When things are not nipped in the bud, we see occurrences the type of which we have been seeing more and more of late. However, very unfortunately, Muslims have been rampaging in Sweden from way back when. The politicians (vote whores) did not take any serious action against the wrong-doers then and as their unsocial behaviour was not reined in, that behaviour has been intensifying with each criminal event that went unpunished. The latest horror in Sweden was the stabbing death of a young woman volunteer at one of the refugee centres. That has given rise to anger and has led to the incident below. I am 100% sure, this won't be a one-off event. Expect more. The authorities, having not laid down the law when they should have, have now been rendered non-entities. This is often the case as history tells us again and again. BUT nobody takes heed ever.
From the Independent 'Hundreds' of masked men beat refugee children in Stockholm They handed out leaflets threatening to give 'the North African street children who are roaming around' the 'punishment they deserve' Hundreds of masked men marched through Stockholm's main train station on Friday evening, reportedly beating up refugees and anyone who didn't appear to be ethnically Swedish.
Wearing all-black balaclavas and armbands, the men "gathered with the purpose of attacking refugee children," Stockholm police spokesperson Towe Hagg said.
"I saw maybe three people who were beaten.....
This blog has been documenting some of the past incidents in Sweden, and a quick search reveals the blogs listed below. I can see from my old postings that I mostly blamed the Muslims for EVERYTHING bad. Not any more. I have come to the sad realization that the anger, violence and revenge seeking mentality of the majority of the Muslim immigrant or refugee population, has been introduced into the Muslims' DNA by the Anglo powers of our world and that phenomena has happened because of the constant warring in Muslim countries and the uprooting of tens of millions of Muslim families. The root of the Muslim problem lies in the misdeeds of our own leaders of the Western world.
Sweden's first suicide bomber....... let's keep a count. Stockholm: Mad Muzzie ONE ....... Dec 11, 2010. What pure sweet luck that he kills only himself. However, two innocent shoppers were injured when the car bomb went off.
Now, let me elaborate why the flaming title of this posting:
Below is what the Swedish officials are said to be saying about the terrorist bombing- what's been said here is what is otherwise known as "political correctness" ... you know.... the deadly disease that is akin to a form of madness afflicting "white" people. Muzzies are going stark raving mad afflicted with islam and whities are going starkier raving mad afflicted with political correctness.
I have highlighted the portions that I think are stinky dumps of political correctness. Keep your nose pinched.
The horrors of Muslim immigration in Sweden brought to you straight from someone who's a resident of Malmo. Really worth your time to read the entire speech. We need to know what's ahead of us and our children, and force ourselves to envision the grim future that's in store for them. The Muslim takeover is real .... maybe not in your lifetime but within the next 50 years. Do the math with the immigration numbers keeping in mind that Muslims don't abort their kids....
October 9, 2012 Sweden....gone to thedogs Those with eyes wide open and ears not plugged shut were aware of what was going on in Sweden from way back when. The rot going on there is coming to Canada too. Wait and watch and hear. ....
May 25, 2013 The sickening sadomasochism of Sweden The authorities in Sweden, including their moronic PM, saying that the Muslim arsonists rampaging all over (the riots have spread beyond the capital) now for the sixth night in a row, are acts committed by "hooligans", is nothing short of a country begging these murderous immigrants to take over the entire country and make it their own with their own Shariah shit. These authorities don't care about Swedes, they care more about how they will be able to get those additional votes come election time from the new immigrants and refugees ... for having sided with them against well-meaning Swedes who criticized what's going on.
Lars Hedegaard of Dispatch International has his say in the vid below....
May 26, 2013 Sweden rushing to do itself in before the rest of the EU Bruce Bawer writing at FrontPageMag gives us a glimpse into Sweden's socialist paradise gone drastically wrong. He also relies on research done by Jon Sjunnesson in a new book "The Swedish Story". The article is really worth reading in full to give us an understanding of how brainwashing from early childhood into the socialist mold is easily accomplished by a socialist state and how generation upon generation of Swedes know not how to act independently from what the State dictates. Orwell's "1984" is Sweden's "2013"....
Oct 9, 2012 Sweden gone to the dogs Andreas Norlén, the MP who has put forth this motion and it has already been voted on and moved further ... looks the picture of one very crazed lunatic psychopath who should be put in a strait jacket and shoved away in a padded cell. No wonder he's come up with this hare-brained nonsense and if this is made into law we will know that there's a disgraceful cartel in charge of Sweden which goes in the guise of a government of the people. I wonder how they will handle thought criminals who are not Swedish citizens. Will the silly Swedes now vote for getting extradition treaties with the rest of the 196 countries of the world ... oh... wait a minute I forgot .... what one EU country does is regarded to be what every other EU country is supposed to accept, so any EU citizen caught criticizing an immigrant or LGBT person of Sweden is gonna be hauled kicking and screaming to face the nutty judges in Swedish courts... but they might need those extradition treaties for the rest of the world.
