prayers to everyone recovering from the storm. Progressives in affected areas may not be able to make calls today due to Hurricane Sandy. So it's on the rest of us, elsewhere in the country, to redouble our efforts—that's why we've set a goal of making 25,000 calls today. Can you join in?

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We only have 7 days left to recruit enough volunteers who can make sure swing state voters know what's at stake in this election, know how to vote, and know their rights at the polls. Can you spend 15 minutes calling MoveOn members today?  Make some calls! Help the Red Cross respond to Hurricane Sandy. Make a donation to help provide relief to storm victims.

Dear MoveOn member,

I don't just want Mitt Romney to lose on November 6th—I want there to be no doubt about it.

See, if this race ends up as close as the polls say it will, Republican voter suppression and intimidation could make all the difference—the difference between a second Obama term and all of us getting used to saying "President Romney."

I don't want to get used to that. Do you? And we don't have to. If we all step it up this week and hit the phones to recruit volunteers, we'll win by enough to overcome the Republican effort to steal the election.

You can help by making election calls to other MoveOn members in swing states and key districts and recruiting them to volunteer to help get out the vote. Can you join in?

Yes, I can make a few calls today.

I was born in an America where, because of race or money, many people couldn't vote. I never thought we'd go back to that, but that's exactly where today's Republican Party is taking us. They passed racist voter suppression laws in key states, they've run ad campaigns to scare people in low-income neighborhoods out of voting, and now they're training activists by the thousands to intimidate progressive voters at the polls on election day.

So let's win big. Let's make sure no state comes down to a handful of votes. Let's make sure this election doesn't get decided by the courts—especially not the Supreme Court.

I'm going to be out there every day between now and the election making sure voters know what's at stake, know how to go vote, and know their rights at the polls.

I like saying "President Obama." I don't want to learn anything new. Please, join in before it's too late.

Can you make a few calls to MoveOn members in swing states and critical districts this week?

Yes, I can make a few calls to help recruit volunteers.

Sincerely,

–Michael Moore

P.S. This week I've produced something very special with MoveOn.org—a new video where members of our Greatest Generation explain how they've done their part to preserve this country's values, but that now it's our turn. They're very...direct. You definitely shouldn't watch it at work (and if you're easily offended, you might want to skip it, or watch the bleeped version here). Please check it out—it brings this home in a way I guarantee you've never heard before.

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Israel Lobby Calls for an 'Iranian Pearl Harbor'

By Muhammad Sahimi

The War Party has revived the idea of creating the "right incident" for provoking a war with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32891.htm

The Unfolding Human Catastrophe in Iran

By Muhammad Sahimi & Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

The sanctions are now in full force, and are hurting the same people who we were told were not meant to be their target, in what is yet another case of "collateral damage" inflicted by Western policy towards Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32894.htm

Regardless of Whether Obama or Romney Wins
America's relations with the Arab World will change

By Robert Fisk

Obama sat cowed in his White House seat as the Israeli prime minister effectively told him that UN Security Council resolution 242 - the very basis of the non-existent "peace process" - was a non-starter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32896.htm

Who Lost the World?

By Ira Chernus

The enduring power of a foreign policy myth that will not die, the decades-old idea that America has an inalienable right to "own" the world and control every place in it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32892.htm

Drone-Murders of Americans 'Totally Right, Totally Constitutional': Homeland Security Chairperson

Must WatchVideo

This 2-minute video from We Are Change Luke Rudkowski powerfully captures what US "leadership" has become.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32899.htm

Citizens' Grand Jury Indicts Obama and Biden

PR Newswire

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden have been criminally indicted for having willfully released classified national security information concerning the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, U.S. and Israeli war plans concerning Iran and their cyber-attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32897.htm

Drowning on Wall Street and Ending World War II

By David Swanson

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Countrywomen, let's grow the fuck up.  Stop blaming an imaginary being for a storm that you and your government produced.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32895.htm

The Virtual Recovery

By Paul Craig Roberts

Presstitutes spoon out the government's propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32893.htm

U.S. Prosperity Slides in Index That Ranks Norway No. 1

By Simon Kennedy

The U.S. slid from the top ten most prosperous nations for the first time in a league table which ranked three Scandinavian nations the best for wealth and wellbeing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32898.htm

Hard News  

   

Two British occupation force soldiers killed in 'green on blue' Afghanistan attack: Two British soldiers have been shot dead by a man wearing Afghan police uniform in what appeared to be the latest "green on blue" attack where a rogue member of the Afghan forces has killed his allies.
http://is.gd/kjumnL

Somalia's General Farah killed in al-Shabab ambush: The governor of the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia said General Farah was killed along with four other soldiers in an ambush on Sunday.
http://is.gd/kjumnL

US: Iraqi audit points to huge money laundering: American investigators say Iraqi auditors believe as much as $800 million in U.S. currency is being sent out of the country illegally each week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20120897

