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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Degenerate, barbarian modern European "values"

Since 1961, over eight million people from the Third World have died directly at the hands of the US military, or indirectly via US-backed and funded regimes.

Source: Casualties in the Third World: Loss of life caused by American invasions or by US-backed and funded regimes since 1960.

Below is a rundown on the crimes against humanity committed by our oh so pompous, lecturing, sermonizing denizens of the west.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/02-09-2007/96606-westernvalues-0/

The US has been ravaging the world, thinking that they are exceptional, indispensible and that they have a God-given right to take over and rule the world. They have been attempting to achieve global domination since 1492, beginning with their mass murderer hero, Christopher Columbus. The US is truly the ugly, bastard child of barbarian Europe, although the US has advanced itself to become master over Europe.

Europe and its bastard child, the US, have no real allies and friends, just vassals and sycophants that they have bullied, bribed and blackmailed.

Whether it be US politicians and spokespersons (wacky Psaki), unelected Eurocrats or western corporate media, there is nothing but continuous admonishments that one needs to obey, imitate and conform...do what you are told.

During the savage attacks on Libya, I asked if we are descending into a New Dark Ages. The US is now a crypto-fascist state, masquerading as a democracy. The European Union is a crypto-fascist entity, elected by no one, and certainly not acting according to the will of the people. No one elected NATO, either, to carry out foreign policy and world policeman duties.

So let's take a look and examine what western "values" today truly are:

Killing people is good if the "untermensch" will not obey; the more, the merrier.

Killing children and babies is perfectly acceptable because some day they will grow up to be nothing more than big, adult "untermensch."

Genocide is good when the west doesn't like people. We see nothing, we hear nothing, we say nothing with "good" genocides. If it serves the empire and its elite, it's good.

Killing fascists, Nazis and terrorists is genocide and murder and it means the "humanitarian" bombs are coming.

There is no limit to the amount of money, weapons and lies that the west will contribute to help those killing people they don't like.

The west will determine who is worthy to live and who is worthy of protection; they will decide who should die and who deserves no protection.

The west will cry and protest, going to any lengths to protect murderers.

The west will make acccusations and claims, no proof whatsoever is needed...just accept it as fact.

The west will deny all proof of wrongdoing done by them and/or their proxies, no matter how extensively it is backed up by evidence.

The west will punish with great enjoyment with no evidence whatsoever.

If the west doesn't like you, you are guilty until proven innoent.

Do what we say, not what we do!

It is good to stage an incident killing many innocent civilians and then blame it on the "enemy" (false flag) to serve geopolitical interests.

Any leader not liked by the west, even though he is fabulously popular with his own people and/or elected democratically, is a dictator.

A tyrranical dictator that beheads people, stones women, denies women's rights, finances and exports terrorists is called by the west: "(King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia) ... a man of courage, 'steadfast beliefs,' and (hold your breath) as a REFORMER, albeit a 'cautious' and 'slow' one, respectively, a reformer by virtue of reformist "hints."

Democracy means doing what the west commands you

Terrorism is good when the west doesn't like the country or its leader

The west will decide who will run every country on the planet and the countries will fork over resoures and assets upon command

Freedom is being a good slave.

If you're not rich, you're lazy and worthless.

There is no value to human life that is not part of the 1% "elite."

The scum of the Earth, demonic filth, are the "elite."

Hence we come to the current situation with the Kiev Nazi regime and the west's unconditional support to it. While money and lethal weapons come flowing in from the west, today twelve people were murdered in Donetsk when civilians were lined up waiting to receive humanitarian aid. Gorlovka is under constant shelling from Kiev Nazi regime forces.

Here is a documentary about the war crimes of the Kiev Nazi regime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTbRfkSOYi0&feature=youtu.be

The shelling of civilians areas is DELIBERATE not by accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=MCcl60gND7g&x-yt-cl=85114404&feature=player_embedded

In another murderous attack, the evidence shows that the attack on Mariupol came from Kiev Nazi regime forces. Evidence is presented here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/mariupol-attack-is-a-war-crime-the-evidence-points-to-kiev/5428194

Russia has been constantly and falsely accused of having troops fighting in the country. The Chief of Ukraine's General Military Staff, Viktor Muzhenko, acknowledged that Russian regular army units were not involved in combat action in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Again, another lie exposed.

All of the blood-stained war criminal perpetrators have been making a habit of gathering together with bloody murderer Poroshenko; for example, the incident in France. The hypocrites had the audacity to feign sympathy for the victims with their, "Je suis Charlie."

I have an answer to that..and unlike them, I can say it in all sincerity.

Je suis Donbass

Je suis Sasha

Je suis Vanya

Je suis Donetsk

Je suis Lugansk

At the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it is amazing that the victims who were killed at Auschwitz did not turn in their graves and create an earthquake when no one but fascist Nazi murderers were prominently parading without the presence of Vladimir Putin, leader of the country responsible for the camp's liberation, Russia and the Red Army. Prominent among those attending was Petro Poroshenko, the butcher of Donbass with the blood stained hands.

Another despicable occurrence was PACE who, along with the western wolf pack, are insisting that war criminal and murderess Nadezhda Savchenko be released and granted international immunity for no reason other than being a servant of the Kiev Nazi regime. The documented evidence against Savchenko can be found here:

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/30-01-2015/129655-ukraine_war_crimes-0/

What is also happening with men being conscripted into service for the Kiev Nazi regime is a mass exodus of military age males. They are hiding, fleeing the country or defecting to the Novorossiya Defense Forces. Thusfar, only 6% are reporting as told. The junta has sent "barrier troops" who have reportedly shot retreating or fleeing troops of the Kiev Nazi regime.

These men have no motivation to fight in Donbass, to kill those who were part of their country at one time. They have no desire to be cannon fodder. They have no limbs to be traded in for a junky little medal from some grotesque US offical that proves who is really benefitting from the deaths on both sides.

Other examples of western treachery are Gaza, where civilians are an endangered species like in Donbass, and the terrorist scourge the west is supporting against Bashar Al-Assad and Syria, a progressive moderate state, one that is noted for its tolerance and diversity.

The west most certainly cannot teach anyone about freedom, democracy, liberty, equality and justice. Their total disrespect for international law has been duly noted, as well as their inability to keep agreements they make. The self-proclaimed ideals of the Empire and its "virtues" and morals are non-existent, because its real dogmas are cvil and ego-centric. Capitalism and neo-colonialism are immoral and anti-human!

Lust and greed drive the west. Leaders are high on drugs, with insatiable appetites to enrich themselves and satisfy perverted desires of the flesh.

