British War Department Exploiting Killing of MP to Push Anti-Nationalist Agenda While Destroying Indigenous Europe

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) UK  think-do tank funded by: UK Ministry of Defence President:  HRH the Duke of Kent  Director-General:  Michael Clarke Academic, defence studies Director:  Karin von Hippel, US Department of State appointed 30 Nov. 2015 US Dept of State Chief of Staff Special Presidential Envoy Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (1 year, 7 months) - Washington DC Deputy Assistant Secretary Overseas Operations US Dept of State (3 years, 7 mths) - Washington DC Senior Adviser Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Counter-terrorism US Dept of State (1 year, 4 mths) - Washington DC CSIS Centre for Strategic & International Studies think tank, Washington DC (4 years, 7 mths) Sen. Research Fellow Centre for Defence Studies King's College London (4 years) - London, UK Civil Affairs Officer UN Interim Admin Mission KOSOVO (1 year) Political Adviser to Sec-Gen UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) (1 year 4 months) Managed seminars in Kenya and Somalia for civil society leaders (7 months) Project Manager, The Somalia Project The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (7 months) - London, UK EDUCATION London School of Economics International Relations National Security Studies, PhD Oxford University Modern History Yale University Psychology https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-von-hippel-a492125a http://archive.is/WJgMW US-ANGLO CAPTALIST DESTRUCTION OF EUROPE PROGRAM British War Department Exploiting Killing of MP  to Push Anti-Nationalist Agenda While Destroying Indigenous Europe RT News reports that ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE (RUSI) think-do tank that's funded by the UK government has issued a report that NATIONALIST 'lone wolves' are MORE DEADLY THAN ISLAMIST lone wolves. Guess those that wake up to genocide of their people and destruction of their ancestral heritage are bound to be rather annoyed, eh? Report is titled:  '‘Countering Lone Actor Terrorism' and would have us believe: ... far-right extremists in Europe present a serious threat which should not be ignored. It appears they compare nationalist loners to Islamists loners, therefore, according to their agenda, it is the nationalist that are responsible for higher numbers of deaths and injuries.    EDIT  What's the bet they're not taking into account cultural factors - eg. Europeans culturally individualistic and aliens networked, in clans, operate in groups etc.  Take a look at their track record in sex attacks:  they seem to attack in multiples, gangs, groups, packs or even en masse (Cologne, Stockholm, various European, Cairo), as a cultural pastime, in a way that is not common for Europeans. Should this guess be correct, it would mean Islamists are simply more group oriented and more groups or networking avenues are open to Islamists than nationalists.  In which chase, they should be comparing the 'lone wolf' nationalists to the network (terrorist) Islamist killings (which far exceed any that could feasibly be attributed to European nationalists).   I would also be taking a very close look at the material they're basing their assertions on, because the bet is that their lone wolf 'nationalists' are no such thing.  I would also wager that when there is an Islamist sympathiser attack, it is played down by the authorities and whenever there is any remote (or even trumped up) nationalist link (eg a magazine subscription from two decades ago), the crooked bastards play that up to serve the agenda:  (a) continue the invasion and genocide of Europeans program and (b) maintain suppression of European nationalism. The US-Anglo Ministry of Truth propaganda NGO won't be telling us how many European women and children and men have been raped by foreigners in those periods of time, nor do they tell us about the costs of invasion, riots, murders, car jackings, shootings, assaults, robberies, drug dealing, the welfare costs, legal costs, the prison costs, and other costs (to name just a few of the costs of the Eurpean invasion).   A DEADLY VIOLENCE THAT HAS BEEN COMMITTED UPON EUROPEANS FOR DECADES, day in and day out, by invaders of European homelands, that have been permitted to destroy Europe and Europeans by capitalist serving political elites. So this study takes the focus off the very real danger and destruction that is being committed, to propagandise the 'threat' of loner nationalists, and thereby the 'threat' of nationalism, no doubt as a first step towards moving to even further suppress European nationalism. Of course, British capitalist WAR DEPARTMENT FUNDED REPORT would have you believe there's 'no' danger in the invasion of Europe, the displacement of Europeans, the redistribution of European resources, the rape and violence committed upon Europeans, the destruction of indigenous European heritage, the destruction of European nation states or the genocide of indigenous Europeans that is being committed by Western capitalism. Instead, the British War Department funded NGO & British politicians would rather shift attention away from the danger and grave threat to vital interests of Europeans that they import to: "too much focus on Islamist-inspired attacks compared to other kinds of violence". OMG:  they are doing what the Republicans & FBI are doing in USA.   They are using the killing of British MP Jo Cox to push their nasty little nationalism suppressing agenda, just as they are using the Orlando shootings in the US to push through the POLITICAL POLICING totalitarian surveillance aims of the FBI in the US. What they are also doing is 'nationalist-lone-wolf' whitewashing their Islamist problem. The filthy capitalist-serving, invasion and genocide promoting, nation-destroying, European politician pigs.   Putin, please save Europe. RT article https://www.rt.com/uk/347799-far-right-lone-wolves/