Our mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. If it's not the Muslims and the LGBT nuts, it's the white-chocolate coated Swedes....
This is what happens when politicians we vote to high places have less intelligence than a dead drunk homeless bozo wandering in the streets. The kind of situation Sweden finds herself in now, is a very dangerous one. Not only does Sweden have a very aggressive immigrant population, mainly from Syria and Libya, who riot and commit arson at the drop of a hat, the country now has an anti-immigration party in charge .... anything can happen when you mix the two....
June 3, 2013 Sweden lectures other EU countries over "welfare scaremongering" Must be something in the water there that is driving the white Swedes to the inevitable mass suicide. 50 years from now, I doubt there will be even 3 million of them left in Sweden. ...
HAHAHAHAHAHA !! BUT ... what about travel to Woolwich and London? Sometimes we have to withhold our anger and instead laugh at all the insanity unfolding relentlessly before our eyes.
From TheIndependentUK comes a detailed story about the riots in Sweden giving additional collaboration that the knife brandisher died long before the riots started but just like what the Obama administration did with the Benghazi fiasco, the authorities in Sweden too thought it best to blame the riots not on the rioters themselves but on the "mishap" of their own police which led to spontaneous rioting out of anger and frustration.....and of course the inefficient media writes whatever is easily obtained without delving any further into the statements given by "sources" which sources are most likely the rioting immigrants themselves.
Worth reading Tom Peck's article in full. Another thing that comes to light from this article is that the activists from the Left wing party instigated the initial riots .... so this is something that was planned and executed by white leftish Swedes using Muslim immigrants who are ever ready to riot and create havoc at the slightest excuse. ..
May 25, 2013 7th night of rioting in Sweden by Muslim immigrants and refugees It's the Muslim way of saying "Thank You for rescuing us from our hellhole Muslim countries and bringing us to Sweden and giving us the kind of welfare not given by any other country." And, of course, the putrid Left of Sweden are firmly with the arsonist and terrorists. This will spread to other countries too in the EU sooner than later. I blame the politicians who are responsible for importing these animals, not the Muslims. The Muslims can't change their stripes nor can they give up their love for violence embedded deep within their DNA....
Wait until it gets too spicy for their taste ... that's when the real fireworks will go off. Socialists cannot take dissent for long, they pretend to be above it all and profess to be very fair-mined and generous .... but time and time again we have seen what happens when things become too hot for the short-sighted ones....
Hamlet : Stand, ho! Who's there? EU warmongering Leaders (EUwls): Millions of refugees, open your gates Hamlet: No. I give you good night. Go your way elsewhere. EUwls: We be friends of this ground too. Give way sir! Hamlet: What things appear this ghostly night? Begone bloody spirits! EUwls: We see nothing such sir. Open your gates. Hamlet: Don't assail my ears no more. Begone!
Ah ... the tragedies they keep coming cause once we get addicted to colonizing, looting and regime changing we simply can't stop ourselves!!!
Rouhani is rightly upset because almost none of his "reformist" mindset candidates passed the selection process. However, as he is the best thing that's happened to Iran in a long, long time, he better take it one step at a time. Slow and steady wins the race. He must not get on the wrong side of the fanatical hardliners.
Arash Karami at AlMonitor Rouhani: Not even the first Shiite imam was this strict One day after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei indirectly approved a massive disqualification of aspiring parliamentary candidates, President Hassan Rouhani showed he is not retreating from his attempts to fill Iran’s next parliament with like-minded allies.
The Guardian Council disqualified more than half of the 12,000 candidates who registered to run in the February parliamentary elections and only qualified 1% of the 3,000 Reformist candidates who registered. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of the council, said he would not budge under pressure to reinstate them. A council spokesman said some candidates were not approved because of previous disqualifications, unreliable education credentials and open court cases. Other candidates, including clerics, were disqualified for “non-adherence” to Islam and to the Islamic Republic.
During a Jan. 21 speech at the Interior Ministry, Rouhani criticized the disqualification of candidates over their alleged non-adherence to Islam. He said that when Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (regarded by Shiites as the first imam, and also the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad) looked for governors, he not only judged their religious qualifications, such as whether they prayed at night or how much they gave to charity, but also considered their efficacy, understanding and administrative and management ability.
