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BEIRUT—Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs on Saturday, killing more than 200 people in what appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.
The government denied the assault, saying the reports are part of a “hysterical campaign” of incitement by armed groups against Syria, meant to be exploited at the Security Council as it prepares to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar Assad to give up power.
With the violence in Syria growing increasingly chaotic, diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the crisis have gained pace. But Russia, a strong ally of Syria, signaled Saturday it would oppose any resolution calling for a political transition in the country and had submitted its own amendments to the Western-backed draft.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Washington that any attempt to put a resolution to vote without taking Russia’s opinion into account will only lead to “another scandal” at the Security Council. He spoke in an interview broadcast Saturday on Russian state television Rossiya.
Meanwhile, telephone calls to Khaldiyeh, the hardest hit district in Homs, were not going through, but residents of nearby areas described a hellish night of ceaseless shelling.
“Homs is on fire,” said one opposition activist in a quieter area near the city, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal.
“All sides are attacking each other and the number of casualties is more than anyone can count,” he said.
The government denied the assault and said that corpses shown in amateur videos posted online — bodies that activists said were victims of the assault — were purportedly of people kidnapped by “terrorist armed groups” who filmed them to portray them as victims of the alleged shelling.
One video showed a chaotic scene as men, with various wounds and gashes, were being tended to or were praying in what appeared to be a makeshift clinic in Khaldiyeh. Another showed a fire ravage a house in the district, as people desperately tried to put out the blaze with water.
Two main opposition groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, said the death toll in Homs was more than 200 people and included women and children in mortar shelling that began late Friday. More than half of the killings — about 140 — were reported in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood, they said.
“This is the worst attack of the uprising, since the uprising began in March until now,” said Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Observatory, which tracks violence through contacts on the ground.
The reports could not be independently confirmed.
It was not immediately clear what precipitated the attack, but there have been reports that army defectors set up checkpoints in the area and were trying to consolidate control.
Unconfirmed reports also said gunmen, possibly army defectors, had attacked a military checkpoint in Khaldiyeh, captured 17 of its members, prompting intense clashes with the military.
Homs, Syria’s third largest city, is a hotbed of dissent to Assad’s regime and is known to shelter a large number of army defectors known as the Free Syrian Army. The city has seen several crackdowns by security forces but many parts of it remain outside of government control.
Ammar, a resident of the Bab Tadmur district of Homs, said the real death toll exceeded 330 people, and hundreds of others were wounded. He did not elaborate.
“A few more nights like this one and Homs will be erased from the map,” said the distraught man by telephone. “We are being massacred, what is the Security Council still waiting for?” he asked.
The LCC called on residents of Homs and surrounding areas to support the people of Khaldiyeh and nearby Bayada by donating blood and housing families fleeing from the bombing.
It called for sit-ins in front of all Syrian embassies and consulates in capitals across the world.
An Egyptian security official said that at least eight people were arrested, among them Syrians, after protesters attacked the Syrian Embassy in Cairo and set part of it on fire. It was the second time in around a week that activists storm the Syrian embassy in Cairo.
Egyptian activists urged people early Saturday to march to the embassy from Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egypt’s protests, where a large tent has been erected in solidarity with the Syrian uprising.
In Kuwait, demonstrators stormed into the Syrian Embassy compound on Saturday, breaking windows and hoisting the flag of the opposition, witnesses there said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The Kuwait Society for Human Rights said one protester was slightly injured and crowds panicked when someone fired shots into the air. It was unclear who fired the shots.
The Kuwait News Agency said “a number of security personnel” were hurt but gave no details. KUNA said the interior ministry denounced the protest as a “breach of international law and norms.”
Earlier on Friday, deadly clashes erupted between government troops and rebels in suburbs of the Syrian capital and villages in the south, sparking fighting that killed at least 23 people, including nine soldiers, activists said.
Assad is trying to crush the revolt with a sweeping crackdown that has so far claimed thousands of lives, but neither the government nor the protesters are backing down and clashes between the military and an increasingly bold and armed opposition has meant many parts of the country have seen relentless violence.
The U.N. Security Council will meet Saturday morning to take up a much-negotiated resolution on Syria, said a diplomat for a Western nation that sits on the council.
The diplomat spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by the media.
The move toward a vote came after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke by telephone with Lavrov in an effort to overcome Russian opposition to any statement that explicitly calls for regime change or a military intervention in Syria.
