What could possibly go wrong?

1. "What could possibly go wrong in the war on IS?"
2. "Whose side is Turkey on?"
3. "The Caliph fit to join OPEC"
4. "Iraq’s Sunnis Won’t Fight ISIS for U.S."

The Americans need the capable help of Iran because all its 'friends' are acting like enemies, and the worst-case scenarios are very, very bad, and likely.

"The fraud that is the Temple Mount movement" Is it possible that Glick wasn't shot at all, and that Feiglin made the whole thing up?

"The Chickenshit Lobby Is Mad As Hell"  Raimondo notes at the end that Bibi made an express and unmistakable threat to have Barry assassinated.

Crazy Pierre is a micromanager:  two tweets from Nathan Fuller.

"Using the Holocaust to justify war on Assad"  The title doesn't do the article justice.  Lots of deep American Zionist ties to the riffraff trying to ruin Syria for the benefit of World Jewry.

Tweet (Dana):

"Israeli kid vs Palestinian kid on Google. #JSIL"

Tweet (Gladstone Hotel):

"The scariest #Halloween pumpkin of them all!"

Unarmed

"Witnesses describe killing of 'unarmed' Hijazi by Israeli police in Jerusalem"

Target bank

"Who shot Yehuda Glick?" by Ali Abunimah:

"It is likely that Hijazi is part of a “target bank” kept by Israel – a list of people to be eliminated either when the opportunity arises, or as convenient scapegoats."

Muataz Hijazi

The fear was that Glick was shot in some kind of intra-settler dispute, so Bibi was told to find a Palestinian patsy and execute him so any investigation would die with him and Palestinian 'terrorists' would be to blame.

Tweet (OccPal-Gaza):

"According to the sister of the man extrajudicially assassinated today, Muataz Ibrahim Hijazi, Occupation left him bleeding for TWO hours."

It seems abundantly clear with all the many provocations from the settlers and JSIL - in the West Bank, at the al-Aqsa mount, and in East Jerusalem - that the strategic goal of the Jewish state and the settlers who control it is to start a new intifada and use the repression against it for some kind of mass ethnic cleansing.

Added:  tweet (Dan Cohen):

"According to witnesses, this is the "weapon" Hijazi had."

Yehuda Glick

It is strikingly unusual - almost unheard of - for very bad men - and we're really talking lowest of the vilest of the scummiest here - to be assassinated.

Chickenshit tastes like bull

Some are coming to realize that the concentration camp guard's 'chickenshit' piece is just another Zionist conspiracy (probably part of a bigger plan to manage the American-Iranian relationship), with the anonymous Bibi-slurrer being none other than Zionist treason agent Ben Rhodes.  Bibi is milking this trick for all he can, and already has Barry tied in knots.

Official Story problems

"Shocking new information in Tsarnaev case casts doubt on official story about the killing of Ibragim Todashev"

The entire Official Story on Todashev's death - why they went to see him and the nature of the confession he was supposedly in the middle of giving them - turns entirely on the previous Official Story that Todashev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were involved in the triple homicide.  The Todashev death looks more and more like the execution of an unhelpful witness.

Note also the second last paragraph on changing the Official Story on where the bombs were supposedly made.

Turbo libertarianism

The cultural contradictions of turbo libertarianism play out.

Tweet (Matt Taibbi):

"Grieving for Racket today. It was a privilege to work with that team and I'm so sorry it did not work out."

"Matt Taibbi Leaves Omidyar’s First Look Media [UPDATED]"

Greenwald is an excellent fit for Crazy Pierre's destructive politics; Taibbi is not.  Greenwald attacks the government (a-ok with Crazy Pierre); Taibbi attacks big capital (definitely not a-ok).

An abandoned lab filled with bats

"FBI Raids House Of 'Second Leaker' Who Provided Terrorist Watchlist Documents To The Intercept"  Second NSA leaker.

"Michael Zehaf-Bibeau threatened to act ‘in the name of Allah in response to Canadian foreign policy': source"  These 'jihad' videos are meaningless as anybody who wants to create a fake terrorist would also make a fake 'jihad' video.

"Detroit: The Dispersal of Urban Black America Begins"  Lots of money to be made when the property values go up because of the ethnic cleansing.

"Has a deal with Iran stalled?"  World Jewry is nervous that the fake Iranian threat is about to evaporate.  It is funny how forcing the Americans into another hopeless War For The Jews has made a deal with Iran more likely as the Americans badly need Iranian cooperation in attempting to counter ISIS.

