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Washington’s New Missile Test Proves Country Violated INF Treaty – Russian Lawmaker
https://sputniknews.com/world/201912131077561687-washingtons-new-missile-test-proves-country-violated-inf-treaty—russian-lawmaker/
“This proves once again that the Americans are being cunning when they accuse Russia of being non-compliant. They proved themselves that they were not compliant. One cannot create a missile within just nine months starting from scratch. This is not possible. There is such a thing as production cycles. One needs years, not nine months, to go from theory to practice,” Andrei Krasov said.
“The Russian Federation is calling on the US side once again to return to compliance with the INF Treaty,” Krasov added.
Since the INF, signed in 1987, is now suspended following the US’ unilateral withdrawal, nothing prevents Russia from creating and testing missiles of this class as well, the lawmaker said.”
The clear winners here are the American arm makers that manufacture these weapons. Like many people, I do not find what is known as the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD to be reassuring. Spurring the creation of more ways to use nuclear weapons is what ending the INF Treaty will do. Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister, and Vice-Chancellor from 1998-2005 writes;
In this new environment, the “rationality of deterrence” maintained by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has eroded. Now, if nuclear proliferation increases, the threshold for using nuclear weapons will likely fall.
The nuclear deterrent we hold is a hundred times larger than needed to stop anyone sane or rational from attacking America, and for anyone else, an arsenal of any size will be insufficient. What we are talking about is the Intermediate-range Nuclear-Forces treaty also known as the INF Treaty which limits short-range missiles. The article below explores the insanity of a new arms race.
https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2018/10/who-profits-from-ending-mid-range.html
What is important to bear in mind about INF is the US wanted to, and is presently, moving missile launchers closer to Russian borders. In order for this to happen, INF Treaty had to be abandoned.
The US uses THAAD, Aegis Ashore, and other systems for “missile defense”, but these are cruise missile capable systems.
In the Black Sea, particularly, the flight time from Romania to Russia is a few minutes.
With newer missiles coming to the US arsenal, the flight time will be even less. Thus, the Russians will have 1-2 minutes to decide to react to an attack. Since many vital national and military assets are within this zone of danger, the threat is at maximal strength. Hair trigger response will lead to a few minutes before the Russians will have to destroy half the world.
Lavrov emphasized this in person to Trump. Putin has been speaking to this issue for months, nearly every time he has a presser or whenever he meets with foreign officials.
There needs to be a treaty that prohibits these missiles from being put in place so close to adversaries. The Russians are willing and doing all they can to get the US to agree. China, so far, is not willing. It impacts them with every threat they face in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and India. It would tie their hands at this stage of military defense, so Beijing is not ready to join a new treaty, just as they did not sign on the old INF treaty.
Pentagon’s Statements Prove US Started Developing INF-Banned Missiles Before Leaving Deal – Beijing
https://sputniknews.com/military/201912131077561757-pentagons-statements-prove-us-started-developing-inf-banned-missiles-before-leaving-deal—beijing/
“Washington’s recent ballistic missile test proves that the country used to prepare for tests of missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty well ahead of withdrawing from the deal officially, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said on Friday.
“Since August 2 of this year, when the United States announced withdrawing from the INF Treaty, the Pentagon has already conducted two tests of ground-based missiles. Pentagon chief Esper said proudly that the US had started preparing for these tests in February of this year. I want you to take note that the US officially announced withdrawing from the INF on August 2, but the Pentagon chief said they had started preparing for the tests in February already. This substantiates once again our previous estimates that the US has reasoned out withdrawing from the INF well in advance,” Hua said at a briefing.
Hua added that Washington’s decision to leave the INF had been motivated only by its desire to secure military supremacy through developing advanced missile technologies.
“The US’ twisting [of the facts] about Russia’s violations of the agreement and China’s missile threat is nothing more than a clumsy performance aimed at deceiving others,” Hua added.”
Craig Murray’s notes on the the Tory victory the blighty public awoke to.
A Very Difficult Night
By breakfast time : “The BBC, in case anyone isn’t feeling bad enough about Boris Johnson’s triumph, now bring out war criminal Alastair Campbell to lecture us.”
RE: Anonymous on December 13, 2019 · at 3:03 am EST/EDT
Is there any bank in the world that would be safe to transfer one’s saving into?
I’m not trying to be overly critical of your suggestions but just brainstorming what is practical and doable for the “average” person….
Just my unfounded imagination (may not be suitable to your cause)
(I am surprise not many in USSA are willing to face the darkness still)
If we observed and agree…
“It does not matter what luxury soap you use or scrub yourself how many times, you aint gonna come out smelling good taking a bath in the sewer”
then …
“practical and doable for the “average” person….”
is already sealed off by ‘them’. Stop looking for ‘saviours’.
As you are implying there…
you are in THEIR SYSTEM-REGIME and you don’t like their ‘chosen god’ for you.
Wait until your POTUS and your The Fed legalise negative rate…
They appear to be now busy busting the crypto-rooms (as I mentioned its a 1984 room101 – my belief)
So cash and cryptos are out.
What then??
Put simply – ‘they’ are suffocating for lack of ‘money’ and will get it in any way possible, legal or illegal, humane or bloody. So much so they would burn HK, and MED, and everywhere. So sorry, you are not that special, and they want to steal and rob your money too. Essentially they declare you have no rights, like all the FF victims they war on.
So the (potential) solution is, “Get out of their system-regime” of which, in a LT survival factor, I said, RUN would appear to be the best option, on the individual level, away from the almighty The Fed they put above you and all other 3 letter agency forces. Of course there are other calculations, such as born a USA, die a USA, just ask Jimmy Rogers. Still, if Jimmy store physical in, say china, or even singapore, if would still be safer.
