New York City Is Furious
HUNDREDS OF POLICE KILLINGS UNCOUNTED
The Orion capsule is poised to make its first test flight Thursday. If all goes as planned, the unmanned vehicle will orbit Earth twice before splashing into the Pacific Ocean.
Kim Shiflett/NASA
NASA is about to launch a new spaceship into orbit, and Mallory Loe has never heard of it.
“I mean, technically, NASA doesn’t have another spaceship, do they?” she asks incredulously during a visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
She’s hardly the only one who doesn’t know about this new spacecraft. In fact, none of a half-dozen tourists NPR interviewed in the museum’s lobby was aware of the Orion spaceship.
On Thursday, the unmanned Orion test vehicle is set to be launched into space aboard a commercial rocket. It will orbit Earth twice, traveling 3,600 miles away from the planet on its second lap. Then it will re-enter the atmosphere and splash into the Pacific Ocean.
It’s designed for deep space, but Orion’s first mission will be back to the neighborhood of the moon. The plan is to have a robot capture a small asteroid and drag it back to lunar orbit. Then Orion will carry up to four astronauts to meet it. It’s all supposed to happen in the 2020s, though some say the mission is too complicated and not much of an advance.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden isn’t surprised that nobody has heard about Orion. “Back in March of 1969, if you asked somebody about America’s space program, they may have said, ‘I think we’ve got this Apollo thing,’ or something like that,” he says.
The Orion test capsule will not have life support, but it will check many other systems, including computers and parachutes and the heat shield.
The Oil Crash May Be About Something Much Worse Than A Supply Glut
Black Friday Exposed America’s Class Problem
Justice Ginsburg Shouldn’t Quit Just Yet
‘Til death do us ex parte: Despite her recent heart surgery, it isn’t time for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to hang up her doily. PQ: The Constitution establishes a system of laws to be foll…
Everybody Buying Books Past Weekend
President Obama and his daughters, Sasha and Malia, visited Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington. (Courtesy of Politics and Prose Bookstore)
‘EXECUTION SECRECY’ PUSH IN OHIO
4 Botched Executions In 8 Years… FLASHBACK: Condemned Inmate Gasped, Snorted For 15 Minutes Under New Lethal Drug Combo…
BLACK FRIDAY FRENZY
Kena Betancur via Getty ImagesFerguson Protests Move To Stores… Chaos In Britain… Walmart Workers Plan Strikes… TOYS R US MADNESS… Crowd Control… One Of The Biggest Days Of The Year For Gun Sales… More Stores Open On Thanksgiving… Does Little To Boost Sales… Growing Backlash… Best Deals Aren’t Actually On Black Friday…
5 GLOBAL EVENTS
TO BE THANKFUL FOR
Are You Better Off This Thanksgiving Than You Were Last Thanksgiving?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/27/2014 – 13:40
Are you in better shape financially than you were last Thanksgiving? If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate because most Americans are not. As you chow down on turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce this Thursday, please remember that there are millions of Americans that simply cannot afford to eat such a meal. According to a shocking new report that was just released by the National Center on Family Homelessness, the number of homeless children in the U.S. has reached a new all-time high of 2.5 million. And right now one out of every seven Americans rely on food banks to put food on the table. Yes, life is very good at the moment for Americans at the top end of the income spectrum. The stock market has been soaring and sales of homes worth at last a million dollars are up 16 percent so far this year. But most Americans live in a very different world.
Beyond Drinking From Water Fountains and Riding Buses, Black People Have a Right to Survive
The gradual ground we have gained regarding our civil rights should not be confused with the literal stalemate we have had with the U.S. justice system regarding our human rights for more than 200 years.
Coming to a Town Near You: Preemptive States of Emergency, Riots, Peace Brigades and Sanctuaries
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Years ago in Guatemala I realizedAmerica wasn’t everything it could be-a sentiment just shared by President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the Ferguson riots, riots sparked by the acquittal of a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Guatemala was dominated by a military…
10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer
Submitted on 11/21/2014 – 22:53
It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling. Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix. Everywhere around us we can see evidence of the social decay that is systematically eating away at the foundations of our society. It can be found on the streets of our inner cities, in dark basements in extremely rural communities, in the most prestigious boardrooms on Wall Street, and definitely in the halls of power in Washington. Bringing in an entirely different crop of politicians or printing gigantic mountains of money is not going to solve this problem, because it exists in the hearts of millions of ordinary men and women. The truth is that we really need to take a good, long look at ourselves in the mirror…
FORMER PLAYMATE: HE RAPED ME
‘Black Friday’ Isn’t Just One Day Anymore
THE END
More Damning Assault Allegations Surface… REPORT: Bullied Tabloid To Scrap Rape Story In 2005… Standup Routine Crumbles… Networks Cut Shows…
Joe Biden to press Turkey over Islamic State role
US-Vice President Joe Biden is in Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, aiming to push for a bigger Turkish role in the fight against Islamic State (IS). Turkey has said such a role would have to be linked with plans to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey has pressed for a no-fly zone in Syria…
A HORA !
