Month: August 2013

Here’s What Candidate Obama Said About Military Intervention In 2007

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– Here’s What Candidate Obama Said About Military Intervention in 2007 (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 27, 2013):

Q. In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? (Specifically, what about the strategic bombing of suspected nuclear sites — a situation that does not involve stopping an IMMINENT threat?)Obama:  The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

– Interview with Charlie Savage, December 20, 2007 (full text here)

Ok, so Obama lied again…what’s new. Well what’s new is that launching missiles into Syria right now could lead to a much wider global conflagration, i.e. World War III. I don’t think anybody wants that. Or do they? It actually seems as if the sociopaths in charge of these United States DO want this, and therefore we must do everything we can to prevent it from happening.

Not only is it key to inform people how ridiculous it is to say a chemical weapons attack is a reason for war when the U.S. government itself aided Saddam Hussein in chemical warfare in the 1980?s, but we must also explain to people that use of force in Syria is entirely unconstitutional.

Read moreHere’s What Candidate Obama Said About Military Intervention In 2007

It Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities All Over The United States

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– It Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities All Over The United States (Economic Collapse, Aug 27, 2013):

What would you do if a police officer threatened to arrest you for trying to share a sandwich with a desperately hungry homeless woman that really needed it?  Such a notion sounds absolutely bizarre, but this is actually happening in major cities all over the United States.  More than 50 large U.S. cities have adopted “anti-camping” or “anti-food sharing” laws in recent years, and in many of these cities the police are strictly enforcing these laws.  Sometimes the goal appears to be to get the homeless people to go away.  Apparently the heartless politicians that are passing these laws believe that if the homeless can’t get any more free food and if they keep getting thrown into prison for “illegal camping” they will eventually decide to go somewhere else where they won’t be hassled so much.  This is yet another example of how heartless our society is becoming.  The middle class is being absolutely shredded and poverty is absolutely exploding, but meanwhile the hearts of many Americans are growing very cold.  If this continues, what is the future of America going to look like?

An organization called Love Wins Ministries made national headlines recently when police in Raleigh, North Carolina threatened to arrest them if they distributed sausage biscuits and coffee to homeless people living in the heart of the city.  Love Wins Ministries had been doing this for years, but now it is apparently illegal.  The following is from someone who was actually there:

Read moreIt Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities All Over The United States

UN Official: Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad – Large Explosion Rocks Damascus – Assad Flees To Iran

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– UN Official: Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad’s Army (Live Trading News, Aug 27, 2013):

Testimony from victims now strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin Nerve Gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior UN diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.

Read moreUN Official: Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad – Large Explosion Rocks Damascus – Assad Flees To Iran

Russia Sends Another Plane to Evacuate Citizens From Syria

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– Russia Sends Another Plane to Evacuate Citizens From Syria (RIA Novosti, Aug 28, 2013):

MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) – After nearly 90 Russians were evacuated from Syria on Tuesday, the emergencies ministry sent another plane for citizens willing to leave the war-torn country, a spokeswoman said.

“An Il-62 plane took off for Latakia. This special flight is for Russian and CIS nationals who had earlier expressed their determination to return to Moscow,” emergencies ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius said.

Read moreRussia Sends Another Plane to Evacuate Citizens From Syria

Flashback From 08.12.2012: ‘Build Up To WW3 Anonymous Message To The US On Syria’ (Video)

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According to Anonymous the US Govt is openly creating terrorism along side Nato and Israel to demonize the Syrian Arien Republic.

The truth is
the United States government, along with its western allies, is facilitating this war by supplying terrorist cells with weapons to destabilize the Syrian government, then using the term “terrorism” as justification in an attempt to invade Syria’s territory; all of this so as to implement policies of their own and rape the country of its resources.

Currently, terror gangs supported by the “Central Intelligence Agency” (CIA) and other western powers have been supplied with Biological chemicals called Sarin gas — aka GB nerve gas — considered a weapon of mass destruction.

Sarin or GB is a colorless, odorless liquid, used as a chemical weapon owing to its extreme potency as a nerve agent. It has been classified as a deadly weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations according to Resolution 687. Production and stockpiling of Sarin was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention — 1993.

Read moreFlashback From 08.12.2012: ‘Build Up To WW3 Anonymous Message To The US On Syria’ (Video)

US: Ready To Strike Syria If Obama Gives Order – Officials: Military Strikes On Syria ‘As Early As Thursday – US Mass Military Movement (Picture)

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Putin cannot afford to sell out Syria and to lose …

… the last ally in the Middle East besides Iran,

… the last operational seaport in the Mediterranian,

… all credibility in and outside Russia,

… or can he?


