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Avaaz: Western imperialist propaganda mill masquerading as grassroots activism

Martin Iqbal
EmpireStrikesBlack
Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:42 UTC

Comment: Avaaz is particularly egregious in its manipulation of public sentiment, constantly sounding the alarm on the next "crisis" using promotional machinery a Madison Avenue exec would envy. All in the the furtherance of the PTB's goals. This expose shows who is making it possible.


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'Activism' and 'human rights' foundation Avaaz blames the Houla massacre on Assad and calls for foreign intervention. A peek into the background of Avaaz explains its pro-empire position, and who is really behind it.

The ultra-shadowy Avaaz Foundation is purportedly a non-governmental organisation that seeks to(1) "close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want."

A mere three days after the Houla Massacre in Syria, while all parties were clamouring to figure out what had happened and who was responsible, Avaaz took the opportunity to speculatively blame the Assad government as part of an online petition campaign. What is even more disconcerting is that this 'human rights' organisation also made a thinly-veiled call for foreign intervention - something which would undoubtedly result in astronomical human suffering.

Using emotive and crafty language,(2) Alice Jay (Avaaz's Campaign Director) blames Assad for the Houla massacre indirectly, by alluding to the decision of several Western governments to expel Syrian diplomats:
Dozens of children lie covered with blood, their faces show the fear they felt before death, and their innocent lifeless bodies reveal an unspeakable massacre. These children were slaughtered by men under strict orders to sow terror. Yet all the diplomats have come up with so far is a few UN monitors 'observing' the violence. Now, governments across the world are expelling Syrian ambassadors, but unless we demand strong action on the ground, they will settle for these diplomatic half-measures.
This is immediately followed by a thinly-veiled call for an invasion of Syria by foreign powers:
The UN is discussing what to do right now. If there were a large international presence across Syria with a mandate to protect civilians, we could prevent the massacres while leaders engage in political efforts to resolve the conflict. I cannot see more images like these without shouting from the rooftops. But to stop the violence, it is going to take all of us, with one voice, demanding protection for these kids and their families. Sign the urgent petition on the right to call for UN action now and share this campaign with everyone.
The background of Avaaz sheds light on its unequivocal pro-war and anti-Syrian position.

Avaaz - Shadowy Beyond Belief

Avaaz's latest 990 form,(3) from 2010, raises a number of questions. Avaaz has only 16 employees, and is listed as a 'corporation' for the purposes of the 990 submission. Oddly, for an organisation that receives no governmental or corporate funding,(1) Avaaz received over $6.7 million in 2010, and paid its President over $180,000 as a salary (still feel good about donating?). On top of this, in 2010 Avaaz gave Res Publica (more on them later) a $100,000 grant. Avaaz is doing extremely well considering this and the fact that it was established relatively recently, in 2006. Where is all of this money coming from?
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Bad Guys

Nimrod Kamer: Exposing NATO as a naff members' club


RT
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:30 UTC
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© Reuters / Rebecca NadenNATO leaders watch a fly-past by the Red Arrows during the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 5, 2014.
As Wales hosted the NATO 2014 summit, journalist Nimrod Kamer looked at the military hardware on display, the event's social media fails, and talked to some of the alliance's employees.

During the September 4-5 summit, Cardiff welcomed the largest gathering of international leaders ever to have appeared in Britain. US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande attended the meeting to discuss the Ukrainian crisis, along with leaders and senior ministers from around 60 other countries.
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Quenelle

Reality check from Moscow: No procedures exist to exclude Russia from UNSC or revoke its veto right


RIA Novosti
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:11 UTC
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© Reuters / Brendan McDermidNo procedures exist to exclude Russia from the United Nations Security Council or to revoke its veto right
No procedures exist to exclude Russia from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) or to revoke its veto right, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"There are no procedures for that. Everything that has been said on this - are empty political declarations. The UN Charter strictly defines the composition of the Security Council, powers of its members, and the general goals of the Council. Speaking hypothetically, this will require changing the UN Charter. But this is practically impossible and nobody will do that," Gatilov said about the possible reform of the UNSC and the review of Russia's role in it.

