Link: http://youtu.be/tbtHgTRg104

This is what happens to people who join the army of a brutal police state. Had it not been captured on video nothing at all would have been done. The young victim is lucky that he only suffered a seizure. He could have died from heart failure. Think this is unusual treatment? Read this: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Past-News.php/2009/03/04/lavena-johnson-raped-and-murdered-on-a-m

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/middleeast/us-is-weighing-new-curbs-on-iran-in-nod-to-israel.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

Military specialists said offensive military options, including strikes against Iran’s refineries and power grid, could also be telegraphed to the Iranians. Although targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime it didn't stop America from bombing schools, hospitals, and radio stations in Iraq.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/02-3

As the northern summer draws to a close, two milestones have been reached in the Arctic Ocean — record-low sea ice extent, and an even more dramatic new low in Arctic sea ice volume. This extreme melting offers dramatic evidence, many scientists say, that the region’s sea ice has passed a tipping point and that sometime in the next decade or two the North Pole will be largely ice-free in summer.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/02-4

The issue isn't Obama, any more than it was Bush before him. The issue is US power. How easy it was to scrutinise US power when George W. Bush was in office. After all, it was difficult to defend an administration packed with such repulsive characters, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whose attitude towards the rest of the world amounted to thuggish contempt.

Link: http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2012/09/washington-future-history-flashback/

In 2008 the Washington Post published an article titled “Washington’s Future, a History.” The article used the insight of two panels of experts who looked into the future 17 years from 2008. The Post’s article is a “fictional” account of a future Washington D.C. in which “small scale” terror attacks and angry rioters plague the streets and implantable ID chips allow government workers to pass through checkpoints.