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Propaganda: Lithuania publishes survival manual in case of Russian attack

Andrius Sytas
Reuters
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:43 UTC

Lithuania is publishing a manual to advise its citizens on how to survive a war on its soil as concerns grow that Russia's intervention in Ukraine heralds increased assertiveness in its tiny Baltic neighbors.

"Keep a sound mind, don't panic and don't lose clear thinking," the manual explains. "Gunshots just outside your window are not the end of the world."

The manual, which the Defence Ministry will send to libraries next week and also distribute at army events, says Lithuanians should resist foreign occupation with demonstrations and strikes, "or at least doing your job worse than usual".

In the event of invasion, the manual says Lithuanians should organize themselves through Twitter and Facebook and attempt cyber attacks against the enemy.

UN to Israel: Give the Palestinians their money!

RT
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:18 UTC

© AFP Photo / Mohamed El-Shahed
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C-L) sits next to Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah during an Arab foreign ministers urgent meeting at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2015 to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the situation in Libya.

The United Nations has called on Israel to resume the transfer of tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority, which it withheld in retaliation following Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is concerned that the Israelis and Palestinians are locked into a tit-for-tat exchange of actions and counter actions which are making existing divisions worse and peace impossible to achieve, according to a senior UN official.

Comment: How can Israelis uphold the farce that their government wants 'peace' when that same government engages in such juvenile and malicious actions, obviously forestalling a peace the world should have seen decades ago? The only reason to punish Palestine for wishing to join the ICC is if Israel risks facing legitimate prosecution for actual crimes. As the "only democracy in the Middle East", they should welcome the chance to prove it in a court of law. Does the lady protest too much?

Belgian counter-terrorism raid leaves two dead

Alastair MacDonald and Barbara Lewis
Reuters
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:08 UTC

Comment: Expect more of these operations in Europe in the next few weeks and months. In most cases, these kinds of operations are centered on going after groups whom the authorities were already well aware of. The reason for the raids is to appease the public that "something is being done" in the wake of the Paris attacks and to keep people afraid and willing to accept draconian surveillance laws.

At least two people were killed when Belgian counter-terrorist police raided an apartment used by suspected Islamist radicals on Thursday, local media said, describing a coordinated, national operation related to last week's attacks in Paris.

Judiciary officials confirmed only that a counter-terrorism operation took place near the centre of Verviers, a town in the east of the country between the city of Liege and the German border. They plan a news briefing at 8 p.m. (2.00 p.m. EST).

Public radio RTBF, which reported a number of other police actions in and around Brussels, said there were no casualties among the security forces. Two unidentified people were killed and a third seriously wounded. Several others were detained.

Earlier, prosecutors said they had detained a man in Belgium whom they suspected of supplying weaponry to Amedy Coulibaly, killer of four people at a Paris Jewish grocery last week.

In a report that could not be immediately confirmed, the Web site of La Meuse newspaper quoted an unidentified police officer saying: "We've averted a Belgian Charlie Hebdo."

Comment: That's always a nice claim to make, it makes for a good quote in the papers. It's quite convenient for the authorities to say that after they've completed their raids and without anything actually happening that would prove that to be true. It seems more than anything that this was done to keep the fear of the public high that there are still "Muslim radicals" operating in Europe so as to keep justifying the encroaching surveillance and security laws that are being touted around the EU as the way to solve the "terrorist problem".

France arrests 54 people for exercising free speech just days after free speech rally

Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:19 UTC

© (Photo: Alexandre Hervaud/cc/flickr)
Anti-Elite and anti-Zionist Dieudonné, arrested Wednesday morning for a Facebook post.

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre last week and just days since the historic Paris unity rally when world leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder and declared their support for freedom of speech, French authorities have arrested 54 people on charges of "glorifying" or "defending" terrorism.

The French Justice Ministry said that of those arrested, four are minors and several had already been convicted under special measures for immediate sentencing, AP reports. Individuals charged with "inciting terrorism" face a possible 5-year prison term, or up to 7 years for inciting terrorism online. None of those arrested have been linked to the attacks.

Comment: One would think that this level of hypocrisy is enough to make even the most ardent authoritarian follower wake up. However, history shows it not to be the case.

We can only hope that at such a late stage in the game, the insane machinations of the Western elite have become transparent enough for the average person to figure it out, if they choose to do so. We should not give up on spreading the light of truth in any way we can (without being locked up). And be sure to check out Sebastian Haffner's excellent book, Defying Hitler.

The missing comparisons between the Paris shootings and the Boston bombings

Russ Baker
Global Research
Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:19 UTC

Yesterday, in response to the horrific events in Paris, a columnist for the Boston Globe, Kevin Cullen, wrote a column drawing a parallel between that monstrous attack and the different but no less abominable violence unleashed in his own city on April 15, 2013.

By now, many of us have seen the chilling video in which a gunman executes a wounded French police officer lying on the sidewalk, his arms raised in helpless surrender.

