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Trivium – “… how many countries has the West attacked that had a debt-money central bank flowing from the BIS? How many countries as the Western vassal governments attacked to set up a central bank?”
Libya had a 100% state-owned central bank right up until Gadhafi was sent on permanent vacation. But then a funny thing happened:
“The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants. They sure do get a lot done. What a skilled bunch of rebels – they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever. If only the rest of us were so versatile! But isn’t forming a central bank something that could be done after the civil war is over? ….. Apparently someone felt that it was very important to get pesky matters such as control of the banks and control of the money supply out of the way even before a new government is formed.”
Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya
I rest your case.
V. Arnold – “Western racism is particularly violent; nowhere is that more evident than in the U.S.. It seems Europe is fast catching up…”
No, there’s absolutely no racism in Asia or the Middle East, and if there is racism, it’s not particularly violent. It’s all in the West. What a crock. If we’re going to get anywhere, let’s at least start with the truth.
“Sutherland has consistently been that lonely civilized voice.”
Mr. GATT? Father of Globalization? Mr. Free Trade? Mr. World Trade Organization? Mr. Goldman Sachs International? Mr. British Petroleum (Chairman for 13 years)? Mr. Bilderberg? Mr. Trilateral Commission? Mr. European Commission? Mr. London School of Economics?
Oh, yeah, his primary concern is compassion for the migrants – riiiiiiight! His involvement in the above just smacks of caring, doesn’t it?
I’m going to laugh myself off to bed.
Good article from a Damascus professor who also advises the Syrian government. Her essay recounts the events that have taken place in her country, what doesn’t get printed in our media. It’s a good read re U.S./Turkey/Saudi Arabia/NATO’s role in the destruction of a country. Even with the repeated UN vetoes from Russia and China, vested interests continue to carry on up the Wahhabi. The U.S. ignores international law and just takes over a Syrian air base. Hey, take off your shoes and make yourself at home, why don’t you!
The Rise of ISIS and Other Extremist Groups: the role of the West and Regional Powers
Ishkabibble – “I guess in short, what I’m saying is that they need a @#%@’n plan. It’s not enough to pressure citizens to spend, or to decide they are shifting towards a more service driven economy. They need the structure in place to make Chinese people certain of their personal futures. They need to remove the burden of risk.”
China’s very own social security system. Anything to get them spending. No wonder the elite agreed to social security: it got the people feeling secure about their futures, removed the burden of risk, compelled them to go out and foolishly spend, buying up all of the elite’s products. Yeah, how’d that turn out for the American people? Got them feeling secure that the amount they would receive in old age would actually buy something? Not.
Had the American people not relied on this system, had they foregone extravagant spending, instead saved a good deal of their hard-earned money, they would have been better off. BUT the corporations would not have been better off. Who would have bought their planned-obsolescence products up the wazoo? Who would have turned their CEO’s into billionaires?
The elite in China are no different than the elite everywhere else. They have made out like the bandits that they are. Corruption Inc. And now they want the people to start spending? Ha! Hopefully the people are smarter than that and that they realize that whatever programs the elite put in place, they are never – ever – put there to “help” the common man. Only to help vested interests get richer.
“And that’s why the Saudis and Chinese are so anxious about letting go of their pegs. That and pride.”
As George Costanza said: “I can’t have a drop-down. We were eye to eye; I can’t go eye to chin.”
It appears some of the life jackets were not “life” jackets at all.
“Police in Turkey say they have confiscated more than 1,000 fake life jackets made for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece. Officers raided a workshop in the port of Izmir, where they say they found life jackets stuffed with packaging rather than buoyancy aids. The four workers making the jackets included two young Syrian girls.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35241813
Somebody trying to make a quick buck. Hope they see jail time.
Turkish MP (Eren Erdem) faces treason charges after saying ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin gas.
https://www.rt.com/news/327122-syria-sarin-isis-investigation/
Another article I read re this Turkish MP said: Erdem noted that the chemicals used for the production of weapons did not originate from Turkey. “All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria,” Erdem told RT.
https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/
“As for his accusations about Turkish businessmen being involved in supplying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) with the poisonous gas sarin and other reactants needed for chemical warfare, Erdem maintained this statement was made based on the results of a Turkish court investigation in 2013.
Erdem revealed that five Turkish citizens had been arrested by the Adana Chief Prosecutor’s Office as a result of an investigation coded 2013/139. A Syrian national was prosecuted in Turkey for procuring chemical agents for Islamist groups in Syria. At the same time, Erdem noted all the persons arrested within the framework of the 2013/139 investigation were released a week later.”
And here’s Merkel in July telling a Palestinian girl that “they can’t take everyone”.
“I understand that, however I have to… sometimes politics is hard,” Ms Merkel said.