The U.S. and its partners have ruled out military action but want the global body to endorse an Arab League plan that calls on Assad to hand power over to Syria’s vice president.
Assad’s regime has been intensifying an assault against army defectors and protesters. The U.N. said weeks ago that more than 5,400 people have been killed in violence since March. Hundreds more have been killed since that tally was announced.BEIRUT—Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the... more
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The abduction of two American women and their Egyptian guide at gunpoint along a major highway in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula Friday is the latest blow to the country’s crucial tourism industry, already in tatters as violence escalates a year after the revolution that ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak.
The two tourists, who were reportedly released into army custody hours after their capture, were among a group of five people traveling from Saint Catherine’s monastery in central Sinai to the popular resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh when a vehicle carrying men with machine guns stopped their small bus, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Local officials told the Associated Press the attackers were Bedouin tribesmen who resist government control and have been blamed for several attacks in recent months as tensions intensify between them and authorities they accuse of discrimination and of ignoring their plight.
In late January, a French tourist was killed and two others injured after a group of masked gunmen robbed a currency exchange shop and exchanged fire with security forces in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Also last month, Bedouin seized 50 German and British tourists whose bus accidentally crossed a roadblock they had set up as a protest against the governor of South Sinai. Those tourists, who were also on a trip to the monastery, were released a few hours later. And four armed men also attacked a hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort popular with Israeli tourists before fleeing when police returned fire.
“The Bedouin are among the many marginalised groups in Egypt pressing for their rights since the revolution began last year,” Elijah Zarwan, a Cairo-based political analyst, told London’s Guardian.
“There’s long been a security vacuum in the Sinai and now on top of that you have a more generalised security vacuum throughout Egypt. It’s no wonder that the Bedouins, who are often well-armed, feel emboldened to press for their rights more forcefully.”
Egypt has faced a surge in crime since the uprising, which uprooted a police state that kept tight control over the population of 85 million. Protesters accuse the police and the military council that has assumed power of negligence.
On Friday, a demonstrator and an army officer were reported dead in Cairo as rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of teargas near Egypt’s Interior Ministry. It was the second day of clashes triggered by the deaths Wednesday of 74 people at a soccer match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, in the country’s deadliest incident since the revolution.
Tourism Minister Mounir Abdel-Nour said last month that the number of tourists who came to Egypt in 2011 dropped to 9.8 million from 14.7 million the previous year. Revenues for the year clocked in at $8.8 billion compared to $12.5 billion in 2010.
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Immunity from judicial review
Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has successfully pushed for immunity for companies that assist in warrantless surveillance of citizens, blocking the ability of citizens to challenge the violation of privacy. (Similarly, China has maintained sweeping immunity claims both inside and outside the country and routinely blocks lawsuits against private companies.)
Continual monitoring of citizens
The Obama administration has successfully defended its claim that it can use GPS devices to monitor every move of targeted citizens without securing any court order or review. (Saudi Arabia has installed massive public surveillance systems, while Cuba is notorious for active monitoring of selected citizens.)
Extraordinary renditions
The government now has the ability to transfer both citizens and noncitizens to another country under a system known as extraordinary rendition, which has been denounced as using other countries, such as Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan, to torture suspects. The Obama administration says it is not continuing the abuses of this practice under Bush, but it insists on the unfettered right to order such transfers — including the possible transfer of U.S. citizens.
These new laws have come with an infusion of money into an expanded security system on the state and federal levels, including more public surveillance cameras, tens of thousands of security personnel and a massive expansion of a terrorist-chasing bureaucracy.
Some politicians shrug and say these increased powers are merely a response to the times we live in. Thus, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) could declare in an interview last spring without objection that “free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war.” Of course, terrorism will never “surrender” and end this particular “war.”
Other politicians rationalize that, while such powers may exist, it really comes down to how they are used. This is a common response by liberals who cannot bring themselves to denounce Obama as they did Bush. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), for instance, has insisted that Congress is not making any decision on indefinite detention: “That is a decision which we leave where it belongs — in the executive branch.”
And in a signing statement with the defense authorization bill, Obama said he does not intend to use the latest power to indefinitely imprison citizens. Yet, he still accepted the power as a sort of regretful autocrat.
