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

August 31, 2015

Wave of Refugees in Europe Not An Accident But A Strategic Goal of USA


SOURCE
https://archive.is/EOLGS

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FULL ARTICLE | here

Austrian media: Rothschild started the migration of migrants ...

21:48 Aug 27 2015 News , World

[ ...]

"We have information that all or part of the costs borne by the organization for refugees from the United States. We found out after we noticed discrepancies in the figures are after tests regularly repeated, and did not jibe with the capabilities of people depending on the regions they come from. For example, it is not possible that so many people from North Africa at hand has about 11 thousand euros. How is it possible that no one asked this question? The only explanation is that someone is hiding something, "said the Austrian intelligence and added that even in friendly intelligence circles such as Germany and the US government some unusual silence.
 
"About our conclusions one from the United States does not want to talk to us, and we've had very good communication with their intelligence services. Even hnaa (Austrian military agency for information and internal security) no information or simply get a ban spread them. However, this must be made public, "concluded the Austrian intelligence.
According to an internal report of the Austrian intelligence services "means that the US organization created a model of co-financing and submitted most of the costs of trade immigrants. It is the "same organizations that have their work burned and cast into chaos Ukraine a year ago."
This is more than a clear allusion to the so-called NGOs. The article ends with an invitation "to journalists, policemen and intelligence officers to participate actively in the search for information to substantiate these claims, because the current situation is extremely dangerous and publication of accurate information can prevent the escalation of the crisis."
[ ... ]

Austrian magazine Info Direct announced recently, citing an unnamed source from the ranks of the Austrian army, that all or part of the cost of transport of refugees from Libya and North Africa bear the organization from the United States.

[ ... ]

French analyst Thierry Mejsan for Voltairenet portal writes that this finding confirmation of its extensive article published four months ago in which inter alia states that the wave of refugees in Europe is not an accidental side effect of the conflict in the Middle East, but the strategic goal of the United States.

Mejsan American strategy called the "chaos theory" and refers to Leo Strauss (1899 -1973.), Philosopher, father and guru of neoconservatives who have occupied key positions in American institutions.

"The principle of this strategic doctrine can be summarized as follows:

The easiest way to plunder the natural resources of a country over the long term is not taking the country by military means, but its destruction. No country has no army, and no enemy army is no danger of defeat. Since that time, a strategic military target of NATO with the United States at the forefront of the destruction of the state exclusively. What will happen later with the affected peoples, it is not a problem in Washington.

Migration in the Mediterranean, which for now is still a humanitarian concern (200,000 immigrants in 2014), will continue to grow into a serious economic problem. Recent decisions of the European Union are directed that the problem of mass immigration stop, but to justify new military operations which should keep the chaotic situation in Libya. Of course, chaos can not be solved. That is exactly so. The US strategy is actually directed to Europeans drawn into a military adventure in Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

Once Europeans to ... mired [neck deep] in the swamp of chaos due to lack of military training and capacity [they] will have to ask for help only remaining superpower.  It will unite us more than ever, because "protecting us from chaos," writes Mejsan.

In the end, it is necessary to mention the left-liberal end of the political spectrum, as always protect the interests of "the weakest", in the case of immigrants, while in fact participate in this large and lucrative business, sometimes not knowing what it seems.

In any event, this huge wave of immigrants that swept Europe should be disposed of, and the unfortunate people given the opportunity to live in peace and the conditions worthy of man. However, only talk about the tip of the iceberg, not solve the problem at the root, whether it comes to Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, only proves the allegations Mejsan to Brussels as much as Washington is participating in the production of chaos globally that in Europe, forcing hundreds of thousands of people.

The bill will eventually pay European taxpayers and spending of public funds for these purposes will inevitably produce an increase in xenophobia.

[ ...]

Someone is because of their resources and geostrategic position decided that their homeland must be destroyed and the worst financial oligarchy even this "great migration" is seen as a lucrative source of profit.

