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De Ruttelaar liegt nooit……… !
Hier de reacties, die op Twitter uiteraard boven de cartoon staan:
De beste premier die we nooit gehad hebben….. volgens Wiegel
Ja, maar zonder hersenactiviteit……..
Author: Alex
VS nu definitief op oorlogspad tegen China…..
Israëlische bronnen meldden onlangs dat Israël bezig is met de voorbereiding op een oorlog, die op meerdere fronten gevoerd moet gaan worden…… Hierin staat Israël bepaald niet alleen, ook de VS is daar mee bezig gezien de feiten en agressie in Syrië en tegen Iran, en diezelfde agressie, al is het nog niet met (volledig) militair geweld tegen Rusland, Noord-Korea en… China.
De VS stelt de soevereiniteit en democratie van landen als de Filipijnen, Japan en Taiwan ‘te verdedigen*‘ tegen Chinese ‘agressie’, agressie die bestaat uit het opspuiten van eilandjes in de Zuid-Chinese Zee, een zee die niet aan de VS grenst, maar zoals de naam al doet vermoeden, wel aan China…….
Gezien de grootschalige terreur die de VS verspreidt in bijvoorbeeld het Midden-Oosten (waartoe men voor voor het gemak ook Afghanistan en Libië rekent) en het feit dat de VS rond China en Rusland meer dan 600 militaire bases hebben ingericht, is het bepaald niet vreemd dat China een buffer rond haar land probeert in te richten. (een buffer rond Rusland werd door de uiterst agressieve VS met de NAVO aan de lijn, voor een groot deel afgebroken, dit volkomen tegen de eerder gemaakte afspraken met Gorbatsjov in…….)
Tel daar de VS import heffingen op Chinees staal en aluminium bij op en je kan niets anders zien dan het begin van een handelsoorlog….. Het plaatje is compleet: ook China moet zich onderwerpen aan de VS hegemonie, daar het anders te maken krijgt met het leger van de VS……..**
Het nieuwe budget voor de VS defensie, uh oorlogsvoering is hoger dan ooit tevoren, ondanks dat het Pentagon 11,5 biljoen over de laatste jaren niet kan verantwoorden…… (en niet goedgekeurd door het congres) Gezien dit enorme budget en het voorgaande, kan je niet anders concluderen dan dat het hier om een oorlogsbudget gaat, niet alleen voor de illegale oorlogen die de VS nog voert (Afghanistan, Irak en Syrië), maar vooral t.b.v. komende (illegale) oorlogen, die de ‘neocons***‘ op hun verlanglijst hebben staan…… Deze neocons hebben in feite het Witte Huis overgenomen…..
De grote winnaar van dit alles? Het militair-industrieel complex!!
US Warship Infuriates China After Sailing Within 12 Miles of Disputed Island
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA) — A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a “freedom of navigation” operation on Friday, coming within 12 nautical miles of one of China’s artificial islands, according to an exclusive Reuters report.
Speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, U.S. officials said the destroyer Mustin traveled close to Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands and carried out maneuvering operations. Washington’s intention was to counter what it sees as China’s attempts to limit the freedom of navigation in the strategically located waters.
The navigation reportedly infuriated Beijing, which still has territorial disputes with its neighbors. As Reuters highlighted, 12 nautical miles is an internationally recognized territorial limit and fits a recent pattern of U.S. navigational behavior. However, it is highly likely that the U.S. purposely brought the ship as close as possible, as it has become increasingly concerned that China’s build-up in the area will eventually drive the U.S. out and make its so-called free nautical movement non-existent.
According to Reuters, the U.S. military believes its activities are carried out under international law and relies on the fact that American forces regularly operate in the region.
“We conduct routine and regular freedom of navigation operations, as we have done in the past and will continue to do in the future,” Lieutenant Commander Nicole Schwegman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said, as quoted by Reuters.
China’s response to this latest move was to send two naval ships of its own to identify the ships and warn the destroyer to leave. In turn, China has vowed to accelerate its plans for the region in order to combat the American presence.
“The provocative behaviour by the U.S. side will only cause the Chinese military to further strengthen building up defense abilities in all areas,” a Chinese Defense Ministry statement read.
Its navy will also carry out combat drills in the South China Sea, calling the development part of regular annual exercises.
This is not the first time this year Washington has sent a warship to the area, rattling China in the process. In January, China vowed to take “necessary measures” to protect its sovereignty after the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper came within 12 nautical miles of Huangyuan Island, which is subject to a rival claim by the Philippines.
This latest operation occurred just one day after Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum that will target $60 billion in Chinese goods with tariffs following a 30-day consultation period that will begin once the list of targeted Chinese goods is published. China already warned against this provocative move, urging the U.S. to step away from what it termed as “the brink.”
The move also follows the revelation that the Trump administration signed the Taiwan Travel Act into law. The bill calls for increased high-level visits to Taiwan by U.S. civilian and military leaders. Just last week, Anti-Media released a report predicting that the situation would quietly start to escalate with little more than a blink from the media, which is busy debating gun control, Facebook’s much-needed scrutiny, and anything else that doesn’t involve a potential nuclear holocaust.
In early February, President Trump said he planned to nominate Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, as ambassador to Australia. Not long after, Harris was quick to advise Congress to prepare for a war with China in the South China Sea.
Australia has recently been caught in a war of words of its own with China and had plans to send a British warship into the South China Sea earlier this month, as well.
It might sound simplistic, but Washington’s concern with the area and rationale for risking an all-out confrontation is about one thing: money. China’s use of the South China sea attracts approximately $5 trillion in ship-borne trade every year, according to Reuters.
All that is preventing China from injecting itself into the rest of the global market eastward through the Pacific Ocean is a chain of islands known as the “first island chain,” an island chain that includes the Kuril Islands of Russia, the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, the northern Philippines, and Borneo. America has blocked China through its control of these islands and with the help of its allies on the ground, but this has recently started to change.
Since August last year, China has had an incursion of its own into the area, flying bombers and intelligence aircraft near these southern outlying islands of Japan. Russia, a stalwart ally of China, is also looking to build a naval base in the area even though control of the islands in question continues to be a point of dispute between Japan and Russia. It seems likely that Russia’s military presence will only aid China’s regional ambitions — as opposed to presenting a buffer to it — as the two nuclear powers often view U.S. hegemony through the same lens. Further complicating this issue, in February of this year, 2,000 Russian troops held military exercises on the Southern Kurils, irking Japan in the process.
Clearly, things are building up for a reason, though one would be hard-pressed to find any mainstream media outlet that pays this story the amount of coverage it deserves.
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* ‘Verdedigen’, ofwel de VS is bezig haar sleutelposities in de regio van de Zuid-Chinese Zee uit te breiden……….
** Dit zet ten overvloede nog eens het belachelijke praatje van Heleen Mees in het juiste daglicht, deze neoliberale hufter weet niet waar ze over praat, als ze zegt dat Trump groot gelijk heeft met het instellen van importheffingen, immers een handelsoorlog eindigt meestal in een echte oorlog, zoals de geschiedenis ons leert….. Zie: ‘Heleen Mees, Trump heeft gelijk met zijn handelsoorlog tegen China………‘
*** Neoconservatieven die verdomd veel gemeen hebben met het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme.
Zie ook: ‘NEOCONS ARE BACK WITH A BIG WAR BUDGET AND BIG WAR PLANS‘ (een column van Ron Paul, overgenomen van Stan van Houcke)
en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..‘
en: ‘Wereldoorlog III: is deze nog te ontwijken?‘
en: ‘John Bolton, nationaal veiligheidsadviseur, alsof de duivel zelf is benoemd……..‘
Deep State stuurt VS presidenten bij >> uitleg van Edward Snowden
In het volgende artikel uitleg van Edward Snowden over hoe de deep state werkt (in de VS). Zoals je wellicht al bekend was, het gaat bepaald niet alleen om de geheime diensten, maar bijvoorbeeld ook om de ambtenaren op sleutelposities, die na een wisseling van presidenten niet hoeven te vertrekken. Jammer dat Snowden niet de grote bedrijven en banken noemt, daar deze wel degelijk deel uitmaken van deep state……
Gezien dat laatste, hebben ook de miljardairs veel invloed, immers zij bezitten bedrijven of hebben de meerderheid van aandelen van bedrijven in handen, zoals die van de grote dagbladen >> niet voor niets dat de ‘journalistiek’ in die bladen allesbehalve onafhankelijk is….
