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U.S.-backed 'moderate rebels' refuse to fight Al-Qaeda in Syria

Kareem Shaheen
The Guardian
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:08 UTC
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Nusra Front fighters rest with their weapons behind sandbags in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria on Monday.
A group of Syrian rebels that includes fighters trained by the United States have declared their refusal to fight al-Qaida's affiliate in the country, the Nusra Front, following a series of kidnappings by the militant group.

A source in Division 30, which has endured a campaign of kidnappings by the Nusra Front, said they also oppose the American air strikes carried out in the last few days against the al-Qaida-linked fighters.

The statements complicate the American strategy in Syria, which has suffered a string of setbacks and delays, deploying just over 50 fighters dedicated to fighting the terror group Islamic State in the year since its programme to train and equip rebels began.


Comment: U.S. trains 60 moderate rebels in Syria - that's all they could find


"With all the immense military power the US has at its disposal, the start to the mission is nothing short of an embarrassment and if it has any hope of succeeding, it needs to show results fast," said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and an expert on Syrian insurgent groups.

Comment: The US charade is becoming more transparent with each day. US trained 'moderates' are basically aligned with Al-Qaeda and some 50 of these geniuses are supposed to stop ISIS and overthrow the government in Syria.

Is ISIS a creation of the US government? Do large hairy mammals relieve themselves in the woods?

There are No Moderate Syrian Rebels

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Eye 1

US citizen working in Russia speaks out: Media has failed us, 'we are heading closer and closer to a real war'

Jack Hanick
New York Observer
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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The author, a native New Yorker, recently completed the development of a state of the art television network in Moscow, built without government funding. Its evening news program broadcasts to 65 million homes in Russia across eight time zones.

Previously he was a TV director in New York, for many years with Fox News. He won the New York Emmy in 1994 for best director, and his biography of Desmond Tutu also won a New York Emmy.

Currently he is Chairman of the Board of HellasNet, a group of TV stations in Greece.

America is heading for war with Russia. Some call the current situation "an increase of hostility" or "Cold War II." There are two sides to this story. I believe that American journalists from all political persuasions are not offering critical analysis. Understanding the Russian side and taking their arguments seriously can help prevent serious consequences.

Americans believe that Russians are fed propaganda by the state-controlled media. If Russians only could hear the truth, the thinking goes, they would welcome the US position. This is not so. There are more than 300 TV stations available in Moscow. Only 6 are state-controlled. The truth is that Russians prefer hearing the news from the state rather than the Internet or other sources. This is different from almost any other country. It is not North Korea where the news is censored. Each night during the Crimea crisis, anyone could watch CNN or the BBC bash Russia.

Comment: The Western elite have no intention of letting Russia claim a leading role in the world. They make unbelievable sums of money off of war and chaos, so don't expect the lies to stop anytime soon.

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Bad Guys

America continues to embrace tyranny with bill that allows Secretary of State to revoke passports

Janet C. Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:50 UTC
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
The US Congress took another step towards tyranny and away from legal and Constitutionally guaranteed protections this past week, when the House of Representatives approved HR 237.

This bill allows the Secretary of State, at his own discretion, to make a determination that an American citizen has terrorist affiliations and therefore to deny or revoke said citizen's passport.

According to HR 237, which is entitled the "FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015," the Secretary of State may so revoke a citizen's travel rights without any invocation of due process. There will be no court hearing involved, and the individual will have no opportunity to object or to present evidence to the contrary.

Comment: For more on America's descent into the abyss, check out:

At least 4 million people dead due to America's global holocaust, "War on Terror"

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Eye 1

Shock! Lord Janner fails to appear at sex abuse trial


RT
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:38 UTC
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Top UK Zionist Lord Janner
Criminal proceedings against Lord Janner began on Friday without the presence of the former Labour peer, who did not attend the initial hearing due to his medical condition.

However, the magistrate noted that Janner, who suffers from dementia, could be forced to attend future court sessions, despite his illness affecting his understanding of proceedings.

Janner, 87, faces 22 charges of child sex offences which are alleged to have taken place in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

He was initially declared unfit to stand trial, but the decision was reversed by a senior lawyer earlier in the year.

His lawyer Andrew Smith QC told the court hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court: "Lord Janner is not in attendance. The reason for that submission on his part is that he is unfit to face the court."

But the chief magistrate Howard Riddle said the court must hear evidence from medical experts before a decision allowing him to miss the hearing could be made.

