The Great Whore, An Unnatural Monstrosity: Warmonger Mercantile Empire

Article SOURCE as marked -------/\/\/ The Great Whore An Unnatural Monstrosity: Warmonger Mercantile Empire -------/\/\/ Senator John McCain Chased Off Navajo Nation https://youtu.be/xlkEraYbUko VIOLATING APACHE SACRED GROUNDS Resolution Copper Mining subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto unsuccessfully sought ownership:  Oak Flat Campground after 13 attempts new bill slipped through by Sen. John McCain & signed into legislation by Obama Opens up Oak Flat for copper mining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAptwpX-03E Rio Tinto - Environmental Disaster Tonto National Forest - Oak Flat, Arizona LINK | Post -------/\/\/ While I was searching for a list of broken US treaties with native Americans, this is some of what I looked at and found interesting. Still haven't found my comprehensive list of broken treaties, but I understand hundreds of treaties have been broken by the US government, to further dispossess the native Americans whose homelands were invaded by competing European colonists of all descriptions and their respective entourages.  Even today, native Americans are being cheated and dispossessed by the US government (referred to below and here). Yet the brutal proto-Nazi invader of North America and exterminator of Native American peoples, in what is an ignored colossal-scale native American holocaust, committed by an assortment of covetous marauders whose insatiable greed has spawned an unnatural monstrosity that is a corporate warmonger mercantile empire, a 'nation' modelled on a trading company. Mercantile America, the monstrous decayed money-making whore, of her shadowy, god-of-greed worshipping, faceless investor-pimps. America, the whore, whose perverse corporate and oligarchy-controlled politicians and her performer-ambassadors, have the audacity to screw up their lying countenances in feigned 'concern' for the rights of a series of hapless citizens abroad, whose nations they aim to destroy, after yet another relentless campaign of monstrous lies and manipulation. America the great whore of terror, that rains depleted uranium bombs on the very citizens her crass oligarchy-owned politicians and shameless ambassadors profess to seek to 'protect.'  America, the lying, bloated mercantile whore, that's arming terrorists and assassins and knowingly unleashing civil wars,  when her agents are not otherwise promoting  bloody regional conflicts. America, the bloated whore that greedily and mercilessly disregards her own downtrodden, exploited and politically castrated masses, piously lectures the rest of the word on 'hooman rights,' as she prepares to launch yet another unlawful military assault, in pursuit of mass dispossession and mass enslavement abroad; not for the advancement of the many, but for the profit of a mere few that she has always served. And, so, the world stage is set for yet another theatrical performance in aid of this greedy whore's agenda, before the controlled Western press and before a series of supranational bodies that serve to legitimise the great whore's conquests, in what is a long history of greed and brutality,  and deceit and dispossession of other peoples, on behalf of  the privileged, faceless few that control the unnatural monstrosity that is the corporate warmonger American mercantile empire. -------/\/\/ US Program to Subordinate Native American Nations & Expropriate The Land & Resources "U.S. Indian policy has consistently followed a program to subordinate American Indian nations and expropriate their land and resources" [6]   Trail of Broken Treaties Native Americans Dispossessed of Land source NYT & as marked: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html   Starting from the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1776 -- The US government signed 700 treaties  [3] -- NOTE:  700 signed treaties, to 371 ratified Between 1778 & 1871:  US Congress ratified 371 treaties *establishing hundreds of 'nations within a nation' (ie reservations) at that point:  140 million acres owned by native Americans   as at 2000:  only 56 million acres -- barely 2% of USA controlled by native Americans c. 1800 - native American Indians -- controlled THREE-QUARTERS of the United States eventual land mass Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- eliminated all Indian land rights east of the Mississippi River 1887 - Act -- changed common tribal lands into individual allotments 1887 - Native American had 130 million acres remaining [4] By 1932 - ie within 45 years -- almost 90 million acres of tribal land -- was appropriated or sold privately -- before the act was repealed in 1932 1933 - Native Americans had only 49 million acres left, much of it waste and desert [4] Native American tribes lost almost TWO-THIRDS of their land by private property sales under US government policy "designed to make farmers and capitalists out of them"   Eisenhower era policy:  TERMINATION -- paid native Americans to dissolve their tribal units Result of both US government policies:  devastating impact on tribal land holdings However, as at 2000, NYT reports:  a third of the 554 recognized tribes run some sort of gambling operation -- with revenues of $6 billion per annum (2000 figures), enabling native Americans to buy back a tiny portion of land that was appropriated & to mount legal challenges in respect of some portions of native land above info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html   US government has broken hundreds of native American treaties In addition, state governments have violated terms of native American treaties: eg.  