But if you cant or wont run, local community will be your next best (potential) survival factor. But this is near impossible to most USSA because it requires a human relationship factor. And we need not mention again the ‘I am one-man-band Rambo’ to save the world or all the “I am entitled and deserved” snow-grade all round, like it is the normal daily (or even hourly-minute-seconds) dose, even here on the Saker’s ‘russian agent’ blog. If you know how to be a human in a communal living arrangement, technically, you can survive anywhere, with or without money. That’s how family-community-survivor from QING dynasty and USSR made it after the collapse.
Again, I am only saying this, on a individual level.
Furthermore lets think about it… Really think about it…
If they are gonna crash the entire system-regime, why do you need money for? Their ‘money’ will be worthless anyway. How your money (issue by them) gonna save you?
You need a NEW system for yourself, like the alt-truther advertised, ‘you need to be your own CB’.
but but but HOW?
That’s what the 330million USSA needs to figure out, and fast. Or it will be decided for you, as it is decided for you in the last 250yr+. If not, stop calling yourself ‘The PPL’. Face the darkness.
→ Take Courage ←
and then leave the rest to your god(s) for Reductionist Materialism can only account for so much that we observe as ‘reality’… by no means it is The REALITY. Be at peace.
Pls Note: You are ultimately responsible for ***ALL your beliefs and choices. (All means ALL) Do take more care with the fear-greed tug-of-war esp in such time of uncertainty.
A different view from my more pessimistic ‘belief’…
Two World Collide: When Insanity Meets Establishment by ROGUE NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTMJchX75wo
but I broadly agree with V’s statement on the new regime’s possible plan on the new and improved cash-gold and re-purpose-BTC. I personally have shun the later and waiting for the former. To me, the 2 systems have different “innate quality” to it, esp at the individual level. One I can have more physical control, the other I am fighting a ghost codes, resource factors and a bloody regime.
The advice I read given by many is to translate your free money – if you have such – now, while it still has some value – into items of self sustainability and tradable skills. One man related how he has been buying up second hand, at garage sales etc., equipment for home maintenance and repair; drills, wrenches, hammers, plumbing things. Ladies get sewing machines, bottling equipment. General items that would be in short supply come a crash – and indeed any adverse weather phenomenon, such as toilet paper, cleaning items, soap. Build a big big shed [always but always get out of any Metropolis] and store things. One man years ago, build a big wooden lined shed and wooden bins, lined them, and bought tons of brown rice, and mixed it with diatomaceous earth. His family have been living on it for the past 20 yrs at a few cents a meal.
As you say, dont think in the same vein. Dont look for somewhere to put your money – translate your money into something of alternative value – goods and skills likely to be in short supply.
Thats a VERY GOOD THING to do!!!
but I am afraid that the regime on your turf will crush it… for their ‘evil’ purpose…. somehow
they are doing alot of batshitcrazy there….
I did just that and kinda funny back then in 2000
I decided to seriously stockpile quality toilet paper and fill up my entire apartment then
who does not need to wipe their S, right?!
and it was like 20cent per roll
and when SHTF 2001 toilet paper went to over $1 per roll
and now probably over $3 per roll – that better appreciation than the high yield fund
HA :D You think I would be a rich man
but not to be – some other sh*t happen and I was force to leave the country, leaving behind all my ‘wealth investment’.
HA :) Its called ‘destiny’!
Man plans, and gods laughs. – Yiddish Proverb
don’t forget safety pins, rubber bands, scissors, plasters & bandages and first aid things, soap, …… its a long list. add in a few can-openers (non-electronic). and glasses too. seeds to grow.
Indeed, you need first to document your life: what do you do, what do you alway need/use down to rarely need/use. It truly is surprising as you say, how many things, lots of them little things, there are.
As to seeds – beware where you buy them. Most standard shop bought varieties carry terminator genes so they dont germinate. There are some sites – “Diggers” in Australia for example,- that only stock “heirloom” varieties and all are guaranteed to germinate.
One neat thing for little outlay but a good return, is a slight variant on a trick ladies in UK used in WWII when Britain was under siege and everything was in short supply. See what you can dig out in the way of old knitteds; again, it’s garage sales, second hand shops, maybe eBay although I”m not familiar with that.
They would unravel them, hang them in the bathroom to get steam into them, then when dry and straightened knit them into brand new clothes!!!
So much one can do with a little thought – and of course, a fair bit of desperation. :-)
Touching on the House impeachment inquiry again, The US house of Representatives also represent a false propagandabroadcast for the US coup d’etat in Ukraine.
So to bring some realism on this issue.
One can understand why pres. Trump was eager to give lethal aid to Ukraine with pres. Poroshenko. Why?
Among other similar matters because he was trusted to cooperate in the war targeting Russia in matters relating to Ukraine. The russians means two things. The population of Ukraine that are etnic russians. The russians, meaning the people living in the Federation of Russia. Listen carefully to what Yulia Tymoshenko
has said at the onset (planning stage) of the ATO (anti terror operation) against the etnich russians in Ukraine who did not do anything other than being etnic russians, they were targeted as enemies of the Ukraine state, the illegal coup d’etat and politicians that USA put into power.
/yulia-tymoshenko-wants-to-nuke-8-million-russians-in-the-ukraine/
comments: Viktor refer to a former president Viktor Yushenko who was also in the loop of power again together with Yulia Tymoshenko former primeminister of Ukraine.
Viktor Yushenko wanted an action that fermented the international community through international courts against the russians, the sign of planning a false flag attack , since there was no such international cause at the time. (MH-17 is an object that caused this to happen).
