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      <title>Lightning &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Strike&lt;/span&gt;, Very Close Call</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The tree seems undamaged. The one holding that camera probably needs clean underware.


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      <title>Contract workers picket Union Station in DC</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>On the 21st of May, striking contracter employees at Union Station and their supporters picketed outside several times-and once marched through the station-to demand a living wage. All the Smithsonian buildings, the Ronald Reagan Building, and the Old Post Office saw walk-outs and pickets.

This was one of a number of labor actions in DC demanding that Obama issue an executive order to require that employees of Federal contractors and their subcontractors be paid a living wage. This is being defined as being $15 an hour plus benefits as of 2013 in DC.</description>
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      <title>Cop shot in the face after motorist pulled over</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The Montague County Sheriff's Office has today released the dash cam video of a shooting of one of their police officers during a routine stop.

The newly-released video was taken by 27-year old Deputy James Boyd's dash mounted camera on March 21, showing Deputy Boyd pulling over a black Cadillac with Colorado license plates on Highway 287 in Bowie at Highway 59. 

As the deputy bends down to speak with the driver through the passenger side window he is suddenly shot by convicted felon Evan Ebel. 

Three shots were fired.

Two bullets strike his bullet proof vest. The third grazes his forehead.  The video shows Boyd on the ground as several cars pass by until one vehicle pulls over which was driven by an off duty Johnson County Sheriff's Detective. 

That detective assists Boyd and radios for help. 

Boyd is now undergoing out-patient rehab at a Dallas area rehabilitation center. 
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      <title>Summary of events in Syria for May 22</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:10:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Summary of events in Syria for May 22
 http://anna-news.info/node/11473 

ANNA News
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http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna

During the day, the situation continued to be tense on the northern highway leading to the capital of Syria, where army units militant groups opposed to the attempts to break into the area Barzov, which runs the systematic destruction of the existing units within it &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot; and Free Syrian Army.
On a section of highway near the town Haraszti today servicemen were undermined by two car bombs weighing 700 and 600 kg, which were intended for terrorist attacks on army checkpoints.

Large concentrations of terrorists and they owned vehicles with a heavy machine gun were destroyed by the Air Force strikes on the plantations around Haraszti, and between it and the Adroy.

In Dzhobare in Duvar Al Manasherov liquidated warehouse terrorist group with arms and ammunition.

3 rockets fired by terrorists from Dzhobara not have achieved its goal, which is the area Abbassiin. They exploded in the intermediate area between this area and the area, causing two injuries to civilians.

At the bus station Abbassiin of Dzhobara sniper killed a young 33-year-old man, been waiting transport.

In ARBIGNY army units attacked the cluster militants killed and injured many members of the gangs.

In Sbeyne in a car bomb killed 10, injured 18 people.

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      <title>The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes (720p)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:11:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Another video about the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes, this time produced jointly by the USGS and the state of Tennessee with more of a focus on Tennessee itself.  

  The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16, 1811. These earthquakes remain the most powerful earthquakes to hit the eastern United States in recorded history. These events, as well as the seismic zone of their occurrence, were named for the Mississippi River town of New Madrid, then part of the Louisiana Territory, now within Missouri.  

  There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 50,000 sq mi, and moderately across nearly 1 million square miles. The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 6,200 sq mi.  

 



 The 1811-1812 earthquakes 

The four earthquakes

  December 16, 1811, 2:15 a.m. (M ~7.2 - 8.1) epicenter in northeast Arkansas. It caused only slight damage to man-made structures, mainly because of the sparse population in the epicentral area. The future location of Memphis, Tennessee experienced level IX shaking on the Mercalli intensity scale. A seismic seiche propagated upriver, and Little Prairie (a village that was on the site of the former Fort San Fernando, near the site of present-day Caruthersville, Missouri) was heavily damaged by soil liquefaction.  

  December 16, 1811, 8:15 a.m. (M ~7.2-8.1) epicenter in northeast Arkansas. This shock followed the first earthquake by six hours and was similar in intensity.  