Pool via Getty ImagesACTION: 4+ Million Protected From Deportation… Relief For Many Parents…Obama: ‘We Were Strangers Once, Too’… Crowd Chants Outside White House: ‘Sí Se Pudo’… Biggest Win For Immigrants And Their Allies In 25 Years… GOP Freaks Out… But Can’t Stop It… Cruz: ‘Acting As A Monarch’… Governors Eye Lawsuit…Steve King Floats Impeachment… Republican Rage Could ‘Doom Any Hopes For A Stable Period Of GOP Governance’… Clinton: ‘Firm’ Legal Footing…
Will Climate Change Turn the Pentagon and Militaries Upside Down?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Only with the aid of climate and geography was General George Washington and his Continental Army able to defeat the British during the American Revolution. One example was Yorktown, the final battle of the war. General Cornwallis and his troops had fortified their position on the tip of the York…
Obama immigration plan shields 5 million and sets up showdown with Republicans
ANALYSIS Appeal: Five million undocumented immigrants hope to be allowed to stay in the US. Photo: Mark Humphrey Washington: Barack Obama appealed toAmericans‘ sense of fairness, good sense, patriotism and even to scripture in announcing plans to allow up to five million undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows and remain in the US.…
Americans brace for more icy temperatures and snow as ferocious storms linger
Published November 20, 2014FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 Email PrintAmericans across the country braced for another night of icy temperatures as the mercury continued to drop Wednesday, with residents in upstate New York still marooned at home, on highways and at work one day after a ferocious storm dumped piles of snow on the area. Even hardened…
NBC CUTS BAIT
Putin Demands Respect
The Deep Malaise Of Your American Democracy
-OpEd- Barack Obama let the cancer of jihadi terrorism spread across the Middle East. He also left the door open for the Ebola virus to walk right in…
Where Native Americans May Decide U.S. Midterm Elections
WOUNDED KNEE — Instead of calling in the cavalry, South Dakota Democrats will be depending on the Sioux to avoid an electoral massacre in t…
Adios Banana Republics! Brazil Firm Buys ‘Colonial’ Chiquita
-OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — It was never just about bananas. Chiquita Brands became, in the 20th century, a symbol of a quintessentially cynical…
Testosterone Nation: Male Hormone Therapy Explodes In U.S.
DALLAS — Greg Lucas wasn’t feeling at the top of his game. He’d gained weight, and the machines at the gym filled him with apprehensio…
Lionfish, A Predator On The Menu
Lionfish aren’t native to the Atlantic Ocean but have long populated the coral reefs of the Red Sea, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Beautiful to look…
Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Most Like This Former President’s
-OpEd-PARIS — If foreign policy were a beauty pageant, President Barack Obama would not be sporting a crown. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner g…
The Aborted Origins Of The First Hunt For Osama Bin Laden
Some of the drones the United States used to hunt for Osama bin Laden were once piloted out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany, apparently without the kn…
A Utopian Mississippi Bookstore, Where Faulkner Lives On
OXFORD — The walls in this Oxford, Mississippi, bookstore are covered with pictures of authors. One by one, Richard Howorth comments on the…
Deconstructing The Apple Watch, As A Watch
Along with a new version of the iPhone, Apple has for the first time presented a wristwatch: the Apple Watch. If all goes to plan, sporting a so-calle…
A Farewell To America, In More Ways Than One
-Essay- America was good and generous to me. It gifted me with the birth of a third daughter, four presidential elections and a weight gain of 17.6 p…
Are The Dollar’s Global Currency Days Numbered?
-Analysis- BOGOTA — It’s not going to happen tomorrow, in a year or even five years. But it’s conceivable, even likely, that wit…
The 25 Coolest Instagram Accounts You Should Be Following
Instagram launched in 2010, offering people a way to stay connected using images and videos. Since then it has grown immensely, and people from all over the world are using the site to show what they’ve been up to. But it’s also a way for people to show off their creativity.
In addition to family and friends, and even celebrities who are active on the site, such as Beyonce, and well-known Instagram accounts, like Humans of New York, there are a ton of other people who are using Instagram to flex some creative muscle, whether it’s climbing the highest heights, or simply giving their feeds a dose of cuteness.