Yulia Tymoshenko wanted a war on the etnic russian population which was put into effect swiftly. The ukraine army and other units now part of the army, went to military attack on the civilian population of etnic russians, it was preceded by covert operations that caused a defense to be mounted which was then called terrorist, creating a fake cause of the attack.
So back to pres Poroshenko and pres. Trump. Poroshenko fits perfectly into the fake US narrative on Ukraine, that Russia had invaded. News for you pres. Trump. The russians live in Ukraine and they will never leave however many weapons you supply to your mad (fascist) regime over there. Actually the russians are ukrainians.
Listen to pres. Poroshenko’s war propaganda against the ukrainian peoples who resisted the coup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk
The lies of the russian invasion that the US government is propagating is clearly not who he is at war with, it is the russian population of Ukraine that managed to resist the military attack lead by these shadowy puppets of the US government, Yushenko, Tymoshenko, and the new leaders that was installed, prime minister Yatsenyuk and (interim pres.) Tyrchynov that were responsible to put this war into action.
The propaganda broadcast from the US House of Representatives is really remarkable. Again and again that Russia invaded Ukraine and killed thousands of ukrainians. Ukraine is defending herself against russian aggression !? Listen to Poroshenko and you will hear aggression! Against the peoples of Ukraine , children will not be able to go to school, Poroshenko will be victorious.
So nice of you pres. Trump to give them more lethal weapons.
So pres. Zelensky was a problem. They had to figure it out at least. Would he continue the policies of the US ally Poroshenko? Not knowing what to think, the US government withheld aid to Ukraine while things were worked out, and pres. Trump was the main actor in that assesment. He obviously passed the test, the war on the russians (the peoples of Ukraine who resist a US coup d’etat) go on as before.
Shame on you House of Representatives.
The United States wants to pull China into the arms control treaty. If China says yes, but it must also include aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and strategic bombers into the arms control treaty, what will the United States do?
Trump’s order to combat anti-Semitism makes Israel sacrosanct & sets up Jews for discrimination
This action of Trump is significant – shows that he has no idea what Israel, Jews, Zio’s, Religion, State or any of those concepts are … I’m wondering if it will affect the open discussions about Zionists that we’ve been having here? Actually, Trump’s order sucks and sucks badly. Yeah, that is a scientific term. Your own imagination can supply what that sucking sound really is (Yuck! Amarynth!)
If you do BDS, do it .. continue, quietly and without attracting attention but buy nothing from that Zionist (I have no descriptive word that fits here) horribleness?.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/475779-trump-anti-semitism-order-jews/
The Boris in the UK of course opens a whole other can of worms. The Britishness and the USAness can now continue openly and with so much togetherness and fraternity in their Western crimes. Brexit will most probably now happen, and the UK and the US will enter into their next phase of marriage with a swipe of Brussels in there.
I will allow myself a temporary but deep disgustedness while I truly just want to peacefully get through the holiday season with some love, laughter and ease. Perhaps I’ll call out a ‘corner of disgust’ somewhere and send myself to my own corner for a while, so that I don’t affect anyone else.
So here’s my issue, I don’t like what the US does to other countries so I boycott the US, and it ain’t easy. Some essential foods, esp fruit, I just suck it up. People ask me about going to all these awesome(in thier little minds) places in the States, I just say ‘sorry, not giving assholes one tin plated cent for someone to make bombs to drop on other countries.’ That’s my polite, FU.
I don’t like what the Apartheid Regime occupying Palestine is doing, so I’ve been on the BDS for over 25 years, long before it was ‘BDS’.
And now we have, dare I say it, ‘Red China’ adding to the suffering of Occupied Palestine by supporting financially and ecconomicly to the Occupation and Suffering of Palestinians………..and yes, I also boycott Chinese products, due to lack of quality………..now I have more humane reasons.
On that note, Amarynth, I wish you and yours, a safe, happy and blessed Christmas……….and stay out of the corners, the ‘affect’ is the most important part………..otherwise change doesn’t happen.
sean the leprechaun, thanks for the lovely and warm and blessed wishes.
All the very same warmth and blessedness to you! in equal and in double measure :-)
Peace to mankind! and you and I are mankind.
amarynth
Scary thought indeed.
Drumpf on one side of the Atlantic and Bojo on the other and each lurching around on their respective stages like drunken sailors competitively vying for the attention of the audience…or in this case the globe.
I would hazard a guess that their collective Neoconservative view of being NORMAL will not be that much different from the lunatic Pompeo’s. This will inevitably shape their foreign policy, their diplomacy and their interaction with the two other superpowers.
Bojo has already proven that he suffers from Russiaphobia so badly that if it got any worse I swear he would be foaming at the mouth. At least, by comparison, Drumpf’s Chinaphobia looks positively mild by comparison in spite of his constantly blaming them for 90% of the US’s financial woes. What they do however agree on most wholeheartedly is that whatever it is that is wrong in the world, one of these two counties is too blame. From this perspective, they are comrades in arms…indeed kindred spirits.
So leading back to the subject of ‘NORMAL’ Aldous Huxley had something very profound to say about this in his famous book Brave New World Revisited. He was actually talking about individuals in this quote but as we well know, individuals make up societies and societies do play a small role in electing their leaders. I say small because the collective propaganda machine has a huge influence and actually develops and molds the
blue-print of what NORMAL policy should look like…at least in their eyes anyone. Sadly It doesn’t matter how ugly this picture is as long as it fits their Neoliberal agenda.
“This is what Huxley said…methinks he nailed it…not just from the individual perspective but absolutely at the sovereign level as well…
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
Cheers from the south seas
Col
PS…gosh almost forgot… YCHMTSU!
