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7/23/2012 12:53:27 AM

Syria revolt reaches Aleppo; rebels target cities

By ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press – Sat, Jul 21, 2012

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - This citizen journalist image shows a dead body lying in the street in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. This week, fierce fighting between troops and rebels reached the Syrian capital, the central bastion of Bashar Assad's rule, shattering parts of the city and sending thousands of people fleeing to neighboring Lebanon and Iraq. Activists and residents reported a tense calm in Damascus Saturday but said sporadic gunfire and explosions could be heard throughout the night. (AP Photo)

BEIRUT (AP) — Riding a wave of momentum, Syrian rebels made a run on Aleppo Saturday in some of the fiercest fighting seen in the country's largest city, which has been a key bastion of support for President Bashar Assad over the course of the 17-month-old uprising.

The rebels also took over a third border crossing — and the second one along Syria's frontier with Iraq — another sign the regime's tight grip on the country is wobbling.

The fighting in Aleppo comes on the heels of intense clashes in the capital, Damascus, as rebel forces target the pillars of regime power in their attempts to usher in what they hope will be the end of Assad's rule.

"There were huge explosions and the gunfire didn't stop for several hours," Aleppo-based activist Mohammad Saeed told The Associated Press via Skype. "The uprising has finally reached Aleppo."

The city has remained largely loyal to Assad and been spared the kind of daily bloodshed that has plagued other areas.

But Saeed said dozens of fighters from the rag-tag Free Syrian Army entered Aleppo — a commercial hub — from the countryside and were fighting regime troops from inside.

It was the first sustained fighting in the city center, focused on the Salaheddine district, although there have been protests in Aleppo and violence on the outskirts.

The rebels have put the regime on the defensive after a week of battles in the capital, Damascus, including a bombing that struck at the heart of the regime, killing four high-level government officials. The coming days will be crucial to determining whether the regime can recover from the blows, which have punctured the sense that Assad's hold on the country is impenetrable.

Rebels also took over the Syrian side of the border crossing at the Iraqi town of Rabiya, 520 kilometers (320 miles) northwest of Baghdad, according to Atheel al-Nujaifi, the governor of Iraq's Ninevah province.

Iraqi officials said rebels tore up and shot at posters of Assad but did not face any resistance from regime authorities who surrendered the sprawling, dusty border crossing peacefully. Iraqi officials quickly barricaded the crossing and ordered additional troops to secure the area.

Rebels also seized the Syrian side of the border crossing at the Iraqi border town of Qaim on Thursday. Rebels also attacked a remote Syrian military post near the border on Thursday, killing 21 soldiers, and overran a border checkpoint with Turkey last week.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned Assad to prepare to leave.

"Bashar Assad's regime is condemned by his own people, who show great courage," Fabius said. "It's time to prepare for the transition and the day after."

He also encouraged the opposition — which is fractious and beset by infighting — to unite.

"It's time for the opposition to get started on taking control of the country," he said. "We want the rapid formation of an interim government that will be representative of the diversity of Syrian society."

Damascus and Aleppo are both home to elites who have benefited from close ties to Assad's regime, as well as merchant classes and minority groups who worry their status will suffer if Assad falls.

But for months, rebels have been gaining strength in poorer towns and cities in the Aleppo countryside, gaining footholds near the Turkish border.

Anger has been building inside Aleppo at the government's deadly crackdown on the uprising and in recent months, huge anti-government demonstrations have broken out, particularly among students at Aleppo University.

In May, Syrian forces stormed student dormitories during an anti-government protest at the university, firing tear gas and bullets in an hours-long siege that killed four students and forced the closure of the state-run school.

An amateur video posted online by activists showed Aleppo residents walking with bags of belongings or packing into cars and driving away.

Another video showed protesters pounding an iron bust of Assad's late father, Hafez, with rocks in an attempt to break it. The videos could not be independently verified.

Activists and residents reported relative calm in Damascus on Saturday, although sporadic gunfire and explosions could be heard.

Two residents who did not want to be identified for safety reasons said by telephone that the fighting peaked between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. local time.

One of the residents said most shops in the capital were closed Saturday and traffic was light.

Authorities have set up checkpoints at the entrances of Damascus in an effort to separate it from rebellious suburbs, and the resident said many grocery stores and vegetable vendors were unable to get supplies.

Piles of rubbish were starting to pile up in many parts of the city.

"The tension is palpable, people are scared about what might be coming," the resident said by telephone from the upscale middle class Mazzeh district. "A lot of people are just staying at home."

