FEMEN, Imams, European Central Bank, Germany, Lefties, Neo-Nazis & 1985 Handsworth Riots, Britain

ꕤ Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-wxU86v8g&feature=youtu.be ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. FULL AT SOURCE http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150914/1026951990/Topless-Jihadists-Beaten-at-Muslim-Salon-in-France.html RT NEWS Europe 00:54 14.09.2015  (updated 01:54 14.09.2015) FEMEN fires off again: two of its feminist activists have been beaten and dragged off scene in an attempt to toplessly interrupt a Muslim conference held over the weekend in Paris suburbs. They ran on stage in front of two imams ... Thereafter, both partly nude women were dragged off by security personnel and, as it can clearly be seen on the video of the incident, were slapped and kicked by an unidentified man. The activists were later detained by police and released later that night. The organizers of the salon announced their plan to file a lawsuit against the activists who interrupted the event. [ ... ] A petition on Change.org created days before the event that was encouraging to ban the salon and gathered some 8000 signatures claims the imams leading the event, Nader Abou Anas and Mehdi Kebir, are misogynic fundamentalists, who justify marital rape and other forms of gender violence. Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAC3EGnr9hg FEMEN Crash ECB President Mario Draghi ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. comment I've never been a fan of tittie protests, or any kind of protests, really. While protests may be a useful political tool, I think there's such a thing as overplaying the protests and losing credibility, and coming across as inauthentic, in over-use. So, while not a fan, I did at least get a few laughs and soften my attitude after seeing the surprise the ladies gave the European Central Bank President, Mario Drughi -- who's soooooo adorable looking and good natured, that he comes across like loveable Sesame Street character. Contrast that with the Paris protest. Yes, I understand that these men have a set of beliefs.  But they are in what is presumably still a civilised country, in which it is unacceptable for a group of men to mob, slap, and kick women. other GERMANY Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ggRD8K3Bw&feature=youtu.be ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Published on 12 Sep 2015 "Riot police knocked an innocent bystander to the ground, rendering him unconscious, during clashes with leftist demonstrators in Hamburg. The officer attacked the man, smashing him in the face with an elbow, throwing him straight to the ground, and knocking him unconscious. Police also used pepper spray, water cannon, and batons against protesters." ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 14,000 Germans protest against xenophobia in Hamburg Thousands of Germans have taken to the streets of Hamburg in a major demonstration supporting tolerance and democracy, while a protest by a far-right movement for a "day of German patriots" was banned. A peaceful rally in the German port city of Hamburg has gathered at least 14,000 people on Saturday, according to police estimates, dpa news agency reported. In the morning at the Central railway station, police reported a 7,500-strong rally of supporters of the leftist "Hamburger Alliance against the Right." People who gathered on the square in front of the Town Hall were carrying bright pink balloons, as a sign of their participation in the rally "Hamburg shows its true colors." They were holding banners that read “Refugees welcome” and “Real patriots against German policy,” according to the Schleswig-Holstein news portal. “I think it is important to make a statement and to show the world what Germany is about, and that is not the right-wing section and it is not the Nazi movement,” one of the protesters told RT’s Peter Oliver. Another demonstration remained under a ban on Saturday, the day when German right-wing extremists, Neo-Nazis and Hooligans against Salafists groups had scheduled to mark the "Day of German patriots." The planned 3,000-strong rally was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court on Friday evening. As the ban led to an unexpected relocation of the Neo-Nazi demonstration to Bremen, police issued another order, prohibiting Hamburger participants to travel to the neighboring city. About 100 people were arrested in the urban area later to be sent back to Hamburg, and a Hamburg-Bremen train with about 250 demonstrators was stopped by the police, local Weser Kurier newspaper reported Saturday. A group of 34 Neo-Nazis were taken to custody after clashes with officers, according to the police. On Saturday, European capitals were flooded with people making a stand against the current refugee policies of their governments. Over 30,000 Danes gathered in Copenhagen to voice their support for thousands of refugees, who have chosen their country as a shelter from war, according to the police. They were shouting “Refugees are welcome,” and their banners read "Europe is the closest neighbourhood to Syria,” The Local reported. Prague, in its turn, confronted the EU policy of granting asylum to the rising tide of refugees, TASS news agency reported. Some 400 Czechs protested in the capital city, chanting “Stop the Islamization of Europe” and “This country is our home,” and over 300 people took part in a motor race in the center of the city. On Friday, the International Office for Migration (IOM) released the most recent figures that could characterize the refugee crisis as the biggest seen since WWII. It estimated the number of refugees who have traveled to Europe at 433,000 people, saying that many arrive in Italy and Greece by sea and later head for northern EU member states, such as Germany. In the next few days, another 40,000 refugees are expected to cross the southern German border, thus doubling the record number reached last weekend. source http://www.rt.com/news/315176-germany-hamburg-protest-racism ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- comment Europe is so screwed. Particularly Germany. What kind of country prevents people from protesting and blocks their freedom of movement? In trying to prevent fascism, Germany *is* fascist. And it looks like it's German against German; left against right.  The massive ribbon waving in favour of immigration is all well and good, but what of the immediate consequences of such immigration to the various countries' vulnerable and working class, and what of the irreversible social consequences of immigration? ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. The 1985 Handsworth Riots: 30 years on Today marks 30 years since the second round of serious riots in the Birmingham district of Handsworth during the 9th to 11th of September 1985. [ ... ] Two other people were unaccounted for, 35 others injured, more than 1500 police officers drafted into the area, about 45 shops looted and burnt, and a trail of damage running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. [ ... ] The area became notorious with continued rioting over the course of two decades. Rioting erupted in Handsworth in 1981 and followed again in 1985. Six years later, more widespread disturbances took place in 1991 and barely 10 years ago, areas of Birmingham including Handsworth and Lozells were hit by more race riots. [  ...] SOURCE http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-09-09/the-1985-handsworth-riots-30-years-on/ Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here ꕤ