That loyal israeli tool trump strikes again.
Trump Wants Criticism of Israel Equated with Anti-Semitism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-wants-criticism-israel-equated-anti-semitism/5697562
“Trump wants anti-Semitism redefined. An executive order perhaps already signed is all about stifling legitimate criticism of Israel.
It’s about wanting the Jewish state absolved of occupation, colonialism, and apartheid crimes against humanity.
That’s what Israeli repression of the Palestinian people is all about — Gazans harmed most of all by suffocating siege, cross-border incursions, frequent terror-bombing incidents, and naked aggression at Israel’s discretion.
Land seizures and dispossessing Palestinians are flagrant international law violations. So are breaches of Security Council resolutions, Israel guilty time and again, accountability never forthcoming.
All of the above are relevant to Trump’s expected executive order. It’s notably all about wanting legitimate criticism of Israeli high crimes silenced, notably on college campuses by student activists for equity and justice — targeting them and others a flagrant First Amendment violation.
It’ll permit withholding federal funds from colleges and universities that fail to crack down on criticism of Israel Trump’s EO calls anti-Semitic.
It aims to stifle BDS activism on college campuses, a vital global initiative to counter its persecution of the Palestinian people.
Separate and unequal is fundamental Israeli policy, Muslims especially demeaned.
The Trump regime’s definition of anti-Semitism matches the State Department’s, falsely calling it criticism “of the state of Israel.”
It considers the legitimate global BDS movement and other groups critical of Israel anti-Semitic.
Calling Jewish state critics anti-Semitic is a long-ago discredited canard.
The same goes for criticizing Zionism, tyranny by another name. The ideology is extremist, undemocratic, hateful, ruthless, racist, destructive, and hostile to peace, equity and justice.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights executive director Yousef Munayyer slammed Trump’s EO, calling it part of a campaign “to silence Palestinian rights activism” by equating legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, adding:
“Israeli apartheid is a very hard product to sell in America, especially in progressive spaces, and realizing this, many Israeli apartheid apologists, Trump included, are looking to silence a debate they know they can’t win.”
Yup, definite “man of the year” material, that trump.
The president do not have the power of legislation, that belongs to the the House and the Senate of the US congress. This is an abuse of power. No law can be made to limit the freedom of speech, so there are no basis for having such a non existent law faithfully executed (the duty of the president). The constitution
should be faithfully executed however: there are to be made no law regarding the limitation of free speech.
That is the duty of the president: “Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Also the president’s earlier XO concerning free speech at universities if financed by the government is in reality another abuse of power. The president are not to decide who has the freedom of speech. The constitution applies to anyone, it do not matter what kind of corporation they are, what kind of school or university, no matter what.
What does it mean?
Many people today do not understand words that are not in common use, so here is an example how to find out. Search for the word on internet and the solution will show up somewhere, all it takes is to analyse it. The variations of words do mean a lot, also in this case.
(nothing shall be done to abridge freedom of speech) Abridge means in the constitution to hinder (to control). Abridge is the removal of a bridge.
So the first amendment does not simply mean you have freedom of speech. It means that there can be no active control in the matter, it cannot be abridged.
For very good reasons, to guard against government misconstruction or abuse of power. Pres. Trump’s openly violation of international law in support of Israel is a potential abuse of power, potentially generating warcrimes and other crimes on behalf of Israel, so in this case there are very good reasons for having the ability to address it.
Consider the unbalanced impassioned rant of Shatov in Demons where he speaks of Russia being “the Christ bearing nation.” (which is really about Shatov’s disillusionment and the double mindedness of Stavrogin) Well, America really the US, insofar it can be considered a nation gets it’s mythic mooring from its slavish devotion to an imaginary group of people (the remnant that does not need to be saved, the victim people that reconcile the world to itself) as popularly (mis)understood from ancient texts, hence evangelicalism and Christian Zionism.
This is not the only part of the US myth. Leo Strauss is said to have watched the TV series Gunsmoke religiously.
This topic also touches on 9/11 and Phillip Zelikow’s area of expertise.
So “Israel” is and will continue indefinitely to be a blind spot for Americans, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event.
Even Q says “Israel is last.”
This is a “sign of the times” article:
Deutsche bank is cutting bonuses to their executives by 20%:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deutsche-bank-slash-bonus-pool-20-sewing-struggles-hit-turnaround-targets
Now the last time I checked Deutsche Bank was sliding into bankruptcy.
Why are these guys getting bonuses at all?
Are they allowed to mutiny in the banking industry?
i just found this “gem” over @ the gateway pundit, i did not know if i should laugh or cry tbh.
i hope Ramin Mazaheri reads it and get a bellylaugh,.-
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/iran-roundup-for-december-9th-thru-12th-maintaining-a-facade-of-unity-becoming-increasingly-more-difficult-as-more-and-more-islamic-regime-insiders-begin-to-admit-to-systematic-failure-and-factional/
About the FISA court:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-wrong-fisa
The FISA court has to be abolished. There was simply no place in a supposedly free society for secret courts.
What we’ve known all along but fully corroborated. Excellent article by Greenwald. It’s acshame Americans simply don’t care how openly and demonstrably corrupt their institutions ate
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/the-inspector-generals-report-on-2016-fb-i-spying-reveals-a-scandal-of-historic-magnitude-not-only-for-the-fbi-but-also-the-u-s-media/
“In this case, no rational person should allow standard partisan bickering to distort or hide this severe FBI corruption. The IG Report leaves no doubt about it. It’s brimming with proof of FBI subterfuge and deceit, all in service of persuading a FISA court of something that was not true: that U.S. citizen and former Trump campaign official Carter Page was an agent of the Russian government and therefore needed to have his communications surveilled.”
