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Anti-Islam Teachings 'Widespread' in U.S. Law Enforcement

Ryan Devereaux
Guardian UK
Sun, 13 May 2012 12:28 UTC
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© ShutterstockMuslims are waiting for the call to prayer at the Umayyad Mosque on October 12, 2007 in Aleppo,Syria. homeros
A course at a military academy that taught US officers to prepare for "total war" with Islam does not represent an isolated incident, campaigners have warned.

The Pentagon moved swiftly to distance itself from revelations that officers in a defense department class were taught that "Hiroshima"-style tactics would be needed to combat the threat from Islam.

"It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn't academically sound," said General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

The class in question was canceled in April and Dempsey noted the instructor responsible for the course, army lieutenant colonel Matthew A Dooley, is "no longer in a teaching status". Dooley, however, is still employed at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.

Linda Sarsour, executive director at the Arab American Association of New York, said the course is merely the latest example in a proliferation of anti-Muslim teaching materials in law-enforcement agencies. "It's part of a much larger problem," Sarsour said, pointing to similar controversies involving the FBI and the New York police department.
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Heart - Black

Capitalists and Other Psychopaths

William Deresiewicz
New York Times
Sat, 12 May 2012 11:03 UTC
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There is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are "clinical psychopaths," exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an "unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation." (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.

The only thing that puzzles me about these claims is that anyone would find them surprising. Wall Street is capitalism in its purest form, and capitalism is predicated on bad behavior. This should hardly be news. The English writer Bernard Mandeville asserted nearly as much three centuries ago in a satirical-poem-cum-philosophical-treatise called The Fable of the Bees.

Private Vices, Publick Benefits read the book's subtitle. A Machiavelli of the economic realm - a man who showed us as we are, not as we like to think we are - Mandeville argued that commercial society creates prosperity by harnessing our natural impulses: fraud, luxury and pride. By "pride" Mandeville meant vanity; by "luxury" he meant the desire for sensuous indulgence. These create demand, as every ad man knows. On the supply side, as we'd say, was fraud: "All Trades and Places knew some Cheat, / No Calling was without Deceit."
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Yoda

911 Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: US government needs to keep the fear factor alive


Russia Today
Wed, 09 May 2012 10:05 UTC
The Obama administration has the worst track record when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Obama once claimed he'd work hard to have a transparent government, but many have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Sibel Edmonds, who is a whistleblower, waited 340 days for FBI clearance of her memoir but finally released it on her own. Edmonds, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, joins us for more.

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Star of David

Iran sentences 13 for spying for Israeli spy agency


Press TV
Sun, 13 May 2012 09:57 UTC
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An Iranian court has sentenced 13 people after finding them guilty of involvement in espionage activities for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.

Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolution Court made the decision on Sunday, stating that they had been lured into spying for the Mossad by overseas-based satellite television networks and clever advertisement campaigns.

The defendants reportedly accepted large sums of money from Mossad and CIA agents.

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on April 17 that it had arrested over a dozen Israeli-linked spies and terrorists.

The ministry said the detainees were of Iranian and non-Iranian nationalities.
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Bomb

Syrian Rebels Admit Terrorist Bombing Campaign (Then Deny Actual Bombings)

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Thu, 10 May 2012 09:48 UTC
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Perhaps in an attempt to soften coming revelations that Syria's opposition will be increasingly armed and backed by the West for a final military push to divide and destroy a sovereign Syria, Reuters released a report titled, "Outgunned Syria Rebels Make Shift to Bombs." The report admits that the Syrian rebels, depicted so-far as hapless pro-democracy protesters, are now turning to bombing tactics.

Reuters quotes one rebel fighter as saying, "we are starting to get smarter about tactics and use bombs because people are just too poor and we don't have enough rifles." The unnamed rebel continued, "it is just no match for the army, so we are trying to focus on the ways we can fight." Reuters attempts to allay the fears of its readers by claiming rebels they interviewed insisted that, "unlike al Qaeda, their bombs were aimed at military, and never civilian, targets."

