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Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
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August 11, 2016

War-Whore of Wall Street: Hillary Clinton



WAR-WHORE
of WALL STREET




DANGER
EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ALL HUMANITY


Divert the nuclear nightmare that is now coming into view.


Hillary Clinton a threat to all humanity:

  • neo-con
  • warhawk
  • liar
  • unindicted criminal
  • Wall Street puppet

'Progressive left', instead of warning against her, is lecturing that it is 'duty' to help her get elected




Professor Michel Chossudovsky


"In so many words, Hillary Clinton's foreign stands as:  "to blow up the planet".

She has made statements to the effect that a first strike nuclear attack against Russia or Iran is "on the table", so that if she in the White House she could, in fact, unleash the unspoken, which is World War III.

I think this is something we have to address, both in terms of analysis, but in terms of political choice, so that anybody that wants to blow up the planet is not 'progressive'.

Secondly, she has a criminal record.  Not only in regards to the e-mail scandal, but also in relation to the Clinton Foundation, which is involved in fraud, money laundering, political cronyism etc.  It is amply documented.

So that, in effect, the choice for the American people is to elect a war criminal."

end


Narrator

Too many people become attached to the personality of these political personas, or fixated on the 'D' or the 'R' after their name.  This clouds their judgement and stops them from seeing their policies and agenda for what they really are.


Of:

Diana Johnstone
author:  'Queen of Chaos:  The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton'

Narrator says Johnson believes:

Hillary is best understood, not as a person, but as the instrument for the think tanks, Wall Street financiers and other connected insiders who want to embroil the United States in more illegal wars and plunder the country and its people even further.

Diana Johnstone
author:  'Queen of Chaos:  The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton'

[Hillary Clinton] "... is a shallow, ambitious woman, who has decided to make herself the instrument of the Washington think tank persuasion, and is using that to pose as a great 'expert' on world affairs, to be elected as president.

She simply is the embodiment of all that is terrible in American foreign policy, that has developed over the past decades."

Narrator

"It is no hyperbole to say that the election of Hillary Clinton as president this November would be one of the great tragedies in the history of the United States and perhaps the world."


Globeral Research - GRTV.ca

The Globalisation of War:  America's "Long War" Against Humanity
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
globalresearch.ca



Professor Michel Chossudovsky


America's hegemonic project in the post 9/11 era is the globalisation of war, whereby the US-NATO military machine, coupled with:
  • covert intelligence operations;
  • economic sanctions; and
  • the thrust of regime change;

is deployed in all major regions of the world.


"The threat of pre-emptive nuclear war is also used to blackmail countries into submission."

This long war against humanity is carried out at the height of the most serious economic crisis in modern history; it is intimately related to a process of financial restructuring, which has resulted in the collapse of national economies and impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.


"The ultimate objective is WORLD CONQUEST UNDER THE CLOAK OF 'HUMAN RIGHTS' and 'WESTERN DEMOCRACY'."



Michel Chossudovsky
(Russian Jewish ancestry)
Canadian economist & author
Professor of economics at the University of Ottawa
President & Director of Centre for Research on Globalisation, f. 2001
located Montreal, Canada
economic adviser to governments developing countries
consultant for international orgs
incl:  UN, UN Economic Commission for Latin America & Caribbean

other:
visiting professor
Chile during the 1970–1973 government of Salvador Allende
led to examination of economic policies associated with:
International Monetary Fund and/or World Bank programs
conclusion:


CRIMINALISATION OF GLOBAL ECONOMY

increasingly mobile capital & tax havens
facilitated the criminalization of the global economy
via movements of large amounts of:

  • drug money
  • other illegal finance
draining billions of dollars in CAPITAL FLIGHT
  • = dramatically REDUCING TAX REVENUES
  • = paralysing SOCIAL PROGRAMS
  • = driving up BUDGET DEFICITS
  • = accumulation of LARGE PUBLIC DEBT
RUSSIA

1993 Chossudovsky authored article in The New York Times
WARNING:  Boris Yeltsin's neoliberal reforms and privatization policies would lead to disaster

contributor to:

  • Le Monde Diplomatique (France)
  • RT News (Russia)
  • Press TV (Iran)

UKRAINE - CIA COUP

Chossudovsky:

deaths of protesters during the Euromaidan demonstrations in Ukraine
=  "triggered by Neo-Nazi elements", used "to break the legitimacy of a duly elected government."


SYRIA

2012 article,
Chossudovsky:  "characterized the Free Syrian Army as "a de facto paramilitary creation of NATO.""

Interviewed in documentary:   'The Weight of Chains'

2014:  awarded Gold Medal of Merit by Serbia government




wikipedia


COMMENT

That was interesting.

I think I like Professor Michel Chossudovsky.




