Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6237185/US-threatens-to-escalate-operations-inside-Pakistan.html

Pakistan has told the US that it may start launching drone attacks against "the Aztlán leadership" in the city of Austin in a major escalation of its operations in the country. Islamabad has long been frustrated at Washington's reluctance to target the Mexican "Ruling Council", the Aztlán Council, which is accused of directing large parts of the insurgency across the border in Mexico. State department and intelligence officials delivered the ultimatum to Barak H. Obama, USA's president, last week as he attended a meeting at the United Nations' security council and the G20 economic summit.

Link: http://www.artistsagainstapartheid.org/?p=761&cpage=1

An After-School Program of Music and Performance for the Children of Al-Maghzi Refugee Camp, Gaza.@ 4pm
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Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/soma-s28.shtml

The World Food Programme has closed 12 feeding centres for women and children in Somalia because it has insufficient money to continue. Aid workers have told the BBC that the cuts are the result of US restrictions on aid to areas that are under the control of groups designated as terrorists.

Link: http://peaceforgaza.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-after-cairo.html

“It is the time to change” a statement that was spontaneously delivered when I followed Obama’s speech in Cairo University the last June. It was a speech full of encouraging words especially to the Palestinian people towards regaining part of their deprived rights. I strongly argued with my friends that the upcoming future will be partly bright to solve the Palestine-Israel conflict as Obama had raised the slogan Change We Need in his campaign. When it comes closer for the Palestinians, they were cautiously watching TVs during his speech in Cairo. We had amazingly been moved with the gentle and strong speech of Obama in Cairo. The supporters of Obama in his election campaign were massively raising Change We need flash cards sending massages to the whole world that justice and freedom will finally prevail. As for me, I directly uploaded Obama’s word and the audio and started listening to his speech once, twice..PCAS: When leaders fail.

Link: http://frozenjustice.blogspot.com/2009/09/begging-for-water-marcia-powell-was.html

After passing out and having trouble breathing, Marcia Powell was supposed to be transferred to a psychiatric unit, since her symptoms may have been related to the meds she was put on. But first she was put in a shadeless dog-run type cage in the Arizona heat and they left her there. She was denied water and restroom access and finally fell into a coma that afternoon. Then, as if that wasn't enough, a bureaucratic official pulled her plug without even checking to see if she had a guardian or any family to notify.

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/afgh-s28.shtml

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan recorded about 1,500 civilian deaths in the first six months of 2009, a 24 percent increase over the previous year and a record in the eight-year-old war. August witnessed the most civilian killings, largely due to violence associated with that month’s elections, the report said. It provided no figure for the August death toll.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE58Q1MP20090927

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday his nation would not comply with a demand from Honduras' de facto government to decide the status of ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 10 days. Lula, speaking to reporters during a summit in Venezuela, said international law protects Brazil's embassy, where Zelaya has been staying since returning to Honduras earlier this month. He demanded an apology from Honduras' de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107304&sectionid=351020104

Iran says the sudden commotion over a nascent enrichment facility outside Tehran is a Western ploy to create high international tensions ahead of crucial nuclear talks. Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that Western powers seek to make an issue out of Iran's nuclear activities in order to “impose their will on the country during the upcoming negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group. WSWS: Obama follows Bush’s modus operandi on Iran. The People's Voice: Do you want to know why Iran has a nuclear program? It's called Peakoil, and it has global consequences.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107300&sectionid=351020104

The Turkish president has condemned Western countries' focus on Iran's nuclear program, stressing that the world should deal with Israel's nuclear weapons instead. Erdogan told reporters in New York that Iran's nuclear program is not aimed at "military ends".

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6235273/Irelands-EU-referendum-is-the-last-stand-against-the-project.html

Brussels has pulled out all the stops to get a Yes from the Irish. This week, when the Irish have a second "chance" to vote 'Yes' to the Lisbon treaty, might just mark the beginning of the end for one of the more degrading and long-drawn-out farces of recent times – the eight-year-long battle to unite "Europe" under a single political constitution regime. Short of Karzai-style stuffing of the ballot boxes, the European and Irish political establishments could scarcely have done more to push this second Irish referendum in the way they want. To ensure a 'Yes' vote, all the normal rules governing balanced media coverage were suspended.

