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GEORGE SOROS IN SYRIA: ANOTHER COVERT OVERTHROW NGO

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">More than anything, this story – of the shady quasi-humanitarian organization known as the ‘White Helmets’, demonstrates just how these seemingly innocuous NGO front groups are being deployed as covert tools of international regime change project in Syria – helping to fulfill a primary foreign policy agenda for Washington, London, Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Doha’s joint venture in the region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The genius of the White Helmet operation is that they are even using crowd funding campaigns in order to raise money for this grey ‘revolution business’. In one of their recent campaigns entitled, “Support the women saving Syria from the bombs”, they managed to convince mostly westerners to donate $100,000 – money which will likely be spent to produce more ‘regime change’ propaganda – to be cleverly targeted back at liberal western audiences. A brilliant feedback loop design if there ever was one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the largest humanitarian organizations operating in war-torn Syria – the ‘White Helmets’ – has been accused of being an anti-government propaganda arm that encourages direct foreign intervention.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In an article for the 21st Century Wire news service, investigative journalist and peace activist Vanesse Beeley says that the White Helmets use search and rescue activities as a cover-up to demonize Syrian President Assad and help terrorists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The official website of the White Helmets says that its volunteers have already saved more than 20,000 people on all sides of the conflict, adding that the organization is following the principles of humanity, solidarity and impartiality outlined by the International Civil Defense Organization.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, according to Beeley, the White Helmets and other NGO’s such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, are used to justify the West’s policy of arming and supporting the insurgency in Syria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vanesse Beeley spoke to Sputnik tracing back to the roots of the White Helmets, “If you look at their creation in 2013, they were set up with funding from the UK, USA and Syrian Opposition Party. We immediately have the suspicion that there will be an element of impartiality within the organization.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“White Helmets demonizes the Assad government and encourages direct foreign intervention. A White Helmet leader wrote a recent Washington Post editorial. White Helmets are also very active on social media with a presence on Twitter, Facebook etc.,” Beeley said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Rick Sterling’s article on the ‘Highly Effective Manipulators, he also elaborated that the “White Helmets is the newly created name for ‘Syrian Civil Defense.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the name, Syria Civil Defense was not created by Syrians nor does it serve Syria. Civilians from rebel controlled territory were paid to go to Turkey to receive some training in rescue operations. The program was managed by James Le Mesurier, a former British soldier and private contractor whose company is based in Dubai,” Global Research reported.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The claims regarding the number of people trained by the White Helmets and the number of people rescued are quite different. “The numbers are probably highly exaggerated especially since rebel-controlled territories have few civilians. A doctor who recently served in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo described it as a ghost town.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The White Helmets work mainly with the rebel group Jabat al Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria). There are videos of the recent supposed chlorine gas attack which starts with the White Helmet logo and ends with the logo of Nusra. In reality, White Helmets is a small rescue team for Nusra/al-Qaeda, Beeley said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">During her interview with Sputnik she gave further examples of the leaked videos that show that White Helmets do more than just rescue people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“If we at least start making people question this propaganda and if we make people appreciate that it is a very one sided story that is being portrayed to them, then we are breaking some strangle holds of these narratives,” Beeley told Sputnik.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">From 21 Century Wire</span>

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MOLDOVA ANTI-GOVT PROTEST IN 8TH DAY; DEMAND PROBE INTO MISSING $1.5B

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Some 20,000 people are protesting against Moldova’s government for the eighth straight day, demanding a probe into the estimated $1.5 billion that disappeared from three Moldovan banks.<br />
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Speaking Romanian and Russian, protesters in Chisinau, the capital, on Sunday demanded the resignation of the president, the general prosecutor, the national bank governor and others. They also want an early election and to form a new political party.<br />
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The anti-government protest started Sept. 6 when tens of thousands rallied in a pedestrian square. A few hundred protesters remain camped out in the square.<br />
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The money disappeared from the state-owned Savings Bank, the Social Bank and Unibank before Moldova's parliamentary election last November. The banks were put under the National Bank of Moldova's administration in December and the losses covered by state reserves.<br />
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MOLDOVA ANTI-GOVT PROTEST IN 8TH DAY; DEMAND PROBE INTO MISSING $1.5B