August 02, 2016

Disciple of US-Anglo NATO Capitalist Mercenary - Propaganda for War on Russia





Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-nuclear-war-nato-richard-shirreff-485818
 
War With Russia Looms, Says Former NATO General in New Book

By Alexander Nazaryan On 8/1/16 at 4:03 PM



The first female president of the United States faces her first major international conflict: Seeking to consolidate the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe, Russia has seized the three Baltic states—Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia—all members of NATO. That requires a response beyond just a caustic tweet or sharply worded press release. For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, there is serious talk of nuclear war. 

[COMMENT:  Shameless US-Anglo capitalist establishment warmonger Russophobe propaganda.
The laughable reference to the 'first female president' is reference to just another Wall Street puppet, irrespective of the sex organs of the puppet; much like the first black puppet neocon-exploited-PR-appointment Wall Street owned president, with the weekly CIA 'kill list' and the joke Nobel Public Opinion Manipulation 'Peace Prize' pretzel.
Russia is not the aggressor in Eastern Europe.  The aggressor is, in fact, the US-Anglo capitalist empire and the Baltic states mentioned are vassals of the US-Anglo capitalist empire, thanks to their stupid neocon Washington puppet capitalist serving elites, who happen to be destroying their own countries: (1) subordinating the interests of their individual nations to the interests of US-Anglo capitalism;  (2) courting nuclear incident with Russia and (3) filling their indigenous European nations with third world hordes, either displaced by US-Anglo capitalist military interventions across the globe or just looking for a better standard of living than in third world sh*tholes, exploited by capitalist and by corrupt third world leaders, while the population growth in those regions has exploded over decades of redirecting Western taxpayer resources to third world aid and economic enslavement.   
The fantasy propaganda piece by British ex-NATO capitalist mercenary commander refers to 'nuclear war'; but if there is a nuclear incident, it will be because of the US-Anglo capitalist mercenary aggressor's threat to Russian national security, planted on Russia's doorstep.  ]

This is the basis of 2017 War with Russia, the unsettling new book by General Sir Richard Shirreff, who retired in 2014 as NATO’s deputy supreme commander of Europe, as well as its highest-ranking British officer. Although 2017 is technically a novel, this “future history” is really just a war game on the printed page, its preoccupations much closer to those of von Clausewitz and Churchill than those of Woolf or Wordsworth. Shirreff’s book is subtitled “An urgent warning from senior military command,” and he makes plain in his introduction that the novel’s primary intention is to convey the urgency of containing Russian President Vladimir Putin. He likens today’s Mother Russia to Germany in the late 1930s, when it seized the Sudetenland in brazen contravention of established borders. War-weary Europe let the matter slide, hoping that talk of a Thousand Year Reich was just bluster. 

[COMMENT:  what a stupid c*cksucker this d*ckhead is.  Does he actually think anyone is dumb enough to fall for this 'contain Putin' US-Anglo capitalist serving shite?  The only 'Nazis' are the US-Anglo capitalist elites and their sponsored politicians and mouthpieces, the assh*les.  The same US-Anglo capitalists destroyed Europe in their WWII capitalist war on Europe.  Look what they have done to indigenous Europe since:  they are the enemies of all Europeans.  ]

“I’m worried, very worried, that we’re sleepwalking into something absolutely catastrophic,” Shirreff tells me, speaking on a Friday evening from his home in Hampshire, in the bucolic country outside of London. A graduate of Oxford who served in the British army, with deployments in the Middle East and the Balkans, he is not a natural writer, so the judgment of the Financial Times—that this is a “literary disaster”—is not as stinging as it might otherwise be, since that same review praised Shirreff’s grim geopolitical vision as one of “profound importance.” 2017 is an unabashedly didactic work, a real-life warning with the bold-faced names changed.

[COMMENT:  this US-Anglo capitalist filth had no right to interfere in the Balkans.  Russia is just another Balkans for the US-Anglo capitalist scum, and they're not 'sleepwalking' into anything:  they are deliberately provoking a military incident with Russia, so that they can drag Russia into war and destroy Russia, like they have destroyed the Balkans and the Middle East, while destroying indigenous Europe.  ]

The novel opens with the Russians staging an attack on a school in Donetsk, the breakaway region of the Ukraine controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists since 2014. Close to 100 children are killed, and Ukrainian forces are blamed, thus giving the Russians the perfect pretext for further aggression. Russia used a similar ploy—the bombing of several apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999—to begin the first Chechen War. But let’s not give Putin too much credit: He likely learned the tactic from Hitler, who was probably behind the Reichstag fire of 1933, which allowed the Nazis to eliminate political opponents before moving on to more grandiose aims.

