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Bad Guys

The West brings doublethink to brain damaging pitch on their blind path to war

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In October 1962, the United States threatened to go to war with Russia over the Cuban missile crisis. That high-stakes drama came about after Washington learned that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had overseen the installation of ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island, some 90 miles from the US mainland.

Never mind that the nascent military alliance between Moscow and the socialist government of Fidel Castro was an inviolable matter between two sovereign states - Washington was apoplectic that Soviet missiles were permitted anywhere near its territory. The then US President John F Kennedy was impelled to go to war over the issue, even if that meant igniting an all-out thermonuclear conflagration.

Comment: The Western "leaders" of today have displayed time and time again that they are psychopathic. They have no appreciation for anything, facts included. Thus, they continue to march their puppets head-long into a fantasy future of "total hegemony" while reality looks more like the brick wall of a collapse scenario.

So while the "leaders" bluster about war with nuclear-armed Russia, reality is sneaking up quickly. Ebola, earth changes and the decline of the dollar, with the rise of the BRICS, makes the approaching "hangover" especially painful for the West.


Stormtrooper

Newspeak strikes again - 'Promoting peace and stability': NATO warships enter Black Sea

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© Reuters / Tamekia L. PerdueThe guided-missile destroyer USS Ross.()
A US Navy destroyer and, reportedly, a French frigate have entered the Black Sea, as NATO builds up its presence in the region while tensions remain high in Ukraine. Another two warships are expected to arrive in the area by the end of the week.

The US Navy 6th Fleet official command has confirmed on its official Twitter account that the destroyer USS Ross, (DDG 71), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, is now in the Black Sea.

"USS Ross enters Black Sea, promoting peace and stability while working with NATO allies and partners," a statement said.

The US Navy has stressed that "the Ross' presence in the Black Sea serves to demonstrate the United States' commitment to strengthening the collective security of NATO allies and partners in the region."

"The US Navy maintains an enduring commitment to forward-presence throughout the region in order to have ready-forces available if a crisis were to occur," the statement said.

Another NATO warship, France's Commandant Birot, also arrived in Black Sea waters on Wednesday night, according to a military diplomatic source cited by the Itar-Tass news agency.

"Both ships have passed through the Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea between 21:00 and 22:00 Moscow time," the source was quoted as saying.

Commandant Birot has joined another French warship, the Dupuy le Lome, a surveillance ship designed to collect signals and communications from beyond enemy lines. Up until September 4, the Dupuy le Lome was the only NATO ship in the region. The vessel is scheduled to leave the area on September 5.

Comment: NATO may be observing the letter of the Montreux Convention, but the spirit of these actions is nothing less than to provoke the Russian Bear. This is a bad idea, but the commanders of NATO have long since lost touch with reality.

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Megaphone

CIA asset Al-Qaeda announces jihad in India


Al-Qaeda commander Ayman al-Zawahari released a videotape Thursday announcing plans for a new wing of the terrorist group dedicated to waging jihad in the Indian subcontinent.

"Our brothers in Burma, Kashmir, Islamabad, Bangladesh, we did not forget you and will liberate you from injustice and oppression," he said, according to a translation from The Indian Express.

The videotape is believed to be the first released by the al-Qaeda chief in more than a year.

Al-Zawahari calls on Indians to "break all borders created by Britain in India, unite under the credo of the one god."

The new organization, translated as Organization of The Base of Jihad in the Indian Sub-Continent, also released online manifestos written by al-Zawahiri, spokesman Usama Mahmoud, and organizational chief Essam Omar.

The group's leaders are believed to be Pakistani nationals serving with al-Qaeda's command in that country, the Express reports. Umar has issued several manifestos and articles on al-Qaeda platforms, critiquing democracy and calling for armed jihad.

Pistol

Ceasefire the Kiev way: Six civilians killed in a fresh shelling

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© UnknownThis file photo shows Ukrainian army tanks taking position near the city of Yenakiyevo in the Donetsk region.
At least six civilians have been killed in fresh shelling by Ukrainian forces in the country's restive east.

Tuesday night's shelling occurred in the city of Yenakiyevo in the volatile Donetsk region, which is known to be the stronghold of pro-Russia fighters.

The pro-Russians said the Ukrainian forces were "shelling from artillery weapons residential neighborhoods on the southwest outskirts of Donetsk and in Yenakiyevo."

Kiev announced on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in the volatile eastern Ukraine. Moscow, however, says the leaders agreed on steps towards peace in eastern Ukraine but not a truce as Moscow is not a party to the crisis.

