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General Haftar is no Colonel Gaddafi

Linda Housman
pravda.ru
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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The name of man who claims to be on a mission to drive out "Islamists and terrorists" from Libya, was mentioned as early as February 22, 2011 - only five days after the start of the NATO-led rebellion against the Jamahiriya - as the possible leader of "post-Gaddafi Libya". And not without reason.

The main purpose in the life of General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar was to feed and express his grudge towards the leader of the Libyan Al-Fatah revolution. Once part of the Free Officers Movement that overthrew the corrupt regime of King Idris and its Western imperialist supporters, Haftar betrayed the revolution in the 1980s, when he cut a deal with anti-Gaddafi forces in the neighbouring country of Chad during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. In exchange for being freed from the Chadian prison that kept him locked up with about 600 other Libyan fighters, he vowed to set up the anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Army (LNA). This army was founded on June 21, 1988 - but not without the vast support of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the approval of then president Ronald Reagan, who had bombed the Libyan capital of Tripoli two years earlier in an attempt to kill the Gaddafi family.
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ECB: Era of negative interest rates has begun

Ryan McMaken
MisesEconomicsBlog
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
Gold Euro coin
© www.marketwatch.comECB: Coining a "phase."
To battle the evils of deflation and dis-inflation, the European central bank is blazing new trails:

According to CNBC:
The European Central Bank (ECB) took the unprecedented step Thursday by imposing a negative interest rate on banks for their deposits - in effect charging lenders to park money with it.

The move was part of a series of measures to combat the euro zone's growth-sapping disinflation and give a push to its stuttering economic recovery.
Business Insider announced 'The Era Of Negative Interest Rates Has Begun' and noted:
Specifically, the ECB cut the deposit rate to -0.1%, from 0.0%, effective June 11.

This is a historic development, as it's the first time a major central bank has cut any main interest rate to negative in a bid to spur lending and spending.

The idea is that if banks aren't being rewarded with a good deposit rate by parking their reserves at the central bank, then they will be more likely to lend it to households and businesses.
This development, while perhaps something new in a de jure kind of way, is really not a significant change in the de facto status quo in which central banks, most notably the ECB and the Fed, are continually seeking to jumpstart economies by inflating the money supply. Of course, they've been trying to jumpstart things for nearly six years, but surely this latest move will work like a charm.

Comment: Genetically Modified Money anyone?

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Nuclear crisis: Will sanity prevail?

Jim McCluskey
Op Ed News
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:27 UTC
nuclear explosion
The first sentence in Steve Taylor's book, The Fall1, reads 'For the last 6,000 years, human beings have been suffering from a kind of collective psychosis. For almost all of recorded history human beings have been -- at least to some degree -- insane.'

Through much of recorded history it has been accepted as normal that, periodically, large groups of men should meet and hack each other to pieces. This was the method of choice for resolving disputes. In the last few hundred years, with the aid of science, our capacity for killing other members of our species has been accelerating way beyond reason. It has now reached an apogee. We are at the end of the process.

We can now, in a few hours, incinerate every human being in existence. What an accomplishment! What an epitaph! We have two thousand nuclear weapons held on hair-trigger alert, already mounted on board their missiles and ready to be launched at a moment's notice. This could happen at any time; perhaps when one of the nine nuclear states elects the ultimate psychopathic and/or narcissistic individual as their leader -- one who believes that a first strike will enable him to win a nuclear war and rule gloriously thereafter.

Comment: For more on Psychopathy see:

More People Ask: Are Politicians Psychopaths?

Capitalism: A System Run By and For Psychopaths

The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as 'Psychopaths'

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Poroshenko's message to Novorossiia and Russia: WAR!

The Saker
The vineyard of the Saker
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 10:19 UTC
Poroshenko
© RIA Novosti Pavel Palamerchuk
Poroshenko's inauguration speech has sent a message to Novorossiia and Russia:
  • No federalization
  • No state status for the Russian language
  • No recognition of the Novorossian political leadership
  • Full and unconditional surrender of the Novorossian Defense Forces
  • Crimea will forever belong to the Ukraine.
He could not have been any clearer: that is basically a declaration of war and an ultimatum. This is also a full endorsement of the "Banderastan project".