“You’re a very nice person but you know that there are thousands and thousands of people in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and if say ‘you can all come,’ and ‘you can all come from Africa,’ and ‘you can all come,’ we just can’t manage that.”
And then within a few months it’s “we’ll take everyone”. What happened here? Ilargi posted an article a month or two ago saying that Merkel doesn’t move unless she has permission from two associations (I can’t remember their names, but they were business associations – I’ll find their names). So who parted Merkel’s waters? I’d like to have been a fly on the wall when she got her orders. Such an about-face doesn’t just happen without a good amount of pressure. Who put her straight? Was it Washington or did her instructions come from within Germany?
And then she has the nerve to chastise other countries who don’t want to follow her lead, who actually want to keep the culture they have?
Of course, the answer to all of the above is not to start wars in other countries. Even better, it’s not to draw lines on maps without taking into consideration ethnic ties. Otherwise you end up with what will become of Europe in the future, a hodgepodge of ethnicities.
I’d sure like to know the truth about the flood of economic migrants from Turkey. Last week I posted a good article on the people who were profiting from getting the migrants out of the Turkish camps.
https://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2015/12/merkel-enhanced-migration-problem.html
But who were the enablers on the other side? We know that Greece did not protect its border (and I didn’t hear them screaming for help). They just let everyone in. Last year Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos stated that unless Greece was economically helped, they would allow a flood of migrants into Europe. Blackmail? They were being squeezed, so they squeezed back?
“Greece will unleash a “wave of millions of economic migrants” and jihadists on Europe unless the eurozone backs down on austerity demands, the country’s defence and foreign ministers have threatened. […]
Panos Kammenos, the Greek defence minister, warned that if the eurozone allowed Greece to go bust it would give EU travel papers to illegal immigrants crossing its borders or to the 10,000 currently held in detention centres.
“If they deal a blow to Greece, then they should know the the migrants will get papers to go to Berlin,” he said. “If Europe leaves us in the crisis, we will flood it with migrants, and it will be even worse for Berlin if in that wave of millions of economic migrants there will be some jihadists of the Islamic State too.”
So is this what happened? Screw us and we’ll screw you? As Ilargi earlier said, let them in and let them flood into Europe. Was that a hope to ruin the EU, unwind and eliminate it? What a way to do it – ruining Europe in the process! Perhaps Europe will one day resemble the Middle East – small factions of different peoples, no one strong enough to change anything. A psychopath’s dream, to rule over “gray” countries consisting of “gray” citizens, with no one faction strong enough to revolt. Splendid. That’s the ticket.
In light of the trampling of Trump by Matt Taibbi (I hope he goes after Clinton with the same vigor), here are two good articles comparing Trump and Clinton. According to this author, the biggest racist between the two of them is The Hillary. Who would have thunk it?
Here’s what Trump said in 2004:
“Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in. I would never have handled it that way. Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C’mon. Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over.
What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who’ve been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All this for nothing!”
The author goes on:
“With that statement of 2004 you could not get further from the sentiment expressed by Hillary’s support for the war on Iraq or the proclamation by her close colleague Madeleine Albright that the Clinton sanctions on Iraq which killed hundreds of thousands, five hundred thousand children among them, were “worth it” to overthrow Saddam Hussein! And Hillary herself peddling every neocon war in sight from Iraq to Libya and now Syria. How can the liberals and progressives excoriate Trump but not Clinton as “racist”? And how can they ignore Trump’s words of compassion for those on “the other side”? Those words are unique among the current contenders for the presidency and they ought to earn Trump a sobriquet quite different from “new Hitler” or “racist.” Have the so-called progressives lost touch with reality?”
Hillary just slaughters them, but, oh, I guess it’s nothing personal.
“‘I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees,’ said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic.”
Now we’re getting a little bit closer to the truth.
“His name is Osman. Or, that’s how he introduced himself. He is one of the top members of the Turkish mafia doing business upon migrants and refugees in Turkey. He is not hiding … “If the Turkish government didn’t want us to do the job we do, we couldn’t pass to Greece not even a fly” says disarmingly.”
https://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2015/12/merkel-enhanced-migration-problem.html
Lots of money to be made off the migrants. The mafia/NGO’s/Aid agencies benefit handsomely off this situation, not to mention the Chambers of Commerce and the Walmart-type businesses in the host countries who benefit from the government money given to the migrants. How many of these people ever get to the root of the problem? How many of them cry out for the wars to be stopped? How many of the people wailing over the migrants are investigating who is behind the wars, who benefits? Not very many. They’re too busy putting band-aids on terrible situations, and that’s why nothing ever changes.
The bad men create the chaos and destruction, and all the good men (or perhaps they’re enablers?) seem to do is mop up behind them. The wheel spins, until there’s another outbreak somewhere else, and the enablers get out their mops again and cry.
