The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
– And The World’s Most Powerful Person For The Second Year In A Row Is… (ZeroHedge, Nov 6, 2014):
When it comes to the second coming of the cold war, things are not looking good for the leader of the “Free World”, because for the second year in a row, at least according to Forbes editors, the person whom they have chosen as the world’s most powerful in the world…
… is not the lame duck on the left.
Read moreAnd The World’s Most Powerful Person For The Second Year In A Row Is…
H/t reader squodgy:
“More evidence anyone questioning the official line will be considered a terrorist in UK….”
And don’t miss to go to YouTube to take a look at those refreshing comments!
Have to look hard to find one in support of Camoron.
For every lie Cameron and every other elite puppet politician like him should get such a punch right into the middle of their face:
– ‘This Is A Punch’ – Chen Xiaowang (Video)
We can be rest assured that they will only be able to lie once.
Sep 24, 2014
– Cameron, Queen voice concern: 51% of Scottish in favor of independence (RT, Sep 7, 2014):
The latest opinion poll put the pro-independence movement in the lead for the first time, with 51 percent voicing their support just 11 days before the referendum on the issue. Prime Minister Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II expressed their concern.
The poll was conducted by YouGov and The Sunday Times. The two-point lead has a margin of error, but the chances of a vote in favor have significantly grown, in particular because the 49 percent that chose “No” include undecided voters.
Another poll, commissioned by the “Yes” camp gives “No” 52 percent. The “Yes” camp leader, Blair Jenkins demanded that his side remain focused, stating that the latest YouGov poll puts them “marginally ahead,” but other polls demonstrate there is “more progress to make if we are to win.”
Read moreCameron, Queen Voice Concern: 51% Of Scottish In Favor Of Independence
– Ebola outbreak is a unique ‘perfect storm’ (USA TODAY):
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is distinctly different from any over the last 40 years, several public health officials said Monday, making it far more challenging to control.
As of Friday, 3,944 people had been confirmed infected with Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal since December, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which has admitted that it is likely under-counting cases. More than half of the victims have died.
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– US, Britain to send troops to help fight Ebola in West Africa (Los Angeles Times):
he United States and Britain are sending troops and equipment to West Africa to help curb the spread of Ebola, officials said Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that the outbreak is outstripping the capacity to respond in one of the worst-hit countries.
The military forces will build treatment facilities in Liberia and Sierra Leone to help care for victims of the virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people since it was detected in March.
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– Ebola spread is exponential in Liberia, thousands of cases expected soon: WHO (Reuters)
– Breaking news: Liberia’s Ebola problem far worse than imagined, says WHO (Science AAAS)
– Ebola Cases Reported Up Sharply in Liberia(New York Times)
– The view from Sierra Leone as it faces a governent-imposed Ebola lockdown (Vox)
– UK to send 1,000 troops for NATO Spearhead Force (RT, Sep 6, 2014):
The UK will contribute 1,000 personnel to a new multi-national rapid reaction force, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. He suggested the NATO “multinational spearhead force” could be deployed anywhere in two to five days.
The British prime minister announced the force, to be based in Eastern Europe, will be launched in response to alleged Russian military involvement in Ukraine and instability in the Middle East.
“To the east, Russia is ripping up the rulebook with its annexation of Crimea and its troops on the sovereign soil of Ukraine. To the south, an arc of instability bends from North Africa to the Middle East,” Cameron said at the two-day NATO summit in south Wales.
“We must be able to act more swiftly,” the British Prime Minister said. “I hope that today we can agree a multinational spearhead force deployable anywhere in the world in just two to five days.”
– ?UK doesn’t need Assad’s permission to launch airstrikes in Syria – Cameron (RT, Sep 4, 2014):
Britain could conduct airstrikes in Syrian regions captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said. He added that he did not need permission from Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Speaking at the start of the NATO summit in Wales on Thursday, Cameron said he did not recognize Assad as a legitimate leader, labeling him as “part of the problem.”
“We have got to understand that Assad has been part of the creation of IS, rather than part of its answer,” he said.
Read morePM David Cameron: UK Doesn’t Need Assad’s Permission To Launch Airstrikes In Syria
– UK’s Cameron Goes Full Scaremonger: “We Will Be Fighting ISIS For Decades” (ZeroHedge, Aug 29, 2014):
Following his nation’s elevated terror threat level, UK Prime Minister David Cameron went full scaremonger:
“We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a poisonous extremist ideology that I believe we will be fighting for years and probably decades.”
