Europe. What Is It Good For?
Vikings made their women to do all the finances because they thought math was witchcraft. Just recently Europe decidedly subjugated its entire political and economic life back to the Vikings a.k.a. military complex. Let them do the math. The EU and US economies are on the brink of collapse due to Quantitative Easing or printing money based on nothing. Unemployment soaring. Debt soaring. Petro dollar dead and buried.
Consumers running out of steam to consume, and out of will to live. The military is the only industry in the US and Europe right now that has created a lively marketing campaign working well enough to cheat tax payers out of trillions of paper dollars.
There are three ways to solve any problem: the right way, the wrong way, and the military way.
Ash Carter, Europe is good for nothing…
On June 5th, 2015, after rebalancing Asia with Pacific at U.S. Africa Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter summoned top American defensive heads and diplomats to talk about Russia.
Everyone noticed that the Defense Secretary Ash Carter was “sad.” [Source]
Carter was sad, because nobody listened to him. In 2006 he advocated the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to bomb Iran. 10 years later, Iran is still there. This past April Carter said again that “We Might Bomb Iran Even If a Peace Agreement Is Signed” [Source]
Now, Ashton Baldwin “Ash” Carter, a son of an Abingdon Memorial Hospital psychiatrist, is advocating nuking Russia, using the territory of NATO-occupied Ukraine and the territories of NATO-occupied Eastern Europe as missile launch pads. Ash Carter warns Russia on nukes: “U.S. responses must make clear to Russia that if it does not return to compliance, our responses will make them less secure than they are today.”[Source]
“The Obama administration is weighing a range of aggressive responses to Russia’s alleged violation of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, including deploying land-based missiles in Europe that could pre-emptively destroy the Russian weapons.” [Source]
This is neo-con double speak at its best: We allege (assume, made up) that Russia violated something; We are going to “aggressively respond” to Russia’s assumed violations; we will be deploying land-based missiles in Eastern Europe to preemptively strike (to attack Russia due to reasons that were made up by us.) Also, in case somebody missed it, the Russian weapons that the US are threatening to “destroy” are likely located in densely populated eastern Russia, Crimea, and South Russia. Just in this one sentence Ash Carter, a neo-con nut case from Pennsylvania, declared a nuclear war on the Russian people with full support from European countries.
Long before Ashton Carter became a medieval nuclear physicist, an Oxford professor, a Pentagon .. son of… defense, those who grew up with him in Abington, Pennsylvania recognized a “spark.” …(maybe he used to set his parents’ neighbors cats on fire.) Carter said once to a journalist, “I remember my dad said to my mom, ‘This kid is really sharp.’ “[Source]
… His late father, William S. Carter, was a Navy psychiatrist, and should advocate frontal lobotomy and horse tranquilizers for his son, when he was fired from his job as a gas station attendant for allegedly attacking either the owner or a customer verbally or otherwise. As little Ash Carter grew up, he studied Medieval History at Harvard as if he wanted to learn more ways to torture and kill people. Today, this rich white man’s American Dream has finally come true. His illusions of grandeur brought him right where he belongs, to the US Strategic Command Center.
“We have done everything we could,” the US Defense secretary allegedly said. We pointed gun at Russia and tried to take its money purse. What do you “want more from the U.S?”
“Hey, you, handsome…” Europeans said. “What about these big guns Russia is pointing at our heads right now?”
The US Secretary of Defense doesn’t see any problems with using European countries as a launching pads for nuclear missiles to attack Russia. He also doesn’t see any problems with European countries being used as landing strips for Russian nuclear missiles in response to NATO’s attack. Actually, Ashy is nonchalant about Russia and its allies striking the USA in response to NATO attacks. It seems that his Daddy bought him a Harvard diploma in nuclear physics. It seems that Ash Carter thinks that radiation is safe and even beneficial for organisms. From his 2007 The Day After report.
It almost looks like Carter wrote this report after his one night stand girl got pregnant and demanded alimony support. Just one example, Cater believes that after a nuclear explosion in a major city it will be possible to start rebuilding after just 1 year!
Hey, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, you love America so much. Take Carter’s deal. He believes that after a war between NATO and Russia and everyone else it will take only 1 year until you will be able to come back to rebuild these cities. Or, not….
See the Washington Post musing how Aston Carter wants to bring the bygone World War II era back to Europe [Source]
As AP reports, “The administration is considering three options for responding militarily to Russian (Scott: alleged by the US) missile treaty violations: defenses to stop a treaty-violating missile, the “counterforce” option to attack a missile preemptively and the “countervailing strike capabilities” option that implies the potential use of nuclear forces.”
“One of Carter’s nuclear policy aides, Robert Scher, testified on April 15th, 2015 that “counterforce” means “we could go about and actually attack that missile where it is in Russia.” [Source]
The following is the incomplete transcript of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing.
While watching the video listen how the gentlemen are slurring their words. Celebratory cocktail beforehand?
“Fiscal Year 2016 NUCLEAR FORCES HEARING Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held a hearing entitled “Fiscal Year 2016 Nuclear Forces Hearing”. Testimony was heard from the following Department of Defense officials: Vice Admiral Terry J. Benedict, USN, Director, Strategic Systems Programs; Major General Garrett Harencak, USAF, Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration; Arthur T. Hopkins, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs; and Robert M. Scher, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities.”
