Flesh - Rotting ‘Krokodil’ Drug Makes It To U.S., ‘Frightens’ Arizona Medics - Videos

This is the result of Obama's bogus "war on drugs" and Big Pharma's determination to deprive the poor and terminally ill of legitimate, painkilling naturally produced opioids    

RT
09/28/2013

Arizona doctors and law enforcement officials are warning the public about a dangerous homemade narcotic that can cause human flesh to quickly decay and drastically reduce users’ life expectancy after the drug surfaced in the U.S. state.

A direct result of the bogus U.S. "war on drugs"

Desomorphine, known in Russia as “krokodil,” or crocodile, is an extremely toxic drug made from codeine-based pills that are then mixed with iodine, paint thinner, gasoline, alcohol or oil. The concoction is injected, leading to a shorter but more powerful high that’s often found with heroin or morphine use.

While krokodil’s popularity quickly grew in Russia in the recent decade, as heroin is much more expensive and difficult to obtain, experts think it has made it to the southwestern United States.

“We’ve had two cases this past week that have occurred in Arizona,” Dr. Frank LoVecchio, the co-medical director at Banner’s Poison Control Center, told KLTV. “As far as I know, these are the first cases in the United States that are reported. So we’re extremely frightened.”

Amputation is the only lifesaving measure for this condition

The drug is known for being heavily addictive, with just one or two injections needed to get someone hooked, as well as for its dire side effects.

With krokodil, users’ skin rots from the inside out, and they develop what is known as alligator skin, complete with visible scaly contusions. Long-time krokodil users literally have their skin fall off the bone due to ruptured blood vessels and damage to the surrounding tissues.

Irreversible damage to a krokodil addict’s health comes within a month of starting to use the drug, as the brain and liver also start to rot, and the limbs become paralyzed. A user’s average life expectancy does not exceed two to three years.

According to Russian anti-drug activist Yevgeny Roizman, who was earlier this month elected mayor of Yekaterinburg, krokodil is now one of Russia’s top homemade drugs.

A controversial public figure, Roizman has for years campaigned for a ban on the unlimited distribution in Russian drugstores of codeine-based pills, which he says are widely used by dealers and addicts to make krokodil. The founder of the City Without Drugs and Country Without Drugs NGOs, Roizman has described horrific cases of krokodil use in his blog, saying that for many young Russians it becomes “the first and the last” drug. (WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC PHOTOS).

The director of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, has admitted that the surge in desomorphine use across Russia correlated with the sharp increase of drugs containing codeine in drugstores. A legal ban on the non-prescription sale of such drugs in Russia came into force in 2012.

The United States government and the giant pharmaceutical companies are responsible for this abomination and must be held accountable for their crimes, along with the Satanic "scientists," "doctors" and "researchers" that have allowed this to happen

According to figures from Russia’s Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, cited by Country Without Drugs, deaths in Russia from drug overdoses in 2012 rose by 20 percent. In total, some 150,000 Russians died from drug use last year, according to Ivanov, the Drug Control Service chief. Ivanov has estimated that in some regions of the country 90 percent of registered drug addicts use krokodil.

The use and preparation of krokodil has been spreading to countries neighboring Russia and farther into Europe, according to various media reports. In December 2011, Poland’s Medical University of Silesia reported at least one death from krokodil use in Warsaw, and also said cases of the drug being used had been confirmed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Sweden and Norway.

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In Indonesia, A Governor At Home On The Streets

Bapak Joko has proven himself a man of the People and fierce advocate for the poor; an anti-corruption crusader, he has single-handedly changed the face of Jakarta - to the benefit of all who live here

NEW YORK TIMES
By Joe Cochrane
09/25/2013

JAKARTA, Indonesia —

Each day, Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, does something practically unheard-of among Indonesia’s political elite: he ventures into the streets to speak with the people who elected him. 

 

 

Bapak Joko Widodo, the Governor of Jakarta, made an unannounced visit to the Tanah Abang market in August, where he is a frequent visitor

Most times, he is mobbed as he wanders through slums, traditional markets and other neighborhoods. Women, and men, try to touch him. Younger people grab his hands and lay them on their foreheads — a sign of respect. Many share their concerns over how their city is working (or not), a practice he encourages.

The people, he jokes, are not so much excited to see him; they are merely “shocked to see an Indonesian leader out of their office.”

“The people say it’s ‘street democracy’ because I go out to them,” said Mr. Joko, 52, whose supporters affectionately call him by his nickname, Jokowi. “I explain my programs. They can also give me ideas about programs.” He also drops in on local government and tax offices to let the city’s notoriously inefficient bureaucrats know he is watching.