"Diamond magnate may be lying about Israel settlement pullout, activists warn"

"Big Brother’s Liberal Friends"  Lackeys versus whistleblowers.

"Bioweapons Expert Reaffirms Belief that Ebola Escaped from a Biowarfare Lab"

Unattainable

"Google Is Not What It Seems" by Julian Assange (read the whole thing; there are lots of specific examples):

"Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has."

"The Unattainable Illusion of Meritocracy" by Yves Smith.  We've build a society which worships 'merit', and justifies all its abuses on 'merit', but which is completely and systematically and intentionally incapable of judging merit.

Tweet (Sophia Banks):

"Canada. You want to prevent things like the Ottawa shooting? Advocate for better drug rehab programs + mental health services."

War-trickery

"Harper vows to fast-track boost to spy, policing powers after shooting"  The attack will mute the opposition and public opinion and allow the fascist legislation to go through unamended.

Tweet (George Galloway):

"Harper set out to make Canada, once loved, one of the hated. To please his Zionist chums he outdid Netanyahu"

Tweet (George Galloway):

"condolences to Canada under terrorist attack. Harper deliberately steered the most provocative course recruiting many such terrorist killers"

"Non-Aligned Media: “Canadian authorities ran war game drills depicting ISIS attack scenarios”"

"Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars?"

"Pro-war pundits: always wrong, always claiming to be right — and always erasing the victims"

"Gunmen in Ottawa : Questioning Canadian militarism"

"Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa":

"In this climate, do not expect our finest hour. Yesterday's events will be used as the springboard to call for greater militarization of the national culture and justification for unending war against ISIL/ISIS or any other convenient enemy-du-jour. This will lead to further increases in war spending, despite the fact that the War Dept. was supposed to come up with $2 billion in cuts. The wars in Ukraine and Iraq -- costs for which are being kept secret, without much protest -- will easily double that. These events will also be used to attack anyone who questions Canada's role in wars past or present.

The events of yesterday will likely also have a congealing impact on Parliamentarians who, understandably, shared a trauma together. Wednesday was supposed to be the Harper government's opportunity to unleash a new round of legislative measures designed to give CSIS and the RCMP even more freedom to trade information with torturers, monitor people overseas, take part in extraordinary rendition programs, and be completely immune from prosecution and oversight by the creation of a special class privilege that would assert the right of CSIS agents and informers not to be questioned about their activities in any court of law, public or secret.

But after yesterday, what opposition leader who wants to appear prime ministerial will feel comfortable saying no to such an agenda? The Conservatives will no doubt frame the issue with the familiar refrain, "you're either with the terrorists or against them."

Perhaps the most immediate impact will be felt in certain communities targeted for racial and religious profiling. While Canadian soldiers have been told to stay indoors and not show themselves in public, individuals of South Asian or Middle Eastern heritage, and certainly anyone who may be a Muslim or perceived as one, may have second thoughts about being out in public. These communities will be the subject of demands from the media and some "community leaders" to "out" radicalized young people, to call in "suspicious" behavior (undefined), and to report their neighbours to CSIS or the Mounties. They will find greater difficulty travelling, and they will learn first-hand about something called the Passenger Protect Program (or no-fly list)."

Culture of violence

Tweet (Scott Horton):

"Canada shooter's dad was one of Obama's **GOOD** mujahedeen in Libya in 2011! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/attack-on-ottawa-what-we-know-so-far/article21254214/ …"

A little taste of what it is like to be an American.

"'Saudi's Policy Of Downplaying Oil Prices Will Backfire On Them'"

"Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers"  Greenwald, writing just before the Ottawa attack, is completely right here.  This constant engagement in fighting Wars For The Jews has also created a striking moral deterioration in the country, a coarsening, a tendency to see violence as the answer to every question, and of course the creeping fascism and militarism which is Harper's ultimate goal.  Yesterday was a little taste of what it is like to be an American.

"Protesters Accuse Met Opera Of Spreading "Jewish Hatred" At "The Death Of Klinghoffer" Premiere"  "'Klinghoffer': New York’s Jewish right goes to the opera"  Clearly just a publicity stunt for what is essentially a Jewish supremacist opera, with increasing Islamophobia as the real intent.

