The crane crash also caused a gas leak, forcing authorities to shut off supply [Jason Szenes/EPA]
February 6, 2016 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - A crane has collapsed in New York City's Lower Manhattan, killing at
least one person and injuring three others, US authorities say.
Friday morning's incident also caused a gas leak, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, forcing the authorities to shut off supply in buildings around the Tribeca neighbourhood.
The crane's boom landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block after the accident around 8.25am, about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.
De Blasio originally said the victim was sitting in a parked car when the crane collapsed, but police later said he was on the footpath.
Firemen survey the damage of a fallen crane in Worth Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City [Jason Szenes/EPA]
Members of the New York City Fire Department survey the damage of a fallen crane on 40 Worth Street [Jason Szenes/EPA]
The large crane smashed the roofs of nearby buildings with debris littering the street.
De Blasio said the crane was being lowered as a precaution because of wind when the accident happened.
The crew had been directing people away from the area as the crane was being moved.
"It was right outside my window," Robert Harold, a witness who works at the Legal Aid Society, told the Associated Press news agency.
WATCH: Crane collapses in New York, kills 1.
"It was a crashing sound. You could feel the vibration in the building."
Harold said at least one person was trapped in a car, and he saw onlookers trying to get the person out.
He said he also saw a person lying motionless on the street.
The crane bore the name of Bay Crane company.
An employee at the company, who said he was a manager but did not give his name, told AP that an investigation was under way. He declined further comment. - AP.
May 5, 2015 - TEXAS/KANSAS, UNITED STATES - Manhattan, Kansas, and Lubbock, Texas, both suffered flash floods after
record levels of rainfall fell between 04 and 05 May 2015,
Manhattan, Kansas
Flash floods raced through the streets of Manhattan, Kansas, yesterday 04 May 2015, after the heaviest rainfall to hit the city since 1908.
National weather service said that the official observation for
Manhattan measured 2.97″ (75.43 mm) at 7 pm, breaking the daily rainfall
record of 2.91″ set in 1908.
They also said that by 7:45pm, 3.37 inches (85.59 mm) of rain had been
recorded at Manhattan Airport, and 4.15″ (105.4 mm) in areas to the
north of the city.
The flash floods made roads impassable, causing major disruptions for
drivers. Photos of the floods show water around 2 feet (60 cm) deep in
the worst affected areas. Parts of Kansas State University campus were
under water, deep enough that some students were able to kayak along
campus roads. KSU later closed flooded parts of the campus.
National Weather Service warned today that storms and heavy rain were
expected through the early morning hours, and that localized flooding
was possible.
Social media photos of flash floods in Manhattan, Kansas
Submerged car at McCall Rd and Tuttle Creek Blvd in Manhattan #kswx pic.twitter.com/VFwRBvX3E8
— Tyler Dreiling (@TylerDreiling) May 4, 2015
Today's #ManhattanFlood was one of the craziest weather events I've
seen, I think it's fair to say! pic.twitter.com/JUUe4kJCkJ
— hunter severn (@htsevern) May 5, 2015
A minutes ago in Manhattan, #Kansas. #kswx #flashflood pic.twitter.com/xAaqYec5QH
— Mike Smith (@USWeatherExpert) May 4, 2015
Heavy rains cause flash flooding at Third Street, Campus Creek | http://t.co/sdaR2CMbgB pic.twitter.com/HGM7BNd47w
Meanwhile, around 500 miles south of Manhattan KS, Lubbock and the South
Plains area in Texas also saw huge amounts of rainfall on 04 May and
early 05 May 2015. Meteorologists say this could be just the first part
of a three-day spell of heavy rain set for the area.
Lubbock broke its rainfall record of 0.82 inches for 04 May, previously set in 2001. In fact 1.02 inches (25.9 mm) of rain fell in nearby O'Donnell in just 10 minutes.
NWS said that around half of the average yearly rainfall had fallen in
the Lubbock area by 10pm. In a Tweet last night, NWS Lubbock said:
"Heavy rain continues in Lynn county. 7.4″ measured in Tahoka by the
official observer. 10-12″ totals between Tahoka and O'Donnell".
WATCH: Record flooding in Texas and Kansas.
A flash flood watch has been issued by NWS. Several stranded drivers had
to be rescued. Lubbock Fire Department had to respond to over 50 call
outs during the evening.
The National Weather Service said earlier today that "the next round of
thunder storms is moving toward West Texas. More heavy rain possible
this morning". - Floodlist.
March 26, 2015 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - As many as 30 people were injured after an explosion and partial building collapse in Manhattan's East Village.
