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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Police Agent Provocateurs Caught Inciting Spain #25s Protest Violence]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-05-17T10:44:37Z</updated>
		<published>2012-09-26T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Police Agent Provocateurs are caught on video by media cameras inciting violence at the #25s bailout protests in Madrid Spain.   Police provocateurs documented inciting violence at Spain protests detenido deteniendo…. #25s #Infiltrados25s @LegalSol pic.twitter.com/FuttLXUS Original Spanish: Nuestras cámaras recogen el momento en que un policía vestido de paisano y encapuchado es detenido por sus ... <a title="Police Agent Provocateurs Caught Inciting Spain #25s Protest Violence" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/economy/police-provocateurs-caught-inciting-spain-25s-protest-violence-189541/" aria-label="Read more about Police Agent Provocateurs Caught Inciting Spain #25s Protest Violence">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Police Agent Provocateurs are caught on video by media cameras inciting violence at the #25s bailout protests in Madrid Spain.</h3>
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<p>Original Spanish:</p>
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<p>Nuestras cámaras recogen el momento en que un policía vestido de paisano y encapuchado es detenido por sus compañeros UIP en una carga. El policía secreta se identifica como compañero. Es una prueba de que había policías infiltrados en la concentración del 25-S<br />
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<p>Our cameras collect when a plainclothes policeman is arrested and blindfolded by their peers in a burden UIP. The secret police is identified as a partner. It is proof that police had infiltrated the concentration of 25-S</p>
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<p>Video license: Creative Commons<br />
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=4FLW4OjlcrU</p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spanish Military Threatens Treason As Catalonia Seeks Secession Referendum]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-04-24T12:05:05Z</updated>
		<published>2012-09-25T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Civil war lurks on Spain’s horizon as Catalonia is set to vote on succession to avoid bearing harsh austerity required to pay for a banker bailout. “Do not play with the feelings of the Catalans” is the totally unveiled threat after Catalonia’s beggars-can-be-choosers demand for an unconditional bailout fell on deaf ears. The traditionally separatist-minded ... <a title="Spanish Military Threatens Treason As Catalonia Seeks Secession Referendum" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/economy/spanish-military-threatens-treason-catalonia-seeks-secession-referendum-189041/" aria-label="Read more about Spanish Military Threatens Treason As Catalonia Seeks Secession Referendum">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Civil war lurks on Spain’s horizon as Catalonia is set to vote on succession to avoid bearing harsh austerity required to pay for a banker bailout.</h3>
<p>“Do not play with the feelings of the Catalans” is the totally unveiled threat after <a class="external" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/spains-catalonia-region-demands-%E2%82%AC5-billion-bailout-warns-will-not-tolerate-conditions" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Catalonia’s beggars-can-be-choosers demand for an unconditional bailout</a> fell on deaf ears. The traditionally separatist-minded province has decided, according to ANSAmed, has decided to pull a Greece – and escalate with a move to secession. A resolution, on the right of the <strong>Catalan people to cut off ties with the Spanish state</strong>, will be voted on Thursday by the regional parliament.</p>
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<p>This statement of “the will of Catalan people to vote on the bond with the State of Spain” opens the way for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">forthcoming elections on November 25 to become a referendum on the sovereignty of Catalonia</span>.</p>
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<p>The Spanish military are not taking this lying down with the counter-threat that <strong>these ‘separatists’ and their ‘inappropriate and unacceptable’ threat to break-up Spain shall be, according to El Economista, charged with high treason</strong>. <em>We are sure Draghi has a ‘grand plan’ for this.</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>Via ANSAmed: Spain: Catalan Parliament will vote on right of independence</em></strong></p>
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<p><em>(ANSAmed) – Madrid, September 24 – The parties which played a central role in the National Day of Catalonia on September 11, 2012 are now working on a statement on the right of the Catalan people to cut off the tie with the Spanish state.</em></p>
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<p><em>The resolution will be voted on Thursday by the regional parliament, at the end of the general debate due to start tomorrow. To the writing of the resolution on sovereignty, which is not binding, are participating the following parties: Convergencia i Union (CiU), the ruling party in the Generalitat, with 62 deputies; Iniciativa (ICV-Euia), with 10 deputies; Esquerra Republicana (ERC), 10 deputies, the independents of Solidaritat, 3 deputies, and Joan Laporta.</em></p>
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<p><em>The Popular Party (PP) (18 deputies) and Ciutadans (3) are against the initiative, while the Socialist Party (PSC, 28) proposes to move towards the construction of a federal state.</em></p>
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<p><em>According to Spanish media, the <strong>statement won’t be only a proposition, as others rated in the past by the Catalan room, but goes further, and expresses “the will of Catalan people to vote on the bond with the State of Spain”.</strong></em></p>
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<p><em>In addition to this, it opens the way for forthcoming elections which may already take place on November 25, and a referendum on the sovereignity of Catalonia, claimed by parties supporting a national indipendence. A decision which, as indicated by the Catalan President Artur Mas, must be taken by the majority of the Parliament.</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>After the refusal of the government of Mariano Rajoy of a fiscal pact with Catalonia – a privileged system of financing, such as those in the Basque Country and in Navarre – Mas said that it was time to take a step forward, even with the a referendum for indipendence.</em></strong></p>
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<p><em>For his part, the Secretary General of Convergence (CDC), Oriol Pujol, declared to be “skeptical about a dialogue” suggested on Saturday by Prime Minister Rajoy, to check the possibility of an agreement on the financing of Catalonia. He also urged the Prime Minister to take initiative and <strong>“Do not play with the feelings of the Catalans”</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><em>According to La Vanguardia, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>model for the new Catalonia would be Scotland</strong></span>. (ANSAmed).</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>Via El Economista: (Google Translate’d) But military warn of the consequences of promoting “fracture of Spain”</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Spanish Military Association (SMA) has warned Monday that those who cooperate or allow “fracture” of Spain should “respond with all the utmost rigor” in the courts in the field of military courts by the “serious charge high treason. “</em></strong></p>
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<p><em>In a statement, the association warns that “the highest office” and “governments” should take “<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>appropriate action immediately to remove any hint of secession</strong></span> without armed forces look serious and unpardonable in tessitura to comply scrupulously strictly with the mission and that the Constitution gives them to ensure the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of our country. “</em></p>
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<p><em>“If it had unfortunately-warn-act, there must be no doubt that those who have allowed, participated or assisted in reaching this last time but repeated threat of fracture of Spain, by commission, omission or out of your constitutional positions shall be accountable to the fullest extent of all so serious charge of treason before the courts in the field of military jurisdiction. “</em></p>
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<p><em>For this association, the attitude of the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas, and <strong>members “separatists” of Parliament is “inappropriate and unacceptable” and “not consistent with any of the ways with the duty and responsibility as representatives of the state, are required to observe and exercise “.</strong></em></p>
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<p><em>According to AME, current events in Catalonia are the result of “<strong>a frightening economic crisis and other manifestly disastrous political management by the formations that incur a high treason to voluntarily maintain a system of electoral representation that encourages the emergence and establishment of separatist nationalism to give in to his blackmail votes to stay in power. “</strong></em></p>
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<p><em>This association, which is not registered in the Register of Professional Associations of members of the Armed Forces, created in light of the Bill of Rights and Duties of the military-is chaired by retired Colonel Leopoldo Munoz and is mainly composed of former members of hosts and Navy.</em></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Calls For Holy War At Muslim Protests Across Europe]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-05-17T10:45:18Z</updated>
		<published>2012-09-19T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Islamic extremists are calling for a Holy War as anti-Western Muslim protests have now spread across all of Europe. RT – European capitals have become stages for anti-Western protests, by those outraged by the US made film ‘Innocence of Muslims’. But are calls for a holy war a sincere protest or a recruiting strategy of ... <a title="Calls For Holy War At Muslim Protests Across Europe" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/europe/islamic-extremists-europe-call-holy-war-muslim-protests-186701/" aria-label="Read more about Calls For Holy War At Muslim Protests Across Europe">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Islamic extremists are calling for a Holy War as anti-Western Muslim protests have now spread across all of Europe.</h3>
<p><cite><a class="external" href="https://rt.com" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong>RT</strong></a></cite> – European capitals have become stages for anti-Western protests, by those outraged by the US made film ‘Innocence of Muslims’. But are calls for a holy war a sincere protest or a recruiting strategy of radical groups?</p>
<p>­A wave of anti-American rallies, that started in Muslim countries a week ago, have spread rapidly to Europe, engulfing Paris, Berlin, London, Antwerp and other major cities.</p>
<p>The low-budget film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a fraudster and child molester provoked a varying reactions amongst the Muslim community. While one called for their religion to be respected, others called for American embassies to be burned down. Now, as the outrage has engulfed Europe, protests there differ, too.</p>
<p>Thus, a demonstration in Belgium’s Gent gathered around a hundred or so young Muslims, chanting “We want respect”, with the small rally wrapping up without incident.</p>
<p>In Antwerp, though, police had to detain 120 people. Around two hundred of those demonstrating were carrying black flags associated with the Salafi radical Islam sect, chanting anti-US slogans such as “<em>Obama go to hell</em>” and refusing to disperse. In total, some 250 protesters were detained in Belgium over the weekend.</p>