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ꕤ i ❤ twitter ❤ Carl Bildt former Prime Minister (1991-1994) former Foreign Minister (2006-2014) Sweden Moderate Party ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ❤ ❤ ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. https://govwaste.co.uk/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ❤  How the Carl Bildt government converted a proud nation into a subservient US-puppet & put Swedish national security at risk http://professorsblogg.com/2014/03/26/bildtssweaus-puppet/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ❤ ꕤ

VIDEO - UKRAINE NAZISM & FASCISM REVIVAL

NAZIS IN UKRAINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zTAFVs17P_8   REVIVAL OF NAZISM & FASCISM IN UKRAINE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uljUTmLaGZ4 NAZIS GLORIFIED IN UKRAINE REBURIAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u7Z0incwC2w ISRAEL LOBBY PROTECTS NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zdSWsSk_Fhc TRANSCRIPTION The Israel Lobby Protects Neo-Nazis in Ukraine An amendment to the 2015 National Defence Authorisation Act that would have forbidden US assistance, training & weapons to neo-Nazis and other extremists in Ukraine was dropped at the request of two of the largest Jewish pressure groups in the United States. Introduced by Democratic Representative John Conyers, the amendment would have explicitly barred those who have offered praise, or glorification, of Nazism, or its collaborators, including through the use of white supremacist, neo-Nazi or other similar symbols, from receiving any form of support from the US Department of Defence. But the amendment was dumped after the Congress faced pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (‘ADL’) and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, two of the loudest pro-Israel groups in the US. Despite their stated mission to combat anti-Semitism and violent extremism, the ADL and Wiesenthal Centre refused to support Conyer’s proposal on the ground that right-wing Ukrainian parties with documented records of racist extremism had “moderated their rhetoric.” But this is not supported by facts on the ground in Ukraine.  Ukraine’s US supported President, Petro Poroshenko, is leading the nationalists’ dream with a war in the east and Ukraine’s leading party, The People’s Front, is pocked with far-right militants, including Andrei Parubiy, the co-founder of the neo-Nazi inspired Social National Party.  Besides Parubiy, The People’s Front included Andrei Biletsky, leader of the Azov military, an overtly neo-Nazi fighting force that has been on the frontlines of the battle on eastern Ukraine.  Unlike the Svoboda party, the Azov militia does not even feign moderation.  “The historic mission of our nation, in this critical moment, is to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade for their survival,” Biletsky recently wrote.  “A crusade against the Semite-led untermenschen,” an infamous phrase used in Nazi Germany to describe Jews, gypsies and communists. Azov fighters are united in their nostalgia for Nazi Germany and embrace of open fascism.  Sporting Swastika tattoos, the battalion “flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag,” according to Andrew Kramer of the New York Times. Azov is precisely the sort of neo-Nazi organisation that Conyers’ NDAA amendment would have deprived of US assistance. But when the Congressman sought support from the ADL and the Weisanthal Centre in moving forward, he was rebuked. The amendment died a quiet death and Azov’s American supply line remained intact. ADL’s current posture is in stark contrast to its stance early this year when its outgoing leader, Abraham Foxman noted the Svoboda party’s “history of anti-Semitism and platform of ethnic nationalism” and demanded the party renounce its past glorification of Stepan Bandera a WWII era Nazi collaborator, who has become a symbol of Ukrainian nationalsm. So one minute the ADL is rightfully admonishing the Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups, and the next minute it’s clamouring to give them heavy weaponry? An ADL lobbyist shed light on this paradox by stating: “the focus should be on Russia,” making it clear that the ADL’s position is based on geopolitics; not to fight “anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry,” as their mission statement claims. ..............................................   How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Max Blumenthal http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israel-lobby-protected-ukrainian-neo-nazis .............................................. NOTE I believe the man in Nazi uniform in the abovementioned video is: Reinhard Gehlen rather than Stepan Bandera. Gehlen was Hitler's eastern front intelligence officer, turned USA / CIA associate, before eventually becoming German intelligence (BND) head.  That's the same intelligence agency that's recently been exposed spying on European politicians and corporations on behalf of the US agency, NSA. The USA has a history of association with Nazis in the aftermath of WWII, and it appears that Zionist organisations have also had a history of collaboration with Nazis - here.