“But the revelations of the IG Report are not merely a massive FBI scandal. They are also a massive media scandal, because they reveal that so much of what the U.S. media has authoritatively claimed about all of these matters for more than two years is completely false.”
The fbi was the worst sort of fascist faggotry from it’s very inception. Exposure of the homosexual j. edgar hoover’s role and vast repertoire of crimes has long shown that. The outfit should have long ago been killed and it’s staff investigated and prosecuted for their crimes, with no holding back of the appropriate use of the death penalty as a punishment.
If someone was to ask me what is one standout difference between society in the US and Russia.All I’d need to do is read these two articles on RT.
In one,after a couple of years of putting up with a bad neighbor situation,finally action by the authorities is taken.You can trust me that in the US this person would be lucky to have not been “dealt” with already by his neighbors long before.The Russians must have the patience of Job.
https://www.rt.com/russia/475855-horse-neigh-sleep-russia/
In the other article ,several “student” thugs in the US assault a 14 year old student on their school bus. For the “crime” of wearing a MAGA cap. In the US the mass of anti-Trump thugs have no patience or as it seems,no self-control at all.
https://www.rt.com/usa/475816-maga-hat-attack-teen-video/
US government continues to aid IS.
It is pretty well known and even admitted by US politicians in various roles like (meeting with) John McCain, and indirectly by John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, that the US government supported IS and al Qaeda among the “rebel” occupational forces in Syria. Rebel paraphrased because the rebels all the time from the early demonstration phase were developed by agents of the arab spring from Egypt, and by al Qaeda agents from Iraq. The military forces of al Qaeda in Iraq was rebranded as IS, and nobody seemed to take much notice.
The US government with Hillary Clinton gathered a fake legal basis for this by the Doha conference on Syria supported by western alliances that recognized foreign operatives as a legal (exile) government of Syria, cooperating with various military groups involved with these foreign operatives that morphed into Army of Conquest North and Army of Conquest South consisting of among others new al Qaeda affiliated groups like al-Nusra Front, but even more significantly of IS. John Kerry remarked at a meeting with the exile opposition group that they had been reluctant to make IS part of the future government such lack of support making the occupation less succesful and ultimately gave a window of opportunity for Russia’s support of the Syrian government armies to gain momentum and stop the advances. Hillary Clinton had admitted that they helped create IS. John McCain admitted meeting with the military opposition (Army of Conquest North) at a time IS was still part of that military. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was recognized in a photo with John McCain. And everything was uncoverd by Voltairenet in various articles, even claiming that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been transfered to NewYork, then to Libya and paid 10 million US dollars for his role in leading a new fighting force IS that was developed in Libya before being transferred to Iraq to attack Syria with a full load of american weapons acquired from US bases in Iraq.
Now people has generally thought that the support of IS had somehow ended under pres. Trump, but no proof of that has really been evident whether in Syria or in Iraq. US warplanes continues to avoid these groups, rebel groups have been rebranded to replace IS in Syria in the US base al-Tanf in eastern Syria.
US has continued to transport IS personell both in Syria and in Iraq to this day.
References:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-govt-says-us-evacuated-over-300-family-members-of-isis-fighters-to-iraq/
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13980920000595
A thick skin comes in handy.
Despite carefully cultivating a certain irreverence, it was inaccurately stated in this Cafe that I was “worshipping” a handful of very diverse historical figures, including Craig Wright aka Satoshi Nakamoto…the author of the 2009 Bitcoin White Paper.
In no case did I ever state that any of those persons had obtained divinity or perfection, and despite his doctorate in Theology, I am sure that CSW, in particular…. would agree that he is no god!
In fact, Wright is sort of a Model of Irreverence. But I don’t revere his irreverence….I just understand it.
His Bitcoin invention for making money honest and traceable….able to be 100% audited, under Law has been set back a decade….such that Cabal Coin (in reality….that is what BTC is..)………. has utterly departed from the Original Protocol and no longer functions as designed by Satoshi, at all.
All of that is laid out in numerous articles on his blog craigwright.net
Including how the Original Bitcoin Protocol will be restored almost entirely by “Genesis” Day…..Feb 4, 2020 by the project known as Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision…or BSV. I think it is a subject worthy of discussion because it will probably shape The Post-Monetary Reset World
In another part of the Vineyard vot tak (if I understand him right)….here:
/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/#comment-731342
…seems to be calling me “a salesman”…….”who insults the integrity of his potential customers”.
That’s not true!
For example, I’m obviously not selling any BSV, because I tried here to give 1 away …and did the same with the very crypto-reticent Frank of Quite Frankly…and he couldn’t be gifted even 1……….. either!
NO ONE wants the controversy!
So imagine how much harder it would be to make an actual SALE!! (Probably Impossible, despite the Civilization Improving Capacity of the Invention of Truly Honest Money!)
No, I am Playing The Long Game, Planting Seeds For A Much Later Harvest!
In the meantime, my nobler purpose has been to demonstrate that sometimes irreverence is fully justified, if it is to make a valid point!
Which I did, in answering vt’s assertion that Trump is just itching to be as larcenous as Hillary Clinton
At the recent Blockchain Technology Conference in Seoul, Korea, Wright at the final, gala dinner BOUGHT a modern art painting auctioned off, with the proceeds to go to a charity.
He made a point, alright, after other Crypto multi-multi millionaires or billionaires dropped out of the bidding as it approached a million dollars US.
