16 September - There Are No Sunglasses

 There Are No Sunglasses

 

Who Is Killing People in the Middle East?

Since April the total record of Syrian soldiers, policemen and security officers assassinated by the ‘demonstrators’ has reached 600, while the number of injured is even higher. Many of them are killed by knifes with utmost cruelty. Every second shot by the long range sniper fire from upper locations (tops of the multistoried buildings) precisely above or under the vest. That’s a notably professional pattern of action. Although typical for Syria Soviet and Russian-made arms are being widely used in the clashes, many victims were hit by the weapons of Western origin having higher killing power, including pump rifles. There are many mutilated by improvised explosive devices.

NATO’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Libya has already led to unprecedented sufferings of the Libyan people. The so-called ‘new government of Libya’ has shown to their former patrons in the UK, France and Italy that they do not care much about the sentiments of international community. The mass lynching of black-skinned foreigners are now typical on the Libyan territories controlled by anti-Qaddafi forces. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, one of the leaders of Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC), has even admitted that ‘there are no bloodless revolutions… We should not be surprised if some casual victims of skirmishes are the case. Our soldiers cannot afford wasting time for identifying detained personalities. Their loyalty to the new authorities will be determined subjectively.’

A necropolis of blacks on a street of Tripoli

Boston Globe Tar Baby

BP workers used fishing nets to scoop tar balls off Alabama’s Gulf Coast beaches yesterday after the sands were fouled by gooey, dark gobs churned up by heavy surf from tropical system Lee.

Both the company and area officials said it would be days before tests confirmed whether the tar balls were from last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP contractors were removing the pollution anyway. 
  .... government and its media mouthpiece here told us all that oil disappeared.

Meanwhile, there is a new slick out there and the media is totally ignoring it.

: Report details gulf well failures
  

Waging a deadly battle on two fronts

Like the Indian armed forces, the army in Pakistan, too, is the creation of the British. However, unlike India, Pakistan’s army has been the most prominent ruling class of that nation. Further, unlike India’s armed personnel, the Pakistani army believes that “Islam is… the basis of the country’s identity and source of culture.” Moreover, for the soldiers, this is also a “defining aspect of the profession of arms” as that “faith is said to owe more to the power of the sword… and remains a potent inspiration for the Pakistani army.”

Today, the same army faces a grave threat from within — a threat, which, over the years, has been the creation of the army itself. Pakistan’s army is being confronted by an increasing number of jihadis and rogue elements within its own ranks even as it attempts to curb violence in the restless and reckless north-western frontier.

The nexus between the military and the terrorist outfits in Pakistan is a reality. It has resulted in many a coup and plots, assassination attempts on civilian leaders as well as terror attacks on Pakistan’s cities, navy bases, air force stations and even on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi.

After 9/11, the media in Islamabad reported that several Pakistani army officers had taken ‘official leave’ and gone to wage jihad in Afghanistan against the United States of America. According to the sources in Pakistan’s army, a number of Pashtun personnel, junior commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers had also gone to Afghanistan to participate in the jihad.

( And for those 'Americans' who can't see why...reflect on the menace perceived of U.S. troops in a neighbouring 'country' whose 'border' and separation is a matter of European choice and convenience...and a killer for native nomadic traditions necessary to rotate herds' pasture in an arid land.  Starvation has been going on in AfPak for a long time.  There's no 'war' against that, however. )

The Pakistani army and the ISI which had raised, trained and nurtured the motley band of extremists to bleed India will never cease doing what they consider to be their foremost duty. But the extraordinary changes that have swept through the globe have resulted in the creator and the created getting embroiled in a deadly war inside Pakistan. Nevertheless, there still exists a formidable, ‘anti-India’, agenda that revolves around the ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ (the promised Battle for India). Hence the overall security situation looks grim for this country.

US Diplomats Supply Threats and Empty Promises To Pakistan In Exchange for Iranian Gas In Hand

 [The US has no gas or oil in this part of the world to give Pakistan, since it cannot even secure gas for its own Nabucco and TAPI pipe dreams.  The US is telling/asking Pakistan to endure current energy shortages without doing anything about it, in exchange for continuing as the favorite Imperial vassal state.]

( Meanwhile, the U.S. has  killed Iranian access to oilfield maintenance for years. They can't get at or refine their own oil...which is one good reason to be stubborn about generating electrical power with the nuclear reactor they got from the U.S. many decades ago ! )

US Racketeers To Embarass PM Gilani Over His Iranian Gas Pipe Dream

US ready to fight Palestinian UN bid to bitter end

Report: Israel no longer ‘friend’ for Turkey’s F-16s, warships

The new IFF has already been installed in Turkish F-16s and is expected to be installed in all Navy ships and submarines, the report, published in Turkish daily Star, said. It will be fully operational when it is installed in all military planes, warships and submarines.

