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Friday, July 6, 2018

Seymour Hersh talks to Chris Hedges


Worth a watch.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Seymour M. Hersh discusses the quest for truth with host, Chris Hedges.

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Guess who's afraid of the Trump and Putin meeting?


Those whose fortunes grow by billions by keeping USA and Russia as constant enemies, that's who.

Paul Craig Roberts at his blog
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries?
Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will make an agreement that will bring to an end the demonizing of Russia that serves to protect the enormous budget and power of the military-security complex.

You can see the Deep State’s fear in the editorials that the Deep State handed to the Washington Post (June 29) and New York Times (June 29), two of the Deep State’s megaphones, but no longer believed by the vast majority of the American people.  The two editorials share the same points and phrases. 

They repeat the disproven lies about Russia as if blatant, obvious lies are hard facts. 

Both accuse President Trump of “kowtowing to the Kremlin.”  Kowtowing, of course, is not a Donald Trump characteristic.  But once again fact doesn’t get in the way of the propaganda spewed by the WaPo and NYT, two megaphones of Deep State lies.

The Deep State editorial handed to the WaPo reads: “THE REASONS for the tension between the United States and Russia are well-established. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, instigated a war in eastern Ukraine, intervened to save the dictatorship of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, interfered in the U.S. presidential election campaign to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, poisoned a former intelligence officer on British soil and continues to meddle in the elections of other democracies.”

The WaPo’s opening paragraph is a collection of all the blatant lies assembled by the Deep State for its Propaganda Ministry.  There have been many books written about the CIA’s infiltration of the US media.  There is no doubt about it.  I remember my orientation as Staff Associate, House Defense Appropriation Subcommittee, when I was informed that the Washington Post is a CIA asset.  This was in 1975. Today the Post is owned by a person with government contracts that many believe sustain his front business......
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

Some of my tweets June 28 - 30

























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Turkey for the month of June


I am getting pretty impatient.  When is Erdogan going to get what's due to one of the main instigators of the evil that befell Syria?  Why is Karma crawling like a tortoise? 

Good as gold: 
Turkey uses bullion to stabilise its economy Commercial banks are putting gold into Turkey's central bank to help deal with rapid inflation

Turkey inflation surges again to over 12 percent
Three weeks ahead of snap elections, investors are raising concerns that the government is not doing
enough to stabilise the economy...

Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militants in Iraq's Qandil, Erdogan says
Ankara recently warned of potential ground offensive against PKK in Iraq's Qandil region
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-senate-blocks-sale-f-35-fighter-jets-turkey-312030695
US Senate votes to block F-35 fighter jets' sale to Turkey...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warns Ankara will find other 'alternatives' if the $10bn deal falls
through..

Turkish Presidential Candidate Airs Speech From Prison Cell
A jailed Turkish-Kurdish politician has broadcast a campaign pitch from his prison cell a week ahead of the country’s June 24 election.

Turkish state broadcaster TRT on June 17 aired a 10-minute campaign speech by presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, allowing him to denounce the government's "repressive regime."...

Ankara vows to ignore Iran sanctions
Tensions between Turkey and the United States show no signs of abating, as a top Turkish official declared that the United States’ demands to stop trading oil with Iran would go unheeded by Ankara.

Turkey issues warrants for 23 FETÖ suspects
Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Ankara issues arrest warrants for 23 soldiers, including 3 still on active duty. Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued arrest warrants for 23 soldiers over suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist organization (FETÖ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, a judiciary source said on Friday. ..

What next for Turkey after Erdogan's executive presidency win?
New era for Turkey as Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes country's first executive president with sweeping new powers....

More of the same? Erdogan rule to replace emergency rule in Turkey
An influential pro-government Turkish newspaper reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his nationalist allies have agreed not to extend the state of emergency that has been in place since the failed 2016 coup when the current three-month period expires in July. Sabah's report followed yesterday’s meeting between Erdogan and far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli. The hard-line nationalist leader had earlier aired opposition to any relaxing of emergency rule.

'Jordan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia warn Israel against Turkey'
Israeli daily Haaretz alleges the three Arab states have warned Israel of creeping Turkish influence in East Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine have warned Israel on separate occasions about Turkey's creeping influence in East Jerusalem, according to a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The report notes that senior officials from the three Arab countries told Israel that Turkey was "extending its influence in Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem" which they said was "part of an attempt by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "claim ownership over the Jerusalem issue."....