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a Damascus-based activist said two people were found dead in the Midan district after regime forces stormed their apartment. The activist, who gave his name as Omar al-Dimashqi, said the pair had been stabbed with knives, but that could not be independently confirmed.

Syrian forces recaptured the battle-scarred neighborhood on Friday and proudly showed reporters the dead bodies of rebel fighters lying in rubble-strewn streets.

The fighting in Damascus has sent thousands of Syrians pouring into neighboring Lebanon and Iraq.

Iraqi officials said about 1,000 nationals had left in eight flights from Damascus over the last two days to escape the escalating civil war. An estimated 5,000 more has poured through a land crossing by Saturday, despite the rebel takeover of a major Syria border post farther north.

Capt. Saad al-Khafaji of the state-owned Iraqi Airways said Iraqi authorities sent four airplanes to Damascus airport Saturday to evacuate Iraqis stranded in the Syrian capital.

"The planes are waiting for Iraqi passengers, but few are showing up at Damascus airport," he said, adding it was due to difficulties in reaching the airport because of the violence.

Also Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is sending U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous to Syria to assess the situation.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday renewing the 300-strong U.N. observer force in Syria for 30 days. The resolution was a lifeline for the unarmed observers who were sent to Syria three months ago to monitor a cease-fire that never happened.

Ban urged all sides to stop the violence, but he singled out the Syrian government, saying it must "stop the killing and the use of heavy weapons against the population centers."

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Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report from Baghdad.