Comment: Each wormy, propagandistic attempt to paint Russia as an evil-doer seems to be an attempt to stop the emergence of a multi-polar world. True leaders, rather than trying to destroy competence, would seek to emulate and work with it:

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Bomb

The crisis of western parasitism puts Russia at the fore of world politics

Valery Fadeev
Oriental Review
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:31 UTC
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The Ukrainian crisis has thrust Russia's role in world politics sharply to the fore. In this risky game Putin is proving he has a good conceptual grasp of how to create a new world order to replace the tyranny of American exceptionalism.

Let us first examine the military and strategic aspects of the Ukrainian crisis from the Russian standpoint. What did Eastern Europe look like at the beginning of 2014? Russia was surrounded by a sea of American military bases. NATO expands steadily eastward, and there is now the possibility that it could incorporate Finland and perhaps Ukraine as well. When Kosovo was carved out of Serbia, the Americans immediately built there one of the largest military bases in the world. And one can't ignore America's weapons or its state of combat readiness and military targets. That nation is consistently at a high level of combat readiness and its primary targets are located within Russia. US missile defense systems are steadily approaching Russia's borders, and Russia is still viewed as the enemy in NATO's operational planning.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Ireland's officials show support for western lunacy, attend NATO summit

Shannonwatch
News Beacon Ireland
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:20 UTC
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It will probably surprise many people to know that at least seven Irish Government officials, including one military officer, attended events related to the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales this week. It didn't get much coverage in the mainstream Irish media, probably because the government told them not to cover it, but it's something that should be highlighted and challenged.

In answer to a question from Clare Daly TD, Simon Coveney who is our Minister for Agriculture and other stuff that the government doesn't think is very important (food, the marine and defence), explained that Ireland was invited to attend two meetings at Newport, one for contributors to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and one for Defence Ministers from what are called "Partner" countries.
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Light Sabers

Destabilization of Ukraine on US orders threatens Russia and Belarus says Lukashenko


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:25 UTC
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Instability in Ukraine is dangerous for the country itself and for its neighbors, Belarus and Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday.

Destabilization in Ukraine has "created a huge funnel and the vortex flows in this funnel are now sucking in both Russia and us," Lukashenko told Rossiya 1 television.

He blamed the crisis on the United States.
"It's Uncle Sam overseas who is pushing us into this slaughter. And let's be frank: many politicians in Ukraine are fulfilling his orders," the president said.
Lukashenko stressed the need "to move away from this funnel because the Americans won't fight there. They want us to get killed with our own hands".

He said West European countries were often acting as a conduit for the American policy in Ukraine and this explained why the Americans had refused to attend the peace talks in Minsk.

"They probably did not have to come because there are certain people in Europe who pursue their interests here such as [EU foreign policy chief] Catherine Ashton, and I think she did not take a step against America's will," Lukashenko said, adding that French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also had to go in the wake of the U.S. policy.

He also cautioned against overstating the rift between the west and the east of Ukraine. He admitted that people living in western regions both in Ukraine and Belarus were more inclined to develop contacts with Western countries, but "there is no aggressive division" into the west and east among people in either country.

Lukashenko said more than 3,000 Ukrainian refugees had found shelter in Belarus since the outbreak of the conflict in the neighboring country.

Comment: Here are some flashback articles worth reading on Putin:

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Wolf

Washington and its NATO & EU vassals are insane: Former CIA chief calls for Putin's assassination

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:58 UTC
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Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin's assassination. If we have " to get him out of the Kremlin feet-first with a bullet hole in the back of his head, that would be okay with us."

As the crazed Meyer illustrates, the insanity that Washington has released upon the world knows no restraint. Jose Manual Barroso, installed as Washington's puppet as European Commission President, misrepresented his recent confidential telephone conversation with Russia's President Putin by telling the media that Putin issued a threat: "If I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks."

