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They could have killed more civilians: Blackwater founder claims his private contractors could have fought ISIS instead of U.S. military


RT
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:50 UTC
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Former Blackwater Chief Executive Erik Prince
Founder of the controversial private security contractor Blackwater claimed Friday that the organization could have successfully combated militant group Islamic State if the Obama administration had not "crushed my old business."

Erik Prince said in front of the conservative group Maverick PAC that his infamous private military firm - synonymous with the contracting bonanza that ensued after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 - would have effectively fought Islamic State (known as ISIS or ISIL), allowing the US to hold back its military in its offensive against the group's strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

"It's a shame the [Obama] administration crushed my old business, because as a private organization, we could've solved the boots-on-the-ground issue, we could have had contracts from people that want to go there as contractors; you don't have the argument of US active duty going back in there," Prince said during the discussion with retired four-star Gen. James Conway. "[They could have] gone in there and done it, and be done, and not have a long, protracted political mess that I predict will ensue."

Nearly two weeks ago, President Obama said the US would conduct airstrikes and "hunt down" the fighters of the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq, Syria, and "wherever they exist." Washington has promised $500 million to so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels for fighting both the Syrian government and Islamic State militants. While the US has also sent 1,600 "support force" troops to advise the Iraqi military in the fight against Islamic State, Obama has stressed - despite contradicting sentiments from Pentagon officials - that ground troops will not be necessary during the latest offensive.
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Attention

Ebola, Russia and ISIS are top three global threats, says Obama at UN - Russia FM Lavrov astonished at 'Orwellian' statements


RT
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:31 UTC
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Following the US President's speech at the UN, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov was puzzled with Barack Obama's ranking of international threats: deadly Ebola virus top, followed by so-called Russian aggression and ISIS in Syria and Iraq only third?

Gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, the world leaders attending the 69th General Assembly heard Barack Obama highlighting the three most significant global threats today.

"As we gather here, an outbreak of Ebola overwhelms public health systems in West Africa, and threatens to move rapidly across borders. Russian aggression in Europe recalls the days when large nations trampled small ones in pursuit of territorial ambition. The brutality of terrorists in Syria and Iraq forces us to look into the heart of darkness," the US leader said at the beginning of his statement.

Reacting to the speech, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with astonishment.

"We earned the second place among the threats to international peace and stability," Lavrov told journalists on the sidelines of the UN assembly.

Not only the ranking of international threats seemed bizarre to Lavrov, especially in the light of the current strikes in Iraq and Syria that bypassed the UN mandate, but also Obama's certainty that the world has become "freer and safer."
"I didn't understand whether he was serious or not and whether there was an Orwellian element in it. Because George Orwell invented the Ministry of Truth and it looks like this philosophy is lingering."

Comment: A voice of reason in this insane world.

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Che Guevara

Scottish leaders Alex Salmond and Jim Sillars: We can declare Scottish independence when we win majority in 2016 Scottish parliamentary elections

David Maddox
The Scotsman
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:18 UTC
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Alex Salmond has claimed that Scotland could declare itself independent without a referendum in the future

Alex Salmond has raised the prospect of Scotland becoming independent without going through another referendum.

The First Minister, who is due to step down in November, said that a vote like last week's is "only one of a number of routes" that could be taken.

He said that although a referendum was his preferred option, achieving a majority at the Scottish Parliament was another way of reaching his party's goal.

Mr Salmond's comments came as another senior party member, former deputy leader Jim Sillars, said on Twitter that a majority for the SNP in the 2016 Holyrood election would be enough to declare ­independence.

Mr Sillars tweeted: "Let Yes assert new indy rule - no more ref - majority votes and seats at Holyrood 2016 enough." He later added: "What's this about a waiting a generation - indy remains on agenda now".

Comment: The result of the independence vote has very little to do with the "sovereign will of the Scottish people". These Scottish traitors can bleat all they like, the referendum was rigged and was thus the most anti-democratic vote in Scottish history:

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Vader

Obama at U.N.: ISIS must be destroyed, there will be no negotiations


RT
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:15 UTC
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U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014
President Barack Obama presented a four-pronged approach to battling violent extremism from the likes of the Islamic State on Wednesday and pleaded with the international community for assistance during an address at the United Nations.

From the UN headquarters in New York City, Pres. Obama asked member states and the rest of the world to come together in order to combat the Islamic State - also known as ISIS, or ISIL - in the midst of a months-long campaign of violence in the Middle East that in recent days and weeks has been met with military strikes from the United States and its allies.

