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Monday, 2 March 2015

Highlighting Failed Policy in Syria, 'Moderate' Syrian Militia Armed With American Anti-Tank Missiles Announces Collapse



President Obama pictured during his first visit to the Pentagon since becoming President January 28, 2009. (Photo: DOD/public domain)


A U.S.-backed militia in Syria, touted by the Obama administration as a trusted "moderate" group and armed with American anti-tank missiles, is reportedly dissolving following a series of defeats by al-Qaeda aligned Jabhat al-Nusra—leaving the U.S.-led war on ISIS in further disarray.


The combatant group, Harakat al-Hazm, had been engaged in fierce clashes with Jabhat al-Nusra for months. The U.S.-allied militia was initially pushed from its northern Syrian headquarters in Idlib and suffered another defeat on Sunday at its new center of operations in Aleppo.


"Given what is happening on the Syrian front, offenses by the criminal regime with its cronies against Syria as a whole, and Aleppo specifically, and in an effort to stem the bloodshed of the fighters, the Hazm movement announces its dissolution," declared a statement from the group, cited by Daily Beast writer Jamie Dettmer.


The militia announced that its members would join a new coalition—the Shamiah Front—which is engaged in fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and, according to Dettmer, is "distrusted by Washington." According to the Guardian's Middle East Editor Ian Black, the front includes "hardline Salafist factions as well as more moderate brigades like the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Mujahideen Army and another U.S.-backed outfit."


Harakat al-Hazm is one of many Syrian militias that have received U.S. training and support, including shipments of anti-tank Tow missiles. Unverified reports are emerging on Twitter that their Tow missiles have been seized by al-Nusra fighters:



The announcement of Harakat al-Hazm's collapse coincides with the launch of a new U.S.-led program to train and arm Syrian combatants in Turkey. U.S. support for "moderate" fighters has been a centerpiece of war on ISIS, nearing its seventh month.


However, this support dates back further than the war on ISIS. As Adam Johnson reported in FAIR last week, "That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been well-documented for over two years, yet Western media have historically suffered from a strange collective amnesia when reporting this fact."




Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of 'antivaxxer' parents, reviving hate speech and bigotry on live TV


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Throughout U.S. history, certain selected groups of citizens have been subjected to extreme verbal, judicial and even physical abuse at the hands of bigoted oppressors. The historical abuse of African-Americans -- subjected to generations of abusive language and racism that still lingers today -- was villainously summed up with a bigoted hate speech label I dare not utter here.

Gay Americans were similarly subjected to the label of "f-@@-t," a hate-based derogatory slur invoked to demean a human being because of their sexual orientation. It was this campaign of verbal abuse and derogatory hate speech that helped give rise to violence against gays in America.


Importantly, every effort to demean and denigrate a selectively targeted class of citizens -- whether for their skin color, their sexual orientation or their beliefs -- has been preceded by a campaign of verbal abuse intended to dehumanize that targeted group. The invocation and use of bigoted, derogatory labels lays the social and cultural groundwork for not only discrimination but even actual violence committed against the groups being targeted.


Racism and hate speech are wrong. It is morally, politically and socially incorrect to use hate speech labels in a derogatory manner in a civilized society. These terms are hate-based forms of speech meant to emotionally hurt and demean targeted groups of innocent people. Yet, astonishingly, it has now emerged in America that it is socially acceptable to use precisely the same bigoted hate-speech language against another group: children who are damaged by vaccines (and children who are unvaccinated). This group is now being widely and aggressively disparaged with the hate-based term "anti-vaxxers."


Jimmy Kimmel has now popularized hate-based bigotry toward-vaccine damaged children and their families


In a stunning demonstration of demeaning hate speech targeting children who have suffered brain damage from vaccines, comedian Jimmy Kimmel unleashed a satire comedy hit piece that, fifty years ago, would have almost certainly seen Kimmel making fun of black people. Twenty years ago, he would have been making fun of gay people. But today, in 2015, Jimmy Kimmel directs his ignorance, bigotry and demeaning hate speech toward vaccine-damaged children who are now labeled "anti-vaxxers."



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In this astonishing display of bigoted hate speech, Jimmy Kimmel legitimizes the public's verbal abuse and aggressive bullying of children like Angelica Black, a child whose family was recently awarded a $2 million compensation by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program after it was factually proven that vaccines caused severe, permanent brain damage that crippled Angelica Black for life.