Flames
are shooting high into the sky from two buildings as the New York Fire
Department attempts to prevent the fire from spreading to other
structures.
So far, up to 30 people have been confirmed injured in
the collapse, law enforcement officials told the New York Post. At
least one person has been critically injured, according to AP.Two
firefighters were also reported wounded, according to the Daily News.
The raging blaze has been upgraded to a four-alarm call at the mixed-occupancy building that the fire department called “a major building collapse”
in a tweet. There are 25 units in the building, according to The New
York Times, and 100 firefighters were immediately dispatched to the
scene.
FDNY responding to East Village building collapse.
Manhattan: East 7th St & 2nd Ave. Building collapse and on Fire with multiple patients trapped. K-9 requested.
At least one person was removed from the area on a
stretcher, WABC reported, noting that the building appeared to be a
total loss. “The entire first and second floor facades were destroyed,” a witness told WCBS, which reported that the explosion originated at a sushi bar in the apartment building.
The
New York Police Department initially listed a gas leak as the cause of
the explosion.Firefighters had to pull back from their battle with the
flames due to the blaze's intensity, WABC reported.
There are counter-terror officials at the scene, which is standard procedure for a large explosion, WCBS reported.
WATCH: Building collapse in Manhattan.
The “smoke is overwhelming”
at the scene, Allie Yang tweeted. In a follow-up tweet, she said that
the fire department is closing off the area around 7th St and 2nd
Avenue. “This is being considered a major emergency,” an FDNY spokeswoman told New York Daily News.
The
explosion occurred around 3:15 p.m. ET, and the fire quickly got out of
hand, with the FDNY upgrading it from a two-alarm to a seven-alarm call
within half an hour. - RT.
Thomas Mangrum bundled up in his Statue of Liberty costume as he held a sign advertising Liberty Tax Service on Thursday in Brooklyn.
"It's been brutal out here," Mr. Mangrum said. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
February 27, 2015 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - It will end. Allegedly.
It will get warmer. One day. Someday.
Won’t it?
We have reached the 69th day of winter. It seems like the 6,669th. Pretty much the same nonsense is reprised day after day. Miserable, punishing, obnoxious, teeth-rattling, bone-numbing weather. Unmitigated, merciless, are-you-kidding-me cold.
New Yorkers cannot recall the last time they walked with their eyes trained forward, rather than watching for ice patches waiting to send them flying, which leaves them vulnerable to ice sliding off buildings from above. And in the evenings the snowplows screech past, drowning out the television in the middle of a Letterman cold joke.
WATCH: Winter doesn't want to end.
Throughout the parks, on the edges of sidewalks, ice just sits with defiant, assertive permanency. It will not melt, just keeps getting icier and more discolored. The whole city feels like a giant ice cube. People lean into the wind, pull hard to get doors open, to get out of this weather already, as the whistling wind pushes back.
As it limps away, February will not be missed. With the average temperature for the month lingering around 24 degrees, some 11 degrees shy of normal by the National Weather Service’s calculation, this insult of a month looks as though it will clock in as the coldest recorded February in New York City since 1934. That is 81 years of weather. That is all the way back to the Depression, when there were so many more dire things to worry about than whether 7-Eleven had salt or whose turn it was to walk the dog.
That year, February averaged 19.9 degrees and included the lowest daily reading ever registered for New York: On Feb. 9 the mercury sank to a ridiculous 15 degrees below zero.
“It was like the most sick month you can think of,” said Jay Engle, a meteorologist with the Weather Service who was well aware that this February had been particularly ill. Aside from 1934, he said the only other chillier February on record than the present one was in 1885, when the temperature averaged 22.7 degrees and when people did not yet have hand warmers.
Sure, the entire East Coast has been beaten up. Sure, Boston was slammed. But it’s still give-me-a-break cold in New York.
Shawn Nicholls, 34, who works in book publishing in the financial district, spoke for much of the populace when he declared understatedly, “I’m getting tired of it.”
The numbing weather has extinguished his night life. A resident of Kensington, Brooklyn, Mr. Nicholls customarily is found in restaurants on weekends. “But this winter I’m giving the delivery guys a workout,” he said.
It has been so cold that it is cold in places where it is not usually cold. Like subway platforms. It has been so cold people feel as if they are under house arrest on their days off. It has been so cold that you need so much time to pile on the layers of clothing and then time to remove the layers when you get there that you need to factor in extra hours for all the body enclosure work. It has been so cold that children want to be home-schooled.
It is warmer in a meat locker.
Every day, another war against hat hair, the pathetically flattened nest that makes you look really weird when you give your PowerPoint presentation before the boss.
