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US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
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Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
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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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December 13, 2015

We Must Get Britain Out of the EU - ASAP

Article
SOURCE
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/12/britain-deserves-truth-immigration/



Britain Deserves Truth On Immigration

EXTRACT
PART ARTICLE ONLY
FULL AT SOURCE

 [ ... ]
In a damming article in The Sun last week, Rod Liddle criticised David Cameron and his lack of backbone when it comes to standing up to the parading Angela Merkel and her persistence in trying to persuade Turkey to become a full member of the EU. At a time when many nations around Europe want less EU dictatorship and a cut in immigration, Merkel seems to want even more.

The truth is, Merkel, the EU and David Cameron are about to give the right of entry to 70 million Turksas well as £3 billion! Why? Because Merkel says so. Liddle says:

    “…..70 million Turks! Why is it doing this Are they all mad? More like very, very, devious. Because the more people who come into the country, the more money the country generates. That keeps Chancellor George Osborne happy. But the amount of money we have per person – known as GDP per capita – reduces. So YOU have less, but the country, as a whole, has more, in the very short term. And of course, the richest people in the country benefit. Employers get to pay less in wages. And they get cheap nannies and au pairs and taxi cabs.”

So the public have less in their pockets – less money to buy food, less for beer and less to pay the rent. Many of those entering the job market can only find low paid work with a glut of foreign migrants forcing down wages. It just isn’t sensible to have an open-door, unlimited mass immigration policy when we have 1.75 million unemployed in this country already.

...

It is appalling statistics are being fiddled by Osborne to trick the public into believing they are being listened to. The EU will not allow David Cameron any leeway when it comes to migration in his so-called renegotiations.  They will not even consider withholding benefits to migrants entering the UK for just a short period of time – let alone four years as he has asked.

The only way for the British government to satisfy the public’s needs when it comes to immigration is getting net migration down to the tens of thousands as promised, and not the hundreds. We must take back control of our own borders. Under no circumstances should Cameron even consider opening Britain up to 70 million more people.

Cameron will not listen and Osborne wants to deceive us – we must Get Britain Out of the EU as soon as possible.

Rob Comley is a researcher for the cross-party grassroots Eurosceptic campaign group Get Britain Out.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/12/britain-deserves-truth-immigration/




In case you missed it:

   Turkey in EU
-- equals MORE immigrants, from Turkey (pop. 70-million)
-- rendering the £3 billion, allegedly to stop immigration
-- a give-away to Turkey (& likely funding arming & supporting proxy terrorists in Middle East)
-- expect GDP per capital to be reduced
-- expect LESS income
-- expect LOWER wages
-- expect being locked out of low-end work (over-supply of cheap foreign labour)
-- 1.75-million already UNEMPLOYED in Britain
-- expect more unemployment

TRANSCRIPT / VIDEO
[confirm audio (for quotation purposes)]

SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLPrKV7tbQ



Earl of Dartmouth
William Dartmouth MEP
UKIP
European Parliament
Starsbourg, 6 February 2013


William Dartmouth MEP

Thank you.

Thank you, chair.

There are already approximately 200,000 Kurds living in the United Kingdom.

The Kurds in the United Kingdom are concentrated in our large cities, where even at the present time, there is profound pressure on public services, especially health and education.

According to the Home Affairs Select Committee of the British House of Commons, should Turkey become a member of the European Union, up to 4.4-MILLION Turkish citizens of all ethnic groups would emigrate to Britain, where they would then have rights to benefits and the NHS.

Now, I do not blame the Kurds for wanting to leave.  Ankara has a decade long policy of denying elementary linguistic and other cultural rights.

However, the solution is not mass immigration to the UK and other EU member states.

The solution is that Turkey start to treat its minorities with decency and respect, and we should make it crystal clear that Turkey, an Asian country, cannot join the EU.

[applause]

[William Dartmouth MEP advised that there is a 'blue card' for him from Marie-Christine VERGIAT MEP (France).]

William Dartmouth MEP

I'll certainly take it, yes.

Marie-Christine VERGIAT MEP (France)
Confederal Group of the European Left

Translated from French (male voice):

I just wanted to ask my colleague President whether he's actually looked at what the agenda was this afternoon.

It doesn't say anything about Turkey's accession to the EU, nor does it say anything about the battle against immigration; or it's actually about supporting a peace process which desperately needs our support.

Thank you very much.

William Dartmouth MEP

Madame, I must ask you to understand and accept that you cannot separate -- we cannot separate -- Turkey's systematic violation of human rights.

Not just of Kurds, but of dissenters, Christians, journalists and and so on, from its application to be a member of the European Union and the establishment parties -- which, actually, you're not one -- should be ashamed of themselves that they systematically and consistently cover these matters up.

[While Dartmouth MEP speaking, pans to head-shaking & laughing, Madame-of-the-left, wearing headphones]
SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLPrKV7tbQ

more
William Legge
Earl of Dartmouth MEP
*this guy's name is confusing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_10th_Earl_of_Dartmouth


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COMMENT

However despicable Merkel is, Merkel herself is not the EU.

