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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
[LINK | Article]

*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. ⟴  
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October 01, 2016

Cool Finds | Superstition




COOL FINDS



1825 - China

ON THE ROAD TO THE MING TOMBS
One of the great animal figures hewn out of a single block of marble - the guide standing beside it is almost six feet tall.
Each emperor of the Ming dynasty, which ruled China from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, was given an elaborate shrine, approached through an avenue of these marble animals.   [here]






 The Jicarilla Apache
formerly of New Mexico

1906


2004
Laura Gilchrist


A Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases

1995

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
It looks like Hillary Clinton has had a nose job since 1995.




 

 

the original broad base, fleshy nose,
wide nostrils



right nasal bone looks more refined, as do nostrils
| nose on the left bumpy, fleshier


Apart from the enormous lips (on the right)
these two could be sisters ... LOL



Britain's William Hague
& Hollywood-Military-Industrial-UN-Complex Propaganda Figure:  Angelina Jolie



MI5 - 1944
'Pam'

Description: MI5 staff member pictured on beach. This ordinary looking snapshot was taken and planted as part of a complex WWII intelligence plan known as Operation Mincemeat.


The intention was that this photograph would make other documents secreted with it seem more authentic. These documents, passed on to German agents after they were found on a body washed up on the coast of Spain (planted by British intelligence) suggested that the Allies were not planning an invasion of southern Europe via Sicily. This led to a weakening of German defence of Sicily which assisted the eventual Allied attack.
  [source]










May 24, 2016

Slaphead William Hague & UN Puppet Angelina Jolie Starring in Anglo-American Capitalist Empire PsyOp







GENOCIDAL RAPE-PROMOTING
ANGLO-AMERICAN
Capitalist Empire
Propaganda & Indoctrination Farce
Infiltrates Academia:

'Gender' & 'Human Rights' Studies 
Political Exploitation  PsyOp

Delivered By Icons of Anglo-American
PROPAGANDA, INDOCTRINATION, EXPLOITATION, GLOBAL DESTRUCTION & SOUND BITES

Under Tutelage of
Emaciated Hollywood Starlet 'Professor'
Starring in:

PsyOp
'Masters Course'
MEANWHILE
CAPITALIST EMPIRE'S
DOMESTIC RECORD
OF RAPE & DESTRUCTION
While Preaching Global 'Human Rights'
& 'Saving' the World's Women 
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
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SHUN
CAPITALIST-SERVING IDEOLOGY
Facilitating:
INVASION, DISPOSSESSION, RAPE
& GENOCIDE OF EUROPEANS
Angelina Jolie-Pitt appointed visiting professor at London School of Economics to teach Masters course

Press Association

23 May 2016 • 9:23pm

The Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has been appointed visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she will teach a Masters in gender and human rights.

The Oscar-winning actress will join former foreign secretary William Hague as a lecturer at the university's Centre for Women, Peace and Security where she will help to teach students studying for a Master's degree.

Jolie Pitt, who has been a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency and is currently one of its special envoys, has been a vocal campaigner on refugee rights, and against the female genital mutilation and the use of rape as a weapon of war. 
[comment:  never mind rape of European women and children, as collateral damage of the invasion policy that is European genocide in motion.]

She said: "I am very encouraged by the creation of this master's programme. I hope other academic institutions will follow this example, as it is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women's rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict. 
[comment:  Academic institutions divest themselves of legitimacy hosting POLITICALLY MOTIVATED psyop programs in service of capitalist agenda pushing propaganda and indoctrination campaigns, aimed at marshalling support for PRETEXTS for Anglo-American capitalist foreign interventions, which are far from benign. ]

"I am looking forward to teaching and to learning from the students as well as to sharing my own experiences of working alongside governments and the United Nations".