There is positive news. It appears that alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations have been abolished. And, of course, some people actually relish the cold. It pumps them up. Makes them feel alive.
The North Pole still has room for them.
So, while huddled cross-legged before the space heater, everyone has a story to tell, something dusted with snow or icicles or sinful cold.
The woman in Midtown Manhattan who was wearing four hats, topped by a sombrero, presumably willing to accept an onset of hat hair.
The toddler walking mitten in mitten with her mother, inquiring, “Mommy, why isn’t the heat working outside?”
The couple on their way to a restaurant for dinner.
He: “Why are we going out in this weather?”
She: “Because there’s no food in the house, smart guy. It’s too cold to shop.”
He: “So why isn’t it too cold to go out to eat?”
A seagull walking along a pier next to a frozen portion of the East River this week. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
She: “Don’t start.”
The cold brings about peculiar decisions. Ariadna Urbina, 21, of Corona, Queens, is a student who has been hunting for work. Her preference had been an art gallery, but she found it impossible to put on nice clothes and then add the multiple layers necessary to combat the cold. So the other day she was on her way to apply to be a waitress.
“People ask you to dress professionally, but you can’t dress professionally,” she said. “I’m sick of it.”
Stories happen in emergency rooms, one place where winter shows its malevolence.
Dr. John Marshall, the head of emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, said his hospital was averaging 336 patients a day this winter, 20 more than last winter. On Jan. 19, he saw something unlike anything he had seen before. In a single hour, 30 people showed up after having slipped on ice, most of them with wrist and arm fractures, with some ankles thrown in.
“We had a whole family of seven come in with carbon monoxide poisoning,” Dr. Marshall said. They are all right.
Add to it flu patients, pneumonia patients, people with psychiatric issues linked to the cold. Sledding accidents. Heart attacks from shoveling snow.
An alcoholic who is a “frequent flier” at the emergency room, ranking as one of its top three visitors, was brought in a few weeks ago nearly frozen to death, his body temperature down to 82 degrees. The hospital thawed him out. He has since returned several more times. He might lose a toe.
“I don’t know that I’ve seen any snowball lacerations this year, but we get them,” Dr. Marshall said. “And I haven’t seen any icicle stabbings.”
As for himself, Dr. Marshall is unfazed by the weather. He is from Michigan. “I’ve always liked a good winter,” he said. “It’s my favorite season. I only wish there was a bit more snow.”
Has he made any concessions to the cold? “I’ve worn a scarf a couple of times,” he said.
Want an awful winter job? Talk to Ralph Valdez. He shivers on sidewalks for hours at a time, hawking tickets for bus tours of Manhattan.
Mr. Valdez, 36, has been at this for a decade. This crushing winter has really done a number on him. Since Christmas, he has called in sick, he believes, something like seven times. Last winter, which was hardly balmy, he called in sick three times.
“I have a torn rotator cuff, and it really, really starts to hurt when it gets cold,” he said, standing in downtown Manhattan. He wore a scarf and jacket over a hooded sweatshirt, and also remembered thermal underwear.
“If you’re going to be outside, you got to go for the thermals,” he pointed out, unnecessarily.
Bogdan Lekan, 50, a pediatrician, tossed salt chunks on the ice in front of his office door on 67th Avenue in Queens. Stethoscope dangling around his neck, he kicked at the crumbling ice with his leather shoes, which instantly became soaked.
“If this happens through April — wow,” he said. “I have a 3-year-old in the house who is anxious to go out.”
Now a new month beckons. March, often a roller-coaster month, is not always charitable with its weather either. But it represents a dash of hope. The forecast for Monday in New York City is for the temperature to crawl into the 40s. It has to get warmer someday. - NY Times.
Smoke blocks the sun as New York City firefighters work to contain the fire. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
February 1, 2015 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Huge smoke plumes from a six-alarm fire at a Brooklyn storage
facility were pouring into Manhattan on Saturday as New York City
firefighters battled the blaze amid high winds and freezing
temperatures.
"It's a tough fire, and the weather is taking a toll
on the firefighters," said Michael Parrella, a FDNY spokesman. "It's
still very active."
Some 200 people including firefighters and
emergency medical workers were on the scene. No injuries had been
reported at the facility that houses mostly paper goods, Parrella said.
Firefighters
work to contain a building fire that grew to six alarms at the
CitiStorage warehouse building at 5 North 11th St. near Kent Avenue in
Brooklyn on Jan. 31. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
An aerial view of fire in Brooklyn.(Photo: Gary He, Insider Images, via European Pressphoto Agency)
Firefighters work to contain the building fire. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
A woman covers her face near the site of the fire. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
FDNY continues to battle 5-alarm fire in Brooklyn warehouse.