Clearly, the US has prevailed over the hoplessly spineless EU leaders like Merkel or Hollande and the AngloZionists will have their way.

I must leave my computer for the next 12 hours and I cannot write a full analysis of Poroshenko's decision to fully follow the US line, but I will say that two things appear inevitable now: a Russian military intervention in Novorossia followed by the Cold War v2 the AngloZionists wanted so badly. Up until this moment the European colonies still had a chance to avoid a future which will hurt them much more than it will hurt the US or Russia, but they could not even muster the willpower to protect their own vital interests.

I am disgusted beyond words.

The Saker

Comment: What did Obama say to Poroshenko when they met? Perhaps: "Go ahead! Don't worry my boy. You can do it and we will of course not support you 100%."

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Money and morality have a perversely symbiotic relationship

Robert C. Koehler
Commonwonders.com
Wed, 14 May 2014 08:28 UTC
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Step on the gas, step on a man . . .

Writing recently in The Nation, Chris Hayes drew an intensely unnerving parallel between the use of fossil fuels as an energy source and the use of slave labor - not a moral parallel, but a financial one, though money and morality have a perversely symbiotic relationship. Where there's money to be made - especially enormous quantities of it - moral justifications come awfully cheap.

Hayes points out that the movement to end dependence on fossil fuels, drastically reduce carbon emissions and reverse global warming faces a financial hurdle of staggering proportions: ". . . the total amount of known, proven extractable fossil fuel in the ground at this very moment is almost five times the amount we can safely burn," he writes. Possession of this unexcavated carbon is claimed by global corporations: It's theirs to pull out of the ground, and it's worth . . . uh, somewhere between $10 and $20 trillion.

But there is, it turns out, a precedent for divesting rich and powerful people of a comparable amount of wealth, Hayes says. It was called the abolition movement.

Comment: Money Supply, Debt Slavery and other Manipulations

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Best of the Web: 30 examples that you have plenty to fear even if you are doing nothing wrong

Doug Newman
Foodforthinkers' Blog
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:59 UTC
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Sometimes I just want to pimp slap people.

Last summer, I was at dinner during a sales convention. The conversation didn't get political until someone mentioned the NSA.

There is one in every crowd. Someone piped up and said, "They can spy on me all they want. I am not doing anything wrong."

They sang this song in Germany in 1933. And they sang it with unprecedented gusto in the months following 9/11, all in the name of "security" and "keeping us safe".

We were at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the world's second largest hotel. Nothing in the post-9/11 "national security" apparatus would prevent a terrorist from walking in, setting off a bomb, and killing hundreds or even thousands of people.

The more important questions are: How do you know you are doing nothing that could be construed as wrong by some state functionary? How do you know you are not breaking some law somewhere? And why are you so implicitly trusting that your government would never do anything evil with the information it has collected on you?

This is not purely an academic matter. The practical implications are profound.

Comment: "As we wake up to the new, dead world around us of collapsed living standards and continuing insane, imperialistic Wars of aggression, there is no reason for anyone to be in the dark about 'how it came to this'. The deceptive justifications that are offered for the slaughter of innocents and the loss of our collective humanity, appear to be very effective at keeping most people apathetic. The sad fact of the matter is that the reality that most people are too afraid to confront is just as disturbing as the world-view that the Nazi's created for the German people over 70 years ago.

When we look back at what happened in Germany and the conditions that lead to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, it is with the warm reassurance that those terrifying events of the past will never repeat themselves."

