Thursday, October 04, 2012
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U.S. Seeks to Keep Military Bases in Afghanistan beyond 2014 : Karzai

PRESS TV
10/04/2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the United States seeks to keep its military bases in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Press TV reports.
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Karzai history if and when U.S. military leaves - and knows it |
The US is now seeking an agreement on the number of the bases to remain in Afghanistan and the type of their operations, the Afghan president added.
He also stated that Western media are painting a “doomsday scenario” of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the US-led foreign forces.
Karzai said security and stability have returned to areas where Afghan forces have taken over control from foreign troops.
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In the meantime, Americans can look forward to more of this - a lot more thanks to Obama and his lies about an American military pullout |
The president also referred to the 2014 presidential election in Afghanistan and said, “The election will definitely happen. Go on and choose your own favorite candidate. My term, if prolonged by even a day, will be seen as illegitimate.”
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of the so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity remains across the country.
MSH/HSN/MA
U.S. Women to Stage Anti-Drone Protest in Pakistan

PRESS TV
10/04/2012
A group of American women are planning to hold a rally in Pakistan’s tribal region of South Waziristan to protest against US assassination drone attacks in the country.
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Good luck, and don't forget to observe Islamic customs |
"We are going because we are challenging the Pakistani government to allow us to go to a place that has been off limits but needs to be seen. And if they try to stop us, it will be clear they do not want the world to see what is going on there," Medea Benjamin, the veteran activist leading the Code Pink delegation said.
The rally has been organized by Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan, who leads Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Movement for Justice.
The activists who gathered in Islamabad this week are also considering a hunger strike outside the US Embassy in the Pakistani capital as part of their anti-drone campaign.
On Wednesday, the women met with victims of drone strikes from North Waziristan, which is a hotbed of Taliban militants.
Pakistani tribal regions are the target of US terror drones, with Washington claiming that its unmanned aircraft are targeting militants. However, casualty figures indicate that Pakistani civilians are the main victims of the assaults.
The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, in the strikes has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington, prompting Pakistani officials to send warnings to the US administration over the assaults.
Despite Pakistani government’s repeated calls on Washington to end the drone attacks, the US government continues its strikes on the tribal regions of the country.
The aerial attacks were initiated by former US President George W. Bush, but have escalated under President Barack Obama.
The drone strikes have triggered massive anti-US demonstrations across Pakistan to condemn the United States’ violations of their national sovereignty.
YH/MA
TURKEY ATTACKS SYRIA AFTER BEING HIT BY SYRIAN "FREE FORCES"

The Telegraph
10/04/2012
Turkey's military struck targets inside Syria on in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office said in a statement.
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Turkey now doing the dirty work of the U.S.; playing with fire |
A mortar bomb fired from Syria landed in a residential district of the southeastern Turkish town of Akcakale, killing a woman and four children from the same family and wounding at least eight other people.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc stressed that Syria must be made to account for a mortar bomb that killed five people and a response should be given within international law.
"We are not blinded by rage but we will protect our rights to the end in the face of such an attack on our soil that killed our people," Mr Arinc said.
Footage taken shortly after the attack shows how a cloud of dust and smoke rose up over low-rise buildings as residents ran to help the wounded. Others, infuriated by the increasing spillover of violence from Syria's civil war, took to the streets shouting protests against the local authorities.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu phoned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to brief him about the incident and also spoke with senior military officials and Syria crisis mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, along with Nato Secretary General, his ministry said in a statement.
Mr Davutoglu signalled over the weekend that Turkey would take action if there was a repeat of a mortar strike which damaged homes and workplaces in Akcakale last Friday.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan long cultivated good relations with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad but became a harsh critic after the popular revolt against his rule began last year, accusing him of creating a "terrorist state".
Mr Erdogan has allowed Syrian rebels to organise on Turkish soil and pushed for a foreign-protected safe zone inside Syria.
Syria's worsening bloodshed has increasingly affected border zones, with stray bullets flying into Turkish territory.
In April, Turkey reported an incident to the United Nations in which at least five people, including two Turkish officials, were wounded when cross-border gunfire struck a Syrian refugee camp in Kilis, further west along the frontier.
Turkey beefed up its troop presence and air defences along its border after Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet in June.
Turkey is sheltering more than 90,000 refugees from Syria and fears a mass influx similar to the flight of half a million Iraqi Kurds into Turkey after the 1991 Gulf War.
Rare Meningitis Cases Up to 26 in 5 States, 4 Dead

