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Attention

Lying About Syria, and the Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying

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"U.S. prepares for possible retaliatory strike against Syria," announces a Los Angeles Times headline, even though Syria has not attacked the United States or any of its occupied territories or imperial forces and has no intention to do so.

Quoth the article:
The president made no decisions, but the high-level talks came as the Pentagon acknowledged it was moving U.S. forces into position in the region.
Forgive me, but who the SNAFU made that decision? Does the commander in chief have any say in this? Does he get to make speeches explaining how wrong it would be to attack Syria, meet with top military officials who leave the meeting to prepare for attacks on Syria, and go down in history as having been uninvolved in, if not opposed to, his own policies?

Threatening to attack Syria, and moving ships into position to do it, are significant, and illegal, and immoral actions. The president can claim not to have decided to push the button, but he can't pretend that all the preparations to do so just happen like the weather. Or he couldn't if newspapers reported news.

(Yes, illegal. Read the U.N. Charter:

Bad Guys

British MP George Galloway: Israel gave chemicals to Syria rebels

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© AlalamBritish MP George Galloway believes Syria chemical attacks a botched plot by outsiders
A British parliamentarian says Israel has been giving out chemical arms to the anti-Syria militants.

George Galloway, Britain's Respect Party for Bradford West said Israel provided terrorist groups linked with al-Qaeda with chemical weapons.

"If there's been any use of nerve gas, it's the rebels that used it...If there has been use of chemical weapons, it was Al Qaeda who used the chemical weapons", Galloway said.

"Who gave al-Qaeda the chemical weapons? Here's my theory: Israel gave them the chemical weapons", Galloway MP added.

Meanwhile, media reports had it that Qatar's Al Jazeera TV and Reuters news agency published the news of massacre in East Ghouta, Damascus "one day" before the massacre happened.

According to the reports tens of videos were uploaded before foreign-backed terrorists announced and accused the Syrian government of conducting chemical attacks on its own people. Those evidences show the terrorists massacred people, including women and children, then recorded and uploaded the scenes to deceive the world's public opinion, but they did so hurriedly and gave themselves up.

The question here is why the Syrian government and its army should have committed such a heinous mass murder using chemical weapons when the United Nations inspectors are visiting the country to investigate the use of such weapons?

The foreign-backed terrorists and mercenaries hired by certain regional Arab countries are making up those allegations against the popular government of President Bashar al Assad to invoke a foreign armed intervention in Syria the same as what they did in Libya.

Boat

Russian hovercraft storms ashore, surprises beachgoers


A giant Russian military hovercraft made an amphibious landing on a beach full of stunned sunbathers along the Baltic coast.

The massive 187-foot-long vessel, which rides on a cushion of air, is seen gently gliding up onto the sand as beachgoers in Mechnikovo, Kaliningrad, gawk and snap photos.

Russia's RT.com says no one was hurt in the incident.

Che Guevara

Latin America condemns U.S. espionage at United Nations Security Council

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The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar

Throughout the day, on August 6, President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner of Argentina chaired a historic United Nations Security Council meeting that revealed a seismic shift in geopolitical consciousness and incipient strength.

The agenda of Security Council meeting 7015 was: "Cooperation Between the United Nations and Regional and Sub-regional Organizations in Maintaining International Peace and Security."

The prelude to this meeting was held, the prior day, August 5, at a press stakeout given by Elias Jaua Milano, Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Hector Timerman, Foreign Minister of Argentina, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Foreign Minister of Brazil, Luis Almagro, Foreign Minister of Uruguay and David Choquehuanca Cespedes, Foreign Minister of Bolivia.


Take 2

The Syria 'chemical weapons' media hype: Pushing for military intervention

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Yesterday's report of an alleged 'chemical weapon' attack near Damascus has prompted the US and UK media machines to spin into overdrive in the push for a military intervention and regime change in Syria.

Washington's official response is predictable by now: "The White House is 'deeply concerned' about reports that chemical weapons were used by Syria's government against civilians".

In the UK, the mainstream media has put on a full-court press, clearly delivering a guilty verdict even before any claims can be independently verified, a coordinated trial-by-media which looks to be designed to coax a majority public support for either a direct supply of arms to the confab of 'rebel' insurgencies in Syria.

Pre-Iraq War talking points have been dusted off by the UK press and others, as the PR war begins for the hearts and minds of voters begins. It is alleged that hundreds have been killed by this latest 'gas attack' which is being compared by the UK media to Iraq where thousands of Kurds were gassed by Saddam Hussein in Halabja in 1988.

The focus of the UK and US government-media-complex led efforts to win public support for a "humanitarian intervention" similar that which was perpetrated in Libya in 2011, is now centred around the main victims of the conflict being portrayed as that of children.