If you want to change the situation, you must get OUT IN FRONT of these bastards. If more people would write about the bastards, something might get accomplished. But the way it is, the opportunists (people who can make a quick buck) step in and get rich, the NGO’s and aid agencies get fatter (there’s a real growth industry there), and the military/industrial complex is laughing all the way to the bank.
Give me a call when you want to get serious. Democracy? Laughing until my sides ache. Take back your countries, or stop crying.
Ever wonder why the refugees/migrants were let loose at this time? Could it be that it created a great excuse to encircle the outside of the EU? While everybody was focused on “the refugees,” TPTB were busy wrapping the EU in cellophane and tape. Again the left rushed in to help, too stupid to realize what was really happening. They always wake up way too late. To me, the left are equally as responsible for destruction of countries, culture, values as are the right. They are equally as dangerous because they appear too stupid to see, to reason, and are easily manipulated by the elite.
You are slowly and surely losing your sovereignty. But, as the left would say, “What is the good of sovereignty and culture? After all, we’re just all one big happy family.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – former Muslim, beautiful, gentle lady, speaks with Anderson Cooper. Four minutes. First part speaks of the shooting in San Bernardino, how these shooters were radicalized in 2012, long before ISIS had a caliphate. They were already radicalized!
“What it tells me is what I have been telling you and everyone else all along, that hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Muslims are radicalized around the world and in the United States of America as well. […] The people who have that mentality and that mindset (more pious, take the Koran literally) ARE NOT A MINORITY and they ARE NOT A FRINGE MINORITY.”
At the end she says she doesn’t agree with Trump because she thinks it will give false hope to the American people, that somehow they’ll think he’s going to be able to solve the problem. Of course, she is right, because if you want to solve a problem, it must come from within the individual, and the radicalized individual does not see anything wrong with himself. He sees us as infidels who need to be killed and sees himself as perfect and pure.
I say Trump can’t do any worse than is being done right now. Love Taibbi, but it’s not a surprise that he would go after Trump. What is surprising are the Dick Cheney’s speaking up, the establishment. They are running scared, and they are getting very angry. I mean, this guy could really upset their established way of life.
What Trump has said is stop all new Muslim immigration (not athletes, not U.S. citizens) temporarily, just until we can find out “why there is so much hatred towards us” and where it’s coming from. Can’t you just picture the military/industrial establishment wanting him to look into that, to open that can of worms.
Unless this is all show, it appears the upper crust is getting antsy, and I like that. Let them feel the screws like we have. It’s about time.
Trivium – like that Napoleon quote: “Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” Ain’t that the sad truth! No country for old slaves.
Very much enjoyed reading your response, and especially liked the comments (several of which was most likely from you) on Steve Keen’s article entitled “The Principal and Interest on Debt Myth 2”. If I understood the comments correctly, he was owned! I have never been impressed by Steve Keen as somehow, with my limited knowledge, his explanations never ring true. I never hear him screaming about bankers, about central banks. It makes me wonder why. Maybe he’s just too involved in his small world that he can’t see the forest for the trees, or maybe, as you said, he’s trying to maintain his academic position. He might win me over if I started hearing him go after the bankers/central banks – the system! Until then, nope.
Thanks, Trivium. I’m going to save your explanations.
Chris M – very interesting. Thank you. Whenever these guys set out to make winners (mainly the banks), then someone else has to lose. It’s not fair at all.
“Twenty civilians were killed in a US airstrike on Syria’s Northeastern Hasaka province following another US air raid on the Syrian army base in Southeastern Deir Ezzur province that killed several soldiers earlier today. The US-led airstrikes hit al-Khan near al-Hawl town in Hasakah, killing 20 civilians and injuring 30 others.
Earlier this morning, four US-led coalition warplanes targeted the Syrian army camp with 9 rockets, claiming the lives of 4 soldiers and injuring 16 others.
Both dissidents and government sources confirmed early on Monday that the US warplanes struck the military camp of the Syrian army’s 137th Artillery Brigade (17th Reserve Division) in the Southern part of ‘Ayyash’ village, killing 4 soldiers instantly and wounding 16 more. Six of the wounded soldiers are in critical condition.
They further added that the ISIL terrorists stormed the bombed camp a few hours after the air attack.
The Syrian army’s 137th Brigade has been protecting the civilians in ‘Ayyash’ from the swarming ISIL fighters that are attempting to break into the provincial capital of the Deir Ezzur province from the Northern side; this airstrike only boosted the ISIL positions inside this village and the nearby broadcast tower.”
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940916001473
U.S.A. U.S.A. Way to take down ISIL! (sarc)
And even meek little Israel is in there with their fighters:
“Al-Masdar quotes a military source from the Syrian Air Defense as saying that the Israeli Air Force did indeed violate Syrian airspace on Thursday to strike the 155th Brigade’s Headquarters (also known as the “Missile Base”) for the second time this year and the third time in two years.”
