BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 18, 2012
Thursday, 18. October 2012
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“If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you’re likely to win?!” – Michael Badnarik
International Newsworthy
Iranian Oil Companies to File Complaint against EU’s “Illegal” Sanctions
Iran Sanctions ‘Putting Millions of Lives at Risk’
IAEA: “We’re Seeing Activity at Iran Nuclear Facility”
Russia Slams EU for New Round of Iran Sanctions
Iran Denies Strait of Hormuz Oil-Spill Plan
IRGC Holds Military Drill Near Tehran
US Soldiers Arrive in Israel for War Game
Israel-U.S. Ready for “Largest Ever” Bilateral Air Defense Exercise
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45 Afghan Troops Hurt in Car Bomb at NATO-Afghan Paktia Base
Scandal Hits US Afghanistan Contractors
NATO: Afghanistan Drawdown Plans Unchanged
Pakistani Interior Minister: Drone Attacks Kill 80% Innocent People
Balochistan Doctors Observe Strike to Protest Colleagues’ Killing-Kidnapping
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Syrian Rebels Shoot Down Helicopter in Idlib
Syria Blames Foreign Support to Rebels
UN-AL Envoy Calls for Early Ceasefire in Syria
SNC Opposes Role for Assad Officials in Transition
Russia Warns against U.S. Attempts to Support Syrian Opposition
Support For Syria’s Islamists May Come Back to Haunt Turkey * * * *
Kurdistan Alliance Refuses Any Moves of Iraqi Army Units to Kirkuk
Iraq Intends to Deploy Troops in North of Country to Avoid Turkish Army Operations
Maliki Threatens to Return to the Politics of Exclusion
Yemeni Debate over Drones Emerges after Saleh’s Fall
US Drones Kill 7 People in Yemen
Five Arrested at Big Kuwait Anti-Government Rally
Four arrested for insulting Bahraini King on Twitter
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US Singles Out Islamist as a Commander in Consulate Attack
Libyan Militias Shell Former Gadhafi Stronghold Town
Defense Attache: Egypt Bristling Over US Congress’ Rhetoric
Tunisia Journalists Protest Media Grip
One Peacekeeper Killed, 3 Injured by Gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur
Somalia Journalists Protest “Libelous Guardian Article”
Saudi Arabia to Finance Morocco Projects worth $1.25 Billion
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Russia Opens Probe against Opposition Leader
US Missile Defense: ‘global, mobile and threatening’ – Russia
Russia Slashes African Debt and Increases Aid
Putin against Hijab in Schools
Armenian Military Simulates Attack on Azerbaijan’s Oil
NATO Envoy in Tbilisi: Georgia Will Join Military Bloc
Protest Weary Kyrgyz Turn to Parliament
Tajikistan: Potential Energy Boom could be Geopolitical Game-Changer
Turkmenistan Eyes More “White Gold” Production
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UK Foreign Ministry: Scottish Independence ‘Threatens Security’
EU Renews Belarus Sanctions Due to Human Rights Concerns
Colombia & FARC Rebels Meet in Norway
National Newsworthy
The Big Chill: How Obama Is Operating in Unprecedented Secrecy — While Attacking the Secret-Tellers
FBI-NYPD Claim to have Thwarted Planned Bombing of Federal Reserve in NYC
Texas man pleads guilty in plot to assassinate Saudi envoy
9/11 Tribunal to Take on Rat Feces at Guantanamo
White House Review ‘Found No Evidence’ of Huawei Spying for China
AG Holder Demands U.S. Court Allow Fast and Furious Cover-Up
Real Defense Budget
Pennsylvania Governor Benefited from Untraceable $1.5 Million Donation
Citigroup CEO Walks Off With $260 Million after His Bank Loses 88 Percent Of Its Value
U.S. Fixed Mortgage Rates Remain Near or at Record Lows
Welfare Spending Jumps 32% in Four Years
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase sharply to 388,000
Claims for jobless benefits jump
Obama Student Debt Program Helps High-Income Borrowers more than Others
Noteworthy Editorials
Pepe Escobar: Mitt the Binder
Stephen Lendman: American-Style Fascism
Andrew Napolitano: Who’s Responsible for the Mess in Libya?
Washington’s Blog: After 9/11, “Nice Job”: America Creating More Terrorists
The Pentagon’s Palmetto Patsy
What Foreign Policy Debate?
Ms. Clinton Goes to War?
Four Potential October Surprises
Hacked: America’s Next Big War
BFP Nightly Video-Podcast
Video 1: Corbett Report- Humanity is Rising
Video 2: RT-80% of Drone Strike Victims Innocent Civilians
Video 3: UK Police in Violent Forced Eviction: “The New Corporate State”
Video 4: “Why You Don’t Even Know That A Presidential Candidate Was Arrested Last Night”
Podcast 1: BFP Podcast- The Reality Principle with Eric Draitser- Austerity at Home & Abroad
Podcast 2: Corbett Report- David L. Smith on the Race to Debase
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Bill Bergman Says:
Another fun/good/inspirational quote, thanks
Bill Bergman Says:
Well, now that it is Friday night, I’m going to try to anticipate one of the next newsweep links. One that relates to an interview Sibel had in the American Conservative magazine, which included “He also took care of some other people, including his contact at the New York Times. Grossman would brag, “We just fax to our people at the New York Times. They print it under their names.”