British and other European politicians (and hangers on) are as much a party to the disastrous European Union agenda as is Merkel.
Merkel's being scapegoated while the European elites and the rest of the unpatriotic political and associated scum are getting off blameless and free to carry on screwing the European people.

The passive European working man is absolutely screwed and Europe is finished.
Also, Turkey rests mostly in Asia (variously described, but essentially in the Middle East) -- and the Turkic people are of Asian origin.
Note that Europe is not merely opening itself up to Turkey, a country of 70-million Asians.  Europe, under the European Union arrangement, is (by default) opening its borders wide to the entire Middle East.

To see the consequences of that, just take a look at the latest invasion.
The Home Affairs Select Committee 2013 figures given for anticipated migration from Turkey is a gross underestimate, in my opinion.

Note, Kurds alone in Turkey at:

14.5 million  - 2014 (CIA Book)

That Christians are mistreated in Turkey but Turkey is pushed forward as a candidate for EU membership is beyond a joke -- as is handing Turkey US$3.2-billion to arm Middle Eastern Islamist terrorists (much like the ones currently destroying Syria).

*I've not double-check audio.  Just quickly bashed it out.

December 08, 2015

Syria - Israel Contempt for International Law & Murdoch Media Interest in Israel's Genie Energy

Article
SOURCE
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/no-brake-and-no-disclosure-on-media-owners-interests/



No Brake and No Disclosure on Media Owners’ Interests

by craig on December 5, 2015 3:22 pm in Uncategorized    
The Times today carries an article on ISIS’ oil interests, Syria and Turkey. Nowhere does it inform its readers that the owner of the newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, has a vested interest in this subject through his role and shares in Genie Energy, an Israeli company granted oil rights in Syria by the Israeli government. Dick Cheney and Lord Rothschild are also shareholders.

No, they really are. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a conspiracy.

That Israel should grant oil rights within Syria is of course a striking example of contempt for international law, but then that is the basis on which Israel normally operates. Of course Genie’s share value will be substantially boosted by the installation of a neo-con puppet regime in Damascus which can be bought to underwrite the oil concession granted by Israel. Contempt for international law has been the single most important defining characteristic of neo-conservatism, and the need to uphold international law the recurring theme of this blog. I never thought the UK government would make the withdrawal of its support for the concept of international law explicit, as Cameron has done by removing the obligation to comply with international law from the Ministerial Code. That is truly, truly disgraceful.
But to return to Murdoch’s oil interests in Syria, it seems to me a fundamental flaw that when Fox News, Sky News, the Times, the Sun and Murdoch’s numerous other media outlets bang the drum for Western military action in Syria, there is no requirement for the consumer of this propaganda to be told that the outlet is pushing a policy in line with the financial interests of its owner. Even for those actively seeking information, there is no register of the interests of media proprietors.

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https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/no-brake-and-no-disclosure-on-media-owners-interests/



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COMMENT

What's the point of international law if there's nobody to enforce it?

December 04, 2015

Syria - British Airstrkes & Dodgy Dave's Lies

Article
SOURCE
as marked


SYRIA

SUMMARY
UK MoD report disputed David Cameron lies
re 70,000 'moderate rebels'

-->  “misleading”

MoD
OVERRULED @ meeting

-->  Joint Intelligence C'ttee
incl. heads: MI6, MI5 & GCHQ
+ senior military & Foreign Office staff

Dodgy Dave's lies: 
like Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossier” on #Iraq WMD
Cameron / British claim to:
Target Islamic State Oil Assets in #Syria
--> over 380 UK targets, in over 1yr  
[Comment: bet they're Bullsh*t claims.  Must have been targeting Assad for over a year, because ISIS went on selling oil to Turkey & whoever else is in on the finance-the-terrorists scheme to take down Syria]
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-joins-airstrikes-in-syria-against-isis-1449131829


NOTE this is 2013 Article
WikiLeaks cables have since revealed 2006
Israel-US plan to take down Syria
Note also:  oil reserves Golan Heights
SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines
SUMMARY
Scumbag Hollande - 2013
welcomed the UK air force strikes in #Syria
--> Syria intervention plan fuelled by oil interests

Backers of attack on Syria:
US, UK, Israel + France
-  cooperation w/ Saudi Arabia
--> 2007 CIA anti-Syria ops {Seymour Hersh}
deploy:  al-Qaeda

w/ US approval
Saudi Arabia bankroll + give logistical aid
to Sunni radicals
hostile to US & al-Qaeda linked
to attack #Syria

#Syria
Covert US political + financial support
-- via Saudi Arabia --
given to:  exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood

former French foreign minister Roland Dumas:
-->  Britain planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009

Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas
stated on TV that:   Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria --> in 2009

Syria
2011 uprisings
-- domestic energy shortages + climate-induced droughts
-->  massive food price hikes
--> EXPLOITED

WikiLeaks Stratfor e-mails
--> CONFIRM US-UK training of Syria 'opposition' since 2011
to collapse ASSAD govt from within.