"George Soros: Russia poses existential threat to Europe" More pressure for the Europeans to fund the Ukrainian gas bill.

Tweet (Daniel Pipes) (note the replies):

"Has anyone besides me noticed the similarity of the @LATimes mobile app logo and the #ISIS flag? Just wondering."

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

How come details about the identity of the alleged shooter are coming first from the American media from American government sources?

Tweet (STOP):

"RT @ArmedResearch:#ISIS Media account posts picture claiming to be Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, dead #OttawaShooting suspect"Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

The Sergeant-at-Arms

When the dust settles it appears there will have been just one shooter who killed the soldier and then died in the Canadian Parliament buildings (note that the last account of hijacking a car at gunpoint is out of line with the other witness accounts and makes little sense since you could easily run to the Parliament buildings from the War memorial - the plates were probably stuck over the stolen car's plates so it would not be easily identified as stolen, and removing them may indicate this wasn't intended to be a suicide mission):

"Liberal Senate staffer Stuart Barnable told Metro he saw the whole shooting happen from his office on the East Block of parliament.

“The guy pulled up outside the war memorial, jumped out of his car, got out with a rifle and shot at the guys who guard the War Memorial. He hit one by the look of it. The other (soldier) booted it.”

“He ran back into his car, backed up Wellington and then swerved around and came up and jumped out and ran up towards the House of Commons. He had a long rifle,” said Barnable.

“He was running. He ran back into his car and then he ran up the Hill”

Barnable said the man pulled the plates off a grey Toyota Corolla.

“He ran up the Hill and had a scarf covering his face. I ran down and told security to lock the doors.”

“Everybody is on lockdown.”

Tony Zobl, 35, said he saw the soldier being shot from his office window above the War Memorial.

“I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the Cenotaph point blank, twice,” Zobl said.

“The honour guard dropped to the ground and the shooter kind of raised his arms in triumph.”

Scott Walsh was working in a manhole near the East Block building when he says he heard two gunshots. He then saw an ensuing panic and a suspect he said had long black hair and a face covered with a white scarf.

“He had a double-barrelled shotgun, he was about five feet from me, and he ran right beside us, ran past the woman with the stroller and child.”

The gunman then hijacked a car at gunpoint and drove it toward the Peace Tower."

I think it is amazing that it was the sergeant-at-arms - a half ceremonial and half administrative position whose origins were in actually preventing violence against English members of  parliament - who shot the assailant.

Shooting

There has been a shooting in the Canadian Parliament buildings.

Added:  also at the War Memorial diagonally across the street from the Parliament Buildings (as if the shooter went from the War Memorial to the Parliament Buildings).

Added:  tweet (Peggy Nash, MP):

"Very frightening here in ctr block. So many shots. I'm safe but not sure what's happening."

Tweet (Jordan Press):

"Hill witness tells me he saw a man pull up in a car by War Memorial on Elgin Street, open fire w/ long rifle. #cdnpoli #ottnews"

This reporting by Twitter of a crime as it continues is kind of exciting.

Added:  tweet (Seb FoxAllen):

"Oh no. RT @ShirleeEngel: #BREAKING Here is a photo from our office window of situation at war memorial. #cdnpoli "

Added: tweet (Tony Clement):

"Shots fired during caucus meeting. at least 30 shots. MPs piled out. I'm safe with 2 colleagues but we're still at risk..."

Added: tweet (Elizabeth May MP):

"Reports that shooter has been shot inside Centre Block. Multiple shots inside Centre Block. #shocking"

Added: YouTube: "Footage from Globe reporter captures exchange of gun fire in Parliament Hill building"

Weaponized

"Interview with Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council"

Tweet (Billmon):

""Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Evidence Indicates" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/ukraine-used-cluster-bombs-report-charges.html … "What any nation would do" @AmbassadorPower https://twitter.com/AmbassadorPower/status/462284087063887872 …"

It seems that Power and (especially) Susan Rice are both in danger of being replaced, not because they are insufficiently monstrous (greater monsters have never lived), but because they have been extremely ineffective at managing and enabling the goals of World Jewry, thus endangering Barry's future income stream.

"Blowback in Yemen: Houthi advance is a Saudi nightmare"

"Germany Requests Assurances On Virus Export"  "US Army withheld promise from Germany that Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized"

Tweet (Karl Sharro):

"The New Egypt Monopoly has been released."

