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Truth "eliminated": Reuters, Ahmadinejad and the anatomy of a dangerous misquote

Newsvandal
Newsvandal Blog
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:19 UTC
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
© Islamic Republic News AgencyPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Headlines are designed to grab the reader's attention and pull 'em in.

Today, Reuters rolled out a serious eye-grabber: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated"

Just sounds like par for the course when it comes to Iran's dangerous doom-dealer, right?

Well, there is a bit of a problem.

You see, the headline doesn't quite match the actual quote in the story. Rather than delivering on their big tease with a blustering rant about destroying Israel with a hail of newly-minted nuclear weapons, Ahmadinejad's quote in paragraph eleven of the story comes across a bit differently:
"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated."
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Take 2

Fighting global agribusiness though the power of film

Marie-Monique Robin
ajw.asahi.com
Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:35 UTC
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© noagenda.wikia.com
A giant, multinational agribusiness is using its market share and patent system to spread genetically modified crops throughout the world. A movie documenting this problem generated quite a stir. By piecing together facts and presenting it in a powerful, visual way, she can carve out a vision for the future of agriculture.

I have been working as a journalist for the past 25 years or so, focusing mainly on human rights and the environment.

What struck me was the number of people I encountered who kept uttering a single name: Monsanto, the giant U.S.-based multinational biotechnology company.

I grew up on a farm in France, hence my keen interest in agricultural issues.

I decided to find out more about Monsanto's global reach.

Comment: The World According to Monsanto: The History of Agent Orange

This is a clip from the French documentary The World According to Monsanto. It summarizes the history of Agent Orange, a toxic herbicide produced by Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and other companies.



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USA

Best of the Web: Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks


UK Independent
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:19 UTC
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American freedom fighters at work on an unmanned, child-killing drone
Report claims just one in fifty victims of 'surgical' US strikes in Pakistan are known militants. Jerome Taylor reports on a deadly new strategy

Late in the evening on 6 June this year an unmanned drone was flying high above the Pakistani village of Datta Khel in north Waziristan.

The buzz emitted by America's fleet of Predators and Reapers are a familiar sound for the inhabitants of the dusty hamlet, which lies next to a riverbed close to Pakistan's border with Afghanistan and is a stronghold for the Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.

As the drone circled it let off the first of its Hellfire missiles, slamming into a small house and reducing it to rubble. When residents rushed to the scene of the attack to see if they could help they were struck again.

According to reports at the time, three local rescuers were killed by a second missile whilst a further strike killed another three people five minutes later. In all, somewhere between 17 and 24 people are thought to have been killed in the attack.

The Datta Khel assault was just one of the more than 345 strikes that have hit Pakistan's tribal areas in the past eight years but it reveals an increasingly common tactic now being used in America's covert drone wars - the "double-tap" strike.

More and more, while the overall frequency of strikes has fallen since a Nato attack in 2011 killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and strained US-Pakistan relations, initial strikes are now followed up by further missiles in a tactic which lawyers and campaigners say is killing an even greater number of civilians.
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Network

Jewish leaders meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City to discuss what to do about Zionism


YouTube
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC
This video is banned for broadcast on News Networks in USA, Israel and Europe. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel and US does not want you to see. Jewish leaders and prominent businessmen Greet Ahmadinejad with "Inshallah" and Bless him for long life. Jews have lived in Iran for thousands of years. Over 50,000 Jews live in Teheran. Israeli Jews Love Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Attention

Truth Telling! Ralph Nader Excoriates both Political Parties

Michael Allen
Opposing Views
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC
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Longtime liberal activist Ralph Nader is often blamed for costing Al Gore the 2000 election, but that hasn't swayed him from attacking President Obama and calling him a "war criminal" (video below).

Nader told Politico.com that President Obama is worse than President george W. Bush, who invaded two countries during his term.