The Tsarnaev brothers stand accused of doing essentially the same, sneaking up and shooting a helpless MIT police officer named Sean Collier as he sat in his idling cruiser on the Cambridge campus as the manhunt for the Tsarnaevs gathered pace. The killers wanted Collier's gun but were too stupid to figure out how to unbuckle his holster.

He's right about the parallel, but not necessarily about the lessons to be drawn. While there's little doubt that the French suspects committed the multiple murders in Paris, the same cannot be said at this time about the Tsarnaevs and the killing of Sean Collier. There are real questions about both the identity of the MIT executioners and the purpose of their act. Among the questions: why would the Tsarnaevs have been on that empty campus and have known that a police car was parked between buildings off the street? We've examined those issues at great length here.

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The Globe columnist is perhaps also wrong in his conclusions. Referring to the publication, Charlie Hebdo, whose ranks were decimated in the Paris attack, he writes:

Nous sommes tous Charlie [We are all Charlie]. That is a major, major problem for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And there is no change of venue for that.

The really striking similarity, beyond the theme of radical Islam, is this: in both cases, the security state knew the perpetrators well. In Boston, the FBI was in direct contact with and monitoring alleged senior perpetrator Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Comment: In both cases, the glaring evidence of some kind of intelligence involvement is the biggest link. Governments have long used false flag attacks to justify actions which otherwise would have been untenable due to negative public opinion. For both these events, the U.S. and France have used them to further destroy civil liberties and increase surveillance on the public.

Victims of terror in Africa mostly ignored, while media rages over attacks in Europe

Neil Clark
RT
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:24 UTC

Are African lives worth less than the lives of people elsewhere in the world?

Last week 17 people were killed by terrorists in France. The events were shocking and quite rightly the murders were subject to unequivocal condemnation. At the same time, considerably more people were reported to have been killed by gunmen in Baga, Nigeria, with figures ranging from 150 to over 2,000. But it's the French victims who we focus on, showing our solidarity with them by declaring 'Je suis Charlie', and holding vigils in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere- while the African victims of violence have - certainly until the last day or so - been ignored. Even Nigeria's own President was keener to condemn the Paris attacks than those in his own country. How can this be right? Surely we should be mourning all victims equally?

For a brief period it was fashionable to show concern for the victims of political extremism in Africa. Remember the 'BringBackOurGirls' hash tag when the militant Islamist organization Boko Haram kidnapped schoolgirls in Chibok in Nigeria in 2014? The interest however soon died away.

As the media spotlight was shone elsewhere, Boko Haram continued to make major territorial gains killing thousands in the process. Today, as reported by RT, the group now controls an area of 52,000 square kilometers, the size of Slovakia.

Comment: Nigeria is resource-rich with the largest population and workforce in Africa, but is a poor nation divided along sectarian tribal and religious lines, ruled by a corrupt super-class in collusion with oil giants like BP, Shell, Chevron and others. If Nigeria remains divided, then there will almost certainly be no challenge to Britain, US and the Netherlands oil conquest of the country. To keep it divided, trouble needs to be stirred periodically. See: Boko Haram: U.S AFRICOM'S latest False Flag franchise and Boko Haram: A CIA Covert Operation

But while Islamic State and their territorial advances became front page news in 2014, the gains made by Boko Haram have, like the group's victims, been ignored. Instead the focus is on the very small 'threat' terrorists pose to Europe, a threat which as I explained here our governments are doing their best to 'big up'.

Comment: Western military involvement in Africa is designed to secure western imperialist dominance over their resources. Western countries create the conditions for the deterioration of the societies involved, and use false propaganda about humanitarian assistance, to provide a rationale for military occupation. The media will thus only broadcast terror attacks in Africa when it suits the agenda of the PTB.

U.S. military intervention in Africa: The East African Response Force, a creation of the Pentagon

Sudan: US policies in Middle East and North Africa are "harmful and destructive"

France's arrest of Dieudonné shows the sham of its free speech celebrations

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:34 UTC

Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of "defending terrorism." The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in France on what he called an "anti-Zionist" platform, has had his show banned by numerous government officials in cities throughout France, and has been criminally prosecuted several times before for expressing ideas banned in that country.

The apparently criminal viewpoint he posted on Facebook declared: "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly." Investigators concluded that this was intended to mock the "Je Suis Charlie" slogan and express support for the perpetrator of the Paris supermarket killings (whose last name was "Coulibaly"). Expressing that opinion is evidently a crime in the Republic of Liberté, which prides itself on a line of 20th Century intellectuals - from Sartre and Genet to Foucault and Derrida - whose hallmark was leaving no orthodoxy or convention unmolested, no matter how sacred.

Since that glorious "free speech" march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for "condoning terrorism." AP reported this morning that "France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism."