Speaking at first generally of what he referred to as the dangers posed by religiously motivated fanatics such as members of Al-Qaeda, Pres. Obama soon after set his sights specifically on the Islamic State and asked his audience in the General Assembly to consider a blueprint that aims to eradicate those groups by first eliminating ISIS before taking a broader approach intended to curb the creation of similar factions in the future.


Comment: In other words, this war will never end.

"As an international community, we must meet this challenge with a focus on four areas. First, the terrorist group known as ISIL must be degraded, and ultimately destroyed," Obama said.

"No God condones this terror," he added. "No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning - no negotiation - with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death."


Comment: The coalition of the killing. No reasoning or negotiations required.


Comment: For more information, read The Secret Team by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

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Whistle

Who owns information? Snowden and the CDC whistleblower

Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:45 UTC
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Let me start with this general statement: there are scientists and politicians who are trained like dogs to believe that corrections to the deepest crimes of government can be achieved through an orderly structure and process.

This belief is a form of mind control. It's engraved in a place where so-called rational people still entertain a fairy tale about rescue and "everything working out properly, through channels."

Among the many differences between Ed Snowden and William Thompson, the CDC whistleblower, there is one striking similarity.

They've both taken government documents. In Snowden's case, NSA material. In Thompson's case, CDC vaccine-data.
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Propaganda

The BBC misleads public with deceptive Welsh poll for independence


The Daily Wales
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:17 UTC
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Advisor to BBC poll, Professor Roger Scully, expresses surprise over misconstrued results
BBC Wales has misled the public with claims that support for Welsh independence has reached record low-levels.

The best spin you could put on the way they have covered the findings of the ICM/BBC Wales poll is terrible journalism.

Otherwise, you would have to conclude that BBC Wales, an organisation which promotes British nationalism, has deliberately presented a factually incorrect statement designed to mislead.

The claim made by BBC Wales in its coverage of an ICM survey was:
"Support for Welsh independence has fallen to its lowest recorded level in the wake of the Scottish referendum, according to a poll for BBC Wales.

"The survey, carried out days after Scotland voted "No", found 3% wanted Wales to be independent."
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2 + 2 = 4

Lavrov is right again: West is just fighting the same extremists they sponsored


RT
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:05 UTC
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Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.
The Western powers that fostered Islamic extremists to incite them against Middle Eastern regimes should stop dividing terrorists into good and bad ones, Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said in a TV interview.

In an interview to Channel 5 in St. Petersburg, Lavrov said: "Now that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has been appointed United States' archenemy, I'd like to recall that [ISIS militants] are the very same people that evolved and got powerful sponsorship and material support from abroad at the time of the regime change efforts in Libya and later on when the same process was attempted in Syria."

The Russian foreign minister recalled the no-holds-barred time when Americans and Europeans were justifying their help to Islamic fundamentalists as providing support to those opposing unpopular regimes.

"When we called their attention to the fact that there were a large number of terrorists and extremists fighting the regimes, [the Americans and Europeans] essentially told us that all such things would pass once they overthrew the regimes, and that they would deal with this later on," Lavrov said. "But all this turned out to be wrong."

In another example, Lavrov said that France had armed the militants fighting against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, yet some time later faced the same people in Mali, where French troops had to oppose Islamic fundamentalists who migrated there from a ravaged Libya after Gaddafi's fall.

"We need a general criterion: if we do fight terrorism - we do it everywhere and always. You cannot divide terrorists into good and bad ones, only because some of them help you to oust a legitimately elected leader of a UN member country that you don't like," Lavrov said.

Comment: The U.S. rejected the idea of collaborating with the government of Syria because their goal is regime change in Syria, and they're using the war against ISIS to achieve that goal: US starts bombing Syria - Real target is Assad

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Stormtrooper

Police state accelerates as New York calls up National Guard troops to boost security

Glenn Blain, Annie Karni
Daily News
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:24 UTC
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Governor Cuomo and the New York Army National Guard
Although saying there is "no specific threat" of a terror attack, Gov. Cuomo announced on Friday that he is calling up hundreds of National Guard troops and other personnel to beef up security in New York.

Summoning reporters and legislative leaders to his midtown office, Cuomo said a comprehensive new security plan will be implemented to cover airports, transit hubs and large gathering points across the region.

He declined to give specifics of the plan until he formally unveils it with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie next week.

Cuomo, who is running for re-election, said "it is undeniable that New York is a possible target of terrorist activity," either "in retaliation... or as an offensive gesture."

