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Yet another color revolution! This time in Myanmar: Meet Aung San Suu Kyi's saffron mobs

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© UnknownMonks mingle in the background with protesters marching against attempts to recognize and empower stateless Rohingya refugees. Racism, bigotry, and savagery are hallmarks of this street mob which also so happens to be the same mob supporting “democracy icon,” Aung San Suu Kyi. Spiffy "revolutionary" T-shirts sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Not unlike other US-backed "color revolutions" around the world, Myanmar's "Saffron Revolution" is sold as an ultra-liberal pro-democracy, progressive movement, with one of the West's most successful neo-colonial creations to date, Aung San Suu Kyi, portrayed and revered as a modern day, secular "saint" of neo-liberalism and Western democratic values.

Underneath the pageantry and spin, however, is harbored ultra-right racism and unhinged violence that if ever truthfully reported on, would end the "Saffron" wave, and spell the absolute end of both Suu Kyi's political career and her legacy.

Most recently Suu Kyi's "Saffron" movement took to the streets, not to call for greater "freedom" or to defend "human rights," but to condemn the government's move toward giving hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya refugees citizenship.

Australia's ABC News would report in an article titled, "Myanmar scraps temporary ID cards amid protests targeting ethnic minorities without citizenship," that:

Comment: "Another U.S.-backed and instigated color revolution?!" you may ask, or exclaim. "They're all over the friggin' place!" you might add. And you'd be correct in expressing shock, outrage, and anger over such a realization. But one should no longer be surprised. It seems that the U.S.'s number one export, besides arms, is the instigation and support of racist and fascistic governments that, under the banner of democracy and democratic values, reduce some segment of its citizenry to a 'sub-human' status, and that quite often adopts 'nationalistic' and economic plans that serve the interests of Imperial hegemony only; the 'color revolution' template being adapted to meet the particular country's and its people's worst predilections. Why send soldiers or stormtroopers when you can get the targeted country to act like Nazis themselves -- even if they're Buddhist monks.


Chess

Spanish FM to visit Moscow Sunday to discuss Libya, Ukraine, anti-Russia sanctions

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Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo is expected to arrive in Moscow on March 8 to discuss the Ukrainian crisis and anti-Russia sanctions imposed by the West with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Garcia-Margallo is also expected to meet with Russian Energy minister Alexander Novak and Spanish entrepreneurs working in Russia during his 2-day visit.

The Spanish side has repeatedly insisted on a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, and spoke against arms supply to Kiev.

"The only solution to the crisis in Ukraine - is a political solution, in no event a military one," Garcia-Margallo said earlier this week.

Comment: Spain, like Italy, is worried about Libya and possible influx of IS militants. They both are running to Russia for help.


Eye 1

Greek foreign minister threatens Europe with flood of jihadists and immigrants if Greece fails

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It wasn't even a full 24 hours after Greece raided at least some of the funds of its pension and other public entities in order to make a €310 payment to the IMF, the first of four this month (the balance is 350 million on March 13, 580 million on March 16 and another 350 million on March 20), that the insolvent country resumed doing what it does best: dispensing hollow threats. This time it was its foreign minister and leader of the Independent Greeks party - Syriza's junior coalition partner - Nikos Kotzias, who showed how to bluff like the best of them, when he threatened that "there will be tens of millions of immigrants and thousands of jihadists, if you take out Greece" the minister said before EU foreign ministers meeting in Riga.

As quoted by enikos, the foreign minister continued his blustery threats saying that "the Western Balkans is not stabilized. Then you have the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, North Africa. This is a sickle."

Bad Guys

Proxy armies of the world, unite! Boko Haram 'pledges allegiance to' Islamic State

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The Nigerian fundamentalist Islamic Group has pledged their allegiance to the so-called Islamic State according to an audio message. The message was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and appeared to be created by the group's leader but remains unconfirmed.

The announcement comes on the heels of a devastating series of attacks in Nigeria that left 54 dead and nearly 200 injured.

During the 8-minute audio, the narrator says "We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity."

Comment: A concerted propaganda effort is underway to link 'the need for' Western military intervention in the Middle East to Western military intervention in North Africa ['ISIS takes over Libyan oilfields'] to Western military intervention in Central Africa ['Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State'] to Western military intervention in Central Asia ['ISIS looks for foothold in Central Asia'] to Western military intervention in [insert location of phony enemy here]...

The people running this show see the world as a chessboard and 'terrorists' as their pawns. Get it?


Dollars

Six billion dollars went missing at the State Department while Hillary Clinton hid her emails

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The political world is swarming over revelations that Hillary Clinton hid her emails during her time as Secretary of State.

She apparently went so far in shielding her official correspondence from public scrutiny that her team set up the private domain @clintonemail.com, used cover names for family members and reportedly ran a server for the mail client out of her home. Hillary publicly tweeted to dispel concerns about secrecy, dubiously claiming 'I want the public to see my email.'

But serious concerns have been raised about her trail of secrecy, and the potential for classified information to have been exposed to foreign entities, spies, hackers and the like:

Comment: Fear of transparency? Why else would Hillary Clinton use a private email account for State Department business?


