This is really a FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY.
And for them it is. It‘s an opportunity for them to do whatever they wanted to do before, but couldn‘t get away with. It‘s an opportunity for them to smear anyone who criticizes them as disloyal. It‘s an opportunity for them to become much more powerful than they ever could be in peacetime. Leaders love war. That‘s why there‘s so much of it.
It‘s understandably hard for normal people to come to terms with this. It‘s scary to believe your leaders may secretly be, uh, not so sad if you die. But all you have to do is listen to them, and they‘ll tell you.
Can we change this? Maybe. But the first step in changing reality is facing it, no matter how ugly and frightening it is.
Happy September 11th.
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The veil of secrecy around the government‘s illegal and unconstitutional use of both Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is being lifted. As a result, Congress has seen a flurry of legislation to try and fix the problems; however, as we‘ve been saying since June there are far more questions than answers about the spying. And Congress must create a special investigative committee to find out the answers. Right now, the current investigations are unable to provide the American public with the information it needs.
President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday showed a very confusing picture of US policy, Manuel Ochsenreiter, a German journalist focusing on Syria, told RT. The president’s address contained two messages “completely contradicting” each other, he said.
“My job was mainly to prepare bombs for cars. There were many people, all from different countries. Our ‘teachers’ showed us how to make bombs – which ingredients to use, and how exactly to make them,” he says.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Russia, China, Britain, France and the U.S. — are holding a closed-door meeting Wednesday to discuss France‘s draft resolution on chemical weapons in Syria, according to an administration official.
The Institute for the Study of War has learned and confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O‘Bagy does not in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University.
The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-ed piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a Ph.D., the group announced on Wednesday.
During discussions about military action in Syria last month, O‘Bagy wrote an influential piece in The Wall Street Journal that was used to push for punishing the Assad regime for using chemical weapons.
„Russland hat den USA einen Plan vorgestellt, laut dem die chemischen Waffen in Syrien unter internationale Kontrolle gestellt werden sollen“, sagte der Gesprächspartner der Agentur. Gerade dieser Plan solle bei einem Treffen zwischen den Außenministern Russlands und der USA, Sergej Lawrow und John Kerry, in Genf erörtert werden.
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden and the White House staff remember those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
One of the core Benghazi lies perpetuated by Fox News is that a U.S. military response could have saved the lives of those killed in the Benghazi attacks. Consistently, numerous Fox personalities and others in the conservative media have gone as far as claiming the administration left our men to die in Benghazi.
Wednesday marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, with events planned across the country to commemorate the tragedy.
Aber es ist auch eine Geschichte voller Hoffnung……
United Nations investigators have listed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria, but provided no conclusion on the issue of chemical weapons use.
„On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators,“ the team probing human rights violations in Syria said in its latest report on Wednesday.
Am 17. September soll der Raketenkreuzer „Moskwa“ im östlichen Mittelmeerraum eintreffen, ausserdem sollen am 29. September zwei Schiffe der Schwarzmeerflotte – das Flugkörperschnellboot „Iwanowets“ und das kleine Raketenschiff „Stil“ die syrische Küste erreichen.
In ganz Norwegen ist am Dienstagmorgen wegen des Ausfalls des Kommunikationssystems, das den Verkehr steuert, der Zugverkehr ausgefallen.
Darüber hinaus wurde der Weizen auch in Rumänien und der Ukraine erworben. Die Lieferung der gekauften Partien soll am 11. und am 20. November erfolgen.
Russia’s Moskva missile cruiser, dubbed a “carrier-killer” by NATO, has passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and is now heading toward the eastern Mediterranean to assume command of the Russian naval force there.
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
Das Fehlen neuer Argumente ist verdächtig, besonders nach Präsident Obamas Ankündigung, dass nach der heutigen Ansprache die Amerikaner „Syrien angreifen wollen“ werden, wonach er dann die Argumente wieder aufwämte, gegen die eine überwältigende Mehrheit der Amerikaner den Krieg ablehnt.
Darüber hinaus gratulierte Mohammed Abdel-Aziz Russland zur erfolgreichen Durchführung des G20-Gipfeltrreffens:
„Unser Glückwunsch geht von der tiefsten Überzeugung davon aus, dass die Russische Föderation bei der Lösung sehr vieler großer internationaler und regionaler Probleme eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Auch tritt sie immer an der Seite der Länder der dritten Welt auf.“
Die Staatsanwaltschaft darf wegen Untreueverdachts gegen Christine Lieberknecht ermitteln. Thüringens Landtag hat die Immunität der CDU-Ministerpräsidentin aufgehoben. Auslöser ist die Affäre um die Frühpensionierung ihres Sprechers Peter Zimmermann.
Interessanterweise werden laut des Memorandums durch die NSA “raw SIGINT” (ungefilterte geheimdienstliche Daten) an den israelischen Geheimdienst weitergegeben. Das bedeutet, dass diese Daten nicht durch die NSA überprüft wurden und somit potenziell auch US Bürger betroffen sein können.
The president said he asked Congress to postpone votes on Syria action to pursue a diplomatic solution at the United Nations but did not offer any new details about how the negotiations will proceed.
(26.8.2013) Saudi Arabia, Iraq Lead Summer List of Prospective New Deals
Fly me to the (war) moon
There are no signs that the Obama administration is prepared to even reconsider the yo-yo „Obama doctrine“ all across the Middle East. This would imply dumping the Saudi-Israeli axis and making a concerted effort for the success of the Geneva II conference, the only possible diplomatic solution for the Syrian tragedy.
I have argued before that the (farcical) emperor is just a paperboy – a docile employee. Those who are paying for the upcoming lethal production, as in the House of Saud, or cheering in the sidelines, as in the Israel lobby, simply won‘t give up.
„Es gibt einen unmittelbaren Zusammenhang zwischen der Grundwasserabsenkung beim Projekt Stuttgart 21 und der Quellschüttung in Bad Berg“. Darauf weist Wasserwirtschaftsfachmann und Bundestagskandidat der Netzwerke Frank Schweizer in einem Videoclip hin.
I have therefore asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorise the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. I‘m sending Secretary of State John Kerry to meet his Russian counterpart on Thursday, and I will continue my own discussions with President Putin. I‘ve spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies, France and the United Kingdom. And we will work together in consultation with Russia and China to put forward a resolution at the UN Security Council requiring Assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately destroy them under international control.
„Ich habe die Spitzenvertreter des Kongresses gebeten, die Abstimmung zur Genehmigung der Anwendung von Gewalt aufzuschieben, solange wir diesen diplomatischen Weg gehen“, sagte Obama in seiner Fernsehansprache.
Tuesday night, perhaps after realizing he had neither the support of politicians nor that of the American people, President Barack Obama put a hold on Congress’ decision on military intervention in Syria.