Typhoon Hits Japan Raising Fears Over Fukushima

Japanese government, TEPCO continue to lie about radiation contamination levels

EURONEWS
09/17/2013

Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan have been forced to evacuate their homes amid fears a massive typhoon could wreak havoc.

Typhoon Man-yi struck the mainland on Sunday, packing gusts of more than 160 kilometres per hour, and doubling the region’s annual rainfall.

At least two people have been found dead and more than 100 others hurt.

Although the typhoon has slowly been losing strength, it’s hit the Fukushima atomic power plant in the northeast, bringing heavy rain to surrounding areas.

Alert levels have now been raised amid concerns the storm could result in more contaminated water running out to sea.

Around 300 tonnes of mildly contaminated groundwater is entering the ocean every day having passed under the reactors.

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Obama, Congress Advance Plans for Deeper Social Spending Cuts

Obama, White house, Congress criminals now banking on American sheep being so relieved that WWIII has been "averted" that they will buy into any bullshit, ludicrous "sequester" cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamp programs without a peep; the ONLY real "fix" for Social Security is to STOP THE LOOTING:
se·ques·ter  

/səˈkwestər/

Verb

Isolate or hide away (someone or something)

GLOBAL RESEARCH
By Patrick Martin
09/16/2013

With the evident postponement of an immediate war against Syria, the Obama administration and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have turned their attention to their main enemy at home, furthering their plans to attack the social programs on which tens of millions of working people in the United States depend on for their health and livelihood.

Obama criminals continue to fabricate ludicrous, nonsensical Bush/Rove-speak pseudo-words in failed attempt to hide the looting of Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamp Programs

In a half-hour interview broadcast on ABC’s “This Week” program Sunday, Obama laid out his position on the budget talks, which resumed in earnest last week in Washington. Obama indicated willingness to make concessions to Republican demands for further cuts in social spending, including an extension of the so-called “sequester,” while rejecting any negotiations over an increase in the federal debt ceiling.

There are now two budget deadlines in October. On the first day of the month, the start of the 2014 fiscal year, the federal government will run out of authority to spend money because Congress has not passed a single appropriations bill. Federal agencies will begin to shut down, with consequent furloughs and payless paydays for federal workers.

On or about October 18, according to recent estimates, the Treasury will exhaust its ability to borrow money to finance continuing federal payments, and will be limited to issuing checks based on incoming revenue. This will mean unpaid federal bills, likely before the end of the month, with the threat that Social Security checks for 50 million retired people will not go out after November 1.

"Mainstream media" White House propagandist lackeys that promote the destruction of Social Security and Medicare will see their Satanic buildings burned to the ground and their fraud, domestic terrorist "journalists" slaughtered in the streets of the U.S. by starving, homeless, destitute Americans

As in previous budget crises under the Obama administration, the events are being stage-managed by the two corporate-controlled parties to give the illusion of partisan gridlock and confrontation over principles—in this case, whether to go forward with the implementation of the Obama health care program—while behind the scenes all factions within the ruling elite agree that massive cuts must be carried through in basic federal social programs.

With the cooperation of the media, a crisis atmosphere will be created to justify further sweeping attacks on the social rights of the working class to health care, unemployment compensation and retirement income. The end result will be significant cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The leader of the House Republican majority, Speaker John Boehner, has already reached a tacit understanding with the Obama administration and Senate Democrats over how to handle the more immediate of the two deadlines, the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1.

Last week, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor backed a plan under which the House would approve a measure, called a continuing resolution, to allow federal agencies to continue spending money through December 15 while the appropriations bills are finalized.

In return, the Senate would agree to hold a vote on postponing implementation of the Obama health care program for one year. After the Democratic-controlled Senate defeated the Obamacare postponement, the spending bill would go to the White House for Obama’s signature, without any further action by the House.

