French Prime Minister Manuel Valls - A 'Third Way' Blair (Sell-Out) Socialist?

Is Manuel Valls really a French Tony Blair? Published: 02 Sep 2014 13:49 GMT+02:00 Updated: 02 Sep 2014 13:49 GMT+02:00 Is the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls really a Gallic Tony Blair? With the help of a political expert we taker a closer look to see if the oft-made comparison is fair or false. Ever since France’s prime minister declared his love for business and nominated a former Rothschild banker as his new economy minister last week, the number of comparisons likening him to former British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair have been coming thick and fast. Socialist MP Laurent Baumel even accused the Prime Minister of “copying and pasting” one of Tony Blair’s speeches. To see if the comparison really does fit, The Local has asked Marc Lazar, a specialist of the left and social-democrat movements in Europe, from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), to help compare. [ ... continued @ source ... ] http://www.thelocal.fr/20140902/manuel-valls-french-tony-blair

Worth a read.

Discovered something called 'The Third Way'.

It's for sell-outs who pay lip service to social justice etc, but serve business interests.
That's what I got at first glance.

As usual, I'm in too much of a hurry to slow down & really consider carefully.
Figure I'll come across this again some time, so this is enough info for now.

Mentioned in the wiki on the Third Way:

• Tony Blair (UK)
• Bill Clinton (US Democrats)
• Bob Hawke(Aust Labor)
• Paul Keating (Aust Labor)
• Matteo Renzi (Italy)
• Manuel Valls (France)

Expect Julia Gillard might be a third-wayer.

Manuel Valls is Spanish born. State school educated.

He's appointed a Rothschild banker as new economy minister (last week).
And he and Blair exploit the following:

* war on crime;
* pragmatism;
* public persuasion;
* supposedly natural leaders, authoritarian, charismatic

IMAGE - US BOMBING SINCE WWII

TWITTER censorship SUCKS  ❌ TWITTER image gone click to enlarge The 'disappeared' image would have been a list of US bombings since WWII. Image was loaded onto the Google system of image upload ... and it worked just fine as at September 2014. Cannot blame Google for this one. It looks like the image was actually LINKED rather than uploaded onto the Google system, so this is a problem with Twitter (or the user simply deleting the image, which is possible but improbable). TWITTER censorship SUCKS  ❌

USA Lobbyists >- Hunton & Williams (Lawyers) > Corporate & Right-Wing Causes

Hunton & Williams (Lawyers) Employs more than 800 lawyers - HQ Richmond, Virginia  -  "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC" - wiki: here. Acxiom Corporation - technology - here - (*hacked). American Electric Power - electric utility - here - tax breaks; no tax; $28.85 million on lobbying  & other.  Americans for Affordable Climate Policy (the climate change-denying) - here. Bank of America - largest bank & brokerage firm - here.  >>  [Fix the Debt - here] Berkshire Hathaway -  Warren Buffett's company - subsidiaries - here. Duke Energy - one of largest electric power coy. - here.  >>  [Fix the Debt - here] Energy Corporation - here. Gas Processors Association (the friendly “fracking” people!) - here. General Dynamics - 5th largest defence contractor - here. Koch Industries - subsid. manuf/ trade /investment - here.  Spent $50m on lobbying WA 2006-2011. MasterCard - tried to block WikiLeaks payments - here  (*Hacked). National Association of Manufacturers - NAM - here. Southern Company - elect. utility holding co. - here. Wells Fargo- 4th largest bank - prison investment - here. [+ many more] >> OpenSecrets and SourceWatch   Source - Tom Burghardt (2011) - here.

