Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 22 July 2012


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The Hypocrisy Of Our Kill List President And Murder In Aurora
By Jay Janson
Obama calls shooting people evil, senseless and beyond reason.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31955.htm 

Fighting the Vampire Within
By Paul Balles
America's drones are nothing more than a clever attempt to distance America's vampires from their bloody victims.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31956.htm 

U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad
By ERIC SCHMITT and HELENE COOPER
The Obama administration - is increasing aid to the rebels and redoubling efforts to rally a coalition of like-minded countries to forcibly bring down the government of President Bashar al-Assad, American officials say.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31958.htm 

Planning for Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 "Democracy Promotion" Conference
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31957.htm 

Two Things You Don't Know About Syria
(If You Only Read The Mainstream Press)
By Daniel McAdams
The current events are not some new phenomenon, are not directly tied to the phony "Arab Spring" democratization movement (Saudi Arabia promoting democracy? Are you joking?).   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31965.htm 

Watching Syria, Remembering Nicaragua
By Richard Becker
History shows U.S. viciously attacks-not supports-real revolutions.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31964.htm 

Why the Buenos Aires bombing is a False Indicator on Burgas
By Gareth Porter
The first of many indications that the official version of how the bombing went down was a tissue of lies. For example:   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31963.htm 

A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to Start
By Gilad Atzmon
As much as Netanyahu and Barak are keen to launch a world war, it is far from being clear whether the Israeli masses are quite as keen to sacrifice themselves on the Jewish national altar.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31961.htm 

'Deep State' Annie Machon: MI-5 Whistle-blower
Must watch video
Annie covers subjects such as false-flag/black operations, the MI-5's botched attempt on Gaddafi's life, the London Tube bombing (7/7), 9/11 and others. This penetrating and articulate interview is a must see.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31960.htm 

Those Damn Palestinians'
By Sam Bahour
They refuse to sit still. They just don't get it. They are unable to fathom their reality.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31959.htm 

Welcome To America
Police Shooting in Anaheim Leads to Violent Clash
Video
A police shooting that left a man dead led to a violent clash as angry witness threw bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and beanbag rounds to suppress the crowd, authorities said.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31966.htm 

Surviving Progress
Must Watch Documentary Film
The double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. The film connects financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind itself.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31962.htm 

    

Hard News  
  
Bombs kill 20 and wound 80 across Iraq:   Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80, police and hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of the past two weeks.  http://is.gd/acJZGV 

Iraqi al-Qaida leader says group returning to old strongholds:   The al-Qaida leader claimed the militant group is preparing operations to free prisoners and assassinate court officials.  http://is.gd/XDgzYs 

5 NATO occupation force troops killed in Afghanistan:
Five NATO service members have been killed in roadside bombings in Afghanistan during the past two days, while Afghan officials reported Sunday that four civilians died when hundreds of shells and rockets were fired from neighboring Pakistan.  
http://news.yahoo.com/5-nato-troops-die-afghanistan-173410578.html 

Taliban kill five private "security guards" in Wardak:   The dead bodies of at least five Afghan private security guards were recovered in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan early Sunday morning.  http://is.gd/df6DBS 

Afghan policeman kills 2 US occupation force troops:   An Afghan policeman has opened fire on US-led foreign troops inside a Herat Police Training Center, killing two.  http://is.gd/94rgn1 

Airstrikes kill 15 "militants" in northwest Pakistan - "officials":   Pakistani military jets struck "militant hideouts" in the northwest of the country on Sunday, killing 15 "militants" and wounding several others, military officials said.  http://is.gd/YLv7WT 

Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
Hezbollah may get chemical weapons if Syria collapses-Netanyahu:
"We will have to consider our action. Do I seek action? No. Do I preclude it? No," Netanyahu said when asked whether Israel would act alone or prefer the United States to take the lead..  
http://is.gd/diNLRp 

Turkey deploys ground-to-air missiles on Syria border: Report:   According to a Sunday report by the Turkish Anadolu Agency, Ankara also deployed troop carriers along the border with Syria.  http://is.gd/ZINGSK 

8 injured in riots at Syrian refugee camp in Turkey:   Television footage showed armoured personnel carriers entering the camp and police firing weapons into the air to disperse groups of men fighting each other with fists and clubs  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4259009,00.html 

"The issue is not protecting civilians... It's to change the Syrian State!" -Bashar Ja'afari - Video -   Bashar Ja'afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations  http://is.gd/has76H 

Human rights disaster unfolding in Libya:   Nine months after the U.S./NATO-led overthrow of the Muammar Gaddafi government in Libya, the country remains entrenched in violence and disorder; human rights abuses are rampant.  http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/human-rights-disaster-libya.html 

Pentagon eyes drones for Kenya to fight militants nearby:   Kenya would get eight "Raven" unmanned aerial systems - an unarmed drone that can be use to identify targets for strikes by ground forces or other aircraft.  http://is.gd/vRGl1M 

Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace!:   The Israeli company Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is not so much from Mississippi as it is from Israel. Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries! And the Federal Aviation Administration has given them permission to fly their drones in American airspace!  http://is.gd/z8xqPu 

Putin Signs Law Regulating NGOs:   President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a new measure that requires nongovernmental groups receiving funding from abroad and engaging in political activity to register as foreign agents with the Justice Ministry.  http://is.gd/H6cQNf 

Myanmar Muslims Suffering Amid Media Blackout:   As the Muslims around the world cheerfully get prepared for the holy month of Ramadan, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are painfully subject to the barbaric and appalling atrocities of the extremist Buddhists, finding their life in a constant state of trepidation and suffering.  http://is.gd/lwwLwt 

R.I.P: Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012 - Farewell, Alex, My Friend  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/21/farewell-alex-my-friend/ 

Super-Rich Hold Up To $32 Trillion In Offshore Havens: Report:   Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/super-rich-offshore-havens_n_1692608.html 

A People's History Of The United States - (The 20th Century) - By Howard Zinn -   The complete audio book  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22922.htm  
  
 "Let us be peace and joy"


Tom Feeley
Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,883

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,098
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

     $1,354,601,525,941