tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90012227210484673652024-03-15T18:10:07.136-07:00THENAKEDFACTSNysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.comBlogger15031125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-11796054912904682722013-12-03T10:00:00.000-08:002013-12-03T10:00:01.894-08:00<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mordechai Vanunu wins human rights prize of Brazilian Press Association </span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/features/updates/7038-mordechai-vanunu-wins-human-rights-prize-of-brazilian-press-association">http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/features/updates/7038-mordechai-vanunu-wins-human-rights-prize-of-brazilian-press-association</a></span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who exposed details of Israel's nuclear weapons programme to the world in 1986, has been awarded the 2013 human rights prize of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI). ABI awarded the prize to Vananu for his services to humanity, to citizenship rights and the right to information. An additional six "citizens of the world" also received the 2013, including Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald and Chelsea Manning. Vanunu exposed Israel's nuclear weapons programme to the British press in 1986 and was subsequently kidnapped by Israeli intelligence and sentenced to 18 years in prison, 11 of which he spent in solitary confinement. Since his release from prison in 2004, Vanunu is subject to broad restrictions on his speech and movement, and it not permitted to leave Israel as he desires. In announcing its decision, ABI stated that it is honouring Israeli citizen Mordechai Vanunu, a hero of humanity who acted to support world peace.</span></b></u></span> Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-77145221944363334262013-12-03T09:58:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:58:17.983-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/UnDpJJphUKI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graphic - The Cleaning of Der Attiyeh from Obama's Thugs</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnDpJJphUKI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnDpJJphUKI</a></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="userContent"> [ed notes;: great footage!</span> Some footage might be graphic, viewers discretion advised. The
liberation of Der Attiyeh from Obama regime's anti-Islamic Wahhabi
mercenary terrorists.</span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-82931282271527985382013-12-03T09:55:00.004-08:002013-12-03T09:55:33.705-08:00<span class="userContent"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">From band of brothers to princes of war</span> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10485970/Syria-dispatch-from-band-of-brothers-to-princes-of-war.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10485970/Syria-dispatch-from-band-of-brothers-to-princes-of-war.html</a></span></b></i> <span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the [[[[[FSA commander leant against the door of his four-wheel drive BM<span class="text_exposed_show">W
X5 ]]]]] with tinted windows and watched as his men waded through the
river on the Syrian border moving the barrels of smuggled petroleum to
Turkey. <span style="background-color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feeling the smooth wedge of US banknotes he had just been given
in exchange, he was suddenly proud of everything he had become.[[[ In three
short years he had risen from peasant to war lord:]]]]</span></span></span></span></b></u></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">[[[[[from
a seller of cigarettes on the street of a provincial village to the
ruler of a province, with a rebel group to man his checkpoints and
control these lucrative smuggling routes The FSA, a collection of
tenuously coordinated, moderately Islamic</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281278}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">,
rebel groups was long the focus of the West’s hopes for ousting Pres
Assad. But in northern Syria, the FSA has now become a largely criminal
enterprise, with commanders more concerned about profits from
corruption, kidnapping and theft than fighting the regime, according to a
series of interviews with The Sunday Telegraph.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281282}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281282}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[567gh].[1][3][1]{comment595897487130157_5281282}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">Ahmad
al-Knaitry, commander of the moderate Omar Mokhtar brigade in the Jebel
az-Zawiya area, south-west of Idlib city, said:<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[[[[[[''There are many
leaders in the revolution that don’t want to make the regime fall
because they are loving the conflict. They have become princes of war.
They spend millions of dollars, live in castles and have fancy
cars.'']]]]]]]]]]]</span></span></span></span></span></b></u></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-74532943137869443292013-12-03T09:52:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:52:24.605-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Israeli Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Units Active in Damascus Battles? </span><a href="http://www.phantomreport.com/israel-intelligence-and-electronic-warfare-units-active-in-damascus-battles" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.phantomreport.com/israel-intelligence-and-electronic-warfare-units-active-in-damascus-battles</a></span></b></i><br /> <span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b>Roughly Translated: Israel military in East Gouta to Dama<span class="text_exposed_show">scus?
Battles, which began last Friday, a surprise attack on the outposts of
the Syrian army in the far East Gouta, may turn out to be the first
occasion involving Israelis effectively in the Syrian war along one of
the parties.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280439}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280439}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280439}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">According
to sources cross, the Israelis have made a reconnaissance maps and
pictures of the Syrian army positions to the nucleus of the attacking
force, which was launched from Jordan, under the leadership of
co-ordinated intelligence Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Israel. But Israeli
contribute in the battle of the big East Gouta was a pillar whole
attack.</span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280441}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280441}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280441}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">According
to information security, the Israelis succeeded before the start of the
first wave of the attack to disrupt communications system for the
Fourth Division and the Republican Guard and units of the elite forces
for «Hezbollah» The factions «Abu al Fadl al Abbas» Iraq in the region </span></span></span><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280442}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280442}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280442}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[imro].[1][3][1]{comment595757697144136_5280442}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">During
the first hours of the attack, the Israelis used electronic means of
encryption, and managed to disrupt radio communications between Syrian
groups and their allies on the first line of defense, which was breached
quickly, and led to the fall of the seven villages and farms in the
area of turf.</span></span></span></b></u></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-46952968285461425892013-12-03T09:50:00.000-08:002013-12-03T09:50:09.263-08:00<span class="userContent"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Video: Puerto Rican, Cuban, Palestinian and
Black Liberation Political Prisoners Workshop at NLG Convention.... </i></span>The
National Lawyers Guild International Committee’s Cuba, Puerto Rico and
Palestine Subcommittees co-sponsored a workshop at th</span></b><span class="text_exposed_show"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e
NLG Convention in Puerto Rico, October 25, 2013, entitled <span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">”Political
Prisoners and Liberation Struggles: Palestinian Prisoners, the Cuban
Five, Puerto Rico and Assata Shakur & the Black Liberation
Movement.” </span></u></span>Video of the workshop is now available online! </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16hoqe_nlg-political-prisioners-and-liberation-struggles-part-1-of-3_news" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16hoqe_nlg-political-prisioners-and-liberation-struggles-part-1-of-3_news</a></span></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16hoks_nlg-political-prisioners-and-liberation-struggles-part-2-of-3_news" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NLG - Political Prisioners and Liberation Struggles (Part 2 of 3)</a></strong></span></b> </div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> National Lawyers Guild - Political Prisioners and Liberation Struggles: Palestia<span class="text_exposed_show">n
Prisioners, the Cuban Five and Puerto Rico (2nd of 3 Parts), San Juan,
Puerto Rico, October 25, 2013. Video: Eduardo Rivera Pagán / MINH
Comunicación</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><strong><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16hn7a_nlg-political-prisioners-and-liberation-struggles-part-3-of-3_news" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NLG - Political Prisioners and Liberation Struggles (Part 3 of 3)</a></strong></span></b> <br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">The
workshop addresses the current state of the respective struggles and
their political prisoners.The Puerto Rican people have always resisted
colonialism, and have waged campaigns for the release of the thousands
of their compatriots who have been im</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">prisoned
for their commitment to independence, and have always advocated for
their human rights.The U.S. has imprisoned the Cuban Five since 1998 for
trying to prevent Florida based terrorism against Cuba. An update on
legal & political developments, including newly discovered evidence.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]">The
movement of Palestinian political prisoners has received growing
attention internationally. The struggle of Palestinian prisoners, given
the role of US aid and funding to Israel, is directly connected to that
of other prisoners held by the US.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[4]">Recently,
the FBI named Assata Shakur as the first woman on its “Most Wanted
Terrorists” list, funding a $2 million bounty for her capture and return
from Cuba. The workshop will address Assata’s case as an illustration
of the criminalization of the Black Liberation Movement and numerous
political prisoners that emerged from it.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[7]">Speakers:</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[10]">Alberto Rodriguez</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[13]"> Alberto
Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican Independentista who in 1983 was arrested by
a FBI led task force and charged with the impossible crime of Seditious
Conspiracy for fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico. After a
lengthy federal trial during which many important political issues like
the illegality of U.S. colonialism over Puerto Rico were raised, he was
sentenced to 35 years in prison. After 16 years of incarceration, he