  January 23, 1812, 9 a.m. (M ~7.0-7.8) epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks. Johnson and Schweig attributed this earthquake to a rupture on the New Madrid North Fault. This may have placed strain on the Reelfoot Fault.  

  February 7, 1812, 4:45 a.m. (M ~7.4-8.0) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were severely damaged, and their chimneys were toppled. This shock was definitively attributed to the Reelfoot Fault by Johnston and Schweig. Uplift along a segment of this reverse fault created temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi at Kentucky Bend, created waves that propagated upstream, and caused the formation of Reelfoot Lake by obstructing streams in what is now Lake County, Tennessee.  


  Susan Hough, a seismologist of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has recently estimated the earthquakes' magnitudes as &quot;right around magnitude 7. Possibly a bit below, possibly a bit above, but not as big as 7.5.&quot;  


 Eyewitness accounts 

  John Bradbury, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, was on the Mississippi on the night of December 15, 1811, and describes the tremors in great detail in his Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810 and 1811, published in 1817.  

      After supper, we went to sleep as usual: about ten o'clock, and in the night I was awakened by the most tremendous noise, accompanied by an agitation of the boat so violent, that it appeared in danger of upsetting ... I could distinctly see the river as if agitated by a storm; and although the noise was inconceivably loud and terrific, I could distinctly hear the crash of falling trees, and the screaming of the wild fowl on the river, but found that the boat was still safe at her moorings. By the time we could get to our fire, which was on a large flag in the stern of the boat, the shock had ceased; but immediately the perpendicular banks, both above and below us, began to fall into the river in such vast masses, as to nearly sink our boat by the swell they occasioned ... At day-light we had counted twenty-seven shocks.  

  Eliza Bryan in New Madrid, Territory of Missouri, wrote the following eyewitness account in March, 1812.  

      On the 16th of December, 1811, about two o'clock, a.m., we were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a very awful noise resembling loud but distant thunder, but more hoarse and vibrating, which was followed in a few minutes by the complete saturation of the atmosphere, with sulphurious vapor, causing total darkness. The screams of the affrighted inhabitants running to and fro, not knowing where to go, or what to do-the cries of the fowls and beasts of every species-the cracking of trees falling, and the roaring of the Mississippi- the current of which was retrograde for a few minutes, owing as is supposed, to an irruption in its bed- formed a scene truly horrible.  

  John Reynolds (February 26, 1788 - May 8, 1865) who was the 4th governor of Illinois, among other political posts, mentions the earthquake in his biography My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life (1855):  

      On the night of 16th November, 1811, an earthquake occurred, that produced great consternation amongst the people. The centre of the violence was in New Madrid, Missouri, but the whole valley of the Mississippi was violently agitated. Our family all were sleeping in a log cabin, and my father leaped out of bed crying aloud &quot;the Indians are on the house&quot; ... We laughed at the mistake of my father, but soon found out it was worse than the Indians. Not one in the family knew at the time that it was an earthquake. The next morning another shock made us acquainted with it, so we decided it was an earthquake. The cattle came running home bellowing with fear, and all animals were terribly alarmed on the occasion. Our house cracked and quivered, so we were fearful it would fall to the ground. In the American Bottom many chimneys were thrown down, and the church bell in Cahokia sounded by the agitation of the building. It is said the shock of an earthquake was felt in Kaskaskia in 1804, but I did not perceive it. The shocks continued for years in Illinois, and some have experienced it this year, 1855.  

  The Shaker diarist Samuel Swan McClelland described the effects of the earthquake on the Shaker settlement at West Union (Busro), Indiana, where the earthquakes contributed to the temporary abandonment of the westernmost Shaker community.  


 Consequence of the 1811-12 earthquakes 

  Sand blows were common throughout the area, and can still be seen from the air in cultivated fields. The shockwaves propagated efficiently through the firm midwestern bedrock, with residents as far away as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk, Virginia, awakened by intense shaking.  Church bells were reported to ring as far as Boston, Massachusetts and York, Ontario (now Toronto), and sidewalks were reported to have been cracked and broken in Washington, D.C.  There were also reports of toppled chimneys in Maine.  