Clearly, Putin did not issue a threat. A threat would be inconsistent with Putin's entire unprovocative approach to the strategic threat that Washington and its NATO puppets have brought to Russia in Ukraine. Russia's permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, said that if Barroso's lie stands, Russia will make public the full recording of the conversation

Anyone familiar with the disparity between the Ukrainian and Russian militaries knows full well that it would take the Russian military 14 hours, not 14 days, to take all of Ukraine. Just remember what happened to the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian Army when Washington set its stupid Georgian puppets on South Ossetia. The American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army collapsed under Russian counterattack in 5 hours.

Comment: We can only hope the cool heads demonstrated by Putin and his advisers continues. He is playing the long game of creating a multi-polar world that will economically squeeze out the rabid dogs of western capitalism. The alternative basket of currencies for trade within the BRICS alliance, the multiple contracts with South American and other countries for food imports (so much for EU sanctions) and the massive energy deal with China all point in the direction of cutting off the West's economic life-blood. They are seeking to negate the strangle-hold the IMF currently has on the world. Whether that can be done without a shooting war remains to be see, but Mr. Putin is straining every nerve to avoid it.

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Chess

Predictable and provoked: Vladimir Putin's 'unacceptable' actions in Ukraine

Christopher Booker
The Telegraph
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:22 UTC

Comment: A remarkably clear-sighted article outlining some of the original factors that kindled the civil war in Ukraine. The Western MSM is usually such an efficient gate-keeper one wonders how it came to be published.


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© Agence France-PresseThere was never any way that either Mr Putin or all those Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine and Crimea were going to take kindly to seeing the country which was the cradle of Russian identity become part of a Western power bloc.
Nato leaders don't know what to do about Mr Putin and the civil war in Ukraine, and have been misreading this crisis since it began

It is always revealing when politicians tell us that something is "unacceptable". What they mean is that, although people might expect them to do something about it, they haven't got a clue what it is they can do. That was why, as the Western leaders gathered for that Nato summit in Wales, several, including David Cameron, told us that President Putin's intervention in Ukraine was "unacceptable".

The real problem here is not just that our leaders don't know what they can do about Mr Putin and that horrible civil war in Ukraine, which has already killed nearly 3,000 people and which the Russians seem to be winning hands down. It is that they and many others in the West have been misreading this crisis ever since it began at the start of the year.

It cannot be said often enough that what triggered the crisis was not Mr Putin's desire to restore the boundaries of the Soviet Union, but the ludicrously misguided ambition of the West to see Ukraine absorbed into the EU and Nato. There was never any way that either Mr Putin or all those Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine and Crimea were going to take kindly to seeing the country which was the cradle of Russian identity become part of a Western power bloc. Russia would be even less happy to see the only warm-water ports for its navy taken over by a military alliance that had been set up to counter Russia in the first place.

When 96 per cent of Crimeans democratically voted in March to join Russia, this was not, as Western politicians now tell us, because Mr Putin wanted to "annexe" their country. It was because the 82 per cent of them who speak Russian as their main language wanted to rejoin a country Crimea had been part of for two centuries.

Comment: Perhaps, perhaps not. "Nothing in politics happens by accident. If something does happen, it was planned that way." - Franklin Roosevelt. That being said, the Ukraine situation can also be seen as the result of different factions of psychopaths (NATO, EU, the Ukraine oligarchy) each greedily working for their own goals, none of which will benefit the general population of Ukraine.

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Headphones

Snowden: U.S. upgrades its espionage options on foreign businesses


RT
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:04 UTC
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A 2009 intelligence document provided to journalists by former government contractor Edward Snowden suggests the United States weighed someday conducting espionage to prevent losing its economic prowess to other countries.

The document, published first by The Intercept on Friday this week, outlines tactics the American intelligence community may implement in the future in the event of certain scenarios, including one in which "the United States' technological and innovative edge slips" in the year 2025.

In the event that the US may lose that advantage, the Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review's final report reads in part, then "a multi-pronged, systematic effort to gather open source and proprietary information through overt means, clandestine penetration (through physical and cyber means) and counterintelligence" could be undertaken by American agencies.