The picture shows a HUGE number of military vehicles being transported towards New Orleans and was just taken by our reader today, August 26th, 2013. (Source)

– US: Ready to strike Syria if Obama gives order (, Aug 27, 2013)

– Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say (NBC News, Aug 27, 2013)

– Biden: “No doubt” Assad responsible for Syria chemical weapons attack (CBS News, Aug 27, 2013)

– US readies intelligence, legal justification for possible military strike against Syria (, Aug 27, 2013)

– US plans for missile strikes against Syria as questions swirl about the endgame (, Aug 27, 2013)

– Western attack to punish Syria likely to begin with barrage of more than 100 missiles in 48 hour blitz (Telegraph, Aug 27, 2013)

– France ‘ready to punish’ perpetrators of Syria attack (BBC News, Aug 27, 2013)

Take a close look at this (deleted) article:

– U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’ (Daily Mail, Jan 29, 2013)

Projected consequences of WW3 & more (FYI):

Fukushima Reaches Desperation Point: Water Filtration Equipment Goes Offline & Leaks Just Won’t Stop And Are Out Of Control, TEPCO Calls For International HELP

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– Fukushima in freefall: radioactive water filters taken offline, Tepco in desperation as leaks just won’t stop (Natural News, Aug 27, 2013):

After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now calling for international help and has all but admitted Fukushima’s radiation leaks are spiraling out of control. In addition to the leaking water storage units that are unleashing hundreds of tons of radioactive water each day, Tepco now says 50% of its contaminated water filtration capability has been taken offline due to corrosion.

The result is that radiation leaks are escalating out of control and attempted remediation efforts are faltering. This is in addition to the fact the Japanese government’s attempted brainwashing propaganda campaign has also been exposed. It attempted to convince people that if they drank beer or smiled, they would be immune to radiation poisoning. (Yes, this is how desperate they’ve become…)

From day one, the Fukushima fiasco has been all about denial: Deny the leaks, shut off the radiation sensors, black out the news and fudge the science. Yet more than two years later, the denials are colliding with the laws of physics, and Tepco’s cover stories are increasingly being blown wide open.

As Businessweek.com now reports, Japan seems to have no practical interest in solving this problem:

Read moreFukushima Reaches Desperation Point: Water Filtration Equipment Goes Offline & Leaks Just Won’t Stop And Are Out Of Control, TEPCO Calls For International HELP

Israeli Intelligence Seen As Central To US Case Against Syria (The Times of Israel)

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… which happens to be the same Israel that claimed Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons …

… and that the USS Liberty was under attack by Egypt:

Flashback:

– Dead In The Water – The Sinking Of The USS Liberty (Full BBC Documentary):

The press release for the 2002 BBC documentary film Dead in the Water suggests the attack was a “daring ploy by Israel to fake an Egyptian attack” to give America a reason to enter the war against Egypt. Convinced that the attack was real, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. The planes were recalled only just in time, when it was clear the Liberty had not sunk and that Israel had carried out the attack.(Source)

– On record: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’ (Video)

 

Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

– Israeli intelligence seen as central to US case against Syria (The Times of Israel, Aug 27, 2013):

Netanyahu to hold second security cabinet meeting on crisis in two days; top minister says it’s unthinkable for Assad to be allowed to go on gassing children

(Commentary Infinite Unknown:

Using white phoshporus on palestinian children and other war crimes & atrocities are OK, right? Right???:

– Israel admits organ harvesting from Palestinians, and others, without consent (Guardian)

– UN assembly votes for probes of Gaza war crimes charges (Reuters)

– U.N. rights envoy: Israeli war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law in Gaza (Reuters)

– Israel’s war crimes in Gaza (Independent)

– Amnesty International: Gaza white phosphorus shells were US made (Times)

– Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza (Guardian)

– Outcry over Israel’s reported use of phosphorus in Gaza (IHT)

– Israel accused of executing parents in front of children in Gaza (Telegraph)

– Gaza: ‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’ (Independent)

– Israel ‘admits’ using white phosphorus munitions (Times)

– Gaza building apparently hit by phosphorus: UN (Vancouver Sun)

– Israeli use of white phosphorus ‘undeniable’: Amnesty International (The Age)

– Israel used phosphorus in heavily populated areas, doctors charge (Kansas City Star)

– Israeli army investigates use of white phosphorous in Gaza (Guardian)

May these Israeli war criminals get what they deserve NOW.)

