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Washington's Al Qaeda ally now heading ISIS in Libya

Eric Draitser
NEO
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
Belhadj
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Abdelhakim Belhadj
The revelations that US ally Abdelhakim Belhadj is now leading ISIS in Libya should come as no surprise to those who have followed US policy in that country, and throughout the region. It illustrates for the umpteenth time that Washington has provided aid and comfort to precisely those forces it claims to be fighting around the world.

According to recent reports, Abdelhakim Belhadj has now firmly ensconced himself as the organizational commander of the ISIS presence inside Libya. The information comes from an unnamed US intelligence official who has confirmed that Belhadj is supporting and coordinating the efforts of the ISIS training centers in eastern Libya around the city of Derna, an area long known as a hotbed of jihadi militancy.

While it may not seem to be a major story - Al Qaeda terrorist turns ISIS commander - the reality is that since 2011 the US and its NATO allies have held up Belhadj as a "freedom fighter." They portrayed him as a man who courageously led his fellow freedom-lovers against the "tyrannical despot" Gaddafi whose security forces at one time captured and imprisoned many members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), including Belhadj.

Comment: The presence of the Islamic State now in Libya represents the next phase in the war on terror. Belhadj's join-up with IS is a coup for Islamic State in that he has sway with Libya jihadist forces that may follow his lead, numbering about 3,000 fighters. The IS goal of caliphate requires the incorporation of pre-established jihadist groups to take additional territory in order to expand their religious and "legal" authority, and thereby attract additional recruits. Like shifting sands, "who's the enemy" becomes more difficult to answer every day. ISIS and Al Qaeda have always been state-sponsored proxy armies for state-sponsored terror. From whom does Belhadj take orders? To whom is he a hero? Connect the dots.

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Heart - Black

Johnson & Johnson to plead guilty for knowingly selling tainted children drugs


RT
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:56 UTC
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© Reuters / Brian Snyder
The maker of Children's Tylenol agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge of knowingly selling adulterated bottles of its painkillers for children and infants. The drugs were recalled in 2010 because they contained metal particles.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare ‒ which makes Infants' and Children's Tylenol and Children's Motrin ‒ agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the case, the Associated Press reported, citing court documents. The deal came at a plea hearing Tuesday afternoon.

"The proposed criminal resolution is sufficient to punish McNeil for its past failures and to deter McNeil from violating" federal law in the future, prosecutors wrote in a memo to the judge overseeing the case.


Comment: This is only a slap on the wrist. People need to be sent to jail as a real deterrence.


Comment: Johnson & Johnson has a poor track record with quality control:

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Eye 1

Scotland Yard chief proposes CCTV in every home -- all in the name of safety, of course

SM Gibson
The Anti Media
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:14 UTC
cameron
© unknown
The citizens of the United Kingdom are possibly the most surveilled group of people in the history of the world. Forget the NSA's ever-expanding reach over every form of communication imaginable. We're talking cameras... everywhere. The City of London is equipped with thousands of them, so is Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and well, like I said before, pretty much everywhere. In a nation of 64 million residents, there is one CCTV camera for every 11 people in the UK.

The British Security Industry Authority (BSIA) estimates there are up to 5.9 million closed-circuit television cameras scattered throughout the UK, including 750,000 in "sensitive locations" such as schools, hospitals and care homes. This statistic was released in 2013 as well. Do you think they decided to halt the expansion of their Orwellian state at any point over the past two years? The safe bet is that these numbers have grown exponentially.

The truly remarkable and almost unfathomable piece of information regarding CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom is that no one really knows how many there are.

Comment: This isn't about safety. It's about control and Pandora cannot be shoved back into the box. The surveillance states knows no bounds.

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Vader

The Empire's minions: Evidence for the relationship between Washington and ISIS

Prof. Tim Anderson
Global Research
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:00 UTC
US Isis proxy
Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a 'double game' with its proxy armies in Syria, but some key myths remain important amongst the significantly more ignorant western audiences.

A central myth is that Washington now arms 'moderate Syrian rebels', to both overthrow the Syrian Government and supposedly defeat the 'extremist rebels'. This claim became more important in 2014, when the rationale of US aggression against Syria shifted from 'humanitarian intervention' to a renewal of Bush's 'war on terror'.

A distinct controversy is whether the al Qaeda styled groups (especially Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS) have been generated as a sort of organic reaction to the repeated US interventions, or whether they are actually paid agents of Washington.

Certainly, prominent ISIS leaders were held in US prisons. ISIS leader, Ibrahim al-Badri (aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) is said to have been held for between one and two years at Camp Bucca in Iraq. In 2006, as al-Baghdadi and others were released, the Bush administration announced its plan for a 'New Middle East', a plan which would employ sectarian violence as part of a process of 'creative destruction' in the region.

According to Seymour Hersh's 2007 article, 'The Redirection', the US would make use of 'moderate Sunni states', not least the Saudis, to 'contain' the Shia gains in Iraq brought about by the 2003 US invasion. These 'moderate Sunni' forces would carry out clandestine operations to weaken Iran and Hezbollah, key enemies of Israel. This brought the Saudis and Israel closer, as both fear Iran.

Comment: The more outrageous and blatant the US manoeuvrings becomes, the more the world is waking up to it. A decade ago, an alliance between Iran and Iraq would have been unthinkable. Russia is also becoming quietly more influential in the area too. It knows too well how the virus of terrorism can spread.

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Moscow-US embassy leaks reveal possible motive for Nemtsov killing


Fort Russ
Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:30 UTC
putin kadyrov
WikiLeaks published secret telegrams of U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle. The American ambassador reported to Washington about his meeting with the Russian "dissidents", about the requests from non-systemic opposition and that an emergency situation is required in order to "overthrow Putin".