FDNY Marine 6 Fire Boat Bravest responding to the 4-alarm fire at 5 N 11 St, Brooklyn.
Hydrant at the 5-alarm warehouse fire in Brooklyn. FDNY dealing with high-winds & freezing temperatures.
A woman covers her face near the site of the fire. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
The
initial call about the blaze came in at 6:28 a.m. Authorities plan to
investigate its cause once the fire is under control. The area around
the flames is closed to traffic.
Whipping wind is carrying large plumes of smoke over Brooklyn and across the East River into Manhattan.
WATCH: Firefighters are racing to contain a fire that has engulfed a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York.
"I smelled this burning smell and I looked up and saw all of this smoke billowing," Heather Schmidt, 33, told the New York Post.
Several residents wrapped scarves tightly around their faces to fend off the soot and smoke. - USA Today.
January 13, 2015 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - A fire has broken out at New York’s Penn Station, with 100 firefighters working on extinguishing the flames.
Some trains have been delayed, but no one has been reported injured so far.It’s a 3-alarm blaze, the NYC Fire Department reported, tweeting on the situation.
March 28, 2014 - UNITED STATES-The United
States is on alert and has deployed military assets to defend the
Atlantic coastline from New York to Charleston from attack by a cruise
type missile or low flying aircraft.
Heightened security measures began with Israel’s increasing threats
against Iran but increased with the mysterious disappearance of
Malaysian Airlines flight 370.
Sources at the highest levels of the US military and intelligence
community cite the possibility of a terror bombing, even using nuclear
weapons, most likely to be submarine launched. This is what is being
defended against.
However, the plot, we have been informed, was to include a seemingly
hijacked airliner which would be blamed on Iranians, as stated by Joel
Rosenberg while speaking with Greta van Susteren on Fox News, March
18th. Rosenberg claimed the Iranians hijacked the plane to attack
Israel.
The US, however, believes someone other than Iran is planning an attack, on the US, not Israel, and planning to blame Iran.
Yesterday, investigative journalist Chris Bollyn made a startling discovery:
“According to reports from plane-spotters, Israel has an identical Malaysia Airlines
Boeing 777-200 in storage in Tel Aviv since November 2013. The only visible difference between the missing plane and the one in Tel Aviv would be its serial number. What do the Israelis have planned with the twin Malaysia Airlines plane?
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
By using the twin aircraft they have in storage, the terror masterminds may have a sinister plan for the missing plane to seemingly reappear in a false-flag atrocity. Public awareness of the twin plane in Tel Aviv, therefore, could prevent the evil plot from going ahead.”
After Bollyn’s detailed and well supported story was published, a full scale public relations “counter-offensive” was launched by Tel Aviv.
However, US sources say this effort has backfired, indicating that if an Israeli role in the missing plane had never been considered before, it certainly is now. One highly placed source stated:
“In light of Israeli efforts to get Jonathan Pollard released including overt blackmail, the current ‘bottoming out’ of relations between Israel and the Obama administration have created a very dangerous situation. Israel may well do anything.” OBAMA WARNS DURING NUCLEAR SUMMIT
On March 25, 2014, President Obama addressed the Nuclear Security
Summit at The Hague, Netherlands. 53 heads of state were in attendance.
Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel did not attend. This is the 3rd Nuclear Security Summit that Israel has boycotted thus far.
During the closing press conference, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte had just finished congratulating Iran on its cooperation, lauding the United States for a diplomatic success. Rutte made the following announcement while standing next to President Obama:
“…progress is being made. Take Iran. I spoke with President Rouhani in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January. We have now interim accords. The fact that I was able -- the first Dutch leader in over 30, 40 years who spoke with an Iranian leader, President Rouhani -- was possible because of the interim accords, and it seems that it is holding. America provides leadership there.”
New York City police screening passenger bags at a subway stop (file photo)
Then President Obama spoke:
“I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan”
Normally such a warning would seem less ominous but these are not “normal times.”
SPECIAL MEASURES
These assets include AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control) aircraft,
AEGIS missile defense naval assets and JLENS aerostat mounted cruise
missile defense systems.
It isn’t unusual for AEGIS ships to be offshore. It has been a standard procedure to use AEGIS to defend both New York and Washington since the “procedural failures” of NORAD on 9/11. However, AEGIS assets that had previously been assigned to provide the actual capability of Israel’s vaunted “Iron Dome” missile defense system are no longer “on station.”
This move signals one or more of the following strategic policy “adjustments” on the part of the US:
• The threat of a preemptive attack against Israel by Iran is considered nonexistent.
