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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/14/2018 10:19:55 AM
	Mattis pledges ‘no contact with the migrants’ for troops on Mexico border A National Guard soldier watches over the Rio Grande River along the border in Roma, Texas. (John Mone/AP) By Paul Sonne and Nick Miroff April 12 at 6:57 PM Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought to reassure skeptical lawmakers Thursday that National Guard troops deployed to the Mexico border would have a limited mission despite indications from President Trump that military personnel would remain there until he gets the $18 billion wall he wants built. Mattis deflected questions about whether he planned to keep troops there as political leverage to fulfill Trump’s vision, saying a number of factors could lead to the end of the reinforcement mission. Instead, he described the deployment as an effort to “buy time” for the Department of Homeland Security and improve its enforcement capabilities. The troops will operate under a policy of “no contact with the migrants,” Mattis said, and will support U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a subagency of DHS, as it heads into the months when migration flows typically increase. “This is an anticipatory backing-up, so that Customs and Border Patrol can put more troops in the field,” he added. Mattis said he could not yet say what the deployment’s cost would be, nor could he articulate a strategy beyond saying the troops would be used to support DHS. The Pentagon has authorized funding for deployment of up to 4,000 National Guard members through the end of September. He said Thursday that 800 troops have been dispatched so far and that he expects to soon receive a request for another 700. While on the border, they answer to the governors of the states to which they are assigned: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. They will provide air support, maintain roads and other infrastructure, clear vegetation and assist with facility maintenance, in addition to operating surveillance systems. “These forces will not involve themselves with the migrants themselves or have any law enforcement duties,” Mattis said. Troops conducting surveillance, for example, would pass along any intelligence gathered to Border Patrol agents, who in turn would handle any necessary seizures or arrests. Mattis’s comments come as Democrats voice concern that Trump is deploying the National Guard not because states need military assistance but because the president has proved unable to secure funding for the border wall, a central campaign promise. Ten Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee sent a letter Wednesday to Mattis opposing any attempt to redirect Pentagon funding to pay for a wall. The lawmakers warned that such budgetary maneuvering would take money away from funds the military needs to rebuild after years of budget caps. “The National Guard should not be used as political props when the president does not get his way on something that can only be reconciled through Congressional appropriation,” said a spokesman for Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D-Md.), who signed the letter. “Guardsmen have jobs and families, and should only be called upon in times of war, crisis or imminent threat to our national security.” Asked during Thursday’s hearing whether the National Guard would be tasked with building a wall, Mattis acknowledged he was looking at fencing off — or walling in — the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Arizona, a stretch of land along the border used by the Air Force and Marines to practice air-to-ground bombing. “This is a safety consideration,” Mattis said. “I don’t care who they are, they are human beings, and I don’t want them wandering into a bombing range that is active.” Customs and Border Protection has, in the past, raised concerns about migrants and drug smugglers crossing the range to enter U.S. territory, but as a matter of law enforcement — not necessarily safety. It’s unclear how many safety incidents there have been on the Goldwater range. The military did not respond to requests for such data. Some rights groups have documented migrants’ deaths on the range as a result of exposure to the elements, but not owing to a military mishap. “Over 30 years in the Marine Corps and the Border Patrol, I’ve never heard of anyone being injured in a bombing there,” said Border Patrol agent Vincent Dulesky, a supervisor reached by phone at the agency’s Yuma Sector, which includes the Goldwater Range. A physical barrier already exists along much of the range’s border with Mexico, and signs are posted that warn of dangerous military activity. The George W. Bush administration ordered part of it fenced inwith a physical and virtual barrier, citing some 8,600 people apprehended crossing into the country illegally via the range in 2006. The Obama administration canceled the project after the government spent nearly $1 billion to secure 53 miles of the roughly 2,000-mile border, including parts of the Goldwater range. In testimony Thursday to the House Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, the National Guard’s top commander, Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, said Customs and Border Protection had started developing lists of tasks that the Guard would be able to perform in support of border agents, and that those tasks would be reviewed by Defense Department officials and passed along to National Guard units. Arrests of illegal border-crossers fell to a 46-year low in 2017, but the numbers jumped last month, when U.S. agents made more than 50,000 apprehensions. It was the highest-one month total since Trump took office, and DHS officials said the surge of Central American families and teenagers amounts to a new “crisis” at the border. (The Washington Post)
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4/14/2018 3:38:10 PM