That daily routine is one of the main reasons Mr. Joko, a reed-thin former furniture dealer, has almost overnight shot to the top of the polls about possible candidates for next year’s presidential election. In late August, the country’s most influential daily newspaper, Kompas, displayed his photo on its front page three days in a row along with poll results showing him with nearly double the support of the closest challenger, a retired Army general. The poll also found he had swept past the leader of his own party: former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, a famously imperious leader who sometimes referred to her supporters as “little people.” 

 

 

Governor Joko giving out Jakarta Health Cards at the Koja Public Health Center, North Jakarta

“He’s the opposite of the leaders we have now. He doesn’t fit the mold at all,” said Bhimanto Suwastoyo, chief editor of the online Jakarta Globe. “The mold is: an Indonesian official does what he wants, has no connection with the people and doesn’t consult — he rules. Jokowi is doing the exact opposite. He’s hands on, he asks the public what they want, he approaches them and he’s seen as actually doing something.”

What Mr. Joko has accomplished in his first year leading the capital is not high-profile. In fact, people give him at least as much credit for what he appears not to have done. In a country rife with corruption, Mr. Joko is widely considered a clean politician who has not used his office to enrich himself, and who is working hard to cut down on corruption within the government.

The issue of official corruption is expected to be a major factor in the election, the third direct presidential election since the country threw off autocratic rule 15 years ago.

The economy has been doing well — it survived the world’s 2008 financial crisis virtually untouched, multinationals have been flocking here and its gross domestic product has expanded at a steady rate of more than 6 percent for the last three years. Still, analysts consistently say Indonesia is being held back from reaching its full potential because of corruption and collusion among government officials, lawmakers and powerful business interests.

The current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, swept into power in 2004 and was re-elected in 2009 on an anticorruption platform, but his governing Democratic Party has been mired in corruption scandals the past two years.

With months to go before the election, anything can happen to derail Mr. Joko’s chances. The retired general who ran second in the Kompas poll, Prabowo Subianto, has a strong following among the poor and has been considered a top contender for the presidency, despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in East Timor. (Mr. Prabowo and Mr. Joko are members of opposition parties; Mr. Yudhoyono cannot run again because of term limits.)

Since becoming governor last October, Mr. Joko has followed through on his campaign promises, including issuing welfare payments on the equivalent of electronic gift cards that allow people to pay for health care and education supplies directly and ensure government officials do not take a cut off the top. He also instituted an online tax payment system to prevent graft and jump-started long-delayed plans for a mass rapid transit system for the capital.

He has invested the most effort and political capital on two projects in particular. The first was to move street vendors off the roads surrounding Tanah Abang, the largest textiles market in Southeast Asia, who were causing traffic jams throughout Central Jakarta, and give them space inside a nearby building. The second is the relocation of 7,000 poor families squatting around the Pluit Reservoir in North Jakarta into lost-cost public housing so the reservoir can be dredged for the first time in 30 years to help alleviate annual flooding.

These projects might seem obscure given the many pressing problems of a city of 10 million people, but they address the two most important ones for average people: traffic and flooding. To win community support, Mr. Joko visits both areas at least once daily to make sure that city officials are following through on the projects and to assure local residents that he is not really planning to turn the land over to shopping mall developers.

Mr. Joko’s “man of the people” tag is not concocted, analysts say. He is a former carpenter and ran a small furniture export business near Surakarta, a city of 520,000 people also known as Solo, before running for city mayor in 2005.

In 2012 he ran for governor in Jakarta, and his landslide win against the incumbent, Fauzi Bowo, who was backed by most of Mr. Yudhoyono’s governing coalition, was viewed as an emphatic rejection of the political establishment.

Mr. Joko ultimately will not decide whether he will run in the presidential election. Mrs. Megawati firmly controls the party, which decided at a recent congress that she alone would name its presidential nominee. She had been expected to run herself, but analysts say it is increasingly likely she will step aside for Mr. Joko to help her party try to regain the presidency after 10 years.

Party officials say Mrs. Megawati has hinted in recent weeks as much in recent weeks, calling herself at 66 “old” and “a grandmother.” Mrs. Megawati and Mr. Joko have also appeared side by side at party events in recent weeks, prompting even more speculation about his candidacy.

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Shocking Facts About U.S. Veterans : 1 Suicide Every 65 Minutes

And this while Obama, Congress criminals give away BILLIONS to shore up Arab despot regimes, Israeli terrorists and prosecute bogus wars against defenseless sovereign nations:  THIS is just one reason why the military is closer than ever before in U.S. history to a full-blown mutiny

GLOBAL RESEARCH
09/27/2013

There are 21.5 million Veterans in the U.S. 

From Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, 14 Percent of Veterans suffer from PSTD, Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

1.4 million Veterans are at risk of homelessness due to poverty and unemployment. 

