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Government-approved conspiracy fact: WaPo reports 'CIA and Israel assassinated senior Hezbollah commander in Damascus in 2008'


Raw Story
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:26 UTC
Imad Mughniyeh murder
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The CIA and Israel's spy agency Mossad were behind an elaborate plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a 2008 car bomb attack in Syria, the Washington Post reported.

Citing former intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that US and Israeli spy agencies worked together to target Mughniyeh on February 12, 2008 as he left a restaurant in the Syrian capital Damascus.

He was killed instantly by a car bomb planted in a spare tire on the back of a parked car, which exploded shrapnel in a tight radius, the Post said.

Comment: Mossad and the CIA are cohorts in many murders. Why is this being published now? Is there a political motivation? See: Obama will not meet U.S.-bound Netanyahu, but Bibi will address U.S. Congress

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Bad Guys

Ukraine's Aidar battalion fighters attempt to storm military HQ in Kiev


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:03 UTC
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Fighters of the notorious paramilitary battalion Aidar have rallied in Kiev against their disbandment, attempting to storm the Ukraine Defense Ministry's HQ and accusing the regular army of deliberately shelling Aidar's own positions with heavy artillery.

Ukraine's most infamous volunteer squad, the Aidar battalion - condemned by Amnesty International for its unmatched brutality in eastern Ukraine - allegedly came under Grad and Smerch rocket fire by the regular military near the town of Schastya in Lugansk region.

"[Ukrainian] artillery is working against Aidar battalion's positions," said Aidar commander and MP representing Ukraine's Radical Party, Sergey Melnichuk, during a protest outside the Defense Ministry's building in Kiev. Citing his own fighter, Melnichuk claimed that Kiev's artillery targeted the battalion's positions "15-20 times."

Comment: My oh my, what psychopaths fighting each other looks like.

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Sherlock

Rupert Murdoch, corporate media propaganda, and CIA covert ops

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:48 UTC
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Comment: As it was then, so it is now. You will likely not read or hear about media moguls like Murdoch visiting Obama in the White House to discuss public opinion strategies, but you can be sure that the very same meetings that occurred during the Reagan administration are happening today. The government and media work very closely together to mould public opinion, to basically tell people what to think. As you can see below, this strategy has been employed for quite a long time.


Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan's Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.

Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul who is now a kingmaker in American politics, was brought into those power circles by the infamous lawyer/activist Roy Cohn who arranged Murdoch's first Oval Office meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1983, according to documents released by Reagan's presidential library.

"I had one interest when Tom [Bolan] and I first brought Rupert Murdoch and Governor Reagan together - and that was that at least one major publisher in this country ... would become and remain pro-Reagan," Cohn wrote in a Jan. 27, 1983 letter to senior White House aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. "Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today."

The letter noted that Murdoch then owned the "New York Post - over one million, third largest and largest afternoon; New York Magazine; Village Voice; San Antonio Express; Houston Ring papers; and now the Boston Herald; and internationally influential London Times, etc." Cohn sent the letter nine days after Murdoch met Reagan in the Oval Office along with Cohn, his legal partner Thomas Bolan, and U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick.

In a photograph of the Jan. 18, 1983 meeting, Cohn is shown standing and leaning toward Reagan who is seated next to Murdoch. Following that meeting, Murdoch became involved in a privately funded propaganda project to help sell Reagan's hard-line Central American policies, according to other documents. That PR operation was overseen by senior CIA propaganda specialist Walter Raymond Jr. and CIA Director William Casey, but the details of Murdoch's role remain sketchy partly because some of the records are still classified more than three decades later.
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Lip service: US, EU warn Israel of 'detrimental impacts' of building 450 new settler homes


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:22 UTC
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© Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
An Israeli flag waves on a hill near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Elazar, in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem.
The US and EU have advised Israel to drop its plans to construct an additional 450 settlement homes in the West Bank, warning that failure to do so would further destabilize the situation in the region and diminish prospects for peace.

On Friday, Israel announced tenders to build new settlements on the Palestinian territories in a move that has been deemed illegal under international law.

In particular, the announced projects include 156 units in Elkana, 114 homes in Geva Binyamin, 102 in Kiryat Araba, and 78 in Alfei Menashe, according to Jerusalem Post. Some of those tenders are being reissued, however, since contractors refused to take many of the projects in the past.

If Israel proceeds with construction, it will become "an obstacle to peace," the European Union said in a statement. In addition, it will further "undermine the viability of the two-state solution."

