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The financial war against Syria: Currency speculation sees Syrian pound plummet in value


Fox News
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:56 UTC
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© AFPAn employee stacks Syrian banknotes at the Syrian Central Bank in Damscus, on August 25, 2011. The Syrian government has lifted restrictions on the sale of dollars to individuals, in a bid to curb black market trade caused by the Western powers' covert war.
The central bank in war-torn Syria has lifted restrictions on the sale of dollars to individuals, state news agency SANA said Wednesday, in a bid to curb black market trade.

"Citizens may purchase foreign currency at banks, for non-commercial purposes, according to the rates fixed by the central bank," the bank's governor Adib Mayaleh said, quoted by SANA.

Allowing banks to sell foreign currency was part of "efforts by the central bank in the domestic market to stabilise the price of the Syrian pound and stop speculation on the exchange rate.

"The central bank will continue to finance imports of basic goods through banks operating in Syria at preferential rates," said Mayaleh.

The agency said the central bank had sold dollars to 10 private banking institutions at the rate of 173.27 Syrian pounds to the dollar "to cover the needs of the local market between August 13-19".
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Best of the Web: Making the world safe for Banksters: Syria in the cross-hairs

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt Blog
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:53 UTC
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The Central Bank of Syria, Damascus
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.

In an August 2013 article titled "Larry Summers and the Secret 'End-game' Memo," Greg Palast posted evidence of a secret late-1990s plan devised by Wall Street and U.S. Treasury officials to open banking to the lucrative derivatives business. To pull this off required the relaxation of banking regulations not just in the US but globally. The vehicle to be used was the Financial Services Agreement of the World Trade Organization.

The "end-game" would require not just coercing support among WTO members but taking down those countries refusing to join. Some key countries remained holdouts from the WTO, including Iraq, Libya, Iran and Syria. In these Islamic countries, banks are largely state-owned; and "usury" - charging rent for the "use" of money - is viewed as a sin, if not a crime. That puts them at odds with the Western model of rent extraction by private middlemen. Publicly-owned banks are also a threat to the mushrooming derivatives business, since governments with their own banks don't need interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, or investment-grade ratings by private rating agencies in order to finance their operations.
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SOTT Focus: Weapon of Choice

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:30 UTC
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There has been much ado in the press lately about the "alleged" use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces against the so-called "rebels". Not only are these rebels supported, trained and funded by western interests, they also include members of al-Qaeda, who, up until last year were the sworn enemy of these very same western interests. How bizarre is that?

Anyone who reads the Sott page regularly will have figured out by now that it was likely the western-backed rebels that were responsible for the attack we see portrayed in the media. But some readers may not be aware that there is also evidence to suggest that chemical weapons weren't even used in the attack.

Of course, none of these facts seem to bother the mainstream media, who remain content to parrot the administration lies calling for a U.S. attack on Syria.
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Russia releases key findings on chemical attack near Aleppo indicating similarity with rebel-made weapons


RT
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:45 UTC
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© Reuters / George OurfalianPeople injured in what the government said was a chemical weapons attack, breathe through oxygen masks as they are treated at a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo March 19, 2013
Probes from Khan al-Assal show chemicals used in the March 19 attack did not belong to standard Syrian army ammunition, and that the shell carrying the substance was similar to those made by a rebel fighter group, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.

A statement released by the ministry on Wednesday particularly drew attention to the "massive stove-piping of various information aimed at placing the responsibility for the alleged chemical weapons use in Syria on Damascus, even though the results of the UN investigation have not yet been revealed."

By such means "the way is being paved for military action" against Damascus, the ministry pointed out.

But the samples taken at the site of the March 19 attack and analyzed by Russian experts indicate that a projectile carrying the deadly nerve agent sarin was most likely fired at Khan al-Assal by the rebels, the ministry statement suggests, outlining the 100-page report handed over to the UN by Russia.
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U.S.-NATO Should Not Be "Al Qaeda's Air Force"


Washington Blog
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:36 UTC
Kerry's claim that Syrian rebels are not associated with Al Qaeda has been thoroughly debunked.

