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Boiling Frogs Post: CIA director visits Bosnia - new state of U.S. war on Russia in Southern Europe?

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'Al Mujahedeen Unit' of the 'Bosnian Army' parades in downtown Zenica, central Bosnia. Osama bin Laden and many other Saudi terrorists funded and organized them.
On April 21, 2016, under the cover of darkness, a U.S. military plane landed on Sarajevo international airport.[1] The mysterious guest was greeted by Osman Mehmedagić, the chief of the Bosnian intelligence agency - the Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA). ["Osa" means a wasp in Bosnian-Croat-Serb language.]

Mehmedagić was appointed to this position recently (November 2015) and replaced the long-time OSA director Almir Džuvo who held the position for more than 10 years. Mehmedagić's appointment was not without controversy concerning his activities during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. He was one of the closest associates of the then-Bosnian president Alija Izetbegović and had allegedly coordinated the arrival of various Islamic militants from the Middle East to fight on the Bosnian Muslim side.[3] These militants later committed some of the most heineous crimes against the Christian (Serb and Croat) civilians. Their recruitment and financing could be linked to the military-intelligence structures of Saudi Arabia and Turkey on one hand and Iran, on the other. Paradoxically, but not surprisingly, it appears that these states, though opposed in other areas of the world, developed an indirect common front in Bosnia.

MIB

Supreme Court refuses release of "D.C. madam" records, despite attorney's claim that they are "very relevant" to presidential election

DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey
© Jacquelyn Martin/APDeborah Jeane Palfrey is walked to a news conference by her attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley in April 2007.
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not intervene to allow release of phone records from the late "D.C. madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey, despite one of her former attorneys claiming the records are "very relevant" to the presidential election. Though he has repeatedly threatened to release the records if courts do not modify a 2007 restraining order, Montgomery Blair Sibley tells U.S. News he's not quite sure what he now will do.

"I'm going to sleep on it and seek the counsel of people I trust," he says. "It's laundry day anyway, so I'm going to be washing all my soccer uniforms from this weekend."

Sibley says he likely will decide this week how to proceed and that he's infuriated the justices refused his request that they stay the restraining order covering the records.

"I'm just trying to figure out how to let the courts know they have lost personal jurisdiction of me as a result of their actions. I'm not asking them to tell us if Nixon and Elvis are still conspiring against the country. This is a legitimate question," he says.

"I'd like to be able to stand up and [release the records] on the Supreme Court steps, but maybe my interests are served by just having it 'appear' and make it more to trace back to me or the others that have it. Maybe it would give me more comfort that I wouldn't face criminal prosecution. We'll see."

In January, the then-chief judge of U.S. District Court in the nation's capital refused to allow a clerk to file Sibley's motion seeking consideration of the matter, writing he appeared to have no legal right to hold the records, as Palfrey fired him before her trial. Sibley disagrees, but his appeal to the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court yielded no action.

Heart - Black

Flashback Bully Alan Dershowitz protected serial child molester Jeffrey Epstein from his under-age accusers

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© Robin Platzer / Twin Images/LFI/Photoshot/NewscomAlan Dershowitz and Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor at the Inaugural Champion of Jewish Values International Awards, honoring Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, 4 June 2013 in New York City.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz always felt children were fair game for Israeli missiles. Now the question is whether he thinks they are fair game for the sexual exploits of his powerful associates and himself.

Dershowitz and the UK's Prince Andrew were accused in a recent court filing of raping a teenage girl who was forced into sexual slavery by Dershowitz's close friend and client, billionaire hedge fund financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The court filing is part of an ongoing civil lawsuit by four of Epstein's victims accusing the federal government of violating the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) when it made a secret 2008 plea deal with Epstein without informing them.

Dershowitz played a key role in negotiating a secret provision in Epstein's plea deal that immunized "any potential co-conspirators" from federal prosecution. In other words, Dershowitz negotiated an agreement that (if the allegations against him are true) shields him from prosecution for participating in a child sex-trafficking ring.

Since there has been no trial to determine whether Dershowitz and Prince Andrew are liable for the allegations against them, which they categorically deny, they should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

That said, while the mainstream press revives its interest in Epstein and reproduces strongly worded denials from Dershowitz and representatives of Prince Andrew, it has overlooked the role of Epstein's social network in building up his influence and shielding him from accountability. Media coverage of Epstein has been particularly derelict in failing to note the pivotal role of Alan Dershowitz, Israel's most aggressive defender, in securing near impunity for a sexual predator and his accomplices by bullying, harassing, intimidating and smearing child victims of rape.