ARTICLE - Selling NATO's Killing Machine - by Stephen Lendman

Selling Nato's Killing Machine September 2nd, 2014 by Stephen Lendman On August 17, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post featured op-eds selling NATO at a time when its existence more than ever threatens humanity's survival. More on them below. Claiming NATO is a "political and military alliance for peace and security" is farcical on its face. Its mission is polar opposite. US-led NATO is an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity's survival hangs in the balance. NATO includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states. They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners. It wants them on all continents. It wants them virtually everywhere. It wants a global military established. It wants unchallenged control. It wants all outliers eliminated. It wants pro-Western vassal states replacing them. Its strategy prioritizes war on humanity. It's ravaging and destroying one country after another. Its 1999 78-day rape of Yugoslavia was one of history's great crimes. So is its involvement in Washington's post-9/11 wars. Naked aggression against countries posing no threat to America, other Western nations and its neighbors defines them. Millions were ruthlessly slaughtered to advance Washington's imperium. NATO's confrontation with Russia alone risks global conflict. Humanity's survival depends on stopping this monster before it's too late. Belligerence and destabilizing events in Eurasia perhaps leaves precious little time left to do it. US-led NATO bears full responsibility for today's dangerous world. Not according to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and its supreme allied commander, General Philip Breedlove. Their Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined "A NATO for a Dangerous World." They ludicrously claimed NATO "kept the Cold War from getting hot," and made "an unprecedented period of peace" following WW II possible. False! War with Nazi Germany devastated Soviet Russia. It needed years to rebuild its shattered country. It wanted peace, not more war. Claiming a post-WW II period of peace runs counter to actual events. The Vietnam War began. Wars raged in Indochina, Greece, Paraguay, between India and Pakistan, Palestine, the Korean peninsula, and elsewhere. What Americans call the Korean War began in 1950. Various others raged at the same time. Peace was elusive then. Today it looks almost entirely out of reach. Washington bears full responsibility for many of the world's hot spots. Claiming peace is "challenged by Russia's aggression against Ukraine" turns truth on its head. Rasmussen and Breedlove lied saying "(f)or the first time since the end of World War II, a European country has grabbed part of another's land by force." Claiming Russia invaded Ukraine is polar opposite truth. Suggesting it took Crimea by force ignores near popular unanimity to rejoin Russia. Calling non-threatening Russian military exercises near Ukraine border disruptive ignores all-out Kremlin efforts to resolve Ukrainian crisis conditions peacefully. Saying Russian humanitarian aid is cynical leaves unexplained why America and other Western countries haven't provided their own. Suggesting Russian involvement in downing MH17 ignores clear evidence of Kiev's responsibility. Rasmussen and Breedlove falsely accuse Russia of "resorting to a hybrid war, with snap exercises, secret commandos and smuggled missiles." They do so despite no evidence whatever supporting them. At the same time, they claim NATO's mission is to "defend the territory, populations and shared values of all its members (against) any threat." The only ones they face are invented as pretexts for America's rage to ravage one country after another. To deploy NATO forces close to Russian and Chinese borders. To surround them. To target their heartlands with nuclear-armed missiles. To make the world safe for war profiteers, corporate America and its Western counterparts. To replace independent governments with pro-Western stooge ones. To achieve unchallenged control worldwide. To risk global conflict to achieve it. At the same time, America bears full responsibility for threatening humanity's survival. Rogue NATO states and Israel share it. [... continued ...] FULL @ SOURCE http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/09/02/selling-nato-s-killing-machine

An article worth checking out.

In Brief

Got the worst pain -- ever.  Out of nowhere.  Think it's my stomach, but it's quite high up under my rib cage.  Hope I'm not having a heart attack.  If there's no further posts, I'm dead.  LOL Novorossiya are steaming-rolling head, judging by the reports.  But we'll see. Can't sit still.  Sort of squirming in my seat, huffing & puffing to take the edge off whatever's wrong. Hoping couple of pain killers kick in and take the edge off this soon. Poland/Tusk is lobbying for the NATO-Ukraine incursion.  Guessing Tusk is either (a) ultra conservative or (b) from the US/NGO 'sausage factory'. Same old anti Russian articles around the traps.  Get ridiculously worked up about it, like I'm taking it personally or something.  Too bad I don't have a chilled, sarcastic take on it like some of the Twitter dudes do -- they're so funny.  Anyway, it's not like the Russians care.  Rogozin, Putin and Lavrov have all been going about their business -- and working the Russian crowds.  Lavrov seems to have a few fans.  Take it he's a popular figure.  Getting worked up about the bad press Russia gets is rather embarrassing:  nobody's worried and tomorrow's another news day.  That's just how it works -- there's a 'villain' who gets a daily beat-up and Russia is that 'villain'. Anyway, there's no holding back the tidal wave of nasty, underhand poison-pen persuasion pieces from assorted lobbyists. Someone pointed out that the propaganda's dished out in a stop-start fashion and it's true.  Every so often there's a crescendo of official 'condemning' statements, combined with an avalanche of press vilification ... followed by a lull. Not sure how it works.  I've only started to watch politics.  Never had an interest before.  Might have already mentioned, Italy's Federica Mogherini's been appointed the UN High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Policy of the Economic Union, which I'm quite pleased about.  Better than Bildt and Tusk.  And better looking. Unfortunately, Tusk's got himself the President of the European Council job, but in a toss up between creepy Carl Bildt or Tusk being appointed, Tusk suddenly shines. LOL Tusk/Poland and the Baltic states sound like they've joined forces to bitch about the Mogherini appointment.  It was reported that they weren't pleased with her appointment because she's too 'close' and too 'soft' on Russia, or something like that.  Everyone's whispering about the lack of experience, as well.  But it's probably not a real job, so who cares.  She's kinda hot in a milfy way, so what's the problem?  And it's not like Ashton's some Wonder Woman:  those nuclear talks are ongoing. The EU alliances and back-room lobbying probably matter far more than the actual positions.  But that's just a guess. Speaking of Ashton, she met with the Iranian foreign minister (I think it was) for another round of EU nuclear talks. Russia's up for another round of sanctions from the US puppets and Australia's Prime Minister also joined in bleating about sanctions to be taken against Russia. What is utterly appalling is that NO SANCTIONS are to be taken against the US puppet government in Ukraine and that all these representatives of 'truth', 'justice', 'peace', 'democracy' - and other fanciful crap we're supposed to believe - meekly adopt US policy and support the shelling of civilians by the Ukraine government.  Not a word of condemnation.  So what does that tell you? New Zealand has its own suppression order and spy scandal, under the John Key government.  Also, his Justice Minister resigned over some very unsavoury allegations.  But that's not all, folks ... NZ's law prohibits spying on citizens of NZ, but that hasn't stopped the government spying -- AND they've executed illegal warrants (re Kim Dotcom raid) AND they've refused to answer questions about funding from their US equivalent, so there's obviously some murky stuff going on in NZ government and intelligence -- and it has USA and NSA fingerprints all over it.  Hollywood's a player in this as well ... but I'm not entirely clear on the ins and outs of the Dotcom scandal, because I've been flitting from one thing to another that happens to take my interest. Facebook are censoring the Novorossiya supporters' posts by the look of things.  I've hooked them up with a Ukraine article that appears to indicate that the Ukraine government is having social media stuff censored.  Translation kind of garbled, but I think that's the gist of it -- and if that's the case, it's outrageous.  But I don't know who to complain to. "Facebook removed our post about the abominable declarations of neonazi Battalion Azov leader, Andriy Biletsky,..." >> Porkkky has done a deal w/ -- blocking social media for Ukraine government - http://www.president.gov.ua/news/31108.html  Anyway, that's some of the stuff that caught my attention.  Disappointed that I don't cover more ground.  No idea what's happening in France, apart from new cabinet having been formed after the economy minister bitched about not-so-socialist policy. The Labor government in Australia has sprung to mind, but they're not socialists, although they're supposed to be the 'left'.  Not sure what they are.  Sound like they're just another bunch of conservatives -- or they're happy to make the sift wherever necessary (if it means gaining power).   Worse, they appear to be US-Israel dominated.  Check out the WikiLeaks cable regarding Julia Gillard's determined climb to the top ... over Rudd's 'dead' body, so to speak.    ---------------------------------------------  PS Geez, it's annoying pressing 'publish' and finding typos. What's with the 'drafting blindness', I wonder?  As in, why are typos easier to see once you've published?  A rather boring post, as well.   Sounds like it's been written by a robot.  Don't see that improving any time soon.  Boring writing comes naturally.    :) If I've repeated any info, my apologies.  I've not been focused on the blog, so I'm just rambling.