4.15.2015 – Fiscal Year 2016 Nuclear Forces Hearing by U.S. House Armed Services Committee
a. The nuclear deference is the nation’s first priority;
b. Get Well Plan for the aftermath of the nuclear enterprise abuses;
c. A nuclear deterrence enterprise review group chaired by deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work to be focusing attention and resources at all levels of the DoD on this essential mission. Nothing is more important. There have been a sad gluttony of failures and problems in recent years. We would hope that with this budget quest going forward we will fix these problems; So far safe, secure and reliable is not actually the result. One ranch that has to be fedexed is one of the most visible failures of the system, but that there have been others…
d. Congress will pretend that the OCO overseas contingency operations will pay for nuclear enterprise. Which is like borrowed money. Which is like a band aid. We have not really fixed the sequestration for our nuclear forces, but pretending that we are going to pay for nuclear forces, we are going to pay for nuclear forces. That, I’m afraid, is the situation we are in.
e. Dr. Hopkins: The nuclear enterprise review highlighted evidence of systemic problems in strategic deterrent forces, that threatens the future safety, security, and effectiveness of our nuclear forces.
f. Mr Scher: We should not be in a position where the only option that we give to the president to get up the Triad is putting a piloted airplane over the enemie’s airspace to drop a gravity bomb;
g. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the cost of mainlining the nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles to be $348 billion dollars over the next decade, for about $35 billion dollars per year including inflation. Robert Sher says that they estimated about 3% of the defense budget with the peak of about 20%.
h. (17 min of the video) Mr Coffman: What the US doing as a result of Russia’s violation the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty?
Scher: The first action that we’re taking is working and trying to convince the Russians to come back into compliance with the INF treaty. We reported that the Russians have violated the INF treaty. We hope to demonstrate to them that it was the reason why their predecessor the Soviet Union went into this treaty in the first place. That it was benefiting their security to do so. Simultaneously, we are looking into what actions we can take to ensure that the violation of the INF treaty doesn’t provide significant military advantage to the Russians.
Three category of military activities: one is active defense. What we can do to defend places in Europe locations that the INF treaty violation missiles could reach; another step also to look of how we could actually <destroy> that missile while it’s still in Russia; and the third step, is not simply attacking that capability but we look at what we can hold at risk within Russia itself. We are working closely with our allies to determine how we can defer this aggression from Russia and how to bring Russia back into compliance. We continue to work with the Russians, but our patience is not limitless on this.
Mr Coffman: At what point the United State will start taking more aggressive actions concerning the Russian government’s failure to comply with their treaty obligations?
Scher: We are still working to figure out the exact timeline, especially in consultation with our allies. We have had an increasingly detailed discussions with our allies about Russia overall. And this way we can figure out when we can make a decision. But we want to see if they realize that they are better off by coming back into compliance.
Mr. Coffman: Is NATO doing anything to try to force Russia to comply with INF Treaty obligations?
Scher: We are working as a part of the NATO alliance as on its conventional side, as well as a part of the NPG nuclear planning group , looking at what NATO should be doing in response to Russia’s violation of the INF treaty. And also to look at this as a whole and understand that this is the part of the broader aggressive posture from Russia. I can go in to more details if you like about ins and outs of this in a closed session.
(31.20 video) Regarding of the aging nuclear infrastructure and the alternative to the Minutemen3. The cost of acquiring new missile system or refurbishing old ones. Aging fleet of B52s. Minutemen 3 is 1970 weapon. It’s an engineering challenge to keep this weapon system up and functioning. Air Force Base Joined Functional Command Component.
This is the end of the incomplete transcript of a video.
Another Pentagon official, Brian McKeon, testified in December that this option involved potential deployment in Europe of ground-launched cruise missiles.”
After bulling mentally feeble American senators into giving him and his gang $35 billion per year, Scher produced a 5 page pdf file presentation dubbed: Honorable Robert M. Scher Assistant Secretary of Defense Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities April 29, 2015. High Level Briefing on U.S. Efforts in Support of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons [Source]
Main points of his presentation being almost, but not quite as following:
The World will be free from nuclear weapons when only the US will have nuclear weapons.
If you think that this presentation is done for people in 1st grade you are wrong. This is the US Senate level presentation and up!
Have you noticed colorful pictures and large fonts used?
Have you noticed a portrait of President Obama with a halo around his head?
Watch and Learn: How to con the US gov for $35 billion per year? Claim that a dozen of hollow tin cans will put off the Russian “aggression” that doesn’t exist in a first place.
Extra bonus: No one is going to check on our work because we classified it!
New financial bubble is in the Military budgets of the US and NATO.
Request for financing is only for the next 5 years, though…
The US Congress will pretend to pay for the nuclear enterprise with pretend money.
Is Robert Scher going to get his “finder’s fee”?
Tusk: G7 values are as following: loot Russia and kill the Russian people. Why doesn’t Russia share our values?
Scher, Carter, and Co. have only 365 days to spend $35 billion.
