By Michael Snyder: If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people,
without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United
Nations, and without the help of the British. Now that the British
Parliament has voted against
a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take
"unilateral action" against Syria. But what good would "a shot across
Syria's bow" actually do? A "limited strike" is not going to bring down
the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil
war that has been raging inside Syria. Even if the U.S. eventually
removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels
that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad.
Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the
time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages.
Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters? There is
no good outcome in Syria. The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and
the rebels are even worse. Why would we want the U.S. military to get
involved in such a mess?31 Aug 2013
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Syria, Pipeline Politics, OPEC & the USDollar - The Golden Jackass
By Jim Willie CB: Syria
is about the last gasp for the Petro-Dollar, the emergence of energy
pipeline geopolitics, the rise of the NatGas Coop, the new dominance of
Russian Gazprom, the eclipse of OPEC, the fall of the house of Saud, and
a grand adjustment process in global commerce and banking. Refer to
trade settlement outside the USDollar and diversification away from
USTreasury Bond reserves management. It took some time to realize it,
but the Cyprus bank incident was a misdirected attack against Gazprom.
It failed. The entire Arab Spring movement, an ambitious disruptive
project waged with foolhardy ambitions, has turned on itself. Egypt
fell, its US puppet discharged. The entire North African region will be
in flames soon. The USGovt interfered with a grand industrialization
project for European industry, to be placed on North Africa intended to
take advantage of cheaper labor, available minerals, nearby resources,
and easy shipping. The resentment of Europe will show up in the future.
The Middle East and Persian Gulf region is shifting its salute to Russia
& China, as the noisy sectarian battles have been a common fixture
since long ago. Bahrain has erupted. Saudi is clamping down and
converting into an Islamic police state to create the Iran-Saudi
repressive bobsey twins. Chaos is the longstanding objective of the
USGovt in foreign policy infection, no change in decades.The Truth About War With Syria + The Story of Your Enslavement
30 Aug 2013
25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every American Should See
By Michael Snyder: If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people,
without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United
Nations, and without the help of the British. Now that the British
Parliament has voted against
a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take
"unilateral action" against Syria. But what good would "a shot across
Syria's bow" actually do? A "limited strike" is not going to bring down
the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil
war that has been raging inside Syria. Even if the U.S. eventually
removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels
that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad.
Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the
time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages.
Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters? There is
no good outcome in Syria. The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and
the rebels are even worse. Why would we want the U.S. military to get
involved in such a mess?German Election Finally Gets Messy: “Euro Is More Than A Currency” And Greece “Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed In”
Even Edward Snowden’s revelations in the media detailing German involvement in NSA spying activities, among other sins, were successfully shuffled off. Llike in the US, it's a bi-partisan debacle, compromising political figures on both sides. The scandal is festering, but apparently without political fallout.
So time is running out for Peer Steinbrück, the SPD’s candidate to unseat one of the most popular German politicians. And when Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, for whatever reason, mentioned a week ago that Greece would need a third bailout, Steinbrück jumped on it. Another debacle! Turns out, Greece, though it has disappeared from the media, hasn’t disappeared from the list of bankrupt euro states. And Steinbrück needs to do something fast to change the election math.
If the election were held next Sunday, a series of weekly surveys, has been fairly consistent: 41% of the vote would go to the governing CDU/CSU and 5% to their coalition partner, the FDP, barely squeaking over the 5% minimum to get into the Bundestag. Together, the coalition would have 46% of the vote. On the other side: the SPD would garner 22%, the Greens 11%, and the Left Party 10%, giving their coalition 43% of the vote. The remainder wouldn’t clear the minimum.
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Other than that, it was very sad to see Dave Silvermans actions this week. It is however not a new trend. Dave Silverman was almost the first in line to voice his support for Amy Roth after her famous 'being reduced to tears by a tshirt' incident at TAM a year or two back.
As Syria distracts, here’s what else is happening while no one is looking…
Gun control
Today, the Obama administration announced fresh measures to restrict the availability of firearms in the Land of the Free.
This time around, they want to ban the re-importation of firearms that have been exported from the US to allied nations. They also want to raise the bar on federal background checks.
