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Brussels, Belgium placed under martial law as soldiers patrol streets and city shuts down


Agence France-Presse
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:47 UTC
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© AFP/BELGA/AFPBelgian police and soldiers stand guard on November 20, 2015 outside the Brussels Palace of Justice during the appearance of two individuals arrested in connection with the November 13 attacks in Paris.

Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level in the capital Brussels on Saturday, with the OCAM national crisis centre warning of an "imminent threat" a week after the Paris attacks.

"Following our latest evaluation... the centre has raised its terror alert to level 4, signifying a very serious threat, for the Brussels region," it said, as Europe tightens security after Islamic State militants killed 130 people in the French capital.

"The analysis shows a serious and imminent threat requiring specific security measures as well as detailed recommendations to the population," said OCAM, which is part of the Belgian interior ministry, in a statement.


Comment: Ok, but what IS the specific threat??


Comment: This alert comes on the heels of Sweden raising its alert level.

Update 00:00 CET: Brussels, Belgium is effectively under martial law. The Belgian military is patrolling the streets, which are empty after everyone was told to go home and stay there.

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Never again? New far-right party leaps to third in German polls


The Local
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:47 UTC
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'The concentration camps - er, sorry, refugee holding centers - are that way.' AfD leader Björn Höcke
Germany's hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) are now the third most popular party in the country, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

In a sign of the sharp rise of the far-right in Germany over recent weeks, the INSA survey gave the AfD 10.5 percent of the vote if an election were to be held tomorrow - meaning they leapfrogged the Green Party and Die Linke (Left party).

The AfD was founded in 2013 as a Eurosceptic group, critical of the Euro currency and bailouts, but after an internal party feud in which its founder was deposed earlier in 2015, it has focused on criticizing the government's immigration policies.

Katja Kipping, chairwoman of Die Linke, told The Local that the Christian Social Union (CSU), a junior party in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, was to blame for the rise of the AfD, accusing their leadership of making "xenophobic slogans socially acceptable."

The CSU, which are the single largest party in Bavaria, Germany's wealthiest and southern most state, have in recent weeks called for the erection of border fences to stem the flow of refugees arriving in Germany.

Comment: When 9/11 happened, we had some idea that this was coming. But we never imagined it could happen this fast.

The last time around, the fascist totalitarianism lasted a relatively short period of time, was confined to only a part of Europe, and had as the subject of its 'final solution' a relatively tiny ethnic/religious group.

This time around, we're looking at GLOBAL total war against an ethnic/religious group that numbers 1 billion. At the rate things are degenerating, we could, within a few short years, be looking at concentration camps for Muslims all over the world.

Refugee crisis in Germany: Nazis on the rise, "never again" is happening again

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President al-Assad talks to the Italian TV channel Rai Uno


Syrian Arab News Agency
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:08 UTC
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Following is the full text

Question 1: Mr. President, thanks for the opportunity of talking to you. Let's start from Paris. How did you react to the news coming from Paris?

President Assad: We can start by saying it's a horrible crime, and at the same time it's a sad event when you hear about innocents being killed without any reason and for nothing, and we understand in Syria the meaning of losing a dear member of the family or a dear friend, or anyone you know, in such a horrible crime. We've been suffering from that for the past five years. We feel for the French as we feel for the Lebanese a few days before that, and for the Russians regarding the airplane that's been shot down over Sinai, and for the Yemenis maybe, but does the world, especially the West, feel for those people, or only for the French? Do they feel for the Syrians that have been suffering for five years from the same kind of terrorism? We cannot politicize feeling, feeling is not about the nationality, it's about the human in general.

Question 2: There's Daesh behind that. But from here, from this point of view, from here from Damascus, how strong Daesh is? How do you think we can fight terrorists on the ground?