Snowden legt uit hoe presidenten worden ingepakt door deep state, alle hervormingen die zij willen doorvoeren, zoals hervorming, dan wel opheffen van geheime diensten, stranden en zullen blijven stranden…… (althans zoals het er nu uitziet en er moet wel een enorme catastrofe passeren wil daar verandering in komen……)
Snowden Explains How the Deep State Influences Presidents
March 24, 2018 at 11:36 am
Written by Truth In Media
(TIM) — Famed whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently interviewed by Italian publication La Repubblic. The publication noted the 5-year mark of Snowden’s historic act of blowing the whistle on the NSA’s expansive surveillance programs and that “many thought he would end up very badly, but when he connects via videolink for this interview with la Repubblica, he seems to be doing very well: the frank smile and peaceful face of someone who is easy in his mind.”
In an excerpt from the exclusive interview, Snowden explained how the presidencies of both Obama and Trump are shaped by the Deep State following an illuminating question by journalist Stefania Maurizi.
Stefania Maurizi: We saw that President Obama, who was an outsider to the US military-intelligence complex, initially wanted to reign in the abuses of agencies like the CIA and the NSA, but in the end he did very little. Now we see a confrontation between president Trump and so-called Deep State, which includes the CIA and the NSA. Can a US president govern in opposition to such powerful entities?
Edward Snowden: Obama is certainly an instructive case. This is a president who campaigned on a platform of ending warrantless wiretapping in the United States, he said “that’s not who we are, that’s not what we do,” and once he became the president, he expanded the program. He said he was going to close Guantanamo but he kept it open, he said he was going to limit extrajudicial killings and drone strikes that has been so routine in the Bush years. But Obama went on to authorize vastly more drone strikes than Bush. It became an industry.
As for this idea that there is a Deep State, now the Deep State is not just the intelligence agencies, it is really a way of referring to the career bureaucracy of government. These are officials who sit in powerful positions, who don’t leave when presidents do, who watch presidents come and go, they influence policy, they influence presidents and say: this is what we have always done, this is what we must do, and if you don’t do this, people will die.
It is very easy to persuade a new president who comes in, who has never had these powers, but has always wanted this job and wants very, very badly to do that job well. A bureaucrat sitting there for the last twenty years says: I understand what you said, I respect your principles, but if you do what you promised, people will die. It is very easy for a president to go: well, for now, I am going to set this controversy to the side, I’m going to take your advice, let you guys decide how these things should be done, and then I will revisit it, when I have a little more experience, maybe in a few months, maybe in a few years, but then they never do.
This is what we saw quite clearly happen in the case of Barack Obama: when this story [of Snowden exposing the NSA’s mass surveillance] came forward in 2013, when Obama had been president for five years, one of the defences for this from his aides and political allies was: oh, Obama was just about to fix this problem! And sure enough, he eventually was forced from the wave of criticism to make some limited reforms, but he did not go far enough to end all of the programs that were in violation of the law or the constitution of the United States. That too was an intentional choice: he could have certainly used the scandal to advocate for all of the changes that he had campaigned on, to deliver on all of his promises, but in those five years he had become president, he discovered something else, which is that there are benefits from having very powerful intelligence agencies, there are benefits from having these career bureaucrats on your side, using their spider web over government for your benefit.
Imagine you are Barack Obama, and you realise – yes, when you were campaigning you were saying: spying on people without a warrant is a problem, but then you realise: you can read Angela Merkel’s text messages. Why bother calling her and asking her opinion, when you can just read her mind by breaking the law? It sounds like a joke, but it is a very seductive thing. Secrecy is perhaps the most corrupting of all government powers, because it takes public officials and divorces them from accountability to the public.
When we look at the case of Trump, who is perhaps the worst of politicians, we see the same dynamic occurring. This is a president who said the CIA is the enemy, it’s like Nazi Germany, they’re listening to his phone calls, and all of these other things, some claims which are true, some claims which are absolutely not. A few months later, he is authorizing major powers for these same agencies that he has called his enemies.
And this gets to the central crux of your question, which is: can any president oppose this? The answer is certainly. The president has to have some familiarity going in with the fact that this pitch is going to be made, that they are going to try to scare him or her into compliance. The president has to be willing to stand strongly on line and say: ‘I was elected to represent the interests of the American people, and if you’re not willing to respect the constitution and our rights, I will disband your agency, and create a new one’. I think they can definitely be forced into compliance, because these officials fear prison, just like every one of us.
EXCLUSIVE: @Snowden tells @smaurizi @repubblica how the #DeepState shapes presidents,whether
By Jay Syrmopoulos / Republished with permission / TruthInMedia.com / Report a typo
Mijn excuus voor de weergave van het Twitterbericht, krijg het niet op orde >> voor het origineel, klik op deze link.
John Bolton, nationaal veiligheidsadviseur, alsof de duivel zelf is benoemd……..
Mensen ik had het bericht, waarin wordt ‘gesproken’ over de vervanging van figuren rond het beest Trump, ‘nog niet gepubliceerd’* of men maakte bekend dat McMaster, zelf al een enorme ploert van formaat, werd afgezet door het beest, om plaats te maken voor John Bolton, ofwel de duivel zelf….. (zo niet dan toch één van diens trouwste medewerkers…)
Bolton schreef onlangs ‘geheel toevallig een’ opiniestuk’ in de Wall Street Journal dat de VS Noord-Korea moet aanvallen…. uit zelfbehoud!!! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Alsof Noord-Korea ooit ook maar een miljoenste van een seconde een gevaar is geweest voor de VS……. Ja ik lach wel, maar deze opperploert is werkelijk een gevaar voor de hele wereld…….
Alsof je een oorlogsmisdadiger, die je minstens als terrorist moet zien, minister van defensie maakt…. Oh ja, deze benoeming is in feite nog erger…!!
Bolton is één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, waar hij de massavernietigingsfabel bleef herhalen als ambassadeur bij de VN……… Al moest je ofwel een topidioot zijn om dit te geloven, dan wel een kwaadaardige collaborateur van de VS, of lobbyist van andere westerse regeringen zijn die achter deze illegale oorlog stonden (zoals de reguliere westerse media….)…. Hoewel een lobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex, of een combi van het e.e.a. heel goed mogelijk is………
Met Pompeo, een andere opperschoft op Buitenlandse Zaken, een groot voorstander van oorlog tegen Iran en Noord-Korea, laat zich raden wat er op het ‘menu staat…..’ (één of het liefst twee illegale oorlogen, misschien zelfs met het gebruik van ‘tactische’ kernwapens, zodat deze getest kunnen worden in de praktijk…….)
