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The UN Force Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo used South African helicopter gunships against both the M23 and ADF militias. South African mining researcher David Van Wyk said that this was not simply a U.N. operation to eliminate militias in the eastern DRC, as reported, but also the signal of a new resource war which could become another African World War.

A rally was held on Monday, December 23 after evening rush hour at the original site of Occupy San Francisco, on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Reserve Bank Building on Market Street at the Embarcadero. The day of events from 3-9PM included a speak out, hear audio below from the first 3 of 5 speakers.

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Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 21st to the 27th , 2013.

Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power spoke in the Central African Republic on December 21, 2013. She announced that the U.S. will contribute $100 million in Pentagon resources to the French military intervention there.