Nader said: "He's gone beyond George W. Bush in drones, for example. He thinks the world is his plate, that national sovereignties mean nothing, drones can go anywhere. They can kill anybody that he suspects and every Tuesday he makes the call on who lives and who dies, supposed suspects in places like Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that is a war crime and he ought to be held to account."
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Bizarro Earth

Ahmadinejad Denounces 'Uncivilized Zionists,' Urges New Order

Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed
Yahoo! News Canada
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike SegarIran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the 67th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 26, 2012.
Iran's president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from "uncivilized Zionists" and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of "the devil."

In his eighth address to the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture of a world driven by greed rather than moral values.

"The current abysmal situation of the world and the bitter incidents of history are due mainly to the wrong management of the world and the self-proclaimed centers of power who have entrusted themselves to the devil," Ahmadinejad said, in what is expected to be his last address to the world body.

There was no reiteration of his comments to journalists in New York on Monday that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated."

However, in a clear reference to Israel, he told the assembly: "Continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality."
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Best of the Web: Meet Monsanto's Number One Lobbyist: Barack Obama

Jon Rappoport
Natural News
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:42 UTC
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During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said:
"Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they're buying."
Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in promising that, if elected, his administration wouldn't do business in "the old way." He would be "responsive to people's needs."

Then came the reality.
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Video

Catastroika: How the Shock Doctrine came to Greece


catastroika.gr
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:46 UTC
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It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was "Catastroika". In Yeltsin's time, when Russia instituted maybe the biggest and least successful privatization experiment in the history of humanity, a group of Guardian reports assigned a different meaning to Rupnik's term. "Catastroika" became synonym of the country's complete destruction by market forces; the sell off of public property; and the steep deterioration of citizens' living standards.

Now, Catastroika's unit of measurement was unemployment, social impoverishment, declining life expectancy, as well as the creation of a new cast of oligarchs, who took over the country's reins. A few years later, a similar effort to massively privatize public property in unified Germany (which is presented as a model for Greece) created millions of unemployed and some of the biggest scandals in European history.

It is this "Catastroika" that is coming soon to Greece; to "Europe's last Soviet Republic" as the MPs and the ministers of its former "socialist" government liked to call it. Catastroika is the logical aftermath and continuation of "Debtocracy". Therefore, the logical sequence of our first documentary, which examined the causes of the debt crisis in Greece and the European periphery as a whole.

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War Whore

Calling for False Flag: Israel Lobbyist Patrick Clawson Asks for 'Covert Means Against Iranians' in Pearl Harbor-style to Provoke War

88kmitchell
Youtube
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:09 UTC

Patrick Clawson of the influential neo-con Washington Institute for Near East Studies OPENLY suggests that the US should provoke Iran into taking the first shot. Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran. Just like 911 in New York causing the deaths of American civilians and soldiers, a million dead Iraqis and for what?

Comment: It can't get any more clear than that. If we witness another '9/11' in the near future we will know who is to blame.

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Arrow Down

Euro zone crisis sends stock markets tumbling Wednesday in Greece and Spain

Stephen Castle and David Jolly
New York Times
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:47 UTC
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Clear signs of the political and social cost of the euro zone crisis sent stock markets tumbling Wednesday as debt-laden Greece faced a crippling 24-hour strike and Spain cleaned up after violent protests Tuesday near the country's Parliament.

Spanish bond yields approached 6 percent for the first time in months, while European stocks and the euro fell sharply, as developments in Greece and Spain sent a new wave of anxiety through the ranks of international investors.

The Euro Stoxx 50, a measure of euro zone blue chips, was down 2.3 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday. National indexes were also down, led by the Ibex in Spain, which was down 3.6 percent, and the MIB in Milan, down 3.1 percent. Stock index futures on Wall Street indicated a mild decline at the opening.

The euro was at $1.2852, its lowest level in two weeks, down from $1.2950 late Tuesday in New York.

Spanish bond yields had fallen back from levels thought unsustainable after the European Central Bank announced a plan Sept. 6 to buy the sovereign bonds of debt-strapped euro countries, like Spain and Italy, in amounts sufficient to bring the cost of servicing their debt down to a manageable level.
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