Is our world about to become a "western values" dog-eat-dog jungle, where one must hide from marauding gangs who kill, rape, mutilate and destroy? No, it cannot be allowed to happen. Standing in the gap is Russia. The west has decided that Russia is an enemy because Russia rejects "western values." There is not and never were any place for "western values" in Russia.

Russia stands for truth and justice. Vladimir Putin points out that authorities should react quickly to the people's demands. People, that's what is important, not money, consumer goods or depravity, as in the west. The US in particular is an infant country, like a petulant child always wanting its way. Being only a couple of hundred years old, the US cannot grasp or comprehend the complexity and beauty of Russian culture, history, art, music, Orthodox religion or devotion to traditional values.

That is the hope of the world, that the future will not descend into a Dark Ages.

Lisa Karpova

Pravda.Ru

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Tiggly: Sweetly Named App, With Seriously Good Results

Engaging app uses toys to improve pre-schoolers’ early number skills results by up to 71%!

Have you heard of Tiggly?

What sounds like a cutesy character from a kids TV show, is actually the latest in cutting edge educational tech for kids aged 18 months plus.

The Tiggly Shapes app, designed by two Harvard educated Dads, is one of the first apps created that combines physical ‘toy’ with an app interface.

Dubbed “a toy that will make your kid smarter” by Time Magazine, the original Tiggly was designed with young kids in mind, from 18 months to 3 years. It incorporates a set of plastic shapes that can be identified by the iPad. When placed on the iPad the shapes activate three different games. For example, in one game placing the shapes onto the screen creates animals that come to life.

The new Tiggly Counts app, designed for kids aged 3 – 6 years, uses counting toys that interact with three different app games. This new release has not only been shortlisted as Toy of The Year, but has recently been found to improve preschooler number skills by up to 71%.

The Play Collective study looked at 47 different kids from Washington D.C and New York City and assessed their learning and engagement when playing with the Tiggly Counts app. Of the group of kids aged between 4 – 5 years old, 71% showed an increase in early number skills and 21% showed an overall mathematic improvement in just two weeks. The study also found that the kids themselves were really engaged by the app, specifically the game Tiggly Chef, where kids were playing for more than 20 minutes at a time.

The study concluded that this learning and engagement could be due to the unique combination of linking an app with a physical object, meaning that kids are learning in a tactile fashion.

Do you tend to use apps for your kids as educational toys, or more entertainment value?

Source : nickjrparents[dot]com[dot]au

Is there enough food to feed us?

Almost one seventh of humankind goes to bed hungry each and every night. Some families celebrate when they have a crust to share on the dinner table, others try to stave off hunger by drinking water because there is nothing to eat today. The hungry constitute more people than live in North America and the European Union. What are the causes?

Predictably, in a world which spends collectively one point seven trillion USD on military budgets, hunger is totally avoidable because there is plenty of food to go round for everyone. Today, the world produces nearly one fifth more food than in 1985. Official statistics quote the number of hungry people at between 842 and 925 million people worldwide, over sixty per cent of these being women.

98 per cent of people living in hunger are from developing countries. Two thirds live in Asia/Pacific and the remaining third in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, and 65 per cent are concentrated in seven countries, namely DR Congo and Ethiopia in Africa; Bangladesh, India and Pakistan; PR China; Indonesia in Asia.

The reason? People do not have enough money to purchase food because in a market-driven economy, scarcity pushes prices up. In the liberal economic model, which frowns on State intervention, subsidies disappear as pride of place is given to the lobbies, whose food brokers sell food at extortionate prices or play casino games, selling food commodities on futures markets.

Climate change (or cyclical weather conditions) and the effects have a devastating effect on poor rural communities and then on the cities which they supply; hunger is on the rise in urban areas, as the inhabitants of slums start to equal landless or subsistence farmers in rural areas, translated into the fact that according to the World Food Program, "hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide - greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined", since one in nine people do not have sufficient nutrition to lead an active and healthy life.

What is hunger?

There are three stages: Under-nourishment, Malnutrition and famine.

Under-nourishment describes the state of those who do not consume enough calories to meet their minimum needs for an active life. There are 842 million undernourished people in the world today according to the World Food Program.

Malnutrition describes the state of those who are badly nourished, characterized by an inadequate consumption of protein, minerals or vitamins and the victims frequently suffer from diseases and infections and are so weak that they can die from conditions related to measles, for example, or diarrhea. It is measured in terms of optimum body weight and height. Acute malnutrition results in wasting - substantial weight loss resulting from starvation or disease.

Famine is the state in which a minimum of 20 per cent of households in a country or region have limited ability to manage an extreme food shortage situation, in which global acute malnutrition in the country or region exceeds 30 per cent and in which death rates exceed 2 per 10,000 persons per day.

What are the effects of hunger?

Wasting, an indicator of acute malnutrition, is translated into severe weight loss; stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition which results in insufficient height-per-age group; being underweight is the situation in which a person is below the normal weight for the age group. 146 million children worldwide are underweight.

The most common deficiencies are in micronutrients - vitamins and minerals - and it is calculated that up to two billion people worldwide (two sevenths of the population, or almost a third) have micronutrient deficiencies. The WHO states that the most common are deficiencies in Iron, Vitamin A, Iodine and Zinc.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Minah Portrait Photoshoot

Studio photoshoot of model Minah in black shirt and shorts, taken in autumn 2014.

Korean model Minah portrait photoshoot

Source : koreangirlshd[dot]com

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Conversation with Paul Craig Roberts: The Greek crisis

Greece is in the grip of a very strong economic crisis trend for five long, eternal years. Like Argentina of the immediate post-dictatorship, so Greece has proved itself as a zealous student of the International Monetary Fund and ready to acknowledge its requests and economic recipes.

Those of the IMF and those of the European Central Bank. But the policies implemented by the government to rationalize the Greek state budget have produced results contrary to expectations. There was no economic recovery, no development, no balanced budget. The only growth was in the number of suicides, in that of the joblesses and miserable, in the number of bankrupt companies, in that of the Greeks emigrated abroad in search of a new future. Yet not one of "those who matter" really seems to consider the possibility of changing approach to the problem or at least soften their intransigence of thought.

The people? Indignant. What's more, the heart fills with anger. Because we see what Greece is now but remember what she was, what she gave to Humanity.

What lessons can we draw from the Greek tragedy that unfolds before our eyes?

We asked Paul Craig Roberts to share with us some of his views on the subject, based on his past experience as economic adviser of the former US President Ronald Reagan.

Q) Dr. Roberts, could you briefly explain what is the supply-side economics that President Reagan sought to implement?