How to be a rainmaker producing shinny examples of absolute steamy piles of B.S.
Well done, Robert Scher, well done…
Revealing the real reason behind Pentagon’s gyrations [Source]
Last week, Carter said in Germany that he wishes Congress was “more generous” with the money for Department of Defense. The military strives to use money wisely, “so the total investment is the force the country and the world so desperately need — and that’s you.” We need steady funding for Europe reassurance [Source]
The Secretary of Defense spoke of the “American secret sauce.” It’s brown. We need just a pinch of it to infect all the people in the world. “And then all the chickens will come home to roost.” Just remember, he added, “Good people around the world” are only those who work with us. We will “foot stomp” everybody else. “That is very true in Africa,” the secretary told the Africom troop audience, “and you represent a hugely successful application of that strategic theory.” [Source]
Europeans reminded Carter that he was in Germany and not in Africa, and that his fly was open. Carter in return reassured top diplomats that he would do everything in his power to ensure the safety of transfer of the State Department’s funds to his personal IRA account. Once a Harvard professor of Medieval Physics – always a Harvard professor of Medieval Physics.
Ukraine
1. US Wants to Make Ukraine NATO Base to Launch Attack on Russia – Politician [Source] June 9, 2015 – The United States wants to turn Ukraine into a NATO military base to attack Russia, a member of Italy’s opposition party Five Star Movement (M5S), Manlio Di Stefano, said.
2. Ucrânia: 4/6/2015, Relatório de Situação (SITREP)
Our Ukraine SITREP was translated into Portuguese. Awesome.
Vineyard of the Saker, Scott redigiu (Grande Scóti!)
3. UN: More than 870,000 Ukrainians flee the country because of armed conflict [Source] June 9, 2015 – In addition to that, more than 1.3 million people in Ukraine who were forced to leave their homes found refuge on the Ukrainian territory becoming internally displaced persons.
4. Ukraine government steering country into political and economic default — opposition [Source]
June 9, 2015 – The authorities must tell the Ukrainian people whether they are ready to secure peace and ensure decentralization, Prime Minister of Ukraine’s shadow government Boris Kolesnikov says.
5. “Ukrainians Have Been Dispossessed” Paul Craig Roberts Warns “Americans Are Next” [Source]
6. How to make money on stolen goods. Saga of Ukrainian tycoon S. Kurchenko’s confiscated oil byproducts [Source]
Як заробити на вкраденому. Історія конфіскованих нафтопродуктів Курченка
Investigation of pravda ua of the Kiev authorities involvement into illegal oil schemes
It looks like the owners (relatives of UA Minister of Energy) claims that it was sabotage. For them it is the best version as the oil storage was not prepared for such kind of accidents. For example it took half a day to find 40t of special foam as there was no foam on site.
Ukrainian media suspects that the fuel in this storage was involved in a huge corruption scheme: police has confiscated 85,000tons of fuel from Ukrainian tycoon S. Kurchenko. This fuel has been sold with huge discount. Part of it was stored in Vasilkov that is burning right now.
7. Kiev authorities have less support from the population of the country [Source]
8. How Many Neo-Nazis Is the U.S. Backing in Ukraine? [Source]
Not all the members of the Ukrainian ultranationalist militias the U.S. is training have SS tattoos, and not all espouse fascism. But enough do to be worrisome.
War on Donbass Novorossia
1. 10th of June, 2015. Donetsk People’s Republic, Novorossiya. [Source]
Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire regime 41 times over the past 24 hours, the DPR Defense Ministry told the Donetsk News Agency.
“In the past day, we’ve registered 41 instances of shelling by the enemy. The fire was opened six times from tanks, once from anti-tank guided missiles, twice from infantry fighting vehicles, four times from grenade launchers and small arms. Besides this, 18 mortar shellings have been registered. Ukrainian forces fired on Donetsk (Kievsky district, Oktyabrsky village, territory of the airport, Oktyabrskaya coal mine), Gorlovka, Spartak, Lozovoye, Shirokino, Golmovsky, Luganskoye, Nikolayevka,” – the DPR Defense Ministry said.
2. Donetsk schools have received over 34,000 new textbooks from the Russian Federation [Source]
9th of June, 2015. Donetsk People’s Republic, Novorossiya.
Donetsk schools have received over 34,000 new textbooks from the Russian Federation, the press service of the Donetsk city administration reports.
“From 3 to 8 June, all the schools of Donetsk were provided with more than 34,000 new Russian textbooks on maths, biology, history, Russian, English, world art for the 5th, 6th, 10th and 11th grades, as well as teacher resource books. This wonderful gift from the teachers of the Russian Federation has a special value in the run-up to the new school year,” – Donetsk city administration said.
3. Donetsk , Kremlevsky 42a , house hit – photos [Source]
Russia and Beyond
1. The Russian military has begun selling off its surplus stocks going back to 1896 [Source]
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has announced an “auction of unseen generosity,” and is selling off everything from vintage quilted jackets (popularly called “vatniks”) to logistics equipment, tank engines and night vision periscopes, as well as an entire naval vessel (that one is more of a fixer-upper).