<p>Reports suggest the radical Islamic group, Shariah4Belgium, have been behind calls to stage major protests in Belgium. Muslim leaders in the country, though clearly disapproving of the film, wasted no time in condemn the street violence.</p>
<p>In London roughly 1,000 people answered the calls issued by the hard-line Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which seeks a unified Islamic government throughout the Arab world. Gathering near the American embassy on Sunday, the angry crowd burnt US flags and shouted “<em>America – get out of Muslim lands.</em>”</p>
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Protesters from Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate against insults to Islam at the American Embassy in London September 16, 2012 (Reuters / Neil Hall)</div>
<p>Though the European protests against the film are far smaller than those seen in the Arab world, foreign policy experts are worried the current wave of resentment might be manipulated by Islamic extremists, who want to recruit new members.</p>
<p><em>“You’ve got mainstream extremists, for want of a better word, looking to exploit this. They usually want young men to come and join – and get into a habit of protest, a habit of extreme demands and demonstration</em>,” Carina O’Relly, security analyst at IHS Global Insight told RT.</p>
<p>Jamal Khashoggi, a writer for Al-Hayat newspaper, stresses that the core of the protests in Europe are made up of “<em>conservative far-right Islamists which are as xenophobic [</em><em><em>as</em> the makers of the scandalous film]</em>.”</p>
<p>“<em>Those who react to [the film] through inciting violence are not innocent as well, for they too have a political agenda</em>,” says Khashoggi.</p>
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Protesters from Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate against insults to Islam at the American Embassy in London September 16, 2012 (Reuters / Neil Hall)</div>
<p>Others think that the protests are only an excuse to vent anger that has been storing up for years.</p>
<p>“<em>Most of the people taking part in the protests are without a job, without any economical perspective, having seen humiliation, having lived under dictatorship supported by the US, UK and EU for decades. Basically, this is an expression of anger, frustratio</em>n,” Lode Vanoost, an international consultant and former Belgian MP, told RT. “<em>There are organizations – extremist movements – who use this for own goals.</em>”</p>
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Protesters from Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate against insults to Islam at the American Embassy in London September 16, 2012 (Reuters / Neil Hall)</div>
<p>In Europe, the film poses a huge human rights dilemma. Germany has been weighing up a ban on the film, hoping to appease the country;s four million strong Muslim population.</p>
<p>But a far-right group has announced plans to screen the controversial film in Berlin. The Pro Deutschland Citizens’ Movement says this is a question of art and freedom of expression, not religion. No cinema has yet agreed to screen the film, but the group remains undeterred, even after remarks made Germany’s Interior Ministry, who accused them of “<em>recklessly pouring oil on the fire.</em>”</p>
<p>This is exactly the fire that some fear radical Muslims in Europe would be all too happy to fan.</p>
<p>“<em>The Muslims are rising not only in the East but also in the West. We want Islam and we want the Sharia</em>,” Muslim protester Anjem Choudary told RT.  “<em>People hate the Americans, and they hate their allies – and I think this is a very good turning point for the Muslims</em>.”</p>
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French gendarmes in riot gear encircle demonstrators near the Place de la Concorde in Paris as some 100 people stage a protest over a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad, September 15, 2012 (Reuters / Benoit Tessier)</div>
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French police apprehend a demonstrator outside the Elysee Palace in Paris who was one of some 100 people who staged a protest over a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad, September 15, 2012 (Reuters / Benoit Tessier)</div>
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French gendarmes in riot gear face off wtih demonstrators near the Place de la Concorde in Paris as some 100 people stage a protest over a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad, September 15, 2012 (Reuters / Benoit Tessier)</div>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[White House demands military prisons for Americans under NDAA]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-04-24T12:05:29Z</updated>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The White House has placed an appeal for an emergency stay to reverse last weeks ruling made banning the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge. See also – Obama: Detention OK for 1st Amendment ‘activities’ RT – The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency ... <a title="White House demands military prisons for Americans under NDAA" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/society/white-house-demands-military-prisons-americans-ndaa-185841/" aria-label="Read more about White House demands military prisons for Americans under NDAA">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>The White House has placed an appeal for an emergency stay to reverse last weeks ruling made banning the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge.</h3>
<p>See also – <a class="external" href="https://www.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-detention-ok-for-1st-amendment-activities/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Obama: Detention OK for 1st Amendment ‘activities’</a></p>
<p><cite><a class="external" href="https://rt.com" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong>RT</strong></a></cite> – The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA. Judge Forrest ruled that a clause that gives the government the power to arrest US citizens suspected of maintaining alliances with terrorists and hold them without due process violated the Constitution and that the White House would be stripped of that ability immediately.</p>
<p>Only hours after Judge Forrest issued last week’s ruling, the Obama administration threatened to appeal the decision, and on Monday morning they followed through.</p>
<p>At around 9 a.m. Monday, September 17, the White House filed an emergency stay in federal appeals court in an effort to have the Second Circuit strip away Judge Forrest’s ruling from the week earlier.</p>
<p><em>“Almost immediately after Judge Forrest ruled, the Obama administration challenged the decision,”</em> writes Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that is listed as the lead plaintiff in the case. According to Hedges, the government called Judge Forrest’s most recent ruling an <em>“extraordinary injunction of worldwide scope,”</em> and Executive Branch attorneys worked into the weekend to find a way to file their stay.</p>
<p><em>“The Justice Department sent a letter to Forrest and the Second Circuit late Friday night informing them that at 9 a.m. Monday the Obama administration would ask the Second Circuit for an emergency stay that would lift Forrest’s injunction,”</em> Hedges writes. <em>“This would allow Obama to continue to operate with indefinite detention authority until a formal appeal was heard. The government’s decision has triggered a constitutional showdown between the president and the judiciary.”</em></p>
<p>Attorney Carl Mayer, a counsel for Hedges and his co-plaintiffs, confirmed to RT early Monday that the stay was in fact filed with the Second Circuit.</p>
<p><em>“This may be the most significant constitutional standoff since the Pentagon Papers case,”</em> Carl Mayer says in a separate statement posted on Mr. Hedge’s blog.</p>
<p>Bruce Afran, who serves as co-lead counsel along with Mayer, tells Hedges that the White House could be waging a war against the injunction to ensure that the Obama administration has ample time to turn the NDAA against any protesters participating in domestic demonstrations.</p>
<p><em>“A Department of Homeland Security bulletin was issued Friday claiming that the ri</em><em><em>ots [in the Middle East] are likely to come to the US and saying that DHS is looking for the Islamic leaders of these likely riots,”</em> Afran tells Hedges. “It is my view that this is why the government wants to reopen the NDAA — so it has a tool to round up would-be Islamic protesters before they can launch any protest, violent or otherwise. Right now there are no legal tools to arrest would-be protesters. The NDAA would give the government such power. Since the request to vacate the injunction only comes about on the day of the riots, and following the DHS bulletin, it seems to me that the two are connected. The government wants to reopen the NDAA injunction so that they can use it to block protests.”</em></p>
<p>Hedges, who has previously reported for papers including the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, argued that his job as a journalist requires him to routinely interact and converse with persons that may be considered terrorists in the eyes of the US government.</p>
<p>Under the NDAA, Americans <em>“who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners”</em> can be held in prison cells <em>“until the end of hostilities,”</em> vague verbiage that essentially allows for those suspect of such associations to be decided under the discretion of US President Barack Obama or any federal agent underneath him.</p>
<p><em>“Because the language is so vague in this law,”</em> Mr. Mayer explains to RT, <em>“if any journalist or activist is seen as reporting or offering opinions about groups that could somehow be linked not just to al-Qaeda but to any opponent of the United States or even opponents of our allies”</em></p>
<p><em>“I spent many years in countries where the military had the power to arrest and detain citizens without charge,”</em> Hedges wrote when he first filed his suit in January. <em>“I have been in some of these jails. I have friends and colleagues who have ‘disappeared’ into military gulags. I know the consequences of granting sweeping and unrestricted policing power to the armed forces of any nation. And while my battle may be quixotic, it is one that has to be fought if we are to have any hope of pulling this country back from corporate fascism.”</em></p>
<p>Monday morning, Hedges once more responded to the White House’s relentless attempts to reauthorize powers granted under the NDAA, asking, <em>“If the administration is this anxious to restore this section of the NDAA, is it because the Obama government has already used it? Or does it have plans to use the section in the immediate future?” </em></p>
<p><em>“The decision to vigorously fight Forrest’s ruling is a further example of the Obama White House’s steady and relentless assault against civil liberties, an assault that is more severe than that carried out by George W. Bush,”</em> writes Hedges. <em>“Obama has refused to restore habeas corpus. He supports the FISA Amendment Act, which retroactively makes legal what under our Constitution has traditionally been illegal — warrantless wire tapping, eavesdropping and monitoring directed against US citizens. He has used the Espionage Act six times against whistle-blowers who have exposed government crimes, including war crimes, to the public. He interprets the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act as giving him the authority to assassinate US citizens, as he did the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. And now he wants the right to use the armed forces to throw U.S. citizens into military prisons, where they will have no right to a trial and no defined length of detention.”</em></p>
<p>In his latest blog post, Hedges acknowledges, <em>“The government has now lost four times in a litigation that has gone on almost nine months.” </em></p>
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<h3>A false corporate media narrative and massive censorship follows globe spanning riots following the murder of the US Ambassador to Libya.</h3>
<p>The riots following the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have now spanned across the globe.</p>