 Disaster relief 

  A request, dated January 13, 1812, by William Clark (famous for his exploration of the American West with Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery from 1803 to 1805), then the governor of the Louisiana Territory (the territory was renamed the Missouri Territory soon after the quake to eliminate confusion with the new state of Louisiana), asked for federal relief for the &quot;inhabitants of New Madrid County.&quot;  

      Whereas the Catalogue of miseries and afflictions, with which it has pleased the Supreme Being of the Universe to visit the inhabitants of the earth there are none more truly awful and destructive than Earthquakes ... The inhabitants of the late District now County of New Madrid, in this Territory, have lately been visited with several calamities of this kind, which have deluged large portions of their country and involved in the greatest distress many families, whilst others have been entirely ruined ... In the opinion of the said General Assembly provisions ought to be made by law for or cashiered to the said inhabitants relief, either out of the public fund or in some other way as may can meet to the cost demand availability of the General Government.  

  This is possibly the very first request that the U.S. Federal Government had received for aid from one of its territories.  


 Slave George murder 

  The earthquakes helped bring to justice the murderers of George Lewis (commonly known as &quot;Slave George&quot;). George was slain on the night of December 15-16, 1811 by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, Lilburn Lewis and Isham Lewis, who were also relatives of Meriwether Lewis. After killing him with an axe in front of other slaves, George's owners intended to burn his remains, but the first New Madrid earthquake interrupted their effort, and so the corpse was interred in a brick chimney. The murder might well have escaped discovery by authorities, except that the January 23 and February 7 quakes caused the chimney to partially collapse, exposing George's remains. Lilburn and Isham Lewis were quickly investigated, arrested and charged. Lilburn killed himself; Isham escaped from jail and probably died during the War of 1812.  


 Geologic setting 

  The underlying cause of New Madrid earthquakes is not well understood, but modern faulting seems to be related to an ancient geologic feature buried under the Mississippi River alluvial plain, known as the Reelfoot Rift.  


 Reelfoot rift 

  The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is made up of reactivated faults that formed when what is now North America began to split or rift apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era (about 750 million years ago). Faults were created along the rift and igneous rocks formed from magma that was being pushed towards the surface. The resulting rift system failed but has remained as an aulacogen (a scar or zone of weakness) deep underground. Another unsuccessful attempt at rifting 200 million years ago created additional faults, which made the area weaker. The resulting geological structures make up the Reelfoot Rift, and have since been deeply buried by younger sediments. But the ancient faults appear to have made the rocks deep in the Earth's crust in the New Madrid area mechanically weaker than much of the rest of North America.  

  This weakness, possibly combined with focusing effects from mechanically stronger igneous rocks nearby, allows the relatively small east-west compressive forces that exist in the North American plate to reactivate old faults, making the area prone to earthquakes.  

  Since other rifts are known to occur in North America's stress environment but not all are associated with modern earthquakes, (for example the Midcontinent Rift System that stretches from Minnesota to Kansas), other processes could be at work to locally increase mechanical stress on the New Madrid faults. Stress changes associated with bending of the lithosphere caused by the melting of continental glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age, has been considered to play a role, as well as downward pull from sinking igneous rock bodies below the fault. It has also been suggested that some form of heating in the lithosphere below the area may be making deep rocks more plastic, which concentrates compressive stress in the shallower subsurface area where the faulting occurs. There may be local stress from a change in the flow of the mantle beneath the NMSZ, caused by the sinking Farallon Plate, according to one model.  


 Seismic zone 

  When epicenters of modern earthquakes are plotted on a map, three trends become apparent. First is the general northeast-southwest trend paralleling the trend of the Reelfoot Rift, in Arkansas, south of where the epicenters turn northwest. This is a right-lateral strike-slip fault system parallel to the Reelfoot Rift.  

  The second is the southeast to northwest trend that occurs just southwest of New Madrid. This trend is a stepover thrust fault known as the Reelfoot Fault, associated with the Tiptonville dome and the impoundment of Reelfoot Lake. Epicenter locations on this fault are more spread out because the fault surface is inclined and dips into the ground, towards the south, at around forty degrees. Slip is towards the northeast. Motion on this fault in the 1811-1812 series created waterfalls on the Mississippi.  