Jail for tweet

"'Anti-Petrodollar' CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow"

"Germany’s Merkel Agrees with ‘Angry’ Slovak Leader that Ukraine Bums EU to Pay for Russian Gas"  Putin ends up with exactly what he asked for, and the Europeans will pay the bill, taking whatever is left of Ukraine as collateral.

"Documents Show US Siding With Israel in Death of Its Own Citizen"  Considerable efforts on multiple fronts.

"U.S. denies claim FBI withheld info on missing Israeli soldier in Gaza war"  Again, and completely contrary to Emerson's claims, the Americans bent over backward to comply with the demands of their masters.

"German intelligence report on MH17"  Whoever did it it wasn't the Russians, so why are the sanctions - sanctions based on the completely unsubstantiated assertion that the Russians were involved - still in place?

"'Unmasked': Merseysider jailed for anti-semitic tweet to Luciana Berger shows a 'dark side'"  Scroll down towards the end for the horrible tweet that merits jail (admittedly, not much jail).

Rare good news:  "Bolivia’s Evo Morales re-elected, but important challenges lie ahead"

Hoaxes

"Why You Can Hardly Believe a Word of What You Read About ISIS" by William Blum

"Who will win in Kobane (`Ayn Al-`Arab)?"

Washington establishment journalists have never recovered from the embarrassment caused to them by the investigative reporting of Gary Webb, reporting which revealed the deep corruption and incompetence of Washington-based 'journalism'.  "Gary Webb was no journalism hero, despite what ‘Kill the Messenger’ says"  "The Washington Post Needs a Bus – and to Throw Jeff Leen Under It"  "WPost’s Slimy Assault on Gary Webb"

The king is dying, and sometimes it is safer to censor yourself rather than wait for the government to do it for you:  "Blog on hiatus" 

"3 horrific inaccuracies in Homeland's depiction of Islamabad"  "‘Homeland’ is the most bigoted show on television"

"David Brooks: Gaza war proved my son was right to serve in IDF" Time to circle the wagons and instruct us on what a wonderful columnist he really is.

"Soviet Spy David Greenglass Dies: How Jewish Communists Betrayed America’s Nuclear Secrets" 

"Graffiti Artist Banksy Arrested In London; Identity Revealed"  "Hoax 'Banksy Arrested in London' Story Dupes the Internet Again"

Some things require a lot of lying

"'Fortress Israel' (Part One) By Richard Sale"  Lavon, etc.

"Did Israel develop the doctrine behind Iraq invasion?"  Part of World Jewry's big project to destroy international law as international law is incompatible with a violent racist supremacist state.

"How the Israeli media covers massacres: Lessons from 1953"  Pattern of lies established early.  Of course, what the Jews as a violent racist group collective were and are doing is so horrible that they needed to develop a lying pattern - not to mention take full control of the mainstream media - in order to have any chance of getting away with it.  Note how obscure or unheard of most of their massacres and genocide still are.

"Pro-Israel Think Tanks ‘Proselytize’ Among Muslim-American, Christian Leaders"

"No Surprise Dep’t: David Brooks’s son is in Israeli army"  This is the most blatant example of conflict of interest I've ever seen.  His writings suggest and encourage American policy in the Middle East, policy that would have a direct impact on the life of his son, and the fact it is considered an outrage that he might be obligated to disclose the conflict is very telling.  He obviously should be fired.  There is no chance of that happening.

"Are "blacks treated like dogs" in Israel?"

TPP

WikiLeaks continues its invaluable work:  "Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter (second publication)"

Commentary on how bad it is:

1. "New leak of TPP consolidated text on intellectual property provides details of pandering to drug companies and publishers"
2. "The Leaked TPP: Some notes, and Criminal Copyright"
3. "Latest Intellectual Property Chapter Of TPP Agreement Leaked: Would Be A Disaster For Public Health"
4. "Leaked TPP IP Chapter Would Lead To Much Greater Online Surveillance... Because Hollywood Still Hates The Internet"
5. "TPP Leak Confirms Measures To Criminalize Corporate Whistleblowing"
6. "Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals—and New Threats Arise"
7. "Cyber-Espionage and Trade Agreements: An Ill-Fitting and Dangerous Combination"
8. "Leaked TPP Chapter Exposes Sweet Deals for Big Pharma and US Bully Tactics"
9. "Leaked TPP Draft Reveals Extreme Rights Holder Position Of US, Japan, Outraged Observers Say"
10. "Leaked TPP Draft Reveals Tough Anti-Piracy Measures"
11. Even the crazies at Forbes think it is unbalanced:  "Secrecy-Shrouded TPP Leaks Alarm Internet Freedom Advocates"

It is interesting that it pretty much comes down to strikingly immoral grasping by 'Hollywood' (code word!) and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex.

