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US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
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*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  

November 30, 2015

The Rape of Democracy, Liberty & Justice

Article
SOURCE

http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/30/the-strange-case-of-julian-assange/



The strange case of Julian Assange

Bernard Keane | Nov 30, 2015 1:10PM
It’s become clear that the Swedish and UK governments will do virtually anything to ensure the investigation of Julian Assange never proceeds.


Julian Assange faces very serious allegations, politicians like to say. That was the description from UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s office three years ago, defending the UK’s determination to extradite him to Sweden. And that was the description early this year from then-UK deputy PM Nick Clegg, too — “he should go to Sweden to face very serious allegations and charges of rape,” said Clegg, not long before leading his party to annihilation in this year’s general election. Clegg, of course, was peddling the oft-repeated lie that there are charges against Assange.

But for very serious allegations – sexual molestation, unlawful coercion, sexual assault — the UK and Swedish governments have displayed zero interest in investigating them. In fact, the history of the case against Assange is a history of increasingly bizarre efforts by authorities to avoid questioning him.

When Swedish prosecutors first examined complaints about Assange by two women in 2010, the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm dismissed all but one of the allegations, including the accusation of sexual assault, saying “there is no suspicion of any crime whatsoever”. After speaking to prosecutors, Assange remained in Sweden for another week to be interviewed about the one remaining allegation (of molestation). However, after an appeal by former Swedish politician Claes Borgstrom, another prosecutor, Marianne Ny, reopened the whole case. Assange remained in Sweden and offered to be interviewed again, but, in the first of what would turn out to be a long litany of excuses, was told Ny was ill and unable to speak to him. Ny’s office then told Assange’s lawyer he was free to leave Sweden, but once Assange did so, an arrest warrant was issued for him. Assange then offered to return to Sweden to speak to Ny and gave her a full week of dates in which he would do so. These were all rejected.

This was all despite Swedish police having access to the texts of one of the alleged victims of Assange saying she “did not want to put any charges on JA but that the police were keen on getting a grip on him”, that she was shocked when he was arrested given she only wanted him to take an STD test, and that “it was the police who made up the charges”.

Ny’s unwillingnness to interview Assange would become the pattern for the next five years: Assange repeatedly offered to speak to Swedish authorities by phone, by videolink, or in person at the Australian embassy. The Swedes refused all opportunities to do so and demanded Assange return to Sweden, issuing a European arrest warrant for him. Eventually the EAW would be upheld by British courts under UK laws, which since then have been amended. Under current British law, a similar case to Assange’s would now be successfully appealed and the EAW rejected.

Once he had sought refuge in the Ecaudorean embassy in 2012, Assange continued to offer Swedish authorities the opportunity to speak with him, and they continued to reject them. But while they regularly rejected Assange’s offer to be interviewed, other suspects were treated very differently: during the last five years, the Swedes have on 44 occasions asked to travel to the UK to interview, or asked British police to interview, other people in Britain in relation to allegations including violent crime, fraud and even murder. Assange, however, couldn’t be treated the same way — he had to go to Sweden.

In fact, so absurd was Ny’s refusal to question Assange that in November last year, a Swedish court found she had breached her duty in failing to progress the case. With Assange’s Swedish arrest warrant in danger of being quashed due to her inaction and the expiry of three elements of the investigation looming due to Sweden’s statute of limitations, Ny then performed a sudden about-face — she said she would question Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy, as requested by Assange and Ecuador for years, and contacted UK authorities about the process for doing so.

But Ny still had a card left to play: despite her saying in March that she would do so, she never contacted the Ecuadoreans about the interview — in fact, eventually she admitted that she hadn’t bothered contacting the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry in Quito until “a late stage” — just five days before a scheduled interview with Assange in June. When the Ecuadoreans said they wanted diplomatic staff present during the interview given the country had given him refuge, the Swedes called the interview off and blamed the Ecuadoreans for failing to co-operate. Ny had managed to avoid yet another interview opportunity.

The refusal of the Swedes to interview Assange seems to give credence to Assange’s fears the Swedes’ priority is to get him in custody not so the now one remaining allegation of sexual assault can be progressed, but so he can be extradited to the United States under the investigation into WikiLeaks’ role in the release of Chelsea Manning cables. We learnt in March that this US investigation is still on foot, despite Manning now being in the third year of her sentence.

But if that seems like a conspiracy theory, it gets better: in October, it was revealed via freedom of information laws that UK prosecutors had urged Ny not to interview Assange in the UK, even before he sought refuge with the Ecuadoreans. I suggest you interview him only on surrender to Sweden,” prosecutor Paul Close told Ny in 2011. He was concerned that the interview might suggest Assange was innocent.

So despite the serious allegations the UK government said Assange faced, its prosecutors didn’t want him interviewed by the Swedes about them.