Turkey Says It Won't Honor U.S. Demand To Stop Buying Iran's Oil
Turkey has said that it does not plan to honor a U.S. call for countries to stop importing oil from Iran, calling the demand "not binding" on Ankara.

"We will follow if there are decisions, sanctions by the United Nations on this issue. Other than this, we will only follow our own interests," Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said....
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The big question: "What did the Pentagon do with the 21 Trillion Dollars of Taxpayers' money?"


Global Research has started a series on the disappearance of US taxpayers' money from the Pentagon to the tune 21 Trillion Dollars. 

One has to wonder whose pockets became bloated with this money?  Is this the reason why the USA has the most number of millionaires and billionaires?  Has this money been funnelled by the Pentagon to the Deep State actors who not only control America but are the main instigators of every evil we see around the world today?  Has part of this money been utilized by these same actors to manufacture unnecessary wars?  Has part of this money gone into the elaborate managing of the 9/11 crime and tragedy and the aftermath government sponsored propaganda leading to the ongoing wars since then? Too many questions left unanswered and only a fair, in-depth and ferocious audit of the Pentagon can provide some answers ... at least some of them.

As you can see from the below, some have started asking some intriguing questions.



David DeGraw
How $21 Trillion in U.S. Tax Money Disappeared. “Full Scope Audit” of the Pentagon

According to the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, $21 Trillion in Taxpayer Funding Is Unaccounted For.

To help people comprehend the scale of this, $1 Trillion is $1000 Billion. This means that $21,000 Billion in taxpayer money has gone missing.

How can this be possible?

We outlined the “Unaccountable System of Global War Profiteers” in detail here.

For further understanding, we are featuring another mind-blowing Department of Defense Inspector

General (DOD IG) report.

The following are highlights from the DOD IG “Summary of DOD Office of the Inspector General Audits of Financial Management”:..............


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Friday, June 29, 2018

Cuba is undoubtedly the Canadian favorite for a vacation


Cuba these days is beginning to sound like a mini Canada.  Everywhere you turn you are likely going to hear Canadian chatter.   In a way, although it's not fair to the Cubans, I am glad that those silly policies of the USA are keeping Americans away from Cuba.  Their loss is our gain.  Viva la Cuba !!

Below a few pics from my recent visit.
Many of the vintage cars have been converted into private taxis available for day trips. If you stand outside a hotel lobby or anywhere downtown in Havana, you will be able to spy several of these beauties.





This white crab met its dead at the same paws that got the anole lizard. The cat could chew on the feet but couldn't crack the carapace.
Fruit unidentified. Was as large as grapefruit.
 
 



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Why do wave after wave of South Americans come to the USA ...


would they have still taken the dangerous road to the borders of the USA, plus all the abuse and hate from Americans if their own countries were prosperous?  And, why are their own countries not doing well?  Could it be because the USA has looted their countries' wealth in cahoots with the corrupt governments of those countries placed in power by the United States of America?

Deena Stryker  at Journal-NEO
Russiagate has been almost completely obscured by the media’s crocodile tears over Latino toddlers being torn from their mothers’ arms at the Mexican border.  Neither Gaza nor Yemen — not to mention Syria — have favored the press with comparable tear-jerking moments.  

The Attorney general, Jeff Sessions, known for his racism as Alabama’s Senator, and who was Trump’s earliest congressional backer, confessed to having ordered this inhumane policy in order to deter Latino families from illegally entering the United States — or even legally seeking asylum.  As the President for several days refused to back down until his wife intervened, together with the wives of previous Republican presidents, MSNBC and CNN inundated the airwaves with the sounds of little children crying for their mothers in Spanish.

None so far have asked the obvious question: What has made the people in the US’s back-yard so miserable that they are willing to risk temporarily — or even permanently — losing their children as they try to get into a country where they are not wanted? A recent book titled Crusade and Jihadby William Polk an Arabist and former diplomat, documents all the ways in which the North committed crimes against the South since Great Britain used gains from piracy to take over India two centuries ago.  Alas, little attention is paid by academics or journalists to America’s historic treatment of its Hispanic neighbors.