Paradoxically, however, the Reuters story reveals that the rebel bombing campaign is being carried out by Sunni "hardliners" who learned their bombing skills from fighting (and killing) US troops in neighboring Iraq - or in other words, the very "al Qaeda" the rebels claim they are not like. A "Syrian Liberation Army" spokesman also admitted that his fighters were operating "manufacturing facilities" for bombs - like the one in Hama that recently exploded, killing 70 and leveled the greater part of a city block.
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Bomb

Various Spin on the Terrorist Bombings in Syria as the Destabilization Campaign Rolls On

Scott Creighton
willyloman.wordpress.com
Sat, 12 May 2012 09:45 UTC
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The recent bombings in Syria and their deadly civilian toll has brought a great deal of attention to the U.S./NATO destabilization campaign in that country. Some news agencies like Press TV have now taken to referring to the situation in Syria as a "destabilization campaign" and that's a good start though I wouldn't expect Fox and CNN to follow suit anytime soon. And don't expect "dissidents" on the left like Amy Goodman or Chris Hedges to point this out either. Maybe in 25 years when the files are declassified the American public will get the truth but by then there will be none of us conspiracy theorists left to report on it.

The bombings are taking an unusually brutal toll. The Western-backed NATO terrorists are desperate to derail any political solution to the problem especially now that the parliamentary elections have been held (the NATO-backed opposition refused to take part) and the new Syria constitution has been approved by the population (89% approved of the new constitution) which again, the NATO-backed opposition refuses to recognize because the White House wants to write their own neo-liberal constitution for the Syrian people just like they did in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

The PR blow-back from the recent bombings has the globalist Clinton run State Department doing back-flips trying to spin the story one way then the other.first they say it's al Qaeda, then they say it's Assad himself, now we're back to the al Qaeda story.
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Vader

Damascus terror bombing: Made in the USA

Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site
Sun, 13 May 2012 09:36 UTC
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"Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point" at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate's foreign relations committee.

Thursday saw the latest incarnation of this policy. The devastating car bombs that slaughtered 55 people and left nearly 400 more wounded in Damascus mark a new stage in the criminal imperialist campaign for regime change in Syria.

Having hijacked the protest movement that began in Syria in March of last year in the bid to turn it into a vehicle for installing a client regime in Damascus, Washington went on to back the formation of the "Friends of Syria", modeled upon a similar international formation used to prepare the war on Libya.

It declared the Syrian National Council, a collection of Islamist politicians from the Muslim Brotherhood and aging exile assets of various Western intelligence agencies to be the "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people and backed the formation of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) to carry out armed attacks on Syrian security forces.
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Bomb

Al CIA-duh: Islamist group al-Nusra Front claims responsibility for Damascus bombings

Damien Pearse
The Guardian
Sat, 12 May 2012 08:28 UTC
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© Sana/EPACars burn at the scene of two blasts that hit the Syrian capital Damascus on 10 May 2012.
Video posted online says twin car bombings that killed 55 people in Syrian capital were revenge for Assad regime's aggression

An obscure Islamist group, the al-Nusra Front, has posted a video online claiming responsibility for two bomb attacks that killed 55 people in Syria's capital, Damascus, earlier this week.

The video, narrated by a man whose voice was disguised, showed no images of militants making or setting up the bomb and did not claim the attacks as suicide bombings.

Footage showing black smoke rising over Damascus from the day of the blast was shown at the end of the statement, labelled as coming from the 'Camera of the Mujahideen [holy warriors]'.

The video emerged amid reports by activists of renewed fighting between rebels and the army in northern Syria on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fighting in Idlib province, on Syria's northern border with Turkey - a hotspot of the 14-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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MIB

Prolonging Obama's Peaceful War: Afghan peace negotiator shot dead by 'unknown gunman'

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The Guardian
Sun, 13 May 2012 08:07 UTC
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© Mohammad Ismail/ReutersArsala Rahmani, shot by unknown gunmen (ahem, western agents)
Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of Afghanistan's high peace council, killed by an unknown attacker in Kabul

A gunman has shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council in Kabul, striking another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.

Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official turned Afghan peace negotiator, was in his vehicle when he was killed by an unknown attacker at an intersection in the west part of the city, according to Mohammad Zahir, head of the Kabul police department's criminal investigation division.

The Taliban denied responsibility for the killing, although they had earlier indicated that they would target peace negotiators.
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Evil Rays

London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics


The Guardian
Sun, 13 May 2012 08:02 UTC
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Crowd Control: the LRAD was designed in the US, tested in Iraq and now it's coming to the London Olympics to keep protesters/terrorists (same thing really) away.
American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a device that can be used as a "sonic weapon" will be deployed in London during the Olympics.

The American-built long-range acoustic device (LRAD), which has been used by the US army to control crowds in Iraq, can emit an ear-piercing beam of sound.

An MoD spokesman said the device, which can also be used as a loudspeaker, was among a "broad range of assets" being used by the armed forces to provide security during the Games.

He said it would be used primarily in loud hailer mode to issue verbal warnings to any boats on the river Thames that were causing concern.
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