© UnknownDecapitation by drone strike: A routine act of state terrorism by the US government.
We have reached a point in our nation's
descent into psychotic tribalist fear where people of stature and apparent sobriety unabashedly use the expression "final solution" when discussing the existence of Muslims.
For ISIS "and those similarly motivated,"
insists retired Marine Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt in an essay published by Family Security Matters, "a rational world should recognize but one 'final solution' exists - their extinction."
For Zumwalt. "those similarly motivated" is an expansive category, which includes not only "al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, the mullahs of Iran, Somalia's Shababb, [and the] Khorasan group," but also their Muslim victims. On the basis of murkily sourced atrocity accounts and propaganda videos of dubious provenance, Zumwalt concludes that the victims of ISIS exhibit a "Muslim death wish" by supposedly allowing themselves to be killed without seeking "to overpower their captors."
"The message to take from Muslim victims unwilling to save themselves to pursue their promised afterlife should be clear: their murderers will never be convinced to stop killing," asserts Zumwalt. An unspoken but undeniable corollary of his view is that wholesale annihilation of Muslim populations is strategically necessary and morally justifiable, because Muslim victims of terrorism are infected with the same "ideology" as their captors.
Comment: For a greater expansion on how the Christian Right has colluded with politics and the U.S. military to propagate the type of anti-muslim fervor that has helped drive the 'War on terror,' watch the excellent documentary
Silhouette City.All the pieces will soon be in place for the wholesale murder of Muslims in the U.S.
Sott Editors
Sott.netSun, 12 Oct 2014 18:00 UTC
This week on SOTT Talk Radio: is the increasing Ebola hysteria justified? Is it safer to be paranoid? Or is the scare blown out of proportion? We also looked into historical cases of real devastating outbreaks to see what
can and
does happen from time to time: outbreaks with mortality rates of up to 90+%.
Is US Senator John McCain fit for public office? Because he's been making some real weird statements of late, mostly to do with the ISIS islama-terra boogeymen. It's not just people behaving strangely of late. What is going on in the animal kingdom? Pets attacking owners in every US state; elephants attacking villages in India; hyenas attacking people in Africa; and bears attacking people in Canada and Russia.
All this and more in this week's Connecting the Dots:
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TASSSun, 12 Oct 2014 11:04 UTC
© TASS
In the shelling in Donetsk four civilians were killed and eleven got injured, Donetsk local authorities reported on the website on Sunday.
"During the entire day on October 11, shelling of the Kuibyshev district continued," the report reads. "On October 11, in Donetsk were killed four civilians and eleven got injured."
As of early morning on Sunday, the situation "in the city is not quiet. Locals say sounds of firing from heavy weaponry are heard in many districts from time to time.
On October 11, Prime Minister of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko said jointly with the Luhansk Republic they announced the so-called "silence regime."
On Tuesday evening, the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council's information and analysis centre announced the so-called "silence regime" during which combat operations and shelling in the contact zone of Kiev's troops and south-eastern militias should be stopped.
© UnknownWhat, me worry?
Here is an interesting comment
from Bloomberg yesterday by prominent Russian liberal journalist, Leonid Bershidsky.
We usually disagree with him, but we can't take issue with most of what he writes here. He points out something we have been saying all along:
in many ways a cheaper ruble is good for Russia. The hysterical headlines in the western media about this being a cataclysm for Russia are, quite frankly ,ridiculous.The Russian government has been wishing for years that they could talk the over-valued ruble down. Now Obama and EU have done it for them. Yet another sanctions back-fire. ---------------------From a technical point of view, the Russian ruble's drop to more than 40 per U.S. dollar, a full 17 percent weaker than at the start of the year, is an expected result of Russian companies being cut off from Western financial markets and a drop in the price of oil.
© Standard & Poor's 2014
On a different level, however, the ruble's downward journey reflects the economic structure that makes it possible for President Vladimir Putin to remain popular.
© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesOil Markets
As the United States expands its proxy
war against
Russia and the BRICS nations through a newly discovered
secret deal with Saudi Arabia to force down global
oil prices,
Russia is firing back to this monetary attack against their currency and economy. On Oct. 10, a new report on Russian currency outflows shows that during the third quarter ending in September, the Eurasian state paid off a near record $53 billion in foreign debt, and
sold off dollars to use as capital to stabilize their declining currency, and to protect their primary resource industry from the deflation America has caused through the dumping of excess oil into the market supply.Some of this money was used earlier this week to support the declining Rouble as President Putin
authorized the transfer of over $2 billion to be used directly to support the Russian currency. Additionally, the Russian central bank has already authorized funds to be set aside to supplement Russian corporations and oil industries should the need arise for liquidity and capital.
Despite the reassuring narrative from The West that Russia faces "costs" and is increasingly "isolated" due to sanctions for its actions in Ukraine, the most recent data suggests reality is quite different. First, capital outflows slowed dramatically in Q3 (from $23.7 billion in Q2 to $13 billion in Q3) with September seeing capital inflows for the first time since Sept 2013. Second, Russia's current account surplus was significantly stronger than expected ($11.4 billion vs $8.8 billion expected) driven by increased trade. Third, and perhaps most crucially, Russia paid down a massive $52.8 billion in foreign debt as Putin "de-dollarizes" at near record pace, reducing external debt to the lowest since 2012. -Zerohedge
Two weeks ago,
we revealed one part of the "Secret Deal" between the US and Saudi Arabia: namely what the US 'brought to the table' as part of its grand alliance strategy in the middle east, which proudly revealed Saudi Arabia to be "aligned" with the US against ISIS, when in reality John Kerry was merely doing Saudi Arabia's will when the
WSJ reported that "the process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a fresh U.S. commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad, whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority."
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What was not clear is what was the
other part: what did the Saudis bring to the table, or said otherwise, how exactly it was that Saudi Arabia would compensate the US for bombing the Assad infrastructure until the hated Syrian leader was toppled, creating a power vacuum in his wake that would allow Syria, Qatar, Jordan and/or Turkey to divide the spoils of war as they saw fit.
A glimpse of the answer was provided earlier in the article "
The Oil Weapon: A New Way To Wage War", because at the end of the day it is always about oil, and leverage.
The full answer comes courtesy of
Anadolu Agency, which explains not only the big picture involving Saudi Arabia and its biggest asset, oil, but also the latest
fracturing of OPEC at the behest of Saudi Arabia...
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... which however is merely using "
the oil weapon" to target the
old slash new Cold War foe #1: Vladimir Putin.
© UnknownMarble contest on Boston Common 1920
The world stock markets' big see saw zig zags over the last few days seems to be a harbinger of more to come. Christine Lagarde has warned of a fresh pan-European recession and just this once she may actually have a point.
Not that the old continent ever left the 'old' crisis, but since so much time and money was inserted into the recovery hologram, and we're in a generous mood, let's pretend and play along: it's a new recession! That or a triple dip. The terminology is not the main point here; it's going to be
too nasty to occupy ourselves with semantics.
As I was writing about the shame of putting millions of young Europeans into the dark hole of long-term unemployment yesterday in
The Disgrace of Sacrificing a Generation, Europe's leaders met to discuss that very theme. Only, they didn't.
They went on and on again about wanting the freedom to spend more, either through support from Mario Draghi bond purchases or by simply violating EU budget limits. EU PM Renzi called those limits outdated: it's new world out there!
What they did say about the jobs issue was that more money was not needed, since there's an existing $82 billion fund for youth jobs, of which only 12% has been used ... That crazy detail tells us two things: Brussels and the European capitals don't care about their children, as the entire situation also makes clear enough.
It also tells us that they have no idea what to do. But that should never be an excuse. Go figure it out. Want to be a leader? That comes with responsibilities. Having 50% youth unemployment in Spain and Greece should have gotten you guys fired. Some things are simply not acceptable.
Keiser Report
RTSat, 11 Oct 2014 19:31 UTC
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert host a two part interview with award-winning film and television actor, Alec Baldwin, and comedian, actor, author and host of the Trews, Russell Brand, about revolution, the media, ultra low interest rates, cobblers and their little helpers. They also discuss whether or not Sean Hannity has the talent to be a 'terrorist' and Russell Brand gives his opinion on the role of Fox News.
