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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?
4/30/2015 6:01:01 PM

Preston James VT 4-29-15… “Why are American Police murdering so many unarmed Civilians and getting away with it?”

veterans_today_banner_NEW_118veterans_today_preston_james_banner_36This is something one could view as a “dark” article by Preston, but in the end I sense it is one that continues to bring awareness to “what is happening” and the reasons behind it. And in the conclusions he brings some hope for change ina follow up article soon to come, from Mike Harris and Preston.

(note: “RKM” = Rothschild Khazarian Mafia)

“If the RKM loses control over their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) or if the Worldwide Internet diffuses the truth about Israel nuking America on 9-11-01 to too many Americans, it is going to be over for Israel. The RKM realizes that their continued control of the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) in America is essential to maintaining their coverup.

“RKM Chieftains instructed Bush2 that if he did not push hard and get this DHS legislation passed Israel would detonate one or more nukes which had been pre-planted inside America.

“Can you imagine the furor when the NSA Files are ripped open someday as all secrecy ends? This will happen as they whole World gangs up on Israel and America and decapitates it from it elastic, endless supply of private Fiat Counterfeit “money”

“What can be done to reverse this evil RKM/Israel process which consolidated all American Law Enforcement and Alphabets into a single Israeli operated Secret Police Occupation Force for suppressing and murdering Americans? How can we stop cold this process…

“In a soon to be published article Mike Harris, VT’s Financial Editor and I will be laying out a concrete set of steps by which this can be accomplished.

“This is going to soon become very dangerous for We the People as well as most Police, even the good ones. Why? Because some day soon the Citizenry is going to reach a point where they have had so many RKM induced economic losses that they will completely “lose it” in mass.”

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Why are American Police murdering so many unarmed Civilians and getting away with it?

Since Israel nuked America on 9-11-01, it has been able to set up its own private Police State Occupation Army inside America using Nuclear Blackmail and been able to fully militarize our Police as their anti-terror force for oppressing “We The People.”
Read more at VT…

The answer as to why American Police are murdering so many unarmed Civilians and getting away with it is really quite easy to arrive at once we understand the 100 year Agenda of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM) and how they have used the Israeli nuclear attack on America on 9-11-01 to transform America into a Terror State riddled with delusional and false public fear.

But even more, it’s actually the very same reason that Israeli IDF snipers get away with murdering Palestinian Children in cold blood and are able to call them “little snakes” and laugh at their murders.

If you understand why the Israeli Government, the UN, the USA and the World allows these incredibly savage capital crimes by the IDF against Palestinian children to continue, you will understand why American Police get away with murdering unarmed Americans over even miner non-compliance.

Yes, all we have to do is clearly understand this detailed century long Agenda of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM) and Israel its main action-agent, and how they deployed this to transform America into the World’s Biggest Terror State and international aggressor, all on behalf of the RKM and Israel and never for the benefit or interests of “We The People.”

What has been the result of the RKM infiltration and hijacking of the USG?

America has been transformed into an Israel-occupied surrogate that specializes in illegally attacking other nations in numerous Unconstitutional, unprovoked, undeclared, un-winnable perpetual wars, which have been fought for incredibly large profits for these RKM Banksters and their associated Defense Contractors.

And all done on behalf of the RKM Banksters and their associated Defense Contractors to gain incredible no-bid profits.

The RKM began a detailed process beginning in 1913 which reached a major nexus when Israel nuked America on 9-11-01. At this time Israel was able to use Nuclear Blackmail (aka its “Samson Option” first disclosed by Seymour Hersch) to coerce the Administration and Congress to allow them to consolidate all American Alphabets and Law Enforcement into their own single Israel-run Secret Police Occupation Force inside America.

6corps-320x316When Israel covertly nuked America on 9-11-01 using stolen nukes, they used their American News Cartel, the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) to convince almost every American that this attack was done by Mideast radical Islamics from Afghanistan led by Osama Bin Laden rather than by Israel who really was the Perp in all this start to finish.

Well it turns out that Osama Bin Laden was a high ranking CIA Officer who frequently visited Langley and was treated repeatedly at Bethesda for his genetically based kidney disease.

We now know for certain that his trade-craft name was Colonel Tim Osman. before he died in late 2001, he emphatically claimed that he and his associated had nothing to do with 9-11-01.

The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM) has been waging a secret war against America and We the People since 1913 when they established a Beachhead inside America from which they could proceed to strip most of American’s accrued wealth and the fruits of their labor.

The next time you go to the grocery store or any retail store remember that approximately prices are about 38-40% higher than they should be due to the huge amount of interest that must be paid to the Federal Reserve System as illegal federal income taxes to pay for the illegal, Unconstitutional pernicious usury that is charged to Americans for using what should be their own money backed by Gold and Silver and not private FIAT Counterfeit Rothschild funny money.