<p>Yet you would be hard pressed to turn on your television and hear anything else beside the false narrative the corporate media is pushing which was clearly outlined in government press releases handed to them by the secret police.</p>
<p>While some may lash out at implying censorship by the secret police an objective look at the TV news reports clearly reveals an echo chamber of strategically outlined talking points.</p>
<p>Indeed the echo chamber’s scripted narrative is often in direct contradiction to numerous reports from credible online corporate news sources.</p>
<p>For starters does every TV news headline refer to riots or unrest in the Middle East when the truth is these riots never even originated in the Middle East and since they broke out in North Africa they have spread across southern Asia and into Europe.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Mass Censorship, False Narrative As Muslim Protests Span The Globe</p>
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<p>While this propagandist aspect the censorship campaign may seem trivial to some it is noteworthy to point out because it demonstrates a clear lack of objectivity in among the corporate media news sources.</p>
<p>In the most simplistic of terms the term “Middle East” continues to be used despite the lack of a factual basis for doing so because the years of propaganda have warped the psyche of massive into cognitively associating the term “Middle East” with “terrorists who hate us for our freedom and want to destroy our way of life.”</p>
<p>In the past this has been effective tactic to desensitize public to the war crimes we continue to commit in our illegal perpetual overseas wars.</p>
<p>Simply put the public doesn’t care about said terrorists hence creating a general sense of apathy which drowns out any conscionable objects to those war crimes.</p>
<p>While these wars are being waged simply for imperialistic reasons, such as gain control of global oil supplies, the corporate media instead has us believe our actions overseas are necessary so the safety of the public can be protected from the bogeyman.</p>
<p>Hence the use of the term Middle East to describe what truly is Global unrest is telling once we consider the propagandist aspects of the terms thus revealing the motives behind the pushing of a false scripted narrative to explain the events to the television viewer.</p>
<p>As the unrest spreads into its fourth day the viewer still has not been presented with a single interview with protestors on the ground conducted by the media.</p>
<p>Instead the viewer is simply presented with experts and other talking heads discussing familiar talking points as record video footage is shown to the viewer who is then told what it is they are watching.</p>
<p>To be more correct, the viewer is told what it is the news outlet wants them to believe is happening.</p>
<p>Yet these same viewers will queue up stories from corporate news outlets on the Internet and be presented with an entirely different narrative of the events.</p>
<p>Anyone following the twists and turns in the ever changing narrative presented in media reports must be suffering a from cranial tailspin strong enough to cause subdural hematoma.</p>
<p>The reason for that is as the riots spread from the North African nations of Libya and Egypt and then across the Middle East into Europe and Asia the corporate media has been caught pushing one lie after the next.</p>
<p>As lie after lie is repeatedly debunked the overall context of the false narrative is still being pushed as the media continues to parrot government talking points.</p>
<p>At the same time there is a campaign of mass censorship occurring in an attempt to keep their story from falling apart.</p>
<p>There is coordinate effort underway meant to do little more than convince the public the terrorists hate Americans for their freedoms inline with the overall goal of manufacturing consent for the government to actions the public otherwise simply not accept.</p>
<p>We see repeated reports from long-considered credible news outlets citing high-level government officials and diplomats contradicting the official narrative that the unrest is in response to the move.</p>
<p>With each of those reports the reporters and their news outlets are soon after forced to redact their reports.</p>
<p>News sources that are not part of the inner-cabal of corporations that control the overwhelming majority of the mass media are targeted by forces working behind the shadows to control and censor opposition to the government manufactured false narrative.</p>
<p>Independence Citizen journalists are having their videos removed from sites such as YouTube and Vimeo who are additionally engaging in the blatant censorship of videos put out not only by the public but even by Middle East news organizations.</p>
<p>A story from the Lebanon Free Press stating the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was sodomized by his own Al Qaeda puppets has been censored.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">YouTube, Vimeo Censoring News Contradicting Media Narrative</p>
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<p>The video was not spam. It clearly was not trying to scam anyone out of money and was not being used to commercially deceive consumers.</p>
<p>A well known citizen journalist known as Syria Girl has had repeated videos scrubbed from YouTube for reporting the truth about the crisis in the Middle East</p>
<p>In an attempt to circumvent the YouTube’s censorship she uploaded her videos to Vimeo where they drew the attention of the secret police as well after accumulating over 10,000 views in a very short period of time.</p>
<p>Sadly Vimeo followed in the footsteps of YouTube then scrubbed her reports as well.</p>
<p>Here’s her report on he censorship of her videos.</p>
<p>The Washington Examiner reported even reported on the Lynching of the US Ambassador and further cited sources originating from the AFP sources that the Ambassador was raped which of course contradict the corporate media’s scripted narrative.</p>
<p>The author was forced to redact the article and the AFP sources were forced to change their story.</p>
<p>More evidence contradicting the official narrative is being suppressed, ignored and even outright censored.</p>
<p>The media originally reported with good reason the attacks were planned before hand.</p>
<p>These reports again quoted several top level government officials and diplomatic sources backed up the claim.</p>
<p>The Obama administration immediately forced the media to get back on script claiming there was no such evidence.</p>
<p>Now the original reports from all of those officials are being ignored.</p>
<p>You need only ask a few critical questions about the official narrative to realize it is entirely false and the original reports were correct.</p>
<p>Who brings rocket propelled grenades to a protest and how did the body of someone who was killed by such an attack end up getting paraded around in the streets with obvious signs of being tortured? How did his body end back up inside the US embassy lying in an area completely scorched and yet show no signs of burns after, according to the scripted narrative, he died from smoke inhalation?</p>
<p>Further evidence the attack was in fact pre-planned is revealed in an exclusive put out by <em>The Independent</em> one of the UK’s largest and most respected newspapers .</p>
<p>Their article reveals the inside details about the assassination of the Ambassador the official narrative altogether ignores while holding no punches in their lede which states “America was warned and did nothing.”</p>
<p>The story goes onto reveal that the embassy staff came under mortar fire while evacuating.</p>
<p>So now the question becomes who brings RPG’s and heavy artillery to a spontaneous protest about a movie?</p>
<p>The story also details how as the embassy staff evacuated along a secret route to a secret safe house artillery shells continued to fall with stunning precision.</p>
<p>The indicates not only was the attacked planned but that some how the attackers had access to top secret intelligence that told gave them the exact path the evacuees would follow.</p>
<p>It also suggest the workings of a professional organization that had the ability to time how long it would take to travel exact distances along the route and then coordinate their artillery fire to hit those locations as the evacuees traveled.</p>
<p>This mortar fire clearly came from a third party actor away from the embassy because the mortar fire continued even as the embassy staff reached the supposedly secret safe house.</p>
<p>The Independent then goes on to report the supposedly secret safe house itself was then bombarded with heavy artillery fire.</p>
<p>In the after math of the crisis we are being told that the spontaneous protest that broke out in Libya was due to anger over an anti-Muslim film that doesn’t even exist.</p>
<p>What does exist is a trailer for the supposed movie which has been out on the Internet for 6 months now.</p>
<p>To claim that 6 months later people are going to start rioting is an absurd claim within itself but what is more absurd is the quickly changing narrative about the non-existent creators of the non-existent movie.</p>
<p>First the media claimed the creator was someone who didn’t exist. Then they revealed it was made by an Israeli Jew. Now somewhat conflicting reports blame it on a Coptic Christian and his counterparts in Egypt who reportedly translated it into Arabic. Now the FBI and the media are on a witch hunt to find those responsible for the movie as the public is being convinced that those who made the movie should be held accountable.</p>
<p>The question that needs to be asked is accountable for what? Isn’t this America the great nation of freedom where the Constitution protects both our Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Press? What right does an overbearing government have to conduct an illegal search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment to learn the identities of those who were doing nothing more than engaging in activities protected under the First Amendment?</p>
<p>Why does the media need to libel and slander those who did so?</p>
<p>Perhaps more importantly is why media continues to falsely blame one person after the next for making the movie?</p>
<p>This is more disturbing when you considered the media clearly knows that by revealing said identities the course of their witch-hunt those who are name are immediately targeted for death by violent Islamic Jihadist Extremists.</p>
<p>Why does the media not complete about repeated documentaries shown on channels such as History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery and numerous others that demonize other religions? How many times have they desecrated, demonized and slandered Jesus who, like his followers in the documentaries, are often portrayed as cultist conspiring against the Jews? How many documentaries go unquestioned debunking the bibles of Islam, Christianity and Judaism with no one saying a world? How many more hit pieces will come out exposing conspiracies of the Catholic Church throughout the ages?</p>
<p>No one complains because no matter how offensive or vial any of these shows or movies may be they are all clearly protected as Free Speech and Free Press. There is no witch-hunt for the creators because you can’t violate the Fourth Amendment to expose people engaging in activities protected by the First unless you want people to exercise the Second.</p>
<p>Again, this all points to nothing more than a hypocritical media following a scripted narrative outlined in government press releases being handed to them by the secret police.</p>
<p>Those who followed the situation in Libya know that the US and its NATO allies backed Islamic Jihadists to topple Gadaffi. These extremists were then basically given power over Libya after the government fell and they have been waging genocidal cleansing in the name of Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist interpretation of Islam ever since.</p>
<p>This is the same situation that is happening in Syria right now were the west is covertly backing Saudi Arabia’s Salafi Jihadists to overthrow Assad. The Saudi Government indoctrinates extremists with their fundamentalist version of islam and exports this poisonous ideology to neighboring countries. The US and its allies use this army of fundamentalists , which includes Al Qaeda and other Islamic Jihadists, as a covert foreign legion to push their imperialistic agenda overseas.</p>
