http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=support Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:41:23 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=support Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:55:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d69_1371465645 mowaten Source: Worldtribune It's now no longer a mystery or a subject of debate, even the NATO documents confirmed that 70% of Syrians support their legitimate government, while 20% are neutral and 10% only support the rebels , or should we call them what they are: the foreign &amp; foreign-sponsored mercenaries. According to the article, the regime is winning thanks to the support of the population, who reject and hate the barbaric jihadi fighters more than they ever hated or rejected their own government. Since the start of the foreign coup, two years ago, everybody in the (aligned) world pretended to be caring about Syrians, and called it a humanitarian duty to save them from Assad. But did anyone ever care enough to ask them what they want? Who are obama, or king abdullah, or emir khalifa to speak for the Syrian people? To decide in their place what's best for them? And, best of all, expect them to be grateful for bringing them "democracy" ? We see the "democracies" that the two latter have at home, and the one the former imposed in Iraq, and we're tired to be lied to and taken for dummies. This photo was taken in October 2011, already then the people massively supported Bachar but were ignored by world powers and sidelined in western medias. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d69_1371465645 mowaten NATO data: Syrians overwhelmingly <span class="highlight">support</span> Assad Syria, Syrian People, Bachar al Assad, Democracy, Saudi, Qatar, NATO, Poll, Popular Support Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:10:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a6_1371503113 english-patriot33 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334390/Anger-record-number-maimed-troops-denied-disability-benefit-Governments-controversial-assessments.html Anger as record number of maimed troops are denied disability benefit in Government's controversial assessments :Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare :Royal British Legion announce rise in soldiers having claims rejected :Soldiers forced to undergo demeaning physical tests by firm A record number of wounded war veterans have been denied disability benefits in the past year after undergoing tests carried out by the Government's controversial assessment company. Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers are being declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare in spite of physical and mental injuries they suffered in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last night, the Royal British Legion (RBL) announced a 72 per cent annual rise in former soldiers having their applications to receive Employment Support Allowance (ESA) turned down. Several hundred wounded personnel were denied the benefit on the basis of physical examinations conducted by Atos, according to the RBL. The company is contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess benefits claimants' capability to work. In one case, Lance Corporal Mark Dryden, 35 - a former member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers who, after an explosion in Iraq, lost his right arm and the full use of his left - was asked by Atos assessors if he was left or right-handed. He is now taking his case against the DWP to a benefits tribunal. That case, and others, have led to accusations that Atos Healthcare is under intense pressure to produce assessments that enable the Government to reject benefits claims. Servicemen suffering from the mental scars of combat also complain that they have been turned down for disability benefits. Many injured troops have also described having to undergo demeaning physical tests by the firm. Last night, Peter Poole, the Strategic Director of Combat Stress, a charity serving ex-soldiers suffering from conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, told The Mail on Sunday that, when questioned, wounded troops tended to play down the discomfort they were feeling because to make a fuss went against the military ethos. He said this led to Atos assessors marking down military candidates. He added: 'Atos needs to use its resources to the best effect to ensure soldiers receive the best attention. Many of the doctors and psychologists used by Atos might not have treated troops before.' Atos is in the process of assessing two million claimants for ESA, which replaced Incapacity Benefit in 2008. An Atos spokesman said: 'A physical examination is a small part of the WCA process and people are only asked to do what they can and what is comfortable, with their specific consent.' A DWP spokesman added: 'The percentage of people getting long-term unconditional support has more than doubled in two years, but everyone has the right to appeal if they disagree with the outcome of their assessment.' http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a6_1371503113 english-patriot33 Anger as record number of maimed troops are denied disability benefit in Government's controversial assessments war heros, being cheated by our own system, stealing their money, so they can save more money for the you know who,s., pay Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:02:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d9_1371502771 english-patriot33 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10100943/Can-David-Cameron-explain-why-he-has-put-us-on-al-Qaedas-side.html Can David Cameron explain why he has put us on al-Qaeda's side? The longer a prime minister remains in 10 Downing Street, the more likely he or she is to go mad. Something of the sort happened to Gordon Brown and also, from 2003 onwards if not before, to Tony Blair. No prime minister has left office in full possession of his or her mental faculties since Jim Callaghan in early 1979. One of David Cameron's admirable qualities has been his sanity. He is unexcitable. He is not paranoid, does not conspire against his colleagues, sit up to the small hours of the morning brooding, or hurl pieces of crockery around the room when in a violent rage. He is not subject to sudden, irrational mood-swings. None of this can or should be taken for granted, and surely Samantha Cameron can take some of the credit. "My job is to get him out of here sane," she tells friends. But the Prime Minister has been in the job for three years (and Tory leader for nearly eight), and watching him answer questions on the floor of the House on Monday afternoon, for the first time I started to wonder. With Parliament back after the Whitsun recess, Mr Cameron made a statement that dealt principally with the civil war in Syria, and gave the belated parliamentary response to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Many of his remarks were those of a man with only a tenuous grip on reality. What was missing was common sense. We have seen this many times before. Sir Peter Tapsell, father of the Commons, said that Syria was now enduring what is "fundamentally a religious war between the Shia and the Sunni, which has raged within Islam for 1,300 years". Mr Cameron would not accept this point. "When I see the official Syrian opposition," he replied, "I do not see purely a religious grouping; I see a group of people who have declared that they are in favour of democracy, human rights and a future for minorities, including Christians, in Syria. That is the fact of the matter." Then Jack Straw, a former foreign secretary, asked whether the Prime Minister agreed that Iran would have to be part of any peace deal. Mr Cameron failed to deal with this