InfoLink - Louis B Susman - US Ambassador to London (Jul 2009 - Apr 2013)

ꕤ Info/Ref Louis B Susman former US Ambassador to Britain (2009-2013) as marked SUMMARY Louis B Susman -- based Chicago -- lawyer 27 years: St. Louis-based Thompson & Mitchell -- mergers & acquisitions -- 20 years making deals as a Chicago-based investment banker -- at Salomon Brothers (later merged Citigroup, 1998) -- key role Dayton Hudson's buy of Marshall Field's -- key role LG Electronics' buy  of Zenith Electronics -- x2 deals that changed the Chicago corporate landscape -- former Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking -- retired investment banker & lawyer -- major fund-raiser for Obama's first presidential campaign -- 2009 appointed US Ambassador to Britain by Barak Obama -- July 10, 2009 -  April 3, 2013 -- 2013 retired as Ambassador to United Kingdom Non-executive chairman:  DJE Holdings -- family-owned parent company of Edelman and Zeno Group -- joins board at public relations giant Edelman -- Edelman world's largest public relations firm -- f. Chicago 1952 (Daniel Edelman) -- Chicago & NY bases -- 4,600 employed, 66 offices -- annual billings:  $665 million http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-03/business/chi-exambassador-sussman-joins-edelman-parent-20130403_1_richard-edelman-investment-banking-investment-banker Fait Accompli Louis B Susman, Chairman [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. source https://archive.is/XRTLc international event-planning company co-owner & managing director Alex Fitzgibbon husband of American-Swedish 'corporacratic' heiress Cristina Stenbeck - particulars here FOI RELEASE Official US government e-mail (27 Nov. 2010) re WIKILEAKS MATERIAL RELEASE Just Prior to 'Coincidental' Handy London Arrest of Julian Assange [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs/C05771811.pdf The Guardian 1 DAY PRIOR TO ASSANGE ARREST IN LONDON http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/05/julian-assange-lawyers-being-watched Julian Assange's lawyers say they are being watched WikiLeaks founder's lawyers also accuse US state department of inappropriate behaviour in not respecting attorney-client protocol Sam Jones and agencies @swajones Monday 6 December 2010 03.16 AEDT Lawyers representing the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, say that they have been surveilled by members of the security services and have accused the US state department of behaving "inappropriately" by failing to respect attorney-client protocol. Jennifer Robinson and Mark Stephens of the law firm Finers Stephens Innocent told the Guardian they had been watched by people parked outside their houses for the past week. "I've noticed people consistently sitting outside my house in the same cars with newspapers," said Robinson. "I probably noticed certain things a week ago, but mostly it's been the last three or four days." Stephens said he, too, had had his home watched. Asked who he thought was monitoring him, he said: "The security services." Robinson said the legal team was also experiencing "other forms of pressure" from Washington. She pointed to a letter from a state department legal adviser – addressed to both Assange and her – which appeared to bracket together client and lawyer as if to suggest that WikiLeaks and its lawyers were one and the same. The letter, which was released to the press, begins: "Dear Ms Robinson and Mr Assange. I am writing in response to your 26 November 2010 letter to US Ambassador Louis B Susman regarding your intention to again publish on your WikiLeaks site what you claim to be classified US government documents." Robinson said: "By eliding client and lawyer, that was a very inappropriate attempt to implicate me. That is really inappropriate to come from the state department of all places; they understand very well the rules on attorney-client protocol." She said that although they had requested a public retraction from the state department, no answer had been received. "It's quite a serious situation," she said, adding that, according to the UN's Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, governments should ensure that lawyers "are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference" and that "lawyers shall not be identified with their clients or their clients' causes as a result of discharging their functions". A spokeswoman for the Home Office declined to comment on the lawyers' surveillance