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Woolwich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag?

by Stephen Lendman
Global Research
May 24, 2013

Reports said two assailants hacked a British soldier to death. He’s been identified as Lee Rigby. He was killed in broad daylight. It was several hundred meters from southeast London’s Woolwich Royal Artillery barracks.

Weapons included a machete type knife. Alleged attackers remained on the scene. They did so until police arrived 20 minutes later.

Why wasn’t explained. Killers don’t usually stay around to be captured. Both assailants were shot and apprehended. They were hospitalized for treatment.

One allegedly said “(w)e must fight as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Britain’s ITV news aired an edited video clip.

Allegedly an onlooker filmed it.

The clip showed a young Black man with blood dripping from his hands saying “(w)e swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.”

 ”The only reason reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.”

“The British soldier is an eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

ITV edited the statement. It said nothing about “do(ing) this because Muslims are dying every day.” Unedited it said:

“There are many, many ayah (religious verses) throughout the Koran that says we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

“I apologize that women had to witness this today but in our land women have to see the same.”

“You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.”

“You think David Cameron will get stuck in the street, when we start busting our guns?”

“You think your politicians are gonna die? not it’s gonna be the average like you, and your children.”

“So get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back, so you can all live in peace.”

Reports called what happened the first domestic Al Qaeda-inspired attack since the July 7, 2005 underground (so-called 7/7) bombings.

A series of attacks targeted the city’s public transport system. They came during the morning rush hour. They were for maximum disruption and casualties.

At precisely the same time, an anti-terror drill occurred. It simulated real attacks. It was no coincidence.

The real attack was a false flag. It was done to heighten fear. At issue was enlisting public sentiment to keep Britain allied with Washington’s imperial wars.

At the time, AP reported that Israel’s London embassy warned Scotland Yard in advance. Israeli Army Radio said:

“Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.”

No action was taken. Israel’s then finance minister Netanyahu was told to skip a London economic conference. He was scheduled to speak.

Other officials were warned, not the public. Fifty-two people died. Over 700 were injured.

These type incidents automatically raise questions. Answers are needed before jumping to conclusions. The timing of Wednesday’s killing is very suspicious.

It comes when Washington, Britain, other NATO allies, and Israel head toward full-scale war on Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry’s traveling through the Middle East.

A so-called June peace conference is scheduled. It’s subterfuge. Prior peace initiatives failed. So will this one. Demanding Assad must go assures it. Washington’s proxy war was launched to do so. Expect no change of plans now.

Kerry met with foreign ministers of 11 so-called Friends of Syria countries and opposition group representatives. He discussed Syria with Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Multiple Israeli provocations preceded his visit. On May 23, Haaretz said Israel’s “maintaining intense intelligence activity in Syria and working with local villagers.”

It’s considering a covert Syrian “proxy force.” It claims doing so will protect Israeli security. Israel’s armed forces are very able on their own.

A so-called proxy force, if established, is clearly provocative. It heads things closer to full-scale intervention. Washington and Israel partner in all regional belligerence. They jointly plan and implement conflicts.

Kerry’s trip coincides with Washington’s plan to ramp up support for so-called “rebels.” He demands Assad must go. He’s uncompromising. So is Obama. Full-scale conflict could erupt any time.

Manufactured pretexts make it easier. False flags are longstanding pre-war tactics. They’re US/Israeli specialties. Britain’s an active co-conspirator.

Muslim extremism was blamed for Wednesday’s London killing. We’ve seen this all before. Expect heightened Islamophobia ahead. UK, US, other key NATO allies, and Israel benefit most. They’ll take full advantage.

British MP George Galloway said “(t)his sickening atrocity in London is exactly what we are paying the same kind of people to do in Syria.”

True enough. He omitted explaining what appears most important.

Washington and complicit allies manufacture pretexts. They did so to justify proxy war on Syria. It’s a short step to intervening full-blown.

They’ve done it before. They manipulate public sentiment. They fabricated reasons to attack Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. They’re doing so against Iran.

They want public support. Stoking anti-Muslim rage enlists it.

Post-9/11, Bush’s Afghan war was popular. Few knew what’s now more apparent. Fewer understood Washington’s imperial agenda.

Multiple wars followed. New ones are planned. The entire region and beyond may become embroiled in conflict. Advancing America’s imperium matters most.

At issue is creating pretexts to do so. Perhaps London’s incident is the latest. The fullness of time will explain more.

Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting. Top advisors and intelligence officials attended.

UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, called an emergency Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) meeting. Cameron chaired it. It includes cabinet ministers and high-level security officials. It deals with terrorism and other major crises.

COBRA refers to the room where committee members meet – Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. A terrorist alert was imposed. Heightened security steps were taken.

These measures don’t commonly follow street killings. It doesn’t matter how gruesome. Most incidents get scant coverage. Many go unnoticed.

This one suggests something bigger. What happened may be pretext for what’s planned. It remains to be seen what follows.

Peter Eyre is a Middle East consultant, geopolitical analyst, investigative journalist, anti-war activist, and valued Progressive Radio News Hour guest.

He jumped on the Woolrich incident. He discussed justifiable reasons to doubt the legitimacy of official reports. They have a distinct aroma. They fall short of truth and full disclosure.

On May 23, Eyre headlined “Woolwich beheading: Security tightened at all London army barracks.” His detailed analysis includes images.

“The gruesome scene of a decapitated actor with no police or paramedics at the scene and no blood,” he said.

The “offenders are shot by armed police who are in attendance in the background but the murder scene has not been secured!!”

Many awakened “to this amazing Shakespearean play that has unfolded in Woolwich, London where all the actors were so bad they would not even qualify for an interview as an extra in some third rate movie!!”

Eyre asked if police “drag(ged) the (victim’s) body around the corner?”

“BBC stated a man wearing a Help the Hero’s T Shirt was hit by a car, then attacked and killed with a machete or sword by the cars occupants.”

(S)o much vivid violence and yet still no blood at the scene…why?”

“(B)ecause the actors had not had time to splash it around before they filmed the scene.”

“(I)t was however added later as the picture (in his article) shows…the blood is only on the pavement and not on the road!!”

“(D)o you think they attempted to copy the Boston Bombing but somehow did not get it right?”

Eyre suggested that blood on a signpost was “Tomato Ketchup!!”

Key is calling the incident Islamic terrorism. Doing so automatically raises suspicions. Most often, the usual suspects are patsies. They’re props for planned state-sponsored mischief.

Expect UK, America, Israel and imperial allies to take full advantage. Police state harshness may increase. Waging war on Islam will continue.

Doing so full-scale against Syria appears likely. What’s long planned may erupt any time.

A Final Comment

UK media reports identified one alleged attacker. Twenty-eight year old Michael Abebolajo grew up in Romford. He comes from a Christian family. In 2003, he converted to Islam.

A man who knew his family said they were very pleasant. Friends called him very quiet. In school, he was a good guy, they said. They were shocked to learn a former schoolmate faces murder charges.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”

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VIDEO — Obama Heckler: “I think killing innocent people with drones is rude”

Activist Post
May 25, 2013

A CNN host called the peace activist Medea Benjamin “rude” for interrupting the president’s foreign policy speech.

Benjamin responded, ”I think killing innocent people with drones is rude,” Benjamin replied. “I think keeping innocent people in detention for 11 years is rude. I think not respecting the lives of Muslim people who are killed is rude. There are a lot of rude things about our policies. Speaking out is actually not rude.”