Read moreUK’s Cameron Goes Full Scaremonger: ‘We Will Be Fighting ISIS For Decades’
In London of all places!
You really can’t make this stuff up!
– MH17: Europe must hit Russia hard with sanctions, says David Cameron (Telegraph, July 21, 2014):
In his strongest intervention since the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which killed 298 people, the Prime Minister compares Russia’s aggression to that of Nazi Germany
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– Flight MH-17 Black Boxes To Be Analyzed In “Impartial” London (ZeroHedge, July 22, 2014):
Now that the black boxes from flight MH-17 have been handed over by the Ukraine separatists to Malaysian authorities (somewhat denting the credibility of the fabricated Ukrainian YouTube clip in which the rebels were “instructed” by Moscow to hide the black boxes), there was one question: which impartial entity and/or country would be tasked with an objective retrieval and analysis of the contents. A little while ago we got the answer courtesy of none other than UK Prime Minister David Cameron:
We’ve agreed Dutch request for air accident investigators at Farnborough to retrieve data from #MH17 black boxes for international analysis.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) July 22, 2014
So the Dutch are incapable of analyzing black boxes on their own and needed London’s help? Curious.
AP has more:
– Cameron, Confiscation, And “What’s Yours Ain’t Yours!” (Armstrong Economics,, May 10, 2014):
David Cameron has come out and argued that taxes will rise unless he can raid bank accounts in the UK. Cameron argues he will “have to put up taxes” unless tax officials are given draconian powers to raid people’s bank accounts if they think they even owe money. Trust me – all politicians share ideas. Obama is already conniving a way to do the same thing – you can bet on that.
There is no elite private conspiracy of some dominating group. That implies some comprehension of what is even possible. I have sat in the room with such people and these conspiracy stories give these people way too much credit for being intelligent. Nobody smart enough to handle the job ever seeks such positions. Governments are run by lawyer-politicians who think they need only decree some law that solves the problem. They understand nothing. Why should people keep money in a bank in the UK after Cameron makes such a statement? He is way too stupid to realize people act in anticipation.
Read moreCameron, Confiscation, And ‘What’s Yours Ain’t Yours!’
I’ve covered this before:
– Official In Charge Of Guidelines For British Internet Porn Filters Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Related info:
– Home Office Security Chief Responsible For Buckingham Palace ‘Viewed Child Porn’
– Chilling Claims That Cyril Smith Child Abuse Scandal Was Concealed To Avoid Crisis At Westminster
– Niece ‘Molested’ By Paedophile Beast Jimmy Savile ‘Driven To Suicide’ By Facebook Taunts
– David Icke: PAEDOPHILE RINGS … AND 10 DOWNING STREET
– The Prince and The Pedophile: Charles’ Connections To Pedophilia Networks
– Paedophile Beast Jimmy Savile Advised His Friend Prince Charles Over The Appointment Of A Royal Aide
– ELITE CHILD ABUSE: ‘JIMMY SAVILE … DOORMAN TO THE CESSPIT’
Senior No 10 aide Patrick Rock has been arrested but not charged on suspicion of child porn offences
– Cameron aide Patrick Rock arrested over allegations relating to child porn (Telegraph, March 4, 2014):
Advisor to No 10 helped to draw up government policy on online pornography filters
One of David Cameron’s closest aides has been arrested on suspicion of offences relating to child pornography.
Patrick Rock, who was one of the government’s advisors on policy for online pornography filters, was arrested last month after police examined computers in No 10 Downing Street.
Mr Rock resigned as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister soon afterwards.
No 10 said he was arrested last month “a few hours” after Downing Street contacted police.
The former deputy head of the No 10 Policy Unit has been close to Mr Cameron for two decades. The two men worked for Michael Howard when he was Home Secretary in the 1990s.
Read moreOne Of PM David Cameron’s Closest Aides Arrested Over Allegations Related To Child Porn
Meanwhile at home:
– Charities claim Scotland faces ‘humanitarian crisis’ caused by poverty (BBC News, March 5, 2014)
– Food poverty now bigger public health concern than diet – expert claims (Guardian, March 3, 2014)
– Food poverty shames this government (Guardian, Feb 25, 2014)
– Britain faces food poverty ‘national crisis’ because of Government welfare reforms, bishops warn (Independent, Feb 20, 2014)
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– US To Give Israel $429 MILLION For Its Iron Dome Missile System
– Amnesty International: Trigger Happy Israeli Soldiers Killing Children In The West Bank (Video)
– David Cameron pledges ‘unbreakable’ support for Israel (Telegraph, March 12, 2014):
David Cameron has pledged his “unbreakable” support for Israel and condemned Iran for its “despicable” attempts to smuggle missiles to terrorists.