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940915000536
Israel, Britain, France, U.S., Turkey – and none of them invited to the party!
Dr. Diablo – was listening to a woman give a talk on Islam, and she said their belief is that whatever lands they used to control (Ottoman Empire) have and will forever forward be their land, and they intend to take it back. Once their’s, always their’s. Looks like Erdogan opened the flood gates and got the process going. I’m sure the young children of today will one day thank (not) the old bleeding heart lefties when they are all bowing down on a prayer mat and giving up their daughters in marriage at the age of 9.
Here’s a lecture from Goldsmiths University in England. The lecturer is talked over, her projector is turned off, the lights are turned off, and all by a bunch of Muslim men who, like children, will not listen. The people there kept saying that there would be questions at the conclusion of the talk, but they wouldn’t listen. Indoctrinated buffoons who are completely incompatible with western culture.
“We read comments that tell us the global markets are reaching the end of the ‘credit cycle’, but can the insanity that has ‘saved’ the economy over the past 7 years truly be seen as a ‘cycle’, or is it perhaps instead just pure insanity?”
Insanity, yes, and a very pointed insanity at that. A carefully “engineered” and manipulated credit cycle. Wile E. Coyote is hanging over the cliff, teeth precariously clamping onto the central bankers’ panties.
From what I’m reading, Syrian forces and Russia are kicking butt. The U.S. is horrified that ISIS is praying to Allah for some assistance at this point. And if the illegal oil trade is cut off, how the heck is ISIS supposed to pay their mercenaries? The U.S. wants to destroy the Russia/Iran/Iraq/Syria axis. The U.S. is now worried, and they want boots on the ground in order to gain back lost ground. How do they do that? Make sure your people are terrorized!
One analyst on CNN said that there are radicalized cells within the United States that the FBI know are just waiting to strike. What if they knew all about the guns/bomb materials that the San Bernardino shooters were amassing, but just let it go? That would surely terrorize the American people and spur them into fighting back. Boots on the ground brought to you right on cue. Ditto, France; after the Paris attacks, France is now supposedly bombing ISIS (with accidental bombings of Syrian army positions thrown in for fun). Now we hear talk of possible terrorist strikes in Britain in the near future. Well, I’d count on that, wouldn’t you? Or Germany? Something more will have to happen in order to get a full-on NATO pounding into the sand!
Mustn’t let our plans of taking out Assad be stopped. They don’t know these things are coming? I don’t believe that for one second.
Erdogan invites himself into Iraq. He wouldn’t dare do this without the blessing of the U.S. Is he trying to draw Russia into Iraq too? Erdogan funds groups fighting Syrian/Russian/Kurd forces. Again, with the blessing of the U.S. The Kurds have taken vast sections along the Turkish border, and Erdogan/U.S. must be seething because their proxy army (ISIS) is being pushed back. How the hell are they supposed to defeat Assad with this type of mayhem going on? And where does Iraq really stand? I thought he was a U.S. puppet that Bush installed. Whose side is he really on? Is he secretly (with U.S. blessing) trying to draw Russia into now pushing Turkey out of Iraq, or is he actually worried that Turkey is there? Anyone?
The article I posted yesterday said that Erdogan will suffer a coup by his military. Wasn’t it the military that seized the trucks at the border crossing several days ago, finding them filled with weapons? Maybe the analyst is right, and Erdogan’s military will take him out. If he wants to survive, he needs to share the wealth his family is allegedly making off the sale of ISIS oil. The military will be looking for their cut, or else he will be cut.
Watched a CNN special where an NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) spokesman said that the U.S. can see everything – everything! Asked how often the NRO is asked to move its satellites, the spokesman said, “About as often as CNN gets a new lead.” So how is it, when the U.S. is supposedly fighting ISIS with all their might, that they couldn’t have seen those miles and miles of oil tankers heading for Turkey?
“He further said, “The US is sending its troops simply to check Russian movements and I think that will not be allowed because Russians will own the battle space and control the territory that the US Special Forces are allowed into.”
“That is going to result in some deaths. Some American soldiers will be sacrificed by going into the wrong places and probably intentionally killed in order to inflate the conflict with Russia and justify all sorts of other political actions.”
“Make no mistake, the US position is not going to change. It will still try to remove Assad and turn Syria into another Libya,” Bennett stressed. […] The US will try and take ownership of a lot of oil fields and refineries,” the analyst explained. […] Bennett further said that according to him the next step will be a coup d’état against President Erdogan. “I think his military forces will rise up, remove him and his son and then the Turkish regime will be stable and Russia will have new relationship with Turkey and at that point Turkey will have peace with Assad and Europe will be very thankful because Erdogan has been facilitating this mass refugee invasion and trying to extort Europe for that.”
