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Israel and Jihadists are coordinating attacks in Syria

Khaled Atallah
Al-Monitor
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:20 UTC
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Alexander Prokhanov: Mossad training ISIS.

Since the start of the Syrian crisis, the Syrian regime has routinely accused Israel of playing a hidden role, from Qusair in the Homs countryside in May 2013 to the emergence and advances of the southern front in September 2014. UN reports published in December appear to vindicate the regime's arguments that Israel is involved with the southern rebels.


Comment: Rebels = terrorist groups unleashed in the region by U.S., Israel and their allies to topple the government in Damascus.


According to a UN report covering the period from March to May 2014, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) detected contact between rebels and the Israeli army across the Golan cease-fire line, particularly during fierce clashes between the Syrian army and the rebels. The report also confirmed that the UN forces spotted rebels transporting 89 wounded across the cease-fire line into the Israeli occupied zone, where they were handed over 19 people who had received medical treatment in addition to two dead. The UN forces also noted that the Israeli army delivered two boxes to rebels on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

Communications increased between rebels and the Israeli army before the eruption of the southern front in Daraa and Quneitra in September, according to Quneitra opposition activist Mohammad Qasim, a pseudonym due to the sensitivity of the subject.

Comment: SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Match made in Sheol: Israel working with terrorists in Syria (says UN), Mossad training ISIS (says Putin aide)
Every day, it becomes more obvious that the U.S. and Israel (not to mention the EU and NATO) are the ideological blood-brothers of terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Nusra. They share the same brutal, cynical, anti-human mentality. They rape, torture, and murder in their struggle for global domination and their psychopathic urge for the ultimate degradation of all human values. And sooner or later, it will become so obvious that only the most die-hard authoritarian follower will buy into the transparent mask of sanity these psychopaths project to the world. Unfortunately, sick bastards like the ones ruling Israel don't give up easily. They're willing to take the world down with them.


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Russian deputy appeals for banning Charlie Hebdo in Russia as extremist weekly


TASS
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:53 UTC
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Vitaly Milonov
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will consider an appeal of St. Petersburg deputy Vitaly Milonov who asked to blacklist the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as extremist literature banned in Russia, Roskomnadzor's press service told TASS on Thursday clarifying that it had not received the letter so far.

"Roskomnadzor has not received any appeals as of yet. It will be considered upon receipt in deadlines established by the law," the source went on to say.

In his letter to Roskomnadzor's Chief Alexander Zhukov, deputy Milonov wrote that the magazine was inciting inter-religious strife.

Roskomnadzor, a federal executive body responsible for overseeing the media, including the electronic media and mass communications, information technology and telecommunications, has discussed a series of preventive measures with representatives of federal and regional media outlets with regards to publication of materials, including religious caricatures, that may lead to inciting religious strife.

Comment: The racist magazine Charlie Hebdo is being used to demonize Muslims, deputy Vitaly Milonov is spot on with his suggestion.

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Vader

The horror of the Paris rally - propaganda and the control of the masses

Arthur Silber
Once Upon a Time
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:30 UTC

Comment: Arthur Silber, author of this excellent essay, has thought deeply on the larger forces behind the Charlie Hebdo marches. His conclusions are disturbing.


To amuse myself for a brief moment -- and perhaps you, too, dear reader, for I assuredly shall do my best not to lose sight of your concerns in what follows -- I might invoke the spirit of Master Dickens, as revealed in his work celebrating the holiday just recently passed. I therefore state:
Any significant intellectual culture, especially any aspect of that always exceedingly fragile enterprise that rises to challenge established authority and its numerous, labyrinthine dictates of shoulds and should nots, what is permitted and what is not, the limits of correct thought and professed belief, and uncountable and often incomprehensible related matters, is dead: to begin with. Any significant intellectual culture is as dead as a door-nail.
Charlie Hebdo
© AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic
People observe a minute of silence in Istanbul on January 8, 2015 for the victims of an attack by armed gunmen on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 which left at least 12 dead and many others injured
I state this proposition in Master Dickens' manner: emphatically.

I do this not only to amuse myself, if only momentarily, but to keep from going mad. As I further consider the Charlie Hebdo spectacle, its significance and implications grow ever more ominous and threatening. I watch this spectacle, and I want to scream: What is wrong with everyone? Don't you understand what is going on here?