US General Wesley Clark
(Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000)
--> confirms serial conquest =  strategy for control of region's vast oil & gas resources.


2008 US Army-funded RAND report:
--> industrialized states to continue to rely heavily on oil
--> oil production:  Middle East

#Syria
proven oil reserves Persian Gulf
coincide w/ power base of
Salafi-jihadist network
oil supplies / linked w. 'long war'

Regional policy trajectories:
1. divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
2. exploit sustained Shia-Sunni Conflict

West policy (1)
divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
turn groups against each other
/ covert action, info ops 
divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
discredit transnational jihadist in local eyes

divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
support indigenous security forces / local allies

West policy (2)
exploit sustained Shia-Sunni conflict
--> side with:  conservative Sunni regimes against Shiite empowerment

-> USA to shore up Sunni regimes in Saudi Arabia #Egypt & #Pakistan
-> to containing #Iran power in ME & Gulf

USA aware backing Sunni regimes
--> result:  empowering al-Qaeda jihadists
BUT this to advantage of West.

Support Sunni & exploit:
bogging down jihadi activity w. internal sectarian rivalry
{rather than targeting US}

American Saudi Arabia allies Salafi-jihadist
--> afraid of upsurge in Shia identity
--> to want to target #IRAN vs #USA

Following vulnerable to internal destabilisation:
1) Saudi Arabia
2) Gulf States
3) Egypt
4) Syria
5) Iran
Internal destabilisation factors - multiple, converging:
a) rapid population growth
b) 'youth bulge'
c) internal economic inequalities
d) political frustrations
e) sectarian tensions
f) water shortages - environment
Syria
= pipeline geopolitics
/ Assad refused to sign Qatar pipeline deal 2009
re supply Europe via Syria
ie.  bypassing Russia

Note that British plan for invasion Syria 2009
coincides w/ Assad refusal of Qatar pipeline deal
to supply gas to Europe


Nabucco pipeline
backed by
USA & European Union
         parties:

            Austria-UAE
            Hungarian
            Romania
            Bulgaria
            Turkey
            Germany*

        --------------------    ie

                OMV - Austria-UAE
                      {Romania Turkey Hungary interests}
                MOL - Hungarian
                Transgaz - Romania
                Bulgargaz - Bulgaria
                BOTAS - Turkey
                RWE - Germany, big / largest investor Egypt
                -- 2015 sale oil & gas unit to:
        Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman
                RWE operates:  Europe, Middle East & Africa
                RWE partnership w/ British & Netherlands
                re Urenco Group uranium enrichment plants: 
                in Germany, Netherlands,USA & UK
                -- supplies nuclear power stations in 15 countries
                -- sale of depleted uranium tails
                -- Russia owns radioactive waste
                -- waste transported to Seversk

            [wikipedia]


Middle East interests in the Nabucco Qatar LNG pipeline

    proposed route:
  •     -Qatar
  •     -Saudi Arabia
  •     -Kuwait
  •     -Iraq
  •     -Turkey
  •     -Jordan
http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/qatar-seeks-gas-pipeline-to-turkey#full
 [link as above]
 

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
-->  attempt to bribe Russia to dump Syria
w/ Saudi 'block of gas' to Europe assurances

Russia wasn't buying what assurances of the Saudi
/ stuck w. #Syria
Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan = slap in face of #Qatar

Putin refusal to take bait & sell out #Syria
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
vowed military action.

Saudi Arabia Intelligence Agency
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
director general:  Saudi Intelligence Agency
2012 to 2014
--> supporters: Chechen terrorists

Bandar bin Sultan
confrontational re USA
--> Replaced by:  Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
head Saudi intel

Muhammad bin Nayef
Head of Saudi Arabia Intelligence

--> escaped x4 assassination attempts
--> incl. rectum bomb 
{ ... lol, always get a laugh out of that detail }

ALSO pulling strings in Middle East oil-focused US policy in Syria:
  • Qatar + 
  • Saudi Arabia
aim: pliable Syria opposition

Writer concludes Assad is 'war criminal'
[comment: 
--> but  USA a pre-eminent war criminal & Ghouta was a false flag by USA-Gulf proxies.]
SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines



SUMMARY
British Airstrikes on Syria
UK Tornado attack planes
deployed to:  Akrotiri, Cyprus - first raid 3 Dec.
support:  Voyager tanker + Reaper drone
variable payload

The Brimstone
automated anti-armour missile
for use re fast-moving platforms
first fielded #Afghanistan 2008

The Brimstone
light warhead - 9 kg /  a range of 7.5 miles
-->  can be used on fast jets, helicopters & UAVs

The Brimstone
laser-guided missiles
UK  RAF weapons of choice
since #Libya in 2011

UK RAF Tornados - transit from Cyprus to #Iraq:
--> via Israel
--> via Jordan
--> Voyager tanker accompanies

British airstrikes covering #Iraq + #Syria
--> 10 Tornados
-->   9 Eurofighter Typhoon
reinforcement.