Is It Fake? White Helmets Alleged Chemical Attack Footage Leaves Several Unanswered Questions

APRIL 12, 2018

By Aaron Kesel

A Twitter user @tarek_oo7 has pointed out several strange anomalies in the White Helmets footage after the alleged chemical weapons attack in East Ghouta suburb of Douma (east of Syria’s capital city of Damascus.)

More videos uploaded by the white helmets of the alleged chimical attack in #Douma,i went through them and i noticed something extremely wrong and does not add up.
The white helmets were first on site and they took this video: (please be aware the vid is graphic)pic.twitter.com/VyLOV7LFDe
— طارق (@tarek_oo7) April 11, 2018

The first thing Tarek points out is a video from the second day that claimed a different room where the gas impact site was.

He suggested users to look at the impact site on the ceiling of the first video and compare the size of the hole. Tarek stated the hole in one of the first videos the White Helmets uploaded has a different size and shape than the previous video, coming to the conclusion that the rooms are different in both videos.

Tarek further detailed that “the impact site where the yellow cylinder was found is not the same site where the victims were found. Something is not right. There should be more investigations these white helmets are playing with evidence.”

He also highlighted the fact the guy in the red, black and gray striped shirt who took the video was onsite wearing the same red, black and gray striped shirt before after and during the chemical contamination. (If there was a chemical attack you wouldn’t wear the same clothing that was contaminated; you would seek to get you and your clothing washed immediately.)

Finally, the Twitter user expressed doubt about the yellow color left on the bed, stating it should have been bleached white due to the chlorine, citing a control test of 1 ton of chlorine. He noted that in “30 minutes time notice there is no yellow marks or any leftovers under the cylinder.”

10-As for the yellow colour left on the bed, here is a controle test of 1 Ton of chlorine, after 30 mintes notice there is no yellow marks or any leftovers under the cylinder in this test: chlorine shoukd have bleached the bed cover white not yellow!! pic.twitter.com/DwMHLPn4tf
— طارق (@tarek_oo7) April 11, 2018

Other items of concern include lack of damage to the compressed gas cylinder that was allegedly dropped from a helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SAA.)

A second compressed gas cylinder was allegedly filmed on April 9th on the roof of a building hit by the attack. However, the video was released by the White Helmets on April 10th, a day after Russian service members visited the parts of Douma where the alleged chemical attack took place. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, no traces of the chemical attack were found.

This time the cylinder appears to be a bit damaged unlike the last one. No doubt, the criticism faced by the White Helmets after the first video was used to improve the second one.

So, the questions are:

Why is cylinder#1 undamaged if it has been dropped by a helicopter?
Why is the bed under the cylinder#1 undamaged?
Why did the second video showing cylinder#2 (which is damaged and burned) appear only on April 10th, a day after the visit of the Russians to the area?

First Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Department, Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir, said that the supposed April 7th chemical attack in the Douma district had been staged and filmed by the Western-backed White Helmets organization.

“On April 7, probably the last attempt to stage a chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta was made. The notorious White Helmets, who operate as part of terrorist groups, staged and filmed a chemical weapons attack on civilians in the town of Douma,” Lt. Gen Poznikhir told reporters, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Lt. Gen Poznikhir added that the White Helmets had made several failed attempts to stage chemical attacks during the recent battle in the Eastern Ghouta region. The Russian commander also revealed that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) had discovered toxic agents in an underground workshop of the militants during its operations in Eastern Ghouta.

“On March 3 the militants’ workshop was found in an underground tunnel in Hazrama. Makeshift ammunition pieces were charged with poisonous agents there,” Russian Lt. Gen Poznikhir said.

The Iranian news agency FARS also reported that the SAA had allegedly discovered a location in the town of Saqba in Eastern Ghouta, which had been used by the White Helmets to fabricate videos against the SAA. This report can be linked to the information provided by Lt. Gen Poznikhir and the anomalies pointed out by @tarek_oo7 in the White Helmets videos.