<p>We saw this with the Egyptian revolution and the Libyan revolution. The ironic thing is the mercenary terrorist who are waging this jihad don’t even believe in revolution. Seriously, you can look up Salafi Jihadism yourself.</p>
<p>The same Islamic extremists the US used to topple governments in the middle east are the ones attacking embassies worldwide right now. The planned the attacks on the US embassies. The media originally reported on this but now this inconvenient fact is being censored by the secret police who have instructed the media to echo the Obama’s administrations false narrative claiming the attacks are in response to an anti-Muslim film.</p>
<p>Let’s suppose you take the corporate media’s redactions, claiming their diplomatic and government sources simply had their ‘facts wrong’ in the first place at face value.</p>
<p>Doing so you have to believe that the narrative being pushed that the attacks were spontaneous and there are several problems with the narrative itself.</p>
<p>For starters, just the signature of the attack itself shows premeditation. Are we supposed to believe people just happened to bring rocket propelled grenade to a protest? Then ther are the confirmed reports that Libya security forces simply stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. Don’t buy the lies for one second that Libya doesn’t have a government and proper security in place. This is a fabricated lie the media is spreading to support their narrative. Prior to the attack on the embassy, there is literally report after report of these same extremists waging their Jihad throughout Libya on orders of Libya officials on the first place. There are numerous accounts of genocidal slaughter occurring at mosques, shrines and graves were the Libya security forces not only stepped aside and allowed the attacks but cornered off the surrounding areas to prevent third parties from coming in and stopping the attacks.</p>
<p>More startling in the case of the murder of the US Ambassador is after the embassy was burnt to the ground the staff was evacuated to secret safe house. Yet while the Embassy staff was traveling to this safe house mortar fire reigned down with exact precision on the path to the safe house. Again, just like the presence of rocket propelled grenades at a protest makes no sense, neither does the presence of mortar fire. Furthermore the fact that distant mortar fire fell with exact precision along the path the embassy staff was secretly evacuating on shows the attackers had intelligence beforehand on were to send their mortar fire. Finally once this staff arrived at the supposedly secret safe house it to came under heavy mortar fire. Again, such attacks show there was intelligence and planning beforehand and coordination with forces located outside of the immediate area of the protests.</p>
<p>Now lets turn our attention to more information that is being censored. We were originally told the Ambassador was killed in an RPG attack on his car. This turned out to be a lie only which was exposed only after the Islamic extremists posted photos online showing his dead body being paraded around on the streets. Even with the media changing this part of the official narrative they are still claiming the Ambassador’s body was recovered inside the embassy were he was taken to a local hospital. Again the photos showing his bodies being paraded around discount this fact. Another startling development is several sources have stated the Ambassador was raped and sodomized prior to being murdered. Western media outlets who reported on this have been forced to redact their story. What is disturbing is that Middle Eastern media outlets who reported on this who are not under the control of the American Gestapo, and hence can’t be forced to redact the story, are simply having their stories censored.</p>
<p>The cover up of these facts by the media and the censorship of independent and contrarian reporting across several news sites can only be the work of the secret police. There is no other explanation for it.</p>
<p>Sources:<br />
<a class="external" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination</a><br />
Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-murder-of-us-ambassador-christopher-stevens-proves-the-arab-spring-was-never-what-it-seemed-8130850.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The murder of US ambassador Christopher Stevens proves the Arab Spring was never what it seemed</a><br />
Bloody violence in Libya and protests in Egypt should dispel any notion that these revolutions were a vote in favour of Western ideals.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/105786639/Washington-Times-Murdered-US-Ambassador-Was-Raped" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Murdered US Ambassador To Libya Was Reportedly Raped</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/13/Us-Warned-Of-Embassy-Attack-And-Did-Nothing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">‘U.S. Was Warned Of Embassy Attack And Did Nothing’ Claims Paper</a><br />
The “movie” was an excuse and the attack on our Libyan consulate was planned, claims one paper.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/13/Obama-Hillary-ignored-warnings-Libyan-embassy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Report: Hillary Ignored Warnings</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZ4z367aFE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NATO Funded Syria Terrorists Torture and Behead Prisoners</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/sep/13/picket-report-murdered-us-ambassador-libya-reporte/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya reportedly raped</a></p>
<p>More Demonstrations Planned For ‘Friday of Anger’ in Cairo<br />
The million-man march was called for in protests by the leaders of several Islamic Jihadist groups including Saudi Arabia’s Salafist Party and leaders with ties to Al Qaeda, including the brother of assassinated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.</p>
<p><strong>Appendix</strong></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201645180959880549419.0004c9a894dfb66defab9&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=26.273714,58.798828&amp;spn=42.034439,53.613281&amp;source=embed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Locations of unrest</a> at the time of this writing:</p>
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<li><strong>Jerusalem</strong> -”Hundreds hurl stones at officers in Jerusalem after Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque while protesters rallied against anti-Islam film,” <a class="external" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4281556,00.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Ynet News</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Bangladesh</strong> – “About 1,000 Bangladeshi Islamists tried to march on the U.S. embassy in Dhaka on Thursday to protest against a U.S. film that is said to insult the Prophet Mohammad but security forces stopped them reaching the mission,” reports Reuters. </li>
<li><strong>Sanaa, Yemen</strong> – “In Sanaa, Yemen, the U.S. Embassy was overrun Thursday by protesters who stormed a wall, set fire to a building inside the compound, broke windows and carried away office supplies and other souvenirs before being dispersed by local security forces,” <a class="external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-embassy-in-yemen-stormed-other-embassies-still-under-siege/2012/09/13/ad65ce7e-fd9b-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports <em>The Washington Post</em>.</a></li>
<li><strong>Cairo, Egypt</strong> – “In Cairo, clouds of tear gas floated through the fortified area around the U.S. Embassy as security forces clashed with protesters for the third straight day,” <a class="external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-embassy-in-yemen-stormed-other-embassies-still-under-siege/2012/09/13/ad65ce7e-fd9b-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports <em>The Washington Post</em>. </a></li>
<li><strong>Tripoli, Libya</strong> – “The US dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans,” <a class="external" href="https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0912/Elite-Marines-sent-to-Tripoli-in-wake-of-Libya-attack-video" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the AP. </a>” Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11.”</li>
<li><strong>Gaza Strip</strong> – “Palestinians on Friday protested an anti-Muslim film, with thousands gathering in the Gaza Strip and hundreds in Jerusalem where there were clashes with Israeli police,” reports Now Lebanon.</li>
<li><strong>Jakarta, Indonesia</strong> – “In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, about 200 protesters in Jakarta chanted slogans and held up signs in a largely peaceful protest outside the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy,” reports the Associated Press. </li>
<li><strong>Khartoum, Sudan</strong> – “Britain’s Foreign Office says police in Sudan are confronting a protest outside the British embassy in Khartoum,” <a class="external" href="https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/246593249245028352" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the AP. </a> Additionally, <a class="external" href="https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/246584434634153984" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Reuters reports</a> “Protesters pull down emblem at German embassy in Sudan, raise Islamic flag.” <a class="external" href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/sep/14/friday-protests-anti-islam-us-film-live" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian </em></a>is showing photographs of the German embassy on fire.</li>
<li><strong>Kashmir</strong> – “Thousands of angry Kashmiri Muslims protested Friday against an anti-Islam film, burning U.S. flags and calling President Barack Obama a ‘terrorist,’ while the top government cleric here reportedly demanded Americans leave the volatile Indian-controlled region immediately,” reports the AP. “At least 15,000 people took part in more than two dozen protests across Kashmir, chanting ‘Down with America’ and ‘Down with Israel’ in some of the largest anti-American demonstrations against the film in Asia.”</li>
<li><strong>Tripoli, Lebanon</strong> – “Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope’s visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans,” <a class="external" href="https://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=285118" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Reuters.</a> The news agency attributed the violence to the papal vist and the controversial film.</li>
<li><strong>Benghazi, Libya</strong> – “Ansar al Sharia supporters protesting in front of Tibesty Hotel in Benghazi carrying black flags,” <a class="external" href="https://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/anti-islam-film-protests-10701" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Al Jazeera via Twitter</a>. “Maximum 50 pple.”</li>
<li><strong>Tehran, Iran</strong> – <span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;">“In Tehran, students gathered Thursday outside the Swiss Embassy, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, to protest the video,” </span><a class="external" href="https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444023704577649051979303874.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em> reports.</a><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"> “No violence was reported.”</span></li>
<li><strong>Baghdad, Iraq</strong> – “In Iraq, reaction to the video clip has been limited to followers of Shiite groups linked to militias and neighboring Iran,” <a class="external" href="https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444023704577649051979303874.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>.</a> “Several hundred followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held brief demonstrations in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, the southern oil city of Basra and other predominantly Shiite areas of the country, chanting ‘Death to America.’”</li>