But rather than go through Congress, the Obama administration is simply going to create a new ‘rule’.
‘Rules’ are a type of regulation created directly by agencies within the Executive Branch. They’re not laws, but they carry the same weight and effect as laws, complete with criminal and civil penalties.
Oftentimes, hundreds of new rules are proposed every single day in the Land of the Free. It’s the easiest way for the baby bombing President to circumvent the Constitution and simply decree whatever he wants.
In Stunning Move UK Parliament Rejects Syria Military Strike, Obama and the US MIC "Willing To Go It Alone"
Submitted by Tyler Durden: The UK House of Commons, in a
razor thin vote, rejected the Cameron proposal for military action in
Syria with a vote 285 to 272.
29 Aug 2013
U.S. Dollar: “Reserve” to “Laughing Stock” Currency in Less Than One Century
By Michael Lombardi: As we march towards another debt ceiling limit…
The U.S. Treasury Secretary, Jacob J. Lew,
wrote a letter to Congress this week stating the U.S. government will
hit the debt ceiling by October. He wrote, “…Congress should act as soon
as possible to protect America’s good credit by extending normal
borrowing authority well before any risk of default becomes imminent.”
(Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, August 26, 2013.)
Lew added, “Protecting the full faith and
credit of the United States is the responsibility of Congress because
only Congress can extend the nation’s borrowing authority. Failure to
meet that responsibility would cause irreparable harm to the American
economy.” (Source: Ibid.)
Will Congress raise the debt ceiling again? It certainly will!
Since 1960, Congress has raised the debt
ceiling 78 times—49 times under Republican presidents and 29 times under
Democratic presidents. (Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury web
site, last accessed August 27, 2013.)
The debt ceiling, which is set by Congress, puts a restriction on how much the national debt can be increased.
On August 23, 2012, the U.S. national debt
stood at $15.97 trillion. Fast-forward one year to August 23, 2013, and
our national debt hit $16.73 trillion.
Honey Badger Radio: Dr Phil and the Feminist Inquisition
According to the people responsible for these slogans and catchphrases, one of the primary purposes behind them is this:
Syria Time For Brinkmanship - Syrian Girl
Sinkhole of Stupid - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Chris Martenson
Syria - War is a Racket
Exposed: US Helped Launch Syrian Chemical Attacks + No Restraint on Washington's Criminality - Will Lead to Nuclear War
The Killing of Tony Blair
By George Galloway MP: "Some people make a living, others make a killing" -
an exclusive new documentary on Tony Blair which will break unexplored ground
"Hands Off Syria!" London Street Protest Against Syria Intervention At Downing Street +
China Joins Russia In Warning Syria Strike Would Have "Catastrophic Consequences"
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Until now, the loudest and most material
opponent to a Syrian invasion by the "liberating" powers was Russia.
Moments ago, China joined the anti-western axis. BBC reports: "Russia
and China have stepped up their warnings against military intervention
in Syria, with Moscow saying any such action would have "catastrophic
consequences" for the region."
More:Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC an international military response to the suspected use of chemical weapons would be possible without the backing of the UN.
The UN Security Council is divided, with Russia and China opposing military intervention and the UK and France warning that the UN could be bypassed if there was "great humanitarian need".
In a column in The Times newspaper, former UK PM Tony Blair has written that if the West does not intervene to support freedom and democracy in Egypt and Syria, the Middle East will face catastrophe
The Periphery is Failing
The next big economic dislocation might be only weeks away
By Chris Martenson: For years we've preached the From the Outside In
principle of markets: When trouble starts, it nearly always does so out
in the weaker periphery before creeping towards the core.
We saw this in the run-up to the housing bubble collapse, as
sub-prime mortgages gave way before prime loans, and in Europe, as
smaller economies like Greece, Ireland, and Cyprus have fallen first and
hardest (so far). We see this today in accelerating food stamp use
among poorer U.S. households. In each case, the weaker economic parties
give way first before being followed, over time, by the stronger ones.
Using this framework, we can often get several weeks to several
months of advance notice before trouble erupts in the next ring closer
to the center.