Shortly before the recent attack in late March, Activist Post reported that the Syrian Army had claimed it had uncovered a chemical weapons “workshop” in East Ghouta after having liberated the territory.

What’s more, in that same report the government had warned of the possibility of a false flag attack blamed on the Syrian government.

After sweeping through the village of Aftris in Eastern Ghouta following the withdrawal of terrorists from the area, Syrian Army Colonel Feruz Ibrahim told reporters that, “Presumably, the equipment of these munitions could be produced as part of a false flag accusation that government troops used chemical weapons.”

“The Syrian Foreign Ministry pointed out that more than 40 tons of poisonous substances were found on the territories, liberated from terrorists,” Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, said on March 21.

Medical specialists in the region who have worked in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta for years told journalists they did not see any evidence of any chemical incident taking place in the area in January. They also did not confirm reports about an alleged chlorine gas attack that, supposedly, affected more than 20 civilians on January 22nd, RT reported.

“At some point, our [hospital] received six people, who were allegedly suffering from respiratory problems. Following a medical examination, we did not find any problems at all, any traces of chemical agents,” Seif Aldin Hobia, a member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, who worked for the last seven years at the central hospital of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, said. Recalling the events that took place in January, he added: “we had no evidence of chemical agents being used [in the area].”

His words were echoed by another medical specialist from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Muhammad Adnan Tabazhu, who claimed that the medics obtained no evidence of chemical weapons being used in Eastern Ghouta.

Additionally, Swedish medical doctors have raised questions about the legitimacy of the medical procedures being conducted in the White Helmets documentary on Netflix and stated the groups so-called “rescue” procedures filmed in White Helmets propaganda videos is a complete staged hoax,Activist Post reported.

The procedures in the video below have been carefully analyzed to show that they were carried out on a dead child, who may have been killed by the White Helmets in order to film the footage. The smoking gun evidence from the video released above, in sequenced screenshots, clearly showing that the White Helmets are not saving babies, but killing babies, The Duran reported.

It is worth noting that the region in Syria that Western sources are from is controlled by the Al Qaeda-allied terrorist group Jaysh al-Islam. Further, the reports we’re seeing cited by the press are coming from the Western-backed and Al Qaeda-affiliated propaganda firm the White Helmets and the “pro-opposition Ghouta Media Center.”

White Helmets leader Raed Salah, was denied entry into the U.S. at Washington’s Dulles International Airport and deported, due to “extremist connections” while on his way to receive a humanitarian relief award at a gala dinner hosted by USAID.

As WikiLeaks noted, the White Helmets are mostly funded by the U.S. government. Although theyalso get funding from London as its primary PR front in pursuit of a “No Fly Zone” in Syria.

In February, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis admitted that the U.S. has had “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people.

It’s worth noting that the White Helmets and Al-Qaeda have put out propaganda before by faking attacks in the Middle East.

The White Helmets faked a crisis scene previously that looked shockingly real for the infamous “mannequin challenge.” The video was then pulled from their YouTube channel after it raised immense levels of controversy. It was labeled as distasteful, but not before others on the Internet downloaded it and re-uploaded it.

Shockingly, this isn’t the first time that MSM has fallen for terrorist propaganda. In 2016 it was widely reported that there was a parked car bomb that killed 10 in a Baghdad neighborhood. The story was said to have come from police sources, but there was one small problem: after the story went viral, a video was leaked online showing the fake staged attack and actors faking injuries.

Just So Bombing Syria Never Happens Again JIHADI propagandist faking a car bomb in Baghdad@realDonaldTrump AND U BOMBED SYRIA WHY? Elitist pic.twitter.com/RbbP3Jgmra
— AKilluminati (AK)‏ (@An0nKn0wledge) May 22, 2017

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has announced they have been gathering information from all available sources and analyzing the data. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to substantiate these allegations, Relief Web reported.