A) Supply-side economics was used to cure stagflation. The challenge was to get employment and real GDP [Gross Domestic Product] to rise without having to pay for the increases with a rising rate of inflation. Keynesian demand-management had no solution. In the post-WWII demand-side economic policy, monetary and fiscal policies were used to regulate consumer demand, either expanding demand or reducing demand. For example, a tax cut was seen as an expansionary fiscal policy. A tax increase as a contractionary policy. Supply-side economists discovered that fiscal policy had direct effects via taxation on the cost of capital and on the supply of labor and investment. Supply-side economists pointed out that stagflation resulted from the demand-side policy of stimulating consumer demand with easy money and restricting the response of supply to demand with high tax rates. Thus, stagflation resulted from an incorrect policy mix. Supply-siders said the solution was to lower the marginal tax rates (the rate of tax on additions to income) and to tighten monetary policy. The result would be a rise in real output instead of a rise in the price level. The policy worked, and the worsening "Phillips curve" trade-offs between employment and inflation disappeared.

Q) Why do you say that it has been partially implemented?

A) Reagan's policy was not implemented as intended. The reductions in marginal tax rates were delayed and phased in. The first year only saw a 5% reduction in tax rates. The Treasury asked the Federal Reserve to gradually reduce the growth of money and credit as the tax cuts took effect. However, the Federal Reserve was unable to understand the new policy, instead regarding it as an inflationary expansion of consumer demand. The Keynesian economists regarded fiscal policy as more powerful than monetary policy, and the Federal Reserve concluded that the tax rate reductions would drive up inflation even in the face of a very restrictive monetary policy. So, instead of gradually reducing the growth of money as the tax rate reductions came into effect, the central bank simply turned off the money. As the tax rate reductions were delayed, the tight monetary policy threw the economy into recession. The recession brought large budget deficits, and Reagan's political enemies blamed his tax cut for the budget deficitseven though it had not yet gone into effect. All of the confusion served to reduce confidence in the policy, so it did not work as well as it could have worked. Still, the economy recovered and grew for about two decades without having to pay for the growth by accepting a rising rate of inflation. Despite the supply-side success, most economists still believe in the Phillips curve, which is the basis for Quantitative Easing. The central banks believe that inflation is required or the economy cannot grow.

Q) The abolition of the Glass-Stigler Act was a natural consequence of the supply-side economics or an independent act, perhaps unconsciously?

A) Glass-Steagal was repealed toward the end of President Clinton's second term. It had nothing whatsoever with the Reagan administration, which had no program of financial deregulation. The repeal was based on the absurd view that financial markets are self-regulating.

Q) Now let's consider an example, tragic and concrete: the economic crisis affecting Greece from before 2010. What are the causes of this crisis?

A) The Greek economic crisis is the result of austerity policies forced on the Greek people in order to prevent the private banks from making losses on their loans to Greece.

Q) Seeing the results of the economic policies applied in Greece, at a distance of more than 5 years now, I think that the effect obtained is the opposite of what, at least publicly, the policy was supposed to produce. What do you think?

A) The purpose of the austerity policy was to establish that the Greek people are responsible for the bankers' mistakes, not the bankers themselves.

Q) Honestly, how can we talk about economic shock therapy to those who are without work, without food, without a future?

A) The austerity policy was created by the elite in order to make ordinary people cover the bankers' losses by accepting cuts in pensions, employment, public services, and by selling off public assets at bargain prices to the clients of the banks.

Q) I propose a comparison: the Greece of the International Monetary Fund and the Hungary of Viktor Orban. In your opinion what model will be more appropriate in the long term?

A) IMF loans and conditionality programs are the mechanism by which countries are looted. No country has ever benefitted from an IMF program, only the creditors of the country benefit.

Q) Which is solution for the Greek crisis?

A) Revolution and overthrow of the government that sold out the Greek people.

Q) One last question: at the beginning of the economic crisis, the Greek Orthodox Church suffered fierce attacks by the Western media. She was accused of greed and selfishness. Personally, I was surprised by such accusations. Can you tell us your thoughts on this?

A) Perhaps these attacks on the church were done in order to mute the church's defense of the poor.

We really thank Dr. Roberts for his patience and kindness in answering our questions.

Costantino Ceoldo

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Friday, January 23, 2015

Heo Yun Mi & Ju Da Ha Seoul Grand Park

Korean models Heo Yun Mi and Ju Da Ha visited the Seoul Grand Park with a photographer in November 2014.

Heo Yun Mi Ju Da Ha Seoul Grand Park

Korean model Heo Yun Mi Seoul Grand Park

Korean model Ju Da Ha Seoul Grand Park

Korean model Heo Yun Mi Seoul Grand Park

Heo Yun Mi Ju Da Ha Seoul Grand Park

Seoul Grand Park is a park complex to the south of Seoul. It hosts Korea’s first zoo and other recreational facilities. Bonus:

Seoul Grand Park Korean zoo

Source : koreangirlshd[dot]com

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

2015: The world of the Haves and the Have-nots

On a global scale, one in five adolescents is not currently attending a school or education program, according to the joint UNO agency report released this week. Furthermore, the report demonstrates that poverty, marginalization and exclusion from education walk hand-in-hand. 2015, the world of the haves and have-nots.

2015, the world of the haves and have-nots. According to the report "Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children" drawn up by UNESCO and UNICEF, 63 million adolescents worldwide (children aged between twelve and fifteen years of age) and one in ten children of primary school age are not attending school.

Despite the pledge in the Millennium Development Goals set back in 2000 to provide Education for All by 2015, there are currently 121 million children who have never started school or who have dropped out, making them vulnerable to criminal gangs, to human trafficking, to marginalization, exclusion and criminal activity.

Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, speaking about the findings of the report at the Education World Forum in London last week, referred to girls forced to stay at home, children caught up in conflict zones, children forced to work and children with disabilities excluded from school.

The report finds that as children get older, they become more likely to drop out of school altogether - the main reason for this being poverty and the need to help with the family income. Since 2007, it is revealed that there has been very little progress in reducing the number of out-of-school adolescents since 2007, so "business as usual", in the words of Irina Bokova, does not work.

The Director-General of UNESCO and the Executive Director of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, agree that something more needs to be done. Among the measures proposed is targeting three areas: more children in primary education; helping children to stay at school through secondary education and improving the quality of learning.

As usual, girls continue to suffer more than boys: 58 per cent of adolescent girls aged twelve to fifteen in Pakistan (compared to 49 per cent of boys) are out of school. In Eritrea, 66 per cent of children do not attend primary school; in Liberia the figure is 59%. 66% of children from poor households in Nigeria will never enroll in school. Current figures point towards an estimate of 25 million children worldwide who will never have set foot in a classroom.