Which makes today notable, as we're receiving a number of new warning signs. The periphery is giving way.
22 Reasons Why Starting World War 3 In The Middle East Is A Really Bad Idea
Karen Hudes: We're Running Out of Time! We're Dealing with Whether We Can Continue as Humanity
Syrian Electronic Army takes down Zionist New York Times website, claims Twitter’s domains
RT: The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed access to a number of Twitter’s international domains shortly after bringing down the New York Times’ website. The attack was apparently made through Melbourne IT.
As a result of the attack the New York Times’ website has been disabled for the second time in under a month. The newspaper attributed the outage to a “malicious external attack” widely thought to have come from hackers affiliated with the Syrian Electronic Army.
“Many users are having difficulty accessing the New York Times online,” the paper wrote on its Facebook page.
Goldman Sucks Global Nepotism and "The Killing of Tony Blair" - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with MP George Galloway
The colonial stepping-stone to Syria comes into service.
We know how long the attack on Syria has been in the planning
‘…What very few people do for
starters is just look where the hell Cyprus is. As you can see from this
map, it is a long way east of Rhodes. That country it appears to be
pointing a finger at is Syria. Just after that comes Iraq and Iran. A
spit and a throw to the north is Erdogan-run Turkey. Every one of these
countries is in one form or another the victim (willing or otherwise) of
Islamist advance….I don’t think Barack Obama was in the region to talk
about peace. He was doing the “I’m here to remind you all that I’m
keeping a beady eye on this shit”.’
In the late hours of last night CET, Warplanes and military
transporters have begun arriving at Britain’s locally protested colonial Akrotiri airbase on
Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of
increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime
in Syria.
China and Japan REALLY Don’t Like Each Other
By Zheng Wang (汪铮）: Having friends in both China and Japan, I
have often been asked to explain both sides’ actions since the
Diaoyu/Senkakus crisis began in September 2012. For example, my Chinese
friends cannot understand why the Abe government is so “stubborn” and
isn’t willingly trying to repair relations with China, while my Japanese
friends wonder the same thing about the Chinese government.
A recent survey
of Chinese and Japanese citizens views of each other’s countries helps
shed light on these issues. The results of the survey could provide
answers to the questions of my friends.
This survey, which was commissioned by the Japanese think tank Genron NPO and China Daily, asked 1,805 Japanese citizens and 1,540 Chinese citizens about their views of the other country.
The survey found that 92.8 percent of Chinese respondents hold unfavorable views of Japan, a startling 28 percent rise from the year before. Similarly, 90.1 percent of respondents in Japan had an unfavorable or relatively unfavorable view of China, compared with 84.3 percent last year. For both countries, these figures were higher than in the previous nine annual surveys conducted.
A recent survey
of Chinese and Japanese citizens views of each other’s countries helps
shed light on these issues. The results of the survey could provide
answers to the questions of my friends.This survey, which was commissioned by the Japanese think tank Genron NPO and China Daily, asked 1,805 Japanese citizens and 1,540 Chinese citizens about their views of the other country.
The survey found that 92.8 percent of Chinese respondents hold unfavorable views of Japan, a startling 28 percent rise from the year before. Similarly, 90.1 percent of respondents in Japan had an unfavorable or relatively unfavorable view of China, compared with 84.3 percent last year. For both countries, these figures were higher than in the previous nine annual surveys conducted.
Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: One Of The Puppetmasters Behind The Syrian War
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Yesterday the Telegraph's Evans-Pritchard dug up a note that we had posted almost a month ago,
relating to the "secret" meeting between Saudi Arabia and Russia, in
which Saudi's influential intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan
met with Putin and regaled him with gifts, including a multi-billion
arms deal and a promise that Saudi is "ready to help Moscow play a
bigger role in the Middle East at a time when the United States is
disengaging from the region", if only Putin would agree to give up his
alliance with Syria's al-Assad and let Syria take over, ostensibly
including control of the country's all important natgas transit infrastructure.
What was not emphasized by the Telegraph is that Putin laughed at the
proposal and brushed aside the Saudi desperation by simply saying "nyet." However, what neither the Telegraph, nor we three weeks ago, picked up on, is what happened after Putin put Syria in its place. We now know, and it's a doozy.