SOURCE
https://archive.is/EOLGS
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Note:  the name of author referred to in above article, should probably read 'Thierry Meyssan'
COMMENT

Found this an interesting article ... if you ignore the references to Rothschilds banking (which don't make sense to me), and if you can put up with a poor translation.

What I think the article is saying is that the mass migration from Africa and the Middle East isn't just an accident of US and US aligned Western meddling in those regions.
Instead, it is part of a  US strategy to mire Europe in conditions which will require Europe to seek US support and, therefore, to cleave to the US and its aims, I'm guessing.

Not sure what to make of this yet.



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The European Union is blind to the military strategy of the United States

The political leaders of the European Union are entirely wrong about the Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe and the migration to the Union of people fleeing the war zones. Thierry Meyssan demonstrates here that these are not simply the accidental consequences of conflict in the wider Middle East and Africa, but a strategic objective of the United States.
| Damascus (Syria)



Britain: Ret. Gen. David Richards - Ukraine, Syria, Libya

SOURCE
https://www.politicshome.com/foreign-and-defence/articles/story/former-military-chief-cameron-lacked-balls-over-syria
POLITICS.HOME
Written by
agnes.chambre

Last updated
30.08.15
Posted on:
30.08.15
Former military chief: Cameron lacked balls over Syria

A former military chief has accused David Cameron of allowing the rise of Islamic State by not crushing the group militarily.

General Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, who was chief of defence staff from October 2010 to July 2013, said the Prime Minister had “lacked balls” to take action against the extremist group when it first arose.

He told Sir Anthony Seldon in a new biography of Mr Cameron that the Prime Minister was more interested in persuing a “Notting Hill liberal agenda” than “statecraft”.

The peer added: "In Ukraine, as in Syria and Libya, there is a clear lack of strategy and statecraft. The problem is the inability to think things through."

Lord Richards also announced last year that Mr Cameron had rejected a “coherent military strategy” for taking on Syrian president Bashar al Assad, which he claimed would have seen the Islamic extremists "squeezed out of existence".
SOURCE
https://www.politicshome.com/foreign-and-defence/articles/story/former-military-chief-cameron-lacked-balls-over-syria

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LOOK-UPS

'PoliticsHome'

"political journalist Paul Waugh at the helm ...
exclusive editorial from MPs, peers and policy stakeholders"

"PoliticsHome is produced by Dods, the specialist political publishing house. You can learn more about Dods by visiting the website."

https://www.politicshome.com/about

DODS

Data
Since 1832
provided political reference data
now cover people & institutions in both the UK + Europe

Intelligence
...

News
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Training
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... teach ... to be an effective public servant

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Dods (Group) PLC
formerly Huveaux PLC

provision of information, events & publishing

"Dods has been collecting data since 1832 with the publication of the first Dods Parliamentary Companion"

[wikipedia]

Huveaux plc
Huveaux is a leading B2B [business to business] publishing and
media group operating in the political,
education, learning and healthcare arenas.
[mention re corporate branding stategy]
http://www.bexonwoodhouse.com/portfolio/casestudies/huveaux.php

Huveaux PLC 
1998
engaged California lobbying firm  - Copeland, Lowery & Jacquez
$40,000    Epic Group    Business Services
[opensecrets - here]
Huveaux
Huveaux was formed in 2001 with the objective of building a substantial,
high-quality publishing and media group. It is now twenty fold the size when it
first listed on AIM.

The Group consists of three Divisions each of which has strong brands and
market-leading positions:

Political Division comprises Dod's Parliamentary Companion, The House Magazine,
Epolitix.com, Political Wizard and numerous other magazine titles and
revenue-generating websites. It is the market leader in Political
business-to-business publishing in the UK and the EU.

Learning Division comprises Epic, the UK market leader in e-learning; The
Training Journal magazine and seminar business; Lonsdale Revision Guides for
schools and the highly acclaimed Westminster Explained conferences and seminars.

Healthcare Division based in France, comprises Panorama du Medecin, a leading
weekly magazine for French doctors; Le Concours Medical and La Revue du
Praticien, both market-leading Continuing Medical Education magazines; Egora.fr,
the leading medical information website; and a number of other magazines and a
medical conference business.