Rouhani noted that those two criteria — adherence to Islam and to the Islamic Republic — are often cited in disqualifying candidates while other criteria are ignored. Referencing the dire security situation in the region and tumultuous oil prices, Rouhani said, “Under these conditions today, employment is the primary issue for us and competent individuals must be sent to parliament.”
Rouhani also said that since the Iranian Constitution stipulates that Jews and Zoroastrians each should have a member in parliament to represent their communities, according to the constitution, other groups should too. Without mentioning a specific group's name, Rouhani said there is a faction in the country that has 7 million to 10 million followers. He probably was referring to the Reformist faction. While it is inaccurate to compare Reformists to a religious group, they have been essentially sidelined from Iranian politics despite having popular support. Reformist candidates are likely to support Rouhani’s policies, given that many of them supported him in the 2013 presidential elections.....
Yes, it is!! Wars give America's powers-that-be a kind of erotic sexual pleasure not experience by any other nation throughout our planet's history. When Empires turn masochistic to this level of suicidal insanity, no one can help them from the inevitable downfall. So, let it happen. The sooner the better. Our Earth will breathe a sigh of relief when this particular Empire expires.
From the below pieces you can come to the undoubtedly correct conclusion that the Empire is set to venture once again in Afghanistan and Iraq in a kind of kamikaze failure. Also, same in Syria. Dreadful defeats by Muslims in the first two nations were not enough and so the sadistic degenerates now desire additional pleasurable masochism at the hands of a third Muslim nation. **sigh**
Peter Van Buren writing at AntiWar Petraeus: ‘It’s Time To Unleash America’s Airpower in Afghanistan’ In an Op-Ed printed in the Washington Post, former General David Petraeus says it is time to “unleash our airpower in support of our Afghan partners in the same way that we support our Iraqi and Syrian partners against extremists.”
Petraeus went on to claim:
At present, U.S. and NATO airpower in Afghanistan is used only to attack validated al-Qaeda targets, to counter specific individuals or groups who have attacked coalition forces previously and to respond directly to attacks on coalition forces. According to leaders on the ground, US and NATO forces are otherwise not allowed to attack Taliban targets. The situation appears to be in flux in regard to Islamic State elements, but through 2015, they too could be targeted only under narrow circumstances.
And, then there's this report from a pro-Russian YouTube user:
Additionally, the below from Dr Ron Paul:
The US Senate under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is poised to rush to the floor a bill that would give the president total war authority anywhere on the globe, perhaps even including on US soil. All in the name of fighting ISIS, Congress is about to crown the president with unlimited war powers. In today's Liberty Report we discuss the dangers of the incredible shrinking Legislative branch of government:
Informative read and analysis from someone who actually travels and lives for extended periods of time in the countries he writes about.
Pepe Escobar at StrategicCulture: Facing the gleaming Doha skyline on a Persian Gulf winter carries the merit of a panoramic perspective. Most nations around it are going into melt down and the remaining ones – with the exception of Iran – exhibit neither the political leadership nor the economic and institutional infrastructure to do anything other than to meekly accept whatever tsunami hits their shores. They are nothing but scared spectators.
The Empire of Chaos has enough warmongering hardware pre-positioned within spitting distance to turn the whole of Southwest Asia into ashes – as a gaggle of usual suspects in the Beltway, neocon or neoliberalcon, still can’t find a cure to their itching to "really win the next war" in a sort of exponential Shock and Awe.
Fear reigns supreme. Jim Rickards, the author of Currency Wars, economist and CIA asset, has just released a new book, The Big Drop, with a pretty grim message. For his part Jim Rogers, a.k.a. the «Sage of Singapore», most of the time China-bound informing the Chinese elite where to place their investments, holds on to a nuanced perspective on the West blaming all the current global economy turmoil on China.....
........So the Masters of the Universe strategy essentially boils down to regime-change in Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, leading to Exceptionalistan-friendly elites/vassals; in sum, the ultimate chapter in the global Resource Wars. Yet what this is yielding so far is the House of Saud having absolutely no clue of what may happen to them; Riyadh royals may think that they are undermining both Iran and Russia, but in the end they may be only accelerating their own demise.....
..... All across the spectrum, driven by fear, the toxic mix of political and economic instability continues to spread, leading quite a few insiders to wonder whether both the Fed and the Politburo Standing Committee in Beijing don't really know what’s happening.
