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Huxley's Brave New World fast becoming a terrifying geopolitical reality


Sputnik
Tue, 03 May 2016 20:14 UTC
obama virtual reality
© AFP 2016/ Jim Watson
The terrifying dystopian vision described by science fiction writer Aldous Huxley is not a description of the totalitarian states of the 20th century, but a creeping reflection of today's reality, says Russian journalist Konstantin Syomin.

Last week, visiting a technology fair in Hanover, as part of his trip to Germany, President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on 'virtual reality' glasses. The president reacted to the technology, quipping that "it's a brave new world!"

​"It's hard to find a more appropriate analogy," Syomin said, recalling the Aldous Huxley novel of the same name published between the first and second world wars.

"Huxley described a future in which the world was run by a global government. In this world the only religion was consumption, machines do the majority of the work, and people, sorted by castes and by social position, remain in a state of eternal euphoria, thanks to propaganda and hallucinogenic drugs."

"In its own time," the journalist recalled, "Huxley's writings, just like those of George Orwell, another famous warrior against utopias, were widely used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union. It was the USSR, it was said, that dreamed of a world government, the unification of humanity, and the building of heaven on earth. The Soviet vision was branded and ridiculed, compared either to the Gulag Archipelago, or to an 'Animal Farm'."
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Syrian Information Minister: Turkey and Saudi Arabia regimes responsible for Aleppo bloodshed

Hazem Sabbagh
Syrian Arab News Agency
Tue, 03 May 2016 20:09 UTC
Omran al-Zoubi
Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi
Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said that Saudi Arabia and Turkey issued instructions to terrorist organizations in Syria to attack civilians and the Syrian Arab Army in Aleppo city, noting that whenever terrorists and their backers fail in one area, they try to escalate the situation in another.

In a phone call with al-Ikhbariya TV on Tuesday, al-Zoubi held the Saudi and Turkish regimes legally, politically, mortally, and criminally responsible for the bloodshed that has been taking place in Aleppo city throughout the past few days, adding that they are also responsible for everything that's happening in Syria.

He also noted that over 6,000 terrorists entered Syria from Turkey two weeks ago.

The Minister condemned the terrorist attacks on the residential areas in Aleppo, stressing that protecting Aleppo is the duty of all Syrians, adding that the main topic of the Cabinet's meeting on Tuesday was the situation in Aleppo.

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Stormtrooper

Controlling Europe: Elites like Soros are behind the Merkel Plan and EU refugee policy


Sputnik
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:39 UTC
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What lies beneath the so-called "Merkel Plan" to deal with the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe? American author and researcher F. William Engdahl suggested that the US and NATO-linked think tanks play a central role in what he calls "the greatest social dislocation across the EU."

Back in October 2015 when thousands of asylum seekers were arriving on the shores of the European continent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on a popular German TV program that she had a "plan" to handle the crisis.

In his latest article for New Eastern Outlook American author, researcher and strategic risk consultant F. William Engdahl narrated that what was dubbed "the plan" turned out to be a string of inexplicable actions, including the violation of principles of free speech, all to indulge the controversial Erdogan regime.

It is worth mentioning that since spring 2015 more than one million refugees have entered Germany due to Angela Merkel's "open arms" refugee position.

"All of those seemingly inexplicable actions from the once-pragmatic German leader appear to go back to her embrace of a 14-page document prepared by a network of pro-NATO think-tanks, brazenly titled 'The Merkel Plan,'" Engdahl wrote.

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Head of German intelligence calls for broader security powers to fight against extremism


RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 18:57 UTC
Hans-Georg Maassen
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersHans-Georg Maassen from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has advocated broader security powers in the face of the imminent IS threat and rise of the radical right. He called for a "coalition against extremism" in Germany to be created with moderate Muslims at its core.

Speaking at the security symposium in Berlin on Monday, the head of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maassen warned of the "worsening security situation in Germany," adding that the country's political climate is "a lot rougher" now than it had been before due to the radicalization of previously non-partisan Germans and the activity of Islamist groups operating in Germany.


Comment: Maybe if Germany wasn't the US' lapdog and actually acted in favor of their own interests instead of the Empire, the political climate wouldn't be as extreme as Maassen says it is. That being said, this comes across as just another government agent clamoring for more power to spy on its own citizens, all in the name of security. Where is the proof of these "imminent threats". It's all empty threats until they can actually provide proof that they exist. Until then, it's just the government trying to scare the people into giving up their rights.


"For the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution it is clear: Islamic State wants to launch attacks against Germany and the German interests," said Maassen, as cited by Bild, stressing that the agency receives at least four tip-offs on possible jihadi attacks in Germany on daily basis.


Comment: The Germans should be talking to their American allies. It's the Americans who creates ISIS to destabilize the Middle East. If their mercenaries are spreading into Europe, it's the American's that should have to help deal with the problem.


Maassen pointed out that the threat posed by Islamists in Europe should not be underestimated as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)"has established command structure and cells in Europe, which are planning attacks and carry them out."
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British MP suspended from Labour Party over Facebook image of Israel superimposed on US - She shared it in 2014, before she was even elected


The Guardian
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:47 UTC
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Is it Britain, or is it Israel? Maybe it's Br-US-Rael?
Jeremy Corbyn has caved in to pressure and suspended Naz Shah, the Bradford West MP, over remarks she made about Israel on Facebook.