An authoritarian nation is defined not just by the use of authoritarian powers, but by the ability to use them. If a president can take away your freedom or your life on his own authority, all rights become little more than a discretionary grant subject to executive will.
The framers lived under autocratic rule and understood this danger better than we do. James Madison famously warned that we needed a system that did not depend on the good intentions or motivations of our rulers: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
Benjamin Franklin was more direct. In 1787, a Mrs. Powel confronted Franklin after the signing of the Constitution and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” His response was a bit chilling: “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”
Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers feared: a government with sweeping and largely unchecked powers resting on the hope that they will be used wisely.
The indefinite-detention provision in the defense authorization bill seemed to many civil libertarians like a betrayal by Obama. While the president had promised to veto the law over that provision, Levin, a sponsor of the bill, disclosed on the Senate floor that it was in fact the White House that approved the removal of any exception for citizens from indefinite detention.
Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call this country the land of the free.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story_2.htmlImmunity from judicial review
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By David Edwards
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an “air strike” on Iran after they recently captured a U.S. drone.
Earlier on Monday, President Barack Obama had explained that U.S. officials asked Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone.
“The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,” Cheney told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike, and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.”
“I was told that the president had three options on his desk. He rejected all of them,” the former vice president added.
“They all involved sending somebody in to try to recover it, or if you can’t do that, admittedly that would be a difficult operation, you certainly could have gone in and destroyed it on the ground with an air strike.”
For their part, Iran has called on the U.S. to apologize, saying the U.S. broke international laws by violating their airspace.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/13/cheney-calls-for-air-strike-on-iran-over-captured-drone/
Watch this video from CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, broadcast Dec. 12, 2011.
"He's Back!!!!!"By David Edwards
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.
The landfill dumping was concealed from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner, Air Force officials said. There are no plans, they said, to alert those families now.
Senior Air Force leaders said there was no intent to deceive. “Absolutely not,” said Lt. Gen. Darrell D. Jones, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for personnel.
his week, after The Post pressed for information contained in the Dover mortuary’s electronic database, the Air Force produced a tally based on those records. It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008.
An additional group of 1,762 unidentified remains were collected from the battlefield and disposed of in the same manner, the Air Force said. Those fragments could not undergo DNA testing because they had been badly burned or damaged in explosions. The total number of incinerated fragments dumped in the landfill exceeded 2,700.
A separate federal investigation of the mortuary last month, prompted by whistleblower complaints, uncovered “gross mismanagement” and documented how body parts recovered from bomb blasts stacked up in the morgue’s coolers for months or years before they were identified and disposed of.
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They'll probably take the families' death benefits too.The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops... more
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A great new promo from Amnesty International
Each year hundreds of thousands of activists mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December by taking part in Amnesty International’s letter writing marathon. We write letters and sign online petitions to demand that the rights of individuals are respected, protected and fulfilled. In doing so, we show solidarity with those suffering human rights abuses and try to bring about real changes to their lives.
Amnesty International will be staging events, lighting lanterns and using social media to shine a light on these people’s stories and encourage others to take action during this global moment.A great new promo from Amnesty International
Each year hundreds of thousands of... more
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Slavoj Zizek .......... 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist State-Socialism, but also the defeat of the Western Social Democracy. Nowhere is the misery of today's Left more palpable than in its "principled" defence of the Social-Democratic Welfare State: the idea is that, in the absence of a feasible radical Leftist project, all that the Left can do is to bombard the state with demands for the expansion of the Welfare State, knowing well that the State will not be able to deliver. This necessary disappointment serves as a reminder of the basic impotence of the social-democratic Left and thus push the people towards a new radical revolutionary Left. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43024-only-communism-can-save-liberal-democracySlavoj Zizek .......... 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist... more
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A 19-year-old mother serving with the National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan after the vehicle she was traveling in was hit by a Taliban roadside bomb.
Private First Class Sarina Butcher of the Oklahoma National Guard was off supporting her three-year-old daughter and career dreams when killed on Tuesday during a resupply mission in the country's Paktia province.
A second soldier, Specialist Sergeant Christopher Gailey, 26, a father to a three-year-old girl, was also killed in the explosion.