Craig (CSW) wanted to donate more than a million, as well as make a statement, so with no remaining competition, and the bid in the 900 thousands, he kept signalling another minimum bid (probably $10,000 or something…at a time. I’d guess…) .added to his last one….by raising the middle finger of his right hand, high in the air….…..until the flustered auctioneer finally closed the bidding, gaveling “SOLD!” at over a million USD….and pointing to the beaming, Irreverent winning bidder.
You can’t accuse that guy of being a salesman!
True Story leading in to what is within the twitter thread in reply to VT,
In the short term, it might have even more relevance:
Carlos Osweda
@COsweda
21h21 hours ago
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I’ve been reading comments from Twitter users who support impeachment, and they clearly don’t know how bad the conspiracy against Trump really is.
They think HE’S a criminal, even though they can’t provide any evidence.
Trump will speak to THEM.
AND:
The Democrats DEBAUCHED the process.
That means the Republicans are under no obligation to save the Democrats from the fallout of their choice.
When someone ABUSES you, they can’t expect you to happily play along.
AND.
The House still may not vote to impeach.
But if it goes to trial, Trump will take the stand and explain that the attempt to remove him is not based on ideology.
It’s based on preventing him from exposing the universal criminality of the establishment Democrats.
AND:
The greatest threat Trump poses is the fact that he’s an outsider who isn’t compromised.
He isn’t owned.
Therefore the machine politicians had to make an example of him.
“Can you PROVE that the impeachment is an attempt to make an example of you, Mr. President?”
AND:
And then we’re off to the races.
The DOJ is taking care of the lackeys: Comey, Clapper, Holder, etc.
Trump will talk about Obama and the Clintons.
And Trump knows where the bodies are buried.
So to speak.
AND:
Remember:
Trump prepared for this for 40 years. He knew he’d be impeached.
And McConnell said OVER AND OVER that he’s going to do exactly as the White House asks.
Here’s the whole Carlos Osweda Twitter thread
https://twitter.com/COsweda/status/1205554018044395521
“It’s absolutely clear that the Democrats are utterly screwed”.
I don’t know about you….but I’m OK with that!
The Ukrainian russophobic ‘regime-change queen’ on the move displacing Junior -who always was a bit player taking orders.
Chrystia Freeland is now the minister for almost everything
From the state broadcaster:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-chrystia-freeland-mandate-1.5395513
Scary.
Carry big stick you say?
Is the US economy Turning Japanese?… yep… I really think so!
Will this work?
…I really think not!
An interesting twist…the song that these words came from was written by the band called The Vapors.
Hmmm…Vapor…thats exactly what all Fiat currencies eventually come down to.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-economy-being-japanified-thanks-fed
Cheers
Col
All Fiats and websites I might add.
A Bit of Speculative Brexit Soros “Fun” regarding Taylor Swift and the Swift Settlement System….and more:
https://youtu.be/qlZ_oSA2uP4
Is Polly St Germaine “on to” something?
Soros fear mongering regarding Brexit and signaling his allies to borrow the Pound Sterling….in order to sell it short once more……deadline Jan 3, 2020???
A whole bunch of intuitive “business”….music world….and other connections……all with strategic political mass mind control implications……..
Hmmmm.
They guy on the X22 report has speculated that Soros, the arch-typical villain like Blofeld in the 007 pix, wants to gain leverage over Taylor and her cadre of “Swifties” so as to influence the next presidential election. To my thinking he has uncritically accepted the received narrative, is suspicious –the right instinct– but comes across as a crank. Polly’s take, on the on the other hand, highlights the possibility of a bizarre media/finance ecology. To her credit, she admits that she is “just having fun with it.”
Oh the fun of living in a mockingbird (mimectic) world.
Bro + Chimmy
https://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/the-2019-american-music-awards-it-was-hell-literally/
Meaning behind the music, lyrics, costumes, poses and props.
This is why I was so stubbornly leery of “communal sex” as Panacea.
Zero temptation or appeal, as far as I can see or ever imagine…..LOL.
The Pendulum has gone about as far to one extreme of dark emptiness as humanly possible.
Ergo, Brighter Days must be ahead!
There’s an Hermetic Principle that mandates it!
“But in what time frame??”, each mortal being wonders………….”Will I see it??”
WikiLeaks Says Released Unredacted Documents of OPCW Douma Report Showing Changes in Final Version
https://sputniknews.com/world/201912151077579295-wikileaks-says-released-unredacted-documents-of-opcw-douma-report-showing-changes-in-final-version/
“The publications challenge evidence from an OPCW investigation into the alleged chemical weapons attacks on 7 April 2018, which militants claim the Syrian Arab Army was responsible for – a stance backed by the US, UK, and France. The new release says the final report does not reflect the views of the actual participants in the fact-finding mission.
It includes a memorandum written in protest by one of the scientists that participated in the fact-finding mission (FFM) – and the final report “with relevant comments from a member of the original FFM”.
RELEASE: Third batch of documents showing doctoring of facts in released version of OPCW chemical weapons report on Syria. Including a memo stating 20 inspectors feel released version “did not reflect the views of the team members that deployed to [Syria]”https://t.co/ndK4sRikNk
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 15, 2019
The memo reveals that around 20 scientists (“the FFM core team”) who participated in the FFM in Douma were not involved in writing the final version and an almost entirely new team was assembled to contribute to the final report.
“This new team was staffed with people who ‘had only operated in country X’, according to the memorandum. It is not clear what country that refers to, except that it is presumably not Syria”, the website wrote.
The newly released batch also includes – for the first time – the preliminary and interim reports along with their redacted versions for comparison.