We know now for certain that 9-11-01 was a watershed event which transformed America into a nation of mostly true believers that wanted extreme revenge against Afghanis and all so-called radical Islamics such as Saddam Hussein who supposedly was building a nuke to use against America inside America.

We know now for certain that Saddam Hussein was a long term CIA hitman who was manipulated upward to be a dictator like general Noriega was in Panama. We also know that Saddam Hussein was manipulated into attacking Iran and using poisonous gas supplied to him by the CIA just as he was manipulated into attacking Kuwait.

Sante Fe Drilling was sold to Kuwait who used it to covertly drill horizontal oil well in order to access Saddam Hussein largest Iraqi oil filed. Once this was done, US Ambassador April Glaspie visited Saddam Hussein and informed him that Kuwait was cross-drilling into Iraq and stealing a great deal of his valuable oil.

Saddam asked Glaspie what America would do if he invaded Kuwait and took back what used to be Iraq’s territory years before. Glaspie told him the US would consider this an “inter-arab matter” and stay out of it. This was of a monstrous lie and the rest is history. This first Iraq war was completely illegal, Unconstitutional unprovoked, undeclared and of course became perpetual and un-winnable.

And like Noriega when he realized he was being set up for disposal, Saddam stopped going out in public and only used body doubles.

Saddam had been negotiating to buy a large number of US manufactured Automobiles to avoid the second Iraq invasion by America in which he was falsely accused of negotiating the purchase of Yellow Cake. And we know now for certain based on Valery Plames excellent work as a NOC that this yellow cake claim was a complete lie and was used as a false pretext for Bush2 to invade Iraq and completely destroy the whole infra-structure and mass murder approximately 1 million innocent women and children.

VP Dick Chicanery attempted to thwart this important Intel by blowing Valerie Plame’s cover and burning her. This resulted in the exposure and murders of numerous American Intel assets and could have easily gotten Valerie Plame murdered too. Chicanery skated free when he should have been arrested for Treason and espionage against America for his part in this and the Israel nuking of America on 9-11-01.

Don’t forget the kidnapping of innocent Islamic teenager boys and the torture and murder at the black prison sites with no rials and no legal representation at all. these of course are crimes against humanity and punishable by execution upon conviction in any suitable court of law like Nuremberg or any International Criminal Court.

Hopefully someday chicanery can be fully prosecuted for his part in 9-11-01 and the coverup, and for his setting up of the massive black prison/torture/murder program in which a minimum of approximately 40% of the captives were completely innocent and kidnapped and sold by warlords to obtain large CIA rewards. This is a perfect example of how Chicanery and BUsh2 with the help of a treasonous Congress trashed the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus which has basically morphed America into an Israeli run Terror State.

So far Chicanery has skated free although numerous nations of the World are no attempting to indict him and bring him to justice. His crimes like Bush2, are certainly just as bad as Hitler, Lenin Stalin and Mao and violated everything that Nuremberg and various world treaties established. By the way Chicanery’s so-called bad heart is all a ruse, a crafty Psyop to get the heat off himself. He is healthy as a horse.

Contrary to public disclosures, Saddam made a deal at the end of the second Iraq war with the CIA and was escorted to a life of exile near Marseille with the usual facial plastic surgery and reconstruction of his front teeth.

So now we know for certain that each of these three Mideast wars have all be based on Big Government Lies, False-narratives and USG Propaganda, but also have been surrogate wars fought for the Khazarian Mafia and its main action-agent Israel.

Not only did the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia manipulate America into fighting surrogate Mideast wars of acquisition for Israel, but these Banksters and their associated defense contractors made vast profits, many of which were based on extreme lucrative no-bid contracts.

The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia infiltrated America in 1913 and established a beachhead by bribing Members of Congress and weak President to pass this illegal, Unconstitutional fraudulent monstrosity, a true wellspring of very evil in America, the Federal Reserve Act.

The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia now was able to manufacture all the money they wanted to, buy up almost every USG Official and gain complete control over most institutions of America.

Of course they were willing to lend their private unlimited Fiat currency to Congress to spend in any amount they wanted and to the American people as long as they received pernicious usury for using what should have been owned by Americans in the first place as required by the US Constitution.

Since these Rothschild Khazarian Mafia Banksters make their largest profits from engineering and staging wars which would not have otherwise occurred, it is rational to call them “soulless merchants of death and destruction.” And we now know for certain the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia and their top Israeli Likudist leaders are driven by ancient Babylonian Talmudism. This ancient death cult is also known as Luciferianism, Satanism, Baal or Moloch Worship or the “Synagogue of Satan,” which are different names for this same death cult which requires Child Sacrifice Rituals and proliferation of engineered, induced mass human suffering and mass death.

