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Corrupt to the Core
The Clintons, Crony Capitalism, and American Foreign Policy
By Justin Raimondo
April 23, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "AW" - The income stream of the Clinton Foundation, which includes many millions of dollars from foreign governments and individuals with close links to foreign governments, has created a firestorm of controversy. A forthcoming book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, by Peter Schweizer, contends that, during her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton granted favors and concessions to governments that were generous in their donations to the Foundation that bears her name.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41665.htm
Good ones........there's a nice piece on OKC in this movie, It's toward the end if I remember correctly.
Another Idiotic Plan to Hurt Russia
By Mike Whitney
“The U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests…..We must, however, be mindful that…Russia will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the only power in the world with the capability of destroying the United States.”
-The Wolfowitz Doctrine, the original version of the Defense Planning Guidance, authored by Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, leaked to the New York Times on March 7, 1992
“For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia…and America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.”
-THE GRAND CHESSBOARD – American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew Brzezinski, page 30, Basic Books, 1997
April 20, 2015 "ICH" - "CP" - The Laussanne negotiations between Iran and the so called P5+1 group (the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany) have nothing to do with nuclear proliferation. They are, in fact, another attempt to weaken and isolate Russia by easing sanctions, thus allowing Iranian gas to replace Russian gas in Europe. Laussanne shows that Washington still thinks that the greatest threat to its dominance is the further economic integration of Russia and Europe, a massive two-continent free trade zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok that would eventually dwarf dwindling US GDP while decisively shifting the balance of global power to Asia. To counter that threat, the Obama administration toppled the elected government of Ukraine in a violent coup, launched a speculative attack on the ruble, forced down global oil prices, and is presently arming and training neo-Nazi extremists in the Ukrainian army. Washington has done everything in its power to undermine relations between the EU and Russia risking even nuclear war in its effort to separate the natural trading partners and to strategically situate itself in a location where it can control the flow of vital resources from East to West.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41611.htm
Eurasia As We (and the U.S.) Knew It Is Dead
By Pepe Escobar
So what we have here is the makings of a Greater Asia from Shanghai to St. Petersburg – including, crucially, Tehran – instead of a Total Eurasia that extends from Lisbon to Vladivostok. Total Eurasia may be broken, at least for now. But Greater Asia is a go. There will be a tsunami of efforts by the usual suspects, to also break it up.
All this will be fascinating to watch. How will Moscow and Beijing stare down the West – politically, commercially and ideologically – without risking a war? How will they cope with so much pressure? How will they sell their strategy to great swathes of the Global South, across multiple Asian latitudes?
One battle, though, is already won. Bye, bye Zbigniew Brzezinski. Your grand chessboard hegemonic dream is over.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41612.htm
Russia's Missile Wall in Iran
By Tony Cartalucci
The popular narrative surrounding the conflict between the West and Iran has always been one of a dangerous rogue state bent on obtaining nuclear weapons before triggering a nuclear-fueled Armageddon aimed at Israel. Underneath this elementary propaganda, lies a more complex truth underpinning a proxy conflict between East and West.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41608.htm
NEW INVESTIGATION REVEALS 3.4M DISPLACED BY WORLD BANK
The World Bank regularly fails to enforce its own rules protecting people in the path of the projects it bankrolls, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, a new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and more than 20 other media partners have found.
Dams, power plants and other projects sponsored by the World Bank have pushed millions of people out of their homes or off their lands or threatened their livelihoods, the investigation found.
http://www.icij.org/blog/2015/04/new-investigation-reveals-34m-displaced-world-bank
"The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food." John Pilger (05/11/2009)
"You can almost predict (US) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen." Noam Chomsky
ROFLMAO!......that's about as concise as you an get.
You're kidding.......who else would have Bernie? If it weren't cold, I'd move there.
Nice find....
Do the Hustle
America is essentially about hustling, and that goes back more than 400 years. It’s practically genetic, in the U.S., by now; the programming is so deep, and so much out of conscious awareness, that very few Americans can break free of it. They’re really sleepwalking through life, living out a narrative that is not of their own making, while thinking they are in the driver’s seat.