In particular, they contain information concerning the two chloride cylinders that are supposed to be the evidence of the alleged attack and were reportedly observed at two locations in Douma. It appears that some knowledge about the cylinders was deliberately omitted in the redacted version of the OPCW report, namely, the information about part-per-billion (ppb) concentration levels (used to measure the concentration of a contaminant in soils and sediments) and the actual origin of those cylinders. It also indicates how the final report went through significant changes discussed in e-mail exchanges by OPCW employees.
This lack of a satisfactory explanation was accounted for by the aforementioned Engineering Assessment by Ian Henderson, which concluded the cylinders were manually placed. None of this in either Interim or Final Reports. pic.twitter.com/RHF98UuOa9
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 15, 2019
Inspectors were saying concentrations of chemicals found need to be included to keep people from reading the Interim Report as concluding that a chlorine gas attack occurred. Those concentrations were never once included in either the 2018 Interim Report or the 2019 Final Report. pic.twitter.com/eQlgAPCaIh
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 15, 2019
According to the author of the memo mentioned above, upon his return from the FFM in Douma, the author was assigned the task of analysing and assessing the ballistics of the two cylinders, but was excluded from the work, “for reasons not made clear”.
He accepted the task though with a clear understanding that he was “the most qualified team member”, the scientist said. According to him, he has been to locations in Douma, possesses experience in metallurgy, chemical engineering (including pressure vessel design), artillery, and defence R&D.
“In conclusion, I must stress that I hold no opinion, interest or strong views on the technical part of the matter, nor any interest in the political outcomes. My interest is in sound technical rigour; the science, engineering and facts will speak for themselves”, the author of the memo said.
In addition to be excluded from the work, the scientist was repeatedly denied updates on the final report and even forbidden from reviewing it.
He said that his current assessment was obviously that the FFM report is incomplete.”
RT is also covering this:
New leaks provide further evidence that OPCW suppressed & altered findings on Douma ‘chemical attack’
https://www.rt.com/news/475926-opcw-leaks-report-syria-chemical/
“Currie Dobson @Ventuckyspaz
If you compare the original redacted report to the unredacted one that WikiLeaks released it’s really stunning the difference. Like for example the team decided not to exhume buried bodies because they couldn’t find evidence of chemical weapons this was kept from released report.
The memo goes on to state that the final report “does not reflect the views of all the team members that deployed to Douma.” In fact, the team on the ground in Douma was apparently excluded from drafting the final report – only one member of the fact finding mission, a paramedic, directly contributed. The final document was instead authored by a separate group that had operated from “Country X,” believed to be Turkey.
“The consensus within the FFM team was that there were indications of serious inconsistencies in findings… the conclusions appear to have been turned completely in the opposite direction”
After the conclusions failed to make it into the final report, a FFM team member attempted to archive the analysis of the cylinders in a secure registry, known as the Documents Registry Archive (DRA). According to journalist Peter Hitchens, a senior OPCW official ordered his subordinates to “remove all traces” of the findings from the archive.
The documents support allegations made by whistleblowers – and corroborated by previous leaks – that the OPCW excluded and manipulated key findings in its final report on the incident.”
It doesn’t really matter b/c the policy outcomes of the staged event have already been implemented.
Welcome to guardianistaville, folks.
The OPCW report is a clear falsification.
This report provides quite a bit of detail. Here are some examples:
Toning Down Inconsistencies, Excluding Experts, and Ignoring Evidence: What New OPCW Leaks Show Us
https://sputniknews.com/world/201912151077584022-toning-down-inconsistencies-excluding-experts-and-ignoring-evidence-what-new-opcw-leaks-show-us/
“OPCW Report Changes: Toning Down Evidence of False-Flag Attack
One of the main differences between the interim OPCW report on Douma and the final version, which is half as long (not counting appendixes), is that the latter omits many facts and much evidence that was found by the FFM. These details cast major doubt on the claim that an actual chemical attack with the use of chlorine gas took place in April 2018 and not a false-flag one.
Namely, the authors of the interim report indicated that there was “insufficient evidence” to prove that a poisonous substance had been released from cylinders found at two sites in Douma, while the final report showed significant confidence in the delivery method of the gas.
OPCW Report Changes: From ‘Inconsistency’ of Evidence to ‘Likely’ Chlorine
Addressing numerous reports of people suffering from chemical attack symptoms and the abundance of footage showing the aftermath of the alleged assault in Douma, the interim report directly calls out the “inconsistency” of this second-hand evidence. Furthermore, the first draft of the paper points out numerous inconsistencies between the symptoms reported by witnesses and those that would have actually been caused by a chlorine attack with the use of the cylinders that were found.
Based on these findings, the interim report concluded that “the fatalities [on that day] resulted from a non-chemical-related incident”; however, none of these findings, witness testimonies, or conclusions made it into the final report. Instead, the document states that “sufficient evidence” had been found to “determine that chlorine, or another reactive chlorine-containing chemical, was likely released from cylinders” and added that the OPCW was continuing to look further into the incident.”
Better to read the Wikileaks releases directly than some journalist’s view.
https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/releases/
I agree with Alabama in this part of his statement : ” …. the policy outcomes of the staged event have already been implemented.”
Remember the 3 musketeers, Trump, Macron and whoever I think it was Theresa May in Britain did not wait for the OPCC report before flying missiles into Syria. The subsequent doctored OPCC report just gave them a little thin cover for their insane actions, a cover that satisfied most of the sheeple.
Most of the people of empire do not care. They like their MIC, because it makes money. Without their MIC, they will have no economy.
Remember Trump’s ‘cackle cackle cackle’ moment reminding us all of Hillary .. over ‘beautiful chocolate cake’ he told Xi Jinping that the missiles are flying into Syria.