claims. Assange, who is staying in Britain, has come under growing pressure from politicians in the US and around the world after his site started publishing excerpts from a cache of 250,000 secret American diplomatic cables last week. It emerged on Saturday that Australian police are investigating whether Assange, an Australian citizen, has broken any of the country's laws and is liable to prosecution there. The foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, said: "The Australian government unequivocally condemns the action by any of those responsible for the unauthorised release of classified and confidential information and diplomatic communications between states." Swedish prosecutors have sent an international arrest warrant to the Metropolitan police, seeking the extradition of Assange for questioning on allegations – which he strongly denies – of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.   [Comment:  How convenient, Sweden !!!] Stephens today denounced the extradition warrant as a "political stunt" and said Assange would fight deportation to Sweden on the grounds that it could lead to him being handed over to the US, where senior politicians have called for him to be executed. The former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has described him as "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" and called for him to be hunted down like a Taliban leader, while another senior Republican, Mike Huckabee, has said that "anything less than execution is too kind a penalty" for his actions. Stephens said that Sweden's chief prosecutor had told Assange in September that there was no case for him to answer, following complaints against him by two women, but the investigation was revived following the intervention of a Swedish politician.  [comment:  women did NOT make 'complaints' -- they  reportedly sought 'ADVICE', which just happens to be a convenient way to make false statements without being punished for doing so in Sweden - see legal comment below.  Note also:  Sweden police failed to follow protocols and the police database was tampered with, along with other irregularities.] He said that Swedish prosecutors knew where Assange was and urged them to call him to discuss the case. Stephens told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "It is quite bizarre, because the chief prosecutor in Sweden dropped the entire case against him, saying there was absolutely nothing for him to find back in September, and then a few weeks later on – after the intervention of a Swedish politician – a new prosecutor, not in Stockholm where Julian and these women had been, but in Gothenburg, began a new case which has resulted in these warrants and the Interpol Red Notice being put out." He added: "It does seem to be a political stunt." http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/05/julian-assange-lawyers-being-watched [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. The US govt & shrill Palin (& assorted US airhead) claims that were made were subsequently NOT supported by facts: [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Well, that was interesting. ꕤ

Video - US State Dept Are Go

ꕤ US State Dept Are Go Political Comment | Take on US State Dept ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. source |  @WikiLeaks US State Department Spokesman John Kirby " ... gets testy when RT’s Gayane Chichakyan asks if Iraq has a legitimate concern over “the situation where the US invites forces to Iraq and the US is leading this coalition … but when something goes wrong, the US says it’s none of our business -- like, what's happening?" ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This is my non-PC take on the state of affairs at the US State Dept.  ...  lol Really enjoyed doing that. Only problem is, what takes seconds to think about takes forever (plus some PC crashes) to implement electronically.  Think I might be low on RAM or something.  Old PC.   And downloading takes forever.  I'm faster than the computer.  I'm ready to post.  Computer's still doing its thing, downloading adjusted GIF etc.   It's making me crazy-errrrrrrr.  lol The guy holding up the newspaper is Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and the guy asking 'What?' is Associated Press (AP) reporter, Matt Lee.  Now that it's done, it's not as hilarious as it first seemed.  lol [Could do with more tweaking, but I don't have patience for more right now.  ... lol] ꕤ

