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ISIS on a roll: Mocks Michelle Obama on Twitter, boasts of Iraq victory


RT
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:42 UTC
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an Al-Qaeda-inspired Sunni militant group, is mocking Michelle Obama and so-called hashtag diplomacy on social media. The jihadists' Tweets are also bragging about the capture of Iraqi military vehicles.

On June 10, less than a thousand of ISIS militants in soft-shelled pickup trucks occupied the northern Iraqi city of Mosul with a population of 1.8 million people. The city fell with no apparent resistance as scores of Iraqi troops fled dropping their uniforms and leaving precious US-made hardware behind. The militants celebrated getting US-made Humvees and tanks - some of which have since headed to Syria to be used against the government forces - and even allegedly captured at least one Black Hawk helicopter.
#Syria: video of various clips of ISIS fighting in Deir az-Zor, incl. taking a tank from Jabhat al-Nusra: https://t.co/bD8MaBmo2I

- Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) June 15, 2014
#Syria: Omar ash-Shishani of ISIS posing with an Iraqi army Hummer: pic.twitter.com/DLUZ6MQUJq

- Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) June 15, 2014
The US military equipment captured by ISIS is worth millions of dollars, the New York Post reported.
Yep, a whole truckload of #Iraq army Hummers captured by ISIS and on their way to #Syria: pic.twitter.com/BLqcbhnL52

- Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) June 13, 2014
"We're aware of reports of some equipment - namely Humvees - and the pictures that have been posted online," Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Speaks said in an email to Fox News. "We are certainly concerned about these reports and are consulting with the Iraqi government to obtain solid confirmation on what assets may have fallen into ISIL's hands."
#Iraq: Jamaat Ansar al-Islam with a captured Iraqi army tank: pic.twitter.com/84FFGnXTXk

- Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) June 13, 2014
The photoshopped image of Michelle Obama with the #bringbackourhumvee hashtag is a take-off of her #bringbackourgirls Tweet aimed at the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls by militant group Boko Haram in that country.
#Humvees_AsPurchased_WithYourTaxDollars Islamists Mock Michelle with: #BringBackOurHumveehttp://t.co/44HN98RCQn ... pic.twitter.com/4oTmxc2N8N

- Tom T. (@VRWCTexan) June 18, 2014
It's not the first time the Obama tweet has been hijacked. In May, a viral anti-drone meme campaign took off with photoshopped pictures of the US first lady holding signs such as "My husband has killed more young girls than Boko Haram ever could" and "#Stop drone murder."
#BringBackOurHumvee we miss them, it would be a shame to #drone them. #Iraq#ISISpic.twitter.com/xhTlX5ChUm

- Caz Nova (@caz_nova) June 19, 2014
Americans are hitting back against ISIS on Twitter, however.
#BringBackOurHumvee or #BringBackOurHumvees before we have to send in the 72 Virgin Dating Service ... pic.twitter.com/UnDmgxOR8W

- LOLDems (@LOLDems2012) June 18, 2014

Comment: Isis is apparently on the cakewalk the U.S. thought it was going to have in Iraq. One might almost think it was planned. A blame-free way for the PTB to arm its most lately created terrorist organization without any messy paper trails.

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War Whore

Middle East war-for-all: Israel teams up with al Qaeda (again) to bomb Syria


RT
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:04 UTC
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Israel bombing its neighbors in years gone by
Nine Syrian military targets have been hit by Israeli jets and guided missiles, the IDF says, claiming it was a decisive response to a series of cross-border shootings to protect the citizens of Israel.

The strikes on targets in Golan Heights were carried out shortly after midnight, Haaretz reports citing an IDF official, who called it a direct response to Sunday's deadly incident when an anti-tank projectile fired from Syrian territory struck near the border fence on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.

"The shooting [on Sunday] was a very serious act of provocation, and a continuation of a series of attacks carried out over the past several months against IDF forces throughout the border region, and in this area specifically," the statement reads.

Comment: Israel better hope Hezbollah fighters don't catch a break from fending off the hordes of psychopathic Sunni Londoners marauding across Syria...

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Arrow Down

IDF conducts night raid on RT's Arabic channel and other media outlets in Ramallah


RT.com
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:53 UTC
raid ramallah RT office
© RT yafa staitl@yafastaty_rt@RTarabic
Israeli forces have raided a building in Ramallah where the offices of several media outlets, including RT's Arabic channel, are located.

The IDF raided the Palmedia company building in the West Bank city overnight on Friday. The troops broke down the doors of several offices, destroyed some of the equipment and confiscated records, RT's correspondent Yafa Staiti reported.

