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Globalist Client Regime in Iraq Massacres Protesters

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 27, 2011

Donald Rumsfeld told the Iraqis democracy can be messy. It can also be bloody. In Alhawijah, Iraq, over the weekend the people of Iraq once again learned that American democracy is often murderous. They learned a long time ago that democracy imposed by neocons and the Pentagon at the behest of a gaggle of eugenics-minded globalists can have the effect of shutting down civilization – electricity, water, medical services, and the availability of the amenities of life we here in America take for granted.



Iraq’s government is a military dictatorship installed by the United States. The Pentagon and the CIA specialize in this sort of thing.

Obama has climbed up on his high horse and complained about the brutality of Muammar Gaddafi.

Prior to the latest staged media event, banksters, transnational oil corporations, swanky hotel chains and other industry magnates supported the eccentric dictator. Gaddafi’s son Saif was the the neoliberal frontman for Libya. Gaddafi and crew promised to “privatize” (fork over to the globalists) the Libyan economy and oil refineries and other downstream sectors of the oil industry.

Gaddafi, like Saddam before him, is merely a pawn to be used in a geostrategic chess game. The Middle East is now undergoing a violent transformation engineered by the global elite. It will not result in more freedom and iPhones for the impoverished masses. In the end, the people of the Middle East will be worse off than they now are under the iron-fisted rule of dictators installed by the United States and the former Soviet Union (a creation of Wall Street and the banksters).

Shooting your own citizens and dragging them off to torture chambers is no big deal. In fact, the globalists prefer this sort of gruesome behavior because it usually keeps the serfs – most who make around two dollars a day – in line. It is difficult to organize a resistance when you are closing in on starvation.

Iraq Rounds Up Intellectuals During “Day of Rage”

Stephanie McCrummen
Infowars.com
February 27, 2011

Editor’s note: Imagine the Obama response if the Iranians had done this.
Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent journalists, artists and lawyers who took part in nationwide demonstrations Friday, in what some of them described as an operation to intimidate Baghdad intellectuals who hold sway over popular opinion.

On Saturday, four journalists who had been released described being rounded up well after they had left a protest of thousands at Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. They said they were handcuffed, blindfolded, beaten and threatened with execution by soldiers from an army intelligence unit.

“It was like they were dealing with a bunch of al-Qaeda operatives, not a group of journalists,” said Hussan al-Ssairi, a journalist and poet who described seeing hundreds of protesters in black hoods at the detention facility. “Yesterday was like a test, like a picture of the new democracy in Iraq.”

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“Day of Rage” in Iraq: 23 Killed by Government

Infowars.com
February 26, 2011

Obama has not condemned the Nouri al-Maliki regime in Iraq for killing at least 23 people during the country’s “Day of Rage” on Friday. Tens of thousands of Iraqis went into the streets and stormed provincial buildings, forced the resignation of local officials, and confronted the military. Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds and Christians demanded basics taken for granted in other countries – adequate electricity, clean water, a decent hospital, and employment.

“It is noteworthy that the Obama Administration has been entirely mum on the Iraqi crackdown, particularly as the US still has some 50,000 troops in Iraq to back up the Maliki-led regime,” writes Jason Ditz.

Violent Clashes Between Demonstrators and Security Forces in Iraq

Megan Gaffney
The Faster Times
February 25, 2011

The unrest sweeping across the Mideast and the Arab world deepened its grip on Iraq today as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in 10 cities across the nation and security forces turned violent in attempts to rein in the demonstrations. Protesters burned buildings, stormed government establishments and tore down concrete walls. Security forces fired into crowds, killing at least four and wounding dozens.

The demonstrations spread from north to south and east to west, reaching the northern town of Masul, where two protesters were killed, and stretching to Basra in the south, neither area a stranger to violence. In the western town of Ramadi, the day after a suicide bomber killed 11 people, another eight were wounded and one was killed in clashes between security forces and 250 demonstrators. Just north of Baghdad in Saladhi Province, five people were wounded by gunfire.

The Iraqi government went to the great lengths to limit the demonstrations in Baghdad, issuing a traffic ban that kept many of the 6 million residents from reaching the capital. Yet, a crowd of thousands still managed to tear down a concrete wall securing a bridge leading to Baghdad’s secure “green zone”.

Security forces responded by beating several of the offenders, and successfully blocked entry onto the bridge while protesters threw rocks at them.

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Iraqi forces shoot Sulaymanieh students

Iraqi forces shoot Sulaymanieh students

 

PressTV.Ir

Security forces have opened fire on students in the Iraqi University of Sulaymanieh after they joined popular protests in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Following popular and student protests in Iraqi Kurdistan over poverty and unemployment as well as financial and administrative corruption, Sulaymanieh University students joined the protests on Saturday.

Iraqi security forces responded by targeting students, Tehran Kurdish Radio reported.

While ambulances have been reported to be rushing to the scene, no official figures have been released regarding the number of casualties. However, witnesses day at least ten people have been wounded and another ten have been detained.

On Thursday February 17, Sulaymanieh became the scene of popular protests which turned violent. Security forces attacked protesters, killing at least one person and wounding scores of others.

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Between Iraq and a hard place called Wisconsin: Thirty thousand badgers "stand proud".

by: John Nichols 

"I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment," shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtown as tens of thousands of Wisconsinites protested their Republican governor’s attempt to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights.

Report: Defector Admits WMD Lies Initiated Iraq war

JT Staff

Informant holds little regrets on stories fabricated, used by German intelligence to concoct war that brought down Saddam Hussein.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, the defector who had convinced the George W. Bush administration that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program, admitted to British news daily the Guardian that he fabricated his tales.

Janabi, codenamed Curveball by American intelligence officials working with him, concoted details about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret factories in order to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime from which he fled in 1995.

 Those claims were then used by former US secretary of state Colin Powell on Feb 5 2003, in a speech to the United Nation, to describe the real threat coming out of Baghdad.

Janabi explained that the BND, the German secret service, approached him March, 2000, after learning that he was a Baghdad-trained chemical engineer. According to Janabi, the BND was eager to extract information from him, providing him with a Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook in order to aid his communication.

"Any engineers who studied in this field can explain or answer any questions they asked," he said, describing the BND as gullible.

"I had a problem with the Saddam regime. I wanted to get rid of him, and now I got the chance," Janabi related. 


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Afghan war costs $300 million a day: Pentagon

Monday, February 14, 2011

Afghan war costs $300 million a day: Pentagon

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will allow for a reduced US defense budget in 2012 but the war in Afghanistan still costs the United States close to 300 million dollars a day.

Under the Pentagon's proposed budget, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will drop to $117.8 billion for fiscal year 2012, a reduction of 41.5 billion from the previous year.

As the US war effort winds down in Iraq, the budget sets aside $10.6 billion for "Operation New Dawn," with the remaining 50,000 US troops there due to withdraw by the end of 2011.

Spending for the Afghan mission calls for $107.3 billion, down slightly from the last budget, which requested $113.5 billion.