essential question. At the time of the Iraq invasion 10 years ago, something very like this happened to Tony Blair. A moment came when he too entered a virtual world. Like Mr Blair, Mr Cameron has come to advocate policy in a macabre vacuum, devoid of truth or understanding. He too displays a reluctance to accept the irksome realities of the human condition. Like Mr Blair, Mr Cameron had taken no interest in the world outside Britain before he entered No 10. They both learnt about foreign affairs as prime minister, and both are open to the charge that they treat the subject like a grand, theoretical abstraction. From the start, Mr Cameron (just like Mr Blair in Iraq) has been happy to entertain the proposition that this Syrian conflict is in essence a struggle between good and evil - benevolent democrats and liberals fighting a virtuous struggle against the murderous tyrant Assad. In fact, the rebels were not nearly as good (and President Assad not as evil) as Mr Cameron has thought. As a result of this, the Prime Minister has got it wrong from the start. He massively underestimated Assad's support and staying power. He was absurdly contemptuous of the Russians (who have outmanoeuvred us all along). Above all, he has failed to understand the rebels. Very much as Mr Blair and his American allies were duped by the impostor Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress, so Mr Cameron has made the mistake of taking the Syrian National Coalition seriously. They are intelligent, educated, well-intentioned men in suits - hotel guerrillas - and as such irrelevant to what is now happening in Syria. The Prime Minister would do well to read the mea culpa published last week in Al-Monitor, by a pseudonymous writer from Aleppo who calls himself Edward Dark. "So what went wrong?' asks Mr Dark. "Or, to be more accurate, where did we go wrong? How did a once inspirational and noble popular uprising calling for freedom and basic human rights degenerate into an orgy of bloodthirsty sectarian violence, with depravity unfit for even animals?" Mr Dark describes how the revolution has been captured by a collection of gangsters and fanatics. "This wasn't what we revolted for," he says in despair at the dreadful fate that has overcome the country he loves, "to replace one group of criminals with another." Mr Dark now says he has given up on the revolution. He says that he has seen that the only way forward is "through reconciliation and a renunciation of violence". Yet Mr Cameron wants to escalate the fighting by arranging military support to the rebels. He told Parliament on Monday that he hopes this will "tip the balance" in their favour. Iran - in reality an essential part of any solution - will not be welcome at the negotiating table, and in Mr Cameron's mind there is no future for Assad, which probably means that the war will drag on and on. I dare say that the Prime Minister is sincere when he asserts that Syria is in the grip of a civil war, with democrats and human rights activists ranged up on one side against an evil dictator. I have not been to Syria, but it is clear to me that Sir Peter Tapsell is much closer to the truth. Certainly, the liberal elite in which the Prime Minister places such hopes was involved at the beginning of the uprising. But armed elements funded and supplied by interested parties in Saudi Arabia and Qatar were also present from the start. Their fundamental aim was nothing to do with human rights and the protection of minorities. It was to destabilise and destroy President Assad, Iran's closest ally in the region, and therefore assert Saudi dominance. To what extent have Britain and America been complicit? It is hard to judge. What can be said with certainty is that over the past decade the Middle East, and to some extent the Islamic world, has broken down into two armed camps. On the one side are Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, backed by the United States and (quietly) Israel. To everyone's enormous embarrassment, al-Qaeda is very firmly in this camp. On the other side are Iran, Hizbollah and post-bellum Iraq, strongly backed by Russia and China. Viewed from this wider perspective, Mr Cameron's claim to be on the side of democracy and human rights, and against dictatorship, is not merely fraudulent - it is patently ridiculous. We are not on the side of democracy. As Sir Peter Tapsell hinted in the Commons, Britain has wholeheartedly backed the Sunni camp - Saudi, the Gulf States, and al-Qaeda - in its increasingly bloodthirsty and horrifying conflict against Shia Islam. There may be some very good reasons for this, but I do wish that the Prime Minister would re-engage with the real world, come out publicly, and explain what they are. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d9_1371502771 english-patriot33 Can David Cameron explain why he has put us on al-Qaeda's side? islam, muslims, terrorists, spineless david cameron, Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:34:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c84_1371500234 Bucephalus A live-feed chat taken with Edward Snowden on 06/17/2013. The interview proceeds from the bottom to the top. Questions were asked by The Guardian staff, The Guardian readers and twitter users at #AskSnowden 12.43pm ET Final question from Glenn Greenwald: Anything else you'd like to add? Answer: Thanks to everyone for their support, and remember that just because you are not the target of a surveillance program does not make it okay. The US Person / foreigner distinction is not a reasonable substitute for individualized suspicion, and is only applied to improve support for the program. This is the precise reason that NSA provides Congress with a special immunity to its surveillance. 12.41pm ET Question: So far are things going the way you thought they would regarding a public debate? - tikkamasala Answer: Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. 12.37pm ET Follow-up from the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman : Regarding whether you have secretly given classified information to the Chinese government, some are saying you didn't answer clearly - can you give a flat no? Answer: No. I have had no contact with the Chinese government. Just like with the Guardian and the Washington Post, I only work with journalists. 12.34pm ET Question: Given the enormity of what you are facing now in terms of repercussions, can you describe the exact moment when you knew you absolutely were going to do this, no matter the fallout, and what it now feels like to be living in a post-revelation world? Or was it a series of moments that culminated in action? I think it might help other people contemplating becoming whistleblowers if they knew what the ah-ha moment was like. Again, thanks for your courage and heroism. Answer: I imagine everyone's experience is different, but for me, there was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed. 12.28pm ET Question: What would you say to others who are in a position to leak classified information that could improve public understanding of the intelligence apparatus of the USA and its effect on civil liberties? What evidence do you have that refutes the assertion that the NSA is unable to listen to the content of telephone calls without an explicit and defined court order from FISC? Answer: This country is worth dying for. 12.24pm ET Question: Do you believe that the treatment of Binney, Drake and others influenced your path? Do you feel the "system works" so to speak? Answer: Binney, Drake, Kiriakou, and Manning are all examples of how overly-harsh responses to public-interest whistle-blowing only escalate the scale, scope, and skill involved in future disclosures. Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. Instead, these draconian responses simply build better whistleblowers. If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response. This disclosure provides Obama an opportunity to appeal for a return to sanity, constitutional policy, and the rule of law rather than men. He still has plenty of time to go down in history as the President who looked into the abyss and stepped back, rather than leaping forward into it. I would advise he personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous "State Secrets" privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. 12.12pm ET Question: Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it. 12.10pm ET Question: US officials say terrorists already altering TTPs because of your leaks, &amp; calling you traitor. Respond? Answer: US officials say this every time there's a public discussion that could limit their authority. US officials also provide misleading or directly false assertions about the value of these programs, as they did just recently with the Zazi case, which court documents clearly show was not unveiled by PRISM. Journalists should ask a specific question: since these programs began operation shortly after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks were prevented SOLELY by information derived from this suspicionless surveillance that could not be gained via any other source? Then ask how many individual communications were ingested to acheive that, and ask yourself if it was worth it. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. Further, it's important to bear in mind I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school. 12.04pm ET Question: Edward, there is rampant speculation, outpacing facts, that you have or will provide classified US information to the Chinese or other governments in exchange for asylum. Have/will you? Answer: This is a predictable smear that I anticipated before going public, as the US media has a knee-jerk "RED CHINA!" reaction to anything involving HK or the PRC, and is intended to distract from the issue of US government misconduct. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now. 11.55am ET Question: Ed Snowden, I thank you for your brave service to our country. Some skepticism exists about certain of your claims, including this: I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President if I had a personal email. Do you stand by that, and if so, could you elaborate? Answer: Yes, I stand by it. US Persons do enjoy limited policy protections (and again, it's important to understand that policy protection is no protection - policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens) and one very weak technical protection - a near-the-front-end filter at our ingestion points. The filter is constantly out of date, is set at what is euphemistically referred to as the "widest allowable aperture," and can be stripped out at any time. Even with the filter, US comms get ingested, and even more so as soon as they leave the border. Your protected communications shouldn't stop being protected communications just because of the IP they're tagged with. More fundamentally, the "US Persons" protection in general is a distraction from the power and danger of this system. Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal." 11.41am ET Question: What are your thoughts on Google's and Facebook's denials? Do you think that they're honestly in the dark about PRISM, or do you think they're compelled to lie? Perhaps this is a better question to a lawyer like Greenwald, but: If you're presented with a secret order that you're forbidding to reveal the existence of, what will they actually do if you simply refuse to comply (without revealing the order)? Answer: Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific language across companies. As a result of these disclosures and the clout of these companies, we're finally beginning to see more transparency and better details about these programs for the first time since their inception. They are legally compelled to comply and maintain their silence in regard to specifics of the program, but that does not comply them from ethical obligation. If for example Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple refused to provide this cooperation with the Intelligence Community, what do you think the government would do? Shut them down? 11.40am ET Question: 1) Define in as much detail as you can what "direct access" means. 2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant? Answer: 2) NSA likes to use "domestic" as a weasel word here for a number of reasons. The reality is that due to the FISA Amendments Act and its section 702 authorities, Americans' communications are collected and viewed on a daily basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant. They excuse this as "incidental" collection, but at the end of the day, someone at NSA still has the content of your communications. Even in the event of "warranted" intercept, it's important to understand the intelligence community doesn't always deal with what you would consider a "real" warrant like a Police department would have to, the "warrant" is more of a templated form they fill out and send to a reliable judge with a rubber stamp. Glenn Greenwald follow up: When you say "someone at NSA still has the content of your communications" - what do you mean? Do you mean they have a record of it, or the actual content? Answer: Both. If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. 11.27am ET Question: 1) Define in as much detail as you can what "direct access" means. 2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant? Answer: 1) More detail on how direct NSA's accesses are is coming, but in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. The restrictions against this are policy based, not technically based, and can change at any time. Additionally, audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake justifications. For at least GCHQ, the number of audited queries is only 5% of those performed. 11.23am ET Question: Why did you wait to release the documents if you said you wanted to tell the world about the NSA programs since before Obama became president? Answer: Obama's campaign promises and election gave me faith that he would lead us toward fixing the problems he outlined in his quest for votes. Many Americans felt similarly. Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge. 11.20am ET Question: Did you lie about your salary? What is the issue there? Why did you tell Glenn Greenwald that your salary was $200,000 a year, when it was only $122,000 (according to the firm that fired you.) Answer: I was debriefed by Glenn and his peers over a number of days, and not all of those conversations were recorded. The statement I made about earnings was that $200,000 was my "career high" salary. I had to take pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work. Booz was not the most I've been paid. 11.17am ET Question: You have said HERE that you admire both Ellsberg and Manning, but have argued that there is one important distinction between yourself and the army private... "I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest," he said. "There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is." Are you suggesting that Manning indiscriminately dumped secrets into the hands of Wikileaks and that he intended to harm people? Answer: No, I'm not. Wikileaks is a legitimate journalistic outlet and they carefully redacted all of their releases in accordance with a judgment of public interest. The unredacted release of cables was due to the failure of a partner journalist to control a passphrase. However, I understand that many media outlets used the argument that "documents were dumped" to smear Manning, and want to make it clear that it is not a valid assertion here. 11.13am ET Question: Guardian staff: I should have asked you this when I saw you but never got round to it........Why did you just not fly direct to Iceland if that is your preferred country for asylum? Answer: Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. There was a distinct possibility I would be interdicted en route, so I had to travel with no advance booking to a country with the cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained. Hong Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not put that past the current US administration. 