Comment: In his book, Ponerology, Lobaczewski remarked that psychopaths form groups of like-minded creatures:
The average intelligence of the psychopath, especially if measured via commonly used tests, is somewhat lower than that of normal people, albeit similarly variegated. Despite the wide variety of intelligence and interests, this group does not contain examples of the highest intelligence, nor do we find technical or craftsmanship talents among them. The most gifted members of this kind may thus achieve accomplishments in those sciences which do not require a correct humanistic world view or practical skills. [...]
Epstein fits the bill here, in that his skill is in stock trading. No need for a conscience. Dershowitz is able to bend his mind into any shape required for him to defend the lowest of the low..
In spite of their deficiencies in normal psychological and moral knowledge, they develop and then have at their disposal a knowledge of their own, something lacked by people with a natural world view. They learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to them. They also become conscious of being different from the world of those other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance, like a para-specific variety. Natural human reactions - which often fail to elicit interest to normal people because they are considered self-evident - strike the psychopath as strange
and, interesting, and even comical. They therefore observe us, deriving conclusions, forming their different world of concepts. They become experts in our weaknesses and sometimes effect heartless experiments. The suffering and injustice they cause inspire no guilt within them, since such reactions from others are simply a result of their being different and apply only to "those other" people they perceive to be not quite conspecific. Neither a normal person nor our natural world view can fully conceive nor properly evaluate the existence of this world of different concepts.



Rocket

South Korea's nukes are a deterrent measure - no threat to other nations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
© KCNA / Reuters
It was known to the various experts that North Korea poses no real "nuclear threat". It has sound reason to build nuclear weapon systems and it had never threatened to use them in any offensive capability.

But the "western" public learned little of these issue until now. It is somewhat refreshing to find two newspapers today which explain the basic issues.

First: Why does North Korea believe that nuclear weapon capability is to its people's advantage?
Mr. Kim was using the rare political gathering to rally the party behind his so-called "byungjin" policy. On Saturday, Mr. Kim said that policy was not a temporary step but his party's "permanent strategic line."

The byungjin — or "parallel advance" — policy calls for stockpiling nuclear weapons in the belief that the deterrent would allow the country to focus on economic recovery.
During the Korea war North Korea was totally devastated. Nearly a third of its population died. Its industries were destroyed. Hardly any structure with more than one level had not been bombed. Thereafter North Korea poured an immense amount of human and material resources into the build up and maintenance of a large conventional army. The threat from the U.S. army and its South Korean cannon fodder was perceived as huge. All civil development was subordinate to a "military first" policy.

Comment: See also: Kim Jong-un announces North Korea to 'normalize relations with hostile states,' won't launch nuke strike first


Eye 2

Flashback 'Slick Willy's' past can bite Hillary: Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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© Moonlight Bunny Ranch/FacebookLatest ladies: Clinton was pictured posing for a photo with Barbie Girl (left) and Ava Adora (right), two known prostitutes who work at the Bunny Brothel in Nevada
A new lawsuit has revealed the extent of former President Clinton's friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage prostitute.

Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who served time in 2008 for his illegal sexual partners, included up multiple trips to the onetime billionaire's private island in the Caribbean where underage girls were allegedly kept as sex slaves.

The National Enquirer has released new details about the two men's friendship, which seems to have ended abruptly around the time of Epstein's arrest.

Heart - Black

Western press deliberately hiding the reality of terrorist attacks in Syria

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© AFP 2016/ GEORGE OURFALIAN
The independent French geopolitical analysis website Voltaire Network has compiled a gruesome list of terror attacks against Syrian civilians which took place between January and April 2016. The list, nearly a dozen pages long, begs the question: why does the Western mainstream media continue to remain silent over Syrian civilians' plight?

The Syrian ceasefire, which stepped into force on February 27, 2016, has been holding, with some exceptions, for almost two-and-a-half months.

Unfortunately, Voltaire Network explains, Syrian civilians continue to face attacks and to die at the hands of the jihadists, some of whom have been "described as the 'moderate opposition'" by Western governments and media and been "invited to participate in the 'inter-Syrian' negotiations in Geneva."

In a comprehensive listing of terror attacks on civilian areas that have taken place in the country since January 1, 2016, Voltaire Network calculates that over 120 such attacks took place leading up to February 27.

Arrow Up

German FM on Syria: More progress in recent weeks than past five years

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© www.albawabaeg.comFrank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister
Ongoing negotiations on the Syria peace process have achieved more progress in the past few weeks than during the five years before that, the German foreign minister said in a newspaper interview. "We have a framework acceptable to all," Frank-Walter Steinmeier acknowledged in an interview with Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung daily newspaper. He mentioned the US, Russia, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia among the key players in the Syria peace process.