Most people who watch Jimmy Kimmel have no knowledge that a vaccine court was created by the U.S. Congress to compensate families of children who are provably damaged by vaccines. The court would not exist at all if vaccines were completely "safe and effective" as factually ignorant newscasters and ill-informed comedians insist. In fact, the vaccine court has so far paid out almost $3 billion in damages to families whose children were severely damaged by vaccines.


In fact, this government document called the "Vaccine Injury Table" lists all the conditions (including seizures and death) which are "presumed to be caused by vaccines." It openly states that vaccine side effects can include "polio viral infections," injury, disability and death. This table is only a small selection of the side effects which are openly admitted on vaccine insert sheets like this one.


That same flu shot insert sheet, by the way, openly states, "...there have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination."


Those who claim vaccines are all about SCIENCE, it turns out, are kidding themselves. For many vaccines, real science is utterly lacking.


African-Americans are especially susceptible to vaccine damage


Not only is Jimmy Kimmel using bigoted hate speech language to demean crippled children who were damaged by vaccines; he's also doing so in a manner that is utterly ignorant of the special risks posed to African-Americans by vaccines.


It was Dr. William Thompson, a top CDC scientist, who blew the whistle on the CDC's vaccine research fraud last year, going public with his confession that the CDC knowingly covered up data linking vaccines to an increased risk of autism in young African-American boys.


As detailed in this story, the CDC scientist openly admitted:


My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I have worked since 1998. I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.


This story, which was universally censored by the entire national media, shows that Jimmy Kimmel's attacks on vaccine-damaged children are, in fact, heightened attacks against black American babies.


Because of the increased risk of autism among African-Americans, there is a growing community of vaccine-damaged autistic black men in America. Jimmy Kimmel, a rich white guy, thinks that's downright hilarious. It's so damn funny, in fact, that Kimmel reaches for increased audience ratings by positioning vaccine-damaged babies -- who are disproportionately black -- as the butt of his jokes.


Here's a photo of just one of the young vaccine-damaged African-American boys that Jimmy Kimmel is laughing at:





Brutal eczema is one of many side affects that can be caused by vaccination.






Let's make fun of parents who are concerned about this possibly happening to their children. They're crazy!



To me, that doesn't look funny at all. It looks like an outrageous human tragedy that is being utterly ignored by the entire pharma-controlled media.

Jimmy Kimmel legitimizes the verbal abuse of children like Angelica Black, who was neurologically crippled by vaccines


Most newspapers dare not report the fact that children are routinely and systematically damaged by vaccines, out of fear of being strong-armed into retracting their true stories by Big Pharma operatives.


"The Charlotte Observer has done something that is quite rare: they have reported the truth about a child who received the recommended childhood vaccines, and then became brain damaged," reports Health Impact News. "Will this story remain on the Internet, or will it face the same fate as a recent Toronto Star investigative report about girls damaged by the Gardasil vaccine? The Star editors bowed to pro-Pharma censorship pressure, and removed the story from their website. It is currently still available (for now) on the Internet Archive website here."


As The Charlotte Observer newspaper reports, "As they started their family, Mooresville residents Theresa and Lucas Black dutifully got their children immunized, never doubting their doctor's word that vaccines are safe and necessary. ...But their faith in those promises was shaken in 2001, when their 3-month-old daughter, Angelica, developed life-threatening seizures and brain damage just three days after getting several vaccinations. The child's Charlotte neurologist diagnosed her with vaccine-related encephalopathy, or brain injury."


Despite the fact that the Black family is, by definition, a "pro-vaccine" family that dutifully got their children vaccinated, they have been subjected to verbal abuse and bullying for the simple reason that they were awarded compensation by the vaccine court.


"...Theresa Black said she has felt bullied in recent weeks by reaction to the California measles outbreak that has spread to 16 other states," reports the Observer.


In other words, merely being the parent of a child who has been permanently damaged by vaccines -- a fact proven in the courts -- now gets you subjected to bigoted hate speech attacks in America.


And who encourages this sort of verbal abuse against innocent children and families who have been put through absolute medical hell by unsafe products that destroyed the life of a little girl? People like Jimmy Kimmel.


Jimmy Kimmel thinks this brain-damaged little girl is a laughing matter. And because Angelica Black's brain is damaged, she is unable to respond to Jimmy Kimmel and call him the bigoted handicapped child basher he has now become.


That is why I have decided to speak up for children like Angelica, using the voice and platform I have been blessed with in my own mission to protect life, end human suffering and preserve the fundamental freedoms and human dignity that Gandhi spoke of when he warned about vaccines being a "fatal delusion" that must be resisted at all costs.