Treating the Terror Psychosis
MILpictures by Tom Weber via Getty ImagesAmerica is afflicted with a debilitating ailment that has warped the collective national mind. Its symptoms are the experience of persistent delusions and a distorted sense of objective reality.
How The IRS & Homeland Security Are Expanding Undercover Work
Submitted on 11/18/2014
“There is a danger to democracy,” a Supreme Court spokesman said, “in having police infiltrate protests when there isn’t a reasonable basis to suspect criminality.” “It is impossible to tell how effective the government’s operations are or evaluate whether the benefits outweigh the costs, since little information about them is publicly disclosed.” Just another day in the American oligarchy.
A campaign to “restore” America won’t work. Just ask the Democrats
6 Reasons Why You Should Quit Facebook
HOMELESS CHILDREN IN U.S. AT ALL-TIME HIGH
FEDS RAID
ISIS Claims Beheading Of Another American Aid Worker
Obama, Suu Kyi meeting as Myanmar hero shifts role
Drones Patrol Half Of Mexico Border
The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border.
It represents a significant departure from a decades-old approach that emphasizes boots on the ground and fences. Since 2000, the number of Border Patrol agents on the 1,954-mile border more than doubled to surpass 18,000 and fencing multiplied nine times to 700 miles.
Under the new approach, Predator Bs sweep remote mountains, canyons and rivers with a high-resolution video camera and return within three days for another video in the same spot, two officials with direct knowledge of the effort said on condition of anonymity because details have not been made public.
SEA CHANGE
Rosetta’s Philae robot makes history with Comet 67P landing
Boulder‘s Southwest Research Instititute has role in pioneering mission The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta‘s Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately 3 km from the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide) 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.…
‘THIS IS A MAJOR MILESTONE IN THE U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP’
REFORM COMING?
‘WE WANT TO SEE CHINA SUCCESSFUL’
Obama Calls On China To Be A Partner In Ensuring World Order At APEC..Urges World Leaders To Approve Elusive ‘Historic’ Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
US and Iran meet in bid to reach nuclear deal
The United States and Iran held high-level talks in Oman as the deadline for a nuclear deal loomed closer, but President Barack Obama warned there might be no agreement. US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iran’s Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif in the Gulf sultanate on Sunday, seeking to resolve key disputes that have left the West‘s…
‘The Race To Zero’ Is Scaring Tech Companies
‘Trojan Horse’ Bug Lurking in Vital US Computers Since 2011
A destructive “Trojan Horse” malware program has penetrated the software that runs much of the nation’s critical infrastructure and is poised to cause an economic catastrophe, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
National Security sources told ABC News there is evidence that the malware was inserted by hackers believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, and is a very serious threat.
The hacked software is used to control complex industrial operations like oil and gas pipelines, power transmission grids, water distribution and filtration systems, wind turbines and even some nuclear plants. Shutting down or damaging any of these vital public utilities could severely impact hundreds of thousands of Americans.
DHS said in a bulletin that the hacking campaign has been ongoing since 2011, but no attempt has been made to activate the malware to “damage, modify, or otherwise disrupt” the industrial control process. So while U.S. officials recently became aware the penetration, they don’t know where or when it may be unleashed.
DHS sources told ABC News they think this is no random attack and they fear that the Russians have torn a page from the old, Cold War playbook, and have placed the malware in key U.S. systems as a threat, and/or as a deterrent to a U.S. cyber-attack on Russian systems – mutually assured destruction.
The hack became known to insiders last week when a DHS alert bulletin was issued by the agency’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team to its industry members. The bulletin said the “BlackEnergy” penetration recently had been detected by several companies.
DHS said “BlackEnergy” is the same malware that was used by a Russian cyber-espionage group dubbed “Sandworm” to target NATO and some energy and telecommunications companies in Europe earlier this year. “Analysis of the technical findings in the two reports shows linkages in the shared command and control infrastructure between the campaigns, suggesting both are part of a broader campaign by the same threat actor,” the DHS bulletin said.
The hacked software is very advanced. It allows designated workers to control various industrial processes through the computer, an iPad or a smart phone, sources said. The software allows information sharing and collaborative control.