Meantime, the Australian government had said nothing. Julie Bishop was happy to use Assange to criticise the Gillard government but since becoming Foreign Minister has barely mentioned him.

If the plan was to use a sexual assault allegation — one prosecutors refused to investigate, one described by one of alleged victims as invented by police — to nullify WikiLeaks even if Assange avoided being extradited to the United States, it’s only partly worked. This year WikiLeaks has had its best year since 2010, releasing, inter alia, repeated iterations of chapters from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a vast accumulation of diplomatic cables from the monstrous Saudi Arabian regime, emails from CIA director John Brennan’s unauthorised personal email account, more revelations about National Security Agency surveillance targets, the text of the secret Trade In Services Agreement draft and details of the NSA’s massive spying on French presidents, which infuriated the government of Francois Hollande.

Even so, Assange remains confined on the basis of very serious allegations, with the Swedish and UK governments apparently keen to ensure they are never properly investigated, while his own government would prefer that Australians forget about him entirely.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/30/the-strange-case-of-julian-assange
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Totalitarianism, Empire & Poodles

Soviet WWII

Propaganda Cartoons

Soviet WWII

[Napoleon Tomb is funniest.]




COMMENT
The Rape of Democracy, Liberty & Justice
Governments of morally 'superior' and 'democratic' nations of the 'emancipated' and 'enlightened' West, commit abuse of state power, as if the powers wielded by publicly appointed, and therefore representative and accountable assembled governments, were derived from their very existence per se, independently of their role as representative and public servant.
Such governments behave as if they were the embodiment and representation of god, as were rulers of an age gone by, and thus entitled to  practically function as:  absolute, opaque and unaccountable authorities, without obligation to function in accordance with law, or in accordance with principles of democracy.
Governments of the deceived West transgress against democracy, law, justice and freedom, in an enlightened third millennium, while holding position as:  intended democracies, by appointment and in the service of the emancipated.
Yet a journalist performing a rightful & vital function in democracy, upon publishing evidence of war rimes committed by multiple states, has been undemocratically and unjustly entombed by those he exposed, as criminal, corrupt.
As evidenced by:
  • the political persecution of Assange (which includes a 5-year US 120-man taskforce investigation and closed-door US grand jury investigation in relation to non-US nationals, WikiLeaks and Assange, whereby:
(i) the US is seeking to redefine journalism as 'espionage'; and 
(ii) seeking to extend their national boundaries & jurisdiction across the globe, in efforts to:
1) to decommission WikiLeaks
2) and, more generally, to eliminate all checks on government conduct and power & to eliminate potential exposure of state wrongdoings
And therefore to:
ELIMINATE restrictions on state power, moving from democracy to (open) totalitarianism.
  • the 5-year detention of Assange, without charge;
  • the astounding amount of money the corrupt state has spent subverting justice and democracy the last 3 years alone, detaining journalist Julian Assange (24-hour uniformed and plain clothes police presence / now less high profile, plain clothes surveillance):
  • @ GBP £13-MILLION +
  • @ USD $19-MILLION +
  • @ AUD $27-MILLION +
  • @ EUR €18-MILLION +
  • as well as extraordinary refusal of the British authorities to abide by international law and to recognise political asylum granted to Assange by Ecuador, pursuant to  such law;
the vengeful state authorities (whose corruption Assange exposed), presently wield power that is absolutely illegitimate in functioning democracy. That state feloniously commits unlawful and undemocratic political persecution of a journalist and has exacted 5 years detention without charge, in violation of the core principles of democracy, and, otherwise, in violation of international law.
We, the divested, are rendered subjects of an authoritarian state and a (usurped) power unto itself.
We are passive, silent and complaint sleepwalkers in the face of totalitarian injustice and abuse of power  -- a corrupted power that, in fact, derives from a public that is comprised of free men who must individually and collectively challenge injustice and perversion of democracy.
The public remains misled by journalists, whose very role in a properly functioning democracy is that of guardian of liberty and democracy, and therefore voice against the abuse of state power.
But the spineless, collective of emasculated lowlifes known as Western journalists, generally prefer to kneel and otherwise prostrate themselves in the service of the banker and corporate-serving, totalitarian (usurped) state, slobbering at the feet of corrupt authority.
Not only do these contemptible cowards fail to challenge the corrupt state,  they perform the dirty work of that state by heaping smear and denigration on a politically persecuted and entombed journalist, who courageously defied corrupt authority and state might, to reveal the truth.
A courageous Australian journalist and an outstanding Australian, who embodies the spirit of the Australian nation, is entombed in London.
Nominally Australian politicians of the Antipodean colony that is Australia, shall, jointly and severally, be known by history for their role in the corruption and the rape of democracy, liberty, justice, and the betrayal of Australian journalist, Julian Assange.
Julian Assange deserves fierce and unwavering national support, yet he has been abandoned by those appointed to represent all Australians.
Politicians who remain silent and complicit in the face of abuse of power, corruption and violation of democracy that has robbed an Australian journalist of 5 years of his liberty and life, betray all Australians and make a mockery of sovereign Australian nationhood and a lie of freedom.
Australians cannot continue to stand by and let this Australian journalist go unprotected and undefended, while the light that is his life is entombed and snuffed out by the lawless and corrupt state wielding undemocratic and, therefore, illegitimate power & a state that has so far spent:
Over AUD$27-MILLION spent by Britain in 3 years
blocking Assange's lawful political asylum
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'STATE' refers to one or more of the following, individually and/or collectively:  Britain, Sweden, United States of America and Australia.
AMERICA Managed Democracy. POLITICS DOMINATED BY ECONOMICS.  'Inverted totalitarianism'. Corporate Totalitarianism / Corporate State.  Extinguishes democracy.  Courts & legislative bodies, in the service of corporate power.  American 'Inverted totalitarianism' effectively seized all mechanisms of power to render citizen impotent.  Inverted totalitarianism exploits the poor.  Antithesis of constitutional power.  Show elections. Money has effectively replaced the vote.   FUNNEL OF POWER UPWARD.  Citizen of US Empire irrelevant spectator.  IMPOTENT CITIZEN. Misrepresentative or Clientry Government.  Corporate Power UNCHALLENGED
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Corporate State Capture
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Julian Assange
Australian Journalist
FAQ & Support
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Audio - Dead Flowers

