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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted. We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

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Israel has granted oil exploration rights inside Syria, in the occupied Golan Heights, to Genie Energy. Major shareholders of Genie Energy – which also has interests in shale gas in the United States and shale oil in Israel – include Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild. This from a 2010 Genie Energy press release:

Claude Pupkin, CEO of Genie Oil and Gas, commented, “Genie’s success will ultimately depend, in part, on access to the expertise of the oil and gas industry and to the financial markets. Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch are extremely well regarded by and connected to leaders in these sectors. Their guidance and participation will prove invaluable.”

For Israel to seek to exploit mineral reserves in the occupied Golan Heights is plainly illegal in international law. The argument has been made in international law that an occupying power is entitled to opeate oil wells which were previously functioning and operated by the sovereign power, in whose position the occupying power now stands. But there is absolutely no disagreement in the authorities and case law that the drilling of new wells – let alone fracking – by an occupying power is illegal.

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U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday. - The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte. "Our investigators have been in neighbouring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television. "This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," she added.

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Justin Raimondo: Israel bombs Damascus – and the cat is out of the bag - It’s seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad. And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto Israeli alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets – purportedly in order to prevent the Syrians from supplying Hezbollah with long range missiles – at precisely the moment when the Syrian “rebels” are demanding Western intervention on their behalf highlights one of the most bizarre alliances in history. Bizarre, yes, but inexplicable? Not at all.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says Israel’s acts of aggression against Syria will not go unanswered and Tel Aviv will receive a “crushing response.” - Mehmanparast on Sunday called for vigilance against Israeli plots to create instability in the region, adding, however, that “oppression and crime in the region will not endure,” Fars News Agency reported. “The Zionist regime must realize that the atrocities it committed in Syria will not go unanswered and it must await a crushing response.” Referring to Israel’s recent military aggression and targeting of Syria’s scientific centers, the Iranian official said Tel Aviv is trying to weaken the country’s defense and undermine its progress.

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A funeral home director in the US city of Boston has come under fire for accepting the body of a suspect for the bombings on the Marathon in the city. - On Sunday, half a dozen protesters gathered outside Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, in Massachusetts to condemn Peter Stefan for taking the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Holding signs and US flags, the protesters chanted slogans urging Stephan not to bury him. The funeral home director said he hasn't been able to find a cemetery in the state willing to take the body. Stefan said he is planning to ask the city of Cambridge to provide a burial plot, and if Cambridge turns him down, he will seek help from state officials. Meanwhile, Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, arrived at the funeral home to arrange for his burial. Twenty six-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev died three days after the deadly April 15 bombing which claimed the lives of three people and wounded over 260 sixty others.

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MI6, the British secret intelligence service, has acknowledged they handed “bundles” of cash over to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai to fund projects aimed at rebuilding the war-torn nation, the Telegraph newspaper has reported. - The news has given rise to claims that direct cash payments might have been used inappropriately and have settled down in pockets of Afghan warlords. The donations were made periodically over the 12 years that Britain has been at war in Afghanistan. The statement about “ghost money” from MI6 followed the reports that the CIA had been providing the Afghan government with millions of dollars in cash since 2001.

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Australia may join a US-led war on China: The Australian Defence White Paper released on May 3 codifies the federal Labor government’s support for the Obama administration’s “pivot” to undermine Chinese influence in Asia and around the world. While the document asserts that the Australian government “does not approach China as an adversary,” its focus, along with the outlined military initiatives and arms purchases, are all aimed at providing unconditional backing to Washington as it intensifies pressure on Beijing and prepares for a military confrontation.

A no-fly list by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which bars people from traveling to, from, or near the United States has left many outraged, Press TV reports. - Thousands of people have been placed on the no-fly list over alleged security threats. Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Terrorist Screening Center on behalf of a number of Muslim military veterans who have been targeted by the US government and given no explanation.

“I converted to Islam, reverted to Islam, is usually what I would say. When I accepted Islam as my religion, that was the first time I ever felt oppression in my life. That was the first time I was ever targeted and profiled for anything…” US army veteran and Muslim convert Abdullah Ray said.

Ray was notified that he could not fly back to the US during a trip to Colombia and was forced to travel back to the states by bus. As a result, Ray lost his job.

An African-American analyst has sharply criticized U.S. President Barack Obama calling him a slave of the Wall Street. - “Obama has served like a slave to the illegal Wall Street as well as to the affluent and rich powerful Chicago Jewish contingent. He has served Wall Street. He has served the military industrial complex”, Randy Short, Asst. Prof at Bowie University, said in a phone interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Sunday. “He has never done anything for the benefit of black people so when he was elected, they knew that he would do nothing for Africa”, he added. “Africa is worse off under Obama than under Bush. African-Americans are worse off under Obama than Bush”, Short said. [...] Short also argued that Obama lied about closing the notorious U.S. prison at Guantanamo and about bringing troops home from Afghanistan.

The US feigns disassociation with Hitlerian act of Israeli aggression - as was planned since 2007. Unprovoked, Israel has attacked Syria numerous times over the past 2 days, including attacks on the Syrian capital of Damascus, in what appears to be a series of intentional provocations designed to drag the region into a wider conflict its US sponsors can then enter militarily. Neither attacked directly by Syria, nor able to cite credible evidence in regards to perceived threats Israel claims to be reacting to, the assault on Syria represents a Chapter VII breach of the United Nations Charter. What's more, is that while the US feigns disassociation with Israel's breach of international peace, after jointly fueling a genocidal sectarian conflict within Syria's borders for the past two years, it is documented fact that the US and Saudi Arabia planned to use Israel to conduct military attacks against Iran and Syria, they themselves could not justify politically, legally, or strategically.

Assad's army has started a process of decisive victories, and this is causing extreme angst amongst the usual, and some unusual, suspects. - The Likudnik Jews, both in Israel and the United States, are horrified that their machinations in destroying Syria might result in a recovered country with a kick-ass army, a stronger alliance with its friends in Iran and Lebanon and Russia and the arising new powerhouse countries around the word, and a distinct animus against the Jewish state and its slaves who have caused so much misery. Thus, the Jew-owned Congress-traitors stirring up shit about American involvement, the lies about Syrian army use of chemical weapons (lies directly fed from Israel), and the repeated illegal Israeli attacks on Syrian territory. Against this, and so far predominant, is the larger American plan to avoid new big Wars For The Jews, on the simple basis that another one would utterly destroy the United States (and any American involvement beyond arming 'al Qaeda' - as horrible as that has turned out - including 'no fly zones' - the longstanding trick to inevitably set Americans down the path to yet another gentile on gentile war - will inevitably end with American boots on the ground and another clusterfuck like Iraq or Afghanistan). The Jewish Billionaires who own Barry have clearly accepted this, as long as all other support for the Jews, including covert wars, sanction wars, drone wars, and parasitical Jewish draining of American wealth, is allowed to continue. [...] The only alternative to Assad - and there is no chance I am wrong about this - is decades of violent civil war and a population under a rule that will make Saudis look like humanitarians.