Lord Hague, who worked with Jolie-Pitt on hosting a four-day summit on ending sexual violence in war in London two years ago, said he was "delighted" to be appointed. 
[COMMENT:  MEANWHILE BRITISH & EUROPEAN WOMEN & CHILDREN ARE BEING RAPED WHOLESALE ON ACCOUNT OF CAPITALIST AGENDA GENOCIDAL POLICIES IMPLEMENTED BY LYING, EXPLOITING & HYPOCRITICAL ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIAN DOGS. ]

He said: "This course will help underpin our work in preventing sexual violence in conflict, developing expertise and research to assist us in tackling the culture of impunity. I look forward to working with the LSE students and my fellow visiting professors."  

[COMMENT:  This is clearly an exercise in public influence and manufacturing of consent.

These propagandist may as well hold back the oceans by means of paper cup.  

Stop the rapes of Swedish women & children your masters have facilitated in Sweden & stop the horrific torture-murders of Afrikaners, you propagandist assh*les.   

And what of the long and perverse history of Anglo-American culture of impunity on global scale, that is now DESTROYING EUROPE as ancestral homeland of the European people, you propagandist third-world women exploiting c*nts? ]

The one year course will include modules on Women, Peace and Security, Gender and Militarisation and Gender and Human Rights.

[comment:  

More like EXPLOITATION of WOMEN campaign devised by CIA / NATO.  

EXPLOITATION of the special 'gender' category of 'victim' / 'hero' intervention & PR tool angle.  

EXPLOITATION of suicidal to pursue intellectual constructs of idealised 'universal' 'human rights' and so on, in context of Anglo-American intervention & EXPLOITATION of indoctrinated useful idiots as domestic lobbyists and shock-troops, forcing rape & genocide on Europeans.  ]
'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/angelina-jolie-pitt-appointed-visitingprofessor-at-london-school/

http://archive.is/6qH76



May 22, 2016

BREXIT - MI6 Boss Warning







BREXIT
MI6 BOSS WARNING

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/670845/migrant-crisis-MI6-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-EU-Brussels-populist-uprising-revolution-refugees

MI6 boss warns backlash over migration will rise from streets - and blames EU elite
FURIOUS European populations are ready to rise up and kick out politicians who have presided over unprecedented levels of mass migration, the former head of MI6 has warned today.

By Nick Gutteridge
PUBLISHED: 07:27, Tue, May 17, 2016 | UPDATED: 08:00, Tue, May 17, 2016



Sir Richard Dearlove warned the continent is facing a “populist uprising” amid growing anger from voters who feel they have been betrayed by political elites in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels.

The retired spy chief said millions more migrants will come to Europe over the next few years, which could spark a terrifying spiral of events ending in bloody uprising against leaders across the West.
He also urged Brussels bureaucrats not to press ahead with a hugely controversial and shambolic deal with Turkey, which will grant visa-free access to the EU to more than 80 million citizens of the predominantly Muslim country.

Sir Richard’s remarks came after the UN ambassador and American actress Angelina Jolie warned the world will descend into “chaos” if Europe does not solve its migration crisis.

More than a million migrants came into Europe last year, opening up unprecedented divisions within the EU and sparking a surge in support for far-right parties.

Mass demonstrations against immigration have taken place in a number of European countries and especially Germany, where a gang of 1,000 migrant men raped women out celebrating New Year’s Eve in Cologne.

The far-right group Pegida, which began in Germany, has spread out across the continent amid growing anger and suspicions that officials are covering up sex crimes committed by migrants


[comment:  to borrow a reader's phrase, anything right of Trotsky is 'far right' to the media etc.  And it's not merely 'suspicions' of cover-up:  Rotherham, Cologne and Stockholm mass scale rapes have been covered up and all of Europe has a DECADES long track record of cover-up of rapefugee sex crimes and crimes.  Foreigner sex crimes and crimes in general are covered up.  Not only by suppression but also by (a) not collecting 'descriminatory' statistics & (b) lumping statistics with other (minor) crimes, to cover extent of rapes and violent assaults.  Government authorities are not the only ones to cover up:  the filthy capitalist media propagandists cover up, while selling the vulnerable and unarmed public 'Kumbayah' lies.  ]

And in a dire warning today Sir Richard said: "If Europe cannot act together to persuade a significant majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring.” 