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/23/2012 1:13:40 AM
	US$31.2 Trillion Hidden from Taxman by Global Elite 2012 JULY 22 Posted by Stephen Cook The Cayman Islands: a favourite haven from the taxman for the global elite. Photo: David Doubilet/National Geographic/Getty Images US$31.2 Trillion Hidden from Taxman by Global Elite Stephen: Now we’re heading in the right direction, as everything financially dark continues to pour out of the world’s financial ‘capital’ London. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a heading in any mainstream paper like the one below. Although, I would say this figure is a miniscule proportion of what has really been ‘stashed’ away over decades now. And forget the taxman – that’s the people of the world’s money! But at least it’s the lead story in a major and respected UK newspaper – and ready for The Observer’s Sunday print run too, when nearly everyone likes to reading the papers… I predict a big focus on the Swiss banks next. £13tn: Hoard Hidden from Taxman by Global Elite • Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy • Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens By Heather Stewart, Business Editor, The Observer in The Guardian – 21 July, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network. James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert on tax havens, has compiled the most detailed estimates yet of the size of the offshore economy in a new report, The Price of Offshore Revisited, released exclusively to the Observer in The Guardian. He shows that at least £13tn – perhaps up to £20tn (Stephen: around US$31.2 Trillion) – has leaked out of scores of countries into secretive jurisdictions such as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands with the help of private banks, which vie to attract the assets of so-called high net-worth individuals. Their wealth is, as Henry puts it, “protected by a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries taking advantage of the increasingly borderless, frictionless global economy”. According to Henry’s research, the top 10 private banks, which include UBS and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, as well as the US investment bank Goldman Sachs, managed more than £4tn in 2010, a sharp rise from £1.5tn five years earlier. The detailed analysis in the report, compiled using data from a range of sources, including the Bank of International Settlements and the International Monetary Fund, suggests that for many developing countries the cumulative value of the capital that has flowed out of their economies since the 1970s would be more than enough to pay off their debts to the rest of the world. Oil-rich states with an internationally mobile elite have been especially prone to watching their wealth disappear into offshore bank accounts instead of being invested at home, the research suggests. Once the returns on investing the hidden assets is included, almost £500bn has left Russia since the early 1990s when its economy was opened up. Saudi Arabia has seen £197bn flood out since the mid-1970s, and Nigeria £196bn. “The problem here is that the assets of these countries are held by a small number of wealthy individuals while the debts are shouldered by the ordinary people of these countries through their governments,” the report says. The sheer size of the cash pile sitting out of reach of tax authorities is so great that it suggests standard measures of inequality radically underestimate the true gap between rich and poor. According to Henry’s calculations, £6.3tn of assets is owned by only 92,000 people, or 0.001% of the world’s population – a tiny class of the mega-rich who have more in common with each other than those at the bottom of the income scale in their own societies. “These estimates reveal a staggering failure: inequality is much, much worse than official statistics show, but politicians are still relying on trickle-down to transfer wealth to poorer people,” said John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. “People on the street have no illusions about how unfair the situation has become.” TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: “Countries around the world are under intense pressure to reduce their deficits and governments cannot afford to let so much wealth slip past into tax havens. “Closing down the tax loopholes exploited by multinationals and the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share will reduce the deficit. This way the government can focus on stimulating the economy, rather than squeezing the life out of it with cuts and tax rises for the 99% of people who aren’t rich enough to avoid paying their taxes.” Assuming the £13tn mountain of assets earned an average 3% a year for its owners, and governments were able to tax that income at 30%, it would generate a bumper £121bn in revenues – more than rich countries spend on aid to the developing world each year. Groups such as UK Uncut have focused attention on the paltry tax bills of some highly wealthy individuals, such as Topshop owner Sir Philip Green, with campaigners at one recent protest shouting: “Where did all the money go? He took it off to Monaco!” Much of Green’s retail empire is owned by his wife, Tina, who lives in the low-tax principality. A spokeswoman for UK Uncut said: “People like Philip Green use public services – they need the streets to be cleaned, people need public transport to get to their shops – but they don’t want to pay for it.” Leaders of G20 countries have repeatedly pledged to close down tax havens since the financial crisis of 2008, when the secrecy shrouding parts of the banking system was widely seen as exacerbating instability. But many countries still refuse to make details of individuals’ financial worth available to the tax authorities in their home countries as a matter of course. Tax Justice Network would like to see this kind of exchange of information become standard practice, to prevent rich individuals playing off one jurisdiction against another. “The very existence of the global offshore industry, and the tax-free status of the enormous sums invested by their wealthy clients, is predicated on secrecy,” said Henry.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/23/2012 1:58:35 AM
	Dear friends, we have grown so used to ghastly revelations that I am afraid this will not shock too many... AIDS Was a Man-Made Pandemic 2012 JULY 22 Posted by Steve Beckow Stephen Cook wrote yesterday: “Next, they’ll be admitting that AIDS (or rather, HIV) was a man-made virus…” (1) Indeed, although it isn’t generally known, AIDs wasa man-made virus, according to Matthew Ward, who wrote in 2003: “In the higher frequencies where spiritual clarity reigns, there will be no new laboratory-made diseases—which AIDS, SARS and many other contagious diseases now afflicting Earth are—or toxic pollution of air, water and soil, which also is man-designed for the purpose of causing sickness and death.” (2) Millions and millions have died from this man-made pandemic, he says. “While millions in African countries have died and many more millions are suffering from the effects of AIDS, most governments have virtually ignored the plight of the weakened nations where the disease is endemic.” (3) The release of what Matthew calls “designer diseases” into the world serves several purposes. The first is to spread panic and fear, which aids the cabal in many ways. “The media-created stir over new diseases like SARS and exotic flu types [is] intended to send the rest of the world into panic and everyone running for an inoculation. And those diseases would have caused justifiable panic if their full effects had not been severely curtailed by ET technology that reduced them from the laboratory designers’ expected bang to a