Ik hoef je niet te vertellen wat hiervan het gevolg zal zijn….. Och, waarom ook niet: Rusland zal dit zeker niet pikken en waarschijnlijk zal China al evenmin op de handen blijven zitten, ofwel WOIII zal dan een voldongen feit zijn………
Hoe is het mogelijk dat de westerse media zo relatief gelaten reageren op deze laatste benoemingen…..??? Ach ja, die zien niet eens de grootschalige terreur die de VS uitoefent op een explosief deel van de wereld….. Sterker: nog steeds durft men daar niet te stellen dat de VS meehelpt aan een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen……
Darius Shahtahmasebi noemt Bolton America’s Worst Nightmare, ik zou een stap verder willen gaan en hem daarom de ergste nachtmerrie voor de wereld willen noemen…..
America’s Worst Nightmare
March 23, 2018 at 11:45 am
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — John Bolton’s inclusion in the Trump administration as Donald Trump’s new national security advisor is nothing short of a nightmare.
Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, will be replacing General H.R. McMaster as Trump’s national security advisor, who replaced former “disgraced” national security advisor Michael Flynn. When the president struck a Syrian airbase in April 2017, it was McMaster who drew up and briefed Trump on the strike proposals, one of which was reportedly very extensive.
McMaster was also reportedly one of the main backers of a secret plan to give North Korea’s Kim Jong-un a “bloody nose strike,” a limited strike to dismantle its nuclear ambitions without risking an all-out war.
However, despite this, it appears McMaster wasn’t hawkish enough for Donald Trump’s needs. While McMaster publicly berates Iran and North Korea on a regular basis, he persistently warned against Trump’s plan to completely derail the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) formed with Iran in 2015. He also later denied the claims that the Trump administration was looking to deliver the “bloody nose strike” on North Korea, perhaps indicating he was not completely on board with the idea after all (or had decided otherwise at that particular juncture in history).
Enter John Bolton. Less than month ago, he wrote an op-ed article published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) entitled “The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First” — an idea so bad, it seems, that about a week later, the WSJ published a counter viewpoint simply entitled “Striking North Korea First Is a Bad Proposal.”
In Bolton’s short-sighted op-ed — aside from the fact that he offers no real legal analysis at all (those who do consider it a legal analysis must explain why the argument of preemptive self-defense applies to the U.S. but not to North Korea, which faces American aggression near its borders on a routine basis) — it’s also quite telling that he relies on the evidence of CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who alleged in January that Pyongyang was only “a handful of months” away from being able to strike the American mainland with nukes.
It is no coincidence that next in line for Donald Trump’s secretary of state position is Pompeo himself.
Together, Bolton and Pompeo will be able to advise Trump on anti-North Korean and anti-Iranian platforms so hawkish there is no telling what’s to come (though we have a fairly decent idea).
As some of you may know, John Bolton’s hawkishness has already led to some of the most despicable foreign policy agendas of our generation.
“We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq,” Bolton famously said in 2002 while serving as President George W. Bush’s undersecretary of state for Arms Control and International Security. He also called Hussein a “threat to the region” and claimed he needed to be “disarmed.”
“But the end of the story is clear here. And if Saddam Hussein does not co-operate we have made it clear this is the last chance for him…I think the Iraqi people would be unique in history if they didn’t welcome the overthrow of this dictatorial regime,” he added.
Even when this rationale for invading Iraq and destabilizing an entire region turned out to be one of the worst editions of “fake news” ever to sting the planet, in 2015 – some 12 years later – Bolton still claimed the Iraq War was worth it and said that, conversely, the worst decision involving Iraq was the “2011 decision to withdraw U.S. and coalition forces.” In 2016, he then changed his mind to say that the only mistake of the Iraq War was that the U.S. did not get rid of Saddam Hussein sooner.
If John Bolton leads the cheers to invade Iran or North Korea, who will hold him accountable?
Apparently having learned no lessons at all from the criminal invasion of Iraq, Bolton also wrote a New York Times op-ed entitled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran” in 2015. He made it quite clear that “only military action” could accomplish what was required to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. In Bolton’s eyes, the JCPOA doesn’t cut it.
He also openly called for the assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, only to later condemn the Obama administration for doing just that (an invasion is bad if a Democrat does it, and vice versa, of course, depending on who you are running against).
John Bolton is also a strong anti-Russian, drone-warfare supporting imperialist who once also appeared to call for the invasion of Cuba.
He is now going to be advising Donald Trump, a seventy-one-year-old mass murdering narcissist with an attention span of two to four minutes, on matters of national security.
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* Zie: ‘Wereld Oorlog III: is deze nog te ontwijken?‘
Zie ook: ‘NEOCONS ARE BACK WITH A BIG WAR BUDGET AND BIG WAR PLANS‘ (een column van Ron Paul, overgenomen van Stan van Houcke)
en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..‘
en: ‘Wereldoorlog III: is deze nog te ontwijken?‘
en: ‘John Bolton heeft beloofd dat Iran voor 2019 onder een ander regime zal leven…….‘
en: ‘VS nu definitief op oorlogspad tegen China…..‘
Zie ook: ‘NEOCONS ARE BACK WITH A BIG WAR BUDGET AND BIG WAR PLANS‘ (een column van Ron Paul, overgenomen van Stan van Houcke)
en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..‘
en: ‘Wereldoorlog III: is deze nog te ontwijken?‘
en: ‘John Bolton heeft beloofd dat Iran voor 2019 onder een ander regime zal leven…….‘
en: ‘VS nu definitief op oorlogspad tegen China…..‘
en: ‘Netanyahu en Bolton stoken het vuur in het Midden-Oosten verder op: Iran moet en zal vallen…..‘
Oorlogszuchtige TV dominees……..
Dagelijks worden miljoenen christenen in de VS gehersenspoeld door TV dominees met een uitgesproken mening over de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en de vaststelling dat Iran moet worden vernietigd…. Deze ‘christenen’ keerden zich zelfs tegen de nucleaire deal met Iran………
Het publiek dat deze misdadige dominees bereiken, vertegenwoordigt een groot deel van de kiezers in de VS….. ‘Misdadigers’ daar dit geteisem voor het overgrote deel multimiljonair is en vooral goed voor zichzelf zorgt…….
Waarom worden dit soort figuren amper of niet aangepakt en krijgen ze zelfs belastingvoordelen? Simpel, daar ze o.a. het keiharde buitenlandbeleid van de VS verdedigen en uitdragen, beter gezegd propaganderen…… Ofwel deze predikers zijn oorlogshitsers, die lullig genoeg vele miljoenen burgers hersenspoelen met hun religieuze gif………….. Bovendien zaaien ze met deze hersenspoeling angst en haat tegen alles wat links of islamitisch is en/of zich tegen Israël keert, waar de TV dominees Israël steunen in alles wat deze moorddadige fascistische apartheidsstaat flikt en uitdraagt………
Over onrechtmatige beïnvloeding van verkiezingen gesproken: vergeleken met de leugens over deze beïnvloeding door de Russen, zelfs als deze waar zouden zijn (wat meer dan eens bewezen niet zo is..), is de invloed van de TV dominees gigantisch veel groter….. Sterker nog: daar kunnen de gevolgen van die leugens, (‘invloed uitoefenen op VS kiezers’ door Rusland) niet eens in de schaduw staan bij de directe beïnvloeding van de verkiezingen, door deze zogenaamde christelijke dominees……. (dominees die zich niet eens houden aan wat hun here jezus hen in de bijbel heeft voorgeschreven………)
Gezien het voorgaande, kan je de TV dominees medeverantwoordelijk houden voor de vele massamoorden door de VS gepleegd!! (sinds het einde van WOII heeft de VS meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoord…..)……… Het lullige bij dit alles is, dat de administraties van de opvolgende presidenten in de VS maar al te graag de ‘christelijke’ kaart spelen……..
Hier de video van Brasscheck TV:
Christians for War
AN EXAMPLE OF THE DAILY ON AIR MADNESS
TRAITORS WITH A RELIGIOUS TAX EXEMPTION
(This was aired when Obama was President.)