New York - Oneidas native Americans -- 1784 - occupied 6 million acres in New York -- obtained treaty with President Washington -- however, next century, state officials bought & sold their land -- in violation of treaty & failure to obtain federal approval for native land transfers -- by 1919, tribal land merely:  32 acres -- present-day gambling revenue buy-backs regain only 11,000 acres -- but legal contest to regain 250,000 acres from reservation -- result 20,000 non-native land owners paying price of New York state not abiding by law above info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html -------/\/\/ "Oneidas spilled their blood for the American cause at the Battle of Oriskany in August 1777. One month later the Oneidas would again fight side-by-side with the colonists at the Battle of Saratoga." "During the terrible winter of 1777-78, the Oneida People once again came to the aid of their friend. Then-General George Washington and his troops were near starvation at Valley Forge. The Oneidas carried corn hundreds of miles from their homeland in Central New York to the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania. An Oneida woman, Polly Cooper, stayed at the encampment to show the soldiers how to prepare the white Indian corn which differed from today’s hybrid yellow corn." "In May 1778, the Oneidas again aided the colonists at a skirmish at Barren Hill (near Philadelphia), where this time the bravery of the Oneida scouts saved the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero and commander of the American Army’s Northern Department." "The Oneidas sacrificed much for American cause of freedom. Their villages were burned by fellow Iroquois who sided with the British and they were driven from their homelands. By the end of the war, the Oneidas had lost about one-third of their population." http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/pressroom/morenews/39552757.html -------/\/\/ Lakota Sioux Black Hills, South Dakota -- longest unresolved Indian land claim in USA (2000) -- claim pursuant to 1868 treaty -- land promised to Lakota Sioux opened to white settlement -- AFTER GOLD DISCOVERED -- leading to:  Battle of the Little Big Horn -- century later:  Lakota win settlement -- settlement $106 million (1980) -- Latkota Sioux refuse:  holding out for return of sacred Hills info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html -------/\/\/ USA treaties with native Americans: relationship between federally recognised tribes &  USA = relationship between sovereigns (between govt & govt) -- “government-to-government” principle -- grounded in the United States Constitution -- states have no authority over tribal governments (unless expressly authorised by Congress) -- government-to-government relationship with states recognised -- despite this:  tribes frequently collaborate and cooperate with states -- via compacts or other agreements re matters of mutual concern (eg. environmental, law enforcement) Public Law 280 (1953) -- states required to assume civil & criminal jurisdiction -- over federal native American lands:     -- Alaska (see exemptions)     -- California     -- Minnesota (except Red Lake Res.)     -- Nebraska     -- Oregon (except Warm Springs Res.)     -- Wisconsin     -- later acts of Congress, court decisions & state actions -- result to retrocede jurisdiction back to federal US govt. -- muting some effects of Public Law 280 (1953) -- strengthening tribal jurisdiction re civil & criminal reservation matters Limitations on tribal powers of self-govt similar to imitations on states: -- no power to make war -- no power to engage in foreign relations -- no power to print money or issue currency 1970 - term 'Native American' broad usage -- as alternative to 'American Indian' -- 'Native American' broadly applied since then above info source / more information: http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/ 1778 - first treaty with Delawares 1871 - Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes 1778 - 1871:  US Senate ratified 370 treaties 1778 - 1871:  US negotiated 45 other treaties but failed to ratify same *note:  treaties broken by being superseded by Congressional legislation Since 1871, relations re native Americans -- formalized and/or codified by:     1.  Congressional acts     2.  Executive Orders     3.  Executive Agreements     USA - three types of federal lands: 1.  military 2.  public 3.  Indian Native American Federal Reservations -- land reserved for tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement -- with United States -- by executive order, or by federal statute or administrative action -- as tribal homelands -- USA government HOLDS TITTLE to land IN TRUST on behalf of Tribe -- abt. 56.2 million acres are held in trust by US govt. -- abt.  326 Indian land areas, administered as federal Indian reservations -- largest:  16 million acre Navajo National Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- many smaller reservations equal less than 1,000 acres -- some reservations = remnants of original tribal land holding -- other reservations created by US govt. forced resettlement of Indian tribes -- not all federally recognised Indian tribes have a reservation -- generally, federal Indian reservations except from state jurisdiction (incl. tax) -- EXCEPT when Congress makes a specific authorisation Other types of 'Indian lands': 1.  Allotted lands - mostly post Civil War under various treaties & laws, incl:     -- General Allotment Act in 1887 ('the Dawes Act')     --  Indian Reorganization Act of 1934     allotments conveyed to members of Indian tribes (held in trust - federal govt)     *but removal from trust = subject to state and local taxation     *result:  thousands of acres of land lost by Indians         -- abt. 10 million acres of individually allotted lands held in trust for allottees & heirs      2.  Restricted status - individually held Indian land - approval for transfer required 3.  