Shortly before he faced David Cameron in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon Corbyn had issued a statement saying that he had accepted Shah's "fulsome" apology for a series of posts from 2014 in which she appeared to endorse a suggestion that Israelis be deported to the United States.

Even after the prime minister said it was "extraordinary," that she continued to hold the Labour whip, and accused the Labour leader of failing to get to grips with antisemitisim in his party, Corbyn's aides defended Shah, saying the comments were antisemitic but the MP had "shocked herself," and did not mean what she said.

Comment: Sott.net readers can see what's going on here, right?

And the Anglo-Saxon elite is only too happy to go along with it: they get to trash Corbyn, their "largest ever threat to national security", and have you-know-who do it for them.

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Report finds Big Pharma and government reap massive profits through unlawful advertising and overcharged insurance

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Sun, 01 May 2016 17:51 UTC
big pharma kills
With the "Affordable Care Act" now fully in place, the middle class is feeling the squeeze yet again through higher insurance costs, making quality health care unaffordable for many. On top of that, pharmaceutical drug prices continue to increase, especially cancer drugs which have skyrocketed.

Since 2000, the average monthly cost of oral cancer drugs went from $1,869 per month to $11,325 per month. Some of these drugs can extend a cancer patient's life, although paying for the drugs may drain their life savings.

As we are well aware, pharmaceutical corporations are major power players in Washington, teaming up with government to squash competition through patent monopolies and fleece the public. The U.S. is one of only two countries where "direct-to-consumer" drug advertising is allowed, and the effects are plastered all over American TV.

But Big Pharma is not even happy with what it's got. According to a report from Public Citizen, pharma companies routinely break the law through deceit and fraud. The resulting financial penalties, rather than being a deterrent, are "just a cost of doing business."
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Flashback 3 years after raising taxes on the rich, here's the hellscape Minnesota has become

Zeeshan Aleem
Policy.mic
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:30 UTC
Since 2011, Minnesota has been doing quite well for itself. The state has created more than 170,000 jobs, according to the Huffington Post. Its unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fifth-lowest in the country, and far below the nationwide rate of 5.7% — and the state government boasts a budget surplus of $1 billion. Forbes considers Minnesota one of the top 10 in the country for business.

Given that Minnesota's governor is a well-connected millionaire whose family controls the Target fortune, one could be forgiven for thinking this was the result of embracing the corporate world. But in fact, over the past four years, the state has undergone a series of policy reforms that most of the corporate world decries: It has imposed higher taxes on the wealthy and raised the minimum wage.

When each of these progressive policies was initially proposed, Minnesota Republicans made dire predictions about their effects on the economy, and argued that bleeding-heart concerns about economic fairness would stifle growth. Despite all the warnings, Minnesota's economy hasn't tanked. Instead, it's sailing with greater force than it has in years.
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NATO expands along Russia's borders, has gall to call Moscow the aggressor


Sputnik
Tue, 03 May 2016 16:57 UTC
Russian airforce jet
© Sputnik / Igor Zarembo
Paleo-conservative commentator Pat Buchanan slams NATO hawks for working to expand the alliance's presence all along Russia's borders, while calling Russia out as the aggressive power. Instead of touting Putin's belligerence, Buchanan suggests, observers should think about what it would be like to walk a mile in the Russian president's shoes.

On Friday, Buchanan recalls, "a Russian Su-27 did a barrel roll over a US RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks. Also in April, the US destroyer Donald Cook, off Russia's Baltic [exclave] of Kaliningrad, was twice buzzed by Russian planes."

"Vladimir Putin's message: Keep your spy planes and ships a respectable distance away from us. Apparently, we have not received it."
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'Our rules, not China's': Obama invokes Beijing threat in defense of Pacific trade deal


RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 15:09 UTC

The rules of trade in the Asia-Pacific must be written by America, not China, US President Barack Obama has argued in an opinion article that called for a swift ratification of the controversial TPP free trade deal.

"America should write the rules. America should call the shots. Other countries should play by the rules that America and our partners set, and not the other way around," the president wrote in a piece published by the Washington Post.


Comment: So in other words Obama thinks all countries should be subservient to the USA.


Obama was defending the Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade deal signed in February by 12 Pacific Rim nations. The US legislators are yet to ratify the deal, and the president said it must be done as soon as possible.

Comment: More here:

Truth emerges: New analysis shows TPP trade agreement will lead to increased unemployment and inequality

'Worse than we thought': TPP a total corporate power grab nightmare

TPP: The most audacious corporate power grab in American history

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CFR journal calls Washington's use of financial sanctions against Russia ineffective and counterproductive


Sputnik
Sun, 01 May 2016 15:37 UTC
obama
© AFP 2016/ Georges Gobet
The US has long relied on financial sanctions as a preferred weapon against its adversaries. However, in Russia's case, it turned out to be an "outright failure" and the West should admit this. Let's have a look why.

Washington's favorite economic power tool has been so overused, it's becoming ineffective and, in some cases, even counterproductive, reads an article in Foreign Affairs, the influential journal published by the US Council on Foreign Relations.

It refers to a report which was recently published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning US think tank, and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) which has raised questions about how effective sanctions actually are — and shows mounting evidence of their negative ripple effect.

"Sanctions are often the tool to which US policymakers turn first in responding to crises and managing threats on an ongoing basis," says the 78-page research publication "The New Tools of Economic Warfare".

"But as rapidly as the tools themselves have evolved, the framework for determining their effects, for evaluating their effectiveness, and for minimizing unintended consequences has lagged behind."
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