● So, Obama is still pushing for an attack on Syria and Iran, despite no support from the UN, NATO, or the American people. Obama is still pushing for an attack on Syria even though the world knows the claims that Assad gassed his own people are as much bovine excrement as the claim Saddam had nuclear weapons. So what is going on?
● The President's supporters insist the attack must happen to preserve the President's credibility. That seems like a poor excuse for a war until you realize how credibility influences the back-channel economic discussions with other nations.
● Remember that under the Federal Reserve system, all currency enters circulation as a loan at interest. The private owners of the FED get a "piece of the action" of all commerce involving the US dollar, because of that accruing interest. This is why the nation is drowning in debt because the private central banking scam by design creates more debt than money with which to pay that debt. With me so far?

A US political commentator says Israel is striving to ensure that peace does not break out between the United States and Iran, but the tide has now turned against it. Eugene Michael Jones, who is a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US President Barack Obama and asked him to toughen sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear energy program. Netanyahu also demanded that “Iran must fully dismantle its nuclear program.”

ECHO: US-Iran talks must be based on Tehran's concrete steps to give up its nuclear program- Kerry
Stephen Lendman: Netanyahu's General Assembly Dissembling

Russia has evidence that chemical weapons components are used by terrorists in Syria and smuggled into Iraq for possible provocations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, reports VoR's Polina Chernitsa. ● "We read reports and hear from various sources, semi-official and trustworthy, that some official representatives of a number of the countries of the region surrounding Syria allegedly established contacts and meet regularly with leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups, and also that those radicals have some components of chemical weapons maybe found in Syria or maybe brought from somewhere, and not just on the Syrian territory, but also that chemical weapons components have been brought to Iraq and that provocations are being prepared there,” Lavrov said at a news conference following talks with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid. All that has intensified after the UN Security Council passed a Russian-US-proposed resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons and the Geneva-2 conference, the Russian minister said.

● Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, said that after three permanent members: France, Britain and the US hampered the issuance of eight previous presidential statements by the UN Security Council, a statement was finally adopted today on the humanitarian situation in Syria, adding that this statement clearly mentions the presence of armed terrorist groups which are committing crimes in Syria. At a press conference following the issuance of the unbinding UNSC presidential statement on the humanitarian situation in Syria, al-Jaafari said, "For the first time, we find a clear reference to the violations and acts of killing and terrorism committed by the armed terrorist groups in Syria."

● Two years after the end of the US-NATO war in Libya, thousands in the North African country remain imprisoned without charges and are being subjected to systematic torture, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations. ● The report, entitled “Torture and deaths in detention in Libya” recorded 27 cases in which the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has gathered evidence substantiating that detainees have been tortured to death. The agency knows of many other cases that it has not been able to investigate. At least 11 of the documented torture deaths took place during the first half of this year.

YourMiddleEast: Libya has been split into three: the emirates of Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripolitania”

An 8-year-old Florida boy was suspended from school after using his finger as a pretend gun while playing cops and robbers with his friends. ● Jordan Bennett was suspended for a day after administrators at Harmony Community School in Harmony, Fla., said the gesture was an act of violence, WFTV.com reported. His mother, Bonnie, told the station she's concerned that her son may labeled violent with a suspension now on his academic record. "He had nothing in his hand. It was a finger gun, a pretend gun," Bonnie Bennett said. "He didn't threaten violence. He didn't utter words that were inappropriate. He made a sound and used his fingers and that was it."

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appeared on RT on Friday September 27, 2013 to discuss the issue of "American Exceptionalism" as described by Obama in his speech at the UN General Assembly.

Draitser explains how Obama's rhetoric is meant as a response to Russian President Putin's op-ed piece in the NY Times which questioned the merits of so-called "exceptionalism". Additionally, Draitser examines the way in which this idea is deeply embedded within the collective psyche of the American people and that this notion is used to justify the worst elements of US foreign policy.

Finally, Draitser touches upon the shifting geopolitical landscape in which US power is no longer unquestionable.

A list of quotes and presidential actions which showcase Obama’s snobbery and elitism. ● The World War II veteran showdown is the pinnacle of Obama’s disdain towards the American public during the government shutdown and perhaps even his entire term in office. Here’s a short rundown of Obama’s superiority complex, elitism and total disregard of Americans.

● New evidence reveals FBI demands companies secretly turn over crypto keys, allowing them to simultaneously wiretap all customers worldwide, and threatens to jail them if they violate the gag order. The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site, according to to newly unsealed documents. The July 16 order came after Texas-based Lavabit refused to circumvent its own security systems to comply with earlier orders intended to monitor a particular Lavabit user’s metadata, defined as “information about each communication sent or received by the account, including the date and time of the communication, the method of communication, and the source and destination of the communication.” The name of the target is redacted from the unsealed records, but the offenses under investigation are listed as violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property — the exact charges that have been filed against NSA whistleblower Snowden in the same Virginia court.

ArsTechnica: Lavabit got order for Snowden’s login info, then gov’t demanded site’s SSL key
Russia Today: Snowden’s email service Lavabit consistently denied US govt access despite intimidation

■ In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine on Wednesday, Trojanow notes that he has had repeated problems with the America authorities when attempting to enter the US. In 2012 his application for a work visa, so that he could take up a guest professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, was delayed without any explanation. He was finally only able to travel to the US following a protest letter from the president of the university. ● Drawing on his experiences with both the US and German state authorities, Trojanow concludes: “It makes even more clear what the Snowden scandal revealed: the intelligence and security institutions are increasingly operating as a state within the state, without any checks or verification. And even those belonging to another part of the state apparatus have no way of shedding any light on what is going on”.

Deutsche Welle: US denies entry to German writer and NSA critic Trojanow

■ The partial or total shutdown of most departments other than the uniformed military and police/intelligence agencies such as the CIA, the FBI and Homeland Security is hitting broad layers of the population. Besides the closure of national parks and monuments, some 8.9 million low-income mothers and children are being denied food aid due to the shutdown of the WIC program; pension and veterans’ benefit checks are being delayed; preschool Head Start programs are closing; sick people, including cancer patients, are being turned away from National Institutes of Health clinical trials; and foster care payments, nutrition aid and financial assistance for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans are being halted.

■ The priorities of the Obama administration are indicated by the president’s closed-door meeting Wednesday with top Wall Street bankers who head the Financial Services Forum. Those present included JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, currently in talks with Attorney General Eric Holder to avoid criminal prosecution for mortgage fraud, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, accused by a Senate subcommittee of perjuring himself at a hearing on his bank’s mortgage machinations, and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, whose bank received hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout cash and loan guarantees from the administration.