along with most but not all the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
received Executive Clemency from then President Bill Clinton and was
released.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[16]">Soffiyah Elijah</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[19]"> Soffiyah
Elijah, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York,
is the first woman and the first person of color to lead the nearly
170-year old organization in its mission to create a fairer and more
humane criminal justice system. She served previously as Deputy Director
and Clinical Instructor at the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard
Law School, and before that was a member of the faculty and Director and
Supervising Attorney of the Defender Clinic at the City University of
New York School of Law. Ms. Elijah has also worked as a Supervising
Attorney at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a Staff
Attorney at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society, and
in private practice.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[22]">An
accomplished advocate, scholar, and educator, Ms. Elijah is a frequent
presenter on national and international media and at forums on criminal
justice policy and human rights issues. Some of her work on behalf of
political prisoners has included: post trial/appellate representation of
Sundiata Acoli (the other African American survivor besides Assata
Shakur from the NJ turnpike shooting), and of Marilyn Buck (who was
charged and convicted of involvement in Assata’s escape); representation
of the San Francisco 8, and of organizations such as the Venceremos
Brigade.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[25]">Bradley Parker</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[28]">Brad
Parker is Staff Attorney and International Advocacy Officer with
Defence for Children International Palestine, an independent
child-rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the
rights of children living in occupied Palestine. He was previously the
Legal Advocacy Officer with MADRE.</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[31]">Rafael Anglada-Lopez</span><span data-reactid=".r[4h8hj].[1][3][1]{comment595775713809001_5280576}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[34]"> Rafael
Anglada López is a lawyer and a civil rights activist. He was a member
of the Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia (FUPI-Federation
of Pro-Independence University Students), a delegate for the Puerto
Rican Socialist Party before the United Nations, and a reporter for
Claridad, the major pro-independence newspaper. Anglada has dedicated
his life to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence from the United
States and, as an attorney, defending the rights of political
dissidents. Atty. Anglada-Lopez has been associated with the defense of
the Cuban Five since their trial in Miami in 2000-2001.</span></span></span></span></span></b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PALESTINIANS HONOURED IN BRASILIAN HOUSE OF DEPUTIES </span></b></i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.brasil247.com/pt/247/brasilia247/122496/Palestinos-recebem-homenagem-na-C%C3%A2mara.htm"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.brasil247.com/pt/247/brasilia247/122496/Palestinos-recebem-homenagem-na-C%C3%A2mara.htm</span></b></a><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280571}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280571}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280571}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280571}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">"The
Palestinians can not be refugees in their own country. Over five
million Palestinians should be guaranteed the right to return to their
land, "said Mrs Perpetua Almeida (PCdoB-AC), the Solemn Session in Honor
of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the
Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia</span></span></span></span></b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280572}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280572}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280572}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">The
speeches were interspersed with artistic presentation of Palestinian
figures. "Let us sing together for peace and dignity of all peoples and
nations of the region lives," said the ambassador.To an audience of 38
ambassadors, officials and members of the Arab community, the MP said
that <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"today the House is more beautiful for such a noble cause," making
special deference to the Arab community.</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">"These
who have an admirable culture, traditions and secular in the world
today are the way they can contribute to a better life."The words of
support from Brazilian legislators, the Palestinian ambassador in
Brazil, Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil thanked Alze</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5m9m8].[1][3][1]{comment595775137142392_5280573}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">ben,
saying the right of Palestinians to their lands is recognized by
international law, based on respect for the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the peace of good neighborliness and resolution of
conflicts through peaceful means, preserving the human being and the
environment. "And recognizing the other's right to live with dignity,"
he said.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></u></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-54369454686804137452013-12-03T09:41:00.002-08:002013-12-03T09:41:23.977-08:00<object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/_Jr6xyPZSFI/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/_Jr6xyPZSFI&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/_Jr6xyPZSFI&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FSA Leader Defects to ISIL and Exposes FSA as a Saudi-Israeli Run Project </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfW1CWXevQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfW1CWXevQ</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>Saddam al-Jamal, leader of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) Eastern Front
and a member of the FSA Staff Board or Supreme Military Council, has
recently dissociated himself from the FSA, its Military Council, and the
National Coalition and joined al-Qaeda's "Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant." Al-Jamal also leads "Allahu Akbar" Brigade in al-Bukamal in
the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria. He revealed that the person
currently responsible for the file of the "Syrian Revolution" is Salman
bin Sultan, Bandar's brother, from the Saudi royal family. He also
confirmed the involvement many regional and global intelligence services
in the running of the FSA, whether it is in attending FSA meetings,
training them in Jordan and other locations, and providing them with
different types of assistance.</u></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u> </u></span></span></b>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-16238228007798657222013-12-03T09:38:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:38:17.759-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/rYWbdM5kZs4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Saudi Wahhabi Preacher: OK to Kill Muslim Women & Children Unintentionally to Kill Infidels </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYWbdM5kZs4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYWbdM5kZs4</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>A Saudi Wahhabi preacher who appeared on Saudi "al-Thaminah" TV stated
that the killing of Muslim women and children is permissible according
to his sources when it's done as collateral damage resulting from the
"lawful" aim of killing infidels. These Wahhabi preachers are the ones
providing fatwas to combatants in Syria regarding what they view as
religiously approved rules of war. Civilians in Syria have been
indiscriminately targeted by Wahhabi terrorists supported by Saudi
Arabia, all done under the justification of fighting an "infidel
regime".</u></span></b>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-82588855753191329802013-12-03T09:36:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:36:33.995-08:00<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">US
STRENGTHENING BAHRAINS REPRESSION AND DICTATORSHIP....</span></span></b></i><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/us-navy-to-reinforce-footprint-in-the-region-1.1261824">http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/us-navy-to-reinforce-footprint-in-the-region-1.1261824</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“Bahrain is going
to suddenly emerge” in the eyes of the public and the Defence
Department, he said.The US Navy is confirming its footprint in the
Arabian Gulf by reinforcing its presence through short- and long-term
plans. Telling Navy sailors at the US Naval Facility in Manama that
Bahrain remained the best option for operating out of the region, Adm
Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, described a plan to bring
two more coastal patrol ships to the kingdom in the spring. The first
littoral combat ships are expected to arrive in Bahrain in 2018 with
rotational crews, Greenert told the US newspaper ...</span><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">Greenert
stressed Bahrain’s key role in the service’s Middle East presence,
telling sailors that the base here would continue to be its
“centrepiece” and denying there was a plan B.“We don’t have that kind of
deep relationship with any other country th</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280268}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">at
we have with Bahrain,” Greenert told Stripes.Bahrain has had a long,
close cooperation with the US and was designated a Major Non-Nato Ally
in 2002.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></u></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[ed notes:<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">Meanwhile....However,
various rights groups continue expressing abuses by the Bahraini
government including “the growing threats against human rights defenders
and the continued exploitation of the judicial system.” Bahrain Center
for Human Rights cont</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1vxxj].[1][3][1]{comment595735983812974_5280270}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">inues
to call for medical treatment for incarcerated political leader
Abdulwahab Hussain....concern over the arrest of human rights activist
Hussain Jawad who is accused of “inciting hatred against the regime,”
and calls for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent human
rights activist “jailed for taking part in an anti-government protest
last year.” The Associated Press reports that a court denied Rajab’s
request for an early release from his charge of “encouraging illegal
gatherings,” which he was eligible for.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-74261698768720387932013-12-03T09:34:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:34:35.602-08:00<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span> </span></span>Jordanian Terrorist Finds Out On Live TV That He Is in Syrian Army Territory [MUST SEE] </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIG_HXt-SmM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIG_HXt-SmM</a> <span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></span></b><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Jordanian Alqeada member called Muhammad Ismail Saleh Jadallah is
interviewed after spending 6 months in a Syrian government hospital,
while thinking he was being treated by the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA).
