131019-abbas-cartoons-embed3The Daily Beast – by Patrick Hilsman

Arab cartoonists have always frightened authority and often paid a high price for doing so. When the famous Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was gunned down in 1987, suspicion was raised against everyone he had satirized, from Israeli political figures to the PLO leadership. Syrian satirist Ali Farzat had his fingers broken by pro-Assad gunmen who kidnapped him in 2011 in retaliation for his caricatures lampooning Bashar al Assad.   Continue reading “Hani Abbas Extends the Vital Tradition of Political Cartooning in the Mideast”

Col. Daren Margolin has been relieved as head of Security Battalion at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va.Probably another patriot purge. Ya think?

Marine Corps Times – by Hope Hodge Seck

The two-star head of Marine Corps Installations Command has relieved the commanding officer of Quantico’s Security Battalion following an incident involving a personal weapon, Marine Corps officials said.

Col. Daren Margolin, a 24-year officer was removed from his post Oct. 18 by Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman.   Continue reading “Colonel in charge of Quantico’s Security Battalion relieved”

Wall Street Journal – by By Drew FitzGerald

Internet users from Brooklyn to Philadelphia suffered slow to nonexistent service Saturday after equipment at a New York-area network hub broke down, disrupting service for several hours.

A spokesman for the Internet service provider Level 3 Communications Inc. said technicians were working quickly to fix the outage, which cascaded down to customers using Cablevision Systems Corp.’s Optimum service and Time Warner Cable Inc., among others.   Continue reading “Level 3 Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic”

Video Rebel’s Blog – by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon

“We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” — Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

“I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government,” Jewish columnist Joel Stein wrote in the Los Angeles Times in December 2008.  “I just care that we get to keep running them.”   Continue reading “America Vanquished, Part 1: America as an Israeli Colony”

World Events and the Bible

(RT) – Violence broke out between police and demonstrators in Rome on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest Italy’s new budget.

Fifteen protesters were arrested and at least 20 police officers were injured, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.    Continue reading “Italian Protesters Take on Police During Mass March Against Austerity Budget, Portugal Stage Anti-Austerity Protests”

The “Water Body Connectivity Report” would remove the limiting word “navigable” from “navigable waters of the United States” and replace it with “connectivity of streams and wetlands to downstream waters” as the test for Clean Water Act regulatory authority. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)Washington Examiner – by RON ARNOLD

What happens when Washington’s top environmental policymaker packs a government advisory board with federal grant recipients so she can regulate virtually every acre in the United States of America?

For one thing, two powerful members of Congress angrily take notice and demand in a news release to know why “EPA Skirts the Law to Expand Regulatory Authority.”   Continue reading “Proposed giant EPA land-grab is rigged, conflicted and corrupted”

cap_dome_101413.jpgFox News – by Judson Berger

The stopgap bill to fund the government was only supposed to end the partial shutdown for a few months, no strings attached — right?

Nope.

Despite the bill being tiny by Washington standards — just 35 pages — lawmakers still managed to tuck in billions of dollars in additional spending.    Continue reading “Growing the Debt: Stopgap funding bill sprinkled with $$ for local projects”

The aftermath of the 9/11 attackPress TV

Several leading American mainstream journalists say that the US government is lying about 9/11 and the so-called war on terror. Unfortunately, media owners and editors won’t let them report their findings.

Recently, Seymour Hersh, America’s top mainstream investigative reporter, broke the news that the US government’s claim to have killed Osama Bin Laden on May 2nd, 2011 is “a big lie. There is not one word of truth in it.”

Hersh went on to harshly criticize his long-time employer, the New York Times, and other big media outlets: “We lie about everything, lying has become the staple.” He said all big US media outlets should be shut down for lying to the American people.    Continue reading “Mainstream journalists expose 9/11 hoax”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The public sphere has been effectively stripped of everything but corny, irritatingly hammy political theater.

All we have left in the U.S. is a deeply impoverishing Political Theater of the Absurd. Policy, theory and governance have all been reduced to competing stage performances in the Theater of the Absurd. The actors are transparently given to farcical overacting in exaggerated dramas drained of meaning; they proceed through the cliched motions as if the audience hadn’t seen the same charades overplayed dozens of times before.    Continue reading “The Poverty of our Political Theater of the Absurd”

Muammar Gaddafi in 2010The Guardian – by Chris Stephen

Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafiwith the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution.

Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya’s oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.    Continue reading “Assassination pushes Libya towards civil war two years after Gaddafi death”

The Associated Press – by Jae C. Hong

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles has been home for thousands of homeless people, a tenuous comfort zone for many who hit the rock bottom of their lives in America.

The area, originally agricultural until the 1870s when railroads first entered Los Angeles, has maintained a transient nature through the years from the influxes of short-term workers, migrants fleeing economic hardship during the Great Depression, military personnel shipping out during World War II and the Vietnam War and low-skilled workers with limited transportation options who need to remain close to the city’s core, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.    Continue reading “Skid Row, a battle of misery and hope”

Activist Post – by Catherine J. Frompovich

Vaccines are supposed to be safe according to the U.S. CDC/FDA, so how come the HRSA division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishedStatistics Reports [1] for the period ending September 3, 2013 providing data verifying that vaccines cause damage and even kill?

The period covers fiscal years (FY) 1989 to FY 2013. There were 3,387 compensable claims—meaning those claims that received compensation or money, and 9,651 claims that were dismissed, an awful miscarriage of the original intent of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program created by Congress and Public Law 99-660, in this writer’s opinion.     Continue reading “The Costs of Vaccine Damage: The Payout Figures”

The Atlantic – by MEGAN GARBER

Toyota has announced that it is recalling 870,000 of its vehicles, among them Camrys, Venzas, Avalons, and hybrids with owners spread across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and 16 other countries. Airbags, it seems, have been spontaneously deploying on some of those vehicles across makes and model years—a state of affairs that can range from the merely annoying to the legitimately life-threatening. Power steering, even more ominously, may also be affected. As may cars’ warning lights.   Continue reading “Toyota Is Recalling More Than 800,000 Cars Because of Spiders”

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Screenshot via C-SPAN.Raw Story – by George Chidi

J.P. Morgan will settle civil lawsuits related to mortgage bond matters with the U.S. Department of Justice for a record $13 billion, sources have told Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and other outlets.

In a call last night, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and J.P. Morgan negotiators tentatively settled on terms after the bank offered an additional $2 billion, according to reports.   Continue reading “Report: JP Morgan Chase to pay $13 billion to settle residential mortgage bond lawsuits”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

Sometimes it is beneficial to pause and try to intellectually understand what the American people are fighting against. We see the daily struggles (e.g. threats to our pensions, bank accounts and civil liberties), however, what seems to be missing is a narrative which provides a macro view which reveals that there is a centralized plot designed to bring the nations of the world and its people to its knees and then impose one centralized political and economic authority.

I will not mince words here, this is also a classic battle between good and evil and for now, evil is winning hands down.     Continue reading “The Financial Pyramid of Power”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

More than 44,000 people have signed a petition on the MoveOn.org sebsite calling for the Departmnet of Justice to arrest some House Republican leaders for their roles in the givernment shutdown and debt-ceiling debacle. AsThe Hill reports, the petition singles out Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), as well as “other decision-making House Republican leaders,” for the crime of “seditious conspiracy against the United States of America.” While careful to point out that it does not “necessarily endorse the contents of petitions” we thought it ironic that more people successfully completed the petition to arrest the GOP for trying to abolish Obamacare than have successfully signed up for the new law.   Continue reading “More Than 44,000 Demand GOP Arrests For “Seditious Conspiracy” Against USA”

phantomstatuesUAS News – by Jim Hoffer, WABC News

NEW YORK (WABC) – He’s a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged the inexperienced, drone operator with reckless endangerment.

It’s his own video that helped the NYPD nail David Zablidowsky . The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone.

The video recovered by a financial analyst who handed it over to Eyewitness News, after he nearly took a direct hit when the small helicopter drone similar to this one, crashed at his feet while walking near Grand Central.   Continue reading “Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan”

My San Antonio – by JASON BUCH, KOLTEN PARKER

SAN ANTONIO — Gun enthusiasts gathered at the Alamo Saturday to rally for the right to openly carry firearms, without state and local restrictions that are now in place.

Demonstrators, many carrying rifles, shotguns or 19th-century pistols, cheered speakers who urged them to hold tight to their firearms, as their protected Constitutional right.   Continue reading “Armed protest at Alamo ends quietly”