11.07am ET Question: Guardian staff: Let's begin with these: 1) Why did you choose Hong Kong to go to and then tell them about US hacking on their research facilities and universities? 2) How many sets of the documents you disclosed did you make, and how many different people have them? If anything happens to you, do they still exist? Answer: 1) First, the US Government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason and that the disclosure of secret, criminal, and even unconstitutional acts is an unforgivable crime. That's not justice, and it would be foolish to volunteer yourself to it if you can do more good outside of prison than in it. Second, let's be clear: I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target. Not only that, when NSA makes a technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems crash. Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? So we can potentially reveal a potential terrorist with the potential to kill fewer Americans than our own Police? No, the public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the "consent of the governed" is meaningless. 2) All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c84_1371500234 Bucephalus Edward Snowden online and Twitter-fed Q&amp;A with The Guardian Snowden, NSA, Constitution, Politics, Justice, FBI, NDAA, patriot, U.S. Government, CIA, Secrecy, Privacy, Crime Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:23:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Allegiances are proving costly for Islamic militant group Hezbollah as the war in Syria deepens the sectarian divide in the Middle East . Days after the town of al-Qusair fell to President Bashar al-Assad's forces this month with help from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah, the group was shunned by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council. The oil-rich, mainly Sunni GCC labeled it a terrorist group and threatened unprecedented measures against its loyalists and their financial transactions. The U.S. said last week it will help arm the Syrian opposition. Hezbollah's involvement in Syria has led to greater polarization between Islam's two main sects, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Center in Qatar. Without the group, it "would have been more of an inter-Syrian fight rather than being a sectarian one," he said. The result is a watershed in the 31-year history of Hezbollah, which seeks to portray itself as an anti- Israel resistance group and a champion of the downtrodden and oppressed, irrespective of their brand of Islam. Its fighters are also likely to get mired further in Syria's civil war to protect its central conduit of weapons and prevent the well-armed rebels from strengthening Sunni militias in Lebanon, said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at Maplecroft, a U.K.-based risk consultant. Sunni Militias "Combined with significant pressure from Iran , these factors are likely to lead to even stronger involvement by Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict despite the hostile GCC stands," he said. Most of the rebels fighting Assad are Sunni Muslims while the president belongs to the minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam. The split resulted from a dispute over succession following Prophet Muhammad's death in 632. Hezbollah's open alignment with the Syrian regime has triggered an escalation in the Sunni rhetoric, including from Saudi Arabia 's top cleric. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh called Hezbollah a "loathsome, sectarian" group in a statement carried June 6 by the official Saudi Press Agency. He also endorsed Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi's call on Sunni Muslims from his base in Qatar to fight a holy war in Syria. Saudi Arabia's stock market, the Arab world's biggest, dropped the most in almost two years on June 15 after King Abdullah interrupted his vacation in Morocco because of what the official Saudi Press Agency said were "escalating concerns relating to events in the region." 'Arm Us!' Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, who hails from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, on June 15 suspended diplomatic relations with Assad. Egyptians stood by Lebanon and Hezbollah against Israel in 2006, and "today we stand against Hezbollah for their crimes in Syria," Mursi told a stadium packed with his supporters. Khaled Al-Qazza, Mursi's secretary for foreign affairs, last week said Egyptians were free to make up their minds about going to Syria. More fighters may make their way to Syria after Mohammad Al-Areefi, an influential Saudi scholar whose comments are often cited, gave a sermon in a Cairo mosque on June 14 urging Sunnis to take up arms against Assad and Hezbollah. Scores of worshipers jumped to their feet after his comments, also broadcast on Egyptian television, and erupted into chants of "Arm us, arm us, to Syria, to Syria!" Lebanon Spillover The tension has also led to a rise in violence in Lebanon, where Shiites, Sunnis and Christians each make up roughly a third of the population of 4.3 million people. Groups clashed in the northern city of Tripoli, most recently this month, and rockets launched from Syria fell on Shiite areas in Lebanon. Lebanon's army leadership urged restraint last night following the killing of four people in a remote Bekaa Vally area close to the Syrian border. The victims included three Shiites and a Turk with a Shiite mother, the Daily Star reported. Gunmen fanned out in the region following the killings, that show how Shiite-Sunni tensions have spilled over from the Syria crisis. The army, in a statement carried by the official National News Agency, called on residents to "transcend their injuries" and said it won't allow anyone to exploit the incident to "strike national unity." Risk Premium The chaos in Syria is already weighing on the economy of Lebanon, whose modern history is marred by sectarian conflicts. Growth, which averaged 8 percent from 2007 to 2010, won't exceed 2 percent in 2013, Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi said in a June 5 interview. The risk premium investors demand to hold Lebanon's debt over U.S. Treasuries surged in the past four weeks to 467 on June 14, the highest since September last year, according to JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. data. Lebanon's benchmark BLOM Stock Index (BLOM) fell for a sixth day today, declining 0.1 percent. The measure dropped 2.7 percent last week, the biggest weekly slide since December 2011. Arabic for "Party of God," Hezbollah, is the only group that refused to disband following the end of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, swelling from a small militia in 1982 to the most powerful political group in the country with seats in parliament and ministers in the cabinet in Beirut . Hezbollah says it needs its arsenal of weapons to defend against Israeli attacks. It spearheaded the fight against Israel's 18-year occupation of an enclave in south Lebanon. Israel withdrew in 2000, a move Hezbollah claimed as a victory. The group also fought an inconclusive war against Israel in 2006, earning popularity among Sunnis as well as Shiites. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has linked the group's involvement in Syria with its resistance narrative. He called the fighting part of a broader struggle against Israel, saying Hezbollah "won't keep silent and watch its back break." Loyal Fighters In funerals this month for fighters who died in Syria, Hezbollah officials repeated that message, while members of the group say they are not fighting a sectarian war. "No one should consider the al-Qusair achievement as a victory for Shiites against Sunnis," said Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein al-Moussawi in Nabi Sheet on June 5, according to a transcript of his comments e-mailed by Hezbollah. He said it was a victory against the Zionist-Western plot targeting Syria. Syrian opposition groups, which the U.S. government will supply with small arms and ammunition, say Hezbollah is mobilizing its fighters along with Syrian troops outside Aleppo in the north for a push into the city, which unlike al-Qusair, is far from the borders of Lebanon. One of the consequences of Hezbollah's engagement in Syria is the possibility that Lebanese Shiites who work in Gulf countries and send money back home would be expelled, said Peter Harling, project director with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group think tank. Dire Impact "It's happening on a small scale, but you could have an exodus of Lebanese Shiites who are present in the Gulf in large numbers, making a lot of money which they send home," he said in a phone interview. "This can have a very dire economic impact on the Shiites in Lebanon." The crisis in Syria has also deepened tensions between the Western-backed March 14 group and the Hezbollah-led March 8 group, which dominates the caretaker government of Najib Mikati . What is Hezbollah "doing in the alleys of al-Qusair and amid the rubble of its houses and buildings?" former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who heads the Future Movement in the March 14 bloc, said in a June 7 statement. "What is Hezbollah doing to Lebanon and the Lebanese, to the Arabs and Muslims?" For now, the group is stuck on its side of the sectarian divide. Hezbollah won't change its position on Syria or give up support for Assad government, leader Nasrallah said in a June 14 speech. "The alternative in Syria is chaos," he said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Hezbollah's Involvement in Syria Creates More Tentions Between Shiites &amp; Sunnis in the Region syria,lebanon,egypt,middle east,shia,shiite,sunnah,sunni,war,conflict,islam,muslims Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:37:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19d_1371465325 Abdul Ruff Colachal How to save Syria from Rogues? By DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL Affairs ,Former university Teacher; Editor:INTERNATIONAL OPINION; Editor: FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES; Palestine Times: RANDOM THOUGHTS; ( http://abdulrubb.wordpress.com ); website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com / mail: abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com ] __________________________________ INTRODUCTION With anti-Islam global media keep harping on the bogus Sept-11 hoax in USA, Americans have been since 2001 deadly focused on energy rich Muslim nations in Mideast by generating upheavals in Arab world will, NATO could directly invade them as well. Since entire world of terrocractic structures and their media around the world are solidly behind the unilateral US and NATO terror syndicate it may not be too difficult to achieve it. However by retaining the bogus Sept-11 in the background as tool to threaten the world, the USA has achieved much of its objectives comfortably with backing from Arab nations and Turkey, a NATO member and pakistan as major NATO ally. . It has been central policy of CIA for decades now to support the opposition in countries where the regimes refuse or do not promote US interests in those countries and region. Even if the rulers who want to protect their resources against US monopoly politics would openly inform the world about US interference nothing can stop the NATO rogues to attack them by creating the necessary conditions of domestic problems though the opposition parties. Saddam Hussein and Col Qaddafi tried these methods but NATO rogue states and their anti-Islamic global media did exactly what they wanted as per the CIA guidelines. After Collapse of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and now their targets are Turkey, Iran and Syria -all hated by Zionist criminal state in Mideast. In order to advance its own global arms trade interests- rather than present a strong blockade to US unilateralism - Russia criticizes America for its devil plan for Syria. Russian president Putin has reiterated that the USA is supporting the opposition demonstrations although Russia is progressing toward crony capitalist path by promoting oligarchs and others as per US expectations. . Americans and other western roguish powers want to supply terror gods to rebels and destabilize Syria and take full control over Syrian energy resources as they have done in Libya and Kuwait by keeping puppet regimes in these Muslim nations. No-fly-zone and transitional government?. Talk of transitional government in Damascus is doing the rounds in western capitals and that is tragedy of democracy because other s allowed to decide the form of government in Islamic world. And that also is the tragedy of Islamic nations devoid of Islam content. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov announced recently in Moscow the convening of a conference in Geneva to end the fighting and begin negotiations for a transitional government. UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi seeking to overthrow Assad by any means welcomed that. The Syrian government has said it will attend the US-Russia conference , but the now militarily weakened rebels are balking and say they will not participate without weapons and ammunition from the West. Necons and Israelis push the Obama regime to attack Syria quickly or ship terror goods to the rebels for destabilizing Syria. No-fly-over scheme is also under their active consideration to attack Syria under military cover. But giving military aid to Syria's rebels is like killing all Syrian people by drone terror techniques. Sending weapons and military aid might help the rebels, but they are already receiving assistance from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. US support will not solve the problem of rebel disunity and the lack of effective command. Many of the fighting groups are more loyal to local militia leaders than to the Free Syrian Army. In some localities warlords hold sway and refuse to submit to external authority. Giving military aid to the rebels will only add fuel to the fire, prolonging the war, producing more death and destruction, and increasing the risk of sectarian conflagration in the region. What if American arms assistance were to somehow help the rebels turn the tide in their favor? More Hezbollah troops would probably enter the fray on the side of the Assad government, and their paymasters in Tehran might also intervene more directly. This would escalate and expand the conflict. The Sunni majority Syrian rebels would face a Shiite-backed (Hezbollah, Iran) Assad regime, intensifying a regional Shiite-Sunni divide already tearing apart Lebanon and Iraq. This conflict would sunder the entire region and further devastate Syria. The Obama regime is using the prospect of military assistance for the rebels as leverage to gain Russian and Syrian government support for the talks, and as an inducement for the rebels to participate. With US involvement growing and escalation likely, pressure would build for stronger action. Will there be a no-fly zone? Drone