Prospective buyers have until June 29 to submit their requests to the Ministry of Defense, and the first auction will take place on July 21 at the Army-2015 convention in Kubinka. Starting prices have yet to be determined for most items. Much of the equipment is from the past 70 years, although one floating workshop was made in 1896.
2. Mamelukes take Chatam House to fight Russia war—Sir Roderic Lyne’s line ends independence [Source]
3. Russia begins grain deliveries to Iran – Russian food watchdog [Source]
4. Sanctions War Brings Benefits to Moscow’s Friends [Source]
June 9, 2015 – Turkey’s meat supplies to Russia increased by 940 percent between January and April 2015. Turkey became the third largest supplier to the Russian market in this group after Belarus and Brazil, with a share of 11.1 percent. Colombia’ shipment of meat to Russia grew by more than 1,000 percent in the first four months of 2015.
Pakistan has, meanwhile, taken the lead in Russia’s vegetables market, with at least 18,000 tons of vegetables reportedly being supplied to Russia between January and April of this year. Fish supplies from Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which grew by 2,671 percent and 189 percent, respectively.
5. Republican Election Strategy: Blame The Putin “Boogeyman” [Source]
6 Gazprom: Oil for ruble sells well [Source]
Газпром Нефть: «Нефть за рубли берут очень хорошо, полномасштабный переход на рубли зависит от политики ЦБ»
7. Russia Estonia: Border tensions? [Source]
June 9, 2015 – Estonia, emboldened by the presence of NATO, and obviously by an advice from the US Department of State unilaterally makes attempts to redraw the border with Russia. Russian-Estonian border has been agreed in 2005. After border agreement has been signed, Estonian parliament has added a reference to the Tartu agreement from 1920 to this agreement (i.e. territorial claims). As a consequence this agreement has never been ratified.
Now Estonia has announced that it will make unilateral border demarcation.
Also at Financial Times for subscribers only
8. Alarm Spreads Over Meltdown at French Nuclear Plant [Source]
9. UN Security Council predictably blames Russia for every ill in the World [Source]
If the UN is an “independent” from the USA organization, how come the State Department lists jobs for the United Nations as the state department jobs on the US state department website?
The US State Department career search lists jobs and positions for UN.
http://iocareers.state.gov/Main/Jobs/SearchResults?p=23&c=239&action=Search
http://iocareers.state.gov/Main/Home
Judging by the listing, The United Nations Organizations is one of the Departments in the US State Department roaster.
Just one job listing for Political Affairs Officer working for some secret International Affairs Organization located in New York City. This person will be responsible for the following duties: Maintains up-to-date knowledge of events relating to political issues, in general, and in particular as they affect Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. Keeps abreast of latest trends and developments in Ukraine and provides inputs, advice and support on issues related to peacemaking and post-conflict peace-building efforts in Ukraine to senior officials and colleagues in missions and elsewhere in the Secretariat. Monitors national and regional level political developments and provides advice to the DPA office/UN agencies active on the ground. (Interesting, that the US State department employs people that give advices to UN agencies on the ground. )
Serves as focal point for the integrated task force on Ukraine. Participates in provision of secretariat services to Security Council, General Assembly, subsidiary organizations, negotiating bodies, conferences, meetings, and /or special missions, including the drafting of a high volume of wide ranging sets of documents expeditiously and effectively, including reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council, talking points, briefing notes and minutes of meetings of senior UN officials.
Attends Security Council, General Assembly, negotiating bodies, conferences, and meetings on Eastern Europe, including Ukraine.
Prepares meetings of the SG/DSG/USG with officials from countries under the Organizations purview
Professionalism: Knowledge of challenges in Ukraine and the Eastern European region; ability to identify and analyze political, ethnic, racial, social and economic problems. .
Languages English and French are the working languages of the UN Secretariat. For this post, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Russian is required.
Consulting – Gov’t / Non-Profit
10. Ron Paul Stunned That George Soros Seeks To “Expand War In Ukraine” [Source]
11. Interview: Lithuania highlights cooperation with China under Silk Road initiative: vice minister [Source]
June 4, 2015: “Lithuania aims to handle 2.3 percent of the total trade volume between China and Europe by 2030 via the One Belt and One Road initiative, according to Arijandas Sliupas, vice minister of transport and communications of Lithuania.
12. For reference, China’s One Belt, One Road initiative [Source]
13. American dies, four injured in blast at Bulgaria’s VMZ Sopot ordnance plant [Source]
14. Former CIA Director: We’re Not Doing Nearly Enough To Protect Against The EMP Threat [Source]
June 9, 2015 – What is stunning about the former CIA Director’s comments below is not just the carnage an EMP could wreak, but the apparent rabid intransigence with which the electrical power lobby is fighting any responsibility for defending against one.
15. Iraq, Russia Agree to Begin Direct Flights Between Countries [Source]
Health and Money
Why Didn’t my Doctor Tell Me Chemo Kills? [Source]
June 3, 2015 Author: F. William Engdahl
“In my daily research I came across a report so alarming I put aside planned writing in order to bring this to the attention of those who care about life. It has to do with one of the main treatments for cancer used in modern medicine—chemotherapy. New research has documented that chemotherapy, far from ridding anyone of cancer actually feeds the growth and spread of cancer.”