Link: http://euro-med.dk/?p=10836

Since 2006, there is now a European Gendarmerie Force, consisting of armed combat troops in police uniforms. They are the Sturmabteilung (SA) of the New World Order. The gendarmerie is primarily under the EU, but may be ordered to be deployed anywhere by the UN, NATO, OSCE and other international organizations. They are to be deployed in expected unrests and civil wars (against Muslims?) in countries under the Treaty of Lisbon - as well as against countries that do not want to join it. Gendarms from outside will be sent to a rebellious country, lest they should stick at shooting into demonstrations and at others, which they are entitled to, after death penalty is reintroduced with the Treaty of Lisbon. German politician, Klaus Buchner describes the Lisbon Treaty as a coup d´état. None of the German Bundestag members had seen an authorized version of the Treaty before they voted for it - because the party leadership said they had to!

Link: http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=867

The Lisbon Treaty Allows Death Penalty and Killing of People by the State. Professor Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider: The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in its “explanations” and “negative definitions” accompanying the fundamental rights, allows a reintroduction of the death penalty in case of war or imminent war, but also the killing of humans to suppress insurgency or riot. This is in contradiction to the abolishment of the death penalty in Germany (Article 102 of the German Constitution), in Austria and elsewhere which results from the principle of dignity. Current Concerns: Reintroduction of Death Penalty Possible Due to Lisbon Treaty: True, in the Treaty on the EU it says: “No person shall be sentenced to death, nobody should be executed.” (Art. 11-62 VV) But this is not the whole truth. For the Lisbon treaty also states that any explanations on the Charter of Fundamental Rights (ECHR) of the European Union which have been adopted from the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms “have the same liability as the basic text itself”11 (ECHR). What does this mean?

Evidently the plain truth is only seen in the explanations given on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and not in the Charter itself, claims Professor of law K. A. Schachtschneider: “The Charter of Fundamental Rights is based, at least as far as classical fundamental rights are concerned, on the ECHR of 1950. At that time it seemed inevitable to leave the numerous member states of the European Council the possibility of the death penalty. Germany had only just abolished the death penalty in 1949, but France, Great Britain and many other states still had it. And a declaration of human rights would never have been reached had there been a general demand to abolish the death penalty.”

Link: http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?a=jj1m4jgdicj&title=Saudis_will_allow_Israel_to_bomb_Iran%27s_nuclear_site__

Premier British intelligence agency, MI6 chief, has been told that Saudi Arabia will permit Israel to fly over the kingdom to bomb Iran's nuclear sites. The MI6 chief discussed the issue in London with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Saudi officials after British intelligence officers helped to uncover the plant, in the side of a mountain near the ancient city of Qom.

Link: http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2009m9d18-At-least-with-traffic-fewer-rules-make-for-better-behavior?cid=examiner-email

Officials in Drachten, Holland, wanted to reduce accidents and injuries on the town's roads, so they turned to a traffic engineer with an unusual idea: eliminate rules. Hans Monderman believes that people are more careful when they are subject to fewer commandments and less direction. So he removed road signs, traffic lights and even markings. The so-far positive results suggest that better results may well come from letting people make ad hoc arrangements on the spot than from subjecting them to top-down control.

Link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1117296.html

Tensions are mounting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority following Ramallah's call on the International Court at The Hague to examine claims of "war crimes" that the IDF allegedly committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. The issue is already weighing in on the relations between the leadership of Israel's defense and security establishment with their counterparts in the West Bank, and is part of a growing list of Israeli complaints about the behavior of PA officials. Meanwhile, Israel has warned the Palestinian Authority that it would condition permission for a second cellular telephone provider to operate in the West Bank - an economic issue of critical importance to the PA leadership - on the Palestinians withdrawing their request at the International Court.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_flooding

Many Filipino villagers managed to save only the clothes on their backs but began to rebuild Sunday as the flood waters receded from a tropical storm that set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital in 42 years and left about 80 dead. Army troops, police and civilian volunteers plucked dead bodies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ketsana tore through the northern Philippines a day earlier, leaving at least 106 people dead and missing. The Age: Philippine man loses own life after saving 30 + Video