Ukraine Historical & Cultural Revision

Ukraine Pays a Terrible Price for Banderaism As the Ukrainian government that seized power in the coup rewrites Ukraine’s history, it commits an ever-widening circle of atrocities in conformity with the ideology of Stepan Bandera that it has adopted. “Two Ukraines but what seem like two different worlds. …And if you want, you can call me a Pro-Russian Communist, but, personally, I much prefer the red star of the partisans of Odessa than the reversed swastika of the Banderites. Although, I repeat, I am a Jew and a Zionist from Israel.” – Arkady Molev (after visiting Lvov and Odessa, Fort Russ) Life in Ukraine these days is full of fads and fancies, some of them criminal and deleterious, some – just outright stupid. For example, the latest craze is to get rid of all the names of cities, streets and squares associated with Russia. The effort to erase their own history — after all Ukraine in its present borders was created by the Soviets — leads to some funny or maladroit results. Vladimir Kornilov, head of the Ukrainian Center for Eurasian Studies, in an interview with the newspaper Vzglyad, suggested that the names that are assigned to the cities and streets by the Ukrainian authorities will not hold for too long. This is a passing fad, he thinks. After all, “The history of, say, the lion’s share of Ukraine is Russian history, and partly Polish, Romanian, and Austro-Hungarian history. In this sense, the Ukrainians have got used to distort the historical names and rename them back and forth. For example, with rare exceptions, there are no historical names in Lvov [western Ukraine, former Poland].” The absurdity of this situation is that the Ukrainian nationalists, declaring their fight with the Soviet past, demonstrate the very methods of the Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917 – they bring down the monuments and rename all and sundry. Beside the Bolshevik methods, “they have adopted tactics and ideology of the Nazis and try to completely clean all the historical memory in Ukraine,” says Kornilov. “Everything is done systematically and gradually: on the Maidan in 2004, it was impossible to imagine that someone would glorify Bandera. But after a few years, Bandera is the hero.” Kornilov said that he won’t be surprised if, in a couple of years, they make Hitler’s birthday a national holiday. “Right now, it seems absurd and preposterous, but 10 years ago it seemed absurd and ridiculous that Ukraine will glorify Bandera and UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). As far as Bandera’s political cult in Ukraine is concerned, there is a fascinating book by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult (published in 2014). It sheds light on the history of this violent nationalist movement, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In it, the author says: “Bandera was the ultranationalist or fascist alternative to Stalin and Khrushchev. Though the OUN-B frequently claimed after the Second World War that the UPA was fighting against the totalitarian Soviet Union for a nationalist democratic Ukraine, the reference to democracy was nothing more than a pretence, intended to persuade the United Kingdom and the United States to provide support for the insurgent movement.” The refrain of fighting for democracy is way too familiar these days – in fact, it is used frequently by the current puppet regime in Kiev. As it was with Bandera’s UPA in the past, this reference brings the same result, that is, a lot of violence toward anyone with dissenting views, as well as the unconditional support of the U.S.A. However, the cruel irony is that it is exactly most blood-thirsty politicians who typically sing this refrain, thus rendering the word “democracy” utterly meaningless. As sad as it sounds, this refrain leaves a bitter taste. Rossoliński-Liebe doesn’t embellish the darkest moments of the Soviet regime in Ukraine.  He skilfully demonstrates the complexity of the entanglement between Ukrainian and Soviet histories. “The only enemies of the OUN and UPA remaining after the Second World War II in western Ukraine were the Soviet authorities, who, ironically enough, implemented some of the main goals of the Ukrainian nationalists. By the incorporation of western Ukraine into the Ukrainian SSR, the Soviet rulers had achieved the sobornist, or unification of Ukrainian territories in one state, and, by resettling the Poles and other nationalities, they had made Ukraine more homogenous than it had ever been before.” In the end, the historical amnesia of the current Ukrainian government and of some of the brainwashed population leads to the outright ingratitude toward their own past. A past that is intrinsically connected with Russia, whether they want it or not. In the last year alone, these proverbial “Ivans without roots” have vandalized many memorials and statues that remind them of Soviet times. Just recently, overzealous nationalists demolished a monument to the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov in the village of Povcha in Rivne region of Ukraine. Nikolai Kuznetsov, subsequently recognized as “scout number one” during the Great Patriotic War, personally eliminated 11 generals and high-ranking officials of the occupation administration of Nazi Germany. It was precisely Kuznetsov who managed to obtain information about the preparation of the German offensive at Kursk. According to TASS, he died on March 9, 1944, during a shootout with soldiers of UPA – yes, that same notorious Nazi-collaborating organization whose members have been proclaimed as national heroes of Ukraine on April 9 this year. In Velikiy Lyuben (Lviv region), the followers of UPA demolished a monument to the 5-year-old Roma Taravsky, a Polish boy who was killed by the Bandera gang. Their perverted pangs of conscience may be the reason why these contemporary ultra-nationalists cannot cope with the truth. Nonetheless, the decision of the Verkhovna Rada to recognize the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters as freedom fighters will have numerous repercussions, especially among those who suffered from UPA atrocities the most. Just a few days ago, former Deputy Defense Minister of Poland, Ret. General Waldemar Skrzypczak, publicly expressed his outrage about this egregious law. He said that he is opposing the policies of the current Ukrainian government, as well as withdrawing his support of Ukraine, expressed earlier when he advocated the supply of offensive weapons for the war in the Donbass. “UPA murdered my uncle. They nailed him with a pitchfork to a barn door. From what I know, he died three days later. Their savagery was beyond imagination. Even the Nazis did not invent the things the Ukrainians did. They hacked people with axes. And they began to kill the Poles in 1939, not in 1943,” he said (as reported by Vzglyad). “Many people do not know, and those who know are mostly silent, about the fact, that when our soldiers retreated to Hungary and Romania, they were attacked by armed Ukrainian gangs. I would like to know on what foundation is President Poroshenko building the future of Ukraine? Blood-thirsty nationalism? It’s terrible! I have long been telling that Ukrainians must get rid of nationalism, because otherwise cooperation with Poland would be very difficult, if possible at all,” the retired general said. The ominous shadows cast by “Eurocentric” Ukrainian maniacs are many and various. Among the most prominent are cruelty, Russophobia, servility before their western masters, and a lack of compassion toward their own citizens. Also, a callous indifference. Ukrainian politicians don’t want to set Donbass free.  