Every day US televangelists are on TV telling their Christian viewers that they are “required” to support Israel and that countries like Iran merit total destruction.
The problem is tens of millions consume this garbage every day and people with these beliefs constitute the biggest voting block in America.
Why are these crooks (Bakker was jailed for a massive financial fraud) given a tax exemption for their broadcasting operations?
They’re political propagandists pure and simple
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Hier nog een video van Rob Muntz over TV dominees:
VS verloor meer dan 21 biljoen dollar, alleen aan oorlogsvoering al meer dan 11 biljoen >> ‘mooi voorbeeld voor ‘zuinige’ NAVO partners….’
Professor Mark Skidmore van de Michigan State University ging uitzoeken waar 6,5 biljoen dollar was gebleven, 6,5 biljoen die niet waren goedgekeurd door het Congres en kwam er achter dat het werkelijke bedrag veel groter was dan eerder aangegeven en uiteindelijk uitkomt op 21 biljoen (in VS aangeduid als 21 triljoen dollar) niet goedgekeurde uitgaven….
Voor het ‘defensie’ budget bedroeg dit bedrag al meer dan 11 biljoen……. En dan wil Trump dat de andere NAVO partners hun budgetten verder opschroeven……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Moet je nagaan: de VS het land dat graag woorden gebruikt als ‘corrupte regering’ en ‘democratie brengen’ als een regime niet in de smaak valt……
Ongelofelijk!
Vergeet voorts niet dat de VS alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen is gestart, oorlogen die een enorm beslag leggen op hetdefensie uh oorlogsbudget…… De VS geeft alleen al 4 keer zoveel aan defensie uit dan Rusland en China samen! De NAVO lidstaten Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk, Duitsland en Italië geven al meer dan 3 keer zoveel uit aan defensie dan Rusland……. En maar zeiken om meer geld en dat om de ongebreidelde terreur van de VS en het uitlokken van oorlogen elders te steunen………
Overigens heeft Trump het leger ‘carte blanche’ gegeven om naar eigen goeddunken extra personeel of wapens in te zetten, zodat controle op de uitgegeven gelden nog veel moeilijker zal worden…….
Vergeet voorts niet dat de VS alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen is gestart, oorlogen die een enorm beslag leggen op het
Overigens heeft Trump het leger ‘carte blanche’ gegeven om naar eigen goeddunken extra personeel of wapens in te zetten, zodat controle op de uitgegeven gelden nog veel moeilijker zal worden…….
Hier de video van Brasscheck TV over deze zaak:
$21 trillion missing from the federal buget
WHERE DID IT GO?
FEDERAL BLACK BUDGETS
Professor Mark Skidmore of Michigan State University set out to prove Catherine Austin Fitts and her claims of “missing trillions” and “black budgets” was wrong.
Instead, he discovered the hole was even bigger than that.
The Army alone had $11.5 trillion missing.
Some individual unsupported journal adjustments are SIX TIMES the total annual budget of the Army.
A overall 1% error in government budgets is considered “normal.”
Theese numbers are astronomical.
How can you do a proper evaluation of numbers with figures like this? All spending needs to be a approved by Congress.
“It looks like there’s a whole lot of money flowing in and a whole lot of money flowing out”…completely outside the rule of law.
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Hier nog een artikel van Forbes over deze zaak:
Has Our Government Spent $21 Trillion Of Our Money Without Telling Us?
I am co-authoring this column with Mark Skidmore, a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.” ~ Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, The US Constitution
On July 26, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”. The report indicates that for fiscal year 2015 the Army failed to provide adequate support for $6.5 trillion in journal voucher adjustments. According to the GAO’s Comptroller General, “Journal vouchers are summary-level accounting adjustments made when balances between systems cannot be reconciled. Often these journal vouchers are unsupported, meaning they lack supporting documentation to justify the adjustment or are not tied to specific accounting transactions…. For an auditor, journal vouchers are a red flag for transactions not being captured, reported, or summarized correctly.”
(Note, after Mark Skidmore began inquiring about OIG-reported unsubstantiated adjustments, the OIG’s webpage, which documented, albeit in a highly incomplete manner, these unsupported “accounting adjustments,” was mysteriously taken down. Fortunately, Mark copied the July 2016 report and all other relevant OIG-reports in advance and reposted them here. Mark has repeatedly tried to contact Lorin Venable, Assistant Inspector General at the Office of the Inspector General. He has emailed, phoned, and used LinkedIn to ask Ms. Venable about OIG’s disclosure of unsubstantiated adjustments, but she has not responded.)
Given that the entire Army budget in fiscal year 2015 was $120 billion, unsupported adjustments were 54 times the level of spending authorized by Congress. The July 2016 report indicates that unsupported adjustments are the result of the Defense Department’s “failure to correct system deficiencies.” The result, according to the report, is that data used to prepare the year-end financial statements were unreliable and lacked an adequate audit trail. The report indicates that just 170 transactions accounted for $2.1 trillion in year—end unsupported adjustments. No information is given about these 170 transactions. In addition many thousands of transactions with unsubstantiated adjustments were, according to the report, removed by the Army.
There is no explanation concerning why they were removed nor their magnitude. The July 2016 report states, “In addition, DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting Service) Indianapolis personnel did not document or support why DDRS (The Defense Department Reporting System) removed at least 16,513 of 1.3 million feeder file records during the Third Quarter.”
An appendix to the July 2016 report shows $2 trillion in changes to the Army General Fund balance sheet due to unsupported adjustments. On the asset side, there is $794 billion increase in the Army’s Fund Balance with the U.S. Treasury. There is also an increase of $929 billion in the Army’s Accounts Payable. This information raises additional major questions. First, what is the source of the additional $794 billion in the Army’s Fund Balance? This adjustment represents more than six times appropriated spending.
Second, do these transfers represent a flow of funds to the Army beyond those authorized by Congress? Third, were these funds authorized and if so when and by whom? Fourth, what is the source of these funds? Finally, the $929 billion in Accounts Payable appears to represent an amount owed for items or services purchased on credit. What entities have received or will receive payment?
The July 2016 report is not the only such report of unsubstantiated adjustments. Mark Skidmore and Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, conducted a search of government websites and found similar reports dating back to 1998. While the documents are incomplete, original government sources indicate $21 trillion in unsupported adjustments have been reported for the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.
While government budgets can be complex, our government, like any business, can track receipts and payments and share this information in ways that can be understood by the public. The ongoing occurrence and gargantuan nature of unsupported, i.e., undocumented, U.S. federal government expenditures as well as sources of funding for these expenditures should be a great concern to all tax payers.
Taken together these reports point to a failure to comply with basic Constitutional and legislative requirements for spending and disclosure. We urge the House and Senate Budget Committee to initiate immediate investigations of unaccounted federal expenditures as well as the source of their payment.
PS, On December 11, 2017 we learned that the key documents had been reposted on the OIG website, but with different URLs. On October 5, 2017 we discovered that the link to the report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported” had been disabled. Within a several days, the links to other OIG documents we identified in our search were also disabled. The sequential non-random nature of this disabling process suggests a purposeful decision on the part of OIG to make key documents unavailable to the public via the website, as opposed to website reorganization, etc. We also revisited the website intermittently to see whether the documents had been reposted under different URLs—until very recently they had not been reposted. The OIG link to the most report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”, which indicates $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, can now be found here: We are currently searching the OIG website for the other reports and will share the links here once we have completed the search.
……….nogmaals: ongelofelijk!!!
VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’
De algehele hysterie over ‘fake news’ (of: ‘nepnieuws’) is compleet en al dik meer dan een jaar gaande, waarbij de sociale media werden aangewezen als de verspreiders, terwijl de echte makers en verspreiders van nepnieuws juist de reguliere media zijn, zie de berichtgeving voorafgaand aan de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, plus de berichtgeving over Oekraïne (en ga nog maar een tijd door…….)
Nu is er nieuws opgedoken over de VS overheid (en het leger) die al actief negatief nieuws over de overheid en bijvoorbeeld het leger te lijf gaan met een fiks aantal verzonnen personen, die meerdere identiteiten hebben op het internet, personages die het echte nieuws onderuit moeten halen. Het leger van de VS heeft al een klein legertje aan personen samengesteld om hun werk te doen. Overigens heeft Israël al eerder aangekondigd kritiek en negatief nieuws op/over deze fascistische apartheidsstaat aan te zullen vallen met een ‘snelle reactiemacht…..’*
Overigens dient opgemerkt te worden dat de VS en Israël nog iets verder gaan dan alleen kritiek aan te vallen, daar ze actief nepnieuws zullen verspreiden die bijvoorbeeld de uitgeoefende staatsterreur (in binnen en buitenland) moeten rechtvaardigen……
Overigens dient opgemerkt te worden dat de VS en Israël nog iets verder gaan dan alleen kritiek aan te vallen, daar ze actief nepnieuws zullen verspreiden die bijvoorbeeld de uitgeoefende staatsterreur (in binnen en buitenland) moeten rechtvaardigen……
Topmilitairen van de VS zien in deze vorm van volksverlakkerij een belangrijk wapen om de bevolking te beïnvloeden, bijvoorbeeld (weer) met het schoonpraten van de grootschalige terreur die dit leger op meerdere plaatsen in de wereld uitoefent…….
Lees de volgende stap in het vervolmaken van de Big Brother staat zoals door George Orwell beschreven, alleen gaat de werkelijkheid straks nog veel verder dan hij ooit had kunnen dromen…….
(door de immense technologische vooruitgang nadat zijn boek 1984 in 1949 werd gepubliceerd)
(door de immense technologische vooruitgang nadat zijn boek 1984 in 1949 werd gepubliceerd)
What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Social Media
March 20, 2018 at 9:12 pm
Written by Corbett Report
(CORBETT) — Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The weaponization of social media.
TRANSCRIPT:
It didn’t take long from the birth of the world wide web for the public to start using this new medium to transmit, collect and analyze information in ways never before imagined. The first message boards and clunky “Web 1.0” websites soon gave way to “the blogosphere.” The arrival of social media was the next step in this evolution, allowing for the formation of communities of interest to share information in real time about events happening anywhere on the globe.
But as quickly as communities began to form around these new platforms, governments and militaries were even quicker in recognizing the potential to use this new medium to more effectively spread their own propaganda.
Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives.
Their method? The Weaponization of Social Media.
Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Snapchat. Instagram. Reddit. “Social media” as we know it today barely existed fifteen years ago. Although it provides new ways to interact with people and information from all across the planet virtually instantaneously and virtually for free, we are only now beginning to understand the depths of the problems associated with these new platforms. More and more of the original developers of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter admit they no longer use social media themselves and actively keep it away from their children, and now they are finally admitting the reason why: social media was designed specifically to take advantage of your psychological weaknesses and keep you addicted to your screen.
SEAN PARKER: If the thought process that went into building these applications—Facebook being the first of them to really understand it—that thought process was all about “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever, and that’s gonna get you to contribute more content and that’s gonna get you more likes and comments. So it’s a social validation feedback loop. I mean it’s exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. And I think that we—the inventors/creators, you know, it’s me, it’s Mark, it’s Kevin Systrom at Instagram, it’s all of these people—understood this consciously and we did it anyway.
It should be no surprise, then, that in this world of social media addicts and smartphone zombies, the 24/7 newsfeed is taking up a greater and greater share of people’s lives. Our thoughts, our opinions, our knowledge of the world, even our mood are increasingly being influenced or even determined by what we see being posted, tweeted or vlogged. And the process by which these media shape our opinions is being carefully monitored and analyzed, not by the social media companies themselves, but by the US military.
MARINA PORTNAYA: When the world’s largest social media platform betrays its users, there’s going to be outrage.
ABC HOST: The study to see whether Facebook could influence the emotional state of its users on that news feed.
CNN ANCHOR: It allowed researchers to manipulate almost 700,000 users’ news feeds. Some saw more positive news about their friends, others saw more negative.
CNN GUEST: Well I’m not surprised. I mean we’re all kind of lab rat than the big Facebook experiment.
PORTNAYA: But it wasn’t only Facebook’s experiment. It turns out the psychological study was connected to the US government’s research on social unrest.
MORNING JOE GUEST: This is really kind of creepy.
PORTNAYA: And it gets worse. What you may not know is that the US Department of Defense has reportedly spent roughly $20 million conducting studies aimed at learning how to manipulate online behavior in order to influence opinion. The initiative was launched in 2011 by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, otherwise known as DARPA. The program is best described as the US media’s effort to become better at detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns via social media. Translation: When anti-government messages gain ground virally, Washington wants to find a way to spread counter opinion.
SOURCE: US military harnesses social media to manipulate online behaviour
The DARPA document that details the Pentagon’s plans for influencing opinions in the social media space is called “Social Media in Strategic Communication.” DARPA’s goal, according to their own website, is “to develop tools to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information.”
Exactly what tools were developed for this purpose and how they are currently being deployed is unclear.
But Rand Walzman, the program’s creator, admitted last year that the project lasted four years, cost $50 million and led to the publication of over 200 papers. The papers, including “Incorporating Human Cognitive Biases in a Probabilistic Model of Retweeting,” “Structural Properties of Ego Networks,” and “Sentiment Prediction using Collaborative Filtering,” make the thrust of the program perfectly clear. Social media users are lab rats being carefully scrutinized by government-supported researchers, their tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram pictures being analyzed to determine how information spreads online, and, by implication, how the government and the military can use these social media networks to make their own propaganda “go viral.”
As worrying as this research is, it pales in comparison to the knowledge that governments, militaries and political lobby groups are already employing squadrons of foot soldiers to wage information warfare in the social media battlespace.
AL-JAZEERA ANCHOR: The Pentagon’s got a new plan to counter anti-American messages in cyberspace. It involves buying software that will enable the American military to create and control fake online personas—fake people, essentially—who will appear to have originated from all over the world. The plan is being undertaken by CENTCOM (US Central Command), and the objective of the online persona management service is to combat enemy propaganda by influencing foreign social media websites. CENTCOM has hired a software development company called “Ntrepid,” and, according to the contract, the California-based company will initially provide 50 user licenses, each of which would be capable of controlling up to 10 fake personas. US law forbids the use of this type of technology, called “sockpuppets,” against Americans, so all the personas will reportedly be communicating in languages like Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
SOURCE: Persona Online Management, Fake Online Personas, Sock Puppets, Astroturfing Bots, Shills
CTV ANCHOR: So is it okay to have the government monitor social media conversations and then to wade in and correct some of those conversations? With more on this, let’s go to technology expert Carmi Levy. He’s on the line from Montreal. Carmi, do you think the government’s monitoring what you and I are saying right now? Is this whole thing getting out of line, or what?
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CARMI LEVY: It opens up a bit of a question. I’d like to call it a Pandora’s box about, you know, what exactly is the government’s aim here, and what do they hope to accomplish with what they find out? And as they accumulate this information online—this data on us—where does that data go? And so I think as much as we should applaud the government for getting into this area, the optics of it are potentially very Big Brother-ish. And the government really does need to be a little bit more concrete on what its intentions are and how it intends to achieve them.
