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US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
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February 01, 2015

Article - "The Only "Lowlife Scum" in the McCain Hearing Was Henry Kissinger" | John McCain



The Only "Lowlife Scum" in the McCain Hearing Was Henry Kissinger

By Gregory Krieg January 31, 2015

"Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes!"

The strained, sing-song chant that sent Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) into a twitching fit of rage on Thursday afternoon had died out by the time security escorted one last graying activist from the hearing room. For McCain, though, the quarrel never ends.

This was no ordinary disruption, and the man seated before the panel, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was no ordinary guest. That goes to explain McCain's jarring choice of words when he finally, and now infamously, called the departing protesters "lowlife scum."

YouTube VIDEO 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=OYMtEGLmD_Y&x-yt-cl=85114404&feature=player_embedded

If McCain was the pit bull in this setting, then Kissinger was the decaying clapboard chop-shop he was intent on defending. The intruders, in their defiance, were mauled for having attempted to carry out a "citizen's arrest" of the 91-year-old Nobel Prize winner for atrocities committed by the U.S. government during the 1970s in countries including Vietnam, Laos, East Timor and Chile.

The senator's resulting outburst, in its wild-eyed wonder, had the unfortunate effect of overshadowing the substance of the their charges: namely, that the bloated figure wheeled out before them had, in the course of an eight-year run as the chief U.S. foreign policy strategist, masterminded a series of violent overt and covert campaigns against civilians and democratic governments across Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Kissinger spent a little more than two of those years — beginning officially on Jan. 20, 1969, and ending on that same date in 1977 — serving concurrently as secretary of state and national security adviser to President Richard Nixon and, after his resignation, Gerald Ford. His power, and the seemingly counterintuitive respect he inspires, cannot be overstated, nor can it be rationally explained. There are hundreds of thousands of deaths on his crooked shoulders. Millions more were physically or psychologically wounded

The secret bombing of Cambodia: The German-born "president whisperer" made his first dark mark on the planet in early 1969, when, confronted with continued advances by North Vietnamese fighters from bases in neighboring Cambodia, he and Nixon conspired to order a top-secret bombing campaign called Operation Breakfast, which turned into the longer-running Operation Menu.

It might seem quaint today, given the mind-bending frequency of executive power overreaches, but Nixon's authorization to strike inside eastern Cambodia and Laos would come to represent a then-unprecedented scale of wartime deceit and illegality. Over the next four years, the U.S. would drop millions of tons of explosives on the neutral countries, all the while denying the program's existence at every turn.

"Estimates of the number of people killed begin in the low hundreds of thousands and range up from there," Henry Grabar wrote in the Atlantic, "but the truth is that no one has any idea." World Without Genocide, a watchdog organization, estimates that 750,000 Cambodians were killed between 1970 and 1974, most of them by "American B-52 bombers, using napalm and dart cluster-bombs to destroy suspected Viet Cong targets."

No one in the U.S. had anything more than a suspicion it was happening until May 9, 1969, when the New York Times published a story titled "Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested." Kissinger responded swiftly, telling aides and the president, "We must crush these [leakers and journalists]. We must destroy them." Infamous FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover was more than happy to oblige and, as told in Robert Weiner's Enemies: A History of the FBI, the two quickly set up wiretaps on the aides Kissinger suspected had leaked the story. Kissinger denied it all until 1992, when he conceded his part in the process of settling a related lawsuit.

Backing Indonesia's invasion of East Timor: Kissinger's role in Vietnam fills volumes, but it's his and America's ostensible absence in East Timor on Dec. 7, 1975, that speaks more directly to his malignant diplomatic tactics.

Traveling alongside President Gerald Ford, Kissinger led a Dec. 6 meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, with Indonesian dictator Suharto. The focus was on East Timor, at the time a small Southeast Asian territory recently abandoned by the colonial Portuguese. With Ford concerned about regional Communists filling the vacuum and Suharto, an ally, with his eyes set on an invasion and occupation, Kissinger asked the Indonesians to wait until the U.S. delegation left to begin their assault. Additionally, he promised to supply Suharto with American arms, over the inevitable objections of Congress.

"We will understand and will not press you on the issue. We understand the problem and the intentions you have," Kissinger told Suharto, the details emerging via transcripts released in 2001. "We would be able to influence the reaction in America if whatever happens, happens after we return. If you have made plans, we will do our best to keep everyone quiet until the president returns home." 

The transcripts also reveal Kissinger asking Suharto if he anticipated a "long guerrilla war." Suharto responded that it would be "small."

And so the Americans left. The invasion of East Timor, carried out with a steady flow of American support, was swift. They waited one day. The fight lasted much longer, carrying on for nearly a quarter-century. The estimated death toll: 200,000. Suharto died in 2008 after stepping down a decade earlier, following the deaths of 500 student protesters.

Taking down the Chilean government: Sept. 11 means something very different, but just as painful, for the people of Chile. On that date in 1973, a CIA-backed coup ousted and assassinated the country's democratically elected President Salvador Allende. The socialist was replaced with Gen. Augusto Pinochet, a right-wing thug who would rule the country as a dictator for 17 brutal years.