  The third line, extending northeast from the northwestern end of the Reelfoot Fault is another right-lateral strike-slip fault, termed New Madrid North.  

  The epicenters of over 4,000 earthquakes can be identified from seismic measurements taken since 1974. It can be seen that the earthquakes originate from the seismic activity of the Reelfoot Rift. The zone which is colored in red on the map is called the New Madrid Seismic Zone.  


 Recent earthquakes 

4000 earthquake reports since 1974

  The zone remains active today. In recent decades minor earthquakes have continued. New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years, of a repeat of a major earthquake like those that occurred in 1811-1812, which likely had magnitudes of between 7.5 and 8.0. There is a 25 to 40 percent chance, in a 50-year time span, of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake.  


 Recurrence potential 

  In a report filed in November 2008, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in &quot;the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States,&quot; further predicting &quot;widespread and catastrophic&quot; damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.  

  The potential for the recurrence of large earthquakes and their impact today on densely populated cities in and around the seismic zone has prompted research devoted to understanding the New Madrid Seismic Zone. By studying evidence of past quakes and closely monitoring ground motion and current earthquake activity, scientists attempt to understand their causes and recurrence intervals.  

  The lack of apparent land movement along the New Madrid fault system has long puzzled scientists. In 2009 two studies based on eight years of GPS measurements indicated that the faults were moving at no more than 0.2 millimeters (0.0079 in) a year. In contrast, the rate of slippage on the San Andreas Fault averages as much as 37 mm (1.5 in) a year across California.  



 Description from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_quakes

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      <title>The Battle for Qusayr: Decisive Victory or War of Attrition?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The battle for Qusayr has not been settled. There are conflicting estimates about the outcome, with loyalists speaking of &quot;hours separating us from victory,&quot; and opposition fighters promising a &quot;protracted war of attrition.&quot; 

Syrian opposition fighters say they have managed to absorb the first strike. They maintain that their collapsing morale has turned into a shared sense of optimism, which helped them regroup and prepare to &quot;confront Hezbollah, which will suffer grave losses at our hands.&quot;

Many armed opposition factions operate in Qusayr, but they don't seem to be homogenous. Like most unorganized militias, they are not adept at cooperating with one another, and in the absence of a unified leadership, their operations are not coordinated.

These militias share control of Qusayr in accordance with their respective financial and military capabilities. The most organized of the factions include the Farouq Brigades, Omar al-Farouq Brigades, al-Wadi Brigades, and the Salafi-leaning Ahfad al-Sahaba Battalion.

The latter is comprised of a small number of extremists who are ideologically aligned with al-Qaeda, as well as Arab and foreign fighters known as  al-Muhajirun , which literally means immigrants, but is also a reference to the early converts to Islam who left Mecca with the Prophet Mohammad. These include an Australian national who, holding a degree in chemistry, came to Qusayr via Lebanon to help &quot;develop explosive devices used by the mujahideen.&quot;

Keeping this blueprint of Qusayr opposition factions in mind, the Syrian army resolved to settle matters militarily in the town after negotiations with the opposition failed.

Leaflets dropped in Qusayr calling on civilians to evacuate the area, but most did not comply. Later on, many began to flee, while others refused to leave voluntarily. But the opposition fighters soon realized that the civilians could serve their cause, and forced some who sought to leave belatedly to stay in the town.



The Syrian army deployed a few hundred elite troops to carry out surgical attacks in Qusayr, according to military sources. Consequently, these sources are certain &quot;the losses will be massive in the battle, especially since the Syrian army is facing groups that are deeply entrenched in civilian neighborhoods.&quot;

In light of this, the same sources were in agreement that what happened in the past two days was a &quot;military achievement.&quot;

 Fighting Continues Among Conflicting Reports 

Sources in the armed opposition said that fighting has continued in northwestern Qusayr since Sunday, and denied that the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters made any progress, with the exception of sustained aerial bombardment against rebel positions.