However the pompous government that presides in Kiev refuses to provide Donbass with elementary social and medical needs though the people who live there are Ukraine’s citizens. In the middle of November of 2014, Kiev officially stripped itself of responsibility for civilians caught up in the zone of the “Anti-Terrorist Operation” (ATO). In December, the Kiev authorities stopped budget payments for pensions and wages, canceled banking services and stopped passenger transportation by rail to those regions of Donbass that are outside their control. Moreover, they even block whatever humanitarian aid may go that way. At the end of February, the authorities of Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) confirmed the tightening of the economic blockade by Kiev. “Not a single truck with food is allowed [to enter our territory] … This is against a range of measures signed in Minsk,” said Deputy Chairman of the People’s Council of LPR Vladislav Danego. According to a recent report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), food is the most essential commodity for the self-proclaimed republics in the Donbass. “It is urgent to provide food assistance to more than 670,000 people, 90 percent of whom are located in the areas not under control of the [Kiev] government,” the document says. The same report also says that on April 2 another convoy of humanitarian aid from Russia, consisting of 42 trucks, arrived in Donbass. On April 16 another, the 24th in a row, was sent to the Donbass. Facts like these are seldom mentioned in the western mass media. Anti-Russian paranoia results mostly in far-fetched reports of Russian tanks “invading” Ukraine – none of which are confirmed. One may wonder if humanitarian trucks are wilfully confused with tanks. In the meantime, the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics declared that they count only on the support of Russia. According to the newspaper Vzglyad, a parliament speaker of the DPR, Andrei Purgin, has also confirmed that the Ukrainian side has actually imposed a blockade of the republic, which greatly complicates the humanitarian situation there. Purgin noted that Donbass is not able to provide its citizens with food and is critically dependent on supplies from outside, because the surrounding steppes are not suitable for agriculture. “Food security on our territory cannot be achieved – here is an industrial region, a land of the cities, industry, and mechanical engineering. We make active attempts to start the food import from the Russian Federation and to find other sources as well. For the most indigent people, we have a network of soup kitchens and a distribution of humanitarian aid. There is progress in a positive way, but the situation is complicated,” Purgin said. Meanwhile, the OSCE noted on April 7 that the Donbass lacks medical supplies as well. According to a press-secretary for the special mission of the OSCE, Michael Bochurkiv, the mission recently published a report on the state of infrastructure in the observed area. “The report is based on 55 studied institutions, including hospitals, clinics and orphanages. The facts are shocking: we describe the situation as very unstable from a humanitarian point of view”. According to him, his colleagues found many people on the verge of death due to the fact that they don’t have enough medication. “The situation is similar in some child care centers, where children are on the verge of death because of the lack of medical supplies”. According to a representative of the mission, the situation is compounded by the fact that “people do not have access to money, pensions, banks, they cannot afford to buy their own medicines that are sometimes offered in hospitals.” Despite the dire conditions in Donbass, the authorities of Novorossia are full of optimism.  According to Prime Minister of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, the war unleashed by the Kiev Nazis in Donbass will end with the collapse of their regime and the Bandera ideology. “The Kiev clique which seized power in Ukraine has not yet realized that the outcome of the war that was unleashed by them will be a full liberation of the country from the Bandera ideology, and that the Ukrainian people themselves will liberate the country from the fascist plague – those same people who became hostages of the mad politicians.” Zakharchenko stressed that Kiev politicians and their Western “friends” miscalculated when they started a bloodbath in the Donbass. By unleashing war, they have jeopardized the existence of Ukraine as a state, and thus have driven themselves into a trap. “The instigators of the so-called ‘ATO’ and their foreign backers have played the wrong card and didn’t take into consideration that the Donbass is an impregnable fortress that nobody has been able to win.” Amen to that! Alevtina Rea is  a freelance analyst and writer; for seven years (2005 – 2012), she worked as an assistant editor with CounterPunch. Ms. Rea is a contributing author to CounterPunch, Cyrano’s Journal Today, Uncommon Thought Journal, and the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. She can be reached at rea.alya@gmail.com. http://russia-insider.com/en/ukraine-pays-terrible-price-banderaism/6191 COMMENT Interesting update. Thought I'd check on the difference between Ukraine and Russian language: SPOT THE DIFFERENCE UKRAINE RUSSIAN Take a good look at the Cyrillic script:  it's exactly the same. Oops.  That's because it was the same pic (which I've now removed updated with the correct corresponding pic).  LOL How embarrassing.  I'll have to blame this on someone interrupting me and talking to me while I was loading.  I can't do two things at once.  LOL Anyway, I've updated with the correct image. While there is minor differences in both the Cyrillic script and the Latin script, it appears to be merely a matter of pronunciation - kind of like the difference in the way (some) people say 'tomato', 'potato' etc  (with the exception of the word for 'morning' which is materially different). Yes, I know this is only a small sample, but I'll nonetheless argue that the language differences between Ukraine and Russia probably aren't all they're cracked up to be.  Holy #%!!$$%@ Batman! I feel like I'm driving this thing drunk.  Fixed another unexpected boo-boo.  LOL