LUNCHTIME
US navy SEAL who killed Osama unmasked
Full ArticleThe Times of India
‘Stand Up’ for Soldiers
‘BLOODBATH’
REPUBLICANS CONTROL SENATE AND OBAMA
GOP triumph is tempered by sobering realities
‘THE WORLD CAN DO BETTER’
TATTERS
Obama Syria Strategy Weakening As U.S.-Backed Rebels Lose To Al Qaeda
October ‘Midterm’ Surprise: Ebola and Obama as Political Savior?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the realm of politics it is called framing, or the ability to alter reality and a voter’s perception.(1) The way images are presented, campaigns conducted, and how messages are worded, usually determines the way the public identifies with a political narrative and then casts their ballots. President…
TIGHT TUESDAY AHEAD
Key Races Still Close With 3 Days To Go…
October ‘Midterm’ Surprise: Ebola and Obama as Political Savior?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the realm of politics it is called framing, or the ability to alter reality and a voter’s perception.(1) The way images are presented, campaigns conducted, and how messages are worded, usually determines the way the public identifies with a political narrative and then casts their ballots. President…
‘I’M PROUD TO BE GAY’
HUG OF WAR
US Considers Movement Restrictions on Troops Based in Ebola-hit West Africa: White House
U.S. SOLDIERS QUARANTINED
U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia monitored for Ebola in Italy
U.S. Major General Darryl Williams, commander of the US military’s Operation United Assistance, holds a press conference about the Ebola virus at the US embassy in Monrovia on October 25, 2014.
‘Hands Up or Down!’: Dammed if You Do, Dammed if You Don’t
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The recent killings of an unarmed and armed black teenager in Ferguson and St. Louis, Missouri by overzealous police and excessive force exposes how historical and discriminatory processes and institutional racism in the United States continues its deathly march against minorities. It also brings…
EBOLA STATE OF MIND
Race To Trace Patient’s Movements… Doctor ‘A Dedicated Humanitarian’… 3 People Quarantined… Hazmat Suit Shares Spike… ‘Extremely Unlikely’ To Spread Through Public Transit… ‘Minimal To No Risk’…
DR. RUBIO’S Rx:
EBOLA TRAVEL BAN
U.S.-Liberia: A Fascinating and Interrelated History
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Good and bad microbes are not the only invisible rulers of the world. There are also thousands of unseen ideas.Ideas, that is, in which some are left unfinished while others are ongoing or entirely fulfilled. Now that Liberia is wildly labeled ground zero of Ebola, a hot zone and epicenter of “a…
Pentagon preparing for long war in Iraq, Syria
WASHINGTON — Ten weeks into its war against Islamic State extremists, thePentagon is settling in for the long haul, short on big early successes but still banking on enlisting Syrians and Iraqis to fight the ground war so that U.S. troops won’t have to. The U.S. general overseeing the campaign on Friday predicted that the jihadists will be…
Excuse Me, But We Never ‘Won’ in Iraq
It’s often been said that generals always fight the last war, especially if they think they won it. That old adage remains as true today as it was when the Maginot Linewas built in the 1930s to prevent a second German invasion of France. And it is as true for politicians as it is for generals. The proof can be found in the current debate about the…
Obama cancels trips to focus on Ebola
Washington, October 16: US President Barack Obama cancelled two trips Thursday to Rhode Island and New York to focus on his government’s response to the Ebolacrisis, as Republicans urged him to suspend flights from countries affected by the disease. Obama was scheduled to travel to Rhode Island for an economic event before attending a Democratic…
For Bank Of America, Crime Is Now An Ordinary Course Of Business
submitted 10/15/14
Between Q4 2011 and Q3 2014 Bank of America produced “Net Income” of $15.9 billion. However, the amount of added back “one-time, non-recurring” legal expenses is a stunning $28.9 billion: two of every three dollars, non-GAAP as they may be, comes from Bank of America engaging in criminal activity… and getting caught for it! So perhaps an even more relevant question than how long will the EPS “addback” bullshit continue, is how long will the regulators and enforcers allow Bank of America to exist as an organization for which two-thirds of its “ordinary course business” is, for lack of a better word, crime?
1,300-Year-Old Village Unearthed In Arizona National Park
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Archaeologists have unearthed a village believed to be about 1,300 years old and containing more than 50 sandstone-walled homes at a U.S. national park in northeastern Arizona, one of the researchers said on Friday. The discovery was made by a team that surveyed part of the Petrified Forest National Park during the summer and…
Pentagon says global warming increases terrorism threat
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian…
End Game Against ISIS Will Require Departure of Assad
Facebook Wants To Be Creepier Than Google With Your Data
In an ever-escalating battle to own the Internet, Facebook is going after Google’s digital advertising empire, using your personal information as ammunition.
ACTION: OBAMA WEIGHING CLOSING GITMO ‘UNILATERALLY’
The War With No Name
The U.S. has been bombing the Islamic State for two months now, and several developments stand out: The extremists are still on the offensive, the U.S. is struggling to find partners on the ground, and for the first time in a quarter-century, a major U.S. military intervention lacks a formal name.
When President Obama launched the aerial campaign in August against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, followed a month later with similar strikes in Syria, it carried the expectation that it could grind on for years.