[COMMENT:  this is so perverse.  The CIA puppet Ukraine is responsible for killing children and other civilians in east Ukraine, while NATO has a long history of war crimes and child murder. 



 




 



INSERT
http://www.infowars.com/there-is-a-special-place-in-hell-for-clinton-operative-albright/


There is a “Special Place in Hell” for Clinton Operative Albright 

The 17th anniversary of Bill Clinton's illegal bombing of Yugoslavia

Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com - March 27, 2016

Back in February, the former Secretary of State under Bill Clinton said “there’s a special place in hell” for women who do not vote for Hillary Clinton. Madeleine Albright made the remark during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Last Thursday marked the 17th anniversary of NATO’s illegal bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during Bill Clinton’s reign. The attack—38,400 sorties, including 10,484 strike sorties—lasted 78 days and destroyed infrastructure, commercial buildings, schools, health institutions, media houses and cultural monuments.

NATO “deeply” regretted killing at least seventeen people when a bomb hit a bus packed with women and children. It also supposedly regretted killing fifteen people after it targeted a hospital with a cluster bomb and killed three diplomats at China’s embassy in Belgrade. After Serbian television criticized Albright and Clinton, it was bombed as well, killing sixteen people.

Democrat Bernie Sanders “begrudgingly” voted to attack Yugoslavia. “If anyone thinks there is a simple solution to this problem, then you know very little about this problem,” he said recently in defense of his decision.

“The [1999] bombing war violates and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent ‘Polish atrocities’ against Germans,” writes William Rockler, former prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. [Comment:  this was a kangaroo court. ]

In 2013 Albright admitted the bombing was illegal. “When you ask if that is legal—honestly, to go back to Kosovo, system kind of said that what we did there was not legal, but was fair,” she said.

Albright is known for her enthusiastic support of mass murder
and war crimes. Asked about economic sanctions imposed on Iraq that led to the death of more than 500,000 Iraqi children, Albright said in 1996: “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

Clinton, like Albright, supports mass murder as a foreign policy tool. In October 2000, The New York Times reported Clinton “cited American involvement in Bosnia and Kosovo as examples of foreign engagements she favored on moral and strategic grounds.” Clinton urged her husband to bomb Yugoslavia without congressional approval and said what “do we have NATO for if not to defend our way of life?”

In 2008 she defended her vote to invade Iraq and kill 1.5 million people. She accused the late Tim Russert of getting all “Jesuitical” when he pointed out her support for Bush’s “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.”

Now that she is running for president Clinton tells her supporters she “made a mistake, plain and simple” when she voted to kill.

CONTINUED
http://www.infowars.com/there-is-a-special-place-in-hell-for-clinton-operative-albright/


F*ck you, General Sir Richard Shirreff, you filthy propagandist dog. 

F*cking US-Anglo capitalist filth is forever backing crazy religious extremist militia murderers across the globe, and backed the Chechen Islamic terrorists.  It is therefore the US-Anglo capitalist filth that is responsible for the spread of Medieval religious and political terrorism across the globe.   Fancy dragging Adolf Hitler into this in an attempt to smear the president of Russia, when the US-Anglo empire is responsible for more destruction, murder and war crimes across this planet during the imperialist exploitation of numerous foreign peoples, and during Chinese Opium Wars, the Boer War, during WWI, during WWII, and for decades since WWII, than the Third Reich German targets of global capitalism who were subject to US-Anglo capitalist brutal and criminal torture-confessions, disposed of in the multiples of thousands by starvation on the banks of the Rhine, and otherwise sent into slavery by the capitalists, who occupied and continue to occupy the defeated German state; US-Anglo capitalists who presided over the starvation, 'de-Nazification' and rape of Germans, and US-Anglo capitalists who have enslaved the German people whose heritage has since been assigned to invaders.  But it's Hitler that's the 'bad guy', say the capitalist war criminals.  Eyeroll.   ]
BACK TO
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-nuclear-war-nato-richard-shirreff-485818
 
War With Russia Looms, Says Former NATO General in New Book

By Alexander Nazaryan On 8/1/16 at 4:03 PM 

....

CONTINUED 

The Ukrainian operation is only the start. Putin—his identity is very lightly disguised by Shirreff, as is that of Hillary Clinton, though he says she wasn’t necessarily his model for the American president—has his eyes on the Baltics, which Russia has long regarded as its birthright. The Kremlin is bolstered by a conviction that Western Europe and the United States will do anything to avoid the use of force. “The West may have great economic capability, but they think only of social welfare,” one Kremlin adviser says in 2017. “They have forgotten to stand up for themselves.”  