State Indian reservations - held in trust by state / no state property tax (but state tax) -------/\/\/ John Trudell -- American Indian Movement activist -- d. 8 Dec. 2015 1979 in Washington D.C -- re Leonard Peltier Defence Committee -- convicted of murdering two FBI agents in June 1975 - Pine Ridge Reservation -- Trudell delivered anti-government speech - steps of FBI building -- in 12 hours, at 1:30 in morning Trudell's:     -- pregnant wife Tina     -- their three children     -- his mother-in-law     -- burned to death fire at home - Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada     -- FBI declined to investigate     -- later proved the cause was arson         http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/12/188457/remembering-john-trudell-voice-american-indian-movement -------/\/\/ "The message embedded, not only in Peltier's imprisonment, but in the scores of murders, hundreds of shootings and beatings, endless show trials and all the rest of the systematic terrorization marking the FBI's anti-AIM campaign on Pine Ridge, was that the Bureau could and would make it cost-prohibitive for Indians to seriously challenge the lot assigned them by policy-makers and economic planners in Washington, D.C. The internal colonization of Native America is intended to be absolute and unequivocal." "The logic of COINTELPRO, as evidenced in this excerpt from a 1976 document concerning the basis for an "investigation" of AIM and its supporters. Note the mention of the deliberate fostering of "paranoia" among AIM leaders through the use of informers, and insistence that the right of government to suppress dissent outweighs the rights of citizens to "privacy and free expression."" source - http://www.whale.to/b/cointelpro_7.html -------/\/\/ [1]  http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html [2]  http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/ [3]  Manipulating Treaties, Rosanna Masiola & Renato Tomei (2015) [4]  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5058 [5]  http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/12/188457/remembering-john-trudell-voice-american-indian-movement [6]  COINTELPRO - American Indian Movement (AIM)      http://www.whale.to/b/cointelpro_7.html [7]  http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/pressroom/morenews/39552757.html -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- Native Americans Still Being Dispossessed by US Govt & Capitalist Greed Bills introduced by Senator John McCain: (Public Law 93-531 as amended in 1996 (Partition)1999 (Settlement) 2001 (Enforcement of Resettlement) 2005 (Expansion of Resettlement) " ... bills introduced by Senator McCain - has led to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Hon Abdeltalif Amor's condemnation of human rights violations inside the US, over the stripping of rights and forced resettlement of these gentle and deeply spiritual band of Dineh-Navajo Indians from Arizona, swept off of lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. so that Peabody Western Coal could mine the Coal from beneath their farmlands and tap their wells to slurry pipe it to a power station in Nevada)." "ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of "pro-Peabody Western Coal" Indians and obtaining a false "Hopi-Navajo" Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCain was able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggested McCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through family business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied." http://warisacrime.org/node/33033

Parmenides' Fallacy

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Parmenides a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy; held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed; said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC) SOURCE | ABOVE http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Parmenides ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SOURCE | BELOW Forbes Margie Warrell Contributor Book:  Stop Playing Safe http://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2013/03/19/the-parmenides-fallacy-are-you-ignoring-the-cost-of-inaction/  EXTRACTS / SUMMARY Bad situation indecision = stuck with status quo hoping things get better (but they get worse) Human beings are neurologically wired to: over-estimate the size of risks under-estimate our ability to handle them downplay the costs of inaction "... by choosing not to make a change or take a chance ... you can wind up incurring steep costs, in ways you can’t possibly foresee from where you are right now" [ REFERS TO ] "Professor Philip Bobbit from the University of Texas has even given a name to the human tendency to assume the present situation will remain the same. He calls it ‘Parmenides Fallacy,’ after the misguided Greek philosopher who argued that the world was static and that all change was an illusion." result:  "drives us to stick with the status quo – even one we dislike" "Parmenides Fallacy serves as a reminder to not to kid ourselves; choosing to do nothing..." SOURCE | ABOVE Forbes Margie Warrell Contributor Book:  Stop Playing Safe http://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2013/03/19/the-parmenides-fallacy-are-you-ignoring-the-cost-of-inaction/  Margie Warrell Error 404 - page not found http://margiewarrell.com/stopplayinsafe Margie Warrell "an international thought leader in human potential" "professional background in Fortune 500 business, psychology, and coaching" "Her clients include NASA, British Telecom, Oracle, Body Shop, PWC and the Australian Federal Police." "bestselling author, Forbes Columnist  ..." " ... sought out by leading media outlets such as The Today Show, FOX News, CNBC and Al Jazeera, Psychology Today and Wall Street Journal. She is also a regular contributor on Australia’s ABC News Breakfast and Sunrise.    ...  