Tarpley, descifrando Bilderberg 2013

Britain, France prodding Obama into attacking Syria

 

Syrian forces clash with foreign-backed militants in the western town of Qusayr, Homs Province. (File photo)

 

 

Fuente: Tarpley

 

Last year’s Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia was clearly dominated by anti-Obama and pro-Romney forces. At that time, it was revealed by Charlie Skelton ofGuardian – one of the very few serious and reliable Bilderberg observers -- that Romney had made an unannounced visit to the Bilderberg confab. Obama, on the other hand, had not attended, although both he and Hillary Clinton had reportedly been on hand in 2008."

 

On the eve of this year’s Bilderberg meeting, the Anglo-French intelligence bosses have clearly shown their hand with two high-profile attacks on Obama. Wednesday, June 5 marked the liberation of Qusayr, the great Stalingrad of the Syrian terrorist death squads deployed by NATO against Assad. With the rout of these terrorists, the main units of the self-styled Free Syrian Army, along with the Nusra branch of al Qaeda, are likely to face annihilation in the short to medium term.

On the same day that Qusayr fell, the British and French governments hysterically demanded that Obama undertake a total bombing campaign against Syria, whatever the consequences in regard to Russia and other powers. To his credit, Obama is continuing to say no to this lunatic Anglo-French neocolonial adventure. On that same June 5, the London-based daily The Guardian, in an article by the expatriate American Glenn Greenwald, hyped a court order from the secret FISA panel of federal judges showing that the US National Security Agency was routinely monitoring the telephone records (including time, locations, call duration, and unique identifiers, but not the contents of the conversations) of possibly unlimited millions of Verizon phone subscribers. Back in the US, reactionary talk show hosts began screaming “Obama taps your phones!”

On June 6, again in advance of every other newspaper in the world, The Guardian published another article by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill revealing that the National Security Agency, under a program called Prism, had obtained direct access to the servers of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, Youtube, Skype, AOL, and Microsoft, and was busily monitoring the content of e-mails, file transfers, and live conversations. Back in the US, reactionary talk show hosts began screaming, “Obama reads your e-mail!”

Under George Bush, warrantless wiretaps and similar illegal programs were revealed by various media organs. These revelations had minimal impact on Bush, whose base was indifferent to civil liberties. Obama’s base, by contrast, cares very much, and has been visibly upset by these new reports. While strongly condemning these totalitarian programs, we must also not lose sight of who is putting these reports into circulation, and why. Phone taps are bad, but a general war in the Middle East leading to a possible Third World War is far worse.

Tarpley, Tarpley, Tarpley

Este video es un poco antiguo pero es plenamente actual y perfecto para conocer a Tarpley. El que no le conozca se está perdiendo el mejor análisis de la historia contemporánea, con diferencia abismal con cualquiera que yo haya escuchado. Imprescindible para empezar a entender el mundo en el que vivimos.

Vergüenza británica. Esclavistas y sus herederos

 

Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition

David Cameron's ancestors were among the wealthy families who received generous reparation payments that would be worth millions of pounds in today's money

 

 

Fuente: Independent

 

 

The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families received the modern equivalent of billions of pounds in compensation after slavery was abolished.

The previously unseen records show exactly who received what in payouts from the Government when slave ownership was abolished by Britain – much to the potential embarrassment of their descendants. Dr Nick Draper from University College London, who has studied the compensation papers, says as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived all or part of their fortunes from the slave economy.

 

As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them. Dr Draper said: "There was a feeding frenzy around the compensation." A John Austin, for instance, owned 415 slaves, and got compensation of £20,511, a sum worth nearly £17m today. And there were many who received far more.

 

Academics from UCL, including Dr Draper, spent three years drawing together 46,000 records of compensation given to British slave-owners into an internet database to be launched for public use on Wednesday. But he emphasised that the claims set to be unveiled were not just from rich families but included many "very ordinary men and women" and covered the entire spectrum of society.

 

Dr Draper added that the database's findings may have implications for the "reparations debate". Barbados is currently leading the way in calling for reparations from former colonial powers for the injustices suffered by slaves and their families.