It's just a
shot away

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter
Audio | here
 

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November 29, 2015

Qatar Buys Military Equipment from Ukraine For Shipment to ISIS - US Approves

Article
SOURCE
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189366.html


In Brief

UKRAINE

supplying #ISIS via #Qatar

-->  through #Bulgaria + #Turkey

UkrOboronProm

http://www.voltairenet.org/article189366.html

Qatar and Ukraine come to deliver Pechora-2D to ISIS
 

by Andrey Fomin
Qatar has bought sophisticated military equipment from Ukraine on behalf of ISIS. The operation took place in late September 2015, just before the Russian military action against the terrorist organization. It was approved by the US embassy in Doha. Officially, the new emir is not involved in the war in Iraq and Syria
Voltaire Network | Moscow (Russia) | 22 November 2015

The fact that the ISIS infrastructure in Syria and Iraq is absolutely vulnerable to the airstrikes of the international coalition is undoubtful. During the last week only the Russian Air Force and Navy hit around 826 ISIS targets (training camps, munition and explosives plants, depots, oil refinery and transport objects) causing critical damage to the terrorist groups and its revenue sources.

The sponsors of the ISIS are certainly committed to acquire and supply to the jihadist brigades the air defense systems efficient enough to at least hamper the activities of the coalition in the Syrian sky.

Back in September 2015, being aware of the Russian plans to launch anti-terrorist air campaign, a Qatari delegation from the Ministry of Defense came to Kiev to take part in the Arms and Security Expo, September 22-27, 2015:

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They reached a deal with UkrOboronProm (a state-run Ukrainian arms trader) to purchase the modernized Air Defense Missile Complex “Pechora-2D”

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On Sept. 30 Volodimir Kuruts, the Trade Councellor of the Ukrainian Embassy in Qatar, writes to his business contact in Cyprus Vasyl Babytskiy, director of the Blessway Ltd:

Take note that it is the same Vasyl Babitskiy who resold 265 outdated Poland-made anti-aircraft autocannons to Saudi Arabia (eventually to the same ISIS), originally dedicated for the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior.

The revealed information clearly indicates that the Qatar Ministry of Defense is arranging supplies of the Ukrainian air defense systems to Syria-based terrorist organizations via Bulgaria and Turkey. The US officers in Qatar have approved the deals.

Taking into account that “Pechora 2D” system is able to strike the aircrafts at the heights up to 21 km, the investigation of the A321 Metrojet downfall over Sinai may receive an unexpected turn…  
Andrey Fomin
Founding editor of the online political analysis journal Oriental Review. He holds a Masters in Russian History (Lomonosov Moscow State University).
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189366.html

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COMMENT

This are much nastier and dirtier than I imagined:

1) savages for a proxy army against Assad.
2) Russian passenger plane blown up.
3) Paris shot up.
4) Russian bomber shot down.
5) Libya in ruins.
6) Syria in ruins.
7) a lot of Africa getting bombed.
8) Middle East in Ruins.
9) Saudis or ISIS sending Middle East & Africa to Europe -- Europe in ruins. It is the death of Europe.
And European politicians are instrumental in this.