Rapper Lil Jon appears in a new ad for Rock the Vote’s 2014 campaign. The organization was founded to get Generation X engaged in politics, and is adapting its tactics to reach millennials.
Rapper Lil Jon appears in a new ad for Rock the Vote’s 2014 campaign. The organization was founded to get Generation X engaged in politics, and is adapting its tactics to reach millennials.
Courtesy of Rock the Vote
This story is part of the New Boom series on millennials in America.
Millennials are not getting much love from politicians this year.
The big reason for that is low expectations for turnout among young voters.
Back in 2010, the last midterm election, fewer than a quarter of voters ages 18 to 29 showed up at the polls. This year, it’s looking even worse: 23 percent of voters under 30 are expected to vote. That’s according to Eva Guidarini of the Harvard Institute of Politics, which studies young voters.
US court hears Guantanamo force-feeding case
Hunger-striking prisoners who are force-fed at Guantanamo Bay can choose from several flavours for the liquid meal they must ingest, and well-behaved inmates sometimes are force-fed communally, a US court has heard. In a testimony outlining procedures at the US Naval base in southeastern Cuba, government officials described how prison guards deal…
US to begin airport Ebola screening
Five major US airports will soon begin an extra level of screening to try to catch any travellers from Ebola-ravaged countries who might be carrying the disease. About 150 travellers a day will have their temperatures checked using no-touch thermometers, although health officials expect false alarms from fevers due to malaria. The extra screening…
TEXAS EBOLA PATIENT DIES
Goodbye Gun Control: The $1,200 Machine For 3D-Printing Guns Has Sold Out In 36 Hours
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2014 – 13:12
Americans want guns without serial numbers. And apparently, they want to make them at home. On Wednesday, Cody Wilson’s libertarian non-profit Defense Distributed revealed the Ghost Gunner, a $1,200 computer-controlled (CNC) milling machine designed to let anyone make the aluminum body of an AR-15 rifle at home, with no expertise, no regulation, and no serial numbers. Since then, he’s sold more than 200 of the foot-cubed CNC mills—175 in the first 24 hours.
GIGANTIC JP MORGAN DATA BREACH MIGHT AFFECT 76 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic About The First US Case Of Ebola
Reuters/ James AkenaA laboratory specialist examines specimens of the Ebola virus.
FIRST CASE OF EBOLA IN US
Wake up, America: It’s time to properly debate our endless war in the Middle East
ISLAMOPHOBES EXPLOITING JAMES FOLEY MURDER
ISIS Comes To America? Oklahoma Man Beheads Woman After Being Fired
A man who had been fired from a food processing plant in an Oklahoma City suburb beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday. As AP reports, while questioning the suspect’s co-workers, investigators learned he had recently started trying to convert several employees to Islam. As the director of news and information for tlamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City stated, “they have this ISIS thing on their minds and now this guy has brought it
Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A.
Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, introducing the new iPhones, which feature enhanced data encryption.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times
US Continues Airstrikes on IS Targets
VOA News American fighter jets, drones and other aircraft pounded Islamic Statetargets in Iraq and Syria on Friday as Britain, Denmark and Belgium joined the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group. U.S. Central Command said four Islamic State tanks were destroyed in Syria’s Deir el-Zour province. A group monitoring the war in Syria said Friday…
FIRED FOR STANDING UP
TO WALL STREET?
EDITORS NOTE…..This story above is a difficult read as it lays out with clarity the corruption of American financial system and its players……
……AND WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE OF ITS CITIZENS ?????
BETWEEN A ROCK AND
A HARD PLACE
iPhone 6 bendgate and iOS 8 glitch take bite of Apple as nearly $23bn wiped …
OVERNIGHT SYRIA STRIKES TARGET ISIS OIL REFINERIES
A Look Inside The Secret Deal With Saudi Arabia That Unleashed The Syrian Bombing
For those to whom the recent US campaign against Syria seems a deja vu of last summer’s “near-war” attempt to ouster its president Bashar al-Assad, which was stopped in the last minute due to some very forceful Russian intervention and the near breakout of war in the Mediterranean between US and Russian navies, it is because they are. And as a reminder, just like last year, the biggest wildcard in this, and that, direct intervention into sovereign Syrian territory, or as some would call it invasion or even war, was not the US but Saudi Arabia – recall from August of 2013 – “Meet Saudi Arabia’s Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War.” Bin Sultan was officially let go shortly after the 2013 campaign to replace Syria’s leadership with a more “amenable” regime failed if not unofficially (see below), but Saudi ambitions over Syria remained. That much is revealed by the WSJ today in a piece exposing the backdoor dealings that the US conducted with Saudi Arabia to get the “green light” to launch its airstrikes against ISIS, or rather, parts of Iraq and Syria.”The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a fresh U.S. commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad, whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority.“
NEW WAR SHOVES OUT LAST YEAR’S DOCTRINE
LARGEST CLIMATE MARCH IN HISTORY
Naomi Klein, author of “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” discusses climate change and the economics of the energy industry with Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)
INTRUDER HAD KNIFE
FOREVER WAR?
