Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief has said the kingdom will make a “major shift” in dealings with the United States in protest at its perceived inaction over the Syria war and its overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan told European diplomats that Washington had failed to act effectively on the Syria crisis and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was growing closer to Tehran, and had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed an anti-government revolt in 2011, the source said.
It was not immediately clear if Prince Bandar’s reported statements had the full backing of King Abdullah.
“The shift away from the US is a major one,” the source close to Saudi policy said. “Saudi doesn’t want to find itself any longer in a situation where it is dependent.”
“Prince Bandar told diplomats that he plans to limit interaction with the US,” he said. “This happens after the US failed to take any effective action on Syria and Palestine.”
Indonesia earthquake quake kills 1, injures 2
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Indonesia, killing one villager, injuring two others and damaging dozens of houses.
‘Marketplace:’ Where People Buy Compulsory Insurance With Other People’s Money
When President Barack Obama spoke in the Rose Garden on Monday to justify and explain the problems at the website his administration has created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to sell government-approved and subsidized health insurance plans, he used the word “marketplace” seventeen times.
Hamas Prime Minister Calls for End to "Peace Process," New Jihad Violence Against Israel
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called for an end to the peace process, urging Arabs and Muslims to prepare for the next intifada against Israel.
Law Enforcement Laments: Americans Informed About How We Abuse Their Rights Are Hurting Our Ability To Abuse Their Rights
The Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stood before his law enforcement peers Sunday and warned them that they were all in danger of losing their technological toys in the ongoing effort to spy on non-suspects and to create probable cause out of thin air. The revolt of public opinion elicited by Edward Snowden’s revelations about government’s spy methods has simply made secret surveillance too unpopular and has attracted too many fresh sets of watchful civilian eyes. Of course, GBI Director Vernon Keenan spoke of this as a bad thing, in the process revealing just how comfortably ensconced American law enforcement has become in its echo chamber of police-culture entitlement.
Earthquake hits northern Israel for fifth time in a week
A mild earthquake hit northern Israel on Tuesday, marking the fifth quake in a week to hit areas near the Kinneret. The earthquake hit the north-western part of the Kinneret at 8:50 A.M. local time and registered a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale.
Obama Firing of Military Reminiscent of Stalin's Purge
The similarities of distrust and fear between the Soviet “Man of Iron” and the latest POTUS should not go unnoticed. Any student of the last century is familiar with the Stalinist mayhem. Russian history is plagued with atrocities, but the reign of Soviet commissars’ is especially brutal. Uncle Joe’s victims of Soviet Terror, is estimated at 20 million killed during the 1930s by V. Chistyakovoy at the height of the purges with 3.7-7.7% of Red Army officers removed. Are we witnessing the beginning of an American version of a parallel motivation just at lower levels at this point?
Dianne Feinstein: NSA Snooping Isn’t ‘Surveillance’
Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the US Senate committee charged with holding the intelligence establishment to account, declared on Monday that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is “not surveillance” and should be maintained as an essential tool to combat terrorism.
Why Syria peace conference is a tough sell for Kerry: Assad wants to come
Can opposition elements be convinced that attending an international conference is in their interest?
CHANCE OF FLARES
Fast-growing sunspot AR1875 has developed a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy strong explosions. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of M-class solar flares and a 5% chance of X-flares on Oct. 22nd.
Snow and cold to blast central, eastern USA
The coldest air of the season is poised to sweep across the central and eastern USA over the next few days. In fact, most of the nation to the east of the Rockies should see well below-average temperatures for the remainder of the week and into the weekend.
Terror in Sinai – Serious Threat to Egyptian Economy
The deteriorating security situation in Sinai has already damaged tourism in southern Sinai, which comprised almost a quarter of the entire Egyptian tourism market. This latest escalation of terror in Sinai is a severe threat to two much bigger and more important Egyptian economic systems: The production and transport of gas and oil is one; the Suez canal and the international transport and commerce systems associated with it are the other.
