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Star of David

Gulag Gaza: 'No one responsible' for deaths of 21 Palestinian civilians says Israeli military

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Russia Today
Wed, 02 May 2012 16:47 UTC
Gaza City attack
© AFP Photo / Mahmud HamsPalestinian men pull a man injured in the Zeitun district of Gaza City following Israeli strikes on January 12, 2009.

Israel's military has closed an investigation into the deaths of 21 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2009, finding no one responsible for the shelling. It also ruled the accident was not a war crime and the civilians were not targeted deliberately.

­The Military Advocate General wrote to the country's Human Rights Group B'Tselem on Tuesday that the Military Police had closed the long-lasting probe.

"The investigation completely disproved any claim about deliberate harm to civilians, as well as haste and recklessness about possible harm to civilians, or criminal negligence," Israeli media quoted Major Dorit Tuval as writing.

Comment: It comes as no surprise. Israel acts with impunity and is hardly likely to self police as it spews US tax dollars in the form of bombs onto civilians living in Gulag Gaza. The aim of war is death, destruction, fear and misery, these aims were achieved, where would any observer expect Israel to find a fault in this?

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Rocket

Drone Wars: Yet another strike kills 13 'suspected militants' in Yemen

Hakim Almasmari
CNN
Thu, 03 May 2012 16:14 UTC
Yemeni soldiers
© AFP/Getty ImagesYemeni soldiers fire an artillery at militants near the town of Lowder
A U.S. drone hit an al Qaeda training site in southern Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants, three security officials said.

The airstrike Wednesday is one of a series of attacks on al Qaeda hideouts expected in Abyan province in the next two weeks, the officials said. They will target Jaar, Lowder and Zinjibar districts.

At least two U.S. drone strikes are conducted daily since mid-April in southern regions controlled by al Qaeda fighters, said a Yemeni presidential aide who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.

"This is part of the strategy to uproot al Qaeda from areas they control," the aide said. " The Yemeni government is giving the green light for the attacks and targets are chosen carefully."

Comment: The reader will not fail to notice how conveniently al Qaeda™ arrives on the scene whenever the US and its henchmen have a inconvenient truth they wish to obliterate, in this case the separatist movement in South Yemen.

And now to make the solutions to their 'problems' even more convenient, Obama has just approved yet more drone strikes in Yemen, even if they don't know who it is their killing out there in a shack in the desert. But no matter! If its got a beard and is carrying and AK47 its got to be the ubiquitous al Qaeda™ boogeyman.

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Star of David

Propaganda Buildup: Israel calls up reserve battalions to send to borders


RT
Wed, 02 May 2012 16:07 UTC
Israel is to deploy at least 22 reserve battalions on its borders with Egypt and Syria, claiming the growing instability in the two countries makes it necessary to be ready for possible external security threats.


­The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been given an approval of a call-up of additional force by Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee although they exceed the average. Reservists from six battalions have already received their orders, even though many of them are soldiers who have already completed their annual reserve duty.
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Radar

Propaganda Buildup: US sends F-22 fighter jets to UAE to threaten Iran

Bill Van Auken
wsws.org
Wed, 02 May 2012 15:57 UTC
F-22-Raptor
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The Pentagon has dispatched F-22 Raptors, the most advanced American warplanes, to the United Arab Emirates in a provocative escalation of US war threats against Iran.

The deployment of the stealth fighter-bombers to the UAE's Al-Dhafra air base was first reported by the journal Aviation Week. The Pentagon's official announcement mentioned only that the "United States Air Force has deployed F-22s to Southwest Asia" and that the action was intended to "strengthen military-to-military relationships, promote sovereign and regional security, improve combined tactical air operations, and enhance interoperability of forces ...."

On Monday, however, US military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to the French news agency AFP that the deployment was to the air base in the UAE.
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Stormtrooper

Private Police State: US military-industrial giant KBR in bidding to privatize British police forces

NewsCore
KDFW
Thu, 03 May 2012 15:28 UTC
London police, UK
© unknown
Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is in the running to win a slice of a controversial £1.5 billion (US$2.43 billion) contract to transform the West Midlands and Surrey police forces in Britain, The (London) Times reported.

Hailed as the largest police privatization scheme in the UK, it has been suggested the private companies who win the contract will be tasked to perform several police functions -- including patrols, detention and criminal investigation.