The same opposition sources also claimed that groups of fighters had retreated into al-Basateen in the northeast, &quot;to safeguard civilians trapped in their homes and avoid raids by Syrian warplanes, which have been using vacuum bombs.&quot;

As the fighting raged in Qusayr, both sides claimed to have made achievements on the ground. Syrian army sources have touted making &quot;qualitative progress&quot; in several sectors of the strategic town, to which opposition coordination committees have responded by posting videos allegedly showing fighters repelling regime attacks.

Opposition sources denied all reports of the regime providing &quot;safe corridors&quot; for civilians and militants alike to withdraw.

 Al-Akhbar  learned that the opposition fighters have booby-trapped cars and homes. The fighters also dug tunnels throughout Qusayr to facilitate their movements, but according to informed sources, the Syrian army was able to target most of the tunnels and destroy them.

In contrast to the opposition's claims, military sources dismissed claims about the rebels having absorbed the first strike. The Syrian army carried out &quot;a sweeping attack,&quot; they said, and &quot;the militants have yet to awaken from their shock.&quot;

Well-informed Syrian sources said that the Syrian army was hesitant about evacuating several positions in the east, which were going to be left for the militants to withdraw, but that the army decided against that in the end fearing reinforcements for the opposition.

 http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/battle-qusayr-decisive-victory-or-war-Attrition 

 

Also: If the rebels lost al-Qusayr, why the Syrian opposition chief is calling for relieving them?

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      <title>Navy's shipyard workers on &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;strike&lt;/span&gt;</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:41:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Google translate

May 17, Guangdong Zhanjiang Haibin Shipyard (Navy 4804 Factory), all plant employees take part in a strike to protest corruption, low wages, no housing.

Hundreds of workers to plug the factory gates, and put up a big red banner of &quot;anti-corruption, survival, mention wages, housing&quot;. The workers said the plant corruption was rampant, leading to poor efficiency.
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      <title>Gitmo Attorney Claims Detainees Are Being Sexually Molested</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 03:24:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>As the Guantanamo hunger strike enters day 100, the inmates' lawyers have revealed details of abuses their clients are subject to, while the prison authorities keep denying they are resorting to practices violating human rights.

A fair trial would have been a natural step. To have all of the parties heard and resolve the crisis, believes Clive Stafford Smith, founder of legal group Reprieve, and an attorney for several detainees in the Guant'anamo Bay camp.

Follow RT's day-by-day timeline of the Gitmo hunger strike.

RT spoke to the activist who was first to reveal some of the harsh methods allegedly used in Guantanamo, including degrading body searches, which inmates have to undergo just to phone their representatives.

http://rt.com/op-edge/gitmo-hunger-strike-lawyer-371/</description>
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      <title>Violent And Dangerous Tornadoes &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Strike&lt;/span&gt; Central US </title>
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At least one person has been killed and 21 people injured in Oklahoma after a half-mile wide twister swept through the US state reducing homes to rubble.

Houses were completely destroyed in the towns of Carney and Pink as the tornado passed through.

More than two dozen tornadoes were spotted in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and local news reports.

They formed part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota, producing 80mph winds and huge hail stones.

Thousands of homes and businesses were without power in Wichita in Kansas after a power cut.

At least four separate tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, including one in the town of Shawnee which smashed through a group of mobile homes.</description>
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      <title>&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;strike&lt;/span&gt; me down release my hand just let me fall ill never understand</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:51:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Not a word was spoken</description>
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        <media:title>&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;strike&lt;/span&gt; me down release my hand just let me fall ill never understand</media:title>
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      <title>Boston Marathon Bombings: Same eyewitness for two different incidents? You decide...</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:13:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>I found this video on Youtube

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWsdL6M-AHs 

Im not into conspiracy theories, but there should be a certain way of &quot;how do I deal with Informations by any media&quot; (mainstream and independent).

People should not just save the information you get by public media, you should try to ask yourself, why should somebody want me to see this. What should somebody want me to feel by seeing this and why should somebody try to manipulate my feelings? In fact, this is all happening. The mainstream media tries to influence your emotions. The most recent example is the civil war in Syria.