VIDEO — Arab League warns against foreign interference in Syria

PressTV
May 24, 2013

The Arab League has held an urgent meeting on Syria at its headquarters in Cairo. The meeting was aimed at developing a unified Arab stance regarding the international efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria.


Top US diplomat vows wider military aid for anti-Damascus militant gangs

PressTV
May 23, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) in a meeting with Jordan’s ruler King Abdullah II

US Secretary of State John Kerry has again vowed expanded military support for foreign-backed militant gangs in Syria if “diplomacy” fails to end what he claimed as a civil war in the country.

Speaking in the Jordan capital of Amman on Wednesday, Kerry said the US and its partners, in Western Europe and mainly Arab dictatorships in the region as well as Turkey, will widen their support for anti-Damascus gangs in the country by “sending more weapons or taking other measures short of sending American forces,” The Washington Post reports Thursday.

The development comes as Syrian troops are on the verge of recapturing major Syrian city of Qusayr on the Lebanese border from the foreign-backed insurgents in the country.

Kerry, meanwhile, also tried to lower expectations for an international effort to bring the highly divided opposition groups and the Syrian government to the negotiation table amid persisting differences among militant leaders and new international worries about the existence of radical terrorists among opposition forces.

The top US diplomat also sounded pessimistic about the prospect of convening an ‘international peace conference’ in Geneva next month in efforts to “negotiate a cease-fire” and form a “transition government,” the report adds.

“In the event that we can’t find that way forward…, we will also talk about our continued support and growing support for the opposition in order to permit them to continue to fight,” Kerry said.

This is while the Syrian army has successfully concluded the first phase of its operation in the strategic western city of Qusayr, according to press reports.

Syrian forces have inflicted major losses on the militants in the city, destroying their weaponry and equipment.

The Syrian army has also found several caches of weapons, mostly containing Israeli-made ammunition.

The senior commander of the terrorist group al-Nusra Front, Abu Omar, was reportedly also among those killed in battle on May 21.

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VIDEO — Pro-Syrian protesters rally in Ukraine

Press TV
May 23, 2013

They are holding Syrian and Ukrainian flags, which symbolize solidarity between the two nations.

This peaceful gathering in Ukraine’s capital Kiev speaks against terrorism in Syria, which protesters say, is sponsored by some Arab and Western governments.

Ukraine has been supporting the Syrian government since the unrest began in March 2011 in the Arab nation. These people say they feel free to protest here as Ukraine is against any foreign military intervention, especially if it claims thousands of lives.

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U.S. Senate Committee Votes in Favor of Arming Mercenaries in Syria

nsnbc international
May 22, 2013

Widening of Syria War into a Regional War with Global Implications becoming Inevitable.

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has passed legislation that, if signed by U.S. President Obama, approves of officially supplying weapons to what the committee describes as “The Syrian Opposition”.

According to international law the bill implies, that the U.S.A. officially becomes a conflicting party. The official approval of weapons deliveries and other aid to “the opposition” is arguably changing its status to that of a mercenary corps.

The Senate´s decision has significantly increased the likelihood of the development of a regional war with global implications and has, if it is signed  by President Obama, for the foreseeable future undermined attempts to settle the war by political means. 

NCFPThe bipartisan U.S. Senate´s Foreign Relations Committee voted 15 – 3 in favor of the bill that would allow U.S. politicians to officially arm the terrorist organizations, which the USA has been directly and indirectly financing, arming and otherwise supporting since the genesis of the conflict in 2011.

Already in 2011 a whistleblower at the U.S. Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.A. stated to nsnbc, that the USA has special forces deployed in Syria and the the USA is financing and arming the “Syrian opposition”. 

If signed by President Obama, the U.S.A. would technically become a directly involved party to the war. Arguably, the so-called opposition would receive the legal status of being a US-sponsored mercenary corps. In other words, the legal status would concur with its de facto status.

While some analysts state, that the decision would not imply significant changes on the ground because the USA has sponsored terrorists in Syria since the onset of the crisis, others predict that the new legislation implies a significant increase of arms shipments, a significant increase in recruitment efforts, a substantial increase of funding, and an inevitable widening of the war into Lebanon and Iraq.

The legislation calls to “provide defense articles, defense services, and military training” directly to the “opposition” on the ground in Syria who “have been properly and fully vetted and share common values and interests with the United States”. 

The legislation officially endorses an illegal military strategy on Syria, which a US Training Circular for Special Forces and “Foreign Students” designates as being official US military doctrine. The Training Circular, TC-18-01 explicitly states, that the US military, for the foreseeable future, would primarily be involved in unconventional warfare.

The subversion of foreign nations, as described in the TC-01 is a de-facto outline of the political and military strategy which the USA has used against the Syrian Arab Republic since 2011. The full document has previously been disclosed on nsnbc. 

It is especially the last part of the sentence, “vetted and share common values and interests with the United States”, that would also officially transform the United States into a party that is directly involved in the war by recruiting, financing and arming  mercenaries.

Belhadj - The Enemy Image

Belhadj – The Enemy Image

According to reliable Syrian statistics, which repeatedly have been sent to the office of U.N. Secretary Ban Kyi-moon, more than 80 per cent of the persons involved in combat operations against the Syrian military forces and the Syrian Civil Defense Forces are foreign fighters.

As documented in a previous article, much of the recruitment of these mercenary forces is being organized via Libya, under supervision of the Emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Abdelhakim Belhadj.

Since the US-backed coup d´etat in Libya in 2011, Abdelhakim Belhadj, who has a long history of cooperation with the British Foreign Intelligence Service MI6, Mossad and NATO Intelligence, and who according to former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar is the main responsible person for the 2004 Madrid Train Bombings that killed dozens, Abdelhakim Belhadj also functions as official Tripoli Military Governor. The largest so far documented arms shipment, including SAM-7 surface to air missiles was shipped from Libya through Turkey and into Syria. It is safe to conclude that the greatest  part of arms shipments and deployment of recruits from Libya to Syria as well as to Mali is being organized through the Belhadj network.

Belhadj, Tripoli Military Governor and Syrian Tripoli Brigade Commander in Chief

Belhadj, Tripoli Military Governor and Syrian Tripoli Brigade Commander in Chief

With the main body of Syria recruits being recruited through a network that is in liaison with NATO, NATO is by implication, also becoming directly involved in the Syria War if the bill is passed. In fact, some international lawyers argue that NATO´s legal status already is that of a party to the conflict due to the fact that Turkey is directly involved.

The legal implications are mind-boggling and bound to significantly worsen the crisis between Russia and the USA, the crisis between Russia and the EU, and the crisis between some EU member states, first and foremost Germany and the USA.

Most experts on US – Israeli foreign relations agree that the Israeli lobby in the USA, which has a significant influence over the majority of members of Congress, has been lobbying strongly in support of the bill. Over the course of the last month reports of direct Israeli involvement in the war have significantly increased.

Already in 2011 Israel was arming the so-called Syrian opposition through third parties in Lebanon. Most prominently among them, the Saudi-Lebanese national and chairman of the “Movement for the Future Party” Saad Hariri, and the leader of the Lebanese Druze community and chairman of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt. Jumblatt is known for having facilitated shipments of weapons and equipment from Israel´s Raphael Industries since 2011.

