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Israel Plays WMD Card
Barak: Israel may Invade Syria, Seize Advanced Weapons
By REUTERS
Israel is preparing for a possible military intervention in Syria.
Islamic Fighters Flocking to Syria
By PATRICK MARTIN
Money from Qatar is helping finance the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
and the fledgling Free Syrian Army (FSA). And United States CIA
operatives are reportedly helping distribute weapons and matériel to the
mainstream opposition forces.
NATO Carrying out Vast Syria Disinformation Campaign
By Tony Cartalucci
The US State Department, via the "US Institute of Peace" is
working directly with Syrian "opposition" groups to formulate a
"government" to put into place, if and when NATO covert military
operations succeed in collapsing the Syrian state.
The Insanity of Anti-Iran Propaganda
By Nima Shirazi
The Times of Israel, reports that Iranian president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has revealed Iran's culpability for the attack in Bulgaria.
Journalism v. Propaganda
By Glenn Greenwald
The US and Israel blame Iran for the suicide attack in Bulgaria, but offer no evidence for the accusation.
The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
Conor Friedersdorf
A federal investigation alleged Enrique Prado's involvement in
seven murders, yet he was in charge when America outsourced covert
killing to a private company.
Global Banks are the Financial Services Wing of the Drug Cartels
By Ed Vulliamy
"People don't like to ask how close the banker's finger is to the trigger of the killer's gun,"
Scaring the hell out of Wall Street
From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
By Matt Taibbi
Wall Street's power in Washington may be as useless in defeating a
proposal in San Bernardino County as strategic nuclear weapons are in
fighting an insurgency. No wonder Wall Street is panicked.
Too Big To Jail
Failing to Break Up the Big Banks is Destroying America
By WashingtonsBlog
Unless the big banks are broken up, financial fraud will grow exponentially like cancer, and the economy will be destroyed.
The Doctrine Of Unlimited Growth
The Crisis of Civilization
Must Watch Video
"This civilization in its current form can not survive the 21st Century"
Obama Pay Your &*%$#% Bills
What is the United States' credit score?"
Video
Felonious Munk speaks on the economic state of America and why we shouldn't pay our bills.
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Deadly clashes leave 15 people killed or injured in Nimroz: According
to local authorities in wesern Nimroz province of Afghanistan, at
least 15 people were killed or injured following armed clashes between
Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in this province
http://is.gd/GSpsQI
District Police Chief, 6 Others Killed in Afghan Attacks: A
roadside bomb attack in southern Uruzgan province killed five
policemen, including the district police chief of Sarab Ahmadullah, on
Friday evening, provincial governor spokesman Abdulllah Himmat said.
http://is.gd/203Nuf
18 killed in Pakistan: A "Taliban"
suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander's compound in
north-western Pakistan, killing at least 10 people, as heavily armed
attackers killed eight members of the coast guard in the south-west,
officials said.
http://is.gd/Vkd1fk
US drone attacks in Pak tribal belt 'insane', 'immoral': Imran Khan.: He
urged the public to engage in a debate on what he claimed was a form
of extra-judicial killing that continues unchallenged despite outrage
by human rights groups and the people who live in the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas that stretch along Pakistan's border with
Afghanistan.
http://is.gd/KlSG42
Explosion kills six in northern Iraq:
At least six people were killed Saturday when an explosion hit a military patrol in northern Iraq, security officials said, DPA reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/2049150.html
Gunmen kill a bodyguard for Iraq's Shiite vice-president: Iraqi
police officials say assailants have gunned down a bodyguard for the
country's Shiite vice-president in a drive-by-shooting in downtown
Baghdad.
http://is.gd/ts0JDg
Syrian forces battle rebels in Aleppo, families flee: - Syrian
troops and armoured vehicles pushed into a rebel-held district of
Aleppo on Saturday and struck back in Damascus against fighters
emboldened by a bomb attack against President Bashar al-Assad's inner
circle.
http://is.gd/yOP4KW
Syria rebels hold 2 of 3 Iraq border posts: officials: Syrian
rebels seized a second of the three main border crossings between Iraq
and Syria, after keeping control of another despite heavy shelling by
President Bashar al-Assad's forces, Iraqi officials told AFP.