[comment:  unfortunately *persuasion* is all the politicians are interested in & *NOT THE FOLLOW-THROUGH*.  DO NOT buy anything politicians will tell you on this subject.  Vote out.  They do not have the political will to overturn a decades long program of destruction of nations.  They are guaranteed to lie.  ]

The respected former spy chief described Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU as "the first roll of the dice in a bigger geopolitical game”, and branded the EU-Turkey deal "perverse, like storing gasoline next to the fire we're trying to extinguish".

He urged European countries to reject Turkey’s blackmailing and pledge more money to tackling the origins of mass migration in North Africa instead, adding that a ”massive response" and a "much more aggressive operation” was needed.
 
[comment:  if aid is to be extended, off-shore is the only way to go.  However, why should the European taxpayer fund this for generations to come?  

Let Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait & *ARAB OIL* fund this.  Do not budge.  It is their moral responsibility, as warmongers of the region.  And they are an excellent cultural fit.

DO NOT LET THEM FLOOD EUROPE, as is their intent.

European peoples have no obligation to destroy their nations and to self-destruct, and certainly have no obligation whatsoever to assume responsibility for the deeds of their corrupt and illegitimate capitalist self-serving elites.  

Do not be moved by anything those left-wing indoctrinated self-erasing crazies and shills throw at you.

Demand that all sane indigenous European adults be armed and militarily trained, ASAP.

Be prepared to defend your homeland.  Be also prepared for civil war.]

But he cautioned against shutting the door to migration altogether, saying: ”In the real world there are no miraculous James Bond-style solutions.   


[comment:  of course he cautioned against shutting the door.  He is part of the nation-destroying establishment.  It's all a con job.  Do not believe anything they tell you.   All they do is slow down the program of invasion traffic.  They never intend to stop the invasion of European homelands & the genocide of Europeans wherever Europeans exist on the planet.  Send the elites and their servants packing to the third world countries they've been pillaging, slam that door shut tight, and reclaim your nations.]

“Human tides are irresistible unless the gravitational pull that causes them is removed.”


[comment:  translation = DO NOT PROVIDE INCENTIVES for the invasion to continue (easy entry onto European soil, liberty on arrival (versus detention & quarantine), prolonged stay (versus instant deportation), benefits, kid-glove treatment, slap on the wrist consquences for violations and crime (even serious crime) ... etc).

The priority is NO ENTRY onto European soil AT ALL.  Once there, the taxpayer is stuck with the costs for many, many years of appealing extradition, at taxpayer expense (like all else), for the few earmarked for removal, OR PERMANENTLY stuck with the VAST material and social costs (for most).

Do not be moved by the 'benefits' to economy arguments or the contributing citizen immaterial arguments.  There is no substitute or equal to kinship.  An economy is useless to Europeans that will be dispossessed of their ancestral lands and their cultural & ethnic heritage.

However enormous the costs, the material costs are a side issue:  the costs to the nation as a people are incalculable.  

Mass immigration by any means is INVASION, and is demographic and cultural devastation.

Provide strong disincentives.

Institute border patrols authorised to shoot; institute martial law & if the armed forces aren't enough, have armed citizen volunteer patrols tend to problems & see how fast the problems correct themselves (as negligent nation-destroying politicians ought to have done MANY YEARS ago).  That ought to sort out the 'gravitational pull'.  

The lame, lying, negligent wankers managed to pull off an illegal invasion and illegal war, numerous wars of aggression, war crimes, atomic bombings, murders of millions, coups, installation of dictators, arming & training terrorist proxy militias, hiding CIA black sites across the globe, rendition, torture, assassinations, occupation of Germany since WWII, mass global surveillance, non-stop propaganda, political policing, subversion of democracy in multiple countries and political suppression of multiple nations exploited by capitalists ... but 'cannot' secure their own nation's borders.  Sure. 