One of the few Senators who have voted against the bill was Senator Rand Paul who stated ” You will be funding today the allies of al-Qaeda…. It is an irony you cannot overcome”. Critics of Rand Paul however state that his nay-vote was cheap since it was well known that the majority would vote in favor of the bill. Others criticize Paul for being representative of double standards by not clearly stating that al-Qaeda and “The Opposition” are euphemisms for a network of NATO mercenaries who can be used as friend or foe, terrorist of freedom fighters, all and alone depending on utility.

kerryinmoscowU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is currently visiting Jordan to meet representatives from 11 nations. Part of the agenda will be discussions between Kerry and Russian representatives about the so-called U.S.-Russian roadmap to end the Syria crisis.

The chances for ending the war in Syrian by political means however, are becoming increasingly slim. According to some analysts, the crisis is developing a propensity toward a deterioration into a Sarajevo-like situation, where the events begin determining the decisions of the policy makers, rather than the policy makers being the ones who determine the development of the events. The odds are clearly stacked against a political resolution and overwhelmingly for a widening of the war into Lebanon and Iraq.

Russia has repeatedly warned that the material support of the terrorists in Syria violates international law, and Russian officials have warned that the passing of the legislation is one more, and a most serious violation of international law.

The Russian position always was and remains the position, that only direct talks between the Syrian government and the opposition can solve the crisis and that the arming of terrorists sabotages ongoing attempts to solve the crisis and the ongoing political reform process in Syria.

In March, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated, that “International law does not permit the supply of arms to non-governmental actors and our point of view is that it is a violation of international law” .

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About the Author

– Dr. Christof Lehmann is the founder and editor of nsnbc. He is a psychologist and independent political consultant on conflict and conflict resolution and a wide range of other political issues. His work with traumatized victims of conflict has led him to also pursue the work as political consultant. He is a lifelong activist for peace and justice, human rights, Palestinians rights to self-determination in Palestine, and he is working on the establishment of international institutions for the prosecution of all war crimes, also those committed by privileged nations. On 28 August 2011 he started his blog nsnbc, appalled by misrepresentations of the aggression against Libya and Syria. In March 2013 he turned nsnbc into a daily, independent, international on-line newspaper.


VIDEO — Syrian army continues mop-up operation in Qusayr

Press TV
May 23, 2013

These Syrian soldiers are entering the unknown, walking into the edge of the northern quarter of Qusair city, this unit is carrying out a limited mission as part of the second stage of the Syrian military operation in Al-Qusair.

The second phase involves a variety of tactics to minimize human losses among Syrian soldiers according a Syrian military source. The Syrian command doesn’t want to push everything it has into the battle right now so while some attack, others wait.

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U.S. Military Base In Uzbekistan Would Destabilize Region

Stop NATO…Opposition to global militarism
May 23, 2013

Daily Times
May 22, 2013

Uzbek quest for US weapons could dent Central Asia
Farooq Yousaf

20110124_110124b-002_rdax_270x180image: Uzbek President Islam Karimov and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

2014 is approaching, and so is the deadline for the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Afghanistan. Leon Panetta, the then-US Defense Secretary, in 2012 announced that by the end of 2014 coalition forces would cease any combat operations and would be limited to normal military duties in the country. Moreover, [Afghan President] Hamid Karzai, in a recent interview, gave approval to allowing nine US military bases even after the pullout.

With the United States wary of transporting heavy weaponry out of Afghanistan, offers have been made by the Central Asian states, such as Uzbekistan, in return for some of the latest arms and equipment that they lack. According to a report by The New York Times, policy makers in Washington took Uzbekistan’s offer so seriously that the United States has partially lifted a set of arms sales restrictions that has been in place for about a decade.

Last year, in June, reports started to surface that Uzbekistan that faces international arms embargoes due to widespread human rights violations, started negotiations for a possible arms-transit and military base deal with the USA, that would help the coalition forces take its equipment out of Afghanistan, whereas Tashkent would benefit by acquiring the state-of-the-art weaponry. Kazakhstan’s newspaper Liter, on August 15 last year, predicted that a possible deal for a US base in Uzbekistan could be reached when US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake visited Tashkent.

Uzbekistan, for long has been indicating shifting its alliances and partners. One of such indications was its withdrawal from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military cooperation initiative between Russia and Central Asian states [as well as Armenia and Belarus]. It would have been difficult for Tashkent to enter into military negotiations with the United States if it were a member of the CSTO, but abandoning the CSTO freed it from coming under any pressure.

In terms of geostrategic importance, the most feasible gateway for cargo withdrawal is Pakistan, yet it seems that the coalition forces want as many alternatives as possible, such as Uzbekistan, in case Islamabad decides to go against its deals with NATO and close the NATO supply line, or even ask for more money.

Such a move by Uzbekistan would mean it wants to turn its back on Russia, a neighbour that supports much of the Uzbek workforce. Russia, even after the Soviet disintegration, has maintained a substantial influence over some of the Central Asian states, but this influence has mostly been in the form of mutual cooperation and better relations.

In another move, NATO’s representative for Central Asia James Appathurai held meetings with Uzbek ministers in March this year, in what seemed to be a move to gain Uzbek support against Russia.

13644702841image: James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, in Uzbekistan on March 27, 2013

If the United States is successful in establishing a military base in Uzbekistan, it would entail bad political consequences, and hence play a role in destabilising not only Central Asia, but also South Asia, as the anti-US sentiment and motivation for radical Islamists could fuel a wave of militancy that could also spill over into Russia, one of the most important states in the region. Such concerns were raised by a Russian military expert, Lt Gen Leonid Sazhin¸ saying, “Although Americans claims that they are fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan today, it will be them who, by deploying their facility in Uzbekistan, will lead Taliban members there.”

A base in Uzbekistan, that neighbours Afghanistan, could also be used for surgical strikes, and even drone attacks, into neighbouring Afghanistan, that could also raise major human rights concerns and sour relations with Kabul.

If the United States is successful in establishing a fully operational base in Uzbekistan, this would also worry China, another regional power, as it has already shown concerns over the bases surrounding it, known as the ‘ring of fire’. In any case, Uzbekistan needs to decide whether such a venture would be beneficial for the country and the region or will bring chaos in the long run.

The writer is a Programme consultant and Content Editor at the Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad, belonging to Frontier Region of Pakistan. He is currently pursuing his higher Studies in Public Policy and Conflict Management in Germany. He tweets as @faruqyusaf and can be reached at farooq@crss.pk


Syria ends 1st phase of Qusayr operation

Press TV
May 23, 2013

The Syrian army has successfully concluded the first phase of its operation in the western city of Qusayr. (File photo)

The Syrian army has successfully concluded the first phase of its operation in the strategic western city of Qusayr.

According to reports from the city, an unknown number of security agents from different foreign countries have been detained or killed during the operation.

Syrian forces have inflicted major losses on the militants in Qusayr, destroying their weaponry and equipment.

The Syrian army has also found several caches of weapons, mostly containing Israeli-made ammunition.

Qusayr, which is located in the central province of Homs, has been the scene of fierce clashes between Syrian forces and militants over the past few days.

The senior commander of the terrorist group al-Nusra Front, Abu Omar, was among those killed in battle on May 21.

The crisis in Syria began in March 2011.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on May 18 that militants from 29 different countries were fighting against the government in different parts of the country.

President Assad also said in April that the situation in Syria was improving as the army enjoyed people’s support in the fight against terrorism.

The Syrian army said in a statement issued on May 21 that it had destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that drove toward the village of Bir Ajam, located in the Israeli-occupied Syrian territory of the Golan Heights.

