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Romney Notches Fifth Straight Win with Washington State GOP Caucuses


Fox News
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Mitt Romney
© The Associated PressMitt Romney greets supporters at a town hall meeting in Dayton, Ohio.
US - Mitt Romney cruised to a victory in the Washington state caucuses Saturday night, notching his fifth win in a row in the final contest before Super Tuesday.

The former Massachusetts governor is expected to carry the state by a double-digit margin. The performance helps Romney further reassert his frontrunner status following a string of defeats to Rick Santorum last month. Every bump of added momentum counts with all four candidates competing fiercely for the 419 delegates up for grabs this Tuesday across the 10 states holding primaries and caucuses.

Romney said he was "heartened" by Saturday's results.

"The voters of Washington have sent a signal that they do not want a Washington insider in the White House," Romney said in a statement. "They want a conservative businessman who understands the private sector and knows how to get the federal government out of the way so that the economy can once again grow vigorously."

With 91 percent of precincts reporting in Washington, Romney was well ahead with 37 percent.
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Bad Guys

Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel

Imtiaz Muqbil
Information Clearing House
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:13 UTC
Israeli soldiers/Palestinian children
© n/aIsraeli soldiers detain Palestinian children
One of the claims being made to justify Israel's demand for a blank cheque to attack Iran is that the Islamic Republic poses an ''existential threat'' to the Jewish state in view of its statements about wanting to wipe Israel off the map.

This lie has been repeated so often that it has become the truth. The real truth, as always, is quite different: It is Israel which is wiping Palestine off the map, day by day, slowly but surely, one settlement at a time.

Here are the real facts:

On Feb 22 this year, Israeli authorities legalised the unauthorised settler outpost of Shvut Rachel in the northern West Bank and approved a plan for 500 new homes there. The plan was approved by the higher planning council of the Israeli civil administration, the military body that manages civilian affairs for most of the West Bank.

According to one report, the committee agreed to retroactively legalise approximately 100 homes already built there, as well as 95 homes without permits in the nearby settlement of Shilo, which has 2,000 residents, some 30km south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The news agency Agence France Presse quoted Mr Yariv Oppenheimer, head of the settlement watchdog group Peace Now, as describing the move as ''one of the biggest projects in the territories''. The decision proved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ''doing everything he could to prevent the creation of two states for two peoples'', Mr Oppenheimer said.
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Pirates

Eyewitness in Homs: Barbaric rebels are killing civilians indiscriminately, Assad's forces trying to protect us


Russia Today
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:05 UTC

People have been left without water or electricity as rebels destroy water pumps and power converters. Civilians are forced to stay inside as snipers shoot from the rooftops.

­RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says gunmen are killing civilians in the streets. Galina says leaving home is out of the question, as snipers "can shoot you in the back."

"They kill both young and old. They steal people from their homes and chop them into pieces, put them in plastic bags and throw them out!"

She claims rumors are spreading of gunmen from France, Lebanon and Tunisia killing Syrians.

"They mostly kill Christians here," she says.
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MIB

France pulls out her agents ensconced in Syria


Voltaire Network
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:01 UTC
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The Ambassador of France in Beirut, Denis Pietton, officially visited last week the region of Baalbeck in eastern Lebanon. In fact, he traveled with a French security team to northern Bekaa, a region bordering the Syrian province of Homs.

On the Syrian side of the border, officers and experts from the French military intelligence services, some posing as journalists, were training Free "Syrian" Army fighters. They had all entered Syria surreptitiously.

At an illegal crossing point, Ambassador Denis Pietton and his companions retrieved the French intelligence officers leaving the Islamic Emirate of Baba Amr where they had been teaching their techniques in urban combat.

Under the Vienna Convention, diplomatic cars can not be searched. The convoy was therefore able to drop off the French agents at the embassy's doorstep under the nose of the Lebanese police.

With all the arrogance of the former mandatory power, the French ambassador, once again, interfered publicly in Lebanese affairs by declaring on 23 February to our colleagues from the Daily Star: "Lebanon should keep out of the turmoil in Syria."
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Frog

France to Close Syria Embassy as Questions Mount About its Involvement in Conflict


Naharnet
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:45 UTC
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Casualties continue to mount as the Syrian national army closes in on Western proxy forces
France will close its embassy in Syria to denounce the "scandalous" repression by President Bashar Assad's regime, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday at the close of an EU summit.

French Foreign Minister "Alain Juppe and I have decided to close our embassy in Syria," Sarkozy told a news conference.

"What is going on is scandalous, there are more than 8,000 dead, hundreds of children, and the city of Homs faces the risk of being wiped off the map. This is absolutely unacceptable," Sarkozy said.

He said the Syrian government's response to attempts to evacuate two injured French reporters, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels -- finally evacuated to Lebanon on Thursday -- has been "particularly unacceptable".

Sarkozy also underlined that the EU in its final conclusions had recognized the Syrian National Council "as a legitimate representative of Syrians".

