It is high time to recognize President Obama tireless activity on behalf of world peace with the Second Nobel Peace Prize. Here are ten main reasons why this second Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded.
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NB: Obama’s determination to fight the Islamic State by finally putting American Boots on the Ground in Iraq should also be acknowledged as a sincere World Peace effort.
A coup d´état under the guise of an ‘Orange Revolution’ is being prepared in Russia. The big picture and the details are given by Evgeny Fedorov, a deputy in the Russian parliament, and coordinator of the People’s Liberation Movement. The coup facilitator is the fifth column, which dominates the mass-media and public servants all the way up to government ministers, a point barely known within Russia, never mind outside. However, the people’s insurrection in Ukraine could wake up enough people in Russia to restore national sovereignty. In the next few years it will come to a head, with only two possible outcomes: the destruction of Russian civilization or the collapse of the American empire.
Major segments:
0:19:51 – Washington’s mechanisms of control via the fifth column in Ukraine (coup launched) and Russia (coup in preparation).
0:47:03 – Novorossia could mobilize an army big enough to liberate all Ukraine.
0:55:34 – The armed coup was launched even though Yanukovych was capitulating, in order to establish conditions for terror and massacres.
1:03:46 – Novorossia has eliminated the fifth column. This will be emulated in neighboring territories.
1:08:57 – The foreign ‘mercenaries’ are likely equipment operators (tanks, planes,..).
1:25:31 – Fifth column agitators will try to get Putin overthrown for his “inaction” over Ukraine.
1:30:00 – Mechanisms for construction of the fifth column.
1:39:19 – The global crusade of the Anglo-Saxons — banditry & exploitation, obscured by style, finesse and copious marketing.
1:45:18 – Parallels between the German and American invasions of USSR/Russia (then and now).
Related: Interview with Deputy Defense Minister of Russia – Dmitry Rogozin
⦁ It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal (1968)
⦁ The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer (1975)
⦁ Control oil and you control the nations; control food and you control the people (1975)
⦁ It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination (1975)
⦁ Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries (2000)
Have a great day 🙂
American ‘exceptionalism’ extended, or…?
A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public says the treatment amounted to torture, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
By an almost 2-1 margin, or 59-to-31 percent, those interviewed support the CIA’s brutal methods, with the vast majority of supporters saying they produced valuable intelligence.
In general, 58 percent say the torture of suspected terrorists can be justified “often” or “sometimes.”
Source: The Washington Post
Related: Dick Cheney: “I would do it again in a minute.” | Doctors Without Scruples
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As the recognition by European countries of a so called “State of Palestine” continues, it is becoming obvious that this is nothing but an old colonial trick dusted and reused. The fact that liberal Zionist hypocrites the likes of the Israeli writers Amoz Oz and David Grossman are all over it says it all. In the triangular relations between the Europeans, the colonial regime in Palestine – Israel, and the Palestinians, all remains the same.
As usual, the Europeans profit, Israel is permitted to continue its brutal colonial regime over Palestine, and the Palestinians remain alone. The recognition of the “State of Palestine” is nothing more than what Franz Fanon calls “the farce of national independence” (Franz Fanon, “The Wretched of the Earth”). It provides for a select group of Palestinians the illusion of power with titles like “President” “Minister” “Ambassador,” the all time favorite “Head of Security” and it absolves Europeans of their complicity with Israel.
There is now, according to some European countries, a Palestinian state. Look, there must be one for even Britain and Sweden and a few others have recognized it, and they even have a “President!” Never mind the fact that nothing has changed. Gaza is still under siege with no end in sight, Palestinian prisoners are wasting away in the colonizers jails, armed Israeli mobs and the terrorist organization known as the IDF are terrorizing Palestinians, in the Israeli Knesset racist laws are being passed and not one refugee is allowed to return. We would all be wise to remember that the recognition of a “State” that does not exist in order to numb the resistance to a racist, colonialist regime is not new, it has been used by Europeans in Africa and former colonies in other parts of the world and it is always welcomed by liberals among the colonialists.
Read the full article at Miko Peled’s website
Abby Martin speaks with human rights lawyer, David Remes, about the contents of the newly released Senate torture report summary and how it will impact the future of the “war on terror”.
Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, three of the worst war criminals of our time (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s several-hundred-page summary of its landmark investigation into the CIA’s use of torture, the United States has a critical opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to the rule of law and provide long-overdue accountability for the Bush administration’s illegal torture program.
During the Bush administration, many hundreds of people were tortured and abused by the CIA and Department of Defense, primarily in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and Iraq, but also in other countries after unlawful rendition. Our government’s embrace of torture as official state policy shattered lives, shredded our nation’s reputation in the world, and compromised our national security as well as our diplomatic efforts to promote human rights. These conclusions are once again borne out by the Intelligence Committee’s report. Yet, to date, there has been little accountability for these wrongs.
In January 2009, shortly after entering office, President Obama took important steps to dismantle the torture program. But in the following years, the Obama administration undermined that early promise by thwarting accountability for torture. It succeeded in extinguishing lawsuits brought by survivors of U.S. torture and secret imprisonment. It fought to keep secret many documents that would allow the public to understand the extent of the abuse. And it failed to conduct a robust investigation of torture architects and perpetrators.
The long-awaited release of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report brings our nation—and the Obama administration—to a crossroads. As the United States has repeatedly told other nations that commit human rights violations, a nation cannot move forward without reckoning with the abuses of the past. Whether President Obama is willing to pursue justice and accountability for torture will help determine the human rights legacy he leaves for the United States and the world.