And that once again feeds the warmongering hordes, for which that «good old-fashioned world war» is the easiest ticket out. Cancel all the old debt; issue loads of new debt; turn ploughshares and iPhones into cannons. And after a little thermonuclear exchange, welcome to full employment and a new (waste)land of opportunity.....
but to all peace-loving inheritors of our planet's history, heritage and culture.
Bill Nemitz at PressHerald The Islamic State destroyed St. Elijah's in Mosul, but not the ideals that built it 1,400 years ago. For modern civilization, the news last week was shocking: Satellite imagery has confirmed that ISIS forces destroyed a 1,400-year-old monastery not long after they took over the city of Mosul in northern Iraq in June 2014.
But for a battalion of Maine soldiers who saw the pictures on TV, blinked, and looked again, this was personal.
“When I first looked at it, I said, ‘No, that can’t be,’ ” said Maj. (Ret.) David Sivret, who served back in 2004-2005 as chaplain for the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Battalion in Mosul. “And then I saw that in fact it was.”
It was called Dair Mar Elia, or St. Elijah’s Monastery. I first saw it in December 2004 while photographer Greg Rec and I were embedded with the 133rd at Forward Operating Base Marez on the outskirts of Mosul.
Then-Sgt. Dan Landers of Bangor, eager to show us the unseen reaches of the sprawling base, had commandeered a Humvee for the afternoon and told us to hop in.
A few minutes down the bumpy dirt road (Landers’ daily running route), we came upon the ancient compound of stone walls, a chapel, a sanctuary and two dozen other rooms. I remember commenting on how pristine it all seemed, especially given the immediate surroundings.
Just outside the monastery lay the “boneyard,” a ghostly collection of rusting Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles left over from the 2003 U.S. invasion and, before that, the war between Iraq and Iran.
Beyond that, the fields were still littered with unexploded ordnance – when a grass fire raced through earlier that year, soldiers from the 133rd had watched from their rooftops as mortars went off willy-nilly. “It was like fireworks out there for an entire day,” chortled Landers.....
On that strange unbelievable incident involving two US navy boats ... if you like conspiracy theories (I do) there's a rumor floating around that the boats were put out of action by the Iranians' jamming of their navigational systems. I like that theory. I like that the underdog (Iran) has the means and the guts to confront a bully (USA).
Furthermore, as you will see from the below, the official explanation given to the world is simply not believable. Whatever the reason was, it was definitely not the one given to us.
The official story of those captured US sailors makes no sense
Your bullshit-ometer should be making an awful racket in response to the shifting explanations given for the twenty-four-hour Iranian hostage scare involving two US Navy boats intercepted in the Gulf.
First they told us “at least one of the boats” had experienced a “mechanical failure.” Then they said the boats had run out of fuel, although it wasn’t clear if they meant both boats. Then they said “there was no mechanical problem.” Then they claimed that the two crews had somehow not communicated with the military command, although “they could not explain how the military had lost contact with not one but both of the boats.” As the New York Times reported:
“Even as Mr. Kerry was describing the release on Wednesday morning, American military officials were offering new explanations about how the two 49-foot patrol boats, formally called riverine command boats, had ended up in Iranian territorial waters while cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain.”
And they still haven’t explained it – or any of the other distinctly odd circumstances surrounding this incident.
The best they could do was have an anonymous Navy officer aver “When you’re navigating in those waters, the space around it gets pretty tight.” However, as the Times put it: “But that is hardly a new problem, and the boats’ crews would almost surely have mapped out their course in advance, paying close attention to the Iranian boundary waters. And each boat has ........
DemocracyNow brings on Jane Mayer the author of "Dark Money" whose research and investigative work into one segment of the many layered powers-that-be that make up the corrupt America of today, tells a truly explosive tale of the Koch Brothers and how the super rich have hijacked, willingly of course, the most corrupt politicians you will find nowhere else on this planet.
In 2010, Jane Mayer published an extensive profile of the billionaire Koch brothers in The New Yorker, exploring their quiet effort to funnel more than $100 million to right-wing causes and undermine President Obama’s policy agenda. Six years later, Mayer reveals her subjects responded by hiring a private firm to discredit her reporting. Mayer details the episode in her new book on the Kochs and their right-wing, ultra-rich allies, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right." AMY GOODMAN: What happened to you, Jane, after your big exposé in 2010 in The New Yorker magazine?