2-303x320So it is easy to understand why Israel would nuke America on 9-11-01 in order to be able to begin their final transformation into their own Israeli occupied territory and a full scale Police State operating under the direct control of Israel and the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia.

The RKM’s covert nuking of America on 9-11-01 was an all or nothing play. They now realize that if mainstream America ever finds out what they did on 9-11-01 Israel will be destroyed by the American Military no matter what the cost, because the American People will demand it at every level of government. Doubt this, then consider how revengeful the average America was toward all Mideast Islamics after 9-11-01 after they were wrongly convinced that radical Mideast Islamics did 9-11-01.

If the RKM loses control over their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) or if the Worldwide Internet diffuses the truth about Israel nuking America on 9-11-01 to too many Americans, it is going to be over for Israel.

The RKM realizes that their continued control of the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) in America is essential to maintaining their coverup. They are now finding out that the Worldwide Internet is now functioning as the New Gutenberg Press and more and more Americans are learning that Israel was responsible for attacking America on 9-1101 and that stolen nukes were used.

6a00d83451b7a769e2019b006fbf21970c-320wiWe now know for certain that the legislation to create Homeland Security was written long before Israel nuked America on 9-11-01 which is just one more proof of very specific and detailed Israeli pre-planning.

Israel planned to use their covert 9-11-01 attack on America to create massive blood-shock in the American people. Blood-shock created by the CMMM makes most citizen believers very suggestible, fearful angry and desirous of extreme revenge (even nuking of) those they have been led to believe did it.

The Israel Gladio-style, False-flag nuking of America on 9-11-01 was perhaps the largest False-flag Psyop against the American people since Pearl Harbor, when the USG recovered the aircraft carriers from Honolulu and suppressed observations and radar reports of the Japanese fleet close to Honolulu. We know now that the Japanese purple code was cracked long before this attack which was provoked by a seven year naval Intel plan to engineer this attack at Pearl Harbor.

Israel used Nuclear Blackmail to coerce the USG to pass legislation creating Homeland Security and for every other Police State piece of legislation like the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and the NDAA, each of which is completely illegal and Unconstitutional and constitutes Ipso Facto Treason and Sedition for President of member of Congress involved in passing this in any fashion.

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All these absurd Police State laws are a complete anathema to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights and everything American Founding Fathers stood for and accomplished.

castle-romeo-573x720 (2)The final piece of the puzzle of the Militarization of the American Police, Homeland Security, was shoved into place when the Administration was “nuclear blackmailed” into passing this illegal, Unconstitutional, Seditious and clearly Treasonous legislation. All Members of Congress and Bush2 involved in passing this Homeland Security legislation clearly committed Treason against America by aiding and abetting a foreign enemy Israel that nuked us on 9-11-01.

RKM Chieftains instructed Bush2 that if he did not push hard and get this DHS legislation passed Israel would detonate one or more nukes which had been pre-planted inside America.

Able Danger and AEC Sandia Labs secret Intel reports after 9-11-01 that have been suppressed claim that Israel pre-planted 25 stolen nukes in various cities of America and numerous other large cities of the World like London, Paris, and Rome and would detonate them if the World ever tried to bring Israel to justice. This is called the Israeli Samson option and has already involved numerous detonations of mini and micro-nukes around the World including the Murrah Building and Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

The rest is history. This twisted, sick, demonic Police State legislation authorizing Homeland Security was passed which then allowed Israeli-American “Israeli-first” Dual Citizens to set up their own Secret Police Occupation force inside America called DHS and to proceed to fully Militarize the American Police. This transformation of the American police into a Militarized Agents of the State for Israel.

For many years Israel has been using their cutout the ADL to provide free Training to most major Police Departments. We now know for certain that all ADL training of the American Police is based on IDF anti-terror training and procedures which has caused the American police to view Americans the same way Israel’s IDF views most Palestinians–as subhuman domestic terrorists.

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What this means in practical everyday terms for most Americans is that they are now viewed as the enemy the same way Palestinians are viewed by the IDF, as “domestic terrorists,” or subhuman “snakes.”

The 9-11-01 Israeli nuking of America created incredible fear in the American group mind at a deep subconscious level and the Israeli-American “Israeli-first” Dual Citizens have capitalized on this fear to scare the living sh*t out of most cops. The result? Many if not most police have developed hair trigger reaction with their sidearms toward any lack of compliance even with women or children. In fact many have seen the DHS training targets showing pregnant women or young kids holding a gun.

