Police in Texas shot an unarmed man 41 times, then turned around and confiscated another man’s camera after he started taking photos and shooting video of the bloody aftermath. - Dallas-area cops then deleted the man’s footage before returning the camera four days later. Now police from two agencies are vowing to do a “complete investigation,” which, of course, means we will hear nothing more about the August 31 incident for at least several months. But so far, the partial investigation has determined that Garland police officer Patrick Tuter lied in his initial report when he claimed that suspect Michael Vincent Allen backed his truck into the patrol car, causing the cop to fear for his life and leaving him no choice but to fire 41 times, meaning he reloaded at least once.

President Obama is tearing the shroud of secrecy off his once hush-hush death-by-drone program. - When asked about the collateral deaths of innocent civilians during these attacks, White House’s top counterterrorism advisor John Brennan responded that American drone pilots “make every effort” to avoid killing innocents. [...] Describing the disregard for innocent human life as part of a “solution” is eerily reminiscent of similar statements made by despicable tyrants in the recent past. The death toll of innocent people killed by the United States in the Middle East continues to increase. As The New American reported on September 6, 29 Yemenis were killed by U.S. drones in one week. Many of these had not even tenuous ties to terrorists and were killed simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A squad of U.S. troops despatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters. - Accounts of the mayhem at the U.S. consulate, where the ambassador and a fourth American died after a chaotic protest over a film insulting to Islam, remain patchy. But two Libyan officials, including the commander of a security force which escorted the U.S. rescuers, said a later assault on a supposedly safe refuge for the diplomats appeared professionally executed. Miscommunication which understated the number of American survivors awaiting rescue - there were 37, nearly four times as many as the Libyan commander expected - also meant survivors and rescuers found themselves short of transport to escape this second battle, delaying an eventual dawn break for the airport.

Media Reports on the Tragic Assassination of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens

Bill Van Auken: “The Quiet American”: the death of J. Christopher Stevens
Tony Cartalucci: US-Backed Terrorists Murder US Ambassador in Libya
Nabila Ramdani: Chris Stevens died at the hands of militants, not an offended mob
Joe Quinn: American Ambassador To Libya Reaps What His Masters Sowed

Paul Joseph Watson: NATO Stooge Ludicrously Points Finger at Gaddafi Loyalists - Lame Attempt To Shift Blame Away From U.S.-Backed Extremists - While the establishment media has engaged in a concerted effort to bury the fact that today’s attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was carried out by the same extremists the U.S. armed during the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya’s Ambassador to Washington Ali Aujali launched his own lame attempt to shift the blame, ludicrously pointing the finger at Gaddafi loyalists. “His claim contradicts most reports, which place the blame on radical Islamist groups that claimed to be reacting to an obscure American film they viewed as insulting to Islam. Aujali said that the Libyan government has intelligence that unspecified Qaddafi forces were involved,” reports Foreign Policy.

The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack... Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts. [Try as I might, I can no longer remain silent on this one -- so Facebook, do your thing. 'Protesters' did not assassinate Ambassador Stevens and 3 Navy Seals (working for mercenaries at the time). This was a likely a(nother) CIA-sanctioned operation, executed so that USociopaths can control Libya's new regime to ensure that corpora-terrorists get Libya's oil and water. Oh, by the way: Gaddafi NATIONALIZED industries and was HELPING the people of Libya. Those two traits made him a target of the global pack of locusts. --CLG/LRP]

The Independent: Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination

Only a US operation bigger than the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan combined can stop Iran from its alleged pursuit of a nuclear bomb, a new military report said. Such action, however, risks igniting all-out war in the Middle East. - Amid escalating rhetoric from Israel and the US over military action against Iran, more than 30 former US diplomats, retired admirals and generals have assembled a report on the consequences of military action against Tehran. The study will be released on Thursday. The AP received an advance copy of the document, set to be released on Thursday, and reported that the analysis assessed the risks of a possible invasion of Iran, but provided no overall conclusion or recommended course of action.

