The official U.S. Government definition includes the following: "Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as a collective—especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, the state of Israel, or even for acts committed by non-Jews. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust..." (and much more.)

However prepared you think you are for an emergency wildfire evacuation, when it looks like you're driving through the outer edges of Hell, it's going to be a scary ride.

Wildfires are a real threat every year in California, but this season seems to be especially dramatic and uncontrollable. Chalk it up to the severe drought that has caused the grass and trees to become well-seasoned fuel for the fires.
One particular fire rages out of control in Lake County, just north of the famous Napa Valley, putting thousands of acres of vineyards on the outskirts of the inferno.

That is far from the worst of it, though. Over the weekend, the tiny burg of Middletown, California was burned off the map. The flames moved so quickly that there was barely time to notify the families of the town that they had to evacuate.

Webmaster addition: Meanwhile Nestle continues to pump California dry, leaving no water for agriculture or fire fighting!

Culture and Politics are methods of war
Germany's military deployment indicates the seriousness of these times

On Wednesday the University of California Board of Regents will meet to discuss adopting a new definition of anti-semitism. The media is saturated with op-eds demanding this expanded definition of 'anti-semitism' to include hateful anti-Zionism.

Over the last few days, both mainstream and alternative media outlets have reported on a strange incident of a “stand-off” - one imagines the relief the neighbors felt to see the deputies arrive to stop the chaos.

That relief may have been short-lived.

Official Washington’s new “group think” is to blame Russia’s President Putin for the Syrian crisis, although it was the neocons and President George W. Bush who started the current Mideast mess by invading Iraq, the Saudis who funded Al Qaeda, and the Israelis who plotted “regime change,” says Robert Parry.

In light of the catastrophic outcome of the "western" war on Libya the Russian government declared to oppose any further such "regime change" in the Middle East. But the U.S. continues to train, arm and finance insurgents against the Syrian Arab Republic and, under the disguise of fighting the Islamic State, prepares to take down the Syrian government. Eliminating the Syrian government would likely create a radical jihadist state in Damascus and lead to massacres and mass refugee movements.

But Russia means what it says and will now use its military capabilities to confront the U.S. plans:

something to keep in mind during election time

The Schengen Agreement represents a territory in Europe where the free movement of persons is guaranteed. 26 nations signed the treaty. The signatory nations abolished internal borders in lieu of a single external border. Common rules and procedures apply to visas, asylum requests and border controls. The treaty has been under pressure with a huge wave of migrants pouring into Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, and Greece from Syria and other countries.

The Swedish Minister for Finance, Magdalena Andersson, now considers borrowing large amounts of money from EIB to increase immigration to Sweden. Although the government over the summer has raised a wide range of taxes, there apparently is still not enough money to support all the migrants from the Third World who right now flows into Sweden.

A swiftly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee as it roared unchecked through the northern California village of Middletown and nearby communities, fire officials said on Sunday. The so-called Valley Fire, now ranked as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have ravaged the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior" this season.

Webmaster addition: The USGS is reporting the quake as Magnitude 4.0.

Oathkeepers organizing a Military Stand Down Against NDAA.

Hillary for prison 2016!

snip: They concluded that the material had originally been given the U.S. government’s highest secrecy classification. Even if one of Clinton’s aides stripped the markings (a felony), Secretary Clinton surely knew satellite intelligence and North Korean nuclear deployments are the U.S. government’s most highly classified information.

The media correctly saw the news as political trouble for Hillary, but they missed two other crucial elements of the story. Somebody high up in the intelligence community leaked that story. And Hillary faces far more than political trouble. She’s being fitted for an orange jumpsuit.

The NYT story came from anonymous sources. For Camp Clinton, the most ominous words are “senior intelligence officials said.” They signal just how furious the intelligence community is at the gross mishandling of their crown jewels.

snip: No crime is too outrageous for Israel to commit. Genocidal aggression is longstanding policy. So are many forms of daily persecution - ruthless police state brutality against defenseless Palestinians.