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5 Ways We Are Isolated From Each Other And Cut Off From Our Roots

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image: Dees Illustration

by Amir Alwani
PotentNews.com
May 21, 2013

Predators must have knowledge about their prey if they are going to be successful hunters.  It is clear that we have been studied and our weaknesses have been exploited in an effort to exhaust us economically, physically and spiritually.  Renowned researcher, Alan Watt goes so far as to state that the perpetrators responsible for this ultimately want to destroy any sense of individuality in us whatsoever.

Regardless of who’s doing the aggression, we can see that there is a war on the individual as we are assaulted on many fronts and are losing our individuality to such an alarming degree, with such intensity and in such a rapid time, that it drastically reduces the likelihood that this is happening by accident.  It seems there are predators who are coercing us and creating an atmosphere ripe for the rotting of minds.  The identity of the predators, while crucial, is controversial, however their actions leave scars that are less debatable and if we can agree on what those are, we can perhaps have an easier time building a consensus about what is happening in general and what we can do about it.  That said, it’s not very difficult to agree on what those scars are.  They’re in front of our faces all the time.

For instance, many people today are drugged up on pharmaceutical medication and lost in their smart-phones/i-pads with very little intuition or common sense remaining, not to mention extremely diminished critical thinking skills.  People simply can’t think.  People in the US seem to be having an even harder time thinking.  A recent article titled “America #1: In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.” illustrates the effects of Americans’ actions and/or non-actions and is not surprising given the lack of ability to “think”.  This stuff is not limited to America, of course, as those that seek a world government and the destruction of every country’s sovereignty have long had their tentacles reach far across the entire globe.

Anyway, as individuals, the majority of us probably would never choose these paths if we knew the actual consequences, but we have been targeted, our empathy is being uprooted, our autonomy is being taken away from us, and we are being influenced on a mass scale in a variety of different ways.  Furthermore, we have been subject to these influences for a long time.  Interestingly, we have reached a point where our energies and (and sometimes our own tax dollars) have been fueling our own propaganda machine and keeping the momentum of this monstrous system going for quite a while now, leaving us consistently in the dark.

The antagonists in this epic journey have taken advantage of the fact that we have taken our eyes off the ball and now the ball seems to be in their court because so many people are so brainwashed.  Total domination of everything everywhere seems to be what’s on the predators’ agenda.  On the way to getting to the hellish world that these people envision, each one of us who contributes to moving in that nightmarish direction only knows what he/she “needs” to know.

Hence, it is wise to investigate areas we are discouraged to investigate.  That includes — but is not limited to — learning about our actual history, whether it be the history of our own lives or the “larger” kind of history.

What follows here – for purposes of zooming out and simply knowing where we stand – are descriptions of 5 methods elites have so far successfully implemented in order to divide us and bring us down the path of self-destruction and servitude that characterizes much of our environment today.  The following information is not meant to discourage but simply meant to clarify so that we know what we’re dealing with and also so that we can be on the same page.  Without being on the same page, it is difficult to implement teamwork (and we clearly need some level of teamwork if we’re going to one day be free of this slavery):

1: Separation from our mothers / Destruction of the family unit

When mothers go into a hospital so that a guy in a white coat can “deliver” their baby, the pharmaceutical industry and these doctors give the mothers drugs to speed up the birth.  Why speed up the birth?  What’s the rush?  There are, perhaps, times when this is called for but this strange occurrence happens a lot more than many people imagine.

In addition to that, particularly disturbing is the genital mutilation that many parents call “circumcision”.  I’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth repeating in this context.

It seems as though there is a double standard whereby the general public views circumcision to be hygienic when done to men, yet cruel when done to women.  This is clearly a cruel practice when done to anyone.  Incidentally, an article citing a Danish study has shown that a male’s circumcision indeed affects his sex-life in negative ways:

“Circumcised men are three times as likely to experience a frequent inability to reach an orgasm,” says one of the researchers, Associate Professor Morten Frisch from Danish research enterprise SSI.

Research into the effects on women is unique

This is one of only a few studies of the sexual consequences of male circumcision, and in one area in particular it is groundbreaking:

“Previous studies into male circumcision have looked at the effects it has on the men. But scientists have never really studied the effects this has on the women’s sex lives,” says Frisch.

“It appears that women with circumcised men are twice as likely to be sexually frustrated. They experience a three-fold risk of frequent difficulties in achieving orgasm, and an eight-fold risk of feeling pain during intercourse – also known as dyspareunia.”

This Red Ice Radio interview with Jeanice Barcelo discusses the mutilation of babies in more detail and also sheds light on other unnecessary and insane procedures that are now commonly accepted among standard baby delivery protocols in hospitals, however, watch the following shorter clip from her interview on The Vinny Eastwood Show if you have less time:

These types of interferences during the most delicate times of our lives serve to separate us from our mothers and it is not difficult to see how these events would bring about a sense of accomplishment for elites who seek to replace the family with the state.

Interestingly, apparently Disney propaganda largely features main characters who either have a mother absent, dead, or being represented as an “evil stepmother”.  (Fast-forward to approximately 24 minutes into this Wash Your Brain interview to hear Freeman Fly and Jamie Hanshaw elaborate on this.)

In fact, in the very instructive novel 1984, Orwell’s Big Brother is called “Big Brother” for a reason, as I’ve previously mentioned.  Similarly, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World fiction novel is set in a fictional world where children are not even born in a mother’s womb, but rather in factories (whereby the fetuses grown are separated into 5 different classes via oxygen deprivation and things of that nature).

The following short video begins with an interesting and relevant quote:

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”

Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization (1945)

Furthermore, when we examine exactly what is being dumped into our environment we can see that these chemicals also further the agenda of blurring the lines between the feminine and masculine, hence further destroying the family.  Petrochemicals in our environment are drastically affecting our hormones and are causing women to undergo puberty at a younger and younger age.  Females are getting masculinized and men are getting feminized.  Even animals are being affected in strange ways.  Our environment is soaked in these poisons and this Radio 3Fourteen interview with Dr. Curtis Duncan sheds a lot of light on these issues.

At this point it is very difficult to deny the perturbation of one of the most fundamental, intimate, and self-sustaining aspects of our personal lives, the family unit.  We have the nefarious hospital birth procedures, the children’s propaganda demonizing mothers, the UN blatantly saying their goal is to destroy the family, and we have these chemicals that are screwing us up, etc.  All this paints a grim picture of a heartless multipronged assault on the family.

That said, let’s be honest.  A state can’t love you like an actual person can (and a state can’t know you like a person who’s lived with you knows you).  You can’t “hug” Canada… no matter how much you may love this land.  Somebody out there may try to hug the ground to prove me wrong, but I’d say that person would be hugging the Earth more than Canada.  I suppose that person could be “earthing (and gaining anti-oxidants).  Sure, I’ll even entertain the possibility that Canadian “vibes” are in the air, if you like, but you see what I’m trying to say.  Canada is not your family and it can never replace your family… no matter how patriotic you might be.  Nevertheless, the future of the traditional family is in jeopardy.

2: Separation from our Elders

Who better to reveal the long scope of the aggressors’ agenda(s) than those close to us who have been alive the longest?  They’ve been around longer, so we can assume the smart ones would have an insight or two about our dilemma and why we keep falling for the war propaganda, the various means of divide and conquer, etc.

Sadly, elders today are not looked up to, but rather seen as an impediment to society.  People in the “advanced states” don’t have mentors as much as they used to and don’t really respect their elders as much either.