2015 - The World of the Haves and the Have-nots. Yet NATO's budget is one point two trillion USD a year, each and every year, humankind spends 1.7 trillion USD on weapons systems to murder people - 17 thousand billion USD over the last ten years.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Keep Your Kid's Precious Art

This morning my mum gave me a drawing I did when I was 5. She has kept it for, ahem, 31 years. And no, it’s not on parchment paper.

It’s a texta colour drawing of the Care Bears. There is a lot of effort and minimal talent.

Mum has boxes of family artwork. It takes up space, the drawings are never looked at and they are yellowed, faded and falling apart.

I’m now facing the same dilemma with my kid’s pictures. Those beautiful hand and foot print paintings, the first scribbled writing of their names and that picture they spent ages on with their little tongue poking out in concentration are all so special.

But what to do with them all?

Thanks to technology, keeping boxes of perished art will be a thing of the past. There are some fantastic apps to store kids artwork and keep it handy to look at, share and make albums with.

ArtKive
This is a great family app. You photograph your child’s artwork, set up different profiles and make albums, which you can organise by date and other selections. It’s really simple and easy to use.
You can then order hardcover books of the artwork, which will be a special keepsake for years to come. And a lot less bulky than keeping bursting folders of paintings.

Art My Kid Made
A much more social app, Art My Kid Made works in a similar way by photographing the art, but you can share it and look at other kids artwork on the Art My Kid Made blog. You don’t have to share the art, but if you do, you could win artist of the day!
You can also make albums, add effects and share the pictures with just family and friends. At this stage, creating prints and photo books are not available.

Keepy

Keepy works a lot like Artkive, except that kids can record a story to accompany their art. You can store photos, art and school work and organise albums by date and location. You can also set up different profiles for different kids.

Source : nickjrparents[dot]com[dot]au

Monday, January 19, 2015

Merkel's love affair with Islam

AP photo

By Eliana Benador

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, France's leadership hastened to organize a protest march in Paris. There, President Francois Hollande was flanked by 39 of his peers who are leading their countries with a definite leftist penchant favoring the Islamization of the world.

To the great detriment of countries as separate entities, those leaders, in the name of globalization, are subtly removing national identities, traditions, mores and, what is worse, they are lethally endangering the future of their countries.

At the march, over three million rallied in Paris and other French cities, in unity to protest terrorist attacks on their soil.

When all is said and done the truth is, however, that the Paris march turned to be a manipulative step to assuage the masses, under the banner of the so-called "unity."

While condemning the attacks, even President Hollande and his Prime Minister Manuel Valls, rejected that the murderous massacres by Islamists Jihadists have anything to do with Islam:

"... I call on you also to unity because i expressed myself, the French people, this is our best weapon. Unity that we must demonstrate our determination to fight against anything that can divide us and first of all, to be impeccable, to be totally against any racism and anti-Semitism. A terrible anti-Semitic attack was committed today in the Kosher shop. Not to be divided means we must not make any confusion concerning these terrorists and fanatics that have nothing to do with the Muslim religion."

On their part, Muslim terrorists proudly show their allegiance to the Koran as the source for their inspiration. It is their prophet who instructs them, unambiguously, what to do, to whom, when, where and how.

Western politicians may want to whitewash Islam but their efforts cannot erase the facts and the abundant videos and messages on the internet, profusely distributed, left as testimony of their deeds.

Ironically, History will record the Paris march as a satire, the parade of the enablers of Muslim terrorism.

Sweden, Belgium, Holland, as well as France, England and Germany, have randomly opened their arms and their countries to Muslims.

Now, they are paying a very heavy price: Hundreds of no-go zones throughout Europe, rapes, honor killings, constant threats to their local communities, crimes, and more is happening under the watchful eyes and complicity of their lenient governments.

In the particular case of Germany, journalists at the leftist newspaper, The Local, have joined behind Chancellor Angela Merkel, who "deplores the new far-right group's 'hatred.'" And, as they report, the anti-Islam demonstrations which have rocked Dresden with 18,000 people, have been followed by others in Cologne, Berlin and Stuttgart.

Merkel is pushing her agenda down the throat of Germans and has made a bold move.

She has declared that "Islam belongs to Germany" a day after participating in the Paris "unity" day.

In fact, in the aftermath of the Paris march, Frau Merkel met the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Merkel is said to have urged dialogue among religions.

Meanwhile details have emerged from Turkish authorities who have confirmed that terrorist Hayat Boumeddiene had crossed into Syria on the same day her terrorist companion Amedy Coulibaly shot policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Merkel must have been too busy speaking to Davutoglu about how to golden the Islam pill for her compatriots instead of demanding explanations on how Boumeddiene could have spent a few days in Turkey and, then, allowed into Syria.

As ultimate betrayal to the interests of her country, Merkel recently joined the Muslim community at a recent rally in Berlin to promote tolerance and condemn the attacks in Paris. She is trying hard to rebuke the growing opposition movement against Islam in Germany.

Instead of siding with German compatriots to defend their interests, lifestyle, jobs and well-being, the woman who was elected to protect their country, is standing by Islam.

Islamo-fascist is the term that comes to mind for Frau Merkel, who is following in the footsteps of her colleague Adolf Hitler who had close connections with none other than the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem back in the early 1940s. The meetings between the most important Islamic figure of those times and the Führer, were recorded for posterity.

The Nazi leader may be turning over in his grave, seeing his contemporary heirs, the liberal fascists from the left, serving Germany on a silver platter to Islam, ready to impose Shariah in Germany as soon as democratic elections will allow. The chancellor and her party are surrendering their country.

At the Berlin march, Frau "Merkel and the German President Joachim Gauck joined a 3,000-strong crowd as the Koran was read under the Brandenburg Gate.

"The terrorists wanted to divide us. They have achieved the opposite. They have brought us together," President Gauck told the gathered crowds.

Yes, together, to defend Islam.

Alarmed that the situation might soon get out of control, Germans have created their own anti-Islam response: PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West,) whose membership is increasing by the day.

Their success is unquestionable. PEGIDA community page on Facebook has over 144,000 likes.

While PEGIDA is based on patriotism, on their part, pro-Muslim democratic leftists translate patriotism as chauvinism and xenophobia, instead of keeping its strict meaning: "Love of country and quest for one's compatriots well-being and safety."

In that same vein, the chancellor has been increasingly outspoken in her condemnation of PEGIDA in recent weeks, calling on Germans not to take part in its protests, and she has even gone to the extreme to accuse those behind them of having "hatred in their hearts."

