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Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet To Death For ‘Renouncing Islam’

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– Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet To Death For “Renouncing Islam”:

A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.

Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.

But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.

Fayadh’s supporters believe he is being punished by hardliners for posting a video online showing the religious police (mutaween) in Abha lashing a man in public. “Some Saudis think this was revenge by the morality police,” said Kareem.

The case highlights the tensions between hardline religious conservatives and the small but growing number of artists and activists who are tentatively pushing the boundaries of freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia, where cinema is banned and there are no art schools.

– From the Guardian article: Saudi Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam

If ISIS had sentenced an internationally renowned poet to death on trumped up charges of “renouncing Islam,” it would be highlighted endlessly across Western media until the public was sufficiently salivating for war against the latest CIA-invented enemy.

When one of America’s closest allies does it…not so much.

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10,000 troops to be deployed on British streets to deal with a Paris-style attack, as Cameron warns ISIS could get hold of chemical weapons

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– 10,000 troops to be deployed on British streets to deal with a Paris-style attack, as Cameron warns ISIS could get hold of chemical weapons:

Up to 10,000 troops are on standby to be deployed on the streets of Britain in the event of a Paris-style terror attack, David Cameron announced today.

The Prime Minister said the forces were part of a new contingency plan to deal with a ‘major terrorist attack’ amid warnings that ISIS and Al Qaeda could obtain chemical and biological weapons to launch a deadly attack.

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Russia May Stop Gas Supplies to Ukraine in Two Days

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– Russia May Stop Gas Supplies to Ukraine in Two Days:

Kiev’s prepayment is sufficient to cover deliveries for a couple of days, Gazprom CEO noted.

TEHRAN  (Sputnik) — Russia could stop gas supplies to Ukraine this week, as Kiev’s prepayment is sufficient to cover deliveries for about two days, Russia’s Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said Monday.

“Volumes of the prepaid gas are running out. I think that they will be sufficient… for a couple of days or so,” Miller told journalists on the sidelines of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit in the Iranian capital.

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William Engdahl: Russia Debates Unorthodox Orthodox Financial Alternative

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– Russia Debates Unorthodox Orthodox Financial Alternative:

A significant debate is underway in Russia since imposition of western financial sanctions on Russian banks and corporations in 2014. It’s about a proposal presented by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church. The proposal, which resembles Islamic interest-free banking models in many respects, was first unveiled in December 2014 at the depth of the Ruble crisis and oil price free-fall. This August the idea received a huge boost from the endorsement of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It could change history for the better depending on what is done and where it further leads.

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5 Myths Regarding the Paris Terror Attacks

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– 5 Myths Regarding the Paris Terror Attacks:

As usual, the politicos and talking heads are all talking their own book, using the Paris terror attacks to push their own agendas.

As shown below, they’re spouting nonsense.

Mass Surveillance Won’t Help

The NSA and other spy agencies are pretending that the Paris attacks show that we need more mass surveillance.

But the New York Times correctly points out in a scathing editorial that mass surveillance won’t help to prevent terrorism:

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Belgium PM Maintains Maximum Terror Alert, Confirms Threat Still “Imminent, Serious”; Civilians Urged To “Remain At Home”

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– Belgium PM Maintains Maximum Terror Alert, Confirms Threat Still “Imminent, Serious”; Civilians Urged To “Remain At Home”:

Latest Update:

  • *MICHEL: BRUSSELS TERROR THREAT STILL SERIOUS AND IMMINENT
  • *BELGIUM’S MICHEL: TERROR ALERT REMAINS AT LEVEL 4
  • *MICHEL: TERROR ALERT IN BRUSSELS STAYS AT HIGHEST LEVEL
  • *BELGIUM’S MICHEL: BRUSSELS METRO TO STAY CLOSED UNTIL MONDAY
  • *BRUSSELS SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES TO BE CLOSED MONDAY
  • *BELGIUM’S MICHEL: WILL RE-ASSESS TERROR THREAT MONDAY AFTERNOON
  • *MICHEL: HAVE TAKEN STEPS WITH EU INSTITUTIONS IN BRUSSELS

So – much like The Fed, it appears Belgian officials find themselves trapped at the lower bound of liberty and freedom and higher bound of terror and fearmongery.

