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Best of the Web: Is Obama's 'war on ebola' really another war for oil?

William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:37 UTC
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Trust me, I'm your president
For a Nobel Peace Prize President, Barack Obama seems destined to go down in history books as the President who presided over one of the most aggressive series of wars ever waged by a bellicose Washington Administration. Not even George Bush and Dick Cheney came close.

First, before the ink was even dry on his Nobel Prize certificate, Obama announced the Afghanistan "surge", pouring another 30,000 US military into that destroyed part of the world. Then came Obama's war against Libya's Qaddafi, followed rapidly by his war to try to topple Syria's Bashar al Assad. Soon after came Obama's "war for democracy in Ukraine," otherwise better called Obama's attempt to provoke Russia into a new war confrontation with NATO by backing a gaggle of Ukrainian oligarchs, criminals and outright neo-nazis in Kiev. In July of this year, Obama's Administration was pushing the President to launch a second try at bombing Syria back to the Stone Age, allegedly to destroy ISIS, a looney Jihadist Sunni sect that was said to be a joint venture of the CIA and Israeli intelligence.

Now Obama's advisers, no doubt led by the blood-thirsty National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, have come up with a new war. This is the War Against Ebola. On September 16, President Obama solemnly declared the war. He announced, to the surprise of most sane citizens, that he had ordered 3,000 American troops, the so-called "boots on the ground" that the Pentagon refuses to agree to in Syria, to wage a war against....a virus?
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Dollars

SOTT Focus: FATCA what? How to fight the war on tax evasion, one American at a time

Harrison Koehli and Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:35 UTC
FACTA
Back in the day, when a pathocratic regime of paranoid, inept, remorseless psychopaths wanted to isolate their country, they just closed the borders. This had the benefit of keeping external enemies out as well as keeping anyone who might want to leave in. The biggest threat to a pathocracy, of course, comes from within: from the people who suffer under the control of oligarchs who couldn't care less about their people's well-being. Nowadays, however, the battle on the 'internal front' isn't so involved or overtly totalitarian in nature. (However, it can be just as brutal: the U.S. police kill civilians with impunity.)

Take FATCA for example.
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Eye 1

Big Brother surveillance laws pass - Government can tap the entire Australian Internet

Graeme Philipson
ITWire
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 05:44 UTC
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Australia's security agencies now have the power to access any computer in Australia, for any reason. They don't have to let you know why, or even if they are doing it at all.

Big Brother has been knocking on the door, and the Government - and the so-called Opposition - have let him in. Legislation greatly increasing the Government's surveillance powers has passed both houses of Parliament, supported by both major political parties.

Under the new National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and its shadowy offshore counterpart the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) can monitor any device attached to any other device with just a single warrant. The definition of 'connection' is very loose, and effectively means that all devices connected to the Internet are covered.

Comment: So convenient for the government, alleged terrorist threats ramp the fear level, and have people grateful that they are losing their freedom. In fact, just too convenient. Orwellian indeed.

We always wonder about people who subscribe to the meme " if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear". If privacy matters so little to these people, do these same people have curtains in their windows? After all if you've done nothing wrong, why not let everybody look into your house? Or does privacy matter after all?

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Bomb

The world has set off at least 2,400 nuclear weapons since 1945

German Lopez
VOX
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:00 UTC
The world's nuclear powers have set off thousands of the warheads since they were first developed. This map, from Radical Cartography designer Bill Rankin, tracks every nuclear explosion since 1945:
Nuclear Explosions since 1945
© Bill Rankin/Radical CartographyClick here for larger version
As the two military superpowers of the past six decades, the United States and Soviet Union are obviously on the top of the list.
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Dollar

USD no longer needed: Financial analysts hail yuan-euro direct trading announcement


The BRICS Post
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
Yuan-China
© Getty ImagesA staff member counts money at Matou Town Rural Credit Cooperatives on June 20, 2011 in Linyi, Shandong Province of China
Analysts have given the thumbs up to the Chinese central bank's announcement on Monday that the Chinese currency can now be traded directly against the euro in its interbank currency market.

This would be a major boost to trade between China and the Eurozone, says Nordea. China stepped up plans to increase the international use of its currency last October with an agreement between the European Central Bank and the PBOC to swap euros and yuan.

"From today, the USD is no longer needed for trading between CNY and EUR. The two currencies can be traded direct against each other. This would lower transaction cost in EURCNY trading and push for yuan internationalization,' said Amy Yuan Zhuang, senior Asia analyst at Noredea Research.

The yuan is now the second most-used currency in international trade after the US dollar.
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Chart Pie

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff likely to be re-elected: Poll


The BRICS Post
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
Dilma Rousseff
© XinhuaBrazil’s President and Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff (R) participates in a campaign rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 20, 2014
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holds on to her lead against rivals in a poll released on Tuesday, ahead of Sunday's presidential race, strengthening her chances of being re-elected.

According to pollster Datafolha, Rousseff, who represents the Workers' Party, had 40 per cent support among voters, the same as the previous poll showed last Friday.