"Israel should reverse these decisions, thereby putting an end to settlement expansion," the Europeans warned. By refusing to do so, Israel faces the risk of "inflaming the very tense situation on the ground."

Comment: Israel continues to build settlements despite the warnings from other nations and violates international law. Apparently peace between Israel and Palestine is not seriously on Israel's agenda.

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Eye 2

UK: The case of the lost Mark Duggan disc and a "faceless" civil servant

Anoosh Chakelian
New Statesman
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:19 UTC
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Mark Duggan's family make a statement outside the High Court in London after an inquest jury found that he was 'lawfully killed' by police. Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in Tottenham in 2011. Sensitive files on Mark Duggan and others have gone missing!

Information concerning three of the UK's most sensitive inquiries has been lost in the post.

It's one of those Whitehall clichés. A civil servant leaves their briefcase full of weapons-grade government secrets on the train. Following the story of a bungling UK spy who did just that back in 2008 with documents on Iraq and al Qaeda, the legislative lost property tale has become a bit of a parable for government incompetence.

And now it's happened again. This time, the Ministry of Justice appears to have lost some very important discs in the post containing information about three of the UK's current most sensitive inquiries: the role of the police in the deaths of Robert Hamill, Azelle Rodney and Mark Duggan. The latter is the most recent case; the fatal police shooting in 2011 sparked the London riots.

The department admits that the documents went missing in the post, and have been lost since early January this year: "Immediate steps were taken, including intensive searches to locate the discs. These searches continue, with police assistance. The discs have not, as yet, been found."

Comment: It is not uncommon for important, sensitive files to go 'missing' in the UK: See Home Office loses pedophile dossier naming big names

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Bad Guys

Ukraine chief of staff 'thwarts Western allegations' by admitting no combat with Russian troops


RT
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:17 UTC
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© Reuters / Alexander Ermochenko
Members of the armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic drive a tank on the outskirts of Donetsk, January 22, 2015.
The Ukraine army's chief of staff has admitted that Kiev troops are not engaged in combat with Russian units, thereby thwarting all Western allegations of Moscow's "military invasion," said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

"Yesterday afternoon the Chief of the General Staff - Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Viktor Muzhenko officially acknowledged during a briefing for foreign military attachées that Russian troops are not involved in the fighting in the country's southeast," Konashenkov said on Friday.

Given the fact that Muzhenko directly supervises military operations in the southeast, "his statement is a legal fact, which thwarts numerous accusations made by NATO and Western states" concerning Russia's alleged "military invasion" in Ukraine, the spokesman added.

The Russian Defense Ministry, however, was puzzled by a statement from Muzhenko's subordinate, Sergey Galushko, made several hours later. According to Galushko - an employee of the Department of Information Technology - Russian troops are located in the so-called "second echelon."

On Thursday, Muzhenko said "the Ukrainian army is not engaged in combat operations against Russian units." He added, however, that he had information about Russian individuals fighting in the country's east. He also said the Ukrainian army has everything it needs to drive off armed units in Donbass. His speech was aired by Ukraine's Channel 5 television, owned by President Petro Poroshenko.
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Red Flag

Anti-Syriza propaganda begins: Greece framed as 'emerging hub for terrorists'

Stuart J. Hooper
21st Century Wire
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:47 UTC
Greece's new anti-austerity and anti-Western Oligarchy ruling party, Syriza, is coming under attack from an all too familiar angle. Keep in mind that this accusation came on the very first day Syriza took office.

ISIS Nusra Leader
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Does Greece really have a terrorist problem?
According to CNN, "there may be some 200 people in the country with links to jihadist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the al Nusra Front". Supposing this is true, should we not instead look to those who funded and created those groups; namely Western nations?

An unnamed "source close to the Greek intelligence services told CNN" of this alleged problem, so for all we know this could be a complete lie; probably from the mind of a pro-Western, anti-Syriza propaganda agent working for Wall Street and the City of London. Accusations of such magnitude require far more than an unnamed source before we can verify their existence in the realms of reality. This spectral source supposedly said "Greece is not a target, just a gateway into Europe and a stop on the fighters' return home", which essentially paints the entire state of Greece as a problem.

CNN says of this source that "he added"; in regard to his alleged statements. How does this unnamed source feel about having his anonymity damaged in this regard? This is an absolute failure in narrative construction, and suggests to us that questioning this piece is not an unwarranted task.

Comment: This outlandish accusation springs out of nowhere within 24 hours of an anti-austerity, pro-sovereignty government in the Eurozone being elected to power. No rest for the wicked in the mainstream media, it seems.