Bad Guys

The art of betrayal? Georgian president Margvelashvili wishes to join NATO


Comment: History repeats itself?:

"6 years ago today, Washington's puppet regime in Georgia, led by the psychopathic Mikheil Saakashvili, launched unprovoked attacks against civilian targets in the disputed territory of South Ossetia. Western media didn't pay the slightest bit of attention until Russian tanks entered South Ossetia and forced the Georgians back to Tbilisi, at which point it became a major media event and the false official narrative that 'Georgia attacked by Russia' was established and has endured to this day.

As this documentary shows, Georgia in fact attacked Russia, and did so with the help of NATO military personnel, NATO weapons and equipment, NATO 'counter-terrorism' training, and a green light from Washington. In fact, fighters from the Ukrainian National Defense Forces (UNA-UNSO), set up by NATO, supplied snipers and other military personnel, the same organization that would later become instrumental in orchestrating the coup d'etat in Kiev and today's bloodshed against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine."


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© UnknownPresident of Georgia and NATO puppet?: Georgy Margvelashvili
Georgia's president said on Wednesday the country would seek an invitation to join NATO at a summit of leaders of the alliance in Wales this week.

President Georgy Margvelashvili, in a speech at the Chatham House think-tank, said: "We will shoot for an invitation for NATO membership. But we understand that...decisions are made in a much more complicated way."

NATO said earlier this year it would stop short of approving a formal step to membership for Georgia at the summit, agreeing in principle to a "substantive package" of cooperation with Georgia that would help it move closer to the alliance.

Propaganda

Huff Post's new reporter: '9/11 truther to cover national security'

The Huffington Post's Washington bureau has hired professional football player and 9/11 truther Donte Stallworth as a fellow, covering national security.

Stallworth, a wide receiver in the NFL since 2002, is currently an unsigned free agent and has not played in any games since 2012. As a 9/11 truther, he has publicly stated that Osama bin Laden was not responsible for the attacks and that the Pentagon was not hit by a plane.
"NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by 'dying' Bin Laden, 19 men who couldn't fly a damn kite. STILL have NO EVIDENCE Osama was connected, like Iraq," Stallworth tweeted in 2009. Stallworth also tweeted, "Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ ppl who actually believe a plane hit the pentagon on 9/11... hole woulda been ASTRONOMICALLY bigger, God bless lost lives."
In a statement Wednesday, Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim said Stallworth "has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity and a passion for politics - the necessary qualities of a great journalist."

Stallworth played college football at the University of Tennessee and was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 2002. Over the next 10 years, he would play for the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Redskins.

In 2009, Stallworth plead guilty to DUI manslaughter after killing a 59-year-old man in Florida. Grim said Wednesday, "We obviously believe in redemption and second chances."

UPDATE (10:23 a.m.): Poynter's Andrew Beaujon asked Grim about the truther tweets:
"That doesn't represent how he thinks today," Grim said. "You know, that was five years ago, and people say dumb things, but that shouldn't define him." ... Journalism, Grim said, "is like football in the sense that it's done in public and people are judged by how they perform on the field or in print."
UPDATE (10:33 a.m.): Several folks on Twitter have pointed out that Stallworth's most recent truther tweet was from November 2013, less than a year ago.

UPDATE (1:03 p.m.): Stallworth wrote Thursday, "I no longer feel the way I did in that tweet 5 years ago. ... After a lot of reading and researching on it, my views changed... and that's ok. ... Credit goes to James Bamford, whose great book disabused me of that stuff and showed what a disastrous intelligence failure 9/11 was."

Comment: Byers has managed to twist this relatively small news story into an attack on those who want to find the truth of 9/11. Amazing how the MSM is still obliged to deal with it. 9/11 won't go away, and with good reason.
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Bizarro Earth

NATO to give Ukraine 15mn euros and military supplies to continue mass slaughter of innocent civilians

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© Reuters / Facundo ArrizabalagaUkraine's Puppet President Petro Poroshenko (L) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
NATO has pledged some 15 million euros to Ukraine, with several of the bloc's member states pledging separate bilateral support and military cooperation, involving medical supplies as well as lethal and nonlethal military equipment.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced a "comprehensive and tailored package of measures" including the donation of 15 million euros "through NATO" at a joint news conference with the Ukrainian president on Thursday on the first day of the NATO summit in Wales.

He said that this would be in addition to other measures such as advising Ukraine on defense reforms and further bilateral aid.