A Viewer’s Guide to Weekend Movies: A Maze of Tombstones Is Where Hollywood Leaves You
Remember those days when not many movies out in theaters? This is not one of those days! There are so many new movies out this weekend! Seventeen, to be exact. So let’s get cracking………Continue here.
American Separatists Are Thrilled About Scotland And Think It Will Lead To A ‘Paradigm Shift’
WARNING FROM THE JUSTICE: DENY EQUALITY AND WE’LL STEP IN
Obama to deploy 3,000 troops as Ebola crisis worsens
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States announced on Tuesday it will send 3,000 troops to help tackle the Ebola outbreak as part of a ramped-up plan, including a major deployment in Liberia, the country where the epidemic is spiralling fastest out of control. The U.S. response to the crisis, to be formally unveiled later by President…
UNINSURED RATE PLUMMETS
Islamic State crisis: Kerry to lead talks in Paris
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet foreign ministers from around the world in Paris on Monday to discuss how to defeat Islamic State (IS) militants. French President Francois Hollande said the beheading of a British aid worker showed the world must act against IS. About 40 countries, including 10 Arab states, have signed up to a coalition…
Visible, Invisible and Subterranean Images of 9-11
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Each year in World Geography, students learn that maps lie and grossly distort reality. In other words, political map projections do not reveal the layers and layers of various histories, governments, economics, religions, cultures, or the differing societies. Neither do maps, drawn and outlined with…
A Woman’s Place Is in the White House
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Regarding the two most prevalent sexes, male and female, which brain can multi-track and is far more communicative and holistic? Which tends to build relationships more easily, has the ability to speak and listen simultaneously, and can switch subjects and moods while interweaving diverse and…
THE LONG WAR
Bomb ISIS ‘Wherever They Exist’… Somalia, Yemen Held Up As Examples!…‘Intelligence Agencies Have Concluded That ISIS Poses No Immediate Threat
America’s Future Is Bright
BUSH DOCS: ‘VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED’ PRESIDENTIAL SURVEILLANCE POWER
BP Ruling ‘Wakeup Call’ as Risks Mount in Oil Search
A U.S. judge’s watershed ruling means the final cost to BP Plc (BP/) for the 2010 Gulf oil spill may eclipse $50 billion, wiping out years of profits and highlighting the risks of drilling as the industry pushes into more dangerous areas such as deeper waters and ice-bound Arctic fields. Yesterday’s court decision that BP acted with gross…
A Hacker Breached The Obamacare Website
MEDIA WAR FRENZY ‘LIKE 2003’
Ex-NSA Director, US Intelligence Veterans Write Open Letter To Merkel To Avoid All-Out Ukraine War
Submitted 09/02/2014 –
“We the undersigned are longtime veterans of U.S. intelligence. We take the unusual step of writing this open letter to you to ensure that you have an opportunity to be briefed on our views prior to the NATO summit on September 4-5. You need to know, for example, that accusations of a major Russian “invasion” of Ukraine appear not to be supported by reliable intelligence. Rather, the “intelligence” seems to be of the same dubious, politically “fixed” kind used 12 years ago to “justify” the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. We saw no credible evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq then; we see no credible evidence of a Russian invasion now. Twelve years ago, former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, mindful of the flimsiness of the evidence on Iraqi WMD, refused to join in the attack on Iraq. In our view, you should be appropriately suspicions of charges made by the US State Department and NATO officials alleging a Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
FBI and Apple investigate celebrity nude photo hacking
Apple and the FBI are investigating an online hack that led to the posting of hundreds of explicit photos of some of Hollywood’s most famous female stars. The leak saw British names including model Cara Delevigne and former Downton Abbeyactress Jessica Brown Findlay linked to the list of around 100 famous people whose intimate pictures had…
LABOR DAY OUTRAGE: WAGE THEFT SOARS
Nasa Approves Rocket To Take Humans To Mars
The $7bn (£4.2bn) Space Launch System is scheduled to blast off for a test launch by November 2018.