international media outlets from the Wall Street Journal to The Today Show. She is also regular commentator on Australia’s Sunrise and ABC News Breakfast." http://margiewarrell.com/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SOURCE - BELOW Aakash "I am a speck of dust in this universe, who is going to create a whole new universe someday." http://logically-illogical.blogspot.com/2008/02/parmenides-fallacy.html Parmenides' Fallacy All our decisions are generally based upon the measurement of the future benefits that can be drawn by making that decision. How will it make us better of than what we presently are. This is the fundamental clause in the decision making of most of the managers while making any investment. But what is interesting to note is that the things in the normal circumstances will constantly deteriorate in their own. So, if we don't take any decision then we might be worse off in future than what we are now. So, if the investment is made then it might be that we would be worse off than now but better off than we would have been without it.  [ ... ] SOURCE - ABOVE Aakash "I am a speck of dust in this universe, who is going to create a whole new universe someday." http://logically-illogical.blogspot.com/2008/02/parmenides-fallacy.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SOURCE - BELOW Opinion, NYT Today's War Is Against Tomorrow's Iraq By PHILIP BOBBITT Philip Bobbitt, a law professor at the University of Texas Published: March 10, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/opinion/10BOBB.html EXTRACTS ONLY President Bush has again made his case for war against Iraq, and again his primary argument is the threat that Saddam Hussein poses to America. The president's critics are quick to point out that the Central Intelligence Agency and other experts feel that, for the moment, Saddam Hussein is unlikely to conduct terrorist attacks against America. However, they warn us, if an invasion threatens his regime, his agents or his extremist sympathizers might well attack us — possibly even using weapons of mass destruction. So is it really a good idea to press ahead with regime change? Aren't we better off now than we would be if we invade Iraq and risk setting off a dreadful response? These are natural questions, but they are neither logical nor helpful. They are a prime example in our public discourse of what might be called "Parmenides' Fallacy" — named after the Greek philosopher who held that all change was illusion. This fallacy occurs when one tries to assess a future state of affairs by measuring it against the present, as opposed to comparing it to other possible futures. Let me give a famous example of Parmenides' Fallacy in operation. [...] So, as we look to the future, we must stop debating whether invading Iraq will result in our being worse down the line than we are right now. We do not have the option of holding time still — which exposes the biggest flaw in the "Why Rush to War?" argument. The urgency lies in the fact that every day Saddam Hussein stays in power he grows richer, the global terrorist network to which he has access plans further atrocities and (international inspections notwithstanding) the chance of his acquiring nuclear, chemical and biological weapons grows. To avoid Parmenides' Fallacy, the question we must ask is: Will we be better off in the future if we invade Iraq or if we do not invade? [ ... ] We should also consider the future of the Iraqi civilians. Yes, they would suffer the horrors of war in the near term, which for a time would be even worse than life under the sanctions now. But if an American-led intervention succeeded, the country's oil revenues could once again enrich its people, as well as its schools, hospitals and financial institutions. The Iraqis would be much better off after an invasion than they would be living indefinitely chained to Saddam Hussein. For us, though we live in relative tranquillity at present, we will at least be far less badly off in the future if we act now. Parmenides' Fallacy must not paralyze our imaginations, or our will. SOURCE - ABOVE Opinion, NYT Today's War Is Against Tomorrow's Iraq By PHILIP BOBBITT Philip Bobbitt, a law professor at the University of Texas Published: March 10, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/opinion/10BOBB.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SOURCE - BELOW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bobbitt EXTRACTS |  SUMMARY Philip Bobbitt b. Texas, USA distinguished pedigree author, academic, lawyer, and public servant lectured in the United Kingdom best known for work on military strategy & constitutional law and theory Attended: Princeton University Yale Law School Oxford University graduated with an A.B. in philosophy | Princeton University in 1971 president of the Ivy Club and Chairman of the Nassau Lit. 1975 J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Article Editor of the Yale Law Journal and taught at Yale College at Yale that he met Charles L. Black (1915–2001), who became a mentor to Bobbitt received his M.A & Ph.D. (Modern History) | University of Oxford in 1983 J.D. =  three-year law degree, Doctor Jurisprudence "... word jurisprudence derives from the Latin term juris prudentia, which means "the study, knowledge, or science of law." In the United States jurisprudence commonly means the philosophy of law." [Cornell Uni - example] Charles Black (professor) American scholar of constitutional law  role in the historic Brown v. Board of Education *landmark USA 1954 case* US Supreme Court declared establishment of "separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional." Impeachment: A Handbook  analysis of the law of impeachment during the Watergate scandal. served in the Army Air Corps as a teacher an associate at Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl  (now Davis, Polk & Wardwell) professor of law at the Columbia University Law School "... He had the moral courage to go against his race, his class, his social circle." "Black also co-authored The Law of Admiralty with Grant Gilmore .. ... constitutional legal scholar ... "The Law of Admiralty" is one of the most influential law books ever written in a practical area of law. Admiralty is the law of the sea, of shipping and shipping contracts, and is a functional, practical area of international law, in which uniformity of the application of law in ports throughout the world is important, and as a result it has evolved somewhat differently from other areas of federal law. "Gilmore and Black," ... so influential that it is one of the few treatises that federal admiralty and international courts cite almost as though ... a primary source of law ..."