TRANSCRIPT - US State Dept Ludicrous Claim: Long-Standing US Policy of Not Supporting Coups | Latin America

TRANSCRIPT  [for quotation purposes, confirm audio] SOURCE VIDEO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frO1T3vZNrA&feature=youtu.be Via:  Democracy Now! Video Published:  11 Mar 2015 ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- Female (Press) President Maduro last night went the on-air last night and said that they'd arrested multiple people who are behind a coup that was backed by the United States.  What is your response? US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki These latest accusations, like all previous such accusations, are ludicrous.  As a matter of long-standing policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means.  Political transitions must be democratic, constitutional, peaceful, and legal.  We have seen many times that the Venezuelan government tries to distract from its own actions by blaming the United States, or other members of the international community, for events inside Venezuela.  These efforts reflect a lack of seriousness on the part of Venezuelan government to deal with the grave situation it faces. Matt Lee (Press) The US has - whoa, whoa, whoa.  The US has a long-standing practice of not promoting - what did you say?  How long-standing is that?  I would [chuckle] - in particular in South and Latin America, that is not a long-standing practice. US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki Well, my point here, Matt - Matt Lee (Press) [Interjects] Not in this case - US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki - without getting into history, is that we do not support, we have no involvement with, and these are ludicrous accusation. Matt Lee (Press) In this specific case [?] US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki [Interjects] Correct. Matt Lee (Press) But if you go back, not that long ago, during your lifetime even. [background chuckle] US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki This is the last 21 years? [laughter] Matt Lee (Press) Well done.  Touché.  But, I mean - does longs-standing mean 10 years, in this case.  I mean, what is - US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki [interjects] Matt, my intention was to speak to the specific reports. Matt Lee (Press) I understand. But you said it's a long-standing US practice, and I'm not so sure.  It depends on what your definition of long-standing is. US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki [Interjects] We will - OK. Male (Press) [Interjects] [... inaudible ...] in Kiev.  Whatever we say about Ukraine, whatever - the change of government in the beginning of last year was unconstitutional and yet [chuckles] you supported it.  The constitution was not - the constitution - US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki [Interjects] That was also ludicrous. [Video cuts to Amy Goodman] Amy Goodman Democracy Now! That was State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki being questioned by reporters. Professor Miguel Tiner Salas, if you could respond to both that exchange and also Josh Ernest, State Department -- err, White House - spokesperson. Professor Miguel Tiner Salas Promona College I would have loved if that kind of exchange got a broader diffusion in the US press, but the fact is that it hasn't, and we continue to have the belief that the US does not - is not involved in unconstitutional change in Latin America and, as a historian, the record speaks just the opposite: from '53 in Guatemala, to the Dominican Republic, to Chile in '73, and through the ardent support of the Argentine military dictatorships, in Brazil.  And, if we want to go even closer, to 2002 in Venezuela, when the US did actually support a coup against the democratically elected Hugo Chavez - the shortest coup in the world and the coup that brought Chavez back to power.  And, then again, in Honduras in 2009 and, not shortly thereafter, in Paraguay with Fernando Lugo, where they said it was a democratic transition, when, in fact, it was an unconstitutional shift in power.  So, again, the notion that the US has not supported both military coups - directly, or through what they call 'soft power' - is really ludicrous and, in fact, we should turn the question around:  if they want to support democracy, I think the best thing the US can do, in the case of Venezuela and other countries, is to pull back and let things develop on their own.  I think you have a very strong opposition in Venezuela.  It can speak for itself.  And you have a government force and other social forces that are organised in those countries, and I think the best thing, in the case of Mexico and in the case of Venezuela, is for the US to stop intervening. --- end audio 3:38 --- ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- US Supported Coups  (ie merely those mentioned in video) Latin America Guatemala, 1953 Dominican Republic Chile, 1973 Argentina Brazil Venezuela, 2002, Hugo Chavez Honduras, 2009 Paraguay, Fernando Lugo Europe Ukraine, 2014 OTHER (incl. list US coups)   Ecuadorian President Says The CIA Is Attempting To Overthrow His Government The CIA has a history of contributing to coups in Ecuador. Back in 1963, the CIA led a coup which deposed President Carlos Julio Arosemena because he criticized the United States and supported Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba. By Derrick Broze | March 25, 2015 SOURCE http://www.mintpressnews.com/ecuadorian-president-says-the-cia-is-attempting-to-overthrow-his-government/203701/ For Full Article (with links to further information, go to source) ꕤ

