Thursday, September 18, 2014

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. ~ Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters (1987), "Introduction: Thinkability"



"We need not choose blindness, or the hatred that lets us be herded in fear. We can reach out with truth, with compassion, with the activist courage that leaps from heart to heart, rebuilding sanity, civility, community, humanity, resistance." Kathy Kelly - Co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence

  
 The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot. ~ william jenning bryan









More invasions will NOT protect the homeland!!!









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Lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to provide more oversight of the Pentagon program that provides military-grade weaponry to local police forces. High-caliber arms, mine resistant vehicles and other battlefield equipment regularly make their way to small towns under the “1033” program, with little oversight once the transfers have been made. The bipartisan bill hopes to cut back on these practices and end the militarization trend, as George Mason University’s Dr. Michael Shank explains to RT’s Ameera David.






“Corruption, greed and economic inequality have reached a peak tipping point,” writes David Degraw. “Due to the consolidation of wealth, the majority of the population cannot generate enough income to keep up with the cost of living. In the present economy, under current government policy, 70% of the population is now sentenced to an impoverished existence.”

In this special 3rd anniversary of Occupy Wall St. edition of Acronym TV, David DeGraw sits down with Dennis Trainor, Jr.




from the intercept


Featured photo - Clapper Denies Lying, Announces New Ethics Policy

By Dan Froomkin
An unapologetic James Clapper bristled at accusations of misconduct in front of a trade group today, announced that he intends to continue serving as national intelligence director through the rest of the Obama presidency, and released a new “National Intelligence Strategy” that includes a “Code of Ethics” that seems disconnected from the reality of intelligence collection as revealed by Edward Snowden.

Speaking in public, but in a friendly setting, Clapper mocked the notion of intelligence collection without risk, the potential for embarrassment or invasion of privacy. He snidely called it “Immaculate Collection.” (see NBC video.)
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Posted: 17 Sep 2014 10:10 AM PDT
17 September 2014
- How bad can the insanity get? It’s worse than almost any understand or are willing to face. Finally scientists with honor and moral fortitude are beginning to speak out on the record. Dr. Stephanie Seneff from MIT is one such heroic scientist and researcher. She has documented the inconceivable continued increase in autism that now calculates out to half of all children born having this ailment in the next 10+ years.
The all out assault against life on Earth must be halted and it will take all of us working together to get the job done. Much of our food supply is now laden with Monsanto’s toxic brew of “RoundUp”. When combined with the mountain of aluminum and other heavy metals being sprayed on us by the climate engineers, it is a recipe for severe breakdown of the human organism. To put all this into the overall picture, not only is climate engineering completely disabling the planet’s life support systems, the toxic heavy metal fallout is combining with the Monsanto chemical nightmare to completely disable the human health system.





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Flames Of War
Islamic State Replies To Obama Declaration Of War

Video

"Fighting has just begun"


Fear of ISIS Triggers Double Threat to Checks and Balances

By Hina Shamsi

We now have a Congress so anxious to avoid tough votes that it is ducking any decision on whether to go to war in Iraq and Syria, and a president who is grabbing unprecedented power to take the country to war all on his own.


'US Seeks to Use IS to Weaken Each State in the Region'

By Soraya Sepaphour-Ulrich

This is not really a fight against a group of terrorists - of the making of Americans themselves and their allies - but it is really to reoccupy the Persian Gulf region.


Killing Joke
The Presidential Leadership Scholars Program

By Chris Floyd

And thus do our mediocre murderous masters replicate themselves, generation after generation ....


A Morally Reprehensible Article
Don't Focus on Civilian Casualties

By Robert Goldich

We - that is, the world - pay far too much attention to civilian casualties, both in reporting about war and in thinking about war.


After the Ceasefire

By Omar Robert Hamilton

On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed. Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire. Israel has done the following.


Ukraine and neo-Nazis

By William Blum

In the past week the dirty little secret has somehow poked its head out from behind the curtain a bit.