As pernicious as this arrest and related "crackdown" on some speech obviously is, it provides a critical value: namely, it underscores the utter scam that was this week's celebration of free speech in the west. The day before the Charlie Hebdo attack, I coincidentally documented the multiple cases in the west - including in the U.S. - where Muslims have been prosecuted and even imprisoned for their political speech. Vanishingly few of this week's bold free expression mavens have ever uttered a peep of protest about any of those cases - either before the Charlie Hebdo attack or since. That's because "free speech," in the hands of many westerners, actually means: it is vital that the ideas I like be protected, and the right to offend groups I dislike be cherished; anything else is fair game.

Comment: The French authorities would like nothing else than to keep the illusion that they care about free speech going while doing everything possible to neuter the ability of others to do exactly that, speak freely. What this is really about is eliminating the right of anyone to be pro-Muslim in any public arena. If no one can do that, there will be no one to speak up for the Muslims. How long will it be before it's legal for the French government to arrest and detain Muslims for no reason whatsoever? Then with no one allowed to speak up, where does it end? First it was the Muslims. Who's next after that? It's a slippery slope, and who knows where it will end.

Free speech? EU ministers push ISPs to censor web after Paris attacks

Liat Clark
Wired.co.uk
Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:00 UTC

Comment: The EU is one of the staunchest and most vocal advocates of free speech on the planet. Right? The following are excerpts from a recent article by Liat Clark of Wired.co.uk.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris, EU ministers have issued a joint statement calling for ISPs to help to report and remove extremist material online.

The statement was signed by interior ministers from 11 European countries -- including the UK's Theresa May -- on 11 January, with French ministers and security representatives from the US, Canada and EU in attendance. It called for tighter internet surveillance and border controls.

French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ready to fight ISIS in Iraq

Julien Ponthus
Reuters
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:45 UTC

© Reuters/Benoit Tessier
France's flagship Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier patrols in the Mediterranean, March 26, 2011.

France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is ready to be used to support military operations against Islamic State in Iraq, French President Francois Hollande told military personnel aboard the vessel on Wednesday.

"Thanks to the Charles de Gaulle we will have precious intelligence," the president said in a New Year's address, given as the carrier cruised off France's southern coast in the Mediterranean.

"We may also conduct operations in Iraq, if necessary, with even more intensity and more efficiency. The aircraft carrier will work in close cooperation with coalition forces."

France was the first country to join the U.S.-led coalition in air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State insurgents, who have also taken control of large parts of neighboring Syria during the course of the civil war there. However, it has ruled out striking the group in Syria.

Comment: Look at how the Daily Mail reports on this: French to deploy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Middle East in response to Paris terror attacks. This was not in response to the attacks. It was reported the day before. Which in itself is rather interesting.

U.S. using NGOs to destabilize Central Asia

Vladimir Odintsov
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:18 UTC

The United States and their satellites have been using nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the preparation and implementation of "color revolutions" in North Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet countries extensively, which has made numerous headlines across international media. The consequences of such "democratic activity" carried out by Washington can be clearly seen in Libya, Iraq, Ukraine, and in several other countries, where this strategy has led to the creation of uncontrolled chaos.

The tactics of Washington's NGOs can be summed out by a famous quote of retired US Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters: "Hollywood is "preparing the battlefield," and burgers precede bullets. The flag follows trade."

As a rule, the target of these "cover activities" carried out by NGOs is the struggle for energy markets, or the fight against political opponents, among which the White House highlights Russia, China and Iran. This much explains the latest developments in Hong Kong. Washington has effectively created a network of NGOs there that promote American interests under the pretext of promoting "democracy", which operate by using social networks for spreading their agenda. This same pattern has been duplicated numerous times across the globe to attempt regime change in countries that the White House perceives as a threat to US dominance.

Comment: What's ridiculous is that overthrowing sovereign governments is about the most undemocratic thing a country can do, yet the U.S. goes around touting itself as the most free country in the world, all the while operating covertly as a mendacious, fascist empire that crushes any real democratic movements around the world.

To sponsor these activities Washington has been allocating billions of dollars annually through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - the organization responsible for countless coups around the world along with the CIA, on par with numerous private foundations. It's no coincidence then that in Russia alone there were a total of 650 foreign NGOs back in 2012, that were receiving up to one billion dollars a year, with 20 million handed out by Western diplomatic missions directly.

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Propaganda: Lithuania publishes survival manual in case of Russian attack

UN to Israel: Give the Palestinians their money!

Belgian counter-terrorism raid leaves two dead

France arrests 54 people for exercising free speech just days after free speech rally

The missing comparisons between the Paris shootings and the Boston bombings

Victims of terror in Africa mostly ignored, while media rages over attacks in Europe

France's arrest of Dieudonné shows the sham of its free speech celebrations

Free speech? EU ministers push ISPs to censor web after Paris attacks

French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ready to fight ISIS in Iraq

U.S. using NGOs to destabilize Central Asia

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