As we detailed earlier,

On Saturday, police and other security personnel instituted what amounts to a military lockdown of Brussels amid a “serious and imminent” terror threat.

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So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies”

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– So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies”:

Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible. 

Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship.

A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’”

ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored?—?indeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who are integral to the anti-ISIS coalition. Which then begs the question as to why Hollande and other Western leaders expressing their determination to “destroy” ISIS using all means necessary, would prefer to avoid the most significant factor of all: the material infrastructure of ISIS’ emergence in the context of ongoing Gulf and Turkish state support for Islamist militancy in the region.

There are many explanations, but one perhaps stands out: the West’s abject dependence on terror-toting Muslim regimes, largely to maintain access to Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asian oil and gas resources.

– From the excellent Nafeez Ahmed article: NATO is Harbouring the Islamic State

With the way the French government’s cracking down on the civil liberties of its own citizens, you’d think the general public was supporting and funding ISIS as opposed to the French government allies who actually are.

As an example, we learn the following from ArsTechica:

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US, French Aircraft Carriers Rush Toward Syrian Coast To Find Numerous Russian Warships Already There

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– US, French Aircraft Carriers Rush Toward Syrian Coast To Find Numerous Russian Warships Already There:

Two weeks ago, on November 5, and one week before the Paris terrorist attack, we reported that somewhat unexpectedly, France had dispatched its only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, to “the eastern Mediterranean for operations against Isis in both Syria and Iraq.”

It was unclear just what these pre-emptive operations would be and why France is getting so dramatically involved in the campaign against ISIS. Not knowing the dramatic attack that was about to unfold (whose false flag origins have been quickly ignored as nobody has yet explained why a fake Syrian passport was found next to the suicide bomber), we speculated that this move had to do with the departure of the CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt which had left the Persian Gulf region a month ago, leaving the entire 5th Naval Fleet without a US carrier presence for the first time in a decade.

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Obama Blames Social Media As Russian PM Blasts “Irresponsible US Policy” For Strengthening ISIS

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– Obama Blames Social Media As Russian PM Blasts “Irresponsible US Policy” For Strengthening ISIS:

“The Islamic State has grown that strong due to the irresponsible policy of the United States,” exclaimed Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev this morning, demanding that “really consolidated efforts” are needed to counter ISIS’ terrorist threats. This comes just hours after President Obama toughened his rhetoric, vowing that the global coalition formed to destroy ISIS “will not relent,” adding, rather oddly, that the group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is “a bunch of killers with good social media.”

Obama toughens up…

Obama was hit with a wave of criticism in the wake of the terrorists’ attacks in France and Lebanon, which left hundreds dead, having described that burst of violence as a “setback” in the battle against ISIS. So now, as CNN reports, U.S. President Barack Obama toughened his rhetoric against ISIS at a weekend press conference in Malaysia…

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ISIS Coverup: US Centcom Accused Of Lying To President, Congress, Public About Airstrikes, Ground Fight

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– ISIS Coverup: US Centcom Accused Of Lying To President, Congress, Public About Airstrikes, Ground Fight:

“...there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).”

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it as many times as it takes for the naive, largely aloof American public to catch on: the quote excerpted above is the smoking gun when it comes to Washington’s ISIS “strategy.”

Note that no tin foil hats or conspiracy theories are needed. The passage shown above is from a 2012 declassified Pentagon report on the situation in Syria (you can read it in full here). What it says is that US intelligence was well aware of the possibility that Sunni extremists working to destabilize the Assad government might move to establish a proto-state in eastern Syria based around orthodox, ultra-conservative, Sunni Islam. It also says “the supporting powers to the opposition” (i.e. the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey) would be delighted with such an outcome as it would “isolate” Assad on the way to dealing a strategic death blow to Iran’s Shiite crescent (i.e. Tehran’s regional ambitions). That’s the only possible interpretation of the quote shown above and it’s completely consistent with the information contained in a leaked diplomatic cable sent in 2006 by acting Deputy Chief of Mission in Syria William Roebuck which contained the following “advice” on how to go about destabilizing the Assad government:

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Netanyahu ADMITS ISIS Are Israel Soldiers

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– Netanyahu ADMITS ISIS are Israel soldiers:

Netanyahu to ‘punish’ Syrians who attacked ISIL terrorists

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to punish a group of Syrian Druze individuals in the occupied Golan Heights who attacked injured ISIL Takfiri militants en route to a hospital in Israel.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“We will not allow anyone to take the law into their own hands. We will not allow anyone to disrupt Israeli soldiers in their missions,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

He called the incident “very serious” and said those behind it would be located and held to account.