The document, classified as "secret" and supplied along with a trove of other files provided by Snowden,"is a fascinating window into the mindset of America's spies as they identify future threats to the US and lay out the actions the US intelligence community should take in response," wrote Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept editor who wrote about the 32-page report this week.

Indeed, David Shredd, then the deputy director of national intelligence, opens the report by describing it as the results of a 10-month study conducted among experts from agencies, academia, think tanks and industry tasked with assessing the implications of the year 2025 for the American intelligence community, or IC.

"If one does not consider the long-range future, one will never cease to be surprised," Shredd wrote."QICR 2009 developed alternative future scenarios based on Global Trends 2025 to explore concepts and capabilities the IC may need to fulfill critical missions in support of US national security."

Comment: The Snowden revelations continue to expose the complexity of our government and its corporate linkage, how corrupted the politico-economy has become and how few understand the current and future implications for our already dumbed-down society. Research and development takes capital, intellect and hard work. In seconds the NSA, or its equivalent, can download many years worth of scientific effort - eliminating slow, unreliable activities like thinking and experimentation - with the efficiency of spying.

What is an American corporation? More complex than we think. We now live in a "corporatocracy"...where right and wrong hides behind blurred lines, shady definitions and legal sleight-of-hand. We have perfected a feed-back loop: the government feeds and snares the corporation; the obligated corporation supports its government source; and the government gains access to any of the corporation's spy-worthy assets enabling a leverage on foreign markets and governments with well-orchestrated carrots and sticks...which ultimately benefit American corporations and the U.S. government.

It comes down to how a government regards its duty, or more accurately, creates and supports its agenda. These are really two different things that are purposefully blurred. In one, we create the illusion that the balance of values for the many outweighs the benefit of the few. In the other, lies and deceit placate a people who still believe they live in a democracy where the above applies. America has become a country afraid to be in another's shadow so it realistically, and to its eventual demise, looks over its shoulder and creates its own.

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Gold Seal

Is Vladimir Putin the greatest leader of our time? Yep

Alcibiades Bilzerian
The Bilzerian Report
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:38 UTC

Comment: The following piece was written two and a half years ago, but it is still true. If anything, recent events have only solidified Putin's status and achievements as an effective, insightful, populist leader.


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Many Westerners have a negative view of Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, because of the unjust portrayal he receives in the Western media. If one were to believe everything they saw in the American media, they would probably think Putin to be a ruthless dictator who was anointed by birth rather than a politician born into a working class family with approval ratings higher than all of his Western counterparts.

Under Putin's eight-year reign the Russian economy grew every single year, with an overall GDP increase of more than 70%. During the same period, investments rose 125%, industry grew by 76%, and poverty decreased 50%. The average monthly salaries in Russia increased from $80 to $640, and the middle class grew from 8 million people to 55 million.

Analysts have credited these impressive economic achievements to strong macro-management, capital inflows, fiscal policy reform, and rising energy prices (Russia is a large exporter of oil and gas). Putin wisely reintroduced nuclear power and positioned Russia as an energy super power that Europe has come to rely on. He also invested heavily in Russian infrastructure, including pipelines. Among Putin's accomplishments was the introduction of a 13% flat tax and the reduction of the corporate tax rate from 35% to 24%. As a result, Putin has maintained extraordinarily high approval ratings from the Russian people, winning his second Presidency with 71% of the vote.

Putin's accomplishments are even more impressive when one realizes that he has had to deal with one of the fiercest mafias in the world. The Russian mafia led by notorious billionaire gangsters, who use dual citizenships in non-extradition countries such as Israel to thwart justice, are responsible for sex slavery, weapons trafficking, drug running, and the rampant corruption that has plagued Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Putin has consistently risked his life to challenge these gangsters and eventually saw charges brought against many of the criminal oligarchs. Regardless of these challenges, Putin's administration has consistently maintained a lower incarceration rate than the United States.
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