STOP THE LOOTING OF SOCIAL SECURITY BY THE WHITE HOUSE/CONGRESS CRIMINALS ONCE AND FOR ALL

The most right-wing faction of House Republicans forced Boehner and Cantor to withdraw the proposed continuing resolution by vowing to vote down any measure that did not actually ban the implementation of Obamacare. The deal was nonetheless significant, since Senate Democrats and the White House agreed in principle to extend implementing the drastic spending cuts imposed under the sequester into the new fiscal year.

The total cuts under the sequester—agreed on by Obama and congressional Republicans in 2011, and put into effect earlier this year—come to more than $1 trillion over ten years. Particularly hard-hit have been programs for poor children, like Head Start, and federal agencies with unexpectedly high expenditures, such as those involved in fighting the wave of summer forest fires.

Further spending cuts will be incorporated in the appropriations bills whenever they are finalized. The Republican-controlled House, for instance, has proposed to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next ten years. The Democrats are proposing smaller cuts, but the program faces an automatic reduction of about 13 percent in benefit levels when a temporary increase in benefits under the 2009 economic stimulus legislation expires in November.

The Republican demagogy over “defunding” the Obama health care program is a sideshow to whip up far-right elements in the Tea Party and shift the political landscape further to the right.

There is little chance that Congress or the Obama administration will agree to delay the health care legislation passed in 2010, which takes effect January 1, 2014. The health care bill is not a progressive reform, but a reactionary measure backed by Corporate America, focused on cutting costs and boosting profits. Insurance companies and health care providers have already invested billions to implement the bill, which they calculate will bring them a windfall.

In an action that demonstrates the ruthlessness of the Obama administration when it comes to the social conditions of workers, the White House on Friday flatly rejected a plea from the AFL-CIO to pull back on planned sanctions under the health care legislation against union health care plans covering millions of workers, whose benefits are considered too high—the so-called “Cadillac” plans. Benefits above the cutoff level will be subject to federal taxes from January 1.

Meanwhile, Treasury Department figures released Thursday show that the federal deficit, supposedly the reason for austerity measures, has plunged to the lowest level since Obama took office, less than $700 billion in fiscal 2013.

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Kerry's Student Spinner Fired After WND Report

Illiterate Kerry whore busted for attempting to lie like her criminal White House pimps; resume fraud exposed after researcher cast Syrian rebels as 'moderates'

WORLD NET DAILY
By Chelsea Schilling
09/14/2013

Five days after WND first broke the news that the strategy by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Secretary of State John F. Kerry to cast members of the Free Syria Army as “moderates” among the Syrian rebel forces was the brain-child of a Wall Street Journal researcher, the analyst has been fired from a Washington think-tank for lying about her qualifications.

Former Obama propaganda slut now back to DC streetwalking, blowing Congressmen, doofus traitor Senators McCain, Graham for pocket change

As WND reported, Elizabeth O’Bagy, 26, had claimed she was pursuing a Ph.D. in Arab studies and political science at Georgetown University and working on a dissertation on woman’s militancy.

In his Sept. 3 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Kerry cited O’Bagy, arguing that the war in Syria is “not being waged entirely or even predominately by dangerous Islamists and al-Qaida die-hards,” but rather the struggle is being led but “moderate opposition forces – a collection of groups known as the Free Syria Army.”

Kerry was citing an opinion piece O’Bagy wrote for the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 30 titled “On the Front Lines of Syria’s Civil War.” It ran with a tag-line “The conventional wisdom – that jihadists are running the rebellion [in Syria] – is not what I’ve witnessed on the ground.”

O’Bagy, then the Syria team leader at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think-tank, claimed she had submitted and defended her dissertation and Georgetown University would soon confer her degree.

“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 Institute for the Study of War said in a statement Wednesday. “ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O’Bagy’s employment, effective immediately.”

Upon learning O’Bagy had been fired from ISW, WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi, who broke the original story, said, “We investigated O’Bagy last week and reported she was a graduate student. I think it was our story that triggered the awareness by the Obama administration and Kerry and McCain that this woman was fraudulently represented herself as a Ph.D.”