Secret telegrams to Washington

It is not a secret that Russian "dissidents" meet regularly with American politicians. Those particularly close, such as Boris Nemtsov, are called directly to Washington, others, less significant, are invited to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle reports on each such meetings in secret cables. However, in the era of WikiLeaks it is difficult to maintain secrecy. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published excerpts from these cables.

Cable "MOSCOW 000304" talks about the meeting of the Director of the Department for Russia at the National Security Council (NSC) of USA Michael McFaul with Russian human rights activists, which took place on January 14, 2010.

Comment: See also: The official story of Nemtsov's murder: The Muslim trail

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Apple Red

A CIA campaign to steal Apple's secrets

Jeremy Scahill, Josh Begley
The Intercept
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 03:35 UTC
apple
© www.telegraph.co.uk
Ahead of the encryption game...so far.
Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.

The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the "Jamboree," where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a decade, with the first CIA-sponsored meeting taking place a year before the first iPhone was released.

By targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple's devices, the researchers have sought to thwart the company's attempts to provide mobile security to hundreds of millions of Apple customers across the globe. Studying both "physical" and "non-invasive" techniques, U.S. government-sponsored research has been aimed at discovering ways to decrypt and ultimately penetrate Apple's encrypted firmware. This could enable spies to plant malicious code on Apple devices and seek out potential vulnerabilities in other parts of the iPhone and iPad currently masked by encryption.

Comment: It is obvious the PTB will lie, cheat and steal to extract every bit of information on every person on the planet. How long can tech companies, such as Apple, remain ellusive and singularly loyal to their customers? Only as long as they are ahead of the game. Buyer beware. Laws will change and not to your benefit.

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Zionism's boot on the neck of the United States

James Petras
My Catbird Seat
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:10 UTC
Netanyahu
© newsfortherevolution.com
There have been times when history has played tricks with man and...has magnified the features of essentially small persons into a parody of greatness. -- Rabindranath Tagore(on Benito Mussolini)

Introduction

How is it that the ruler (Benjamin Netanyahu) of a puny country (Israel) of 8.2 million (6.2 million Jews) with the 37th biggest economy (GDP in current prices) in the world dictates war policy and secures the willing submission of the legislature of the largest economy and most powerful military empire in the world?

What significance does Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress have, beyond the fact that he uses it as a platform to attack the elected President of the US, to denounce US peace negotiations and to demand that Congress adopt policies designed to precipitate a war with Iran?
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Eye 2

How Thatcher's Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring

Nico Hines
The Daily Beast
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:46 UTC
thatcher and pedophile
© The Daily Beast
Now that most of the major figures are dead, the truth is emerging about the systematic sexual abuse of children by members of the British government.
LONDON — A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain's top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to explain how shocking allegations of rape and murder against some of the country's most powerful men went unchecked for decades.

Less than 24 hours after starting to inquire about the dossier presented to him by a senior Labour Party politician, the editor was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents. "He was frothing at the mouth and really shouting and spitting in my face," Don Hale told The Daily Beast. "He was straight at me like a raging lion; he was ready to knock me through the wall."

Despite the MP's explosive intervention, Hale refused to hand over the papers which appeared to show that Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, was fully aware of a pedophile network that included top politicians.

The editor's resistance was futile; the following morning, police officers from the counter-terror and intelligence unit known as Special Branch burst into the newspaper office, seized the material and threatened to have Hale arrested if he ever reported what had been found.

Comment: For further reading into how rotten the core of the British establishment is

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SOTT Exclusive: Whatever happened to our independence? The re-assimilation of India into the Western Empire

Sushant Taing
Sott.net
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:17 UTC
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Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (right) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, shown here meeting in 1956, are considered to be among the founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement.
I look around my country today and see that India has become a very 'wannabe white' (i.e. Anglo-American) society. I guess we can blame that on our history as a British colony. Still, we won independence and then, for a while, ours was an anti-imperialist country, headed by the likes of Nehru, who refused to acknowledge Israel and founded - along with Sukarno, Tito, Nasser and Nkrumah - the anti-imperialist Non-Aligned Movement that represented a united 'Global South'.

Sadly, things changed after the assassination of our Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1984 (whom Nixon and Kissinger really hated). Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, became our next PM, riding on a wave of sympathy following his mother's assassination. He was married to Antonia Maino, better known as Sonia Gandhi, daughter of an Italian Nazi, and alleged by many to be a CIA agent sent to infiltrate the Gandhi family.

Rajiv Gandhi began cosying up to Ronald Reagan and improving Indo-U.S. relations. In December 1984, one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the Bhopal Gas Leak, happened. According to many estimates, it went on to kill over 15,000 people while injuring another 50,000. Many thousands more (including those born much later to the victims) have been suffering from various diseases and disabilities.
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Star of David

Jewish leader warns if Jews leave Europe, it will face 'economic disaster'


RT
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:02 UTC
President of the European Jewish Council Moshe Kantor
© Reuters/Kacper Pempel
President of the European Jewish Council Moshe Kantor.
European leaders should be quick in adopting real measures to counter anti-Semitism or witness Jews leave, taking away their money and businesses, says the President of the European Jewish Congress (ECJ).

The rise of xenophobia and anti-Semitism in Europe has led to many Jewish families pondering escape, ECJ's Russian-born president Moshe Kantor said.

"This minority is going in case authorities are not delivering some real, real stuff," Kantor told Reuters. "This minority is going to leave Europe, definitely because this question just now in every Jewish family in Europe: to leave or to stay."

Comment: Getting ready for some end game action?

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