JANE MAYER: This was something that had never happened to me before, but—even though I’ve covered all kinds of things, from wars to the CIA. But I suddenly found myself about to be attacked in the press, the right-wing press, on charges that were drummed up by a private eye that had been digging into me. That private eye was, it turned out—and I report about this in the book—was working with top Koch operatives, who I name in the book. It’s all been checked. The Kochs have had their chance to say it’s not so. They have never denied it, and neither has the detective. And they tried to plant misinformation about me in the press. Luckily, it was so false, nobody ran with it.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain the whole story. What happened?.....
If it's not the USA partnering in slaughter here, there, everywhere, then it's their little helper the UK where the Windsors, originally of German stock, made themselves kings and queens and hunting for blood and gore, especially of other human beings, their favorite sport. Understandably, although we will deny it to high heaven, the Muslim anger being vented out on young innocent English girls in the UK, is probably the result of such actions by the governments of their adopted countries, on the Muslim immigrants' old countries, where still resides their family, friends and neighbours. But, as the majority of the present generation in the West are not first nor even second generation immigrants, they have long forgotten what it is to be one.
Saudi foreign minister confirms claims that British military advisers are in operation room of heavily criticised bombing campaign
British military advisers are in control rooms assisting the Saudi-led coalition staging bombing raids across Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians, the Saudi foreign minister and the Ministry of Defence have confirmed.
The Saudi air force, along with the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf allies, have backed the internationally recognised government in Yemen against a rebellion that swept much of the country from the north.
But this coalition has been heavily criticised for striking civilian targets, and Britain is under particular fire as a major weapons supplier to the Saudi air force.
The admission that British officers were working alongside Saudi and other coalition colleagues in the campaign’s operations rooms came in a briefing to The Telegraph and other journalists by the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir. ....
on the night of New Year 2016. Happy New Year dear European Union. This is just a sampling of the many goodies in store for you. Unfortunately, because of the EU leaders being puppets of the powers-that-be, the all too powerful 1% elite, the innocent as well as the willing stupid who prefer to remain unaware of the wars in the Middle East, will have to suffer for decades to come if not forever more from now.
Something like this might probably wake up the young generation of Europeans and rouse them into positive action, that of getting their leaders to step out of the Muslim countries. BUT, I am not holding my breath.
Below are a few reports from that night's incidents, other incidents and related aftermath. Also, let's try and remember that there are plenty of good apples amongst the refugees as the very first link below testifies. Let's not generalize although it is very easy and very tempting to do so.
From IndependentUK Cologne attacks: American woman tells how Syrian refugees rescued her from New Year's Eve sexual assault An American woman has told how she was rescued from being sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve in Cologne by a group of Syrian refugees.
Caitlin Duncan, a neuroscience student from Seattle, told the New York Times she had become separated from her boyfriend in the crowded square outside the city’s famous cathedral and main railway station.
She described a man stealing her hat before another “grabbed” her from behind, searching through her pockets and a third man tried to kiss her face and neck.....
From TheLocal Cologne New Year violence cases up to 379 Cologne police said Saturday the number of cases filed over violence during New Year's festivities had reached 379, and that asylum seekers and illegal migrants made up the majority of suspects.
From WashingtonPost No asylum seekers allowed in German city’s public pool after sexual assault reports The western German city of Bornheim has banned male asylum seekers older than 18 from using the city's swimming pool. Officials said the decision was made after consecutive cases of sexual assaults at the city-run swimming pool....
From TheLocal Rhineland town axes Carnival over sexual assault fears A town north of Cologne has cancelled one of its Carnival parades, citing fears of a repeat of the sexual assaults which took place in the Cathedral city over the New Year.....
From TheLocal Cologne sex attackers risk deportation - Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said she backed legal changes to make it easier to deport migrants who commit crimes, after authorities said many accused of shocking New Year mob violence were asylum seekers....
From NYTimes 18 Asylum Seekers Are Tied to Attacks on Women in Germany The German authorities on Friday tied asylum seekers for the first time to the wave of violent assaults on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve as debate intensified over whether the country had made a mistake in opening its doors last year to more than a million migrants.
The Interior Ministry said 18 of the 31 people identified so far as suspects in the violence in Cologne had applied for asylum in Germany. The disclosure further stoked fears about security and culture clashes between the newcomers, mostly from Muslim countries, and Germans who are confronting the costs of assimilating them....
From VICE Here's What Happened at the Dueling Protests Over the Mass Sexual Assault in Germany It's been just over a week since hundreds of women were robbed, threatened, or sexually assaulted in front of Cologne's towering cathedral, by what has been described as up to 1,000 "drunk and aggressive" men of "North African or Middle Eastern" appearance.
