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North Korea sets conditions for talks amid tensions


PressTV
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:06 UTC
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South Korean soldiers patrol on the island of Yeonpyeong near the waters of the Yellow Sea on April 14, 2013.
North Korea has called on the United States and South Korea to immediately halt their military drills while demanding the withdrawal of UN sanctions as conditions for dialogue to diffuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

On Thursday, North Korea's National Defense Commission said sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against Pyongyang must be lifted, Washington and Seoul must stop provocations, fully apologize for their aggressions, and stop ongoing nuclear war exercises.

"Fabrications of truth like blaming the North [Korea] for the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010 and recent Internet hacking of financial institutions and media has to be discontinued," the Commission's policy department said in a statement.
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Bad Guys

Surreal: U.S. deploys troops in Jordan to defend al-Qaeda in Syria

Tony Cartalucci
PressTV
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:52 UTC
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Massive US arms/aid deliveries prop up Al Qaeda in Syria, while US troops stage in Jordan to defend terrorists they spent last decade fighting.

CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria's border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda's public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda's continued operations and atrocities inside Syria. The addition of US troops along Syria's border appears to a response to recent and significant gains made by the Syrian government in stamping out terrorist operations nationwide.

Syria's "rebels" are same terrorists US fought for last 10 years

As reported in October 2012, the networks used to flood Iraq with weapons and Al Qaeda militants during the US occupation, had been positively identified by the extensive academic efforts of the US Army's own West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). Two reports were published between 2007 and 2008 revealing a global network of Al Qaeda affiliated terror organizations, and how they mobilized to send a large influx of foreign fighters into Iraq.
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War Whore

NATO proxies using WMD's in Syria

Tony Cartalucci
PressTV
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:38 UTC
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After a 10 year war and occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of the nation possessing "weapons of mass destruction," (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people.

At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo.

Aleppo is located near the Syrian-Turkish border. Had Libya's looted stockpiles of chemical weapons been shipped to Syria, they would have passed through Turkey along with weapons sent from Libya by the US and thousands of Libyan terrorists who are admittedly operating inside Syria, and would most likely be used to target cities like Aleppo.

Worse yet, any chemical weapons imported into the country would implicate NATO either directly or through gross negligence, as the weapons would have passed through NATO-member Turkey, past US CIA agents admittedly operating along the border and alongside Western-backed terrorists inside Syria.
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Star of David

A hundred Deir Yassin and counting: Beit Daras and the buried history of massacres

Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine Chronicle
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:32 UTC
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The invasion of Beit Daras following the last battle in May 1948.
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at covering up the massacre have been dwarfed by grim details by well-respected historians, including some of Israel's own.

Even narratives offered by historians such as Benny Morris - an honest researcher who remained committed to Zionism despite the ghastly history he had himself uncovered - presented a harrowing version of the events that unfolded on that day: "Whole families were riddled with bullets... men, women, and children were mowed down as they emerged from houses; individuals were taken aside and shot. Haganah intelligence reported 'there were piles of dead. Some of the prisoners moved to places of incarceration, including women and children, were murdered viciously by their captors..."

It was the Irgun Zionist militias of Menachem Begin and the Stern Gang (Lehi) lead by Yitzhak Shamir that took credit for the infamy of that day; and both were rewarded generously for their 'heroism'. The once wanted criminals rose to prominence to become Israeli Prime Ministers in later years.
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Karl Rove heckled throughout speech In Massachusetts, called murderer, terrorist


YouTube
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:26 UTC

Karl Rove ventured into hostile territory on Tuesday night, delivering a speech repeatedly interrupted by boisterous protesters at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

According to CBS 3, the demonstrations raged both inside the auditorium and out, and Rove had barely begun speaking before people began standing up and shouting Rove down with accusations that his guidance of former President George W. Bush on the Iraq War had led to countless American and Iraqi casualties.
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Bad Guys

Janet Napolitano confronted in security committee on deportation of Boston bombing suspect or witness

Shepard Ambellas
IntelliHub
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:13 UTC
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (C) testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, April 18, 2013 in Washington, DC
Congressman Jeff Duncan grilled DHS director Janet Napolitano stating in front of the committee with intent, "I am very concerned about this person of interest who was detained at the hospital in Boston. He was scheduled to be deported next week and now I understand he has been acquitted of any wrong doing in Boston. However, he is being deported on national security concerns.... I am assuming he has some link to terror otherwise he would not be deported".