• Withdrawal of “Iron Dome” assets gives the US needed leverage during renewed Palestinian talks
• The US recognizes the dangerous relationship between extremist factions in both Israel and the US capable of actions, including nuclear terrorism that would be to the extreme detriment of both nations
CONSPIRACY THEORY ON EMBASSY CLOSURES
In 2010, Israeli historian, Martin van Creveld, stated that Israel
was ready to use nuclear weapons against capitals around the world if
“the Jewish State” were threatened.
Creveld, an advocate of Israel’s withdrawal to 1967 borders and a respected educator and pragmatist wasn’t issuing a threat. He may well have been informing the world, in his own way, of a “capability.”
Four days ago, the Israeli Foreign Ministry shut down all embassies around the world on the basis of a pay dispute with a trade union.
While this may well be true, others “less trusting” cite the long-time rumor that Israel has stored nuclear weapons in all her embassies.
“SNM” stands for “Special Nuclear Material.” Nuclear weapons give off, not only high energy photons but SNM is now detectable by satellite based sensors even if stored inside a shielded container.
Sources indicate that “SNM” has been detected at Israeli embassies and consular facilities. There is, in fact, a “war plan” that includes simultaneous assaults on the worldwide embassy/consular facilities of a TBD (To Be Determined) nation in case of “special circumstances.”
Though no specific mention of Israel is made, the infamous “Samson Option,” Israel’s plan to “take down the world” if threatened and the cryptic statements of Creveld come to mind.
Thus, with the mysterious closure of Israeli facilities around the world, facilities conspiracy theorists and perhaps “others” believe may contain “doomsday” nuclear weapons, other factors build a realistic threat mosaic:
• Israel’s wild conspiracy claims of Iran’s role in the Flight 370 hijacking
• US raising DEFCON threat levels to those not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Israel’s increased threats of preemptive attacks on Iran
• Calls by GOP congressman Duncan Hunter and others for a nuclear attack on Iran by the US
• The removal of over 70% of US nuclear weapons command personnel for “misconduct”
SILENCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN “GOLDEN”
Assailed from every side, Israel has had the opportunity to exercise
both intelligent restraint and diplomatic capability in response to
unprecedented worldwide condemnation.
Yet the choice has been to exercise every imaginable option to, not
only increase scorn and isolation but to seem as hostile and
irresponsible as possible.
One can only wonder if such policies are
intended more to unify Jews behind suicidal Israeli blunders than
support a “Jewish state.” - Press TV.
9 Air Force Officers Fired In Nuclear Missile Cheating Scandal
U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash
The fallout from an Air Force cheating scandal continues to spread, and now a significant portion of the leadership at a Montana nuclear base is getting sacked.
Nine officers in leadership positions were recommended for removal and are being reassigned, with Air Force Col. Robert Stanley, who oversees the missile crew, resigning, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Thursday.
The officials weren’t involved in the reported cheating, but James says “they failed to provide adequate oversight of their crew force.”
And though Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, commander of Air Force Global Strike Force, couldn’t give the specific number of leadership positions at the Montana base, he said the removals represent a “significant portion” of the chain of command.
The duo announced in late January that 92 missilers—almost half—at the base were being investigated for alleged cheating on a monthly proficiency test, or for knowing about the cheating. James said Thursday that that number had grown to 100 missileers. So far nine have been cleared by investigators.
The alleged cheating also went on significantly longer than the two-month period officials originally reported, with the investigation suggesting that cheating could have started as early as November 2011 and could have continued until November 2013.
But officials remain confident after conducting an investigation across the country’s three nuclear missile bases that the cheating is only tied to the Montana base.
The Air Force’s investigation pointed to four crew members “at the center” of the cheating scandal in which test answers were reportedly shared via cellphone. Three of those four are also tied to an investigation into illegal drug use.
James and Wilson stressed that they remain confident in the nuclear-missile crew, but they are instituting a series of reforms in the wake of the far-reaching scandal including revamping testing procedures; looking at ways to redirect funding to improve readiness and quality of life for the nuclear missile crew; and reforming the crew force’s culture.
“If one person had spoken up this could have been very different, and so that’s why we’re really focusing on what integrity means,” James said. - Defense One.
Turkish Leaders ADMIT To Planning False Flag Terror To Justify A War With Syria
Ahmet Davutolu: “Prime Minister said that in current conjuncture, this attack (on Suleiman Shah Tomb) must be seen as an opportunity for us.”
Hakan Fidan: “I’ll send 4 men from Syria, if that’s what it takes. I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah Tomb if necessary.”