"This is about improvement of logistics, the improvement of command and control, the improvement of communications, and cyber defense," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

Comment: This move is simply an overture to attempts to establish NATO bases in Ukraine, right next to Russia's border. That idea is as insane as it is delusional because no Russian leader could allow it. For Russia, allowing NATO bases in Ukraine is like having a gun pointed to your head and pretending it is alright. It is something that could very easily lead to WWIII.


Sherlock

Russia wants MH17 crash discussed at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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Russia wants the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash over the embattled eastern Ukraine discussed at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin told reporters on Tuesday.

Naryshkin, who took part in a session of PACE's Presidential Committee earlier in the day, said it had agreed that the investigation should be open and transparent.

A Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people crashed in east Ukraine on July 17 on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Both sides in Ukraine's conflict accused each other of shooting down the plane with a missile.


Comment: Yet only Russia is calling for an open and transparent investigation. Ukraine has said nothing about transparency. They'd rather see the whole thing go away, since any truly open investigation would inevitably point towards Ukrainian culpability. See: MH17 Who Dunnit? Western Media Silent on the Evidence


A preliminary report on the cause of the crash is almost ready, Dutch Safety Board spokesperson Sara Vernooij told Tass on Tuesday. This will happen either at the end of the week or early next week, she said.

Sara Vernooij said the preliminary report will shed certain light on the cause of the tragedy, but many questions will remain unanswered. Results of a more thorough investigation could be published next spring, she said.

Kiev's military operation designed to regain control over the eastern Ukrainian breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which on May 11 proclaimed their independence at local referendums, was launched in mid-April and has involved armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation.

Dollar

NATO to spend hundreds of millions of euros per year fighting non-existent Russian threat

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The implementation of NATO's readiness action plan to 'overt' Russian threat, which will be presented at the alliance's summit in Wales on September 4, will involve "several hundred million euros" a year, says the bloc's commander.

"Keeping people on alert carries a certain cost," General Jean-Paul Palomeros, the head of the Allied Command Transformation, which leads military transformation of bloc's forces and its capabilities, told AFP.

According to Palomeros, the plan which was adopted to counter Russia's involvement in Ukraine's crisis could be implemented "by the end of the year."

"It has to be supported financially, but also over time because it is not enough to be reactive for a month, or two, or six," he said, "Once NATO decides it wants these capabilities, it has to have them for the very long term."

Palomeros added that as there are "multifaceted threats" in the world, it is important to have "credible, well trained, well equipped, modern forces." "The world is moving very quickly. We saw that with the Ukraine crisis and we see it in the south, particularly in Iraq," he said. However, French general said that the price of the NATO's readiness action plan was an "investment"worth paying for "a credible defense."

"We will become more efficient," said Palomeros. "These are not colossal figures compared to total budgets in alliance members."

Comment: More bombs, more soldiers, more guns, and more killing. NATO is the perfect tool for the psychopaths who are running it. They've created their enemy, Russia. Now they've got the budget to fully commit to the goal of engaging in a long, drawn-out war with Russa. All to sate the psychopaths' lust for power, resources, and control. It's a sickening sight, and one that will cause a great many deaths.


Dollar

How corporate power converted wealth into philanthropy for social control

The following is an excerpt from Arundhati Roy's new book, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, (Haymarket Books, 2014).

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What follows in this essay might appear to some to be a somewhat harsh critique. On the other hand, in the tradition of honoring one's adversaries, it could be read as an acknowledgment of the vision, flexibility, sophistication, and unwavering determination of those who have dedicated their lives to keeping the world safe for capitalism.

Their enthralling history, which has faded from contemporary memory, began in the United States in the early twentieth century when, kitted out legally in the form of endowed foundations, corporate philanthropy began to replace missionary activity as Capitalism's (and Imperialism's) road-opening and systems maintenance patrol.

Among the first foundations to be set up in the United States were the Carnegie Corporation, endowed in 1911 by profits from Carnegie Steel Company, and the Rockefeller Foundation, endowed in 1914 by J. D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil Company. The Tatas and Ambanis of their time.

Some of the institutions financed, given seed money, or supported by the Rockefeller Foundation are the United Nations, the CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), New York's most fabulous Museum of Modern Art, and, of course, the Rockefeller Center in New York (where Diego Riviera's mural had to be blasted off the wall because it mischievously depicted reprobate capitalists and a valiant Lenin; Free Speech had taken the day off ).