While Israel will almost certainly take no direct part in a military strike, Israeli intelligence information is widely believed to have played a central role in enabling the US’s adamant conviction that Assad’s regime fired chemical weapons at civilians outside Damascus last Wednesday, killing hundreds of people and wounding over a thousand, according to Syrian rebel groups.

A large delegation of senior Israeli security officials is currently in Washington holding talks with top administration officials led by US National Security Adviser Susan Rice.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his second meeting in two days with his security cabinet to discuss the Syria crisis on Tuesday afternoon.

“The State of Israel is ready for any scenario,” Netanyahu said after the meeting. “We are not part of the civil war in Syria but if we identify any attempt whatsoever to harm us, we will respond and we will respond in strength.”

Prior to the session, called to discuss the implications for Israel of a possible strike, a top Israeli minister said it would be inconceivable for the international community to allow President Bashar Assad’s regime to continue killing children with chemical weapons.

Naftali Bennett, the minister of economics who sits on the security cabinet, issued what amounted to a demand for military intervention against Assad. “It cannot be that less than 100 kilometers from Israel, children are being gassed to death and we let the world remain silent and ignore it,” Bennett said.

Read moreIsraeli Intelligence Seen As Central To US Case Against Syria (The Times of Israel)

Report: Israel Provided West Evidence Of Syrian Chemical Use

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… which happens to be the same Israel that claimed Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons …

… and that the USS Liberty was under attack by Egypt:

Flashback:

– Dead In The Water – The Sinking Of The USS Liberty (Full BBC Documentary):

The press release for the 2002 BBC documentary film Dead in the Water suggests the attack was a “daring ploy by Israel to fake an Egyptian attack” to give America a reason to enter the war against Egypt. Convinced that the attack was real, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. The planes were recalled only just in time, when it was clear the Liberty had not sunk and that Israel had carried out the attack.(Source)

– On record: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’ (Video)

– Report: Israel provided West evidence of Syrian chemical use (YNet, Aug 26, 2013):

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported that Israel gave Washington and European countries information that included documents and pictures proving that chemical weapons were launched from a Syrian army post in the vicinity of Damascus. According to the report, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz informed US Joint Chiefs Of Staff General Martin Dempsey that Israel has evidence of use of chemical weapons.Sources informed the paper that Israel is closely following the issue of Syrian chemical weapons using satellites, surveillance cameras and means within the territory of Syria, as well as through agents.

 

Dead In The Water – The Sinking Of The USS Liberty (Full BBC Documentary)

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Flashback.


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During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA.

Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship.

The American government accepted the explanation. For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable to rebut it convincingly.

Now, Dead in the Water uses startling new evidence to reveal the truth behind the seemingly inexplicable attack. The film combines dramatic reconstruction of the events, with new access to former officers in the US and Israeli armed forces and intelligence services who have decided to give their own version of events.

Interviews include President Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara, former head of the Israeli navy Admiral Shlomo Errell and members of the USS Liberty crew.

CIA Documents Show The U.S. Helped Saddam Hussein Use Chemical Weapons

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– Foreign Policy: CIA Documents Show the U.S. Helped Saddam Hussein Use Chemical Weapons (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 26, 2013):

But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United States’ knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly agents. They show that senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched.

– From Foreign Policy’s excellent article: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

Remember all of the propaganda ahead of the USA’s “democracy unleashing” invasion of Iraq in 2003. It went something like this: “We have evidence that Saddam Hussein has stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and even worse he has a histroy of using them, even against his own people!”

Well unsurprisingly, Mr. Hussein had a little help from his friends. The United States of America. Let’s bear this in mind as our Noble Peace Prize winning President attempts to involve us in another unconstitutional war based on the fact that chemical weapons have been used.

Read moreCIA Documents Show The U.S. Helped Saddam Hussein Use Chemical Weapons

Bill Hicks On The Iraq War (Video)

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– Video of the Day: Bill Hicks on the Iraq War (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 26, 2013):

You know during the Persian Gulf War, those intelligence reports would come out:

“Iraq has incredible weapons, incredible weapons.”

“How do you know that?”

“Well…uh, we looked at the receipts.”

– Bill Hicks

Enjoy the war serfs.


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15 Signs That Obama Has Already Made The Decision To Go To War With Syria

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See also:

– US, Britain And France Agree To Attack Syria Within Two Weeks

– Why Would Assad Invite U.N. Chemical Weapons Inspectors To Syria, Then Launch A Chemical Weapons Attack Against Women And Children On The Very Day They Arrive, Just Miles From Where They Are Staying?