[COMMENT:  what was the illegal Iraq War?  Oh, please, what a load of sh*t.  As if the US-Anglo and associated capitalists and their NATO mercenary force are shy of using lethal (and illegal force), and it's this same capitalist aggressor scum that has trained long-range missiles on Russia, from Russia's borderlands.    What kind of d*ckhead would put his name to this ludicrous propaganda?  ]

When I spoke to Shirreff, he lamented the ease with which Russia invaded both Georgia (2008) and the Ukraine (2014). “That was a slick, very professionally executed operation,” he says of the conquest of Crimea, one that Putin may well try to replicate in the Baltics, given how little genuine resistance he encountered from the West two years ago. “Russia despises weakness and respects strength,” Shirreff tells me. It’s no accident that, every few months, the nation goes agog over images of Putin, stolid and shirtless, wrestling a bear or cuddling with a Siberian tiger.  

[COMMENT:  Shirreff doesn't know what he's talking about, or he pretends not to know, for the sake of disseminating warmongering propaganda against the Russians.  Russia did not invade Ukraine.  The invasion of Ukraine is by US-Anglo capitalism that executed the CIA coup in Ukraine.

Looks like Shirreff is taking a leaf out of the Israeli military doctrine, contending that "Russia despises weakness ..."; in an Israeli-styled ideological and propaganda move, laying the groundwork for 'justification' of the use of highly aggressive military force (be it pre-emptive or disproportionately aggressive, as a military doctrine).

Yes, let's train missiles on Russia, because social media has taken a liking to splicing images of Putin on a bear ... what a d*ckhead, Shirreff is.  ]

Until a few weeks ago, most American readers of 2017 would not have thought twice about the preface by James Stavridis, the now-retired American admiral who served as the NATO Supreme Commander of Europe. But in July, media outlets reported that Stavridis was being seriously considered by Clinton as her vice presidential candidate. If he is to serve as an advisory role in her presidency, his view of Russia would be useful. And as presented here, that view is utterly unambiguous: “Of all the challenges America faces on the geopolitical scene in the second decade of the 21st century, the most dangerous is the resurgence of Russia under President Putin.” When Mitt Romney said as much during his 2012 presidential bid, he was mocked for stoking anachronistic Cold War fears. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back,” President Obama said glibly of Romney’s warning.

[Comment:  who gives a rat's what that Wall Street PR appointment is mouthing off, with a Wall Street hand up his capitalist-serving ass.  This Wall Street serving rat, and the interests he represents, is a danger to all Europeans.  The danger here is capitalist aggressors Washington, London and Brussels.  ]

But the 1980s actually saw the rise of nuclear disarmament, as well as a broader thawing of Russo-American relations. This moment, the one we live in, feels closer to the 1960s, with American missile defense shields rising in the former Soviet bloc countries of Romania and Poland, as well as military exercises that seem like preparations for the real deal. Annoyed by such exercises in Eastern Europe conducted by NATO, a Kremlin senior official put the matter as bluntly as one of Shirreff’s characters: “If NATO initiates an encroachment—against a nuclear power like ourselves—it will be punished.” This kind of bluster could easily have come from the Kremlin of Khrushchev, as both sides prepared for mutual assured destruction.

[COMMENT:  why is stating the obvious consequence of threatening Russia's national security 'bluster' or likened to the Shirreff novel propaganda, Newsweek?
US-Anglo capitalist mercenary NATO is hardly preparing for 'mutual assured destruction', as Washington is probably quite safe, being situated well away, across the Atlantic.
US-Anglo capitalist NATO is preparing for destruction of Russia and I hope the Russians nuke Europe off the f*cking face of the Earth if there is an incident, so that there is nothing capable of growing on European soil for the next 1000 years of radiation emanating from a nuclear wasted crater in what once was indigenous Europe.  That's how I would be handling any threat to Russia (and/or indigenous Europe).  ]

I spoke to Shirreff just days after hackers universally believed to be associated with the Kremlin broke into the servers of the Democratic National Committee, a breach the director of national intelligence called “a version of war” (though he also tried to temper suggestions that Russia was at fault). Donald Trump openly encouraged further such incursions, as long they helped his quest for the White House.

[COMMENT:  more propaganda.  The hackers are not 'universally believed to be associated with the Kremlin"; that is just the propaganda from the US-Anglo capitalist authorities and capitalist-controlled corporate media. ]

When I first spoke with Shirreff, he declined to comment on Trump’s overtures to the Kremlin, but by the next morning, he’d changed his mind and sent me an email that said, in part: “What could suit Putin better than to embarrass the Democrats and so propel into the White House a candidate who has undermined NATO’s doctrine of collective defence by raising questions over America’s willingness to support an ally if attacked?” He was referring to Trump’s suggestion that the United States would not come to the aid of NATO allies who hadn’t made the requisite defense expenditures.