Syrian General assassinated in Damascus: According to Syrian TV, General Abdullah Al-Khaledi, a senior officer at the Syrian Air Force, was killed Tuesday in Damascus. The television report said he was shot in one of the capital's neighborhoods.
http://is.gd/DSmznn

UK blocks Russian condemnation of Syria terrorism: The incident in question took place last Friday when unidentified terrorists detonated a bomb near a children's playground in Damascus leaving several kids dead and several others injured.
http://is.gd/LzVLiw

Netanyahu: Iran strike will be good for Arabs: Paris Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would benefit them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East.
http://is.gd/hDE8MM

Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists' Probe of Iranian Programme: In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear programme at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was organising the mission.
http://is.gd/au8ilg

Libya army has 'no control' in Bani Walid: defence minister: "The town is completely empty except for a small number of people who are living in tragic conditions; there is no activity; the impact of shelling is visible everywhere," the minister said.
http://is.gd/dPcUbE

Bahrain bans protests, public gatherings: "All rallies and gatherings have been suspended and no public activity will be allowed until security and stability are achieved," said Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa.
http://is.gd/WgzOyW

Kuwait arrests opposition leader ahead of mass protest: Kuwaiti authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure over his criticism of the Gulf Arab state's ruler. It came days before an expected mass rally protesting against a reform, which critics say undermines opposition political forces.
http://rt.com/news/kuwait-opposition-leader-arrested-561/

Birther-Linked Super PAC Runs Islamaphobic Ad Against Michigan Candidate: In a stunning appeal to Islamaphobia, a group linked to former Swiftboater and birther conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has launched a smear attack ad on a Muslim-American Congressional candidate.
http://is.gd/lXvn9T

We Are All from New Orleans Now: Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America's Coastal Cities
http://is.gd/18KxMu

Authorities start anti-looting campaign in the aftermath of Sandy: Firefighters in Philadelphia rescued a man from the rubble of a three-story building brought down as Hurricane Sandy swept through the East Coast, only for authorities to arrest him immediately on suspicion of looting.
http://rt.com/usa/news/authorities-sandy-storm-philadelphia-597/

German joblessness rises as euro zone crisis bites: German joblessness rose for a seventh month in a row in October, highlighting the vulnerability of Europe's biggest economy to the euro zone crisis
http://is.gd/DtVG9E

Greece delays austerity vote, warns of 'chaos': Greece's coalition government will delay a vote on major new austerity measures by another week, but warned Tuesday there would be financial "chaos" if a deal is not reached.
http://is.gd/pxPeUz

Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite: An exclusive club of powerful people engages in illegal practices, then pushes through necessary laws to legalise these practices, granting itself an amnesty, and in the end, there are no media to uncover what really happened.
http://is.gd/O5niY8

"Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of our nation, therefore, and all of our activities are in the hands of a few men...who necessarily, by very reason of their limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom." - Woodrow Wilson

NSA Whistle-Blower: Obama’s ‘Disposition Matrix’ is an ‘Undisciplined Slaughter’

Posted on Oct 27, 2012

Democracy Now!

William Binney.

Former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William Binney is appalled but unsurprised by last week’s revelation that President Obama has institutionalized a mechanism for generating targets for his secretive assassination list.

As Greg Miller reported in The Washington Post, the “disposition matrix” is a database that links the profiles of suspected “terrorists” to “locations, known associates and affiliated organizations” as well as “strategies for taking targets down, including extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols.” The process is operated by the National Counterterrorism Center, which has access to all intelligence and other information collected on American citizens and people abroad, and the process is not open to scrutiny by a judge or independent oversight committee.

In other words, Barack Obama and a small group of defense officials have taken for themselves the right to decide who is a terrorist, who should die and how.

In a telephone interview with Truthdig, Binney explained that the use of information connecting other people to suspects suggests the process will be used to create new suspects that pose no threat to the United States.

“They’re using metadata to target people,” he says. “… [A]ddresses and phone numbers, which gets back to relationships between suspects and others and social network building. If you use that kind of information to target people without having substantive stuff behind it, that’s getting down to more random killing or getting killed because you’re in proximity to somebody who’s doing bad things. It’s an undisciplined slaughter.”

When news of the matrix was released, Glenn Greenwald pointed out that the specifics of how suspects are generated and how targets are selected “will undoubtedly be kept completely secret,” with no checks and balances. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that since President Obama took office, at least 70 civilians have died in strikes in which they were not targeted. Without oversight of the targeting process, it is reasonable to expect people will continue to die in this way.

“What is the criteria for being on the kill list?” Binney asked. “A lot of innocent people are being killed. It’s all being done in secret by saying ‘Trust me, we’ll make the proper decisions.’ Well, do you really trust the government?”

