This 23-minute interview is Karen Hudes explaining what she learned as World Bank Senior Counsel until she was fired for whistleblowing in 2007:

1. A 1% cabal control government, economics, media (and here), who commit obvious crimes in psychopathic destructiveness.
2. Insiders are organizing and working to end the 1%’s crimes.
3. The public must speak the truth to end these OBVIOUS crimes through firing/arrests of OBVIOUS criminals. Until this is done, we will never have obvious solutions.

Do you have the intellectual integrity and moral courage to state the “emperor has no clothes” obvious in language as direct as Karen Hudes? The links above explain, document, and prove OBVIOUS illegal Wars of Aggression, bank and finance fraud in the trillions of damages every year, and Orwellian lies by 1% media as required accomplices to make these crimes possible. These “thugs, crooks, and liars” annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions, including a million children dying from poverty every month in the most gruesomely slow agony imaginable. How long will you stand by without your strongest voice and willpower to demand their arrests, demand media communicate comprehensive Truth, and have freedom for humanity?

The Pentagon pumped billions of dollars into contractors' bank accounts on the eve of the U.S. government's shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed. All told, the Pentagon awarded 94 contracts yesterday evening on its annual end-of-the-fiscal-year spending spree, spending more than five billion dollars on everything from robot submarines to Finnish hand grenades and a radar base mounted on an offshore oil platform. To put things in perspective, the Pentagon gave out only 14 contracts on September 3, the first workday of the month.

Stephen Lendman: World Reaction to US Government Shutdown

Nearly Threefold Increase From Last Year's Toll. ● September has come and gone, and a summer surge in violence in Iraq has officially lasted through the entire summer and moved straight on into autumn. The United Nations toll for Iraqi deaths in September was 979, though as usual this toll was quite a bit lower than figures collected in media reports daily by Antiwar.com’s Margaret Griffis, who put the figure at 1,271 killed. That’s up a fair bit from last month continuing a trend of increases in death toll that began in late April and still shows no sign of ending. The monthly tolls are now putting Iraq in a similar state as it was during the US occupation and military surge, figures not seen since summer of 2007. Iraq never got close to pre-war normals after the occupation ended, but the toll did dropped considerably. September of 2012 had a toll of only 444, meaning we’re now seeing a nearly threefold increase.

The objective of the United States National Security Agency is to eliminate privacy around the world, the American writer who helped expose the NSA’s far-reaching surveillance powers said on Tuesday. ● Glenn Greenwald of the UK’s Guardian answered questions about the ongoing NSA leaks and his source, the now notorious former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, during an online question-and-answer session held Tuesday on the website Reddit. Nearly four months after [the] leaks began, Greenwald told Reddit on Tuesday that he believes in his opinion that people around the world now have “a basic idea of the objective of the NSA: to eliminate privacy worldwide, literally, by ensuring that every human electronic communication is subject to being collected, stored, analyzed and monitored by the NSA and its allies.” Asked by a participant during the Reddit “Ask Me Anything” segment to explain what he thought was the single most shocking revelation to come from Snowden’s leaks, Greenwald responded that the actual abilities of the NSA as detailed through those disclosures was what he considered to personally be the biggest takeaway. “The general revelation that the objective of the NSA is literally the elimination of global privacy: ensuring that every form of human electronic communication - not just those of The Terrorists™ - is collected, stored, analyzed and monitored,” he said.

John Hayward ■ As launch time approaches for the rickety rocket of ObamaCare, it’s still unclear whether any of its vital systems will function. But there are a few things we know for certain. It makes insurance more expensive, with states like Florida and Ohio bracing for the sticker shock of 35 and 41 percent premium hikes, respectively. As CNN Money notes, it’s the more lightly regulated states – the places that were actually doing health insurance right - that will suffer the worst increases. Moribund blue-state regulatory disaster areas like California and New York have already been punishing consumers with ObamaCare-style regulations for years. So much for the will of the voters. Hope you enjoyed your vibrant markets while they lasted, Florida and Ohio! ● Another thing we know for sure is that choices for consumers will be reduced, which means less competition. Big insurance companies are bailing out of ObamaCare exchanges left and right. Aetna just announced it was pulling out of Maryland after regulators demanded a 29 percent cut to premiums, which would leave the company selling its products below cost. Aetna already withdrew from the exchanges in California, Georgia, and Connecticut. Aetna is based in Connecticut. ● The California exchange also lost UnitedHealth and Anthem Blue Cross, which was the state’s largest small-business insurance provider. Barack Obama is famous for the biggest lie in recent political history: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan.” But he also claimed the exchanges would increase competition. Instead, companies are heading for the hills and taking their plans with them.

