Misrata Kidnapped Bani Walid Man Released today – He Tells [video]
108morris108
October 27, 2012
Held for three days in a Misrata Prison – where he saw torturous activities. and only released this morning
Megastorm Prompts State Emergencies and Mandatory Evacuations
Activist Post
October 28, 2012
As what some are calling the ‘storm of the century’ approaches, Governors of northeastern states are each declaring a state of emergency and demanding mandatory evacuations along the coastal areas.
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Hurricane Sandy, which has weakened to a tropical storm, regained Category 1 hurricane strength overnight and is expected to collide with a nor’easter winter storm as it makes landfall on late Monday or early Tuesday.
While the sustained 70 mph winds are expected to gust much higher, the real danger is the size of the storm and its impact with other major storm fronts, which may result in a behemoth superstorm over the most populated area of the United States.
Jeff Masters, director of Weather Underground, explains that being the end of hurricane season and the beginning of arctic storm season is such a dangerous combination as “Part hurricane, part nor’easter” equals “all trouble.”
With a storm this large predicted to hit New Jersey head on, some 40-60 million people may be impacted by it with anticipated flooding and power outages.
Governors from North Carolina to Connecticut declared states of emergency and many have already initiated mandatory evacuations of coastal communities fearing flooding and power outages.
“I can be as cynical as anyone,” said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of the extreme measures. “But when the storm comes, if it’s as bad as they’re predicting, you’re going to wish you weren’t as cynical as you otherwise might have been.”
William Craig Fugate, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator, said widespread preparations are being made with FEMA working closely with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.
“In coordination, we’ve asked that DOD begin sending what we call our defense coordinating officers that are stationed in our FEMA regions, getting them ready to go and bringing on some additional defense coordinating officers to support the multiple states that may be impacted,” he said.
“We’re talking to DOD about potential use of some of their facilities as staging bases for our operations,” Fugate said. “But we’ve also been talking to the Department of Energy … as well as the Department of Transportation.”
500 National Guard troops have already been called up in Virginia and other states are expected to follow suit as the storm approaches.
The National Weather Service recommends preparing for wind damage, downed trees and snapping off large tree branches, power outages that could last at least several days, blocked some roads from debris, and flooding in low-lying areas.
Sources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/27/hurricane-sandy-approachi_n_2029324.html
http://fortstewart.patch.com/articles/federal-agencies-prepare-for-hurricane-sandy
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2012/10/28/hurricane-sandy-frankenstorm/1663341/
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/180855.shtml?5-daynl
Mohammed Miraki – The Zionist War On Syria [video]
Rense
October 27, 2012
After the Libyan disaster – Russia is not going to allow the same to happen to Syria
Implosion of Syria Myths a ‘Nervous Breakdown’ for US, Allies
by Daniel McAdams
lewrockwell.com
October 18, 2012
The New York Times has finally reported what many watching the Syria insurgency have noticed all along: US-facilitated weapons shipments are ending up in the hands of radical jihadists. Of course while getting those facts right, the NYT, blinded as it is by ideology, gets the conclusion wrong. The Times has for some time been pushing the line that the US must act fast militarily in Syria lest the mythical “people’s uprising” be hikacked by radicals. In short, they have been — surprise — distorting facts to propagandize for war. The NYT line is that US “inaction” on Syria is leading to the radicalization of the rebels. Earlier this month the Times reported/opined that:
“Many Saudi and Qatari officials now fear that the fighting in Syria is awakening deep sectarian animosities and, barring such intervention, could turn into an uncontrollable popular jihad with consequences far more threatening to Arab governments than the Afghan war of the 1980s.”
Now we get the news from the Times that:
“‘The opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the ones we don’t want to have it,’ said one American official familiar with the outlines of those findings, commenting on an operation that in American eyes has increasingly gone awry.”
Then the Times pushes its propagandistic conclusion to color the facts according to its own ideology:
“That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments…casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict is accomplishing its intended purpose of helping a democratic-minded opposition topple an oppressive government, or is instead sowing the seeds of future insurgencies hostile to the United States.” (emphasis added)
Ah yes, the fault is all with the “minimal and indirect” intervention of the US in the conflict. Surely a Libya-type operation would already be reaping US foreign policy the same kinds of rewards we are getting in Libya!
So what is the truth? The truth is hard to swallow for the propagandizing media and the propagandized public: Assad was telling the truth when he told Barbara Walters in an interview earlier this year:
“Not everybody in the street was fighting for freedom. You have different components, you have extremists, religious extremists…like-minded people of Al Qaeda… [F]rom the very first few weeks we had those terrorists they are getting more and more aggressive, they have been killing. We have 1,000– over 1,100 soldiers and policeman killed, who killed them? peaceful demonstrators? This is not logical.”