The US on the other hand didn’t combat ISIL for over a year. “We were playing with them, we were funding them and we were dropping supplies with C-130’s to them, so we can’t just step in now and say that we are going to target them. They are a CIA mercenary Mossed force.”
Yeah, Kirk, I see the religious whacko right and the liberal whacko left as equally evil entities, lacking in anything remotely resembling “common sense”. Yes, religious fanaticism has definitely been with us, and yet it always seems to be followed by touchy-feely stupidism. These two sides appear to dominate, and yet I don’t feel they are representative of any kind of intelligence AT ALL.
France set to close 160 of its 2,600 mosques because they are either “run illegally without proper licenses, they preach hatred, or use takfiri speech.” A Takfiri is a “Sunni Muslim who accuses another Muslim (or an adherent of another Abrahamic faith) of apostasy. The accusation itself is called takfir, derived from the word kafir (unbeliever), and is described as when “one who is, or claims to be, a Muslim is declared impure.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/france-100-mosques-close-151202142023319.html
And terrorism returns to American shores. What we know about the Muslim shooters in San Bernardino, California. Husband and wife team, had a six month-old baby girl, recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia, husband recently started growing a beard, husband was born in the U.S. and highly religious. Husband arrives at his work Christmas party a little late, leaves soon after he arrives, and then returns (accompanied by his wife) with two AK47’s and two automatic pistols, ski masks, and proceeds to mow down his co-workers, take out as many infidels as he can.
Obama is trying to call it workplace violence. Yeah, right! This is plain old terrorism. Workplace violence is never quite as organized as this guy was. This was planned.
Liberals, spin away.
Nassim – thanks for the heads-up on the Kurds. I guess every group can’t have their own country, but, you’ve got to admit, it might stop some of the fighting over there if every group was split up (with high electrical fencing). I think you’re right, though, as the Arab world seems a very serious world, taking offence at the slightest remark, and there’ll probably be fighting among the groups for centuries more to come.
jal – I think Canada just pulled their air support out of the area. Gone. Good!
“EU Countries Diverting Overseas Aid to Cover Refugee Bills.” Ilargi: “Which will only lead to more refugees.” Yeah, funny how that works. Had they set up a safe zone within Syria for all refugees, they could have continued to send aid money. They could have emptied out the cities where ISIS was heading (so ISIS could not use the residents as hostages/insurance against air strikes), and then taken ISIS out. Instead, Germany has decided to use the migrants to build up their own country, taken the best and the brightest (or at least the most opportunistic) of Syria’s residents, and will leave Assad with nothing but a bombed-out mess. Want to hurt a carpenter? Take all of his tools and destroy his plant, leave him with nothing.
As Gearoid O’Colmain said, this has been a “coercive engineered migration” and could have easily been stopped. But Germany has laid down the red carpet, inviting the refugees in. Of course, she will only take what she wants, sending the rest home or elsewhere. These migrants are only following the red carpet. Had the West gotten tough for about one month, all migrants would have stopped bothering to come, but they didn’t want to. And, no, it had nothing to do with “heart”. They left that “selling job” up to the bleeding heart left who appear unable to think things through to their ends, and have aided and abetted them, as usual.
You want a decent standard of living? You don’t spend more than you take in. You want a decent family that you can support? You don’t have more children than you can feed, unless you want to ask others to support you. You want a country that conserves more? Then you don’t consume as much. You want to send aid but also want to bring in a ton of migrants – no can do. As Monbiot said, “We Just Can’t Do Both”.
Over and over we see situations where people want things “both ways”. They want exponential growth on a finite planet. We see one area of the world ruined in order to prop up another (the Amazon, for example). Why are consequences seen in some areas and not in others? Cognitive dissonance? Blindness? Why can’t people see that there are consequences in everything we do? What gives?
You can’t have things “both ways”.
A great article entitled “The Syrian Kurds Are Winning”. The Kurds have a population of 32 million and are the largest ethnic minority without their own country. They have now taken over almost the whole of the northern section of Syria (bordering on Turkey) and have cut off two of the three routes that ISIS uses to enter Syria from Turkey (loaded up with their U.S.-made and supplied weaponry). Erdogan of Turkey hates Assad, but he hates the Kurds more. He must be very upset with this development, and warns that the Kurds must not go west of the Euphrates River (where the Kurds are presently). The Kurds have one more city to capture (west of the Euphrates), and they plan on further going west until they have the whole top area bordering on Turkey (they already have the far western part). Yikes! Best laid plans, Erdogan!
Great article. Without the Kurds, all would certainly be lost for Syria. The Kurds have captured towns all along the way, and they say that families are now returning. Their regions are among the safest in Syria.
If they get that last town (Jarabulus), ISIS will be severely harmed.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/dec/03/syrian-kurds-are-winning/
Greenpa – Dickens was a master of insight, long before the likes of Freud. I don’t know how he did it; he understood human nature so well. I’ve read six of his books, and they always smack of the truth. No, nothing has really changed, just the characters’ names.