Binney, who became a target of the Obama administration’s anti-whistle-blower campaign when he spoke out about the NSA’s data-mining project, doesn’t trust the government. Instead he questions whether terrorists worldwide pose as much of a threat to the security of American citizens as does the United States government.

“They’re moving more and more to a surveillance state and being out in the open and justifying it by laws after the fact. It’s just like the frogs slowly heating up in water and they don’t jump out and they get boiled. … We’re destroying a whole way of life here. The terrorists could never do this to us.”

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran

Secret legal advice states pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law as Iran not yet 'clear and present threat'
• Military action not 'right course', Downing Street says

US diplomats are said to have also lobbied for permission to use US bases on British territory such as Diego Garcia. Photograph: AFP

Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in breach of international law.
The Guardian has been told that US diplomats have also lobbied for the use of British bases in Cyprus, and for permission to fly from US bases on Ascension Island in the Atlantic and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, both of which are British territories.
The US approaches are part of contingency planning over the nuclear standoff with Tehran, but British ministers have so far reacted coolly. They have pointed US officials to legal advice drafted by the attorney general's office which has been circulated to Downing Street, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence.
This makes clear that Iran, which has consistently denied it has plans to develop a nuclear weapon, does not currently represent "a clear and present threat". Providing assistance to forces that could be involved in a pre-emptive strike would be a clear breach of international law, it states.
"The UK would be in breach of international law if it facilitated what amounted to a pre-emptive strike on Iran," said a senior Whitehall source. "It is explicit. The government has been using this to push back against the Americans."
Sources said the US had yet to make a formal request to the British government, and that they did not believe an acceleration towards conflict was imminent or more likely. The discussions so far had been to scope out the British position, they said.
"But I think the US has been surprised that ministers have been reluctant to provide assurances about this kind of upfront assistance," said one source. "They'd expect resistance from senior Liberal Democrats, but it's Tories as well. That has come as a bit of a surprise."
The situation reflects the lack of appetite within Whitehall for the UK to be drawn into any conflict, though the Royal Navy has a large presence in the Gulf in case the ongoing diplomatic efforts fail.
The navy has up to 10 ships in the region, including a nuclear-powered submarine. Its counter-mine vessels are on permanent rotation to help ensure that the strategically important shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz remain open.
The Guardian has been told that a British military delegation with a strong navy contingent flew to US Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, earlier this summer to run through a range of contingency plans with US planners.
The UK, however, has assumed that it would only become involved once a conflict had already begun, and has been reluctant to commit overt support to Washington in the buildup to any military action.
"It is quite likely that if the Israelis decided to attack Iran, or the Americans felt they had to do it for the Israelis or in support of them, the UK would not be told beforehand," said the source. "In some respects, the UK government would prefer it that way."
British and US diplomats insisted that the two countries regarded a diplomatic solution as the priority. But this depends on the White House being able to restrain Israel, which is nervous that Iran's underground uranium enrichment plant will soon make its nuclear programme immune to any outside attempts to stop it.
Israel has a less developed strike capability and its window for action against Iran will close much more quickly than that of the US, explained another official. "The key to holding back Israel is Israeli confidence that the US will deal with Iran when the moment is right."
With diplomatic efforts stalled by the US presidential election campaign, a new push to resolve the crisis will begin in late November or December.
Six global powers will spearhead a drive which is likely to involve an offer to lift some of the sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy in return for Tehran limiting its stockpile of enriched uranium.
The countries involved are the US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China. Iran will be represented by its chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "As we continue to make clear, the government does not believe military action against Iran is the right course of action at this time, although no option is off the table. We believe that the twin-track approach of pressure through sanctions, which are having an impact, and engagement with Iran is the best way to resolve the nuclear issue. We are not going to speculate about scenarios in which military action would be legal. That would depend on the circumstances at the time."
The Foreign Office said it would not disclose whether the attorney general's advice has been sought on any specific issue.
A US state department official said: "The US and the UK co-ordinate on all kinds of subjects all the time, on a huge range of issues. We never speak on the record about these types of conversations."
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, warned at the UN general assembly last month that Iran's nuclear programme would reach Israel's "red line" by "next spring, at most by next summer", implying that Israel might then take military action in an attempt to destroy nuclear sites and set back the programme.
That red line, which Netanyahu illustrated at the UN with a marker pen on a picture of a bomb, is defined by Iranian progress in making uranium enriched to 20%, which would be much easier than uranium enriched to 5% to turn into weapons-grade material, should Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, take the strategic decision to abandon Iran's observance of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and try to make a weapon. Tehran insists it has no such intention.
In August, the most senior US military officer, General Martin Dempsey, distanced himself from any Israeli plan to bomb Iran. He said such an attack would "clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran's nuclear programme".
He added: "I don't want to be complicit if they [Israel] choose to do it."

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