For two centuries, the tiny countries of Central America extending from Mexico to the southern American hemisphere have lurched from one US-backed government to another and from what sociologists call one development path to another, until politically motivated revolts and revolutions were succeeded by gang violence.

Benign neglect is the best one can say about these fiefdoms which United Fruit ruled for over a century. By the 1930s, the vast conglomerate was the single largest land owner in Guatemala. With a total of 3.5 million acres in Central America and the Caribbean, it had absolute power over the governments of these small, under-developed countries. (The phrase Banana Republic says it all.)

In 1944, a popular uprising in Guatemalaled to the country’s first democratic election, introducing near-universal suffrage, and a minimum wage. What happened later made it the poster child for Caribbean turmoil until the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The revolution’s second government, led by Jacobo Árbenz, broke up large estates, distributing property to landless peasants, and legalized the Communist Party. These actions threw up red flags in Washington, and when 40% of United Fruit Company’s land was expropriated, the powerful conglomerate persuaded the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that Arbenz planned to align Guatemala with the Soviet Bloc....
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Some of my tweets June 17 - 27





































































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Sunday, June 10, 2018

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The Americans of today


This is what they have become today. It's all about money. They care very little that that money comes from a country that was (still is) the primary employer of  the 9/11 jihadists.  How greedy and how shameless can one get?

Brian P. McGlinchey at 28pages
Syracuse National Security Program Director Registers as a Saudi Foreign Agent

Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Powell oversees education program for senior national security officials
Congressman Walter Jones: Syracuse situation “should cause major unease for all Americans”
The director of a national security program at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as an agent of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 28Pages.org is first to report.

In his registration statement, retired U.S. Army Colonel Bill Smullen, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, indicated he has agreed to provide “public relations support” to the Saudi embassy for compensation initially projected at $8,000.

Smullen’s National Security Studies program at Syracuse is billed as “a premier professional development program that offers executive education courses for senior civilian and military leaders who are responsible for the national security interests of their respective organizations.”
Within a few days of Smullen’s registration, another veteran of the Powell State Department signed on to serve the kingdom: Chris Keppler, who held media and communications leadership roles at State between 2001 and 2005, projected $45,000 in compensation from his engagement....
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Hawaii's Kīlauea Volcano ... still going strong



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What happened on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967


The betrayal and duplicity of the Israelis once seen, like those on the USS Liberty did, many with their dying eyes, is simply not forgotten nor forgiven.  
This is a "must read" article.

John Crewdson at ChicagoTribute
New revelations in attack on American spy ship


Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone.

"I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!"

 Lockwood was aboard the USS Liberty, a super-secret spy ship on station in the eastern Mediterranean, when four Israeli fighter jets flew out of the afternoon sun to strafe and bomb the virtually defenseless vessel on June 8, 1967, the fourth day of what would become known as the Six-Day War.

For Lockwood and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity: that Israel would attack an important ally, then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport that was half its size and had a dissimilar profile. And they're also incredulous that, for years, their own government would reject their calls for a thorough investigation.....
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Guess which US president chalked up most wars during his tenure



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If the New World Order means no more wars ....


I am all for it.  Only time will tell.

Pepe Escobar at ATimes
How Singapore, Astana and St Petersburg preview a new world order

Key economic forums in cities across Eurasia point the way to new power structures rising to challenge Western dominance
Ahead of the crucial Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Qingdao this coming weekend, three other recent events have offered clues on how the new world order is coming about.

The Astana Economic Forum in Kazakhstan centered on how mega-partnerships are changing world trade. Participants included the president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun; Andrew Belyaninov from the Eurasian Development Bank; former Italian Prime Minister and president of the EU Commission Romano Prodi; deputy director-general of the WTO Alan Wolff; and Glenn Diesen from the University of Western Sydney.

Diesen, a Norwegian who studied in Holland and teaches in Australia, is the author of a must-read book, Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia, in which he analyzes in excruciating detail how Moscow is planning “to manage the continent from the heartland by enhancing collective autonomy and influence, and thus evict US hegemony directed from the periphery.”....
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Some of my tweets June 1 - 5






































































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