Under the ADL leadership and anti-terror training modules the American Police have become so scared that they automatically feel that everyone is gunning for them. This is a group paranoid delusion like the Israeli in general suffer from in their malignant Judaic tribalism and in time produces a self-fulfilling prophecy when many Americans will view them for what they are Agents of the Israeli State and part of an Israeli Secret Police Occupation Force. When many Americans believe that the Police are murdering too many American there will be major blow-back and hundreds of Police, even the good ones will be sniped and murdered by the thousands in revenge strikes all over America.

This could then easily escalate matters into a full-blown American Civil War which is what the RKM and Israel wants for America as a means to destroy America and radically reduce the population and destroy any vestiges of We The People and the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

It won’t be long before America is in a serious Civil War. And as the American Military is deployed, there will be uncontrolled fragging like at the end of the Vietnam war most of which was never reported except in certain secret files which have never been released and major rebellion in the ranks, One secret study has claimed that the national Guards will side with We The Propel and thus must have all their heavy armaments, reserve ammo, and equipment and helicopters taken away. Once America is devastated and destroyed by such an induced Civil War, it will be much easier for the RKM to section up all American hard assets including minerals and land for themselves and their Cutouts.

There have been secret plans since Vietnam to deploy one, two or all of the following by helicopter spraying to American inner cities that get out of control. these gasses are secret stockpiled. The first is a concentrated opium based gas which will sedate the populace which is rioting for up to 8 hours. The second is BZ gas which is a strong hallucinogen which will create massive chaos and prevent and organization of the mobs. The third is VX gas, a lethal gas which was sprayed on POW/MIAs in North Vietnamese prison camps after attempts to deploy special ops snipers had failed.

The cover story for these assassinations was that these POW/MIAs were all defectors and traitors and had to be killed before they could provide important tactical information to Soviet and Chinese interrogators who were coming to visit. How do we know for certain that this VX gas was sprayed on the POW/MIA prison camps? First there are secret memos discussing this, and secondly, Admiral Moorer admitted such in a Sixty Minutes Sunday Night Television Interview to clear his conscience.

We now know for certain that Senator John McCain worked very hard to prevent any serious negotiations or recovery attempt to get these captive POW/MIAs located, released or even acknowledged. Years ago a DOD subcontractor who worked for the NSA told me the NSA had satellite photos and other electronic evidence which located almost every single POW/MIA. He was told that this type of Intel could never be used because they didn’t want the enemy to know what the NSA’s true capabilities were. Thus nothing was done to help these poor men.

Can you imagine the furor when the NSA Files are ripped open someday as all secrecy ends? This will happen as they whole World gangs up on Israel and America and decapitates it from it elastic, endless supply of private Fiat Counterfeit “money.”

He also told me that the NSA knew about every single CIA Air America raw opium flight to Japan for processing and that the reason Kissinger and the USG didn’t want any POW/MIAs released from Cambodian or Laotian capture was because they knew all about the illegal CIA narcotics trafficking , some of which was in dead US Soldiers body capabilities and wanted to conceal the Beyond-Black program “Operation Whitestar” which is alleged to have involved the use of advanced anti-gravity craft to pick up and transport illegal narcotics in Cambodia and Laos at night.

One Colonel once told me that when these craft landed they gave off a very bright strange glow and all personnel except the selected crew was ordered to turn their backs and not look as the cart landed and took off. When he told me this he whispered it in my ear and seemed frightened to discuss it. he said they all understood if they ever disclosed this publicly they would probably be assassinated.

We know this was a lie because they did nothing to John McCain when he freely committed repeated acts of Treason while staying in posh surrounding at the presidential suite of the Hanoi Hilton and made films against America and provided all the Intel he knew.

If an American Civil war results, all American Police become instant targets and may as well paint a target on their cars and backs.

If this happens, secret DHS studies have concluded that most American Police will be immediate killed by angry citizens as sitting duck, and will therefore take off their shirts and badges and go home to be with their families. This is officially called “Going YOYO” (You are On Your Own).

The actual reason so many American police are able to murder unarmed Americans in Cold Blood and get away with it is because the whole attitude of the Courts, the Judges and he Police has been Militarized based on the RKM/Israeli Psyop. This causes the Police Chief and Internal Affairs as well as most fellow police to minimize such murders and cover them up, or refuse to prosecute.

The bottom line is that the Courts, the Judges and the Police have been mind-kontrolled (Psyopped) to unconsciously view any citizen that doesn’t comply even if over a minor matter, or even if a women or a child, as a direct threat to their life like the so-called Palestinians that Israel believe are all terrorists and subhuman “snakes.” This view of innocent Americans itself is now unwittingly transforming many police themselves into subhumans and domestic terrorists. So the American Police get away with it because when they murder unarmed civilians who do not immediately comply 100% even if they do so because they are handicapped or hard of hearing, they are unconsciously acting out the Israeli IDF unconsciously embedded mental script they have been mind-kontrolled to follow.