A few people do, and I am always deeply grateful to encounter them. But for the most part, everyone -- and here, I speak of everyone in the West, which is where I reside, most unhappily at present, and where you probably read this -- has enthusiastically rallied to the cause of "freedom," and "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech" more specifically. Almost everyone screams: Je suis Charlie!

So many damned liars. Allowing for the extremely rare exception, not one of the throng shouting "Je suis Charlie" is at any kind of risk at all, nor do they ever intend to be, not if they can help it. I see a crowd of millions, every single goddamned person holding aloft a sign emblazoned with big, bold lettering:
I AM ONE OF A KIND!

I AM UNIQUE!!

I AM UNREPEATABLE!!!
The message loses its charm around the fifty-thousandth repetition, roughly speaking. As I noted a few days ago, uniqueness, as well as courage, abhors a mob. We might be so bold as to say that seeking the comfort of the mob vitiates the message.
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War Whore

Documentary: Fascism in Ukraine - Slaughter of ethnic Russian 'scum'

Antinazistas for Donbass
Voxkomm
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:47 UTC
The following documentary show graphic footage of civilian slaughter from shelling in Eastern Ukraine during the summer of 2014. Watch as Kiev's GRADs shell houses, hospitals, and nursing homes in Donetsk and other towns in Eastern Ukraine. Grandmothers and children alike are charred and shredded with shrapnel in the streets. These are the people that Western media would have you believe are 'pro-Russian terrorists'. This video should put to rest any doubts as to the true nature of the conflict.

Warning: Graphic Content
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Heart - Black

Argentina, the country that Monsanto poisoned with agrochemicals

Syddue
Overgrowthesystem.com
Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:00 UTC
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In this March 31, 2013, photo, Camila Veron, 2, born with multiple organ problems and severely disabled, stands outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Doctors told Camila’s mother, Silvia Achaval that agrochemicals may be to blame. It’s nearly impossible to prove that exposure to a specific chemical caused an individual’s cancer or birth defect, but doctors say these cases merit a rigorous government investigation. “They told me that the water made this happen, because they spray a lot of poison here,” said Achaval.
American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world's third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren't confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors and scientists is warning that their uncontrolled use could be responsible for the increasing number of health problems turning up in hospitals across the South American nation. In the heart of Argentina's soybean business, house-to-house surveys of 65,000 people in farming communities found cancer rates two to four times higher than the national average, as well as higher rates of hypothyroidism and chronic respiratory illnesses. Associated Press photographer Natacha Pisarenko spent months documenting the issue in farming communities across Argentina.

Most provinces in Argentina forbid spraying pesticides and other agrochemicals next to homes and schools, with bans ranging in distance from 50 meters to as much as several kilometers from populated areas. The Associated Press found many cases of soybeans planted only a few feet from homes and schools, and of chemicals mixed and loaded onto tractors inside residential neighborhoods. In the last 20 years, agrochemical spraying has increased eightfold in Argentina- from 9 million gallons in 1990 to 84 million gallons today. Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Round Up products, is used roughly eight to ten times more per acre than in the United States. Yet Argentina doesn't apply national standards for farm chemicals, leaving rule-making to the provinces and enforcement to the municipalities. The result is a hodgepodge of widely ignored regulations that leave people dangerously exposed.

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In this March 29, 2013, photo, former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, shows the condition of his emaciated body as he stands inside his home in Basavilbaso, in Entre Rios province, Argentina. Tomasi’s job was to keep the crop dusters flying by quickly filling their tanks but he says he was never trained to handle pesticides. Now he is near death from polyneuropathy.
BASAVILBASO, Argentina (AP) - Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.

Now, at 47, he's a living skeleton, so weak he can hardly swallow or go to the bathroom on his own.

Comment: Like every psychopathic corporation, what counts for Monsanto is making money - regardless of the cost to human lives.

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Red Flag

Germany considers implementing 'Jihadist identity cards'


breitbart.com
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:33 UTC
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Comment: How long will it be before all Muslims are forced to wear an armband with insignia that notifies everyone they are Muslims? And then where do we go from there? Does Europe really wish to repeat history and become like Nazi Germany?


Despite confiscating passports, Germany has found Jihadists have still been able to leave the country to fight and get training abroad by using their Federal identity cards, so the state has proposed to replace them, with specially designed 'Jihadi' cards.

Having an identity document has been compulsory for many Germans since 1938 when the authoritarian Nazi Party introduced papers for adult men and Jews. The identity card programme has since expanded and covers all adult Germans, providing them with a convenient document for quick identification and travel within the European Union open borders area.

