Fri 8 Jun 2012
Is Assad Calling for NATO Attack? Russia Abandoning Him. UN and Media Roaring for Intervention in Syria after another False Flag Operation
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LATEST: NEWS: World Socialist Web Site 9 June 2012: Pres. Putin has given the task to the General Staff to draw up a plan for military operations outside Russia, including in Syria.
For a possible intervention, the 76th Division of airborne forces (an especially experienced unit of the Russian army), the 15th Army Division, as well as special forces and a brigade of the Black Sea fleet, which has its base in the Syrian port of Tartus, are being prepared. The details of the operational plan are to be elaborated by working groups of the the organization of the Collective Security Treaty, which most of the post-Soviet states belong to, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to which Russia and China belong. The newspaper reports that an operation depends on the decision of the Russian government and the UN. However, the plans were created for the event that the troops would intervene without UN approval. The Russian government has not confirmed the report so far.
Earlier, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolay Bordjusha, had held out the prospect of the use of “peacekeepers” in Syria. “The task in Syria is likely to impose peace - primarily against the insurgents who use weapons to solve political problems.“
Russia is and China are strongly opposed to a military intervention by the NATO in Syria
LATEST: DEBKAfile 8 June 2012: STALEMATE - Russia sticks to the failed Annan plan. The US president will be blamed by the American public and the Arab world for the horrendous sectarian bloodbath in Syria.
And if Obama and America’s European allies do decide on military intervention, they will be too late and find themselves pulled down into a bottomless quagmire. (And they can blame that on themselves).
Abstract
On the basis of the propagandistic, madly exaggerating Syrian Human Rights Observatory in London alone (integrated into the British Foreign Ministry) – without any confirmation - another Houla is now reported by the UN, which even decries Assad for shooting at UN obervers trying to confirm the massacre. Russia seems to be turning its back on Assad. But no matter how: Before Assad leaves his tribune of power to be placed before the International Court of Justice to be found guilty of crimes against humanity and sent behind bars for the rest of his life, he will attack Israel – so he has promised through his cousin Makhlouf. That means a big war in the Middle East.
The whole thing reveals more and more the characteristics of a prearranged game by the NWO to force Syria into the world community of the Illuminati. The politicians know immediately - without any investigation - that Assad had committed the massacres on civilians and shot at the UN observers - even though only the opposition is benefiting from them and Assad would thereby be digging his own grave. And their media do not refrain from manipulating: showing Iraqi photos from 2003 as proofs of the Houla massacre!
As for the players in Syria: see here.
Radio Denmark 7 June 2012 and HAARETZ 7 June 2012:“ On Thursday UN observers in Syria were shot at, when when they tried to enter the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir where a massacre allegedly occurred. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tells this to the UN General Assembly. It was with light weapons and artillery, the UN observers were shot at, he says. Acc. to Syrian activists, at least 55 people were killed in the village. Ban Ki-moon designs the latest reports on the massacre as “shocking and sickening”.
He believes that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has “lost all legitimacy.”
June 6 (Reuters)/ Huff Post 7 June 2012 and Deutsche Welle 7 June 2012 , The Guardian 7 June 2012: Activists said pro-government militia men and security forces killed at least 78 people, including children, in Syria’s central province of Hama on Wednesday. At least 12 bodies had been burned. The anonymous activist said that “militias loyal to the regime raided the village and began executing people using knives and AK-47s.” DW says the West refuse a Russian proposal it engage Iran in negotiations on Syria. It looks like a massacre nearly 2 weeks ago, where the same militia was accused of having murdered 108 people at the town of Houla.”
Financial Times of 5 June 2012 - brought in “The Truth Seeker”: Anyone surveying current events recently must have been struck by an eerie sense of deja vu. Familiar echoes of the media coverage in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq could be found in the media’s coverage of Syria.
This came to a head with the Houla massacre. Almost in unison, the Western media immediately blamed Syria for the atrocity, despite the fact that there was little to substantiate such claims. Initially, the BBC even used a photograph from Iraq in 2003 to illustrate a report on the massacre. More tellingly, the Western media also failed to give prominence to reports that those killed in Houla were government supporters. Perhaps because such reports would undermine claims that pro-Assad forces were responsible for the atrocity. For many Syrian “activists” are known to be working in close cahoots with Western intelligence.
Yet the BBC accepts photos from these unnamed “activists” without serious scrutiny. What’s more, once the photo was removed the BBC omitted to mention in later editions of the story that it had been removed and that it was originally taken in Iraq in 2003.
In other words the BBC has become a sort of corporate confidence trickster. Winning its viewers trust, then feeding them carefully contrived untruths before demanding money in exchange.
ANSAmed 7 June 2012: China, Russia and the other four countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have today declared their no to “any external military intervention” in the Middle East.
Bloomberg 6 June 2012 As Syria slides toward civil war, Russia is signaling that it no longer views President Bashar al- Assad’s position as tenable and is working with the U.S. to seek an orderly transition.
