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The Shock Doctrine: Syria's heritage in ruins: before-and-after pictures‏

Martin Chulov
The Guardian
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:00 UTC
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© AlamyUmayyad mosque, Aleppo – pictured in 2012, before fighting destroyed it in 2013.
They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed.

All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of Syrians but also eradicating all around them, including sites that have stood since the dawn of civilisation. Across Syria, where a seemingly unstoppable war is about to enter a third year, a heritage built over 5,000 years or more is being steadily buried under rubble.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) vs. Syria's "moderate" Al Qaeda terrorists

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:00 UTC
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© ReutersFighters of al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carry their weapons during a parade at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey Jan. 2, 2014
The Western media has tacitly acknowledged, faced with overwhelming evidence, that the opposition rebels have not only committed countless atrocities, they were also behind the chemical weapons attack of August 21.

In the wake of these tragic events, a new dribble of media disinformation is unfolding.

The evolving media narrative - which coincides in a timely fashion with the Geneva 2 Peace Conference - consists in distinguishing between two categories of Al Qaeda affiliated rebel organizations.

The story runs roughly as follows:
  • There are moderate Al Qaeda rebels ("good guy Jihadists") including those affiliated to Al Nusrah, which are now part of the Western supported moderate Islamic Front. The latter is now openly supported and financed by the US and its allies.
  • And then there are the so-called extremists associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Gladio B in Egypt: Car bomb not a suicide bomber - video

Scott Creighton
American Everyman
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:09 UTC
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© Mahmoud Khaled/AFP/GettyEgyptian emergency personnel inspect the site of a car bomb explosion outside the Cairo police headquarters.
Isn't it funny that just as soon as world public opinion was turning so drastically against the illegal dictatorship in Egypt for killing so many protesters and arresting so many members of the leading opposition party (Muslim Brotherhood), suddenly there is a bombing spree, blamed on the Brotherhood, which promises to justify all the illegal activities of the current junta in power? Anyone remember what Operation Gladio was? Bombings in various countries across Europe carried out by far right fascist organizations and blamed on lefties to justify all kinds of nifty brutality.

Comment: This is the case with most if not all 'suicide bombings'. They're military intelligence operations where someone willingly, or under coercion, takes part in planting explosives that are then detonated remotely or with a timer.

British Government's Agent Provocateurs Exposed!

The Myth Of The Palestinian Suicide Bomber

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Snowden to German TV: NSA is after industrial spying


RT.com
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:36 UTC
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The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an interview to German TV.

Edward Snowden chose the German ARD broadcaster to make his first TV interview ever since he became a whistleblower. The interview was made in strict secrecy in an unspecified location in Russia, where Snowden is currently living under temporary asylum.

"There is no question that the US is engaged in economic spying," said Snowden.

If an industrial giant like Siemens has something that the NSA believes "would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security, of the United States, they will go after that information and they'll take it," the whistleblower said, giving an example.
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Snowden is in cahoots with evil space aliens, or maybe orcs and trolls, or maybe even ... Satan!


Daily Kos
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:07 UTC
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I have it on no authority that Edward Snowden is in cahoots with evil space aliens, or maybe orcs and trolls, or maybe even ... Satan itself! I'm sure this is bad, although to be honest, I'm not sure what exactly cahoots might be, or how one gets into them or out of them. But the important thing is that I can put the word "Snowden" into a sentence with something that the target audience generally considers Very Bad, because if you can't actually assassinate someone, character assassination will have to suffice!

Now, I am offering no evidence for my allegation, unless you count my fevered imagination, but that at least puts me in the exalted company of Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who last weekend alleged that Snowden is Up To No Good with Russia! Which was particularly insightful of Rogers, given that he last summer was hinting that Snowden was Up To No Good with China, which makes perfectly logical sense, if your sense of logic includes the hallucination that China would send an invaluable espionage asset to Russia.

Comment: Distracting us away from the issues that matter, their lies and how they confiscate inches of our freedoms and rights every minute, is one of the PTB's stronger weapons against us. How can we overcome it? By paying attention to their actions, not their words.

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The fate of a person with conscience in Nazi Israel: Hundreds protest against possible dismissal of 'leftist' teacher

Ahiya Raved
Ynet
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:44 UTC
Educators, parents protest against manner in which hearing of teacher Adam Verta was conducted, after student complained he expressed 'radical leftist views'. 'He's a great teacher,' one parent says.
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© Efi Sharir, Yedioth AhronothAdam Verta
More than 400 people demonstrated Saturday in Kiryat Tivon, a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in protest against the intent to dismiss civics teacher Adam Verta, after one of his students complained to the education minister that Verta voiced "extreme leftist views" in his classes.