The empire does not care if we know of their excesses.
They do not care any longer about ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and the real destruction that followed.
They do not care about the Afghanistan papers. They are just using those to debate more and better war making.
They do not care that the soldiers trained under this regime are criminals – Trump pardons these criminals, not knowing the difference between a well trained soldier and a criminal.
They do not care about a history of torture.
And most of all, they do not care any longer that we know.
They consider killing, sanctions and other methods of war as a badge of honor.
They are proud of themselves.
They do not care that they are killing Julian Assange not because he spoke out and revealed the brutal excesses, but because he did not consider these as a badge of honor.
They are killing him because he did not applaud the wickedness!
So, back to Alabama’s statement, the first part : “It doesn’t really matter …..”
I does matter. It matters and serves as further documentation as to the wickedness of this empire. We should understand that and document that.
I think we’re between a rock and a hard place in our world. Like the Saker, I expect war. It is one of two things, either this empire falls financially all by itself with the vast economic consequences all across the world, or this empire is brought to a fall. There are many scenarios that may be brought to bear. They do not have a defense force, but they have an army of soldiers complete with weapons for hire, soldiers of fortune or straight mercenaries out for killing and plunder and they rent these out – It is a state controlled Blackwater that cannot find enough war, so, they’ve declared space as a war fighting domain.
I have no hope left that this empire will reform from within.
The documentation is overwhelming, once again it does not matter in the sense that these people suffer from a terrible case of denial that prohibits reform on the basis of past perceived achievements. As soon as reform is even hinted at, a new disaster has to be created in order to attempt to neutralize the attempt to reform.
The casualties from this political civil war will be tremendous once they have been realized, until then denial is the main course with a side of arrogance and hypocrisy for good measure.
I wonder if thete is enough news now for Syria to sue for war reparations ……
Where shall they take such a suit to? Where can jurisdiction be established? Far as I know the US is not in any of the international treaties so that they can be ‘gotten’ to – they signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, but withdrew.
Far as I know … perhaps Alabama would know more?
It starts internally and the bad news is that it very well could be spread, just about all around the world.
B/c you can not fool the laws of nature.
gut wrenching book about US prisoner abuse in Korea.
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/koje.pdf
(via MoA week in review and https://twitter.com/jeff_kaye/status/1206083827355078661 )
Bolsonaro’s Son Says Brazil Will Move Embassy to Jerusalem in 2020 – Netanyahu
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201912151077583820-bolsonaros-son-says-brazil-will-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-in-2020/
“Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the Brazilian president and chair of the parliamentary committee for international affairs, confirmed Sunday his country would move the embassy to Jerusalem next year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.”
Thereby proving that the brazilian coup was a zionazi coup.
I had some tough love for the British visitors to the Vineyard of the Saker…..on the Brexit Bracket 2016- 2020:
/united-kingdom-from-the-brexit-vote-on-june-23-2016-to-the-general-election-on-december-12-2019/#comment-731889
However, since my forebearers on both sides are traceable back to England, the pendulum is now swinging back the other way towards a kinder, gentler approach, of Consolation and Understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4 Neil Sadaka
Breaking Up IS Hard To Do
Do do do
Down dooby doo down down
Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down
Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down
Breaking up is hard to do
Don’t take your love away from me
Don’t you leave my heart in misery
If you go then I’ll be blue
Cause breaking up is hard to do
Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me all through the night
Think of all that we’ve been through
And breaking up is hard to do
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know
I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you don’t say goodbye
Can’t we give our love another try?
Come on, baby, let’s start anew
Cause breaking up is hard to do
(They say that breaking up is hard to do)
Now I know
I know that it’s true
(Don’t say that this is the end)
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you don’t say goodbye
Can’t we give our love another try?
Come on, baby, let’s start anew
Cause breaking up is hard to do.
This song is very relevant for the Remain Wishers, don’t you agree?? Their feelings have to be considered, I sympathetically feel……LOL.
Yes! I agree with White Whale that USA Music Has Hit Rock Bottom At The AMA …but what are the origins of the Long Slide Down The Slippery Slope Into Satan’s Lap???
The above video almost seems innocent at first. And so “square” it is …………downright cringe-worthy. What with the corny attire and “greasy kid stuff” in the boys’ hair, and all.
I recall reading former leading member of the Black Panthers Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul On Ice my senior year in college…..1972:
The second or third chapter literally began: “The Revolution began with Elvis.”
How? Why?
Eldridge explained: “Before Elvis, white folk, stuck in their stiff-assed honky dances, did not have the requisite “soul” to help us make The Revolution.”
And afterward??
Cleaver returned from places like Cuba and Angola in the sixties with glowing “praise” for the Oakland Police Department….. not long after returning from “making revolution” overseas:
“The PIGS in Oakland would at least pound on your front door and call out your name before breaking in to arrest you. In much of the rest of the world….. they just come through the wall of the house with a tank!
Home, Sweet Home!
By the 1980’s Cleaver was a Born-Again Conservative Christian…..Republican.
Dick Smith Australia Encourages Identity Theft
I am bringing this to your attention because of the unfair manner and risk Dick Smith is imposing on their customers.
Last week I placed an order online to Dick Smith. Later I received an email demanding verification in the form of a scanned image of my drivers licence and credit card. They did this after I placed the order and my account was billed.
Dick Smith provided no secure means of uploading the required information and expected the information to be emailed unencrypted.
We all know that emails can be intercepted and viewed by third parties, but the email they sent me resembles a scam. Because I was not willing to be compromised they were very helpful to cancel my order. If you don’t march to the beat of their drum, they will simply cancel your order.