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Obama wants to bomb Syria, but Monsanto is already carpet-bombing us

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 15:07 UTC
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Obama accepting his Nobel Peace Prize.
Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex ~ Frank Zappa

Recently, Maria Rodale, the CEO of the publishing company Rodale, Inc., wrote an open letter to President Obama regarding Syria, urging him to reconsider his position to press for a military strike against Syria.

While there is nothing unusual about Maria's anti-war sentiment, with a recent Washington/ABC poll finding nearly six in 10 Americans oppose military action as a response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons, her reference to biotech companies like Monsanto poisoning our children and environment with the president's support and encouragement, and her claim that the viral Facebook meme below contributed to her realization, caused the mainstream media to fume with reactionary waves of criticism and character assault.

All of this, of course, distracts from the underlying context of the coming war in Syria, which is a war (like most wars in modern history) spurred by the geopolitical machinations of 'resource procurement,' and which like most wars, are many years in the making. All else, as Frank Zappa pointed out, has strictly entertainment value.
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Dollar Gold

Best of the Web: Defence secretary praises 'fabulous' arms fair, stating selling weapons abroad is priority for Britain

Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:37 UTC
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© Shane Wilkinson/EPAPhilip Hammond, who said the UK government was 'not ashamed of promoting responsible defence exports'.
Philip Hammond praises 'fabulous' arms trade fair in London

Selling weapons abroad is a top priority for the government, Philip Hammond, the UK defence secretary, made clear on Tuesday, praising what he called a "fabulous show" displaying "fantastic kit".

It was the opening day of London Docklands' biennial arms bazaar, the biggest so far with 40 countries, including Russia and Israel, having their own national pavilions, and as many as 1,500 companies offering their wares.

Official guests at the arms show include the governments of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - countries that need to build up their armed forces after recent conflicts in which Britain has played its part - as well as such traditional arms trade allies as Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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Dollar

Still taking the money back: Top one percent took record 19.3 percent of U.S. income last year - the largest share of pre-tax income since 1927


Daily Mail UK
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:29 UTC
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Almost two years to the day that the Occupy Wall Street movement started, a report confirms that the rich are getting even richer. The top 1 per cent of earners collected 19.3 per cent of household income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century. U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades.

But until last year, the top 1 per cent's share of pre-tax income hadn't surpassed the 18.7 per cent it reached in 1927, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economist Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and three colleagues.

Saez wrote that 2012 incomes of the richest Americans might have surged in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

The nation's top 1 per cent have been the targets of resentment in recent years which was manifested in the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in September 2011. The movement started in New York's Zuccotti Park, and thousands camped out and marched for months calling for wide-reaching change in the capitalist system. The adopted chant was 'We are the 99 per cent' and the movement spread to cities throughout the U.S.
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War Whore

John Kerry accused of lying about being opposed to the Iraq War as he built case for military action in Syria

David Martosko
Daily Mail UK
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:20 UTC
Secretary of State John Kerry added to his public embarrassments as he was accused of lying today when he claimed that he and Secretary of State Chuck Hagel had 'opposed the president's decision to go into Iraq'. The Washington Post's Fact Checker column awarded Kerry four out of four 'Pinocchios,' its sliding scale of untruthfulness.

That ignoble result puts Kerry's comment on a credibility par with President Obama's recent claim that he articulated 'the world's red line' - not his own - when he first warned Syria's dictator of the consequences of using chemical weapons.

During an interview on MSNBC on September 5, Kerry said that air strikes against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria would not become yet another U.S. military quagmire, citing his alleged opposition to the Iraq War. 'I think a lot of Americans, a lot of your listeners, a lot of people in the country,' Kerry said, 'are sitting there and saying, "Oh my gosh, this is going to be Iraq, this is going to be Afghanistan, here we go again."'