Is is the same for the Boston marathon bomgings?</description>
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        <media:title>Boston Marathon Bombings: Same eyewitness for two different incidents? You decide...</media:title>
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      <title>Summary of events in Syria for May 21</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:54:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Summary of events in Syria for May 21
 http://anna-news.info/node/11467 
ANNA News
 http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna 
 http://anna-news.info/ 


Today, terrorist groups from Haraszti, and the Duma tried to unlock the army surrounded the area Barzov militias. On army checkpoints were attacked with car bombs.
The explosions took place near a police hospital, located on the main highway leading to Damascus from the northern parts of the country and the outside of the building control system, water supply, located just south. As a result of the ensuing fire burned down the building. There are dead and wounded, including not only military but also civilians.

Another car filled with 1 ton of explosives, has not reached its goal of being undermined by the military.

In the wake of the bombings strike up clashes had destroyed many attackers.

In Haraszti also was eliminated a group of militants led by warlord, a Saudi national named Abu Muzhahed and the bus with the terrorists, to break the aid of his accomplices.

On a section of motorway Mujahideen was blown armored personnel of the security forces.

Building of the police hospital was shelled with mortars by militants, leaving one person dead, several injured.

The area also Barzov of fierce clashes in which dozens of terrorists were liquidated &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot;, including the leader of one of the factions entrenched there, a Kuwaiti national who bore the nickname Abu Muaz. Were offset by a few snipers and destroyed stores of weapons and ammunition. Fights also captured district plantations Barzov, Haraszti and neighborhood Kabuna and Tishreen quarter.

In Kabune clash occurred at one of the army checkpoint, where they were eliminated, all participating in the attack on him by terrorists.
In the industrial area Kabuna Air Force planes were destroyed militant hideouts, and after the air attack Syrian artillery inflicted a series of precision strikes against concentrations of terrorists in Dzhobare and territories between him and Kabunom.

In the province of Damascus clashes with terrorist groups took place in Al-Hudzheyre, An-Nebek, Deir Atye and plantations around the city Duma.

In the Damascus suburb kiswa exploded a car bomb, a number of civilians were injured.

As a result of a mortar attack by militants campus garment factories, located in the village of Mleha, three workers were killed, 23 were wounded. Some of the injured are in critical condition.

In Adre location of the 39th regiment of the Syrian army was attacked by gangs of terrorists, an attempted from two sides.

Under the main entrance on the territory of the military rebels had dug a tunnel in which they were placed containers of TNT, the blast that killed five soldiers, two were injured. Following the explosion of militant groups have attempted to enter the territory of the regime of the object, which ended in failure. A lot of members of the gangs were killed and wounded, and the rest fled.

It should be noted that this sortie - not the first. The day before yesterday the terrorists drove a stolen tank military base to the fence and fired five shots that killed one officer, five privates were wounded. Strike up after this attack, fight lasted 6:00. It resulted in an escape group that has left the battlefield in many dead and wounded. Spurred failure and forced to retreat militants fired several mortar shells at a military unit that resulted in property damage.

The situation remains tense as in the Khan Sheikh, where terrorists Free Syrian Army was kidnapped one of the elders and respected people in the village, and his son was injured by them. In response, the militias arrested a number of troops belonging to the Free Syrian Army fighters, which caused further deterioration of the situation: armed groups fired on residential areas of the village of mortars. According to some reports, among civilians wounded there.

In the province of Homs in Al Kseyr operations continue to sweep the city blocks from the armed groups. At present, the main forces of the surviving terrorists have accumulated in its northern part, where they had previously captured airfield Ad-dub, through which they hope to escape from the environment.

In today's fighting Syrian military was destroyed Lebanese militant group, owned by the flow, &quot;Al-Mustaqbal&quot;, led by Saad al-Hariri and the terrorist squad, consisting of 20 members, led by warlord Vrtana Al Zhuri of &quot;An-Nusra Dzhebhat.&quot;

On the border with Lebanon today was again detected and eliminated a group of militants who had tried to break the line and get into the city for assistance to terrorists, who are in the &quot;pot.&quot;

In the city of Ar-Rastan in the counter-terrorist operation Syrian army destroyed militant hideouts, their cache of weapons and ammunition, the 23-mm anti-aircraft gun, cars with high-caliber machine gun and a workshop for the production of IEDs.