 

Among those revealed to have benefited from slavery are ancestors of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, former minister Douglas Hogg, authors Graham Greene and George Orwell, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the new chairman of the Arts Council, Peter Bazalgette. Other prominent names which feature in the records include scions of one of the nation's oldest banking families, the Barings, and the second Earl of Harewood, Henry Lascelles, an ancestor of the Queen's cousin. Some families used the money to invest in the railways and other aspects of the industrial revolution; others bought or maintained their country houses, and some used the money for philanthropy. George Orwell's great-grandfather, Charles Blair, received £4,442, equal to £3m today, for the 218 slaves he owned.

 

The British government paid out £20m to compensate some 3,000 families that owned slaves for the loss of their "property" when slave-ownership was abolished in Britain's colonies in 1833. This figure represented a staggering 40 per cent of the Treasury's annual spending budget and, in today's terms, calculated as wage values, equates to around £16.5bn.

 

A total of £10m went to slave-owning families in the Caribbean and Africa, while the other half went to absentee owners living in Britain. The biggest single payout went to James Blair (no relation to Orwell), an MP who had homes in Marylebone, central London, and Scotland. He was awarded £83,530, the equivalent of £65m today, for 1,598 slaves he owned on the plantation he had inherited in British Guyana.

 

But this amount was dwarfed by the amount paid to John Gladstone, the father of 19th-century prime minister William Gladstone. He received £106,769 (modern equivalent £83m) for the 2,508 slaves he owned across nine plantations. His son, who served as prime minister four times during his 60-year career, was heavily involved in his father's claim.

 

Mr Cameron, too, is revealed to have slave owners in his family background on his father's side. The compensation records show that General Sir James Duff, an army officer and MP for Banffshire in Scotland during the late 1700s, was Mr Cameron's first cousin six times removed. Sir James, who was the son of one of Mr Cameron's great-grand-uncle's, the second Earl of Fife, was awarded £4,101, equal to more than £3m today, to compensate him for the 202 slaves he forfeited on the Grange Sugar Estate in Jamaica.

 

Another illustrious political family that it appears still carries the name of a major slave owner is the Hogg dynasty, which includes the former cabinet minister Douglas Hogg. They are the descendants of Charles McGarel, a merchant who made a fortune from slave ownership. Between 1835 and 1837 he received £129,464, about £101m in today's terms, for the 2,489 slaves he owned. McGarel later went on to bring his younger brother-in-law Quintin Hogg into his hugely successful sugar firm, which still used indentured labour on plantations in British Guyana established under slavery. And it was Quintin's descendants that continued to keep the family name in the limelight, with both his son, Douglas McGarel Hogg, and his grandson, Quintin McGarel Hogg, becoming Lord Chancellor.

 

Dr Draper said: "Seeing the names of the slave-owners repeated in 20th‑century family naming practices is a very stark reminder about where those families saw their origins being from. In this case I'm thinking about the Hogg family. To have two Lord Chancellors in Britain in the 20th century bearing the name of a slave-owner from British Guiana, who went penniless to British Guyana, came back a very wealthy man and contributed to the formation of this political dynasty, which incorporated his name into their children in recognition – it seems to me to be an illuminating story and a potent example."

 

Mr Hogg refused to comment yesterday, saying he "didn't know anything about it". Mr Cameron declined to comment after a request was made to the No 10 press office.

 

Another demonstration of the extent to which slavery links stretch into modern Britain is Evelyn Bazalgette, the uncle of one of the giants of Victorian engineering, Sir Joseph Bazalgette and ancestor of Arts Council boss Sir Peter Bazalgette. He was paid £7,352 (£5.7m in today's money) for 420 slaves from two estates in Jamaica. Sir Peter said yesterday: "It had always been rumoured that his father had some interests in the Caribbean and I suspect Evelyn inherited that. So I heard rumours but this confirms it, and guess it's the sort of thing wealthy people on the make did in the 1800s. He could have put his money elsewhere but regrettably he put it in the Caribbean."

 

The TV chef Ainsley Harriott, who had slave-owners in his family on his grandfather's side, said yesterday he was shocked by the amount paid out by the government to the slave-owners. "You would think the government would have given at least some money to the freed slaves who need to find homes and start new lives," he said. "It seems a bit barbaric. It's like the rich protecting the rich." The database is available from Wednesday at: ucl.ac.uk/lbs.

 

Cruel trade

 

Slavery on an industrial scale was a major source of the wealth of the British empire, being the exploitation upon which the West Indies sugar trade and cotton crop in North America was based. Those who made money from it were not only the slave-owners, but also the investors in those who transported Africans to enslavement. In the century to 1810, British ships carried about three million to a life of forced labour.