– 15 Signs That Obama Has Already Made The Decision To Go To War With Syria (Economic Collapse, Aug 25, 2013):

The Obama administration seems absolutely determined to help radical Islamic jihadists that have beheaded Christians, that have massacred entire Christian villages, and that have pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda topple the Assad regime and take over Syria.  Yes, the Assad regime is horrible, but if these jihadist lunatics take control it will destabilize the entire region, make the prospect of a major regional war much more probable, and plunge the entire nation of Syria into a complete and utter nightmare.  It has been estimated that somewhere around 100,000 people have already been killed in the civil war in Syria, and now it looks like the U.S. military and the rest of NATO plan to become directly involved in the conflict.  The Obama administration is actually considering an attack on Syria even though the American people are overwhelmingly against it, Obama does not have Congressional approval to start a war, and he will never get approval for military action from the UN because it will be blocked by Russia.  This is setting up to become a colossal foreign policy disaster for the United States.

Read more15 Signs That Obama Has Already Made The Decision To Go To War With Syria

Sun’s Magnetic Field Reversal Still A Scientific Mystery

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– Sun’s Magnetic Field Reversal Still A Scientific Mystery (Hufiington Post, Aug 13, 2013):

If you’re confused about the sun’s impending magnetic field flip, don’t feel bad — scientists don’t fully understand it, either.

The sun’s magnetic field will reverse its polarity three or four months from now, researchers say, just as it does every 11 years at the peak of the solar activity cycle. While solar physicists know enough about this strange phenomenon to predict when it will occur, its ultimate causes remain mysterious.

Read moreSun’s Magnetic Field Reversal Still A Scientific Mystery

Global Warming Debunked: NASA Report Verifies Carbon Dioxide Actually Cools Atmosphere

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– Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere (Natural News, Aug 22, 2013):

Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA’s Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence.

As reported by Principia Scientific International (PSI), Martin Mlynczak and his colleagues over at NASA tracked infrared emissions from the earth’s upper atmosphere during and following a recent solar storm that took place between March 8-10. What they found was that the vast majority of energy released from the sun during this immense coronal mass ejection (CME) was reflected back up into space rather than deposited into earth’s lower atmosphere.

The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASA’s own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), which are abundant in the earth’s upper atmosphere, greenhouse gases reflect heating energy rather than absorb it.

“Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” says James Russell from Hampton University, who was one of the lead investigators for the groundbreaking SABER study. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”

Almost all ‘heating’ radiation generated by sun is blocked from entering lower atmosphere by CO2

Read moreGlobal Warming Debunked: NASA Report Verifies Carbon Dioxide Actually Cools Atmosphere

NASA: The Sun’s Magnetic Field Is About To Flip

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– The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip (NASA, Aug 5, 2013):

Something big is about to happen on the sun.  According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip.”It looks like we’re no more than 3 to 4 months away from a complete field reversal,” says solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University. “This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system.”

The sun’s magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years.  It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun’s inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself.  The coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of ‘Solar Max’ will be behind us, with half yet to come.

Read moreNASA: The Sun’s Magnetic Field Is About To Flip

AND NOW: LSD Safe For Psyche, Say Norwegian Researchers

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Oh, sure!

Google translation:

– LSD safe for the psyche (Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Germany’s first weekly digital science magazine, Aug 21, 2013):

A year ago, the researchers Teri Krebs and Pål-Ørjan Johansen of the scientific-technical University of Norway in Trondheim were evaluated studies from the 1960s, where alcoholics were treated with a dose of LSD – a bold approach, but worked in many patients [ 1]. Criticism was inevitable: one drug just replace the other and be at least as harmful for the body and mind. These concerns Krebs and Johansen wanted …

Original Article in German:

– LSD unbedenklich für die Psyche (Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Aug 21, 2013):

Vor einem Jahr hatten die Forscher Teri Krebs und Pål-Ørjan Johansen von der naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Universität Norwegens in Trondheim Studien aus den 1960er Jahren ausgewertet, bei denen Alkoholkranke mit einer Dosis LSD therapiert wurden – ein verwegener Ansatz, der bei vielen Patienten aber wirkte [1]. Kritik blieb nicht aus: Die eine Droge ersetze nur die andere und sei mindestens genauso schädlich für Körper und Geist.

Read moreAND NOW: LSD Safe For Psyche, Say Norwegian Researchers

Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemical Weapons Attack (Video)

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On August 21st, 2013 chemical weapons were used the Syrian conflict yet again. Western powers, the U.S. and France in particular enthusiastically didn’t hesitate for even a moment to take advantage of the tragedy, decrying it as a crime against humanity and using it as a springboard to announce their preparations for military strikes against the Syrian government.