So let me publicly say what Angelica Black cannot: To Jimmy Kimmel and all who have engaged in bigoted hate speech targeting vaccine-damaged children, you now give credence to hate-filled derogatory labels through your verbal abuse of "anti-vaxxer" children and families.

You, Jimmy Kimmel, have legitimized the popular verbal abuse of brain-damaged children, the new subclass of vaccine victims who, unlike Martin Luther King, cannot speak for themselves to answer your bigotry and ignorance.


Jimmy Kimmel, this vaccine-damaged young girl is not a laughing matter; it is a MEDICAL TRAGEDY:





Zeda Pingel had neurological damage shortly after receiving a Gardisil vaccine. She is one of many girls forever altered after having the shot.



Jimmy Kimmel targets crippled children, reverses decades of progress and takes America back to the era of bigoted hate speech against innocent victims

With all the progress that has been made in America over the last fifty years, fighting back against ignorance and bigotry over skin color, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, Jimmy Kimmel has now set us back decades.


He has displayed on national television not only the fact the he and his entire staff are ignorant, bigoted child-haters, but that they also encourage bigoted hate speech against yet another targeted group of innocent victims.


Has America not yet learned that hate-based terms are unacceptable to use in a civilized society? Must people like Jimmy Kimmel now invent and publicize new terms of hatred and ignorance to unleash upon more groups of unfortunate victims who must now endure the public humiliation, bullying and death threats of the masses who have been given permission to engage in bigotry by watching shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live?


Jimmy Kimmel now encouraging violence against crippled "anti-vaxxer" children in the same way violence was committed against blacks and gays


Jimmy Kimmel, by scapegoating parents who question the safety and efficacy of vaccines, may inadvertently be encouraging violence against crippled "anti-vaxxer" children in the same way violence followed the denigrating language used against black and gays," radio host Robert Scott Bell told Natural News. Bell is the author of this article calling out Jimmy Kimmel for his verbal abuse of children who have been damaged by vaccines.


Vaccines, it turns out, are a form of medical violence against children for the simple reason that they provably cause extreme, permanent damage in many children year after year. But medical violence isn't the only violence that Jimmy Kimmel now seems to be promoting... he's also provoking individual acts of violence against so-called "anti-vaxxers" through his emotionally-charged, hate-filled rhetoric disguised as comedy.


Historically, it was the public tolerance of hate speech against African-Americans and gays that encouraged some people to engage in violent acts against them. After all, a group of people who are verbally belittled with derogatory and bigoted hate speech by public figures is an easy target for those with violent tendencies.


Over the years, countless violent attacks were committed against African-Americans and gays. The black community, in particular, suffered not merely from violence committed at the personal level, but even violence committed against them by the federal government.


The FBI, in particular, ran a seemingly endless campaign of threats, intimidation and violence against black America, even issuing a letter to Martin Luther King that called for the civil rights leader to commit suicide.


"There is but one way out for you," the FBI wrote MLK in a widely-publicized letter. "You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."


This language seemingly echoes the abusive comedy skit from Jimmy Kimmel Live, which positions informed, intelligent parents of healthy children as being "idiots" whose children are described as a threat to society. That the term "anti-vaxxer" refers to innocent children -- many who are permanently brain damaged by vaccines -- makes it even more of an outrageous example of hate speech. And now, thanks to efforts of bigoted haters of crippled children like Jimmy Kimmel, we may very well see outbreaks of violence committed against families of vaccine-damaged children.


It begs the question: Will Jimmy Kimmel and his staff at ABC then make fun of the homes of "anti-vaxxers" being set on fire? How about parents of vaccine-damaged children being beaten on the streets? Haven't these victims of unsafe vaccines already suffered enough through their own children being permanently brain-damaged? Must they also suffer the humiliation and verbal abuse of a society that denies their child was damaged by vaccines in the first place?


Jimmy Kimmel says it's okay to make fun of the families of children like this one, who was severely damaged by vaccines:





Severe eczema in yet another vaccine-damaged child.



It's time to take a stand and call for the resignation of Jimmy KimmelBigots like Jimmy Kimmel have no place in a society that has fought so hard against bigotry and racism over the last several generations.

Any TV show host that openly encourages ignorance, bigotry and hatred against crippled children who were damaged by unsafe vaccines is a show host who has no place on American television, period!