 

Campaigning against slavery began in the late 18th century as revulsion against the trade spread. This led, first, to the abolition of the trade in slaves, which came into law in 1808, and then, some 26 years later, to the Act of Parliament that would emancipate slaves. This legislation made provision for the staggering levels of compensation for slave-owners, but gave the former slaves not a penny in reparation.

 

More than that, it said that only children under six would be immediately free; the rest being regarded as "apprentices" who would, in exchange for free board and lodging, have to work for their "owners" 40 and a half hours for nothing until 1840. Several large disturbances meant that the deadline was brought forward and so, in 1838, 700,000 slaves in the West Indies, 40,000 in South Africa and 20,000 in Mauritius were finally liberated.

 

David Randall

Las próximas movilizaciones en 2014-2015

The coming mass strike upsurge of 2014-2015

 

Occupy Wall Street protesters hold signs as they march along California Street during a demonstration in San Francisco, California, the US, September 17, 2012.

 

By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley

Today, it is increasingly evident that the terrorist al-Qaeda death squads which NATO and Israel have been using to destabilize the government of Syrian President Assad are facing a very uncertain future. If these terrorists were to undergo a decisive defeat or even a total collapse, this would sharply expose the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the current rulers of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries. The path would then be clear to turn the international war of aggression into a domestic struggle for revolutionary reforms.”

Where are we in the unfolding of the current world economic depression, and what can we know about the events that lie ahead? The US Memorial Day holiday weekend provides the occasion to venture some answers to these questions.

The current world economic depression reached critical mass in the autumn of 2008. The world derivatives panic of that year and the bankruptcy of the British and US banking systems was then followed in 2010 by a European banking panic, which has been disguised as a sovereign debt crisis. That European banking crisis continues to the present day, made worse by brutal and stupid austerity policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. With the US and European economies depressed, the slowdown has spread across the world to impact Brazil, China, and India.

No country has so far been able to turn the corner from depression to broad-based recovery. Japan is currently using high-risk competitive evaluations to end decades of stagnation, but this has been punctuated by signs of financial panic. The supposed success story of Iceland, touted especially by Keynesians, has been exposed as a big lie by the recent election there, which revealed a population driven to desperation by a massive collapse of its standard of living - to the point where voters were willing to bring back the hated right-wing parties responsible for the pre-crash orgy of speculation.

The unfolding of the current depression is roughly parallel to the development of the world economic crisis of the 1930s. Back then, the depression was triggered when Lord Montagu Norman’s Bank of England sharply raised the British discount rate in September 1929, sucking huge amounts of hot money across the Atlantic from New York to London, and resulting in the fabled US stock market panic of October 1929. That was followed by a European ranking crisis in the summer of 1931, which started with the Kreditanstalt of Vienna, then brought down the Danatbank and the rest of the large German banks, and culminated with the watershed default on gold payments by the Bank of England in September 1931, which destroyed the pound-based world monetary system of that era. The British debacle then provoked a panic run on US banks which accelerated during the 1932 and into the spring of 1933. By the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration in March of 1933, every bank in the United States had shut its doors. The Roosevelt Bank Holiday merely provided legal cover for those stricken institutions.

In Europe and the United States, that previous depression reached its low point sometime during 1933. Then, even though depression continued to grip the planet, there was a modest uptick in economic activity and employment. Working people began to feel they had won a breathing space, and the political climate began to change. Today, with numerous ruling class voices being raised to argue that austerity policies have gone too far and are becoming counterproductive, a similar token, short-term amelioration may be in the works.

In much of Europe, the first years of the Depression were marked by a sharp right turn, with the reactionaries and fascists scoring important gains in a number of countries. Most important was of course Hitler’s seizure of power in Germany in January 1933. By early 1934, as historian Wolfgang Abendroth noted, the advance of fascism - like the advance of austerity today - seemed to be irresistible. Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Austria were under fascist regimes. Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and other Balkan states were civilian or military dictatorships. In England, Sir Oswald Mosley had launched his British Union of Fascists. In France, monarchists, reactionaries, and Fascists had almost succeeded with an armed assault on the Chamber of Deputies on February 6, 1934. A fascist coup had been narrowly avoided mainly because of personal rivalries among the various would-be dictators. But the French government of Daladier had fallen, and the new Doumergue regime included as defense minister Marshal Pétain, the boss of French fascism and spokesman for the underground fascist networks known as the Cagoule and the Synarchie.