By taking steps in the five key areas described below, the Obama administration can begin to redress the abuses perpetrated in our names, comply with U.S. obligations under international law, and rebuild American moral authority and credibility when holding other nations to account for human rights abuses. Most importantly, by pursuing accountability for torture, President Obama and his administration can help ensure that the United States never tortures again.
Accountability for torture is a moral, legal, and national security imperative.
Full article at ACLU
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin adjusts his sunglasses as he watches an air show during MAKS-2011, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 17, 2011. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)
Accusations of the West towards Putin traditionally are based on the fact that he worked in the KGB. And therefore he is a cruel and immoral person. Putin is blamed for everything. But nobody ever accused Putin of lack of intelligence.
Any accusations against this man only emphasize his ability for quick analytical thinking and making clear and balanced political and economic decisions.
Often Western media compares this ability with the ability of a grandmaster, conducting a public chess simul. Recent developments in US economy and the West in general allow us to conclude that in this part of the assessment of Putin’s personality Western media is absolutely right.
Despite numerous success reports in the style of Fox News and CNN, today, Western economy, led by the United States is in Putin’s trap, the way out of which no one in the West can see or find. And the more the West is trying to escape from this trap, the more stuck it becomes.
What is the truly tragic predicament of the West and the United States, in which they find themselves? And why all the Western media and leading Western economists are silent about this, as a well guarded military secret? Let’s try to understand the essence of current economic events, in the context of the economy, setting aside the factors of morality, ethics and geopolitics.
After realizing its failure in Ukraine, the West, led by the US set out to destroy Russian economy by lowering oil prices, and accordingly gas prices as the main budget sources of export revenue in Russia and the main sources of replenishment of Russian gold reserves.
It should be noted that the main failure of the West in Ukraine is not military or political. But in the actual refusal of Putin to fund the Western project of Ukraine at the expense of the budget of Russian Federation. What makes this Western project not viable in the near and inevitable future.
Last time under president Reagan, such actions of the West’s lowering of oil prices led to ‘success’ and the collapse of USSR. But history does not repeat itself all the time. This time things are different for the West. Putin’s response to the West resembles both chess and judo, when the strength used by the enemy is used against him, but with minimal costs to the strength and resources of the defender. Putin’s real policies are not public. Therefore, Putin’s policy largely has always focused not so much on effect, but on efficiency.
Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future.
No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold.
Putin is not shouting about it all over the world. And of course, he still accepts US dollars as an intermediate means of payment. But he immediately exchanges all these dollars obtained from the sale of oil and gas for physical gold!
To understand this, it is enough to look at the dynamics of growth of gold reserves of Russia and to compare this data with foreign exchange earnings of the RF coming from the sale of oil and gas over the same period.
Moreover, in the third quarter the purchases by Russia of physical gold are at an all-time high, record levels. In the third quarter of this year, Russia had purchased an incredible amount of gold in the amount of 55 tons. It’s more than all the central banks of all countries of the world combined (according to official data)!
In total, the central banks of all countries of the world have purchased 93 tons of the precious metal in the third quarter of 2014. It was the 15th consecutive quarter of net purchases of gold by Central banks. Of the 93 tonnes of gold purchases by central banks around the world during this period, the staggering volume of purchases – of 55 tons – belongs to Russia.
Read the full article at Investcafe (translated by Dmitry Kalinichenko)
Related: How Russia Outmaneuvered the West Financially in Ukraine
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened very early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth nations. Black Friday is not a holiday, but California and some other states observe “The Day After Thanksgiving” as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes in lieu of another federal holiday such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers.
The day’s name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss (“in the red”) from January through November, and “Black Friday” indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or “in the black”.
Source: Wikipedia
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.
UN General Assembly’s Third Committee passed a Russia-proposed resolution condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial of German Nazi war crimes. The US, Canada and Ukraine were the only countries to vote against it.
The resolution was passed on Friday by the committee, which is tasked with tackling social and humanitarian issues and human rights abuses, by 115 votes against three, with 55 nations abstaining, Tass news agency reported.
Russia, which submitted the draft resolution, said it regretted that it could not be adopted anonymously.
“The fact that the US, Canada and Ukraine voted against, while delegations from EU member states abstained in the vote on this draft resolution, which was supported by an overwhelming majority of the UN member states, is extremely regrettable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“Ukraine’s position is particularly dispiriting and alarming. One can hardly understand how a country, the people of which suffered their full share of the horrors of Nazism and contributed significantly to our common victory against it, can vote against a resolution condemning its glorification,” the ministry said.
Source: RT News
Kazakh children in the Islamic State’s training camp for boys.
The latest video released by the Al-Hayat Media Centre, the propaganda arm of the Islamic State, shows in shocking detail the brainwashing of children and their inculcation into the ideology of jihad.
Entitled ‘Race Towards Good,’ it introduces Islamic State fighters who have migrated to Syria from Kazakhstan. It is filmed in the Kazakh language with subtitles in Arabic and English. It is clearly intended to encourage other Muslims around the world to come and join the Islamic State by painting a picture of a growing throng of supporters.
The group of fighters from Kazakhstan brought their children with them to be raised in the Islamic State. After showing the men undergoing basic training, followed by advanced training in sniper rifles, the focus shifts to the children.
Aged 8-10 and dressed in identical military uniforms, the Kazakh boys learn firearms, hand-to-hand combat and military drills. It is openly stated by the smiling instructor that he hopes these boys will be the next generation of jihadi soldiers. Once they graduate from the training camp they will be placed into units in the Islamic State’s army.
Watch the video at the Clarion Project or download from the Al-Hayat Media Centre.
Against the Grain 