During the interview, he gets surprised as he finds out that he's
actually in a Syrian government hospital.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">After
much thinking, he realizes the brainwashing that he had undergone and
later sends a warning message to all youth in the Muslim world from his
prison cell...</span></span></span></span></b></u></span><br />
<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280332}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">[ed notes;fb comment left on thread... </span></span></span></span><br /><a class="UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100001379523379&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280469}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][0]" href="https://www.facebook.com/mikelchas.skinner" id="js_20">Mikel-Chas Skinner</a><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280469}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280469}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280469}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1yw4c].[1][3][1]{comment595742470478992_5280469}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">Goes
to show ya that even the terrorists prisnors get proper treatment from
the al-Assad regime,not like what the FSAs band of sick0s that
behead,torture and go as far as eating a human heart...This is more
proof that Assad and the SAA are not the monsters that the zionists and
the West,USA,try and make them out to be.</span></span></span></span></b></i><br />
Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-8069510168709053582013-12-03T09:31:00.000-08:002013-12-03T09:31:27.471-08:00<span class="userContent"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What archives? UK ordered destruction of ‘embarrassing’ colonial papers</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b><span class="userContent"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://endthelie.com/2013/11/30/what-archives-uk-ordered-destruction-of-embarrassing-colonial-papers/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://endthelie.com/2013/11/30/what-archives-uk-ordered-destruction-of-embarrassing-colonial-papers/</a></span></b> </span><br />
<u><span style="background-color: yellow;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">Britain systematically destroyed documents in colonies that were about
to gain independence, declassified Foreign Office files reveal. ‘Op<span class="text_exposed_show">eration
Legacy’ saw sensitive documents secretly burnt or dumped to cover up
traces of British activities.The latest National Archives publication
made from a collection of 8,800 colonial-era files held by the Foreign
Office for decades revealed deliberate document elimination by British
authorities in former colonies.</span></span></span></b></i></span></u><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[ed notes;click link for whole piece...anyway...</span></b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[lap4].[1][3][1]{comment595745317145374_5280357}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[lap4].[1][3][1]{comment595745317145374_5280357}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[lap4].[1][3][1]{comment595745317145374_5280357}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">cant
blame them,how else could they hypocritically continue its imperial
wars and expansionism in third world while spewing rethorically its all
about democracy,not jewish international monetary plundering?</span></span></span></span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-56718935420802072992013-12-03T09:29:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:29:19.712-08:00<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> AFRICAN GENOCIDE,FRENCH PRETEXT FOR PLUNDER OF AFRICA</span></b></i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/12/02/african-genocide-pretext-for-french-plunder/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/12/02/african-genocide-pretext-for-french-plunder/</a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">
The Seleka rebels ousted the French-backed president of the CAR,
Francois Bozizé, earlier this year in March. The newly self-declared
president, <span class="text_exposed_show">Michel Djotodia, is the first
Muslim leader of that African country.Djotodia has firmly rejected
claims that the interim government is waging a sectarian conflict, and
he has recently denied French assertions that the country is on the
brink of genocide.“There’s no genocide, there is not even an
inter-religious war. All of this is made up to manipulate the opinion of
the international community,” he said.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280368}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280368}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280368}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">Best
estimates put the number of victims in the dozens, not hundreds or
thousands. And it is not clear which groups are responsible for the
sudden chaos.Also, it seems that the recent surge in violence was
initiated in September by shadowy militia known as “anti-balaka” who are
linked to forces loyal to the ousted president Bozizé.</span></span></span></span></u></span><span style="background-color: cyan;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280369}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280369}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280369}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">These
groups began attacking mainly Muslim communities in northern parts of
the CAR, which have in turn resulted in reprisal killings allegedly by
Muslim rebel groups against Christians.Until recently, both religious
communities lived harmoniously, with sectarian violence unheard of.</span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">What
is known is that the French-backed Bozizé regime was notoriously
corrupt. He is now exiled in France from where he is agitating a
counter-coup, presumably with covert help from the French
government.Bozizé himself came to power in 2003 through a c</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45dno].[1][3][1]{comment595746387145267_5280371}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">oup
against an elected president, Ange-Felix Patasse. It was the
intervention of French commandos that installed Bozizé.Indeed, since the
CAR’s supposed political independence from France in 1960, French
troops stationed in the country have regularly worked covertly to stage
coups and counter-coups to suit the political and economic needs of
Paris.</span></span></span></span></span></span></u></span></b>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-8527693897000751072013-12-03T09:27:00.000-08:002013-12-03T09:27:20.636-08:00<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HONDURAN ELLECTIONS AFTER US OCCUPATION...MILITARIZATION AT THE BALLOTS!</span></b></i></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"> <a href="http://quotha.net/node/2607" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://quotha.net/node/2607</a>
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>After a moment, when I had taken possession of my position as president
of Voting Station 2686, in the Minerva School, there was a verbal
altercation between the police officers and Mr. Pinto that reached the
point where Mr. Pinto and his cronies ended up intimidating and kicking
out the members of the community police force.</u></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">Once
we were without police protection, they began to threaten my compañeros
and me, telling us we should leave the voting stations and the polling
place. They confiscated the national identity card and electoral worker
credential of one of my compañio</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280398}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">ns
by threatening to kill her, and they tried to intimidate me at gunpoint
to sign the tally sheets and ballots before leaving the table, which I
did not agree to, and finally they forced me to give them my electoral
worker credential and national identity card.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280401}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280401}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[by64].[1][3][1]{comment595755650477674_5280401}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">We
managed to leave the community. In the door of the school there were
people asking voters whom they planned to vote for, and if it was not
for the National Party candidate they simply were not allowed to enter.</span></span></span></u></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><u><b><span class="userContent"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://soaw.org/about-us/equipo-sur/263-stories-from-honduras/4162-novelections" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://soaw.org/about-us/equipo-sur/263-stories-from-honduras/4162-novelections</a></span><br />
Another issue is the financial incentives used by the National Party to
get people to vote for them. For instance, just outside a large voting
center in Danli, <span class="text_exposed_show">the National Party was
distributing its “La Cachureca” discount card, shown in the photo at
right. This card provides people who register with the National Party
discounts for cell phone use, medical care, and other needs. The
International Federation for Human Rights reported on how the La
Cachureca card is used to shift votes to the National Party. We also
have received reports of a government program that is supposed to
provide aid to people in poverty being manipulated by the National