Obama seeking allies for fight against extremists
Full ArticleThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s acknowledgement the U.S. still lacks a strategy for defeating the growing extremist threat emanating from Syriareflects a still unformed international coalition. The president is meeting with his top advisers and consulting members of Congress to prepare U.S. military options. At the same time, he is…
Armstrong Warns “Ferguson Is The Flash-Point In The Cycle Of War”
Submitted on 08/28/2014 
“Ferguson is a flash-point. Justifying the shooting is irrelevant. This is no longer a race riot, it is being seen worldwide as war waged by military troops pretending to be police and this crosses the line for that same level of force will be used against white protesters when the economy turns down. The goal is to be so harsh and cruel, like in Donetsk, anyone who disagrees better not show their face.”
U.S. Coast Guard fires on Iranian fishing boat
Obama Wants This Journalist In Jail
At least 89 injured in U.S. quake-stricken Napa area
> • 89 were injured after 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit California’s Napa area earlySunday morning. • Emergencies officials said the quake cut off power supply to at lease 64,000 people in Napa area. • California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for the quake-hit area. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with…
Chinese Top Gun ‘Barrel Rolled’ Over US Plane
The jet exposed its undercarriage to show the US plane it was armed as they came within 20ft of each other, the Pentagon says.
An SU-27 jet like the one in Monday’s incident Pic: Japan Defense Ministry
The US has lodged a formal protest with Beijing after a Chinese fighter jet conducted a barrel roll “very, very close” over an American Navy plane this week, the Pentagon has said.
The F-35 Could Eventually End Production Of Every Other Military Jet
All three F-35 variants at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Left to right: F-35C carrier variant, F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing variant, F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variant.
Time To Embrace Our Inevitable Future As Cyborgs
CLASH
9th Night Of Unrest… Officers Fire Tear Gas At Crowds… SWAT Armored Vehicle Plows Through Protesters… Live Bullets Fired By ‘Bad Guys’… 2 Shot, 2 Fires, 31 Arrested… Some From As Far Away As NY And California… Molotov Cocktail And Guns Confiscated… Capt. Johnson: ‘Let’s Give Attention To The Peaceful, Not Glamorize The Acts Of Criminals’… EARLIER: Getty Photographer Detained… 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Arrested… ‘Until They Bring In The Policeman Who Did This Shooting, There Ain’t Gonna Be No Peace…
WHAT RECOVERY?
The Percentage Of Americans Who Can’t Afford Food Hasn’t Budged Since The Recession Peaked
National Guard Deployed To Ferguson
BAGHDAD USA
FLASH: County Police Said To Be Pulled From Scene Imminently…
ASSOCIATED PRESSHuffPost, WashPost Reporters Arrested And Assaulted… CRIME: ‘Not Packing Bags Quickly Enough’ At McDonald’s… ‘Slammed Into Soda Fountain’… ‘A Dehumanizing Process’… OUTRAGE… Pattern Of Harassment… Alderman Arrested Because He ‘Didn’t Listen’… HuffPost ‘Disturbed’… Civilian Screams: ‘I’m Dying, I’m Dying’… TEAR GAS, RUBBER BULLETS SHOT AT PROTESTERS… Another Witness Contradicts Police Claims About Shooting…Obama To Speak…
Bacall’s legend more than just acting and Bogart
NANU NANU
ASSOCIATED PRESSRobin Williams Dead… Apparent Suicide… Checked Into Rehab Weeks Ago… Last Seen Sunday Night… ‘Had Been Battling Severe Depression’… 4 Upcoming Movies…
Rory McIlroy wins dramatic shootout to take PGA title
Murder or Accident in Tony Stewart’s NASCAR Scandal?
Iraq’s highest court paves way for Maliki to serve third term
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq‘s highest court ruled on Monday that Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki‘s…
US drops new aid to Iraqis fleeing militant surge
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. launched a new airdrop Saturday to aid thousands of members of an Iraqi minority group who fled the advance of the Islamic Stategroup, trying to stem a worsening humanitarian crisis in a country reeling from the extremist offensive. The extremists have captured hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority,…
Here’s Where The US Just Went To War…
‘WE THANK BARACK OBAMA’
SAUL LOEB via Getty ImagesIraqi, Kurdish Officials Welcome U.S. Airdrops.. Food And Water For 8,000.. More Shipments Planned.. U.S. Begins Airstrikes On ISIS.. EARLIER: Islamic State Takes Iraq’s Largest Dam.. Seizes Country’s Biggest Christian Town.. UN: Persecution Amounts To Genocide.. Haunting Photos Of Minorities On The Run
President Obama authorizes renewed airstrikes in Iraq
Obama authorized the US airstrikes, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and protect civilians under siege. President Barack Obama authorized US airstrikes in northern Iraq on Thursday night, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and…
NET NEUTRALITY BREAKTHROUGH
Israel Reportedly Spied On Kerry Talks
Israeli intelligence reportedly listened in on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s telephone calls during Middle East peace negotiations last year. Der Spiegel quotes “a reliable source” saying Israel eavesdropped on conversations made on telephones that were not encrypted. It reports that at least one other foreign intelligence service listened on Kerry’s talks, as well, but did not specify which. Neither the U.S. nor Israel has commented. At the same time, documents newly released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA works closely with its Israeli counterpart SIGINT National Unit and provides surveillance assistance to monitor and target Palestinians, as do British and Jordanian agencies.