Courtesy of As-Safir (translated here), we learn all the gritty details about what really happened at the meeting, instead of just the Syrian motives and the Russian conclusion, and most importantly what happened just as the meeting ended, unsuccessfully (at least to the Saudi). And by that we mean Saudi Arabia's threats toward Russia and Syria.
First, some less well-known observations on who it was that was supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt even as US support was fading fast:
27 Aug 2013
7 COUNTRIES IN 5 YEARS
General Wesley Clark: Because I had been through the Pentagon right
after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I
saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went
downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff
who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said,
"Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second."
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The artist taxi driver
CIA Documents Show the U.S. M.I.C. Helped Saddam Hussein Use Chemical Weapons
By Michael Krieger: But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely
unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives
in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former
intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United
States’ knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly agents. They
show that senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the
scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official
American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical
weapons attacks ever launched.- From Foreign Policy’s excellent article: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
Remember all of the propaganda ahead of the USA’s “democracy unleashing” invasion of Iraq in 2003. It went something like this: “We have evidence that Saddam Hussein has stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and even worse he has a histroy of using them, even against his own people!”
Well unsurprisingly, Mr. Hussein had a little help from his friends. The United States of America.
BANKSTERS: The Leveraged Buyout of America - SHAKEDOWN
In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke dated June 27, 2013, US Representative Alan Grayson and three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of large banks into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial spheres. Specifically:
[W]e are concerned about how large banks have recently expanded their businesses into such fields as electric power production, oil refining and distribution, owning and operating of public assets such as ports and airports, and even uranium mining.
Did John Kerry Orchestrate The Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria?
Once again the US invokes false flag attacks and outright lies to stoke the flames of war. John "Lurch" Kerry gave a speech today that is going to lead us to WW3. Channeling Colin Powell, Dubya and the Kuwaiti Incubator Girl, "Lurch" the ketchup baron laid out a series of lies and falsehoods about the Syrian government to justify more military action in that region. Of course "Lurch" said they will never be able to find proof of who carried out the attack.
Assad Warns: "Syria Will Never Become A Western Puppet State" - Full Interview
Six unresolved questions about the Cyprus fiasco + COLONIAL CYPRUS: The stepping-stone to Syria comes into service.
The night Cyprus joined the euro….what goes up, must come down
What is the American State Department up to? What will Turkey do? Why didn’t things develop in Moscow? Where is Mario Draghi? WTF is this really all about?
The Slog: How do you tell if a eurocrat is short-sighted? You ask him to spot
the difference between a Russian billionaire’s pocket money and a
Cypriot’s life savings.
That gag doing the rounds in southern Europe sums up the perfectly
natural focus of most people in ClubMed: this is just more of the same
old same old Brussels-am-Berlin bullying cock-up, followed by mealy
mouthed denials and a screwed up financial system. As indeed it is. Put
with less humour but equal bluntness is this verdict from the OECD
Director General’s adviser Adrian Blundell-Wignall:
‘The Cyprus crisis is the result of policy mistakes and a failure of
collective responsibility, as well as an illustration of what bad policy
can do and could do if it’s not corrected.’ Quite. But not everyone is
as stupid as they pretend to be.
15 Signs That Obama 'The Nobel Prize Winning Baby Bomber' Has Already Made The Decision To Annihilate Syria + The Killer Queen is the War Machine - BBC Sucks O Cocks News
US NSA Using Copyright Claims To Crush Free Speech?
“The NSA, the only part of the government that actually listens”
InfoWars: “Can a government agency block criticism by claiming copyright
infringement? Sounds a bit ridiculous but it is happening. The NSA is
effectively stopping one small business owner from criticism, claiming
that by using its name he has infringed on their copyright,” according to a report by Infowars guest and investigative journalist Ben Swann. Check out the video below to learn more. Source
Palestinian Liberation Organization points out genocidal Israeli regime's double-standards
UK BANNED Press TV: Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) officials have accused the Israeli regime of playing
double-standards following Tel Aviv's plans for the expansion of
settlements in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The officials said on Monday that the Israelis sit for talks, but at the same time they allocate more funds for the expansion of settlements. They also noted that Israel’s ethnic cleansing in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) is “a direct blow to the so-called talks.”