Assange - What Wikileaks Teaches Us About How the US Operates - Book: The WikiLeaks Files | Article Extracts-Summary - Part II

EXTRACTS | SUMMARY [For quotation purposes, confirm original article] PART II RE: Book The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire (Verso, 2015) ---- SOURCE Assange: What WikiLeaks Teaches Us About How the U.S. Operates By Julian Assange 8/28/15 http://www.newsweek.com/emb-midnight-827-assange-what-wikileaks-teaches-us-about-how-us-operates-366364 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- National Security Religiosity  & the International Studies Association large body of literature exists re: structural or realpolitik analysis of key institutions of US power such approaches alone, lack explanatory power, given: range of ritualistic & even quasi-religious phenomena surrounding the national security sector in USA Rituals, familiar: flag-folding veneration of orders elaborate genuflection to rank [grovelling / servility / on bended knee | fm Lat. genu (knee) flectere (to bend) - here] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- National Security Sector |  Priestly Class WikiLeaks published documents bear: classification markings type of national-security 'holy seal' Reaction to WikiLeaks publication of documents = two parallel campaigns: One downplaying diverting attention reframing Two internal campaign (digestion / processing of event) When documents bearing classification seal are made public = documents transmuted by US DoS into forbidden objects As 'forbidden objects' public/published classified US DoS docs = become 'toxic' to the 'state within a state' Over 5.1 million Americans (as of 2014) = US 'state within a state' - ie those with active security clearances As 'forbidden objects' published classified US DoS docs = also 'toxic' to extended periphery who aspire to USG economic or social patronage Upon WikiLeaks disclosures: =  hysteria and non-corporeality {and unreality?} religions & cults imbue their priestly class with additional scarcity value by keeping their religious texts secret from the public or the lower orders of the devoted technique also permits priestly class to adopt different psychological strategies for different levels of indoctrination national security sector ways embraced by those who have become sufficiently indoctrinated = laughable to: public; or lower levels of 'clearance;' What is laughable, hypocritical, or Machiavellian =   embraced by those sufficiently indoctrinated or co-opted by those whose economic or social advantage lies in accepting that which they would normally reject ꕤ Profaned Object - 'Contamination' False USG Claim Publicly, USG claimed falsely: = that anyone without a USG security clearance distributing “classified” documents is violating the Espionage Act of 1917 (USA) USG FALSE claims = work in the opposite direction: "orders the very people it publicly claims are the only ones who can legally read classified documents to refrain from reading documents" ... lest they be 'contaminated' by them Exact documents: may be read by cleared staff when issued from classified USG repositories are, however, forbidden to same staff when exact documents emerge from a public source US DoS mandates that: cleared employees of the national security state are: to self-report any public domain contact with the newly 'profaned' object; and  to destroy all traces of it; US Irrational Response classified cables (+ other docs) published by WikiLeaks (& associated media) = completely identical to the original versions (ie they are electronic copies) By implication 'Holy' US DoS classified docs  acquire non-physical property / that is a 'magical' property  and this 'holy,' 'magical' property received upon USG classification: is EXTINGUISHED by making document PUBLIC Devotees of National Security State do not consider docs made public to be merely: devoid of 'magical' property (bestowed by classification 'holy' seal); or  rendered a mundane object on publication Devotees of National Security State consider documents made public as having become = inhabited by another non-physical property: an evil one Such religious thinking consequences: excuse used by USG to block millions of people working for the 'state within a state' from reading: = over 30 different WikiLeaks domains = other outlets publishing WikiLeaks materials: The New York Times Guardian Der Spiegel Le Monde El País 2011 | USG Sent 'WikiLeaks Fatwa' to every: federal govt agency every federal govt employee every federal govt security contractor Declaration of Official 'Enemy' - Proclaiming WikiLeaks disclosures caused damage to national security Declaration of 'Forbidden Object' - Proclaiming classified information 'remains classified' irrespective of availability on public websites & availability via media disclosure Proclamation | 'Confession' contractors "shall report its existence immediately" Proclamation | 'Cleansing' Companies are: "to delete the offending material" & to clear even the "internet browser cache" ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ACADEMIA INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC RELATIONS Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs following US DoS contact warned students: “not post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites ..." Consequence invoked (leverage) that accompanied warning: "Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government." An array of govt depts & other entities, incl Library of Congress blocked internet access to WikiLeaks US National Archives = even blocked searches of its own database for “WikiLeaks” Pentagon prosecutors re Manning trial (alleged source Cablegate cables) = unable to receive important emails from judge & defence Rather than remove filter, Pentagon implemented clumsy new procedure: check the filter daily for blocked WikiLeaks-related emails set-up of alternate, special e-mail addresses for prosecution US National Security Sector Religious Hysteria = laughable to those outside the US national security sector US National Security Sector Religious Hysteria INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS = serious poverty of analysis of WikiLeaks publications in US in international relations journals OTHER SCHOLARS scholars in disciplines eg law, linguistics, applied statistics, health & economics = not deterred eg - Entropy statistics journal DeDeo et al. (US or UK nationals) write that: WikiLeaks   |   Afghan War Diary  “is likely to become a standard set for both the analysis of human conflict and the study of empirical methods for the analysis of complex, multi-modal data.” [entropy = (Communications & Information) a measure of the efficiency of a system, such as a code or language, in transmitting information - fm. Gk - here] COURTS & INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS extensive use of WikiLeaks materials esp. cables in courts, incl. domestic courts from UK to Pakistan INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS extensive use of WikiLeaks materials from: European Court of Human Rights to International Criminal Tribunal CONTRAST POVERTY OF COVERAGE IN USA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS JOURNALS in light of 1,000s of citations in the courts & in other academic areas = poverty of coverage, not merely odd = suspicious Such international relations journals DOMINATE study of international relations GLOBALLY =  should be natural home for analysis of WikiLeaks 2-billion word diplomatic corpus US-based International Studies Quarterly (ISQ) major international relations journal = adopted a policy against accepting manuscripts based on WikiLeaks material *even where it consists of quotes* *or derived analysis* ISQ = acknowledged it's currently: in an untenable position until such time as there is a change in policy by International Studies Association (ISA) International Studies Association (ISA) = over 6,500 members worldwide = dominant scholarly association in the field = publishes: Foreign Policy Analysis International Political Sociology International Interactions International Studies Review International Studies Perspectives ISA = almost HALF of 56 members on its governing council:  professors 'international service' type academic USA university departments  *Such university departments: = feeder schools for the US DoS and other internationally-oriented areas of govt ISA President (2014-15) = Prof Amitav Acharya School of International Service American University in Washington, DC ISA = banned single most significant US foreign policy archive from appearing in its academic papers = otherwise, presumably, against its institutional & academic ambitions ISA ban = calls into question its entire output = undermines an output that has influenced how the world understands role of US in international order Type of Academic Fraud = closing of ranks within the scholar class around the interests of Pentagon & DoS = exclusion of primary sources for non-academic reasons is to lie by omission = distortion of the field of international relations (& related disciplines) by proximity of its academic structures to the US govt = such close-proximity academic structures lack even even have the independence of the frequently deferential New York Times Distortion of Study of International Relations & Censorship of WikiLeaks = significant opportunity: to present an analysis of international relations free of censorship of classified materials ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Other Fatwa =  "an Islamic religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of Islamic law. A fatwa is issued by a recognized religious authority in Islam."  |  here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Not sure what is meant by 'non-corporeality' ... some kind of disembodied hysteria?  lol Or, maybe something immaterial and therefore invalid? Not sure if I'm on the right track.  Going with unreality re 'non-corporeality' mentioned in article (as follows): "hysteria and non-corporeality" Article's a good read. ꕤ