The United States, since 1933 under by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal government, constituted an exception to the general reactionary drift of these years. But the early years of the new deal were unable to prevent a rout of the existing labor organizations due in large part to the colossal numbers of unemployed workers. But, via the middle of the 1930s, in a breathtaking reversal of fortunes, the US labor movement was about to regain the initiative.

First Years of Depression Bring Crisis of Popular Movements

In Europe, the very desperation of the situation after Hitler’s seizure of power forced Social Democratic and communist political forces to put aside their suicidal sectarian differences in favor of the so-called popular front, a defensive alliance against fascism which suffered from programmatic weakness, but was nevertheless enough to permit a regroupment and counterattack. Trade unionists, workers and other groups took the offensive to assert their economic rights.

Perhaps we can see some parallels between the low point of 1933-34 and our own current situation, especially when the quality of mass leadership is concerned. We have now lived through the abject failure of Occupy, whose Situationist/anarchist leadership reached a new low of absurdity by banning any concrete demands - arguing that if the demands were won, the movement would be co-opted. Very little is now left of Occupy, except the name, a bit of nostalgia, and a widespread resolve not to commit the same stupid mistakes a second time. Right wing pseudo-populist Ron Paul has exposed himself as an auxiliary to the Romney presidential campaign with the main goal of building a career for his nepotist and mediocre son Rand. The so-called Tea Party, which pretended in 2010 to represent a challenge to Wall Street bailouts, has now exposed itself as an abject tool of the reactionary billionaire Koch brothers. In Italy, Beppe Grillo and his guru Casaleggio have demonstrated their bungling ineptitude and bad faith, failing to win a single concrete benefit for their 8 million voters. The terrain, in short, is now clear for new leadership and new approaches.

1936: Popular Front Victories in Spain and France

The first part of the 1936 mass upsurge was the February victory of the Spanish Popular Front of socialists and communists. This alliance was attractive enough to pull even anarcho-syndicalist workers out of their usual self-defeating apolitical stance. A land reform, the most basic of all modernizations, was suddenly on the agenda. Wildcat strikes and peasant revolts broke out. In July 1936, General Francisco Franco, the head of the Spanish colonial army in North Africa, carried out a coup d’état against the Spanish Republic. Franco’s revolt enjoyed the support not just of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, but also of the British conservative regime. Even so, the fascist Franco could have been crushed if a minimum level of solidarity had been maintained between the Spanish and French popular front governments. Here we find a lesson that international cooperation will be absolutely indispensable if any successes are to be one in the years ahead. Nothing whatsoever can be done in Europe without a continent wide movement to seize control of the European Central Bank and use it to finance at least 40 million new productive jobs, starting in infrastructure.

¡NO A EUROVEGAS!

Desde hace más de 60 años, el Estado de Israel continúa con su política de ocupación de tierra palestina a la vez que somete al pueblo palestino a una violación continua de sus derechos y un régimen de Apartheid. Sin embargo, la comunidad internacional sigue concediendo una total impunidad a la ocupación israelí por sus crímenes. En este hecho tienen una gran influencia los intereses de determinados actores y su complicidad con la colonización sionista. Un ejemplo de estos actores es Sheldon Adelson, que además de destacarse por sus prácticas fraudulentas, su lucha contra los derechos sindicales, su defensa de la derecha neoliberal, etc., se destaca por su apoyo al sionismo más extremista.

 

Este millonario, que ha declarado públicamente que habría preferido haber hecho el servicio militar en el ejército israelí en vez de en el ejército de los EEUU y que espera que su hijo crezca para “ser un francotirador de las Fuerzas Armadas Israelíes”, es el propietario de uno de los periódicos gratuitos de mayor tirada en el Estado de Israel, Israel Hayom, que apuesta por la línea sionista más radical y defiende la expulsión total del pueblo palestino de su tierra. Por otra parte, mantiene una estrecha relación con el Primer Ministro Israelí, Benjamin Netanjahu, y financia a su partido, el Likud, y sus campañas electorales. Además, Adelson financia otras organizaciones sionistas como Birthright Israel o One Jerusalen, que defienden la construcción de nuevas colonias israelíes.

 

Plataforma Eurovegas NO.