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Kerry: Doubters of Global-warming Apocalypse Must Be Silenced

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– John Kerry fined $50 for leaving snow in front of Boston home

 

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– Kerry: Doubters of Global-warming Apocalypse Must Be Silenced:

In a speech delivered November 10 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Secretary of State John Kerry (shown) appeared to be intentionally amping up the already incendiary rhetoric aimed at those scientists and citizens who express doubt or skepticism about — or opposition to — the wild, apocalyptic claims of the climate-change choir. “The science tells us unequivocally, those who continue to make climate change a political fight put us all at risk,” Kerry said. “And we cannot sit idly by and allow them to do that.”

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How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria

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– How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria:

Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it when I wrote daily for The Anti-Media, and even before then when I wrote for a Canadian outlet called Digital Journal. It began long before that though.

It started in 2006 when the US decided it wanted to oust Syrian President Assad and started laying the ground work. This was proven by leaked Saudi Arabian intelligence cables hosted on Wikileaks. Julian Assange said of the leaks:

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Alert: Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series in ATL now threatened by ISIS

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– Alert: Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series in ATL now threatened by ISIS:

Hackers allegedly uncover heinous plot

ATLANTA, Georgia (INTELLIHUB) — The FBI is taking ISIS terror threats seriously, especially regarding WWE’s Survivor Series pay-per-view event scheduled to take place this Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Phillips Arena.

The FBI has said that they are “aware of reports of an alleged threat that includes an Atlanta, Georgia venue and event” which was allegedly uncovered by the hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous.”

The FBI also said:

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South Pacific Showdown? Japan May Send Warships To China Islands

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“Tokyo will consider dispatching its Self-Defense Forces to the South China Sea, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, suggesting a possible role for Japan in patrolling those tense waters.”

– South Pacific Showdown? Japan May Send Warships To China Islands:

On Tuesday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told the press that contrary to the narrative being propagated by Washington and its allies in the South Pacific, Beijing had actually shown “great restraint” in the South China Sea.

China, Liu went on to explain, has tolerated the “occupation” of the disputed waters even as Beijing has “both the right and the ability to recover the islands and reefs illegally occupied by neighboring countries.” Essentially, Liu said China would be well within its rights to forcibly expel The Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam from the Spratlys. 

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FDA approves experimental GMO salmon for human consumption despite lack of adequate safety studies

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– FDA approves experimental GMO salmon for human consumption despite lack of adequate safety studies:

Just as we predicted, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has brazenly betrayed the public’s trust by approving the world’s first genetically modified (GM) animal in direct defiance of science – a transgenic salmon branded “AquAdvantage” that has never been proven safe for human consumption or the natural environment.

The New York Times (NYT) reports that AquAdvantage, a product of AquaBounty Technologies, has received official FDA approval after years of fierce lobbying by its manufacturer in favor of open approval. Despite repeated warnings from detractors that AquAdvantage poses serious threats to aquatic ecosystems and humans, the FDA has determined that this GM fish is completely safe for everything and everyone on the planet.

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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill To Stop “Illegal” War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop (Video)

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– US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop “Illegal” War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop:

Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington’s Syria strategy.

In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gabbard calls Washington’s effort to oust Assad “counterproductive” and “illegal” before taking it a step further and accusing the CIA of arming the very same terrorists who The White House insists are “sworn enemies.” 

In short, Gabbard all but tells the American public that the government is lying to them and may end up inadvertently starting “World War III.”

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Paris Attacks: Another False Flag? Sifting through the Evidence

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– Paris Attacks: Another False Flag? Sifting through the Evidence:

What do the globalists do when they want to create, reignite and keep their war on terror fought indefinitely? They simply carry out a series of false flag attacks using Muslim terrorist stooges as their hired guns to do their damage. That’s what 9/11 was all about in the US, 7/7 in UK, the 3/11 train attack in Spain, the Hebdo Paris attack last January, and now this latest Paris encore reenactment part two.