He added, “We pointed out she had the associations with the radical Islamic groups that are promoting the Free Syrian Army.”

Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, told Politico, “[W]e were not aware of Elizabeth O’Bagy’s academic claims or credentials when we published her Aug. 31 op-ed, and the op-ed made no reference to them.

“We also were not aware of her affiliation with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, and we published a clarification when we learned of it. We are investigating the contents of her op-ed to the best of our ability, but to date we have seen no evidence to suggest any information in the piece was false.”

Corsi also reported that when McCain when to Iraq, O’Bagy set up interviews and provided him with a Washington operative who was in Syria.

“Basically O’Bagy made fools of them all (Obama, McCain and Kerry),” Corsi said. “They wanted so desperately to go on their theory there was a moderate force in Syria. They jumped on the bandwagon. They didn’t realize she was loading them up with radicals from the Free Syria Army.”

In his investigative piece, Corsi revealed that the O’Bagy narrative is contradicted by intelligence estimates and experts specializing in the region.

After Kerry’s testimony to Congress, Reuters reported: “Secretary of State John Kerry’s public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and non-governmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.”

On April 27, the New York Times reported that the Jabhat al-Nursa Front, a group declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, has pledged allegiance to al Qaida’s top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and remains the group of choice for foreign jihadis pouring into Syria. The Ahrar al-Sham, meanwhile, which shares much of al-Nusra’s extremist ideology, is composed mostly of Syrians.

In her capacity as a senior research analyst and the Syria team leader at ISW, O’Bagy authored a report in March titled “The Free Syrian Army” in which she argued as follows:

The opposition movement in Syria has been fragmented from its inception, a direct reflection of Syria’s social complexity and the decentralized grassroots of the uprising. This condition has plagued Syria’s armed opposition since peaceful protestors took up arms and began forming rebel groups under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the summer of 2001.

The narrative has been circulated in Congress in an attempt to counter the recent disclosure of evidence the rebel groups in Syria affiliated with al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood, who have committed atrocities against government soldiers and Syrian civilians, may be the parties responsible for the chemical weapons attacks the Obama administration is blaming on the Assad government.

O’Bagy also works as the political director of the Washington-based Syrian Emergency Task Force, or SETF, chaired by Mohamed Kawam.

Kawam is linked with the Washington-based Syrian Support Group, or SSG, which encourages Americans to send money that arguably could be used to buy weapons for the Free Syria Group.

The “Donate” button on the Syrian Support Group website specifies donations will go toward providing “certain logistical, communications, and other services to the FSA.” The caveat is “the SSG intends to support only those military councils that have adopted the FSA’s Proclamation of Principles,” not the Jabhat al-Nusra or any other group designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

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Cold War Euphemisms And Nightmares

The ludicrous, convoluted, completely transparent lies of Obama and his doofus traitor lackey Kerry will provide comic fodder for a generation of TV comedians

WORLD NEWS
By Dallas Darling
09/16/2013

"Language exists to express and communicate," writes Roy F. Baumeister in Evil, InsideHumanViolence and Cruelty, "but perpetrators reluctant to face up to their guilt often find ways to use language to conceal, confuse, and mislead." It is a process that begins with the words themselves. But then perpetrators play endless games with words to try and present the shocking and horrific as mundane and ordinary, and to confuse the public while hiding their crimes and sickening intentions so as to alleviate their guilt.

 

 

Obama lies so ludicrous and convoluted they defy rational interpretation

 Now that it appears another Cold War is brewing between the U.S. and Russia, I revisited how Baumeister believes perpetrators use euphemistic words and language. Although "Cold War" terminology was graphic right after World War II, by the time I attended secondary school it had become obscure, vague, ambiguous and confusing. Gone were the horrific images and casualties in the Korean War-and many other military overthrows and deadly engagements to counter the Soviets. Nor was there mention of a nuclear holocaust.