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Nuclear Talks Show U.S. Shift From Israel On Iran : Analyst

Netanyahu closer than ever to obtaining death-wish as he and his Zionist scum are now completely surrounded and cut off

PRESS TV
09/27/2013

The recent nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers signal a shift in the United States’ policy on Iran, with Washington distancing itself from Israel’s scenario against the Islamic Republic, a political analyst tells Press TV. 

 

Obama throws Netanyahu under the bus

“I think that the meeting really is an indicator that a new chapter has begun and that we are going to see now the United States backing away from the Israeli scripted dialogue concerning Iran and her nuclear... program,” said Mark Glenn on Friday.

He noted that the speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly and the active participation of US Secretary of State John Kerry in the course of the Thursday nuclear talks with Iran has infuriated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The foreign ministers of Iran, Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States, and Germany held talks at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday.

The participants at the meeting have expressed satisfaction over the results of the talks. 

 

 

The Snowden revelations paved the way for U.S. to jettison Zionist scum

Iran and the six world powers have held several rounds of talks on a range of issues, with the main focus being on Tehran’s nuclear energy program. The two sides wrapped up their latest round of negotiations in April in the Kazakh city of Almaty.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran has categorically rejected the allegation, stressing that as a committed member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is entitled to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

ASH/HJL

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Federal Prosecutor Under Fire For Obama, Trayvon Rants

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Craft's Facebook posts blasts 'stupid people' for electing 'Dalibama.' His boss, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas John Malcolm Bales, says he'll 'look into' comments; so it's not okay for federal officials to post incendiary political stuff and therefore perhaps the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney needs to open an investigation into NSA traitor, fascist pederast propagandist and "Pills" Limbaugh butt-buddy John Schindler for his bogus public attacks on investigative journalist Wayne Madsen

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
By Doyle Murphy
08/15/2013

The U.S. Attorney in East Texas plans to review a federal prosecutor’s Facebook rants against President Barack Obama and Trayvon Martin.

Drunken loon John Craft

John Craft, an attorney in the criminal division of the Eastern District of Texas, blamed “low-information” voters for electing the “Dalibama.”

He included a graphic that said, “Obama: Why Stupid People Shouldn’t Vote.”

In another post, Craft referenced the Martin case: “How are you fixed for Skittles and Arizona watermelon fruitcocktail (and maybe a bottle of Robitussin, too) in your neighborhood? I am fresh out of ‘purple drank.’ So, I may come by for a visit. In a rainstorm. In the middle of the night. In a hoodie. Don't get upset or anything if you see me looking in your window...kay?”

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Craft ridiculed dead Florida teen Trayvon Martin in a Facebook rant.

RELATED: FLORIDA BEACH SAFETY OFFICER FIRED FOR TRAYVON MARTIN COMMENTS ON FACEBOOK

Trayvon Martin

Martin was wearing a hoodie in 2012 when he was shot dead by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The 17-year-old had returned from the store with a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea.

The Beaumont (Tx.) Enterprise reported it received an email with screen shots of Craft’s derogatory posts.

John Malcolm Bales, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, told the paper he planned to “look into” Craft’s comments and he found any racist comments “reprehensible.”



Craft’s rants were posted to his private Facebook page. Bales said his prosecutors were entitled to their opinions on public issues. He emphasized Craft wasn’t speaking for the U.S. Attorney’s office in his posts and said he didn’t agree with the comments.

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“It speaks ill of our office in connection,” Bales said. “We don't think like that. We don't act like that.”

NSA spy propagandist, American traitor John Schindler

Craft has avoided saying much about the posts. He told a reporter his comments “were not related to the U.S. Attorney’s office” and declined to comment further.

His employer echoed the sentiment in an official statement: “This office neither supports nor condones the views expressed on Facebook by Mr. Craft. He was not speaking on behalf of the U.S. Attorney's Office.”

Bales said his office doesn’t have a social media policy. He declined to say whether Craft would face disciplinary action.

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Terror Strike At Kenya Mall Stirs Worries Of al-Shabaab Domestic Attack - Video

"al-Shamob" circus freaks now plan to swim to DC on plastic gallon milk-jug water wings, bring down Statue of Liberty on the way in; attack White House, Capitol Building, Wal-Mart then after hard days work audition for American Idiot    

THE HILL
By Jeremy Herb and Carlo Muñoz
09/25/2013

The brazen terrorist attack carried out by al-Shabaab militants at a Kenyan mall is stirring concerns about the Somali-based terror group’s potential reach into the United States.

"DEATH TO AMERICA!!!" - Baby Shamob

The al Qaeda-linked group has openly recruited Somali-Americans to join its ranks, bringing them overseas to train and fight in Somalia.

Kenya’s foreign minister said Monday in a PBS interview that two or three Americans were among the assailants in the Nairobi mall attack that left nearly 70 dead, although the U.S. government has not confirmed that.

