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Expressed uncertainty about winning the war against terrorism

Issa al Shuaibi
Watching America
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
ISIS Iraq
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Although the United States — which is armed, capable and powerful — lowered its ceiling of expectations from the war that it began waging against terrorism, and announced before its airstrikes campaign that its targets don't exceed the purpose of weakening the Islamic State and curbing its surge, some among us are saying with absolute certainty that the defeat of the Islamic State group is possible, lies in the hands of the international coalition, and that it's only a matter of time.

Enthusiasts about a military confrontation with terrorism removed from their calculations the fact that third-generation wars are not resolved, even once, and that battles between uneven forces are long, costly and endless. The only "powerful country" didn't manage to win such a war in Afghanistan or Iraq. Adding to that, Israel, which is the superior regional power, couldn't win a series of big battles either in the Gaza Strip or in South Lebanon.


Comment: Makes you wonder if there isn't a secondary and tertiary gain by not 'winning' these wars...especially if you have your hands dirty in the creation and perpetration of terrorism and it serves your goals ideologically, both globally and locally.


War in Afghanistan entered its fourth decade and remains without a visible end. The situation in Iraq is similar, as whenever a fierce round hurries toward it, an even fiercer round is born without the appearance of a candle of hope at the end of the long tunnel. The same case is applied to all the latest wars with Israel, which came to realize that every ceasefire is only a truce between two wars, the second of which is even more formidable than its predecessor.


Comment: Unresolved escalation furthers an agenda. We must always look at results, or non-results, as to whom it benefits.


What makes the matter more difficult today is that we stand in front of a player that outperforms all players belonging to nonstate actors that we witnessed before; the outperformance is in financial power and self-motivation, not to mention brutality and attractiveness and other factors which al-Qaida, for instance, lacks. The experience of the previous months shows, perhaps, that even the modest goal that America set for its coalition—the point of weakening the Islamic State group or restraining it—didn't materialize, as it is still expanding and fiercely attacking.


Comment: Mothers love and preserve even their ugliest children. They dote, martyr and cover for them, especially if they serve a purpose.


Comment: If we lived in a logical, humanitarian, truly free world...yes...there are probably ways out of this ongoing crisis, but not if the crisis is serving evil agendas and masking the ideological and self-serving purposes of those who fight against it, evident once you scratch the surface. This author is much too kind and may need to dig deeper for a broader understanding of what is actually happening and why.

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Phoenix

Huge fire: Yet another train carrying crude oil derails in Canada


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:21 UTC
A train carrying crude oil has derailed in Northern Ontario and burst into flames. This is the fourth derailment in the province since the start of the year.
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© Reuters / Transportation Safety Board of Canada / Handout via ReutersHeavy equipment is used in an attempt to extinguish a fire after a crude oil train derailment 50 miles (80 km) south of Timmins, Ontario, February 16, 2015.
CN Rail, the owner of the rail network in the eastern Canadian province, said the crash took place at 2:45 am on Saturday. No one was injured.

Three roads near the community of Gogama, where the accident took place, have been sealed off for up to 36 hours.

The $70-billion Canadian National Railway Company suffered its last derailment in nearby Horneypayne just two days earlier, though there was no chemical spillage in that crash.

Comment: So many train derailments and crude oil/gas explosions lately. Symbolic?

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Evil Rays

Mom faces prison sentence for blocking son's circumcision


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:31 UTC
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A mother who has taken flight with her son to prevent his circumcision could face a prison sentence if she fails to have the boy undergo the procedure, a judge ruled, in a case that has become a rallying cry for 'intactivists.'

The case, which began as a domestic dispute between Heather Hironimus and her husband, Dennis Nebus, over whether or not to circumcise their four-year-old son, has caught the attention of circumcision opponents, who call themselves 'intactivists,' as the courts have intervened in the matter.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen on Friday said Hironimus was in contempt for violating an order to appear in court Friday with her son. Gillen called it "reprehensible" that she has not allowed the father to see his son since February 20, AP reported.

The judge, meanwhile, is determined to ensure that the child undergoes the medical process to have his foreskin removed.

"I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure," Gillen told Hironimus' attorney Thomas Hunker, who said he did not know the whereabouts of his client or her son.


Comment: This judge is clearly incapable of determining what is important for the child. Using threats and bully tactics is unprofessional.


Comment: This is truly tragic. Phimosis usually corrects itself, no need to circumcise the boy. To have the courts intervene and force the procedure rather than get professional advice is a clear indication of how humanity has degraded itself into non-thinking, unnatural beings.

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Arrow Down

Nuclear waste has been dumped in fracking wells for decades

Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Activist Post
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
frackingstein
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Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth's surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.

Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet's surface — as a means of "see no evil" waste disposal — already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.

Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 "Cheney loophole," which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.