While Germany's leaders dilute themselves in their make-believe world coexisting with their Muslim protégés, patriotic Germans now have PEGIDA, giving them the glimmer of a hope, to try to save their country from democracy and Islamism, the lethal formula for the destruction of the West.

Eliana Benador

Eliana Benador is a strategic risk consultant, adviser, opinion writer, former founder of Benador Associates. Her website is www.elianabenador.com. Follow her at @ElianaBenador on Twitter,LinkedIn, Facebook.

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Sunday, January 18, 2015

The "Impending" Russian Maidan

The coordinated manipulation of global energy prices, a NATO build-up in Eastern Europe, and the rekindling of terrorism in Russia's southern Caucasus region all appear to be ever-increasing crescendos toward a much larger event - a "Russian Maidan."

Tony Cartalucci

The necessary components of a successful Western bid to overthrow the Russian political order include a political front protesting in Russia's major cities, as well as a full-spectrum economic war to put pressure on Russia's population, increasing dissent as well as swelling the ranks of staged protests Wall Street and Washington put in Russian streets. Another necessary component includes armed components to act under cover of "peaceful protesters" to escalate street demonstrations, prevent security forces from restoring order, and to carry out the actual physical overthrow of these security forces.

These elements could all be seen in neighboring Ukraine - a nation in which America and NATO's incessant meddling is a matter of long-standing public record. The Guardian would admit in its 2004 article, "US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev," that (emphasis added):

...while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.

Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the US ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in central America, notably in Nicaragua, organised a near identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.

That one failed. "There will be no Kostunica in Belarus," the Belarus president declared, referring to the victory in Belgrade.

But experience gained in Serbia, Georgia and Belarus has been invaluable in plotting to beat the regime of Leonid Kuchma in Kiev.

The operation - engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience - is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections.

Not only has Ukraine suffered because of this admitted US-backed political destabilization over the years, but as revealed by the Guardian and other sources, all of Eastern Europe has fallen prey to this brand of foreign-backed subversion, manipulation, and regime change. Considering this documented fact, the prospect of Wall Street and Washington trying likewise in Russia itself is not only possible, it has already been tried before, with likely attempts in the future only inevitable.

The Blockade...

Already at work is a coordinated manipulation of world oil prices. Revealed among plunging oil prices is that the entire industry is centrally manipulated not by market forces but by political agendas involving the US and its partners in the Middle East, most notably the enduring dictatorship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While any nation possesses the ability to weather such economic measures in the long-term as Iran and Cuba have proven, in the short-term, economic instability is one of the harbingers of political subversion where ranks of street demonstrations can be swelled by those who perceive such economic instability as the fault of the current government, rather than an economic attack from abroad.

The political front that will take to Russia's streets has already long been identified. It includes the same brand of extreme "nationalists" and ultra-right groups seen overrunning Ukraine's political order. This includes literal Neo-Nazis. One of the prevailing figures among Russia's ultra-right is US-backed Alexey Navalny - billed by the West as an "anti-corruption activist," who is in all reality a neo-fascist operating openly in the service of Wall Street.

Alexey Navalny was a Yale World Fellow, and in his profile it states:

Navalny spearheads legal challenges on behalf of minority shareholders in large Russian companies, including Gazprom, Bank VTB, Sberbank, Rosneft, Transneft, and Surgutneftegaz, through the Union of Minority Shareholders. He has successfully forced companies to disclose more information to their shareholders and has sued individual managers at several major corporations for allegedly corrupt practices. Navalny is also co-founder of the Democratic Alternative movement and was vice-chairman of the Moscow branch of the political party YABLOKO. In 2010, he launched RosPil, a public project funded by unprecedented fundraising in Russia. In 2011, Navalny started RosYama, which combats fraud in the road construction sector.

The Democratic Alternative, also written DA!, is a US State Department National Endowment for Democracy (NED) fund recipient, implicating Alexey Navalny as an agent of US-funded sedition. The US State Department itself reveals this as they list DA! among many of the "youth movements" they support operating in Russia:

DA!: Mariya Gaydar, daughter of former Prime Minister Yegor Gaydar, leads DA! (Democratic Alternative). She is ardent in her promotion of democracy, but realistic about the obstacles she faces. Gaydar said that DA! is focused on non-partisan activities designed to raise political awareness. She has received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, a fact she does not publicize for fear of appearing compromised by an American connection.

That this funding is nowhere on NED's official website indicates that full disclosures are not being made and that NED is engaged in clandestine funding.

Navalny was involved directly in founding a movement funded by the US government and to this day has the very people who funded DA! defending him throughout Western media. The mention of co-founder Mariya Gaydar is also revealing, as she has long collaborated, and occasionally has been arrested with, Ilya Yashin, yet another leader of a NED-funded Russian "activist" opposition group.

Ilya Yashin leads the Moscow branch of the People's Freedom Party and is a leading member of the "Strategy 31″ campaign whose ranks are filled with activists trained and coordinated by US NED-funded NGOs. Deleted from the official NED.org website was Strategy 31's US funding:

Moscow Group of Assistance in the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords $50,000

To draw greater attention to the issue of freedom of assembly in Russia and to the "Strategy 31" movement, which seeks to protect this fundamental right. The organization will train a network of regional activists and coordinate their activities through mini-seminars and field visits, and conduct an information campaign through press conferences, posters, and educational handouts pertaining to freedom of assembly, to be distributed to the general public by regional partners.

Also deleted was a NED "Democracy Digest" article titled "Strategy 31: A sign of civil society's resilience." In it, the "Moscow Helsinki Group" is explicitly stated as leading Strategy 31 marches and that the group is a "long-time grantee of the National Endowment of Democracy."

The multiple deletions across NED's networks of Russian "activists" it is heavily funding and directing is yet another sign of imminent subversion, in hopes that links cannot be provided fast enough as the unrest unfolds to undermine the legitimacy of the otherwise US-engineered subversion.

Yashin's People's Freedom Party is lined not only with NED-funded "youth," but also lined with career politicians and businessmen collaborating with foreign-interests. Among them is Vladimir Ryzhkov a member of the NED-funded, Washington-based World Movement for Democracy (whose profile has also been recently deleted). There is also Boris Nemtsov whose adviser, Vladimir Kara-Murza (of Solidarnost) took part in a September 14, 2011 NED-sponsored event titled, "Elections in Russia: Polling and Perspectives."

Revealed is a political front entirely created by the US State Department to pose as the aspirations of the Russian people while in reality a creation and perpetuation of the aspirations of Wall Street and Washington. Under the unrest this front creates may be a heavily armed front consisting of ultra-right Neo-Nazis as observed in Ukraine, heavily armed sectarian terrorists backed by Saudi Arabia, or both.