GIF: David Cameron

i dave
dave babe


David Cameron
My Coo Ca Choo

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Keep the Ban on Fox Hunting

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Germany - Reportedly Funding Israel Nuclear Program for Over Half Century



Germany Reportedly Funding Israel
Nuclear Program for Over Half Century

 Since 1960
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Brief Summary Video
In contravention of German constitution & in contravention of non-proliferation treaty to which Germany is signatory, Germany is subsidising Israeli nuclear program and has done so for over half a century, commencing 1960.

Germany denies role in creation of nuclear Israel, just as Berlin denies knowledge of nuclear missiles deployed on German-built submarines, delivered to Israel.

Germany's subsidy of Israel nuclear program has escalated under Angela Merkel. 

Each time Israel attacks Gaza and the West Bank, German and American weapon are used.
Cold War German gains, with Israel then sharing Soviet weapons evaluations with Germany, while Israel is currently sharing active military experience with Germany.

Mordechai Vanunu
Israeli whistleblower
imprisoned 18 years
11 years solitary confinement

Vanunu
"The human spirit is free.  You cannot destroy the human spirit."

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COMMENT

Having read the (below) article about non-Jew killing laws in Israel's Haaretz newspaper, shortly before watching the above video, I'm now expecting Israel to nuke us all some day -- especially, knowing Israel practices the doctrine of pre-emptive attack. 
It's probably not going to happen any time soon, but it could happen.

As I understand, Benjamin Netanyahu gave his support to Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, who provided a letter of approval and expanded on various laws, including the following:
“The King’s Torah − Laws of Killing Non-Jews.” 

It's hard not to feel somewhat offended reading an article about special laws for killing non-Jews, after having read not so long ago that a revered rabbi (former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983) -- and spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas Party -- Ovadia Yosef) considered non-Jews 'donkeys' in the service of the Jewish people.  Not sure what to make of this overall.  Perhaps comments of that rabbi were taken out of context?  The rabbi was talking about the rest day or holy day, I think. 
Even so,  it's hard not to conclude that being a non-Jew is unfavourable and would be a significant disadvantage, where there is considerable emphasis placed on who's in and who's out. 
As I understand, Israel started off as secular Zionist endeavour, as the early Zionists were atheists, and were cool with state-sharing with the existing communities, but the religious faction of Zionism took over and  things moved along a different path. 
Some commentators advocate for a mixed Jewish Arab state as a solution to ongoing conflict and lack of resolution, but I'm of the opinion that they must be nuts thinking that this could possibly work or that Israel would survive as a Jewish state in those circumstances.
Anyway, Jewish law (which is pretty much rabbinical law, as I understand) covers everything and is very extensive;  so that's probably why they've got a law on killing non-Jews -- as in, that's why it would have arisen.

Haaretz referred to it as a blanket racist killing law (or something like that ... too lazy to check exact wording) and Haaretz pointed out that this isn't even paralleled in Islamic laws (although the Islamics have OK'd suicide attacks).

Not sure how killing of non-Jews rabbinical laws fit into what I assume are still secular laws of the state of Israel (save for the family law arena).  

Anyway, it's something to think about ... or not.  It's not like we're vulnerable to an Israeli attack.  But if we were, we can expect the Israelis to be merciless, is what I get out of this.

PS ... it is rather odd subsidising a nukes program of those that follow doctrine of pre-emptive attack.

Pre-emptive War

Israel incorporates preemptive war in its strategic doctrine due to its lack of strategic depth.

The Six-Day War, which began when Israel launched a successful attack on Egypt on June 5, 1967, has been widely described as a preemptive war and is, according to the United States State Department, "perhaps the most cited example [of preemption]".

[...]

One academic has claimed that Israel's attack was not permissible under the Caroline test, arguing that there was no overwhelming threat to Israel's survival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemptive_war



November 28, 2015

Video - ♫ Полюшко поле - Россия ❤

Россия

♫ Полюшко поле ❤

Р - R
о - o
с - s
с - s
и - i
я - ya



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November 27, 2015

CNN's 'ISIS Officials' - Savages Beheading Syria Army Personnel - Nukes, Please!

Video
SOURCE
LiveLeak
WARNING -  GRAPHIC






WARNING - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC
CONFLICT ZONE
SAVAGES BEHEADING
SYRIA ARMY PERSONNEL

Location: Syria
VIDEO FOOG (ADULTS ONLY)
FSA capture SAA member
Part of channel(s): Syria (current event)
Added: 11 hours ago

Tags: daesh, fsa, saa,


RT News
Spokesman? Defense Minister?
CNN brands ISIS terrorists as ‘officials’
Published time: 24 Nov, 2015 06:48
https://www.rt.com/news/323211-cnn-calls-isis-officials/



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COMMENT

I couldn't finish watching this.