<li><strong>Islamabad, Pakistan</strong> – “The protesters in Islamabad said that the film should be banned across the world and the filmmakers should be severely punished,”<a class="external" href="https://tribune.com.pk/story/436593/protests-held-across-pakistan-against-blasphemous-film/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> reports Pakistan’s <em>The Express Tribune</em>.</a> “They also demanded that the US should apologise for the film.”</li>
<li><strong>Karachi, Pakistan</strong> – “JI Chief Munawar Hassan, addressing a protest rally in the Nazimabad area of Karachi, demanded that the US government ban the movie and also demanded the Interior ministry of Pakistan lodge a protest with the US ambassador,” reports the <a class="external" href="https://tribune.com.pk/story/436593/protests-held-across-pakistan-against-blasphemous-film/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Express Tribune</em>.</a></li>
<li><strong>Lahore, Pakistan</strong> – “The rally in Lahore was organised by Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool which was taken out from Green Chowk to Sohrab Khan, while the one in Multan was organised by Jamiat Talba Arbia and Shehri Mahaz. Protesters threw shoes at US and Israeli flags and set them on fire,” <a class="external" href="https://tribune.com.pk/story/436593/protests-held-across-pakistan-against-blasphemous-film/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the <em>Express Tribune</em>.</a></li>
<li><strong>Jalalabad, Afghanistan</strong> – “Hundreds of Afghans – some shouting ‘Death to America’ – have held a protest against an anti-Islam film in the eastern city of Jalalabad,” <a class="external" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/afghanistan-protests-anti-islam-movie_n_1883426.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the AP. </a></li>
<li><strong>Mogadishu, Somalia</strong> – “Thousands of Somali protesters have taken to the streets of capital Mogadishu to express their anger over the anti-Islam movie produced by an Israeli-American in the United States,” <a class="external" href="https://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/09/14/261526/antiislam-film-sparks-protest-in-somalia/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Iran’s Press TV.</a> “The demonstration in the Somali capital is being held to express anger against the film, which insults the holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).”</li>
<li><strong>Tunisia</strong> – Protesters in Tunisia have set fire to an American school in the capital Tunis, according to <a class="external" href="https://live.reuters.com/Event/Middle_East" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Reuters</a>. <a class="external" href="https://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/riots_spread_into_tunisia_1GowfANkhwO88b4V2ZGmtK?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=International" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The <em>New York Post </em>reports</a> that “Anti-American rioting spread yesterday to Tunisia, where police used tear gas to stop hundreds of protesters from storming the United States Embassy in protest over a film mocking the prophet Mohammed.”</li>
<li><strong>Algeria</strong> – “In Algeria, the U.S. Embassy cautioned Americans to avoid its building and other official government buildings Wednesday afternoon, sending <a class="external" href="https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/the-day-after-outraged-egyptians-scaled-the-walls-of-the-american-embassy-and-libyan-militants-attacked-and-burned-a-us-co.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an emergency message</a> to U.S. citizens after calls for protests went out on social media,” <a class="external" href="https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/the-day-after-outraged-egyptians-scaled-the-walls-of-the-american-embassy-and-libyan-militants-attacked-and-burned-a-us-co.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>.</a></li>
<li><strong>London, UK</strong> -”About 200 protesters are burning USA and Israeli flags outside the US embassy in London,” <a class="external" href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/246619085675307009" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Al Jazeera reports. </a></li>
<li><strong>Kuwait City, Kuwait</strong> -”About 500 demonstrators gathered yesterday near the US embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest of a film mocking Islam,” reports AFP. “President Barack ‘Obama, we are all Osama,’ they chanted referring to Al-Qaeda’s former leader Osama bin Laden who was killed by US forces last year, an AFP photographer at the site of the demonstration reported.”</li>
<li><strong>Kuwait City, Kuwait</strong> – “About 500 demonstrators gathered yesterday near the US embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest of a film mocking Islam,” reports AFP. “President Barack ‘Obama, we are all Osama,’ they chanted referring to Al-Qaeda’s former leader Osama bin Laden who was killed by US forces last year, an AFP photographer at the site of the demonstration reported.”</li>
<li><strong>Chennai, India</strong> – “Protesters in southern India have been arrested for throwing rocks at the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, the city police commissioner said,” <a class="external" href="https://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-on-protesters-near-u-s-embassy-in-yemen/comment-page-38/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports CNN.</a> “As many as 200 protesters were demonstrating in front of the building, but the number arrested was not reported. There were no reported injuries.”</li>
<li><strong>Amsterdam</strong> – “The American consulate on the Museumplein in Amsterdam is to close earlier than usual on Friday because of a planned demonstration by Muslims in the late afternoon,” <a class="external" href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/09/us_consulate_closes_early_beca.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports DutchNews.nl.</a> “Two schools in the neighbourhood are also to close early, Nos television said.”</li>
<li><strong>Maldives</strong> – Protests emerged in the Maldives, according to the <a class="external" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19602177" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BBC</a>, but there are few details on the size of the demonstration.</li>
<li><strong>Sri Lanka</strong> – Protests have erupted in eastern Sri Lanka, according to the <a class="external" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19602177" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BBC</a>, but details are thin on the size of the demonstration.</li>
<li><strong>Doha, Qatar</strong> -”Hundreds of worshippers marched near the US embassy in Qatar on Friday over the anti-Islam video,”<a class="external" href="https://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/anti-islam-film-protests/muslims-protest-anti-islam-film-near-us-embassy-doha" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> reports Al Jazeera.</a> “The protest had been reportedly called for by Doha-based Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and began after his Friday sermon at the Omar bin Khateb mosque.”</li>
<li><strong>Jos, Nigeria</strong> – “Nigerian troops fired live rounds on Friday to disperse Muslims protesting in the volatile central city of Jos against an American film about the Prophet Mohammad that has triggered unrest in several countries across the Islamic world,” reports Reuters. “Scores of Muslim demonstrators distributed photographs printed out from the trailer of the film, which Muslims say insults the Prophet, after Friday prayers in Jos.”</li>
<li><strong>Sheikh Zuwayed</strong> – “Protesters belonging to ultraconservative groups in Sinai have stormed a camp for the UN multinational peacekeepers in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed,” <a class="external" href="https://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/anti-islam-film-protests-10701" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Al Jazeera.</a> “They brought down the flag and placed a black Islamic banner with the words ‘There’s no God but Allah, Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah. The peacekeepers responded with firing on the attackers, said Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh. At least one man is believed to be injured.”</li>
<li><strong>Sale, Morocco</strong> – “Hundreds of Salafists burned US flags in Morocco after Friday prayers at a mosque in a poor neighbourhood of Sale, twin town to the Moroccan capital Rabat,” <a class="external" href="https://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/anti-islam-film-protests-10701" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Al Jazeera.</a> “Around 200 of the hardline Islamists gathered, shouting anti-US slogans including ‘American satan’, before trampling on two US flags and then ripping them up and setting them ablaze.”</li>
<li><strong>Casablanca, Morocco</strong> – “Between 300 and 400 Muslim activists had gathered outside the US consulate in Morocco’s largest city Casablanca on Wednesday, amid a heavy police presence, protesting against the film and shouting anti-US slogans,” <a class="external" href="https://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/anti-islam-film-protests-10701" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Al Jazeera. </a></li>
<li><strong>Damascus, Syria</strong> – “Sana, Syria’s state news agency, said hundreds of pro-government supporters protested outside the US embassy in Damascus today,” <a class="external" href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/sep/14/friday-protests-anti-islam-us-film-live" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports <em>The Guardian</em>. </a>“Protesters held images of beleaguered president Bashar al-Assad and what appeared to be government-organised demonstration.” According to photographer Louai Beshara, the purpose of the demonstration was to oppose the anti-Islam film.</li>
<li><strong>Amman, Jordan</strong> – “Jordanian protesters burn a US flag in front of the Kurdi Mosque near the USA embassy in Amman,” reports the<a class="external" href="https://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/jordanians_protest_anti_islam_film_dfYlcqwB2KEluop7VDpYMO" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> AP.</a> Iran’s Press TV reports that more than 2,000 Jordanians took to the streets to protest the movie. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">“We sacrifice our soul and blood for the prophet,” said demonstrators. “We do not want a US embassy on Jordanian territory.” </span></li>
<li><strong>Nouakchott, Mauritania</strong> – “Mauritanian youths also went out in a demonstration that covered the streets of Nouakchott condemning the offensive film,” reports Link TV. “Protestors gathered in front of the American embassy, calling for its shutdown and the expulsion of the American ambassador, which is the least that could be done for this criminal act. They also chanted slogans condemning this offensive film.”</li>
<li><strong>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysi</strong> – Muslims held demonstrations across Malaysia on Friday, calling for the United States to prevent distribution of an anti-Islam film they said was part of a plot by ‘Christian extremists,’”<a class="external" href="https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/52899/World/International/Malaysian-Muslims-protest-antiIslam-film.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> reports Ahram Online. </a>“They included a group of about 30 people representing various Islamic organisations who marched to the US embassy in the capital Kuala Lumpur.”</li>
<li><strong>Batu Caves, Malaysia</strong> – “A crowd … held a demonstration at the Batu Caves, a popular tourist spot outside the capital,” <a class="external" href="https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/52899/World/International/Malaysian-Muslims-protest-antiIslam-film.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports Ahram Online. </a></li>
<li><strong>Ipoh, Malaysia</strong> – “Malaysian media reported a… protest in the northern city of Ipoh,” reports <a class="external" href="https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/52899/World/International/Malaysian-Muslims-protest-antiIslam-film.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ahram Online. </a></li>