Ilargi: “Angela better stop the ugly side of Germany from rising from its ashes.”
From a Tale of Two Cities: “Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
Last time Germany got screwed from the outside and she reacted. This time she is getting screwed from the inside by the maniacal Merkel. The pea-brained, clueless left is afraid that the far right will react. Well, when you “sow the same seed,” don’t be surprised. When someone tries to “dump” on people from on high and then tell them to “suck it up,” things have an ugly way of unwinding. (Not unlike the coming unwinding of the debt. When you wind it up too high and too tight, it unwinds in an ugly fashion.)
Do I believe that all of a sudden Merkel received a heart in the mail and found God? No, but I believe she received orders from her handlers on what to do, and was probably told to find God quickly. So she blindly follows orders (like the German elite did in the last fiasco), the newspapers print the narrative that “we are kind and good, we welcome the refugees”, TV commentators further spew the narrative, and then, when online commenters question the narrative, Merkel asks Zuckerberg to help her out:
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel confronted Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on how his company is progressing in efforts to curtail racist posts, after her government complained the social network wasn’t doing enough to crack down on recent xenophobic outbursts.
Attending a luncheon on the sidelines of a United Nations development summit in New York on Saturday, Merkel and Zuckerberg were overheard on a live transmission broadcast on the UN website as participants took their seats.
After Merkel briefly queried Zuckerberg about the hate-post affair, the Facebook CEO is heard responding that “we need to do some work” on the issue.
“Are you working on this?” Merkel asked in English. “Yeah,” Zuckerberg responded, before the dialog was cut off by introductory remarks to those present.Earlier this month, Facebook said it would step up efforts to target racist content on its German website. The company said Sept. 14 it would join forces with a German Internet watchdog, a non-profit group called Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Service Providers, to monitor suspected hate postings.”
Gearoid O’Colmain, political author, calls the refugee crisis a “coercive engineered migration because it could have easily been prevented”. Of course it could have been, but the dupes on the left have aided Merkel’s handlers and Europe now has a real problem. And then they’ll stand back in shock and horror when there is push-back. You just can’t make this crap up!
Incidentally, people should watch out for agent provocateurs (much has been written about these people). They are an arm of the handlers and are sometimes used to break windows, write racist slogans on walls, all in an effort to blame the dissenters, thus furthering their cause by eliciting “shame” and “guilt” among people who don’t go along with their ideology.
Nassim – interesting paragraph from the article you linked:
“The public airing of Australian police scepticism towards the MH17 evidence follows the decision by Victorian state coroner Ian Gray to classify secret all autopsy evidence collected by Australian coronial pathologists from the bodies of victims. Gray acted after autopsy results had been published in Australia and internationally. This evidence revealed the absence of missile shrapnel in the bodies of the Australians, casting doubt on the claims of a Buk missile warhead as cause of the crash, and of Russian culpability in the deaths. Gray’s new secrecy order came after he had been briefed by government officials. On their recommendation, Gray is also refusing to set a date for an inquest into the cause of death for the Australian victims.”
I hope those honest policemen will get their say. Par for the course, though: keep all the best evidence hidden. The narrative is that the Russians did it, and so it will be. Too bad. Lies everywhere and always an angle.
Some aviation expert (I remember seeing him on CNN) said that when MH370 went down, he realized that the way these news programs worked was they set out a narrative, and then invited the experts on to agree with them. The plane went towards Australia, the plane went here, the plane went there, follow the bouncing pings. The narrative is set out to convince people of what happened, even though it’s probably a bunch of bull. And the sheep follow along.
We’ll probably never know what really happened to MH17 because the evidence will be buried too deep.
LRacine – have you screamed at your government representatives to stop the so-called “civil” war (which it is anything but)? The U.S. and NATO trying to overthrow another sovereign government? I have. Have you asked them what the hell they’re doing in Syria? What’s better, piling a bunch of people on boats, planes and trains and taking them far away from their homes, stripping Syria of its citizens, or stopping the God-damned war?
I know the situation there must be dire, but what I was disputing is the fact that they are not running for their lives with bullets at their backs. That’s what I was calling bullshit on. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are providing free medical aid to the Syrian refugees and they are trying to do their best, I am sure. Turkey has taken the brunt, but the situation is not much better in Jordan and Lebanon. These countries are struggling with shortages of water too.
https://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/over-755000-syrian-refugees-in-lebanon-641252.html
Aid is being provided by the West, but it is obviously not enough; that I can agree with. The following page lists the aid that has been given by other countries – so far about $12 billion – around $3,000.00 per Syrian ($12 billion divided by approximately four million Syrians), which is what Jordan has been spending per year to house and feed them. Probably the cost of a few war planes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
But the article you linked says:
“About 220,000 are living in 22 government-run camps, which offer food and essential services, the report said. The remaining 1.38 million – more than 85% – are living outside the camps, mostly in communities along the Turkey-Syrian border.”