Lessons Learned in the Bucca Camp

By Kathy Kelly

"We need not choose blindness, or the hatred that lets us be herded in fear. We can reach out with truth, with compassion, with the activist courage that leaps from heart to heart, rebuilding sanity, civility, community, humanity, resistance."


An Unbearable and Choking Hell:
The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11

By John W. Whitehead

We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state.


Can You Pass The "China Threat" Quiz?

By Jeffrey Rudolph

1. How many military bases does China have on foreign soil?


No God's and Precious Few Heroes : Dick Gaughan

Video and Lyrics

So don't talk to me of Scotland the Brave
For if we don't fight soon there'll be nothing left to save
Or would you rather stand and watch them dig your grave
While you wait for the Tartan Messiah?




Hard News    

Syria : Almost 50 people killed in strikes on Talbiseh:
Six children were among those who died as Talbiseh, in Homs province, was bombarded for two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.


Syria: 36 Children Die After Receiving 'UN-Sponsored Contaminated Measles Vaccine':
Parents accused the Syrian opposition - which controls Idlib - of negligence when storing the vaccines and of supplying out-of-date medications.


Free Syrian Army commander says the IDF should establish anti-Assad no-fly zone:
"Israel could down any plane above that area and no one would blame it," he continued. "Refraining from doing this means collaborating with the Assad gang in our murder.


Free Syrian Army will not join US-led coalition against IS:
The group's founder, Colonel Riad al-Asaad, stressed that toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is their priority, and that they will not join forces with US-led efforts without a guarantee that the US is committed to his overthrow.


IS quits Syria bases as US poised to strike:
Jihadists in a Syrian stronghold near Iraq have abandoned some bases and redeployed their forces and armour from other positions, with the US military poised to strike, activists said Wednesday.


ISIS goes underground in Syrian stronghold: -
Islamic State has gone underground in its Syrian stronghold since President Barack Obama authorised US air strikes on the group in Syria, disappearing from the streets, redeploying weapons and fighters, and cutting down its media exposure.


Rebels on Syria's southern front 'closer to the doorstep of Damascus':
 After weeks of heavy fighting, rebel groups announced the seizure of 80 per cent of Qunietra province on Saturday, including areas along the border with Israel. The territory could prove to be a key link between opposition forces in the south and those fighting in and around the Syrian capital.


Iraq claims 50 Islamic State fighters killed in air raids:
More than 50 fighters with the Islamic State jihadist group were killed in two air raids north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi security officials said


Bombings kill 11 in Iraq:
Two bombings, including a suicide attack on a security post outside Baghdad, have killed at least 11 people in Iraq.


Top general: US ground troops possible in Iraq:
 American ground troops may be needed to battle Islamic State forces in the Middle East if President Barack Obama's current strategy fails, the nation's top military officer said Tuesday as Congress plunged into an election-year debate of Obama's plan to expand airstrikes and train Syrian rebels.


Iraq Prime Minister 'Won't Allow' Foreign Troops,:
Foreign troops are "out of the question. Not only is it not necessary, we don't want them. We won't allow them," says Iraq's new prime minister Haider al-Abadi. Uh, he may want to tell that to the Obama administration


Congressional Leaders Back Plan to Train "Rebels" to Fight Islamic State:
The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the White House request as an amendment to the spending bill Congress must pass this month to prevent a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins in October.


Manufacturing Consent For US Intervention
House Dem: 'We'll have many more 9-11s' if no action on ISIS:
Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Tuesday that the U.S. could risk another terrorist attack if Congress does not act against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).


More than 30 killed in Yemen clashes since Monday:
More than 30 people have been killed in Yemen in clashes between Shia Houthi fighters and army-backed tribesmen. In the latest incident, 11 people were killed in clashes in Hamdan on the northern outskirts of the capital Sana'a on Tuesday.


Six explosions rock Yemen's capital, fighting set to intensify:
Houthi rebels shelled by government forces near to President Hadi's residence in the capital Sana'a


Hamas makes arrests over Gaza mortar fire, as unity tensions spiral:
Hamas keen to preserve ceasefire with Israel after mortar fire, as the Fatah-Hamas war of words escalates over migrant tragedy


Report: Snowden Leaked NSA 'Deal' with Israel:
Former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the US National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday.