Comment: Just how high up the Establishment hierarchy do these despicable allegations go? Recently, Ex-British PM Ted Heath was accused of raping 12 year old boy. He is the most high profile figure to be accused of historic child sex abuse to date - who is not alive! For more information on British peer, 'Lord' Janner: It remains to be seen whether real justice will be served in this case. For more information on the modus operandi of these depraved monsters who stalk the Establishment corridors of power, read:

UK 'Establishment': Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high places

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Dollars

Taxpayers to foot security bill for Hillary Clinton's Aspen fundraiser


Aspen Times
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:09 UTC
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Taxpayers should not have to pay for private political events such as the one attended by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday outside Aspen, the sheriffs of Pitkin and Garfield counties said.

"It's uncalled for," said Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario. "It's abuse. It's that political class attitude that thinks they're entitled to consume public resources. It's been a part of their life for so long."

Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo agreed, saying that he'd be happy to provide security to public events. But private fundraisers, such as the one Clinton attended Tuesday that cost $2,700 a head to attend, should be paid for by the campaigns, he said.

"If she wants to go to the Red Onion and shake some hands, that's complimentary," DiSalvo said. "But that's not happening."

DiSalvo said he supplied two deputies to escort Clinton and her entourage from Rifle, where her plane landed, to Aspen and back to Rifle. Three other deputies were on hand at Tuesday's fundraiser, held at the home of Soledad and Robert Hurst.

Robert Hurst is the former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and the current managing director of Crestview Advisors, a New York-based investment firm.

DiSalvo said it cost taxpayers about $5,000 for Clinton's visit, which he admitted was not a lot of money.

"I'm trying to set a precedent here to get paid," he said. "I have no mechanism to make them pay and I'll always help out the Secret Service. But I think the responsible thing to do is ask."

And ask he did.
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Bad Guys

MH17 investigation is an injustice to all the relatives of the 298 victims


Fort Russ
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:35 UTC
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The Dutch-Ukrainian MH17 investigation is a legal farce and a procedural human rights injustice for all the relatives of 298 victims - "Nemo iudex in causa sua" or that no one should judge or investigate in his own cause, says Peter Iiskola who is a Finnish international legal expert and judge with diplomatic background.
We are facing a legal farce and a grave injustice for all the relatives of the 298 victims thanks to the fact that Netherlands and Ukraine have forgotten in the case of MH17 that "Nemo iudex in causa sua" or that no one should judge or investigate in his own cause, says Finnish judge and diplomat Peter Iiskola, who is expert in international air and space law.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that Netherlands should know better, as it is the seat for at least eight international Tribunals, says Iiskola.

The MH17 investigation is led by the Netherlands - it is clearly procedurally biased from these general justice principles points of views. Therefore, this investigation should be nullified and replaced with a fair, unbiased and neutral one - or the 298 victims and their families will never find out the legal or the actual truth, and get justice! Now the fundamental human and legal rights are in this way denied, endangered and gravely breached.

This says the Finnish judge and international diplomat Peter Iiskola, who has worked in Iran-United States Arbitration in The Hague, as well as in United Nations and Council of Europe justice and human rights projects, and is also specialized in international air and space law.

Comment: See also: Lavrov: MH17 investigation not independent, comprehensive, or truly international

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Bad Guys

Yemen: Under-reporting of war deaths - or genocide?

Dr. Judith Brown
Yemen News Today
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:41 UTC
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Yemeni men stand amid the ruins of buildings destroyed in an airstrike by Saudi Arabia on the capital, Sana'a, July 16, 2015
The estimates of numbers killed in this terrible war have varied from website to website. On the 31st July FARS news agency reported the number killed as 5,313 people, most of them women and children. Al Jazeera quoted UN statistics on 27th July, stating that 3,640 have died altogether, about half of them civilians deaths. I believe both of these numbers hide the truth, and the number of those who have died is much, much higher.

Systems of recording deaths in Yemen during the war are not straightforward, hence the differences in death counts. Some agencies count deaths that have been reported in the media, but this is a multi-focal war, with both militia activity and air assaults by the coalition happening in all of the areas except Hadramaut, and journalists cannot access all areas where people are being attacked. As the war progresses, deaths in Yemen have become less newsworthy as it has become so commonplace and the Western media have not seriously tried to give the war in Yemen the coverage it deserves. Furthermore, militias and fighting forces have an interest in under-reporting any of their own fighters killed by the other 'side' as militia and military deaths have a propaganda purpose; these deaths can only be estimated.

Comment: Kudos to Dr. Brown for starting this much-needed blog about what's going on in Yemen.

Indeed, the true situation in Yemen has received little-to-no coverage in the mainstream media. People are barely surviving under severe conditions in the country, and there isn't one bit of help coming from the West. In fact, NATO countries have been supplying the Saudis with deadly weapons (such as cluster munitions), which are continuously used against defenseless Yemeni civilians.