Some lawmakers and Africa experts say the multiday assault in Kenya, which ended Tuesday, shows that the al Qaeda affiliate has broader global ambitions than previously realized.

While there’s no evidence to suggest the group has set its sights on attacks in the U.S., al-Shabaab’s recruiting within the United States and other Western countries is more active than any other al Qaeda group, suggesting it could become a threat to the U.S. homeland.

 

"Trigger finger?  What the fuck be a trigger bro?"

“This is a real concern because al-Shabaab has a real recruitment process. And how did I hear this? I heard it from them on television,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“Their imams go out; they deal with the young Somalis who are here in the United States. They take them to certain mosques, and over a period of time, they’re able to concentrate their antagonism against the infidels,” she said.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that the Kenya terrorist attack is the latest sign that al Qaeda groups will not go away quietly despite U.S. and international efforts to defeat them.

“I think it shows the reach of al Qaeda, and this notion that al Qaeda is decimated and on the run — we see example after example of the resilience of al Qaeda,” McCain said.

"Yo blood!  Which be the way to 'Merica?  Iz'e gwine dig fo mah roots!!!"

 Some lawmakers and experts, however, were skeptical about whether the attack signals the strength of al-Shabaab and al Qaeda. Al-Shabaab has suffered a string of stinging defeats in Somalia at the hands of African forces, backed by U.S. military and intelligence support.

They also noted that the terror group has been struggling in Somalia over the past year and that the shopping mall was an easy target.

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), who heads the House Armed Services subcommittee on emerging threats and intelligence, said the attacks weren’t a “tipping point” to al-Shabaab becoming a major terror threat to the United States.

He said the mall attack was a last-ditch effort by the terror group that was “on the verge of being defeated” in Somalia.

al-Shamob - N - the - hood

“When you pin a rattlesnake into a corner, they are going to strike out,” Thornberry told The Hill.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said that the Nairobi attack has “dramatized” the concern that al-Shabaab could branch out from a regional terror threat to one with global reach.

“I have always had that concern,” Levin said Tuesday.

He said that if Americans were, in fact, involved with the al-Shabaab attack, it would be “increased proof that they are becoming a transnational problem.”

There have been numerous cases of Somali-Americans being recruited and returning to fight alongside al-Shabaab in Somalia, particularly from major Somali immigrant communities, like the one in Minnesota.

Peter Bergen, director of national security studies at the New America Foundation, wrote Tuesday that 15 Americans have died fighting for al-Shabaab.

One of the most high-profile Americans fighting in Somalia, Omar Hammami, was reportedly killed earlier this month.

“So far, what has been the model of operation is the men who have been recruited in the U.S. and Britain have gone to Somalia, fighting in Somalia, and have not conducted attacks in the U.S.,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Richard Downie, deputy director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that part of the reason al-Shabaab recruits foreign fighters is the large diaspora that’s occurred amid two decades of instability.

“It’s natural that al-Shabaab would seek to recruit from outside because there’s such a pool of talent, I guess, they’d see outside the country,” Downie said.

Downie said that he thought it was “a leap” to suggest that the attack in Kenya meant the terror group’s next step was an attack on the U.S.

Thornberry said that the failure by U.S. intelligence to predict the Nairobi attack exposed some shortfalls in Washington’s efforts to track the growing strain of Islamic extremism in Africa.

The intelligence community “has not ignored Africa,” he said, but there has been “a tendency to say they are just a regional threat” and miss signs that African terror groups may be expanding beyond their borders.

U.S. military and intelligence officials are still having significant difficulty gaining any insight into the network of African extremist groups who are rapidly gaining ground on the continent.

The relatively small network of intelligence assets Washington currently has in place in Africa pales in comparison to the number of similar American assets in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere in the Mideast.

The Pentagon already has two major special operations task forces in Africa, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara and Joint Special Operations Task Force-Horn of Africa.

Levin said that he did not think the Nairobi attack should be seen as a green light for increased U.S. military intervention in Africa.

He said the key to any potential changes in U.S. military posture would be to first determine “what level of involvement” would be needed from U.S. forces to rein in groups like al-Shabaab in Africa.

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The Ghouta Chemical Attacks : U.S.- Backed False Flag? Killing Syrian Children To Justify A “Humanitarian” Military Intervention

Obama, CIA, White House criminals will be exposed completely and held accountable for this sickening war crime

GLOBAL RESEARCH
By Julie Lévesque and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
09/25/2013

The chemical attacks which took place in East Ghouta on August 21, 2013 could be the most horrific false flag operation in history. 

Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross at the home of a grief stricken family in Qusayr, November 2011. After this visit Mother Agnes Marian warned the media of what was happening, seven months later all the Christians had been expelled from Qusayr by the FSA

To date, available evidence indicates that numerous children were killed by “opposition rebels”, their bodies manipulated and filmed with a view to blaming the Syrian government for the attacks, thus sparking outrage and galvanizing worldwide public opinion in favor of another bloody, imperial US-led war.

While confirming the use of chemical weapons against civilians, the UN report has failed to identify the authors of the attacks:

Instead of a non-politicized investigation and lab analysis, the UN investigation of alleged nerve-gas attacks inside Syria was led by Professor Ake Sellstrom, a man of mystery who keeps a veil of secrecy around his research and political-military relationships…

This cosmetic veneer of Swedish neutrality has been deftly exploited by Israel and NATO to perpetrate falsehoods throughout Sellstrom’s work for the UN, including denial of the chemical-and-biological causes for “Gulf War Syndrome” and the shipments of U.S. chemical weapons to the Saddam Hussein regime.

Swedish/NATO scum shill for Obama war criminals

What is publicly known about Sellstrom is that the biochemist heads the European CBRNE Center [Center for advanced Studies of Societal Security and Vulnerability, in particular major incidents with (C)hemical, (B)iological, (R)adiological, (N)uclear and (E)xplosive substances], at Umea University in northern Sweden, which is sponsored by the Swedish Defense Ministry (FOI)…

Umea University is deeply involved in joint research with Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), the Haifa-based university that provides state-of-art technology to the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and its intelligence agencies. Several departments, which are involved in joint Israeli research, participate in multidisciplinary studies at Sellstrom’s CBRNE center…

Obama crack-whore Samantha Power attempting to bullshit the world that U.S. was not behind Syria gas attacks; successor to disgraced, Obama-owned street slut Susan (Butch) Rice, Power will be sharing a jail cell with her

American ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made emphatically clear that the “nerve gas used in Syria was more concentrated than the nerve gas in Iraq.” Her statement should be rephrased as: “Saddam may have trans-shipped U.S.-supplied nerve gas into Syria, but it wasn’t our nerve gas used against Syrian civilians.”

That is the essential point of the Sellstrom report: To take Washington off the hook for being the major supplier of nerve gas precursors, formulations, delivery technology and storage systems to the Middle East, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and very possibly Syria (during the Clinton era of good will).

The UN report of chemical weapons on Syria lacks basic credibility due to the duplicitous record of its chief inspector, Ake Sellstrom, who is politically and financially compromised at every level. (Yoichi Shimatsu, The Sellstrom Report: The United Nations’ Syria Inspector Shills for NATO and Israel).

Obama's CIA/FSA mercs responsible for Syrian gas attacks using U.S./Saudi/Qatari supplied munitions

A day before the release of the UN Mission report, another carefully documented report by Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS) was released with minimal media coverage. (To read the full report in pdf click here large pdf slow download).

Its findings are unequivocal: the videos used by the US and its allies as evidence to blame the Syrian government were staged.

The study says:

From the moment when some families of abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos thoroughly…

Obama's murdering CIA/FSA mercs responsible for Syrian gassings with the assistance of apostate Saudi/Qatari dictator scum

Our first concern was the fate of the children we see in the footage. Those angels are always alone in the hands of adult males that seem to be elements of armed gangs. The children that trespassed remain without their families and unidentified all the way until they are wrapped in the white shrouds of the burial. Moreover our study highlights without any doubt that their little bodies were manipulated and disposed with theatrical arrangements to figure in the screening.

If the studied footage were edited and published to exhibit pieces of evidence to accuse the Syrian State of perpetrating the chemical attacks on East Ghouta, our discoveries incriminate the editors and actors of forged facts through a lethal manipulation of unidentified children. (Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS), The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria)

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya who examined the report writes:

The independent ISTEAMS study contradicts the assertions of the Obama Administration and the entire US Intelligence Community […] through simple observations of the video material that has been put forward as evidence by the United States.

The ISTEAMS report does not deny that chemical weapons were used or that innocent Syrians have been killed. What the study does is logically point out through its observations that there is empirical evidence that the sample of videos that the US Intelligence Community has analyzed and nominated as authentic footage has been stage-managed. This is an important finding, because it refutes the assertions of the representatives of the US Intelligence agencies who testified that the videos they authenticated provide evidence that a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government took place in East Ghouda. (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Look With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the Chemical Attacks in Syria Show Tampered Scenes)

A lot of things do not add up in the footage presented by the US government.

The same little boy in red is in two different locations

Among a series of important findings, the ISTEAMS report notes that even though the attacks are said to have killed up to 1400 people, mostly children appear in the videos and several corpses are shown in different videos said to have been shot in various locations.

While this report seriously challenges the assertion that the Syrian government was behind the attacks, it was not covered by the Western mainstream media, toeing the imperial line and parroting Washington’s claims, which still lack evidence and credibility. 