People in western societies stick their parents in “old folks’ homes” when they are older so they don’t have to deal with them anymore.  My ex girlfriend’s mother once worked as a nurse at one of these places and her role was simply handing out pharmaceutical drugs to these people for hours at a time.  Similarly, during my 40 hours of orwellian “manditory volunteer work” in highschool I chose to help out at one of these places and my role there included – believe it or not – serving these people beers and grabbing the sandbags out from the holes and handing them back the sandbags when they played the sandbag game, etc.  I forget the name of that game but it involves getting “points” based on how accurate you throw a sandbag into something that looks like this.  Anyway, the place smelled like urine and was very depressing.  They were treated like children, talked to like they were children, in many ways many of them were children, and yet I’ve witnessed many other people throughout my life who were just as old and their mind’s were still sharp, alert, focused, coherent, functional, etc.  Those people usually were never in old folks homes.  I was vexed.  I thought to myself, “did these people  in this home simply give up on reading a long time ago or something?  What is going on here?  Why do they all look so sedated and half-dead?”  To be clear, I had seen this sort of thing on television and films before but actually witnessing it in person had a significant impact on me.   Now I imagine that this level of neglect would never happen in many other countries around the world where people honour the past and their roots.  Doing so has many benefits but it seems people around here treat their pets better than they treat their parents.

To add insult to injury, falling for the New World Order scarcity-propaganda which claims that humans are the scum of the earth (Agenda 21), people lose empathy and end up advocating killing their elders just so the spoiled young brats can extend their materialistic lifestyles a few more years and have a bigger piece of the pie (…the constantly shrinking pie).  There is no honour in this.  We lack foresight, crave immediate satisfaction and constantly yearn for easy solutions.

Some say the issue is about whether it’s wrong to keep people alive when they are barely living and don’t want to live.  I think the deeper and more pressing issue is that most people fall for the “appeal to authority” fallacy and don’t want to take responsibility for their own health and hence, this allows people to “freely” choose to die when they think they’ve exhausted all options available to them (because that’s what the doctor/authority-figure said), when in fact they are simply being coaxed into that hopeless frame of mind, more often than not, and usually there very well could be more options available to these unfortunate souls.  The doctors that do aid in the coaxing may not even realize what they’re doing, as they are typically bound to the parameters of their archaic training.  Populations think “if the doctors can’t help me, there’s no hope”.  Consistent with this attitude, people don’t pursue books about health, don’t care about their diet, continue doing things they know are bad for them and then when they’re on their deathbeds they feel that their only option is death because they’ve been willfully ignorant of the body’s ability to heal and what foods/activities it requires to do so.

Globalists have slowly poisoned us and corrupted the culture enough to get us to be alienated from nature and from natural ways of healing.  It is conceivable that this has helped pave the road for the “euthanasia” movement to flourish.  Regardless, our general lack of empathy towards the elderly is painfully evident and needs to be taken into account.

There is no value in completely abandoning our history and moving on.  The true leaders of the future will be the youth who are able to appreciate the elders and who are able to pass down the wisdom of the elders in a fresh way.  We each have our place.  Youth can be “ungrounded” or “spoiled” while elders could “stagnate” or “live in the past”.  If we wish to avoid becoming morally and intellectually bankrupt, we should recover efficient communication.

3: War on Ancient Soil / Darwin’s License To Kill

Another disgrace is that there is virtually no anti-war movement anymore.  War is seen as peace because we add the word “humanitarian” and truth is turned upside down.  Partly due to the religion of statism, truth becomes whatever our masters tell us it is at any given moment and perpetual global war continues unstopped.

Sure there are alliances that pose a “threat” to “western hegemony”, and these alliances include entities such as BRICS, NAM, CSTO, etc., however their allegiance is questionable, especially given that some of the major players there, including both Russia and China, have sprayed their own populations with chemtrails against the will or consent of those populations.  That is not something to be taken lightly.  Geo-engineering itself is an extremely wreckless and arrogant thing to do, at best.

China has been pretending to care about Syria’s sovereignty and welfare during the ongoing NATO-backed Syrian invasion but in this excellent Boiling Frogs Post video researcher James Corbett does a great job of illustrating China’s true role in the New World Order.

So why is Syria important?  There are numerous reasons Syria is currently targeted and these include Syria’s lack of an IMF debt and its banning of GMOs.  Syria is also one of Iran’s only allies in the region and Iran has been unfairly targeted as well.  Moreover, that entire region is important.  With regards to using war as a tool to destroy history and our connections to the past, Professor Michel Chossudovsky highlights some relevant observations in this article:

“America’s wars in the Middle East and Central Asia have largely been conducive to the destabilization and decline of an entire region, considered by historians to be the cradle of civilization.

The “doomsday” wars on Iraq and more recently Syria are instrumental in the destruction of Mesopotamia, the “Land of two Rivers”.

More than 5000 years of history are erased. In Iraq. At the very outset of the occupation in April 2003, the cultural and archaeological heritage was looted by the invaders.

America’s unmanned drone attacks against civilians in Pakistan under the mandate of the “Global War on Terrorism” occur in the upper Indus Valley, another cradle of ancient civilization going back to the Bronze Age (Third Millennium BC) , which is currently being destroyed. The Indus Valley Civilization also known as the Harappan civilization, started in the third millennium BC (3300–1300 BC). Together with the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley was one of the first urban river civilizations.”

Furthermore, it is not difficult to see how the relentless wars that we’ve been observing are also largely a product of social darwinism.  If there’s no consequences to our actions and no morality whatsoever then people will rape and pillage the world whenever they want.

Darwin’s theory of evolution helped degrade morality.  No longer did people believe in consequences for their actions via some kind of afterlife in hell.  It became the complete opposite.  It became “what you see is what you get”, so to speak,  and a free-for-all ensued.  I don’t necessarily believe in a hellish-type afterlife, but I do believe there are consequences to my actions.

Charles Darwin and a whole gang of others indeed got us scrambling into a dog-eat-dog paradigm. One consequence of this meddling, in addition to the increased wars, is that we no longer see the abundance of nature.  The spin Darwin gave us made it so that the glass became perceived of as half-empty, instead of half-full as we started to think of “survival of the fittest” instead of the more accurate “survival of the not-weakest”.  Things then got tense and the situation became more ripe for the influence of the UN’s infamous Agenda 21.

In tandem with Agenda 21 is the stealing of land under the guise of conservation.  This allows for people to get herded into cities where they are easier to control and surveil but more importantly separates people from nature.  It’s not very healthy to live in a skyscraper or tall building, for example.  Our bodies are not biologically accustomed to that environment.

It has been said that we are even lied to about the abundance of oil.  While it is true that many of these wars involve the theft of oil, that may be simply a pretext to accomplish goals which include the above-stated goals of erasing history, in addition to causing as many refugees as possible to go out there and intermix with everyone else in an effort to homogenize the world.

Nobody is denying that oil barons laughed all the way to the bank when they stole Iraqi oil.  The agenda is simply multifaceted and different aspects of the agenda are not necessarily mutually exclusive.  Again, the oil people may know what they “need to know”.  Robbing a country’s oil can indeed occur while the string-pullers from behind the scenes celebrate the destruction of that land and its history in an effort to build a new, more sinister world on the ashes of the old one.  This is a clusterfuck of epic proportions.