"Due to the actions of the military there is no Internet connection in the office. We've lost the archive of video footage and other materials. Office furniture and computers have been damaged," she said.

Israel's military command explained that the night raid did not specifically target RT, but the lessor of the office, which is suspected of cooperating with Hamas.
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Coffee

Presidential election in Mauritania: Incumbent president Abdel Aziz wins


Voice of Russia
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:20 UTC
Mauritanians handed acting
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
© WikipediaPresident Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz a fresh mandate by a large margin, the country's election commission said late Sunday. Abdel Aziz, who first came to power in a 2008 coup, was re-elected with nearly 82 percent of the vote, the commission said in announcing its provisional results. His nearest rival, Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, won nearly 9 percent of the vote, while two other contenders, Boidiel Ould Houmeid and Ibrahim Moctar Sarr, both received about 4.5 percent.

The turnout was just over 56 per cent, the commission said, adding that the polls had been an opportunity to help "democratic practices take root in our country."

The north-west African Islamic republic has a total population of 3.8 million people.

The National Forum for Democracy and Unity, a group of Mauritania's main opposition parties, boycotted the election, accusing Abdel Aziz of trying to rig the vote, reports DPA.
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Bulb

Poland is a 'Slave Prostitute' to the USA according to Polish Foreign Minister


RT
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:46 UTC
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'Bend over' - John Kerry meets Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski
The Polish Foreign Minister believes his country's alliance with the US is worth nothing and compared his government's stance to giving oral sex and receiving nothing in return, a Polish magazine said, citing a leaked recording of a private conversation.

Excerpts from the alleged exchange between FM Radoslaw Sikorski and Jacek Rostowski, an MP and former finance minister, were published Sunday by Wprost, which promised a full transcript and audio files later on Monday or Tuesday. The same magazine triggered a political storm in Poland this month by releasing a recording of a conversation between the head of Poland's central bank and the interior minister, implying a link between the two violating the bank's independence.

According to Wprost, Sikorski is skeptical about the reliance of Poland, one of the staunchest allies of Washington in Eastern Europe, on American protection.

"The Polish-American alliance is not worth anything. It's even damaging, because it creates a false sense of security in Poland," Sikorski allegedly said.

"Complete bullshit," the tape purportedly records Sikorski as saying. "We will get a conflict with both Russians and Germans, and we're going to think that everything is great, because we gave the Americans a blowjob. Suckers. Total suckers."

Comment: Geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser's take on this revelation:



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Black Magic

Argentina risk sovereign default as US courts support vulture capitalist

Valentin Mândrăşescu
Voice of Russia
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:53 UTC
President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
© RIA Novosti/Grigoriy SisoevPresident of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
For the last decade, Argentina has been fighting a legal battle against the so-called "holdout" creditors led by American hedge funds that are pushing the country into a new default. Recently, American courts have started helping the "vulture funds" in their quest to make the South American country pay in full for its old bonds.

The subject of the legal battle is the payment for the bonds that have been issued before the Argentine sovereign default in 2001. While most of the bondholders participated in two bond-swaps, basically allowing the country to restructure its debt and extend the maturity of its bonds, some bonds ended up in the hands of so-called "vulture funds". Such funds are specialized in extracting value from "troubled" bonds. While some vultures feed on the carcases of animals, the "financial vultures" try to use the courts for making issuers pay in full for the bonds acquired by the "vulture funds" at steep discounts.


Comment: No doubt the fact that Argentina is getting closer to the BRICS organisation and the Non-Petrodollar world is a major incentive for the US to push the South American country closer to the abyss. Will Argentina buckle and tow the US line or will the BRICS countries perhaps rally up behind Argentina?


Comment: The US supports vulture capitalism. Economic blackmail is but one instrument to bring countries to support the empire. The following books describe it well: An economic hitman by John Perkins and Shockdoctrine by Naomi Klein.

See also:

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Megaphone

House Speaker John Boehner: After failures both foreign and domestic, Obama's "wheels are coming off"

Russell Berman
The Hill
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:17 UTC
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© AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteHouse Speaker John Boehner of Ohio
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday castigated the Obama presidency on a slew of issues, saying the White House was unprepared for, and often exacerbated, a series of crises at home and abroad.

Opening his weekly Capitol press conference, Boehner offered up a global tour of problematic flash points for the administration and blamed Obama for squandering U.S. gains in Iraq, the scandals at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Internal Revenue Service, lackluster economic growth and the influx of immigrant children flooding at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"You look at this presidency, and you can't help but get the sense that the wheels are coming off," Boehner said.

