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Occupy Victoria Freedoms And Solutions Rally Oct 20 2012 – Josh Steffler Introduction [video]

by Terry Wilson
Canadian Awareness
October 22, 2012

Special thanks to Josh and the WAC Victoria group!
wearechangevictoria.org


Orthodox Priest Kidnapped and Executed by US-NATO Sponsored Rebels

by Agenzia Fides (Vatican News)
Global Research
October 25, 2012

Agenzia Fides, Vatican News

Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – The body of the greek orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias in Qatana, was found today in the Jaramana neighborhood (north of Damascus) not far from the place where he was kidnapped, on October 19, by unidentified armed group (see Fides 24/10/2012). This was confirmed to Fides by Fr. Haddad’s greek-orthodox confrere, who asked for anonymity. “His body was horribly tortured and his eyes gouged out,” he told Fides. “It is a purely terrorist act. Fr. Haddad is a martyr of our church. ”

With regards to the responsibilities of the terrible act there is an ongoing rebound of responsibilities between the opposition forces and government authorities, that accuse the armed gangs of armed rebellion in the army. According to Fides sources, the kidnappers had asked the priest’s family and his church a ransom of 50 million Syrian pounds (over 550 thousand euro). It was, however, impossible to find the money and meet this exorbitant demand. A source of Fides condemns “the terrible practice, present for months in this dirty war, of kidnapping and then killing innocent civilians.”

Among the various Christian communities in Syria, the greek orthodox is the largest (with about 500 thousand faithful) and is concentrated mainly in the western part of the country and in Damascus.

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Obama Benghazi Massacre Cover-up BREAKING Mainstream

CounterPsyOps
October 25, 2012

The Ulstermanreport

After weeks of lying and repeated deflection, it now appears the Main Stream media is finally poised to demand answers from an Obama administration that literally watched and did NOTHING as an American ambassador and three others were killed during a terrorist attack against the Benghazi consulate on the anniversary of September 11th, 2001.

HEADLINES:
http://thehill.com/video/house/263737-rogers-e-mails-make-it-difficult-to-conclude-benghazi-attack-spontaneous

Senate Intel vice chair: We’ve been demanding these e-mails since the Benghazi attack

Emails detail unfolding Benghazi attack on Sept. 11

With the growing proof now coming from mulitiple media sources, look back on Barack Obama acting defiant regarding the possibility of anyone questioning his response to the Benghazi Massacre – and then ask yourself if a man so easily lies about the most sacred duty of a President of the United States, what more is he willing to lie about? What more is he willing to do to try and secure a second term?

Barack Obama DID mislead. He DID lie. He IS playing politics with the death of four Americans. Among the most disgusting public displays of any American president. Utterly deplorable.
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The real Benghazi scandal

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By MUNROE JONES, Swannanoa, N.C. for The Washington Times

Much has been made by the conservative media of the Obama administration’s changing explanation of what really happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last month, but the real scandal is what happened before the attack (“The real reason behind Benghazigate,” Commentary, Tuesday).

Since the U.S. support for Libyan revolution began last year, Libya has been a dangerous place, full of radical Islamists and leftover heavy weapons like machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. To make its involvement in Libya seem successful, the Obama administration has pursued a policy of “normalization” of relations with Libya. This has meant scaling down the U.S. security forces in and around the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Libya, and turning much of the security for the ambassador and his staff there over to the Libyans.

In September, we saw the results of this naive, incompetent and politically motivated policy decision. The U.S. security forces that had been in Libya, a 16-man team of ex-Navy SEALs and Green Berets assigned to protect the ambassador and his staff, was pulled out in August, just a month before the attacks. This was done over the protests of the leader of the team, the State Department regional security director and Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens himself, who asked to keep the security team for at least one more month. On the day he died, Stevens had reiterated to Washington the danger and volatility of the Libya situation.

Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty paid the ultimate price for President Obama’s flawed worldview and inept policies.


OPPOSE THE HALIFAX WAR CONFERENCE! Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 — 1 pm

Potent News
October 26, 2012

WARMONGERS NOT WELCOME IN HALIFAX!
Oppose the Halifax War Conference!

SATURDAY
NOV. 17, 2012 1 pm

Halifax Peace & Freedom Park
(formerly Cornwallis Park) Hollis & South Sts.

Organized by: No Harbour For War
Endorsed by: Halifax Peace Coalition, CUPW, NSPIRG,
Food Not Bombs – More to follow –

For further info: noharbourforwar@hotmail.com

NO WAR ON IRAN!