Assange - What Wikileaks Teaches Us About How the US Operates - Book: The WikiLeaks Files | Article Extracts-Summary - Part I

EXTRACTS | SUMMARY [For quotation purposes, confirm original article] PART I RE: Book The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire (Verso, 2015) ---- SOURCE Assange: What Wikileaks Teaches Us About How the U.S. Operates By Julian Assange 8/28/15 http://www.newsweek.com/emb-midnight-827-assange-what-wikileaks-teaches-us-about-how-us-operates-366364 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Leaked US docs lifted veil on imperialist nature of USA foreign policy ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Communication Early empires Stone transmission of compressed institutional rules to be safely communicated into future Early methods did not allow for: rapidly unfolding events official nuance or discretion gaps addressed by: oral medium other: eg papyrus light and fast to create, but fragile easy to construct and transport, unifying occupied regions = rapid information flow | could: = feed reactive central management = integrate incoming streams of intelligence = swiftly project outgoing decisions {but with tendencies toward short-termism & micromanagement} ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Absolute boundary to existence of empire: = ability to project an empire’s: desires structure knowledge across space across time ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Hallmark of empire = structured attempt at managing an extended cultural; and economic system using communications ---------------------- ꕤ ----------------------  USG DoS Empire Communications | Vulnerable to Dissection records of these communications ( never intended to be dissected / especially vulnerable to dissection) form the basis for understanding nature of world’s sole remaining “empire.” ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Anatomy of US Empire Where is it? 191 countries 276 fortified buildings 169 embassies & other missions of USG 71,000 people across those countries 27 different US govt ('USG') agencies 27 other USG departments ('depts') & agencies incl: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) National Security Agency (NSA) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) US military (various branches) ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Embassy Components Ambassador = usually close to domestic US political; business; or intelligence power Career Diplomats = specialize in politics; economy; and public diplomacy [propaganda]; of their host state. Others: managers researchers military attachés spies under foreign-service cover personnel from other USG agencies *some embassies:  may have overt armed military; or  covert special ops forces Caretakers | Services contractors security personnel technicians locally hired translators cleaners other service personnel ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- USG empire communication means: radio satellite some communication USG mainland: receive; or disgorge diplomatic and CIA cables some relay the communications of US military ships & planes others = NSA mass-intercept of mobile phones other wireless traffic of host population ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- USG Diplomatic Service History Dates back to the American Revolution  1765 - 1783 | here Modern US DoS came into being: post WWII 1973 - appointment of Henry Kissinger as secretary of state concurrent appointed of Henry Kissinger as: national security advisor facilitated tighter integration b/w following arms of USG: foreign relations military intelligence 1973 - cables transmitted in bulk, electronically *for first time* US Department of State ('DoS') UNIQUE - Among USA Bureaucracies Other USG agencies = one function admin US DoS = represents / houses = all major elements of US national power = cover for CIA = buildings for NSA mass-interception equipment = office space & communications facilities for: FBI military other USG agencies & staff to act as sales agents & political advisors for largest US corporations   ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Understanding US DoS diplomatic apparatus cannot properly understood from outside US DoS = directly involved in putting a friendly face on empire = ie concealing US DoS underlying mechanics 'public diplomacy' = outward propaganda $1 billion p.a. is budgeted by USA for outward propaganda ('public diplomacy') USG DoS propaganda ('public diplomacy') aims to influence: 1) journalists; and 2) civil society; so that they serve as *conduits* for US DoS messaging ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- USG DoS | Released Info | National Archives national archives = impressive collections of internal state communications BUT - material intentionally withheld (or made difficult to access) for DECADES aim: to strip info of potency reason: potential 'blowback' ie.  timely, accessible archives of international significance *would produce 'blowback' in the form of: withdrawn funding; or termination of officials ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Potency of Secret Communications Revealed | The Naked Empire publication = vivisection of a living empire = (showing what substance flowed from which state organ & when) = internal communications by-product of activities of US DoS = not produced in order to manipulate public = cables aimed at elements of rest of US state apparatus = therefore relatively free from distorting influence of public relations = reading US DoS cables (internal communications, stripped of propaganda / external influence intent) |  = much more effective way of understanding an institution like US DoS than reading reports by journalist (fed to them by likes of Hillary Clinton & Jen Psaki) ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Note however: cables / internal communications  of US DoS officials = must match their pens to the latest DC orthodoxies = elements of political correctness = noteworthy & visible to outsiders who are not sufficiently indoctrinated Cables show how US DoS (& agencies that inter-operate with cable system) = understand their place in the world KEY to understanding: Only by approaching this corpus holistically (above localised atrocity & individual abuses): does the true human cost of empire heave into view ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Above extracts/summary are my way of distilling what is key (to me).  Best to read the article itself, in case there's gaps in my understanding. Following not clear to me: serve as *conduits* for US DoS messaging Is that the journalists & members of civil society to serve as conduits of US DoS messaging, as result of US DoS 'public diplomacy' propaganda?  That's what I assumed. ꕤ

