Trailed by two Chinese warships, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed inside the 12-nautical-mile limit of Subi Reef, a man-made island China claims as her national territory. Beijing protested. Says China: Subi Reef and the Spratly Island chain, in a South China Sea that carries half of the world’s seaborne trade, are as much ours as the Aleutians are yours. Beijing’s claim to the Spratlys is being contested by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan. While Hanoi and Manila have occupied islets and built structures to back their claims, the Chinese have been more aggressive. They have occupied rocks … Continue reading

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[This article appears in the September-October 2015 issue of The Austrian.] With Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill, Mike Judge earned his place in pop culture history. His new HBO comedy Silicon Valley seems an unlikely follow-up to his earlier successes. The man who made a film called Idiocracy has been specializing in portraying really dumb people, or, at least in the case of propane salesman Hank Hill, really ordinary people. “It’s not exactly rocket science” pretty much sums up the lives of all Judge’s earlier characters. So why has Judge now turned to computer science as his subject? … Continue reading

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Russia and US warplanes are flying way too close to one another over Syria and may soon, in Iraq. Drones are all over the place. An accident is inevitable. Civilian airliners are increasingly at risk over the Mideast. US ground troops may enter Syria. This week the missile destroyer, USS Lassen, openly challenged the maritime exclusion zone drawn by China around its latest militarized atoll, Subi reef,  in the South China Sea – a sort of poor man’s aircraft carrier that hugely annoys Washington and its Asian allies. China is building other man-made islands by dredging submerged atolls.  Japan and … Continue reading

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Not getting enough sleep can wreak havoc on your life and could even age your brain significantly. Sleep deprivation makes us grouchy, it makes concentration difficult, and it makes us feel terrible all the way around. In the short term, missing sleep can make us more accident-prone, and too few Z’s lowers our resistance to cold and flu. It can cause damage to our bodies in the long-term, too. Sleep deprivation increases the risk of health problems like stroke, obesity, diabetes, permanent cognitive issues and “brain deterioration,” bone damage, cancer, heart disease, and early death. [1] [2] But it’s not just about getting enough … Continue reading

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In her review of David Talbot’s new book, The Devil’s Chessboard  (“Checkmate on The Devils Chessboard”, Consortium News October 27, 2015), Lisa Pease provides a succinct summary of Talbot’s impressive work.  With one notable exception, she has nothing but praise for his seminal research. That exception relates to his reference to E. Howard Hunt’s “final confession” identifying LBJ as the top of the chain of command that brought about the death of JFK, which is not congruent with the conventional wisdom she and her fellow “researchers” have been so anxious to avoid. Her review isolates that premise as follows: While … Continue reading

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His military genius was a decisive factor in the Union Army winning the Civil War. So you might think this photograph showing General Ulysses S. Grant sitting astride a horse in front of a group of Confederate soldiers captured after a battle is the genuine article. But all is not as it seems. On closer inspection, the picture is actually a composite of three images, only one of which contains General Grant. The ‘extravagantly fictitious fusion’ – confusingly labeled ‘General Grant at City Point – was actually doctored decades after the end of the Civil War. The background photograph does … Continue reading

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If your car is going to get egged, it will probably be Saturday night. Lots of things can happen on Halloween, but getting your car egged is one of the WORST. It happened to me a few years ago, and I am sure it was random, but the results could have been bad had I not known what to do. Thank goodness I saw it before I left for the day. As harmless as eggs seem, they can actually wreak havoc on vehicle paint surfaces and cause long-lasting, permanent damage. The yolk that’s now smeared all over your car has … Continue reading

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The CIA was established in 1947 and tasked with carrying out intelligence work outside the United States. But the agency soon strayed from its original purpose, carrying out coups, assassinations, and other murky activities around the globe. And while much of the CIA’s sordid history was exposed by the Church Committee in the 1970s, there are still plenty of unanswered questions about the darker side of “the Company.” Featured photo credit: CIA 10 Who Killed Nick Deak? Even as a simple financier, Nicholas Deak was quite a character. An exiled Transylvanian aristocrat, he joined the US military during World War … Continue reading

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The real problem is what is seen in Obama’s outrageous military provocation against China on Tuesday (Oct 27): Obama is determined to launch a thermonuclear war. Now, what happens to us, if we don’t say that and campaign on that? Look at the fraud of Obama’s attack against China! Look at his bloody paws! He must be removed! Under the principle of the US Presidency, he can be removed from office,— and if we don’t do that, we rapidly get into an ever-more dangerous situation.

You can’t fool around and negotiate, or say, “No! I don’t believe it!” Don’t go around and ask how to do it,— he must be restrained or we’re all dead.

We must place this at the top of the list of issues: Don’t call it anything else: murder is murder! To say otherwise is a lie. Obama is essentially a murderer, a mass murderer. The President of the United States currently is a mass murderer. If you want to save the United States, you have to say that, or you may be the next one to go. And if you don’t use that kind of language, even on the street, you’re in trouble. The truth is essential: Obama is a murderer!

Anyone who tries to minimize Obama’s war moves against China: tell them they’re brain-damaged. People are being murdered by Obama, while you whisper about and pretend not to know.

To the people who whine that “It’s not him; it’s the system,” tell them, “No, it’s Obama.” If you don’t say it’s Obama, then you have no right to have any opinion at all. Because if you’re condemning people to justify their being murdered, you don’t have any rights.

This is murder, plain murder! The evidence is conclusive, and if you don’t say it, then what are you? Wishy-washy!

People are afraid that Obama will kill them, too, if he’s displeased by them. But the only way to save yourself is: Don’t accept that! If you give in, or condone people giving in, you yourself may be writing your own ticket for death. It’s gutless wonder time!

To win a war, you must take the enemy down. Obama won’t give in unless you take him down. This is an immediate issue now, not ultimately, not over the long term. If you don’t have the guts to take that on, then your opinion is worthless. And the inaction of the Congress so far is a condemnation of their morals. They don’t understand that they, like every person, will die eventually. Will it be as worthless creatures for mankind,— or as soldiers who know that they’re mortal, and are careful how their spend that mortality to rescue mankind? Cowardice is never anything but disgusting.

Thanks to Obama’s mass-murderous wars in the Mideast,— sending millions of people fleeing for their lives from him,— Germany is on the verge of a new Hitler moment amidst the floods of refugees, especially coming into Bavaria through Austria. This is triggering a backlash which threatens to break the coalition government, and even bring into government a threatened coalition of the New Right Pegida movement with “Black Zero” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Plus, Germany is already cold. It’s only a matter of time before some refugee child freezes to death in a makeshift camp. Our Friday webcast will feature dramatic footage from the crisis. We’ve presented the case against Obama,— we needn’t repeat the evidence again. We have to go for a dramatic effect which will move the audience to change and act.

Mikael Thalen | “He said he was ‘dress coded’ at school because the stars were gang related.”

“He said he was ‘dress coded’ at school because the stars were gang related.”

While Germans living in government housing receive eviction notices.

Paul Joseph Watson | While Germans living in government housing receive eviction notices.