Charlie Hebdo Massacre, France - War on Terrorism - Free Press & Mass Surveillance & Fascism

#Assange and #Snowden are not to blame for Paris bloodbath. Sat Jan 10 18:19:36 UTC 2015 In today’s Daily Mail, “Sir” Max “I have always loved Israel” Hastings claimed that me and Mr. Snowden are responsible for the bloodbath in Paris: “Traitors… Assange and Snowden have damaged the security of each and every one of us, by alerting the jihadis and Al Qaeda, our mortal enemies, to the scale and reach of electronic eavesdropping”. That a state security vampire like Hastings has pounced on the still warm corpses strewn about Paris is as grotesque as it is predictable. Secrecy breeds corruption, but it also breeds incompetence and the French secret services are no exception to this rule. Currently the French security state has tried to present the killers as super villains in order to hide its own incompetence — something the media has been only too willing to aid and abet. The reality is the Charlie Hebdo killers were bumbling Keystone terrorists, no-hopers, who crashed their car, left their ID, co-ordinated over the phone and swiftly died. To lose nearly two dozen people to them is unforgivable. That double digits were killed is no mark of super powers. A single idiot can do it. In Australia’s Port Arthur massacre, a man with the IQ of 66, literally an idiot, shot 58 people over the course of several hours—because he was armed with an AR-10 semi-automatic and his victims were not. The tragedy in Paris is another example of where competent targeted surveillance, not mass surveillance, was needed. The attackers were well known jihadis. This is not a case of needing to collect a global interception haystack in order to find a needle. The alleged needle in question, Cherif Kouachi, had already been convicted of terrorism offences and served 18 months in prison for it. Both brothers were already on terrorism lists. Far from hiding messages under rocks or using encryption, the alleged conspirators communicated hundreds of times before and during the attacks — on regular phones. The offices of Charlie Hebdo had received many death threats and had been firebombed in 2011 a week after publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. The French mass surveillance system is already one of the most pervasive; its primary purpose, like all such systems, is geopolitics. Mass surveillance addiction doesn’t come for free. In France it thieved skilled human and financial resources from targeted monitoring of obvious—the front of the Charlie Hebdo building and people walking out of prison with a terrorism conviction in one hand and numerous jihadi contacts in the other. Yesterday French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said “There was a failing, of course” on French television, “That’s why we have to analyse what happened.”. Valls is right, Hastings is not. So conspicuous is the failure in the Charlie Hebdo killings that serious questions must be asked. Cherif Kouachi had previously been involved in furthering the Sunni insurgency in the Levant. Were the brothers protected by the French services as part of French adventurism in Syria, Libya and elsewhere—as a conduit to funnel money, guns and militants into Africa and the Middle East? Were the brothers protected because they were witting or unwitting informers? Were the brothers protected in order to conduct a mediagenic, budget-boosting arrest seconds before the attack began — but the attack was moved forward? Why was the security architecture of the Charlie Hebdo building so poor? How is it that semi-automatic weapons found their way into France and into the hands of known jihadis? And most of all why has France’s crazed Sunni adventurism in Syria, Libya and other parts of Africa been tolerated despite the inevitable destabalization, radicalization and blowback? https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/16/1671459_insight-military-intervention-in-syria-post-withdrawal.html ASSANGE SOURCE - Twitter. Couldn't resist copying this over.  Nice response to Max Hastings' assertion in Daily Mail, which (in my opinion) could also serve as a notice to others trying to shift blame away from the issue of long-standing Western & European government policies and practices -- including imperialism, colonialism and interventions in the Middle East (and elsewhere) --  which I believe are some of the factors at the root of the Islamic extremist violence that Europe is experiencing. Disturbances caused in the Middle East and elsewhere are responsible for large movements of people from their homelands, which leads to issues associated with identity, religion and culture, resistance to assimilation versus assimilation, and difficulty integrating a clash of cultures, identity and values, which is exploited by nationalists, fundamentalists and extremists in host countries and elsewhere, for political and other gain. This is just my overall impression at the moment, based on my limited knowledge at this time. In an article in Haaretz, I found it interesting that the 'free press' as a whole, are clubbed together as Assange and Snowden supporters. The Haaretz article starts off with a statement posing as question.  