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UK perpetrated multiple chemical weapons attacks on Aboriginal Australians in 1950s and 60s

Australia's indigenous peoples were not the only ones to be subjected to the scientific depredations of the United Kingdom and Australian governments between 1956 and 1957. That particularly noxious venture yielded seven atomic tests in the desert sands of Maralinga, South Australia. The British record on the subject, along with Australian complicity, is a fetid one. Officials have taken cover behind a wall of inaccessible documents and unwavering secrecy.

A year before the area around Maralinga was euphemistically 'rehabilitated' under the UK Ministry of Defence's Operation Brumby (1967), chemical tests using Agent Orange were supposedly being conducted on rainforest at Gregory Falls, near the North Queensland town of Innisfail. The area in question was a local water catchment area. Researcher Jean Williams, who has made a name for herself in matters of veterans' affairs, stumbled across documents while ferreting around in the Australian War Memorial's archives. Her discovery has precipitated outraged queries from the residents in the area.

USA

Best of the Web: The 9/11 conspiracy theory explained in under five minutes

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.


Transcript and References

Sherlock

Best of the Web: Exposing the names and connections behind the 9/11 conspiracy

Was 9/11 really an inside job? After reviewing this documentary, and checking the evidence, I think the answer will be clear to you.

Special thanks to Michael C. Ruppert, Mark H. Gaffney, and Kevin Ryan for solving the crimes of 9/11 with their amazing research. This video is a compilation of evidence they have uncovered.


Comment: Obviously this doesn't tell us everything about 9/11, but it's nevertheless a very good summary of many connections that clearly show the official story to be little more than a Disney fantasy production.


Arrow Down

China sets new measures for spreading irresponsible rumors online

Internet Cafe
© Kai HendryAn Internet cafe in Beijing, China.
China is imposing new measures with regard to its residents' online activities, a move that tightens its ever-increasing restrictions on Internet usage and one that might raise a few more eyebrows.

According to a report from Reuters, state media reported that Internet users in the country who spread irresponsible online rumors will be charged with defamation if proven that what they shared online was viewed by 5,000 Internet users or reposted more than 500 times. A violator can be sentenced up to three years in jail.

In a news conference organized by the People's Daily, a spokesman from China's top court Sun Jungong described using the Internet to spread rumors and defame people as "criminal activities" and acts that deserve "serious punishment," adding that "no country would consider the slander of other people as freedom of speech."

Gold Seal

Best of the Web: Reality Check: More Americans "Rethinking" 9/11?

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© rethink911.org
Did you know that a 3rd building fell on 9-11? That bill board is today over Times Square. It was placed there through donations to a campaign called Rethink 9/11.

In fact, that group has placed posters and signs across the world, from Australia, to Canada, from San Francisco to right here in New York City.

So what is Rethink 9/11? Wouldn't only a fringe group of people would still question 9/11? Perhaps not, because today we will tell you about new polling that shows a majority of those polled either question the official 9/11 story or don't believe it at all. Is that possible?

The first step toward truth, is to be informed.


TV

Best of the Web: Video: Charlie Rose interview with Bashar al-Assad (full interview and transcript)

CBS news reporter Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday September 9, 2013.


USA

Jon Stewart frets over the parallels between Syria and Iraq: 'It's like we're the Bill Buckner of superpowers now'

Hearing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cite the bad intelligence reports that led the U.S. into Iraq to protect his own country against an attack had Jon Stewart apopleptic on Monday night.


"You needlessly invade one country based on false evidence, suddenly you're bad at war" Stewart fretted. "Come on. We have had a very solid war career - between 40 to 60 percent justified. But all anybody wants to talk about is the most recent one of the wrong ones. It's like we're the Bill Buckner of superpowers now."

Magic Hat

International experts have strong proof images of chemical victims faked - Moscow

Syria chemical attack
© AFP Photo / Shaam News NetworkSyrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows people inspecting bodies of children and adults laying on the ground as Syrian rebels claim they were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013.
Footage and photos of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, which the US cites as the reason for a planned military intervention, had been fabricated in advance, speakers told a UN human rights conference in Geneva.

Members of the conference were presented accounts of international experts, Syrian public figures and Russian news reporters covering the Syrian conflict, which back Russia's opposition to the US plans, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The speakers argued that the suspected sarin gas attack near Damascus on August 21 was likely a provocation of the rebel forces and that a military action against the President Bashar Assad government will likely result in civilian casualties and a humanitarian catastrophe affecting the entire region.

War Whore

Obama: Military strikes on hold if Syria agrees to turn over chemical weapons

Obama Assad
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President Obama said this morning that he would put strikes against Syria on hold if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agrees to turn control of his country's chemical weapons over to the international community.

The possible agreement comes after Russia proposed the notion to Syria, and according to reports, Syria accepted. Secretary of State John Kerry made a seemingly rhetorical statement on Monday when he suggested that the United States would back down from military action if Syria turned its chemical weapons over, further stating that he believed there was virtually no likelihood of this ever happening. Russia took interest in that sentiment, and now a Syrian official is saying that the country has agreed to the proposal.

The announcement has been taken with understandable skepticism, however, as the United States and its allies worry that this could potentially be a tactic used to stall a military strike longer than it's already being stalled.

Still, President Obama said Monday that he's open to the possibility of this happening.

War Whore

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

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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.