Huveaux has now completed ten successful acquisitions over the past four years
and employs more than 450 staff in London, Paris, Brussels and four UK regional
offices.

http://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=200609040700184115I
Martin Beck
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director,Dods (Group) PLC
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=252104238&ticker=DODS:LN
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Gen David Richards
Baron Richards of Herstmonceux

retired senior British Army officer
formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff
(ie professional head of the British Armed Forces)

University College, Cardiff, 1974
a degree in international relations

Royal Artillery
  • Far East
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • x3 tours in Northern Ireland
1998 - Chief of Joint Force Operations
at Permanent Joint Headquarters
Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ)
British tri-service HQ (army, navy, airforce)

plans & controls all overseas military ops 

Commanded by: Chief of Joint Operations (CJO)

est. 1996 to:

re:  UK-led joint, potentially joint & multi-national ops
purpose to:
  1. enhance the operational effectiveness and efficiency 
  2. exercise command of UK forces assigned to multinational ops led by others
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Joint_Headquarters
1999
UK Contingent in East Timor as part of INTERFET

2000
twice commanded a UK Joint Task Force in Sierra Leone

2006 (Jul)
command  International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
in southern Afghanistan
was passed to NATO forces
under his command
Richards promoted to the acting rank of full general (4-star)

2009
widely criticised
re claim British troops may have a role in Afghanistan for up to 40 years

2009
Chief of the General Staff (professional head of Army)

2010
Says:
intelligence & security agencies dealing with Middle East
/ do not want to open another [military] front but may be necessary

2011
General David Richards
( + other senior NATO officers)
  • sought backing from NATO member states
to intensify the war effort Libya
by directly targeting Col Gaddafi's govt
instead of merely 'protecting' Libyan civilians
Said:
"The United Nations resolution allows NATO to 'use all necessary means' in Libya"

Syrian Civil War
Richards drew up plans
to train and equip a Syrian rebel army of 100,000
to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, 
as alternative to UK govt’s plan for limited direct military involvement
Plans rejected by the National Security Council (NSC) as too ambitious
National Security Council  (NSC)
(United Kingdom)
est. 12 May 2010 by PM David Cameron

purpose:  coordinate responses to 'threats' to UK

NSC
= a Cabinet Committee
ovesees all issues re:
  • national security
  • intelligence coordination
  • defence strategy
terms of reference:
  • national security
  • foreign policy
  • defence
  • international relations
  • international development
  • resilience
  • energy
  • resource security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Council_%28United_Kingdom%2

2013 (Aug)
UK parliament refused to support the govt's plan to participate in military strikes against the Syrian govt.

David Cameron 'knew British pilots were bombing Syria'

MoD admits UK personnel carry out Syrian bombings, despite Parliament not authorising action, by being embedded with allied nations - latest reaction

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11745689/British-pilots-in-air-strikes-against-Isil-in-Syria-live.html

Other:

2013

Ret. Gen David Richards
=  a Senior Adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

patron of the Armed Forces Muslim Association

2014 (Jun) - Richards said that Britain's Armed Forces will be like a banana republic's if the Ministry of Defence kept cutting costs

2014 (Oct) - says Western strategy of air strikes on ISIS insufficient. 

Spouse:   trustee of charities Plant for Peace and The Afghan Appeal

SOURCE - above (unless otherwise marked)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richards,_Baron_Richards_of_Herstmonceux
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COMMENT

Well, that was an interesting read.

Was curious about the publication:  PoliticsHome.
Publication is under the umbrella of a publicly listed media company.  But I don't know who has controlling share of the company.

Thought it was funny that there's the retired general, pro more taxpayer funding of the military, and pro British military interventions etc, while his missus is involved in some 'Plant for Peace' charity and an Afghan charity.  

The NSC response to 'threats' to UK would largely be related to formulating response to challenges to the interests of British corporations and British corporate agendas abroad (and those of their allies), rather than to actual physical threats to the British isles.  