The Brimstone
automated anti-armour missile
for use re fast-moving platforms
first fielded #Afghanistan 2008

The Brimstone
light warhead - 9 kg /  a range of 7.5 miles
-->  can be used on fast jets, helicopters & UAVs

The Brimstone
laser-guided missiles
UK  RAF weapons of choice
since #Libya in 2011

#Syria
UK RAF Tornados - transit from Cyprus to #Iraq:
--> via Israel
--> via Jordan
--> Voyager tanker accompanies

British airstrikes covering #Iraq + #Syria
--> 10 Tornados
-->   9 Eurofighter Typhoon
reinforcement.

http://theaviationist.com/2015/12/04/raf-tornados-first-air-strike-in-syria/

AUDIO
Syria / Libya / Refugee Crisis / Turkey

Scott Bennett
former US Army officer
counter-terrorism analyst
'Impeach Obama' / 'Arrest Carter'



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COMMENT
Some of what I've enjoyed looking at today.

The stakeholders in the Nabucco pipeline gets complicated, once you start looking at the companies.  eg.  Austrian stakeholder itself has a United Arab Emirates stakeholder.  So working out who's really who would take more time, patience and focus than I have.  Above is just a rough, surface sketch re the companies.

The US military guy's audio was kind of cool.  He's anticipating a Turkey military coup against Erdogan.  I don't know if he might be a bit melodramatic there or not, as I'm not that knowledgeable or experienced.  At this stage, it sounds good but far-fetched to me.

Key info re Syria (now superseded by further info indicating 2006 planned attack):
    Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas
    Britain planning covert invasion / attack on Assad
    as early as 2009

    WikiLeaks Stratfor e-mails
    confirm US-UK training Syria 'opposition' since 2011
    to collapse Assad from within

    British attack
    coincides w. Assad rejection of
    Qatar pipeline deal 2009
    in favour of Russian interests

    NB   Qatar pipeline deal 2009
    benefits USA & European Union
US 4-Star General, General Wesley Clark (Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000) confirms a serial conquest strategy for region (7 countries).
NOTE ALSO:

Julian Assange: US & Israel Planned To Overthrow Assad In 2006

Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
By Kit O'Connell
@KitOConnell | September 14, 2015
LONDON — Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government as far back as 2006, several years before the start of the current crisis.

...

The ongoing threat to his freedom hasn’t kept Assange from continuing his work revealing the dirty secrets of world governments. His latest revelations come in a Wednesday interview with RT in support of his new book, “The WikiLeaks Files,” published late last month.

The United States and its allies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Israel, have been frequently accused of contributing to the ongoing destabilization of Syria in the wake of the uprising and subsequent civil war which began in 2011. But according to cables from the WikiLeaks archive, discussed in the Syria chapter of Assange’s book, plans to deliberately destabilize the region go back at least five years further.

“In that chapter is a cable from US Ambassador William Roebuck, who was stationed in Damascus, which apparently discusses a plan for the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria,” RT reported.

[ ... ]
The cable also details plans to foster sectarian strife in the region and make Iran appear like a larger threat to Assad than it really was, Assange continued:
“In particular, to take rumors that are known to be false … or exaggerations and promote them – that Iran is trying to convert poor Sunnis, and to work with Saudi and Egypt to foster that perception in order to make it harder for Iran to have influence, and also harder for the government to have influence in the population.”
WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government, and show that the U.S. government intended to work with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt to encourage the breakdown of the Assad regime as a way of also weakening Iran and Hezbollah.
“[I]f Syria sufficiently destabilized, it might be in a position where it can keep the Golan Heights forever, or even advance that territory,” Assange said.
According to Assange, the cable illuminates how the current Syrian crisis reflects U.S. influence on the Middle East, particularly the ways it has used its allies to put pressure on the country. “Part of the problem in Syria is that you have a number of US allies surrounding it, principally Saudi and Qatar, that are funneling in weapons,” Assange noted, adding that it shows how the U.S. uses its over 100 army bases and network of embassies to further its imperialist interests.

CONTINUES

http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planned-to-overthrow-assad-in-2006/209493/


As the article re the WikiLeaks cable indicates, the plan to take down Syria began even earlier than indicated by the former French Foreign Minister:  it was outlined in 2006 US cables.

Israel could be a driving force in for US foreign policy in the Middle Eastern region.  As in, the article states:
"WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government."

Maybe this has something to do with it:
Huge oil discovery in Golan Heights - Israeli media
https://www.rt.com/business/317906-oil-golan-heights-israel/
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PS ...
Think I might simplify things too much.  There's a combination of things going on.  It's not just a single driving factor.

I'll probably never understand what's going on.