http://is.gd/yisFJU
Presstitute and war pimp alert:
US must work 'outside UN' to aid Syrian rebels: "The US and other key actors need to step up their covert support for the opposition," said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center. http://is.gd/s8R2ae
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
Syria govt ready to use chemical weapons, defected general: The head of the Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (the armed wing of the opposition composed mainly of defected armed forces personnel), General Mustafa al-Sheikh, said the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has started moving its stockpile and redistributing it to prepare for its use". http://is.gd/8i7tYx Israel to the rescue: Barak: Israel ready to seize Syria weapons: The Israeli military is prepared to seize Syria's chemical weapons and missiles and to stop refugees from crossing the border, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. http://is.gd/iNstfc
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
U.S. says closely monitoring Syria chemical weapons: Stockpile still believed to be under Assad control, but given regime's increasing attacks against its people, White House remains 'very concerned about these weapons.' http://is.gd/YoziUY
The Syrian Conflict is Not Sectarian - Ahmed Versi - Video - The
West is interfering in these uprisings it will not allow the people's
will to win, and the policies of the Muslim Brotherhood has changed and
they are now more Western aligned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRDJcezUOU&feature=youtu.be Romney's Obnoxious Statement on Syria -Op-Ed- Romney's statement today encapsulates the complete bankruptcy of his foreign policy criticisms: http://is.gd/jLszZL
Demonizing Iran:
US pins nine 2012 plots on Iran, proxies: New York police believe Iranian Revolutionary Guards or their proxies have been involved so far this year in nine plots against Israeli or Jewish targets around the world, according to restricted police documents obtained by Reuters. http://is.gd/2ngDs4
Iran urges UN to stop massacre of Muslims in Myanmar : The
Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has called on the UN to take
firm action to stop the killing of Muslims in Myanmar and defend their
rights.
http://is.gd/gKUzOd
Abuses against Muslims in Myanmar erode human rights progress: Amnesty:
Followed by six weeks of violence against Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine State, Amnesty International said on Thursday that "declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations." http://is.gd/ncBaHS
Illegality of U.S. drone attacks: TWO
reports issued by United Nations special rapporteurs on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions, one by Philip Alston on May 28, 2010
and the other by South African jurist Christof Heyns in June this year,
contain severe censure of the United States' drone attacks in
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq.
http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/illegality-of-drones/
Saudi to non-Muslims: Respect fast or be expelled: Saudi
authorities warned non-Muslim expatriates on Friday, the first day of
Ramadan, not to eat, drink, or smoke in public until the end of the
Muslim holy month's sunrise-to-sunset fast - or face expulsion.
http://is.gd/1IpgUL
Canadian military outposts key to more overseas missions: For
the past two years, Canada has been quietly working to establish small
military outposts in places such as the Caribbean, East Africa, Europe
and Southeast Asia.
http://is.gd/TfmeFk
Court Said Wiretap Violated Constitution's 4th Amendment: On
"at least one occasion" the federal government violated the
Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches in using its power to
wiretap people in the U.S. without a warrant, a federal court said.
http://is.gd/OV4Brf
Corporation That Paid Nothing In Taxes For Four Years Tells Congress It Pays Too Much In Taxes: Over
a four years period from 2008 to 2011, Corning Inc. was one of 26
companies that managed to avoid paying any American income taxes, even
though it earned nearly $3 billion during that time.
http://is.gd/6TPb4y
California Foreclosures Spike In June: RealtyTrac's
Daren Blomquist says California saw an 18% year-over-year spike in
foreclosure starts or "notices of default" in June.
http://is.gd/yQJWkv
10 U.S. cities where homes cost less than a car: For
many Americans, homeownership is the epitome of living the American
dream. Yet, in towns with high tumbling home prices and double-digit
vacancy rates, median-priced homes now cost the equivalent of new
American cars - except, as investments go, they're slightly more risky.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/252066.html
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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| 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 : 3,094
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,354,601,525,941
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