Think back to the Johnny Carson era. Johnny was a true classic, and he was a man who never would have made brain-damaged children the brunt of a bigoted satire skit. Carson honored people and celebrated their diversity. He had true compassion for children and radiated a sense of dignity and respect.


Jimmy Kimmel, on the other hand, is a bigot who uses innocent crippled children to boost his ratings by making them the butt of his cruel jokes. His ignorant bigotry and hate speech openly encourages verbal abuse and physical violence against innocent families and their children. Jimmy Kimmel quite literally thinks it's funny that vaccines damage thousands of children in America and cause seizures, brain damage and autism. Jimmy Kimmel thinks it is socially acceptable to call the parents of these children "idiots" and dignify the new hate speech label "anti-vaxxer" with nationwide publicity.


Jimmy Kimmel is no Johnny Carson. He is an embarrassment to America and a man who lacks basic human compassion for crippled children who have been provably harmed for life by unsafe vaccines.


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Ukraine shuts down and conscripts 800 protesting coal miners from Western region




One way to deal with dissent.



originally appeared at Vesti (a Russian-language Ukrainian news portal). It was translated by J.Hawk at Fort Russ.

The coal miners of Western Ukraine who threatened a large-scale rebellion due to the three- month delay of salaries are being inducted into the army.


800 rebellious miners received notices directly from military commissars who delivered them to the coal mines.


According to the deputy mayor of Novovolynsk, Eduard Savik, the notices were delivered to coal mines no. 1 and no. 9 in Novovolynsk, which the state is planning to close. That's where the majority of rebellious miners is employed.


The miners blocked highways several times this winter to protest government policies which does not finance the mines, but instead wants to close them and is not even paying coal miners' salaries.


Several hundred miners are planning to stage a protest in Kiev on March 3 to force the government to pay them.


"They are taking revenge for strikes - they decided to simply draft the rebels. Many of my comrades who were blocking highways and were preparing to picket the Ministry of Energy and the Cabinet of Ministers, received draft notices," says Aleksey, a miner from Novovolynsk. "This is even worse than the 1990s. There was hunger, but there was no war. Now it's total chaos."


Translator's comment: The post-"Dignity Revolution" Ukraine is, for all intents and purposes, under martial law. The mobilization is a wonderful tool of political repression under a different name. This tactic can be applied to literally anyone in the country. I suppose the irony here is that Volhynia is Western Ukraine. Political repression: not just for Novorossia "vatniks" anymore. That's the real usefulness of the war - if the war goes away, you couldn't get away with this. It doesn't necessarily mean there has to be any actual fighting. An Orwellian "1984"-style fake war, intended to keep the proles in line, will suffice. It seems to be sufficing for the junta. So that part makes perfect sense.


This one, however, does not. Somebody try to find sense in all of this:Ukraine's coal powerplants are shutting down due to a shortage of coal, so the government is...closing coal mines in order to reduce government expenditures to meet IMF requirements, which in turn is forcing it to...buy imported coal which is now insanely expensive due to the drop in the value of hryvnya which...will force the government to actually spend more money than if it simply kept the mines open. Somebody nominate these people for a Nobel.


As an aside, the weak hryvnya makes Ukrainian coal very competitive internationally. There is every reason to keep these mines operating. But no. So the junta knows perfectly well how to employ political repression and start wars. When it comes to running an economy, however, it's a different story. As the old saying goes...


Poroshenko graduates Ukrainian cadets early due to 'military threat from the East'


As it stated on the 2th of March 619 graduates all over the country got their officer ranks. According to decree of the President of Ukraine P.Poroshenko, graduation of cadets happened this time three months earlier than usually. It happened for the first time since the end of the Great Patriotic War.

In Odessa 144 cadets graduated from military academy ahead of time. Also in Kiev 268 cadets from two military academies got their officer ranks.


Their main qualifications: troopers, intelligence officers, artillerists and workers on the home front.


The main emphasis during cadets training was laid on tactical training and weapons practice. Besides, much emphasis was laid on the experience of combat operations in the South of Ukraine.


What is the reason for the preschedule graduation?


In his speech to graduated cadets, president Petro Poroshenko said, that "reduction of training time was determined by the military threat from the East. Even though the most optimistic scenario in Donbass region comes true, even though long-term armistice turns into political settlement and stable peace, military threat from the East will be, unfortunately, pressing".


Besides Kiev and Odessa, preschedule graduations took place also in Lviv. 207 cadets graduated ahead of time from Army Academy named after Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi.


According to some sources in Armed Forces of Ukraine, about two thousands of young officers can be sent to military operation zone in Donbass region.


