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UN censor: UN cut off webcast when US observers report on Syrian election at U.N


Syrian Free Press
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:05 UTC
US observers of Syrian election
© UnknownUS observers of the Syrian election report at the UN.
A group of Americans, who observed the Syrian presidential election first hand, reported at the United Nations on what they witnessed.~ As a group, they described the election in Syria as successful, free and transparent.~ They also called for an end to foreign support for anti-Damascus mercenary terrorist.

June 19, 2014 at 11am:

The Syrian Mission to the United Nations convened a press conference featuring people from the US who observed the recent elections.

Five minutes into the opening comments of Syrian Ambassador Bashar Al-Jaafari, the UN webcast cut off. The thousands of journalists, political analysts, and others who view UN webcasts each day from all over the world were denied the ability to watch the press conference, and hear what was said.

This is not the first time this has happened when Bashar Jaafari is speaking. This occurred on June 7th earlier this year, and on numerous occasions throughout 2013. Reporters at Inner City Press reported that this is not accidental, but was ordered by Michele DuBach, Acting Deputy Director-News & Media Operations.

Comment: See also: US observers report on Syrian election at UN: Elections were free, fair and and transparent

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US observers report on Syrian election at UN: Elections were free, fair and and transparent


Press TV
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 13:50 UTC
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma
© Reuters/SANA Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus pm June 3, 2014, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA.
A group of Americans, who observed the Syrian presidential election first hand, reported at the United Nations on what they witnessed.~ As a group, they described the election in Syria as successful, free and transparent.~ They also called for an end to foreign support for anti-Damascus mercenary terrorists.

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Wikileaks publishes document revealing banksters plan for global financial deregulation

Jon Queally
Commondreams.org
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
wikileaks mobile unit
© FlickrThe 'WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit' created by artist and activist Clark Stoeckley
WikiLeaks published a previously tightly-held and secretive draft of a trade document on Thursday that, if enacted, would give the world's financial powers an even more dominant position to control the global economy by avoiding regulations and public accountability.

Known as a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the draft represents the negotiating positions of the U.S. and E.U. and lays out the deregulatory strategies championed by some of the world's largest banks and investment firms.

According to WikiLeaks:

Despite the failures in financial regulation evident during the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis and calls for improvement of relevant regulatory structures, proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets. The draft Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals - mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt - into other nations by preventing regulatory barriers. The leaked draft also shows that the US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, which would allow uninhibited exchange of personal and financial data.

Comment: The banksters are hell-bent on controlling the world, see also:

Buying up the planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a corporate buying spree

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Light Sabers

Cold War front widens as Putin gives Iraq's al-Maliki 'Russia's full support'


Washington Post
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:35 UTC
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'After you'... 'No, after you'...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken by phone to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing Moscow's support for his action against the militant offensive.

The Kremlin said in a statement that al-Maliki informed Putin on Friday about his government's steps to combat the "terrorist groups in the north of the country." It added that the insurgency threatens security of the entire region.

Putin confirmed Russia's "full support for the Iraqi government's action to quickly free the territory of the republic from terrorists," the Kremlin said, adding that Putin and al-Maliki also discussed bilateral cooperation.

Putin's expression of support for the embattled Iraqi prime minister comes as al-Maliki's rivals have mounted a campaign to force him out of office, with some angling for support from Western backers and regional heavyweights.

Source: Associated Press

Comment: See also: Iraq 'receiving Russian arms' under historic deal

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Pirates

Spread of sexually transmitted diseases among European Jihadis in Syria and Iraq 'rampant'


AWD.com
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:06 UTC
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Dr. Baran Yilmaz, a specialist in the ''Medical Park'' hospital in the Turkish city of Gaziantep confirmed the information regarding the existence of many cases of congenital diseases among terrorist organization members whom are being admitted in Turkish hospitals near the border with Syria.

According to Dr. Yilmaz report which he presented to the hospital administration; in the past four days, it became clear through the meticulous medical examination that around 70% of Islamists who fight in Syria and northern Iraq are diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases due unsafe sexual intercourses, and in accordance with the results of the medical tests, approximately 30% of them are infected with HIV.

Dr. Yilmaz asked the hospital administration to impose more stringent quarantine measures up on those radical terrorist whom have been diagnosed with HIV, and also requested the hospital officials to not receive further numbers of the injured terrorists in the hospital for fear of an epidemic disaster.
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Comment: A 'spiritual war', eh?

See also:

Rape, pillage and plunder: Al Qaeda terrorists receive retrospective blessing from extremist Saudi cleric to enjoy hours-long 'intercourse marriages' with Syrian girls

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Your tax dollars hard at work: Pentagon crashed more than 400 military drones


RT
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:28 UTC
US drones
© Northrop Grumman / Chad Slattery / Handout via Reuters

While unmanned drones have become a popular weapon of choice during the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new report reveals that hundreds of them have been involved in major accidents around the world.

Following an investigation into more than 50,000 pages of federal and military records, the Washington Post found that more than 400 large American drones have crashed since 2001, with almost half of the accidents each causing millions of dollars in damages.

The news also highlights the potential risks of opening up American airspace to commercial, police, and military drone use, as the Federal Aviation Administration plans to in 2015. The government has argued its testing sites will allow for the safe use of domestic drones, particularly since warzone conditions won't be replicated on American soil, but the recent data shows there are still significant hurdles to overcome.

According to the Washington Post, no one has died as a result of a drone accident, but many times the disaster was avoided simply by chance or a difference of a few feet. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have crashed into homes, farms, roads, and even, in one case, an Air Force plane in midair.