There have been several notable consequences in the days since, including a backlash against refugees and migrants — more than 1 million of whom were welcomed to Germany last year. On Friday, Cologne's police chief was forced to resign. Germany also announced that 22 of the 32 assault suspects were asylum seekers. On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced German law would be toughened to ease the deportation of law-breaking migrants.
Two separate protests took place on Saturday afternoon. The largest was held by Pegida, a year-old German anti-Islam group, which said it was protesting the attacks on New Year's Eve and calling for tighter controls on immigration. Police estimated that 1,700 people were in attendance. A counter-protest with around 1,300 people was held around 100 meters away, including a number of groups that said they were protesting against both the New Year's Eve attacks and Pegida's anti-immigration rhetoric.....
From NYTimes As Germany Welcomes Migrants, Sexual Attacks in Cologne Point to a New Reality In early December, the Cologne police made their New Year’s Eve preparations. Drawing on the previous year’s experience, they identified their biggest worry as pickpocketing and fireworks among the crowds. So they increased their holiday deployment, to 142 from 88, concentrating on the banks of the Rhine River, where revelers traditionally gather for a giant fireworks display.
As 2016 neared on Dec. 31, however, some 1,500 men, including some newly arrived asylum seekers and many other immigrants, had instead assembled around Cologne’s train station. Drunk and dismissive of the police, they took advantage of an overwhelmed force to sexually assault and rob hundreds of people, according to police reports, shocking Germany and stoking anxieties over absorbing refugees across Europe....
nothing. I am betting these PR firms also keep all the human rights abuses in the other Sunni nations, specifically Bahrain, buried deep and out of the public eye here in the West. Shameful!
From Lobelog:
Washington’s Multi-Million-Dollar Saudi PR Machine Public image isn’t something one can always control, but Saudi Arabia is spending millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists and PR firms to improve the Kingdom’s reputation in the West. The execution of Shiite leader Sheik Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, followed by an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the Kingdom’s severing of diplomatic relations with Iran, would seem to offer few upsides for the Saudi government. Riyadh’s behavior comes across as a desperate Hail-Mary pass to isolate Iran at the expense of regional efforts to negotiate a de-escalation of the Syrian civil war and defeat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.....
...So, how much money is in it for the PR professionals who are burning the midnight oil to put a positive spin on Saudi Arabia’s decision to start the year with a mass execution of 47 prisoners? Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings submitted by Saudi government contractors in Washington reveal an expensive PR operation.
Firms listed as “active foreign principals for Saudi Arabia” on the FARA website include: DLA Piper, Targeted Victory, Qorvis/MSLGroup, Pillsbury Winthrop, Hogan Lovells, and the Podesta Group. Qorvis/MSLGroup appears to the biggest recipient of Saudi money. Their FARA filings reveal what appears to be a $240,000 per month retainer with the Kingdom for services described as:
Drafted and/or distributed news releases, weekly newsletters, fact sheets and/or speeches to promote Saudi Arabia, its commitment towards counterterrorism, peace in the Middle East, and other issues pertinent to the Kingdom.
Qorvis/MSLGroup also reports it “created a Twitter account for a senior Saudi official,” and “managed a website on Operation Renewal of Hope,” Saudi Arabia’s 10-month-old military intervention in Yemen. Moreover, it farms out $55,000 per month of work from the Saudi account to Targeted Victory, LLC, a digital consulting firm.....
The Podesta Group received $200,000 from ....
....DLA Piper receives a fee of $50,000 per month for .....
...Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP collects a fee of $15,000 per month for....
....Saudi Arabia is certainly a prize catch for K Street firms looking for hefty monthly retainers from foreign clients. But the U.S. military-industrial complex rakes in the biggest profits from the country currently fanning the flames of sectarian conflict in the Middle East.....
When there are constant and aggressive government infringements on the way of life of We The People, this is what is likely to happen. Rumor has it that militia groups are multiplying in the good old USA. Gotta wonder why, eh? Don't blame the ranchers without educating yourselves on the background history. Below, I have tried to give as much as I could find on the why and how. Go to the links to read in full.
From SuperStation95 Patriot Militia Seizes Federal Complex in Oregon; Armed Insurrection Against federal Tyranny Begins ....HISTORY: The Harney Basin in Oregon (were the Hammond ranch is established) was settled in the 1870’s. The valley was settled by multiple ranchers and was known to have run over 300,000 head of cattle. These ranchers developed a state of the art irrigated system to water the meadows, and it soon became a favorite stopping place for migrating birds on their annual trek north.