With this new evidence, we need to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation before this incident spirals into World War Three. It seems more plausible that the rebels amid defeat orchestrated the attack to frame the Syrian government. Particularly because there were multiple warnings about an attack in Syria prior to the actual provocation.

The next question that has to be answered is whether this attack happened and was carried out by the “rebels” against their own people or whether it was entirely faked from the start. The other alternative is the footage is fake yet the attack happened and there were real casualties.

In order to determine what the case is there needs to be a formal on-ground investigation and soil and clothing samples need to be taken, as well as samples on the actual alleged shell that contained the chlorine. What we shouldn’t do is jump to conclusions without having all the information at hand to come to a general consensus about what took place. In other words, we shouldn’t start World War Three over unverified information.

For further information, see this writer’s article proving the Syrian rebels have chemical weapons entitled: “STRIKE IMMINENT: Trump Threatens WW3 Over Unverified Chemical Weapons Attacks In Regions Controlled By Terrorists.”

(activistpost.com)

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/14/2018 4:10:36 PM
	Horrifying Testimonies Prove You Have Been Lied To About Eastern Ghouta APRIL 12, 2018 By Bas Spliet During my time in Damascus, I got the opportunity to talk to several civilians from Eastern Ghouta. Their testimonies, totally ignored by the mass media, tell a horrifying story of starvation, withholding of food and medical aid, rape, and the imprisonment and murder of innocent women and children. World peace hangs in the balance as the whole world is busy talking about Syria. Yet, the voices of those with an actual right to testify and share their experiences and opinions, i.e. the Syrian people, are disregarded. Access my very first video report here. Show notes: Previous reports made in Syria Scrutinised Minds: It’s raining mortars in Damascus again – mainstream media silent Scrutinised Minds: Syrians rejoice as Jaish al-Islam capitulates – mainstream media pushes chemical weapons meme instead Why I think the alleged chemical weapons attack will sooner or later turn out to be a false flag assault Scrutinised Minds: Syria – the last word on chemical weapons Scrutinised Minds: Syrians rejoice as Jaish al-Islam capitulates – mainstream media pushes chemical weapons meme instead Bas Spliet is a 22-year-old student Arabic studies at the University of Ghent in Belgium, where he previously obtained his bachelor’s degree in History. His journalistic work can be found at https://scrutinisedminds.com/ and he can be reached at bas.spliet@gmail.com. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/14/2018 4:36:32 PM
	US Intervention in Syria Will Kill Far More Children Than Assad’s Alleged Chemical Attack APRIL 12, 2018 By John Vibes This week, it seems that the U.S. military may be getting the green light to escalate their war in Syria, after an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, which was consequently blamed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Most Americans don’t realize it, but the U.S. military has already been at war in Syria for years, with indiscriminate drone strikes that many times kill innocent civilians, with thousands of troops also on the ground. This is a war that has been waged without the knowledge of most Americans and without a declaration of war from Congress. The coverage that this war has received in the mainstream press—from both liberal and conservative sources—has suggested that the US military is just there trying to help. However, classified State Department documents leaked in 2015 showed that regime change in Syria has been a major goal of the US establishment since well before the Arab Spring when the protests and rebellions in the region began. Sure enough, as the years have passed and the cracks in Syria’s political system have deepened, the U.S. military and NATO have taken every opportunity to further their goal of regime change—most of the time, at the expense of the Syrian people. From arming and funding the rebels who would eventually become ISIS, to drone bombing schools and hospitals, the U.S. military has done nothing but add to the death and destruction that people in this part of the world are experiencing. Considering the pain and bloodshed that the US military and their allies have unleashed upon Syria, it should be easy for anyone with this information to see that the renewed threats on Assad have everything to do with opportunism, and nothing to do with helping Syrians or “punishing the bad guys.” Sadly, this is nothing new. The U.S. government has a long history of senselessly killing millions of people in wars of conquest that were sold as “humanitarian interventions.” Most recently, the war of regime change in Libya has left the country in ruins, torn by civil war and ravaged by slave traders, where there was once a thriving civilization. Let’s also not forget about Afghanistan or Iraq, where regime change was achieved, but over a decade later these places are still riddled with terrorism, occupied by foreign troops and experiencing a quality of life much lower than they had prior to US intervention. It is now well established that the war in Iraq was built on a total lie, and that Saddam Hussein never actually had the weapons of mass destruction that were used as a pretext for U.S. invasion. It is quite possible that these stories of Assad using chemical weapons on Syrian people could be lies as well. Former Congressman Ron Paul seems to think that it could be a false flag attack, designed to justify an invasion. Regardless of what actually happened in these chemical attacks, the U.S. government has no business getting involved because their track record has proven to be horrible in these types of situations, regardless of their stated motives. In the string of military conflicts that the United States and NATO have been involved in since World War II, they have always attempted to maintain the high road by claiming that they were responding to some kind of threat, and apparently helping the people that they were bombing. This approach is largely accepted by the general public who is either too afraid or unable to suspect malicious intentions on the part of their masters. In helping themselves to rationalize the nonsensical things that are happening in their name, many people are firm believers in the idea that their government is doing good and “policing the world.” However, military goals and ambitions have nothing to do with “policing the world.” Just as ancient Rome’s government could not care less about “spreading civilization” in their conquests, today’s Western governments are not interested in “spreading democracy” or “policing the world,” but rather, their goal is to rule the world. If we were being honest with ourselves, we would say that they are trying to take over the world’s governments and plunder their natural resources, because that is what we can see happening around us. War is, and always has been, about conquest for plunder, power, and strategic influence; and the many wars that we see taking place around the world today are no different. This fact may not be recognized by the national mainstream media, but people around the world see through the cover stories that have been used to sell these wars. According to a 2014 Gallup International survey, people across the world believe that the U.S. government is the greatest threat to world peace. The poll was taken by 66,000 people in 65 different countries, and just under 25 percent said that the U.S. was the biggest threat, with Pakistan coming in second place with just 8 percent. This makes sense, considering the fact that the U.S. has been a country for 242 years and has been at warfor 221 of those years. Research from the European Security Strategy Council found that since 1990, almost 4 million people have died in wars, 90 percent of them civilians, while UNICEF has reported that civilian fatalities have been even higher in recent years. In 2016, Amnesty International reported that 300 innocent civilians in Syria died as a result of just 11 different US-led airstrikes that they investigated. Given that the U.S. government has such a reputation for mass murder and human rights violations, we should always be extremely suspicious whenever anyone in power claims to be doing something noble, especially when military force is involved. (activistpost.com)
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4/14/2018 5:02:02 PM