Because the cards are valid travel documents, Germany has seen a number of suspected terrorists who have already had their passports revoked easily slip away to Turkey, with whom Germany has a borders agreement. From there, crossing into the Islamic State is relatively easy and can be arranged by any one of a number of smugglers for a small fee.
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Evil Rays

The recharged anti-Muslim campaign and the 'war on terror'

Patrick Martin
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:00 UTC
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If only.
Early Wednesday morning, the new edition of Charlie Hebdo went on sale across France, with the press run ramped up from the usual 60,000 to 5 million. The new issue, with a degrading cartoon of the prophet Muhammad on its cover, is not a monument to "press freedom," as portrayed in media accounts, but rather a state-supported provocation.

Through this publication and its echoes throughout the media, millions of French citizens are being bombarded by an anti-Muslim campaign that was, until recently, the province of the neo-fascist National Front. These sentiments are being deliberately whipped up to provide a base of support for renewed military operations by French imperialism.

The conduct of the "war on terror" is acquiring ever more openly a racist character.

That the campaign is being very carefully coordinated is evident in the fact that the French government paid for the enormously expanded press run, while leading journals of the French bourgeoisie made it possible: Le Monde supplied computers, Libération opened its offices to the surviving Charlie Hebdo staff. Prime Minister Manuel Valls dropped by to show his support.

Comment: Sadly, the Paris Shootings have opened up the floodgates for France's worst and most destructive political, social and militaristic inclinations towards its own - and the world's - Islamic people. They have basically taken the false flag events of recent days and ran with it; much to the approval of the failing Western Empire, and much to the horror of anyone anywhere who can see what this means and where this is all going.

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Former Guantanamo guard: 'CIA killed prisoners, made it look like suicide'


RT
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:00 UTC
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A former Guantanamo Bay prison guard and Marine has spoken to the press for the first time about what he claims were the CIA murders of three problematic detainees, covered up as a triple suicide.

Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was on duty at the notorious prison camp when the three men died, and insists the official version of events is "impossible," he told Vice News.

The three men were Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, 37, from Yemen, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, 30, from Saudi Arabia, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, 22, also from Saudi Arabia. None of them had been charged with any crime.

He explained in an incendiary interview with Vice News that the three men would have had to have committed suicide at exactly the same time in a cellblock where guards check on detainees every four minutes.

"They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose and hung themselves simultaneously," he said.

Comment: Of course the senators don't want those prisoners released because it would shed more light on what is going on at Guantanamo.

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Nuke

Iran to begin construction of two nuclear plants

Adam Kredo
Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:38 UTC
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Hassan Rouhani
Iran has begun construction on two new nuclear plants as negotiations with America over its contested program continue in Geneva, according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Construction of the nuclear plants, which Iran claims are for peaceful energy purposes, was revealed on Tuesday, the day before Secretary of State John Kerry was to meet with his Iranian counterpart for talks in Geneva.

News of the two new nuclear plants come on the heels of reports that Iran has been operating advanced missile sites in Syria and also building a secret nuclear plant there.

Rouhani touted the new nuclear construction following a meeting with investors in Iran's southern Bushehr province, where the nuclear facilities are being built.

"Construction of two new power plants will increase the capacity of Bushehr province's power generation to 2,000 megawatts," Rouhani was quoted as saying by the country's state-run Fars News Agency.

Comment: So what if Iran were to build nuclear sites that were for military purposes? How many nuclear bombs does the U.S. have? How about Israel, the UK, Germany? Why is it ok for those countries to have nuclear weapons but when Iran even mentions building a nuclear plant, it's turned into a narrative about Iran building weapons to destroy the world. Something's not right here.

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Snowflake Cold

Left in the cold: Russia responds to European Commissioner for Energy Union

Aleksei Kettunen
The Vineyard of the Saker
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:27 UTC
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GAZPROM - EU: 6 - 0

Yesterday on Wednesday the EU negotiated with Gazprom in Moscow. The EU negotiators had three aims:
  1. Pressure Russia into extending the special winter pricing on gas supplies to Ukrainian due to end in March,
  2. Force Russia to further unilateral concessions by forcing all European energy purchases to happen through a new "European Energy Union",
  3. Pressure Russia to resurrect the canceled South Stream gas pipeline project and build it in accordance with the restrictive rules of the Third Energy Package.
The Russian response was a cold shower.

Comment: Anyone who understands Russians should have seen this coming. See also:

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