OBAMA WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY - PUTTING LIPSTICK ON PIGS

State Dept to spend over $500k on training staff for congressional grilling Published time: August 10, 2014 17:44 Edited time: August 10, 2014 22:50 The US State Department has approved a $545,000 contract to coach its officials on how to testify before Congress and brief lawmakers. The department had to seek help from a professional firm after a series of embarrassing performances by its staff. The department has hired an Orlando, Florida-based company called AMTIS, Inc. The contract includes classes entitled 'Communicating with Congress: Briefing and Testifying.' It also includes a separate ambassadorial seminar “for building effective relationships with members of Congress and their staffers.” According to the contract, the 'Communicating with Congress' classes will be offered “between three to four times per year. There is a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 15 participants per class.” In addition, there will be individual sessions and classes of mock hearings where officials will testify in front of a panel of experts, who will then give their feedback on the performances. Other topics taught under the contract include “Tips for leveraging State’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs” and “Training and skill-building in briefing techniques,” as well as “Building effective relationships.” [...]

The company also has contacts with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration. It worked on two “congressional testimony training sessions” with the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, The Washington Times reported. The State Department hired AMTIS following several embarrassing performances by its staffers at congressional hearings. Indeed, some of the State Department senior-level officials will be remembered for their statements. Earlier this year, the White House came under fire over a handful of President Obama's ambassador nominees, who appeared to lack knowledge or expertise about the nations where they would serve. EXRACTS ONLY - FULL @ SOURCE SOURCE - RT NEWS - HERE.

The $500,000 of taxpayer money Obama's approved is $500k that could have been spent better had Obama ensured he screened staff and hired able staff in the first place.

The government waste isn't limited to that $500k Obama's blowing; FOUR other government departments have also blown money on attempts to train morons to be more adept at lying to you.