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US President Barack Obama condemned Republican presidential candidate and fascist demagogue Donald Trump as "wacky" and "uninformed" after last night's shameful "Commander-in-Chief Forum" on one of the corporate media networks.  Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a great leader while bad-mouthing the US military and its commanders.  "I don't think the guy's qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed," Mr. Obama told reporters covering the ASEAN summit in Laos.  The President's former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also took questions from reporters in the US, charging Trump with having "trash-talked" the "distinguished men and women who've spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us".  

Privately, executives at the US network NBC are admitting that their "Commander-in-Chief" forum was a disaster for their credibility and that of the presenter Matt Lauer.  Critics have savaged Mr. Lauer for wasting almost half of Hillary Clinton's question time with asked-and-answered questions about the alleged misuse of her email server, while throwing softballs to Donald Trump.  Lauer failed to ask follow-up questions after Trump lied about his support of the Iraq war and US military intervention in Libya, and after Trump suggested that American wars should be fought for plunder.  At a forum on military prowness, Lauer failed to asked Trump about his medical deferments that kept him from being drafted during the Vietnam War, his criticism of Vietnam War POW Senator John McCain, or his recent fight with the family of a US Service member who died in the Iraq War.

In a Presidential election year that might see the highest numbers for so-called third party candidates, the pickings there are almost as embarrassing as the Republican standard-bearer.  Given a national TV audience on an influential political morning show, Libertarian Gary Johnson - a former Republican - was asked about the Syrian Civil War and what he would do about the humanitarian crisis in the northern city of Aleppo, if elected president.  Johnson's reply:  "What's Aleppo?"  Seriously, he said that.  The incredulous reporter asked, "You're kidding me?" and proceeded to explain the situation.

Meanwhile, Green Party perennial candidate Jill Stein - who pops up every four years to run for president but doesn't spend a lick of time building a campaign apparatus or voter base in between - has an arrest warrant out for he on charges of vandalism and criminal trespassing.  This is after she tweeted a photo of herself spray painting a bulldozer used by construction crews on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which environmentalists and an unprecedented Native American coalition of activists oppose.  Admirable, sure, but Presidential?  That's not what the chief executive of the most-powerful nation on earth does.  It should be noted that the judge didn't issue any warrants for the oil company or operators who used those 'dozers to plow over a Sioux burial ground in apparent retaliation for the activists trying to stop their pipeline.

Moving along from stupid America...

Japan's highest court has dismissed the last appeals of the 13 cult members responsible for the 1995 Sarin Gas attacks in the Tokyo Subway.  Members of Aum Shinrikyo, now called Aleph, and their leader Shoko Asahara believed they would usher in the end of the world by committing mass murder.  The homemade chemical weapon killed twelve people and left 50 more with lasting injuries to their lungs and nervous systems.  The ruling clears the way to execute Asahara and the others.

An Indian court sentenced a man to death for murdering a woman in an acid attack.  Ankur Panwar was found guilty of hurling sulfuric acid on 24-year-old Preeti Rathi at a rail station in 2013.  Rathi died in hospital weeks later.  Activists hope the tough sentence will deter further acid attacks.

Turkey sacked another 11,500 teachers over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).  This is going on alongside similar dismissals targeting people with alleged links to the failed coup in July, or the person blamed for it by President Recep Tayyip Edogan, US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.  That makes it around 100,000 civil servants fired since the coup in a vast house-cleaning aimed at crushing dissent against Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse).

Paris cops arrested three more "radicalized, fanaticized" women after a violent standoff, in connection with a car loaded with gas cylinders found near Notre Dame Cathedral.  The French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve claims they were likely planning an "imminent" terrorist attack.  One of the suspects allegedly stabbed a cop before being shot and arrested.

1960s Ska Music pioneer Prince Buster has died in his adopted home of Miami at age 78.  He was a leader of the Ska music wave in Jamaica, and a major influence on the first Ska revival in the UK in the late 1970s and '80s.  The group Madness took their name from one of his songs, and they had a major hit with a cover of Prince Buster's "One Step Beyond".  Prince Buster's "Al Capone" was the basis of The Specials "Gangsters" a decade later.