Putin Bans Russian Officials From Owning Foreign Rothschild Bank Accounts & Stock! Ending The NWO Cabal….
The Kremlin is ready to ban state officials from owning foreign property or keeping money abroad, a move seen by one civil society group as the latest manifestation of ”Western phobia” by the government. A source in the presidential administration told Kommersant that strict controls on foreign assets were seen as necessary.
Category 3 Hurricane Raymond impacts western Mexico
Low pressure System 96E developed quickly over the weekend of October 19 and 20 and by October 21 had grown into Hurricane Raymond. Hurricane Raymond, now a major Category 3 storm, continues to intensify in Eastern Pacific waters, just off the southwest coast of Mexico. Huricane-force winds and storm surge accompanied by large and destructive waves is expected to produce significant coastal flooding.
California Earthquake Today 2013 Strikes Mammoth
A California earthquake today 2013 has struck Mammoth. A moderate California earthquake today October 11, 2013 has hit Mammoth, near Clovis in the morning hours. No injuries have yet to be reported by local news. Officials tell news that a 3.4 magnitude California earthquake today 2013 began just after 2:37 am PST. The quake however had virtually no depth. USGS indicates to news that the quake struck near the earth’s surface only five miles deep.
M 5.1 - EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
mb 5.1 Region EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN Date time 2013-07-10 05:22:14.0 UTC Location 39.67 N ; 141.62 E Depth 79 km
Israel's cabinet has thrown its weight behind a bill requiring a large Knesset majority to approve a new division of Jerusalem, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to the motion, arguing that it will hinder peace efforts.
The bill would require the approval of at least 80 Knesset members (two-thirds of the 120-member parliamentary body) to even start negotiations leading to the division or relinquishing of even a small part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation backed the bill in a vote of 5-4 on Sunday.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said the vote was yet another reminder that "we won't divide Jerusalem or negotiate the eternal capital of the Jewish people."
Bennett said he expects Netanyahu to bring the bill before the Knesset for an official vote in the very near future.
But Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, whom Netanyahu appointed to oversee negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, is doing her best to squash the bill before it ever reaches the Knesset floor.
"Members of the coalition are ruining the ability of Israel to make diplomatic decisions," complained Livni.
Insisting that her demand to be able to negotiate away parts of the holy city stem from a position of caring, Livni continued, "Do they want the government to defend our interests, including Jerusalem, or do they want to lead us all to chaos? No one can teach us about Jerusalem and no one loves Jerusalem more than us."
Netanyahu is expected to support Livni's appeal aimed at freezing the bill.
Opposition MK Yaakov Litzman of the religious United Torah Judaism party sponsored the bill. In remarks to Yediot Ahronot, he called it a means to hold Netanyahu to his campaign promise never to divide the city.
"Netanyahu promised more than once not to negotiate on Jerusalem," Litzman said. "The message of the bill is clear: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and is outside of any negotiations."
Polish Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa on Monday called for a new “secular Ten Commandments” to underpin universal values, addressing a summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Warsaw.
“We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow,” he said in an opening speech kicking off the three-day summit.
Walesa won the Nobel 30 years ago for leading Poland’s Solidarity trade union, which negotiated a peaceful end to communism in Poland in 1989.
Besides universal values, the international community needs to focus on the economy of tomorrow, he said.
Editors Note....This is a further step in laying the foundation of the world-wide harlot church.
Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, told CNBC on Monday that investors are asking the wrong question about when the Federal Reserve will taper its massive bond-buying program. They should be asking when the central bank will be increasing it, he argued.
“The question is not tapering. The question is at what point will they increase the asset purchases to say $150 [billion] , $200 [billion], a trillion dollars a month,” Faber said in a “ Squawk Box ” interview.
The Fed-which is currently buying $85 billion worth of bonds every month-will hold its October meeting next week to deliberate the future of its asset purchases known as quantitative easing .
Faber has been predicting so-called “QE infinity” because “every government program that is introduced under urgency and as a temporary measure is always permanent.” He also said, “The Fed has boxed itself into a position where there is no exit strategy.”