You can be sure of this simple fact. All such abuse, tyranny and terrorizing of We The People will eventually produce a very serious blow-back which places every single Police Officer in America in immediate jeopardy for his very life. Once it starts up it will be hard to stop it and any deployment of the military will only escalate it and massive rebellion in the ranks, back-shooting and fragging will result.

Police Chiefs should wake up and understand many Americans have lost almost everything and blame the USG and see the Police as oppressive agents of the State rather than members of their own communities, and now have very itchy trigger fingers.

Some very wise Chiefs have figured this out and are working hard to train their Police to take food to the hungry and toys to the kids. There have always been good Police Officers who go far out of their way to serve the needs of the Public, but rarely do they get any media attention like the “roids” and “thumpers.” We know for a fact the the CMMM wants to deface the Police and make the American Public distrust, fear and hate the police as a part of their RKM/Israeli agenda to destroy America.

It’s a simple fact that many millions of American Vets, hunters, gun owners, and gun enthusiasts have very itchy trigger fingers and hate the USG and its Police State Agents with a burning hatred. truly smart Police Chiefs will immediate set up detailed procedures to re-institute the community policing model and re-adopt and repaint the motto “Protect and Serve on the Police Squad Cars and Police Station walls outside.

Regular drug testing for all Police should be instituted including blood, urine and hair analysis.Police Departments must stop rejecting the candidates with the best educations and highest IQ’s which they do now. More than some departments have secret policies preventing any candidate with more than a 100 point IQ to be hired.

Video recording sent to the cloud instantly are a game-changer.

Video Cameras have been a game changer and it is hard for police Officials and Courts to ignore blatant recording of the murder of unarmed innocent civilians, especially women and children.

Don’t ignore the sinister effects of advanced pulsed beam microwave psychotronics.

Psychotronic warfare experts like Barry Trower should be hired to change the Police Radio frequencies which are now believed by some experts to cause cancer clusters over many years of use and to set off parietal or temporal psycho-motor seizures which induce extreme automatic violence in susceptible officers.

Conclusion:

What can be done to reverse this evil RKM/Israel process which consolidated all American Law Enforcement and Alphabets into a single Israeli operated Secret Police Occupation Force for suppressing and murdering Americans? How can we stop cold this process which is now transforming America into GAZA II, the World largest open-air prison camp? We now know for certain that the RKM/Israeli secret Agenda is to oppress, tyrannize, attempt to disarm and then progressively mass-murder of up to 90% of all Americans, including women, young children and infants, and all old and retarded and sick and disabled folks?

Stay tuned. In a soon to be published article Mike Harris, VT’s Financial Editor and I will be laying out a concrete set of steps by which this can be accomplished. In the meantime many VT readers and believe you me we have a lot of some of the most informed and astute readers there are, folks who can certainly come up with some great suggestions which can be included in the comment section here or in the comment section of our upcoming article on solutions.

The bottom line to all this is that the RKM and the their puppet Israel has been successful in infiltrating and hijacking the USG and American Law Enforcement. This includes the now Militarized Police which is waging war against the American people on behalf of the RKM and Israel. This is going to soon become very dangerous for We the People as well as most Police, even the good ones. Why? Because some day soon the Citizenry is going to reach a point where they have had so many RKM induced economic losses that they will completely “lose it” in mass.

And when folks have nothing left to lose but their lives they become incredibly dangerous and highly motivated to attack the recognized source of all their losses, the USG and all their agents of the State including the American Police which will be their very first mass target, especially if they make a show of force against We The People and try to go door to door to disarm Americans. When folks have lost everything they will fight and kill what whom they perceive as their enemy within the gates of America no matter what and will be impossible to stop.

The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM) has succeeded in turning most large American inner Cities into a crime-ridden Jungle, a literal Hell on Earth for those who live there or work there, and this is used to justify the Militarization of the American Police. Of course the fact that the RKM and its various Assets bring in the narcotics to sell and use the money to pocket and for covert ops is never mentioned in the CMMM.


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5/1/2015 10:16:40 AM

The Syrian military is on the verge of collapse

Business Insider

(George Ourfalian/Reuters) Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold their weapons as they walk in Aleppo's historic citadel October 1, 2014.
The Syrian Army is facing its most serious challenges since the start of the Syrian Civil War.

Fatigued, over-stretched, and losing the support of its base constituency, the Syrian Army is conceivably nearing the point of collapse. Major rebel offenses have taken control of the strategic cities of Idlib and Jisr al-Shegour in the north. Meanwhile, a second rebel offensive in the south has been steadily working its way towards Damascus, the capital.

These steady rebel gains have demoralized the Syrian military, created fissures within the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, and force Damascus to accept greater foreign assistance in propping an ailing government, according to an April 30th New York Times report.