HANDS OFF SYRIA!

WAR CRIMINALS – OUT OF HALIFAX!

CANADA OUT OF NATO!

DISMANTLE NATO!

NO HARBOUR FOR WAR!

Established 4 years ago the Halifax International Security Forum, based in Washington, D.C., will take place Nov. 16-18 at the Westin hotel.

Warmongers from more than 40 countries will join Peter MacKay and some 300 others at the Forum “to learn from each other, share opinions, generate new ideas, and put them into action.”

Amongst the agenda items are:
• Confronting Iran • Syria’s Terror, the Middle East’s Tragedy
• American Global Leadership After the Election
• Securing Global Supply Chains • Learning from Israel
• Gaining Control of Loose Weapons and Loose Chemicals
• North Korea’s New Kim: Just Like the Old Kim?
• Being There: Special Responsibility of Democratic Nations

This is all looked at from the perspective that as the world’s sole superpower, the U.S. is free to dictate to the peoples of the world as it pleases.

It is unacceptable that Halifax, or any Canadian city, be used as a venue to plan further crimes against the peace and the peoples of the world. Bring your banners and placards, bring your music and statements, and most of all bring your friends to oppose this war conference.

A world conflagration looms. Only through conscious and systematic organization can the people stop the warmongers.

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HANDS OFF SYRIA! HANDS OFF IRAN!

Weekly Picket:
Oppose imperialist intervention in Syria and Iran!
4 – 5pm, every Friday

Corner of Spring Garden Road & Barrington Street

Weekly Discussion:
Why Syria? Why Iran?
5pm, every Friday

Paper Chase, 5228 Blowers Street

Organized by:
Halifax Branch of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist),

No Harbour For War and other concerned  Haligonians

For more information on Syria and Iran read The Marxist-Leninist   www.cpcml.ca
[or click on any of the following links:

[Potent News Editor’s note: Again, while these events are being organized in part by Marxists, I do not condone Marxism and I merely oppose wars of aggression waged against innocent people anywhere.  The issue is that imperialism/domination has been disguised as a humanitarian effort and people just keep eating up propaganda that is urging them to support the slaughter of other countries in the name of honour and justice.

I can’t deny that the NSPIRG logo reminds me of the OTPOR logo and (while that could be a coincidence) it is noteworthy that OTPOR/CANVAS has been one of the main culprits involved in various US-backed regime change operations (serving as controlled-opposition) so I’ll be keeping a close eye on NSPIRG in order to maintain a healthy level of skepticism…

That said, Canada’s foreign policy threatens to play a significant role in igniting a 3rd World War.  That is something I think few people on this planet would actually want when all is said and done.  It seems like a big subject but to me it’s just common sense.  You simply can’t help people by bombing them.  That is the opposite of help.  Bombs cause destruction.  They don’t transform into bananas on the way down or anything like that.  They explode and inflict widespread carnage ending many innocent people’s lives.  Bullets don’t turn into fries before they hit a person.  They maintain their metallic structure and blood gets spilled.  If you value the sovereignty of other countries, please join us in asking difficult questions, raising awareness and challenging the orthodox narrative that we are constantly force-fed by our corrupt mainstream media.]


Bani Walid 25 Oct 11.15am GMT – Full Report [video]

108morris108
October 25, 2012

Good sound quality report from Bani Walid – re-uploaded for security reasons
After this video was made – bombing and destruction of buildings could be heard – and this source says bani walid will become a tawherga – which means totally destroyed and evacuated.


Damascus car blast kills six despite proposed ceasefire (PHOTOS)

End the Lie – Independent News
October 24, 2012

A car blast has struck southern Damascus, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more. It comes shortly after the UN peace envoy announced that the Syrian government and “most” rebel commanders had agreed on a truce during a Muslim holiday.

­A car stuffed with explosives went off in the Damascus suburb of Daf al-Shouk late Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 20, Syrian state TV reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, reported that at least eight people had been killed as “a car bomb hit the area between Tadamun and Daf al-Shouk, targeting a vehicle carrying 24 passengers.”

Earlier in the day, UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi announced in Cairo that the Syrian government and “most” rebel commanders had reached an agreement on a ceasefire during the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins on Friday.

Although the Free Syrian Army, the main opposition group, has agreed to a truce, the Islamist Al-Nusra Front, which is held responsible for the majority of suicide bombings in Syrian cities, rejected the offer. “There is no truce between us and this transgressing regime that is shedding the blood of Muslims,” the group said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to make a “final decision” on the proposed ceasefire on Thursday.

