British Setting Up “Humanitarian” Camps in Syria? Hmmmmm…… I Don’t Buy It

by Scott Creighton

Though I don’t doubt for a second that the Rothschild family is getting tired of waiting for their next central bank to privatize and exploit, I have a hard time with this latest development making it’s way around the blog-o-sphere; the claim that the British are planning to set up or have already set up camps inside Syria for “humanitarian reasons”

The Daily Star started a wave of online doom-saying when they published an article called “SAS Set Up Safe Camps in Syria“. Press TV is covering the story, Black Listed News, Godlike Productions, Daily Paul, Alex Jones, NSNBC, and others by now. At least Uprooted Palestinian asks if it’s “tabloid junk“

Meanwhile, RT, and SANA have nothing about this story on their websites. (I guess they looked past the Press TV article like I did and took the time to go check out the original)

Uh, … I don’t buy it. The Daily Star is a rag and they clearly have several other blatant lies in that article alone, much less all the other lies they have been caught peddling to the people like political porn. And oh yes, porn is involved. So for a number of reasons, I don’t buy it. And neither should you.

Houla Massacre: “Clearly perpetrated on behalf of external parties” Alastair Crooke

Alastair Crooke doesn’t want to draw the connection between the “terrorists” and the NATO countries that support them, but at least he admits that the Assad regime looks to have had nothing to do with the Houla Massacre. He talks about the “very sophisticated” types of weapons and equipment that have been discovered coming into Syria for the so-called “rebels” but he fails to mention who is sending them (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Libya, Qatar, France, Britain, and the United States)

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Illinois Rep. Explodes On House Floor (The Tyranny is coming unglued)

Northern Light

by Chris Hedges, Truth Out

I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinned small red squares of felt to their clothing. The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of revolt. It comes from the French phrase carrement dans le rouge, or “squarely in the red,” referring to those crushed by debt.

The streets of Montreal are clogged nightly with as many as 100,000 protesters banging pots and pans and demanding that the old systems of power be replaced. The mass student strike in Quebec, the longest and largest student protest in Canadian history, began over the announcement of tuition hikes and has metamorphosed into what must swiftly build in the United States—a broad popular uprising. The debt obligation of Canadian university students, even with Quebec’s proposed 82 percent tuition hike over several years, is dwarfed by the huge university fees and the $1 trillion of debt faced by U.S. college students. The Canadian students have gathered widespread support because they linked their tuition protests to Quebec’s call for higher fees for health care, the firing of public sector employees, the closure of factories, the corporate exploitation of natural resources, new restrictions on union organizing, and an announced increase in the retirement age. Crowds in Montreal, now counting 110 days of protests, chant “On ne lâche pas”—“We’re not backing down.”

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The Houla Hoaxsters: Another “Benghazi moment”

by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar

… It isn’t just the photos purporting to show the massacre, it’s the “reporting” that is also thrown into doubt: after all, these accounts are all coming from the very same “activists” who have no compunctions about supplying fake photos to the very same media who report their every word as gospel. It is claimed the Syrian army bombarded Houla, and yet the photos shows people with their throats cut, and shot in the head at very close range: this seeming contradiction required a revision of the “activist”-supplied narrative, which was duly changed to depict government-controlled “militias” coming into the village after the bombardment. Yet even this hasty revisionist version didn’t cover all the bases: for example, one of the victims was a candidate in Syria’s recent elections who had refused to stand down at the demand of opposition “activists.” He, too, was brutally murdered, and the question is – by whom?

The BBC’s falling for – or enabling – “activist” fakery is hardly the only such incident: there was the case of “Syria Danny,” whose on-camera antics were exposed in flagrante delicto as he staged a Syrian army “attack” for the benefit of CNN. And don’t forget the fake “blogger” who purported to be “Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari,” a 35-year-old lesbian living in Damascus, supposedly kidnapped by the Syrian regime and abused. “Amina” turned out to be a middle-aged married American schmuck and “Middle Eastern activist,” one Tom MacMaster, studying for a degree at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. The cause of “Amina” was taken up by those ubiquitous Syrian “activists” and trumpeted by their online propaganda apparatus – which has sprung up with weed-like rapidity. That’s what a healthy infusion of money from Western governments will buy you.

Yet even all that money apparently can’t buy competent sock-puppets, with amateurs like MacMaster, “Syria Danny,” and whoever supplied the BBC with Di Lauro’s photo running wild…

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