BREAKING: US, UK, France Launch Attack on Syria, Huge Blasts Heard in Damascus

April 13, 2018 at 6:54 pm

Written by Tyler Durden

(ZHE) Summary:

Around 9pm ET on Friday, April 13, the US, UK and France launched attack on Syrian regime targets.
Strikes targeted regime bases and chemical weapon production facilities in Damascus and Homs.
The strikes consisted of 3 waves of attacks and are now complete.
Russia was not pre-notified about tonight’s “kinetic activity.”
Double the number of weapons was used compared to last year’s Syria strike, when 59 Tomahawk missiles were launched.
Regime and Russia condemn what they call a ‘flagrant violation’, but have not retaliated so far.

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Update 7: Russia responds. Here is the full statement posted by Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anataoly Antonov:

The worst apprehensions have come true. Our warnings have been left unheard.
A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.
All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris.
Insulting the President of Russia is unacceptable and inadmissible.
The U.S. – the possessor of the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons – has no moral right to blame other countries.

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Update 6: The White House has released the list of US demands from Assad regime.

Dismantle the chemical weapons program
Declare the weapons
Destroy the stockpile
Allow OPCW fact-finding mission
Comply with the de-escalation zone

White House Demands

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ANTONOV: U.S. ACTIONS WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES
ANTONOV ON SYRIA: `PRE-DESIGNED SCENARIO IS BEING IMPLEMENTED’

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Update 5: Video showing the moment a tomahawk missile hits a research facility in Syria:

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Update 4: Joint Chiefs chairman Dunford said that while the strikes sought to minimize risk of Russian casualties, the US did not pre-notify Russia of the Syria strikes.