The NSC terms of reference are interesting.  As I see it, it pretty much sets out the scope of support by government for UK corporate agenda interests abroad. 
terms of reference:
  • national security
  • foreign policy
  • defence
  • international relations
  • international development
  • resilience
  • energy
  • resource security
Wonder what 'resilience' covers?

Interesting that the British have got an eye on Ukraine, in addition to the Middle East.  

Surely the Americans can handle sustaining control of Ukraine, post CIA coup, on their own?

PS  ... don't know what 'security agencies' are, if they're distinct from 'intelligence' and if they're not military.  What is the distinction, I wonder? 

August 30, 2015

Assange - The Guardian - Forthcoming Opinion Piece - by US Guardian blogger and polemicist Jessica Valenti

Julian Assange


Re:  The Guardian
Forthcoming Opinion Piece
by US Guardian blogger 
& polemicist Jessica Valenti


Earlier post regarding the above  |  here

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Hello?

Jessica Valenti was what, de facto, amounts to an early PR supporter of one of the alleged accusers (I say, 'alleged', because both women have publicly denied (& therefore discounted) Sweden police allegations - here).

Check out the date of Valenti's post (above).  Dated 17th December 2010. 

That's a mere 10 days following Assange's mass media covered, theatrical, state managed, & state exploited arrest in London. Bet the dust hadn't even settled.

So much for The Guardian's proposed 'opinion' piece ... and their denial of right of reply to journalist, Julian Assange.
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Contrasts





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Always thought there was one 'n' in cannon.

Apparently, there's not.




Assange - Death Threats, CIA Kidnap Concern


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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Assange-Lives-in-Fear-of-Kidnapping-Assassination-20150829-0004.html

Julian Assange says he rarely makes public appearances due to mounting security concerns.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange fears kidnapping and assassination, according to an interview published Saturday.

Speaking to the U.K.'s The Times magazine, Assange said he has received threats from “unstable people,” and rarely makes appearances from the Ecuadorean embassy due to security concerns.

“There are security issues with being on the balcony. There have been bomb threats and assassination threats from various people,” he told the magazine.

Rogue death threats aren't Assange's only concerns. Even if he is eventually able to leave the confines of the embassy, Assange said he fears he could continue to face serious risks for years to come. Although he said it seems unlikely he could be gunned down, he said he hasn't completely ruled out the possibility of being kidnapped by the CIA.

He added, “Unless I convert to Islam it's not that likely that I'll be droned, but we have seen things creeping towards that.” 

[...]
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COMMENT

This story is prominent today.

Must be a lot of weirdos out there. 

I'd probably be more concerned about an abseiling swat-team grab on the balcony (and the likelihood of a CIA kidnapping down the track), than the random nutters making threats.



UPDATE

Not sure if this can be filed under 'whacko threat,' or if it's merely whacko.  

If it were directed at a woman journalist, woman developer, or woman politician, there'd most likely be media outrage, twitter take-downs, law enforcement authorities charging to the rescue, and politicians making the most of having a crack at pushing through restrictive new legislation (which I always find myself opposed to).  

August 2015  | here
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As with most aggressive or questionable social media remarks, I'd say this posting is probably not a 'threat,' as such; and that it's most likely just an example of the rather unhinged mindsets there is among people.
Creeps me out a bit, though.



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)

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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

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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]
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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

    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:
          1. "to delete the offending material"
          2. & to clear even the "internet browser cache"
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          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

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          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

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          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.





          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)

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          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

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          Leaked US docs
          lifted veil on
          imperialist nature
          of USA foreign policy
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          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}
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          Absolute boundary to existence of empire:

          = ability to project an empire’s:
          • desires
          • structure
          • knowledge
          • across space
          • across time
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          Hallmark of empire

          = structured attempt at managing an extended
          • cultural; and
          • economic
          system
          • using communications
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           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.”
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          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)
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          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
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          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
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          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
             
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          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
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          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
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          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)
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          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
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          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.