Perhaps the haziness over Cold War realities, including its urgency, was the humiliating guilt and defeat of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Wording like pacification, Phoenix Program, carpet bombing, Agent Orange, and liquidating the enemy had concealed mass murder, assassinations, indiscriminate killings, and torture. Still, my instructors assured me how the Cold War was a mere "war of words," a "space race," "a conflict over two competing economies," and "two superpowers that had turned a cold shoulder towards each other."

 

 

Illiterate, drooling Lurch Kerry now an international laughing stock

It was this kind of highly specialized and confusing language, a language that disguised the brutalities and horrors of warfare, that in part motivated me to internalize militarism and war, and then later join the U.S. military so as to stop the spread of Communism. It was because of Cold War euphemisms and their innocuous ideas that I euphorically, and with great anticipation, longed for war. It was only later that I understood how institutions used seemingly innocent terms to disguise their brutalities and crimes against humanity.

Again, it appears another Cold War is evolving. Tensions exist over U.S. military actions in Syria, a former U.S. NSA contractor who defected to Russia and exposed embarrassing surveillance programs, and a renewed missile-space race. So far, it has been a "war of words." For example, Russia's president Vladimir Putin called President Barack Obama's allegations that Syria used chemical weapons "absurd." Earlier, he had called President ObamaAmerica's first "gay president" for allowing same sex marriages.

 

 

Obama criminals try, fail to imitate retarded murderer's terror tactics as international community rebukes White House lie-fest

The discord between the U.S. and Russia has also been a real "turning the cold shoulder." At a recent eleven of G-20 members meeting, both President Obama and PresidentVladimir avoided each other and refused to meet privately. While some U.S. leaders accuse Russia of "cozying up to a Syrian dictator" and legitimizing "atrocities," others are taunting Russia's geopolitical influence in the region. It seems this new Cold War might even be fought and settled within the United Nations Security Council.

Of course the U.S. still might turn a true Cold War into a real World War IV. President Obama's case for military intervention in Syria never did reflect intelligence assessments, a military consensus, nor accurate evidence of who used chemical weapons. Still, Secretary of StateJohn Kerry lashed out at Syria's President Assad and Russia's President Putin over their agreement of dismantling Syria's chemical weapons program. He even declared it as "not enough" and "totally unacceptable."

 

 

Lurch Kerry and Assad enjoying cosy pre-"crisis" dinner

The "cold war" expression was actually coined in the 14th century, when PrinceJuan Manuel, the regent of Castile and Leon, applied it to the struggle between the Spanish Christians and the ArabMoors. The prince meant that, unlike "hot," or formally declared, wars, the "cold war" began without a declaration of war and ended without a peace treaty.(1) The wars between Europeans and Arab Moors lasted centuries, were extremely devastating to both sides, and filled with many deportations, massacres and atrocities.

If this new Cold War devolves into a Hot War again, a World War IV, I hope political and military leaders of both nations will have the courage and integrity to use "real" words and "genuine" concepts that will reveal its true horrors and brutalities. There are too many veterans that are still suffering from Cold War euphemisms and their realities. There were too many cover-ups regarding mass murders, torture, indiscriminate killings, burning children with napalm, use of chemical warfare, and wholesale rape and slaughter.

 

 

Senate has now proven beyond doubt that it is completely useless, should be disbanded

And for the survivors of more than 30 million victims of the Cold War, or Hot War, or World War III, or the "other" humanitarian crises that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry knows only too well, at a much more deeper level they still experience the harsh realities of the Cold War too. They understand how perpetrators manipulate language and flagrant hypocrisies, concealing their guilt while hiding behind superficial words. The same words which a gullible and disconnected public believed but never questioned.

In the end, shocking and horrific metaphors-passed on as being mundane and ordinary-are ultimately overtaken by more realistic wartime experiences and graphic realizations. Imperial "humanitarian interventions" always seem to finally be exposed for what they really are: wholesale rape and slaughter in the name of absolute power and corporate greed. But remember: at the root of every declining superpower political leaders use euphemistic words, which leads to confusion, which leads to deadly realities.

