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Queen Elizabeth Nazi salute controversy a fitting sign of the times as West descends into fascism

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:06 UTC
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Nazi salute: A grainy photograph has emerged of the Queen performing a Nazi salute with her family in the gardens at Balmoral
The British royal family is up in arms - excuse the pun - over old video footage that shows the young Queen Elizabeth giving a Heil Hitler salute. A photograph published on its front page by British tabloid newspaper The Sun has caused a storm of controversy, with the British monarchy denouncing it as an invasion of privacy. But the real significance is that the image shows how Western so-called democracies were - and still are - so close to embracing fascism.

The video in question is believed to be dated around 1933, when the present British head of state was then a six-year-old princess. She is seen apparently playing with her family in the monarchy's Balmoral estate, Scotland. With her right arm outstretched, the young Elizabeth is pictured giving the infamous Heil Hitler salute. At that time, Adolf Hitler had just ascended to power to become Chancellor of Germany and was already implementing his repressive regime. The Nazi Reich would in a few short years annex neighbouring European countries and ignite the Second World War. In 1933, the Nazi Reich was also embarking on its genocidal programme of mass extermination of peoples designated as «untermenschen» (sub-human).

Defenders of the British monarch have dismissed the grainy images of the young queen giving a Nazi salute as «horseplay». They point out that the princess and her mother and sister are smiling while performing the salute, and therefore the image could be understood as a parody of Herr Hitler.
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Hollande wants Eurozone members to transfer their sovereignty to a United States of Europe

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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The President of France has come up with a very creative way of solving the European debt crisis. On Sunday, a piece authored by French President Francois Hollande suggested that the ultimate solution to the problems currently plaguing Europe would be for every member of the eurozone to transfer all of their sovereignty to a newly created federal government. In other words, it would essentially be a "United States of Europe". This federal government would have a prime minister, a parliament, a federal budget and a federal treasury. Presumably, the current national governments in Europe would continue to function much like state governments in the U.S. do. In the end, there may be some benefits to such a union - particularly for the weaker members of the eurozone. But at what cost would those benefits come?

When I first learned that French President Francois Hollande had proposed that the members of the eurozone should create their own version of a federal government, I was quite stunned. But I shouldn't have been surprised. For the global elite, the answer to just about any problem is more centralization. The following comes from a Bloomberg article that was posted on Sunday...
French President Francois Hollande said that the 19 countries using the euro need their own government complete with a budget and parliament to cooperate better and overcome the Greek crisis.

"Circumstances are leading us to accelerate," Hollande said in an opinion piece published by the Journal du Dimanche on Sunday. "What threatens us is not too much Europe, but a lack of it."

Comment: Looks like a Eurozone version of 'good cop/bad cop'. Not too hard to figure out that Hollande's France is now playing the role of good cop to Germany's bad one.

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Flashback The CIA's psychopathic queen of torture

Jane Mayer
The New Yorker
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:36 UTC
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For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a means of identifying characters in thedevastating report it released last week on the C.I.A.'s abusive interrogation and detention program. Ultimately, the committee was not allowed to, and now we know one reason why.

The NBC News investigative reporter Matthew Cole has pieced together a remarkable story revealing that a single senior officer, who is still in a position of high authority over counterterrorism at the C.I.A.—a woman whom he does not name—appears to have been a source of years' worth of terrible judgment, with tragic consequences for the United States. Her story runs through the entire report. She dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; she gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; she misinterpreted intelligence in such a way that it sent the C.I.A. on an absurd chase for Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Montana. And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.

Comment: Over CIA objections, investigative website The Intercept identified the anonymous woman as Alfreda Frances Bikowsky.

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South Front military updates: Novorossia, Afghanistan, Yemen


South Front
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:45 UTC
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The Taliban is taking the Faryab province, it has also started an offensive in the Baghlan-e-Jadid district of the Baghlan province, and has nearly seized the Helmand province. The actions are part of the Taliban's Azm offensive, which began earlier this year. Most of the Taliban's gains are a result of the Afghan central government's unwieldiness, and inability provide assistance to local pro-government forces in the besieged provinces.

Comment: See Afghanistan Map of War, July 13-16, 2015 for additional information about the developments in Afghanistan.

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Former Israeli spy admits in book Israel encourages anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:28 UTC
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Books by former intelligence, military and political leaders are frequently tedious and self-serving. Obsessed with securing their own legacy, and proving how right they were about some long-standing grudge or another, such volumes rarely make for much of an enlightening read.

One such book I probably will subject myself to, however, is titled Periphery by the former Israeli spy Yossi Alpher. For all the tediousness one has to wade through in such propagandising dross, there are sometimes a few nuggets of insight - usually given away unintentionally.