[COMMENT:  LMAO.  Now Trump the capitalist and the poster-boy of American capitalism is in league with the Kremlin?  LOL, sure he is. 
Face facts:  nobody white and sane wants the Democrats and their program of destruction of white America, which is at a critical point and on the verge of going under at a purported 62% white demographic (probably much less, in reality). 
The bet is the American public also doesn't want the costs of endless neocon wars in the Middle East, the enormous costs of bearing US capitalist mercenary NATO forces stationed around the world, or being lumbered with paying the price for American capitalist serving 'free' trade agreements, that don't serve ordinary American interests. 
Note also that Trump is merely referring to those nations that do not come up with the requisite military finances.  ]

It is far more likely, according to most projections, that the next president will be Clinton, a longtime foe of Putin who has shown a willingness to use American force abroad. Shirreff believes that nuclear war with Russia is a possibility: Kaliningrad, a region of Russia that borders the Baltic States, now serves as a growing repository for both conventional and nuclear weapons, including Iskander missile systems that have nuclear capability and a range of 300 miles. These could be fired at the West—and will be, if Putin finds Russia’s borders with Europe threatened. Of course, if he invades the Baltics, such a counterattack would be required by the “collective defense” doctrine of the North Atlantic Treaty, known as Article 5. “If NATO goes to war with Russia,” Shirreff says, “that means nuclear war.” 

[COMMENT:  once again, if there is a nuclear event, it will be because US-Anglo capitalist mercenaries, NATO, are encroaching on Russia's borders and threatening Russian national security.  Please nuke them, Russia.  ]

His solution is paradoxical: a show of strength and unity by NATO that would discourage any offensive moves on Russia’s part, so that NATO’s strength would never be tested. In other words, frighten Russia into acceptable, rational-actor behavior. Shirreff adds that Trump is “absolutely right” about many European nations failing to meet their financial obligations to NATO, even if the failed casino magnate couched his criticism in undue threats about abandoning treaty commitments. “Europe needs to step up to the mark,” Shirreff says.

He also says the West needs to commit once more to a dialogue with Russia. That’s made harder by the fact that Russia is always sensitive to lectures from the West, resentful about perceived condescension from Europe and the U.S. Still, stony silence is unlikely to bring a resolution. “Communication” is what Shirreff hopes for, not war. “But it’s gotta be backed up by strength.

[COMMENT:  If I were Russian, and if I had nukes, I'd simply send all these capitalist oppressor assh*les nukes in a surprise suicide attack.   Death would be worth winning.    ]



General Sir Richard Shirreff
born in Kenya in 1955
raised Kenya
education:  England
Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History)
commissioned from Sandhurst 1978

regimental service was spent in

  • Germany
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland
  • Gulf
  • Hong Kong
  • Brunei

attended miscellaneous 'defence studies' courses
appointed to various staff posts


Yugoslavia
commanded 7th Armoured Brigade 1999-2000
incl., forming the core of a multinational brigade in Serbian Kosovo
commanded 3rd (UK) Division from 2005-2007

Iraq
divisional HQ deployed as HQ Multinational Division South East
in Iraq between July 2006 and January 2007
commanded on operations at every level from platoon to division


included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader
counter-insurgency infantry ops role in Northern Ireland (three tours)
counter-insurgency infantry ops role in Iraq
counter-insurgency infantry ops role in in Serbian Kosovo

qualified as a military parachutist in 2005
command of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in December 2007
preparing the Corps for deployment in support of ISAF
oversaw the relocation of the Corps from Germany to the UK

served as the 27th DSACEUR from 3rd March 2011 until 1 April 2014


http://www.gcsp.ch/News-Knowledge/Experts/Fellows/Gen.-Sir-Alexander-Richard-David-Shirreff




Philip Hammond tried to have General court martialled for speaking out, it is claimed

Tom Whitehead, Security Editor

18 May 2016 • 6:09pm

Philip Hammond tried to have a senior General court martialled for speaking out over defence cuts, it is claimed.

General Sir Richard Shirreff said the then Defence Secretary was furious that he had criticised the Government for “hollowing out” the Royal Navy.

Sir Richard claimed Mr Hammond asked the head of the army to take “formal action” against him
but was told that was not possible because, at the time, Sir Richard reported to Nato.

The row boiled over in 2014 following comments made by Sir Richard as he stepped down as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato, where he was the UK’s most senior officer.

He said defence cuts meant the Royal Navy was being “cut to the bone” and it was a “hell of a gamble”.

Mr Hammond, who moved to become Foreign Secretary later that year, went on television to dismiss the criticism as “nonsense”.

But behind the public row, it is now claimed that Mr Hammond wanted further action taken against Sir Richard, which the General said would have amounted to a court martial.