SOURCE: CTV Confirms Government(s) employing Internet Trolls, Shills & PR Agents to ‘correct misinformation’
4WWL REPORTER: New evidence that government-owned computers at the Army Corps of Engineers office here in New Orleans are being used to verbally attack critics of the Corps comes in an affidavit from the former editor-in-chief of nola.com. Jon Donley, who was laid off this past February, tells us via satellite from Texas, in late 2006 he started noticing people presenting themselves as ordinary citizens defending the Corps very energetically.
JON DONLEY: What stuck out, though, was the wording of the comments was in many ways mirroring news releases from the Corps of Engineers.
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SANDY ROSENTHAL: These commenters tried to discredit these people . . .
4WWL REPORTER: And when Rosenthal investigated, she discovered the comments were coming from users at the internet provider address of the Army Corps of Engineers offices here in New Orleans. She blamed the Corps for a strategy of going after critics.
ROSENTHAL: In the process of trying to obscure the facts of the New Orleans floodings, one of their tactics was just verbal abuse.
SOURCE: Government Sock Puppets
NAFTALI BENNETT: Mo’etzet Yesha, in conjunction with My Israel, has arranged an instruction day for Wiki editors. The goal of the day is to teach people how to edit in Wikipedia, which is the number one source of information today in the world. As a way of example, if someone searches the Gaza flotilla, we want to be there. We want to be the guys who influence what is written there, how it’s written, and to ensure that it’s balanced and Zionist in the nature.
These operations are only the visible and publicly-admitted front of a vast array of military and intelligence programs that are attempting to influence online behaviour, spread government propaganda, and disrupt online communities that arise in opposition to their agenda.
That such programs exist is not a matter of conjecture; it is mundane, established, documented fact.
In 2014, an internal document was leaked from GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA. The document, never intended for public release, was entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations” and bluntly stated that “We want to build Cyber Magicians.” It then goes on to outline the “magic” techniques that must be employed in influence and information operations online, including deception and manipulation techniques like “anchoring,” “priming” and “branding” propaganda narratives. After presenting a map of social networking technologies that are targeted by these operations, the document then instructs the “magicians” how to deceive the public through “attention management” and behavioural manipulation.
That governments would turn to these strategies is hardly a shocking development. In fact, the use of government shills to propagate government talking points and disrupt online dissent has been openly advocated on the record by high-ranking government officials for the past decade.
In 2008, Cass Sunstein, a law professor who would go on to become Obama’s information “czar,” co-authored a paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” in which he wrote that the “best response” to online “conspiracy theories” is what he calls “cognitive infiltration” of groups spreading these ideas.
“Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action. In one variant, government agents would openly proclaim, or at least make no effort to conceal, their institutional affiliations. […] In another variant, government officials would participate anonymously or even with false identities.”
It is perhaps particularly ironic that the idea that government agents are actually and admittedly spreading propaganda online under false identities is, to the less-informed members of the population, itself a “conspiracy theory” rather than an established conspiracy fact.
Unsurprisingly, when confronted about his proposal, Sunstein pretended to not remember having written it and then pointedly refused to answer any questions about it.
LUKE RUDKOWSKI: My name is Bill de Burgh from Brooklyn College, and I know you’ve written many articles. But I think the most telling one about you is the 2008 one called “Conspiracy Theories,” where you openly advocated government agents infiltrate activist groups of 9/11 Truth and also stifle dissent online. I was wondering why do you think it’s the government’s job, or why do you think the government should go after family members who have questions and 9/11 responders who are lied to about the air, survivors whose testimony conflicts, and also government whistleblowers that were gagged because they released information that contradicts the official story.
CASS SUNSTEIN: I think it was Ricky who said I’d written hundreds of articles and I remember some and not others. That one I don’t remember very well. I hope I didn’t say that. But whatever was said in that article, my role in government is to oversee federal rule-making in a way that is wholly disconnected from the vast majority of my academic writing, including that.
[…]
RUDKOWSKI: I just want to know is it safe to say that you retract saying that conspiracy theories should be banned or taxed for having an opinion online. Is it safe to say that?
SUNSTEIN: I don’t remember the article very well. So I hope I didn’t say either those things.
RUDKOWSKI: But you did and it’s written. Do you retract them?
SUNSTEIN: I’m focused on my job.
SOURCE: Obama Information Czar Cass Sunstein Confronted on Cognitive Infiltration of Conspiracy Groups
Now, a decade on from Sunstein’s proposal, we know that military psyops agents, political lobbyists, corporate shills and government propagandists are spending vast sums of money and employing entire armies of keyboard warriors, leaving comments and shaping conversations to change the public’s opinions, influence their behaviour, and even alter their mood. And they are helped along in this quest by the very same technology that allows the public to connect on a scale never before possible.
Technology is always a double-edged sword, and sometimes it can be dangerous to wield that sword at all. There are ways to identify and neutralize the threat of online trolls and shills, but the phenomenon is not likely to go away any time soon.
Each of us must find our own answer to the question of how best to incorporate these technologies into our life. But the next time you find yourself caught up in an argument with an online persona that may or may not be a genuine human being, it might be better to ask yourself if your efforts are better spent engaging in the argument or just turning off the computer.
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* Zie: ‘Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek‘
Zie ook: ‘Jeremy Corbin wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….‘
en: ‘Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘AVG: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (geleid door Aleid Wolfsen PvdA) niet berekend op EU wetgeving…….‘
en: ‘Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….‘
en: ‘Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……‘
Visolie: de mensparasiet >> nu ook krill voor walvissen en pinguïns in voedsel voor de mens…….
De mens vist de oceanen meer en meer leeg en verziekt het leefklimaat voor de dieren daarin, niet alleen middels de door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatverandering, of de enorme plastic vervuiling, dumpen van chemisch afval (zoals zwaar vervuild water van fracken in de VS), maar ook middels vervuiling door olieboringen, het vergaan van schepen, de vervuiling door clandestien geloosde olie, gif en vuilnis dat van schepen in zee wordt gedonderd…… (en er zijn nog meer voorbeelden te noemen, zoals lozingen van riolen…)
Alsof dit alles niet genoeg is om schijtziek van te worden, hebben een aantal schoften bedacht om krill te verwerken in voedingsolie voor de mens, terwijl walvissen en pinguïns afhankelijk zijn van deze minuscuul kleine zeedieren…… Niet dat de mens deze nodig heeft, er zijn meer dan voldoende alternatieven te vinden voor omega 3, waarvan ‘de gezonde werking’ trouwens zwaar ter discussie staat…….
Het Britse levensmiddelenketen Holland & Barrett heeft de varianten voor de olie van krill NB naast de alternatieven staan, alternatieven die niet ten koste gaan van andere levensvormen op onze kleine aarde………
Het spul vindt gretig aftrek, dus reken maar dat binnenkort ook de Nederlandse kruideniersketens deze olie gaat verkopen (wellicht staan deze daar al, geen idee)…… In de Noordelijke Atlantische oceaan is de krill al op haar retour, dit door menselijk handelen (o.a. de opwarming van de aarde)…..
Nogmaals: de mens is ziek, doodziek en sleept alles en ieder dier mee de afgrond in…….
Stop het gebruik van visolie of krillolie, of andere producten met omega 3, er zijn alternatieven te over!
Stop het gebruik van visolie of krillolie, of andere producten met omega 3, er zijn alternatieven te over!
Lees het volgende artikel van Greenpeace GB (‘UK’), tevens een petitie die wij helaas niet kunnen tekenen (terwijl de visolie van Holland & Barrett ook hier, weliswaar via het internet, verkocht wordt… Ik wilde een grote link laten staan voor Britten die hier wonen, of voor jouw Britse vrienden/kennissen, maar Holland & Barrett heeft na fikse ophef in GB laten weten te stoppen met de verkoop van deze olie!):
Holland & Barrett v the Antarctic
In the Antarctic, all life, from the giant blue whale to a newborn penguin, depend on one tiny creature: krill. These quirky, shrimp-like crustaceans are one of the Antarctic’s most important species. Without krill, most life forms in the Antarctic would vanish.