"This is far from a guarantee of success, but it's more than we had achieved in the past five years," Steinmeier said, adding: "We must build on." The civil war in Syria has been going on for five years and cost an estimated 270,000 lives. "There is no military solution; only political negotiations can restore peace to Syria," Steinmeier acknowledged, adding "We cannot afford another five years of war, displacement and destruction in Syria."

Berlin is working more intensively with the other participants in the talks to achieve humanitarian access to the warzones and to create conditions for the negotiations to continue, Steinmeier said, adding that he is pleased with Germany's contribution to the peace process, which made the Syria talks in Berlin on Wednesday possible. "Giving up and looking away is not an option," Steinmeier said.

Comment: "We cannot afford..." That is correct. The cost of war, the cost of lives, the cost of militancy, the cost of fear, the cost of refugees, the cost of arms and ammunition, the cost of reputation and independence. But for some countries, such as Israel and the US, the costs, apparently, are not high enough. There is still room for more destruction, loss of life, deceit and manipulation, agendas, and war chests to fund radicals and proxy armies and pull off a global scam on their people. There are funds to guarantee the obliteration of the entire world if need be. War junkies in high stakes games. Desperadoes, fooling themselves more than others.


Bulb

Maine votes to abolish influence of superdelegates

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© ReutersU.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L), U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
The Maine Democratic Party have voted to abolish the influence of superdelegates, a group with the power to choose the party's presidential nominee irrespective of the voters' choice.

The rule change was passed by a vote during Saturday's Democratic Party convention in Portland, followed by chants of "Bernie, Bernie!" However, the amendment won't take effect in time to officially guide superdelegates in the current presidential election.

Hillary Clinton has consistently received more support from superdelegates than Bernie Sanders - a lot more. Clinton has so far received 523 superdelegate endorsements to Bernie's measly 39, with 152 still uncommitted, according to Associated Press' tally.

Maine has five superdelegates: three are currently pledged to Hillary Clinton, one to Sanders and one is undecided. This means that Clinton is most probably in line to receive the state's nomination, despite Sanders winning the Maine caucus with 63 percent of the votes.

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Former French intel boss: France recklessly followed the orders of Washington by joining anti-Russian sanctions and supporting terrorists in Syria

Alain Juillet
© Romain Lafabregue / AFPAlain Juillet
The French government ignored its own intelligence in dealing with crises in Ukraine and Syria, and recklessly followed Washington's lead by joining anti-Russian sanctions, dealing a huge blow to its agriculture, said a former French intelligence boss.

Alain Juillet, former deputy director of intelligence at France's General Directorate for External Security, accused French authorities of making a range of poor foreign policy choices, such as its pro-rebel stance in the Syrian crisis and anti-Russian response to the Ukrainian turmoil, which he says have proven detrimental to French citizens.

"The French were certainly wrong on Syria and Ukraine," Juillet told Paris Match on Thursday, while citing two possible reasons for the authorities' policy blunders. One potential explanation he offered was that the government had received inaccurate intelligence. The other was that "despite the information, the politicians wanted to go in a direction not connected with the reality. On the Syrian issue, we simply ignored the reality," he stressed.

To highlight the importance of maintaining constructive relations with the Syrian authorities, he mentioned the hostage situation in which four French journalists in Syria spent nearly a year in captivity before being freed in 2014.

Георгиевская ленточка

Japan could be snuggling up to the Russian bear in spite of raising the ire of the US Empire

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© Pavel Golovkin / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, May 6, 2016
Not everyone was happy about the three-hour long talks between Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe which took place in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday.

While for Abe the meeting was diplomatically significant — a chance to discuss the disputed Kuril islands face-to-face with Putin — for the White House, it was an unwelcome fissure in the united front Washington has instructed its allies to construct against Moscow. It was so unwelcome, in fact, that Barack Obama had reportedly asked Abe personally not to go to Sochi at all.

Island diplomacy

The long-running dispute between Russia and Japan over ownership of the Kuril island chain meant that the two countries never signed a peace treaty after World War II. Russia claims ownership of the strategically important territory under the 1945 Yalta accord and argues that the islands — which Russia refers to as the Southern Kurils and Japan knows as the Northern Territories — were handed over to the Soviet Union with Washington's blessing. Japan disputes this.

The Kremlin kept expectations low for the meeting between the two leaders in Sochi. Russia has plans to build up its military assets on the islands and has singled the territory out for significant socio-economic development. Frankly, no one expects that Putin will suddenly decide to give the islands up — not even Abe.

Nonetheless, Abe believes that if anything will help soften Russia's stance over the dispute, it will be increased economic and technological cooperation between Moscow and Tokyo, which could help revitalize the Russian Far East. Most observers say, however, that despite Russia's economic woes, Abe's hand is weak.