Politico notes:
"We certainly don't have a dog in the fight," [Senator Ted] Cruz said, calling it a civil war in Syria. "We should be focused on defending the United States of America. That's why young men and women sign up to join the military, not to, as you know, serve as Al Qaeda's air force."

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Rush Limbaugh suspects Obama conspired with Al-Qaeda to frame Bashar al-Assad

Julie Wilson
Infowars
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:12 UTC
"If true, this is the setup of all time," says Limbaugh
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh acknowledges building evidence that the chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged to frame President Bashar al-Assad.

On Tuesday's broadcast of the Rush Limbaugh show, the talk show host acknowledged reports from the Associated Press that the admitted intelligence on Syria's chemical weapons attack was "no slam dunk."


He also announced he believes Obama may have been "complicit" in the attack and possibly helped plan it.

Limbaugh expressed doubt over allegations Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Limbaugh asked if the allegations are true, what does Assad have to gain?

On Saturday morning, the talk show host received a note from a friend who spent time in the Middle East. In the note, Limbaugh's friend vouched for Assad, claiming there's "nothing in it for him," and "he's not that kind of guy," describing the note as "almost a personal reference for Bashar."
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Did the White House help plan the Syrian chemical attack?

Yossef Bodansky
Global Research
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:49 UTC
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There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East - mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters - which makes a very strong case, based on solid circumstantial evidence, that the August 21, 2013, chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a pre-meditated provocation by the Syrian opposition.

The extent of US foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the "horror" of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light.

On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and US Intelligence ["Mukhabarat Amriki"] took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors. Very senior opposition commanders who had arrived from Istanbul briefed the regional commanders of an imminent escalation in the fighting due to "a war-changing development" which would, in turn, lead to a US-led bombing of Syria.
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Pipeline Politics and the Syrian War

James Corbett and Pepe Escobar
GRTV
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:39 UTC

Roving correspondent and frequent guest Pepe Escobar of Asia Times Online joins us once again to discuss the geopolitical machinations behind the latest developments in Syria.

We discuss the possibility of an Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline and how the regional players react to such a proposal, and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia's role in the current conflict.
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First Gulf War based on a lie orchestrated by PR firm Hill & Knowlton


Brasscheck TV
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:19 UTC
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Yet another American war crime: The aptly named 'Highway of Death' after American airstrikes obliterated at least one thousand retreating unarmed Iraqi soldiers. The Americans gave it this name because they were proud of the air assault, not because they were lamenting it.
The history of the First Gulf War

1. Reagan and Bush sent Saddam Hussein billions of dollars and literally tons of chemical and biological weapons to kill Iranians. (They did a good job. Iran lost over one million people in the Iran-Iraq War.)

2. Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq using slant drilling rigs they got from their friends in Texas.

3. Iraq told them to cut it out. Kuwait continued. Iraq told the US they planned to invade. US Ambassador told Hussein: "It's none of our business how you resolve this."

4. Iraq invades Kuwait.

5. Bush whips Americans into a frenzy with the lies above.

6. US attacks Iraqi forces, drives them from Kuwait, kills 135,000 of them including thousands as they were in retreat on their own territory - and establishes bases and supply depots all over the region

7. Mass murdering psychopath Bill Clinton spends eight years destroying basic infrastructure in Iraq leading to the death of at least 500,000 children

8. Son of Bush and his cabinet of lying criminals makes the case to invade Iraq.

9. They do so and deliberately botch the post-invasion occupation to degrade the country even further killing many hundreds of thousands more.

10. Hand picked animatron Bushbama continues the occupation, foments violence through out the region, and now threatens to attack Syria.

Deja Vu all over again.

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Keiser Report 492: American labour day special

Max Keiser
Max Keiser Report
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:15 UTC

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert present an American Labor Day special in which they compare the situation for the American worker and consumer with that of the Chinese. They also look at the headlines from China regarding 'secret gardens' and contaminated soil. In the second half, Max talks to Dan Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com about housing bubbles, infrastructure, food safety and more in China.
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