Associated Press
By Mike Stobbe and Travis Loller
10/03/2012
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
An outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis has now sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections, health officials said Wednesday. Four people have died.
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Cryptococcus neoformans |
Three cases have been reported in Virginia, two in Maryland, two in Florida and one in North Carolina. Two of the deaths were in Tennessee; Virginia and Maryland had one each, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
More new cases are almost certain to appear in the coming days, said Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner. Cases in that state began in July and five new cases were confirmed over the past 24 hours, he said Wednesday.
Investigators have been looking into at least three different products used for the back injections that could have been tainted by the fungus that appears to be behind the illnesses. None of the products have been ruled out. However, the primary suspicion is on steroid medication, which is commonly used for back pain.
The Food and Drug Administration identified the maker of the steroid as the New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Framingham, Mass. Last week, the company issued a recall of three lots of the steroid. Company officials could not be immediately reached Wednesday afternoon by telephone; the company's website was unavailable.
Hegemony and Propaganda : The Importance of Trivialisation in Cementing Social Control

Global Research
By Colin Todhunter
10/03/2012
Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usually in relatively simplistic terms. Most of us have to take at face value many of the ideas and concepts that we are bombarded with in this age of instant, mass communications and information overload
People tend to like simplicity. In many instances, not possessing sufficient expertise on matters, they require it. They require easily manageable packages of knowledge, and these packages become taken for granted stocks of ‘common sense’ knowledge that enable them to cope, however faulty or misrepresented that ‘knowledge’ may be.
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Americans: No caption needed here, nor for following |
Bernays knew how to manipulate groups of people and get the masses hooked on the products and messages of modern society. We are now all subjected to this type of manipulation each and every day by the incessant bombardment of commercials.
It was the late U.S. academic Rick Roderick who noted the trend towards the banality, simplification and trivialisation that the ad industry excels in is now prolific throughout society. He referred to a rampant phenomenon of important issues and problems being reduced to a fad of some kind through continuous repetition. For example, political debates that are seemingly in deadlock like gay rights and abortion issues, although important, have become almost a pointless debate. The same few points are being thrown around so often that they’ve almost become a fad. This doesn’t mean that the issues themselves aren’t important; it just means that they’ve been reduced to something resembling sound-bite debates.
It can get to the point whereby people simply stop caring about it all. In the face of so many different sides and so many different movements all locked in endless debates, it can be easy for a kind of apathy and inaction to kick in among the wider population.
Indeed, many issues have been reduced to media-friendly slogans. For example, decades of serious writing on feminism were overtaken by the Spice Girls shouting the slogan ‘girl power’ at every available opportunity. A serious issue became used as a commercial ploy to sell music. What did girl power mean? Who cared at the time: just shout it out.
Barak Obama relied on the mantra ‘hope and change’, which means everything and nothing at the same time. While in some cases sound-bite sayings may be making a serious point, they are repeated over and over again to the point where they merely become meaningless, feel-good rhetoric.
And then there are all those TV commercials on English language channels in India, which reduce everything to a lowest common denominator selling point: ‘white is in dark is out’ (why is this phrase pertaining to skin lightening not considered racist in India?), ‘because you’re worth it’ (self esteem reduced to wearing nail varnish or lipstick), ‘its very, very sexy’ (the nature of sexuality reduced to the effects of a deodorant). Complex issues are merely commodity forms and reduced to brand identities for sale in the market place.
Hand in hand with all of this goes ridicule and cynicism, whereby, if serious issues are not banal through sound-bite repetition, they are made the butt of jokes.
Rick Roderick liked to refer to an old TV show in the US to highlight how society encourages ridicule, trivialization and acceptance of how things are (but should not be). ‘Laverne and Shirley’ ran from 1976 to 1983. Roderick stated that Laverne and Shirley work in Milwaukee in a beer factory. It could therefore have been a socialist realist film, but it was a sitcom. They have got two friends who are stupid and ugly (according to Roderick). Basically, their life is no good. But this is a comedy. All the troubles that working class life often involves are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of triviality and little one-line jokes.