“Scientist Peter Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle in a write-up of a study of why cancer cells were so easy to kill in the lab but not inside our bodies, found that healthy cells damaged by chemotherapy secreted more of a protein called WNT16B which boosts cancer cell survival. “The increase in WNT16B was completely unexpected,” Nelson told AFP.”
“He added that,“WNT16B, when secreted, would interact with nearby tumor cells and cause them to grow, invade, and importantly, resist subsequent therapy.” That would explain why in cancer treatment, tumors often respond well initially, followed by rapid regrowth and then resistance to further chemotherapy.”
“While their study results were alarming enough, more alarming is the complete absence of aggressive action to reexamine the entire field of cancer treatment.”
Last, But Not Least…
Territory «Территория» trailer 2015
Beautiful, atmospheric movie after a novel by Oleg Kuvaev, a Russian Jack London, about life of Russian geologists.
Soviet Romanticism at its best.
Thank You.
@Scott
you are the new pepe Escobar of this blog.
thanks for the SITREP mate
cheers
“… The EU and US economies are on the brink of collapse …”
That is true. In fact, they have been on the brink of collapse every single day since the dawn of capitalism. And there has been … a couple of hundred years already, hasn’t it?
Do let me know when they actually collapse.
awesome
-perhaps Saker should go for that political affairs job to bring the truth within and wakeup the world………………………………
US went downhill after 9/11 and is very broke and sells nothing except conterfit dollars. You just don’t know how bad because the numbers are fudged.
Well it is not so simple, the US made a decision to be the distributor and middle man for the global economy, hence everything is based on a transaction fee, Visa/mastercard showed us the way and its a great business taking 2-4% off every transaction taking place. The US was behind the carbon tax and other taxes. They want a cut off everything even if you don’t buy anything. Any taxes you pay anywhere gets a haircut and goes to US companies. Their financial system was developed to do this. You create anything, you have to pay a cut to them. By means, everything is made by some US company so you cant even sell it even if they stole it and are selling it, hence intellectual property rights are biased towards who has the most money to fight. Its a great business to get a 1% of the global GDP. Then they also have side business of actually setting up your company and how to cheat others. Look at Greece.. When Libya started suing for being at the other end of this scam, they got bombed and wonder what happened to their law suits. By using US$ as the transacting currency they even take a cut even if you never use any US institutions since they automatically go via the US system. Even using bags of US$ means, they take a cut using inflation the hidden tax.. As well as issuing debt as US$ currency when they have already sold short those same US$ as treasury bills. When they cash it in, they made a bundle there too. Its the greatest con job in history by such a wide margin that nothing lese even comes close.
http://www.sott.net/article/297586-SOTT-Exclusive-Anti-Russian-propaganda-appearing-in-Dutch-school-textbooks
Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:12 UTC
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Several days ago a Dutch parent posted two images from his daughter’s school workbook on his facebook page. The schoolbook is “Themes in Social Studies 1 for VMBO-KGT”, VMBO standing for “preparatory middle-level vocational education”, and is a school track in the Netherlands, which is similar to high school. The schoolbook is provided to VMBO students (aging approx. 15-16 y/o) during the last two years of this school track.
Part of the description of the workbook reads, “The workbook is updated on an annual basis and contains many current and diverse sources with assignments.” The workbook has certainly been updated, as Russia has been painted as quite an unfriendly country, clearly in line with the ongoing Western anti-Russia propaganda.
It works/worked in Ukraine.So the Western stooges figure it will work in their countries too (they may be right).Russia needs to not continue the foolishness of thinking as long as the EU continues to kneel to the US they can still be friends.It just won’t be possible.Just admit it and move on.Countries in most ways are just like people (after all they are made up of people).You have a friend you’ve know for a while.You hang out sometimes,and like each other.All of a sudden he gets a new friend (or girlfriend).And the new friend doesn’t like you at all.Pretty soon you friend turns away from you.You just aren’t “cool enough” for them anymore.Their new friend (or girlfriend) is always badmouthing you.And a short time later your friend isn’t your friend anymore.So you can either be pathetic,and keep trying to stay friends.You get abuse and laughter from the new friend ,and your previous friend from that.Or you just “man-up” and go your own way and forget about your previous friend.You figure if he comes to his senses you can be friends again.But if not,too bad.Right now Russia is going with the first way.And suffering the abuse.They need to change that and go the second way.
Nailed it son!
Trying to sucker Iran in as that Jun30 IAEA date approaches.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry announced that it has send a letter to Riyadh to protest at the Saudi-led coalition attacks near Tehran’s mission in the Yemeni capital.
“We have sent a protest letter after the airstrike near the Iranian embassy and summoned the Saudi charge de ‘affairs,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told reporters in her weekly press conference in Tehran on Wednesday.
“In addition, a report was sent to the UN Security Council so that the Council takes the necessary measures to prevent the repetition of these attacks,” she added.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940320001369
JUNE10
TEHRAN (FNA)- Five oil cisterns were still on fire at an oil depot near Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday, Nikolay Chechetkin, the head of the emergency situations service said.