Here's why the regime may be nearing its most serious crisis yet.

A plunge in Syrian Army manpower

The Syrian Army has suffered extreme causality and desertion rates during the civil war. During the 4 years of the conflict so far, the military has lost approximately half of its personnel.

(Institute for the Study of War)
"Four years ago, Syria’s army had 250,000 soldiers; now, because of casualties and desertions, it has 125,000 regulars, alongside 125,000 pro-government militia members, including Iranian-trained Iraqis, Pakistanis and Afghan Hazaras," the Times reports.

This increased reliance on foreign fighters has elevated the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shi'ite militia group Hezbollah to a key position, often to the chagrin of the Syrian military. According to the Times, Hezbollah "now leads or even directs the fight in many places," at the expense of Syrian commanders.

When irregular volunteers and foreign fighters are taken into account, the regime has not seen a collapse in overall firepower. But an increasing reliance on irregular forces and foreigners further limits the regime's actual reach and credibility.

Furthermore, clashes have erupted between the Syrian military and the Iranian-backed National Defense Forces in the crucial regime-held city of Homs.

A multitude of smaller fighting forces also makes it more difficult for Assad to coordinate the military into a single overarching force, or mobilize specifically in the regime's defense.

Declining support for the government

(Abed Kontar/Reuters) Men inspect a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs thrown by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Kansafra village in the Jabal al-Zawiya in Idlib province January 27, 2015.
Throughout the civil war, Assad has counted on the support of religious minorities for his rule. Much of the regime's top leadership is comprised of Alawites, a Shia offshoot. Generally Assad could also count on a de facto truce with Kurds, Christians, and Druze as well.

But after years of grinding warfare the minority communities are increasingly unwilling to send their sons off to military service within the Syrian Army. A growing number of communities that once supported the regime are keeping their children home in order to create local defense forces that are disconnected from regime command and control structures, the Times reports.

Draft-dodging and desertions are also on the rise. In response, Assad has banned military-aged males from leaving the country and has pressed discharged soldiers into multiple rounds of duty. This has fueled discontent with the regime and further eroded support among Assad's base.

Government infighting

(Ammar Abdallah/Reuters) A damaged picture of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad is seen on a wall in Idlib city, after rebel fighters took control of the area on March 28, 2015. The text on the poster reads in Arabic "With Bashar."
The stresses of the civil war have taken a toll on the inner workings of the Assad regime. Assad's political security chief was reportedly beaten to death after an argument with the head of Syria's Military Intelligence over the role of foreign fighters. After the incident, Assad was forced to replace both officials.

This infighting is escalating only weeks after Assad allegedly gave a direct order for the arrest of his cousin on charges of plotting against the regime.

The regime is almost broke

(Ali Jarekji/Reuters) A woman shows U.S. dollars and Syrian pounds in Amman, Jordan on December 12, 2011
The years of fighting and the collapse of the Syrian economy has almost bankrupted the government. According to the Times, Syria started the civil war with approximately $30 billion in foreign exchange reserves. After four years, the regime is down to approximately $1 billion.

This erosion in foreign capital and the collapse of the war economy has collapsed the value of the Syrian pound. The Assad regime has carried out raids throughout Damascus in a desperate effort to find foreign currency.

Meanwhile, the weakening of the pound has led to further discontent within the Syrian Army,according to the Times, as soldiers continued to be paid the same salaries but with a currency that's becoming more and more worthless.

Security is failing in Damascus

(Mohammed Abdullah/Reuters) Smoke and flames are seen as men run from a site damaged from what activists claim was a car explosion in a market near Damascus on June 28, 2014.
All of the previous factors taken together has led to a collapse of regime authority and law and order within the Syrian capital. The Times reports that checkpoints in the center of the city are understaffed, while the Syrian police are rarely seen on the streets to enforce even the most basic of laws.

Meanwhile, entire neighborhoods have become de facto controlled by Hezbollah as the regime becomes increasingly stretched.

The rebels have consolidated

(Khalil Ashawi/REUTERS) A rebel fighter carries his weapon as he stands on a tank ahead of what the rebels said was an offensive to take control of the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour and the surrounding areas, which are controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad April 20, 2015.
The ongoing rebel campaign in the north of Syria focused around Idlib province marks a significant turning point in the war. A mixture of al Qaeda-affiliated groups, Islamists, and moderate rebels havecome together to take Idlib and Jisr al-Shegour, the first major gains the rebels have experienced against the regime in 2 years.

This concentration of fighters has swung the momentum in the rebels' favor, threatening the heartland of Assad support along the Mediterranean coast. It's also created conditions for a wider offensive throughout the north of the country in a single consolidated campaign.