On September 13, ahead of the two-day Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah period, extremist settlers led by racist agriculture minister Uri Ariel, protected by soldiers and police, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem - Islam’s third holiest site where they don’t belong, on the fabricated pretext of conducting a security operation.

Dozens of worshipers were attacked and forcibly removed, including children, Israeli forces using tear gas and stun grenades, as well as indiscriminately firing steel-coated rubber bullets against helpless victims.

Last week, defense minister Moshe Ya’alon illegitimately banned two Muslim groups responsible for protecting the Mosque.

snip: Obama’s stepped up bombing complicit with Britain, France, Canada, Australia and Israel heads thing closer to full-scale naked aggression - to destroy Syrian sovereignty, eliminate an Israeli rival, and isolate Iran ahead of perhaps inventing a pretext to attack the Islamic Republic.

War plans were made years ago, updated as needed. The Iran nuclear deal did nothing to change longstanding US hostility toward Tehran.

Regime change remains official US policy - wanting Iranian sovereign independence destroyed like what’s ongoing in Syria. Maybe Washington has an Islamic State invasion in mind, perhaps aided by US air power.

America targets all independent government worldwide for regime change - wanting subservient US-controlled vassal states replacing them, a nightmarish scenario for endless conflicts, mass slaughter and destruction and possible nuclear war threatening everyone, everywhere if launched.

San Francisco Bay area activists staged a dramatic demonstration in Oakland on Friday to call attention to the domestic war games and militarization of police set to take place at the annual Urban Shield conference this weekend. An estimated 100 people "dressed in fake police uniforms, banging drums and chanting antiviolence slogans" reportedly took over an intersection near Lake Merritt to condemn the four-day law enforcement and first-responder training expo, which the Alameda County sheriff's office has hosted since 2007.

They have placed a bony "closed eye" structure dubbed Oculus over the rebuilt World Trade Center transportation hub that overlooks the new Ground Zero. The skylights in the architecture, which has been referred to as "a living, evolving, morphing creature," will now "open" each year only once... on 9/11. Each year, the public will symbolically "experience a subtle sense of man’s vulnerability, while maintaining a link to a higher order."

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A Podcast on the Little-Known “Continuity of Government” Effort Underlying National Emergencies

9/11 was a seminal day in US history, but, as noted author and historian Peter Dale Scott tells WhoWhatWhy, the true significance of what happened goes far beyond what meets the eye. In this podcast, Scott focuses in particular on the implementation of a secret “Continuity of Government” plan that had been decades in the making. Consequently, he argues, there has been “a permanent change to the United States” that permeates the lives of all Americans. The result, according to Scott, has been the suspension of Constitutional rights and the transformation of America in ways that we are still living with today.

A woman is suing New York City after she claims she was forced to spend eight days in a mental health facility and given a $13,000 (£8,500) bill because a police officer didn’t believe the BMW she was driving was hers.

victims of US/Israeli aggression are unpersons

With the proliferation of radical religious voices in the Arab world following the so-called ''Arab Spring'', many young Arabs have begun to proclaim their non-belief in God and openly express their scorn for religious ideology and discourse.

“Burning is how racists manifest hate,” is the conclusion of Jamal Kanj, who looks at the fascination of Zionists with burning Palestinians alive and how the Jewish perpetrators and their supporters always get away with murder.

Stuart Littlewood examines the smears hurled at newly-elected UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by the Tories, and wonders who is the real threat to national security: Corbyn or the Tories who have pledged allegiance to Israel?

New Labour leader is smeared by panic-stricken Tories

There are high hopes that Corbyn, who is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, vice-chair of CND and national chairman of the Stop the War Coalition, will eventually break Britain out of the cycle of servitude to US neo-con and Zionist diktats.

As expected, the Tory Dirty Tricks Department were ready and waiting to put the boot in. No sooner had news of Jeremy Corbyn’s amazing leadership victory, with nearly 60% of first-choice votes, trickled through than Conservative Central Office began emailing all and sundry with their ludicrous smears.