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OVERTHROW OF SYRIA PLANNED BEFORE ARAB SPRING

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">In his new book, “The WikiLeaks Files,” Julian Assange writes that the United States had planned to overthrow Syria long before the 2011 uprising and current proxy war against the government of Bashar al-Assad.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">A chapter in the book references a 2006 diplomatic cable from the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, William Roebuck, which discusses a plan to force the Syrian government to overreact to perceived threats as the orchestrated Arab Spring unfolded.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Assange writes:</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">That plan was to use a number of different factors to create paranoia within the Syrian government; to push it to overreact, to make it fear there’s a coup… so in theory it says “We have a problem with Islamic extremists crossing over the border with Iraq, and we’re taking actions against them to take this information and make the Syrian government look weak, the fact that it is dealing with Islamic extremists at all.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Arab Spring Engineered by “Color Revolution” NGOs</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">According to the establishment media and Western historians the so-called Arab Spring that swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 was a spontaneous reaction to corrupt and tyrannical governments in the region.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">In April, 2001, however, The New York Times reported the demonstrations and riots were nurtured by the United States and a panoply of “color revolution” NGOs, most notably the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, the latter admitted to now do work formerly conducted by the CIA.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“It is hardly a speculative theory then, that the uprisings were part of an immense geopolitical campaign conceived in the West and carried out through its proxies with the assistance of disingenuous organizations,” writes Tony Cartalucci.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“Preparations for the ‘Arab Spring’ began not as unrest had already begun, but years before the first ‘fist’ was raised, and within seminar rooms in D.C. and New York, US-funded training facilities in Serbia, and camps held in neighboring countries, not within the Arab World itself.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Direct evidence of these preparations surfaced in April, 2011 when the AFP ran an article detailing how State Department under Hillary Clinton sponsored “efforts to help activists in Arab and other countries gain access to technology that circumvents government firewalls, secures telephone text and voice messages, and prevents attacks on websites.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Michael Posner, the assistant Secretary of State for human rights and labor, told reporters the United States would</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“basically provide both technology, training, and diplomatic support to allow people to freely express their views.”</span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">In 2013 Roland Dumas, a former French minister for Foreign Affairs, told a French television station the British were part of the plan to destabilize Syria.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business,” Dumas said. “I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Despite evidence the Arab Spring and the proxy war in Syria were planned well in advance, the corporate media in the United States, including publically funded leftist media such as Democracy Now, have pushed propaganda that the uprisings were indigenous.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“As a growing corpus of research suggests, the careful coordination of color revolutions is designed to provide a false impression of US-backed popular political enfranchisement while overlooking the multitude of more complex political and geopolitical factors,” writes James F. Tracy.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“Democracy Now’s celebrated reportage has performed the integral function of solidifying the progressive left’s uncritical acceptance of the ‘Arab Spring’ propaganda operation, thus abetting Western imperialism and paving the way for a regional or even global conflagration.”</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">Julian Assange’s book and the work of WikiLeaks provide a counter weight to a propaganda campaign masking the real history and workings of the so-called “Arab Spring” and the “civil war” in Syria.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">“The WikiLeaks Files” and its revelations will be ignored by the corporate media as it continues to weave falsehoods about Syria.</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.5px;">There is a preponderance of evidence demonstrating the proxy war in Syria was orchestrated by Washington and Saudi Arabia as an offensive against Shia Iran. The primary objective is to balkanize the Middle East and, in the case of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Emirates, elevate Sunni Wahhabism as the primary variant of Islam in religious and political control of the Middle East and its natural resources.</span></h5>
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Iran: We’re Getting Prepared to Overthrow Israel

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As the White House secured their last needed vote to block a veto override in the Senate on the nuclear deal, Iran unleashed a double-pronged attack: vowing to block inspector access to some sites, and vowing to continue preparations to destroy Israel.<br />
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Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said today that the International Atomic Energy Agency — which inked confidential deals with Tehran that Congress has not been able to see — would not be able to see all the facilities it wants to.<br />
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“Iran does not plan to issue permission for the IAEA to inspect every site,” Dehqan said in an interview with al-Mayadeen news network on Wednesday, reported the semi-official Fars News Agency.<br />
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Back in July, he stressed that “missile-related issues have never been on agenda of the nuclear talks and the Islamic system will resolutely implement its programs in this field.”<br />
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“The US officials make boastful remarks and imagine that they can impose anything on the Iranian nation because they lack a proper knowledge of the Iranian nation.”<br />
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Also today, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said they have work to do.<br />
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The IRGC’s top commander in Tehran province, Brigadier General Mohsen Kazzemeini, told operating units undergoing drills in the capital that “they (the US and the Zionists) should know that the Islamic Revolution will continue enhancing its preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine,” according to Fars.<br />
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“And we will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, specially those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists,” Kazzemeini said.<br />
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Iran’s Press TV mused that “questions remain on how far Tel Aviv would really go, with its warmongering premier Benjamin Netanyahu, to disrupt the accord,” rhetoric that’s potentially setting the stage for an attack on Israel that they’d call defensive.<br />
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by Bridget Johnson

Iran: We’re Getting Prepared to Overthrow Israel

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