On Mr Cameron’s first visit as Prime Minister to the country, he revealed he has Jewish ancestry and pledged to his “rock solid” to the Israeli people.
On Wednesday afternoon, as Mr Cameron laid a wreath and rekindled the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, the country came under attack from a barrage of at least 25 rockets fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza, in the biggest launch in more than two years.
If his four-year delay in coming had raised eyebrows among his hosts, Mr Cameron made up for it by his giving unreserved support to Israel over its most pressing security concerns.
In a speech peppered with Hebrew to the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, Mr Cameron vows to protect the customs of British Jews by ensuring the kosher slaughter of animals remains legal.
The practice, in which animals have their throats slit, has been condemned by leading vets, but Mr Cameron said: “On my watch Shechita is safe in the UK.”
Read morePM David Cameron Pledges ‘Unbreakable’ Support For Israel
– Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives (Guardian, Jan 31, 2014):
GCHQ technicians watched as journalists took angle grinders and drills to computers after weeks of tense negotiations
New video footage has been released for the first time of the moment Guardian editors destroyed computers used to store top-secret documents leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Under the watchful gaze of two technicians from the British government spy agency GCHQ, the journalists took angle-grinders and drills to the internal components, rendering them useless and the information on them obliterated.
– ‘The Guardian’ falls under the shadow of McCarthyism (EL PAIS, Dec 8, 2013):
The persecution of the UK newspaper over the NSA espionage case shows how the Cameron administration has moved away from moderation
The internet offers many definitions of McCarthyism, named after US Senator Joe McCarthy, who launched a campaign of persecution against alleged communists and traitors between 1950 and 1954, during the Cold War. Let us drop the part about the communists and focus on the traitors instead. Now, consider what is happening to British daily The Guardian for exposing the mass citizen surveillance conducted by US and UK intelligence agencies, and for publishing a portion of the documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines McCarthyism as “the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence” or as “the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition.” Either definition could apply to The Guardian, now the victim of a campaign launched by the secret services and encouraged by media industry rivals, as well as by UK Prime Minister David Cameron with the inestimable help of the Conservative Party and the odd Labour member.
Read more‘The Guardian’ Falls Under The Shadow Of McCarthyism
– David Cameron’s radical plan to ‘burn up’ UK’s mountain of plutonium (Independent, Nov 28, 2013):
A radical plan to dispose of Britain’s huge store of civil plutonium – the biggest in the world – by “burning” it in a new type of fast reactor is now officially one of three “credible options” being considered by the Government, The Independent understands.
However, further delays have hit attempts to make a final decision on what to do with the growing plutonium stockpile which has been a recurring headache for successive governments over the past three decades.
The stock of plutonium, one of the most dangerous radioactive substances and the element of nuclear bombs, has already exceeded 100 tonnes and is likely to grow to as much as 140 tonnes by 2020, bolstered by a recent decision to include foreign plutonium from imported nuclear waste.
Read moreDavid Cameron’s Radical Plan To ‘Burn Up’ UK’s Mountain Of Plutonium
Bilderberg David Cameron is only doing what he is told to do.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.“
– David Rockefeller, Bilderberg meeting 1991
– UK PM David Cameron wanted the Guardian’s Edward Snowden files destroyed or returned (AFP, Aug 22, 2013):
PRIME Minister David Cameron faced calls to address parliament on why Britain’s top civil servant pressured the Guardian newspaper to destroy Edward Snowden’s leaked files.
See also:
– Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
– Glenn Greenwald Full Interview On Edward Snowden, NSA, GCHQ And Spying (Video)
– Greenwald, Scahill Vow To Unmask NSA’s ‘US Assassination Program’
A general view of the Guardian Newspaper offices in London, England.