In his new book, which predicts war with Russia by next year, Sir Richard said he was summoned to the office of General Sir Peter Wall, then Chief of the General Staff (CGS), and told that the Defence Secretary had wanted “formal action!.

“Formal action would have involved a court martial and, fortunately for the latter’s political reputation – it also seems he had not appreciated that I reported to Nato and not to him – wiser counsel had prevailed,” he wrote.

At a press conference launching the book, Sir Richard added: “I was summoned to the  CGS office and told that he had headed off a potential discussion of formal action being taken against me. So that is fact.”

Sources close to Mr Hammond dismissed the claim.

A Whitehall source said: “No one recognises this claim, but this guy has made a series of outlandish claims over the years.

“He's trying to sell a book, so we have to expect such outbursts. Previous comments were made as if the Ministry of Defence didn't have a financial black hole to tackle and as if he wasn't aware that the 2010 SDSR (Strategic Defence and Security Review) maintained the Army's ability to deploy a division size force."

Sir Richard told the Telegraph on Tuesday that David Cameron and his Government had made the UK a “semi-pacifist” nation by its stance on not wanting to engage in foreign conflicts. On Wednesday, he said the situation had become so severe that he doubted Britain would not be able to engage in a war such as it did in Iraq in 2003. 

“There is and has been a hollowing out of, a cutting away at muscle and damn well nearly at the bone, frankly, in UK defences which puts us now in a very, very different position from where we were even ten or 15 years ago,” he said.

“I would question whether the UK could deploy a division for war. I think that’s highly unlikely. The notion of deploying a division for war as the UK did in Iraq in 2003 and in 1991 is frankly almost inconceivable.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/philip-hammond-tried-to-have-general-court-martialled-for-speaki/



Russia Contends With
NATO Threat to
Russian National Security




COMMENT

This is an outrage.  How is it possible for an unelected military official attached to the US-Anglo capitalist mercenary organisation, NATO, to act to publicly undermine the policy of the elected British government, and to be able to do so with impunity, in pursuit of US-NATO capitalist warmongering agenda goals?

The system is clearly broken.  LOL





Russia Contends With NATO Threat to Russian National Security



CAPITALIST
NATO THREAT



RT NEWS

https://www.rt.com/news/354141-russia-nato-partnership-ready/

Russia ready for constructive partnership with NATO, invites military experts for talks - MoD

Published time: 1 Aug, 2016 12:21
Edited time: 1 Aug, 2016 14:13

Russia has proposed to NATO a "positive program" for developing relations, aimed at decreasing tensions between Moscow and the US-led military bloc, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said.

“NATO’s military experts have been invited to Moscow in September for consultations concerning military and political situation in Europe,” Antonov said in a statement to the media.

Russia is ready for a constructive dialogue with NATO despite differences in approach to the reasons and consequences of the decisions made at the bloc’s summit in Warsaw in July, Antonov stressed.

During the gathering in the Polish capital, NATO member states labeled Moscow “a source of instability” and ordered an increased military presence near Russian borders.

The decisions made at the summit have been thoroughly analyzed by Russian experts, Antonov said.

One of the issues to be discussed in September is military flights over the Baltic Sea.

According to Antonov, Russia is “considering the option of performing military flights over the Baltic only with ID transponders on,” but only if NATO does the same.

NATO’s military attaches have been informed of Moscow's offer to review the earlier existing military programs in the format of Russia-NATO Council, Antonov said.

He noted that the renewal of the Cooperative Airspace initiative between NATO and Russia would be especially useful in the current situation.

Antonov said NATO states' military attaches will also be invited as observers to Russian Army’s Kavkaz-2016 drills, which are planned for September.

“Russia’s Defense Ministry proposed to start exchanging assessments at a military level regarding the terrorist threat, primarily to counter the spread of IS [Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL] and other terrorist organizations,” he said.

“Russia is also ready for cooperation to avoid incidents at sea and in the air, based on bilateral agreements and consultations with the defense ministries of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden and Finland to address mutual concerns over military activities in the border areas,” Antonov said.

One of the key results of the NATO Summit in Warsaw was the long-debated deployment of four additional NATO battalions to the Baltic States. The bloc said that the deployment is necessary to prevent a possible attack from Russia and reassure Eastern European nations that other members are committed to defending them.  [comment:  It's just the NATO pretext for US-Anglo (& vassal European states) capitalist aggression against Russia.  ]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also announced the bloc’s ballistic missile defense system in Europe is now operational[comment:  Ayatolla, send them nukes.  ;)  ]

Russia believes that NATO’s new troop deployments as well as an increased number of military trainings near Russian territory, the creation of anti-ballistic missile sites in Europe and other moves are a threat to Russia’s national security.