President Assad: If you want to talk about the strength of Daesh, the first thing you have to ask is how much incubator, real incubator, natural incubator, you have in a certain society. Till this moment, I can tell you Daesh doesn't have the natural incubator, social incubator, within Syria. This is something very good and very assuring, but at the same time, if it's becoming chronic, this kind of ideology can change the society.
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High theater on high drug prices: President Obama's Forum

Dean Baker
TruthOut
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:51 UTC
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The Obama administration is sponsoring a forum this week on the problem of high drug prices. The purpose is presumably to express concern about a rapidly growing problem for both people in the United States and around the world. It seems likely that the point is to quite literally express concern, as opposed to taking substantive steps towards addressing an enormous problem that not only takes an economic toll, but threatens people's health and lives.

The reasons for skepticism are obvious. First and foremost, the Obama administration has placed higher drug prices at the center of its trade agenda. As was widely reported, the last major sticking point in reaching an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the Obama administration's insistence on longer periods for maintaining the exclusivity on test data for biosimilar drugs.

Comment: US Bullying at TPP Negotiations fights for Big Pharma profits, intellectual property rights and restricting the sale of generic drugs

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'Captagon' party drug is flooding Middle East thanks to retooling of Syria's pharmaceutical industry by CIA-trained terrorists

Chavala Madlena, Radwan Mortada
Foreign Policy
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:31 UTC
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© Mohammed Huwais/AFPWeapons, drugs and killing - lots of killing. Sounds like the CIA's kind of thing.
The chaos of the war against Bashar al-Assad is fueling the rise of a dangerous, new super-amphetamine across the Middle East.

Beirut — In a dank garage in a poor neighborhood in south Beirut, young men are hard at work. Industrial equipment hums in the background as they put on their surgical masks and form assembly lines, unpacking boxes of caffeine and quinine, in powder and liquid form. They have turned the garage into a makeshift illegal drug factory, where they produce the Middle East's most popular illicit drug: an amphetamine called Captagon.

For at least a decade, the multimillion-dollar Captagon trade has been a fixture of the Middle East's black markets. It involves everyone from Bulgarian and Syrian gangs, to Hezbollah, to members of the Saudi royal family.

Comment: Heroin in Vietnam (60s), cocaine in central America (70s), more heroin in Afghanistan (80s), ecstasy in the Balkans (90s) and now amphetamines in the Middle East.

Wherever the CIA goes, drugs-for-guns, mass addiction, mass psychosis, and mass insanity are sure to follow.

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Paris police source claims Europe's 'first female suicide bomber' did not blow herself up

Samuel Osborne
The Independent
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:09 UTC
Female suicide bomber
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Boulahcen is reported to have shouted: 'Help me, help me, I am on fire,' prior to the explosion in Saint-Denis

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman labelled "Europe's first woman suicide bomber" did not blow herself up during a police raid on an apartment building in Saint-Denis, new reports have claimed.

Despite French prosecutors initially saying she had detonated an explosives vest and died during the assault on Wednesday, a police source reportedly told Agence France-Presse​ news agency the suicide bomber who blew themselves up was a man, not a woman.

Boulahcen is reported to have shouted: "Help me, help me, I am on fire," prior to the explosion. Her body parts were later found strewn across the road.

Comment: As Harrison Koehli remarked in his recent article:
So what was it? "Help me! Help me!" or "Allahu Akbar!"? And what leads them to believe it was a suicide bombing? What about a SWAT grenade, or a bomb detonated by someone else in the apartment? In the recording, the woman clearly sounds distressed, and just like the Stade de France attacks, this 'bombing' did not target anyone except the alleged bomber - not your typical suicide bombing. And how did the man die? Sniper, multiple gunshots, grenade, or suicide vest? If he died at the same time as the woman, as some reports suggest, and if he died from a grenade, is it possible the woman died from the same cause? These kinds of conflicting statements also defined the end-game of the Toulouse shootings in 2012.


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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Which Way Does Europe Go?


Sott.net
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:00 UTC
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Broadcasting from deep in the heart of the American Empire, join your host Elan Martin, and fellow Sott.net editors, as they discuss everything from current events and the latest machinations and manipulations of the global elite to history, science, and religion, and how it all fits together.