The bodies of the two soldiers were flown back to Dover Air Force base, Delaware yesterday.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057545/Sarina-Butcher-Teen-soldier-mom-killed-Taliban-bomb-Afghanistan.html#ixzz1cms6KyGC
Shamefully, I found this article in a foreign paper. But, if you don't understand the fake war on terror, what Al-CIA-da is, or haven't investigated the truth about 9/11, you'll never know why we're fighting these unconstitutional wars and why beautiful, young Americans die, not for our country, but for the New World Order globalists, who've hijacked America long ago. Now we have our Nobel Peace Prize puppet droning people the world over in our name. Shame. Rest in Peace.A 19-year-old mother serving with the National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan... more
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FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.
The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement today that the plan was “conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran” and called it a “flagrant” violation of U.S. and international law.
“The U.S. is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions,” Holder said.
He said the White House will be meeting with federal agencies before announcing “further action” in regards to Iran.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said the arrest of a suspect in the plot shows the U.S. will “bring the full weight of [the] law to bear on those responsible” and that “any attempts on American soil will not be tolerated.”
The stunning allegations come against a backdrop of longstanding tensions between Iran and the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the last year, Saudi Arabia has attempted to build an anti-Iran alliance to push back against perceived aggression by Iran in the region.
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The State Department has listed Iran as a “state sponsor” of terror since 1984. Officials in Argentina have said Iran was behind an attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992.....read more http://www.factoverfiction.com/article/4572FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act... more
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WeAreChange's Dave Cahill ran into a member of the FDNY and talked to him about 911 truth presence at ground zero this 10th anniversary of 9/11. There was countless of other firefighters down at ground zero who supported us. Many of whom did not want to public ally come out, so we have to thank this man's courage for speaking with us.
check out http://www.firefightersfor911truth.org to see more firefighters who support the 911 truth movement.
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Courage...what most of you cowardly lions, so-called Americans lack.WeAreChange's Dave Cahill ran into a member of the FDNY and talked to him about... more
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Not only can you see the flashes from the detonators for the explosives, but watch the black structures on top of the buildings implode into themselves before the building starts to collapse.
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Truth hurts, b!itches.Not only can you see the flashes from the detonators for the explosives, but watch the... more
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The pretense that mass murder and suicide can be transformed into a tribute to the victory of the human spirit was the lie we all told to the public that day and have been telling ever since. We make sense of the present only through the lens of the past, as the French philosopher Maurice Halbwachs pointed out, recognizing that “our conceptions of the past are affected by the mental images we employ to solve present problems, so that collective memory is essentially a reconstruction of the past in the light of the present. … Memory needs continuous feeding from collective sources and is sustained by social and moral props.”
I returned that night to the newsroom hacking from the fumes released by the burning asbestos, jet fuel, lead, mercury, cellulose and construction debris. I sat at my computer, my thin paper mask still hanging from my neck, trying to write and catch my breath. All who had been at the site that day were noticeable in the newsroom because they were struggling for air. Most of us were convulsed by shock and grief.
There would soon, however, be another reaction. Those of us who were close to the epicenters of the 9/11 attacks would primarily grieve and mourn. Those who had some distance would indulge in the growing nationalist cant and calls for blood that would soon triumph over reason and sanity. Nationalism was a disease I knew intimately as a war correspondent. It is anti-thought. It is primarily about self-exaltation. The flip side of nationalism is always racism, the dehumanization of the enemy and all who appear to question the cause. The plague of nationalism began almost immediately. My son, who was 11, asked me what the difference was between cars flying small American flags and cars flying large American flags.
“The people with the really big flags are the really big assholes,” I told him.
The dead in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were used to sanctify the state’s lust for war. To question the rush to war became to dishonor our martyrs. Those of us who knew that the attacks were rooted in the long night of humiliation and suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians, the imposition of our military bases in the Middle East and in the brutal Arab dictatorships that we funded and supported became apostates. We became defenders of the indefensible. We were apologists, as Christopher Hitchens shouted at me on a stage in Berkeley, “for suicide bombers.”