The official said there was no danger of a new blast at the moment, but he didn’t rule it out, Itar-Tass reported.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940320001362
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940320001194
JUNE10
TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian troops killed more than 300 foreign-backed terrorists and injured hundreds of others in a large-scale military operations in the Northwestern Idlib province in the past two days.
A Syrian source present on the battle scene explained that the Syrian army’s operations in the past 48 hours have claimed the lives of over 300 Takfiri terrorists, most of them foreign nationals.
“In these operations hundreds of terrorists were also injured and the number of their casualties was so high that the field hospitals set up for the terrorists didn’t admit many of them,” the source said.
Very good kill all those f—-rs.
From the Engdahl article linked above on the gigantic criminal fraud called chemotherapy:
There during the 1930’s as part of the Rockefeller family’s obsession with eugenics, Rhoads spent six months in Puerto Rico, a stateless island often used covertly for human experimentation with new drugs.
In Puerto Rico in 1931 Rhoads wrote a letter to a friend in Boston where he stated, “Porto (sic) Ricans are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. What the island needs is not public health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more.”
Rockefeller family spin doctor, Ivy Lee, launched a major damage control campaign over the scandal and managed to get Rhoads on the cover of Time as a “life-saving” hero.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/03/why-didn-t-my-doctor-tell-me-chemo-kills/
S U C C E S S _ R A T E S
chemotherapy 2%
doing nothing 25%
no joke. there are more than a hundred promising alternative cancer therapies that reach a success rate of up to 95%. thanks to the internet they are available for everyone who does a little research.
interesting stat/fact here about migrant workers in Russia, ties in to Syria, IS, & that Halimov.
As for Moscow, the rising number of extremists traveling to fight in Syria — both from within Russia and from Central Asia — is a subject of growing concern. In this context, the high-profile case of Col. Gulmurod Halimov — the commander of the Tajik elite paramilitary police unit who fled Dushanbe along with a dozen of his subordinates to join IS — was an unpleasant surprise for both the Central Asian governments and Russia.
Not only has the commander, who clearly has no lack of charisma and has been trained in Russia and the United States, joined the ranks of the jihadists, but he has also addressed his compatriots with an appeal to come to wage jihad in a video on the Tajikistan Live web portal. Many Russian analysts fear that the colonel-turned-jihadist’s appeal can attract, in particular, some of the migrant workers from Tajikistan in Russia, whose total number exceeds 1.2 million. They can either join the 4,000 Central Asian nationals already fighting in Syria for IS, or enter the so-called sleeper cells that IS is establishing in the territory of many countries.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/russia-syria-conflict-strategy-moscow-meetings.html
The key to your post may be in this part “and in the US” . What would make a high official in Tajikistan become ISIS? I can think of why.And it is in what you posted from the article.I would suggest that any Central Asian terrorists are too dangerous to allow to return to Central Asia alive. The key to China and Russia’s plans for cooperation and the “Silk Road” goes through Central Asia.So that means Central Asia is important to the Empire.To disrupt those plans,the Empire only has one way open to them,terrorism,and bribery.The terrorism component must be ended by ending the terrorists,bottom line.The bribery component by out-bribing,and foiling the Empire’s bribery plans.
Thank you Scott.
Rgds,
Veritas
“What is stunning about the former CIA Director’s comments below is not just the carnage an EMP could wreak, but the apparent rabid intransigence with which the electrical power lobby is fighting any responsibility for defending against one.”
I am an enginner working with EM-radiation among other things and let me tell you that this is pure nonsense. I don’t know what this scaremongering campaign is about (I guess funding), but it simply does not and can not work as they would like to make you believe.
In order to inflict any damage at all, you will need a nuclear bomb. Nothing smaller will have any effect. Needless to say, that is ridiculous since a nuke will kill everyone in the area and destroy lots of stuff before it damages even a pocket radio with EMP.
Something is obviously garbled here.
Of course, an EMP does not directly cause “carnage”, generally it is not harmful in itself to an animal, human included.
The direct damage it causes, however, is to all the unshielded semiconductor-based electronic equipment, rendering them totally useless at sufficient levels. Modern military equipment tends to be shielded, which is a special consideration in design (part of “electromagnetic compatibility” engineering). But all the other electronic equipment is not – all the computers, computerised telephone equipment, radio equipment, GPS, control of power grids, control of all other utilities, all the equipment in hospitals (“backup” would not work), in all industry, in planes (in flight!), ships, trains, cars (your automobile included), elevators, river dams, every single gadget you can imagine… Everything would come to a grinding halt today. (Yes, today – unlike before 1947 – the year the transistor was invented! Electronic tubes were practically impervious to it [*], as was the old electric equipment.) Imagine such a scenario. It would be a civilian disaster of immense proportions, causing a great loss of human life. So, yes it would indeed cause “carnage”, although indirectly.
There are several ways to generate an EMP. The most important one is a nuclear explosion, where an EMP is its natural by-product (also dubbed NEMP). However, a dedicated nuclear warhead, one designed just for EMP generation purpose, can be detonated on a high altitude, hundreds of kilometers above the Earth, generating an EMP (then also called HEMP) through the interaction of gamma rays with the stratosphere, and is capable of covering a huge area of electronic equipment destruction, while not causing much other damage if any.