4: Indigenous People Targeted All Over The World

dd395-Genocide-siteAboriginal people all over the world are systematically targeted, further erasing history.  Because of things like genocide, land-grabs, “residential schools”, propaganda and the many different kinds of pollution that now exist, this different way of life is probably less likely to persist or be sufficiently remembered unless we come to terms with how marginalized these people have become.  There is a pattern of domination against these people that deserves to be highlighted.  The Canadian residential schools alone were a travesty.  Many aboriginal children were beaten, verbally abused, or sexually abused simply for things like not speaking English.  When/if they returned to their parents they would seem like aliens, at the same time that the Canadian/European culture that assimilated these children shunned them too.  Fast-foward to today and we see reports titled “Canada covers up aboriginal killings“, “Canadian aboriginals face health care discriminations“, and the cycle continues.

According to a recent CBC report,

“Canada is not the only country with a history of residential schools for aboriginal children. From 1910 to 1970, the Australian government placed aboriginal children in foster homes and institutions. Those children are now known as the “stolen generation.” Each May 26 since 1998, Australians have observed National Sorry Day — a day acknowledging the impact of forcible family removal on aboriginal people.”

These children didn’t deserve to be isolated from everyone, assimilated, and cut off from their past.  This is how we destroy a people with impunity while at the same time forgetting a significant era of human history.

related: Bulldozers destroy 3,200-year-old Mayan pyramid in Belize

5: Education

Ignorant of humanity’s accomplishments and history, children instead are trained to feel entitled to things which would have been provided for them by nature and/or their families (had the international criminal cabal and their minions not interjected so boldly).

Think about how many people feel “entitled” to education, for example.  Think about how it is viewed as a “public good” and something that should be free.  It would be nice if the post-secondary education/indoctrination was free, actually, but there is no real reason that gathering large groups of people to be instructed by a single person on a given topic for months on end should be free.  I’m not against learning. It is simply clear that despite the many “schools” that we have (and which profess to care about learning), we do not act more humanely or intelligently at all.  On the contrary.  You know a person by their deeds and if we look with open eyes, we can see that we’re generally sitting by and doing nothing while criminals destroy our world and our minds in a variety of disturbing ways.  That’s the opposite of intelligence.  We are basically lobotomized.  That should indicate a weak education system at the very least.  Either that, or it would indicate an education system that is working exactly as it was intended to work, to keep people in the dark.  Interestingly, IQ tests probably don’t test for things like music or humor.

Our present day education system involves children separated by different grades and hence the younger children can’t communicate as much with the older children. Interestingly, while the rigid architecture of the school system (and the scolding barks from the teachers) makes it clear they do not want us to communicate with each other, they really don’t want us being autodidacts either.  “Be exactly the way we want you to be and we will guarantee you material safety in return.”  That’s the message given to most children who are not home-schooled.

Public schools teach a biased history, but this is to be expected because education (as we know it ) became linear,  factory-like and a function of book-learning around the time the industrial revolution kicked in.  Apparently, that’s when a public education system paid for by taxation occurred to make way for training people to run all these new fancy machines (and I have a feeling the real history may be more complex than that, but that’s what I know at this moment).  Nowadays, technology is booming and rendering many of those blue collar jobs obsolete.  Are you noticing the decrease in cashiers at grocery stores as they are partly replaced by machines?  Similarly, today elites are even drooling at the possibility of one day having a robot army, but I “digress”.

Education became even more “public” when the US and Soviet education systems merged under a UN banner, as revealed by Charlotte Iserbyt who served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan.  She went on to write a book called “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America“.  Is it any surprise that we are increasingly seeing reports like this recent one titled “80% of NYC high school graduates lack basic skills like reading“?

Strangely enough, it seems that elites dominate us and then look down at us for being dominated despite the fact that they rig the game against us in the first place and occult powerful tools of intellectual self-defense that we could otherwise use to stand up to them in a fair fight.  These are very twisted and sadistic people.

If it’s not bad enough that our public education system now rampantly drugs our children, pushes vaccines on them, spies on them, and makes them feel like they’re in a jail, some teachers even have the audacity to no longer teach cursive writing.  Why is that relevant?  Lots of past writings have been written in the cursive form.  The move to halt teaching this style of writing reeks of the kind of blatant disregard for history that is illustrated in novels like Fahrenheit 451 which is set in a fictional world where “firefighters” don’t actually fight fire but burn books instead.

Conclusion / Solutions

While the game is not over, it is late in the game.  The challenge now is to be able to prevail through the fear and programming, to see through the myth that lies to us and says “true change happens overnight, via one Hero, so sit back and do nothing, wait for that Hero, and don’t bother trying unless you’re taking on a gigantic exhausting project that most likely will be a buzzkill and encroach on your precious comfort zone”.  When we see this myth for what it is – a lie – it ceases to have an ill effect on us instantly.  This is probably one of the first steps in healing ourselves and living more honestly and panic-free.  We can’t all do everything, but it’s obvious that each of us can do something.  I’m not you, so I don’t know what you are best suited to do.  Only you know that.  Caring is not enough.  We often act without thinking and think without acting.  Times like these call for careful and thoughtful action.

We must follow our instincts/guts/intuition, but also realize that our guts are occasional wrong.  That’s where the sobering time-tested Trivium Method comes in.  It is old, yet new to many of us, and will aid in the identification of lies and fallacies.  Thus, the body of knowledge we have (and share) will have a higher chance of being logically consistent and we can then be more confident in our ability to pass on truly valuable information.  Confusion in communication will then be reduced and we can more easily move forward as we reach a more concrete consensus of what our challenges actually are.  This is crucial when we live in a sea of propaganda and especially when we find ourselves fragmented to this tragic degree.  Right now too many people are dithering around and wasting time.

Fortunately, much valuable information is out there but we have to be brave if we want to find it and digest it properly.  There is a good chance we are powerful enough to grasp the true scope of the manipulation that humanity has been subject to and to deal with the pressing problems we face, despite how overarching and massive our problems are.

People are getting more sick, more stupid, and more poverty stricken.  Nevertheless, instead of feeling entitled to health care, or education, or money, we can be our own doctors (for the most part), we can learn from each other or our families instead of a factory-like school, and we can recognize our role in instilling a more honest and fruitful economy by being brave enough to hold criminals accountable for their crimes (and also by striving to be  financially self-sufficient in a variety of important ways).   There exists a vast amount of information detailing how many of the products and services we purchase actually perpetuate wars.  Luckily we have the ability to boycott that crap.

Finally, this is only meant to be a brief overview of the situation.  I am only one person and there are doubtlessly other important details I’m omitting and other ways we are isolated from each other and our roots.  For a more detailed and expansive assessment of the power structure that dominates us and and for a broader view of the mind-control agenda involved see (or hear) this History Connected episode titled “Research Discussion on MKULTRA, Cybernetics, and Social Control“.  Also read “Manufacturing the Deadhead: A product of social engineering… by Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin” and watch the subsequent Vinny Eastwood Show interview with these authors titled CIA, MK Ultra & Origins Of Acid Counter Culture“.

Amir Alwani is a musician and the founding editor of PotentNews.com.


VIDEO — Attention Soldiers: Who Do You Serve?

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VIDEO — CrossTalk: Benghazi Cover-up

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May 17, 2013

The Benghazi scandal is gaining momentum. What is at the heart of it? Is it about lapses of security? A false flag operation gone wrong run by the CIA? Or is it all about local American politics? CrossTalking with Raymond Tanter, Raymond McGovern and Jay Bookman.

