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Weapons manufacturers celebrate their latest windfall from mass murder and terrorism

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
arms manufacturers, lobbying war, defense contractors
Major defense contractors celebrate mass murder and terrorism, boasting that it is good for their bottom lines.

At a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week, representatives from major defense contractors spoke to their investors about how well business was going in these times of global war. Representatives from top firms like Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin were in attendance, in somewhat of a celebration of the escalating conflict in the middle east and Africa.

Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Bruce Tanner gave a speech openly praising the "indirect" benefits that defense contractors would see as a result of the war in Syria. A portion of his speech was captured on audio by someone inside and shared widely on the internet hours after the conference.

In the audio that was captured, Tanner discussed the many recent troubles in the Middle East, with an escalation of conflict in Syria and Turkey. He pointed out how these conflicts would lead to increased sales for their company.

Tanner said that the increased conflict would cause "an intangible lift because of the dynamics of that environment and our products in theater."

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Turkey's President Erdoğan is 'godfather of terrorism' - German politician


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:39 UTC
Erdogan
© REUTERS/ Umit Bektas
During an interview with Spiegel, leader of Germany's Left Party Sahra Wagenknecht criticized the Turkish President and said that the United States is hampering the fight against terrorism to pursue its own interests.

Commenting on the situation with the terrorist threat in the Middle East, the German politician called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the "godfather of terrorism."

Wagenknecht expressed regrets that the Turkish leader does not stop secretly supporting terrorism and is refusing to close the Turkish border with Syria.

Comment: Erdoğan has definitely been outed as an opportunistic thug. Check out:
What is Erdogan's game plan in Syria and Iraq?

The - predictable - reaction across the West over the Russian Defense Ministry's very serious denunciation of Ankara embedded with ISIS/ISIL/Daesh still begs to be regarded as no less than astonishing.

The actual evidence is not even discussed by Western corporate media. It's all dismissed as "Russia claims..." Yet not only Sultan Erdogan has been systematically unmasked as a serial liar; the accumulating evidence points to Ankara both as an indirect ally and shady sponsor of the fake "Caliphate".

Whatever the Atlanticists can come up with to "excuse" the Erdogan system, at least the devastating PR debacle for the "democratic West" is now a fact of life all across the Global South.


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Pentagon denies US-led coalition airstrikes hit Syrian Army facilities


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:17 UTC
American fighter jet
© AP Photo/U.S. Air Force via AP
According to the Syrian Foreign Ministry, four US-led coalition aircraft launched nine missiles at Syrian Army facilities on Sunday evening killing three and injuring another 13, as well as destroying numerous military vehicles, weapons and equipment.

US Army spokesperson Col. Steve Warren denied on Monday that US-led coalition airstrikes hit Syrian government military facilities on Sunday as claimed by Damascus.

"The coalition conducted four strikes in the Dayr Az Zawr province yesterday, all against oil well heads," Warren stated. "We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets. We have no indication any Syrian Soldiers were near our strikes."

The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent an official protest to the UN Security Council accusing the US-led coalition of hitting Syrian Army facilities in Deir ez-Zor province, Syria's official SANA news agency reported Monday.

Damascus added that the attack on the military post hinders efforts to fight terrorism and highlights the US-led coalition's lack of "seriousness and credibility" in countering terrorism.

A US-led international coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Daesh, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State terrorist group, in Syria since 2014 without the approval of the UN Security Council or the Syrian government.
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USA

Best of the Web: Does fear lead to fascism? A culture of fear and the epigenetics of terror

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:26 UTC
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."—Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist
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America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions.

The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other.

Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed into belligerent zealots, while others inclined to pacifism have taken to stockpiling weapons and practicing defensive drills.

This plague on our nation—one that has been spreading like wildfire—is a potent mix of fear coupled with unhealthy doses of paranoia and intolerance, tragic hallmarks of the post-9/11 America in which we live.

Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting distrust and division. You can't escape it.

We're being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of Muslims, fear of extremists, fear of the government, fear of those who fear the government. The list goes on and on.

The strategy is simple yet effective: the best way to control a populace is through fear and discord.

Fear makes people stupid.

Confound them, distract them with mindless news chatter and entertainment, pit them against one another by turning minor disagreements into major skirmishes, and tie them up in knots over matters lacking in national significance.

Most importantly, divide the people into factions, persuade them to see each other as the enemy and keep them screaming at each other so that they drown out all other sounds. In this way, they will never reach consensus about anything and will be too distracted to notice the police state closing in on them until the final crushing curtain falls.