Defying the March of Fascism in the Degenerating United States of Euramerica

See also: Defying Hitler - Sebastian Haffner

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Ionosphere Institute? German foreign intelligence agency comes clean about secret sites

Frank Jordans
Daily Reporter
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:27 UTC
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© AP Photo/dpa, Stephan JansenThe president of the German Intelligence Agency, BND, , Gerhard Schindler, stands in front of a facility with a new attached logo in Bad Aibling, Germany Friday June 6, 2014. Germany's foreign intelligence agency officially lifted the lid on some of its worst-kept secrets Friday, acknowledging that half a dozen facilities around the country are in fact spy stations” as anyone with Internet access could already figure out.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency officially lifted the lid on some of its worst-kept secrets Friday, acknowledging that half a dozen facilities around the country are in fact spy stations - as anyone with Internet access could already figure out.

The Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, maintained the facade for decades that it had nothing to do with sites bearing cryptic names such as "Ionosphere Institute." But amateur sleuths long suspected their true identities and posted them on websites such as Wikipedia.

The subterfuge wasn't helped by the fact that some sites sport unmistakable signs of spy activity, like the giant golf ball-shaped radomes in Bad Aibling, near Munich - until now, the "Telecommunications Traffic Office of the German Armed Forces."

Comment: Curious, that one of BND's spying sites was disguised as an Ionosphere Institute. What a coincidence, since U.S.'s HAARP has also to do with ionosphere research. At least, this is their official explanation. Interestingly enough, in May, 2014 the U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. Apparently, ionosphere research is "not an area that they have any need for in the future and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going". Yeah, right.

The military and government have plenty of money to keep this part of HAARP going it they wanted to. This announcement makes one wonder what exactly they have in place to continue the experiment and what the next phase is, since "We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere." Despite the prevalent belief, that HAARP has to do with weather control, instead being busy with various mind control activities is a distinct possibility. Think about it, when was the last time hundreds of millions were spent for the good and well being humanity or for the sake of science. They aren't going to come out and say "Yep, you got us. We are using HAARP for mind control."

Read the following articles to learn more:
Mind Control and HAARP
HAARP and The Canary in the Mine

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Evil Rays

Warcrime! Turkey cuts off water supply to Syria via the Euphrates river

Nizar Abboud
Youtube
Fri, 30 May 2014 02:50 UTC
Syria's friend (Turkey) depriving Syrians from their share of Euphrates water for two weeks now.
Euprates Tigris basin

Comment: Collective punishment is a warcrime!

Fourth Geneva Convention
Collective punishments
Article 33. No persons may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against persons and their property are prohibited.

Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, collective punishment is a war crime. By collective punishment, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World War I and World War II. In the First World War, during the Rape of Belgium, the Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity. In World War II, the Germans carried out a form of collective punishment to suppress resistance. Entire villages or towns or districts were held responsible for any resistance activity that occurred in them.[3] The conventions, to counter this, reiterated the principle of individual responsibility. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to "intimidatory measures to terrorize the population" in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices "strike at guilty and innocent alike. They are opposed to all principles based on humanity and justice."

Additional Protocol II of 1977 explicitly forbids collective punishment. But as fewer states have ratified this protocol than GCIV, GCIV Article 33 is the one more commonly quoted.


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Heroes of Novorossia: Bezler and Bolotov

The Saker
The Vineyard of the Saker
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:47 UTC
Dear friends,

A reader asked me to translate these two videos and thanks for the help of sparling05 and his/her friends, an English subtitled version is now available. Big thanks to sparling05!

Enjoy,

The Saker


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Vodafone reveals 'nightmare scenario' of secret wires that allow state surveillance

Juliette Garside
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:21 UTC
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Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond.

The company has broken its silence on government surveillance in order to push back against the increasingly widespread use of phone and broadband networks to spy on citizens, and will publish its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on Friday. At 40,000 words, it is the most comprehensive survey yet of how governments monitor the conversations and whereabouts of their people.

The company said wires had been connected directly to its network and those of other telecoms groups, allowing agencies to listen to or record live conversations and, in certain cases, track the whereabouts of a customer. Privacy campaigners said the revelations were a "nightmare scenario" that confirmed their worst fears on the extent of snooping.

In Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Malta, Qatar, Romania, South Africa and Turkey, it is unlawful to disclose any information related to wiretapping or interception of the content of phone calls and messages including whether such capabilities exist.
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