At least nine of these children appear in different footage from different locations

In addition, some controversy arose pertaining to allegations that the rebels were responsible for the attacks and used chemical weapons provided by Saudi intelligence. Dale Gavlak, the co-author of an article containing these allegations, now wants to dissociate herself from the article and is facing threats. Her career is in jeopardy:

The MintPress article, published on 29th August, through interviews with rebels, family members, and villagers in Eastern Ghouta, alleges that elements within the opposition were responsible for the alleged chemical weapons attack on 21st August, and that those chemical munitions had been supplied through Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan…

A little boy that appears in two different videos with two different scenarios

Dale is under mounting pressure for writing this article by third parties. She notified MintPress editors and myself on August 30th and 31st via email and phone call, that third parties were placing immense amounts of pressure on her over the article and were threatening to end her career over it. She went on to tell us that she believes this third party was under pressure from the head of the Saudi Intelligence Prince Bandar himself, who is alleged in the article of supplying the rebels with chemical weapons.

A Sunni Muslim cleric kisses the head of the late Fr. Fadi Haddad at his funeral service in St. Elias Church, Qatana outside Damascus. Fr. Fadi was kidnapped and tortured to death by rebel terrorists, his body was found on the 25/10/2012

On August 30th, Dale asked MintPress to remove her name completely from the byline because she stated that her career and reputation was at risk. She continued to say that these third parties were demanding her to disassociate herself from the article or these parties would end her career. On August 31st, I notified Dale through email that I would add a clarification that she was the writer and researcher for the article and that Yahya [Ababneh] was the reporter on the ground, but did let Gavlak know that we would not remove her name as this would violate the ethics of journalism. (Phil Greaves, Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report).

The information according to which Saudi intelligence was allegedly implicated in the Ghouta chemical attacks was mentioned by a UN official who wished to remain anonymous:

A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.”

When asked who he believed was responsible for the use of chemical munitions in Ghouta, the UN official, who would not permit disclosure of his identity, said:“Saudi intelligence was behind the attacks and unfortunately nobody will dare say that.” The official claims that this information was provided by rebels in Ghouta…

CIA/FSA demon rebel with gun in one hand and a cross in the other poses in the vestments of a priest while leaning against the funeral hearse of St. Joseph’s Syriac parish. The vehicle was used by the rebels to transport weapons in Homs

The UN official’s accusations mirror statements made earlier this year by another senior UN figure Carla del Ponte, who last May told Swiss TV in the aftermath of alleged CW attacks in Khan al-Asal, Sheik Maqsood and Saraqeb that there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels had carried out the attack. Del Ponte also observed that UN inspectors had seen no evidence of the Syrian army using chemical weapons, but added that further investigation was necessary. (Sharmine Narwani and Radwan Mortada, Questions Plague UN Syria Report. Who was behind the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack?)

All of the above leads us to believe that this attack was one of the most horrific crimes committed in modern history, a diabolical staged operation which consisted in killing small children, producing fake video footage and photo ops of the corpses, all of which was intended to fabricate a pretext for military intervention under a humanitarian mandate.

The mainstream media which has obfuscated these crimes bear a heavy burden of responsibility. The New York Times has smeared the findings of Mother Agnes and her team, accusing her of “defending the regime” and “playing the Christian card”. The NYT casually dismisses the evidence that the videos are fake. Read the ISTEAMS Report and then judge for yourself. 

The war criminals who designed and launched this diabolical staged operation must face justice.

Procedures in the United Nations Security Council directed against the Syrian government must be suspended.

We invite our readers to consult the ISTEAM Report, as well as the following GR articles and video production: Please share these articles and the ISTEAM report.

GRTV VIDEO: How the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged By James Corbett, Mother Agnes Mariam, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 19, 2013

The Full ISTeam Report The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria, Mother Agnes Mariam and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS), Geneva, 15 September 2013 [pdf slow download]

The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria By Mother Agnes Mariam, September 16, 2013

One Nun Puts the US Intel Community to Shame Over “Stage-Managed” Syria Footage By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, September 24, 2013

Syria: Fabricating Chemical Lies. Who is Behind the East Ghouta Attacks? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 17, 2013

The Sellstrom Report: The United Nations’ Syria Inspector Shills for NATO and Israel By Yoichi Shimatsu, September 18, 2013

The Syria Chemical Weapons Attack: Human Rights Watch is Manipulating the Facts By Richard Lightbown, September 24, 2013

Saudi Arabia’s “Chemical Bandar” behind the Chemical Attacks in Syria? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, September 06, 2013

Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report By Phil Greaves, September 22, 2013

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Iran's Morally Sane Doctrine Versus U.S. MAD

Obama has already destroyed himself with his Armageddon insanity in the eyes of the moral world

WORLD NEWS
By Dallas Darling
09/25/2013

With reports of yet another near-nuclear weapons disaster being averted, (This time a declassified report detailing when a nuclear warhead-200 times more powerful than the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki-was accidentally dropped on an American city in 1961, with 3 of its 4 safety mechanisms failing.), it will be extremely difficult for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to keep a straight face if and when he meets with U.S. President Barack Obama. Unlike the U.S., not only has Iran consistently offered direct talks and provided numerous opportunities for diplomacy over its nuclear enrichment program, but on numerous occasions it has reiterated a more ethical and sane nuclear doctrine.