Poof!

And just like that - poof! - ISIS is gone from Kobane.

"The War Nerd: Nobody could have predicted Islamic State’s retreat from Kobane (except me)":

 ". . . the US was waiting eagerly for the town to fall. There were all sorts of reasons for this, and none make any real sense. The two biggest are: (a) The hick Islamists running Turkey tilt toward IS and hate Kurds, all Kurds, with the same insane virulence that Turks hate all their neighbors, and especially any minority that dares to identify itself as non-Turkish; (b) The YPG militia defending Kobane is linked to the PKK movement, which is nominally “Socialist,” and American apparatchiks, no matter who’s officially in charge, have never un-learned the anti-Commie nonsense they learned at Georgetown; and (c) The “brave, doomed defenders of Kobane” were worth much more dead than alive, much more in defeat than in victory. If they lost, they’d be beheaded by the vicious loons in IS, and those severed-head videos would be great US agitprop, a great little way to put more pressure on Turkey over the theatre the US really cares about—Iraq."

ISIS appears never to have won a real battle.  They only 'win' when they are able to pre-negotiate the terms of a take-over of territory with local Sunni leaders who are friendly to them.

Ban, the comedian:  tweet (Dr.Bassel AbuWarda):

"Ban visited the family of the only Israeli child killed in the last war what about the families of the 600 Gazan Kids?"

"Israeli analyst confirms link between Israel, “moderate” Syrian rebels":

"Commentators have questioned why Al-Nusra front or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have not targeted Israel in their attacks.
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who leads the militant group’s self-proclaimed caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, spoke in July about the terror inflicted on Palestine, but he did so only in passing, in the wider context of the terror Muslims face around the world.
In June, ISIS responded to questions about why it wasn’t fighting Israel instead of killing people in Iraq and Syria.
“We haven’t given orders to kill the Israelis and the Jews,” the organization said on Twitter. “The war against the nearer enemy, those who rebel against the faith, is more important. Allah commands us in the Qur’an to fight the hypocrites, because they are much more dangerous than those who are fundamentally heretics.”"

"Joe Biden's son Hunter thrown out of navy over cocaine"  He's 'moving forward'.  I wonder how business is going in Ukraine.

Tweet (Karl Sharro) (on the simply s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r-l-y Islamophobic Israeli-produced American television show, pure Jewish supremacist warmongering propaganda):

"I'm making the Arab version of 'Homeland'. The US scenes will be filmed in Iceland and we will get Australians to play the American roles."

Weapons of Mass Propaganda

"Why Bush Censored Discovery of Chemical Weapons in Iraq"

It must have made the Bush Administration mad that they couldn't mention this without disclosing the deep lies behind the American preoccupation with Saddam's WND (i.e., we know he's got them because we gave them to him).

The NYT story has now come out as part of Barry's anti-ISIS propaganda, disguised as concern for the injured troops.  They really are weapons of mass destruction, but the destruction is caused by tricking Americans into fighting yet another War For The Jews based on phony fears of yet another 'enemy' created by and supported by the American government.

Keeping their heads off the inevitable pikes

"Saudi Prince "Astonished" At Oil Minister's "Disastrous Underestimation" Of Effect Of Price Cuts"

"Saudi Prince Alwaleed says falling oil prices 'catastrophic'"

It is telling that he has to resort to a letter posted on the internet to make his point.

From January 2012:  "Why the Saudis want $100-a-barrel oil":

"According to the Financial Times, the Saudis now prefer to keep oil prices at about $100 per barrel. What’s changed?

In a word, spending. Over the past few years, the Saudi government has taken advantage of sky-high crude prices to spend lavishly on public works and social programs to stave off the unrest that’s capsizing parts of the Middle East. As a result, the country now needs prices to stay above $80 per barrel to balance its budgets, up from $60 per barrel in 2008 and way, way up from $20 per barrel a decade ago"

Bluff

"Exclusive: Privately, Saudis tell oil market- get used to lower prices"  This is bluff (perhaps a manic phase of Prince Bandar's mental illness).  The Saudis can't afford to do this - they need big revenues to fund their own social programs or face the revolution they fear, and they certainly don't benefit by wrecking OPEC.  It may just be a warning to the Americans to get with the Saudi plan for Syria (the Americans need the high oil price numbers to keep the fracking illusion going, an illusion that creates the phony economic numbers that keep up the deception that the US isn't in severe economic difficulties), a plan which at least the Pentagon seems to be resisting (the Pentagon has been choosing bombing targets which appear to be helping the Syrian government).