strikes against Syrian tanks and artillery? Boots on the ground? The US might find itself dragged into another even more dangerous Middle East war. Yet, Arab world consider the westerners sworn to destroy Muslismand defame islam as their allies. How to save Syria from Rogues? NATO terror war on islam (WW-III) and adamant posture by Assad have complicated the life of Syria. But Syria, people and energy resources of Syria must be saved from the enemies. Without pursuing Islamic values, no Muslim nation can claim to be an Islamic nation. Like other Muslim rulers, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad thinks God has anointed him the permanent president and his forces are apparently poised to attack the rebels that play into the dirty hands of Islamic forces. . West sponsored horror in Syria with the civil war raging, Assad does not think people have the right to call polls or make any suggestions to the regime. people for all terrocratic rulers are just things and nothing more than that. hence he refuses to step down and a save Syria, people and their resources. Neither he names his successor by peaceful means nor does he call for a poll to elect a new ruler. . Syrian forces must protect the nation and its resources and secure lives of people . The rebel cause is just - to overthrow the murderous Assad regime - but the hard reality is that after two years of fighting, the so-called insurgent forces have been unable to defeat government troops, and lately have lost ground militarily, most recently with the fall of the city of Qusayr in central Homs province. Providing weapons to the rebels also means giving military support to "insurgent" forces that include those allied to Al Qaeda . They say that the US aid would go only to moderate groups, but controlling the use of weapons is impossible in the midst of the large-scale bitter war raging in Syria. Islamist groups such as the al-Nusra Front increasingly dominate the fighting the enemies which CIA calls the "insurgency" and would likely gain control of weapons. US military aid could end up arming Al Qaeda. It's a delicate balancing act that will require Kerry to pressure the Syrian government into allowing an open transition process and the rebels into pursuing their goals through political and diplomatic means rather than armed struggle. As expected, an innocent looking Obama, after pretending to be a humanist president, has come out of shell to officially begin slaughter of Syrians. Observation Muslim rulers are fools and they promote foolish strategists. . When Muslim rulers behave conspirators against islam, like street rogues and become liars and frauds, while they let lives of people become easy causality. Hopefully good sense prevails in the mindset of Assad Many NATO rogues have called for arming the Syrian rebels - a move President Obama rejected on the face of it,, but CIA reports that he is now reportedly considering. But such a step would worsen the devastation and might involve the United States in prolonging the Middle East war. As expected, an innocent looking Obama, after pretending to be a humanist president, has come out of shell to officially begin slaughter of Syrians. Assad's Army remains strong and fully committed to the cause of defending sovereignty from enemies both from within and outside , despite some defections, and has been bolstered by aid from Iran and Hezbollah and promised missile shipments from Russia. Thousands of Muslims have been killed in Syria so far. Syria's most urgent need is for humanitarian assistance. US role in Syria cannot but be destructive. Rather than pursuing uncertain and dangerous military solutions, the US should use its influence to continue to press for a diplomatic settlement. Sending aid rather than weapons and continuing to pursue a diplomatic solution offer the best options for helping the Syrian people. A better way to help the Syrian people is to pursue diplomatic efforts to end the killing and provide greater support for humanitarian relief efforts. ___________ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19d_1371465325 Abdul Ruff Colachal How to save Syria from Rogues? How to save Syria from Rogues? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:24:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=382_1371460017 Hendomania Here is a man preaching Islam and Sharia Law in the UK. He praises Osama Bin Laden and tells the man that if he doesn't convert and follow Sharia Law - he will have to leave. IMO - Islam cannot be integrated into a democratic UK - yet the boarders are open for them to come and preach their hatred and breed at 4 - 1, as their foothold gets stronger and stronger. A young 'British' couple will have on average one child - they cant afford more, as their taxes are going to support welfare for immigrants and their large families. Islam is a cancer and it needs to be treated as such. With 78% of Islam followers, in the UK, favouring Sharia Law, over democracy, the future for our grand-children looks bleak. The Liberal weak ass politicians and largely, foreign, 'human rights lawyers' have fucked up the population balance and as Enoch Powell foresaw we have 'blood on the streets' and its going to get worse. Our politicians have betrayed us with their weak Immigration policies and cow tailing to Islamists. Even the 'moderate' population have had enough and there is no place to go apart from the far right. For a good 'balanced' and 'informed' view on the threat Islam represents; I follow Douglas Murray DouglasMurrayArchive on youtube and also like what Mark Steyn has to say (author of 'America Alone' and 'After America'). Obviously labelled racists by Islamists. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=382_1371460017 Hendomania Muslim leader Saif Al Islam promoting Islam and Sharia Law in Luton - relent or leave. Islam, Saif Al-Islam, Luton, Sharia Law, Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:13:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=136_1371459300 omasbioladen With the cleaning of Qusayr, open US-weapons support for the murderers even with sarine like chemicals, patriots and F-16s in Jordan, Russians reluctance of the S-300, Hezbollah around and possible IRGC special forces deployed to counter the evil imperialists July may become the endgame for some formal superpower. What are YOUR predictions for the outcome for **THE BATTLE FOR ALEPPO** ? P.S: Support the spirit of liveleak.com and not allow controlled mass media manipulate your true thinking, believe and voting - Just as I tried to when creating this poll. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=136_1371459300 omasbioladen Neutral poll on the FSA-breakdown in Aleppo - pls. vote by heart! Unbaised Syria poll, Battle for Aleppo Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:35:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=347_1371450115 Abdul Ruff Colachal Iran presidency: Hassan Rouhani elected to succeed Ahmadinejad By DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL Affairs ,Former university Teacher; Editor:INTERNATIONAL OPINION; Editor: FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES; Palestine Times: RANDOM THOUGHTS; ( http://abdulrubb.wordpress.com ); website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com / mail: abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com ] __________________________________ Iran Poll &amp; Hassan Rouhani In a surprise way, 65 year old nuke expert Hassan Rouhani has won the presidential campaign in iran- the target of western rogue states. Iranian democracy has enabled a smooth transition of power to succeed fire-brand but simple living president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who remained the main attraction in any international summit. . Moderate candidate Hassan