<li><strong>Hyderabad, India</strong> – “A peaceful protest was held here Friday against a blasphemous anti-Islam American movie,” reports <a class="external" href="https://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/09/14/415--Protests-in-Hyderabad-against-anti-Islam-movie-.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">News Track India.</a> “Protestors set afire an effigy symbolising the US in the old city of Hyderabad. Police said no untoward incident took place during the protest.”</li>
<li><strong>Diraz, Bahrain</strong> – “More than 2,000 protesters chanted against the film and burned American and Israeli flags after Friday prayers in Diraz, outside the capital, Manama. Security forces were absent,” reports the AP.“Separately, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry ordered media regulators to attempt to block access to the film clip.”</li>
<li><strong>Istanbul, Turkey</strong> – “Hundreds of people gathered in Istanbul’s Beyazit Square to protest the prophet film,” reports the AP. “The protest was organized by Turkey’s main Islamist political party, Saadet.”</li>
<li><strong>Nablus, West Bank</strong> – “In the city of Nablus, about 200 people demonstrated against the film as Muslim clerics throughout the territory preached against it in Friday sermons,” reports the AP. </li>
<li><strong>Basrah, Iraq</strong> – In the southern city of Basra, about 1,000 took to the streets and burned the American and Israeli flags. One banner said: ‘Freedom doesn’t mean offending two billion Muslims,’” reports the AP. </li>
<li><strong>Mombasa, Kenya</strong> – “A group of Kenyan muslims burn[ed] the US flag in protest over the anti-Muslim film that has spawned mob violence against American embassies across the Mideast, following afternoon prayers outside the Sakina Jamia Mosque in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya Friday,” <a class="external" href="https://enidnews.com/state/x72185865/Protests-against-film-spread-in-Mideast-1-killed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports the AP. </a></li>
<li><strong>Srinagar, India</strong> – “A Kashmiri Muslim with his face covered burn[ed] a mock American flag as others shout slogans during a protest Friday in Srinagar, India,” reports the AP. </li>
<li><strong>Kut, Iraq</strong> – “Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s movement, burn[ed] the Israeli and the US flags during a protest denouncing a film deemed offensive to Islam, on September 13, 2012 in the central Iraqi city of Kut,” reports <a class="external" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/muslim-protests-spread-across-the-globe/100369/#img26" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the AFP.</a></li>
<li><strong>Tel Aviv, Israel</strong> – “Arab-Israeli Muslim men protest against a film mocking Islam, in front of the U.S. embassy in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2012,” <a class="external" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/muslim-protests-spread-across-the-globe/100369/#img30" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reports AFP.</a></li>
<li><strong>Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan</strong> – “Afghans burn the U.S. flag in the Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 14, 2012, during a protest against an anti-Islam film,”<a class="external" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/muslim-protests-spread-across-the-globe/100369/#img31" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> reports the AP.</a></li>
<li><strong>Sidon, Lebanon</strong> – The AP captured photographs of an anti-film protest in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, <a class="external" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/muslim-protests-spread-across-the-globe/100369/#img32" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Days Later: US Newspapers Run Graphic Photos Of Libya Ambassador]]></title>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Newspapers nationwide run graphic photos of the murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was reportedly raped and lynched by Islamic extremists. As the violence continues to flare in the Middle East news outlets that originally paid little attention to the murder of U.S. Ambassador Stephens is now the top headline nationwide. As the story continued ... <a title="Days Later: US Newspapers Run Graphic Photos Of Libya Ambassador" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/africa/newspapers-run-graphic-photos-libya-ambassador-183671/" aria-label="Read more about Days Later: US Newspapers Run Graphic Photos Of Libya Ambassador">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Newspapers nationwide run graphic photos of the murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was reportedly raped and lynched by Islamic extremists.</h3>
<p>As the violence continues to flare in the Middle East news outlets that originally paid little attention to the murder of U.S. Ambassador Stephens is now the top headline nationwide.</p>
<p>As the story continued to unfold it has become the central focus of news outlets across America as President Obama has announced the deployment of warships and elite marines vowing justice for the attacks.</p>
<p>As the tensions flare up newspapers are going back on their original statements that they would not run graphic photos.</p>
<p>Here’s what people across America and in some international locations woke up to on the front page of  morning papers  days after the original attack.</p>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.</a></strong></dd>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.</a></strong></dd>
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<h3>Some international papers used ambassador image</h3>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.</a></strong></dd>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.</a></strong></dd>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a class="external" href="https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/khaleejtimes.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-188315" decoding="async" height="887" loading="lazy" src="https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/khaleejtimes.jpg" title="khaleejtimes" width="490"/></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.</a></strong></dd>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a class="external" href="https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gulfnews.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-188316" decoding="async" height="699" loading="lazy" src="https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gulfnews.jpg" title="gulfnews" width="490"/></a></dt>
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<h3>More commonly used images from Libya</h3>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><strong><a class="external" href="https://en.kiosko.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Front page appears courtesy of kiosko.net.</a></strong></dd>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[US Officials Say Attack In Libya May Have Been Planned]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-04-24T12:09:52Z</updated>
		<published>2012-09-12T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance. Now the corporate media is reporting that the RPG attack that killed the Ambassador’s and 3 other Americans after the US embassy in Benghazi was ... <a title="US Officials Say Attack In Libya May Have Been Planned" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/middle-east/officials-attack-libya-planned-183171/" aria-label="Read more about US Officials Say Attack In Libya May Have Been Planned">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance.</h3>
<p>Now the corporate media is reporting that the RPG attack that killed the Ambassador’s and 3 other Americans after the US embassy in Benghazi was burned to the ground was planned in advance.</p>
<p>According to the reports the protests occurring leading up to the violence were nothing more than a diversion to draw Ambassador Stevens into a trap.</p>
<p>Libya security forces are said to have step aside and let the militants attack the consulate yesterday during which the consulate was set on fire.</p>
<p>Today the Ambassador and his staff are said to have been killed in an RPG attack while visiting the consulate.</p>
<p>RT has more:</p>
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<p><cite><a class="external" href="https://rt.com" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong>RT</strong></a></cite> – Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance.</p>
<p>  ­Both the New York Times and CNN are quoting sources within the administration as saying the attack on the consulate was planned.</p>
<p>CNN’s source claimed “Tuesday’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was planned in advance, and the attackers used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion”. Intelligence officials also reportedly said the attack on the Benghazi consulate was too coordinated or professional to be spontaneous.</p>
<p>Some media reports have also suggested ‘Innocence of Muslims’, the <a class="external" href="https://rt.com/news/israeli-filmmaker-hiding-muhammad-932/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">scandalous film</a> that many blame for sparking the protest, was used as a pretext for the attacks on US embassies in Libya and Cairo.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey has called on notorious far-right Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who promoted the film, to <em>“consider withdrawing”</em> his support for it. Dempsey expressed <em>“concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause.”</em></p>
<p>Senior US officials also told CNN that unmanned surveillance drones are expected to begin flying over Benghazai and other locations in eastern Libya to look for jihadi encampments and targets that may be tied to the deadly attack on American personnel.</p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-04-24T12:10:32Z</updated>
		<published>2012-09-05T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Amber Lyon: I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.   I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government ... <a title="Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/middle-east/reporter-amber-lyon-exposes-massive-censorship-cnn-180081/" aria-label="Read more about Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Amber Lyon: I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.</h3>
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<p><em><strong>I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.</strong><strong><br />
</strong></em>– Amber Lyon</p>
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<p>The Amber Lyon story is just the latest in a series of articles that expose the total Joseph Goebbels like censorship rampant in mainstream media today.  The first one I posted several weeks ago exposed how the <a class="external" href="https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2012/07/17/ny-times-admits-mainstream-news-is-basically-censored-propaganda/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NY Times basically just regurgitates whatever government officials tell them</a>, while the other showcased how an <a class="external" href="https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2012/08/27/npr-reporter-quits-to-focus-on-actual-journalism/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NPR reporter covering D.C. had to leave</a> and do her own thing out of frustration.  This is precisely why alternative media sites are taking off.  They provide the only outlets left for genuine journalism.</p>
<p>So back to Amber.  Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring.  Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage.  As Glenn Greenwald of the UK’s Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today:</p>
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<p><em>In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives’ abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.</em></p>
<p><em>Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.</em></p>
<p><em>Having just returned from Bahrain, Lyon says she “saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.”</em></p>