A Look At America's "Sedition" Handbook

The use of armed elements to assist in US-engineered political subversion is not speculation. Rather, it is a documented policy included in plans laid for the undermining and overthrowing of other governments around the world. In one particular 2009 US policy paper titled, "Which Path to Persia?" by the Brookings Institution regarding the overthrow of Iran, it is stated specifically that:

One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.

Here, US policymakers are openly conspiring to covertly provoke a nation through political subversion. The resulting "act of aggression" would be portrayed as "unprovoked," just as has been done regarding Russia's involvement in neighboring Ukraine and all moves since Moscow has undertaken as the US and NATO continue to move toward war.

The policy paper also openly talks about the particulars of fomenting political unrest. Under a section called literally, "Finding the Right Proxies" it states:

One of the hardest tasks in fomenting a revolution, or even just unrest, is finding the right local partners.

After openly admitting the goal of "fomenting a revolution" or "unrest," it then details what support to provide these proxies:

...students and other groups need covert backing for their demonstrations. They need fax machines. They need internet access, funds to duplicate materials, and funds to keep vigilantes from beating them up. Beyond this, U.S.-backed media outlets could highlight regime shortcomings and make otherwise obscure critics more prominent. The United States already supports Persian-language satellite television (Voice of america Persian) and radio (radio Farda) that bring unfiltered news to Iranians (in recent years, these have taken the lion's share of overt U.S. funding for promoting democracy in Iran). U.S. economic pressure (and perhaps military pressure as well) can discredit the regime, making the population hungry for a rival leadership.

The report finally mentions armed groups supporting US-engineered sedition:

Some who favor fomenting regime change in Iran argue that it is utopian to hold out hope for a velvet revolution; instead, they contend that the United States should turn to Iranian opposition groups that already exist, that already have demonstrated a desire to fight the regime, and who appear willing to accept U.S. assistance. The hope behind this course of action is that these various opposition groups could transform themselves into more potent movements that might be able to overturn the regime.

What is troubling about this 2009 report is that each and every conspiracy contained within is not only confirmed by the authors to already be well underway against Iran, it is now clear that similar tactics have been used against Syria, China, and Russia itself. The "Arab Spring" was little more than these tactics used on a regional scale, and what was done in Syria and even Ukraine are almost verbatim pages torn from this playbook.

For a campaign aimed at Moscow itself, it is likely the same playbook will once again be employed. Exposing the insidious, malicious criminality of US policymakers who openly conspire to provoke other nations into conflict and manipulate public perception to maintain moral primacy is the first step to undoing attempts to destabilize and undermine Russia, and all other nations caught in the crosshairs of Wall Street and Washington.

While the West continues to portray Russia as the "aggressor," throughout America's own policy papers it can be seen that such accusations are just one part of an immensely insidious and deceitful plan. Portraying Russia as the "aggressors" helps justify further measures to set the board for widespread political subversion within Russia itself. It seeks to justify not only direct ties to opposition groups when they are finally revealed, but also increasingly aggressive interventions both by armed proxies and NATO forces themselves to continue propping up these opposition groups.

The spectacular nature of "invasions" as we imagine them, such as the Nazi blitzkrieg into Western Europe are behind us. Invasions within fourth generation warfare utilize faux opposition groups, covert military support, and full-spectrum economic, political, and information warfare. Russia has built defenses against this form of warfare, confounding the West , but ultimately the moral high ground and all of its advantages is a position only one can hold. Either by truth through exposing the West's means and agenda will Russia climb to the top, or through the West's continued successful deception, will Russia be pelted below.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine"New Eastern Outlook".

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

It's the deal, stupid

By Denis A. Conroy

When it comes to ideas, America seems to be made up of mugs and muggers. The mugs are the mesmerised multitude who seem to have consumed the lies of the propagandists, the media manipulators, the CIA torturers and the 'swill-of-ideas' promoted by the war-mongering neocon clique who made support of Israel, at any cost, a sacramental priority. Above all, the neoconservatives championed Israel. What followed was the artificial insemination of American Foreign Policy with infertile intellectual semen; Wolfowitz, Elliott Abraham, Douglas Feith, 'Scooter' Libby, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney... some of the intellectual sperm donors who lined-up behind George W. Bush to bring mayhem to the Middle East and much of the world to boot, with a view to consolidate yet another colonial enterprise. One that titillated the Masters-Of-The-Universe dream of world dominance from within the ramparts of a ghetto-mentality that has since become the true carbon footprint of the Empire. Along the way, neoconservatives, foisting Zionist ideas upon the nation...with the intention of securing advantage for Caucus-Israel...effectively infected American Foreign Policy with dystopia-declension and sold the whole immoral caboodle to an unsuspecting public prone to celebrating delusional militarism masquerading as patriotic zeal. Thus did reductionism morph the national psyche into intolerance of democratic principles.

For the Zionists, their need to be the tail that wagged the dog in this canine alliance was paramount. For the Zionists, the way to 'move on'...and in... meant forming a geo-strategic unit within the State Department that professed clarity of vision in all matters relating to geo-political policy that bound America and Israel as one. Especially as America was perceived as the means of achieving Zionist ends. What transpired was the creation of a walled-in-kibbutz-mentality within the State Department. Ethnically pure identity for the family of the elect had to be coerced from within and without and propaganda was the tool that would do the job. For the Zionists, it was necessary for identity itself to be garrisoned, lest extracurricular activity might lead to dancing or other mutant forms of disobedience and intercourse. Legitimacy through myth had to be created in order to control the political narrative.

Grafting Zionist ideology onto the American Dream narrative was like putting a nose where an ear should be, as it was so far a cry from the idea of state and space existing for a diversity of peoples challenging the limits of secular liberalism in the nascent enterprise-phase of America- The-Brave-New-Modern-World narrative. The aspirations implicit in the American Dream, tolerance, sisterhood, brotherhood, diversity, etc., didn't seem to garner any traction in the Zionist psyche. The idea of ethnic nationalism as a wet-dream was pursued with religious sangfroid by the Zionists. Furthermore, the idea that an ancient God/Poet...as male midwife...could only deliver the children of Zion to a promissory kingdom of the imagination, led countless generations of Jews to eschew all means but the 'sword' in their quest for land. The unholy holy message their Old Testament espoused, was that they go forth and ethnically cleanse the land of their desire; sound familiar in the light of what has happened to the Palestinian People ? Could it be that the insecurity brought about by living in other people's countries over millennia, have rendered these wanderers incapable of comprehending the extent of the pain inflicted on the Palestinian People? In the course of digging themselves into another's country with the aid of American militarism and the acquisition of a nuclear arsenal (a deterrent against eviction?) that the humanity of the 'other' became lost as Israel's very own quotidian expression of the 'banality of evil' set about annihilating the Palestinian people?