No one within the government media complex is asking the most fundamentally important question here: were real military-grade chemical weapons actually used at all? The reason no one is asking this is because the answer to this question so far is a resounding 'no', which means that despite all the media hype neither the UK nor the US governments have a case against the Assad regime regarding the use of chemical weapons during this conflict.

Attention

Syria: Cameron and Obama agree to military strike over chemical weapons

The US president sealed the deal in a 40-minute phone call to the Prime Minister at his holiday retreat in Cornwall.

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David Cameron and Barack Obama last night agreed to take military action against Syria, the Sunday People has reported.

The US president sealed the deal in a 40-minute phone call to the Prime Minister at his holiday retreat in Cornwall.

The two leaders agreed that Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad was responsible for using chemical weapons against children.

Mr Obama and Mr Cameron will discuss the military options in the next few days.

They include missile strikes, ­disabling the Syrian air force or ­enforcing a no-fly zone across the country. A No.10 source said: "The significant use of chemical weapons would merit a serious response.

"The PM and the President are now looking at all the options."

But they ruled out sending in British and American ground troops.

The source said both leaders ­believe President Assad is deliberately trying to cover up the atrocity in the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus on Wednesday that left up to 1,000 dead.

Assad forces were yesterday ­shelling the area of the nerve-gas attack to destroy evidence.

The source added: "It seems ­increasingly unlikely the United Nations investigators will be allowed to go there." That was despite requests from UN disarmament chief Angela Kane who was in Damascus yesterday to press for access.

Pills

Terrorists hopped up on amphetamines: Lebanese police seize trucks full of Captagon headed to Syria

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© The Daily Star/Mohammad AzakirA large quantity of Captagon tablets are displayed at a police station in Beirut on Tuesday, August 13, 2013.
Police stopped an attempt to smuggle trailers filled with large amounts of Captagon pills into Syria Saturday, security sources told The Daily Star.

Six trailers heading to Syria were seized by a patrol of the Internal Security Forces in the town of Saadnayel in the Bekaa Valley.

The trailer trucks were accompanied by another vehicle, a blue Nissan Sunny, which had three Syrians in it.

Cards

SOTT Focus: Know when to fold 'em: Groklaw and the Total Security State

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I'm sure many of you have heard about Lavabit shutting down rather than cooperating with a plan to expose their customers' communications to the government. It was quite a laudable response and, indeed, there was much celebratory banter. Then everybody went home and moved on with their lives.

Then, in response to what had occurred to Lavabit, Groklaw (and separately, SilentCircle), announced it was shutting down, based on what had happened to Lavabit. Response ranged from mystified wonderment, to insinuations that it was a publicity stunt. How that publicity would benefit a company that had just shut down, I don't know. Such is the internet. I suspect that the underwhelming support and negativity arose from the fact that most folks had never heard of Groklaw before the announcement.

So What Was Groklaw?

Groklaw was started in 2003 as a blog that reported and discussed legal issues as they related to software. This was mainly centered on free and open-source software, and also included topics related to software patents, DMCA, RIAA and, as a natural consequence, did some reporting on commercial software and their parent companies.

So, how did Groklaw and Lavabit come to be mentioned in the same sentence?

It's pretty simple. Think of people's communications as candy, and software as the candy machine. The government has a key to pretty much every candy machine on the planet for the moment, and can gorge endlessly on their ill-gotten gains. In the real world, that would be every 8 year old's dream. But, much like that 8 year old's reality, the candy machines are continually being upgraded and being made more secure. So the government, unlike the 8 year old, undertook to perpetually have the key to every new candy machine that came on the market.

Eye 1

Israel's Mossad 'working closely' with NSA over spying


An American journalist has accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of cooperating with the US government over spying on people.

"Israel was heavily involved with the spying on American citizens, working in cooperation with the National Security Agency," Mark Glenn told Press TV on Monday.

"Hi-tech Israeli companies tied with Israel's Mossad and with Israeli military intelligence were working closely with the National Security Agency," said Glenn, co-founder of Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement.

Israel's involvement with the NSA was mentioned in the media when the story first broke out in June by American whistleblower Edward Snowden, "but then this story quickly lost contraction; it didn't get mentioned anymore," Glenn said.

Comment: See also:

PRISM for your Mind: NSA, WikiLeaks and Israel


Airplane

Japan scrambles fighter jets against Russian military planes

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© Agence France-PresseA Russian bomber TU-95 flying in airspace near the isle of Okinoshima in western Japan.
Japan scrambled fighter jets on Sunday as a pair of Russian military planes flew along the nation's northern coastline, the defence ministry said.

Two IL-38 planes flew along shorelines of Hokkaido, Aomori and Akita, facing the Sea of Japan (East Sea), but stayed away from Japanese airspace, the ministry added.

Japan's Self-Defence Forces "responded by scrambling fighters," according to a brief press release from the ministry which came with a map of the Russian planes' flight path.

Japanese defence officials could not be reached for immediate comment.