Relations between Moscow and NATO soured sharply after Russia's reunion with Crimea and the beginning of the military conflict in Ukraine in 2014.  [comment:  military conflict in Ukraine is the result of the US capitalist CIA coup in US puppet state, Ukraine.  ]

https://www.rt.com/news/354141-russia-nato-partnership-ready/




RT NEWS

https://www.rt.com/news/354219-polar-roar-bombers-exercises/

NATO’s Polar Roar: 5 US bombers ‘intercepted’ in large-scale exercise over Baltic Sea

Published time: 1 Aug, 2016 22:19

Three B-52 strategic bombers and two B-2 stealth bombers flew together from the US to the North and Baltic Seas, before being “intercepted” by other NATO aircraft in an ambitious aerial exercise.

“Exercises like POLAR ROAR enhance cooperation and reinforce NATO’s credible and visible posture in preserving a safe and secure environment,” said General Kevin Huyck, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) in a statement.

The bombers lifted off from different bases in Missouri, North Dakota and Louisiana, before meeting up over the Atlantic, and undertaking an uninterrupted flight over Europe, where they refueled mid-air, a key component of the exercise.

Once there, they were treated like intruders by local NATO jets, as part of the alliance’s air policing training.

[Comment:  yet these capitalist c*cksuckers that are destroying Europe aren't policing the European land mass that is being invaded by third world hordes and terrorists, in the program of invasion that has spelled the destruction of Europe for decades since WWII, while Europeans are being slaughtered and European women are being raped by savages.  Who needs this kind of 'defence', that is merely a mask for aggression and warmongering on behalf of the US-Anglo and affiliated capitalist agenda that is destroying European societies?   Europe needs to remove its genocidal capitalist ruling elites from power.     ] 



Disciple of US-Anglo NATO Capitalist Mercenary Propaganda for War on Russia
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This calls for another link to:

Russian Cossack styled song ('My Caucasus')




July 31, 2016

Sweden Aids & Abets Murder-Terrorism While Arbitrarily & Unlawfully Detaining Australian Journalist



Sweden Aids & Abets Murder-Terrorism 
While Arbitrarily & Unlawfully Detaining Australian Journalist
SWEDEN RELEASES
MURDER-TERRORISM SUSPECT
SOUGHT BY RUSSIANS INTERNATIONALLY

While the European Arrest Warrant has been used to rubber stamp an act of political persecution by the American capitalist war criminal government's Swedish and British government proxies, who are engaged in political persecution and unlawful detention without charge of Australian journalist whistleblower publisher, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks), for 5.5 years, these same corrupt Swedish and European Union entities are aiding and abetting terrorists wanted internationally, including one that is suspected of subsequently masterminding a recently executed act of terrorism in Turkey.


RT NEWS
https://archive.is/forLy

Suspect on Russia’s terrorist list apprehended at Stockholm airport, later walks free

Published time: 29 Jul, 2016 19:38

Police at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden apprehended a suspect who was being sought internationally and was wanted by Russia on suspicion of terrorism and murder. After being questioned, however, the man was later released without charge.

According to Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper, the 36-year-old man, who was found to hold several passports, was on his way out of Sweden after a short stay in the country. The incident happened around 8.30am local time on Friday.

The case was reported to the International Public Prosecution Office. Prosecutor Ronnie Jacobsson informed reporters: “[The suspect] is in custody, and I have asked him to get a public defender.”

Several hours later though, the prosecution office decided to release the man from police custody, revealing little information both about the suspect and why the decision to let him go had been made.

"My decision is based on what has been said during interrogations and what has emerged about the man. My overall assessment is that there are no grounds for continued detention," Jacobsson said in a statement for the press.

The man's lawyer, Johan Hansson, said that according to the arrest warrant, the events in relation to which his defendant is wanted are "old, between 12 and 17 years back." "There has never been any danger to Sweden," Aftonbladet cited the lawyer as saying.  [comment:  murder and terrorism is never 'old', you shifty bastards ]

Earlier in the day, the prosecutor declined to confirm if Swedish authorities had contacted their Russian counterparts, the Local reported.

The incident comes as Russia calls for increased cooperation on apprehending international terrorist suspects. The request was voiced by the Federal Security Service (FSB) following an international meeting of security chiefs which saw 100 delegations from 63 countries arrive in St. Petersburg on July 27-28.

The Russian federal agency has active warrants for some 260 terrorist suspects worldwide, all holders of Russian passports living abroad and accused of participating in terrorism.

And “there are over 220 potential ‘pseudo-Shakhids [suicide bombers]’ under operative supervision in Russia. FSB officers are systematically exposing persons involved in the preparation of kamikaze bombers and staging terrorist acts involving them,” FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov said on Wednesday.

According to Bortnikov, these suspects are “actively preparing to transfer their operations to Russia and other countries.”