Of course no one wanted to listen to him because he, like Saddam, Milosevic, Gaddafi, etc before him, had been branded a “madman” in the media. Who could listen to a madman? Who could possibly negotiate with a madman? They only understand one thing, force. We have all heard this interventionist neo-con garbage for decades but for some reason it still seems to work.
Likewise, Mother Agnes Miriam of the Cross, a Melkite Greek Catholic nun, was telling the truth earlier this summer when she told the Irish Times that the rebels were targeting Christians in Syria. She continued:
“The West and Gulf states must not give finance to armed insurrectionists who are sectarian terrorists, most of whom are from al-Qaeda, according to a report presented to the German parliament. … They bring terror, destruction, fear and nobody protects the civilians. [There were] very few Syrians among the rebels. …Mercenaries should go home.”
The reason that the weapons being funneled to the Syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of radical Islamists is because the rebels are radical Islamists. The founder of Doctors Without Borders noticed it after working with the wounded in Syria. German intelligence noticed it after an investigation suggested that up to 95 percent of the Syrian rebels are not Syrian.
It is a myth that the initial peaceful protests only turned violent reluctantly after they were met with force by the regime. In fact we see plans early on to turn events in Syria toward regime change. We saw it early in the 1996 US neo-conservative “Clean Break” study for then-Prime Minister Netanyahu, which urged him to “contain, destabilize, and roll-back” Syria and other countries in the region. We saw it more recently in numerous influential think tank studies like that of Brookings’ Saban Center’s oft-cited report early this year tellingly titled, “Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change.” Like the authors of the “Clean Break” paper, the Saban Center is heavily neo-conservative and pro-Likud.
In conclusion, here is the really bad news: As the US Syria policy falls apart, there is increasing danger that the built up tension in the region — particularly the disastrous decision of the Turkish government to support the rebels in Syria — is leading to a wider conflict that threatens to spin out of control. Turkey and Armenia are at each others throats, Armenia and Azerbaijan are preparing for war, Iraq warily watches chaos on its borders, Russia is installing its next-generation S-400 anti-aircraft missiles in its southern military region near Turkey, and so on. Backed into a corner by a failed policy, the US as usual is doubling down on a bad bet, feeding Turkey bogus intelligence about chemical arms shipments aboard Syrian passenger planes carrying Russian passengers, etc. Rebel mortars lobbed into Turkey give a desperate Erdogan government the pretext it needs to establish a buffer zone in Syria and hope for NATO reinforcements, which are not coming. French observer Thierry Meyssan writes that “Turkey [is] on the verge of a nervous breakdown” after NATO “packs it in” on Syria.
Editor’s Note: The above referenced document, “Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” can be found here. Additional information regarding the premeditated, US-engineered violence in Syria can be found here, “Syrian War: The Prequel.”
Qatari Emir The Most Powerful Person In Libya – Libyan Expat [video]
108morris108
October 26, 2012
Flooding Libya with weapons, and paying off the Militias is the recipe for control, with an underlying aim of destroying the tribal community for the sake of commercialisation.
Latest Beirut Bombing Incident: “False Flag”?
by Stephen Lendman
Global Research
October 21, 2012
First impressions suggest another “who done it” incident. Similar ones occurred many times before. Guilty parties often get named later. Key always is cui bono?
The mainstream media never explain what’s most important. Instead, headlines like “Blast in Beirut Is Seen as an Extension of Syria’s War” circulate.
The New York Times said it “devastated a Christian neighborhood (Friday), killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syria and unnerving a nation as Syria’s sectarian-fueled civil war spills beyond its borders and threatens to engulf the region.”
Instead of explaining what’s likely going on, managed news misreporting like the above substitutes.
Intelligence head of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hasan, was killed. He appeared the likely target. He was the most high-profile death since former prime minister Rafiq Hariri’s 2005 assassination. More on him below, what’s really going on, and what’s at stake.
At least seven others died. Information Minister Walid Daouk said 86 people were wounded. Buildings were heavily damaged.
A follow-up Times report headlined “After Attack, Lebanese Opposition Calls for New Government,” saying:
Opposition pro-Western March 14 alliance officials called for “the Hezbollah-led government to resign….intensifying fears that Syria’s ‘civil war’ could lead to a political crisis in Lebanon.”
Again, dubious reporting substituted for explaining things correctly. Syria was invaded. Washington bears full responsibility. Fighting since winter 2011 reflects nothing civil. Saying so is false and misleading.
