Not Ready For Prime Time -- The Mideast -- October 4, 2015; "For Those Paying Attention, Mr Obama's Foreign Policy World-View Has Failed -- The London Telegraph

There might be another story coming out of the Mideast. With US-Israel relations at an all-time low, and tea leaves suggesting Obama won't help Israel even if Israel needed help, Israel might be willing to "work under the radar" to do things it would never have thought of doing in the past.

There are two stories that suggest things might be changing.

• First this story linked at Drudge today: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151004/ml--israel-palestinians-0862db682d.html
• Then this story from a couple of days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-israel-golan-heights.html

Building on the Golan Heights would normally result in huge public outcry from the US but President Obama already has his hands full with regard to Syria and no plans for Syria anyway. The Golan Heights is the least of his worries. In addition, with relations at an all-time low between the US and Israel, this can't make things much worse.

The Palestinians may be at their weakest point in years. Their #1 US friend is on the ropes (Hillary Clinton); and their #1 funding source, Saudi Arabia may be tightening the purse strings. In addition, whatever actions Israel takes with regard to Palestine right now, it's going to be overshadowed by Russia in Syria.

In fact, almost everything in the Mideast right now is going to be overshadowed by the Russians.

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Tesla Update

Los Angeles Times headline: Tesla lags behind 2015 sales target despite strong quarter.

Tesla Motors said it delivered a record 11,580 cars to its customers during the third quarter of this year but remains off the pace needed to hit its annual target.

Elon Musk, chief executive of the Palo Alto electric-car maker, told investors it expects to deliver between 50,000 and 55,000 cars this year. Through nine months, it has delivered only 33,117 vehicles.

A giant fourth quarter is unlikely given the automaker's ongoing trouble bringing its second model to market. Though the company announced the first deliveries of the Model X SUV this week with great fanfare, it put only a half dozen of them in the hands of customers.

Tesla won't say when more customers will get the vehicles.

To reach its annual target, Tesla would have to sell its cars during the current quarter at a nearly 50% greater pace than its record third-quarter rate.

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US Peace Prize President Could Be Charged With War Crime

The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders closed its hospital in the Afghan province of Kunduz on Sunday, and charged that a suspected U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people there appeared to have been a war crime. The closure was a blow to the embattled northern province where more than 400 people have been injured in the last week in fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban. The group took control of the provincial capital briefly last week.

The Pentagon said there are three investigations into the airstrike, one by the Defense Department, one involving both the United States and Afghanistan, and one by NATO. Pentagon officials have thus far said only that a U.S. airstrike Saturday morning may have caused collateral damage.

Doctors Without Borders said it would be satisfied only with an investigation by an independent, outside authority.

The aid agency called the bombing, which went on for more than an hour, horrifying and said it had informed U.S. and Afghan officials of the hospital's GPS coordinates before the strike occurred.

I assume President Obama never got the 3:00 a.m. phone call.  Can you spell Benghazi? Long lecture speech on Clock Boy. Long lecture / speech on Oregon shooter. Complete silence on US drone attack on Afghani clinic. To paraphrase President Obama, it seems that every three months or so, we hear another story of the most advanced nation on earth committing an atrocity on a third world country. By the way, it turns out the Oregon shooter had same ethnic background as President Obama: parent #1, white; parent #2, black.