The protesters demonstrated both against the silencing of voices and against the hearing procedure which they said was "unfair."

Comment: According to the Hebrew version of the article, Verta also said that IDF is cruel and acts with an unprecedented violence. He also said that he is indeed ashamed of his country and his army, and that this land belongs to Palestinians, and Israelis shouldn't be here.

It appears that Israel's long term indoctrination and brainwashing of its citizens would suffer a serious blow, if a person of conscience like Verta would be allowed to spread the truth uninterrupted and unpunished. But it's also good that he doesn't stand alone, and there are still a few Israelis, who disagree with murderous ways of Nazi Israel.

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Bad Guys

Ukraine's fascist Neo-Nazi color revolution backed by U.S.

Willy Loman
American Everyman
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:11 UTC
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© UnknownJohn McCain with Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party leader Oleh Tyahnibok, Kiev, December 15, 2013
(The guy seen with John McCain is a pure bred Operation Gladio supporter. Thailand, Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt... it's Gladio B and this guy is a perfect example of the kinds of democracies our country backs across the world. )
"In the majority of his motions he opposed the introduction of the Russian language as the second official state language, proposed recognition of the fighting role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army during World War II, called for the lustration of former communist officials, security service officers and undercover agents, and demanded the prohibition of communist ideology."
When left-wing groups tried to join the protests they were attacked and beaten by fascists. Svoboda are leading ideologically now. Fascism is like a fashion now, with more and more people getting involved." . Sergey Kirichuk
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Eye 1

Sowing the wind: NSA sets global trend for invasive state snooping


RT
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:11 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm
The United States' dragnet surveillance programs have set a dangerous precedent, encouraging other states to bolster their own snooping capabilities and engage in censorship under the guise of security, Human Rights Watch warned in its annual report.

"The importance of privacy, a right we often take for granted, was thrown into sharp relief in 2013 by the steady stream of revelations from United States government files released by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden," the New York-based group wrote in its 24th annual review of human rights practices around the globe.

"These revelations, supported by highly classified documents, showed the US, the UK, and other governments engaged in global indiscriminate data interception, largely unchecked by any meaningful legal constraint or oversight, without regard for the rights of millions of people who were not suspected of wrongdoing," the report said.

The report warns that the ease with which information is disseminated in the digital age has been matched by a commensurate growth in unchecked surveillance capabilities.
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Gen McChrystal: U.S. drone activity causes 'tremendous resentment'


RT
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:07 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Brendan SmialowskiArmy Gen. Stanley McChrystal
A retired US general who commanded NATO troops in Afghanistan for one year has warned that as the Middle Eastern nation sits on the brink of civil war, western forces must contend with widespread resentment about the US drone program.

General Stanley McChrystal, who led troops in Afghanistan from June 2009 to June 2010 before stepping aside after criticizing US President Obama in an interview with Rolling Stone, told the BBC that the West must help Afghanistan even after pulling out military forces.

He said that while the Taliban may not have the strength to fully re-take Afghanistan, the Islamist extremists would certainly be among the groups involved in an armed conflict.

"I think that would be a return - in the minds of the Afghans - to what they experienced in 1989," McChrystal said. "But I don't think the Taliban have the strength to come in and take over Afghanistan...There is enough capacity in that country, and certainly enough ties that bind to avoid that."

What has proven more difficult to avoid is the "tremendous amount of resentment" that US drones have caused throughout the region. When questioned about the future of surveillance and bombing conducted by the unmanned aerial vehicles, McChrystal said there is a danger that drones will be used as an "antiseptic."
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'No one, Mr. Kerry, has right to withdraw president's legitimacy' - Syrian FM


RT
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:57 UTC
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© Reuters/Gary CameronRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L-R), U.N.-Arab League Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Acting Director Genera Michael Moeller and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend a plenary session in Montreux, Switzerland January 22, 2014.
Geneva 2 quickly descended into a war of words, with each successive speaker ratcheting up the rhetoric as tensions from the protracted civil war which has ravaged the country for three years quickly bled into the peace conference.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday kicked off the long-awaited international peace conference for Syria, opening the international bid to end the bloodshed.

Ban said the conference provided an opportunity for all sides to show unity, saying "today is a day of fragile but real hope."

The UN Chief pointed a finger at the Syrian government, saying if the democratic demands of the Syrian people had been listened to at the outset of the conflict, "we might not be here today." Ban painted a grim picture of a country racked by violence and lawlessness, urging all sides to put an end to terrorist attacks and unequivocally allow foreign aid into the country.

Taking the floor from Ban, Lavrov delivered his points in rapid fire succession, noting that the historical responsibility for peace rested on the heads of everyone in attendance.
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