Make no mistake this was a crime against humanity… but the gas was NOT used by the Syrian government, it was used by the NATO backed rebels. In this video we’re going to show you definitive evidence to support this claim and we’re going explain the U.S. and NATO’s motive for committing such an atrocity. The leaked documents that we are going to be presenting are available for you to download yourself. You’ll find a in a link in the description to that download and you’ll also find links to the mainstream articles we used in our research:

Read moreLeaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemical Weapons Attack (Video)

US, Britain And France Agree To Attack Syria Within Two Weeks

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The Independent has changed the headline of the article and so this link …

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-air-attacks-loom-as-britain-and-us-pledge-to-use-force-within-two-weeks-8784435.html?printService=print

… now leads to this slightly different article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-un-weapons-inspectors-attacked-as-they-try-to-enter-alleged-poison-gas-attack-site-8784435.html

From the Independent:

Western countries, including Britain, are planning to take unilateral military action against the Assad regime within two weeks in retaliation for its alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria.

David Cameron discussed launching missile strikes against key regime targets during a 40-minute telephone call with Barack Obama on Saturday night and also with the French President François Hollande on Sunday. While Downing Street said western powers had not ruled out seeking UN endorsement for military action they added that they were also prepared to unilaterally.

So the ‘official’ start of WW3 is within two weeks then?

– US, Britain and France Agree to Attack Syria Within Two Weeks (Antiwar, Aug 25, 2013):

Initially Limited Strikes Aim to Avoid Serious War Debate

Discussing the matter in a 40 minute phone call on Saturday night, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed in principle to start attacking Syria within the next two weeks. France, long calling for such a war, is also reportedly in on the idea.

British officials familiar with the situation say that they didn’t rule out seeking UN support for the war, but also don’t expect to actually get that support, and are prepared to ignore the UN and attack anyhow.

Read moreUS, Britain And France Agree To Attack Syria Within Two Weeks

Syria Crisis: UN Inspectors’ Convoy Hit By Sniper Fire

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See also:

– Why Would Assad Invite U.N. Chemical Weapons Inspectors To Syria, Then Launch A Chemical Weapons Attack Against Women And Children On The Very Day They Arrive, Just Miles From Where They Are Staying?

– Syria crisis: UN inspectors’ convoy hit by sniper fire (BBC News, Aug 26, 2013):

Unidentified snipers have opened fire on a convoy of UN experts investigating suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria’s capital, the UN has said.

One car was shot at “multiple times”, forcing the convoy to turn back.

Syrian state media blamed opposition “terrorists” for the attack, though the claim could not be verified.

Read moreSyria Crisis: UN Inspectors’ Convoy Hit By Sniper Fire

Russia FM Lavrov Calls Emergency Press Conference On Syria – Assad And Lavrov, Speak Out To Avert Military Action In Syria

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– Lavrov convenes urgent press conference on Syria (Interfax, AUg 26, 2013):

RUSSIA-LAVROV-SYRIA-BRIEFING MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold an urgent press conference on Monday on the latest developments in and around Syria.

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– Assad, Lavrov, speak out to avert military action in Syria (Voice of Russia, Aug 26, 2013):

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed western claims his regime used chemical weapons as an “insult to common sense”, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that any military action in Syria without total UN sanction would be a “very grave violation of international law”.

In an emergency press conference on Monday, Lavrov said:

“They (the West) have not been able to come up with any proof but are saying at the same time that the red line has been crossed and there can be no delay,” Lavrov said, adding that calls for military action “contradicted” agreements from the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

“Using force without the approval of the UN Security Council is a very grave violation of international law,” he said.

Read moreRussia FM Lavrov Calls Emergency Press Conference On Syria – Assad And Lavrov, Speak Out To Avert Military Action In Syria

Obama Administration Accepts Rebels’ Account On Syria, Prepares For War

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Has Obama asked imself what Putin will do?

I would not expect him to blink.

– Obama Administration Accepts Rebels’ Account on Syria, Prepares for War (Antiwar, Aug 25, 2013):

Officials Cite Media Reports as Leaving Them ‘Very Little Doubt’

It doesn’t take much to convince the Obama Administration these days.

Officials quoted by ABC News say that entirely based on media reports of the “number of victims” and “reported symptoms, the administration has “very little doubt” that the rebels’ account of the Wednesday incident in Jobar is accurate.

Read moreObama Administration Accepts Rebels’ Account On Syria, Prepares For War