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Best of the Web: Making sense of Obama's billion dollar hammer: Throwing a piece of meat to placate the dogs

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© AFPUS President Barack Obama addresses US and Polish airmen in front of a F-16 fighter jet in a hangar at Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland, on June 3, 2014. Obama arrived for a two-day Polish visit, the first stop on a European trip, and will discuss the Ukraine crisis with his central and eastern European counterparts.
You probably heard it by now: Obama has pledged a billion dollars to what my "beloved" BBC called "European security". The official name for this initiative is the "European Reassurance Initiative". You see, Obama and the BBC apparently believe that Europeans are really terrified and that they believe that Russian tanks might roll into Warsaw, Athens, Rome or Lisbon any moment now. The good news is that Uncle Sam is here to reassure them that he will let no such thing happen and that this additional 1 billion dollars will deter the Russian Bear.

Have you ever read something more ridiculous?

So what is really going on here?

There is a wonderful American expression which says that "to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail". Well, to Obama, the EU and the Ukraine sure does look like nails because the only instrument the USA has used in its foreign policy for many decades now is a "hammer" composed of money and guns. But let's backtrack for a second.

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Bullseye

Russia "betrayed" the NWO says senior US diplomat Christopher R. Hill

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I was just watching Alain Soral's latest video when I heard him offer a very interesting explanation for why the AngloZionist Empire hates Putin so much. The article Soral quotes is entitled "The End of the New World Order" and it has been written by Christopher R. Hill, "former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, a US special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and the chief US negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009", i.e. a big shot in the US imperial nomenklatura. Here is what Hill writes:
Russia's annexation of Crimea and ongoing intimidation of Ukraine appears to mean the end of a 25-year period whose hallmark was an effort to bring Russia into greater alignment with Euro-Atlantic goals and traditions. Now the question is: What comes next? (...) [the] new world order held for almost 25 years. Except for Russia's brief war with Georgia in August 2008 (a conflict generally seen as instigated by reckless Georgian leadership), Russia's acquiescence and commitment to the "new world order," however problematic, was one of the great accomplishments of the post-Cold War era. Even Russia's reluctance to support concerted Western action, such as in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990's, was based on arguments that could be heard in other European countries. Russian democracy certainly had its share of flaws, but that hardly made it unique among post-communist countries. (...) Americans do need to understand the challenge they are facing from a Russia that no longer seems interested in what the West has been offering for the last 25 years: special status with NATO, a privileged relationship with the European Union, and partnership in international diplomatic endeavor.

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China and Russia ditch international rating agencies to establish independent rating system

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© RIA Novosti / Igor RussakAnton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
No more Fitch, Moody's, or Standard & Poor's for Russia and China, as they have agreed to establish a rating agency on joint projects, and later, international services, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Tuesday.

"The establishment of an independent rating system is being discussed. Many countries would like to have more objectivity in the assessment of rating agencies," Siluanov said.

"There will be a Russian-Chinese rating agency, which will use the same tools and criteria for assessing countries and regional investments that existing rating agencies use," the minister said.

Foreign investors are influenced by rating agencies, which provide analysis for companies investing in capital, especially abroad. Standard & Poor's recently downgraded Russia's credit rating to just above junk status citing concerns over the significant capital outflow as a result of Russia's action in Ukraine. In the first three months of 2014, a record $51 billion left the world's eighth largest economy.

Comment: It's not surprising that Russia is taking more steps to protect itself from Western domination:

More self foot-shooting: American financial rating company cuts Russia's credit rating to step above 'junk'


Black Cat

Staged amateur night for the suckers: Snowden, Brian Williams interview

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Brian Williams throwing Snowden softballs.
You could call it a completely incompetent interview, but Brian Williams is supposed to be incompetent. That's his job.

Don't take a Snowden comment and drill down into it. Don't connect dots. Don't delve into Snowden's history. Don't ask serious questions about the NSA.

Just make the interview seem important. That's all that counts. Give the impression that the interview is an Event.

When Snowden suddenly told Williams he was trained as a spy, he wasn't just an analyst, when he said he'd worked under false names at false jobs he didn't really have, for the CIA, NSA, and DIA...that's a show-stopper.

Hold everything. "Really, Ed? What did you do? What kind of thing? You worked for the DIA? Never heard that before. When? Why haven't you said you were a spy before? Why hasn't Greenwald mentioned this? Does the New York Times know this? The Washington Post? When you took that last systems-analyst job for NSA in Hawaii, as a contractor for Booz Allen, you'd already been a deep-cover spy for NSA? What exactly was your job at NSA in Hawaii, Ed?"

And that's just for starters.

Comment: Given that Russia has granted Snowden asylum, we wonder just how deep this web of deception goes... How does Russia fit into it all?


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Limited hangout: Edward Snowden says U.S. "had all info needed to detect 9/11 plot" in 'censored' segment


Last June, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said on Fox News that he was "glad" that his data was being collected and analyzed.

"I'm a Verizon customer," he added. "I don't mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States," Graham said.


Comment: Graham is either stupid and naive, or content in the knowledge that he's got nothing to hide. However, the only people with nothing to hide in a pathocracy are those who follow the psychopaths in charge -- i.e. authoritarian followers -- to the detriment of everyone else, or pathocrats themselves. Which camp do you think Graham falls in?


