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Ukraine's Jailed Tymoshenko Moves to Hospital


Reuters
Wed, 09 May 2012 05:41 UTC
Yulia Tymoshenko
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
Kiev - Ukraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whose plight in prison has soured relations between the country's leadership and the West, was moved to a local hospital on Wednesday in a high-security police convoy.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has faced growing criticism over the conviction of Tymoshenko - and the authorities' refusal to let her travel abroad for treatment for chronic back pain.

Her transfer from prison in the eastern city of Kharkiv to a nearby hospital for treatment under the supervision of German doctors was worked out last week in a compromise.

But Wednesday's early morning transfer seemed unlikely to relieve pressure on Yanukovich who has been thrown on the back-foot by sharp Western criticism of his treatment of his rival.

Tymoshenko, 51, a former prime minister, was jailed last October for seven years for alleged abuse of power while in office, a charge she denied.

She says she is the victim of a vendetta by Yanukovich who narrowly beat her for the presidency in February 2010. The European Union and the United States have condemned her trial and sentencing as politically motivated and called for her to be released.
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Putin and Medvedev Complete Job Swap in Russia

Timothy Heritage and Steve Gutterman
Reuters
Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Medvedev, Putin
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Russia's former President and prime ministerial candidate Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks, while President Vladimir Putin listens, during a session of the Russian State Duma in Moscow May 8, 2012.
Moscow - Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed former president Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister on Tuesday, completing a job swap with Vladimir Putin that has sparked protests against the two leaders' grip on power.

The approval vote, comfortably won by Medvedev as Putin looked on, ignored growing concern in the country that keeping power in the hands of the same men who have led Russia for the past four years will bring political and economic stagnation.

Police led away more than 20 people, including two opposition leaders, when they broke up a peaceful protest near the Kremlin hours before the vote, after detaining more than 700 on the previous two days to keep a lid on dissent.

"They just started to grab people and put them in police buses," said Alexander Delfinov, 40, who was held for hours and ordered to appear in court on Friday, facing a fine or up to 15 days in jail.

Activists regrouped later and were chased around central Moscow by police who hemmed them in and detained dozens more.

In Twitter posts from police vans, prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak, a television host who has fallen out with Putin, said they were among those detained - Navalny for the second time in a day.

The United States said it was concerned by arrests and by clashes that erupted at a rally on Sunday, a day before Putin's inauguration as president, when police beat demonstrators with batons and some protesters wielded pieces of metal fencing and flagpoles.
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Bad Guys

The Yemen Underwear Bomb and Other Hobgoblins

James E. Miller
ZeroHedge
Tue, 08 May 2012 00:11 UTC
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Today it was widely reported that the CIA thwarted a "plot by al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb." This bomb, which was to be concealed in a pair of underwear, was designed as an improvement over what Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to use to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day of 2009. This bomb was upgraded and designed to specifically avoid metal detectors.

At first glance it would appear to be a job well done by the world's leading domestic affairs meddlers.

But like all of these instances, it was routinely denied "there was ever any immediate threat to the public." It was also revealed that:
The bomb plot had allegedly advanced to the point that a would-be suicide bomber was told to buy a ticket on the airliner of his choosing and decide the timing of the attack. It's not immediately clear what happened to the would-be bomber.
It would seem that what the CIA recovered was essentially just a crudely made bomb. The supposed bomber was nowhere to be found. There is no evidence presented as to a real threat or plan to use it.

The truth was finally revealed as the would-be bomber was, in fact, a double agent of the CIA.

When considering the nature of the state, this new instance of government supported terrorism is unsurprisingly comparable to previous cases.

Comment: See also: The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism

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Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.

David K. Shipler
The New York Times
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:23 UTC
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The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years - or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.

When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of "inert material," harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust.
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Attorney Haskell Blows Whistle on Underwear Bomber, Government Op

PoliceStateWatch
YouTube
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:39 UTC
I contend that this story is just the tip of the iceberg into the US government's black operations to further the Patriot Act, funding for Homeland Security and the TSA, and to keep intensity up for the so called War on Terror.


Respected lawyer and community leader, Kurt Haskell, has nothing to gain from pointing his finger at the federal government. He witnessed the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, being whisked past security and led onto NorthWest Airlines flight 253, by a well-dressed man with an American accent- all without the passenger's proper visa and passport documentation. What the news piece doesn't mention is that the State Dept did indeed put Mutallab on the plane, at the behest of "an unnamed US intelligence agency." Undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy (Detroit news article was removed from web!).

Comment: The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism

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Fake War on Terror: Underwear Bomber 2.0 was CIA Double Agent

Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt
The New York Times
Tue, 08 May 2012 18:31 UTC
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The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.

In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the double agent left Yemen, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his air attack and critical information on the group's leaders to the C.I.A., Saudi and other foreign intelligence agencies.

After spending weeks at the center of the terrorist network's most dangerous affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the agent provided critical information that permitted the C.I.A. to direct the drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, the group's external operations director and a suspect in the bombing of the American destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.

He also handed over the bomb, designed by the group's top explosives expert to be invisible to airport security, to the F.B.I., which is analyzing its properties.

Comment: Hooray for the CIA and the FBI and Saudi Intelligence and "other" intelligence agencies (wink, wink, M o s s a d), making the world safe for pedophile networks, wage slavery, drug trafficking, money-laundering and weapons smuggling!

That now makes TWO 'Underwear bombing plots' exposed as state terrorist plots:

The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism

Underwear Bomber Redux - Was Mutallab An Israeli "Secret Weapon"?

Haskell Blows Whistle on Underwear Bomber, Government Op

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Bad Guys

While Americans are starving, House panel OKs $1B for Israel's missiles


UPI
Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00 UTC
America poverty

How many Americans can 4 billion dollars feed? We'll never know, since the government is choosing to give the money to a terrorist state run by psychopaths who has no need to defend itself since it's the greatest armed aggressor in the region.
Amid concerns about rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. House of Representatives defense subcommittee has approved nearly $1 billion for Israel's anti-missile defense program, the highest single appropriation for the four-system project.

It includes the high-altitude Arrow 3 being developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and the Boeing Co. to destroy Iranian and Syrian ballistic missiles outside Earth's atmosphere.

The move by the Defense Appropriation subcommittee also covers the only missile defense system so far used in combat, Iron Dome, built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel to counter rockets with a range of 3-40 miles.

The $680 million slated for that system, designed to intercept short-range missiles and rockets and the lower rung of the planned missile defense shield, got the green light from the subcommittee April 29.

"The total appropriation ... reflects not only U.S. representatives' consistent support for Israel, but also rising concern about the Israel-Iran confrontation, which is liable to expose Israel to missile strikes from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas," Israel's Globes business daily reported Tuesday.
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Netanyahu reneges on early Israeli elections, strikes surprise coalition deal with Kadima


BBC
Tue, 08 May 2012 17:52 UTC
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Shaul Mofaz was elected leader of the Kadima party in March
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a deal with the opposition Kadima party, avoiding the early elections he had previously sought.

Kadima's recently-elected head, Shaul Mofaz, is to be named a deputy PM in a deal set to be ratified later.

The surprise move was agreed at a secret overnight meeting.

It came as the parliament, or Knesset, debated its dissolution ahead of elections that Mr Netanyahu had planned for September.

A statement issued by Mr Netanyahu's office said: "A broad national unity government is good for security, good for the economy and good for the people of Israel."

President Shimon Peres welcomed the deal as "good for the people of Israel", his office said.
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Interpol issues red notice for Iraqi Vice-President, wanted for terrorism against his own people


The Guardian
Tue, 08 May 2012 17:09 UTC
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© Saad Shalash/Reuters
Iraqi vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, denies all the charges against him, saying that they are politically motivated.
Tareq al-Hashemi, who is thought to be in Istanbul, is subject to red notice issued at request of Iraq over death squad claims

Interpol has called for help in arresting fugitive Iraqi vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi on suspicion of planning and funding attacks in Iraq.

Hashemi, a leading Sunni Muslim politician, fled Baghdad in December when the Shia-led government accused him of running death squads.

The vice-president, who is thought to be in Istanbul, has denied the charges, saying they are politically motivated. He has refused to stand trial in Baghdad.

Interpol, which is based in France, said on Tuesday it had issued the "red notice" arrest alert at the request of Iraqi authorities.

The notice did not amount to an international arrest warrant, it added, but was a call on forces in its 190 member countries to help locate Hashemi and bring him to justice.

Comment: That governments terrorise their own people then accuse 'terrorists out there' of committing the horrific deeds is not so crazy an idea after all, is it?

Burka Bombers: Spontaneously Exploding Iraqi Women

Flaming APCs! Now There's a Heart-Warming Story! Just Don't Mention The False Flag

Tareq Al Hashemi is a CIA asset, put in charge of running Iraq's death squads on behalf of the US government.



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Pedophilia in the Justice System

Keith Harmon Snow
Conscious Being Alliance
Tue, 01 May 2012 07:59 UTC
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The cover of the woman-hating "Father's Manifesto" book Screw the Bitch.
U.S. Family Courts Sacrificing Mothers & Children - Family Courts Behind an Epidemic of Pedophilia & Judicial Abuse

( * The article's original title Screw The Bitch - based on a book designed to destroy protective mothers - was unacceptably offensive to the author.)

A five month investigation reveals an epidemic of violence and corruption facilitated by Family Courts in the United States. Children all over the United States are being taken from their protective mothers and delivered to abusers. Behind this epidemic of judicial abuse are organized networks involved in racketeering and corruption, channeling and disappearing billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers money every year. Insurance companies are being defrauded by medical and mental health professionals rewarded handsomely for producing quack studies that criminalize loving mothers and protect abusive fathers. With clear evidence of racketeering and corruption, high court judges and insider lawyers use and abuse the Family Courts system to destroy protective mothers and deliver life sentences of suffering to innocent children. Rich, poor, middle-class... No child in America is safe.

Little did they know, the worst was yet to come. Sunny Kelley and Lori Handrahan are just two mothers in two states in the country whose cases provide irrefutable evidence of judicial abuse and pedophile trafficking through Family Courts. Their court cases went straight from horrible to hell.

Despite solid documentation of judicial corruption, cronyism, state social service agency abuse, misconduct or dismissal by police, and massive profiteering by officials who are preying on families and children, even the Federal Bureau of Investigation is mute.

Just when Sunny and Lori thought it couldn't get worse, it did.

Comment: For more information on just how deep the rabbit hole goes with regard to pedophilia, see these Sott articles:

International Sex Ring Exposed, Thousands of Children and Infants Raped

Child sex trafficking, 'epidemic' in US

Dutroux Cover-up Protected Pedophile Networks

Beyond the Dutroux Affair: The reality of protected child abuse and snuff networks in a world ruled by psychopaths

The Pedophocracy

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