In 1908 President Theodor Roosevelt, in a political scheme, create an “Indian reservation” around the Malheur, Mud & Harney Lakes and declared it “as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds”. Later this “Indian reservation” (without Indians) became the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. These actions were flatly unconstitutional as explained later in this story.
In 1964 the Hammonds purchased their ranch in the Harney Basin. The purchase included approximately 6000 acres of private property, 4 grazing rights on public land, a small ranch house and 3 water rights. The ranch is around 53 miles South of Burns, Oregon.
By the 1970’s nearly all the ranches adjacent to the Blitzen Valley were purchased by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and added to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge covers over 187,000 acres and stretches over 45 miles long and 37 miles wide. The expansion of the refuge grew and surrounds to the Hammond’s ranch. Being approached many times by the FWS, the Hammonds refused to sell. Other ranchers also choose not to sell.
During the 1970’s the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), took a different approach to get the ranchers to sell. Ranchers were told that, “grazing was detrimental to wildlife and must be reduced.” 32 out of 53 permits were revoked and many ranchers were forced to leave. Grazing fees were raised significantly for those who were allowed to remain. Refuge personnel took over the irrigation system claiming it as their own.
By 1980 a conflict was well on its way over water allocations on the adjacent privately owned Silvies Plain. The FWS wanted to acquire the ranch lands on the Silvies Plain to add to their already vast holdings. Refuge personnel intentionally diverted the water to bypass the vast meadowlands, directing the water into the rising Malheur Lakes. Within a few short years the surface area of the lakes doubled. Thirty-one ranches on the Silvies plains were flooded. Homes, corrals, barns and graze-land were washed a way and destroyed by this deliberate government act. The ranchers that once fought to keep the FWS from taking their land, now broke and destroyed, begged the FWS to acquire their useless ranches. In 1989 the waters began to recede and now the once thriving privately owned Silvies pains are a proud part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge claimed by the FWS.
By the 1990’s the Hammonds were one of the very few ranchers that still owned private property adjacent to the refuge. Susie Hammond in an effort to make sense of what was going on began compiling facts about the refuge. In a hidden public record she found a study that was done by the FWS in 1975. The study showed that the “no use” policies of the FWS on the refuge were causing the wildlife to leave the refuge and move to private property. The study showed .....
Below, Dr Roberts gives us a bit of history. He touches on the Oregon militia issue, but read his piece more for the history he gives us on the problems created, in the first place, by the Empire itself.
....The fresh American machine gun and barbed wire fodder weakened the German position, and an armistice was agreed. The Germans were promised no territorial losses and no reparations if they laid down their arms, which they did only to be betrayed at Versailles. The injustice and stupidity of the Versailles Treaty produced the German hyperinflation, the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and the rise of Hitler.
Hitler’s demands that Germany be put back together from the pieces handed out to France, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, comprising 13 percent of Germany’s European territory and one-tenth of her population, and a repeat of French and British stupidity that had sired the Great War finished off the remnants of European civilization in World War II.
The United States benefitted greatly from this death. The economy of the United States was left untouched by both world wars, but economies elsewhere were destroyed. This left Washington and the New York banks the arbiters of the world economy. The US dollar replaced British sterling as the world reserve currency and became the foundation of US domination in the second half of the 20th century, a domination limited in its reach only by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet collapse in 1991 removed this constraint from Washington. The result was a burst of American arrogance and hubris that wiped away in over-reach the leadership power that had been handed to the United States. Since the Clinton regime, Washington’s wars have eroded American leadership and replaced stability in the Middle East and North Africa with chaos.
Washington moved in the wrong direction both in the economic and political arenas. In place of ....
AND here's the latest situation as of today.
From OregonLive
Oregon standoff: Bundy, militants destroy fence at federal refuge BURNS — Militants presiding over an armed occupation of a federal bird sanctuary destroyed a portion of a fence Monday afternoon that they said was installed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – using the agency's own equipment.
The stunt was perhaps the militants' boldest yet since overtaking the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month. Arizona businessman Ammon Bundy and his band of protesters traveled about five miles south of refuge headquarters to a property where they said a local ranching family grazes cattle.....
the country from Shiites? Something similar is also happening to the Shiite community in Saudi Arabia but as that nation has one of the most powerful PF firms working on its behalf, almost all adverse news is pushed into a deep hole and covered up by the Americans and Brits.
In the coming days, I will show you how Saudi Arabia treats its Shiite population and also citizens who are black Africans. Although most of the black Saudis are Sunnis or followers of wahhabism, their skin color matters to the House of Saud.