During a NBC News interview, President Rouhani again declared: "We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so." Reinforcing what Iran's Supreme Religious Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has constantly maintained, President Rouhani continued to explain how such weapons of mass destruction contradict Islamic values and the sanctity of life. And despite continual threats of a military option against Iran, not to mention an ongoing boycott, he assured the U.S. that Iran would only use nuclear enrichment for civilian uses of energy in powering hospitals and universities. Iran's morally sane nuclear doctrine is a marker for the standard of appropriate behavior, something the U.S. has failed to learn beginning with its revised MAD Doctrines.

The U.S.'s MAD Doctrine, "massive retaliation" and "mutual assured destruction," was a belief in the 1950's that nuclear weapons were so lethal that no nation would ever consider using them. But in one way, President Harry S. Truman and core military experts had already contradicted MAD when deciding to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. They were after all, Weapons of Mass (and civilian) Destruction. This deadly weapon also caused President Truman and the U.S. to be WMD bullies. Along with trying to dictate post-World War II policies, including pressuring Russia, the U.S. went so far as to sabotage a U.N. plan to completely eliminate future possibilities of others ever acquiring nuclear weapons. Unrealistically, it hoped to always monopolize nuclear weapons and war.

Obama media whores like the completely discredited, U.S. taxpayer financed CIA Al Jazeera will be held accountable for starting Syria war, shilling for White house criminals

But with the eventual development of Russia's nuclear weapons capabilities, U.S. policy makers had to scramble and revise their loss of a first-strike, and only, capability. The Eisenhower Administration sought to rationalize, through a "new look" concept, how the U.S. could still succeed in the nuclear weapons race because it possessed the "deterrent of massive retaliatory power." In other words, Eisenhower's administration believed it could either attack or retaliate with its nuclear arsenal "instantly, by means and at places of our choosing."(1) The American press was less euphemistic, calling it "massive retaliation." Europeans were also outraged, claiming "instantly" meant transforming any confrontation into all-out nuclear war without first consulting them.

Massive retaliation was revised again when political satirists labeled it as MAD, "mutually assured destruction."(2) MAD meant neither the U.S. nor Russia could ever win a nuclear war. In order to maintain their trillion dollar nuclear weapons programs, though, the Pentagon and some political leaders claimed destruction did not have to be "assured." After all, a country with overwhelming first-strike power would have to fear a retaliatory attack by nuclear missiles launched from submarines. They also started using the terms "deterrence" and "brinkmanship." Whereas deterrence meant inspiring an opponent through either fear or deadly consequences, brinkmanship entailed "taking a chance for peace" even if it meant going to the edge, the brink, of nuclear war.(3)

As with his predecessor Hitler, the world community will soon conclude that Obama must be taken out in order to save humanity - regardless of the cost and they will hold Americans accountable for his crimes

All of the confusing policy terms, oxymoron's, and acronyms-something that habitual criminals and serial killers also use in justifying their criminal and horrendous acts-reveals how the U.S. has been very inconsistent and dishonest in its nuclear weapons doctrine and policies. Recent reports being released, just like the 1961 one where an American town was one switch away from a nuclear detonation, are starting to reveal the numerous instances in which the U.S. was on the brink of war. (Regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. went over the edge, did it not?) When considering the human, resource, and environmental costs of nuclear fall outs and pollutions, along with having to store and contain nuclear waste, any kind of nuclear weaponry is insane, MAD.



As Iran's theo-democracy meets with its counterpart, or the U.S.'s illiberal-, worldly-democracy, it is obvious that Iran still has a moral compass, and that it still values the sanctity of the living. What does one say to a society that has a history of irrational thinking about nuclear war? How does one try and cooperate with a nation that has used faulty justifications in using nuclear weapons, of indiscriminately killing entire civilian populations? And what can President Rouhani say to assure a power-obsessed, money-oriented, technologically determined, egocentric, overly automated military, and ethnocentric collapsing superpower the futility of nuclear weaponry? Hopefully, the U.S. will learn from a more sane and moral nation, like Iran, taking away its consistency and mindfulness regarding the sanctity of life.

And sadly, with the existence of its nuclear arsenal, the U.S. is still only one switch away from a nuclear war.

Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)

Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.

(1) Parism, Thomas. The Cold War Encyclopedia. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996., p. 209.

(2) Ibid., p. 224.

(3) Ibid., p. 43.  

 

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Obama’s Friends In Low Places

Obama criminals responsible for world "financial crisis" - yet another nail in his impeachment coffin

PRESS TV
09/25/2013

That Barack Obama is such a kidder. No matter how awkward the moment, he’s got just the right quip to purchase some wiggle room. Remember when his old Chicago banking buddy Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, first ran into that bit of trouble over his bank’s “London Whale” derivative scam? That scheme has already lost $6 billion with close to another $1 billion piled on by the SEC in fines last week after JPMorgan admitted it broke the law. 

 

 

Bank criminals JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House in 2009 after a meeting between chief executives and their monkey master Obama

Well of course, being Obama, when the scandal first broke last year, the president picked a women’s daytime talk show, ABC’s “The View,” to deal with the scams of his leading Wall Street backer. “JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is,” he told the “View” audience. “Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got, and they still lost $2 billion and counting.”

Yes, counting; that $2 billion is now likely to end up around $16 billion given the future legal fees and possible payouts allotted to countering the myriad lawsuits connected with this admission of illegal activity. That’s aside from the mortgage fraud, Labor rate rigging and energy manipulation cases still confronting the beleaguered bank. Thursday, on the same day that Dimon’s bank got slapped with the SEC fine, federal regulators revealed that JPMorgan had agreed to pay $389 million in penalties and refunds to compensate for a credit card identity theft protection scam after $309 million already paid out in that case.

It should be remembered that this same Dimon, who appeared before a Senate committee wearing presidential cufflinks, once worked with Sanford Weill in engineering the reversal of the Glass-Steagall law to make Citigroup, a previously illegal merger of investment and commercial banks, possible. But despite his record as a leader in the radical deregulation of banking that caused all of the trouble, Obama turned to Dimon for direction on fixing the economy. 

 

 

Obama bank criminals stole the world public's money - and now wants them to pay for their theft - twice

If you still require to be disabused of Obama’s pretend populism, consider his decision to select William M. Daley, JPMorgan’s representative in Washington, to be his White House chief of staff. It gave Dimon the key White House connection to accompany the passkey he already had at Treasury with his pal Timothy Geithner as secretary.

It was a real cozy arrangement; Dimon was still a governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, where he had served during Geithner’s presidency overseeing the banking meltdown. Geithner had been instrumental in arranging Fed financing for JPMorgan’s acquisition of troubled Bear Stearns through a $55 billion loan and later an additional $25 billion in TARP funds.

Once appointed Treasury secretary, Geithner made himself very accessible to Dimon. As an Associated Press investigation reported, Dimon had numerous personal meetings and phone calls with Geithner while the White House was calibrating its response to the Wall Street crisis.

Why are we not surprised that Obama has done nothing to break up the too-big-to-fail banks, the biggest now being Dimon’s? Don’t be fooled by the occasional fines; the banks have used the interest-free money to grow ever larger and more unaccountable in their behavior. 

 

 

"Yeah, we screwed the peasants... and now we're gonna do it again!"

Even the recent SEC settlement, while mentioning the despicable behavior of JPMorgan’s chief executive, fails to utter Dimon’s name, and as Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who did much to unravel this scam, noted, “the whole issue of misinforming investors and the public is conspicuously absent from the SEC findings and settlement.”

After the SEC condemnation of JPMorgan’s “egregious breakdowns in controls” and conclusion that “senior management broke a cardinal rule of corporate management” to honestly inform the board of directors, top senior manager Dimon made all the right noises. JPMorgan announced that $4 billion and a staff of 5,000 employees would be devoted to compliance with the law. 

 

 

Obama, bank criminals now going after the Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps of the poor and disabled

This was just the sort of commitment Dimon made in 2006 when he hired Stephen M. Cutler, who had been head of the SEC Division of Enforcement, to be JPMorgan’s general counsel. Once a committed regulator who urged corporations “to create a culture of compliance,” Cutler clearly drank the Kool-Aid at JPMorgan, for he was in charge of legal and compliance activities worldwide at the time of the London Whale fiasco. So much for trusting corporate compliance.

As Donald Langevoort, an expert on compliance issues at Georgetown University School of Law, told The New York Times on Friday, “JPMorgan is by no means unique. None of these big banks really want compliance people causing traders and investment bankers to second-guess themselves too much because that gets in the way of making money. No one will say this, but it’s more effective to run the risk of noncompliance and pay a few fines, which is just a cost of doing business.”

Exactly the reason that too-big-to-fail banks can’t be trusted to do the right thing and why Obama shouldn’t have been guided by Dimon in the first place.

ISH/HJ

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