A similar phenomenon can be seen in Britain today via the demonisation and mocking of some of the poorest sections of the British working class by the mainstream media and various social commentators. Regarded as ‘chavs’, they are their lives are stigmatized, ridiculed and trivialised.
Roderick also discusses the notion that John F Kennedy (JFK) was killed in a coup d’état and the US government and that the US has been run secretly ever since. That may or may not be true, but by the time we have had a hundred books and numerous movies on JFK, people tend to switch off, shrug their shoulders and say well it may or may not be the case, but what does it really matter? It’s become banal. For Roderick, this is just another example of how you can take matters of ultimate human importance and turn them into banality.
And that is exactly what is required: banality and sneering that finds its ultimate expression in cynicism, apathy and acceptance of and adherence to the status quo.
Given the major issues affecting us, ranging from nuclear war to ecological meltdown, what we really require is sweeping social and economic reforms and great ideas. But have the great movements and ideas of yesteryear that could provide inspiration for today’s causes been reduced to mediocre banality? Are they just fodder for the market place? Are they to be sneered at and mocked by a population beaten down to regard apathy and cynicism as a normal and overriding part of the human condition?
What better way to control a population than through inducing apathy and banality and encouraging the trivialization of causes, ideas or the plights of certain folk? What better way to control dissent by ridicule of the dissenters, or, if that doesn’t work, in the case of the Indian government, filing sedition charges against 7,000 legitimate anti-nuclear protestors at Kudankulam – simple villagers and fisher-folk.
Are we to just ignore this and sit back and be satisfied with a culture that gives more airtime and column inches to a story about Simon Cowell using placentas on his face to keep young than the death of one of the greatest historians of the 20th century, Eric Hobbsbawn? Are we just to sit back and buy shampoo because we bought into the lie that we ‘are worth it’? If that’s the case, it’s not just the 7,000 people legitimately protesting at Kudankulam (http://www.countercurrents.org/ctw300912.htm) and others facing similar threats throughout India who are in trouble – most everyone else is too!
“The hallmark of an intelligent society is its ability to ask questions. If I am in doubt, I have the right to ask questions. A simple act of asking questions is treated as sedition here.” Aruna Roy (Indian political and social activist).
Originally from the northwest of England, Colin Todhunter has spent many years in India. He has written for various publications. His East by Northwest site is at: http://colintodhunter.blogspot.com
Police Brutality Caught on Tape in Philadelphia

PRESS TV
10/03/2012
A video recently posted online shows a Philadelphia police officer striking a woman across the face in the latest incident of police brutality in the United States.
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Coward pigs go after easy targets: Women, Seniors, disabled |
The woman, whose name has not been released, was handcuffed and led away by police as her mouth was bleeding.
A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Police Department said that the woman was cited for disorderly conduct.
Philadelphia police have launched an internal investigation into the incident.
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Drug and steriod addled coward, corporate killer pigs get a rush out of gassing innocent, harmless protesters |
The Philadelphia police have a reputation as one of the most aggressive police departments in the United States.
Philadelphia became known as “the city that bombed itself” after the police bombed the MOVE house in 1985.
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Coward pigs now completely out of control |
On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department took action against the MOVE house, allegedly to arrest some members of the group.
An armed standoff ensued.
A police helicopter then dropped a four-pound bomb made of C-4 plastic explosive and Tovex, a dynamite substitute, on the roof of the house.
The MOVE house caught fire, causing a huge blaze that engulfed the neighborhood and eventually destroyed 65 houses.
The Philadelphia police shot at people trying to escape from the burning house and fired over 10,000 rounds in the incident, according to the police’s own accounts.
Eleven people -- John Africa, five other adults and five children -- were killed in the fire.
One adult, Ramona Africa, and one child, Birdie Africa, were the only survivors.
MHB/GJH/HGL
'U.S. Police Force Becomes More Brutal'