Even though the victim is already dead, it's sickening watching them hacking away at his neck.

These people are savages.  

Europe is finished. 

And we're all f*cked.
Oh, and CNN (as well as FoxNews - mentioned elsewhere) is promoting these Turkish, Saudi, Qatari and Western supported savages as 'ISIS officials'.
The 'FSA' are those the US and the Anglo-US NATO & European Union alliance are training, arming and protecting, and their intermediary is Turkey, who shot down a Russian jet in the process of eradicating this filth that's attacking the legitimate government of Syria on behalf of their Western masters.
It's these savages that the West has unleashed and is calling the 'moderate rebels.'


And European and Western governments are letting these savages cross borders, while the deluded sing and wave 'refugees welcome' banners.

Someone, please deploy nukes.




Video - Erika


Erika





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Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.
Heiß von hunderttausend kleinen Bienelein
wird umschwärmt Erika
denn ihr Herz ist voller Süßigkeit,
zarter Duft entströmt dem Blütenkleid.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.

In der Heimat wohnt ein kleines Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika.
Dieses Mädel ist mein treues Schätzelein
und mein Glück, Erika.
Wenn das Heidekraut rot-lila blüht,
singe ich zum Gruß ihr dieses Lied.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.

In mein'm Kämmerlein blüht auch ein Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.
Schon beim Morgengrau'n sowie beim Dämmerschein
schaut's mich an, Erika.
Und dann ist es mir, als spräch' es laut:
"Denkst du auch an deine kleine Braut?"
In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika.


[wikipedia]




If you listen to this a few times, you can sing along to this.

It's trippy.

Well, this bit sticks in my mind: 

und das heißt: Erika

"and is called: Erika"

Think I'm finally ready for a padded room or something ... I forget how loudly I sing when I have headphones on, & I must sound totally NQR if the neighbours happen to overhear my lame, tuneless, march-song singing  ...  lol ;)



Syria Under Attack - the Great Satan & the Little Imp, Turkey - Plus their al-Qaeda Proxies - Mayhem in the Middle East

Article
SOURCE

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html




New exposé by Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack to provoke US war on Syria

By Patrick Martin
7 April 2014
In a lengthy article published Sunday by the London Review of Books, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the sarin gas attack on a Damascus suburb on August 21, 2013 was actually carried out by Syrian “rebel” forces acting at the behest of Turkey, for the purpose of providing a pretext for a US attack on Syria.

The gas attack killed many hundreds of people in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, and the Obama administration and the corporate-controlled US media immediately blamed the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for the atrocity. The New York Times, in particular, published a lengthy analysis by its military “expert,” C. J. Chivers, which purported to show, based on rocket trajectories, prevailing winds and other technical factors, that the gas shells could only have been fired from Syrian army artillery positions.

For several weeks, the Ghouta attack became the pretext for a warmongering campaign by the White House and the US and European media. Obama threatened immediate air strikes, claiming that the Syrian government had crossed a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons, which he had laid down in 2012.

The US president then abruptly reversed himself and announced he would seek congressional approval first, only to call off any overt military action in favor of a deal brokered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Assad agreed to the supervised dismantling of his chemical weapons stockpiles.
By Hersh’s account, “Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal. The message that the case against Syria wouldn’t hold up was quickly relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff… As a consequence the American officers delivered a last-minute caution to the president, which, in their view, eventually led to his cancelling the attack.”

The US military leadership also knew that White House claims that there could be no other source for the sarin gas than the Syrian army were false. “The American and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons,” Hersh reports. “On 20 June analysts for the US Defense Intelligence Agency issued a highly classified five-page ‘talking points’ briefing for the DIA’s deputy director, David Shedd, which stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell…”

Hersh quotes extensively from this US government document, which the office of the US director of national intelligence now denies ever existed:

Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group’s CW [chemical weapons] aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the futureTurkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators… were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.”

Hersh notes that members of al-Nusra were arrested in Turkey last May in possession of two kilograms of sarin. They were charged in a 130-page indictment with “attempting to purchase fuses, piping for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin.” All have since been released pending trial, or had charges dropped altogether.
Those arrests followed chemical weapons attacks in Syria in March and April 2013, where a UN investigation found evidence implicating the Syrian “rebels.” One source told Hersh, “Investigators interviewed the people who were there, including the doctors who treated the victims. It was clear that the rebels used the gas. It did not come out in public because no one wanted to know.”

The “no one,” of course, was the US government, its European allies, and its UN stooges—as well as their political apologists in the media and the pseudo-left groups such as the International Socialist Organization that were either openly campaigning for military intervention in Syria or justifying it by portraying the US-financed “rebels” as the bearers of a democratic revolution.