KBR, a former subsidiary of the Halliburton group, has attracted its share of criticism over the large contracts it won with the US government during the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The corporation also helped to build the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

Comment: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

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Cheeseburger

New FBI Sting Operation Targets White American Idiots as 'Terrorists'


Newsnet 5
Thu, 03 May 2012 13:02 UTC
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Lookout! It's the 'Route 82 patsy bridge bombers'! Collective IQ: 100. Just the kind of guys the FBI are looking for.
CLEVELAND - Five men suspected of plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge were indicted Thursday on three counts each, including a new charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to destroy property in interstate commerce.

The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, who said the men also were charged with conspiracy and attempted use of an explosive device to destroy property in interstate commerce.

The men could face life in prison if convicted of trying to bomb the soaring bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park at Brecksville, south of Cleveland. The bridge also crosses a scenic railway line and a canal tow path popular with joggers and bikers.

The five men, all described as anarchists, were arrested Monday night when they allegedly tried to detonate what turned out to be a dud bomb provided by an FBI undercover informant.

Comment: So the FBI is at it again. This time trolling the OWS movement for the most gullible people to set up as patsies to keep the bogus 'terror threat' alive, and even expand it to 'homegrown terrorism' and anyone "angry at corporate America".

For a history of the many similar cases of the FBI entrapping intellectually challenged Americans to frame as 'terrorist' patsies, check out the following Sott Report.



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Bizarro Earth

Singapore Elite Caught in Underage Prostitution Scandal

Philip Lim
Vancouversun.com
Thu, 03 May 2012 12:34 UTC
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© Anderw Biraj / ReutersSixteen-year-old prostitute Maya waits for a customer inside her small room at Kandapara brothel in Tangail, a northeastern city of Bangladesh, March 5, 2012. An unfolding scandal over an under-age call girl has shaken Singapore's political and economic elite after businessmen, civil servants and uniformed officers were charged in the case.
An unfolding scandal over an under-age call girl has shaken Singapore's political and economic elite after businessmen, civil servants and uniformed officers were charged in the case.

Prostitution is legal in Singapore, but 48 men ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s have so far been charged under a 2008 law making it a crime to pay for sex with a girl under 18.

Singapore has long been perceived as a conservative, even prudish, city-state but it has a thriving sex industry dating back to its beginnings as a key trading port of the then British empire.

The latest case has shone a spotlight on its pragmatic approach, which instead of seeking to close down the sex industry aims to tightly regulate the trade to protect minors and ward off criminal involvement.

An elementary school principal who pleaded guilty to engaging the under-aged girl's services became the first to be punished when a district court on Friday sentenced him to nine weeks in jail for the offence.
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Alarm Clock

Hasidic Pedophiles Exempt from Public Disclosure

Michael Lesher
Failedmessiah.typepad.com
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:01 UTC
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© UnknownCharles Hynes
If anyone had dared to suggest that Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes' office has an official policy giving preferential treatment to Orthodox Jewish sex criminals, the critic would probably be knee-deep in editorials charging him with anti-Semitism.

Alas, what's an Orthodox Jewish lawyer like me to say when the DA's lieutenants themselves announce just such a policy?

I'll say this: Hynes' refusal to disclose almost any information about the arrest or prosecution of alleged sex offenders from the politically powerful Orthodox community is not only discriminatory; it's also a cynical insult to the victims his office is pledged to support.

Mind you, the discrimination is no mere allegation; it's a matter of record. In letters this month to reporters Paul Berger, of Forward, and Hella Winston, of The Jewish Week, Assistant DA Morgan Dennehy explicitly affirmed that his boss' policy for suppressing information about sex abuse is "unique" to the "Hasidic" community.
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Footprints

NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots


Techdirt
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:49 UTC
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Over the last few years, we've noticed that nearly every victory the FBI celebrates against terrorism is actually about stopping its own terrorist plots that it feeds to hapless individuals, often nudging them and pushing them down the road to "become" terrorists, despite commonly displaying little to no aptitude for actual terrorism.

Add the NY Times to the newspapers who are beginning to question the FBI's penchant for setting up its own plots for the sake of a high profile arrest of some clueless individuals.
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.
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Candy Cane

Religion and Atheism


Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00 UTC
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