But right now, Antarctic krill is being sucked out of the Antarctic Ocean, pulped into oil, and sold as a health supplement on UK shelves.This rapidly growing, multi-million dollar industry is threatening to upset the delicate balance of the Antarctic ecosystem.
The UK is the fourth largest krill oil market globally. Holland & Barrett are one of the biggest sellers of krill oil products, even stocking their own krill brand.
Holland & Barrett has the power to influence the krill industry to stop fishing in areas that need to be protected. But they’ll only do it if they have thousands of people call on them to stand up and defend the Antarctic.
Email Holland & Barrett’s CEO and tell him to make sure the products on their shelves aren’t putting sensitive Antarctic waters at risk.
But right now, Antarctic krill is being sucked out of the Antarctic Ocean, pulped into oil, and sold as a health supplement on UK shelves.This rapidly growing, multi-million dollar industry is threatening to upset the delicate balance of the Antarctic ecosystem.
The UK is the fourth largest krill oil market globally. Holland & Barrett are one of the biggest sellers of krill oil products, even stocking their own krill brand.
Holland & Barrett has the power to influence the krill industry to stop fishing in areas that need to be protected. But they’ll only do it if they have thousands of people call on them to stand up and defend the Antarctic.
Email Holland & Barrett’s CEO and tell him to make sure the products on their shelves aren’t putting sensitive Antarctic waters at risk.
Holland & Barrett cares deeply about their public image. They’ve spent a lot of time and money promoting themselves as a healthy and planet-loving company. But by selling krill products sourced from delicate parts of the Antarctic, Holland & Barrett are undermining their reputation as an environmentally friendly brand.
Our recent report reveals that the krill industry is already fishing right next to penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds – the same areas scientists and governments say we need to protect [1]. Animals in the Antarctic are already facing pressures from a changing climate. The last thing they need is additional strains on their food supply.
Holland & Barrett can influence their suppliers to stop fishing in areas that need to be protected. With their help, the krill industry will hear loud and clear that the Antarctic waters are ours to protect – not theirs to exploit.
We’ve written an email for you that lays out what Holland & Barrett can do to protect the Antarctic. You can add in your own words if you like, or just fill in your details and press send.
Our recent report reveals that the krill industry is already fishing right next to penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds – the same areas scientists and governments say we need to protect [1]. Animals in the Antarctic are already facing pressures from a changing climate. The last thing they need is additional strains on their food supply.
Holland & Barrett can influence their suppliers to stop fishing in areas that need to be protected. With their help, the krill industry will hear loud and clear that the Antarctic waters are ours to protect – not theirs to exploit.
We’ve written an email for you that lays out what Holland & Barrett can do to protect the Antarctic. You can add in your own words if you like, or just fill in your details and press send.
In the past, Holland & Barrett has taken action to protect our oceans. They were even the first major UK retailer to ditch plastic bags [2]. But, when it comes to protecting the Antarctic Ocean, Holland & Barrett are seriously lagging behind.
The bottom line is: no retailers should be selling products which could jeopardise an entire ecosystem. By using their direct links with the krill fishing industry, Holland & Barrett can help protect this fragile place.
The bottom line is: no retailers should be selling products which could jeopardise an entire ecosystem. By using their direct links with the krill fishing industry, Holland & Barrett can help protect this fragile place.
When it comes to our oceans, we know we can make a difference. Thousands of people like you took action against the biggest canned tuna company in the world, and together we pushed them to end their destructive fishing practices. This was a game-changer for our oceans and is exactly what we need to do again. Will you help make sure Holland & Barrett play their part to protect the Antarctic?
Thanks for all that you do,
Sam and the Protect the Antarctic team at Greenpeace UK
PS: Although krill oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids, there are plenty of vegetarian and vegan alternatives to krill. Holland & Barrett even sells them right next to their Antarctic krill oil products.
[1] Greenpeace Report: Licence to Krill
[2] Guardian: Holland & Barrett bans plastic bags
======================================== PS: waar blijft Greenpeace Nederland met een actie tegen dit parasiteren??
Zie ook:
‘Dierenmishandeling op ‘ongekend’ grote schaal‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)
Thanks for all that you do,
Sam and the Protect the Antarctic team at Greenpeace UK
PS: Although krill oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids, there are plenty of vegetarian and vegan alternatives to krill. Holland & Barrett even sells them right next to their Antarctic krill oil products.
[1] Greenpeace Report: Licence to Krill
[2] Guardian: Holland & Barrett bans plastic bags
======================================== PS: waar blijft Greenpeace Nederland met een actie tegen dit parasiteren??
Zie ook:
‘Dierenmishandeling op ‘ongekend’ grote schaal‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)
‘Dierenmishandeling >> ‘Kweekvis’, de gruwelijke manier waarop deze dieren worden vermoord‘
‘Antibiotica: wetenschappers luiden de noodklok, die jammer genoeg enigszins vals klinkt……..‘
‘Dierenmishandeling van enorme proporties: vissen lijden een vreselijke dood door de slacht…..‘
‘Dierenmishandeling promotie op Radio1…….‘
‘Wageningen Universiteit levert wat overheid en bedrijven willen horen……… Onafhankelijk onderzoek? ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
En terzijde:
‘Dierenmishandeling promotie geen probleem voor Reclame Code Commissie……….‘
Hoofdrolspeelster in de serie ‘The Crown’ verdient minder dan de mannelijke variant…… In werkelijkheid is het precies andersom!
De hoofdrolspeelster in de film ‘The Crown’, Claire Foy die de rol van koningin Elizabeth II vertolkt, verdient minder dan haar mannelijke tegenspeler Matt Smith die prins Philip speelt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Volkomen in tegenstelling tot wat de echte koningin en prins verdienen, immers Elizabeth verdient meer dan het veruit overgrote deel van de Britse mannen, of mannen die deels in GB wonen, inclusief Philip….
Netflix verdient goed aan deze deels geschiedvervalsing en voor het derde seizoen moet Foy wijken voor een andere hoofdrolspeler….. Ook hier tekent zich een verschil in behandeling af, immers er is niets gezegd over vervanging van de manlijke hoofdrolspeler…. Alsof Foy met de huidige technieken niet als een oudere vrouw kan worden geschminkt en neergezet in de serie….. Gegarandeerd dat er te grote afwijkingen in het gezicht van haar opvolger te zien zullen zijn, daarnaast zal ook de stem anders klinken….
Netflix heeft haar excuus aangeboden nadat er terecht fikse ophef over deze onrechtvaardigheid in beloning ontstond, althans voor wat dat excuus waard is, immers Netflix had kunnen weten dat dit uitermate onrechtvaardig is……. Alsof er voor het eerst wordt gesproken over het verschil in betaling van mannen en vrouwen, ongelofelijk en totaal ongeloofwaardig!!
Israëlische rechtbank besloot proces tegen 17 jarig meisje Ahed al-Tamimi achter gesloten deuren te houden >> voor haar eigen bestwil….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ongelofelijk maar waar: nadat bij een eerdere zitting de journalisten door een militaire rechter de zaal uit werden gestuurd, heeft een andere hof besloten dat het proces tegen Ahed al Tamimi achter gesloten deuren moet worden gehouden……. Ahed zit nu al 3 maanden vast voor het slaan van een Israëlische militair en ‘het gooien met stenen’ (alsof het om bommen gaat….)……..