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5/1/2015 10:43:46 AM

This map proves that Iran doesn't really want to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria

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Iraq and Syria no longer exist.

By now, the world has gotten used to maps showing how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad regime, the Baghdad government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Sunni tribes, Iranian-backed militia groups, and various other actors have filled the vacuum in the countries still officially known as Iraq and Syria.

Michael Pregent, an analyst and former US Army intelligence officer, created a map that greatly clarifies this mess by showing the "priority" and "secondary" defensive front lines for Iran, the Kurds, and the Assad regime, showing the areas that are most vital to the sides' war objectives.

The map shows that the strategic fault lines in Iraq and Syria have nothing to do with the country's internationally recognized borders, or even with the "borders" of ISIS's "Caliphate." And it reveals something important about the future of the fight against ISIS.

(Michael Pregent)

As the map demonstrates, the jihadist group's domain lies beyond both Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government's priority defensive boundary. As Pregent told Business Insider, the map shows that "Iran has no intent of defeating ISIS."

As Pregent notes, ISIS has been defeated nearly everywhere the group has been fought on the ground. "The map tells a story," he told Business Insider. "ISIS is able to maintain territory because it's unopposed. But where it's opposed it loses territory, in both Iraq and Syria."

The black ring cutting through central Iraq and Syria is there because the region's military actors just aren't interested in challenging the group in those areas.

Iran wants to preserve its proxies' control over Baghdad and Damascus, while the KRG wants to defend its territory in northern Iraq. But as Pregent says, the Kurds are more worried about defending Kirkuk from a potential offensive from the Iraqi government and its militia allies than they are about removing ISIS from Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

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(Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi Shiite militia fighters raise up their weapons as they celebrate pushing back ISIS militants on Sept. 3, 2014, on the road between Amerli and Tikrit, in Iraq.

And Iran actually has something to gain from keeping ISIS alive. As long as the group survives, Iran can claim that their allies in both countries are the only thing preventing a jihadist takeover — an argument that raises Tehran's prestige and ensures it a degree of international support for their allies in both countries. (It's also an argument that seems to be working.)

"Iran needs the threat of ISIS and Sunni jihadist groups to stay in Syria and Iraq in order to become further entrenched in Damascus and Baghdad," Pregent told BI.

Recent events in Iraq make a lot more sense once it's clear that Iran and its allies don't see much of a need to advance their red lines deep into Sunni areas. For instance, Ramadi, which is right outside of Baghdad, was only reinforced with around 3,000 troops as ISIS moved against the town in late April, according to Pregent.

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The city is so sparsely reinforced because it 's primarily Sunni, and falls along a populated, Sunni-heavy, hard-to-defend axis that includes Fallujah and the Sunni Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib.

The "red line" is drawn at the Shi'ite neighborhoods that lie beyond a defensible position near Abu Ghraib. Shi'ite Iran and its militia partners in Iraq aren't as willing to fight and die for a place that sits beyond their primary line of defense — yet another reason Iran might not actually be that committed to defeating ISIS.

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5/1/2015 10:54:06 AM

Yemen rebels attack Saudi border, dozens dead

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Yemeni tribal gunmen of the Popular Resistance Committees loyal to fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi raise their weapons as they secure a street of the southern city of Taez during ongoing clashes with Huthi rebels on April 29, 2015 (AFP Photo/Taha Saleh)


Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia said its forces killed dozens of Iran-backed rebels from Yemen who launched their first major attack on the kingdom since Saudi-led air strikes began last month.

Three Saudi soldiers also died in the battle after the rebels targeted their observation posts, the defence ministry said, as its army repelled the assault.

There have been deadly skirmishes before but this is the first time the Saudi military has reported a full-scale Huthi attack on its borders.

Gulf foreign ministers on Thursday meanwhile rejected a proposal to hold talks on neutral ground between rival Yemeni political forces, while an expert report said Iran has been shipping weapons to the Huthis since at least 2009.

The United Nations is trying to bring an end to the weeks-long air campaign and return to peace talks.

After a meeting in Riyadh, the Gulf ministers insisted that talks between Yemen's political factions be held in Saudi Arabia, which leads an Arab coalition that has been bombing the Shiite rebels since late March.

Iran has proposed holding UN talks on ending the war in Yemen in a neutral country, one not represented in the coalition.

But in a statement after talks at a Riyadh airbase the six Gulf Cooperation Council states "affirmed their support to intensive efforts by the legitimate Yemeni government to hold a conference under the umbrella of the GCC secretariat in Riyadh."

The conference would be attended by "all Yemeni parties and components supporting legitimacy as well as Yemen's security and stability," said GCC secretary general Abdullatif al-Zayani.