– UK Prime Minister Urges Investigation Of The Guardian Over Snowden Leaks; There Shall Be No Free Press (Techdirt, Oct 17, 2013):
While freedom of the press is fairly deeply engrained in the US, that’s not so true elsewhere — and that became abundantly clear with the absurd theatrics of UK officials forcing the Guardian to destroy a computer in the basement for no reason at all. And now UK Prime Minister David Cameron is ratcheting things up, urging Parliament to investigate The Guardian to see if it broke any laws:
David Cameron has encouraged a Commons select committee to investigate whether the Guardian has broken the law or damaged national security by publishing secrets leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
He made his proposal in response to a question from former defence secretary Liam Fox, saying the Guardian had been guilty of double standards for exposing the scandal of phone hacking by newspapers and yet had gone on to publish secrets from the NSA taken by Snowden.
I’ve read that statement over and over and over again, and I still don’t see what the double standard is. Both involve reporting on things of public interest, which, last I checked, is exactly what news organizations are supposed to do.
Is France also ready for ‘a Putin response’?
– Hollande Undeterred By UK Shock: “France Will Participate. It Is Ready” For Syrian Attack (ZeroHedge, Aug 30, 2013):
The Germans “haven’t considered any military participation… and are still not doing so.” The Brits unexpectedly voted ‘not’ to join Obama in an attack on Syria , with Cameron adding that he didn’t think “it’s a question of having to aplogize” to Obama. But Obama can rest assured as the French remains undeterred. After France refused to join the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but was quickly aided by the US in the military intervention against Islamist militants in Mali earlier this year, Hollande is vehement of the need to “punish” Damascus, “France will participate. It is ready.” Sounds like a resounding ‘we’re in,’ right? It seems Hollande is dead set on lower French unemployment… by making every jobless person a soldier in Syria (packing at least one backup white flag of surrender). But, don’t get too excited since, with lukewarm public support, Hollande has said he will summon the French parliament to vote on the debate… on September 4th (no rush…).
France is prepared to take action against Syria despite the vote against military intervention by Britain, its closest European military ally, French president François Hollande has said.
“The chemical massacre in Damascus cannot remain unpunished. If not, it would risk an escalation that would trivialise the use of these weapons and would threaten other countries,” said Mr Hollande.
He said he did not favour a military operation to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad but a deterrent strike to punish “a monstrous violation of human rights”.
Read moreHollande Undeterred By UK Shock: ‘France Will Participate. It Is Ready’ For Syrian Attack
– In Stunning Move UK Parliament Rejects Syria Military Strike, Obama “Willing To Go It Alone” (ZeroHedge, Aug 29, 2013):
Moments ago the UK House of Commons, in a razor thin vote, rejected the Cameron proposal for military action in Syria with a vote 285 to 272. Cameron promptly said he would respect the will of the House of Commons and UK Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond confirmed there would be no UK military intervention in Syria. Incidentally, this may have been the best outcome for an already humiliated British premier who will avoid being dragged into an unpopular war having both sided with his greatest ally, the US, and also relented and listened to the voice of the people. More importantly, the “people” in the UK actually had a voice, which is more than can so far be said about developments in the US. And speaking of the US, the NYT reports that even as the Syrian war “option” is slowly being shut out for staunch US allies (except for France of course), that Obama is “willing to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria even while allies like Britain are debating whether to join the effort [ZH: and have now voted against it] and without an endorsement from the United Nations Security Council” citing senior administration officials.
The ETA for a unilateral move by Obama may be as soon as Saturday:
Update – PM said it was clear Parliament "does not want to see British military action in #Syria" and Government would act accordingly
— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) August 29, 2013
YouTube Added: 28.08.2013
– UK govt keenest of all on Syria intervention, decision already made – Farage (RT, Aug 27, 2013):
The British government is the most enthusiastic country in the entire international community to get involved in Syria, and the decision on intervention has already been made, believes leader of UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.
The UK Parliament is to be recalled on Thursday to discuss possible responses to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria last week. The country’s Prime Minister David Cameron called on Tuesday for “specific” military action against the country, adding that so far no decision has been made on possible responses. He also pointed out that the UK is not considering getting involved in a Middle East war.
However, as Nigel Farage told RT, the government has already made its decision. The reported build-up of warplanes in Cyprus proves that, he added.
RT: UK parliament has been recalled to discuss the response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria. But why now, why not wait until the UN investigators – who are on a fact-finding mission in the country – finish their job?
NF: From the very start it’s been the British Government, particularly William Hague and David Cameron, who throughout the entire international community, have been the keenest to get involved in Syria. You know, whether it’s arming the rebels or now, as we see today, the build-up of warplanes in Cyprus, preparations for cruise missile attacks. The British Government has been the keenest of anybody to intervene in Syria. So, that’s why they are not prepared to wait.