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/04/11/•-how-americas-culture-of-hustling-is-dark-and-empty/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29
18 Spectacular aerial shots......drones are good for something else besides killing.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7GdzxO/rSsyWAXl:48b!6D5w/www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3004453/Do-look-world-s-STUNNING-panoramic-landscapes-never-seen-before.html
I think he got tired of arguing with the numbnuts.
Weather Underground
The arrival of man-made earthquakes.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/32YvfA/1pTxOztxD:CAkVYqZZ/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/weather-underground
The Bravery of Being Out of Range.........
Chaos suit us just as well as winning.....maybe more.
Indeed!
Murder Inc...........the mafia are small fry compared to these guys.
Bomb Iran? Not now: Bomb Yemen
By Pepe Escobar
April 09, 2015 "ICH" - "RT" - ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ – the Pentagon-style House of Saud glorifying of its ghastly ‘Bomb Yemen’ show - could be summed up in a single paragraph.
The wealthiest Arab nation – the House of Saud petro-hacienda – supported by other GCC petro-rackets and also the wealthy “West”, has launched an – illegal – bombing/war/kinetic operation against the poorest Arab nation in the name of “democracy.”
And this absurdity is just the beginning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41505.htm
"We Specialize In Illegal Wars"
Chris Hedges
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41492.htm
Maybe they're just a reflection of society............
Study: 70 percent of whites approve of cops striking suspects.
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet April 6, 2015
At least 7 in 10 white people polled in the study believe there are situations that call for a police officer using force against a male citizen. Only 42 percent of black people and 38 percent of Latinos feel the same.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/far-more-whites-believe-its-okay-cops-hit-people-blacks-and-latinos?akid=12978.1921897.6wTnOK&rd=1&src=newsletter1034423&t=1
Police Killed More Than 100 People In March
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/01/3641143/use-of-force-incidents-march/
These guys get fined but keep right on doing business...........
Prison Serves Up Piping Hot Plates of Garbage
Prison food is notoriously unappealing, but one Michigan prison kitchen hit a new low when it served meat from the garbage to inmates. Employees of private food vendor Aramark removed food from the trash, rinsed it off, and reheated it before serving it to inmates at Saginaw Correctional Facility, according to emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request from the accountability watchdog group Progress Michigan.
http://news.yahoo.com/prison-serves-piping-hot-plates-garbage-211355479.html
Stop Smoking the Democrack
By Cindy Sheehan and David Swanson
April 01, 2015 "ICH" - The U.S. government is toying with a war with nuclear Russia while already waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, having done severe damage to Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Military spending is climbing ever higher. Presidential war powers are ever more extreme. The proliferation of nuclear technology is combining with the ease and secrecy of drone wars to raise the risk of a Dr. Strangelove finish to the human species. And, let's face it, you had more time to give a damn when the president was a Republican.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41420.htm
Proof that Russia and Iran Want War
By Washingtons Blog
Look How Close They Put Their Countries To Our Military Bases!
Proof!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41395.htm
The Geopolitics Behind the War in Yemen
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
March 29, 2015 "ICH" - "SCF" - The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became very uneasy when the Yemenese or Yemenite movement of the Houthi or Ansarallah (meaning the supporters of God in Arabic) gained control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa/Sana, in September 2014. The US-supported Yemenite President Abd-Rabbuh Man?our Al-Hadi was humiliatingly forced to share power with the Houthis and the coalition of northern Yemenese tribes that had helped them enter Sana. Al-Hadi declared that negotiations for a Yemeni national unity government would take place and his allies the US and Saudi Arabia tried to use a new national dialogue and mediated talks to co-opt and pacify the Houthis.
The truth has been turned on its head about the war in Yemen. The war and ousting of President Abd-Rabbuh Man?our Al-Hadi in Yemen are not the results of «Houthi coup» in Yemen. It is the opposite. Al-Hadi was ousted, because with Saudi and US support he tried to backtrack on the power sharing agreements he had made and return Yemen to authoritarian rule. The ousting of President Al-Hadi by the Houthis and their political allies was an unexpected reaction to the takeover Al-Hadi was planning with Washington and the House of Saudi.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41396.htm
Some Arabs are more equal than others, lol.