 

Su apoyo del sionismo más extremista también se refleja en su intervención en la política estadounidense. Adelson empieza a aparecer en los medios de comunicación en 1993, cuando financió la creación de un grupo para presionar al gobierno de los EEUU de trasladar su embajada en el Estado de Israel de Tel Aviv a Jerusalén. Así mismo juega un papel relevante en la financiación de candidatos a la presidencia en Estados Unidos que mantenga posiciones favorables a sus intereses, entre estos, la defensa de la colonización sionista. Por ejemplo, después de que el candidato a las primarias de 2012 del Partido Republicano, Newt Gingrich, declarara que el pueblo palestino era “un pueblo inventado”, Adelson se lo recompensó con 5 millones de dólares y, en Enero de 2012, había donado alrededor de 13 millones de dólares a su campaña. Tras su derrota, apoyó después la candidatura de Romney en las elecciones presidenciales de 2012, siendo los Adelson los principales donantes a su campaña, con 10 millones de dólares. Con sus donaciones, también contribuye a la financiación de la Coalición Republicana Judía (RJC), a la del Partido Republicano estadounidense y el Comité Americano-Israelí de Asuntos Públicos, dos poderosos grupos de presión pro-sionistas.

 

El proyecto de Eurovegas, es un eslabón más de esta cadena, como lo demuestra el hecho de que, cuando Adelson ha visitado el Estado español, lo ha hecho acompañado de diplomáticos y empresarios relacionados con las relaciones económicas, comerciales y políticas entre el Estado de Israel y el Estado español.

 

Todo ello se añade al conjunto de razones que nos llevan a oponernos al proyecto de Eurovegas.

 

¡No a la financiación de la ocupación sionista! ¡No a la cesión de nuestros derechos!

¡BOICOT A ISRAEL! ¡BOICOT A EUROVEGAS!

Video: "¿Qué se siente al ser un asesino de masas?", preguntan a Kissinger

 

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Fuente: Voltairenet
 

Un periodista norteamericano abordó a Henry Kissinger preguntándole por sus supuestos "crímenes contra la humanidad" y por el grupo Bilderberg, durante la ceremonia en la que el político recibía el premio a la Libertad, informa el portal Wearechange.

 

Los hechos ocurrieron durante la celebración de la gala Intrepid Freedom Awards, en la que el político recibió el 'galardón a la libertad y la democracia'.

Como muestra el siguiente vídeo, el periodista Luke Rudkowski, corresponsal del medio independiente Wearechange, increpó al ex secretario de Estado estadounidense por sus supuestos crímenes contra la humanidad. Asimismo le preguntó sobre unas declaraciones del político (reveladas en uno de los documentos confidenciales de EE.UU. filtrados por WikiLeaks), en las que aseguraba: "Lo ilegal lo hacemos de forma inmediata, lo inconstitucional tarda un poco más". 



"¿Qué se siente al recibir un premio a la libertad cuando se es un asesino de masas, buscado en muchos países y que ha comprado a millones de personas en todo el mundo? ¿Conoce usted la agenda del Bilderberg? ¿Cómo se siente?", le preguntó el periodista. "Usted sabe que todo esto es una mentira", añadió.

Mientras, el ex secretario de Estado estadounidense, de 89 años, insistía en que el periodista, al que llamó "cobarde", desapareciera de su vista y se negaba a hacer declaraciones.

Henry Kissinger, político y diplomático estadounidense, fue nombrado por Nixon asesor para asuntos de seguridad nacional en 1968 y secretario de Estado (ministro de Asuntos Exteriores) de EE.UU. en 1973, siendo mantenido en su cargo por el presidente Ford  hasta 1977, incluso tras el escándalo Watergate, que le costó el puesto a Nixon.

Según algunos expertos, sus méritos en la política internacional durante esos años son "extraordinarios": impulsó el reconocimiento de la Unión Soviética como interlocutora y partícipe de la hegemonía mundial, acercó a EE.UU. a la República Popular China y logró la apertura de relaciones con multitud de países. 

Sin embargo, su negativa a devolver el Premio Nobel de la Paz que le fue concedido tras lograr el alto al fuego en la Guerra de Vietnam y que posteriormente se rompió, así como las numerosas acusaciones de colaboración y promoción de regímenes dictatoriales, fundamentalmente en América Latina (como el de Videla en Argentina, según confirman documentos filtrados recientemente por WikiLeaks), de impulsar acciones terroristas en diferentes partes del mundo y de otras violaciones graves de  los derechos humanos que pesan sobre él, hacen de este personaje  una figura controvertida y duramente criticada, tanto por políticos como por intelectuales de todo el mundo.