Factual evidence and science do not support Washington’s conspiracy theory.

The Neoconservatives were overjoyed by the arrival of the “New Pearl Harbor,” the necessary catalyst for launching their pre-planned wars.

Ken O'Keefe, lays it out perfectly on dinosaur mainstream media, calling out the fraud. Must see, must share! Brilliant!

Syrian Girl "connects the dotz" on the "Immigration/Invasion" situation.

Speaking Romanian and Russian, protesters in Chisinau, the capital, on Sunday demanded the resignation of the president, the general prosecutor, the national bank governor and others. They also want an early election and to form a new political party.

Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

Why did they eagerly take in nearly 2 million refugees and now that they are intentionally expelling them from Turkey, has NATO’s war plans changed again?

It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that it was explicitly stated (emphasis added):

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Sunday, September 13. This holiday marks the beginning of the year 5776 on the Jewish calendar. The 10-day period between Rosh Hashanah and the holy day of Yom Kippur is a period of deep spiritual introspection for Jews around the world. It's an opportunity to pause, reflect on the events of the past, and think about the year to come.
Note: Why is this newsworthy? Jews are less than 1% of the worlds population.

Let me make this very clear up top before we dive in—I want 2015 to be the safest year ever for cops. No part of me or any other writer for this blog ever wants to see a police officer injured in the line of duty. What this post is about, however, is the power of media narratives to strike fear in the hearts of ordinary citizens, elected officials, and law enforcement officers alike.

Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Melbourne in cooperation with an international consortium working on the Global Burden of Disease Project carried out a study that started in 1990 and ended in 2013 which took into consideration 79 risk factors for death in 188 countries. Their results were published in The Lancet a few days ago. The risk factors that were included in their study contributed 25 million deaths in 1990, but by 2013 they already contributed to almost 31 million deaths worldwide.

Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. They also point to studies showing that in other states that have legalized pot for medical purposes, we’ve seen an increase in the number of drivers testing positive for the drug who were involved in fatal car accidents. The anti-pot group SAM recently pointed out that even before the first legal pot store opened in Washington state, the number of drivers in that state testing positive for pot jumped by a third.

As we watch the continued displacement of millions from Iraq and Syria with hundreds of thousands entering Europe, one may ask that had the 9/11 attacks of 2001 not taken place, would we be witnessing what many say is the biggest refugee problem since WWII? Had the 9/11 attacks not taken place, would we be witnessing such a violent group like DAESH which is committing horrific crimes in the region? Though 3 thousand were killed in the attacks in the US on Sept 11, 2015, millions have been affected by US wars since then. Have the masterminds of these attacks really been found or are they still on the loose. And who will pay for all the death and destruction that has taken place since then and when???

(Note how Brent Budowsky not only defends the physically impossible "OFFICIAL 9-11 Myth", but repeatedly makes the case for the West being "Morally Obligated" to take in refugees and escalate the wars in the Middle East to fight "ISIS/ISIL")

I think the Donald got this one right!

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump poked at rival Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Twitter on Saturday, calling him a “lightweight” who shouldn’t be allowed in Wednesday’s CNN presidential debate.

Trump needled Paul in a series of tweets:
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

I truly understood the appeal of Ron Paul, but his son, @RandPaul, didn't get the right gene.
12:56 PM - 12 Sep 2015

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Calling our American experiment in limited government "irreparably broken," Charles Murray, a libertarian scholar, says, "we can't roll back the power of government through the normal political process." "If you think about how a kleptocracy operates in a third world country, and then you look at how Washington works now, operationally speaking, there's very little distinction." Our government's unelected bureaucrats can, by picking winners and losers, bring most any business down and destroy lives, Murray documents in his new book, "By the People." Murray, a provocative and prolific scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, makes the case in this book that there's a proven inability to stop the expansion of the federal government.