© AP Photo/ Alexander F. YuanChina is ready to export agricultural products and oil and gas equipment to Russia.
China is ready to export agricultural products and oil and gas equipment to Russia, China's Vice Premier Wang Yang stated Saturday.
"
China is willing to export to Russia such competitive products as agricultural goods, oil and gas equipment, and is ready to import Russian engineering products," Wang Yang said during the 18th session of the Russian-Chinese Commission for the Preparation of Regular Meetings of the Heads of Governments.
Comment: Despite NATO's attempts to
contain China and
Russia through subversion and terrorism, it is clear that they are up against far superior minds than their own:
Pepe Escobar
RTThu, 09 Oct 2014 15:27 UTC
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Everything in Tehran revolves around three major discussions: the nuclear deal arguably to be clinched on November 24, Iran back to selling energy to the West, and the fight against ISIS/ISIL.
I've just spent a frantic
week in Tehran as a guest of the New Horizon conference of Independent Thinkers. Here is some of what I've witnessed.
Three overarching themes monopolize all important discussions in Tehran at this critical historical juncture:
1) the real possibility of a nuclear deal with the P5+1 on November 24;
2) the end of sanctions and the possibility of Iran soon starting to supply the EU with loads of natural gas;
3) the fight against ISIS/ISIL, which Iranians, as much as the Arab street, refer to as Daesh.Everything about the nuclear deal is entangled in a dense web of information war. In Tehran I had the pleasure to spend a lot of time and go to meetings with my friend Gareth Porter, the author of the definitive
book on the subject:
Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. The book was meticulously translated into Farsi by the Fars News Agency, in only two months, and launched in a simple ceremony at the agency's main office. It conclusively proves, for instance, how the Iranian "plot" to equip ballistic missiles with (non-existent) nuclear warheads was entirely fabricated by the terrorist outfit Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and then handed over to the IAEA by the Mossad.
I was quite moved by the profound respect shown to Gareth's investigative work in Tehran, in contrast to the thunderous wall of silence that greeted his book in the US. Call it yet another reflection of the 35-year old "wilderness of mirrors" - or Wall of Mistrust - opposing Washington to Tehran.
Comment: Recently, regarding Iran, the US appears to require more carrot and less "schtick." It may be Iran is oddly in a key position, being sought by both the U.S. and Russia...3-way dance partners in a Gordian Knot minuet. But don't forget the Chinese "dragon dance" with drums and gong performing behind the screen. As in the legend of Alexander, "the one who unties the Knot becomes King of Asia, conferring legitimacy to dynasty change by cheating or thinking outside the box." The role of "King of Asia" is definitely up for grabs.
In the past, the US has had a long-standing agreement to support Saudi Arabia as friends, diplomatic partners and allies, with a mutually-beneficial arrangement regarding oil and military cooperation. Albeit a sometimes bumpy relationship, including falsely blaming S.A. for 9/11, the advantages outweighed the negatives. This seems to be waning (betrayal?) as US greed, interest and agenda "auditions" Iran for a supporting role as their new puppet child. (Or has Iran, unwittingly, been this all along forming a controversial covert triad with US and Israel? ...an interesting thought.)
Notes: "Daesh" is another name for IS, lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, formerly known as Elliot Shimon, an Israeli and Mossad agent. The term "Daesh" is accurate in that it spells out the acronym of the group's full Arabic name, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. "Daesh" can also be understood as a play on words and an insult. Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from "to trample down and crush" to "a bigot who imposes his view on others."
"P5+1" is a group of six world powers which, in 2006, joined the diplomatic efforts with Iran in regard to its nuclear program. The term refers to the P5 or five permanent members of the UN Security Council, (namely the US, Russia, China, UK and France) plus Germany.
Comment: For a greater expansion on how the Christian Right has colluded with politics and the U.S. military to propagate the type of anti-muslim fervor that has helped drive the 'War on terror,' watch the excellent documentary Silhouette City.All the pieces will soon be in place for the wholesale murder of Muslims in the U.S.