This is how free people enslave themselves and allow tyrants to prevail.
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Iraqi PM Abadi says Turkey has 24 hours to withdraw troops from Iraq


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:59 UTC
Turkish tanks
© AFP 2015/ ARIS MESSINIS
Turkey must withdraw its troops from Iraq within 24 hours to avoid the matter being reviewed by the UN Security Council, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said Monday.

On Friday, media reports emerged of up to 150 Turkish military personnel having been deployed in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, allegedly to provide training to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

On Sunday, Baghdad said it would use all available options, including an address to the UN Security Council, if Turkey failed to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq within 48 hours.

"We demand from Turkey that it respect Iraq's sovereignty, we gave them 48 hours to resolve the issue and now there are only 24 hours," Abadi said, as quoted by his press office.

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Snakes in Suits

Coincidence? Nuland, Pyatt and Biden arrive in Kiev during spike in Minsk violations


Fort Russ
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:18 UTC
Victoria Nuland
The U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has arrived in Ukraine and traveled to the security Service of Ukraine, "Ukrinform" reported.
"Nuland, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, at around 14:00 on Sunday went to the SBU building in Volodymyrska, - the website reported.
Before that, the American diplomats visited the sculpture named "The Victorious Cossack". As a reminder, the U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden, on December 8th, will speak in the Verkhovna Rada during his visit to Ukraine .

Comment: Suddenly the US' attention has turned back to Ukraine.

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Snakes in Suits

What is Erdogan's game plan in Syria and Iraq?

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:36 UTC
Erdogan
The - predictable - reaction across the West over the Russian Defense Ministry's very serious denunciation of Ankara embedded with ISIS/ISIL/Daesh still begs to be regarded as no less than astonishing.

The actual evidence is not even discussed by Western corporate media. It's all dismissed as "Russia claims..." Yet not only Sultan Erdogan has been systematically unmasked as a serial liar; the accumulating evidence points to Ankara both as an indirect ally and shady sponsor of the fake "Caliphate".

Whatever the Atlanticists can come up with to "excuse" the Erdogan system, at least the devastating PR debacle for the "democratic West" is now a fact of life all across the Global South.

At the same time an elaborate shadow play is in progress. NATO issues non-denial denials — after all it can never back off from its usual "Russian aggression" meme — while the Obama administration, predictably, wallows in doublethink; Turkey may not "support" ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, but Turkey must seal the border with Syria anyway.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson: 'Set aside Cold War mindset, join Putin & Assad to defeat ISIS'


RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:58 UTC
London's Mayor Boris Johnson
© Phil Noble / Reuters Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson
Britain must join forces with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin to defeat Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL), London Mayor Boris Johnson wrote in his weekly newspaper column.

Johnson has also said the government's claim there are 70,000 moderate rebel ground troops willing to work with British armed forces may be "exaggerated." These troops, he wrote, may include jihadists who are ideologically aligned with al-Qaeda.

Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs: "We believe there are around 70,000 Syrian opposition fighters, principally of the Free Syrian Army, who do not belong to extremist groups, and with whom we can coordinate attacks on ISIL."

Saying it would be impossible to defeat Islamic State without the presence of ground troops, Johnson urged the UK government, which has vowed not to put British boots on the ground, to team up with Assad's forces.

"This is the time to set aside our Cold War mindset," Johnson wrote in The Telegraph. "It is just not true that whatever is good for Putin must automatically be bad for the West."

Comment: London's Mayor actually talking some common sense, as Syrian President Bashar Assad calls British airstrikes on his country illegal and futile.

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Attention

Images show Turkey covertly building airbase in Northern Iraq


FARS News Agency
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:15 UTC
Turkey air base in Iraq
Turkey is building an airbase in Northern Iraq without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad, images show.

Images taken by field sources in Iraq display construction of an illegal airbase named 'Bamerne' by the Turkish army in Northern Iraq.

Comment: So now Turkey has invaded Iraq. The US must surely know this is going on. Can the UN do anything to stop this?

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Red Flag

US-led coalition's deadly strike against Syrian troops is 'act of aggression'


RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 13:28 UTC
US jet
© Reuters
Damascus has labelled as an "act of aggression" the US-led coalition's missile strike which killed three Syrian soldiers at an army base in the Deir ez Zor province.

On top of the fatalities, 13 personnel were injured and a number of military vehicles were destroyed when warplanes fired nine missiles at the Saeqa military camp.

The incident is the first of its kind since the coalition started to bomb Syrian territory more than a year ago, though the US-led alliance continues to deny it carried out the airstrike.
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