charles hugh smith-Economic Darwinism and the Next Financial Crisis
BBC News – Poverty significantly saps our mental abilities say researchers
John Maguire: Flying Saucer in Baltic Sea?
Extraterrestial Intelligence
Swedish Naval Authorities Now Officially Interested in Baltic Sea “Object”
Description: In a stunning online Q&A session Dennis Asberg has confirmed that highest ranking authorities in the Swedish Navy are investigating the strange circular object in the Baltic Sea. The object or anomaly is as large as a jumbo 747 jet. This circular anomaly rests at a depth of 300 feet which makes it extremely hard to photograph with conventional equipment. Dennis Asberg and Peter Lindberg and their Ocean Explorer Team located this object in June of 2011, They were searching for wrecked ships that carry valuable cargo when they made this discovery.
John Maguire: The Act of Killing: Perhaps the most chilling, surreal, and important documentaries of the 21st century
Cultural IntelligenceThe Act of Killing: Perhaps the most chilling, surreal, and important documentaries of the 21st century.
Movie Description: In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, The Act of Killing is an unprecedented film that, according to The Los Angeles Times, “could well change how you view the documentary form.”
4th Media Et Al: USA and Syria — Perfidy? Rebels Admit Culpability!
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities
Another US War: A Way to Hastily Cover Evidence that the West Used Chemical Weapons against Syrian Children
Déjà vu and Syrian Chemical Weapons
In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe
Pretext to Wage War on Syria: Another False Flag Operation, History Repeating Itself
Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
Reuters: US to Strike Syria Before UN Evidence Collected
Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads
US Claims Against Syria: Fabrications Spun Up from the West’s Own Dubious Intelligence Agencies
US-Israeli False Flag Gas Attack Unravels
What’s Left US Strike on Syria: No Hard Evidence, Insincere, Illegal
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Berto Jongman, Report: US Attack On Syria to Begin Saturday
Berto Jongman: UK intelligence assessment on Syria under analysis
Berto Jongman: Wounded Giant: The only thing America is good at these days is breaking things
David Swanson, Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria
DefDog: U.S. Web Attacks Skyrocket Ahead of Mid East Action: 81% Above Normal *Real Time Heat Map*
SchwartzReport: Science Outpaces Ethics — Be Worried…
Academia, Commerce, Ethics, Government
This is at once fascinating and, at the same time, yet another example of how science is far outpacing the ethics as to how that science should be used.
Miniature Brains Grown in Test Tubes – a New Path for Neuroscience?
ALOK JHA – The Guardian (U.K.)
SchwartzReport: Vermont Public Slams Nuclear Box Shut
05 Energy, 11 SocietyHere is some excellent news about nuclear power. One by one they are beginning to close down these installations. Now we just have to see that in the next 20,000 years we maintain the waste safely in unbroken continuity.
Vermont Yankee Joins the Tsunami of U.S. Reactor Shutdowns
HARVEY WASSERMAN – Truthdig
EXTRACT:
But the decision also opened Entergy to other challenges, especially in front of Vermont’s Public Service Board. ‘Hidden in the federal ruling Entergy ostensibly won was a confirmation that the state, through the PSB, had the right to reject Vermont Yankee’s continued operation on reliability, economics and more.”
Phi Beta Iota: Corporations work under public commissions. The only thing barring total eradication of corporate corruption and idiocy is government corruption and idiocy.
NIGHTWATCH: India-Pakistan Kashmir, Iraq & Shi’ite Casualties
03 India, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild CardsIndia-Pakistan-Kashmir: Pakistani press reported no Indian artillery fire across the Line of Control in Kashmir on Monday and Tuesday this week for the first time in weeks. It also reported that cross-border truck traffic has been normal through at least one crossing point on the Line of Control.
Comment: Since the killing of five Indian soldiers on 6 August, Indian artillery shelling and gunfire across the Line of Control have been daily. A lull in shelling could be an important step towards normalizing political contacts, but it is too soon to call this a lull. Thus far Pakistan has not provided an explanation for the ambush on the 6th.
Iraq: A wave of coordinated bombings in mainly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on 28 August killed 86 people and wounded 263, according to police and medical sources. Bombings also occurred in two other Iraqi cities.
Comment: Surges in bombing attacks are becoming twice weekly occurrences in Baghdad, according to press reports. Those on the 28th appear unusually concentrated and well-coordinated.