Now, it is apparent that the fracking industry is also privy to many secrets of the nuclear energy industry and, specifically, where the bodies are buried, err... dangerous nuclear waste is buried, rather — waste that atomic researchers have otherwise found so difficult to eliminate.

Comment: One other disconcerting thought is that meteors are entering the atmosphere with increasing regularity. How likely is it that anyone in the industry has factored into the equation the potential dangers of an impact or overhead explosion occurring near a disposal site?? Not very likely!

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Pistol

Muslim man shot dead while taking pictures of snow with his family

AGB
PressTV
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:18 UTC
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Another Muslim man has been shot dead in the United States while he was taking pictures of the snow with his family in Dallas, Texas.

Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, who came to the US from Iraq about one month ago, was killed in a shooting incident on Thursday.

The victim died from his injuries after he was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas Police Department Spokeswoman Monica Cordova said.

Investigation is under way to find out whether the shooting was a hate crime, according to police officials.

The North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on authorities in a statement on Friday to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

"Because of recent incidents targeting American Muslims, including the murder of three young Muslims in North Carolina, we urge law enforcement authorities to address community concerns about a motive in this case," said Alia Salem, Executive Director of the North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Comment: Here we go again. Such a tragedy! This man was obviously not a threat to anyone yet not allowed to live.

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Hearts

Attaboy! 10-year-old saves his sister from sex offender

Paul Williams
independent.ie
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:30 UTC
Cullahill, Ireland
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A ten-year-old boy has been hailed as a hero after clinging onto a moving SUV to rescue his sister from a convicted sex offender.

The criminal, who was on bail for robbery, attempted to abduct the girl (12) on the side of a country road near the village of Cullahill in Laois.

She was playing with her two brothers near their home when the man stopped and asked for directions to the local priest's house.

He then jumped from the stolen vehicle and grabbed the girl.

But her younger brother lunged through the driver's window at the would-be kidnapper punching him as the jeep began to drive away.

The brave boy distracted the driver long enough so that his sister could jump from the moving vehicle.

Comment: Way to go, brother! Too bad not all such stories have a happy ending.

For more information on protecting your loved ones from these psychopaths in our midst, see:SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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Bad Guys

Corruption at the top: Ferguson, MO judge who owes thousands in unpaid debts routinely imprisons poor citizens for minor offenses

Jon Swaine
The Guardian
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:28 UTC
Ronald Brockmeyer
Federal tax liens filed against Ronald Brockmeyer by the Internal Revenue Service state that he has tens of thousands of dollars in overdue personal income taxes from joint filings with his wife, Amy.
Ronald J Brockmeyer, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and associates, was a driving force behind using fines and fees to generate revenue

The judge in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and colleagues while inflicting a punishing regime of fines and fees on the city's residents, also owes more than $170,000 in unpaid taxes.

Ronald J Brockmeyer, whose court allegedly jailed impoverished defendants unable to pay fines of a few hundred dollars, has a string of outstanding debts to the US government dating back to 2007, according to tax filings obtained by the Guardian from authorities in Missouri.

Brockmeyer, 70, was this week singled out by Department of Justice investigators as being a driving force behind Ferguson's strategy of using its municipal court to aggressively generate revenues. The policy has been blamed for a breakdown in relations between the city's overwhelmingly white authorities and residents, two-thirds of whom are African American.

Investigators found Brockmeyer had boasted of creating a range of new court fees, "many of which are widely considered abusive and may be unlawful". A city councilman opposing the judge's reappointment was warned "switching judges would/could lead to loss of revenue".

Comment: Throwing people into jails for minor offenses is becoming rampant, as they are increasingly being imprisoned for little more than just being poor and defenseless. A number of judges have been fueling the rise of these debtors prisons so they may use their powers to increase revenues for the court system. This judge is behaving exactly as one would expect a psychopath to act, as they always rise to the top where they may exercise power over others to fuel their rampant greed while preying upon the rest of the citizenry.

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Sheriff

Best of the Web: 15 outrageous examples of police misconduct uncovered by the DOJ on serial civil rights violators Ferguson PD

Taylor Wofford
Newsweek
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:04 UTC
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© REUTERS/Joshua LottPolice officers point their weapons at demonstrators protesting against the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 18, 2014.
The Department of Justice today released a report of its investigation into claims of civil rights abuses by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, where Darren Wilson, a white officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year old, over the summer.

The report paints a police department and municipal court system driven by revenue rather than "public safety needs" and engaged in "a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct....that violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law."

Here are the 15 most egregious examples of misconduct by police and court officers:
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Comet

Full scale simulation: New study reveals where to go when civilization collapses

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
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Researchers say major cities will be overrun during a major crisis like a virus outbreak, to say nothing of economic collapse, environmental disaster, or war.