After Allende was elected on Sept. 4, 1970, Kissinger declared in a memo to Nixon that the vote "poses for us one of the most serious challenges ever faced in this hemisphere."

"Your decision as to what to do about it may be the most historic and difficult foreign affairs decision you will make this year," he wrote. U.S. businesses had hundreds of millions tied up in Latin America, which has been and remains a target for strategic American enemies. Kissinger decided that allowing Allende to remain in power would create an "insidious model effect." That is to say: Other countries under the American hemispheric umbrella might see that they could democratically elect a government and make decisions without the U.S.

Soon after the Sept. 11, 1973, coup, Kissinger was quick to order his man in Santiago to deliver to Pinochet "our strongest desires to cooperate closely and establish firm basis for cordial and most constructive relationship." He did, and Kissinger's shop in Washington, D.C., working with the CIA began a long relationship with the regime. Chile's murderous National Intelligence Directorate was built by American agents.  [Looks like 'Kissinger's shop' is the National Security Council, going by entry in Aaron Wildavsky's book]

Pinochet's military dictatorship, one of a number of right-wing juntas that dominated, degraded and bled Latin America in the 1970s and '80s, killed thousands and tortured an estimated 29,000, according to a survey conducted by a government commission. The great majority of those crimes happened in 1973, with Kissinger in close contact the whole way. After he left, his Reaganite disciples supported the regime through its demise in 1990.

So what the fuck was Henry Kissinger doing in Washington, D.C., last Thursday?

On the face of it, Kissinger had been summoned to discuss foreign policy matters with the Senate Armed Services Committee. The hearing, called "Global Challenges and the U.S. National Security Strategy," was as inscrutable as the title suggests. In reality, Kissinger was on Capitol Hill because he, like so much "scum" before him, sticks to and feeds off all innocent life around him. He was invited because, to people like McCain, he represents the brand of blunt hegemonic history that Americans are (or at least should be) desperate to reclaim.

But Henry Kissinger's time is in the past. There are new "challenges." Many of them, like President Barack Obama's drone killing program, probably make the old man smile. Some day soon, Kissinger will die. If only his legacy could be buried with him.

http://mic.com/articles/109508/the-only-low-life-scum-in-the-mc-cain-hearing-was-henry-kissinger


COMMENT

Another great article.  
Good for me as a learning aid.
Really enjoyed this.

December 25, 2014

VIDEO - Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)






(1992, IMDB)

 

Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dzufDdQ6uKg 

 

 


Watched this to the intermission. 
Way long for me.  It could have done with some savage editing, or an edited version for people who just want the distilled message.
Have notes somewhere.  So disorganised I can't recall where.  
Found them.  Didn't number the pages.  Day's later, I can't tell beginning from end.
Anyway, here's what I got out of it:
The 'elite media' (eg New York Times, Washington Post) is agenda setting media. 
What they draw attention to and what they ignore becomes the agenda of the wider news services.  Large media outfits also shape history.
Further, NYT was creator of history as it had a massive archive of carefully collated news information.
Reed Irvine - insinuates that press agenda-setting is a left-wing conspiracy.  
There's appearances of left-wing bias and opposition to power.  If I recall correctly, this is not a genuine left-leaning press or opposition to the establishment:  this press is firmly entrenched in the system and is part of the establishment.
Press ignoring atrocities in Timor, the Panama invasion and the Gulf War (ie in step with the US agenda).
Bush stating 'aggressors can't be rewarded' seemed to really annoy Chomsky, I think.  
If I remember correctly, it may have been the hypocrisy of the US totalitarian war state that was at issue for Chomsky.
Anyway, in Panama US actions were ignored (and wherever else around the world), while the actions of those the US war state decides to vilify become hugely overblown and over-reported.
'Official enemy' is the term used for those the US stands against.
Column inches were compared and what the US government didn't want you to know about went massively under-reported.  Only a fraction of that topic would even make the news, unlike the overblown news about events concerning those the US was in opposition to.
News stories were also censored -- example of a UK article -- information gouged before it hit the press in the US.
Pol Pot's 1975-78 genocide in East Timor wasn't deemed newsworthy.
Try again: Pol Pot in Cambodia was deemed massively newsworthy (I think the notes should read.  Hard to make them out!  Sorry about this mess.  Don't have time to check or fix). 
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia became the 'official enemy' and their actions were blown grossly out of proportion (if I recall correctly).
Reporting in respect of the 'official enemy' is subject to:
  • exaggeration
  • outrage
  • falsification (photos)
  • lies
  • frudulence
compared to US atrocities.
There is an interplay:
  • Government does.
  • Press says.
  • People think.
Press is therefore complicit in genocide by suppressing facts.
East Timor involved an Indonesian invasion that was ignored.  UN voted against the resolution to invade.  
If I recall correctly, it was profitable supplying weapons.  West was selling arms to Indonesians for profit.
* Indonesians killed a couple of Australian journalists December 7, 1975.
UN response was condemnations and sanctions, but US clearly not allowing intervention.
Meantime there was outrage over what was going on in Cambodia (for which the US was responsible).
Very hard to make out my scrawl or the order this is in.  
 .............................................
Democratic process is what violence is to totalitarian society.
It is a case of the Big Stick (totalitarian) versus the Big Lie (democracy).
Some mention of 'rationalist libertarian socialism', but (days later) I've no idea what this is about.  Might have to watch the video again. 
Social action animated by visions of future society | challenge authority and domination.
Control/Coercion require justification - there is seldom a justification.
Mention made of exceptions - eg war, parent/child relationships
Democracy requires free access to information -- including publishing, education --  and press scrutiny.
Discussion of origins of democracy:  17th C. revolution - Royalists versus others.
Multiple issues:  incl. master/servant
Time of radical publishing - disturbed all elites on both sides of the war. 
Manufactured consent:  technique of control of special class.
View that decision requires cool observation & that stupidity of average man is guided by myth (beliefs).
INDOCTRINATION is the essence of democracy.
Fear of people not submitting to civil control  -- people contained by manufactured consent / propaganda (versus the totalitarian model of domination by military force).
The state becomes the myth-maker.
Propaganda targets: 
1. Political class - about 20% educated.
2. The 80% that follow orders and pay the costs.
Mentioned sports as indoctrination.  So pleased about that because I detest sports and have never understood the point of following who kicks a ball etc.
Walter Lippmann got a mention.  Cannot recall why.  
Will link him, but its the early hours of the morning and I can't take the time to do more than that.
Richard Niebuhr got a mention regarding the 'cool observer' and stupid average man who follows faith.  Not absolutely certain I have the right person.  Guessing I have.  No time to double-check.  Might come back to this over the next few days. (:
Thought it was funny that Chomsky referred to NYT as a 'lapdog'. 
While discussing how the government doesn't like to be exposed as the 'emperor with no clothes', it reminded me of why the powers that be have targeted WikiLeaks and publisher Julian Assange.
Anyway, this is a scrambled and sketchy summary of the first portion of the documentary.  
Even though this isn't chronological (I notice I've reversed the order), I'm going to leave it and shut down as soon as I can because I've got Christmas obligations.  
Have noticed that if you really push yourself and not sleep normally for extended periods, it seems to have a depressant effect.  Or maybe that's just on me.
Have a nice holiday everyone.
[In a rush, excuse any typos]