'I know this, I've heard it,' he continued. 'And the answer is no, profoundly no. You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator - Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense - and when I was a senator, we opposed the president's decision to go into Iraq but we know full well how that [flawed] evidence [about weapons of mass destruction] was used to persuade all of us that authority ought to be given.'

But on October 11, 2002, according to Senate records, both Kerry and Hagel cast 'yea' votes on the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.'
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War Whore

GOP paymaster Sheldon Adelson to President Obama: 'I would be willing to help' on Syria

Shane Goldmacher
The National Journal
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:17 UTC
In an exclusive interview, the billionaire GOP donor offers to help the White House whip the Syria vote - if it's wanted, and needed.
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© AP Photo/Kin CheungSheldon Adelson offers to call a 'couple handfuls of friends' to drum up support for a Syria strike.
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat President Obama last year, has a message for the White House: Call me.

In an interview with National Journal, Adelson said he stands behind the White House's push for American military action against the Syrian government. Perhaps as important: Adelson said he's ready, if asked, to roll up his sleeves and help Obama - the "commander in chief," as he repeatedly called him - corral the needed votes in Congress for a strike.

"He is our commander in chief, whether we like what he says politically or not," Adelson said late Monday evening.
The 80-year old Republican, one of the most influential GOP moneymen in the nation, is no Obama apologist. He's still the financier who spent, along with his wife, nearly $100 million trying to defeat Democratic candidates, Obama chief among them, last year. But he is also a pro-Israel hawk who said that America's standing in the world is at stake in the showdown with Syria over chemical weapons.

"I would be willing to help out the administration because I believe it's the right thing to do. He is our only - we don't have any other commander in chief," he said.

The comments are Adelson's first public remarks on the Syria situation, although the Republican Jewish Coalition, an advocacy group that he chairs, did support a Syria strike last week. His offer of a helping hand comes as Russia floated a diplomatic solution in which Damascus would cede its chemical weapons to avoid a strike, something Obama called a potential "breakthrough" on Monday.

Comment: This is a stunningly blatant example of how a handful of billionaires completely control the US government. These billionaires want to start a war with Syria because it is GOOD FOR BUSINESS. They make big money off of every bullet and bomb sold, and they reap insane profits from the natural resources stolen from the indigenous populations in the invaded countries. The fact that thousands of innocent Syrians will be slaughtered does not matter to them in the slightest. The fact that American solders will be killed doesn't phase them either. They have no morals, ethics, or empathy... all they have is a pathological, unending desire for more power and money, and they don't care who dies, as long as they get it..

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Best of the Web: Syria: Assad not responsible for Ghouta gas attack, says freed hostage Pierre Piccinin

Umberto Bacchi
International Business Times
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:50 UTC
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© RTLBelgian writer and Syrian hostage Pierre Piccinin said Assad is not to blame for the Ghouta Chemical gas attack
A Belgian writer held hostage for five months in Syria has said that his own rebel captors denied that President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the Ghouta massacre.

Pierre Piccinin said that he and fellow hostage Domenico Quirico, an Italian war reporter, heard their jailers talking about the chemical weapon attack and saying that Assad was not to blame.

Quirico confirmed to La Stampa newspaper that they had eavesdropped such a conversation through a closed door but added that he had no evidence to substantiate what he heard.

Piccinin said the captives became desperate when they heard that the US was planning to launch a punitive attack against the regime over the gas attack in the Damascus suburb.

Comment: See also:
Assad did not order Syria chemical weapons attack, says German press
Putin: Syria chemical attack is 'rebels' provocation in hope of intervention'
Putin accused Kerry of lying about al-Qaida's involvement in Syria at the G-20 summit
Syria: Associated Press admits White House has no evidence whatsoever
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Bad Guys

Putin's challange to Obama: 'What will you do if rebels are the ones using chemical weapons?'

Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:39 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has a strange way of speaking straightforwardly, without all the artificial and "morally superior" airs one expects from Western politicians.

Putin to Obama: What will you do if it turns out that the armed rebels are the ones who used weapons of mass destruction?