Because few cared to examine our activities in the Muslim world, the attacks became certified as incomprehensible by the state and its lap dogs, the press. Those who carried out the attacks were branded as rising out of a culture and religion that was at best primitive and probably evil. The Quran—although it forbids suicide as well as the murder of women and children—was painted as a manual for fanaticism and terror. The attackers embodied the titanic clash of civilizations, the cosmic battle under way between good and evil, the forces of light and darkness. Images of the planes crashing into the towers and heroic rescuers emerging from the rubble were played and replayed. We were deluged with painful stories of the survivors and victims. The deaths and falling towers became iconographic. The ceremonies of remembrance were skillfully hijacked by the purveyors of war and hatred. They became vehicles to justify doing to others what had been done to us. And as innocents died here, soon other innocents began to die in the Muslim world. A life for a life. Murder for murder. Death for death. Terror for terror.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/nationalism_in_the_aftermath_of_9_11_20110910/The pretense that mass murder and suicide can be transformed into a tribute to the... more
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In a special report for Infowars Nightly News marking the 10th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Infowars.com reporter Aaron Dykes reflects upon some of the biggest smoking guns and unanswered questions of 9/11, as well as the legacy of 9/11 truth, which has gained momentum with the public.
That catalyzing event has transformed society, thrusting the United States and many of its allies into perpetual wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other states in the region. At the same time, in the name of stopping potential terrorists, a police state has risen at home– from TSA groping to Homeland Security targeting returning veterans, constitutionalists and political activists, our Bill of Rights and Constitution have been thrown out the window.
Meanwhile, the victims’ family members, suffering rescue workers and patriots have struggled for truth and justice, with no answers at all from those in power. Instead, so-called investigations have been nothing more than cover-ups.
From WTC Building 7 to evidence of demolition, subverted intelligence, the al Qaeda hoax and political grandstanding, nothing from the official story adds up… and there is every reason to persevere in the fight to bring the truth to the public’s attention.
Aaron Dykes
Infowars News.com
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Be cautious out there you twits.
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School teacher and radio presenter accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in Veracruz
A man and a woman are facing 30-year prison terms in Mexico for allegedly using Twitter to spread panic over a series of child kidnappings.
Gilberto Martinez Vera, 48, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio presenter, were accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in the south-eastern city of Veracruz.
The resulting panic caused dozens of car crashes after parents rushed to save their children from schools across the city and jammed emergency telephone lines, which "totally collapsed" under the pressure.
Gerardo Buganza, the interior secretary for Veracruz state, compared the ensuing chaos to Orson Welles's spoof news broadcast War of the Worlds in 1938. The two are facing charges under terrorism laws.
"There were 26 car accidents, or people left their cars in the middle of the streets to run and pick up their children, because they thought these things were occurring at their kids' schools," Buganza said.
The charges, which said that phone lines "totally collapsed because people were terrified" are the most serious charges to come from using Twitter to incite violence or chaos.
Last month in the UK, Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, were both sentenced to four years in prison for inciting people to riot in the Manchester area. Despite setting up an event called Smash Down in Northwich Town on Facebook, only Blackshaw and the police, who were monitoring the page, turned up at a designated meeting spot.
The false reports in Mexico followed general unease over recent drug gang violence in the city. In one reported incident a gunman tossed a grenade near a tourist attraction, killing one tourist. Tensions were also raised after armed convoys of marines were drafted on to the streets in August.
Prosecutors allege that Vera then posted numerous messages on Twitter saying gunmen were kidnapping children from local schools. In one message he is said to have tweeted: "My sister-in-law just called me all upset, they just kidnapped five children from the school."
Other tweets included a story about six teenagers who were run over in one neighbourhood but although prosecutors acknowledge the incident happened, they said it did not involve any children.
Pagola, who also styled herself a "TwitTerrorist" on the Facebook website, is accused of spreading rumours of child kidnapping using the social network – a charge she denies. Lawyers for both defendants have argued that both were repeating rumours they had already seen on the internet.
Speaking through her lawyer, Pagola said: "How can they possibly do this to me, for re-tweeting a message? I mean, it's 140 characters. It's not logical."
Amnesty International accused officials of violating freedom of expression and instead blamed the panic on the city drug wars, in which 35,000 people are believed to have been killed in five years and which has seen people turning to social networks for information – both true and false.
Amnesty said: "The lack of safety creates an atmosphere of mistrust in which rumours that circulate on social networks are part of people's efforts to protect themselves, since there is very little trustworthy information."
Raul Trejo, a Mexican media expert, said that while the terrorism charge was unwarranted, the actions of Vera and Pagola were "a very incautious use of Twitter."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/twitter-terrorists-face-30-yearsBe cautious out there you twits.