Free Julian Assange

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UKRAINE & EASTERN EUROPE - SEE ECUADOR

Ecuador: WikiLeaks cables show US how used 'democracy promotion' to push corporate interests Monday, September 1, 2014 By Linda Pearson Graffiti opposing the US military base in Manta, which has been closed by the Rafael Correa government. WikiLeaks cables revealed the US Embassy was deeply concerned about the threat posed to the US base by Correa. Ecuador's pro-US neoliberal president Lucio Gutierrez was ousted in 2005. Since then, relations between Ecuador and the United States have deteriorated, with the Andean nation’s increasing rejection of US hegemony. The government of Rafael Correa, first elected in 2006, has broken from the neoliberal doctrines Washington has imposed on Latin America. It has embraced regional integration, moving closer to its neighbours and further away from the US. Diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show how hard the US fought to control Ecuador's future post-Gutierrez. They show a key element of US efforts to control Ecuador’s political and economic direction in the post-Gutierrez years was the US Embassy’s “democracy promotion” activity. So-called “democracy promotion” came to prominence as a method for maintaining US hegemony in the 1980s. Professor William I Robinson says a shift occurred when Washington policy-makers realised the traditional method of supporting authoritarian client states tended to produce just the sort of movements for radical change the US wanted to avoid. An example was the rise to power of the left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. As the Quito cables illustrate, the goal of this strategy is not the promotion of genuine democracy, in the sense of popular participation in the running of society. Rather, it is the creation and maintenance of what Robinson calls “polyarchy” in his 1996 book Promoting Polyarchy. This means “a system in which a small group actually rules and mass participation in decision-making is confined to leadership choice in elections carefully managed by competing elites”. The overarching aim of “democracy promotion” is preserving the global capitalist order. Under this order, countries in the global South play a subordinate role to those in the North and governments serve the needs of transnational business before their people. By targeting civil society groups in developing countries, such as political parties, trade unions and NGOs, “democracy promotion” programs are intended to foster a network of like-minded elites and promote consensus around key economic and political issues. This consensus translates into government policies that toe the US economic and political line, while radical ideas are filtered out. [... continued ...] FULL @ SOURCE - here.

This is a fantastic article and a great example of how US interests/transnational business interests creep in with an agenda to quietly 'colonise' other nations.

The fallen soviet satellites are developing nations and the US has been stirring the pot in that region for a couple of decades.

Academics, university graduates, leaders, political figures and so on, all come out of the same 'sausage factory' of US/US NGO/Corporate shaping and influence, which, as the article says, is designed to build consensus (which serves US interests).

The US has been playing with Eastern Europe for decades and has been cultivating Ukraine intensively for a couple of decades.