It's intentional GENOCIDE of their own people and has been for decades.  Not only have they betrayed their own people, they have betrayed their collective ancestors and have betrayed all those that gave up their lives for filthy lying capitalist wars, to turn around in the aftermath of three world wars (counting the Boer War) and have the nations of the war dead illegitimately given away from underneath descendants of countless generations of warriors and forebears.]

A number of European nations including Austria, Germany and Hungary have moved to reintroduce border controls in recent months, pushing the EU's Schengen zone to the point of collapse.    


[Comment:  who keeps their doors and windows open?  What fools agreed to Schengen?  How the f*ck does anyone sleep at night unarmed and with open borders? 

The Schengen open borders is the 'grooming' and modelling of a weak, open, undefined, indistinct, unguarded and SURRENDERED state.

Get rid of your GENOCIDAL idiot politicians.  ]

Sir Richard was speaking to the BBC during a day of programming by the corporation focussing on the raging debate around migration.

Earlier Angelina Jolie warned of a a “race to the bottom” between European countries to reintroduce border controls, adding that “fear of migration” could threaten world peace.   


[comment:  Who gives a rat's what this bubble-headed CIA puppet on a stick, UN propagandist, has to say?  Why is the media even reporting what Bubblehead has to say?]

She added that politicians’ failure to gain control of the migrant situation had “eroded public confidence” in the current refugee system, lending “a false air of legitimacy to those who promote politics of fear and separation”.   

[Comment:  Vain Hollywood bubbleheads are lending their celebrity to promote the politics of what amounts to GENOCIDE of European peoples.  

Heeding this poison is SUICIDE, Europe.  ]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/670845/migrant-crisis-MI6-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-EU-Brussels-populist-uprising-revolution-refugees



FURTHER COMMENT

What's the bet that this invasion of Europe EU-facilitated chaos is also part of some NATO Capitalist Mercenary Forces aggressive strategy intended to create conditions for civil war in Europe, so that the NATO criminals may make use of the opportunity to attack Russian positions or something like that.  Maybe to gain control of Russian satellite states that they haven't been able to control by the usual bribery and deceit methods they employ.




Sony hack: Angelina Jolie branded 'seriously out of her mind' in further embarrassing leaked email saga

The actress was criticised in an exchange between Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal

    Antonia Molloy
    Thursday 18 December 2014





Angelina Jolie called 'minimally talented spoiled brat' in hacked Sony emails

Revelations include David Fincher saying Adam Driver being cast in Star Wars was a ‘terrible idea’, while Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin complained about Jolie’s ‘insanity and rampaging ego’

Angry and passionate email exchanges between major Hollywood players have been exposed by the recent hack into Sony Pictures.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/10/sony-hack-eamils-angelina-jolie-scott-rudin-amy-pascal-david-fincher



September 11, 2015

Video - US war on Syria - Coalition Against ISIS A Lie - MUST SEE


TRANSCRIPT
Refugee Crisis
What the Media is Hiding 
Syrian Girl | here


VIDEO


Refugee Crisis: 

What The Media Is Hiding

SOURCE
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US War
on
Syria



US, France, UK
& Australia
join coalition
1 week before 

MSM & McCain
exploit sympathy
for dead child
to wage US-allied
War on Syria

RIGHT ON CUE


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COALITION
Against ISIS
LIE


SAUDI ARABIA
QATAR
& TURKEY

USA & ALLIES
FUNDING
& FACILITATING
ISIS

RIGHT ON CUE

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RIGHT ON CUE

WEAPONS OF WAR


SOURCE
Angelina Jolie tells Parliament that Isis uses rape as ‘centrepoint of their terror’
Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk

Wednesday 9 Sep 2015 7:54 am

Angelina Jolie gave evidence
to a
House of Lords committee
yesterday
(Picture: Reuters)
Angelina Jolie warned yesterday that Islamic State is using rape as a weapon of war as she calls for greater action against those responsible.
She is a special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and made her comments in parliament.

She said: ‘The most aggressive terrorist group in the world today …(is) using (rape) as a centrepoint of their terror and their way of destroying communities and families. ‘

Jolie says that Isis uses rape as a ‘policy’ while asking for a ‘very strong response’.