When the August 21 attack took place, Obama ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for bombing Syria, and, as a former intelligence official told Hersh, “the White House rejected 35 target sets provided by the joint chiefs of staff as being insufficiently ‘painful’ to the Assad regime.”

The US bombing plan ultimately envisioned “a monster strike” involving two wings of B-52 bombers equipped with 2,000-pound bombs, as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from submarines and surface warships.

Hersh continues: “The new target list was meant to ‘completely eradicate any military capabilities Assad had,’ the former intelligence official said. The core targets included electric power grids, oil and gas depots, all known logistic and weapons depots, all known command and control facilities, and all known military and intelligence buildings.”

The bombing attack drawn up at the direction of the Obama White House would have itself constituted a war crime, causing thousands if not tens of thousands of casualties and crippling Syria as a functioning society.

Hersh then passes on to his most important revelation: that US officials believed the Turkish government, or its intelligence agencies, had instigated the gas attack in Ghouta.

He cites concerns among US military and intelligence leaders that “there were some in the Turkish government” who supported “dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria—and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.”

This was reinforced by the British military intelligence finding on the type of gas used in Ghouta. This included a message to the Americans: “We’re being set up here.” This was followed by a further message about the Ghouta attack that “a senior official in the CIA sent in late August: ‘It was not the result of the current regime [i.e., Assad]’. UK & US know this.”

Hersh suggests that the bitter controversy over the attack on a US consulate and CIA mission in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, which killed four Americans including the ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, is directly linked to the infighting over Syria.

It has been widely reported that the CIA organized the shipment of Libyan weapons stockpiles from Benghazi to the Syrian rebels. Hersh cites a “highly classified annex” to the report of the Senate committee that investigated the Benghazi attack.

This document “described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and [Turkish] Erdogan administrations… By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer.”

According to Hersh, after the Benghazi fiasco, the CIA was pulled out, but the Libya to Turkey to Syria pipeline continued, possibly includingmanpads”—portable surface-to-air missile launchers, which the Obama administration had opposed supplying the rebels out of concern that they would be used to attack civilian airliners.  
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tasked Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) with engineering a provocation that would give a pretext for direct US military intervention. Hersh quotes his source: “‘The MIT was running the political liaison with the rebels, and the Gendarmerie handled military logistics, on-the-scene advice and training—including training in chemical warfare,’ the former intelligence official said. ‘Stepping up Turkey’s role in spring 2013 was seen as the key to its problems there… Erdogan’s hope was to instigate an event that would force the US to cross the red line. But Obama didn’t respond in March and April.’”

Two sources described to Hersh a working dinner during Erdogan’s visit to Washington in May 2013 in which Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon met Erdogan, foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and MIT chief Hakan Fidan. Erdogan appealed for Obama to attack Syria, telling him “your red line has been crossed.” Obama then pointed at Fidan and said, “We know what you’re doing with the radicals in Syria.”

Hersh cites a “US intelligence consultant” who describes a classified briefing for Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, prepared before the August 21 gas attack. The briefing noted “the acute anxiety” in the Erdogan regime over the military setbacks for the Syrian rebels and warned that the Turkish leadership felt “the need to do something that would precipitate a US military response.”

In the period following the gas attack, Hersh’s former intelligence official source explained, communications intercepts and other data supported the suspicion that Turkey had organized the Ghouta attack. “We now know it was a covert action planned by Erdogan’s people to push Obama over the red line,’ the former intelligence official said. ‘They had to escalate to a gas attack in or near Damascus when the UN inspectors’—who arrived in Damascus on 18 August to investigate the earlier use of gas—‘were there. The deal was to do something spectacular. Our senior military officers have been told by the DIA and other intelligence assets that the sarin was supplied through Turkey—that it could only have gotten there with Turkish support. The Turks also provided the training in producing the sarin and handling it.’”

Only a week ago, evidence surfaced that supports the credibility of Hersh’s report. A video was posted on YouTube of a meeting of Turkish officials, including Fikan, in which the intelligence chief suggests that Turkish agents should mount an attack on a Muslim shrine inside Syria to provide a pretext for a Turkish invasion of the country.

Hersh’s account is his second long exposé in four months of the “false flag” gas attack in Damascus. Both articles were published in the British journal because no major US newspaper or magazine will any longer publish material from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Beginning with his reporting of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam for the New York Times, Hersh has specialized in developing sources in the US military and intelligence apparatus, frequently those with policy differences with the current administration in Washington. Hersh left the Times for Newsday, and then wrote for the New Yorker for many years.

Both the New Yorker and the Washington Post refused to publish his first report on the Ghouta gas attack, which charged that the sarin attack had been carried out by Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra Front, forcing Hersh to find a British publisher for his account. The US press was largely silent on that report, and it has so far blacked out the latest exposure.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html

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Wow, this is good stuff.