Light Sabers

Best of the Web: The U.S. war on ISIS is a Trojan horse: This is what's really going on

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In August of 2013, even as the words came out of US President Barack Obama's mouth regarding an "impending" US military strike against the Syrian state, the impotence of American foreign policy loomed over him and those who wrote his speech for him like an insurmountable wall. So absurd was America's attempt to once again use the canard of "weapons of mass destruction" to justify yet another military intervention, that many believed America's proxy war in Syria had finally reached its end.

The counterstroke by Russia included Syria's immediate and unconditional surrendering of its chemical weapons arsenal, and with that, so evaporated America's casus belli.

Few would believe if one told them then, that in 2015, that same discredited US would be routinely bombing Syrian territory and poised to justify the raising of an entire army of terrorists to wage war within Syria's borders, yet that is precisely what is happening. President Obama has announced plans to formally increase military force in Iraq and Syria "against ISIS," but of course includes building up huge armies of "rebels" who by all other accounts are as bad as ISIS itself (not to mention prone to joining ISIS' ranks by the thousands).

Comment: Gunnar's conclusions match those of Alexander Prokhanov:
"ISIL is a tool at the hands of the United States. They tell the Europeans that if we (the Americans) do not intervene, ISIL will cause you harm," he said, adding that Iran and Russia are the prime targets of the ISIL.
Consider this: US/Israeli military advisers to ISIS arrested in Mosul, Iraq


Handcuffs

US/Israeli military advisers to ISIS arrested in Mosul, Iraq

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Iraqi Special Forces said they have arrested several ISIL's foreign military advisors, including American, Israeli and Arab nationals in an operation in Mosul in the Northern parts of the country.

The Iraqi forces said they have retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli nationals and one that belonged to the national of a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member-state, from ISIL's military advisors.

The foreign advisors were arrested in a military operation in Tal Abta desert near Mosul city.

Last year, a senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Mossad of training ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.

Alexander Prokhanov said that Mossad is also likely to have transferred some of its spying experiences to the ISIL leadership, adding that Israel's military advisors could be assisting the Takfiri terrorists.

Comment: It will be interesting to see if there is any follow-up to this story. But regardless, ISIS is a Trojan horse


Attention

The impending color revolution in Kyrgyzstan

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The Male Nuland And The US' Central Asian Strategy

One of the most prominent Color Revolution experts in America's coup d'état toolkit has been hurriedly recalled from retirement for immediate deployment to Kyrgyzstan. Richard Miles, the engineer of the first Color Revolution in Serbia and the Rose Revolution in Georgia, has been appointed as charge d'affaires in Kyrgyzstan until a new ambassador is confirmed by the Senate, because the former one, Pamela Spratlen, has been reassigned as the US Ambassador to Uzbekistan. While it is not known how long Miles will remain in Kyrgyzstan, which will be the Eurasian Union's weakest economy when it joins in May of this year, ordinary citizens there already suspect that foul play is being planned against their country and have protested his arrival. Given that Miles' track record of regime change makes him worthy of the 'Male Nuland' moniker, it's appropriate to investigate what tricks the US may be up to in Central Asia, and how it may be trying to force the Ukrainian scenario onto Russia's southern doorstep.

The Male Nuland

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Richard Miles a.k.a father of Color Revolution
Richard Miles has kept a relatively low profile throughout the years and hasn't garnered the notoriety that his ideological protégé Nuland has, but this doesn't mean that he's any less dangerous for the countries he visits. In fact, since he's the individual who spearheaded the Color Revolution tactic in the first place, he can even be referred to as a 'proto Nuland', owing to his 'successes' in Serbia and Georgia that helped make EuroMaidan possible in the first place. While he was no longer the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia when the 2000 Bulldozer Revolution overthrow Slobodan Milosevic, he certainly paved the way for its implementation during his work over the three years prior, including overseeing the NATO War on Serbia. As regards Georgia, he served as US Ambassador from 2002-2005 and repeated the Belgrade template in Tbilisi.

Afterwards, he became the Executive Director for the Open World Leadership Center for most of 2006, during which he fostered the creation of thousands of pro-American 'leaders' in the former Soviet Union. To Center's own mission statement concisely describes the type of work that it does:
"Begun as a pilot program in 1999 and established as a permanent agency in late 2000, the Center conducts the first and only international exchange agency in the U.S. Legislative Branch and, as such, has enabled more than 17,000 current and future leaders from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan to meaningfully engage and interact with Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and thousands of other Americans, many of whom are the delegates' direct professional counterparts."
The above statement can be read as an admission that the Center's purpose is to create pro-American proxies that can seamlessly interact with and do the bidding of their Washington patrons, thereby essentially making it an NGO front for the US intelligence community's cultivation of Color Revolution assets. The organization doesn't hide the fact that its purpose is to promote American interests and profit, brazenly bragging that:
"Open World offers an extraordinary "bang for the buck" in terms of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value. The Center boasts an overhead rate of about 7 percent, every grant contains cost-shared elements, and more than 75 percent of our appropriation is plowed back into the American economy every year. The Center might best be described as both a mini-stimulus plan as well as a true international exchange program."
Bearing in mind Miles' experience in running this Color Revolution recruitment front, as well as his contribution to managing two 'successful' regime change operations in Serbia and Georgia, he can easily be identified as one of the most dangerous people in the US deep state establishment, and the fact that he was recalled from retirement to urgently take the 'temporary' post in Kyrgyzstan during these tense geopolitical times must absolutely be seen as a warning about Washington's nefarious intentions.

