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Massive Syrian Crowd Greets Russian Foreign Minister

Today is going to be a two post day, so stay tuned....

First this video.

Throngs of ordinary Syrians greet Sergei Lavrov as his car moved through Damascus. Still believe most Syrians aren't positively thrilled about the Russian and Chinese VETO at the UN.

The fact they have avoided, at this time, being bombed to smithereens by NATO has got to make them ecstatic


Propaganda

Target Syria: Incubator babies, Buffer zones and UN missions

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Aiyirah al-Sabah, daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, cried before a Congressional committee in the run-up to the First Gulf War, telling Senators about Saddam Hussein's troops taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on hospital floors. It was a lie. But hey, it worked the first time; why not repeat the propaganda technique again and again until it stops working?
From soup to nuts?

We're back to Syria. The veto stopped NATO nations from gaining legitimacy, so they continue on with their illegitimate tactics.

I promise at some point in time there will be other topics here. Honest!

But for now.... it is, what it is.

You may have seen two interesting news stories yesterday. They're both as bogus as a "wooden nickel" or a three dollar bill.

First one: "Premature babies in incubators in Homs"

How many incubator stories do you have to hear or read before you "get it"?

How many incubator stories does the media have to give you before you "awaken" to the lies?

During the uprising in Egypt there was an incubator baby story (I covered that one somewhere on this blog). Were their incubator babies in Libya? Or was it just the Viagra tale?

Of course the most infamous was Iraq and the Kuwaiti princess and that version of the incubator story. I am hoping everyone is familiar with that one?

If not, read When contemplating war beware of babies& incubators

Light Sabers

Anti-terrorist Syrian city of Aleppo attacked, Russia threatens "drastic measures"

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© sana.syAbove is one photo from the group of photos I could barely look at the rest
Aleppo pays for being anti-terror!

Associated Press: Blasts hit security headquarters in Syrian city that has stood by Assad.

Another headline: Two blasts kill at least 25 in Assad stronghold of Aleppo, Syria

Those headlines sum up nicely exactly why Aleppo was struck in such a deadly fashion.

If you caught my post from yesterday, you would have known that the inhabitants of Aleppo came out in a big way to cheer the Russian Foreign Ministers visit, the veto at the UN and to support their leadership.

To Syria's NATO backed terrorists, this would have been an outrage! How dare they want to remain unscathed by terror. How dare they not want to be bombed to smithereens. The NATO backed terrorists are armed to the teeth and they mean business. Deadly business.

Star of David

US scenario in Syria: Turkish incursion, Israeli invasion

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Supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad attend a huge rally in central Damascus on February 5, 2012.
Informed sources have uncovered a US plot entailing a Turkish incursion and a full-scale Israeli strike to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

The sources said aspects of the plan such as rejecting calls by Damascus for an Arab League meeting over the crisis in the country, recognizing of the Syrian opposition as the "legitimate" government of the country and granting them offices in Turkey to work against the Syrian government, have already been carried out.

As part of the plan, Syrian embassies and consulates would be attacked in several countries and the diplomatic offices would be used as bases to inflict heavy blows on the Syrian government.

Vader

Polls show minority in US and Israel favor military or covert action against Iran

(Preface: Roubini says that attacking Iran would lead to global recession. The IMF says that Iran cutting off oil supplies could raise crude prices 30%. War with Iran would kill the American economy. and see this and this).

So yes, this is a newsworthy economic and financial story.

The Americans and Israelis Beat the War Drums ... But the People Want Peace

While the same neoconservatives who pushed the Iraq war are now loudly beating the drums of war against Iran, neither the American or Israeli people want war.

A new United Technologies/National Journal "Congressional Connection Poll," finds that only 13% Americans think the U.S. should "take covert action against Iran such as sabotage and assassination of scientists working on their nuclear program".

Vader

Indefinite detention and torture: NDAA in action

The National Defense Authorization Act took affect less than a month ago and already the US government is making use of the controversial law. Musa'b al-Madhwani is the first Guantanamo Bay prison to feel the effects of the new law that President Obama at one point vowed to veto. The NDAA allows for the indefinite detention and torture of American citizens at home and abroad without a trial and also gives more power to the military and government. David Swanson, campaigner for Roots Action, joins us for more.


War Whore

Obama lies: Drones Kill the Innocent

Barack Obama says the drone attacks he authorises are targeted only at named people on a list of active terrorists who are a direct threat to America. The facts tell a different story.


Dollar

Max Keiser: Greek economy destroyed by Weapon of Economic Warfare

Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty. Behind it all is a network of interlinked private financial interests which is using banking instruments to terrorise whole populations into submission.


USA

National Security Letters: Eviscerating the constitution since 1978

The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce to American law.

One of those changes were amendments to a little-known and little-used FBI instrument called National Security Letters.

Find out more about how the US government keeps its opposition silent with these constitution-destroying investigative tools on this week's edition of The Eyeopener.


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Social Media "Tactical Intelligence Collection": Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter

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A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies' (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as "the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection". IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports:
We explain that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a host of other social networking platforms are increasingly viewed by intelligence agencies as invaluable channels of information acquisition. We base our findings on three recent case studies, which we believe highlight the intelligence function of social networking. (Joseph Fitsanakis, Research: Spies increasingly using Facebook, Twitter to gather data, intelNews.org, February 13, 2012)
What the study fails to mention, however, is the use of social media by intelligence agencies for other purposes. The study leads us to believe that social media is solely an intelligence gathering tool, when in fact, a number of reports have shown that it is used for propaganda including the creation of fake identities in support of covert operations. Those practices are discussed in Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda, Social Media: Air Force ordered software to manage army of Fake Virtual People and Pentagon Seeks to Manipulate Social Media for Propaganda Purposes, published on Global Research in 2011.