On the east of the province boestolknovniya that resulted in the neutralization of dozens of members of the armed groups and their cars with a large-caliber machine gun, occurred between Hussein and Ain Tel Al-Gar, and between the villages and Bveyr Sacra.

In the city of Homs in the quarters of the old city of Hai Al-Varsha, Hai Al Vaara and Karabis congestion terrorists were killed, they owned cars and a workshop for the manufacture of IEDs, 10 militants were captured alive.

In the province of Idleb as a result of an army division counter-terrorism operations have been released three people who were abducted by an armed group &quot;Dzhebhat en-Nusra.&quot; One of them - the officer of the Syrian army. All three were released were sent to Aleppo, and then went home.

In the vicinity of a military objective Muaskar Al-Shabib today were defused three IEDs remotely operated weighing 100 kg each and two anti-personnel mines.

Accumulations of militants were eliminated near the settlement Sernin, destroyed tank belonging to terrorists, infantry fighting vehicle and storage of arms and ammunition.

2 field camp members of armed groups were found in the vicinity of Tel Salma and the military airport of Abu Duhur. Among the dozens of militants killed - five snipers.

The grouping of militants &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot;, numbering about 1,000, the siege continues military base Muaskar Al-Shabib. Clashes, during which the Syrian army uses against the heavily armed terrorist groups artillery and aircraft, are still going on.

In the province of Aleppo rebels were again fired from mortars and villages Nubbul Zahra civilian has been injured, injury was a child.

The area was subjected to a military airfield Minneh mortar and rocket attacks by terrorists as a result of which the site was divided helicopter. After the shelling began a fierce clash that continues to this day.

In the south of the province of Aleppo prevented an armed group attempted to infiltrate the village Sheikh Saeed. The attackers were killed and dozens injured. One soldier was wounded. Captured belonged to gangs fighting vehicle.

In the city of Aleppo, the army had progressed deeper into the quarter Dahr Abed Rabbo, the Al-Leramon.

Clashes continue also in the vicinity of the district of Castello.

Artillery bombed clusters of terrorists and their hideouts in the areas of Bustan al-Basha, Sheikh Maqsood and on the road in the town of Al-Bab.

In the Al-Marja was eliminated a group of militants, among whom was a citizen of Sudan.

In Raqqa around the locations of the 17th Division of the Syrian army artillery strikes were subjected to field camps of terrorists &quot;Dzhebhat en-Nusra&quot; and Free Syrian Army, they owned vehicles with a heavy machine gun and military equipment.

In Day-ez-Zor army units have made progress deeper into the district Hai Al-Sinai, where they were based terrorist groups. Boestolknovniya occurred also in other areas of the city.

The group of students Meyadin village that tried to get in Deir ez-Zor for the exams at the end of compulsory certificates in Syria 9-year course, was beaten by the armed terrorist squad that led the children to return home. However, they broke and threw on their exam ID.

In the province of Latakia clashes with army units militant gangs &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot; occurred in Jabal Al-Turkman, Rabia, Toros, Beit-Malaki, Al-Najah Ara Wadi Azraq. Destroyed many members of gangs, their weapons and ammunition.

In the province of Hama completes sweep of terrorist groups Halfa population, in which the sappers neutralized the road and some of the buildings of the village, mined terrorists. The surviving militants are trying to run in the neighborhood of the village. The process of returning civilians Halfa will begin May 22.

Dozens of terrorists &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot; killed in the Syrian army counter-terrorist operation in the village of Busra al-Harir province of Daraa.

In areas of the old town of Daraa and in the villages of Al-Shazhara, Al Shabrak, sachem, Dzhulyan al-Shaykh al-Miskin and Huvar also saw heavy fighting, during which the members of the groups have been neutralized by the organization.

Attempts to help brooked defeat the militants do not stop by extremist forces in the territory of Jordan. So, today was again foiled an attempt to penetrate into Syria group of armed terrorists, most of them in the course of a knotted clashes were killed.</description>
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