Earlier, for example, he wondered why Western leaders were supporting cannibals in Syria:
You will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe for hundreds of years.
Putin was referring to the notorious video of a jihadi leader biting into the organs of a Syrian soldier while screaming Islamic slogans.

Now, the straightforward Russian has asked another equally important and straightforward question - the sort of question so full of common sense that most Western politicians never expect to hear a fellow politician asking (and, as usual, one the Western media have failed to report on, though Arabic media is abuzz with it).
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Best of the Web: Were Syria gas attack victims actually kidnapped supporters of al-Assad government?


Voltaire Network
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:47 UTC
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One of the children kidnapped by al Qaeda, then murdered in the false-flag attack against Syria
Following the broadcasting of the images of the massacre in Ghouta, distributed by the Free Syrian Army and relayed by US and French services, Alawite families from Latakia have filed a complaint for murder.

Some of these videos were filmed and posted on Youtube before the events they picture.*

They show children suffocating from a chemical intoxication that can't possibly be sarin gas (the latter provokes yellow drool, not white drool).

The children do not correspond to a sample of the population: they are all almost of the same age and have light hair. They are not accompanied by their grieving families.

They are in fact children who were abducted by jihadists two weeks before in Alawite villages in the surroundings of Latakia, 200km away from Ghouta.

Contrary to the sayings of the Free Syrian Army and the Western services, the only identified victims of the Ghouta massacre are those belonging to families that support the Syrian government. In the videos, the individuals that show outrage against the ''crimes of Bashar el-Assad'' are in reality their killers.

Comment: Are folks starting to see a pattern emerging here?

Russian journalist exposes lies about Houla Massacre

Houla massacre carried out by Syrian 'rebels', says Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Children shot, knifed, axed to death in Free Syrian Army's Houla massacre

Not only did al-Assad not kill his own people, his own people were in fact kidnapped, gassed to death while being filmed, then presented as 'evidence' that "al-Assad kills his own people".

The truth is that al-Assad is defending his people from 'al Qaeda', that proxy army set up, funded and managed by the CIA, the Mossad, MI6 and DGSE.

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Cult

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the CIA's Saudi agent behind effort to topple Assad


Press TV
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:20 UTC
Press TV has conducted an interview with author and political commentator Ralph Schoenman about Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia who is reportedly leading a secret Saudi-CIA effort to aid militants in Syria.


Comment: Syrian rebels and local residents testify that Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, supplied chemical weapons to 'al-Qaeda-linked group'

Saudi snake, Prince Bandar, tried first to bribe Russia to drop its support of Syria, then threatened to unleash Chechen terrorists at 2014 Winter Olympics

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Chess

Deal or no deal: John Kerry's historic diplomatic "mistake" proves that Obama does not want peace

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:07 UTC
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When it comes to diplomacy, Russia is playing chess, Syria is playing checkers and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is playing tiddlywinks. On Monday, Kerry said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid having his country bombed into oblivion by turning over "every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week." Of course Kerry just assumed that Assad would never do such a thing, but the Russians immediately pounced on his statement. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov quickly announced that Russia would encourage Syria to turn over their chemical weapons to international control in exchange for a guarantee that the U.S. will not attack, and subsequently Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem stated that his government was prepared for "full cooperation with Russia to remove any pretext for aggression." Later on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicated that he is thinking about asking the UN Security Council to support such a deal.

Do you know what they call such a move in chess?

Checkmate.

We were originally told that the primary goal of a U.S. military strike on Syria would be to prevent them from using chemical weapons in the future, and then John Kerry said that Assad could avoid a conflict by giving up all of his chemical weapons.

Well, the Russians and the Syrians have called the bluff.

So does this mean that we will have peace?

Unfortunately, the Obama administration does not seem to want that. The State Department has already come out and announced that what John Kerry said was a mistake. They insist that it was a "rhetorical argument" instead of an actual peace proposal.
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