Hersh sounds like a hero ... but he's also a conduit for factions within the US government (via inside sources), so I don't know that this is a fully-fledged hero, or if it is just another establishment voice.  *Discovered he's 'blacklisted' by major US media, as they refuse to publish him.  So Hersh's probably cool. 

What Turkey is capable of is mind-blowing.

I don't mind the PKK giving it to them, now.

US media refusing to publish Hersh, and Hersh having to publish outside the country shows us just how controlled the media is in the land of the 'free'.

CIA strikes again.  That David Petraeus guy played a part, as well.

I'm not sure if that UK analyist has anything to do with David Kelly, who was killed, probably by UK intelligence (I'm guessing).

Daily Mail UK

Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly: Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field... just like his friend
A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own mysterious death nine years ago, the body of Dr Richard Holmes was discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment in Wiltshire. It is not yet known how he died.

Mr Holmes, 48, had gone missing two days earlier after telling his wife he was going out for a walk – just as Dr Kelly did before he was found dead at an Oxfordshire beauty spot in July 2003.

Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the latest case but revealed that Dr Holmes  had ‘recently been under a great deal of stress’.

He resigned from Porton Down last month, although the centre yesterday refused to explain why.
Inevitably, the parallels between the two cases will arouse the suspicions of conspiracy theorists.

Despite Lord Hutton’s ruling eight years ago that Dr Kelly committed suicide, many people – among them a group of doctorsbelieve his inquiry was insufficient and have demanded a full inquest.

Some believe Dr Kelly, who kept an office at Porton Down right up until his death, was murdered. He was outed as being the source of a BBC report that Downing Street ‘sexed up’ evidence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war.

Although it is not clear if the two scientists were close, one source told The Mail on Sunday that they were friendly when they worked at Porton Down in the Nineties.

At the time, Dr Holmes ran a project organising the installation of chemical protection equipment in RAF Sentinel spy planes, while Dr Kelly was head of microbiology and frequently toured the former Soviet Union as a weapons inspector.

After the first Gulf War, Dr Holmes is also thought to have worked on the production of chemical protection suits for troops. In 1991 he was the joint author of a scientific paper about an RAF chemical and biological protection system.

Yesterday, a Porton Down spokesman confirmed Dr Holmes had quit his job but declined to comment further. ‘It is not our policy to speak openly about any individual who works for us,’ she said.

Before finding his body, Wiltshire Police made a public appeal for information but warned people not to approach Dr Holmes for their own safety because they believed he had been ‘looking at information on the internet regarding self-harm and the use of toxic substances’.  [Wiltshire Police spin-doctoring to shape public perceptions?  Hard to say what's going on here.  British scientists and intelligence officers seem to die frequently and suspiciously (think of the one found dead in the zipped up bag in a bath).  Whatever this is, it's occurred before the sarin attack in Ghouta.]

Friends of Dr Holmes say this disclosure irritated his family, who questioned why a scientist engaged in chemical warfare research would ‘need to Google toxic substances’.

Dr Holmes’s widow, Susan, is  a chemist who also works at  Porton Down as head of business administration.

One of the Government’s most sensitive and secretive military facilities, the site has long been the focus of controversy.

Three years ago hundreds of ex-servicemen who were used as chemical warfare guinea pigs there between 1939 and 1989 were given compensation and an apology from the Ministry of Defence.

They were tested with the nerve agent sarin, but some of those involved claimed they had been  told they were taking part in cold-remedy trials.

Many suffered serious illnesses after exposure to the gas, which was developed by the Nazis during the Second World War.

An inquest into Dr Holmes’s death was opened and adjourned by Wiltshire Coroner David Ridley last week. Coroner’s officer Paul Tranter said Dr Holmes’s family had grown concerned for his wellbeing after  he failed to return from a walk on April 11.

A search party involving police and members of the other emergency services began combing waste ground close to his home in the Bishopsdown area of Salisbury.

Police discovered his body half a mile away in a field used regularly by dog-walkers and joggers in the village of Laverstock.

Mr Tranter said the results of tests carried out to establish the cause of death would not be known for several weeks.