Dit zou in het belang van Ahed zijn, aldus o.a. de rechter van die rechtbank…… ha! ha! ha! ha! De laffe fascistische zionistische honden willen geen pers bij dit schertsproces, zoveel is wel duidelijk! (met excuus aan de viervoeters voor de vergelijking)
Godbetert een kolonel van de fascistische bezettingsmacht had het gore lef te stellen dat een proces achter gesloten deuren Ahed een betere kans op verdediging zou geven……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Alsof Ahed ook maar 1% kans op een eerlijk proces zou hebben en dat nogmaals, in een militaire rechtbank! (waar slaat ‘t op??)
Het psychopathische leger van Israël blijft de familie al-Tamimi lastig vallen en zelfs de neef van Ahed, die in zijn gezicht werd geschoten, is gearresteerd door de Israëlische psychopaten…. Tijdens diens gevangenschap probeerde Israël zijn detentie te misbruiken om aan te tonen dat Muhammad een ongeluk had met zijn fiets………. ‘Jammer genoeg’ voor de fascistische Israëlische overheid, maar er waren al röntgenfoto’s gemaakt, waarop duidelijk de rubberkogel is te zien, waarmee Muhammad, een 15 jarige jongen, in zijn gezicht werd geschoten (van dichtbij, het laffe geteisem!!)
Intussen hebben 1,7 miljoen mensen (wereldwijd) de petitie getekend voor de vrijlating van Ahed*, een meisje dat NB in de gevangenis 17 jaar is geworden…….
Terwijl ik dit bericht gisteren schreef, heeft de werkelijkheid deze al ingehaald: vanmorgen meldde codepink.org dat Ahed een akkoord heeft gesloten met de Israëlische militaire rechtbank voor een gevangenisstraf die 8 maanden zou moeten duren……. Terecht meldt CODEPINK dat Ahed geen dag zou moeten zitten, maar daar Ahed anders een veel langere gevangenisstraf zou wachten heeft ze blijkbaar getekend (onrechtmatig onder druk zetten van een minderjarige!!)…. Onterecht meldt CODEPINK dat het hier om een overwinning gaat voor Ahed……
Als je al wilt spreken over een overwinning, zou het moeten gaan om een pyrrusoverwinning, immers 8 maanden cel voor het slaan van een militair is te zot voor woorden!! NB een militair die internationaal rechtelijk gezien veroordeeld zou moeten worden vanwege het onrechtmatig binnendringen van het huis bewoond door een Palestijns gezin (het binnendringen van het huis behorend tot het gezin al-Tamimi)
Terwijl ik dit bericht gisteren schreef, heeft de werkelijkheid deze al ingehaald: vanmorgen meldde codepink.org dat Ahed een akkoord heeft gesloten met de Israëlische militaire rechtbank voor een gevangenisstraf die 8 maanden zou moeten duren……. Terecht meldt CODEPINK dat Ahed geen dag zou moeten zitten, maar daar Ahed anders een veel langere gevangenisstraf zou wachten heeft ze blijkbaar getekend (onrechtmatig onder druk zetten van een minderjarige!!)…. Onterecht meldt CODEPINK dat het hier om een overwinning gaat voor Ahed……
Als je al wilt spreken over een overwinning, zou het moeten gaan om een pyrrusoverwinning, immers 8 maanden cel voor het slaan van een militair is te zot voor woorden!! NB een militair die internationaal rechtelijk gezien veroordeeld zou moeten worden vanwege het onrechtmatig binnendringen van het huis bewoond door een Palestijns gezin (het binnendringen van het huis behorend tot het gezin al-Tamimi)
Wanneer wordt de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël eindelijk voor het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) gesleept en veroordeeld voor een intussen ontelbaar aantal oorlogsmisdaden en het plegen van ronduit misdaden tegen de menselijkheid…..
Israeli Court Claims Ahed Tamimi’s Closed Trial Is for Her Own Good
March 20, 2018 at 10:19 pm
Written by Middle East Monitor
(MEMO) — An Israeli court has refused to hold a public trial for Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi claiming it is for her own benefit, reports Haaretz.
Last week the military prosecution told the court that they had no objection to a public court proceedings but were later informed that the case would be held behind closed doors as per a decision made by a lower court that deemed it necessary for “the minor’s benefit”. All Tamimi’s prior detention hearings have been public until last month when the military judge ordered all journalists to leave the court room.
Tamimi, 17, who is charged with stone-throwing and attacking soldiers, was arrested in December after a video showing her slapping Israeli soldiers and telling them to leave her property went viral. Israeli soldiers had invaded her home and shot her cousin in the head minutes before.
In explaining the appeal court’s decision, Colonel Netanel Benishu claimed that the decision was motivated by the desire to give the Tamimis “a real chance to make their arguments in an intimate framework of proceedings that aren’t open to the general public [which] is a basic component of conducting fair and just proceedings.”
Tamimi’s trial has been delayed some four times, during which she has been kept in police custody. Her case has gained international support, with international NGOs, British politiciansand the UN calling for her release. An online petition protesting her imprisonment has been signed by more than 1.7 million people.
Israeli police have continued to harass the Tamimis since Ahed’s detention and have also arrested 10 members of her family, including her cousin Mohammed Tamimi, who was initially shot. During his detention, Israeli authorities also attempted to prove that Mohammed, who lost a third of his skull due to the impact of the bullet, actually sustained his injury from falling off his bike.
The Tamimi family responded to the allegations by sharing official medical records from the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah and pictures of Muhammad’s x-ray, which clearly show the presence of a rubber bullet in his skull.
“There is no limit to how low Israel is willing to sink in its attempt to discredit the Tamimis’ just struggle for liberation against Israeli colonialism,” the family said in a statement.
The Tamimi family of Nabi Saleh is well known internationally for their activism against the Israeli occupation.
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* Nog niet getekend? >> Free the Tamimi Women! Voorts is er nog een petitie tegen het gevangen houden van kinderen (inclusief Ahed), kinderen die veelal zonder enige veroordeling worden vastgehouden (en gemarteld…): Free Ahed Tamimi and all other kids!
Zie ook: ‘‘Rechter’ houdt Palestijns meisje van 16 jaar in gevangenschap, verder een invalide in rolstoel vermoord: ‘leve het dappere Israëlische leger….’‘
en: ‘Bevrijd de 4 Tamimi vrouwen, inclusief een meisje van 16!‘
en: ‘Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek‘
en: ‘Israël heeft de energielevering aan Gazastrook alweer gestopt, plus commentaar van de uitermate pro-Israëlische BBC…….’
en: ‘Why Liberal Zionists Have Nothing to Say About Ahed Tamimi’s Slap and Arrest‘
en: ‘Jerry Seinfeld valt keihard door de mand als zionist………..‘ (Seinfeld, ‘een liberale zionist’)
en: ‘‘Heldhaftige Israelische militair‘, die op verdenking van het gooien met stenen, een 15 jarige jongen vermoordde, gaat vrijuit……..‘
en: ‘Ahed al-Tamimi in Volkskrant ‘uitgelegd’ als terrorist, die klappen uitdeelt…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘16 jarige Ahed al-Tamimi is volgens militaire rechter te gevaarlijk om op borgtocht vrij te laten……..‘
en: ‘Israël martelt 60% van de gevangengehouden Palestijnse kinderen…….‘
en: ‘Israëlische rechtbank besloot proces tegen 17 jarig meisje Ahed al-Tamimi achter gesloten deuren te houden >> voor haar eigen bestwil….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘Ahed al-Tamimi (nu 17 jaar) nog steeds vast na slaan militair en ondergaat intimidatie van ondervragers……‘
en: ‘Israël gebruikt nieuw chemisch wapen tegen Palestijnse demonstranten in de Gazastrook‘