Nemtsov murder witness Anna Duritskaya tells mom he insisted on walking to apartment

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Inna Duritskaya, the mother of Anna Duritskaya, the witness of Nemtsov's murder who was next to him on the Bolshoy Moskvoretskiy bridge, told CNN about her conversation with her daughter right after the tragic event.

Inna Duritskaya said that, according to her daughter, Boris Nemtsov insisted on walking on foot to his apartment in the center of Moscow.


"She waited for Boris in the restaurant. They had supper and went outside. Anna proposed taking a cap, but Boris refused. He wanted to walk across the bridge. She held his hand while they walked. They she heard shots. Boris crumpled and fell to the ground. When Anna realized what was happening, she was so shocked that she did not see what happened. Moreover, he was shot in the back," Inna told CNN.


Anna Duritskaya said earlier that she was in shock after the murder, and that she called her mother in Ukraine during the first minutes after the murder.



J.Hawk's Comment: Three possibilities here:


1. Anna is telling the truth. That would mean Nemtsov was a target of opportunity and his murder was an armed robbery gone bad for some reason (and there was no apparent attempt to rob), and, indeed, what kind of a murder plot would assume that Nemtsov and Duritskaya would walk in that particular direction after exiting the restaurant? Why not wait at Nemtsov's apartment instead? Which gets us to point number 2.


2. Anna is lying to cover up for herself. Because if she convinced Nemtsov to take the walk, then she is the one who led him to his death. If it were a planned hit, then the killer must have had a certain degree of assurance that Nemtsov would in fact walk across that bridge, unless there were several killers waiting at various locations for him to show up.


3. Inna is lying to cover up for Anna. We don't know what Anna really said to her mother, and for all we know mother is part of the plot as well. The circle of people who knew of the Nemtsov-Duritskaya relationship and their daily goings-about was likely very narrow, but it probably included the mom if she was the first person she had called.



$4M in gold reported stolen during robbery along I-95 in North Carolina


The FBI and Wilson County authorities are investigating the theft of an estimated $4 million worth of gold reportedly stolen during an armed robbery along Interstate 95 near Wilson Sunday evening, the sheriff's office says.

Two armed security guards told authorities that they were traveling from Miami to Massachusetts with a shipment of silver and gold when they pulled over at mile marker 114 after mechanical problems with their truck.


The sheriff's office says the guards reported that three armed men in a white van approached them, ordered them to the ground, tied their hands behind their backs and forced them to walk into some nearby woods.


Investigators, who responded to the scene shortly before 7 p.m., said the men then reportedly took three barrels of gold and left while the guards were in the woods.


It was unclear what form the gold was in, and the sheriff's office declined a request for an interview Monday morning.


But at gold's current value of about $40,000 per 1-kilogram bar, that could mean as many as 100 bars, or about 220 pounds.


A spokeswoman for the FBI said agents are looking to figure out if a federal crime occurred.


The guards are employed by TransValue Inc., which according to its website, is a Miami-based company that transports valuables between financial institutions.


The company's owner, Jesus Rodriguez, said he was unable to comment about the matter but confirmed the guards were driving a tractor-trailer. Neither was injured, he said.


Investigators, meanwhile, are asking anyone with information about the case to call the Wilson County Sheriff's Office at 252-237-2118.


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High school teacher commits suicide; students find her body in classroom

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Students at a California high school reportedly found their teacher hanging from the classroom ceiling on Monday morning in what was described as a suicide.

According to , the 31-year-old woman was discovered in an El Dorado High School classroom by students and faculty at around 8:30 a.m.


Police said the door had been locked when class was scheduled to begin on Monday, so students asked another teacher to unlock the door. Reports said that the teacher was still alive when she was found, and that the students attempted to take her down.


"When police and fire arrived, the teacher was in cardiac arrest," police Lt. Eric Pointe said. "After several minutes, she was declared deceased at the scene."


Students identified the teacher as a photography instructor on social media. However, Raw Story has declined to name the victim until her family is notified.


School officials assembled all of the students in the gymnasium, where they were told that the teacher had taken her own life. Crisis counselors were being deployed to assist teachers and staff. Most classes were expected to go on as scheduled, but officials said that students would be allowed to go home early.


"If you take into account how everyone reacted by crying and being upset you'll see how everyone was completely surprised that it was her," 16-year-old student Leo Amaya told . "She gave no signs of being depressed or sad."


Students said that the teacher said that her father had also taken his own life, and that she often spoke out against suicide.