Good Kurds and Bad Kurds

"As ISIS Slaughters Kurds in Kobani, the U.S. Bombs Syrian Grain Silos" by Ajamu Baraka (starts out smart, then unfortunately ends dumb with a discussion based on the old left's enthusiasm of imperialism and 'wars for oil'):

"The humanitarian concerns of officials in the U.S. with the plight of Kurds in Kobani could not be more different than what occurred in Iraq when ISIS forces made a push into Kurdish territory. When the Kurdish city of Erbil was under attack by ISIS, U.S. forces unleashed the full power of its air force in tactical coordination with Kurdish forces to push ISIS back.

So what is the difference in the two situations?

The difference and the reason why the Kurds of Kobani are to be sacrificed stems from the fact that they are the wrong kind of Kurds.  Masoud Barzani and the bourgeois Kurds of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) are the “good Kurds” and the predominant force among the Kurds of Iraq.   Their control of almost 45% of Iraqi oil reserves and the booming business that they have been involved in with U.S. oil companies and Israel since their “liberation” with the U.S. invasion makes them a valued asset for the U.S. The same goes for Turkey where despite the historic oppression of Kurds in Turkey, the government does a robust business with the Kurds of Iraq.

The situation is completely different in the Kurdish self-governing zones in Syria. In Kobani, it is the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., that is linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K), a Turkey-based Kurdish independence organization that both the U.S. and Turkey have labeled a “terrorist” organization, that provides the main forces resisting the ISIS attack. Also, the ISIS attack in Kurdish territory neatly converges with the strategic interests of Turkey. Both the U.S. and Turkey saw the control of territory by militant Kurds as a threat. Turkey in particular wanted to undermine the self-governing process among Kurds, Christians and Sunni Arabs in those self-governing zones and turn the territory into a battlefield in order to steal Syrian territory and isolate and attack the “bad” Kurds of the PKK."

Tweet (Rudaw English):

"President #Barzani says #Turkey sent arms shipment to #Kurdistan when #ISIS attacked but asked to not make it public "

"Turkish fighter jets strike PKK targets in southeast Turkey"

The Turks are following the Israeli model of dealing with the Palestinians.

Bad manners

The second NSA leaker.

"After Gaza, What Price Palestine’s Security Sector?"

"Academic civility and its discontents"  It is not a surprise that the powerful would turn to manners as another way of suppressing the powerless.

"Illinois chancellor who fired Salaita accused of serial self-plagiarism" You don't have to dig too deep to find a general culture of sleaziness.

"Fired Professor Steven Salaita’s Speech at Columbia College Chicago on Israel, Civility & Academic Freedom":

"I’m no anti-Semite. I’m no terrorist. I’m no bully. I’m no savage. I’m a man who was fired because I condemned Israeli policy in language appropriate to a horrible occasion rather than in the meek platitudes of civility."

"The Talmud and the Israeli secret police"

"Study Shows Haredi Community Would Likely Be Almost Extinct – If Not For The Holocaust"

The something-must-be-done-even-if-it’s-stupid lobby

"Two more Tornados were sent to raise the British deployment to eight, because, I am told, Denmark had sent seven."

#thedogatemydonorsmemo

Tweet (Ben Willis):

"Today marks the 47th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara. A man who stood up for the downtrodden at all costs."

Tweet (Support Salaita) (#thedogatemydonorsmemo):

"#UIUC Chancellor Wise, where is the memo you claim to have lost? And why can't you simply and civilly ask for another copy? @AliAbunimah"

Background: "Missing Salaita document hints at Univ. of Illinois cover up"

"Zionism and the Educational Elites – An Analysis"

"Hollywood, Israel and the New McCarthyism"

"SodaStream: is BDS hitting where it hurts?"  Johannson is the most destructive celebrity spokesmodel ever.