It questions: (a) whether 'closer state surveillance' could have prevented the Charlie Hebdo massacre and, if so, it asks: (b) would the 'free press', who have supported Snowden and Assange (presumably the free press as a whole, because the author is not referring to specific publications or journalists), feel like crap (implication), if 'closer state surveillance' could have prevented the massacre (which is contentious, given that experts in that field argue that mass surveillance is *not* the answer, that it is a hindrance and that targeted surveillance is required).  Article Haaretz strikes me as casting very subtle aspersion on free press, as well as Assange and Snowden,  as figures supporting or representing freedom of press (Assange) and freedom from mass surveillance (Snowden & Assange). The Haaretz article also characterises Charlie Hebdo publication as follows: The target can, in Charlie Hebdo, be seen as a kind of marker of the ideology of secular France. That's quite sweeping statement to make about a satirical magazine, even if it is couched in 'can ... be seen' terms. So satire has become a representation or symbol of 'ideology' and this 'ideology' is depicted as a prevailing one in secular France, so presumably the target of Islamist extremist violence is the 'ideology' of  'secular France', is the gist of that sentence? Difficult for me to come to grips with the statement because I don't see the content of a satirical magazine as being a representation of secular cultural 'ideology'; rather, it is (in my view) social or political comment made by the originators of the material, who are entitled to a voice in society that values freedom of expression. The article continues: The big question in the wake of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo is whether the slaughter will bring France out of its corner in the war on Islamist terror. France has seen some appalling crimes – including attacks against Jews – that could be linked, broadly, to the global war against Islamist terror. ... the Internet appears to capture gunmen shouting "Allahu Akbar"("God is greatest" in Arabic) – all eyes will be on France to see what happens next. It’s not that France has been entirely out of the fight on Islamist terror. A few hours before the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Agence France Press reported that the Charles de Gaulle, the aircraft carrier that is the flagship of the French fleet, would be deployed to the Gulf to take part in operations against the Islamist State. France, though, has always seemed to hang back a bit. Gurfinkiel calls this a “tradition,” with the French authorities “hoping to know more” by leaving hostile elements at large in France while keeping an eye on them. That starts to look like a risky strategy in an era of so-called “lone wolf” terrorist attacks. [Gurfinkiel, referred to above, is "Michel Gurfinkiel, a Paris-based pro-Israel journalist"] The focal point seems to be the "global war against Islamist terror" but there are a number of factors beyond that which are not discussed (eg corporate imperialism in the Middle East, the arming of 'moderate'-designated 'rebels', the regime changes in the Middle East that the West is responsible for (eg Libya and, now, pushing for a regime change in Syria), which can be viewed as actually fostering Islamist terror organisations in the region (and, by extension, extremism in regions beyond). The article states: The press has sought largely to stay neutral in the global war on terrorism or has tilted against the hawkish camp. and that view of the supposedly 'neutral' (and/or anti 'war on terrorism') press, is then linked to the original question/statement regarding the position of the press (in light of what amounts to the earlier Assange and Snowden negative association), tied in with the supposed antidote that 'could' have prevented the massacre:  'closer state surveillance'. So the agenda here is to accuse the press of not supporting 'war on terrorism' by (a) not supporting mass surveillance (and by extension, a police or a totalitarian state solution, and therefore large-scale violation of civil liberties) and, presumably, (b) accuse the press of not putting 'war on terrorism' promotional spin on the news; as well as pointing out how lax France tends to be, before committing to military intervention in regions beyond its borders, in addition to dragging its feet implementing law enforcement type controls within its borders.  Therefore, it could be seen as an article perhaps lobbying for pro totalitarian and interventionalist action by (a) France and (b) the press (who is expected to support this). I think that's a reasonable inference to make, but this is just my impression of what I read in Haaretz and I am new to looking at politics, so this is an amateur point of view.  Someone else may see the article and this whole scenario entirely differently.  Here's the Haaretz article headline and link: Will the Charlie Hebdo attack bring France out of its corner in the war on Islamist terror? And how will the free press feel, after it supported Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, if it discovers that closer state surveillance could have foreseen the Paris massacre? By Seth Lipsky | Jan. 7, 2015 | 7:58 PM | 5 Final word on the conclusion (below): But what position will the newspapers take after having expressed support for Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, if it turns out that this attack could have been foreseen by more aggressive collection and mining of the metadata? Thought it was clever to raise a 'question' (but really make a statement) at the beginning of an article and reinforced at the end, kind of 'tarnishing' Snowden and Assange (and the press freedom and freedom from surveillance push), without getting one's hands dirty by bothering to construct an argument that aggressive collection of metadata (mass surveillance) is a proven extremist violence preventative measure (see William Binney, who argues otherwise). Getting back to the Assange post, I'm going to have to pass on the attack 'moved forward' proposition, because I simply cannot believe that this happened.  