In this last case, your pocket radio – and every single equipment around you – would simply “die”, and you would be merely wondering “why”.
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[*] I remember the news, perhaps in 1970-s, when a pilot flying a modern Soviet fighter jet defected to the West, to S. Korea. Those first inspecting the plane were laughing when they discovered that all the electronic equipment on board of this at the time super-modern plane was entirely electronic-tube based – the “ancient” “obsolete” technology. However, the American military experts who then came to “dissect” the loot were very grim: they realised that the Soviets did so on purpose – for protection from EMP effect – employing at the time the simplest effective EMP shielding you could imagine. The U.S. then had no shielding of its on-board all-transistorized electronics at all, so they realised that in the event of a nuclear war the USSR already had a great advantage over U.S.A.
“generally it is not harmful in itself to an animal, human included.”
that’s totally wrong. It is an ionizing radiation and it will instantly kill you beyond a certain threshold. If below that threshold, it will give you cancers etc., just like bathing in Fukushima would.
“But all the other electronic equipment is not – all the computers, computerised telephone equipment, radio equipment, GPS, control of power grids,”
Means nothing. The required condition is resonance in certain frequencies, that must be specifically tuned for every single device. It does not work for “everything and anything”.
Now beyond certain energy level it will of course do that, but that level is as said comparable to directly detonating the nuke in front of your house. In that sense their lie that it would only “destroy electronics while not damaging biological life” is utter nonsense, it would kill everyone and everything in the whole area.
What EMP can do though is disturb all communications, radio waves etc., that is also what they have been developing as of late. And that is doable with comparably low level of energy required, so it’s very realistic. but that is not a lasting effect nor will it damage the electronics as such.
@ T2015
A couple of points of clarification.
One is talking here about a direct failure of semiconductor devices themselves – and not of other equipment directly, those ones only indirectly. Semiconductor devices (anything with “microchips” these days) control practically all the equipment mentioned earlier (telephone networks, internet routers and other network devices, radio equipment, control power grids, control all other utilities, all the equipment in hospitals, include industrial controllers, control planes, ships, trains, cars, elevators, river dams…), and general semiconductor failure would make all that equipment fail at once.
“… The required condition is resonance in certain frequencies, that must be specifically tuned for every single device. It does not work for “everything and anything”. …”
Well, not quite. The EMP field (voltage per meter) is a rather steep rising, narrow and high pulse in time – and therefore has an extremely wide and fairly evenly distributed spectrum (elementary Fourier analysis). Practically, this means that the EMP frequency components are all well represented in a wide range: in a gamma-induced HEMP they go from almost zero to up to over 1000 MHz – i.e., down to below 0.3 meters in wavelength. So, an EMP “resonates” with any conducting structure larger than of the order of a meter in length – now acting as an “antenna”.
And any semiconductor device that is connected to such a conductor (and all of the above mentioned are), will receive a voltage jolt that will render it useless, either permanently or of sufficient duration to create a disaster, depending on distance and the height of burst of the nuclear warhead. Note also that a single nuclear explosion on a 500 kilometer altitude somewhere above Kansas would thus cover the entire continental United States! Studies also show that a mere dozen or so kiloton warhead on such an altitude would have not a far lesser EMP effect than a megaton one.
Another clarification, concerning ionizing radiation.
It is the gamma-particle radiation from a high altitude nuclear explosion that is “ionizing”. Ionizing here simply means that these gamma particles are able to forcefully strip the electrons off the air atoms in the stratosphere, thus creating plasma (= an electrically neutral mixture of positive ions and unbound electrons). These unbound electrons form a huge current which, deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field, curls in space and hence in turn radiates a powerful electromagnetic pulse towards the Earth’s surface – namely, the EMP pulse. This EMP itself is not ionizing, but caused by the above mechanism intermediated by ionization.
Concerning the biological effects of EMP. I do not know the details, but the consensus from what I have read seems to be that it is harmless. Although I do remember reading about some Chinese (?) study involving mice, which said it affected their reproduction, but I don’t know whether it was followed up. (Incidentally, those working around large powerful magnets, like the ones used in nuclear fusion experiments, have reported seeing “spots” and other things. One then also may wonder whether the MRI patients are exposed to any risk or not, the MRI involving rapid switching of polarity of a powerful magnetic field.) I can only imagine a “thought experiment”, someone holding onto two long metal objects at the time when a powerful EMP hits, and getting electrocuted. (Perhaps we could put this to test with some live Kiev subjects :-?)
Any check on Ashton Carter would have revealed him as a psycho-path with trigger fingers on nuclear weapons. And yet it is Obomber who made him defense secretary. He has been kept out of being defense secretary until now. Clearly Obozo don’t know what he is doing….
Unless “Obomber” wants to keep his enemies close. Kennedy did that with Curtis LeMay. Kennedy was not able politically to take back control of SAC from the Pentagon (LeMay) and all the other WW II heroes until the Cuban Missile Crisis gave him the excuse and he installed the hot line to Moscow so he could communicate directly with his Soviet counterpart without military interference. Until then, it was all Dr. Strangelove with crazy generals in charge. But of course, Obama doesn’t want to end up like Kennedy, so whatever. He just wants to play golf until his term is over. He really doesn’t want a major war on his watch. The fireworks won’t start until after the next election.