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Arrow Down

You could soon go to jail for protecting yourself from bullets: Congress proposes body armor ban

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:09 UTC
Body Armor Ban
© Free Thought Project
Washington, D.C. - A new piece of legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives, H. R. 378, labeled the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act, which if enacted would deprive law abiding citizens of another means of self defense.

The legislation, forwarded by Rep. Mike Honda, would ban citizens from ownership of enhanced body armor, defined as "body armor, including a helmet or shield, the ballistic resistance of which meets or exceeds the ballistic performance of Type III armor, determined using National Institute of Justice Standard-0101.06" in the bill.

Level III and higher body armor can defeat most common rifle ammunition.

The body armor in question has a sole purpose of protecting the wearer from potential serious injury or death from being shot.

If passed, this bill would usurp people's ability to own a truly defensive form of protection, with penalties for possession/ownership ranging from fines to jail time or both.

In his press release, Rep. Honda states:
"This bill allows law enforcement to respond to active shooting situations more effectively. The bill prohibits the purchase, sale, or possession of military-grade body armor by anyone except certain authorized users, such as first-responders and law enforcement."
This speaks to the heart of the law enforcement problem in America.

Laws are continually being proposed to solve problems that don't exist, which is exactly how we have gotten into the current police state mess we find ourselves in.
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USA

New US regs say passengers cannot fly without biometric ID card


Police State USA
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:00 UTC
REAL-ID Card
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Sample Alabama REAL ID card.
The ability to travel in the United States is about to become more restrictive as the TSA announces it will soon be enforcing new identification standards in American airports.

Beginning in 2016, passengers attempting to pass through a federal TSA checkpoint will be subject to the requirements of the REAL ID Act. To that end, the TSA will put higher scrutiny on travelers' identities, and will only accept a federal passport or a "REAL-ID" card, which is issued by the states to meet federal requirements.

Passengers will not be allowed to fly through an American airport without submitting to the advanced federal specifications.

Both federal passports and REAL-ID cards require a number of unique personal identifiers to be stored together in government databases, including his or her full name, date of birth, Social Security Number, scanned signature, and other identifiers.

Both cards require biometric data: a front-facing digital photograph of the passenger's face, which is ultimately used with a facial recognition database.

"It is a choice," flippantly explained David Fierro, the Public Information Officer for the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. "If you use a passport when you're traveling you don't have any problems. If you use your driver's license as identification, you'll need to either apply for the Real ID card or get a passport."
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War Whore

Ukraine neo-Nazi Far Right portrayed as heroes by Rupert Murdoch-owned Sky News

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:26 UTC
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© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
Members of the Ukrainian far-right radical group Right Sector stand outside the parliament in Kiev March 28, 2014
On January 22nd, Rupert Murdoch's Sky News (Murdoch founded it, his son James headed it for a while, and their 21st Century Fox owns "a controlling stake" in it) telecast a puff-piece for Ukraine's right-wing extremists, several times calling them "heroes" to "patriotic" Ukrainians. This segment of their documentary series Ross Kemp: Extreme World, was titled "Ukraine: The Rise of The Right."

In it, Ukraine's "far right" are described as being patriots who are protecting all of Ukraine from a Russian invasion, and who are therefore being increasingly admired by Ukrainians. It says: "The ultras [ultra-rightists] are actually patriotic young people who are ready to fight - not only on the Maidan, but also at the war for our land. ... These men - seen now by many as heroes - are fighting for the Azov Battalion in Mariupol, Maryinka and Iliovaisk."

The message is that whereas these far-rightists were previously despised, they now are widely respected: "Just a few years ago they were on the fringes of society - shunned for their violent behaviour and xenophobic beliefs, but since the 2014 Maidan revolution - and the subsequent fighting against pro-Russian groups - their popularity has grown."

In the segment here, the presenter, Ross Kemp, says, at 15:25, that, Ukraine "faces the threat of a full-scale Russian invasion. NATO has called the crisis in Ukraine, the biggest threat to European security since World War Two. Amidst this chaos, volunteer far-right battalions have put up some of the strongest resistance." He then notes that the city of Mariupol in Ukraine's southeast "is currently being defended by a right-wing militia called the Azov Battalion."


Comment: Oh how the Western media likes to distort reality! The truth is that it's the U.S./EU/NATO that is the biggest threat to global security since Hitler's Germany. The lies used by the lamestream media to demonize Russia, the one country standing up to the Western elites who are hellbent on world domination, are sickening.

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