In any unsolved crime the first question asked is who benefits by motive with an actual means to execute the crime?

In all of these tragic false flag events the global elite benefits in multiple ways. And it most definitely has the means by issuing marching orders to its owned and operated national governments, its favorite being the militaristic, brutal American Empire.

The elite’s agenda to polarize and destabilize the world politically and militarily manifests through the US foreign policy of regime change, nonstop war through divide and conquer methodology (i.e., Shiites vs. Sunnis, Euro-nationals vs. foreign migrants, Christians vs. Muslims, light skins vs. dark skins) and economic austerity through unpayable high interest from predatory IMF bank loans to debtor nations from both the developing and developed world.  Through global theft and destruction, the ruling elite reigns supreme in absolute power.

For decades after World War II US-NATO-Western European allies conspired and perpetrated state sponsored terrorism murdering their own citizens through a protracted series of Gladio operations originally designed to falsely accuse Communist groups in Italy. Spanning over thirty years with violent incidents throughout Europe and Turkey, Gladio-like false flag operations never stopped. Gladio at home took the form of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Operation Northwoods that JFK abruptly halted, partially resulting in his own self-undoing, killing the diabolical military plot of murdering innocent US citizens in Miami and Washington DC in order to blame and start a war against Cuba. The US especially but numerous governments have regularly engaged in false flag operations killing their own to trigger wars, shape public opinion, conceal and divert attention away from citizens ever catching on to the dirty lowdown truth.

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Bilderberg Merkel: NO UPPER LIMIT For Refugees

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Elite puppet Angela Merkel.

Additional confirmation for German readers:

– Merkel bleibt hart: Keine Obergrenze für Flüchtlinge (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

And if you visit the link above you can see that she did the hand sign AGAIN:

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– Keine Obergrenze für Flüchtlinge: Merkel erteilt Seehofer eine Absage (n-tv)

– “Das Grundrecht auf Asyl kennt keine Obergrenze” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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– No upper limit for Refugees: Merkel issued Seehofer cancellation:

Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected the CSU party, a ceiling for the reception of refugees again.

The CDU leader spoke out in favor of Munich, to protect the national borders to find European solutions to combat causes of flight.

This we save lives and we are the number of refugees reduce .With this approach we can make it as distinct from a unilaterally set upper limit, a national ceiling, to act in the interests of all , said Merkel.

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Migrant Crisis: REFUGEES GO ON HUNGER STRIKE: DEMAND $2000 Euros Per Month … What They Do Next Is Even More Outrageous …

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Related info:

– German Hospital Forced to Hire Security Guards After ‘Refugees’ Physically Attack Nurses

– POLITICIAN CALLS FOR “COMPULSORY LABOR” TO FORCE GERMANS TO SERVICE MIGRANTS

– Germany: Migration Crisis Becomes Public Health Crisis

– AND NOW: Merkel Wants To Promote Immigration To Germany In Africa

– US Ayn Rand Institute Promoting Muslim Migration to Germany

– With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations (Video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=44vzMNG2fZc

– Refugees destroy Austrian town; women called ‘Christian whores,’ garbage and feces flood streets

– MUSLIM REFUGEES GO ON HUNGER STRIKE: Demand $2000 Euros Per Month…What They Do Next Is More Outrageous…

Hunger strikes for the oppressed seem to be all the rage, both at home and abroad…

“The refugee crisis has many faces. Alongside the urgent need of many, there are also some who believe they can exploit this Culture of Welcoming to make shameless demands,” said Christian Ragger who represents the Carinthia branch of the Freedom Party of Austria in the regional parliament.

He is making reference to events currently underway in St. Kanzian. On Tuesday 20 asylum seekers went on hunger strike because they were given residency permits, as the law provides for, and not passports, and because they are not receiving 2000 euros of pocket money each month.

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The most bizarre thing is that these “striking” asylum seekers also want to hold a press conference. They apparently assume that related reports in the media will ensure their demands are met. Via: APA

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