Feridun Sinirliolu: “Our national security has become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.”
Ya?ar Güler: “It’s a direct cause of war. I mean, what’re going to do is a direct cause of war.”
…
Feridun Sinirolu: There are some serious shifts in global and regional geopolitics. It now can spread to other places. You
said it yourself today, and others agreed… We’re headed to a different
game now. We should be able to see those. That ISIL and all that jazz,
all those organizations are extremely open to manipulation. Having a region made up of organizations of similar nature will constitute a vital security risk for us. And
when we first went into Northern Iraq, there was always the risk of PKK
blowing up the place. If we thoroughly consider the risks and
substantiate… As the general just said…
Yaar Güler: Sir, when you were inside a moment ago, we were discussing just that. Openly. I mean, armed forces are a “tool” necessary for you in every turn.
Ahmet Davutolu: Of course. I always tell the Prime Minister, in your absence, the same thing in academic jargon, you can’t stay in those lands without hard power. Without hard power, there can be no soft power.
A full translation can be found here
And just in case you had faith that this was all made up and Erdogan is right to ban it… he just admitted it was true! To summarize: a recording confirming a NATO-member country
planned a false-flag war with Syria (where have we seen that before?)
and all the Prime Minister has to say is the leak was “immoral.”
Erdogan is not amused:
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described
the leaking on YouTube on Thursday of a recording of top security
officials discussing possible military operations in Syria as
“villainous”and the government blocked access to the video-sharing site.
… “They even leaked a national security meeting. This is
villainous, this is dishonesty…Who are you serving by doing audio
surveillance of such an important meeting?” Erdogan declared
before supporters at a rally ahead of March 30 local polls that will be a
key test of his support amid a corruption scandal.
In other words, the Turkish Prime Minister has admitted that the tape is authentic .. and is between top Turkish military and political leaders. Good Morning Turkey names names as to who was involved in the discussion:
Turkey’s foreign minister, intelligence chief and a top
army general …. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence
Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry
Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff
Gen. Yaşar Güler ….
Indeed, Turkey has been sheltering and training Syrian rebels for man years, and there have beenallegations for years that Turkey was instigating false flag attacks and blaming Syria. Nothing New … Governments from Around the World Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror
Sadly, this is common, since governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror:
A major with the Nazi SS admitted at
the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo –
he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and
resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of
Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials
that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in
writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of
Mainila in 1939, and declared that the fire originated from Finland as a
basis launching the Winter War four days later
Israel admits that
an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several
buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind
“evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs
detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers,
and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
The CIA admits that
it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage
bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its
democratically-elected prime minister
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents
show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off
on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had suggested that
the U.S. make “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give
us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the
excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.
And Official State Department documents show that – only nine months
before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was proposed – the head of the
Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing
up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an
invasion of that country. The 3 plans were not carried out, but they
were all discussed as serious proposals
A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that
– as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many
provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and
falsely blame them on political activists
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that,
in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South
African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to
participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African
National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating
officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing
An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that,
in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians
and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author)
Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that
the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings and falsely blamed it on
Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion)
According to the Washington Post,
Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American
teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist
group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.
The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press,
Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent
immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers
attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war
on terror”.
Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in
2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having
“our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It
could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and
fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and
claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within
al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to
question the validity of communications.”
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the
insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the
pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not
appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come
off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the
lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for
intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government
backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either
Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be
using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent
attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the
resistance.
Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in
2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame
it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by
the Palestinians
Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this)
At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence
A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat
U.S. soldiers have admitted that
if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic
weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants
The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar
– recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists
So Common … There’s a Name for It
This tactic is so common that it was given a name for hundreds of years ago. “False flag terrorism” is defined as a government attacking its own
people, then blaming others in order to justify going to war against the
people it blames. Or as Wikipedia defines it:
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by
governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to
appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is
derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is,
flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations
are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been
used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension.
The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would
hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own
navy. Because the enemy’s flag, instead of the flag of the real country
of the attacking ship, was hung, it was called a “false flag” attack.
Indeed, this concept is so well-accepted that rules of engagement for naval, air and land warfare all prohibit false flag attacks.
Leaders Throughout History Have Acknowledged False Flags
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the danger of false flags:
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
- Plato
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
- U.S. President James Madison
“A history of false flag attacks used to manipulate the minds of the
people! “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties,
nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
- Adolph Hitler
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the
leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship …
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts
of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal
security is threatened”.
- Josef Stalin
People Are Waking Up to False Flags
People are slowly waking up to this whole con job by governments who want to justify war.
More people are talking about the phrase “false flag” than ever before. - Info Wars.
NATO’s Plans For False Flag Attack On Turkey Revealed
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ban of YouTube occurred
after a leaked conversation between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan
Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted
removed from the video-sharing website.It released the full transcript
of a leaked conversation between the head of Turkish intelligence Hakan
Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. The Times reported:
The leaked call details Erdogan’s thoughts that an attack on Syria “must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]“.
In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that
he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to “make up a cause of
war”.
Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Yaşar Güler replies that
Fidan’s projected actions are “a direct cause of war…what you’re going
to do is a direct cause of war”.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said the leaked recording of
top officials discussing the Syria operation was “partially manipulated”
and is a “wretched attack” on national security.
In the leaked video, Fidan is discussing with Davutoğlu,
Güler and other officials a possible operation within Syria to secure
the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman
empire.
The Western media has purposefully obsessed myopically over Turkey’s
ban of Twitter and Facebook and leaks regarding “corruption,” in an
attempt to sidestep conversations revealing Turkey, a NATO member for
decades, planning a false flag attack that would lead to an
intentionally provoked war with neighboring Syria.
This comes as Turkey provides air support, logistics, and artillery cover for members of the US State Department designated terrorist group Al Nursa who have been leading an ongoing offensive from Turkish territory into Syria’s northwestern province of Latakia.
Since the operation began days ago, Turkey has fired on and shot down
a Syrian warplane that was targeting Al Nusra militants in Syrian
territory. While Turkey claims the warplane violated Turkish airspace, the plane crashed in Syrian territory, and the pilot ejected and was recovered on Syrian soil.
The incident has been used by Turkey to lay the rhetorical groundwork
to further escalate tensions between Ankara and Damascus, most likely in
an attempt to serve as an impetus for war instead of NATO’s riskier
false flag operation.
Turkey’s belligerent posture in the north of Syria is matched by a
joint US-Saudi offensive in the south, near the Syrian-Jordanian border
city of Daraa. Called the “Southern Front,” the offensive appears to
already have been neutralized by Syrian security forces.
Regarding the creation of the “Southern Front,” the US
corporate-funded policy think tank, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, even stated in its post, “Does the “Southern Front” Exist?,” that:
Rather than an initiative from the rebels themselves, word is that it was foreign officials that
called on rebel commanders to sign a statement declaring their
opposition to extremism, saying it was a precondition for getting more
guns and money. Since beggars can’t be choosers, the commanders then
collectively shrugged their shoulders and signed—but not so much to
declare a new alliance as to help U.S. officials tick all the right
boxes in their reports back home, hoping that this would unlock another
crate of guns.
March 25, 2014 - THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS - Speaking at a brief news conference in the Hague, President Obama said
he's more worried about a nuke being detonated in Manhattan than he is
about Russia.
"With respect to Mr. Romney's assertion that Russia is our number one
geopolitical foe, the truth of the matter is that America has a whole
lot of challenges," said the president.
"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neigbors, not out of strength, but out weakness.
"Ukraine has been a country which Russia had enormous influence for
decades, since the break-up of the Soviet Union, and we have
considerable influence on our neighbors, we generally don't need to
invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with
them. The fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and laid
bear these violations of internationl law indicates less influence not
more.
"So my response then continues to be what I believe today, which is:
Russia's actions are a problem. They don't pose the number one national
security threat to the United States.I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan," said Obama. - The Weekly Standard.
March 12, 2014 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - At least two people were killed after a massive explosion and raging fire Wednesday morning in Manhattan's East Harlem, authorities said.
Two buildings collapsed in the blast, which may have resulted from a gas leak. Firefighters were still frantically picking through rubble in search of survivors hours later, fire officials said.
New York police and fire officials were responding to reports of a
massive explosion in Manhattan's East Harlem, authorities said
Wednesday.
Metro North commuter rail service, which runs along the site of the blast on Park Avenue, was suspended, officials said.
At least 18 people were injured. Five of the injured were taken to Harlem Hospital, including a child in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A number of people were missing.
The identifies of the two women who died were not available.
Mount Sinai Hospital was treating at least 14 patients, including one with a brain injury, and two children. Three were in serious condition, a spokeswoman said.
More fatalities appeared likely. Fire officials reported that two survivors suffered life-threatening injuries.
Near 116th Street and Park Avenue, once the heart of New York's large Puerto Rican community, about a dozen firefighters tore at mounds of bricks in a search for survivors from the two buildings -- a piano store and an evangelical church.
As gas and electric utility workers tore up pavement in an effort to shut gas lines, people gathered in the streets, many crying.