"Guest Post: Turkey, The Kurds And Iraq - The Prize & Peril Of Kirkuk"  Turkish priorities:

1. weakening the Kurds and blocking Greater Kurdistan, and
2. replacing Assad with a Turkish vassal state run by Sunnis.

"Wait. So THAT’S what the bailouts were about?"  Rare example of public elite infighting reveals the dirty truth.

Big bucks on the speaker circuit

From a comment by Krauss at Mondoweiss to a Weiss posting on the latest 'spat' (my emphasis in red):

"By the way, I’m surprised that people haven’t pointed out the obvious: midterm elections. Obama can’t go hard on Bibi because he needs the donors. The democrats could easily lose the senate, which Netanyahu is aware of, and Obama needs every last dollar to his candidates. If Obama spends the next two years with BOTH the house and the senate in GOP hands, he is in effect a lame duck president extraordinaire.
It’ll be interesting to see how Obama acts after the midterms, and if the dems keep the senate(which is certainly possible, perhaps even probable, right now). He’s scott-free of elections ahead of him and that would theoretically be the time to turn the screws on Bibi.
I doubt he’ll go so hard, though, Obama surely keeps an eye on his post-presidential career. He can’t alienate the establishment if he wants to earn the big bucks on the speaker circuit, like Clinton has done."

That's about as close to truth as you'll see in a respectable website if by 'establishment' you mean 'Jewish billionaires'.  It is hilarious that the future of the American people depends so much on 'big bucks on the speaker circuit'.

Shunned by Barry / Meathead

McClatchy is shunned for being consistently right about the Wars For The Jews.

I'm already getting a bad feeling about the movie:

1. "The Real 'Shock and Awe'";
2. "Rob Reiner wants to pick Palestinians’ leaders for them".

Kobane

Tweet (Carlos Latuff):

"1,768 airstrikes in #Syria, #Iraq, but #ISIS continues advancing towards #Kobane. What US is attacking anyway??!!"

""The Siege Of Kobani: Obama's Syrian Fiasco In Motion"

""U.S. strikes in Kobane fail to stave off militants, face limitations" Al Bawaba"

"IS attack on Kurdish town"

"Watch: Moments ago I asked State Dept spokesperson @statedeptspox Psaki on why little has been done to save ‪#‎Kobane‬."

Saving Kobane would have been excellent PR for the Americans, so the failure to save it seems to be a demonstration that air strikes alone are useless and 'boots on the ground' are necessary (necessary, needless to say, for the sole goals of the wider operation, the purely Jewish goals of Yinonizing Iraq and removing Assad).

Despite what Biden said, the Americans remain extremely deferential to Turkish fears that the mismanagement of the issues stirred up by ISIL will lead to the creation of Greater Kurdistan.  Turkey thus gets to call the shots in managing issues relating to Kurds.

Desert Olympics

"Almost No One Wants To Host The Olympics, Because It's A Costly, Corrupt Mess"  I suspect the Olympics will end up permanently in the Gulf Dictatorships, where:

1. similar bribery of this sort of con-men from the international spectacle industry is already commonplace;
2. there is enough money to build big domes in the desert and fill them with snow;
3. there is a pressing need for a distraction from the utter illegitimacy of the rulers.

Insane

Truth leaking is 'insane':  "The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf"

Fair enough.  In today's Amerika you'd have to be insane to write anything near the truth.

The jester

The political role of the jester in the old courts was to convey unwelcome information to the king in the form of jokes.  Anybody else saying the same thing would lose their head, but information coming from the jester could be explained away as a joke or based in the mental deficiencies of the jester.

Joe Biden is the American jester.

"Vice President Joe Biden apologizes to Turkey; UAE mad, too" "UAE seeks Joe Biden’s explanation"

It is slightly comforting that the American government is really upset at the two-faced actions of Turkey and the Gulf Dictatorships.  Biden sent the message with his 'off-the-cuff'' remarks.

ABC

Tweet (Robbi bishop-Taylor):

"Fascinating take in @GeorgeMonbiot 's Feral: co-evolving with large predators predisposed humans to big cat sightings http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-panther-legend-surfaces-in-goulburn-after-couple-photograph-predator-on-property-20141004-10qa0o.html …"

ABC = Alien Big Cats, and is a Fortean thing, particularly in Britain.

#JSIL

"Activists seek to rebrand Israel as 'JSIL'"

They are so similar in so many ways that IS seems to be consciously following the Jewish template on how to steal yourself a country.