Aside from the 220,000 who are living in the camps, are the other 1.38 million people being provided with aid as well, or are they making it on their own with jobs? I know that many Syrians have been working in the adjoining countries, which is taking jobs away from the existing citizens. If the 1.38 million are not being aided, then where is the $12 billion going?
No doubt the aid given by Western countries needs to be increased, but what really needs to stop is this ridiculous war. The U.S. has to stop supplying arms to ISIS and the so-called moderate rebels, and the West needs to collectively get behind Putin and Assad and annihilate ISIS.
Put pressure on your government to end the war so that the people can go home.
Here’s what I think about economic immigrants (the Syrians are not refugees). If you want to emigrate to another country, know that you will be embracing that country’s culture, not your own. If you do not like that, if you want to come and then change laws to favor your way of life once you get here, forget about it. If you want to wall yourself off from society, live in a city within a city, a cultural enclave, don’t bother coming. We don’t want you. If you want cultural permission to beat your wives and mutilate the genitals of your daughters, choose another country, and good luck with that.
Remember, you are choosing to move. Before you leave, take a good look at the culture you will be moving to. If you don’t like it, stay at home or go elsewhere.
Another example of common sense being completely thrown out the window in our pursuit to appease, be progressive, understanding and nice to foreign cultures and religions: the story of Elizabeth Smart, the 14 year-old Utah girl who was abducted from her bedroom and raped and tortured for nine months. Because her abductors made her wear a niqab, a policeman was unable to demand removal of it (so he could have seen it was her), and she ended up being raped and tortured for seven more months!
https://takimag.com/article/niqab_nightmare_david_cole#axzz3rm5t1HsH
Can we mourn for her too?
Don’t know this author from a hole in the ground, but he gives an interesting perspective on Sweden, calling them an “indigenous people”.
“Now that she’d been “accepted” by the Swedes, her plan was to use her clout to transform the country into a multicultural mecca in which the old traditions and culture would be jettisoned for a new “afro-Sweden.” Quartey seemed genuinely hostile toward the native Swedes. “They think they run the place,” she exclaimed, “but look out! The immigrants are coming and so is a new Sweden. We’re gonna make that country unrecognizable.”
I knew if I said anything, I’d be in the doghouse with my girlfriend for at least a week, but I couldn’t resist. I asked a simple, one-word question: “Why?”
Quartey stopped cold. She froze. In the echo chamber that was her life, I honestly don’t think this was a question she’d ever been asked.
“What do you mean?” she sputtered.
“Why change such an old and indigenous culture? A nation that has welcomed you with open arms, a people who have inhabited the land since prehistory, a people far more indigenous than the bare-assed hut-dwelling natives of the Amazon. The Swedes have given you a good life; why destroy what they have?”
Hot damn, did things get unpleasant at the table from that point on. Quartey accused me of being racist, but to me, I saw my views as being anything but. As a child of the ’70s, I was raised during a time when protecting “indigenous peoples” was all the rage. Native Americans were no longer portrayed as savages in two-dimensional Western films; they were a noble, wronged people, the voice of reason and conscience in films…”
https://takimag.com/article/rise_of_the_victim_conquerors_david_cole#axzz3rm5t1HsH
“Right wing Canada sees an opportunity, too, for political gain over the backs of people fleeing the very terror they’re now supposedly suspected of.” Yes, along with other Arabs: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, UAE. Psychopaths firmly implanted everywhere.
Right wing/left wing? I don’t see myself fitting anywhere. Right wing appears to want to sell the country out to the highest bidders, follow corporate orders, screwing the ordinary citizen. The left wing appears to want to sell the country out to the lowest bidders, follow touchy-feely sentiment, screwing the ordinary citizen. I see the two sides in bed (as I described the other day): the corporate right uses the fluffy left, and it’s a marriage made in their kind of heaven, except it doesn’t benefit the country. It benefits their particular ideologies.
I listened to Justin Trudeau speak the other day (one of the first times I’ve heard him speak). Not impressed. Soft-spoken, limp-wristed, wants to appear to be “nice”. “Look at me, I’m progressive. I’m not ignorant like the rest.” His own father was totally against multiculturalism, but gave in as part of a deal to secure bilingualism. The trades our leaders make and the disastrous consequences they bring!
“I understand that the overwhelming majority of refugees are fleeing violence and bloodshed…..” Where are the bullets at their backs as they pay the smugglers to ferry them out of “Turkey” and into Greece? They have already fled the violence and are safe in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. They are choosing to cross the waters.