WATCH: Raw video - explosion in Harlem.
One woman tried in vain to find her husband, Jordy Salas, who may have been on the second floor of one of the collapsed buildings. She fainted and was taken to a hospital.
"We're expending every effort to locate each and every loved one," Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters at the scene. "Hopefully we'll find that some of them are in other parts of the city and have just not been located yet."
The cause was unclear, but Con Ed spokesman Bob McGee said the utility received a call about a gas leak at 9:13 a.m. The call came from a resident at one of the newer buildings on Park Avenue. The utility dispatched a truck two minutes later but it arrived after the explosion, the spokesman said.
"This is a tragedy of the worst kind, because there was no indication in time to save people," de Blasio said.
A building department official said one of the two Park Avenue buildings that collapsed received a city permit last year for the installation of 120 feet of gas piping. The work was completed last June. In 2008, owners of the adjacent building, which also collapsed, were fined for failing to maintain vertical cracks in the rear of the building. The condition was not reported as corrected to the buildings department.
There were a total of 15 units in the two buildings, officials said.
The mayor told reporters that the report of the gas leak, which he said came about 15 minutes before the explosion, was "the only indication of danger."
Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said responding firefighters barely missed the blast.
"If we were here five minutes earlier we may have had some fatalities among firefighters," he said. "Not being here may have saved some lives."
Clouds of dark smoke rose over the largely residential area of redbrick tenements and small businesses after the explosion, which some residents said sounded like a bomb.
Hundreds of firefighters responded, many spraying water on the roaring blaze from ladders.
Metro North commuter rail service was suspended as debris from the explosion landed on the elevated tracks across the street, authorities said.
"I heard a big explosion," said a resident who identified herself as Angelica. "I didn't know what was going on. ... My neighbors came banging on my door, telling me to get out. I guess they were evacuating the building. And I couldn't get out. My door was jammed. Everything on my windowsill fell. I guess the impact of the explosion jammed the door as well."
Photos and videos have been coming in from Twitter and Instagram users:
She added, "It was extremely loud. I couldn't even explain it to you, if I could. It was just so loud. It woke me out of my sleep. That's how loud it was."
Molley Mills, who lives nearby, said at the time of the explosion her building rumbled as if the subway was passing beneath it.
"I went outside my terrace and there was smoke pouring out," she said.
The New York police bomb squad responded to the scene, according to a law enforcement source.
Once a predominantly Italian neighborhood, the stretch of East Harlem saw a large influx of Puerto Ricans in the 1950s. It went on to be called Spanish Harlem. In the 1990s, many Mexican immigrants began to move into the area, which has been gentrified in recent years, with many mom-and-pop shops replaced by restaurants and bars.
March 12, 2014 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- A measles outbreak in Manhattan and the Bronx has spread to Brooklyn and grown by three more cases to a total of 19 confirmed patients with the highly contagious virus, officials said Tuesday.
The new cases are all adults, for a total of 10 adults and nine children, the Health Department said.
The previous cases were in Inwood and Washington Heights in Manhattan, and in High Bridge, Morrisania and the Central Bronx, health officials say. The Health Department said Tuesday that cases had also been confirmed in Brooklyn.
The Health Department refused to say where in Brooklyn the cases were confirmed, but stressed that the outbreak is concentrated in northern Manhattan.
Authorities are working to identify the source of the outbreak, and are urging vaccinations for those who haven't had them. The first case was reported in February.
Four of the affected children were too young to have been vaccinated; three who had been vaccinated were 13 to 15 months old and two others had not been vaccinated by parental choice, the Health Department said. The affected adults range in age from 22 to 63 years.
Measles is a viral infection characterized by a generalized rash and high fever, accompanied by cough, red eyes and runny nose, lasting five to six days. The illness typically begins with a rash on the face and then moves down the body, and may include the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
People who contract the measles virus can spread the infection for four days before developing a rash, and for four days after that. Measles can spread easily through the air to unprotected individuals, and the Health Department is urging all New Yorkers to make sure they and their families are vaccinated.
The Health Department said it is working with city hospitals to prevent additional exposure to the virus in emergency departments. It's also asking pediatric facilities to vaccinate any children who haven't already been vaccinated. Children should normally get a second dose of the vaccine between the ages of 4 and 6, but the Health Department says those who live in the affected communities should get their second dose immediately, regardless of whether they fall within that age range.
As many as one in three people with measles develop complications, which can be serious and may include pneumonia, miscarriage, brain inflammation, hospitalization and death. Infants, people who have a weakened immune system and non-immune pregnant women are at highest risk of severe illness and complications. - NBC New York.
