Sunday, April 16, 2017
Saturday, April 1, 2017
(Obnoxious) Opening remarks of Chairman Devin Nunes
(Obnoxious) Opening remarks of Chairman Devin Nunes
House
Select Intelligence Committee hearing
on
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
CHAIRMAN
NUNES: The Putin regime has a long history of aggressive actions against other countries,
including the outright invasion of two of its neighbors in recent years
This can only refer to Ukraine and Georgia, or taken
separately, Ukraine and Crimea. ALL THREE EXAMPLES ARE FALSE.
Russia did not invade Ukraine OR Georgia. Crimea had the right to secede
from Ukraine when it was overthrown by rogue elements fostered by NATO, and did
so with 95% concurrence.
Georgia invaded Tskhinvali, capital of South
Ossetia in 2008, with much destruction and loss of life. The people of
that province appealed to Russia for help and received it.
"In recent days, there has been a remarkable change in
Western opinion about the August war between Georgia and Russia over my
homeland of South Ossetia. The New York Times, the BBC and Human Rights Watch
have reported extensive evidence of U.S.-armed and trained Georgian troops
attacking innocent civilians using cluster bombs and other banned weapons. The
U.S. State Department, which initially backed Georgia strongly, now concedes
that Georgia erred in launching its attack, while British Foreign Secretary
David Miliband has condemned the Georgian government for its
"reckless" attack."— wrote Lira
Tskhovrebova in the LA Times, Nov. 17, 2008 (Georgia's shameful attack on South
Ossetia)
The principle that these two provinces have the right to secede can be laid also at the feet of NATO, who demanded that right for Kosovo, which had become majority Albanian in the last century or two due to immigration, although it was long the heart of Serbian culture, the site of the tragic battle of Kosovo Polja, the "Field of Crows", when Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović was defeated by the Turks in 1389. The chief treasure of the region, and really of all Serbian history, is the Gračanica Monastery, rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321 on the ruins of a 6th-century early Christian three-naved basilica.
Furthermore, the Saudis and Qatar desperately want to crush
the economy of Russia, which is largely dependent on oil and gas. If they can get their pipeline to Bulgaria,
they can seriously cut into Russia's economy, already damaged by US sanctions
(all unjustified, along the lines of the earlier paragraphs above. Shameless lying attacks of greed for power,
couched as moral opprobrium, wherein American citizens should partake, or be in
danger of this new McCarthyism coming down on their heads.)
Here is a great summary of the ACTUAL motive for attacking Mr. Assad, a great article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., entitled "Why the Arabs don't want us in Syria."
The principle that these two provinces have the right to secede can be laid also at the feet of NATO, who demanded that right for Kosovo, which had become majority Albanian in the last century or two due to immigration, although it was long the heart of Serbian culture, the site of the tragic battle of Kosovo Polja, the "Field of Crows", when Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović was defeated by the Turks in 1389. The chief treasure of the region, and really of all Serbian history, is the Gračanica Monastery, rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321 on the ruins of a 6th-century early Christian three-naved basilica.
The Southern Slavs, a group of peoples and languages
stretching from Slovenia on the Adriatic to Bulgaria on the Black Sea, were the
earliest members of that ethnic/linguistic family to become Christianized, from
the 7th to the 9th centuries, primarily through the efforts of the emissaries
of the Orthodox Church at Byzantium, the two monks Cyril and Methodius, who
also created the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
[at left, a postcard honoring the two missionaries.]
(As a side note, Cyrillic characters — Unicode #1025 to #1273
— were part of the "evidence" in malware found, blamed on Russian
hacking until the Wikileaks release of the first tranche of the Vault 7 leak,
which showed conclusively that the CIA held (or failed to hold! They flagrantly
lost control of them months ago: expect them on your equipment anytime after
"zero days"!) a vast horde of hacking tools from around the world, which leave
the "fingerprints" of the original creators.
Such clever chaps, these Americans.
After the Kosovo war of 1999 Bishop of Raška and Prizren Artemije
Radosavljević transferred his official seat to this Monastery from Prizren
and since then the monastery has become not only the most important spiritual
but also the national and political center of the Serbian people in Kosovo.
When the Greeks and Serbs finally fought their way to freedom
from the Turkish tyrants, it was a cause celebre in the West, with leading
lights like the principle English lyric poet, George Gordon Lord Byron,
fighting and dying at Missoulonghi, in a role similar to that played by
novelists, Briton George Orwell and American Earnest Hemingway along with his
future wife and fellow war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, in the Spanish Civil
War against Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his German Nazi backers.