A wreckage of burnt cars following a bomb explosion in the neighbourhood of Daf al-Shuk in southern Damascus on October 24, 2012. (AFP Photo)
A wreckage of burnt cars following a bomb explosion in the neighbourhood of Daf al-Shuk in southern Damascus on October 24, 2012. (AFP Photo) A wreckage of burnt cars following a bomb explosion in the neighbourhood of Daf al-Shuk in southern Damascus on October 24, 2012. (AFP Photo)
A wreckage of burnt cars following a bomb explosion in the neighbourhood of Daf al-Shuk in southern Damascus on October 24, 2012. (AFP Photo)


BENGHAZI: HE KNEW

CounterPsyOps
October 25, 2012

[Editor’s Note: An unknown source from the State Department leaked the emails received from Benghazi to CBS: Libya emails sent on 9/11]

As CBS reports, At 6:07 p.m. of Sept. 11, 2012, State sent out an alert saying the embassy in Tripoli reported the Islamic military group “Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibilty for Benghazi Attack”… “on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.”

So why did Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice go on ABC’s “This Week,” the following Sunday and say that the attacked was not “pre-planned.” And: “We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to … the consulate … to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. “And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons.” Clearly the administration preferred blaming a video produced in America for the attack than terrorists with guns in Libya.

Source: Libya emails fingered terrorist group on 9/11, by Debra J Saunders – SF Blog

What did the President know and when did he know it? That famous question from Watergate should resurface today as news breaks that President Obama and his administration knew 2 hours after the attack that led to the murder of Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens and 3 other Americans were terrorism and claimed by a known terrorist group.

Reuters reported last night, “Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.”

Nowhere in these emails is a YouTube video mentioned…not even once.

This blows a hole in everything the President, the vice-president and every mouthpiece they employ has been saying all along. In other words, they lied, knowingly and willingly, to the American people, to the families of the victims, for weeks.

Why would they do it? Politics.

It’s pretty simple – the President and his campaign have been travelling the country since the Democratic National Convention, slinging the line “Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” They wanted people to think, as the President said, “Al Qaeda is on its heels.” Terrorists plotting and executing an attack on US soil, murdering an Ambassador, causes that narrative to crumble like a house of cards.

Lara Logan, the 60 Minutes correspondent, told the world Al Qaeda was not on the run a few weeks ago, but the most of the media shrugged it off, ignoring her in the hope the administration’s lie would be unquestioned as truth…at least until November 7th.

But it hasn’t. The emperor has no clothes. The President lied about the motivation for the attack, lied about his knowledge of the motivation for the attack and lied to cover up all of it.

You may think the word “lie” is too strong, but there’s no other for when someone knowingly and willingly says something as true when they know it not to be. That’s what we have here, beyond any doubt.

The White House and the State Department watched, in real time from an overhead drone, live video of the attack and did nothing. They did nothing to help those Americans under attack, those Americans who ended up dead.

No action was taken, no troops deployed to aid those under siege in the 7 hour attack. That’s right, the attack lasted 7 hours. That’s more than enough time to scramble fighter jets that could have easily flown over the consulate and, at a minimum, scared the hell out of the attacking terrorists forces, if not kill them.

President Obama and his administration did nothing.

Considering that, it’s little wonder why the video lie was created. Why the President, Vice President and UN Ambassador Susan Rice stuck to it even at it unraveled. They wanted desperately to get to November 7th, the day after the election, before the truth came out. Too late.

What lie will they tell now? How will they try to spin their being caught in this lie?

With this news breaking last night, Mitt Romney’s lack of attack in the debate Monday on the failures of Benghazi seem all the more a strategic win. There was no reason for Romney to attack the President on his failures in Libya because the story already had a life of its own. The President was undoubtedly prepared with well rehearsed responses of indignation that Romney would dare “politicize” this attack.

Of course, “We should not politicize this issue” is the last, desperate gasp of someone who really doesn’t want to discuss something. By not giving the President a chance to use his canned response, Romney kept the story alive. Obama couldn’t rebut what he wasn’t accused of, couldn’t spin what wasn’t thrown his way. The story continued to develop untouched, un-rebutted, unspun with the latest poll-tested nuance to paint plausible deniability. It’s doubtful the White House was blindsided by this yesterday, so Romney’s silence on it didn’t allow the Obama team to head it off at the pass.

The story lives, the lie is exposed and the American people await an explanation as to why the President spent weeks telling them things he knew not to be true. Mr. President, what say you?

Source: Press Obama on Benghazi, by Derek HUNTER – NY Daily News