Rafiq Hariri’s son Saad heads the pro-Western March 14 alliance. Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement, Progressive Socialists, and other political groups comprise the March 8 alliance majority.
Washington and Israel want March 14 extremists replacing it. Killing al-Hasan appears intended for that purpose. It also advances the ball for full-scale NATO intervention in Syria.
The regional pot keeps boiling dangerously. The Western media add more heat. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wants America openly involved in arming Free Syrian Army (FSA) death squads.
Headlining “Rethinking Syria Policy,” he called for all-out US support. He played the jihadist terrorists/Syrian chemical weapons card threat.
He spent time in Syria. He met with FSA commanders. They’re “solid military leaders,” he said. They need more guns and money, he added. Pile it on, he recommends.
“The Free Syrian Army has a long shopping list.” He named enough to blow up half the country. Washington doesn’t “have to sign off on this whole war chest….” Just enough for greater conflict to topple Assad.
Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF) threw its own fuel on the fire. It pointed fingers the wrong way. It headlined “Syria, Iran, Hizbollah attack while US and Israel play (earlier planned) computerized war games,” saying:
The East Beirut Ashrafiya district bombing “marked the brutal spillover of the Syrian bloodbath into a second Arab capital and the threat of its spread towards Israel.”
Blaming Syria, Iran and Hezbollah is spurious. On October 20, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) headlined “Russia, Iran Condemn Beirut Terrorist Blast,” saying:
Moscow’s Foreign Ministry said “Russia expresses solidarity with Lebanon and support to its sovereignty, territorial integrity and stability based on a Lebanese national dialogue.” It added:
“What happened showed once again the importance of stopping the activities of destructive forces that are trying to drown the Middle East in chaos and sedition.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the blast. It said “the Zionist entity is the beneficiary of instability in Lebanon.”
On October 19, Press TV said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told his Lebanese counterpart, Adnan Mansour, that “enemies seek to increase insecurity in the region and achieve their ill intentions.”
Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said “the attack aimed to sow discord among different currents and social classes in Lebanon.”
Reuters quoted Syria’s Information Minister Omran Zoabi saying, “We condemn this terrorist explosion and all these explosions wherever they happen. Nothing justifies them.”
DEBKAfile claimed General al-Hasan “uncovered a Syrian plot to destabilize Lebanon by a bombing campaign….” Pro-Assad politician and former information minister Michel Samaha was arrested “for complicity in the plot.”
“The Syrian bloodbath is spreading more malignantly than ever with solid Iranian and Hizballah support and Tehran is closer than ever to realizing its nuclear aspirations.”
All of the above doesn’t wash. More spurious accusations followed. DF often reports inaccurately. This account was one of its worst. It was straight out of Mossad’s propaganda playbook. Charges were laughable on their face.
Syria, Iran and Hezbollah have everything to lose and nothing to gain from Friday’s blast. Israel, Washington, key NATO partners, and regional allies benefit greatly from further instability and conflict.
Killing al-Hasan looks very much like Hariri 2.0. Compelling visual and audio evidence identified Israel as likely responsible. Real time intercepted Israeli aerial surveillance footage showed routes Hariri took on the day his motorcade was attacked. That and more pointed fingers the right way.
Initially, Syria was falsely blamed. Hezbollah was then wrongfully accused. The assassination was typical Mossad. Killing al-Hasan looks like its latest false flag.
Press TV interviewed political analyst Ralph Schoenman. He said:
“As 1992 to today in the day bombing of Beirut the identical scenario, who benefits from attempting to divide Lebanon and spread the turmoil, who benefits destabilizing the government in Damascus, who states to destabilize Beirut and subject Lebanon to civil war, the Zionist regime (Israel), the Mossad. It is a classical operation of Mossad.”
It’s hard disagreeing. Mossad’s entire history reflects targeted killings, false flags, and other destabilizing acts. CIA elements operate the same way.
Take nothing about these incidents at face value. Look deeper for more likely explanations than what media scoundrels and other dubious sources provide.
Washington and key allies want the last independent Arab nations destabilized, toppled, and reinvented into pro-Western ones. Ousting Assad and Hezbollah are key objectives. So is isolating Iran ahead of focusing full attention on regime change in Tehran by any means including war.
The Levant is in serious crisis. Tinderbox best describes things. Aggressors are playing with fire. Everyone may end up burned. Regional war is overreach. It assures losers, not winners.
Drawing a red line on Syria is top priority. It’s up to Russia, China and other anti-war nations to make clear they’ll tolerate no more.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War”
http://www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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2MIN News October 27, 2012 [video]
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October 27, 2012
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