The Kosovo War was fought to protect the right of the
Albanian Muslims, recent immigrants in a historical sense, to remove the Kosovo
province from the nation it had always been a part of. Russia bowed its
head and offered no contest to NATO (read: Wall Street, Wall Street's offspring
the CIA, and the American Deep State). Serbia never accepted the tearing
out of its heart, but could do nothing about it, with its historic Danube
bridges blown and infrastructure blown out, its president mysteriously dying in
custody during a trial at the Hague.
So, the rule is, a
majority of citizens of a province have an undeniable right to secede, is that
it? Apparently not. When NATO elements, the US State Department, and
Neo-Nazi gangs organized by same overthrew the legal government of Victor
Yanukovich, burned to death some 50 protestors in the Labor Building in Odessa,
and began hunting down Russian speaking Ukranians in the east of the country
who refused to go along with the coup, the citizens of Crimea held a
referendum, voting to return to Russia, after 63 years of separation since
Nikita Khrushchev gave the province to his home state of Ukraine in 1954.
On April 27, 2010, Russia and Ukraine ratified the Russian
Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty, extending the Russian Navy's lease of
Crimean facilities for 25 years after 2017 (through 2042) with an option to
prolong the lease in 5-year extensions. So, invade? No, the Russian
Navy was in Sevastopol before, during, and after the split. Details,
details.
But in spite of its high-handed demand that Kosovo, forever
Serbian, but recently majority-populated with Albanian Muslim immigrants, must
be allowed to secede and be a new country, the United States of America refuses
to acknowledge the clear mandate of the people of Crimea to RETURN to their
ancient homeland, Russia, of which they have been a part for at least 200
years, by the least of standards. For that matter, Ukraine itself was
Russian in the beginning. In 985, Russia converted to Christianity, in
the person of Grand Duke (St.) Vladimir, in his capital, Kiev. They were
called the Kievan Rus'.
The modern peoples of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia all claim
Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors.
CHAIRMAN NUNES: . . . as well as its brutal
military action in Syria to defend the Assad regime.
The US propaganda recited above in this fragment from Mr.
Nunes ignores the fact that the Assad "regime" is the legal authority
in Syria. No one even disputes that. But it has been quite a while
since the US "regime" showed a lot of respect for international
law. Remember Alberto "Speedy" Gonzales telling us, the Geneva Conventions
are 'quaint'? That's the legal equivalent of deciding not to pay one's
bills.
The same is true for the flouting of treaty obligations that require us to GET
PERMISSION to bring our military within the borders of a sovereign
country. By the way, Russia is the invited guest/ally of the legal
government of Syria. And who are they helping Assad defend his country
from?????
Our MERCENARIES. Sure, there may be some volunteers,
originally unhappy with conditions in that country. There was
considerably distress in 2011 because of a severe and long-lasting drought,
largely the result of GLOBAL WARMING. Who is the biggest producer of
greenhouse gas on the planet? Well, China passed us in 2005, BECAUSE WE
DO ALL OUR MANUFACTURING THERE NOWADAYS. That's why you can't find a
job. But what fraction of US greenhouse gases does the US MILITARY
produce?
" The US Air Force (USAF) is the single largest
consumer of jet fuel in the world. Fathom, if you can, the astronomical fuel
usage of USAF fighter planes: the F-4 Phantom Fighter burns more than 1,600
gallons of jet fuel per hour and peaks at 14,400 gallons per hour at supersonic
speeds. The B-52 Stratocruiser, with eight jet engines, guzzles 55 gallons per
minute; ten minutes of flight uses as much fuel as the average driver does in
one year of driving! A quarter of the world's jet fuel feeds the USAF fleet of
flying killing machines; in 2006, they consumed as much fuel as US planes did
during the Second World War (1941-1945) - an astounding 2.6 billion
gallons.(3)" — The Military Assault on Global
Climate
But the firepower that is
destroying the oldest cities on earth, continuously inhabited, Damascus,
still largely spared, being the oldest? That is al Nusra, and ISIS,
a.k.a. al Qaeda 2.0 and 3.0. Remember, Zbigniew Brzrezinski created al
Qaeda in the summer of 1979 to bring down the USSR. And, yes, it
worked. And it's still working. We can blame stuff on them, like
9/11, or we can sic them on our next targets. We did, in Libya and
Syria. Check out my detailed summation of these matters here, the online clickable version of the placard at
left.