He added: ‘Police do not consider this death to be suspicious in any way, nor do they believe there was any third-party involvement.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133201/Dr-Richard-Holmes-Suicide-riddle-weapons-expert-worked-David-Kelly.html


Recapping

Sarin gas attack, Ghouta 
(suburb Damascus, Syria) - 21 Aug 2013
carried out by al-Nusra Front

al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' Western proxy opposition
as pretext for US attack on Syria
killed hundreds
compliant corporate US media points at Assad
New York Times is big-time US foreign policy shill
publishes report of CJ Chivers
purporting to show gas shells could only have been fired by Syrian Army (Assad's)

Porton Down
Defence lab in Wiltshire, UK
analysis sample sarin
{obtained by British Intel}
demonstrated gas used in Ghouta attack
did not match existing Syrian batches
case against Assad/Syria could not hold
Obama cancels well-planned attack
aiming to totally wipe out Syria govt military
[reported by Patrick Martin, WSWS, 7 April 2014]

Days later TWO YEARS EARLIER
22 April 2012 - Daily Mail UK
Dr Richard Holmes
head of microbiology
{who worked with murdered (2003) Dr David Kelly}
Porton Down
Defence lab in Wiltshire, UK
... just happens to 'commit suicide'
... just like Dr David Kelly happened to  *bullshit*

Dr David Kelly
revealed UK intelligence
report re illegal attack on Iraq 'sexed up'
Dr David Kelly Died:  2003

Dr Richard Holmes
head of microbiology
Dr Richard Holmes Died:  2012
Porton Down lab
no match Ghouta attack
with Syria / Assad govt
NOTE
21 Aug 2013 = Sarin attack, Ghouta, Syria
Dr Richard Homes died year prior
presumably no link to Sarin 
More on Dr David Kelly:

Ten Years Ago: The Death of Dr. David Kelly. Murdered on the Orders of Her Majesty’s Government?

By Dr. David Halpin and James Corbett
Global Research, July 19, 2013
GRTV 13 October 2011

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ten-years-ago-the-death-of-dr-david-kelly-murdered-on-the-orders-of-her-majestys-government/5343229


White House lied that sarin source was Syrian army / Assad
& US military leadership knew it
Both American & British intel knew
'rebels' (ie proxies) in Syria
were developing chemical weapons
Evidence Seymour Hersh (journalist) relies on
US Defence Intel - 5-page briefing proves this
DIA Dep. Dir, David Shed
states al-Nusra maintained sarin production cell
Turkey & Saudi-based chemical facilitators
--> US government denied existence of document

Not brought to public attention
Kept hushed by:
  • US govt
  • European allies
  • UN stooges
  • political apologists
  • media
  • pseudo-left groups

Obama had Pentagon draw attack plans re Syria
35 such plans rejected - not sufficiently destructive
monster strike planned - 2,000 pounds bombs
intended to completely destroy Assad military

US attack on Syria would have:
  • constituted another US war crime (like Iraq)
  • killed thousands
  • crippled Syria as functioning society
  • produced another Libya (civil war 4 years)

Hersh reports:
Turkish government or its Intelligence
(comment:  which is partner & co-conspirator of Turkish govt
as evidenced by leaked audio - Syria false flag plot)
INSTIGATED SARIN GAS ATTACK IN GHOUTA
This assertion is reinforced by British Porton Down lab finding
that Ghouta sample is NO match for Syria government
& UK & US know this

Infighting re Syria
linked to Benghazi, Libya
  • US Consulate & CIA Mission Attack
  • 4 dead Americans
  • incl. Ambassador to Libya
CIA was arranging shipments 
of Libya weapons stockpiles
from Benghazi to Syria proxies
2012 secret agreement b/w Obama & Turkey
funding for weapons from:
TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR
CIA + MI6 running arms
from Gadaffi arsenals Libya
to Syria al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies attacking Syria govt
front companies set up
for cover, incl. Australian entities
retired US military
hired to manage procurement & shipping
op run by Gen David Petraeus, CIA Director
CIA reportedly pulled out post Benghazi
LIBYA to TURKEY to SYRIA weapons rat run continues
manpads / portable SAM launchers supplied to al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies
capable of air attacks
MIT tasked by Erdogan
to stage provocation, as pretext for US intervention
MIT runs liaison w/  al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies
gendarmerie (military that is policing civilian sector)
handled logistics, training etc on site
gendarmerie (ie Turk military) training incl. chemical warfare
leaked Turkish authorities + intel audio
supports suspicion Turkey arranged Ghouta attack
Sarin supplied via Turkey
w/ Turkish support + handling training

No major US newspaper or US magazine
will publish any material from Seymour Hersh any longer -- ie he must be blacklisted

New Yorker & Washington Post
refused to publish Seymour Hersh Ghouta gas attack first report
that indicated al-Nusra Front
(al-Qaeda linked, Turkish & Western backed 'rebel' proxy)
linked to Ghouta chemical attack



Original Seymour Hersh Article

The Red Line and the Rat Line
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
Vol. 36 No. 8 · 17 April 2014
pages 21-24 | 5870 words
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line


David Cameron's Shameless Attack on Russia
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/russia-west-gas-attack-syria

Is Dave aware that Hersh has exposed the lot of them?