The auto emancipation of the Jews in America reached new heights of chutzpah at this time by virtue of the ability of organised Jewry to cut deals that portrayed America and Israel as two nations endowed with exceptional degrees of concern for human rights enshrined in democratic institutions; in real terms, nothing could have been further from the truth. The signs that Corporate America was in the ascendant and about to flex its muscle, was there for all to see after World War 2. The growing power of the Zineocracy was also much in evidence in those early post-war years, and an alliance between these two forces, based on military power, came as no surprise to anyone. The perennial Jewish instinct to situate itself within the centre of power became ever more evident as the 20th. century advanced. Zionism, like Royalty, created myths that defined authority through disciplines and rituals that served as 'state-of-play' for the puppet-masters and their puppets. The secular nature of Zionism was always about gaining control of the levers of power in order to enforce the legitimacy of its myths. The Jewish ability to lobby governments became so successful, that over time, the ethnicity of this group -zealous in its pursuit of power and influence-became a force that could and did hold governments to sway when armed with a casus belli for aggression, or a threat to crash the pyramid-wank we call the financial system.

Then with Reagan's election as president in 1980 came the opportunity the Neocons had been waiting for, appointments to the National Security apparatus. The Think Tanks that the likes of Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, 'Scooter' Libby and Richard Perle had conducted with a view to changing American Foreign Policy, became the dominant dynamic in the State Department when these individuals and their ideas coalesced into a 'kibbutz-like' culture in the very heart of that institution. It was from within this Zionist 'kibbutz' in the State Department, that the power to exert inordinate influence over American Foreign Policy began to have effect. From this point on, American Foreign Policy became the plaything of foreign elements running a covert dualism that seriously comprised the aspirations of the Republic and the concomitant American Dream.

Corporate America, backed-up by Military America, and in turn, backed-up by the Zionocrats, became the forces that shaped American power in ways that enabled the development of the chauvinistic and splendiferous profitability of business-the-American-way, to become the mantra within the narrative...never mind that America uses the mantra of 'spreading peace, prosperity, liberty, democratic values, the rule of law, and economic opportunities throughout the globe, while bombing the shit out of countries too numerous to mention.

On becoming the sole Superpower, it became necessary for America to suppress all opposition to its own purposes...in a word, the American way of making money became par for the course, boding ill, if not outright intolerance for any alternative way of thinking. In global terms, it is now seen as a system that imposes itself on the rest of the world, via military power, so as to sustain the status quo and continue to press its own coercive dollar system on the world, a system in which America swaps paper currency, printed willy-nilly by the Central Bank, for precious raw materials, manufactured products and man-power. These strands of Foreign Policy now represent corruption of the highest order and one that has successfully sold the kitsch ideology of American 'exceptionalism' to the mesmerised multitude so that it can bask in a couch-potato-form of faux patriotism to satisfy its interminable consumerist need to absorb entertaining illusions of the vanity variety, to while away the hours...and this is surely a condition that has its origins in placebo rather than tabula rasa?

And for the muggers who left Iraq and so much of the Muslim world a blood drenched abattoir; Afghanistan a charnel house of amputees; Gaza an emporium of misery observed through the indifferent eyes of the callow liberal 'West', produced little more than a theatrical yawn from within the ranks of the unconscionably cultured. Time ticks over while glib American Congressmen and women once again impute that the people of Gaza are the aggressors. Meanwhile, this nowhere-to-run patch of shrinking land, devoid of any means of feeding its malnourished children, continues to show up the shame of the West. Our esteemed West is selectively interventionist in supporting military strategies and agendas, but ingloriously indifferent to the fact that Israel's most moral army slaughtered 500 children in Gaza this past summer and had the audacity to call this kind of operation defensive. Children attacked with armour-piercing flechette shells supplied by America and designed for piercing steel...and children's light cotton underwear equally...shows up the banality of Israel and the West ...this happened to the corralled people of Gaza, and we have to ask ourselves--do we look away and just 'walk on by' when confronted by atrocities of this nature? The answer must surely be, we do! ...'At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference' Soren Kierkegaard wrote and were he alive today, he might very well have expressed the facts more cogently.

Where is the much vaunted civilisation of the West now? Did it just 'walk-on-by'? Is selective morality akin to lite-morality, a trick that we can pull from nowhere so that we can blandly change the channels 'within' when it suits us...like exercising choice for choice's sake? The people who wrought so much havoc in the Muslim world and elsewhere remain free (and intact of limb) to continue the case for carnage...war is profitable...war is now on auto pilot in the West, in order to demonstrate that the status quo is not negotiable.

President Obama, while bemoaning the reality of CIA administered torture ' in the past', asks us , as he did in 2008, to just 'move on'. We pretend that we do not know of the CIA's involvement in purging the democratically elected government in Ukraine because the Western press, complicit in the deceitful American owned status quo, stays mum...merely verbalizing what it is allowed to. The 'move on' dictum, recommended by the President, fails in every respect to deal with the realities behind the official rhetoric. America and its allies have lost the respect the rest of the world might have once afforded it. Blocking the Palestinian application for statehood at the UN, an institution it has corrupted, is an awesomely stupid way of moving on. Monolith America has clearly become a scary edifice, its caryatid façade transmutes into a dystopian temple-of-doom culture wherein the President, or High Priest, sits holding the Nobel Peace Prize in one hand, and in the other, an executive order containing the names of the people he intends consigning to oblivion via drone. This top-heavy Pentagon entablature, supported by caryatids...featuring Mafioso-gun-toting-harlots-of-dishonour...is the temple where the top-heavy military caucus meet to plan strategic governance in a New World Order. In this cultural climate, the monolith that is America morphs into something akin to Francisco Goya's depiction of Saturn Devouring His Son. Wallowing in its own myopic bully-boyhood culture of warfare, the 'heavies' supported by the big Defence Budget, plan new ways of shredding non-white humanity. The process that feeds off surveillance and torture inveigles the public to be lax about the rule of law and relegates the subject of collateral damage to a mere sub-text. The process that allocates veto powers to select members of the UN Security Council is another example of how the military strategists, ruling by tribal rule-of-force, fail the 'move on' test. These boffins do not know about sharing...it is easier to vanquish the competition than negotiate.