Through various Freedom of Information Act requests, it was revealed that the military classifies its drone accidents in two different categories: Class A and B. Class A is made up of 194 drone accidents, each of which either destroyed the aerial vehicle involved or resulted in at least $2 million in damage. More than half of these accidents took place in Afghanistan and Iraq, but nearly 25 percent were in the US.
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Buying up the planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a corporate buying spree

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:16 UTC
Finance is the new form of warfare - without the expense of a military overhead and an occupation against unwilling hosts. It is a competition in credit creation to buy foreign resources, real estate, public and privatized infrastructure, bonds and corporate stock ownership. Who needs an army when you can obtain the usual objective (monetary wealth and asset appropriation) simply by financial means?

Dr. Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, October 2010
When the US Federal Reserve bought an 80% stake in American International Group (AIG) in September 2008, the unprecedented $85 billion outlay was justified as necessary to bail out the world's largest insurance company. Today, however, central banks are on a global corporate buying spree not to bail out bankrupt corporations but simply as an investment, to compensate for the loss of bond income due to record-low interest rates. Indeed, central banks have become some of the world's largest stock investors.

This is a rather alarming development. Central banks have the power to create national currencies with accounting entries, and they are traditionally very secretive. We are not allowed to peer into their books. It took a major lawsuit by Reuters and a congressional investigation to get the Fed to reveal the $16-plus trillion in loans it made to bail out giant banks and corporations after 2008.
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Bad Guys

Pennsylvania ignoring fracking health reports

Amy Mail
Switchboard
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:48 UTC
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Pennsylvania: Now a wasteland
Another deeply troubling story about the failure of our government leaders to protect Americans from the consequences of fracking is coming out of Pennsylvania. A blistering investigation from StateImpact Pennsylvania reports that two retired employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Health were instructed by their bosses to systematically ignore residents who reported health concerns they thought were related to natural gas development. The retirees claim they were ordered not to take or return calls on fracking-related health reports and were barred from attending community meetings on the topic without permission.

Fracking-related pollution has been linked to a wide range of health concerns around the country - including respiratory and neurological problems, birth defects, and cancer. People in Pennsylvania and in fracking communities all around the country have reported a wide range of health issues when fracking comes to town - rashes, respiratory problems, nose bleeds, headaches. (This "List of the Harmed" maintained by the Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air documentss more than 6,000 reports from around the country: (pdf)

The fact that the state health department - the state officials tasked with safeguarding public health - not only failed to investigate reports, but were directed to ignore them, is inexcusable.

This is one of the most troubling - but unfortunately, not surprising - examples of how our leaders at the state and federal levels have been failing to put the health of Americans over profits for powerful oil and gas interests. And if it was happening here unreported for so long, how are we to know it's not happening in other states?

Our federal leaders have let the American people down as well. EPA dropped an investigation into drinking water contamination in Dimock, PA - as well as in Texas and Wyoming - without sufficient explanation, despite evidence of lingering fracking-related contamination and health concerns.

Avoiding investigation of health complaints provides enough cover for frackers to continue claiming there's "no proof" of health impacts. This is backwards. It's the responsibility of our public officials to act in the public interest - not to benefit the oil and gas industry's bottom line.
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Piggy Bank

Paranoid androids: NATO chief Rasmussen sez 'Russians secretly working with environmentalists to make fracking seem bad'

Fiona Harvey
The Guardian
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:04 UTC
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It's all his fault!
Nato chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, says Moscow mounting disinformation campaign to maintain reliance on Russian gas

The head of one of the world's leading groups of democratic nations has accused Russia of undermining projects using hydraulic fracturing technology in Europe.


Comment: Wow, we've never heard NATO introduced as such before!...

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), and former premier of Denmark, told the Chatham House thinktank in London on Thursday that Vladimir Putin's government was behind attempts to discredit fracking, according to reports.

Rasmussen said: "I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas."

He declined to give details of those operations, saying: "That is my interpretation."


Comment: If in doubt, blame the Russkies!


Comment: Wow, that was an interesting trip inside the paranoid hive mind of "the world's leading groups of democratic nations"...

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Best of the Web: America: 'If we go down, we're taking the whole world with us'

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:35 UTC
Jihadis
© AlternetIraqi Shiite tribesmen brandish their weapons to show their willingness to join security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants on June 17, 2014 in Najaf.
Let's cut to the chase. As in chasing that Zara outdoor summer collection, complete with state of the art assault rifles, brand new white Nike sneakers and brand new, unlimited mileage white Toyotas crossing the Syrian-Iraqi desert; the Badass Jihadis in Black.

Once upon a (very recent) time, the US government used to help only "good terrorists" (in Syria), instead of "bad terrorists". That was an echo of a (less recent) time when it was supporting only "good Taliban" and not "bad Taliban".

So what happens when Brookings Institution so-called "experts" start blabbering that the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is really the baddest jihadi outfit on the planet (after all they were cast out of al-Qaeda)? Are they so badass that by warped newspeak logic they're now the new normal?

Since late last year, according to US government newspeak, the "good terrorists" in Syria are the al-Qaeda spinoff gang of Jabhat al-Nusra and (disgraced) Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush, the Islamic Front (essentially a Jabhat al-Nusra multiple outlet). And yet both Jabhat and ISIS had pledged allegiance to Ayman "the doctor" al-Zawahiri, the perennial gift that keeps on giving al-Qaeda capo.

That still leaves the question of what Men in Black ISIS, the catwalk-conscious beheading stormtroopers for a basket of hardcore tribal Sunnis and Ba'ath party "remnants" (remember Rummy in 2003?) are really up to.

We interrupt this desert catwalk to announce they will NOT invade Baghdad. On the other hand, they are busy accelerating the balkanization - and eventual partition - of both Syria and Iraq. They are NOT a CIA brainchild (how come Langley never thought about it?); they are in fact the bastard children of (disgraced) Bandar Bush's credit card largesse.
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