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Arrow Down

Megalomaniac Google? ... Internet behemoth now fancying itself as the ultimate gatekeeper of the truth

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. - 1 Corinthians 3:18
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© FoxNewsTowering arrogance from speech-rights midgets? The self-appointed gate-keepers of the Truth. Imaged cropped from video here.
A wave of commotion has just been unleashed by the very recent FOX News report on Google's contemplating of changing the way it ranks website pages with its famous search engine. Also read here.

Rather than ranking websites on their popularity, a Google research group is looking into ranking websites based on how "factual" they are. If implemented, it would literally mean Google taking on the gatekeeper role of who deciding fact from fiction. Google has already created a "knowledge vault" containing "commonly believed facts". In summary sites found to deviate from what Google considers facts, would be automatically down-ranked in searches. Result: dissident opinions would surely get buried.

Though the system may have some merits, it is chock-full of pitfalls and it risks the establishment of an information dictatorship - a so-called Orwellian Ministry Of Truth. In other countries such information control programs are the sort of things one associates with tyrannies and dictatorships, like Iran, North Korea, Red China, Russia, Venezuela or Islamic fundamentalist states. Note in all these states, leaders are convinced it's for the overall good of the people.

"That is very troubling," writes Jim Lakely, Director of Communications of the Chicago-based think-tank The Heartland Institute in an e-mail. He thinks there is no doubt that the 'facts' of politicized sites who clearly have a defined agenda will get favorable treatment in Google's 'knowledge vault' while dissident sites will be locked out.

"I worry about this issue greatly... My site gets a significant portion of its daily traffic from Google," Anthony Watts told FoxNews.com. "It is a very slippery and dangerous slope because there's no arguing with a machine," he added.

While Google maintains this project is only in the development phase, others are not so sure. One climate science dissident, who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being, believes that Google is already "heavily biased and directing traffic away" from climate science skeptic sites.

Pirates

U.S. backed Jihadists in Ukraine

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While we're fighting the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, in Iraq and Syria, and American officials tout the alleged danger of an attack on the US homeland, in Ukraine Washington and the Caliphate are fighting on the same side. A remarkable series of articles by Marcin Mamon in The Intercept has documented an aspect of the Ukraine conflict that no one else has paid any attention to: the role played by the "Dudayev Battalion," a fighting force of radical Islamists consisting of Chechens, but also including fighters from throughout the Caucasus as well as some Ukrainians.

The keys to Ukraine's Islamist underground were handed to Mamon by a contact in Istanbul, "Khalid," who commands the ISIS branch there. "Our brothers are there," he told Mamon, and the reporter traveled to Ukraine where he was put in touch with a contact named Ruslan, who led him to Munayev's clandestine camp.

Named after the first "president" of breakaway Chechnya, Dzhokhar Dudaev, the Dudayev Battalion was commanded by Isa Munayev, recently killed in a east Ukraine. Imbued with a fanatical hatred of the Russians, who are backing the rebels in the east, Munayev's men also feel they are paying back a debt, since the ultra-nationalist Right Sector battalions now fighting for Kiev apparently helped the Chechens in the past. Right Sector is an openly neo-fascist paramilitary group which provided much of the muscle that made the coup against Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president, possible. Organized into various battalions, including the notorious Azov Brigade, they idolize the World War II collaborators with the Nazis, who fought Soviet troops: the ultra-nationalists have been accused of carrying out atrocities in the Donbass, as well as terrorizing their political opponents on the home front. According to Mamon, they also have been involved in fighting the Russians in far-off Chechnya, where former Right Sector bigwig Oleksandr Muzychko fought alongside Munayev and "the brothers" against the Russians. As Ruslan told Mamon:

"I am here today because my brother, Isa, called us and said, 'It's time to repay your debt. There was a time when the brothers from Ukraine came [to Chechnya] and fought against the common enemy, the aggressor, the occupier."

Comment: Hardly a blowback: Dagestan—'Syria comes to Russia...'
Ethnic Muslim populations in this region of Russia and of the former Soviet Union, including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and into China's Xinjiang Province, have been the target of various US and NATO intelligence operations since the Cold War era ended in 1990. Washington sees manipulation of Muslim groups as the vehicle to bring uncontrollable chaos to Russia and Central Asia. It's being carried out by some of the same organizations engaged in creating chaos and destruction inside Syria against the government of Bashar Al-Assad. In a real sense, as Russian security services clearly understand, if they don't succeed in stopping the Jihadists insurgency in Syria, it will come home to them via the Caucasus.