<p><em>After Lyon’s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly reporting on the escalating violence. In emails to her producers and executives, Lyon repeatedly asked to return to Bahrain. Her requests were denied, and she was never sent back. She thus resorted to improvising coverage by interviewing activists via Skype in an attempt, she said, “to keep Bahrain in the news”.</em></p>
<p><em>In March 2012, Lyon was laid off from CNN as part of an unrelated move by the network to outsource its investigative documentaries.</em></p>
<p><em>“At this point,” Lyon said, <strong>“I look at those payments as dirty money to stay silent. I got into journalism to expose, not help conceal, wrongdoing, and I’m not willing to keep quiet about this any longer, even if it means I’ll lose those payments.”</strong></em></p>
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<p>Amber Lyon, I salute you.</p>
<p>Please forward this post to everyone you know.  I for one want to live in a country with some real and free press.  Not some CIA propaganda arm that pretends to be a reliable source of news.</p>
<p>Read Greenwald’s excellent article <a class="external" href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression?newsfeed=true" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>In Liberty,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt;"><em>Contributed by Michael Krieger of <a class="external" href="https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A Lightning War for Liberty</a>.</em></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[NY Times Scrubs Mention Of CIA Arming Syrian Rebels]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-05-17T10:46:01Z</updated>
		<published>2012-08-30T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A NY Times article edited to remove mentions of the CIA smuggling weapons to Syria terrorists follows similar corporate media cover ups. The Establishment media are being careful to hide direct aid to terrorist-aligned FSA. Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, August 28, 2012 In an article about France urging Syrian rebels to form a provisional ... <a title="NY Times Scrubs Mention Of CIA Arming Syrian Rebels" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/europe/ny-times-scrubs-mention-cia-arming-syrian-rebels-177311/" aria-label="Read more about NY Times Scrubs Mention Of CIA Arming Syrian Rebels">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>A NY Times article edited to remove mentions of the CIA smuggling weapons to Syria terrorists follows similar corporate media cover ups.</h3>
<p> <em>The Establishment media are being careful to hide direct aid to terrorist-aligned FSA.</em></p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br />
Infowars.com<br />
Tuesday, August 28, 2012</p>
<p align="left">In an article about France urging Syrian rebels to form a provisional government, the New York Times scrubbed a passage which revealed that the CIA was helping funnel arms to rebel groups that have aligned themselves with Al-Qaeda terrorists.</p>
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<p align="left">Version three of the story, posted at 19:45:05 UTC yesterday and entitled <em>France Says It Would Recognize Provisional Syrian Government</em>, included the line, ” American intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups.”</p>
<p align="left">However, fifteen minutes later the revelation that the CIA was arming the rebels was removed and replaced with the words, “American intelligence agents have helped to identify the rebel groups that receive arms.”</p>
<p align="left">Copies of the two different versions of the article can be <a class="external" href="https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/548196/diff/3/4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">viewed here</a>.</p>
<p align="left">This change of wording, albeit subtle, serves to absolve the CIA of directly arming rebels, who are admittedly being led by Al-Qaeda terrorists as the <a class="external" href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-battle-syria" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">London Guardian reported last month</a>.</p>
<p align="left">Earlier this month, <a class="external" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/20128264510724249.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">President Barack Obama signed a secret order</a> authorizing the CIA to aid Syrian rebels in attempting to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad. However, the order stopped short of allowing the CIA to provide lethal weapons. </p>
<p align="left">Despite public claims on behalf of the White House that no weapons are being sent to the rebels, reports that the CIA has been doing precisely that have been circulating for months, <a class="external" href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cia-spies-smuggle-14-stinger-1266487" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">including a recent story</a> about CIA spies smuggling 14 stinger missiles into Syria so rebels could defend themselves with ground to air technology.</p>
<p align="left"><a class="external" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The New York Times admitted in a June 21 report</a> that the CIA was “steering” arms to Syrian rebels from the Turkish border, but claimed the weapons were paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.</p>
<p align="left">The New York Times’ decision to alter the wording of the article is another example of how NATO-aligned media outlets are concerned about overemphasizing western support for the rebels given their involvement in terrorist attacks and other acts of brutality.</p>
<p align="left">Last week, <a class="external" href="https://www.prisonplanet.com/bbc-in-war-crime-cover-up-controversy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the BBC removed a video clip</a> which documented how FSA rebels were committing war crimes by using prisoners as unwitting suicide bombers.</p>
<p align="left">In a related development, hackers infiltrated Amnesty International’s website last night and used the NGO’s blog platform to post stories about the plight of protesters in Bahrain, Kurds in Turkey, as well as an article entitled<em> Amnesty Calls on UN to stop the US, Qatar and Turkey funding and arming Syria Rebels</em>.</p>
<p align="left">The Associated Press <a class="external" href="https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Amnesty%2BInternational%2Binvestigating%2Bfake%2Bblog%2Bpost%2BSyria%2Blikely/7152073/story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dismissed the article</a> as a “fake blog post” and refused to divulge its content. Yet the story, a cached copy of which can be read here, cited confirmed reports that Syrian rebels are engaging in war crimes, as well as FSA fighters being responsible for the Houla massacre, which was initially blamed on Assad’s forces.</p>
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<p align="left"><em>Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for <a class="external" href="https://prisonplanet.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Prison Planet.com</a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.</em></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Psychiatric Detention Silencing Allegations Columbine Was Revenge For Police Rape]]></title>
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		<updated>2024-05-17T10:46:28Z</updated>
		<published>2012-08-30T10:00:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Are forced druggings, indefinite psychiatric detention, and mysterious deaths part of a plot to cover up police rape being the cause of the Columbine shootings? Columbine shooting victim Mark Taylor is being forcefully drugged and held under psychiatric detention after years of activism against the Big Pharma companies that made the drugs believed to have ... <a title="Psychiatric Detention Silencing Allegations Columbine Was Revenge For Police Rape" class="read-more" href="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/society/psychiatric-detention-silencing-allegations-police-rape-columbine-shooters-175231/" aria-label="Read more about Psychiatric Detention Silencing Allegations Columbine Was Revenge For Police Rape">Read more</a>]]></summary>

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<h3>Are forced druggings, indefinite psychiatric detention, and mysterious deaths part of a plot to cover up police rape being the cause of the Columbine shootings?</h3>
<p>Columbine shooting victim Mark Taylor is being forcefully drugged and held under psychiatric detention after years of activism against the Big Pharma companies that made the drugs believed to have sent the shooters into their psychotic rage. But that’s just the beginning of a more sinister story which involves other victims being treated the same or dying under mysterious circumstances. Families and friends of the Columbine shooting say it all appears to be part of a larger police cover up of numerous events prior to the Columbine mass shooting. Those events  include an alleged rape of the shooters by police from the same agency responsible for the investigation and a failure to execute a search warrant prior to the shooting that would have unveiled the shooters plan and turned up evidence implicating fellow officers in the alleged rape.</p>
<p>Raub’s lawyer is not alone with people contacting him to report similar stories as I have also received several similar reports and I am sure others have as well.</p>
<p>On Sunday I received a phone call from Donna Taylor, the mother <a class="external" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598863495/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1598863495&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=alumfoil-20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Columbine shooting victim Mark Taylor</a>,  who was joined on the phone by family friend who laid out the details of the horrific nightmare they have been living through since the shooting.</p>
<p>Donna tells me she has been working with numerous lawyers, activists, psychologists and journalists to free Mark.</p>
<p>They reached out for me because they are working to get Mark freed from the indefinite psychiatric detention is being and forceful drugged he has been subjected to over the last several years.</p>
<p>During a nearly two-hour conversation I learned of numerous shocking details about the Columbine shootings that have been suppressed by law enforcement and the media.</p>
<p>Most notably I was informed of circumstantial evidence that indicates prior to the mass shooting the  shooters were raped by police during what the shooters referred to as the January Incident.</p>
<p>There are additional indications the shootings were  a revenge plot designed to lure police into a trap designed to kill as many cops as possible.</p>
<p>Mark’s mother tells me that some of the evidence that police raped the shooters prior to the shooting is available on the internet with a cache of  documents and evidence posted on the  <a class="external" href="https://columbinefamilyrequest.org/2009/04/columbine-the-mark-and-donna-taylor-tragedy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Columbine Family Request</a> website.</p>
<p>A short summary of this information is in the following video:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1) <a class="external" href="https://columbinefamilyrequest.org/2011/03/walsh-butt-rape-sheriff-pat-sullivan/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Walsh Buttrape.txt</a> – A drawing of the ‘January Incident’ crime scene made by one of the shooters was faxed to the police and somehow showed up on a public police website labeled ‘Walsh Buttrape.txt<br />
2) The <a class="external" href="https://columbinefamilyrequest.org/2011/03/walsh-butt-rape-sheriff-pat-sullivan/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">drawing of the ‘January Incident’ crime scene</a> made by one of the shooters shows a man wearing badge raping the victim who is on all fours, hence the term ‘buttrape’</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Shooter’s crime scene drawing of the January Incident</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Labeled Columbine Shooter January Incident Crime Scene Drawing Which Was Ended Up On Public Police Website Server</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">3) A video (embedded above)  shows the shooters’ Classmates  making fun of one of the shooters for being ‘getting jacked up the ass”. In this context jacked implies several meanings, 1) The up and down motion of a jack  2) Such motion being done forcefully 3) such motion being done without permission and against the shooters will. Think of the term jacking as a theft such as a hijacking a plane (taking control of a plane by force) or carjacking a car (forcefully ripping someone out of their car and stealing it).<br />