Pakistan says air strikes killed 40 militants:
Pakistan's military said on Wednesday it killed 40 insurgents and destroyed five of their hideouts in fresh air attacks as part of a major offensive against the Taliban in the northwest.


14 killed in attack from Afghanistan:
Pakistani troops Tuesday morning repulsed a terrorist attack from Afghanistan in the North Waziristan Agency, killing 11 terrorists and apprehending another. Three FC troops were martyred during an exchange of fire.


6 Soldiers killed in suicide bombing in Kabul:
A Taliban suicide bombing has killed at least six soldiers, including three members of the NATO occupation force ISAF, and wounded more than 25 others near the US embassy in Kabul, according to police sources in Afghanistan's capital.


Gunmen kill 15 at college in north Nigeria's Kano:
Gunmen stormed a higher education college in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, firing on fleeing students and setting off an explosion in an attack that killed at least 15 people and wounded 35, police said.


Nine killed, 30 wounded in new clashes in Libya's Benghazi - medic:
Heavy clashes broke out on Tuesday between a former Libyan general's forces and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least nine people, medics said.


Three civilians killed in shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk:
Three civilians were killed in renewed shelling in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday despite a ceasefire, the local authority said.


Grim Luhansk wary of Ukraine's shaky truce:
Luhansk is licking its wounds. After a long summer of bombardment by government forces, it is mourning its dead and slowly coming back to life. But it is a grim, pessimistic place, full of hardship and queues.


Russia's Lavrov says Ukraine ceasefire holds:
"In general, our assessment and the assessment of colleagues from other countries is that the ceasefire is holding and that incidents that are taking place now should diminish," RIA quoted Lavrov as saying in Addis Ababa.


Russia Yevtushenkov arrest prompts Sistema share dive:
Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of money-laundering, prompting shares in his company Sistema to plunge. The Moscow Exchange temporarily restricted trading in Sistema as shares in the oil and telecom group fell 37%.


Uruguayan President On Gitmo: U.S. 'Made A Business Out Of That Prison':
Mujica said he would "take responsibility" for "dismantling a human disgrace," according to a statement posted to the Uruguayan presidency's website. The comments were reported Friday by Latin American media, but not widely circulated in the English-language press.


Confessions of a drone veteran:
Why using them is more dangerous than the government is telling you


Sony Forecasts $2B Loss as Smartphones Lag:
Sony expects its annual loss to swell to $2 billion and has canceled dividends for the first time in more than half a century after writing down the value of its troubled smartphone business.


New Record: Pound of Ground Beef Tops $4 for First Time:
In August, the price index for food rose 0.2 percent, with the average price for a pound of ground beef rising to $4.013 per pound--the first time it has ever topped $4 per pound.


U.S. National Debt Surges $1 Trillion In Just 12 Months :
The U.S. financial position continues to deteriorate badly and in the last 12 months has increased by over $1 trillion dollars.


Number of billionaires hits record high in 2014:
A new survey shows that 155 new billionaires were minted this year, pushing the total population to a record 2,325 - a 7 percent increase from 2013. Credit goes to the United States - home to the most billionaires globally - where 57 new billionaires were recorded this year, according to the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014 released on Wednesday.




It's thrilling to see it happening. All across the world, we're coming together to hit the streets this Sunday in the largest climate mobilization in history.

Don't miss out on it, this is something to tell your grandkids about -- click on the map to join in:

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Already if you google search it there are hundreds of press articles about the People's Climate March, and almost every major media organization on the planet has told us they're covering it. The UN itself is even planning to open the climate summit with photos and video from the march! So nearly every world leader will literally have to sit, watch, and hear our voices.

We're hours away from our greatest chance to launch the movement we've been waiting for to save the world from climate catastrophe. Let's seize this moment, for our future, our kids' futures, and everything we love.

With hope and anticipation,

Ricken, Oli, Allison, Luca, Uilleam, Nataliya, Marigona and the rest of the Avaaz team






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