Way too hard to believe that whoever is running intelligence in France would protect these these guys and, effectively, become a co-conspirator plotting a staged media event that went wrong. On the other hand, CIA were involved in bombing attacks in Italy (Operation Gladio), so anything's possible, and the idea can't be totally ruled out, I suppose. Not sure why there's no mention of the rocket launcher (unless it was a false initial report).  The report that these guys had a rocket launcher blew me away.  Anyway, I thought this might be of interest.  Too bad I can't articulate my impressions clearly. ......................................................................................... LINKS *  Sir Max Hastings Journalist, foreign correspondent, editor. Cousin:  war hero, MI6 operative (Stephen Hastings) August 2014: Hastings one of 200 public figures / signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence. *  Plan Vigipirate France's national security alert system.  Created in 1978. Regularly gets updated whenever there's 'terror bombing campaigns' in France. The fact that this alert system was introduced in the late 70s, gets updated and continues to be required in France, surely poses some questions related to French foreign policy.  * Daily Mail Article:   "MAX HASTINGS: Why the liberals who defended traitors like Snowden and Assange should look at this photo and admit: We were deluded fools" DAILY MAIL EXTRACTS: The price of living in an open society, with the precious freedoms we take for granted, is that all of us, great and small, are vulnerable to attackers consumed by hatred for our culture, its values, and manifest superiority to those from which they come. Globalisation places a disturbing number of such people in our midst, rather than far away in Somalia or Iran. Ummm, I somehow don't think that those who take to enacting terrorist activities merely do so because they hate our manifest cultural superiority.  While 'globalism' did get a mention, what's missing is corporate imperialism combined with geopolitical imperialist ambition. Jihadism, he says, represents a response to ‘the challenge of a secular, urban civilisation that threatens to destroy their traditional values and beliefs’ Yes, but does this pertain to all fundamentalist extremists in all circumstances, or is this just a facet of the fundamentalist extremism?  Also, why is the West arming extremists -- eg currently arming and training Syrian 'moderate rebels', and the West is known to have armed and supported the Mujahadeen. Our principal weapons against terrorists are not tanks, Typhoon fighter jets or warships, but instead intelligence officers using electronic surveillance. Much cant has been peddled recently about the supposed threat to liberty posed by government eavesdropping on our lives. Here we go again.  Another pusher of mass surveillance, which has been given a legal nod in Britain, anyway. I'm starting to get the impression that those who argue for mass surveillance are just closet fascists demanding a totalitarian state -- not because totalitarian mass surveillance is going to prevent terrorist attacks, but because it serves the purposes of those in power. In truth, Assange and Snowden have damaged the security of each and every one of us, by alerting the jihadis and Al Qaeda, our mortal enemies, to the scale and reach of electronic eavesdropping. Don't know why Assange has been dragged into the 'electronic eavesdropping' alerting of mortal enemies argument; it was Snowden who released the NSA mass surveillance information rather than Assange (although Assange is opposed to mass surveillance). Seeing that mass surveillance didn't even prevent the Boston bombing (which the Russians warned the Americans about), we can give the mass surveillance cheering routine a rest:  mass surveillance is not effective.  But its a great tool when it comes to political assassination:  see General Petraeus. Public safety demands a perpetual balancing act between collective security and the rights of the individual. And it is terrific for surveilling members of the 'free press'.  Also, you'll hear a lot about 'safety' and 'national security' when it comes to government trying to erode civil liberties. Old Max goes on to talk about WWII situation (has anyone declared WWIII yet?), and plays a accompanying violin, romantically depicting brutal wartime assault on civil liberties as:  50 million British people against Hitler.  Yeah, Max, all well and good in WWII Britain, but there's been no declaration of WWIII to justify the gross violations perpetrated by Western totalitarianism. This is the most disgusting war-drums propaganda piece ever. What this guy wants is a totalitarian state and, quite possibly, seeing he would have insider knowledge, that state is perhaps really preparing for outright war (rather than 'war on terrorism'). Here's a reminder of pre-WWII Britain: British Union of Fascists Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet Leader of British Union of Fascists Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. Looks like fascism tends to precede war.