And these are the people in charge of the arbiter of the Free World?
I shudder, even without a subduction earthquake recently.
I don’t think Russia should attack Europe. The fall out from their own missiles will kill them off far more painfully than Russia could ever hope to do. Which means just get more ICBM’s that can travel in all directions. Let the US spend the effort and money trying to protect the homeland. Just like how Russia realized trying to do that is a sure fire way to bankrupt fast, let them waste the effort. Russia needs to crease their ICBM’s count from 800 to a few thousand at least and not waste time and money building ships and missiles to strike Europe.. When a thug pays money to the neighborhood goons to harasses your family, don’t go after he goons. You got straight for the boss.. The goons will do a lot of damage but make sure the boss knows, no matter how much damage you suffer, he would be the first one gone.
Thanks Scott. Ashton, Scher and neo-con Co. are, as the phrase has it, ‘beyond satire’. But you made a pretty good try.
Today: Pope backs Minsk agreement and demands humanitarian intervention in Donbass. He not only makes no comment on alleged Russia ‘aggression’, but emphasises
that only Russia is providing assistance.
‘Cautions’ from US – who else? – ambassador to the Vatican State met with a swift slap on the wrist from Putin’s spokesman for attempts to ‘lecture’ the pope on Vatican policy.
Result? US essentially being sidelined on the issue by Vatican.
While a headline in the 5th column Moscow Times was something like ,”A “stern” Pope lectures Putin to be a Peacemaker”.
The content here gets more and more surreal. And the comments more and more bloodthirsty.
@Anonymous
“Surreal” is a good word. All I have to do is to quote the US military people and politicians verbatim, instead of trusting to how the Western Media construct their words and actions.
You understand this, do you?
Can you give us an example of a “bloodthirsty” comment. We don’t have tolerance to this kind of speech.
“The EU and US economies are on the brink of collapse due to Quantitative Easing or printing money based on nothing.”
This is frustrating. QE is not “printing money based on nothing.” QE is *deflationary*. It removes the income from the bonds the central banks purchase from the economy–mainly pension funds. It does add some temporary liquidity to banks that refuse to lend it to the real economy (which is maxed out on debt anyway) and instead purchase assets, which drives their prices up; *temporarily.* Eventually the overall money supply contracts from the loss of dividends offsetting the interest burden imposed on the real economy by the financial sector.
The item goes on to complain about unemployment and lack of money–if governments *were* printing money and spending it into the economy, unemployment would drop like a rock and wages would rise, as has been done many times throughout history in exactly that fashion.
I highly recommend the work of Michael Hudson to get a clearer understanding of this phenomenon. Railing against “printing money” plays into the hands of the oligarchs and private bankers, to whom government printing is a catastrophe. Printing money gives free money to people–*who then pay off their debt to banks*. How can you keep people in debt who have cash in their pockets? Banks have no customers if they’re not strapped for cash.
Government printing, regardless of the banker’s horror of inflation, is the *workers* best friend. When government spends on infrastructure building and hires workers directly, they’re getting paychecks that they *don’t have to pay back at interest.*
@zapster
Could you, please, take a look at Sergey Glazyev’s interview that I translated for Ukraine SITRER June 11. He talks about the Russia’s Central Bank’s monetary policy that isn’t allow money printing. As a result, the economy is starving for domestic credit.
Would be great to have your opinion. Thanks
Bravo! Warren Mosler is even clearer on this subject than M. Hudson.
So the bottom line is that Russia needs to do what they have always done,roll up their sleeves and prepare 24/7 to bust some NATO tail. With psychopaths like “Ash” around there is little doubt the day they’ll need to is coming close.I would purpose that Russia respond with a “Putin Doctrine”.Saying that any more expansion of NATO towards Russia will be considered an act of war against the RF,period.That any other Western plotted “Color Revolution” will be considered an act of war against the RF,period.That any NATO troops joining in the killing of Russian speakers in Ukraine or Transnistria will be considered an act of war on the RF,period.That any attack on Syria,Iran,China, by NATO or their stooges, will be considered an act of war by NATO on the RF,period.Create and enforce a red-line that will get the attention of NATO.Let them understand that war or peace is up to their actions from now on.Like all bullies the Empire and NATO will push their potential victim only as far as their victim will let them.And they won’t stop until their victim makes them stop.If thousands of years of history has taught us nothing else,that is a lesson we should have learned by now.If we could go back into history,you can bet the Russian Princes in 1241,Tsar Alexander I in 1812,and Stalin in 1941,would have thought better of not preparing for war more thoroughly.Like a broken record (or a Cassandra in Troy) I kept repeating.Don’t make the same mistakes your ancestors did.Don’t believe in the “goodness” of your “pardners”.They will destroy you if you let them.In the past they needed large armies,they don’t have now.But the nuclear age gives psychopaths that care nothing for destruction the ability to not need those armies to make attacks on you.