The F-16 jet fighters, purchased from the US, came with pre-installed IFF software that automatically identifies Israeli fighters and warships as friends, disabling Turkish F-16s from targeting Israeli planes or ships. ASELSAN-made IFF will allow Turkish military commanders to identify friends and foes on the basis of national considerations.
Turkey was unable to make modifications to the friend or foe identification codes in US-made F-16s, while Israel was given a different version of the software allowing Israeli authorities to make modifications. Israel was also authorized to view the version given to Turkey, according to Star.
The report comes amid a severe crisis in ties with former ally Israel. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan set the stage for a possible naval confrontation with Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean, saying last week that Turkish military ships will escort civilian ships carrying aid to Gaza, under an Israeli blockade since 2007.
A news report on Monday said three frigates were to be sent to the Eastern Mediterranean to protect aid ships from a possible interception by Israeli warships. The frigates, according to the report, will get as close as 100 meter to any Israeli military ship if those ships are outside of Israeli territorial waters.
Star also suggested that the new IFF system could be linked to a series of suspicious suicides in ASELSAN. Three ASELSAN engineers committed suicide in 2006 and 2007, but the media speculated that the engineers might have been murdered given the families’ testimonies that the suicides seem to come out of the blue with no warning signs. The report added that all three engineers had worked on the new IFF system to be used for F-16 fighters.

 

Between Cairo and Ankara, Netanyahu’s failures are exposed

Last month, Israel rejected a compromise over the flotilla incident that Israeli and Turkish negotiators reached. The American administration has been applying pressure on Jerusalem and Ankara to reach an understanding prior to the publishing of the Palmer Report. According to recent reports in the local media, both sides to the talks in Geneva had agreed that Israel would apologize for “a military failure” that led to the death of eight Turkish citizens and one American during the attack on the Mavi Marmara, but the legality of the blockade on Gaza will not be questioned. Israel also agreed to compensate the families of the deceased.
Such an understanding would have served Jerusalem’s interests, and allowed for relations with Turkey to be mended (I say that even thought I oppose the blockade and believe it should end immediately). Yet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected the deal, fearing a backlash from the right and political gains by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the only political rival that could hurt him at his base. The result was a rapid deterioration of the diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey.
Following the political failure, the government moved to propaganda, claiming that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decided to secure his role in the Arab world by going after Israel. Yet the facts don’t add up: If there was no hope in resolving the crisis with Ankara, why send representatives to Geneva and negotiate a deal? And if that wasn’t enough, while the full effect of the rift with Turkey was being revealed, Lieberman decided to start another fire by speculating on giving military aid to the PKK (the anti-Turkish Kurd resistance group) – something similar to a possible Turkish declaration of sending weapons to Hamas. This was too much even for Netanyahu, who rushed to issue a denial, long after the damage was done.

‘Israel ostracized over aggressive policies’

Saudi dailies criticize Israel for strained ties with Turkey, Egypt and PA; ‘Any measure taken against Israel is considered either anti-Semitic or act of terror,’ one daily says.

Israel to ‘punish’ Turkey

Cyprus to get ‘no strings attached’ Russian bail-out

Scores killed as slum pipeline bursts again

 

Bush: Three Generations of Betrayal and High Treason

Len Hart is active at Op-Ed News and Bluebloggin as well as his own blogs

 Antifascist Encyclopedia

Dr. Eric Kandel vs. the CIA and False Memory Syndrome Foundation

The medical criminals of the FMSF don’t want reporters and researchers to look too closely into their classified work on traumatic (repressed and recovered) memory, a well-known psychiatric condition – in fact, the foundation of all modern psychotherapies – that they flatly deny … because the world might catch on the these agencies have been covertly experimenting on small children, mental patients, political dissidents, prisoners, etc. for decades to advance their knowledge of mind control.

Mind Control by Cell Phone

although the cell phone power is low, “electromagnetic radiation can nevertheless have an effect on mental behavior when transmitting at the proper frequency.” He finds this fact especially remarkable when considering that everyone is surrounded by electromagnetic clutter radiating from all kinds of electronic devices in our modern world. Cell phones in talk mode seem to be particularly well-tuned to frequencies that affect brainwave activity. “The results show sensitivity to low-level radiation to a subtle degree. 

Media War against “Conspiracy Theorists”: Kathy Shaidle, UnTruther & Unabashed Racist

 

“UFOs” are Not “Alien” – Despite the Slue of Phony Books & TV Shows – but Advanced Tech with Roots in the Third Reich

German engineer Georg Klein claimed two types of flying disks had been created by the Nazis:

A non-rotating disk developed by V-2 engineer Richard Miethe, was captured by the Russians.

Klein claimed he saw this craft’s first manned flight in February 1945 when it climbed to 40,700ft and reached 1,400mph. Klein, who went on to have a distinguished postwar career as an aeronautical engineer, said: “I don’t consider myself a crackpot or eccentric or someone given to fantasies. This is what I saw, with my own eyes – a Nazi UFO.”

British and American bomber crews also reported strange sightings over enemy territory. They reported seeing objects that were neither aircraft nor ack-ack fire and described them as “fiery” and “glowing red, white, or orange”.

( Make that 'slew' as a bunch rather than 'slue' as pool )

Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship

Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipeout alt news sites and spread to U.S.

Bell Canada and TELUS, Canada’s two largest Internet service providers (ISPs), will begin charging per-site fees on most Internet sites, reports anonymous sources within TELUS.

“It’s beyond censorship, it is killing the biggest ecosystem of free expression and freedom of speech that has ever existed,” I Power spokesperson Reese Leysen said. I Power was the first group to report on the possible changes.

Bell Canada has not returned calls or emails.

The plans made by the large telecom businesses would change the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and must pay to see each individual site beyond a certain point. Subscription browsing would be limited, extra fees would be applied to access out-of-network sites. Many sites would be blocked altogether.