And deadly realities of the past always have ways of catching up to superpowers, of eventually determining their present and a nightmarish future.

Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)

Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-ZReading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some NationsAbove God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com andwn.com//dallasdarling.

(1) Parish, Thomas. The Cold WarEncyclopedia. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996., p. 68.

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Turkey Warplanes Shoot Down Syrian Helicopter

If Obama can't start WWIII, then U.S. puppet Erdogan WILL:  Turkey to become new radioactive province of Iran

PRESS TV
09/16/2013

Turkey’s deputy prime minister says Turkish warplanes have shot down a Syrian military helicopter after violating the country’s airspace. 

 

 

Obama/CIA puppet Erdogan commits act of war

A Syrian MI-17 helicopter was downed over the southern province of Hatay after it strayed two kilometers into Turkish airspace, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters on Monday.

Arinc said there was no information about the fate of the crew because the helicopter fell on Syrian soil. He also noted that Turkish air defense had repeatedly warned the Syrian helicopter to leave Turkey's airspace before being hit by missiles.

Unconfirmed reports say militants fighting against the Syrian government have killed the helicopter's two pilots. There are also reports suggesting that one of the pilots was captured by militants while the second pilot's fate is unknown. 

 

 

Desperate murdering shitbag Obama uses insane poodle Erdogan to exact revenge, divert attention from humiliating U.S. Syrian defeat

The Syrian government has yet to comment on the incident.

The shooting comes almost a year after Syrian air force shot down a Turkish warplane after it entered Syria's airspace. The plane fell in Syrian waters and near the village of Um al-Touyour. Ankara, however, insisted at the time that the plane had entered Syrian airspace but quickly left when warned, and was shot down in international airspace several minutes later.

Following this incident in June 2012, the Turkish government changed its military rules of engagement towards Syria. From that time on, every military element that approached the Turkish border from Syria would be considered as a threat.

HM/SS

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BREAKING : DC NAVY YARD SHOOTINGS

CIA Al Jazeera Trinity of Whores Jordan, Halkett and Thibault swooning over "New 911;" "Possible assassination attempt on President Obama;" "Possible attack on Congress" - all the while the gunmen were most likely CI's sent by Obama's CIA/FBI stooges in a desperate diversionary tactic from the Obama Syria humiliation/defeat and the ongoing Snowden revelations     

USA TODAY
09/16/2013

Details surrounding the Washington Navy Yard shooting are still developing, but here's a breakdown of the facts so far:

What happened

The Navy first reported via Twitter that there was an "active shooter" at Building 197 at the Navy Yard, and that shots had been fired at 8:20 a.m. ET

The victims

Twelve total deaths are reported, according to Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier. This includes the dead shooter. The number of injuries is not confirmed.

The shooter, or shooters

One shooter is dead. The shooter's identity has not been released. Lanier said police are searching for two more possible shooters: A white male wearing a tan military-style uniform with short sleeves, a military beret and a hand gun, and a black man around 50 years old wearing an olive military style uniform and carrying a long gun.

A federal official said there is no evidence that anyone other than the dead gunman, fired weapons in the attack. The official said investigators were analyzing surveillance video and other information that revealed two people, as Lanier described.

The location

Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters in Building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard. The headquarters is the workplace for about 3,000 people.

The sea systems command is responsible for engineering, building, buying and maintaining ships, submarines and combat systems for the fleet. The sea systems command is the largest of the Navy's five system commands, with an annual budget of nearly $30 billion.

Local fallout

•The area around the Navy Yard has "shelter-in-place" orders.

•Marine Barracks Washington is on partial lockdown.

•Washington Nationals MLB game against the Atlanta Braves is in flux.

•Flights in and out of Washington Reagan National Airport were stopped this morning but resumed before 11 a.m.

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