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Black_%28professor%29 ---------------------- ꕤ  ----------------------  Consitutional Law - Philip Bobbit "... believes that the Constitution's durability rests, in part, in the flexible manner in which it can be and has been interpreted since its creation. ... Bobbitt asserts that all branches of government have a duty to assess the constitutionality of their actions. 'Constitutional Fate' is a commonly used text in courses on constitutional law throughout the US." Government Service - Philip Bobbit extensively in government, for both Democratic and Republican administrations 1970s, he was Associate Counsel to President Carter  Senior director for Critical Infrastructure & senior director for Strategic Planning - Bill Clinton's presidency worked with Lloyd Cutler on the charter of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lloyd Cutler Intelligence Commission served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Carter and Clinton Feb 2004 Lloyd Cutler  appointed to Iraq Intelligence Commission (IIC) IIC = independent panel tasked with investigating US intelligence surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the allegations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction Counselor for International Law at State Dept during George H. W. Bush administration served at National Security Council as director for Intelligence Programs National Security Council (NSC) principal forum re national security & foreign policy US President, National Security Advisors, + Cabinet officials { = part of Executive Office of President of USA} Founded by Harry S Truman 1947 - by NATIONAL SECURITY ACT b/c "felt that the diplomacy of State Dept was no longer adequate to contain the USSR" - - - Intent:  coordination & agreement among: Navy Marine Corps Army Air Force Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  {also created in the National Security Act, 1947}  & other instruments of national security policy Function: ASSIST ON NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN POLICY The Shield of Achilles - Philip Bobbit " ... 900-page work that explicates a theory, verging on philosophy, of historical change in the modern era, and a history of the development of modern constitutional and international law." "...  patterns in the (mainly modern European) history of strategic innovations, major wars, peace conferences, international diplomacy, and constitutional standards for states. Bobbitt also suggests possible future scenarios and policies appropriate to them." "The Shield of Achilles generated much interest in the diplomatic and political community.  Public officials who follow Bobbitt's works include: the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair ... the former Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, who referred to Bobbit's book in a 2004 address to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute." Terror and Consent (2008) "... the Wars for the Twenty-first Century, which applied many of the ideas of The Shield of Achilles to the problems of wars on terror." " ... Senator John McCain praised the book as "the best book I’ve ever read on terrorism ..."  "... Henry Kissinger called Bobbitt, "perhaps the most important political philosopher today."  Tony Blair wrote of Terror and Consent:  "It may be written by an academic but it is actually required reading for political leaders."  David Cameron, the leader of the Tory party in the UK  put it on a list of summer reading for his parliamentary colleagues in 2008.  ---------------------- ꕤ  ----------------------  In Terror & Consent, Bobbitt argued that the only justification for warfare in the 21st century was to protect human rights ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- The Garments of Court and Palace  " ... 2013, Bobbitt published a study of Niccolo Machiavelli entitled The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made. " "...  argues that only by understanding The Prince as one half of a constitutional treatise on the State (the other being Machiavelli's Discourses) can we reconcile the many otherwise contradictory elements of his work." [emphasises] " ... what he describes as Machiavelli’s reification [reification =error of treating something which is not concrete -eg an idea - as a concrete thing] of the state as an entity with its own reality that is not to be identified with the personal power of the prince. "... especially worth emphasizing in view of the fact that the term state is so often used ... as little more than a synonym for government." "... Bobbitt has already stressed in The Shield of Achilles how much is lost if we refuse to conceptualize the state as a distinct apparatus of power, and he now points to Machiavelli as the originator of this line of thought." "... 2004 Prospect Magazine named him One of Britain's Top 100 Public Intellectuals.  ... writes essays, typically on foreign policy, published in The New York Times, and The Guardian." SOURCE - ABOVE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bobbitt ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- ASIDE Davis, Polk & Wardwell founded in 1849 multiple name changes international law firm HQ NYC described as:  "Tiffany's of law firms" Revenue:  $975 million (2013) John W. Davis former US Solicitor General |  1924 Democratic presidential nominee US Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education represented South Carolina  |  in defence of racial segregation Davis developed close ties between the firm and: J.P. Morgan companies Guaranty Trust Company Associated Press International Paper firm represented numerous clients in the financial crisis of 2007-2008 lead counsel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York {U.S. Treasury’s $250 billion bank capital purchase program} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Polk_%26_Wardwell ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- ꕤ