Party, which is currently in power. One woman denounced that she had
received one of these checks before the election that was dated the
Tuesday after the election; she was told that there would only be funds
to cash it if the National Party won.</span></span></b></u></span><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span style="background-color: lime;"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">We
are extremely concerned about statements by the US State Department
that observers found the process to be "generally transparent." There
are reports by numerous international observers of dead people able to
vote, vote buying, and problems with vot</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span style="background-color: lime;"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">e
counting, not to mention that the TSE has selectively tallied the vote
reports while leaving many votes uncounted. The above examples is just
part of what our delegation saw; delegations across the country reported
fraud, including vote buying, which is described in the Honduras
Solidarity Network preliminary report. </span></span><a class="" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[1]" href="http://www.hondurassolidarity.org/report1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hondurassolidarity.org/report1/</a></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280389}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"> </span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">The
State Department's statement goes on to encourage Hondurans to "resolve
election disputes peacefully through established legal processes" but
fails to mention the fact that the ruling parties control the highly
politicized Honduran justice system. </span></span><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[llgh].[1][3][1]{comment595754357144470_5280391}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">Just
a few months ago, the National party's presidential candidate, in his
role as president of the Congress, led an extremely irregular process to
name a new Attorney General in the middle of the night, stacking the
Justice Department in his favor just prior to the elections. Prior to
that, he also led Congress in the firing of 4 Supreme Court justices who
had gone against his interests, and replaced them with 4 new Supreme
Court justices.</span></span></span></span></span></b></u></span><br />
Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-62012484307418721962013-12-03T09:18:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:18:25.783-08:00<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-bank-whistleblower-reveals-how-the-global-elite-rule-the-world/5353130" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-bank-whistleblower-reveals-how-the-global-elite-rule-the-world/5353130</a><br /> Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in <span class="text_exposed_show">the
legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact,
when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the
World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique
position to see exactly how the global elite rule the world, and the
information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely
stunning.</span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">According
to Hudes, the elite use a very tight core of financial institutions and
mega-corporations to dominate the planet. Karen HudesThe goal is
control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our
governments enslaved to debt, and the</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280437}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">y
want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial
contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite
also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets
us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with
the way that our system works.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280438}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280438}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1rhvv].[1][3][1]{comment595757483810824_5280438}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">Remember,
this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things.
This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for
more than two decades.</span></span></span></span></u></span></b>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-35248993693098598892013-12-03T09:17:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:17:16.352-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwSb3-VHbnsibWTW5W8R6kiZ4FhpXtrU-SoW8gPlsst4n7dHBHytLvNXT9a1z5XG_NtDxmDt2GJ9MlRjazo-UpdDYOTbNElWpwwogarQE9BGP_jU-6GIJEbC7S9afvXxaHo_ogJCR2qo/s640/yanks_abdullah_pennylane2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwSb3-VHbnsibWTW5W8R6kiZ4FhpXtrU-SoW8gPlsst4n7dHBHytLvNXT9a1z5XG_NtDxmDt2GJ9MlRjazo-UpdDYOTbNElWpwwogarQE9BGP_jU-6GIJEbC7S9afvXxaHo_ogJCR2qo/s400/yanks_abdullah_pennylane2.png" width="400" /></a><span class="userContent"> </span><b>CIA gave birth to TTP at “Penny Lane” near Guantanamo Bay Prison–Report </b><a href="http://pakistancyberforce.blogspot.com/2013/11/cia-gave-birth-to-ttp-at-penny-lane.html">http://pakistancyberforce.blogspot.com/2013/11/cia-gave-birth-to-ttp-at-penny-lane.html</a> <br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">[ed notes:double agents my a## ...they are paids ,period...</span></span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-80070086207784671242013-12-03T09:15:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:15:25.408-08:00<a href="http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/imagecache/portrait_medium/briefings-images/screen_shot_2013-12-02_at_12.00.48.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/imagecache/portrait_medium/briefings-images/screen_shot_2013-12-02_at_12.00.48.png" width="226" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tailored for Sharks</span></b><br />
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<span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How rules are tailored and public interest surrendered to suit
corporate interests in the WTO, FTAs and BITs trade and investment
regime </span></b></u></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><u><b>The discourse of rules and fairness usually brings up ideas of
equality, justice and upholding of rights. Therefore, when the World
Trade Organization (WTO) describes itself as a “rules-based” system that
treats all member countries fairly based on the principle of
“non-discrimination”, it could be concluded that the WTO multilateral
trading system is just and equitable.But if the WTO system were indeed equitable, then why has global
trade become concentrated in the hands of a few corporations, indicating
that only a few big corporate players benefit from the global trading
system.Why is it that 80% of US exports are handled by only 1% of the
largest exporters and 85% of EU exports are in the hands of only 10% of
the big exporters? If the WTO rules based system were really non-
discriminatory, equitable and just, then shouldn’t there be an equal
distribution of economic benefits to all 159 Members countries?<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This Report contests some key assumptions about the rules based
global trade and investment system. It addresses such questions as: Who
are the real beneficiaries of the legally binding and enforceable
agreements and rules of the WTO that ensures the smooth, predictable and
free movement of trade flows?Who are the key players in global trade that would benefit from the
breaking down of all trade barriers? And ultimately, whose trade
organization is the WTO really and how is it related to the regime of
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and International Investment Agreements
(IIAs)?How is this elaboration of rules designed to privilege the unilateral
operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) which maintains a sea
of sharks and sardines?How does the Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) work?Are all these rules designed as part of the neoliberal architecture of impunity protecting the privileges of these corporations?And in this environment, how is the public interest and national sovereignty surrendered?</span></span></b></u></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-82180109141396481672013-12-03T09:12:00.002-08:002013-12-03T09:12:43.637-08:00<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">Intelligence Community Plans for Continuity of Operations <a href="http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/12/ic-coop/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/12/ic-coop/</a><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>The U.S. intelligence community should continue to provide intelligence
support to national leaders even in the event of a catastrophic <span class="text_exposed_show">emergency,
according to a new Intelligence Community Directive.“IC elements shall
develop and maintain COOP [continuity of operations] capabilities to
ensure the uninterrupted flow of national intelligence and, through the
support of COG [continuity of government], the continuation of National
Essential Functions,” the Directive states.</span></u></span></span></span><span style="background-color: cyan;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280483}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280483}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280483}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">The
new Directive implements the Bush Administration’s 2007 National
Security Presidential Directive 51 on “National Continuity Policy.”