Mentally disturbed or just practical?......you decide.
China’s Wealthy Are Banking on Extinction
http://news.yahoo.com/china-wealthy-banking-extinction-212500950.html
How the Government Steals Your Money
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41341.htm
Ah yes.......sadly, the people here seem to be preoccupied with more important things, whatever they may be, while the whores and pimps in Congress protect the thieves.
"Iceland’s supreme court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country’s special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers.
The Middle East Oil/Nuclear Puzzle
By Pepe Escobar
March 19, 2015 "ICH" - "RT" - US Secretary of State John Kerry may be starting to enjoy the brinkmanship, as he says it’s “unclear” whether the US and Iran would reach a political framework nuclear deal before the end of this month.
Loud applause may be heard in corridors ranging from Tel Aviv to Riyadh.
As negotiations resume in Lausanne, the fact is a potential nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (US, UK, France, BRICS members Russia and China, and Germany) is bound to open the possibility of more Iranian oil exports – thus leading oil prices to fall even further. As of early this week, Brent crude was trading at $54.26 a barrel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41295.htm
Neoconservatists – Who They Are and Their Powers in the Government ( Documentaries )
The Neocon plague. Another symptom of the advanced imperialist disease..
Neoconservatism is a political movement born in the 1960s inside the monthly review Commentary, the journal of the American Jewish Committee, which replaced the Contemporary Jewish Record in 1945. On the “theoretical” side of neoconservatism, most influential neoconservatives such as Norman Podhoretz and his son John, Irving Kristol and his son William, Donald Kagan, Paul Wolfowitz, and Abram Schulsky, refer explicitly to the ideas in the philosophy of Leo Strauss. They often describe themselves as “Straussians.” Incidentally, this is NOT a new plague. They have been vocal and influential since the 1970s. Some criminals still at large like Elliott Abrams were already distinguishing themselves under Ronald Reagan. Their immoral and cynical policies sowed death throughout Central America and other hapless lands subject to imperial manipulation. Today they menace the world with a nuclear Armageddon.
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/03/18/the-neocon-cabal-and-their-nefarious-influence-on-human-affairs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29
Why Is There Crime?
You see, there is either a revolt within the pattern of society, or a complete revolution outside of society. The complete revolution outside of society is what I call religious revolution. Any revolution that is not religious is within society and is therefore no revolution at all, but only a modified continuation of the old pattern. What is happening throughout the world, I believe, is revolt within society, and this revolt often takes the form of what is called crime. There is bound to be this kind of revolt so long as our education is concerned only with training youth to fit into society,that is, to get a job, to earn money, to be acquisitive, to have more, to conform.That is what our so-called education everywhere is doing: teaching the young to conform, religiously, morally, economically; so naturally their revolt has no meaning, except that it must be suppressed, reformed, or controlled. Such revolt is still within the framework of society, and therefore it is not creative at all. But through right education we could perhaps bring about a different understanding by helping to free the mind from all conditioning -that is, by encouraging the young to be aware of the many influences which condition the mind and make it conform. - Krishnamurti, J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
Terrorists: The US Creates Them, Turkey Trains Them, Qatar Finances Them
By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
We used to believe it is a crime to organize, support and give political cover to terrorist organizations. Things have changed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41244.htm
Good Article Sherman.........I got this link from there.........
The Roots of ISIS
Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
As the United States and NATO gear up for the second attempt at drumming up popular support for airstrikes against Syria, the narrative of ISIS and justifications for invading the sovereign nation have become so convoluted in the mainstream media that a casual observer can scarcely keep track of the narrative spun by Western governments and their media mouthpieces. Unfortunately, that is part of the plan – to keep the general public so confused as to what is actually occurring overseas that, eventually, with their opinions formed for them on social media, television shows, and interspersed nightly news clips, they rely on the media to do their thinking for them. Their opinions are not their own but those of the world oligarchy.
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/09/the-roots-of-isis.html
It's Orwell's "NewSpeak". The man was truly a visionary.