Welcome to Sott.net
Sun, 01 Oct 2023
The World for People who Think

Puppet Masters
Map

Health

Chavez in Cuba for More Cancer Treatment

Patricia Torres
Agence France-Presse
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro
© Agence France-Presse/Andres Piscov
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and Cuba's President Raul Castro
Caracas - President Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for a new round of cancer treatment following surgery to remove a malignant tumor, said in a phone call Sunday that he would return to Venezuela in five days.

Chavez was warmly embraced by Cuban President Raul Castro on his arrival at Jose Marti airport in Havana around midnight Saturday, the state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde said on its website, describing the Venezuelan leader's demeanor as "animated" and upbeat.

Chavez said he immediately underwent the first of five rounds of radiation therapy treatment.

"I should return to Venezuela on Thursday," March 29, Chavez said in a phone call to Vice President Elias Jaua broadcast on VTV state television.

The announcement made to head off criticism that he had left Venezuela without permission from the National Assembly, the country's legislature, which must authorize a president's absence of more than five days.

Chavez, however, said that after three days of rest in Venezuela he will return to Cuba for the next session of radiation therapy.
      Read More...
Light Sabers

5,000-strong African Union army to hunt down Joseph Kony


Russia Today
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:34 UTC
Image
The African Union says it will create a special force to track down notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony in the heart of central Africa. The announcement follows a viral video campaign that courted controversy around the world.

­The Uganda-led mission will commence in South Sudan on Saturday, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda, AP reports.

The 5,000-strong brigade tasked with bringing down Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will consist of regional troops whose countries have been affected by the rebel group's activities.

"We need to stop Kony with hardware - with military hardware in this case," the African Union's special envoy on the LRA, Francisco Madeira, said on Friday. "We are on a mission to stop him."

The announcement follows the Kony 2012 Internet movie sensation created by the US advocacy group Invisible Children. Invisible children say the video, which has now garnered more than 100 million views, was created "to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity."

However, questions about the group's finances and widespread condemnation of the film in Uganda were followed by a very public meltdown by Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell.
      Read More...
MIB

Dozens of Frenchmen sent (by state) to train with 'Taliban'


Russia Today
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:19 UTC
Image

'djihadistes francaises', brought to you by the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure, in co-operation with Mossad
As France recovers from the deadly shootings committed by homegrown jihadist Mohamed Merah, Pakistani intelligence say dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in north-western Pakistan.

Merah, who was shot in the head in a standoff with police, killed three Jewish children, a rabbi and three French soldiers. The 23-year-old Toulouse-born jihadist was holed up in his apartment for 32 hours before a police sniper's bullet ended the siege.

Described by his neighbors as the quiet man next door, Mohammed Merah's deeds shook the country and he boasted of having brought France "to its knees." He said his only regret was that he was not able to kill more people, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins reported.

Adding to the fears in France that such attacks may be repeated it has been revealed that some 85 French nationals have undergone training in the Taliban's Pakistan stronghold of North Waziristan in the past three years.

Comment: Yes, it did not help prevent the tragedy because it was never intended that Merah be stopped (assuming that he really did receive all this training in Pakistan in the first place). It's clear that the French intelligence services are sheep-dipping would-be 'jihadists' in order to create the 'terror threat' they need to justify their crackdown. It's Gladio all over again.

      Read More...
House

Israeli Court Rejects 2015 Settlement Evacuation

Amy Teibel
The Associated Press
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Image
© The Associated Press/Sebastian Scheiner
In this file photo taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 Jewish children play in the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Migron.
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected the state's request to postpone dismantling a large, unsanctioned West Bank settler enclave until late 2015, dealing a serious blow to settler hopes to keep dozens of rogue outposts standing.

The ruling could ignite a violent showdown with settlers, who have vowed in the past not to abandon their hilltop stronghold, Migron. Settler leader Shimon Riklin, one of the enclave's founders, told Israel's Channel 2 TV that the evacuation of Migron "would not pass quietly."

A spokesman for the Palestinians, who claim all of the West Bank as part of a future state, was skeptical that the ruling would be carried out.

The state submitted the delay petition earlier this month, seeking to bypass the high court's earlier order to dismantle the Migron outpost by March 31 because it was built on privately held Palestinian land.

Netanyahu scrambled to find a solution that would satisfy both settlers and the court. Earlier this month, it asked the court to let Migron's settlers stay put until new homes were built for them on a nearby West Bank hilltop by November 2015.

On Sunday, the court ruled that accepting the state's agreement would be tantamount to flouting the rule of law.
      Read More...
Propaganda

Propaganda Alert! French Gunman's Brother Charged, Denies Role

Nicolas Garriga and Samantha Bordes
The Associated Press
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Image
© Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier
A doctor (front R) of French special intervention police (RAID) is seen during a raid on a house to arrest the suspect, in the killings of three children and a rabbi on Monday at a Jewish school, in Toulouse March 21, 2012
A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday.