Presidential directives remain in force unless or until they are
superseded or rescinded.</span></span></span></span></span></u></span></b><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280485}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280485}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280485}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[3udum].[1][3][1]{comment595763850476854_5280485}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">[ed
notes:prepare for the next false flag attack...coming soon to a theater
near your city or nationwide..lets all thank abominable obama for
letting bushs directives go unchecked...</span></span></span></span></b></i></span><br /> Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-5567063840569682832013-12-03T09:11:00.000-08:002013-12-03T09:11:22.933-08:00<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">Hearing on Human Rights in Colombia - November 27, 2013 Impacts of free trade agreements on human rights... <a href="http://www.oidhaco.org/uploaded/content/article/2115665979.pdf" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.oidhaco.org/uploaded/content/article/2115665979.pdf</a> <br /> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u>Introduction The Trade Agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru, <span class="text_exposed_show">signed
in June 2012 and subsequently ratified in December of the same year by
the European Parliament, provisionally entered into force on August 1,
2013, in a context of high social and political tension reflected in
significant social demonstrations during 2013. The Trade Agreement has
led to serious questions on the situation of human rights, the lack of
specific and efficient labour, social and environmental standards, the
continuing violence in Colombian regions, and the potential impacts of
the Agreement on sectors of the Colombian economy. Given this reality,
the European Parliament called for the development of a road map on
human rights, labour rights and environmental rights, which “should be
aimed essentially at safeguarding human rights, enhancing and improving
trade unionists’ rights and protecting the environment”1. The Parliament
noted on several occasions that both the Trade Agreement and its
accompanying roadmap could serve as tools for monitoring the human
rights situation in Colombia. We therefore call upon the European
Parliament to use the Roadmap and to take appropriate measures in light of the current situation. This document details the current situation,
and outlines the concerns which still exist about the main focuses set
out in the Roadmap (human rights and labour rights), as well as the
potential impacts of the Trade Agreement</span></u></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[[[[[Summary – Conclusions The general human rights situation in Colombia remains of serious concern:- Murders continue to be committed against human rights defenders, land restitution leaders,small farming and indigenous leaders fighting for their land and opposing dams or miningprojects. Between January and September 2013, at least 52 defenders were killed.- The criminalization of social protest continues to affect freedom of expression and assembly.</span></b></u></span><span style="background-color: cyan;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">There
are reports of stigmatisation by high officials, and violent
repression, resulting in up to15 killings during the last national
strike.- Several legislative initiatives could promote impunity and have
been strongly questioned by UN mechanisms Th</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">e
number of displaced people is increasing every day, with over 250,000
new cases in 2012. Today in Colombia 5.7 million displaced people are
registered. There is a 99.5 % rate of</span><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280538}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]"> impunity for this crime]]]</span></span></span></span></span></span></u></b></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280542}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280542}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280542}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4j3ij].[1][3][1]{comment595768257143080_5280542}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">[ed
notes:click link for rest..in short..eu and us continue to be
responsible for aiding and justifying the continual repression and
crimes taking place in Colombia...</span></span></span></span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-84455013914317660662013-12-03T09:08:00.003-08:002013-12-03T09:08:38.715-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/-aWFQRcdChk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jose Saramago(literary nobel peace winner) - Where's the democracy? [Subs: EN, FR, DE, IT, HR,] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWFQRcdChk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWFQRcdChk</a></span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[ed notes: </span></b></i></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">click cc captions for english!</span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280562}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280562}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280562}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280562}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">SARAMAGO,
José. Portuguese Literature Nobel Laureate: "What is happening in
Palestine is a crime that we can compare to what occurred in Auschwitz"
& "[Israel's] aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the
Palestinian people" </span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280560}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280560}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2wpb6].[1][3][1]{comment595772053809367_5280560}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">During
a visit to Ramallah in March 2002 during the Second Intifada, Saramago
compared the Palestinian city, which was blockaded at the time by the
Israeli army, to concentration camps.During the 2006 Lebanon War,
Saramago condemned in what he characterized as "a long-term military,
economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less
than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation"</span></span></span></u></span></span></b></i>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-19916462887590755362013-12-03T09:04:00.002-08:002013-12-03T09:04:46.027-08:00<br />
<a href="http://www.prensa-latina.cu/images/stories/Fotos/2013/Diciembre/02/nic-canal-interoceanico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.prensa-latina.cu/images/stories/Fotos/2013/Diciembre/02/nic-canal-interoceanico.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Nicaragua Envisages Regional Companies to Build Canal</i></span> <a href="http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=2&id=2135241&Itemid=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=2&id=2135241&Itemid=1</a><br /> <span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>The Nicaraguan Government envisages the presence of companies from the region, through par<span class="text_exposed_show">tnerships, in the construction of the inter-oceanic canal of Nicaragua.<br />
According to Paul Oquist, Minister-Secretary for National Policy of the
Nicaraguan Presidency, this work is expected to revolutionize global
maritime trade.Oquist urged Dominican companies to join the initiative,
saying that once concluded, the canal will have two ports, two
free-trade zones, an oil pipeline and a railway from coast to coast.</span></u></span></span></span></b><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"></span><span style="background-color: cyan;"><u><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">"The beginning of construction works is scheduled for late 2014 and they are expected to be completed by 2019", said Oquist.</span><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[2]">"<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;">[[[Since in Nicaragua there are no large companies to perform mega-projects there will be thousands of subcontracts, which will r</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280489}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]">epresent
an incentive for foreign companies to forge partnerships with ours", he
said."We expect this project to boost economies and provide workers of
the region with several jobs" said Oquist.]]]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></i></u></span><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280492}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280492}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280492}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280492}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[18byw].[1][3][1]{comment595764357143470_5280492}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">[ed
notes:regional companies?he better double or triple his security