THE ‘HELL NO’ HOUSE
New House Leadership Woos Most Extreme Members… ‘Backslapping’ After Vote Puts Half Million At Risk Of Deportation… Sabotaging Their Own White House Hopes… Disaster For Republican Presidential Candidates…
WSJ Editorial Blasts ‘Deportation Caucus’… Bachmann Ecstatic…
GOP Congressman: 8 Million Immigrants With Jobs Should Be Deported…
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The Real Reason Obama Is Being Sued and Impeached
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. If only President Barack Obamahad declared war. If only he had exceeded his executive authority and preemptively invaded and militarily occupied another nation. If only he had unleashed the dogs of war to slaughter thousands of foreigners. If he had done all of this, Republicanswould not have just…
FBI ERRORS IN 16 DEATH PENALTY CASES
IRS Totes Guns, But Doesn’t Use Helicopters–Yet
Does the IRS Make You Queasy? Just Think How You’d Feel If the IRS Had Helicopters Too, Like the Taxman in Brazil! read »
Is Big Philanthropy A Western ‘Tyranny Of Experts’ – Or Measure Of Imperfect Democracy?
Years ago, quite early in my development career (which itself is a second career to journalism), I was sitting comfortably in the board room of a white shoe law firm with panoramic views of midtown Manhattan. The occasion was the board meeting of nonprofit organization engaged in international development, specifically assisting the poor in one small and very poor nation ruled by a corrupt hierarchical regime. The question was fundraising and how to get donors interested in helping this population[…] read »
The Ten Plagues That Are Hitting America Right Now
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 – 18:30
Why are so many plagues hitting the United States all of a sudden? Yes, one can always point out bad stuff that is happening somewhere in the country, but right now we are facing a nightmarish combination of crippling drought, devastating wildfires, disastrous viruses, dying crops and superbugs that scientists don’t know how to kill.
2 GOP JUDGES STRIKE DEATH BLOW AGAINST OBAMACARE |
5 Million Could Lose Insurance Support… Affects More Than Half Of Country…
‘It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation’: John Kerry overheard saying of Israel’s Gaza operation
PENTAGON: Russia Likely Helped Militants Who Shot Down The Plane
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Hillary Clinton sat down on “The “Charlie Rose Show” following Thursday’s Malaysian Airlinesplane crash in Ukraine and argued it was “obviously” an anti-aircraft missile that shot it down. She said Russian insurgents were “probably” responsible and European countries needed to step up their efforts in the region.
“Who could have have shot this down? Who had the equipment — it’s obviously an anti-aircraft missile? Who could have had the expertise to do that?” said Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential front-runner in 2016, said. “There does seem to be some growing awareness that it probably had to be Russian insurgents.”
If pro-Russian separatists, who are battling the Ukrainian government, did indeed shoot down the plane, Clinton said the Russian government would be certainly linked to the crash.
“If there is evidence pointing in that direction, the equipment had to have come from Russia. What more the Russians may or may not have done, we don’t know,” she said.
Clinton, who formerly served in the Obama administration as secretary of state, said current United States sanctions against Russia were effective. On the other hand, she said European countries will need to become more aggressive in their own efforts to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down.
“If there is evidence linking Russia to this, that should inspire the Europeans to do much more on three counts. One, toughen their own sanctions — make it very clear there has to be a price to pay. Number two, immediately accelerate efforts and announce they are doing so to find alternatives to Gazprom. Russia has not diversified its economy. It is still largely dependent upon natural resources, principally gas and oil. And thirdly do more in concert with us to support the Ukrainians,” she said. “Put Putin on notice that he has gone too far and we are not going to stand idly by.”
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KOCH PUSHERS
How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students
CRUNCH TIME
JOE KLAMAR via Getty ImagesKerry Tries To Salvage Nuclear Negotiations Days Before Deadline.. Iran And U.S. See Domestic Constraints.. Study: Iran Sanctions Cost The U.S. Billions
‘ROCK STAR’ RECEPTION FOR WARREN
Warren Stumps In Deep Red States… Attendees Plead With Her To Run For President… Fundraising Sensation…
US prepared to broker Gaza ceasefire, says Obama