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VIDEO — Middle East Update For Beginners – Morris

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May 17, 2013

Erdogan is in the USA after the bombing, his paymasters want him to do more against Syria and the turkish public are growingly against his policies. Nevertheless he will go to Gaza next month, and he will look like a saviour, at least in western eyes, he will be able to funnel aid to Hamas from what the US et al have given him.
The Hamas leader was always in hiding when he lived in Damascus, now he travels openly to Gaza and talks about negotiating with the Jewish Race: http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/ade…
What will the armed PKK do now that they are withdrawing into Iraqi Kurdistan? And what have they been promised that they are leaving Turkey voluntarily?
On the ground in Syria Hezbollah and Syria with Iranian and Russian support have turned the tables against the west’s insurgents.
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VIDEO — Turks Blame Erdogan and FSA for Bombings in Reyhanli

Syrian Girl
May 12, 2013

Angry residents of Reyhanli cars owned by FSA refugees in Antaya ‘Turkey’. Protesters call for the step down of Erdogan, and their suppport of Assad. The people of Antakya blame Erdogan terrorist supporting foreign policy for the bombings in Reyhanli.


VIDEO — Chossudovsky: Criminal and Complicit Mainstream Media

Global Research TV
May 13, 2013

Michel Chossudovsky speaks in Kuala Lumpur (2012). Reflections on the criminal mainstream mass media after the 9/11 events and “covering up” as obstruction of justice.


VIDEO — Bombings in Turkey

Ryan Dawson
March 13, 2013

Who benefits who really did it?
Whose made countless car bombings in Lebanon and Iran?
Not Syria.


Pentagon Wants ‘Human Surrogate’ for Directed Energy Weapons Testing

source: deesillustration.com

cryptogon.com
May 10, 2013

If the pain ray just affects the skin, as the military has said for years, why do the “Human Surrogate” systems need simulated organs?

The spokesperson mentioned in the piece below said that the surrogate will be, “A common test target that can be used across the spectrum of non-lethal stimuli.”

That’s fine, nothing to see here, obviously. But don’t be surprised if the pain ray has some other modes that .mil hasn’t mentioned yet.

Via: Wired:

The Pentagon’s electromagnetic pain weapons are about to make a new friend. It’s an anthropomorphic test dummy that’s gonna get blasted by everything the Pentagon’s non-lethal weapons agency can throw at it.

In its latest round of small business research proposals, the Navy announced it’s seeking a sensor-outfitted “human surrogate” for use in an array of non-lethal weapon tests. That includes ”electromagnetic radiation in the L, S, and W-bands,” noted the request for proposal. Even further, there are plans to subject the luckless mannequin to everything from noise, blast pressure, electrical currents, thermal energy, and light from flashbang grenades.

Eventually, the goal is to “quickly collect data to understand injury potential by detecting, presumably via sensor systems, the effects of various non-lethal stimuli on different parts of the human body,” Alicia Owsiak, deputy chief of the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Technology Division, tells Danger Room in a statement. The JNWLD, which manages the Pentagon’s non-lethal weapons program, is coordinating the tests. “Given that the risk of injury for a non-lethal stimuli is often influenced by hit location, the test target is envisioned to be a human surrogate with respect to internal and external anatomy.”

That means these dummy people will have dummy organs.

The agency didn’t comment on the specifics of how electromagnetic weapons like the military’s Active Denial System could be used against a dummy or how its organs could be designed to react. Kelly Hughes, a spokesperson for the directorate, tells Danger Room the surrogate will be “a common test target that can be used across the spectrum of non-lethal stimuli.”

[hat tip: Alexander Higgins]


VIDEO — Syrian Girl’s Position On Syria and Government – Interview with Voice of Russia in London

Syrian Girl
May 14, 2013

VoR’s Tim Ecott speaks to Syrian activist Mimi Al Laham, who says that President Assad “needs to stay and see this through” to avoid a loss of sovereignty. Foreign countries should stop funding al-Qaeda-linked rebels and “let the country sort itself out,” she says in this in-depth conversation offering a very different viewpoint from the mainstream western media version.

http://ruvr.co.uk/2013_05_02/Syria-Mi…


Massive blast outside hospital in Benghazi, Libya, up to 17 dead [video included]

RT News
May 13, 2013

People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

At least 17 people, including three children, were killed and another 30 injured when a car bomb exploded in crowded area outside a hospital in Benghazi, Libya.

Libya’s Defense Ministry reported that 17 people died in the blast, shortly after Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Abdullah Massoud confirmed 15 deaths.

“Fifteen people have been killed and at least 30 were wounded in the explosion of a car bomb near the hospital,” Deputy Interior Minister Massoud said.

“I saw people running and some of them were collecting parts of bodies,”
Reuters quoted a witness as saying.

The Facebook community OnlyLibya has posted a clip that it claims was taken at the scene of the blast.

[VIDEO]

No group has claimed responsibility for the Benghazi bombing, which is considered to be the cradle of the revolution that ousted longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Witnesses wrote on Twitter that the hospital bombing appeared different in nature from the attacks on Benghazi police stations witnessed in recent days, as the attack targeted a public place, not law enforcement.

The car bombing near the hospital is the latest in a string of attacks across the country in recent weeks.

A bomb exploded outside a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on May 10. The blast damaged the building and shattered the windows of a nearby school, causing no injuries. A Benghazi police station was also bombed on May 10, and no injuries were reported.

Another explosion destroyed a police station in Benghazi on May 2; there were no reports of any victims.

A car bomb exploded at the French Embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on April 23. Two guards and a woman were injured.

People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

Onlookers take photographs following a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

Onlookers take photographs following a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

People clear debris at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

People clear debris at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi May 13, 2013 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)

Odds stacked against fragile peace in Syria

by Nile Bowie
NileBowie.blogspot.ca

May 12, 2013

For anyone who has been critical of the Western narrative on Syria, the ongoing diplomatic circus begs a very basic question: How can countries which have bankrolled and armed the insurgency honestly broker a meaningful peace deal? Well, they can’t.

The joint effort recently announced by Moscow and Washington to bring the government and insurgents to an international conference in line with the Geneva Communiqué is a welcoming development, but some major issues have already come to the forefront. Firstly, there is ongoing disagreement over who should represent the opposition in a Syrian peace process. In addition to the blatant Qatari proxies in the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Russia has requested that the National Coordinating Body (NCB) also be present. In stark contrast to the foreign-based SNC, which is lined with figures who have spent the past few decades in the West, the NCB is the internal opposition – and it has caught a lot of flak because it opposes the armed uprising and talks to the Syrian government.

The SNC has maintained it could not accept an invitation to dialogue unless Assad’s removal was guaranteed. Russia will not allow for Assad’s departure to be a precondition of talks, and Kerry looks to have shifted the US position by saying Assad’s exit should be the outcome of negotiations on a transitional government, rather than a starting point. Let’s be clear – before this conflict started in 2011, Assad oversaw a political system which was certainly authoritarian. The economy was stagnant, the state poorly handled overpopulation issues, and the agricultural sector was suffering from long periods of drought. When Bashar took over from his father, he granted more political breathing space to dissidents, and then backpedalled on reforms when popular movements quickly took shape. In combating the insurgency, Syrian forces killed many of their own citizens in the crossfire. But no matter what anybody thinks of Assad, it is not the place of Washington, London, or Doha to decide his political fate.

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Nile Bowie is a Malaysia-based political analyst and a columnist with Russia Today. He also contributes to PressTV, Global Research, and CounterPunch. He can be reached at nilebowie@gmail.com.