John McCain - Creator of ISIL / Islamic Emirate? - Thierry Meyssan Article

SOURCE John McCain, Conductor of the "Arab Spring" and the Caliph by Thierry Meyssan http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html SUMMARY JOHN McCAIN creation ISIL (Islamic Emirate) Ibrahim al-Badri nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi created ISIL while on staff of "moderate" Free Syrian Army FSA Author says all the same mob: Free Syrian Army = flag of French colonization > aim depose Assad Al-Nosra Front = flag of al Qaeda > aim Islam spread Islamic Emirate =  flag of Caliphate >aim clean area of all infidels International Republican Institute (IRI) = Republican branch of NED/ CIA "NGO" est. by Reagan to extend activities of CIA IRI established in connection  British, Canadian & Australian secret services. inter-governmental agency / budget congress approved. John McCain coup resume: > Jean-Bertrand Aristide Haiti = completed > Ukraine coup = completed > Hugo Chávez Venezuela = *failed > Mwai Kibaki Kenya = *failed Sounds like author is saying John McCain is a CIA agent?  {Think McCain's getting too much credit here} 1990 USA led Saddam Hussein to believe attack on Kuwait considered internal affair / then used as pretext to mobilise coalition vs Iraq  B/c of Russia opposition, USA did not overthrow Hussein but made do with no-fly zone  2003 France influence not enough to offset 'Committee for the Liberation of Iraq' & prevent USA attack on Iraq  John McCain = major contributor to 'C'tee for Liberation of Iraq' US let pvt co plunder Iraq for a year Tried partition of country into three. [USA somehow lost $9-billion transferring (think plundered funds from fed reserve to Iraq) this isn't in article ... thought I'd add it in because it came to mind.] >> http://www.democracynow.org/2007/9/12/billions_over_baghdad_how_did_9b USA attempt to partition Iraq in x3 failed due to resistance of population. USA tried again 2007. Failed. Now tool = Islamic Emirate USA has aims to achieve partition of Iraq via "means of a non-state actor: the Islamic Emirate", says author. Islamic Emirate proxy op planned before meeting b/w John McCain + Ibrahim al-Badri. >5,000 jihadis were trained at expense of Qatar in NATO’s Libya in 2012 >$2.5-m paid at same time to the future Caliph. 2014 US Congress = secret vote in violation of interl law to approve funding for Al-Nosra Front (Al-Qaeda) + Islamic Emirate author says US Congress secretly voted funding "Islamic emirate in Iraq and the Levant" {assume this is ISIL - do not know what 'Islamic Emirate' is} US Congress secret vote on funding 'Islamic Emirate' violation international law, highly likely incls. arming & training jihadists. SaudiArabia announced: 1)Islamic Emirate headed by Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal brother of Prince Saud al Faisal (Foreign Minister) 2) Prince Turki al-Faisal (Saudi Arabia ambassador to US & UK) Islamic Emirates = new step in world mercenaries Islamic Emirates = new development mercenaries b/c not a residual force: actually an army in itself. Mercenary army, Islamic Emirates has: 1) sophisticated communication services at disposal for recruitment ... 2) civilian officials trained in large western schools taking over administration of territory Islamic Emirates mercenary army: Ukrainian weapons Saudi Arabia bought conveyed by Turkish secret services to Islamic Emirates 4 days after delivery Ukraine arms: joint attack on Iraq by Islamic Emirate & Kurdistan Regional Govt Islamic Emirates & Kurd attack =  > Islamic Emirate get Sunni part of country > Kurds increase territory by 40% religious minorities fled Simultaneous attack Islamic Emirate + Kurd & divvy of territory while minorities flee, enables partition of Iraq that USA has wanted Iraq Violating Iraqi-US Defence agrmt Pentagon did not intervene > allowed Islamic Emirate to continue conquest & massacres. Eventually some US bombing after 1mth, due to pressure of public opinion (author says). US bombing not meant to destroy the jihadist army / will have no impact on activities in other areas of Iraq or Syria Iraq bombings - symbolic. Destroy little. Just ensure each jihad player does not overlap territory it was assigned. Author says: "Kurds ... Turkish & Syrian Kurdish PKK which halted the progress of the Islamic Emirate." Islamic Emirate = comparable to mercenary armies of 16thC Europe conducting religious wars for the lords who paid them. "Caliph Ibrahim is a modern condottiere." Condottiere = leaders (warlords) Italian mercenary army late Middle Ages. Condottiero meant "contractor" {Renaissance Italian} synonymous with mod Eng. 'Mercenary Captain' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottieri Summary source: http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html Found this article very interesting. Unsure if 'Islamic Emirate' is ISIL.  Assumed it was at first, but now I'm confused. The author, Thierry Meyssan, is a French journalist and political activist, so I'd say he knows what he's talking about. Not sure if he meant that McCain is a CIA agent or he was just saying he is an agent of the US government, which is the same thing, I suppose. As I know very little about the Middle East, my trying to come to grips with this stuff is hilarious. Not sure how much of this I'll remember.  Also, the Middle East isn't entirely my thing.  I get interested and then freaked out when I see pictures of the carnage on twitter ... and I'm spooked by the whole religious trip everyone's on over there.  Religious mania and the kind of violence engaged in over there isn't something I can relate to.