UKRAINE: fascist US-puppet government commits attrocities & declares a genocidal intent - media fine with that

ATROCITIES COMMITTED 

BY UKRAINE US-PUPPET

FASCIST GOVERNMENT

Source:  youtube

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WHAT YOUR MEDIA TELLS YOU

 Ukraine jets pound rebels after 23 soldiers killed

We'll make them pay ... Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has vowed "find and destroy" pro-Russian rebels who killed 23 servicemen in a missile attack. Photo: AP

Ukraine's armed forces pushed ahead with their operation against pro-Russian insurgents after 23 soldiers died in an attack on Friday, the biggest death toll since President Petro Poroshenko called off a cease-fire July 1.

"For every life of one of our soldiers, the militants will pay with dozens and hundreds of theirs," Poroshenko said in Kiev yesterday after the fighting near Ukraine's frontier with Russia, in which 93 soldiers were also wounded.

 [Sydney Morning Herald Reports this without comment.  This is genocide of Ukraine people.  This is a war crime This government is also killing Ukraine civilians.  Great reporting, SMH.]

"Every single one will be held accountable and get their due."

Fighting continued overnight, with seven soldiers killed and 33 hurt in about 10 mortar and rocket attacks, according to the Facebook page of the government's operation against the separatists.

Both sides accused each other on Saturday of attacking the suburb of Maryinka in the eastern city of Donetsk, one of the insurgents' main strongholds.

As the violence escalated, the European Union added 11 names to a list of people it has sanctioned for supporting the insurrection in Ukraine, including leaders of the self-declared People's Republics in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Among those hit by previous measures are members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Russia denies it's aiding the rebels.

The Interfax news service cited a separatist commander, Igor Girkin, as saying 30 civilians were killed when Ukrainian artillery shelled Maryinka in the west of Donetsk. A Ukrainian military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, said in televised comments that insurgents fired Grad rockets at the suburb. Pictures showed holes blasted in walls of apartment blocks.

Air-defense units and fighter planes were on alert to counter the threat of more Grad rockets from the area of the Russian border, military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov said on Facebook.

The insurgents "suffered heavy losses" in fighting yesterday, Seleznyov said late last night, with the air force destroying two mortar batteries, two tanks and three armored personnel carriers. The army wiped out a rebel base at the Izvaryno border post in Luhansk region, he said.

Fighting was continuing today at Zelenopillya in the Luhansk region, near a point on the border where insurgents were attempting to bring in weapons from Russia, Lysenko was cited as saying by Interfax.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said today it protested to Russia about "outrageous" violations of the border. These included shooting at a border post overnight from the Rostov region in Russia and the use of Russian drones in Ukrainian airspace, it said in an e-mailed statement.

More than 39,000 people have left the area of fighting for other regions of Ukraine, including 14,000 children, the State Service for Emergency Situations said on its website today. The actual number will be higher, as many people have not been registered, it said.

The EU published the names today of the 11 new people it's sanctioning with asset freezes and travel bans over the insurgency. They include Alexander Borodai, the prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, and his equivalent in Luhansk, Marat Bashirov. The 28-nation bloc has already blacklisted 72 people and two companies connected with the destabilization of Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea in March.

The EU's first opportunity to consider wider penalties on Russian industry, investment or trade will be at a July 16 summit. Objections by countries such as Italy, Austria, Slovakia, France and Greece have frustrated moves toward broader sanctions, which require unanimity.

SOURCE:  The Sydney Morning Herald - here. 

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COMMENT


It above speaks for itself. 

Best to check out non-mainstream media if you want information.