Rouhani secured victory in presidential election on Friday the 15th June with over 50% of the vote.. 72% of the 50 million eligible Iranians turned out at the polls. The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with Ahmadinejad, congratulated Rouhani. Tehran's mayor, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, also conceded defeat by sending a congratulatory message to the president-elect. Other candidates did the same. Minutes after he was announced as the winner, thousands of jubilant campaigners and people across Iran poured into streets to celebrate. Rouhani, a PhD graduate from Glasgow Caledonian University and a former nuclear negotiator, has pledged to find a way out of the current stalemate over Iran's nuclear programme, which is the cause of the sanctions crushing the economy. Rouhani, who favours a policy of political openness, as well as re-establishing relations with the west, is likely to soothe international tension. He has been described by western officials as an "experienced diplomat and politician" and "fair to deal with". Rouhani served as the chief nuclear negotiator under the former president Mohammad Khatami. Under his watch, Iran agreed to halt uranium enrichment and was more co-operative with the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Organisation. During Rouhani's term as a nuclear negotiator, Iran appeared more co-operative to the international community and, leading up to Friday's poll, he repeatedly pointed out that on his watch Iran's nuclear dossier was not referred to the UN security council. During the campaign, Rouhani repeatedly noted that on his watch Iran's nuclear dossier was not referred to the UN Security Council and no major sanctions were imposed. Although the only cleric among the eight candidates allowed to stand for election, the 65-year-old is seen as a pro-reform moderate figure. He has positioned himself as a moderate figure favouring political openness and improved relations with the west. He has pledged to find a way out of the stalemate over Iran's nuclear programme that led the west to impose tough sanctions. "It is good to have centrifuges running, provided people's lives and livelihoods are also running," Rouhani said during a TV debate. QUICK REACTION Significantly, the government had not endorsed any of the candidates. The endorsement of Rouhani earlier in the week by reformist leaders Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani injected last-minute excitement into the race, boosting his chances. The 65-year-old was the only cleric among the six presidential candidates. The turnout for Friday's vote was so high that polling stations stayed open for five hours longer than planned. Speaking after casting his vote in Tehran, spiritual leader Khamenei had urged a mass turnout to rebut suggestions by American officials that the election enjoyed little legitimacy. "I recently heard that someone at the US national security council said, 'We do not accept this election in Iran'," he said. "We don't give a damn." Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Rouhani's deputy in Iran's national security council between 1997 to 2005, and a spokesperson for Iran's nuclear negotiating team, said the early results showed that people in Iran were desperate for a change in the country's foreign and economic policies. The public support of Rafsanjani and Khatami and withdrawal of Mohammad-Reza Aref from the race had a major role in Rouhani's win. Khatami and Rafsanjani played a significant role in Rouhani's victory by holding off declarations of support and persuading a candidate Aref to drop out to avoid a split vote. Britain urged Iran's new president to set his country on a "different course" after years of deadlock and dispute with the west. The Foreign Office said that it hoped Rouhani would use his victory to engage with international concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions and develop a "constructive" relationship with the wider international community. The former British foreign secretary Jack Straw knows Rouhani and described him as "warm and engaging". "This is a remarkable and welcome result so far and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be no jiggery-pokery with the final result," he said. "What this huge vote of confidence in Rouhani appears to show is a hunger by the Iranian people to break away from the arid and self-defeating approach of the past and for more constructive relations with the west." He added: "On a personal level I found him warm and engaging. He is a strong Iranian patriot and he was tough but fair to deal with and always on top of his brief." Trita Parsi, of the National Iranian American Council, said: "Though hardliners remain in control of key aspects of Iran's political system, the centrists and reformists have proven that even when the cards are stacked against them, they can still prevail due to their support among the population." White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "It is our hope that the Iranian government will heed the will of the Iranian people and make responsible choices that create a better future for all Iranians." In 2009, when Ahmadinejad won his second term, the opposition Green movement, popped up and provoked by US led western terrocracies that sought to destabilize Tehran and make life conditions of Iranians more difficult, made big noise about the validity of poll and even claimed bogus victory. However people of Iran defeated all these vicious intentions again tn iran. OBSERVATIONS Today's elections all over the world, even in USA and UK, are fake and about choosing between bad and worse. Between devils and evil forces. Many corporatist strategists defending rampant corruption, bribery, sta crimes ems, illegal invasions for alien lands and resources, killing ing millions of Muslims worldwide and stealing their resources, especially much needed energy sources, say "voting is a national duty and a right given to you by God." Threatened by top world terrocracies for energy resources and pursuing anti-islamism objectives, Iran is on the brink of an extraordinary political transformation after the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani sensationally secured enough votes to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani's victory delighted reformers who have been desperate for a return to the forefront of politics after eight acrimonious years under Ahmadinejad. It will also lift the spirit of a nation suffering from its worst financial crisis for at least two decades as a result of the sanctions imposed by western powers in the dispute over its nuclear program. The Iranian currency, the rial, recovered its value against the dollar by more 6% as results were announced in Rouhani's favour. Rouhani issued a statement on television, saying "a new season of solidarity" had begun following a result that brought "rationality and moderation" as well as "peace, stability and hope". Now iranians need peace. Both non-Muslim nations and anti-Islamic countries must now give up their tirade against iran and help iranians rebuild their economy, shattered by western rogue states and their reliable, rather faithful, agents in Tehran. Sunni Arab world should shelve their enmity towards Iran and help islam flourish and Muslim live in peace. Saudi regime should the US agentship forthwith and behave!. Strangely enough, non-Muslims are growing controlling Muslim nations. Sunni world is responsible for that funny phenomenon. ___________ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=347_1371450115 Abdul Ruff Colachal Iran presidency: Hassan Rouhani elected to succeed Ahmadinejad Iran presidency: Hassan Rouhani elected to succeed Ahmadinejad Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e0_1371219435 Servoxa Now