Just read some Forbes article on Russian billionaires having been bought out of Russia's Rosneft (state oil company), and it's a struggle to understand how anyone can have so much money and how the entire thing works, so what hope is there of understanding politics without understanding of the money men?  lol

I'm really disheartened  ... and I can't comprehend why anyone would spend $14 million on a frigging mammoth.  Apparently, it's a gilded skeleton.  Intended as a good deed for an AIDS charity.  Just looked up the artist:
won the Turner Prize. New York public health officials banned Two Fucking and Two Watching featuring a rotting cow and bull, because of fears of "vomiting among the visitors" [here]
Well, now I'm sure I'll never understand anything on this planet.  Who the f*ck considers a rotting cow art?  This hilarious.  The fellow behind this is the "richest living artist to date."  Guess the 'Virgin Mother' would have taken some effort and talent to produce.  That anyone actually bought the finished product is mind-boggling.  I'd definitely go the mammoth.  ;)

December 02, 2015

Western Energy Vultures Hover Over Syria - Cameron's Deceit re Syria & Criminal Negligence - Russia Reveails ISIS-Turkey Oil Smuggling

Article
SOURCE
as marked

Western firms plan to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’

by Nafeez Ahmed

US, British, French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad regime.

A study for a global oil services company backed by the French government and linked to Britain’s Tory-led administration, published during the height of the Arab Spring, hailed the significant “hydrocarbon potential” of Syria’s offshore resources.

The 2011 study was printed in GeoArabia, a petroleum industry journal published by a Bahrain-based consultancy, GulfPetroLink, which is sponsored by some of the world’s biggest oil companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total, and BP.
CONTINUED
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/western-firms-plan-to-cash-in-on-syria-s-oil-and-gas-frontier-6c5fa4a72a92#.48jn1q8wq



'Britain is on the verge of entering into a long war in Syria based on wishful thinking and poor information...'
Patrick Cockburn was invited by Jeremy Corbyn to brief MPs on the facts about today’s Common’s vote on air strikes in Syria. This is his briefing to you
    Patrick Cockburn
    @indyworld
    31 minutes  ago
Britain is on the verge of entering a conflict in Syria in which its political and military strategy is based on wishful thinking and poor information. British air strikes in Syria will be too few to make much difference to Isis, but are important because they signal Britain’s entry into what may be a long war.

In one crucial respect, David Cameron’s approach is similar to that which saw Britain fight two small but unsuccessful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, in both cases without an effective local partner on the ground. Similarly in Syria, Britain will be at the mercy of events which are being shaped by the numerous other players in the conflict, all of whom have their own highly contradictory agendas.

Much of the debate around the feasibility of the British strategy has focused on Mr Cameron’s statement that we do indeed have a partner, of whose existence few were previously aware. He said that there are 70,000 “Syrian opposition fighters on the ground who do not belong to extremist groups”. The impression given is that there is a “third force” in Syria which will provide a powerful ally for the US, France and Britain.

This would be very convenient but, unfortunately, its existence is very debatable. “The notion that there are 70,000 moderate fighters is an attempt to show that you can fight Isis and [President Bashar al] Assad at the same time,” says Professor Joshua Landis, the director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and an expert on Syrian politics. But he is dismissive of the idea that such a potential army exists, though he says there might be 70,000 Syrians with a gun who are fighting for their local clan, tribe, warlord or village. “The problem is that they hate the village down the road just as much they hate Isis and Assad,” he said.

The armed opposition to President Assad is dominated by Isis, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and the ideologically similar Ahrar al-Sham. Some of the smaller groups, once estimated by the CIA to number 1,500, might be labelled as moderate, but only operate under license from the extreme jihadists. Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle East Forum and an authority on the Syrian armed opposition, says that these groups commonly exaggerate their numbers, are very fragmented and have failed to unite, despite years of war.

He recalls that one group he met during a recent visit to Latakia province in north-west Syria claimed to have 2,000 fighters, but probably numbered only 500.

He warns that they pretend to the outside world that they are more moderate than they really are, speaking of “the equality of all Syrians before the law” when they are outside Syria or communicating with people who have never been to the country, but express “hatred for Shia and Allawites” on all other occasions. 

Mr Tamimi says that the smaller armed groups, which sometimes have good weapons supplied by the Americans, had acted as auxiliaries to Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham when they captured Idlib City in fierce fighting with the Syrian army in May.

Even if such groups are not extreme Islamists, they do not have the strength to refuse to cooperate. This will make any ceasefire very difficult to arrange because such moderate fighters as there are who might be willing to accept a truce, are intermingled with powerful Nusra forces which will not do so.

Moreover, radical Islamic ideology has been gaining ground in all parts of the Syrian opposition. James Harkin, the author of Hunting Season about the kidnapping of foreigners in Syria and a frequent visitor to opposition-held areas, says that it is important to grasp that “none of these people [the armed opposition inside Syria] like us”.

They see the US, Britain and France as enemies. This  includes the non-jihadists, whom the West hopes to enlist, who suspect they will be used as cannon fodder and then discarded.

The one group that has some claim to be non-sectarian, secular and a powerful fighting force is the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) who claim to number 50,000, but probably total half that. It has been the most effective anti-Isis ground force and, heavily supported by US air strikes, its territory now stretches across northern Syria between the Tigris and Euphrates.