Power Drunk Hillary Clinton - Wreaked Destruction on the Middle East

JUSTIN RAIMONDO ARTICLE Hillary’s War The Pentagon tried to stop her – unfortunately, to no avail by Justin Raimondo, February 02, 2015 What’s happening in Libya today is a crime: murder, rape, looting, chaos, a war of all against all. The perpetrator, the one key person who made all this possible, is a well known personage in American politics, a former Secretary of State and the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. What Hillary Clinton did to Libya is a crime on a scale rivaled only by the crimes of the Bush administration in Iraq – and there is a definite parallel in the methodology of the criminals. Libya has been pretty much off the public’s radar screen ever since the US intervention that led to Muammar Qaddafi’s downfall – and the ugly aftermath in which the US ambassador was murdered by the very people Washington was intent on "liberating." Now the aftermath is getting even uglier. The country is imploding, with two rival governments claiming suzerainty, but describing Libya’s situation as a state of "civil war" is a bit of an understatement. If ever there was such an entity as a "failed state" – that is, a state that has simply collapsed, and is dragging the rest of society down along with it – then Libya fits the definition to a tee. If we liken a society to the human body, then we can say Libya’s immune system is down, allowing a deadly infection to invade and take root – in this case, the "Islamic State," or "caliphate," known as ISIS, which first reared its head in Syria and is now spreading into Libya. [Suzerainty =  a power that controls the foreign affairs of a tributary vassal state, while allowing the subservient nation internal autonomy.] Last week ISIS gunmen stormed Tripoli’s five-star Corinithia Hotel and opened fire at everyone in sight: ten people were killed, five of them foreigners, including one American. A communiqué from the "Tripoli province" of ISIS took responsibility for the attack, which they said was in retaliation for the death of captured Al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Liby, who died of liver cancer in a US hospital after being captured by US Special Forces. Both Libya and Syria have been test cases in the experimental laboratory of America’s "regime-change" mad scientists – and both have given birth to Islamist Frankenstein monsters, turning on their creators with a vengeance. But who created them? Who are the Dr. Frankensteins who brought these monsters to life? The administration of George W. Bush lied us into war in Iraq, ignoring the warnings of war critics who presciently predicted the dissolution of the Iraqi state and the chaos we see there today. America’s alliance with "moderate" Sunni Islamists in Anbar province, credited with supposedly driving out Al Qaeda during the much-vaunted "surge," armed and trained the ISIS-led fanatics who have conquered that same region today. And yet while Team Bush can fairly be given some of the blame – by setting the general context of the disaster – the Obama administration is hardly innocent. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, took up a longstanding goal of the previous administration in pushing for a regime change campaign aimed at Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad: together with General David Petraeus, former CIA chief, she argued for arming the Syrian rebels, in concert with John Kerry and Republican allies like Sen. John McCain. This was part of a general strategy taken up during her tenure at Foggy Bottom, which sought to get ahead of the so-called Arab Spring and ally the US with "moderate" Islamists. The old secular-socialist despots, such as Assad and Libya’s Qaddafi, were finished, went the theory, and so the US should ally itself with this Wave of the Future so as not to be caught flatfooted by the rush of events. In Libya, this meant backing a motley collection of Islamist radicals with, at most, a few degrees of separation from al-Qaeda. This move was championed by Secretary Clinton, along with national security advisor Susan Rice and Samantha Power, then Special Assistant to the President for Human Rights – but not without pushback from the Pentagon. The generals didn’t want to get involved in what they viewed as a dubious adventure with unpredictable results. Who were these rebels we were supporting? The whole operation was "intelligence-lite," as a recent series of articles in the Washington Times puts it. The Times reports a full-scale Pentagon effort to avert US intervention: "Top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress so distrusted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2011 march to war in Libya that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi regime in an effort to halt the escalating crisis, according to secret audio recordings recovered from Tripoli. "The tapes, reviewed by The Washington Times and authenticated by the participants, chronicle U.S. officials’ unfiltered conversations with Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s son and a top Libyan leader, including criticisms that Mrs. Clinton had developed tunnel vision and led the U.S. into an unnecessary war without adequately weighing the intelligence community’s concerns." Just as neoconservatives in key positions in the Bush administration manipulated the intelligence in order to shape the debate over the Iraq war, deceiving Congress and the American people, so the Hillaryites in the Obama administration did the same in the brief debate over the Libyan intervention.  As the Times relates: “‘You should see these internal State Department reports that are produced in the State Department that go out to the Congress. They’re just full of stupid, stupid facts,’ an American intermediary specifically dispatched by the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Gadhafi regime in July 2011, saying the State Department was controlling what intelligence would be reported to U.S. officials." Secretary Clinton, National Security Advisor Rice, and "humanitarian interventionist" Power argued that Qaddafi’s speech in which he called Libyan rebels "rats" toward whom he would show "no mercy" indicated a "genocide" was imminent in the eastern city of Benghazi. The media blindly accepted this assertion, as is their wont when it comes to government claims, but as the Times reports: "[D]efense intelligence officials could not corroborate those concerns and in fact assessed that Gadhafi was unlikely to risk world outrage by inflicting mass casualties, officials told The Times. As a result, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strongly opposed Mrs. Clinton’s recommendation to use force." The generals feared they were being handed yet another foreign policy hot potato by the politicians, and in this