BUT, what if it's true? How do we analyze the increasingly insane actions being taken by the USA? Although, one tends to dismiss such disastrous and malicious actions as something that good old USA is not likely to do given that it is openly supposedly fighting a "war against terrorism", how then can we account for numerous reports from citizens of Iraq, Syria and of late Libya ... that the USA+gang is indeed making sure that ISIS is not completely routed?
Below is just one article on the deplorable madness of the USA. There are plenty of news items and direct tweets from people on the ground that collaborate what's stated within the below. How much more proof do we need to see that the USA is on a suicidal path?
From Sputnik Love Thy Enemy? US Plot to Evacuate Top Jihadis From Ramadi Uncovered
A US plot to evacuate Daesh leaders from the strategic city of Ramadi in central Iraq has reportedly been disclosed by a volunteer forces commander.
An Iraqi volunteer forces commander has revealed US plans to evacuate Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) leaders from the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, according to the Iranian news agency FARS.
The disclosure comes as the Iraqi army and popular troops are attempting to secure victory over the jihadist group in Ramadi.
FARS quoted Imam Khamenei Battalion Commander Haidar al-Hosseini al-Ardavi as saying that "the delay in operations to liberate the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province has been the result of US interference."
"It seems that the US intends to evacuate the ISIL terrorist group's infamous ringleaders secretly (with helicopters) from Ramadi to unknown places," he was quoted by FARS as saying.
His remarks came amid efforts by Iraqi security forces to continue gaining ground in Ramadi's central areas, where hundreds of Daesh terrorists are trapped under siege.
From JM Elijah Where did ISIS fighters go to before the battle of Ramadi? Where did ISIS fighters go to before the battle of Ramadi? The United States is imposing radical changes on Baghdad Iraqi Army, the Counter Terrorism units, the Federal police, and Anbar tribes entered the city of Ramadi that was occupied by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” group (ISIS) for several months. To their biggest surprise, only few bodies of the terrorist group were found when intelligence gathering by the U.S led coalition and the Iraqi intelligence service confirmed the presence of around 2000 fighters in the city until days before the final assault. Six ISIS were arrested while trying to flee Ramadi among the 442 civilians who left the city one day before the final assault on the city center.
The same phenomena of “ISIS evaporation” was registered in Sinjar when 7500 Kurds, supported by the U.S Air Force, occupied the key northern Iraqi city, finding a very small number of ISIS fighters in it.
it's embedded deeply and firmly into and learn what's been going on in Libya and the new "about to happen" in Libya, listen/watch the vid below. If you are happy to continue being the govt's mouthpiece, please kindly vamoose from these pages.
Lots more info can be found at the Moriatys' website here. More info at Sott.net here
for eternal wars. What is it about these folks, what do they have in common? Why are they always clamoring for death, destruction, blood and gore? Is it something in their blood? Is it some special kind of water they drink? What the heck is it?!! Is it just profit-making or is it something else we just can't put our finger on?
From ConsortiumNews: Dangerous Punditry on Syria Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has built a long record of getting nearly every major issue wrong over many decades but still eagerly dispenses the latest conventional wisdom emerging from Official Washington’s misguided “group thinks,” as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar noticed regarding Syria.
By Paul R. Pillar Ill-fated U.S. military adventures abroad have had various fathers, even though some of those fathers have tried to disavow paternity once the problems became apparent. Neoconservatives figure prominently in this story, especially given that one of the most costly misadventures in recent times, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was a distinctly neocon project.
But even with that project, the neocon promoters of the war had to manufacture a rationale that tapped into another strain of sentiment that has helped to lead to such misadventures: the fear of terrorist or other attacks against the United States itself.......
AND, on the same Richard Cohen's "pearls of wisdom" Robert Parry had this to say in 2007:
Is WP’s Cohen Dumbest Columnist? From the Archive: Official Washington operates with a reverse “meritocracy,” the more clueless the pundits are the more esteem they seem to get – as long as they conform to the latest “group think.” Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is a prime example, Robert Parry noted in 2007.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on June 19, 2007) Granted it would be quite a competition, but is Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen the dumbest columnist ever?
For instance, in his June 19, 2007 op-ed, Cohen joined the neoconservative media riot over the 30-month jail sentence facing former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
From reading the column, it does appear that Cohen has the skills at least to master and recite the litany of talking points that the neocons have compiled to make their case about the injustice of Libby going into the slammer for committing perjury and obstruction of justice.
Cohen accuses special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald of violating longstanding Justice Department guidelines on when......