"I am in favor of organizing, at least on Syria's borders, humanitarian zones enabling people persecuted by the Syrian regime to leave," he added.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Comment: Propaganda War against Syria: Journalists are being held captive by 'rebels', not Syrian national army

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Pirates

Syrian rebels pull out of besieged Homs, France has serious explaining to do


Russia Today
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:36 UTC

Syrian rebels have been ejected from the Baba Amr district of Homs, promising revenge as they retreat. Syrian authorities allow humanitarian aid to those left in need in the city is to be delivered Friday.

Most rebel troops were pushed out of the area by President Assad's forces on Thursday, AP reports. The Baba Amr brigade says it pulled back in order to allow some 4,000 civilian residents who had remained in their homes during the siege to escape to safety, and warned that the government will pay dearly for "targeting the civilian population in Homs."

"We urge the international community and Muslim and Arab states to intervene immediately to prevent a potential massacre in the coming hours against tens of thousands of children, women and elderly people," the Syrian National Council said.

The BBC reports that the rebels' withdrawal may have been made in accordance with some agreement with the government. But online reports on behalf of the Baba Amr brigade say the rebels didn't have enough arms to protect the people in Homs.
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Propaganda War against Syria: Journalists are being held captive by 'rebels', not Syrian national army

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:24 UTC
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Édith Bouvier and William Daniels
Several journalists are held in the sealed-off Baba Amr area. According to Atlanticist leaders, they are prevented from leaving by the constant pounding of the rebel stronghold by the Syrian Army. As an on-the-spot privileged witness of the negotiations, Thierry Meyssan gives an account of the situation: the journalists are kept as prisoners by the Free "Syrian" Army which uses them as human shields. Their evacuation by the Syrian Red Crescent has been obstructed by the rebels.

Our colleagues Marie Colvin (Sunday Times) and Remi Ochlik (IP3 Press) were killed on Wednesday, 22 February 2012, in the rebel-held area inside Homs.

According to Western news agencies quoting the Free "Syrian" Army, they were victims of the shelling inflicted by the Damascus forces on the area. However, the National Army made use of multiple rocket launchers only for a very brief period to destroy firing positions, and at no time after 13 February. Furthermore, if it were true that the city had been pounded for 21 straight days, as reported by the news agencies, it would long ago have been reduced to a heap of rubble without a living soul.

At least three other journalists still remain in the rebel zone: Edith Bouvier (Le Figaro Magazine), Paul Conroy and William Daniels (Sunday Times), and probably a fourth one of Spanish nationality.
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War Whore

France's secret war against Syria


Voltaire Network
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:20 UTC
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During the assault on the rebel stronghold in the Homs district of Bab Amr, the Syrian army took more than 1,500 prisoners, mostly foreigners. Of these, a dozen French nationals requested the status of prisoner of war, refusing to give their identity, rank and unit of assignment. One of them is a Colonel working for the DGSE transmission service.

In arming the Wahhabi Legion and feeding it with satellite intelligence, France conducted a secret war against the Syrian army, which caused more than 3,000 deaths among the military, and more than 1,500 among civilians in ten months of fighting.

This information was partially revealed by Thierry Meyssan during an appearance on the top Russian TV channel, on Monday, 13 February 2012, followed by an article published on Tuesday, the 14th, by Komsomolskaya Pravda and finally through a Voltaire Network TV video.

France has sought Russia's assistance to negotiate with Syria the release of its prisoners of war.
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MIB

France opens negotiations with Syria to recover 18 agents


Voltairenet.org
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:09 UTC
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On 13 February 2012, Thierry Meyssan revealed on the first Russian television channel that Syria had captured a dozen French soldiers. Voltaire Network is now in a position to confirm that as of 26 February the number of French prisoners is 18 (eighteen).

If Paris admits that they were on a mission, they will be entitled to prisoner-of-war status and protected by the relative Geneva Convention; but if Paris denies having sent them, they will be considered as foreign civilians and judged in Syria for their crimes, which are punishable by the death penalty.

France has opened three negotiation channels via the Russian Federation, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman.

The ambassador of France, Eric Chevallier, returned urgently to Damascus on 23 February.

Kofi Annan has been appointed as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on the Syrian crisis.

Aware of the potential use it can make of the captives in the midst of the French electoral campaign, Damascus called on Syrian state media not to raise the matter at this time. It thus reserves the possibility of dealing with it under the radar if this option proves to be more advantageous.

While acknowledging the uniqueness of this situation, the Syrian journalists, who were quick to adapt to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the new media law, growled that limits are again being imposed for reasons of national security.
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Bad Guys

Business as Government: Capitalizing on Disaster in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Beverly Bell and Deepa Panchang
Nationaofchange.org
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:27 UTC
"I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume... that we are not." With these words, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive watched a swath of his government's decision-making power shift into foreign hands in early 2010.

It's one thing to privatize government services. Since the earthquake, U.S. firms have actually been involved in privatizing governance - in fact, the governance of another country. Corporations with little to no knowledge of Haiti were brought in as volunteers to plan, kick off, and even staff the team with the single greatest operational influence over shaping the reconstruction model for the year after the quake, the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC).
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