Thursday's meeting aimed to lay the groundwork for a GCC leaders' summit on Tuesday, which will also be attended by French President Francois Hollande.

The GCC groups regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia along with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

All but Oman belong to the coalition, whose warplanes pressed their attacks on rebel positions as the ministers met for about three hours in a chandeliered room.

- 'Pattern of shipments' -

The air strikes began in late March when the Huthis and their allies advanced on the main southern city of Aden, where President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled after the rebels seized large parts of the country including Sanaa.

Hadi escaped to Riyadh, which feared an Iran-friendly regime taking control of its southern neighbour.

Iran has denied charges of arming the rebels, called for an end to the strikes and pushed for a negotiated settlement.

But a report by a panel of experts presented to the UN Security Council last week, and seen by AFP, said there has been "a pattern of arms shipments to Yemen by sea that can be traced back to at least 2009".

The conflict has heightened tensions in the region.

Iran said two of its destroyers sent to the Gulf of Aden had reached the entrance of Bab al-Mandab, a strategic strait between Yemen and Djibouti.

Tehran stressed the warships would stay out of the territorial waters of other countries.

The coalition has imposed an air and sea blockade on Yemen.

Rulers of GCC countries -- many of which have taken part in a US-led air campaign against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria -- are preparing to meet US President Barack Obama in mid-May.

In a sign of the gains made by jihadists who have capitalised on the country's chaos, IS claimed to have beheaded or shot dead 15 Yemeni soldiers, according to SITE Intelligence Group, a US monitor.

Al-Qaeda has traditionally been Yemen's dominant jihadist group, but IS on March 20 claimed its first attacks.

- Fuel shortages threaten aid efforts -

Despite an announcement last week that the campaign was moving into a new phase, daily coalition air strikes continued, hitting Huthi locations in the southern port city of Aden and elsewhere, as pro and anti-government forces battled on the ground.

The rebels have refused to withdraw from seized territory, in defiance of a Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on their leaders.

The Huthis have allied with troops loyal to former strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, clashing with militia in Aden known as "Popular Resistance" units loyal to Hadi.

The UN says about half of the more than 1,000 people killed since late March were civilians, and millions of people have been affected by the conflict.

Half the population is short of food but a lack of fuel threatens to halt emergency ration deliveries, the UN said.

The GCC urged the international community to rush in more humanitarian aid.

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5/1/2015 4:26:06 PM

Russian Politician Decries Apple’s Free U2 Album as ‘Gay Propaganda’

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Apple CEO Tim Cook and U2 at an Apple event in September 2014.(Photo:Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press).

Today in Offensive Russian Activities™, a Duma state deputy is complaining that the U2 album that Apple gave away to its customers promotes the devious homosexual lifestyle.

Per a report from the Guardian:

“Alexander Starovoitov, a member of the rightwing LDPR party, says Apple spammed youths with illegal content when it released U2’s latest album, Songs of Innocence, to more than 500 million iTunes customers worldwide in September 2014.″

Starovoitov is asking the attorney general to investigate, per The Guardian.

As you may remember, Apple’s dad-like decision to automatically load U2′s album into every iTunes user’s library did not go over wellwith customers. Many people who discovered the music in their library thought they’d been hacked. Either that, or they didn’t know who or what U2 was in the first place. After fielding so many complaints about the incident, Apple finally released a tool that allowed people to remove the collection of songs. But as my colleague Daniel Bean can attest, some are still suffering from the incident eight months later. Take, for instance, an email he receivedthis morning:

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Though most customers vented their frustration over the “gift” via social media, some Russians have launched a (very late) retaliation by threatening a homophobic lawsuit. In addition to Starovoitov, a Russian lawyer named Evgeny Tonky claims that the album’s cover art—a photo of the band’s drummer Larry Mullen Jr. hugging his 18-year-old-son—is morally corrupt and therefore illegal.

Tonky told a Russian newspaper that he plans to sue for damages on behalf of his son.

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(Via Twitter).

Though U2′s latest album was objectively horrible, these allegations are pretty ridiculous. According to a blog post on the group’s website, the Glen Luchford photograph is a (somewhat obvious) metaphor for the album’s theme, which explores “how holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else’s.”

It’s more likely that this very late complaint has more to do with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent announcement that he is gay. Following that announcement, a St. Petersburg university retaliated by dismantling a monument to Steve Jobs.

“After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information promoting denial of traditional family values,” a statement from a group of companies called ZEFS (Western European Financial Union) read.

If Russia does in fact find Apple guilty of distributing gay propaganda to youths, it may force the company to cease operations for up to 90 days or pay as much as 1 million roubles (about $20,000), according to the Guardian.

For Apple, which has close to $178 billion in cash to spend, that is the rough equivalent of a $2 ATM fee.

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