In an unaired clip of NBC News' interview with Edward Snowden, he explains that mass surveillance isn't making us safer and is just taking our rights and privacy away.

"I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do. I think it's really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don't need to give up and that our Constitution says we should not give up."


Comment: Snowden's right about that. Martha Stout called it the "paranoia switch."


In the allegedly censored clip, Snowden also reveals that the U.S. had all of the intelligence regarding the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 but we unable to connect the dots.

Comment: Snowden's leaks are a limited hangout. Yes, the CIA knew about 911, but key elements within the CIA were probably involved in the first place. Naively patriotic analysts who would've put the dots together were either blocked from doing their jobs or gagged from telling what they knew. Same goes for the Boston bombings -- yes, the intelligence was there and wasn't 'connected', because the FBI was 'handling' the Tsarnaevs.


Bomb

Three Turkish engineers killed in suicide bombing in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed three Turkish engineers and wounded another one on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, the latest attack on foreigners in the war-torn country.

It came after the US and the Taliban sealed a dramatic prisoner swap that saw soldier Bowe Bergdahl released for five senior insurgent figures, raising hopes for peace as foreign forces prepare to withdraw.

"Around 7:15am, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed motorbike targeting a minibus belong to Turkish engineers in Behsud district of Nangarhar province," Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP.

Vader

Seriously: White House aides define Obama Doctrine as 'Don't Do Stupid Sh*t'

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© Getty images'Duper's Delight'
Still trying to figure out what President Barack Obama's foreign policy doctrine is? Search no more. The White House has got you covered.

"For those pining for an Obama Doctrine victory for the president, here it is: 'Don't Do Stupid Shit,'" Politico's Mike Allen wrote in his daily tip sheet, the Politico Playbook, Saturday. "Playbook rarely prints a four-letter word - our nephews are loyal readers. But we are, in this case, because that is the precise phrase President Obama and his aides are using in their off-the-record chats with journalists."

Comment: Clearly, President Obama does lots of 'stupid sh*t', whether we're referring to meddling in Ukraine and the economic repercussions of sanctions against Russia or blowing up innocents all over the third world with drone attacks. Perhaps they're attempting a reversive blockade, however, given a pair of eyes an internet access anyone can see The White House is full of it.


Stock Down

Is the market crazy? Treasuries are screaming crisis while stocks yawn

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© UnknownNew York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman
One critical gauge of how fair and efficient a market is resides in the degree to which it reflects the composite wisdom of all participants. A rigged market, for example, reflects the composite wisdom of just those doing the rigging since they are privy to information that is not shared with all market players.

On March 30, bestselling author Michael Lewis appeared on 60 Minutes to summarize the findings in his newest book, Flash Boys, as follows: "stock market's rigged." Michael Lewis was talking about stock market manipulation by high frequency traders.

Increasingly, the U.S. bond market is delivering almost the same message as Michael Lewis. The U.S. Treasury market, which is experiencing a flight to safety (that suggests a slowing economy, lower corporate earnings and thus a lower stock market in the future) is essentially saying that the current composite wisdom of the stock market is either nuts or the market is, indeed, rigged.

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The Parasitic Bilderberg 2014: List of participants: Mingling of military-intel, politicians, finance, oil, media, academia and Neocon think tanks

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© UnknownThe tip of a parasitic "iceberg"
The Bilderberg group has published a list of participants for its meeting this week in Copenhagen. We find, among the attendees:

- Several state officials, politicians and monarchs such as the Queen of Spain and the Princess of the Netherlands;

- Prominent figures of the oil industry like the Royal Dutch Shell CEO and BP's Group Chief Executive;

The relationship between War and the Global Economy as well as NATO enlargement will no doubt be addressed. In attendance are:

Comment: The Bilderberg group is just the tip of the iceberg. In terms of the parasitic growth SOTT and its readers see on a day to day basis, it's helpful to keep in mind that each of these "Bilderbergers" come together, from their chosen fields of merciless plunder, to form one of many pathological, ramified networks.

For a glimpse into the depravity of the parasites in the social body, check this out:

Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger: Window into ponerology

And for a look at the well researched cosmic connection to the steady decline of society due to pathological interests, see:

Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3


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Best of the Web: Comedian John Oliver blamed for crashing FCC website after calling on Daily Show viewers to express views about CorpGov's plan to create two-tier Internet

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Comedian John Oliver
A pro-net neutrality rant at the end of a recent episode of HBO's news-comedy Last Week Tonight helped to cripple the website of the Federal Communications Commission this week.

Comedian and television host John Oliver is now being blamed for sending viewers of his new show en masse to the FCC's official website, in turn causing FCC.gov to collapse under the weight of a tremendous amount of internet traffic.

Oliver, who last year filled in for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show, concluded Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight with a comedic monologue concerning the FCC and a proposal currently being considered by the regulating agency that, if approved, could pave the way for broadband internet providers to create a two-tier system that would effectively erode the concept of net neutrality as it exists today.

"Net neutrality is actually hugely important. Essentially it means that all data has to be treated equally, no matter who created it. It's why the internet is a weirdly level playing field," Oliver explained. "Ending net neutrality would allow big companies to buy their way into the fast lane, leaving everyone else in the slow lane."