It claims to be non-sectarian and that it does not persecute Sunni Arabs, but sectarian fear and hatred is today so deep in Syria – partly but not entirely because of the atrocities of Isis – that people flee the attack of every other sectarian or ethnic group different from themselves. The Sunni population in Raqqa, Isis’s Syrian capital, or in Mosul in Iraq, may dislike Isis, but they are even more terrified of the Kurds or the Shia militias.

Britain is entering a war against the self-declared “Islamic State”, probably the most dangerous and violent organisation in the world, but without a realistic policy to win that war. Mr Cameron stresses the limited nature of the engagement, but Britain will be fighting a state that is also a ferocious sect, does not negotiate and may well retaliate with some atrocity similar to Paris. This is not an argument for rejecting military action against Isis, but it is one for thinking very carefully what we are doing because the only exit strategy will be military victory.

It is not only in Syria that Britain lacks a powerful local partner. In Iraq, its ally will be the Iraqi government and army, neither of which has recovered from their defeats by Isis over the past two years. “Syria is a nightmare and Iraq is becoming a nightmare,” said the Iraqi political scientist and activist Ghassan al-Attiyah. If the present government of Haider al-Abadi falls it is likely to be replaced by one closer to the Iranian-backed Shia militias that are more numerous and better armed than the Iraqi army.

The US-led air campaign has already launched around 8,300 air strikes against Isis which have slowed up its advance, but without bringing it to its knees. Professor Landis says that the difficulty is that the three powers in Syria capable of winning the war are Isis, a Jabhat al-Nusra led alliance or Mr Assad but “the US doesn’t want any of these to win”. He cites three attempts by the US to create a moderate armed opposition which have humiliatingly failed and, on each occasion, extreme jihadists have captured quantities of modern American weapons.

The British Government has shared in a widespread but ill-founded belief over the past four years that the Assad government was about to collapse. But of the 22 million Syrian population, 4 million have fled abroad and are refugees, and about 12 million are in government-controlled areas. Though exhausted and after suffering heavy casualties, including 47,000 dead, the Syrian army is still the largest military force in the country. It now has the support of the Russian air force and is not going to lose the war, though it is not strong enough to win it.

This is the terrible conflict in which Britain is about to engage, but with only limited understanding of the dangers that lie ahead.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-is-on-the-verge-of-entering-into-a-long-war-in-syria-based-on-wishful-thinking-and-poor-a6756476.html



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Russian Military Reveals
ISIS-Turkey Oil Smuggling Details





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Mass media briefing “Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorism. New data”








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US  isn't bombing ISIS; it's dropping weapons.

I had no idea that there were so many killed in Syria -- 47k dead.

It's frustrating seeing this happening and being unable to do anything but watch what happens next.

What the West has done is disgusting.  A functioning state has been overrun by terrorists armed and backed by the West, a country has been ripped to bits, 47,000 people are dead -- and it looks like the Shia and Allawite populations will be slaughtered if Assad and Russia don't prevail.

The West doesn't care what happens.  The more destruction the more profitable it will be rebuilding the place and they probably figure that whoever eventually prevails will be desperate and ready to cooperate with Western interests.

This is unbelievable. 

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It took me forever doing my own lame notes about the video.  

Tired so I kind of zoned out here and there.

It's funny how I didn't really connect the oil with the terrorism.  I think it was mentioned in the news, but it didn't mean anything to me.  It was just like, yeah, that's what they do.  

But it's mind-blowing knowing that Turkey, Syria's neighbour, is actually responsible for financing terrorism and that the European Union (who would be aware of Turkey's terrorist sponsoring activities, seeing both the US and Germany spy on Turkey) has given Turkey $3.2 billion to supposedly keep Middle Eastern invasion/immigration at bay.

So what's going on here?  Why not walls and military response instead?  Is the EU laundering money via Turkey to fund Middle Eastern terrorism?

Although I'm forever looking at news, until Turkey shot the Russian bomber down, I wasn't aware how messed up Turkey is.  I thought their messed up is limited to imprisoning journalists (wholesale), and killing Kurds.  

Turkey:

imprisons journalists
oppresses Kurdish minority
bombs Kurds (who are fighting ISIS)
likely killed Serena Shim, journalist
shot down Russia bomber & killed Russian pilot
has armed, trained & supported jihadists in Syria 
has trained the chemical attackers in Ghouta, Syria
buys stolen oil
finances international terrorism (via buying stolen oil)
is rewarded by the EU @ $3.2-billion


PS -  I was inclined to believe ISIS was fake (Hollywood, US-CIA production), until the Russians confirmed they're real & terrorism is real.


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British Wefare Cuts & Homelessness / Displacement of Germans Caused by Refugee Intake / Merkel, Zuckerberger & Stasi Censor German Dissent / And Soros Wants US & European Taxpayer to Pick Up the Tab

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Landlords force tenants to food banks & homelessness







Tenants in the UK have some of the worst protections in Europe.  No regulatory or government body (although there are ineffective schemes).

