Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Strategic incompetence is the art of avoiding certain task by pretending you don't know how to do them. Purposely performing a task so poorly as to discourage being assigned this task again, but not poorly enough to be fired.........



...........Washington the world is watching.  "The only thing worth globalizing is dissent."
- Arundhati Roy. 


"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." -  Thomas Jefferson

 "I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." - William S. Burroughs

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." -  Eugene Victor Debs

















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Rise of the Anti Hegemon









Anna Chapman Exits NBC News Interview Over Snowden Question.........???????




Latest Snowden leak: NSA plays 'Six Degrees of American Citizens'




  • Obama's credibility - and that of his critics - Serge Halimi

    Less than six months ago, the US was described as a phoenix risen from the ashes, with an economic recovery, independent energy resources, dominant IT multinationals and a renascent car industry. Now it is an empire in decline, brought down by the indecisive conduct of President Barack Obama . That's according to the chattering classes. They have made talking about "the strange weakness of America" a minor industry. They claim Obama damaged US credibility over Syria by not launching yet (...)
    Translated by Barbara Wilson


Flow of Refugees Destabilizes Lebanon

The war in Syria and its wave of refugees is destabilizing and overwhelming Lebanon. Now there are fears the hundreds of thousands of newcomers will never want to leave, and the sectarian conflict will worsen.




Today, Wall Street executives are visiting the White House as friends to give advice on the government shutdown. Five years ago on this day, they were visiting Washington to get billion-dollar bailouts. A panel of experts including former FDIC chair Sheila Bair and others weigh in on the government program that bailed out US banks with taxpayer dollars amid the 2008 crisis:  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security








Posted: 01 Oct 2013 09:29 PM PDT
1 October 2013
 - As one of the few nations in the world with a GMO-free platform, Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now ordered the same agencies to consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.

The Russian Federal Environmental Assessment Commission has not adopted any commercialized GM varieties for agricultural use.

The recent decision by the Russians to suspend authorisation for American GM corn threatens to trigger a transatlantic commercial and diplomatic row.

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 01:25 AM PDT
1 October 2013
 - The United States of America was built on a foundation of genocide against the Indigenous peoples of North America. In fact, all successful settler colonial societies are founded in genocide. The process is one of dispossession – the erasure of one group identity and the imposition of another on the people and/or on the land.
But genocide is not merely the foundation of the US nation state, it is also the foundation of the US empire. The US habit of genocide has not died, but has transformed. The US has become a serial perpetrator of genocide with the blood of many millions of innocents spilled in pursuit of imperial hegemony.










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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York - Oct 1, 2013.
US Cowardice Will Let Israel's Isolated Right Off The Hook
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warrant, without trial, without mercy -- anyone they choose to kill.
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The NSA isn't just spying on foreigners.
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One person killed as Myanmar hit by fresh round of sectarian violence:
President Thein Sein toured Myanmar's conflict-torn west on Tuesday as sectarian violence once again gripped the state of Rakhine, with Buddhist mobs killing a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torching more than 70 homes, officials and panicked residents said.
  
Suicide bomber kills five Iraq police:
A suicide bomber killed five police in Iraq on Tuesday, an officer and a doctor said, as an Al-Qaeda front group claimed a wave of deadly bombings. The attack in Tikrit, which hit the counter-explosives police headquarters for Salaheddin province, also wounded seven police.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As Iraq violence kills nearly 900 in September, gunmen storm police station:
Nearly 900 civilians were killed across Iraq in September as sectarian violence worsened, raising the death toll for 2013 to more than last year's total, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
More than 115,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war: Activists say:
Among the dead were 47,206 fighters loyal to the Syrian government. On the rebel side, 17,071 were civilians who picked up weapons to join the insurgency, 2,176 were army defectors and 4,460 were either foreign or unidentified fighters killed in battle.
U.N. experts enter Syria to dismantle chemical stockpile:
Experts from the United Nations arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin the process of verifying and eliminating the regime's chemical weapons stockpile, Alarabiya reported.
Russia says to push for Mideast free of mass-destruction weapons:
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Russia seeks to fill vacuum in the Middle East: Op-Ed:
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Iran must dismantle nuclear program: Netanyahu:
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Netanyahu calls on US senators to keep up pressure on Iran:
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Iranian foreign minister lashes out at Obama via Twitter:
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United Nations decries widespread use of torture in Libya:
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Libyan protest cuts into gas exports to Italy:
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Disgruntled Mali troops fire weapons, kidnap officer:
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Mursi supporters stage protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square:
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Four tonnes of radioactive water spilled in Fukushima:
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One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry by 2015.
It's Official: NSA Wants to Suck up All Americans' Phone Records:
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asked NSA director, Gen. Keith Alexander, whether his spy agency should be collecting all Americans' phone records. Gen. Alexander, admitted that he "believe[s] it is in the nation's best interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox that we can search when the nation needs it."
NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show:
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Author and NSA critic denied entry into US:
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The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution: Op-Ed:
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Snowden shortlisted for Sakharov Prize:
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has made the shortlist of finalists for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The other nominees include Pakistani women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai, and three Belarusian dissidents.
U.S. government shutdown starts; Congress deadlock remains:
The U.S. government began a partial shutdown on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects.
Pentagon Spent $5 Billion on Weapons on the Eve of the Shutdown:
The Pentagon pumped billions of dollars into contractors' bank accounts on the eve of the U.S. government's shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed.
Dollar sinks to 8-month low after US shutdown:
The dollar has fallen to an 8-month low against a range of currencies, driven by fears that a partial shutdown of the US government will hit the economy.
10 ways govt shutdown will hurt America: -
1 Countdown to US default looms - A halt of US government operations would drag the world's biggest economy closer to bankruptcy, something unprecedented in US history. If no budget deal is done, the US would bump up against their "debt ceiling" and run out of money by October 17
Student-Loan Defaults Rise in U.S. as Borrowers Struggle:
About one in seven borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans, showing how former students are buckling under higher-education costs in a weak economy.
Militarization creep: Texas cops get army tanks :
There's little political will to contain the increasing militarization of police, the sees Robocop-style SWAT teams with army vehicles increasingly become the norm for domestic policing:
How Cops Became Soldiers:
It won't be long before we see pro-militarization lobbying and pressure groups. Say hello to the police-industrial complex.
Country Club Politics: How McCutcheon v. FEC Could Tee Up Elite Donors for More Influence:
On October 8th, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could take a political system already centered on big money and put power even further into the hands of Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and K Street lobbyists.













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