Thousands of women and girls have been abducted, raped and sold into sexual slavery by Islamic State since the militant group declared a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq last summer, according to the United Nations and rights groups.

Oscar-winning Jolie, who joined forces with former British foreign secretary William Hague in 2012 to launch an initiative to prevent sexual violence in conflict, spoke about girls she had met in war zones who had been raped.
This included a 13-year-old Iraqi girl whom she said was raped repeatedly along with her friends and sold for £26.

As part of their campaign against sex crimes in war, Jolie and Hague in 2013 launched a declaration pledging to pursue those responsible and provide justice and safety for victims that has been signed by more than 150 nations.

SOURCE
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COMMENT
If you want to help refugees, watch the above video and read the transcript below.





WEAPONS OF WAR


RIGHT ON CUE

 WEAPONS OF DECEIT

MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT



EXPLOIT
REFUGEES
(emotive)

EXPLOIT
DEAD CHILD
(emotive)

EXPLOIT
RAPE
(emotive)


Assange

UK-US Special Relationship

War On Syria

The WikiLeaks Files

Link | here





Explains a lot ...
Assange
Transnational Security Elite,
Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money

London 
OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011)
Link  |  here





July 13, 2014

CLARIFICATION: Alistair Campbell Steve Coogan interview - Angelina Jolie

[ALSO REFERRED TO:  TOKYO ROSE BLOG POST - HERE.]

CLARIFICATION

Alastair Campbell on Steve Coogan - a clarification


by Alastair Campbell 11 July 14


Given some of the press and social media comment about my interview with Steve Coogan, and in particular the suggestion that he attacked Angelina Jolie's campaigning on rape, I would like to clarify.

Whilst the printed transcript is accurate in literal terms it does not reflect the fact that I was interjecting some words as an extra question into an answer he was in the middle of giving. It was I not he who raised Angelina Jolie and William Hague. He was not responding to that second question but continuing his previous answer. So his remarks were not directed towards Angelina Jolie.

I should also make clear that:



  • His comments about celebrities being off putting when campaigning on policy issues were a light-hearted dig at himself, while making the point that what is irritating is "people who are in the public eye for something else who suddenly start voicing opinions about everything else" rather than get stuck in properly to a particular issue.



  • His comments about celebrities not standing up for unpopular causes were directed at those who refused to comment on press abuses and excesses out of fear of unflattering future coverage.




  • And that he certainly did not put Angelina Jolie in that bracket, because he admires her work. 

  • I like the Q&A format but this is an example of how sometimes the words on the paper fail to capture tone and context. I am happy to do that and hope it might help stop the unfair comments being directed his way.

    The exchange in full:

    Alistair Campbell: How does your mind work? Where is the creativity coming from?
    Steve Coogan: I am quite driven by work. Sometimes I am passionate about things I believe in. Though I have been involved politically, I find people who are in the public eye for something else who suddenly start voicing their opinions about everything else quite irritating.

    What? Like Angelina Jolie going out campaigning with William Hague?
    I do find it a bit off-putting. If you are trying to do something charitable there is always a double-edged sword, because it is good PR for the celebrity. Better to do it than not to do it, but I have much more respect for a celebrity that goes out [campaigning] about something really difficult.

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    COMMENT

    The Tokyo Rose blog post linked to above, refers to an article that was run by the Independent (links contained in original blog post etc.) and is based on the Independent's article regarding Coogan.

    The original Independent headline was:

    Steve Coogan brands Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian efforts 'off putting': 'I have more respect for a star that does something difficult
    The independent headline associated with the link to the Independent has since been amended to take into account the following:

    "Alastair Campbell insists his interview fails to capture tone and context" 

     Phew!  I hope I've got that straight & I hope you're following. 

    If I have it straight, Alistair Campbell's Steeve Coogan interview was misunderstood by the media outlets that picked up the story.

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    ADDENDUM - see the GQ CLARIFICATION - here.