Alpher is a former military intelligence officer.Periphery, released earlier this year, is his account of years of desperate Israeli efforts for allies in a region it is inherently alienated from, due to its long record of military aggression against neighbouring countries, the 67-year-long military occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

The Periphery strategy sought out allies in states and minority groups considered outside of the Arab or Muslim mainstream of the region. Israeli spies sought to forge alliances with the Kurds of northern Iraq; Turkey, during the height of the military's political power there; and Iran, under the dictatorship of the Shah.
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Bad Guys

Right Sector to hold public meeting on 'future of Ukrainian revolution'


Sputnik News
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:19 UTC
Ukraine revolution
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The future of the Ukrainian revolution will be discussed during a popular meeting which will be held by the Right Sector on Tuesday in Kiev, Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the movement, announced. He also said the Ukrainian government is incapable of carrying out real reforms.

A popular meeting which will be held in Kiev by the Ukrainian nationalist Right Sector movement on Tuesday should bring Ukrainians the prospect of further changes in their country, Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the organization, said.

Earlier, the Right Sector announced it would organize a meeting at Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in central Kiev on July 21.

Comment: Anyone who takes Yarosh's desire for "social reforms" seriously is exhibiting one of the first criterion for ponerogenesis:
One phenomenon all ponerogenic groups and associations have in common is the fact that their members lose (or have already lost) the capacity to perceive pathological individuals as such, interpreting their behavior in a fascinated, heroic, or melodramatic ways. The opinions, ideas, and judgments of people carrying various psychological deficits are endowed with an importance at least equal to that of outstanding individuals among normal people.

The atrophy of natural critical faculties with respect to pathological individuals becomes an opening to their activities, and, at the same time, a criterion for recognizing the association in concern as ponerogenic. Let us call this the first criterion of ponerogenesis.

Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)


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New 'austerity tax' sends Greek prices soaring


Sputnik News
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:44 UTC
Greece
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Despite the optimism that followed the reopening of Greece's banks yesterday, it seems that locals are already feeling the pinch of the country's new bailout terms after just one day, with a new austerity tax making most everyday items - from coffee to taxis and even condoms - far more expensive.

As part of 'confidence building' measures, introduced by the Greek government on the back on negotiations with Eurozone creditors, an existing sales tax was expanded and increased from 13 percent to 23 percent.

The wide-ranging tax applies to the sale of various products and services such as coffee, restaurants sales, various meat products, language schools and even ferries to the Greek islands.

Comment: Also see:

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Snakes in Suits

General Wesley Clark suggests putting "disloyal Americans" in internment camps

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitkreig
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:55 UTC
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If these people are radicalized and don't support the United States, and they're disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that's fine, that's their right. It's our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.

- General Wesley Clark in a MSNBC interview
Noting that the recent tyrannical, entirely anti-American comments made by General Wesley Clark during a MSNBC interview are statist and disturbing would be the understatement of the century.

Comment: See also:

Fmr. NATO Commander Wesley Clark calls for internment camps 'to deal with radicals' in the US and Europe

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Former US army psychological warfare officer and counter-terrorism analyst: Putin is probably the best thing that has happened to Russia in a hundred years


PressTV
Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:48 UTC
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennett, former US army psychological warfare officer and counter-terrorism analyst in San Francisco, to discuss a report saying that American intelligence agencies have been spying on Russian President Vladimir Putin for over the past twenty years.
Following is a rough transcription of the interview.
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Varoufakis - new Greek bailout doomed. It is the 'greatest disaster'


RT
Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:29 UTC
Yanis Varoufakis
© Jean-Paul Pelissier / ReutersYanis Varoufakis
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned that the economic reforms from Greece's debt holders are doomed to fail. The assessment comes as PM Alexis Tsipras has reshuffled his cabinet in efforts to secure a third bailout package.

The EU is preparing to start talks with Athens on a third bailout which could reach €86 billion ($93 billion), but the reform program laid down by Brussels as a precondition for the bailout will "go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever," Varoufakis told BBC.

"This programme is going to fail whoever undertakes its implementation," he said. Asked when will it fail, he replied, "It has failed already."

Varoufakis stressed that in given conditions Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who himself does not believe in the bailout, had little option but to sign the agreement. "We were given a choice between being executed and capitulating. And he decided that capitulation was the ultimate strategy," Varoufakis said.

On Saturday, new cabinet ministers were sworn in after Tsipras replaced hardliners in his government, following the agreement with the EU creditors.

Comment: Bottom line: Greece was made an offer it couldn't refuse.

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