Nonius451, Mucho más sobre el tema:  

Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia.

Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice.

Con Carrero Blanco, el día antes de que éste fuera asesinado por la CIA

http://nonius451.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/la-primavera-arabe-comenzo-para-espana.html

John McCain fotografiado con secuestradores en Siria

Fuente: Voltairenet

 

Foto tomada durante la estancia ilegal del senador estadounidense John McCain en suelo sirio. A la izquierda, justo detrás de McCain, se ve al director de la Syrian Emergency Task Force. Al centro, ante el umbral de la puerta, aparece Mohammad Nour.

 

El senador republicano estadounidense John McCain entró ilegalmente en Siria, el 27 de mayo de 2013 [1]. La foto que publicamos con aquella información provocó una conmoción en Líbano donde varias familias chiitas reconocieron en la imagen a Mohammad Nour, vocero de la brigada Tempestad del Norte, que secuestró a 11 peregrinos chiitas en Azaz .

 

Nueve de los peregrinos libaneses secuestrados están aún en estos momentos en manos de dicha brigada.

 

Al ser contactado por el diario libanés The Daily Star, publicado en Beirut, la oficina del senador McCain dijo no conocer a Mohammad Nour, quien –también según el equipo de McCain– se «infiltró» en la foto tomada al senador estadounidense en territorio sirio. El propio McCain refutó toda complicidad con los secuestradores.

 

El senador McCain había penetrado ilegalmente en Siria con la intención de demostrar que era muy fácil controlar la entrega de armas para garantizar que el equipamiento bélico fuese a parar únicamente a manos de los «rebeldes moderados».

 

La historia de esta foto es la mejor demostración de su fracaso.

La policía turca confisca 2 kg de gas sarín en manos del Frente al-Nusra

Fuente: Voltairenet

 

En el marco de su investigación sobre los atentados perpetrados el 11 de mayo de 2013 en la ciudad de Reyhanli, cerca de la frontera siria, la policía turca realizó el 27 mayo una serie de registros en lugares donde residen varios miembros del Frente al-Nusra, en las localidades turcas de Adana y Mersin.

Los policías turcos arrestaron a 12 sospechosos y confiscaron además 2 kilogramos de gas sarín.

 

El Frente al-Nusra es la rama levantina de al-Qaeda y sus militantes iban a utilizar el gas sarín en territorio turco y en Siria. El gas sarín es un arma química prohibida por la ONU desde 1991.

 

El descubrimiento de la policía turca se produce en momentos en que el diario francés Le Monde publica, en su edición del 28 de mayo, un reportaje en 5 partes donde sus periodistas (Jean-Philippe Remy y Laurent Van Der Stockt) dicen haber sido testigos oculares del uso de gases por parte del Ejército Árabe Sirio contra los «rebeldes» en Jobar, un barrio de Damasco.

 

Le Monde sigue con este reportaje el esquema ya utilizado hace más de un año en un trabajo similar sobre la ciudad de Homs, igualmente publicado entonces por el cotidiano francés en los principales idiomas europeos y reproducido de inmediato en grandes periódicos de los países miembros de la OTAN.

 

Pero contiene numerosas incoherencias ya que describe una guerra química desatada casi en medio de la capital siria pero que sólo afecta a los «opositores», las personas afectadas muestran diversos síntomas pero sin convulsiones y las fotos que ilustran la primera de sus 5 partes muestran a «rebeldes» recibiendo cuidados con gotas oculares totalmente inútiles para alguien afectado por un arma química ya que estas son capaces de penetrar a través de la piel y no actúan como un simple gas lacrimógeno. Estos detalles muestran que, en lugar de ser un documento testimonial, se trata de una nueva obra de propaganda destinada a recibir la más amplia difusión con vistas al levantamiento del embargo europeo sobre la entrega de armas a los grupos armados que operan contra el régimen sirio.

Nuestros amigos los elegidos...

Fuente: http://contraboicotaisrael.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/por-la-paz-contra-el-boicot-israel.HTML

Por la Paz, contra el boicot a Israel

Los abajo firmantes, ciudadanos vascos, catalanes y gallegos, que defendemos el derecho de autodeterminación de nuestros respectivos pueblos, mediante este escrito, queremos mostrar nuestra oposición a la campaña que bajo el nombre BDS (Boicot, Desinversión y Sanciones), promueve acciones  de todo tipo contra  productos, actos o profesionales de proveniencia israelí en ámbitos económicos, académicos culturales o deportivos. [...]
 