detail,the jackals(CIA) will be unleashed by the north on him...</span></span></span></span></b></i></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-47434616229889230712013-12-03T09:01:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:01:51.573-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/d5AFUN01Gmk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>ANTONIO BANDERAS PRAISES CHAVEZ POLICIES TO COMBAT ECONOMIC CRISIS</b></span></i></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://coto2.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/antonio-banderas-chavez-ideas-will-solve-us-crisis/">http://coto2.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/antonio-banderas-chavez-ideas-will-solve-us-crisis/</a> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Antonio Banderas surprised CNN viewers when he criticized US President Barack Obama and suggested Europe and the US should apply the same economic policies as Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez.During his talk with Spanish journalist Ana Pastor, Banderas was asked several questions about the current financial crisis and possible solutions to it.The Malaga-born star pointed the finger of blame at “the markets, the lobbies, the big corporations” and suggested they didn’t have to take responsibility when countries and governments had problems<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>.</u></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“We’re not being governed by the people we voted for,” he told Pastor. “How do you put a stop to that?” she asked. “You break it like Chávez did in his day, you get all these big corporations and you nationalize them,” answered Banderas in the midst of a deafening silence. “There was no other way out,” he added. The Hollywood actor also criticized the US’s President Obama for not fullfilling his promises during his two terms in office and succumbing to the pressure of big business and financial markets.</span></u></span></b>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-53205224983279143292013-10-26T14:20:00.002-07:002013-10-26T14:20:34.375-07:00<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> SWAT RAIDS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS HOME...</span></b></i></span><br />
<a href="http://endthelie.com/2013/10/25/swat-team-raids-investigative-journalists-home-confiscates-confidential-dhs-files/">http://endthelie.com/2013/10/25/swat-team-raids-investigative-journalists-home-confiscates-confidential-dhs-files/</a><br />
An investigative journalist says federal agents raided her home
earlier this year and confiscated the notes she used to report on a
government cover-up. Now she fears her sources have been compromised.<br />
Audrey Hudson told The Daily Caller that the files were taken during a
SWAT raid of her Shady Side, Maryland home this past August conducted
as part of an investigation into her husband, Paul Flanagan. Authorities
were following up on a lead that Flanagan unlawfully possessed a number
of firearms, and reportedly pilfered his wife’s personal documents
during an armed raid of the couples’ home.<br />
According to the Daily Caller’s Alex Pappas, authorities had reason
to believe that Flanagan was amassing a gun collection despite being
legally barred from owning firearms due to a previous conviction. The
Daily Caller obtained a search warrant showing that law enforcement was
given the go-ahead to conduct a raid because Flanagan had been found
guilty of resisting arrest in 1986 and thus prohibited from owning
weapons. Authorities believed he had broken that restriction.<br />
“<i>One party that was interviewed remembered distinctly about
Flanagan advising he had recently purchased a Bersa .380 handgun, and
observed pictures of firearms similar to AK-47 semi-automatic rifles
which were identified by Flanagan as being his</i>,” court documents obtained by Pappas say.<br />
Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security both
participated in the raid because Flanagan is employed by the Coast
Guard, which is considered a division of DHS. If the raid was indeed
over Flanagan’s alleged gun collection, though, then why was his wife’s
papers taken by law enforcement? Hudson believes that the federal agents
who entered her home knew she had worked with federal whistleblowers
and wanted her sources.<br />
Hudson is currently a freelance writer, but has reported previously for Newsmax, the Colorado Observer and The <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">Washington</span> Times.<br />
“<i>After the search began, Hudson said she was asked by an
investigator with the Coast Guard Investigative Service if she was the
same Audrey Hudson who had written a series of critical stories about
air marshals for The Washington Times over the last decade</i>,” Pappas reported.<br />
Hudson told the Daily Caller that during the raid, authorities confiscated file which included notes that “<i>were
used to expose how the Federal Air Marshal Service had lied to Congress
about the number of airline flights there were actually <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">protecting</span> against another terrorist attack</i>.”<br />
It took an entire month after the raid for Hudson to learn that the
files had been taken by authorities. Miguel Bosch, a former air
marshal-turned-special agent for the Coast Guard Investigative Service,
called Hudson in September and told her that officials had her
documents: handwritten and typed notes stemming from a series of
interviews with confidential sources she had conducted, as well as other
files.<br />
“<i>During the course of the search, the CGIS agent discovered
government documents labeled FOUO – For Official Use Only (FOUO) – and
LES – Law Enforcement Sensitive. The files that contained these
documents were cataloged on the search warrant inventory and taken from
the premises</i>,” a representative for the Coast Guard told the Daily Caller. “<i>The documents were reviewed with the source agency and determined to be obtained properly through the Freedom of Information Act</i>.”<br />
The documents were returned to Hudson, but she says she doesn’t buy
into their explanation. She says their response only explains one of the
five files taken during the raid, “<i>but does not explain why they
took four other files with my handwritten and typed interview notes with
confidential sources, that I staked my reputation as a journalist to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">protect</span> under the auspices of the First Amendment of the Constitution</i>.”<br />
“<i>This guy basically came in here and took my anonymous sources and
turned them over — took my whistleblowers — and turned it over to the
agency they were blowing the whistle on</i>,” Hudson told The Daily Caller. “<i>And these guys still work there</i>.”<br />
“<i>Part of the reason I’m coming forward with this is I’m scared to contact them</i>,” she said. “<i>I’m terrified to contact them…I’ve got to let these guys know somehow</i>.”<br />
A spokesperson for the Maryland State Police told Pappas that an
investigation is currently under review regarding Hudson’s husband.<br />
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Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-1839074424838226812013-10-26T12:39:00.002-07:002013-10-26T12:39:56.417-07:00<b>What a Surprise: US-Based Iran “Experts” Promoting Israeli Policy</b><br />
<a href="http://goingtotehran.com/what-a-surprise-u-s-based-iran-experts-promoting-israeli-policy">Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, Going to Tehran, Oct 24 2013</a><br />
As the new round of nuclear diplomacy between the Islamic Republic
and the P5+1 unfolds, an informal coalition of forces is coalescing in
the West to oppose any prospective deal in which the United States would
“accept” safeguarded uranium enrichment in Iran. Of course, Israel and
the pro-Israel lobby are at the heart of this coalition. Netanyahu’s
remarks about the Iran nuclear talks on NBC Meet the Press this past
Sunday, see <a href="http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/20/21050774-amid-signs-of-dtente-with-iran-netanyahu-warns-against-sanctions-letup?lite">here</a>, are emblematic of the “zero enrichment” camp:<br />
<blockquote>
The question is not of hope; the question is of actual
result. The test is the result. The result has to be the full
dismantling of Iran’s military nuclear program. If that is achieved,
that would be very good. If it’s achieved peacefully, it’s even better …
I think the pressure has to be maintained on Iran, even increased on
Iran, until it actually stops the nuclear program, that is, dismantles
it. I think that any partial deal could end up in dissolving the
sanctions. There are a lot of countries waiting for a signal, just
waiting for a signal, to get rid of their sanctions regime. And I think
that you don’t want to go through halfway measures … As far as the
freezing of assets, as far as I remember, those assets were frozen for
three reasons: one, Iran’s terrorist actions; two, its aggressive
actions, particularly in the Gulf; and three, its continued refusal to
stop the production of WMDs. You know, if you get all three done, and
they stop doing it, well, then I suppose you could unfreeze them … Those
sanctions weren’t Israeli sanctions. I’ve always advocated them, but
the international community adopted very firm UNSCRs, and here’s what
those UNSCRs say: they said Iran should basically dismantle its
centrifuges for enrichment (that’s one path to get a nuclear weapon) and
stop work on its plutonium heavy-water reactor (that’s the other path
for a nuclear weapon). It’s very important to stress that it’s for
nuclear weapons. Nobody challenges Iran’s or any country’s pursuit of
civilian nuclear energy. But seventeen countries in the world, including
your neighbors Canada and Mexico, have very robust programs for
civilian nuclear energy, and they don’t enrich with centrifuges, and
they don’t have heavy water plutonium reactors. Here comes Iran and
says, ‘I want civilian nuclear energy.’ I don’t know why, because they
have energy, with gas and oil, coming out of their ears for generations.