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Terror hits NCR as well as some parts of Luzon by some mysterious group of people lurking around certain areas around Metro Manila and in some provinces. The report was received August 24 by some group of concerned citizens in Valenzuela and Manila. The alleged cult was founded in India few decades ago and was said to be exiled from the territory for opening government files and assumed to be using paranormal methods of eradicating the people who wouldn’t join their drug cartels as ne of their internal programs. According to sources,as reported yesterday, atleast 15 configured victims of murder and homicides were linked to the report. Presumably, the so called sect is connected to Al Qaeda Syndicate and other criminal organizations like the kidnappers group which operates in Bocaue, Bulacan. Other informations regarding the allegations shall be delivered to the authority for further investigations. Other more damages due to this phenomenon shall be re-investigated by the Intelligence.
By: Michael CarmenTerror hits NCR as well as some parts of Luzon by some mysterious group of people... more
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This is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold dip
as they toured round glacier-filled waters.Panicked tourists watched as a huge chunk of ice
broke off a glacier and crashed into the water just yards from their boat at the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska.
link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024106/Moment-collapsing-glacier-nearly-swept-away-tourist-boat.htmlThis is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold... more
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I viewed the breaking news report this morning before work, and have been waiting for new developments--which have come.
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"[The Prime Minister] said Norway had been "shaken by evil" but that Norwegian democracy and ideals would not be destroyed."
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I'm hoping that's essentially a slap in the face to the United States, to be honest. I'm hoping he stands by those words and that law, justice, and democracy do not tremble in light of this; for sadly, I do not think of the terror wrought by these few lunatics, but of the sweeping and over-compensatory changes in government and policy that often follow such events. I'm afraid of the government appealing to fear. But it seems that Norway is a strong, intelligent country. I don't think they'll take the bait.I viewed the breaking news report this morning before work, and have been waiting for... more
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http://mobil.aftenposten.no/article.htm?articleId=3569108
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In yet another example of how almost every major terror event is accompanied by a security drill focused around the same scenario, Oslo police were conducting a bombing exercise at a location near the Oslo Opera House just 48 hours before a terrorist blast hit a government building in the Norwegian capital.
According to the translated version of an Aftenposten report, “Anti-terror police fired explosive charges at a training center in Oslo, two hundred meters from the Opera, but forgot to notify the public.”
The exercise occurred on Wednesday and revolved around anti-terror units attacking a disused building at the edge of Bjørvika pier with bombs and firearms.
“The men lowered themselves down from the roof and in through the window that had just been blown out, while they fired hand their weapons,” states the report, noting that the exercise was “dramatic,” produced “violent bangs,” and was watched by spectators at the nearby Opera House.
A video of the drill that accompanies the story shows police scaling the side of a building with an explosion going off below them before they enter the window and start firing.
Police had to publicly apologize today for not informing the public about the exercise.
Although it’s too early to judge the nature of this exercise, the fallback of a drill, which gives the state an excuse should any evidence of complicity in the real attack emerge, has been evident in previous major terror events, including both 7/7 and 9/11.
In the case of the London bombings, a consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th, a “coincidence” many skeptics of the official story have dismissed as a statistical impossibility.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
July 22, 2011http://mobil.aftenposten.no/article.htm?articleId=3569108
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Daily Mail reports: Fortunately, it is a public holiday in Norway and the offices are less busy than a normal weekday.
Why would “terrorists,” who presumably want to kill as many people as possible, choose to bomb the building on a day when they know it will be almost empty?
Comment from a reader:
I’m from Norway and here are some little reported facts:
1) Fact: A person dressed as a cop has shot and killed at least 5 members of the youth organization of the governing labour party in their convention at Utøya. He is now captured.
Comment: False cops? These are professionals. The shootings happened at the same time as the explosion, but far, far away from each other (several houres + you have to take a boat to get to the island).
2) Fact: The explosion took place downdtown in the height of the holliday, with all the surrounding buildings (many important press, union and governmental buildings, including the labour party) being almost empty. At a normal day thousands would have been killed and wounded. Today, only a handful dead and wounded.
Comment: Why would terrorists choose a timing with less impact? Now, if this is a black-operation in order to influence opinion, it makes sense.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/07/22/oslo-bombing-why-would-%E2%80%9Cterrorists%E2%80%9D-attack-near-empty-office-building-on-public-holiday/Daily Mail reports: Fortunately, it is a public holiday in Norway and the offices are... more
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