... Israel, a pesar de los defectos que se le puedan reprochar, ha sido una referencia para los pueblos que aspiran a su soberanía, especialmente así ha sido en el caso catalán...

 Como ciudadanos que aspiramos a la soberanía de nuestras respectivas naciones no podemos admitir el racismo antijudío que subyace en estas campañas de boicot, ...[...]

Promotores del Manifiesto:

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Jon Inarritu, jurista - Xabier Kintana Membro da Real Academia de la Lengua vasca Jurgi Kintana, historiador - Miguel Itoiz, ingeniero - Iñaki Akerreta, periodista - Filipe Duluc, lingüista. Ex-presidente del PNV de Iparralde, actualmente en EA. - Iñaki Anasagasti, senador PNV - Toni Florido, Presidente de ACAI - Mila Miró, Secretaria de ACAI - Ignasi Carnicer, ex-diputado de PSC - Jordi Argelaguet, director do CEO - Jaume Renyer, profesor URV - Alfons López Tena, diputado de Solidaritat - Jaume Nogueroles, vocal de ACAI - Pilar Rahola, periodista - Josep-Lluis Carod-Rovira, politico y escritor - Joan B.Cullá i Clará, historiador - Xoán Bernárdez Vilar, escritor y miembro de la Real Academia Galega - Carlos Penela. escritor - Natalia Costas Alonso, abogada y membro de la Executiva Comarcal de Compromiso por Galicia en Vigo - Miguel Barros, ex diputado PSG y escritor - Manuel Feáns. Profesor. Ex concejal del BNG - Paco Lores Santacecilia, sindicalista - CIG - Cesar Pazos, técnico de marketing. Miembro del Padroado da Fundación Enclave -  Santiago Jaureguizar, periodista y escritor - Henrique Monteagudo, sociolingüísta, profesor en la USC y miembro de la RAG - Pedro Gómez-Valadés, Presidente AGAI

 

 

 

Más casualidades del destino...

Sólo quedan dos miembros vivos del comando de 25 soldados que asesinó a Bin Laden

 

• Un total de 22 miembros del comando que asaltó el refugio de Bin Laden murieron en un supuesto accidente de helicóptero mientras sobrevolaban Afganistán.
• Otro de los soldados falleció el jueves en un accidente con su paracaídas.

Un equipo de 25 soldados de élite de los Navy Seals del ejército de EE UU fue el encargado de infiltrarse en el refugio en que se ocultaba Bin Laden en Abbottabad, el mayo de 2011. Cerca de dos años después 23 de esos soldados han muerto, según informa Il Corriere della Sera.

 

El grupo más numeroso de fallecidos del conocido como 'Team Six' perdieron la vida supuestamente en un accidente de helicóptero, mientras sobrevolaban Afganistán, en lo que para unos fue un accidente y para otros un derribo ocasionado por fuego de los Talibán.

 

Shadle murió por sus heridas en el hospital de Tucson Sin embargo, las fuentes oficiales del Pentágono nunca confirmaron que se tratara de los mismos Navy Seals que ejecutaron a Bin Laden.

 

Ahora se ha sabido que el pasado jueves falleció Brett D. Shadle, otro de los miembros del 'Team Six', a los 31 años. El Seal se estrelló con su paracaídas en el desierto de Arizona después de un chocar con un compañero en un salto a baja altura. 

 

Shadle murió por sus heridas en el hospital de Tucson, donde se encuentra hospitalizado el compañero con el que chocó.

 

Tan sólo quedan vivos dos miembros de aquel comando y ambos han caído en desgracia. Recientemente salían a la luz declaraciones del soldado que supuestamente disparó contra Bin Laden en las que afirmaba encontrarse al borde de la pobreza, sin pensión y sin seguro médico.

 

El otro, Matt Bissonnette, fue dado de baja deshonrosa del ejército por revelar detalles de la operación y plasmarlos en un libro en el que se contaba cómo se desarrolló el asalto al refugio de Bin Laden.

Revelación de secretos

No es el único que reveló detalles de aquella histórica operación. Siete militares de la unidad de élite que mató al líder de la red terrorista Al Qaeda fueron sancionados por el Pentágono por haber revelado secretos para la elaboración del videojuego Medal of Honor, según informó la cadena de televisión estadounidense CBS.