The news also comes on the heels of what Russia says were repeated warnings to Turkey and the European Union that suspected terrorists were hiding out theresomething Moscow believes their security services ignored.

Further to that, it turned out the Chechen man suspected of masterminding the Istanbul Airport attack in late June that claimed 44 lives and left more than 230 injured, Ahmed Chataev, was also on Russia’s list, but, according to Moscow, was granted refugee status by Austria. This reportedly helped him avoid extradition multiple times.
  [comment:  Western assh*les are aiding terrorists (and currently trying to undermine the Assad government and Russian efforts to rid Aleppo of Western proxy terrorists). ]

READ MORE: Wanted in Russia: EU court blocked suspected Istanbul attack mastermind from extradition in 2010

To counteract terrorism more effectively, countries should consolidate their databases on terrorists into one, Bortnikov suggested.

“Almost every security service and law enforcement body possesses vast troves of information. However, these are isolated databases that have to be consolidated into one,” he said, referring to Interpol and EU crime databases in particular.

Russia’s initiative has already been backed by the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), Bortnikov said.
https://archive.is/forLy



July 24, 2016

Putin Warns of American Threat of Nuclear War



NUCLEAR WAR




AMERICAN
CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY

PROVOKING
NUCLEAR WAR



USING
non-existent 'Iran threat' lies as pretext 

TO POSITION
NATO Tomahawk long-range Missile System in Europe

CURRENT RANGE
500km territorial penetration range

INCREASED RANGE
1000km territorial penetration range (with future technology upgrades)

THEREBY DIRECTLY THREATENING

  • Russia's nuclear potential
  • representing a serious national security threat to Russia
  • creating conditions that may lead to nuclear event


WASHINGTON'S BLOG
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/emeritus-russia-scholar-princeton-obama-us-testing-provoking-russia-pushing-towards-hot-war.html

Emeritus Russia Scholar at Princeton: Obama, US are ‘Testing, Provoking Russia’, Pushing towards Hot War

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini

Points from interview with Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University:

“The US in its history has never put troops so close to Russia, going back to the eighteenth century.”  (Okay, this is factually incorrect; the US invaded Russia with some 13,000 troops in 1918.)  Now the US is “right on Russia’s borders. … Obama cannot hide from this one in the shadows as he sometimes does regarding foreign policy.  This is his decision” and now “NATO is going to quadruple its military power around Russia.”

“The new Cold War has become much hotter because of a decision taken in Washington” and is “more dangerous than the preceding Cold War”.

Saying the new Cold War is “solely due to Putin’s ‘aggression'” is “simply not true.  At a minimum, both sides were responsible”, and in fact, as Cohen details, the US is the aggressor (which makes sense, as it has been expanding militarily since its inception, and is by far the largest military force in the world.)

On the US/NATO using Turkey to ignite the hot war: “We do know, I think, one thing: that for whatever reason, possibly because of its lucrative bootleg relations with the Islamic State, mainly involving oil, Turkey is trying to provoke a military conflict with Russia on the assumption that that would bring NATO directly in against Russia. … on the surface, there is no other explanation … NATO can tell Turkey to knock this off, but it goes on”; Washington doesn’t stop it, just as it does not, as Dr. Prashad points out, invoke the NATO charter to force Turkey to close its border to stop relations with ISIS.

“What’s going on at the moment” in terms of Turkey, Syria, and NATO’s expansion, is the US “testing Russia… provoking Russia… awaiting Russia’s reaction.”

Russia’s reaction so far is talk of “fortify[ing] its Western border.”

In the West, “all this is blamed on Russian aggression. But who’s the aggressor here?  Russia didn’t move its military equipment toward NATO.  NATO moved its toward Russia.  So I would say what you have here is a proactive NATO/American policy against Russia and a highly predictable reactive policy on the part of Russia.”

In Ukraine, “the provocations and the initial punch came from the West, and Putin reacted in a way that Yelstin could not have or would not have, but Putin is Putin.”

Cohen says we are now at the most dangerous nuclear moment since the nuclear crisis of the early 1960s, and “Obama cannot hide from this now.  All his silences and his ellipses and his vanishing moment… this is his decision.  The buck stops there.  He signed off on this, and it is an enormous escalation of the Cold War in the direction of hot war.”

Perhaps the most notable statement of the interview comes at the end, when Cohen points out:

“Not one question about it has been raised in all this multitude of presidential debates.  … You and I tonight have talked about something that is unknown to the American public.”


How’s that for a propaganda system?

Robert Barsocchini is an internationally published author who focuses on force dynamics, national and global, and also writes professionally for the film industry.  Updates on Twitter.  Author’s review of the historical background to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/emeritus-russia-scholar-princeton-obama-us-testing-provoking-russia-pushing-towards-hot-war.html