Russia, on the other hand, has sent two planes with 46 tons of humanitarian aid, containing mostly food, to the country. Iran sent its second ship carrying humanitarian aid, loaded with 8,000 tons of rice and 1,000 tons of sugar, back in early June. Delivering aid to Yemen has proven difficult due to a blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia:
One of the first measures taken by Saudi Arabia, when announcing its war against Yemen, was a full-scale naval blockade. For a nation that imports over 90% of its food, that was a devastating move, and one Saudi officials assured wouldn't keep the food out of the country. [...]

The poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen didn't have a lot of excess food lying around in the first place, and the shipping delays have meant shortages in most of the major cities. As the inspection process continues to delay if not outright prevent ships from delivering food, expect inconvenience and high prices to quickly turn into an outright humanitarian calamity.

Saudi officials defend the blockade as necessary for their military operation, and continue to cite the specter of Iranian weapons, even though not a single weapon has been found in the searches. The US Navy is involved in some of the vessel searches as well, meaning America is playing a direct role in prevent food from reaching the besieged populace.
See also: U.S., British and Saudis thwart Freedom and Democracy in Yemen - again

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South Front Crisis News: Drunk Ukrainian child-killer officer gets medal, Russia ready to help Syria


South Front
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:46 UTC
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Ukrainian Senior Lieutenant Marian Rak who drunkenly ran an armored vehicle over pedestrians, killing an 8-year-old girl earlier this year has been awarded a state medal. The military claims that President Petro Poroshenko honored the soldier for his outstanding leadership. Rak was of the two drunk Ukrainian soldiers who, driving a heavy armored vehicle, ran over three people on the sidewalk: 5-month-old baby in a stroller, 8-year-old girl Polina and their mother. Polina died on the spot, while the mother and the baby were taken to the hospital. Now, all know how to become an Ukrainian hero: drink alcohol, kill children.

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Pistol

Obama administration push for increased regulation sparks doubling of gun production

Tim Devaney
The Hill
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:08 UTC
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Gun production has more than doubled over the course of the Obama administration, according to a new report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The manufacturing boom has come in the face of the president's push to expand background checks and place new restrictions on guns in the wake of high-profile shootings like the recent mass-killing in Charleston, S.C., and the 2012 massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.

The numbers paint a picture of gun owners who are concerned about new restrictions on their Second Amendment rights, activists say.

"The ATF report confirms what we already know, that Barack Obama deserves the 'Gun Salesman of the Decade' award," said Erich Pratt, spokesman for the Gun Owners of America. "People have been rushing to buy firearms because they're afraid that Obama will take away their Second Amendment rights."

The ATF's annual firearms commerce report tracks the number of guns manufactured in the United States, which provides an indication of gun sales around the country.

The number of guns manufactured increased by 18 percent during the George W. Bush administration, while the Clinton administration actually saw a 9 percent reduction.

But under President Obama, gun production has spiked 140 percent to 10.8 million firearms in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available.

Comment: Maybe a backhanded push by the PTB to make the US tinderbox even more combustible? Still, owning a gun (or ten) is moot if no ammunition is available. Various government departments appear to be buying it all

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Eye 1

The US Congress is controlled, bribed and blackmailed by the NSA

Alex Thomas
Intellihub
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:09 UTC
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"I don't believe we should put up with being controlled by Big Brother."

After 27 long years of government denial and cover ups, famed investigative reporter Duncan Campbell, the man who first revealed the surveillance dragnet known as ECHELON in a 1988 magazine article, has been vindicated after files from the Snowden cache confirmed the existence of the program.

Writing in the Intercept, Dan Froomkin details the extraordinary circumstances that surrounded ECHELON and the conspiracy of silence that kept it "secret" for so long.

"As Campbell writes today, in a first-person article in The Intercept, the archive of top-secret documents provided to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contains a stunning 2005 document that not only confirms ECHELON's existence as "a system targeting communications satellites" - it shows how the program was kept an official secret for so long," wrote Froomkin.

Comment: The NSA has not, in fact, "gone off track". It has and will continue to do what it was designed to do: a malevolent power unto itself it seeks to grow its totalitarian aim of control over everyone and everything. The NSA doesn't secure anything but its own ends and means. Like a secret society with varying inner circles, there are probably only a relative few who know and understand why the apparatus is in place and what its function truly is. Connect this intent with all the many profound changes that we are experiencing on the planet - including the 'cosmic' - and we might come to some further idea of just how far this Goliath of a control system is willing to go.

Spying on Strom Thurmond is peanuts.

See also:

NSA documents obtained by Snowden confirm existence of ECHELON spying program

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