A U.S. delegation headed by Fred Hof, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special adviser on Syria, is scheduled to meet with Russian counterparts June 8 in Moscow. They will try to forge a common approach to moving Assad aside — or even out of the country — with a goal of replacing him with someone acceptable to both sides in the conflict, according to two U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
“In Moscow, they understand now that there is no chance of maintaining the status quo, they are looking at the question of a change of regime,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, an analyst with the Moscow-based Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. “The only thing that Russia can do is to try and keep some influence in Syria. A managed change of regime is the only option now. Russia remains adamant that the outcome not be imposed from outside, according to a Russian official not authorized to speak publicly on this matter.
“We aren’t for Assad or for his opponents,” Putin told reporters in Paris on June 1. “We want to achieve a situation in which violence ends and a full-scale civil war is avoided.” Even with a U.S.-Russia understanding, it’s nearly impossible to imagine a Syrian leader that Putin and the opposition would find acceptable.. As much as Russia would like that kind of managed 
transition, the circumstances aren’t there for Syria, where a Lebanon-style power-sharing model may be required, according to Lukyanov.
ANSAmed 6 June 2012: “Damascus’ strategy risks producing a genocide if there is not rapid intervention,” said Italian Foreign Minister, Giulio Terzi
The Telegraph 7 June 2012: Bashar al-Assad has “doubled down on his brutality” and must hand over power and leave Syria, Hillary Clinton has said, as she condemned the latest massacre near the town of Hama.
The Independent 7 June 2012: David Cameron today condemned as “brutal and sickening” another alleged massacre by a Syrian government militia.
Mr Cameron, speaking during a visit to Norway, called for “concerted action” from the international community. Reports are not yet verified – but derived from the (totally unreliable) Observatory for Human Rights.
June 9th, 2012 at 22:55
Another great article.
But I think it is a pity that you stopped publishing in Danish. Alternative information about the situation in Syria and other topics you cover is already available in large quantities on the Internet in English, but not much information is available in Danish.
Now it is true that most Danish people with the interest and the intellectual capacity to read these articles can understand English. But making information available in Danish, is also important. Most searches done from Danish PCs will usually display articles in Danish more prominently in their search results for example.
Also, don’t overrate the standard of knowledge of English among the Danish public, nor the willingness to read long and complicated articles in that language, and often important paragraphs will be skipped if they contain unusual terms they would have to look up in a dictionary. Then there are people who would be quite interested in reading your articles, usually a bit long and aND often quite complicated, who are not all that comfortable with English when it comes to the point.
Example: I can of course understand written Swedish myself, like most Danes would if they took the effort, but at a much slower speed, (I have to vocalize every word in my head to recognize many words spelled differently in Swedish, while the way they sound makes me recognize them), so I often skip posts in Swedish, unless they seem extremely interesting. The same probably applies to people with a limited understanding of English. They will quickly skip a post if there are too many words they are not familiar with.
Posts on my own Balder Blog site are mainly translated articles from foreign languages, most often English. Articles that ín many cases would never reach much of the Danish public, even though they are available in English, and and most of it is in very plain language.
Denmark is a small country; 5.5 million people. An article in English or German may give a hundred or a thousand times more hits. But don’t underestimate the effects and importance of having documentation at hand in Danish as well, even if it concerns relatively few people.
Perhaps you would consider one and a while publishing articles in Danish as well, if they concern themselves with matters such as the problems in Syria?
Apart from all that: If one follows msm news it would seem as if almost everybody in Denmark just swallow the news from the controlled press in Denmark, which is more one sided than in any other country I am familiar with.
But I found that on the site of the newspaper Information there often are many commentators who seem to be more aware of what’s really going on than one would think possible. And the paper itself also often brings more insightful and critical articles about questions like this. Just by adding to the volume and quality of critical articles about such matters which otherwise are totally kept out of the Danish media, is not a waste of time.
In matters like this, we could for once consider following the example of Jews and Israelis. This small country publishes its news in a wide range of languages apart from Hebrew. And many of them are real newspapers, not like the small time Copenhagen Post type “News in English”.
June 9th, 2012 at 23:31
Hello, Balder.
Thank you for your compliment.
I really am sorry that I had to give up writing in Danish. But writing in 3 languages is just too overwhelming.
Now German texts bring without comparison most readers and contacts. But German is also by far the most time consuming language to write in. Nevertheless, I have to write my articles in German.
By far, most of the basal texts of my articles are written in English, making it easy to write the English articles.
Having finished my German and English articles, 3-4 days have elapsed - and I cannot bring up the energy to write them in Danish as well. The number of Danish readers never exceeded 100- 150, when I wrote in Danish. Today the number is 80-100.
So the gain by writing in Danish is small.
All right, I will try to translate the summary into Danish - and refer to the German and English articles for documentation.
Have a good week-end