Susan Stamper Brown: Obamacare’s Latest Scam

Alawites are fleeing their homes, recounting gruesome tales of executions and other atrocities
● For more than two years, as fighting has escalated throughout Syria, a group of villages peopled by government supporters in the mountains above this coastal city has been spared any attacks. In spite of their proximity to the Turkish border, across which rebel fighters are armed and financed, farmers continued their lives as normal, even though as Alawites allied to the Shia sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs they could have been obvious targets.
● At dawn on 4 August their peace was shattered. Armed rebels, led by local jihadis as well as members of Jabhat al-Nusra and the al-Qaida linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, left their headquarters in the largely Sunni town of Salma. They sneaked into the al-Akrad mountains, taking control of five Alawite villages. The rebels called it Operation Liberation of the Coast and the aim was to send the government a message that even the Alawite heartland was no longer safe.

Christof Lehmann ■ Following US attempts to blackmail Russia into adopting a Security Council resolution which would pave the way for a US aggression against Syria under the UN Charter´s Chapter 7, by threatening to block Syria´s accession to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, China and Russia responded by drawing an unequivocal red line with regards to Syria. The Chinese and Russian position has the support of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), who stressed the need for a peaceful resolution to the situation in Syria at a CSTO council meeting on Monday. Strong Russian Response to U.S. Attempt to Blackmail Russia on Syria´s Accession to OPCW. A U.S. Attempt to blackmail Russia into a concurrent vote for a Security Council resolution that would render a loophole for military aggression against Syria under the UN Charter´s Chapter 7 has prompted unequivocal responses from both Russia and China. According to statements from Russia´s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, the USA threatened, that it would withdraw its support for Syria´s accession into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Torture and brutality are rife in Libyan prisons two years after the overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi in a revolution launched under the banner of freedom and justice, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. ● Around 8,000 prisoners are held without trial in government jails on suspicion of having fought for Gaddafi, while countless others are detained by freelance militias out of sight and in primitive conditions, it added. No one was immediately available for comment from the Libyan government. "Torture and ill-treatment in Libya is an on-going and widespread concern in many detention centres," said the report from the U.N.'s top human rights office (UNHCHR) and the world body's Support Mission (UNSMIL) in the country. UNSMIL had recorded 27 cases of death in detention, almost certainly caused by torture, since Gaddafi was captured and killed, it said. Eleven of these were this year and all in prisons controlled by militias, it added.

Al Jazeera: UN finds widespread torture in Libya jails

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the 68th session of the UN General Assembly that Iran must dismantle its entire nuclear program, repeating his baseless accusation that Tehran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. ● "Iran wants to be in a position to rush forward to build nuclear bombs before the international community can detect it and much less prevent it," Netanyahu said in an address to the 68th annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. "Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone," he claimed. Netanyahu added that a "nuclear-armed" Iran would be a threat to Israel’s future and called on the international community to keep up pressure on Tehran through sanctions. Netanyahu's salvo of threats and accusations against Iran comes as Tehran has categorically rejected allegations leveled by the US, Israel and some of their allies against its nuclear energy program, arguing that its nuclear energy program is only for peaceful purposes.

Stephen Lendman: More on Inventing an Iranian Threat ■ None whatever exists. US, other Western, and Israeli leaders know it. Claims they make otherwise are false. [...] It bears repeating. Iran's nuclear program is entirely peaceful. Nothing suggests otherwise. IAEA monitors confirm it. So do annual US intelligence assessments. World leaders know it. So do Edelmen and Ross. They lie claiming otherwise. Iran fully complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) provisions. Israel is a nuclear outlaw. It refuses to sign NPT. It violates its core provisions. It does so with impunity. It's nuclear armed and dangerous. It threatens to use its entire weapons arsenal if endangered. It intends to use if preemptively. It'll use it against nuclear or non-nuclear states. It'll do so lawlessly. It doesn't care. It has friends in high places. They operate by the same rules. They invent them to support policies. Claiming an Iranian nuclear threat is red herring cover for regime change. It's a Big Lie pretext to pursue it.

Russia Today: Iran’s nuclear warheads "could hit NY in 3 to 4 years" – Netanyahu to UN
Middle East Monitor: Netanyahu launches media campaign against Iran
Pepe Escobar: Netanyahu’s UN speech: Sounds like a sociopath?
Kevin Barrett: ‘Netanyahu’s dictation disgrace for US’

A tiny wealthy male elite is behind most of the biggest contributions to the 2012 election cycle in the US, a new study shows. The report comes as US Supreme Court considers whether it should strip a ceiling on political donations. In a case the Supreme Court will begin hearing next Thursday, Shaun McCutcheon, a wealthy donor backed by the Republican National Committee, is challenging this aggregate limit on how much an individual may donate overall to candidates, parties and political action committees (PACs) over an election cycle.