But suppose you believe them. Then you ask, ‘Why do you insist on
maintaining a plutonium heavy water reactor, and on maintaining
centrifuges that can only be used for making nuclear weapons?’ And the
answer is because they want to have residual capability to make nuclear
weapons. And you don’t want that, and UNSCRs don’t want that. And I
propose sticking by that.</blockquote>
Anyone who has been following the Iranian nuclear issue with any
measure of objectivity will note that Netanyahu mixes up US secondary
sanctions with UNSCRs. Likewise, he misrepresents what the relevant
UNSCRs actually say about Iran’s nuclear activities, and misstates basic
facts about fuel-cycle technology. Never mind all that. Notwithstanding
his myriad factual errors, Netanyahu gives authoritative voice to the
main rhetorical tropes of the “zero enrichment” camp: Iran has to
dismantle its current infrastructure for uranium enrichment, and stop
work on the heavy-water reactor currently under construction at Arak.
Moreover, even if Iran does these things, this is not enough to warrant a
lifting of sanctions. The Islamic Republic must also terminate its
relations with democratically validated resistance/ religious/ social
service/ political movements like Hizballah in Lebanon, and stop
suggesting that disenfranchised Shi’a populations in countries like
Bahrain actually have political rights. In the wake of Netanyahu’s Meet
the Press appearance, we were struck by the similarity between his
positions and those espoused in a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-world-must-tell-iran-no-more-half-steps/2013/10/14/8539241e-34e5-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html">WaPo op-ed</a> earlier this week titled “The World Must Tell Iran: No More Half Steps”:<br />
<blockquote>
Despite its softened rhetoric, the new Iranian regime can
be expected to continue asserting its nuclear ‘rights’ and to press its
advantages in a contested Middle East. The Islamic Republic plans to
remain an important backer of the Assad dynasty in Syria, a benefactor
of Hezbollah and a supporter of Palestinian rejectionist groups. It will
persist in its repressive tactics at home and continue to deny the
people of Iran fundamental human rights. This is a government that will
seek to negotiate a settlement of the nuclear issue by testing the
limits of the great powers’ prohibitions. Washington need not accede to
such Iranian conceptions. The US and its allies are entering this week’s
negotiations in a strong position. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/irans-automakers-stalled-by-sanctions/2013/10/14/515725aa-3261-11e3-ad00-ec4c6b31cbed_story.html">Iran’s economy is withering</a>
under the combined pressures of sanctions and its own managerial
incompetence. The Iranian populace remains disaffected as the bonds
between state and society have been largely severed since the Green
Revolution of 2009. The EU is still highly skeptical of Iran, a distrust
that Rouhani’s charm offensive has mitigated but not eliminated. Allied
diplomats can use as leverage in the forthcoming negotiations the
threat of additional sanctions and Israeli military force. Given the
stark realities, it is time for the great powers to have a maximalist
approach to diplomacy with Iran. It is too late for more Iranian
half-steps and half-measures. Tehran must account for all its illicit
nuclear activities and be compelled to make irreversible concessions
that permanently degrade its ability to reconstitute its nuclear weapons
program at a more convenient time. Anything less would be a lost
opportunity.</blockquote>
Who is the author of this Op Ed? An AIPAC spokesperson? One of the
many neocon firebrands to whom the WaPo long ago turned over its op-ed
page? No and no. The author of the remarkably Netanyahu-like Op Ed cited
above is Ray Takeyh, the mainstream media’s long-time “go-to” (if also
perennially mistaken) Iran “expert” who advised Dennis Ross’s
destructively incompetent handling of the Iran nuclear file during
President Obama’s first term and is now back at the CFR. We have no
reason to believe that Ray is coordinating his public positions with the
Israeli government. But it is remarkable how congruent his views are
with those of the most hegemonically-minded Israeli prime minister in
living memory.Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-63714610704677777902013-10-26T12:36:00.001-07:002013-10-26T12:36:09.028-07:00<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AQI detainee accused of coercing children to carry out attacks</span></b><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></u>
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbriefs/2013/10/25/newsbrief-05">Al-Shorfa (Iraq), Oct 25 2013</a></span></b></u><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b></u><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Iraqi security forces in Anbar have arrested a prominent AQI leader
accused of involvement in violent attacks in the past four years, police
in the province said Friday Oct 25. Anbar police chief Maj-Gen Hadi
Kassar Erzaij told al-Shorfa:</span></b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b></u></span><blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A counter-terrorism agency force managed to arrest
Abd’al-Issawi, a prominent AQI leader, as he tried to cross a checkpoint
south of Fallujah. Issawi was carrying a false ID and was posing as a
humanitarian worker, but he is far from humanitarianism because of the
crimes he has committed.</span></b></u></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b></u></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Al-Issawi is accused of using car bombs and IEDs to carry out
attacks, of strapping explosives to a mentally ill person and of
recruiting three children to carry explosives on a motorbike from the
southern suburbs of Fallujah to the town centre, he said. Security
forces took al-Issawi to a security detention facility pending his
referral to court in accordance with article 4 of the anti-terrorism
law, Erzaij said.</span></b></u></span>Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001222721048467365.post-80012980930393262412013-10-26T12:34:00.002-07:002013-10-26T12:34:50.889-07:00<b>AQ’s corridor through Syria</b><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/alqaedas-corridor-through-syria/article5269866.ece">Vijay Prashad, The Hindu, Oct 25 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/al-qaedas-corridor-through-syria/">Vijay Prashad, Counterpunch, Oct 25 2013</a><br />
On Tuesday night, suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iraqi
checkpoints along Highway 11, which runs from Baghdad to Syria via
Ramadi. They bombed the checkpoint at Rutba as well as points just west
of Ramadi. Thirty-seven people were killed in these attacks, a majority
of them security officers. Highway 11 is Iraq’s southern route into
Syria. The other road from Baghdad to Syria is Highway 12, which runs
from Ramadi northwards to the towns of Anan and Rawah, along the
Euphrates River and into the Syrian city of Raqqa. Last week, gunmen of
the ISIS/ISIL attacked the towns of Anan and Rawah, destroying a bridge
and trying to destroy the electricity transmission towers. The Iraqi
army was able to deter the ISIS attack on Rawah, and so held off ISIS’s
attempt to take the towns that would give it effective control of
Highway 12. Iraq’s Deputy PM Saleh al-Mutlaq said that last week’s
attack was a “hopeless attempt by al Qaeda [ISIS] to establish a
foothold in Iraq.” It seems likely that ISIS decided to try and take