I also think that it’s unlikely that they will get a resolution passed through the United Nations Security Council.
Read moreNigel Farage: UK Govt Keenest Of All On Syria Intervention, Decision Already Made
The Independent has changed the headline of the article and so this link …
… now leads to this slightly different article:
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
– UK Porn Filter: Censorship Extends Beyond Pornography, But One ISP Is Fighting Back (International Business Times, July 26, 2013):
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday that British Internet service providers (ISPs) must install porn filters and require customers to opt-in for adult content. Cameron said the policy is aimed at combating child porn and the “corroding influences” of sexual content in the U.K., but several people are unhappy with the plan. Reports have linked the filters to controversial Chinese company Huawei, and others have found that the filters will block much more than just porn. Some ISPs have publicly refused to force the filters on their users.
The Open Rights Group spoke with several ISPs and found that in addition to pornography, users will also be required to opt in for any content tagged as violent, extremist, terrorist, anorexia and eating disorders, suicide, alcohol, smoking, web forums, esoteric material and web-blocking circumvention tools. These will all be filtered by default, and the majority of users never change default settings with online services.
One U.K. ISP, TalkTalk, already has “The HomeSafe System,” which was singled out for praise by David Cameron when announcing the new policy. It gives another good idea of the kind of Internet censorship the British government is looking to implement.
The HomeSafe filters may give an idea of what David Cameron wants to be mandatory for all UK ISPs. TorrentFreak
More troubling is the revelation that HomeSafe is actually operated by Huawei, a Chinese company that both the U.K. and the U.S. accused of having close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, is a former officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army, and a recent report by the Intelligence and Security Committee said, “the alleged links between Huawei and the Chinese State are concerning, as they generate suspicion as to whether Huawei’s intentions are strictly commercial or are more political.” The U.S. has branded Huawei a threat to national security.
Read moreMeet The UK’s Chinese Firewall – Censorship Extends Far Beyond Pornography
– Putin denounces Britain’s immorality in Syria (Voltairenet, June 17, 2013):
London, 16 June 2013
Question: First of all, to President Putin: the Prime Minister [David Cameron] has said in the past that those supporting President Assad have the blood of Syrian children on their hands. Given that Russia is arming one side in this conflict, is it not hypocritical to criticise those who want to arm the other side?
Vladimir Putin: With regards to the supplies of weapons to the Assad government, and as regards to who has the blood of the children and peaceful citizens of Syria, I believe you will not deny that the blood is on the hands of the both parties, of both of the parties, and there is always a question: who is to be blamed for that, who is to blame? I believe you will not deny the fact that one hardly should back those who kills their enemies and, you know, eats their organs and all that is filmed and shot. Do we want to support these people; do we want to supply arms to these people? So, in this case, it has hardly any relation to the communitarian and cultural values that Europe has been professing for centuries. In Russia, we cannot fancy such things happening.
But if we speak calmly in cold blood, in a business-like fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching anything. Let me emphasise that; we are not breaching any rules and norms, and we call on all our partners to act in same fashion.
Flashback:
At the Commonwealth Club of California:
… or here in this interview with Democracy Now:
– Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To ‘Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years’: ‘Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran’ (Video)
– Iran Sends 4,000 Troops To Aid Syria’s Assad (ZeroHedge, June 16, 2013):
While the world awaits Russia’s formal response to last week’s US escalation in Syria (as Putin demonstratively arrived an hour late for talks on Syria with UK PM David Cameron) another country: Iran – fresh from an election in which moderate candidate Hassan Rohani became the new president – is taking matters into its own hands. The Independent Reports that “a military decision has been taken in Iran – even before last week’s presidential election – to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad’s regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic’s security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new ‘Syrian’ front on the Golan Heights against Israel.”If it was the west’s desire all along to drag Iran into the Syrian escalation, and thus shoot two birds with one cluster bomb, Iran may have just happily obliged.
So while we now await for Israel in turn to ratchet up the war rhetoric one more time, perhaps while punctuating its sentences with the occasional bomb over Syrian soil, here is the Independent with a comprehensive analysis on how America, courtesy of its now formalized support of the Syrian mercenaries rebels, suddenly finds itself in uncharted territory: “For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama’s rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East.”
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In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed’s wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor – a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala – continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between “Papists and Protestants”.
Read moreIran Sends 4,000 Revolutionary Guards To Aid Syria’s Assad