Trading blame over bombings: Turkey calls Syria ‘usual suspect’, Damascus accuses Erdogan [video included]

End the Lie – Independent News
May 12, 2013

A woman raises her arms and shouts as she stands on the site where car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Cem Genco)A woman raises her arms and shouts as she stands on the site where car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Cem Genco)

Turkey has been quick to blame the Assad regime for two massive car bombs that killed 43 people in a town on its border with Syria. Ankara warned it will take “all retaliatory measures necessary” raising the prospect of an escalation in the conflict.

The Syrian Information Minister dismissed Turkey’s accusations, claiming “this is not the behavior of the Syrian government.”

Omran al-Zoubi told a news conference on Sunday that “no one has the right to make false accusations,” adding that “Syria did not commit and would never commit such an act because our values would not allow that.”

“It is [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan who should be asked about this act… He and his party bear direct responsibility,” Zoubi said. “As an assassin, he should resign.”

After Saturday’s bombings in Hatay province on the Turkey-Syria border, Ankara warned it would take “all retaliatory measures necessary,” raising the prospect of an escalation in the conflict.

“The attack has nothing to do with the Syrian refugees in Turkey, it’s got everything to do with the Syrian regime,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an interview with Turkey’s TRT television.

He said those behind the deadly Saturday’s bombings were allegedly behind an attack on the Syrian coastal town of Banias that reportedly killed at least 62 people in early May. The London-based NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed “the army and Alawite members of the National Defense Forces” for the mass killing in a Sunni neighborhood of the Syrian city on May 3.

London-based blogger Karl Sharro told RT the continuing escalation in Syria will have “damaging effects across its border.”

“I think what’s important now is not to rush into accusations very quickly and especially without having solid proof. I think it requires much more responsibility and commitment from all sides to hold back from escalating the situation. You can’t just really discover the perpetrators behind such an explosion within less than one day, less than 24 hours. So I think it’s a bit irresponsible of Turkey to rush into this accusation,” Sharro stated.

Ankara warned it will take “all retaliatory measures necessary” raising the prospect of an escalation in the conflict. The investigations into the bombings has almost been completed, Turkish interior minister Muammer Güler told local press, announcing that the perpetrators were “linked to the Syrian regime and intelligence agency and had nothing to do with the Syrian opposition and the refugees.

Nine people were arrested following the blasts, three of whom were said to be Syrian nationals. Top Turkish government officials, including Prime Minister Erdogan, were quick to place the blame with Syria, despite lacking any evidence at the time.

The “usual suspect” in such a horrific attack is Syrian government, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc announced after the blasts pledging to do “what is necessary” if Assad regime’s guilt is proven.

“We know that the people taking refuge in Hatay have become targets for the Syrian regime,” he said. “We think of them as the usual suspects when it comes to planning such a horrific attack.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP Photo / Adem Altan)Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP Photo / Adem Altan)

Turkey reserves the right to take “every kind of measure” but so far is not planning to call an emergency NATO meeting, said foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, while Prime Minister Erdogan announced that Turkey will take “all retaliatory measures it deems necessary.”

Provocation to disrupt Syria peace talks?

Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoğlu called the attacks a “provocation,” saying that the timing of the blasts was not coincidental, referring to the recently proposed peace talks sponsored by Russia and the US.

“Such provocation can [come to mind] in such a critical transition phase regarding Syria. It is not a coincidence that this happened when diplomatic traffic is intensifying. We invite our citizens to be prudent,” Davutoğlu told reporters during his visit in Germany on Saturday.

Russia has raised concerns that groundless accusations and any subsequent adventurous third-party action could be disruptive.

“In the terrorist attack in Turkey, Syria was accused again – as it is always blamed for everything. Someone wants to disrupt the peace conference and to push ahead with the use of military force,” Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia’s Duma stated on Twitter.

People stand on the site of a car bomb explosion on May 11, 2013 near the town hall of Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Ihlas News Agency)People stand on the site of a car bomb explosion on May 11, 2013 near the town hall of Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Ihlas News Agency)

The deadly blasts could even be an inside job, in the hope of encouraging international military action against Assad’s government, according to Marcus Papadopoulos, an editor for the UK’s Politics First magazine.

“Turkey has been pushing for intervention in Syria, Western military intervention. It’s been pushing for a no-fly zone over northern Syria,” Papadopoulos said. “Given that Turkish generals a couple of years ago were planning to provoke a war with Greece, why is it implausible that Turkish generals or members of Turkish intelligence services wouldn’t be doing the same today, to try and provoke a war against Syria and thereby bringing in NATO,” he told RT.

Residents evacuate a wounded woman to hospital after car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Ihlas News Agency)Residents evacuate a wounded woman to hospital after car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Ihlas News Agency)

Border town protests Turkey’s policy on Syria, violence spillover

Saturday’s twin car bombs exploded outside the city hall and post office, killing 43 and injuring a further hundred people and destroying local buildings in the country’s deadliest attack in more than a decade.

A third explosion was later reported in the same city. However, local press later reported that the incident was unrelated.

A person is evacuated from the site where car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Lale Koklu)A person is evacuated from the site where car bombs exploded on May 11, 2013 near the town hall in Reyhanli (AFP Photo / Lale Koklu)

Police reinforcements were dispatched to the city after the bombs ripped through the streets of Reyhanli, which is home to thousands of Syrians who have fled the conflict. Some 300,000 are now resident in Turkey overall. Their presence has caused some tension in the city on the Syrian border, especially among those unhappy with the influx of migrants.

Following the blasts approximately a hundred of the city’s residents took to the streets outside Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Erdogan and accusing him of a failed policy towards Syria which they believe led to the assault.

Some locals have also blamed Syrian residents for bringing violence over the frontier, resulting in attacks against refugees.

“We heard that there were some reactions from local Turkish people against Syrian cars and Syrian people. Police reinforcements have been sent to prevent that sort of thing,” an anonymous Turkish government official told Reuters.

Some 60 people also marched in Ankara, Turkey’s capital following the blasts. The demonstrations were quickly dispersed.

Source: RT


VIDEO — Deadly explosions rock Turkey on Syrian border

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May 11, 2013

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VIDEO — Syria Bombed, Hill Jailed, Zero Dark CIA – New World Next Week

New World Next Week
May 9, 2013

Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Unprovoked Attack On Syria – Israel Commits Egregious International Crime
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19-Hour Internet Outage In Syria Ends
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Israel Granted Oil Rights in Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild Two Months Ago
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Stephen Hawking Joins Academic Boycott of Israel
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“House Of Cards” Chapter 2 Features Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
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Story #2: Lauryn Hill Signs A Five-Song, $1 Million Deal With Sony To Avoid Prison
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Lauryn Hill Gets Three Months In Prison For Failing To Pay Taxes
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Lauryn Hill Blames ‘Slavery’ as She’s Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill
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Flashback: Lauryn Hill’s Taxing Problem – “Manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex”
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Flashback Video: Why Dave Chapelle Quit
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Flashback: Geithner Didn’t Pay Taxes
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Story #3: CIA Requested ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Rewrites, Memo Reveals
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Flashback: Documents Show Admin Offered Access to Osama Filmmakers
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NWNW Flashback: Obama’s Oscar
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Video: CNN Anchors Fake Satellite Interview In Same Parking Lot
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VIDEO — Syrian Chemical Weapons And The Propaganda Spin Campaign

Press For Truth
May 6, 2013

News of a chemical attack in Syria has led to a propaganda spin campaign aimed at convincing the western world that there is a need for military intervention all under the guise of humanitarianism. The agenda for a complete take over of the middle east has been accelerating and we must counter this spin machine for the sake of the Syrian people.

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