Comment: Notice that the title of this article states when, and NOT if, civilization collapses.


Should the world as we know it ever fall apart as a result of an economic collapse, a massive natural disaster, cyber attack or widespread pandemic there will be millions of people looking for food, clean water and other essential resources.

The cities will be plagued with violence and supply shortages. Government officials will, as Homeland Security has previously admitted, not be able to provide any meaningful support. The masses will be left to fend for themselves.

But just because the whole system around us falls apart doesn't mean there won't be any safe havens.

According to researchers at Cornell University who recently published a study analyzing the spread of a deadly virus and how it would affect the population, if you want to improve your chances of survival you should head for the hills.

But the researchers warn that even this may not be enough, noting that we are likely "doomed" either way.

Comment: Given the number of probable and dramatic life-changing events that are in the offing, the 'zombie apocalypse,' for lack of a better description, may soon be upon us. As the article states, most individuals are woefully under-prepared for eventualities that will leave them suffering and desperate. You can 'arm' yourself with the knowledge of these facts and the high likelihood of profound change in the not-too-distant future - by preparing now.

Consider going on a ketogenic diet to ameliorate the effects of air-borne viruses that are likely to occur with the huge uptick of near earth objects entering our atmosphere. And prepare food for such a diet by canning and storing it when supply lines are down. Learning how the meditative practice of Éiriú Eolas works to mitigate the effects of stress, and help with clearer thinking can help enormously as well. And learn why and how you can offset some of the effects of a major economic depression that many indicators suggest is just around the corner.

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Result of information war against Greece: Restaurant owner in Düsseldorf receives hate mail


protothema.gr
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:27 UTC
Platon restaurant
Platon restaurant in Düsseldorf
Several German media, including Der Spiegel and Stern magazines and Rheinische Post newspaper have published reports condemning the unethical and racist hate mail.

A Greek restaurant in Düsseldorf on Wednesday received an anonymous hate letter which characterized Greece as a "corrupt" and "rotten" country and claimed that all Greeks are lazy and living on the expense of other hard-working counties.


Comment: And it's obvious for all to see!

IMF's Director Batista spills the beans: Greek bailout was 'to save German and French banks'


Moreover, the unknown author accused the Greek government of behaving like a "brazen mob of jerks with no manners" and the Greek people of "extorting other hard-working countries" in order to maintain their comfortable and carefree lifestyle.


Comment: Unemployment and poverty are rampant in Greece, with homelessness increasing, so the author of the hate-letter must mean the other kind of "carefree and comfortable" that Greeks choose:

Researchers link 35% rise in suicides to Greek austerity measures


"Pay taxes... why? Work... why? Laying in the sun is easier, especially when others have to pay for it", said the racist letter, adding that "as long as the Greek government continues to ridicule and offend the hardworking and economical Europeans and Germans, we will no longer be buying anymore Greek products, nor will we be bringing our business to your establishment."

The racist rant of the unknown writer ends with the following words: "Go back to your corrupt, rotten and totally useless country."

Comment: This racism and hate is a direct result of an information war against Greece. On February 26, the most widely read German tabloid in Europe, Bild, circulated this cover:

bild NEIN
The campaign hardly needs much explanation: the statement in German written just below the "Nein", and across a blue and white background matching the Greek flag, says "No more billions for greedy Greeks."

As part of its campaign, Bild is encouraging readers to take selfies holding the page up and send them in for publication. As Telegraph reports, selfies of readers brandishing the "Nein!" had already begun flooding in on Thursday morning, with many holding it up in their offices or outside their homes.
Bild is a product of Axel Springer SE, the largest publishing house in Europe, whose CEO is a fella with deep commitments to Israel:
Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the Axel Springer Group, a self-styled "non-Jewish Zionist", receives the B'nai B'rith Europe 2014 Award of Merit

In his introductory words Ralph Hofmann said: "Dr. Mathias Döpfner is a firm opponent of any form of anti-Semitism. He supports the State of Israel and the Jewish people not only with his words but also with his deeds."

In his eulogy, Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, German Minister of Financial Affairs, praised Döpfner's support for the State of Israel: "Dr. Döpfner's voice is constant in its support of Israel and of the special relationship which Germany has for Israel and for the Jewish people."

In accepting the award, Dr. Döpfner said: "This award has made me extremely happy. We, the publishing company and its journalists stand firmly on the side of freedom, of democracy and of the Jewish people. My guiding principle is never to tolerate intolerance."

A standing ovation greeted the conclusion of Dr. Döpfner's very moving and powerful words.

Among the numerous dignitaries at the Gala Dinner were the Ambassador of Israel, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, the General Consul of the United States of America Kevin Milas, President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi and Charlotte Knobloch, for many years President of the Central Committee of Jews in Germany.
Just a glimpse into the players behind this information war.

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