they were indubitably correct: the Times says Hillary "repeatedly dismissed the warnings offered by career military and intelligence officials" – and prevented any of those warnings from reaching the President or members of Congress. Readers with long memories will recall similar suppressed (albeit leaked) warnings from dissident members of the intelligence community as George W. Bush and his neocon-controlled national security bureaucracy marched us to war in Iraq. The intelligence, they warned, was bogus; there were no "weapons of mass destruction," and the "evidence" for their existence was ginned up out of whole cloth. Surreptitious recordings of a US agent on assignment for the Pentagon reveal the President referring to the Libyan adventure as "all Secretary Clinton’s matter" – in effect washing his hands of it. According to the tapes, the Pentagon’s man in Libya told a top Libyan official – who was trying to negotiate a peaceful end to the crisis – that Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., a top aide to Adm. Mullen, "does not trust the reports that are coming out of the State Department and CIA, but there’s nothing he can do about it." At one point, the Pentagon liaison tells his Libyan contacts "I can tell you that the President is not getting accurate information." Sound familiar? As in the case of the Iraq war, intelligence made public was cherry-picked in order to support a preordained conclusion, and the facts didn’t matter all that much anyway. The Times cites a senior Pentagon official who says: "The decision to invade [Libya] had already been made, so everything coming out of the State Department at that time was to reinforce that decision.” The paper also quotes a senior intelligence official familiar with the administration’s internal deliberations as saying: “Neither the intervention decision nor the regime change decision was an intelligence-heavy decision. People weren’t on the edge of their seats, intelligence wasn’t driving the decision one way or another." Facts? Who needs them? Hillary was determined to have her war, and not even the efforts by the Qaddafi family to effectively surrender were going to stop her: "On the day the U.N. resolution was passed, Mrs. Clinton ordered a general within the Pentagon to refuse to take a call with Gadhafi’s son Seif and other high-level members within the regime, to help negotiate a resolution, the secret recordings reveal. A day later, on March 18, Gadhafi called for a cease-fire, another action the administration dismissed." But the anti-interventionist generals in the Pentagon didn’t give up even then. The Times reveals that General Carter Ham, who headed up the US African Command (Africom), tried to negotiate a 72-hour ceasefire with the Libyan regime. The possibility presented itself through the person of retired Navy Rear Admiral Charles Kubic, who was a business representative in Libya: Kubic says he was approached by top Libyan officials who were ready to negotiate a truce. Kubic relayed the proposal to Lt. Col. Brian Linvill, who was Africom’s Libya specialist, who informed Gen. Ham. The Africom chief agreed it was a good idea. According to Kubic: “The Libyans would stop all combat operations and withdraw all military forces to the outskirts of the cities and assume a defensive posture. Then to insure the credibility with the international community, the Libyans would accept recipients from the African Union to make sure the truce was honored. “[Gadhafi] came back and said he was willing to step down and permit a transition government, but he had two conditions. First was to insure there was a military force left over after he left Libya capable to go after al Qaeda. Secondly, he wanted to have the sanctions against him and his family and those loyal to him lifted and free passage. At that point in time, everybody thought that was reasonable.” The problem was that reasonableness had nothing to do with it: Obama having handed her the authority, Hillary was on her dry run as commander-in-chief and she wasn’t about to let the Pentagon stand in her way. She ordered Ham to "stand down two days after the negotiations began," reports the Times. Kubic says: "If their goal was to get Gadhafi out of power, then why not give a 72-hour truce a try? It wasn’t enough to get him out of power; they wanted him dead." They got what they wanted. They also got a failed state that has become a terrorist haven – and a dead US ambassador, along with several other Americans murdered in the same Benghazi attack. All under Secretary Clinton’s watch. Against the available intelligence, which proffered no evidence of an "imminent genocide," Hillary took her cues from Donald Rumsfeld, whose infamous disquisition on "unknown unknowns" represented the merger of foreign policy and speculative fiction. Citing Rwanda and the early stages of the Balkan conflicts, Clinton averred that inaction would be the equivalent of standing by while a "humanitarian disaster" unfolded. Evidence to the contrary was therefore not admissible because, after all, it might happen. Even as intelligence and military officials were warning that the aftermath of NATO’s Libyan campaign would be highly problematic, Secretary Clinton ignored them and instead pursued her politically-driven agenda – at a cost of thousands of lives, and a terrorist implantation in Libya. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) put it well: "I think there was a rush headlong toward war in Libya and [the State Department and the administration] weren’t listening to anyone saying anything otherwise, including the Defense Department and intelligence communities, who were saying, ‘Hold on a minute. This may not be a good idea.’ "Hillary’s judgment has to be questioned. Her eagerness for war in Libya should preclude her from being considered the next commander in chief." Amen, brother! http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/02/01/hillarys-war/ COMMENT LOL ... thought this guy's spell-check had gone haywire. Nope.  I just haven't come across the term 'suzerainty' before: Suzerainty:   a power that controls the foreign affairs of a tributary vassal state, while allowing the subservient nation internal autonomy. What I got out of this is that Hillary Clinton is a disgusting person and so is anyone associated with her, even if it's just for a book launch photo op. It's just mind-blowing that peoples lives are destroyed and that entire regions are drawn into mayhem created by these power-drunk idiots. ..................................................................................   PS  The 'power drunk' conclusion is probably a bit too simplistic.  Hillary Clinton and other US political figures that banded together to cause the mayhem in Libya did so on behalf of whoever they really represent (ie their political donors and backers).