The gratuitous vilification "brutal attack" is
really the expression of rage at Russia actually defending the man we're trying
to destroy. And why are we trying to
destroy him? He refuses to allow the
Qatar pipeline to pass through his borders.
Why? Because it is the Sunni pipeline, with the hope of cutting the Shia
nation, Iran, out of the natural gas market.
Assad's family are Alowites, a branch of Shiism. The gas field that Qatar is pumping out of is
the largest in the world, and bridges the Persian Gulf — both Qatar and Iran
are drawing from it.
Here is a great summary of the ACTUAL motive for attacking Mr. Assad, a great article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., entitled "Why the Arabs don't want us in Syria."
As is clear from
his lead image, he sees the US Deep State, personified entirely by the brothers
Dulles.
" For Americans to really understand what’s going on, it’s important
to review some details about this sordid but little-remembered history. During
the 1950s, President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers — CIA Director Allen
Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — rebuffed Soviet treaty
proposals to leave the Middle East a neutral zone in the Cold War and let Arabs
rule Arabia. Instead, they mounted a clandestine war against Arab nationalism —
which Allen Dulles equated with communism — particularly when Arab self-rule
threatened oil concessions. They pumped secret American military aid to tyrants
in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon favoring puppets with conservative
Jihadist ideologies that they regarded as a reliable antidote to Soviet
Marxism. At a White House meeting between the CIA’s director of plans, Frank
Wisner, and John Foster Dulles, in September 1957, Eisenhower advised the
agency, “We should do everything possible to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect,”
according to a memo recorded by his staff secretary, Gen. Andrew J.
Goodpaster."
Here
is a map that explains the same story, from another page that corroborates
Kennedy's piece:
Is the Qatar gas behind the continuous war in Libya and Syria?
CHAIRMAN NUNES: For example, the Kremlin has a
disinformation campaign through the RT propaganda network, which traffics in
Anti-American conspiracy theories.
No evidence
offered. The US government, with the
assistance of the US mainstream media, pumps out so many lies, that any truth
is an "Anti-American conspiracy theory." This is nothing but a concerted Hetzjagd, hot
pursuit of the prospective victims, Syria, Iran, and ultimately Russia and
China, to bring them under our power while we still have power other than the
nukes.
The American people
are unwilling and/or unable to evaluate the validity of the claims of the US
government. They are so content to be
members of the peanut gallery, the pep club, cheering on our brave military,
when if they had a shred of integrity would already have long known that no war
we've been engaged in, certainly since WWII, has been justifiable, helpful to
anyone except power-mad and money-mad billionaires.
If any military
member has a conscience they should read a little book by the highest decorated
Marine of all time, MG Smedley Darlington Butler (d. 1940).
The book is called War
Is A Racket, read for free here at
Ratical.
Here's a short
speech he gave at a public gathering that explains his late position:
War is
just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not
what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what
it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of
the masses.
I
believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation
comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that
when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes
overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers
follow the flag.
I
wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the
bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of
our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is
simply a racket.
There
isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It
has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men"
to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a
"Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may
seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness
compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military
service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine
Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to
Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high
class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I
suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like
all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own
until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation
while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the
military service.
I
helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in
1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys
to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American
republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers
in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to
see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those
years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking
back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he
could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three
continents.
Friday, March 31, 2017
What Exactly Is A Troll?
Did you know that the US military is
profoundly interested in Social Media? Did you know they train and deploy
armies of Social Media operatives? Ask yourself, “What do they hope to accomplish
with that project?”
First,
here is some prima facie evidence that they do do so.
Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine
“The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff out social media propaganda campaigns and spit some counter-spin right back at it.“
Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine
“The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff out social media propaganda campaigns and spit some counter-spin right back at it.“
“The
overriding theme of the event is the need to exploit social media as a source
of intelligence on civilian populations and enemies; as well as a propaganda
medium to influence public opinion.”
“In
2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper
proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and
pseudo-“independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups
and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that
Sunstein deems “false conspiracy theories” about the Government.“
As
a matter of fact, thanks to Edward Snowden, we have 50 slides of a PowerPoint
training program created by the British equivalent of the NSA, that is GCHQ —
Government Communications Headquarters — which reveal a great deal about how
they size you up, my friends.