Highway 11 after its attack on Highway 12 was repulsed. Over the past
month, ISIS has made remarkable gains. Its operation, named Expunging
Filth, has either expelled or absorbed the FSA units along the spine of
northern Syria. The Syrian-Turkish border town of A’zaz has been in ISIS
hands for a month. Since April, ISIS began to draw in all the smaller
Salafi factions, including Jabhat al-Nusra (not always without rivalry)
and parts of Ahrar as-Sham (whose commander, Abu Obeida al-Binnishi,
ISIS killed in September). A new <a href="http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/egypt-syria-lebanon/syria/146-anything-but-politics-the-state-of-syria-s-political-opposition.aspx">report from the International Crisis Group from Oct 17</a>
notes that ISIS is now “the most powerful group in northern and eastern
Syria and was benefiting from control of oil fields.” Analyst Aymenn
Jawad al-Tamimi says that ISIS cannot be shaken from its strongholds in
the north and east by any combination of FSA and its allies. Indeed,
over the past few months, ISIS has severely degraded the capacity of the
FSA, having killed one of its important battalion chiefs Kamal Hamami
in July and having drawn in many of its local level fighters. The Free
Syrian Army is no longer a serious threat to the Syrian government. <u><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
main secular voice of this uprising in Syria, Yassin al Haj Saleh, who
was underground in Syria during the civil war, fled the country on Oct
12. In an open letter, <a href="http://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/farewell-to-syria-for-a-while-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%A7/">Farewell to Syria, for a while</a>,
he wrote that the city of his birth, Raqqa, had been taken over by “the
spectres of horror of our childhood, the ghouls.” He writes:</span></b></span></u><br />
<u><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span></u>
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<u><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had to keep in hiding in my own liberated city,
watching strangers oppress it and rule the fates of its people,
confiscating public property, destroying a statue of Haroun al-Rashid
or desecrating a church; taking people into custody where they
disappeared in their prisons. All the prisoners were rebel political
activists while none of them was chosen from the regime’s previous
loyalists or shabiha. With the exception of this flagrant oppression of
the people, their property and symbols, the new rulers have shown no
sign of the spirit of public responsibility which is supposed to be the
duty of those who are in power.</span></b></span></u></blockquote>
Saleh’s departure indicates that things are worse there than they
were this summer when researcher Yasser Munif travelled in the north and
found that in Raqqa “people are more and more critical of ISIS and
Nusra.” It appears that the space for that internal criticism of ISIS is
now narrower. Billboards promoting the views of ISIS are legion across
Raqqa, with intimations that the rivalry between the various Islamist
factions is at mute. As el-Tamimi notes, in public rallies flags of both
ISIS and Nusra fly side by side. In Jul 2013, ISIS led a mass
jailbreak from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib to free 500 prisoners. The group used
an array of car bombs, suicide bombers and gunmen in that operation.
ISIS directed these fighters toward the Iraqi-Syria border, where they
hope to take control of the crossing points as part of their attempt to
form a corridor that runs from Ramadi to Tripoli in northern Lebanon. A
clash in the city killed a 13-year-old boy on Oct 23. The attacks of the
night of Oct 22 are part of this scenario. ISIS and its form of
radicalism are a product of Saudi Arabian and Qatari financing of the
rebellion. Money from the Gulf Arabs alongside foreign fighters and a
motivated group of Syrian fighters have given ISIS the advantage. At the
same time, as Saudi and Qatari money has allowed its proxies to have
the upper hand against other rebels on the battlefield, Saudi and Qatari
influence has prevented unity and an agenda to develop among the
political leadership of the rebellion. Over three years, the SNC has
been unable to draft a clear programme for Syria. Its absence is not a
sign of lack of imagination, but of the subordination of the SNC to the
petty fights among its Gulf Arab benefactors. The SNC stumbled when it
essentially allowed a palace coup to remove Mo’az al-Khatib from his
post. After much infighting, the SNC finally appointed Ahmad Saleh Touma
as its prime minister. Ghassan Hitto resigned because he was seen to be
too close to the tarnished star of Qatar. The current president is
Ahmad Jarba, closely linked to the Saudi government. By late September,
the Islamists rejected the SNC. The leader of the Tawhid Brigade from
Aleppo, Abd’ul-Qader Saleh, intimated on Twitter that they would
consider forming an Islamic alliance (al-tahaluf al-islami). Scholar
Aron Lund suggests that the Islamists have not gone beyond this
suggestion. The marks of Gulf Arab infighting are all over the
Coalition.<br />
Despite the gains in northern Syria by ISIS, Saudi Arabia’s agenda
for the country is blocked. In the absence of foreign intervention, ISIS
is not going to be able to overthrow the government in Damascus, which
is one reason why it has moved to seize Syrian border posts with Turkey,
Lebanon and Iraq. A dangerous confrontation is likely in the Western
Ghouta region near Damascus, but this is not going to lead to any major
strategic advance for anyone. It will be a bloodbath with no substantial
gain, as so much of this war has become. Unable to move to the centre,
ISIS claims the margins of Syria. Saudi Arabia expected the US to bomb
Syria in September, weaken the Assad regime and allow its proxies to
seize power. Saudi Arabia is also disappointed that the US has accepted
the Iranian overtures for talks. With no clear road to Damascus, ISIS
has turned more forcefully to nihilistic violence in the regions it
controls, not quite the outcome hoped for by Saudi Arabia. That is the
reason Saudi Arabia’s liaison to the Syrian rebels, Prince Bandar, made
his remarks about reassessing the US-Saudi relationship, and this is why
Saudi Arabia refused to take the UNSC seat it had just won. Saudi
Arabia backed the Taliban in the 1990s thinking the group would moderate
its ideology over time. Nothing like that happened. It seems that the
KSA is willing to make the same wager in Syria, despite the adverse
historical record. Violence such as what broke out on Oct 22 night has
become commonplace in Iraq, with several thousand killed this year,
almost 500 this month alone. The Syrian war, blocked into a tragic
stalemate, has moved into Iraq, a country already battered by war and
devastation in its recent history. Here the “faces that harden behind a
mask of gloom” as Syrian poet Adonis put it, watch civilisations crumble
for the cheap ambitions of geopolitics. The shadow of AQ settles into
Iraq and Syria, hardening the faces of ordinary Syrians and Iraqis
further. The entry of a full-blown ISIS assault in Lebanon cannot be
far, as the fighting in Tripoli and on the border towns suggest. Talk of
ceasefires and negotiations in Geneva is distant from the desolation
that has come to envelop the roads that link Beirut to Baghdad, a
journey that could have been made in some peace a century ago but is now
tormented with guns and frustration.Nysoulcontrolla aka Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17826540691814310743noreply@blogger.com0