Third-ranked Aecio Neves rose in the poll and got closer to runner-up Marina Silva, making the fight for the second place tougher.

Silva, of the Brazilian Socialist Party, garnered 25 per cent support, down from 27 per cent last week, while Neves, of the conservative Brazilian Social Democratic Party, got 20 per cent support, up from 18 per cent last week.

Eight other candidates together got 3 per cent voting intentions.
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Stormtrooper

New Jersey: New law would let officers enter home's with 'probable cause', removing need for a warrant

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thinking Project
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:55 UTC
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Montville, N.J. - In the upscale New Jersey community of Montville, in Morris County, a proposed ordinance could give sweeping power to law enforcement that would allow officers the right to enter private property without a warrant if underage drinking is simply suspected.

Under the new ordinance officers would have the ability to search homes with probable cause, without any warrant required, if underage drinking is even suspected. Residents are understandably questioning whether the privacy gutting and property rights destroying ordinance gives law enforcement too much discretion.

"I just feel that it's not really their business to be going into people's houses," said high school senior Brendan Zevits in an interview with CBS 2. "If you want to do that, you need to get a warrant."

"Just coming in our houses searching - eventually, it's going to turn into hunches and all that, and once you base it on a hunch, then it's all downhill from there," said high school senior Stephen McManus.
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Attention

The beheading psy-ops: Western foreign policy based on sheer propaganda

Vivian Lee
Memory Hole
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:07 UTC
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With a rash of "beheadings" sweeping the world, a horrified public is asked to see this depraved barbarity as The New Normal.

First we had the August "murder" on video of U.S. journalist James Foley, shown kneeling before a black-robed, masked figure brandishing a knife. Yes, even a rather small knife can do it (just as box-cutters can enable the hijacking of commercial airplanes). The perpetrator is identified as a member of the terrorist group ISIS (or IS or ISIL), which supposedly wants to install a new Islamic caliphate based in the region.

However, the video did not actually show the beheading, but faded to black at the appropriate moment. A subsequent frame purports to show Foley's head propped up on his headless body. This video was staged, however, as proved by numerous researchers, and even admitted in the British press.[1]

According to a report in The Telegraph:
...a study of the four-minute 40-second clip, carried out by an international forensic science company which has worked for police forces across Britain, suggested camera trickery and slick post-production techniques appear to have been used...no blood can be seen, even though the knife is drawn across the neck area at least six times.[2]
Nonetheless, the U.S. media continue to report this "beheading" as a real occurrence, over and over again, followed by another "beheading" of an American journalist, Steven J. Sotloff, in a video released in early September. This was supposedly a "second message to America" from ISIS: "Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people."[3] This video too is problematic, with no blood in evidence before the scene fades to black.[4]
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Bulb

The latest U.S. government lies: Risk of Ebola airborne contagion

Dr. Jason Kissner
Global Research
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:49 UTC
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We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that:
"In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus."
No more; the "airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected" language has been cleansed:
"In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected, however, airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates

Footnote1 Footnote10 Footnote15 Footnote44 Footnote45.

Viral shedding has been observed in nasopharyngeal secretions and rectal swabs of pigs following experimental inoculation."
Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to "strongly suspect" that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel better now?

If not, perhaps the 9/30 words of the Centers for Disease Control accompanying the Dallas Ebola case will provide some solace. Or, perhaps those words just contain another pack of U.S. Government lies. Let's investigate.

Comment: More evidence that Ebola is airborne:
  • Ebola - What you're not being told
  • Another American doctor infected by Ebola even when not working with Ebola victims in Liberia

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Santa

Whoops! Iraqi army 'accidentally' drops aid for ISIS instead of Iraqi troops


RT
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:51 UTC
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An Iraqi pilot accidentally dropped aid and ammunition into territory controlled by the Islamic State. They were intended to help government forces in the west of Iraq, but instead the blunder ended up aiding the enemy.

The mistake was confirmed by two Iraqi officials, who said the airdrop of food, water and ammunition was meant to take place in Anbar province. However, the inexperienced pilot got his bearings a little mixed up and unloaded the cargo in the wrong place, according to NBC News.

"Those soldiers were in deadly need of these supplies," said Hakim al-Zamili, an Iraqi MP. However they ended up benefitting the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) because of the "wrong plans of the commanders in the Iraqi army and lack of experience" among the Iraqi pilots.

A brigadier in the Iraqi army, who did not want to be named, said that the incident took place on September 19 and also bemoaned the lack of flight time and combat skills of some of the pilots in the air force.

They "do not have enough experience ... they are all young and new," the brigadier said.

Meanwhile in Syria in late September, US-led coalition airstrikes destroyed grain silos and other targets in parts of northern and eastern Syria dominated by the IS, killing civilians while only wounding ISIS fighters, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Comment: Either this was deliberate, or a genuine mistake that serves as a symbolic reminder of what is really going on with ISIS. They are wholly a means to an end: regime change in Syria, Iran, and ultimately, Russia. The U.S. has supported them for these purposes, and it strains credulity to think that the targeting of the grain silos, not to mention the oil refineries struck last week, are absolutely deliberate.

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