whimper.” (4) He explained that fear counters the efforts of the Light. “We devoutly wish that fear about global warming and its projected effects would subside. We wish the same about the fear of … AIDS and new diseases that will kill more billions, and, and, and. Fear is being deliberately created by the dark forces because fear’s energy is incompatible with the energy of light, so you can see that the fearful “what if” situations are making the progress of the light more difficult.” (5) Creating laboratory diseases also enriches the pharmaceuticals industry, Matthew said. “African AIDS victims have no money to buy outrageously expensive drugs.” For that reason, “the new designer diseases are released in populations that do.” “So, even though not much longer will AIDS plague Earth’s peoples, exposing the fraud about drugs is part of the truth-bringing. Most create additional adverse physical conditions that still more drugs are prescribed to ‘treat,’ and the manufacturers know this.” (6) However the darkest reason for creating man-made diseases is not to instil fear in people or cause them to buy expensive cures, but to eliminate a large proportion of the Earth’s population deemed to be “useless eaters,” Matthew says. “Far more pernicious than greed and fraud is the larger goal of the peak of darkness, which is to vastly reduce the population this force considers useless to serve them.” (7) Of AIDS, he later wrote: “This laboratory-designed disease is the most successful of the dark forces’ methods within the past half century to reduce the world’s population.” (8) “As long as the dark forces retain any power, they will continue attempts to unleash their laboratory-devised viruses to vastly reduce Earth’s population—achieving this end has been part of their scheme for global domination. With AIDS and various types of conditions diagnosed as cancer, they have achieved success primarily by means of the toxic medications and treatments, but the introduction of new diseases will not succeed.” (9) When Suzy Ward asked Matthew about mad cow disease in the U.S., he told her that it was more of the same – man-made diseases being introduced into the population. In the course of his comment he disputed the official story that AIDS came from infected monkeys. ” [Mad cow disease comes from] a ‘planted,’ deliberately infected animal. Thinkers are not accepting the official line any more than they accepted that the first diagnosed cases of AIDS, in two United States cities across the country from each other, were caused by infected monkeys in Africa.” (10) “Of course the virus did not come from monkeys on a different continent from the one where the first AIDS patients were diagnosed not long after being infected with the virus.” (11) While later man-made diseases like SARS and avian flu were stopped by the galactics, Matthew tells us that: “There was no provision for extraterrestrial intervention, which could have neutralized the AIDS virus as was recently done with the SARS virus and also the avian flu virus, to prevent its intended mutation into a contagion situation for humankind. Many souls, aware of AIDS’ devastating course, chose to experience it as a concentrated karmic lesson that would complete their third density learning and permit evolution to fourth [or fifth]. (12) Moreover, a cure has existed for AIDS from the beginning, he tells us. “Always a cure is developed along with these manmade diseases. The peak of darkness considers the scientists expendable, but the scientists do not see themselves that way, nor anyone they care about, so the means to stop the viral damage is known to them.” (13) On the other hand, those who followed the prescribed treatment for AIDS usually died and were intended to die, he reveals. “HIV diagnoses do not mean AIDS follows, but the prescribed treatment is fairly certain to bring on AIDS, just as the drugs for treating the symptoms of AIDS are fairly certain to cause physical death. I say ‘fairly certain’ because some individuals who have opted to depart from the established medical regimen have returned to sound health through alternative means. When this occurs, it is a matter of the pre-birth agreement, with those individuals listening carefully and heeding the messages of their souls to take that alternate therapeutic route and recover.” (14) The full truth of this dark plan to reduce the world’s population by any means possible, including pandemics like AIDS, will come out along with all the other revelations that can be expected when the world’s media throw off their chains. Footnotes (1) “What? AIDS Treatments Cost Four Times Less Than Health Orgs Charge?,” athttp://the2012scenario.com/2012/07/what-aids-meds-actually-cost-75-less-than-big-pharma-charges/ (2) Matthew’s Message, Dec. 31, 2003, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm (3) Loc., cit. (4) Loc. cit. (5) Matthew’s Message, Feb. 16, 2005. (6) Matthew’s Message, Dec. 31, 2003. (7) Loc. cit. (8) Matthew’s Message, Jan. 19, 2006. (9) Matthew’s Message, April 5, 2005. (10) Matthew’s Message, Dec. 31, 2003. (11) Matthew’s Message, Jan. 19, 2006. (12) Loc. cit. (13) Loc. cit. (14) Loc. cit.
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Michael 9348 2248 Indian...	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/23/2012 6:21:48 AM
	Isn't it strange how people have feared the existence of Extrterrestrials all these years while their own governments have been plotting their deaths? Mass depopulation. My question is, what will come first? The death of millions of innocent people or ascension. Here are two more videos of the story that I brought to you on the other thread. Russian Film Crew Finds USA Death Camps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ybxx43fFg Death Camps for Americans!These Are Not for DNC Holding Pens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khSJ-uYfg This one did not work FEMA Concentration Camp in Beech Grove Indiana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFKaty-4jNU Sadly, this facility is only eight miles from where we live, and I have already seen the barbed wire fences. GOD BLESS YOU ~Mike~ http://www.countryvalues65.com
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/23/2012 6:22:51 PM
	Hi Mike, I have been trying to find a few messages with special recommendations against this sort of negative information, mesages that I remember reading more or less recently - but to no avail. On the other hand, there are so many to choose from among the positive ones. What I am trying to say is we should not waste our time and energy in dubious matters that only produce a rarefied atmosphere in every direction they radiate. Instead, we must keep our sight focused on a future that looks brilliant for those of us among the people of good will. Otherwise we might risk missing our train to happiness in the upcoming new, Golden age. Blessings, Miguel Quote: Isn't it strange how people have feared the existence of Extrterrestrials all these years while their own governments have been plotting their deaths? Mass depopulation. My question is, what will come first? The death of millions of innocent people or ascension. Here are two more videos of the story that I brought to you on the other thread. Russian Film Crew Finds USA Death Camps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ybxx43fFg Death Camps for Americans!These Are Not for DNC Holding Pens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khSJ-uYfg This one did not work FEMA Concentration Camp in Beech Grove Indiana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFKaty-4jNU Sadly, this facility is only eight miles from where we live, and I have already seen the barbed wire fences. GOD BLESS YOU ~Mike~ http://www.countryvalues65.com
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