4) Class mates allegedly through bloody tampons at shooters in an apparent gag to make fun of them for the alleged raping and teachers did nothing. This type of torment is not detailed in the investigation or corporate media reports. Classmates are said to have <a class="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikvzIlNg9g" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">thrown a cup of shit at the shooters as well</a>.<br />
5) The shooters wrote about their plan of killing cops in their year book.<br />
“Killing enemies, blowing things up, killing cops. My wrah for the January incident will by godlike.</p>
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6) In the timeline of events leading up to the shooting: Incident #7 The alledged raped during the January Incident; Incident #8 – Police: Death Threat;  Incident #10  Police: Vandalism</p>
<p>7) Police were tipped off to shooters making bomb, had search warrant and clear probable cause but did not seek judges signature to execute warrant because it would have turned up evidence of rape committed by fellow officer.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"> <img alt="8)" class="wp-smiley" decoding="async" src="https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif"/> The official 11,000 page official investigation did not include this unsigned search warrant or any references to it yet the draft of the warrant clearly exists. Police further collaborated to cover up the existence of evidence of the shooter’s plans.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">9) Yet there was clear evidence, especially given the fact the police had failed to execute a search warrant.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">10) Law enforcement has raided and stole documents, redacted others, and has put others under Gag Orders<br />
11) The Basement tapes made by the shooters have also been placed under seal.<br />
12) I am told there is a video of the shooters re-enacting the rape scene during which they shooters make a reference about the rapist needed to take a break from the rape and go get a donut because raping someone is tiring.<br />
13) Classmate Brooks Brown has <a class="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold#cite_note-28" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">also alluded</a> to the  “January incident”  referred to a police rape  calling it a “humiliating event and not their arrest for breaking into a van”. He also talks of the tampon incident which  he says were ketchup covered and not ketchup covered.  “People surrounded them in the commons and squirted ketchup packets all over them, laughing at them, calling them faggots,” Brown says. “That happened while teachers watched. They couldn’t fight back. They wore the ketchup all day and went home covered with it.”</p>
<p>Mark’s mother and the family friend tell me over the course of the many years since Columbine her and her son have been in direct contact with top level government officials seeking to use  the Columbine Tragedy for PR opportunities as well as all of the top corporate media outlets who publicized those events.</p>
<p>She even spoke directly with President Bill Clinton and she assures me that all of these media outlets and the politicians were informed about January incident and nothing was done.</p>
<p>They even appealed to the FBI to investigate the case because the alleged rapist works directly for the same Sheriff’s office that is alleged to help cover up the alleged rape.</p>
<p>I was pointed to the long series of events leading up to the shootings including threats made against the police and a vandalism incident.</p>
<p>It is pointed out that prior to the incident it was reported to the sheriff’s office the shooters were building explosives and in response the police drew up a search warrant to search the shooter’s premise.</p>
<p>However, someone intervened and prevent the warrant from being submitted to a Judge and the suspicion is this happened because if the shooters homes were searched they boys would have exposed the fact they were plotting to get revenge for a rape.</p>
<p>Mark is not the only victim the forcefully drugged or unwillfully being held in unconstitutional indefinite psychiatric detention as part of the cover up..</p>
<p>Even worse are the series of the mystery surrounding the cover up also includes a string Columbine survivors who have experienced untimely deaths under mysterious circumstance.</p>
<p>She also tells me that much more information has been forcefully been redacted or placed under a gag order to prevent the public from learning the truth.</p>
<p>Specifically Mark’s mother is working with Attorney John DeCamp, a 4 term Nebraska State Senator who played a notable part in the investigations into the Penn State scandal and the Boystown Pedophile trafficking.</p>
<p>I am told that following Columbine Mr. DeCamp was raided by law enforcement law enforcement who stole what I am told provides even further evidence that the rapes took place as well as documents implicating the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the psychiatric medications the  shooters were taking.</p>
<p>After attorney DeCamp’s files were stolen a gag order was issued to keep the evidence he uncovered during his  investigations a secret from the public.</p>
<p>Following the Columbine Shootings Mark became an outspoken activist of the harmful effects of psychotropic medications constantly warning of the mental decay, suicidal and homicidal thoughts they caused.</p>
<p>I am told the psychiatric medications played in big role in aggravating the shooters to act on their urge to get revenge for the alleged police rapes.</p>
<p>Backing up this claim, Mark Taylor’s activism has forced the drug’s manufacture to carry the warning it may cause homicidal ideation.</p>
<p>Homicidal Ideation is not just the thought of homicide but <a class="external" href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/Columbine-Survivor-Warns-o-by-Janet-Parker-111002-783.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the constant ruminating thoughts of killing and how to accomplish that</a>.</p>
<p>There are also indications that the pharmaceutical  industry is playing a role in Mark’s indefinite psychiatric detention in an effort to neutralize the man who was once the media’s poster child in the crusade against the danger of the poisons they push.</p>
<p>Ironically, Mark is now being detained and forcefully drugged with the medications he crusaded against for many years.</p>
<p>Even more egregious is in 2010, the corporate media tried rewriting history claiming the shooters were not on psychiatric medications after and years of corporate media reports were wrong.</p>
<p>The major problem with the new revisionist view of history is that<a class="external" href="https://columbinefamilyrequest.org/2010/01/usa-today-dead-wrong-on-columbine/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> the autopsy of the shooters revealed therapeutic levels of the psychotropics</a>  and then there is page upon page of evidence in the official 11,000 page report debunking the corporate media’s “new findings” on the shooters.</p>
<p>Here is mark in a 2009 ABC report following the Virginia Tech shooting which focuses on the commonality of mass shootings and the shooters being on Psychotropics.</p>
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<p>Donna tells me that she is seeking legal help to request political asylum outside the United States were she and her son will not be subject to persecution by the police and the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>More on the shooters <a class="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>More on Mark’s Psychiatric Detention:</h3>
<p>From <a class="external" href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/Columbine-Survivor-Warns-o-by-Janet-Parker-111002-783.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Janet Parker</a> of the <a class="external" href="https://www.medicalwhistleblower.jigsy.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Medical Whistleblower advocacy network</a> get justice for Mark.</p>
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<h2>Columbine Survivor Warns of Dangers of Anti-depressants</h2>
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<p>Because of the notoriety of the case, Mark Taylor was interviewed on numerous television broadcasts and his story in public eye. Mark Taylor sued Solvay Pharmaceuticals, saying that their anti-depressant Luvox  made Eric Harris psychotic and violent.   Because of his horrendous experience, Mark Taylor became a truth teller regarding the dangers of antidepressants and SSRI medications and how those medications cause patients to have violent thoughts, homicidal ideations and thoughts of suicide.   These drugs have long been known to have these severe side effects and there is a black box warning about this required by the FDA to be put on these medications. But doctors ignore these warnings and give these medications to patients anyway.   One of these patients receiving this kind of medication was Eric Harris, the student who decided that fateful day to shoot and kill his fellow students at Columbine.   This antidepressant, Luvox is still on the market and now has “homicidal ideation” listed as a side effect.   Homicidal ideation is not just one thought of homicide, but constant ruminating thoughts of killing and how to accomplish that.   This FDA required warning label about tendencies to violence was based on pre-marketing research data.  This research data was known even before the drug ever hit the market or was approved by the FDA, but the information was kept from an unsuspecting public and the drug marketed for years.   Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters, was taking the anti-depressant Luvox   when he decided to kill his fellow students.</p>
<p>The first antidepressant Eric Harris was given was Zoloft.   Within six weeks of taking the drug Eric reported he was having homicidal and suicidal thoughts.   Clearly doctors suspected the antidepressant because they took him off the drug immediately.   Eric Harris was taken off that drug but then was put on Luvox.   The Luvox  caused him to also have violent thoughts and with homicidal intent Eric Harris killed students at Columbine.   The Columbine families filed a legal law suit against Solvay, the maker of the antidepressant Luvox.   The drug companies threatened to counter sue to Columbine victims so as a result all the victims retracted their law suits except Mark Allen Taylor.   Mark stood up to the pressure and intimidation by the big drug company which had much to lose by the publicity brought by Mark’s tragic victims story.   Solvay already had bad press about their drug hitting the news because a patient, Matthew Beck, who was also on Luvox, went on a shooting spree at the Connecticut Lottery killing four co-workers before taking his own life.   In another Luvox case, a decorated police officer from New Jersey was prescribed Luvox and while on this medication he shot six persons — killing them.   This police officer, Edward L. Lutes along with Mark Allen Taylor filed a lawsuit against Luvox.   This lawsuit caused the drug manufacturer to pull the drug off the market in the U.S.A. Even though Mark Taylor had survived more gunshot wounds during the shooting rampage than anyone else, Mark did not given in to the intimidation by the pharmaceutical company’s legal actions.     Mark’s courage and that of a decorated police officer in NJ, Edward L. Lutes, forced a stop on the sale of this dangerous drug, Luvox.</p>
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<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a class="external" href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/Columbine-Survivor-Warns-o-by-Janet-Parker-111002-783.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">OP-Ed News</a></p>
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