“Four children, four women and one man. Can we mourn them the way we mourn the Paris victims?” Of course, but they CHOSE to cross with their children, who had been safe in Turkey; the people in Paris were oblivious of what was to come. Had they been told, “Hey, there’s a good potential that some restaurants and bars will be targeted tonight with gunfire and you could be killed,” I highly doubt anyone would have gone out that night. And can we also mourn the people in the Russian plane, who also had no forewarning that they could lose their lives? Let’s push rewind and give them a chance to not board that plane: “There’s a chance that you will not survive this flight.” Tell me how many would have boarded. How many would have put their children in harm’s way? Not many. And yet we see Syrians, who are presently very safe in Turkey, not being gassed or bombed, putting their own children’s lives at stake, and when their children drown, we put the blame on ourselves. Somehow they can afford cell phones and designer clothes, but they can’t afford life jackets for their own children?
What needs to happen is all boats leaving Turkey need to be turned back. That way no one need drown. Let’s give Putin (and now the rest of the countries assisting) some time to annihilate ISIS. Perhaps then the people will be able to go back to their homes.
“World leaders at the G20 summit in Turkey have made fresh overtures to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to reach a deal to unite against Islamic State…David Cameron will on Monday urge Putin to stop bombing Syrian moderate forces opposed to Assad, and instead focus on Isis.
Russia and western leaders have been at loggerheads on whether a peace process can endure with Assad remaining as president.”
More like: “Mr. Putin, we want that Qatar gas pipeline to run through Syria in order to cut off your cash flow, but Assad is refusing. So, Mr. Putin, while we really want to screw you, please cooperate with us. Do not bomb the ‘moderate’ forces because these forces are helping us to take out Assad, but you can bomb the organization that we manufactured and engineered – ISIS. It will be to your benefit if you go along, Mr. Putin, otherwise serious things might happen to your country and its citizens. So sorry about your airplane.”
North Carolina now, making it 11 states. The U.S. citizenry does not care if they’re politically incorrect. Europeans should have been doing the same when they had the chance, but they wanted to be seen as “nice” and “kind”, and the politicians knew this.
Aside from the possible threat, does the U.S. really need 10,000 single male economic migrants? How many are already on food stamps and unemployed/underemployed in that country? Millions.
The psychopaths, what are they planning on U.S. soil?
The total is now up to “nine” U.S. states that do not want Syrian refugees: Texas, Michigan, Florida, Louisiana, Indiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Massachusetts and Illinois. What? States that are actually listening to their citizens?
Interesting re touchy-feely crowd:
“Their stance is part naivety: Islam is not the problem. What is needed to stop ISIS and other Islamic extremists is a hug, respect for their beliefs and an apology for Western aggression.
It is also part arrogance: Their approach is superior. They can see better than everyone what needs to be done. Their good will shine so brightly that ISIS and others cannot help but see it and reciprocate.
There is also more than a little political correctness stirred in: We must drop our guard in order to show beyond a doubt that we are not racist, imperialist or doubtful about multiculturalism.”
Good description.
What you said yesterday is true, that our aggression has caused many of the problems around the world, and we need to get out of these countries – get out! But many of these countries are not immune from aggression. Read about Syria, about the different minorities (hell, read about any country), and you will see that these countries have been more than capable in the aggression department themselves. Then read about the rest of the world: Africa, Asia, India…..
As in any partnership, when it breaks down, one or both parties put blame on the other, but that’s not near the truth. It always takes two to tango. We may buy up cheap resources from, say, Africa, but the corrupt African leaders (no different than our corrupt leaders) wheel and deal just the same as we do, and once a price is met, they quickly tuck the money away in some offshore account, just as we do. The ordinary people on either side don’t really benefit at all; prices are kept high, profits siphoned off into the contracting parties’ pockets.
Of course, in countries where the leader does actually try to help his citizens – which are few and far between – (like Gaddafi where he provided free education, medical, dental, clean water) – here we are guilty of taking the leaders out. If they do not go along with us, we kill them or they end up fleeing. But how many leaders in the world are like that? How many AREN’T padding their own pockets? Not very many.
So we over-use resources and get their oil for a good price, and they over-populate their countries and turn to the West for help and food aid, or flee to the West. Should there be any blame placed on countries who are over-populating themselves?
The problem is that the world is currently being run by a psychopathic bunch of criminals, and NOT just in the West.
The poor Arab – one minute your sworn enemy, the next your suffering refugee. Whatever the flavor of the moment might be. 10,000 Syrians, the first load, just arrived in New Orleans, all single males.
And here are the church and aid organizations who are assisting – long list!
100,000 next year and the year after, if something terrible doesn’t happen sooner. People are not happy. Should depress wages a bunch. What could warm your heart more than a couple hundred thousand more immigrants to compete with you for that McDonald’s job! But, stiff upper lip, we’ve got to help the immigrants, haven’t we? After all, as Ilargi said, we’re fat and lazy, and immigrants make better citizens.