The
Series is called The Art of Deception
Magicians, of course, don't perform magic, but sleight of hand.
It’s all very scientific, don’t you know?
There are step-by-step procedures that are university engineered
to be effective at deceiving large groups of people.
to be effective at deceiving large groups of people.
But one chief focus is how to split up groups. Ever encountered a troll online? Sound familiar?
This is a college, perhaps graduate course in how to make the public believe things THAT ARE NOT TRUE.
What becomes of a society that is deceived on an
industrial level by those that rule over it?
industrial level by those that rule over it?
If you want to see the whole set, and read the article by Glenn Greenwald discussing the secret program that Snowden revealed, it is
Now I would like to share with you some of my own observations. Some rules of the road that I have gathered in my travels:
1. Trolls have the military mindset. They consider intimidation their chief path to success. Just as Native American warriors famously shrieked and with their hand covered and uncovered their mouths in rapid succession, for the purpose of terrifying their targets, so a troll will very frequently default to bluster and what is essentially “trash talk”, like you would overhear at the foul line in an NBA game, when somebody is trying to concentrate on his shot.
2. Along the same lines, trolls typically choose a Facebook Avatar that is as intimidating as they can think of. Roaring lions and tigers, snakes, scorpions, or images of horrible things. Likewise, hypermasculine poses and smirks. Alternatively, images of irritants, things that make you uneasy just looking at them. Again, images of the disingenuous, where the feeling you come away with is, they’re hiding something. Again, images of mockery.
3. When a troll confronts you, uses brusque language, talks down to you, insults you, remember, he or she wants to control weak minded people. If you are strong-minded, be careful not to depend on strong logic. They will slip out of the, to them, trap you have set by declaring that it is meaningless, irrelevant, or changing the subject. Once they lay that brick in the wall, the rest will follow. They don’t want to engage with people who understand the issue being discussed. They are at that point looking for an exit. They can’t wait to tip over the chessboard and flame you with a stream of invective, on the premise that the weak minded will allow them that excuse for refusing to address the very reasonable point you have made.
So, bend over backwards to be as mild as Ivory Soap, as sweet as pie, and patient, simple, and take no offense. As Jesus said, “ But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. “ (Matthew 5:39) That way, they will have no excuse to cut and run, and it will be harder for them to escape the validity of your point.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Le chant des partisans
A song of the French Partisans resisting the Nazi occupation
Ami, entends-tu
Le vol noir des corbeaux Sur nos plaines? Ami, entends-tu Les cris sourds du pays Qu'on enchaîne? Ohé! partisans, Ouvriers et paysans, C'est l'alarme! Ce soir l'ennemi Connaîtra le prix du sang Et des larmes! |
Friend, do you hear
The Black Flight of Crows On our plains? Friend, do you hear The Deaf Cries of the Country Let's go on? Oh! Supporters, Workers and peasants, That's the alarm! Tonight the enemy Will know the price of blood And tears! |
Montez de la mine,
Descendez des collines, Camarades! Sortez de la paille Les fusils, la mitraille, Les grenades... Ohé! les tueurs, A la balle et au couteau, Tuez vite! Ohé! saboteur, Attention à ton fardeau: Dynamite! |
Climb the mine,
Descend from the hills, Comrades! Get out of the straw The rifles, the grape-shot, The grenades ... Oh! the killers, At the ball and the knife, Quickly kill! Oh! saboteur, Pay attention to your burden: Dynamite! |
C'est nous qui brisons
Les barreaux des prisons Pour nos frères, La haine à nos trousses Et la faim qui nous pousse, La misère... Il y a des pays Ou les gens au creux de lits Font des rêves; Ici, nous, vois-tu, Nous on marche et nous on tue, Nous on crève. |
It is we who break
Prison bars For our brothers, Hate on our heels And the hunger that drives us, Misery... There are countries Or people in the hollow of beds Have dreams; Here, we see, We walk and we kill, We're dying. |
Ici chacun sait
Ce qu'il veut, ce qui'il fait Quand il passe... Ami, si tu tombes Un ami sort de l'ombre A ta place. Demain du sang noir Séchera au grand soleil Sur les routes. Sifflez, compagnons, Dans la nuit la Liberté Nous écoute... |
Here everyone knows
What he wants, what he does When it passes ... Friend, if you fall A friend comes out of the shadows In your place. Tomorrow's Black Blood Will dry in the sun On the roads. Whistle, companions, In the night Liberty We listen .. |
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