Europa Europa! Since the attack of 11/13 in Paris, the worsening situation for immigrants and their host countries, the increasing threats of terrorism world-wide, and the war against ISIL - the big lie behind it all has become the burning issue as never before. As the Western narrative crumbles, the monstrous truth behind terrorism is slowly taking its place. But how and where is this taking effect - and what can we expect to see from the Empire of Chaos in the near future that will be attempting to counteract it?

The Truth Perspective is brought to you by the SOTT Radio Network and SOTT.net, your one-stop source for independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events.

Live every Saturday from 2-4pm EST / 11am-1pm PST / 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 01:40:00

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Who benefits from the terror attacks in France?

Nina Beety
Global Research
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:05 UTC
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At about 21:40 on November 13th, on the boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, near place de la Nation, a man sat down in the Comptoir Voltaire café and placed an order before detonating his suicide vest and killing himself. Fifteen people were injured, one of them seriously.
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Above is the image the mainstream media is using for the aftermath of the 'suicide bomb attack' at the Comptoir Voltaire café.

Notice anything odd?
In the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, there are three important questions to ask.

1) Cui bono?

2) What country could surpass and thwart the sophisticated French intelligence and surveillance system?

3) Why are outcry and public outpourings of support and grief so muted or entirely absent when other countries are invaded or attacked by our forces?

France is on alert since the Charlie Hebdo and market attacks, with heightened security due to President Hollande attending a public sporting event. Who has the resources to wage a coordinated, well-armed, utterly secret attack across Paris and escape notice despite surveillance?
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Paris suspects update: Salah still on the run from police AND ISIS; police release 7 out of 8 suspects arrested during St-Denis raid


Guardian, UK
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:30 UTC

Comment: A couple quick updates on the Paris attacks. For previous details, see: SOTT Exclusive: Terror mastermind and female suicide bomber killed: Some questions about the St-Denis raid


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(Clockwise from top left) Abdeslam Salah (at large), Bilal Hadfi, Ahmad Almohamad, Abdelhamid Abaaoud (alleged ringleader), Samy Amimour, Omar Mostefai
Salah Abdeslam has reportedly been in touch with friends on Skype, telling them he is hiding in the Brussels area and asking them for help in getting back to Syria.

The friends, who have spoken anonymously to ABC News, said that Abdeslam had called them on Tuesday evening and told them he was caught between the extensive police search and local Islamic State members who were "watching him", apparently unhappy that he had failed to detonate his suicide vest after the attacks in Paris.


Comment: If these anonymous reports can be trusted, Salah is seemingly afraid of his handlers. Who exactly are his handlers? That's the question.


According to ABC's report:
Abdeslam insisted he played only a minor role in the attacks, but his friends said they doubted his claim of innocence. His brother told ABC News that Abdeslam was "manipulated" by the attack mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, killed in a police raid Thursday in France. Abaaoud and Abdeslam were childhood friends and were arrested when caught in a robbery in 2010, according to an Abaaoud family attorney.
The claims appear to chime with a statement made earlier today by a lawyer for Hamza Attou, one of two suspects charged this week by Belgian authorities for allegedly helping Abdeslam return to the country after the attacks.
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Joining the obvious chorus: US Congressmen tell Obama to forget Assad, fight ISIL


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:24 UTC
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Republican and Democratic representatives in the US House of Representatives urged President Barack Obama to stop trying to overthrow Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and focus all efforts on fighting the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorist group.

On Friday, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard and Republican Austin Scott introduced legislation to end an "illegal war" to overthrow Assad.

"Working to remove Assad at this stage is counter-productive to what I believe our primary mission should be," Austin was quoted as saying by AP.

"The US is waging two wars in Syria. The first is the war against ISIS and other Islamic extremists, which Congress authorized after the terrorist attack on 9/11. The second war is the illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad," Gabbard said.

Comment: A growing chorus of Congressmen are finally breaking the 'group think' mentality of 'Assad must go' and creating a no-fly zone.

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