that Erdogan will stay, the AKP supporters are showing loyalty world wide. Republic of Macedonia One more pic from Macedonia (https://twitter.com/mf_cantimur/status/345542625136365568/photo/1) Malaysia http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e0_1371219435 Servoxa <span class="highlight">Support</span> from other nations to Erdogan support, for, Erdogan, AKP, world, wide, Erdogan, is, staying, haters, be, mad Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:09:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e18_1371294260 english-patriot33 http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/385534/Deport-or-support-asylum-seekers 'Deport or support asylum seekers' A CASH-strapped council is threatening to sue the Government to recoup the lb6million it has spent caring for failed asylum seekers. Paul Carter, Tory leader of Kent County Council, is demanding Home Secretary Theresa May "support or deport" the migrants costing taxpayers millions of pounds. And he has ordered lawyers to explore "all legal remedies" for reclaiming the money the authority has had to fork out because of the UK's shambolic immigration system. Mr Carter, whose council must save about lb300million over three years, said: "The message to Government is clear, either support or deport, but stop expecting local taxpayers to foot the bill. "Either the UK Border Agency needs to do its job and deport those people whose applications are rejected, or accept that if they won't, it will cost councils money and intervene to stop taxpayers footing the tab for their lack of action. "We have spent about lb6million over three years. It shouldn't be a burden on the council taxpayer. "Writing off lb2million a year is not easy especially in these straitened times." Kent social services is supporting about 125 failed asylum seekers who arrived here before they turned 18, but are now aged up to 24. The Home Office has refused to meet the bill because it says councils do not have to support anyone over 18 with no right to be here. But Mr Carter says leaving the young foreigners destitute would put the council at legal risk and could force the migrants into crime. Alp Mehmet, of MigrationWatch, said yesterday: "We absolutely agree those who have no right to be here should be removed and removed quickly. This situation is happening because of failures in the system. "The council may be arguing with the Home Office about the money but either way it is the taxpayers who have to foot the bill." Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, said: "If the UKBA was an organisation fit for purpose this farcical situation would never have arisen. "These vulnerable young adults should not be left in limbo but removed as soon as their rights are exhausted." A UKBA spokesman said: "Kent County Council is not legally required to provide financial support to most failed asylum seekers aged 18 and over and is incurring unnecessary costs to the taxpayer by doing so." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e18_1371294260 english-patriot33 'Deport or <span class="highlight">support</span> asylum seekers' scrounging bloodsuckers, parasites, islam, muslims, deport, Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:38:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e74_1371260009 AK551 Uninsured father paralyzed after rescuing stranger's four-year-old daughter receives thousands of dollars in support to pay for enormous medical costs Michael Patterson, 43, struck his head while rescuing 4-year-old Javea Jones from drowning in a creek Patterson broke his neck in three places and has a severed spinal cord He has already received over $60,000 from strangers to pay for his hospital bills 'I kind of thought the world had grown cold until this happened to my son' his mother said A man left paralyzed after heroically diving into a creek to save a 4-year-old girl from drowning has received thousands of dollars in support to pay for his medical bills. Strangers have already pledged $60,000 to help Michael Patterson, 43, who broke his neck in three places while saving the life of 4-year-old Javea Jones from drowning in a northwest Georgian creek, according to the Friends of Mike Patterson Trust. The paralyzed father faced huge medical bills without any insurance, until strangers established the trust to benefit him. 'I did not realize that there was still kindness in this world like there is. I kind of thought the world had grown cold until this happened to my son,' Patterson's mother Vickie Jones Roberson told WSB-TV . Patterson, of Rockmart, Ga., was visiting the Euharlee Creek with his son on June 8 when a young girl was dragged underwater. Authorities say Jones had been playing in the creek and stepped into a section of deep water. The girl was dragged under water, her mother Carlisa said, describing it as the worst moment of her life - until the Good Samaritan took action. She described Patterson as a 'hero' and an 'angel'. In the hospital, Patterson explained his actions. 'I just did what I would hope anybody else would've done for me,' Patterson said to his mother, according to TODAY . 'He has always been like that - someone else first,' Roberson told WSB-TV. Patterson struck his head during the rescue, breaking his neck in three places and leaving him with a severed spinal cord. Both Jones' mother and Patterson's nine-year-old son witnessed the horrific moment that his father broke his neck on hitting the water. He was unconscious in the water for three minutes before being dragged out by bystanders. EMTs performed CPR before he was taken to the Redmond Regional Medical Center. He is now paralyzed. Remarkably, it was the second time in two weeks that Patterson had saved someone's life--he also pulled a truck driver to safety when his rig caught on fire. Roberson said her son recently started a job installing sheet rock and doesn't have health insurance. She told TODAY the family is trying to transfer him to the an Atlanta nonprofit hospital Shepherd Center which specializes in spinal cord rehabilitation. She told WSB-TV : 'Pray and pray, and have a lot of faith. That's all I can do.' The Friends of Mike Patterson Trust was established Wednesday to help him and his family by three people who did not know Patterson before the accident. 'We are trying to help his family raise money for this hero,' the trust's GoFundMe page reads. As of Thursday morning, Patterson was in a medically-induced coma and back on a ventilator, according to the group's Facebook page. On Tuesday he was originally taken off the respirator but after bacteria-filled creek water entered his lungs gave him pneumonia, he got worse Wednesday night, TODAY reported. He could remain paralyzed from the waist down with some movement in his right arm for the rest of his life. His mother told TODAY Patterson is still not aware of his paralysis. 'This is his worst nightmare,' she said. 'But he has a heart of gold, and I do know with all my heart that he's not going to give up.' Roberson told TODAY his son mumbled from his hospital bed that he wanted to live. 'I don't want to die, I want to live,' Patterson said. Anyone who would like to help the family can email FriendsOfMikePatterson@gmail.com or send donations to the Mike Patterson Donation Fund, care of River City Bank, 228 N. 2nd Ave. SW, Rome, Ga. 30165. Checks can also be mailed to Friends of Mike Patterson Trust at 210 E. 2nd Ave., Suite 205, Rome, Georgia 30161. Updates on Patterson's condition can be found on the Friends of Mike Patterson Facebook page. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e74_1371260009 AK551 Uninsured father paralyzed after rescuing stranger's four-year-old daughter receives thousands of dollars in <span class="highlight">support</span> to pay for enormous medical cost This Is a REAL hero