Moreover, PLO spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said the move shows total disregard for the initiatives in the talks.
On Sunday, the Israeli regime approved the construction of another 1,500 new illegal settler units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), despite widespread international criticism of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
US NATIONAL DEBT HASN’T GONE UP IN 85 DAYS ACCORDING TO THEIR LYING GOVERNMENT
The Burning Platform: USA, below is the National Debt per day according to your beloved
government. Joy to the World!!! Obama has seen the light. The Federal
Government has finally gotten their act together and no longer spends
$2.5 billion more per day than they take in. Right?
WRONG!!!
When you run a corporate fascist military empire you just
tell the plebs whatever you want them to believe. If the law says you
can’t go above the legal debt limit, you just pretend you aren’t adding
debt at a rate of $100 million per hour. It’s that simple.
The willfully ignorant masses don’t care. Did you see that crazy Miley Cyrus last night. If I had a daughter, she could be Miley.
In case you want to know the truth, the National Debt is really $17 trillion. We’ve added at least $220 billion of debt since June 1. The fraudulent payback of $150 billion by Fannie & Freddie is nothing but an accounting gimmick designed to give the appearance that Obama isn’t really running $1 trillion deficits.
WRONG!!!
The willfully ignorant masses don’t care. Did you see that crazy Miley Cyrus last night. If I had a daughter, she could be Miley.
In case you want to know the truth, the National Debt is really $17 trillion. We’ve added at least $220 billion of debt since June 1. The fraudulent payback of $150 billion by Fannie & Freddie is nothing but an accounting gimmick designed to give the appearance that Obama isn’t really running $1 trillion deficits.
26 Aug 2013
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It's All Misogyny
The Genocidal Israeli Regime Claims To Have Intercepted "Syrian Regime Chatter" Confirming Assad Behind Attack. + Hated Western Warplanes Begin Arriving In Colonial Cyprus
Submitted by Tyler Durden: The planting and harvesting of false flags in
Syria will soon need a full crop rotation following the latest
"revelation" by Germany's Focus magazine (on Saturday), subsequently
reported by the Times of Israel today, that Israeli Defense Forces had listened in on senior Syrian officials discussing a chemical attack last Wednesday in real-time. TOI reports that "according to the report Saturday in Focus magazine, a
death squad specializing in wire-tapping within the IDF’s genocidal 8200
intelligence unit allegedly intercepted a conversation between high-ranking regime
officials regarding the use of chemical agents at the time of the
attack.The Zionist Takeover Is Orchestrated Not Random + Wild Shots Notting Hill Carnival
The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its
content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't
believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.
The Treasury official playing the bankers’ secret End Game was Larry Summers. Today, Summers is Barack Obama’s leading choice for Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the world’s central bank. If the confidential memo is authentic, then Summers shouldn’t be serving on the Fed, he should be serving hard time in some dungeon reserved for the criminally insane of the finance world.
The memo is authentic.
Fabio Reinhardt from Pirate Party on Military Fascist US Regime illegal spying on UN +
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The artist taxi driver
SYRIA: Hague regime gets UN visit to chemical weapons site, Washington regime says “not credible”
It’s that zero-support Special Relationship again
Hague….surprisingly mature for his age
The Slog: This is what the BBC
says about the chemical weapons atrocities with which Bashar Assad is
credited: ‘Attacks using chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people
near the Syrian capital, Damascus, the opposition alliance says’. The
Opposition alliance, folks, is a polite way of saying “Those nice guys
in the Muslim Brotherhood what America backs, like”. So we can trust
them, right?
In a classic clanger of a quote in the Telegraph last Wednesday,
William ‘Mekon’ Hague told the Party’s house magazine, “Evidence of the
attack is deteriorating every day”. And he dismissed claims that the
Brotherhood may have staged or even committed the atrocity themselves.
Given they have form in this area, it is baffling me as to why Willy is
so sure….given that he presented no evidence at the time – or since.