Tenants are routinely bulled, harassed, assaulted by landlords and rendered homeless.

Rent strikes 100 years ago:  a wave of rent strikes across the country forced British government to bring in rent controls.

Situation for tenants across the UK is so bad, that if the government doesn't step in, protect tenants and bring down rents, UK will see rent strikes again, according to Gordon Maloney, Living Rent Campaign Activist.



‘Grief-stricken’: 2-month-old baby dies after homeless parents forced to live in car

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In June it was reported that England’s homelessness crisis has reached its worst levels since 2008, with 65,000 households forced into temporary accommodation, new figures reveal.

The number of families housed in bed and breakfast accommodation has soared by more than 300 percent over the past five years, according to government data.

Campaigners blame high rents and welfare cuts for forcing 100,000 children to live in hostels and other temporary accommodation

http://www.rt.com/uk/316753-baby-death-homeless-parents/



Homelessness soars 40% under the Tories - and charities blame welfare cuts

Shelter chief executive Campbell Robb said: 'Deeper cuts to welfare will do no more than add fuel to the fire of this growing crisis'

Charities have blamed Tory welfare cuts for a 40% surge in homelessness since David Cameron swept into Number 10.

Campaigners say shrinking payments under the benefit cap are partly to blame for a huge rise in families facing life on the streets.

Councils accepted 55,090 households as homeless between July 2014 and June this year - compared to 39,480 in the same period in 2009/10.
And experts raised fears over a huge surge in families with children living in emergency B&Bs.

At the end of June there were 2,660 of these families, up 25% from 2,130 compared to the same day last year.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homelessness-soars-40-under-tories-6506576



German woman threatened with eviction to make way for refugees

A 51-year-old German woman is being evicted from her home of 16 years to make way for refugees, with shelters already full across the country

... received a letter from her landlord, the local municipality, telling her the building was being turned into a refugee shelter and she had until next May to leave.

“I was completely taken aback,” Ms Halbey told Welt newspaper. “I find it impossible to describe how the city has treated me.”

When Ms Halbey vented her frustration on Facebook, asking why she was being evicted when properties were standing empty in the town, her comment was shared 200,000 times.

In Germany, where 52 per cent of people rent their homes, it is unheard of to be asked to leave under such circumstances.

Tenants are strongly protected by law, and can normally only be evicted if they have broken the terms of their rental agreement.

 “Normally, only a natural person can terminate for personal use A municipality cannot move into a flat as a legal entity, so the process is legally highly questionable,” Ulrich Ropertz, spokesman of the German Tenants' Federation, said.

The controversy has come amid growing concern in Germany over how to house refugees, with shelters already full across the country and tens of thousands continuing to arrive.

Angela Merkel’s government agreed on Thursday to release a further €2 billion (£1.5 billion) to help pay the costs of sheltering refugees, €500 million (£370 million) of which is earmarked for building new accommodation.

But critics say it is not enough, with Germany expecting to host as many as one million asylum-seekers this year.

The state government of Hamburg is trying to push through legislation that would enable it to seize empty commercial properties and turn them into refugee shelters.  [Totalitarian - utterly undemocratic.]

Local politicians in Berlin have called for empty apartments to be requisitioned from private landlords.  [OMG ... Stalin has arisen?]

There have even been suggestions of a return to the solution of the postwar years, when millions of refugees fleeing to West Germany from former Nazi-held lands were billeted with ordinary families[I cannot believe what I am reading.]

Despite the concerns over housing, public support for Mrs Merkel’s policy of admitting so many refugees remains high, according to a new opinion poll.

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But an overwhelming 78 per cent of those polled supported the government’s move to suspend the Schengen agreement and temporarily reimpose border controls during the crisis.

Genuine refugees are still allowed to enter Germany, but there are concerns many are lying about their nationality to get around the checks.

The interior ministry estimates as many as 30 per cent of those claiming to be from Syria are in fact from other countries, a spokesman said on Friday.


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Merkel presses Zuckerberg to monitor racist posts on Facebook


German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wants more action from Facebook when it comes to filtering hateful racial posts. The comments were overheard by media as Merkel was speaking to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the sidelines of the UN summit. 
Merkel’s request could be heard on a live transmission broadcast seconds before the introductory remarks at a luncheon in New York on Saturday.

The German leader asked Zuckerberg about hate speech posts, with the Facebook CEO responding: “We need to do some work.”
Merkel followed up: “Are you working on this?” Zuckerberg was heard replying: “Yeah.”

The transmission was then cut off as the luncheon began.

This is not the first time Merkel has called on Facebook to curtail hate speech comments on the social network.

“When people stir up sedition on social networks using their real name, it’s not only the state that has to act, but also Facebook as a company should do something against these [people],” Merkel told regional newspaper Rheinische Post earlier in September.

The German leader added that the social media company has the tools to track hate speech, but is lacking in enforcement. “The rules need to be implemented,” Merkel said.