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Commuters will see increased police and National Guard presence at transit hubs.
However, he acknowledged that, "We have no specific threat" of terrorists plotting an attack.

"This is just a general precaution given the obvious situation and obvious facts," Cuomo told reporters, after discussing the situation with legislative leaders.

It was Cuomo's second media briefing on security issues in five days, activity that comes as he is ramping up his general election campaign against Republican Rob Astorino. The ability to command media attention through official duties is an advantage that incumbents almost always have over challengers.

Comment: Is the Gov. crying 'wolf' and putting it on NY's credit card? Is this a test of the public acceptance of authoritarian boots-on-the-ground surveillance? Or a ploy to get votes in the upcoming election? All three...? Don't question, obey even if it is unconstitutional, tightly control the masses, forget that they are tracking who you are, where you go, what you buy, programming what you think and fear...because they are "protecting you" (from speculation). Bigger agenda, anyone? Homemade ISIS terrorists over there...U.S. cities into lockdown over here. Sounds like Israeli mentality and manipulation.

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Black Magic

Syrian regime change remix: Operation Tomahawk the Caliph

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:59 UTC
US gun diplomacy on Syria
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The Tomahawks are finally flying again - propelled by newspeak. 42 Tomahawks fired from a Sixth Fleet destroyer parked in Mare Nostrum, plus F-22s raising hell and Hellfires spouted by drones, that's a neat mini-Shock and Awe to honor Caliph Ibrahim, aka Abu Bakr al -Baghdadi, self-declared leader of Islamic State.

It's all so surgical. All targets - from "suspected" weapons depots to the mayor's mansion in Raqqah (the HQ of The Caliph's goons) and assorted checkpoints - were duly obliterated, along with "dozens of", perhaps 120, jihadis.

And praise those "over 40" (Samantha Power) or "over 50" (John Kerry) international allies in the coalition of the unwilling; America is never alone, although in this case mightily escorted, de facto, only by the usual Gulf petrodollar dictatorships and the realm of King Playstation, Jordan, all none too keen to engage in "kinetic activities".

Aseptic newspeak aside, no one has seen or heard a mighty Gulf Cooperation Council air force deployed to bomb Syria. After all the vassals are scared as hell to tell their own populations they are - once again - bombing a fellow Arab nation. As for Damascus, it meekly said it was "notified" by the Pentagon its own territory would be bombed. Nobody really knows what the Pentagon is exactly telling Damascus.

The Pentagon calls it just the beginning of a "sustained campaign" - code for Long War, which is one of the original denominations of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) anyway. And yes, for all practical purposes this is a coalition of one. Let's call it Operation Tomahawk The Caliph.

Comment: See also: US airstrikes on Syria are desperation incarnate

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US airstrikes on Syria are desperation incarnate

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:58 UTC
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The West was racing against the clock - attempting to justify war with Syria by allegedly "fighting" the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) in Syrian territory before the world fully realized the West and its allies had in fact created ISIS in the first place and was to this day arming, funding, and directing them. In haste that can only be described as desperation bordering criminal insanity, the West announced that it has begun air and missile attacks on Syrian territory.

It alleges that it is attacking ISIS, however - and unlike its campaign in neighboring Iraq - the US in particular refuses to provide any details as to what it is actually doing in Syria.

Reuters would report in its article, "U.S., Arab partners launch first strikes on IS in Syria," that:
The United States and several Gulf Arab allies launched air and missile strikes on Islamic State strongholds in Syria on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, opening a new, far more complicated front in the battle against the militants.
"I can confirm that U.S. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against (Islamic State) terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter, bomber and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles," Rear Admiral John Kirby, Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement.
It is these very "Arab partners" that are also on record, arming and funding terrorism along Syria's borders as well as backing terrorist organizations operating in Syria itself. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, in particular, have been providing money and cash, while the US CIA distributed it mainly along Turkey's border with Syria in the north, and Jordan's border with Syria to the south.


Comment: See: "Fighting" ISIL: Washington and company are part of the problem, not the solution


Despite years of rhetoric attempting to differentiate what the West calls "moderates" from known terrorist organizations including US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organizations Al Nusra, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it is clear that literally days before ISIS crossed into Iraq triggering the latest geopolitical crisis in the region, ISIS was fighting alongside so-called moderates in an attack on Syria's town of Kassab along the border with Turkey. Turkey, a NATO member, would even go as far as providing aircover for the attack which was in fact launched from Turkish territory.
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