PRESS TV
10/03/2012
A video recently posted online shows a Philadelphia police officer striking a woman across the face in the latest incident of police brutality in the United States.
The video footage, which was posted on the video-sharing website YouTube, shows highway patrol supervisor Lt. Jonathan Josey punching the woman and knocking her to the ground during Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was handcuffed and led away by police as her mouth was bleeding.
A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Police Department said that the woman was cited for disorderly conduct.
Philadelphia police have launched an internal investigation into the incident.
The Philadelphia police department is known to be one of the most aggressive in the United States.
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Coward NYPD pigs "cop" a feel from Occupy protester |
Press TV has conducted an interview with Cheri Honkala, Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee from Philadelphia, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: First of all can you tell us about the ordeal?
Honkala: Yes yesterday was Puerto Rican Day Parade which is an important thing in our community and it was also the “Year of the Woman” in the Latino community and this woman was apparently just struck in the face by a ranking officer in the Philadelphia police department and regardless if she had a water gun or whatever she was saying, this is becoming the regular behavior of officers in the Philadelphia police department.
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Coward pigs have no idea the shitstorm they have started with U.S. Marines |
There has been several cases of police brutality and nothing continues to be done about it.
Press TV: Of course incidents like this have happened across the United States. What images is this portraying of the US police in the United States? How is this affecting the image of police in the minds of local Americans there?
Honkala: Well it is really a statement of what is happening in our country. You know billions of dollars have been spent under the guise of keeping us safe from outsiders and that money has really been used to preempt the civil liberties of people here in our country.
And the police force is definitely growing and definitely becoming much more brutal and it is totally unexplainable and wrong particularly during an important cultural event like the Puerto Rican Day Parade which is a day about celebration and the fact that this year it was the “Year of the Woman”, that this woman had been struck in the face by a Philadelphia police officer.
AHK/AZ
Like Something on Facebook, Go Directly to Jail

Today in Tech
By Tecca
10/04/2012
You might want to think twice the next time you Like those Facebook pictures of your cousin's new baby or retweet something funny from your friends — especially if you live in the Philippines. According to the new Cybercrime Prevention Act, you can go to jail if you participate in cybersex, identity theft, hacking, spamming, pornography, and yes, even social media in the Philippines.
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Twelve years now for re-Tweet in "democratic" Philippines |
Of course, this law has caused quite a protest among the 35 million Filipino social media users. Hackers have sent an ironic message by defacing government websites while other lawmakers are penning petitions to stop the law. Currently, there is no sign that the government intends to start a repeal.
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The real truth on 9/11 slowly continues to bleed out
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Many researchers are focusing especially on the little-known collapse of

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The Empire and the inevitable fall of the Obama criminal regime
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Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States.

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A look back at 2011 predictions for the future in order to put events of today into perspective

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UPDATED 01/07/2015 : FOX NEWS CORPORATE PHARMA SHILL MEGAN KELLY AND FOX NEWS QUACK DOCTOR NOW PUSHING TAMIFLU FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN;
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Obama criminals now resulting to biowarfare in quest to destroy Chinese and ASEAN economy; "novel virus substrain" points directly to a Kawaoka / Fouchier / Ernala-Ginting Kobe lab virus weaponized and genetically altered to specifically target and infect the Asian population: Ribavirin...

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