So when President Obama asks us to just 'move on', it comes across as being too quixotic by far. What he's 'not-saying' to us is the point. He doesn't say that the two-party system is in thrall to the money markets and the military. He doesn't say how we might penetrate the status quo corset of restrictions that perfidious Sam...as in Uncle Wally Street...has imposed on our freedoms, and that a pall of gloom permeates the very soul of the nation. He doesn't seem to notice that the 'Fourth Estate' is more stuffed with chaff than the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He doesn't say that the spirit of American democracy has been euthanized in the process of America becoming a kleptocracy. He doesn't seem to notice that the goose that lays the golden egg has morphed into a bird of prey that serves Wall Street by diverting nutrients within the system away from the public domain and into the coffers of the one per cent. He has failed to just 'move on' himself, because he has failed to acknowledge the obscene things that are done in our name... the vulgarity and brutality that occurs under his watch, for instance.

Denis A. Conroy

Australia

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru

Friday, January 16, 2015

Charlie Hebdo: False flag operation

AP photo

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the cartoonists' office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with highly trained special forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different sets of people.

Usually Muslim terrorists are prepared to die in the attack; yet the two professionals who hit Charlie Hebdo were determined to escape and succeeded, an amazing feat. Their identity was allegedly established by the claim that they conveniently left for the authorities their ID in the getaway car. Such a mistake is inconsistent with the professionalism of the attack and reminds me of the undamaged passport found miraculously among the ruins of the two WTC towers that served to establish the identity of the alleged 9/11 hijackers.

It is a plausible inference that the ID left behind in the getaway car was the ID of the two Kouachi brothers, convenient patsies, later killed by police, and from whom we will never hear anything, and not the ID of the professionals who attacked Charlie Hebdo. An important fact that supports this inference is the report that the third suspect in the attack, Hamyd Mourad, the alleged driver of the getaway car, when seeing his name circulating on social media as a suspect realized the danger he was in and quickly turned himself into the police for protection against being murdered by security forces as a terrorist.

Hamyd Mourad says he has an iron-clad alibi. If so, this makes him the despoiler of a false flag attack. Authorities will have to say that despite being wrong about Mourad, they were right about the Kouachi brothers. Alternatively, Mourad could be coerced or tortured into some sort of confession that supports the official story.

The American and European media have ignored the fact that Mourad turned himself in for protection from being killed as a terrorist as he has an alibi. I googled Hamid Mourad and all I found (January 12) was the main US and European media reporting that the third suspect had turned himself in. The reason for his surrender was left out of the reports. The news was reported in a way that gave credence to the accusation that the suspect who turned himself in was part of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Not a single US mainstream media source reported that the alleged suspect turned himself in because he has an ironclad alibi.

Some media merely reported Mourad's surrender in a headline with no coverage in the report. The list that I googled includes the Washington Post (January 7 by Griff Witte and Anthony Faiola); Die Welt (Germany) "One suspect has turned himself in to police in connection with Wednesday's massacre at the offices of Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo;" ABC News (January 7) "Youngest suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack turns himself in;" CNN (January 8) "Citing sources, the Agence France Presse news agency reported that an 18-year-old suspect in the attack had surrendered to police."

Another puzzle in the official story that remains unreported by the presstitute media is the alleged suicide of a high ranking member of the French Judicial Police who had an important role in the Charlie Hebdo investigation. For unknown reasons, Helric Fredou, a police official involved in the most important investigation of a lifetime, decided to kill himself in his police office on January 7 or January 8 (both dates are reported in the foreign media) in the middle of the night while writing his report on his investigation. A google search as of 6pm EST January 13 turns up no mainstream US media report of this event. The alternative media reports it, as do some UK newspapers, but without suspicion or mention whether his report has disappeared. The official story is that Fredou was suffering from "depression" and "burnout," but no evidence is provided. Depression and burnout are the standard explanations of mysterious deaths that have unsettling implications.

Once again we see the US print and TV media serving as a ministry of propaganda for Washington. In place of investigation, the media repeats the government's implausible story.

It behoves us all to think. Why would Muslims be more outraged by cartoons in a Paris magazine than by hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by Washington and its French and NATO vassals in seven countries during the past 14 years?

If Muslims wanted to make a point of the cartoons, why not bring a hate crime charge or lawsuit? Imagine what would happen to a European magazine that dared to satirize Jews in the way Charlie Hebdo satirized Muslims. Indeed, in Europe people are imprisoned for investigating the holocaust without entirely confirming every aspect of it.

If a Muslim lawsuit was deep-sixed by French authorities, the Muslims would have made their point. Killing people merely contributes to the demonization of Muslims, a result that only serves Washington's wars against Muslim countries.

If Muslims are responsible for the attack on Charlie Hebdo, what Muslim goal did they achieve? None whatsoever. Indeed, the attack attributed to Muslims has ended French and European sympathy and support for Palestine and European opposition to more US wars against Muslims. Just recently France had voted in the UN with Palestine against the US-Israeli position. This assertion of an independent French foreign policy was reinforced by the recent statement by the President of France that the economic sanctions against Russia should be terminated.

Clearly, France was showing too much foreign policy independence. The attack on Charlie Hebdo serves to cow France and place France back under Washington's thumb.

Some will contend that Muslims are sufficiently stupid to shoot themselves in the head in this way. But how do we reconcile such alleged stupidity with the alleged Muslim 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo professional attacks?

If we believe the official story, the 9/11 attack on the US shows that 19 Muslims, largely Saudis, without any government or intelligence service support, outwitted not only all 16 US intelligence agencies, the National Security Council, Dick Cheney and all the neoconservatives in high positions throughout the US government, and airport security, but also the intelligence services of NATO and Israel's Mossad. How can such intelligent and capable people, who delivered the most humiliating blow in world history to an alleged Superpower with no difficulty whatsoever despite giving every indication of their intentions, possibly be so stupid as to shoot themselves in the head when they could have thrown France into turmoil with a mere lawsuit?

The Charlie Hebdo story simply doesn't wash. If you believe it, you are no match for a Muslim.

Some who think that they are experts will say that a false flag attack in France would be impossible without the cooperation of French intelligence. To this I say that it is practically a certainty that the CIA has more control over French intelligence than does the President of France. Operation Gladio proves this. The largest part of the government of Italy was ignorant of the bombings conducted by the CIA and Italian Intelligence against European women and children and blamed on communists in order to diminish the communist vote in elections.

Americans are a pitifully misinformed people. All of history is a history of false flag operations. Yet Americans dismiss such proven operations as "conspiracy theories," which merely proves that government has successfully brainwashed insouciant Americans and deprived them of the ability to recognize the truth.

Americans are the foremost among the captive nations.

Who will liberate them?

Paul Craig Roberts

www.paulcraigroberts.org

Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru