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Israel has 80 nukes, can about triple inventory - report


RT.com
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:40 UTC
Dimona
© Reuters
View of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona.
Israel has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons, but according to new report by US experts it has at least 80 operative warheads and has enough material to produce up to 190 more.

In a report published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear weapon proliferation experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen assess that Israel stopped producing nuclear warheads back in 2004 once it reached around 80 munitions.

However, the country can easily double its arsenal since it has enough fissile material to build at least another 115 bombs, experts say.

"There are rumors that Israel is equipping some of its submarines with nuclear-capable cruise missiles," the report says, echoing the 2013 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute yearbook on armament and international security which also suggested Israel could have nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise missiles and reported the same assessment of nuke stockpiles.

The suspicions were fueled by the fact that Germany supplied Israel with five Dolphin-class submarines, allegedly capable of launching nuclear missiles, and signed a contract to build a sixth.
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'Monsanto Protection Act' quietly extended by US Congress

Arjun Walia
collective-evolution.com
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:55 UTC
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The recently dubbed "Monsanto Protection Act" also known as the Agricultural Appropriations Bill received some revisions last Tuesday which extended the budget provision for three months in an approved US House of Representatives spending bill on Tuesday evening.

The 'Monsanto Protection Act' made a lot of noise approximately 6 months ago when we became aware of Barack Obama signing the bill into law, you can read more about that here. The bill was written by the billion-dollar corporation itself, and allows Monsanto to override United States federal courts on the issue of planting experimental genetically modified crops all across the U.S, regardless of any health concerns. They are indeed 'above the law.'

After Obama signed the H.R 933, the provision was final, therefore there could be no litigations against these corporations no matter what. There are numerous studies available to the public that clearly indicate that GMOs can potentially be hazardous to human health. You can start off by examining these ones sourced at the bottom of that page, where scientists recently discovered that Bt toxins found in Monsanto crops damage red blood cells. It is no mystery why the majority of countries around the world have banned Monsanto and GMO crops from even entering their country. For more studies like this one, please browse through our website as we have covered GMOs and Monsanto multiple times.
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Bizarro Earth

Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?

TXsharon
Blue Daze
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:05 UTC
I will update this post as residents send me pictures and video.

We need the national news stations to go cover the environmental disaster that's happening in Colorado right now.

This picture taken by a resident is from yesterday.
flooded wells
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Wall Street

Rep. Paul Kanjorski on America's 'economic 911': On September 11, 2008, "somebody" deliberately caused panic with an electronic run on the banks

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 07:50 UTC
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Financial terrorism: The same false-flag method, only it's carried out in the money markets
Remember the 'credit crunch' crisis that began this week five years ago? When Lehman Bros. collapsed in September 2008, global economic collapse ensued. What few people know is that Lehman Bros. stock first plummeted on September 11th 2008, in the midst of what Rep. Paul Kanjorski later described as an "electronic run on the banks". The U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1985 until 2011, and then-Chair of the Capital Markets Subcommittee, spoke on C-SPAN a few months later about something that no media outlet mentioned at the time, nor since then...
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Dollar

The American Dream: How the Banksters captured and subverted the United States


theamericandreamfilm.com
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:56 UTC
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© theamericandream.com
The American Dream is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? The American Dream takes an entertaining but hard-hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.

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Binoculars

National Security Alert: The Pentagon Attack 9/11

Craig Ranke and Aldo Marquis
Citizen Investigation Team
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:32 UTC
In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day.


More information is available at the Citizen Investigation Team website: here
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Star of David

U.S. media suppressed 2009 UN report showing Israel using chemical weapons against Palestinians

Eric Jonathan Brewer
Cleveland Challenger
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:59 UTC
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This Palestinian teenager is one of the victims of the Israeli military’s illegal white phosphorous missile attacks on unarmed civilians, including a UN relief compound set up to shelter and provide medical attention to Palestinian refugees. Israel’s military conducted its own investigation of the incidents, apologized for the attack and called it a “grave error.” A UN fact finding mission overseen by South African lawyer and former justice Richard Goldstone called the use of white phosphorous a “war crime.”
Obama ignores Israel's chemical weapons abuse while targeting Syrian government that may not be responsible for recent chemical attacks

Few major mainstream American news outlets exposed the sordid details of a 2009 United Nations (UN) fact finding report that revealed how Israel's military illegally aimed chemical missiles at a United Nations Relief & Work Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees in a 22-day invasion of the Gaza strip that began in 2008 called "Operation Cast Lead."

As the U.S. and world media watch to learn if claims that President Barack Obama will execute a military strike against Syria, without a vote of Congress or the support of the UN, the same media outlets are burying information that suggests preparation for war could be premature. Little media attention is being paid to claims from a UN commission that Syrian rebels, not government soldiers under President Bashar al-Assad's control, were responsible for recent chemical weapons attacks that killed over 300 Syrians.

"During our investigation for crimes against humanity and war crimes, we collect some witness testimony that has made to appear that some chemical weapons were used. In particular, nerve gas," said Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. "What appears to our investigation is that this was used by the opposition, by the rebels. We have no indication at all that the Syria government have used chemical weapons."

What's also questionable is why Obama has drawn a "line in the sand" over highly questionable allegations that Syrian soldiers used chemical weapons when the Israeli military was proven, and officials have admitted, to using chemical warfare to attack a United Nations relief compound. The facility provided shelter and medical attention to Palestinian refugees in 2009.
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Megaphone

Survey: Troops oppose strikes on Syria by 3-1

Andrew Tilghman
USA Today
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:37 UTC
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© Army Times
Although wounded, Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay, of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, fires on an enemy position after being attacked with a car bomb, Dec. 11, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. The debate about striking Syria is also revealing a strain of isolationism growing inside a battle-weary military that has spent more than a decade supporting high-tempo war operations overseas.
To the list of skeptics who question the need for airstrikes against Syria, add an another unlikely group - many U.S. servicemembers.

A Military Times survey of more than 750 active-duty troops this week found servicemembers oppose military action in Syria by a ratio of about three to one.

The survey conducted online Monday and Tuesday found that about 75% of troops are not in favor of airstrikes in response to reports that the Syrian government used chemical weapons to kill its civilians.

A higher percentage of troops, about 80%, say they do not believe getting involved in the 2-year-old civil war is in the U.S. national interest.

The results suggest that opposition inside the military may be more intense than among the U.S. population at large. About 64% of Americans oppose airstrikes, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published Monday.
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Alarm Clock

Turkish prosecutors indict Syrian rebels for seeking chemical weapons


RT
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:32 UTC
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A woman mourning over a body wrapped in shrouds laid out in a line on the ground with other victims which Syrian rebels claim were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013.
A court indictment by the Turkish prosecutors into the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian rebels has once again highlighted fears this week that sarin toxic gas was used by the opposition and not the Assad government.

The prosecutor in the Turkish city of Adana has issued a 132-page indictment, alleging that six men of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham tried to seek out chemicals with the intent to produce the nerve agent, sarin gas, a number of Turkish publications reported.

The main suspect in the case, 35-year-old Syrian-national Hytham Qassap has been charged with "being a member of a terrorist organization" and "attempting to acquire weapons for a terrorist organization." The other 5, all Turkish nationals are being charged with "attempting to acquire weapons for a terrorist organization."

The indictment alleges that Qassap tried to setup a network in Turkey in order to obtain chemical materials for the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham Brigades. Citing telephone calls made by the cell, the prosecution believes that the group ordered at least ten tons of chemicals, Al-Alam News Network reports.

The prosecution also dismissed claims that the suspects were unaware of their wrong doing. "The claim that the suspects didn't know about the possibility of producing sarin nerve gas from the chemicals they tried to buy is not true which was established when they were testifying," the document reads.

Meanwhile all six suspects have pleaded not guilty. "The suspects have pleaded not guilty saying that they had not been aware the materials they had tried to obtain could have been used to make sarin gas. Suspects have been consistently providing conflicting and incoherent facts on this matter," the indictment said.

If convicted, Qassab faces a 25 year prison sentence, while his accomplices face 15 years prison terms.

The six men were a part of a group of 11 people arrested in their safe house in Adana on May 23, 2013. Their apprehension came about after surveillance by Turkish police who'd received a tip that Syrian jihadists were trying to acquire two government-regulated military-grade chemical substances. Five of the detained were released from custody after questioning, background checks and after lab tests proved that chemicals seized during the arrest were not sarin gas.
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Dominoes

U.S., Russia reach agreement on seizure of Syrian chemical weapons arsenal

Anne Gearan, Colum Lynch and Karen DeYoung
The Washington Post
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:14 UTC
Kerry and Lavrov in Geneva
© Voice of Russia
Geneva - The United States and Russia agreed Saturday on an outline for the identification and seizure of Syrian chemical weapons and said Syria must turn over an accounting of its arsenal within a week.

The agreement will be backed by a U.N. Security Council resolution that could allow for sanctions or other consequences if Syria fails to comply, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said.

Kerry said that the first international inspection of Syrian chemical weapons will take place by November, with destruction to begin next year.

Senior administration officials had said Friday the Obama administration would not press for U.N. authorization to use force against Syria if it reneges on any agreement to give up its chemical weapons.

The Russians had made clear in talks here between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kerry that the negotiations could not proceed under the threat of a U.N. resolution authorizing a military strike. Russia also wanted assurances that a resolution would not refer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the International Criminal Court for possible war-crimes prosecution.
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