But Abdelkader Merah denied any role in the attacks. Investigators looking into France's worst terror attacks in years believe Merah helped his brother Mohamed prepare the killings, and are investigating whether they were linked to an international network of extremists or worked on their own.

Abdelkader's lawyer said he feels like "a scapegoat."

"No one knew anything" about what Mohamed was plotting, lawyer Anne-Sophie Laguens told reporters in Paris. She dismissed reports that Abdelkader had praised his brother's attacks. "He was never proud of those actions."

Mohamed Merah, 23, claimed responsibility for killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers earlier this month. After a 32-hour standoff with police, he died Thursday in a hail of gunfire as he jumped out a window of his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse.

Since then, attention has focused on his older brother Abdelkader Merah, who was handed preliminary charges on Sunday of complicity to murder and theft, and involvement in a terrorist enterprise, prosecutors said. Detained last week, he will remain in custody pending further investigation.

Preliminary charges under French law mean there is strong reason to believe a crime was committed, but allow magistrates more time to investigate.
      Read More...
Vader

Terror attacks in Belgium coincide with attacks in France: Gladio rides again?

Richard Cottrell
End the Lie
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:54 UTC
Image

A 'crazed' man burned a mosque to the ground in Brussels on 13 March 2012, killing the local Imam
Something very fishy is going in Belgium, sometimes known as 'the unknown state at the heart of Europe.'

In fact, this small country of around eleven million people is really a great power in its own right. It hosts nothing less than the global military octopus NATO and most of the sprawling and expanding apparatus of the EU.

There is no conglomerate on earth that denies itself a spanking office there. Every language under the sun is heard in the temples of gastronomy for which Belgium is so widely famed.

Many of these tongues are spoken by arms traders, legit and otherwise, and narcotic traffickers.

Brussels is a veritable lobbyists' paradise, on a scale which almost puts Washington in the shade.

It is also historically one of the most active centers of political terrorism in Europe, as events of recent days have underscored once again.

Comment: Very interesting that these attacks were taking place at the same time as the shootings of paratroopers in southern France. Readers may want to watch this in order to familiarise themselves with Operation Gladio because it appears that the fascist network in Europe is being reanimated in a big way.

      Read More...
Mr. Potato

Thomas Mulcair: Meet NDP's New Leader

Andy Radia
Political Points
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Image
© Agence France-Presse/Geoff Robins
Thomas Mulcair at the NDP leadership convention.
Canada - The fat lady has sung. The final ballot results at the NDP Leadership Convention had Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair beat former NDP party President Brian Topp. Mulcair is now the new leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

It was to be expected. The third ballot had him finish with 27,488 votes (43.8 per cent). Topp finished second with 19,822 votes (31.6 per cent). As per party rules, Nathan Cullen was eliminated. Topp would have needed to acquire more than 75 per cent of Cullen's votes to secure a victory. That was not going to happen.

Mulcair secured 57.2 per cent of the final vote in the fourth round.

So, just who is this new party leader?
      Read More...
Heart - Black

Dick Cheney receives heart transplant: aide

Andrew Jones
The Raw Story
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:38 UTC
dick cheney
© AFP
Dick Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant Saturday afternoon at a Virginia hospital, according to the Associated Press.

Cheney, who suffered his fifth heart attack in 2010, did not know the identity of the heart donor after waiting 20 months for the operation, as told to the AP by his aide Kara Ahern.
      Read More...
Bad Guys

Monsanto 'Biotechnology Book for Kids' Caught Brainwashing Children

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:35 UTC
Image
© Activist Post
Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda.

In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids.

With the intent to be used by 'agriculture and science teachers', the activity book spreads absurd lies about GMO crops - even going as far as to say that they 'improve our health' and 'help the environment'.

The book can be seen on the organization's website, and makes it extremely apparent that it is full of misinformation and propaganda that completely ignores scientific research surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

In fact, let's examine some claims made by this book that serves as an 'educational' tool to be used by teachers.
      Read More...
Vader

France Turns Fascist? Toulouse Low Trick


Aangirfan
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:47 UTC
Image
A teacher at a school in France asked her class to observe a moment's silence for Mohamed Merah.

The 56 year old female teacher described Merah as a 'victim,' and said his links to al-Qaeda had been faked by Sarkozy and the media.

Fifteen of the twenty pupils in the class reportedly walked out of the class as a protest against the teacher.

The pupils then wrote to the head of the school to complain about their teacher.

French Education Minister Luc Chatel has had the teacher suspended.
      Read More...
Revolt! T-shirts