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Today is going to be a two post day, so stay tuned....
First this video.
Throngs of ordinary Syrians greet Sergei Lavrov as his car moved through Damascus. Still believe most Syrians aren't positively thrilled about the Russian and Chinese VETO at the UN.
The fact they have avoided, at this time, being bombed to smithereens by NATO has got to make them ecstatic
First this video.
Throngs of ordinary Syrians greet Sergei Lavrov as his car moved through Damascus. Still believe most Syrians aren't positively thrilled about the Russian and Chinese VETO at the UN.
The fact they have avoided, at this time, being bombed to smithereens by NATO has got to make them ecstatic
Aiyirah al-Sabah, daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, cried before a Congressional committee in the run-up to the First Gulf War, telling Senators about Saddam Hussein's troops taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on hospital floors. It was a lie. But hey, it worked the first time; why not repeat the propaganda technique again and again until it stops working?
We're back to Syria. The veto stopped NATO nations from gaining legitimacy, so they continue on with their illegitimate tactics.
I promise at some point in time there will be other topics here. Honest!
But for now.... it is, what it is.
You may have seen two interesting news stories yesterday. They're both as bogus as a "wooden nickel" or a three dollar bill.
First one: "Premature babies in incubators in Homs"
How many incubator stories do you have to hear or read before you "get it"?
How many incubator stories does the media have to give you before you "awaken" to the lies?
During the uprising in Egypt there was an incubator baby story (I covered that one somewhere on this blog). Were their incubator babies in Libya? Or was it just the Viagra tale?
Of course the most infamous was Iraq and the Kuwaiti princess and that version of the incubator story. I am hoping everyone is familiar with that one?
If not, read When contemplating war beware of babies& incubators
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Above is one photo from the group of photos I could barely look at the rest
Above is one photo from the group of photos I could barely look at the rest
Associated Press: Blasts hit security headquarters in Syrian city that has stood by Assad.
Another headline: Two blasts kill at least 25 in Assad stronghold of Aleppo, Syria
Those headlines sum up nicely exactly why Aleppo was struck in such a deadly fashion.
If you caught my post from yesterday, you would have known that the inhabitants of Aleppo came out in a big way to cheer the Russian Foreign Ministers visit, the veto at the UN and to support their leadership.
To Syria's NATO backed terrorists, this would have been an outrage! How dare they want to remain unscathed by terror. How dare they not want to be bombed to smithereens. The NATO backed terrorists are armed to the teeth and they mean business. Deadly business.
Supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad attend a huge rally in central Damascus on February 5, 2012.
The sources said aspects of the plan such as rejecting calls by Damascus for an Arab League meeting over the crisis in the country, recognizing of the Syrian opposition as the "legitimate" government of the country and granting them offices in Turkey to work against the Syrian government, have already been carried out.
As part of the plan, Syrian embassies and consulates would be attacked in several countries and the diplomatic offices would be used as bases to inflict heavy blows on the Syrian government.
(Preface: Roubini says that attacking Iran would lead to global recession. The IMF says that Iran cutting off oil supplies could raise crude prices 30%. War with Iran would kill the American economy. and see this and this).
So yes, this is a newsworthy economic and financial story.
The Americans and Israelis Beat the War Drums ... But the People Want Peace
While the same neoconservatives who pushed the Iraq war are now loudly beating the drums of war against Iran, neither the American or Israeli people want war.
A new United Technologies/National Journal "Congressional Connection Poll," finds that only 13% Americans think the U.S. should "take covert action against Iran such as sabotage and assassination of scientists working on their nuclear program".
So yes, this is a newsworthy economic and financial story.
The Americans and Israelis Beat the War Drums ... But the People Want Peace
While the same neoconservatives who pushed the Iraq war are now loudly beating the drums of war against Iran, neither the American or Israeli people want war.
A new United Technologies/National Journal "Congressional Connection Poll," finds that only 13% Americans think the U.S. should "take covert action against Iran such as sabotage and assassination of scientists working on their nuclear program".
The National Defense Authorization Act took affect less than a month ago and already the US government is making use of the controversial law. Musa'b al-Madhwani is the first Guantanamo Bay prison to feel the effects of the new law that President Obama at one point vowed to veto. The NDAA allows for the indefinite detention and torture of American citizens at home and abroad without a trial and also gives more power to the military and government. David Swanson, campaigner for Roots Action, joins us for more.
Barack Obama says the drone attacks he authorises are targeted only at named people on a list of active terrorists who are a direct threat to America. The facts tell a different story.
Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty. Behind it all is a network of interlinked private financial interests which is using banking instruments to terrorise whole populations into submission.
The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce to American law.
One of those changes were amendments to a little-known and little-used FBI instrument called National Security Letters.
Find out more about how the US government keeps its opposition silent with these constitution-destroying investigative tools on this week's edition of The Eyeopener.
One of those changes were amendments to a little-known and little-used FBI instrument called National Security Letters.
Find out more about how the US government keeps its opposition silent with these constitution-destroying investigative tools on this week's edition of The Eyeopener.
Comment: Perhaps realising that publishing this story this would work against their propaganda efforts ahead of carpet-bombing Syria, France 24 cut short their report at the opening line and the Syrian
rebelsarmybranch of al-CIA-duh have since recanted.