John Glaser: Report: US Strike on Iran Would Spark Region-Wide War, Push Iran Toward Nukes

Kissinger attacked freedom on 9/11, in South America. - as seen in the film Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image, September 11 (2002)

China’s health authorities are investigating allegations that genetically modified rice has been tested on Chinese children as part of a research project. - A recent scientific publication suggested that researchers, backed by the US Department of Agriculture, fed experimental genetically engineered golden rice to 24 children in China aged between six and eight years old. The environmental group Greenpeace is demanding a stop to field trials of the genetically enriched rice, which has been proposed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, as it says the rice carries environmental and health risks. China is the world’s largest grower of genetically modified (GMO) cotton and the top importer of GMO soybeans but, while Beijing has already approved home-grown strains of GMO rice, it remains cautious about introducing the technology on a commercial basis amid widespread public concern about food safety. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention investigation came after a report last month by environmental group Greenpeace claimed that a U.S. Department of Agriculture-backed study used 24 Chinese children aged between six and eight to test genetically modified ‘golden rice’. (Source)

As Apple launches its much-anticipated new iPhone 5 today, news reports about conditions at the company’s manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Technology, are fueling renewed criticism of the labor practices that go into making Apple’s popular products. Yesterday’s New York Times had a detailed report about vocational students who were being virtually forced to work at Foxconn plants producing iPhones and their components. At the same time, a journalist at the Shanghai Evening Post (translated by m.i.c.gadget.com) went undercover and worked for 10 days at a Foxconn factory in Tai Yuan, where the iPhone 5 was being manufactured. He wrote about filthy, smelly, cockroach-infested dormitories, numbingly repetitive work and pressure to put in maximum overtime.

■ IOF launched a number of air strikes and opened fire at areas in the Gaza Strip
■ Two Palestinian civilians were wounded by IOF in the West Bank
■ IOF used force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank
■ IOF conducted 53 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones into the Gaza Strip
■ Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip
■ Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world
■ IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (06 – 12 September 2012)

Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed 3 Palestinians and wounded another 11 ones, including 5 children and two women, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the Gaza Strip, on 06 September 2012, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip killed 3 members of the Palestinian resistance, including two brothers, in the northern Gaza Strip. On the same day, a Palestinian civilian was wounded when IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a number of young men who got close to the border. On 10 September 2012, Israeli warplanes launched 4 air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip. As a result, two rooms and a container were destroyed, 26 houses were damaged and 7 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and two women, were lightly injured. IOF continued to fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip. On 10 and 11 September 2012, Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported. In the West Bank, on 10 September 2012, a Palestinian civilian was wounded and arrested by IOF in the center of Hebron. IOF claimed that he threw a Molotov cocktail at them. On the same day, a Palestinian civilian was wounded and arrested by IOF in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, during clashes between IOF and Palestinian boys. During the reporting period, IOF used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the annexation wall, settlement activities and other Israeli practices in the West Bank. As a result, dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.

Britain's reputation as a surveillance state has been further enhanced amidst the revelation that thousands of students have been monitored in areas formerly considered out-of-bounds for CCTV activity.

There were speculations before the Olympics that the British government is using the games as an excuse to impose a police state in London that would be otherwise impossible; now that seems to have come true as the ‘un-free zones’ remain after the sports event. British councils and police retain powers to single out public spaces and suspend certain freedoms, including handing out leaflets and protesting there that means one will be punished in those zones for doing a perfectly legal thing.

The Japanese government and coast guard said six Chinese surveillance ships entered Japanese waters on Friday near disputed islands in the East China Sea, adding to tensions between the Asian giants. - It was the first intrusion by Chinese vessels into what Japan says are its waters since Tokyo bought the islands from their private Japanese owners this week. The islands, claimed by both countries and called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China, are surrounding by rich fishing grounds and are near key shipping lanes. After Japanese coast guard ships telegraphed warnings to the Chinese vessels, two or three moved beyond territorial waters but the others remained within the 12 nautical mile zone around the uninhabited islands that are controlled by Japan, said Yasuhiko Oku, an official with the Japanese coast guard in Tokyo. One of the Chinese patrol vessel responded to the coast guard's warnings by demanding the Japanese ships get out of the waters immediately.