The increased attention towards online hate is believed to have been triggered by an influx of refugees traveling to Germany, with around 1 million migrants expected to come to the country this year. The rise in immigrants and refugees from war zones has divided the population, with massive pro- and anti-refugee rallies hitting the country amid intensifying hate rhetoric.

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https://www.rt.com/news/316627-merkel-facebook-zuckerberg-hate/



Soros Demands Europe Accept a Million Muslims Annually

Tells Europe to pay $17 billion per year for illegal migrants
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | September 28, 2015

Arch globalist and color revolution mastermind George Soros demands Europe “accept responsibility” for the mass influx of Muslims now flooding the continent.

He writes for Project Syndicate, an Open Society propaganda forum, that the EU is obliged to take in a million Muslim migrants per year and spend $16.8k annually on each, a grand total of $17 billion.

The money would come from frontline European countries and the United States in the form of long-term bonds.

“The EU needs a comprehensive plan to respond to the crisis, one that reasserts effective governance over the flows of asylum-seekers so that they take place in a safe, orderly way, and at a pace that reflects Europe’s capacity to absorb them. To be comprehensive, the plan has to extend beyond the borders of Europe,” Soros writes.

The plan must be globalist in nature, Soros argues, and led by the United Nations. “This would distribute the burden of the Syrian crisis over a larger number of states, while also establishing global standards for dealing with the problems of forced migration more generally.”  [What 'Syrian crisis'?  Immigrants are from all over Middle East]

Moreover, according to Soros, the Muslim migrants must be allowed to choose where they will settle. Most currently travel to Germany and Western Europe where social benefits are available.

Demographics on the influx show that nearly 60% are young males, 26% children and 18% females over the age of eighteen, according to Eurostat.

The United Nations states the current influx of 8,000 refugees per day entering the continent is merely “the tip of the iceberg.”

I don’t see it abating, I don’t see it stopping,” Amin Awad, regional refugee coordinator for the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, said from Geneva last week. “If anything, it gives an indication perhaps that this is the tip of the iceberg.”

Muslim migration “has been the biggest engine of demographic growth in the EU as a whole since the mid-1990s,” a report issued by the EU’s Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development states. “It is about to become the only one.”

http://www.infowars.com/soros-demands-europe-accept-a-million-muslims-annually/



COMMENT

So Merkel, Zuckerberg, CIAbook and the German state's appointed Stasi are going to deny the people of Germany freedom of speech in order to censor and mask evidence of deep dissatisfaction & to deny the German public information via social channels.
Merkel, Stasi, Facebook et al, intend to stifle political dissent, with a view to also stifling political action and organisation among dissatisfied Germans, I am guessing.

If you think I'm joking about Stasi, read this:
By the look of things George Soros:
the man who "broke the Bank of England" -- Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992) / the day that speculators broke the pound ... Soros pocketed $1 billion on the deal / reputation as the premier currency speculator in the world -- here
wants US, European and other Western taxpayers to (a) go into further debt and (b) to absorb millions fleeing the Middle East, because of the neocon US, European and allied intervention (that had nothing to do with the average American or European), that has caused chaos in the Middle East over decades.
Note:  Germany is the exception -- I believe Germany is ahead financially and have savings rather than national debt.  But that's not the point.  Those savings are German taxpayer funds.
So why should the average European or American (Canadian, or Australian) be forced to (a) be further indebted to the likes of Soros (b) be displaced in numerous ways in their own countries and (c) take on-board inevitable future social consequences for which there is no remedy, because the likes of Soros had their US government puppets (and US-allied puppet governments) conduct resource pillaging 'interventions' abroad?

Let me guess, he and his friends have some money to lend the US and Europe?

Meanwhile, look at spending cuts punishing the poor and look at how the average Europeans are being treated in their own homelands. 
Take a look at Cameron’s Britain and look at what Merkel and Cameron are doing to their own people, in the service of neocon c*nts that are displacing millions from other regions.

The average people don't stand a chance with c*nts like this running governments & c*nts like Zuckerberg censoring the public, and no doubt information flow to the public.  I can't tell you how angry I feel about that.
As for Europe:  to my mind, Europe is the home of European people and I see European societies as European societies. 
I'm well aware that this does not fit the leftie, humanitarian, libertarian, mainstream media, lefty media, official, publicly endorsed ideology and political position. But this is where I stand mentally and emotionally, unless I'm convinced otherwise. 

So I find it very hard to witness what is happening in Europe.

According to the InfoWars article, the non-European demographic has been present and growing since the 1990s.

While the latest shocking surge of immigration is extraordinarily high and unprecedented, it is also more of the same that has long been a point of contention in Western Europe.

Yet European governments continue to conduct 'business as usual' in terms of interference in the Middle East and Africa, reaping the same results.  Western media promotes both aggressive foreign policy and the 'wonders' of the 'blow-back' consequences of Western interventions.  And the left (or, what is supposed to be the left), supports this status quo that undermines the already struggling poor and the working classes.
What is happening to the Middle East and to Europe is disgusting.


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