The congressman also questions how DHS is actually removing the man (a possible suspect or witness) from the scene by deporting him. This raises concern amongst some citizens as the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi's trained on US military installations.
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Vader

Another Obama executive order allows seizure of Americans' bank accounts

Bob Adelmann
The New American
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:56 UTC
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The latest executive order (EO) emanating from the White House October 9 now claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a "sanctioned person" may own or try to perform - all in the name of "Iran Sanctions."

Titled an "Executive Order from the President regarding Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions..." the order says that if an individual is declared by the president, the secretary of state, or the secretary of the treasury to be a "sanctioned person," he (or she) will be unable to obtain access to his accounts, will be unable to process any loans (or make them), or move them to any other financial institution inside or outside the United States. In other words, his financial resources will have successfully been completely frozen. The EO expands its authority by making him unable to use any third party such as "a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, subgroup or other organization" that might wish to help him or allow him to obtain access to his funds.

And if the individual so "sanctioned" decides that the ruling is unfair, he isn't allowed to sue. In two words, the individual has successfully been robbed blind.

But it's all very legal. The EO says the president has his "vested authority" to issue it, and then references endless previous EOs, including one dating back to 1995 which declared a "state of emergency" (which hasn't been lifted): Executive Order 12957.
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Sherlock

Surviving Boston bombing suspect silenced? Intubated, sedated and suffered throat injury, may not be able to talk

Chelsea J. Carter
CNN
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:37 UTC
Dzhokar Tsarnaev
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Dzhokar Tsarnaev
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack.

With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty.

The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev's condition, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Tsarnaev was in "serious but stable condition" and "not yet able to communicate yet," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told reporters during an impromptu briefing on Saturday.

Comment: Intubated means 'to treat by inserting a tube, as into the larynx'. Pertinent to speculation that silencing the suspect is no accident, intubation has documented potential complications:
Complications of intubation can arise from the insertion process, as the tube could damage either the respiratory or gastrointestinal tracts. Patients who are intubated have an increased risk for infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, and long-term breathing support with an endotracheal tube can result in damage to the respiratory tract, making future breathing more difficult.

The tube insertion itself can occasionally cause harm to the patient undergoing this procedure. Rarely, the tube can damage the vocal cords, leading to problems with talking after the patient is removed from the ventilator. Other times, the tube could pass into the esophagus instead of into the trachea, leading to tears in the esophagus. This can result in bleeding within the gastrointestinal tract, and could also cause problems with swallowing after the breathing tube is removed.


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Handcuffs

What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter?

Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:31 UTC
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This still frame from video shows Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Shortly before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, was apprehended last night, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham advocated on Twitter that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect be denied what most Americans think of as basic rights. "If captured," Graham wrote, I hope [the] Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as [an] enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes." Arguing that "if the Boston suspect has ties to overseas terror organizations he could be treasure trove of information", Graham concluded: "The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to 'remain silent.'"

Once Tsarnaev was arrested, President Obama strongly suggested that he would eventually be tried in court, which presumably means he will at some point have a lawyer (something that Graham, along with John McCain and Liz Cheney, last night opposed). But the Obama DOJ also announced that they intended to question him "extensively" - their word - before reading him his Miranda rights, as Graham advocated in the second and third tweets quoted above. And the DOJ said they intend to question him not just about matters relating to immediate threats to the public safety - are there other bombs set to go off? is there an accomplice on the loose preparing to kill? - but also, again in their words, "to gain critical intelligence".
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Fireball 5

Cover-up? Fertiliser plant allegedly stored '270 tonnes of ammonium nitrate'


New York Daily News
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:01 UTC
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West, Texas explosion
The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Yet a person familiar with DHS operations said the company that owns the plant, West Fertilizer, did not tell the agency about the potentially explosive fertilizer as it is required to do, leaving one of the principal regulators of ammonium nitrate - which can also be used in bomb making - unaware of any danger there.

Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 lb (180 kg) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren't shared with DHS, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.

A U.S. congressman and several safety experts called into question on Friday whether incomplete disclosure or regulatory gridlock may have contributed to the disaster.

Comment:
A U-Haul truck packed with the substance mixed with fuel oil exploded to raze the Oklahoma federal building in 1995.
Or so the official story claims. The fact of the matter is that such a bomb could not have knocked out the support columns in the Alfred P. Murrah building.Once again a mainstream media report goes out of its way to 'catapult the propaganda' by connecting the West, Texas explosion to the Oklahoma City bombing.

A Noble Lie: The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995

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