The Speaker and other congressional leaders met with Obama at the White House on the deteriorating situation in Iraq, and while he said he learned "a little bit," it appeared to be less than the full strategy he was hoping the president would outline.

Boehner characterized Iraq in the context of what he described as a broader foreign policy failure by the administration.
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Eye 2

Report details how U.S. used depleted uranium weapons in heavily populated areas during 2003 Iraq War


RT
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:42 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Jewel SamadUS soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division, ride on a military vehicle as they leave their base on a mission in Tikrit, 180 Kilometers north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, 30 December 2003.
US-led forces in Iraq used depleted uranium weapons in civilian-populated areas during the 2003 military campaign, according to a new Dutch NGO study that also exposes a lack of adequate cleanup efforts by the invading troops.

For the first time the location of several sites where the invaders fired some 10,000 depleted uranium rounds were released by the Dutch Defense Ministry, and published in a study by Dutch peace group PAX.
US Forces Used Depleted Uranium Rounds In Civilian Areas in#Iraq http://t.co/NWst6QzOBq #tcot #tlot #Infowars pic.twitter.com/Vt44Pmk1v7

- Infowars Updates (@InfowarsUpdates) June 19, 2014
Most of the DU rounds fired by the US-led coalition were in heavily populated areas, the group says. Samawah, Nasiriyah and Basrah are just some urban areas where ammunition was deployed - with around 1,500 anti-armor rounds fired directly at Saddam Hussein's infantry forces.

Comment: Take a look at the effects of DU on the human body
Inside the body, DU's hazards are its chemical toxicity and radioactivity. DU primarily emits alpha radiation, although beta and gamma are also emitted from uranium's decay products. Inside the body, alpha radiation can disrupt cellular process and damage DNA, which can lead to an increased risk of developing different types of cancer, depending on which organ is exposed. DU is also a heavy metal and therefore chemically toxic.
It should not be difficult to see the actions by the American military as completely psychopathic. What other purpose is there for the above actions than to inflict pain and suffering upon a completely innocent group of people? Only a psychopath would willingly commit such acts.

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Eye 1

New leak reveals secret arrangement between U.S. and 33 countries allowed NSA to intercept web traffic


RT
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:18 UTC
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The United States has made top-secret deals with more than 30 third-party countries so that the National Security Agency can tap into fiber optic cables carrying internet data in those parts of the world, new leaks reveal.

Documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published on Wednesday by journalists at The Intercept and Denmark's Dagbladet Information show publically for the first time an intelligence gathering operation waged in 33 countries where secret arrangements exist to broaden American surveillance abilities.

The previously unreported NSA operation - a program codenamed RAMPART-A - "sweeps up a vast amount of communications at lightning speed," according to Ryan Gallagher of The Intercept, by letting the NSA tap into broadband internet cables containing web traffic that might not be otherwise easily obtainable from the originating country.

"It has already been widely reported that the NSA works closely with eavesdropping agencies in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia as part of the so-called Five Eyes surveillance alliance," Gallagher wrote. "But the latest Snowden documents show that a number of other countries, described by the NSA as 'third-party partners,' are playing an increasingly important role - by secretly allowing the NSA to install surveillance equipment on their fiber-optic cables."
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Bad Guys

Former New York City DA investigated for using public funds for re-election

Stephanie Clifford
The New York Times
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:41 UTC
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© New York Post
Federal prosecutors have joined a state investigation into possible fraud by Charles J. Hynes, the former Brooklyn district attorney, signaling that he could now be facing federal charges with longer prison terms.

Assistant United States attorneys from New York's Eastern District are coordinating with an investigation by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who began his inquiry after a city report suggested Mr. Hynes had used more than $200,000 in public funds for a consultant to his re-election campaign. The report, by the Department of Investigation, said the misuse of funds could amount to larceny.

But the involvement of federal prosecutors exposes Mr. Hynes to an increased range of potential charges, including federal program fraud, a felony in which someone at an agency commits fraud, embezzlement or bribery, and the agency receives over $10,000 of federal money in a year. In 2013, Mr. Hynes's last year as district attorney, the office estimated it would receive $1.3 million in federal funds. The felony carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

Comment: What a slime bucket! In April 2012, Charles Hynes refused to disclose information about sexual predators in the Jewish Orthodox Community. More here:
Hasidic Pedophiles Exempt from Public Disclosure

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