September 05, 2014

ASSANGE - LAB RESULTS





The Lab Results

These are the lab results presented to Chief Inspector Mats Gehlin on Monday 25 October 2010.



Gehlin had submitted two condoms to the state crime lab SKL ... 

exactly two months earlier, which was quite the feat, as one came from Sofia Wilén 

– even though Chief Inspector Eva Finné, who was in charge of both Sofia Wilén and Anna Ardin’s cases at the time, had demonstratively closed the more serious part relating to Wilén, stating that ‘no crime had been committed’; and she expressly ordered Gehlin to keep his ‘hands off’. 

Nonetheless, Gehlin submitted Wilén’s condom under Ardin’s case number.


[Chief Inspector Mats Gehlin] had NOT asked the lab to check for DNA, only to see if they could determine how the condoms had been torn.

But they did a DNA test anyway, and came up with some rather shattering results, results the Swedish media have done their best to hide from the citizenry ever since.



The condom submitted by Anna Ardin showed no traces whatsoever of chromosomal (genomic) DNA – meaning the condom cannot have been used for sex.

[ ...]



[ FURTHER]

SKL

A conversation with SKL yielded the following.

The condom from the residence of complainant 2 [Ardin] had no traces of DNA.

Vaginal swabs from complainant 1 [Wilén] had DNA from complainant 1 [Wilén] and a man.



COMMENT


This was floating around on Twitter, so I thought I'd check it out.

Wasn't expecting condom pics.  Bonus condom pics @ the link above!  LOL
 
Anyway, 'no traces of DNA' (re Complainant 2 - Ardin) is pretty conclusive.

The Complainant 1 (Wilén) DNA -- re 'a man' is, what?  Could be from anywhere?  But, regardless, this is the matter that was dismissed.

I'm not entirely clear on this stuff, but given that Chief Inspector Eva Finné had:
demonstratively closed the more serious part relating to Wilén, stating that ‘no crime had been committed’
one wonders why Chief Inspector Mats Gehlin would go against express orders of Chief Inspector Eva Finné -- and why the dismissed Complainant 1 (Wilén) matter was even joined to the Complainant 2 (Ardin)  matter (the zero DNA evidence).

The entire thing sounds super dodgy to me.

The justice system in Sweden sounds a complete nightmare.  

Surprising.  Sweden has this image of being a 'human rights' protector - well, it did in my mind.  That's well and truly been dispelled.  Sweden's a violator of human rights by the look of it  (Assange, Warg & populations impacted by oil companies in Africa).

Sweden's screwed Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder).  

Warg's on trial right now in Denmark.  The guy was kidnapped from Cambodia or somewhere on what sounds like trumped up charges of hacking.

Is anybody else creeped out by all this stuff?