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VS bereid zich voor op oorlog met Rusland en China >> On the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Information
Clearing House (ICH) bracht gisteren een artikel van John Pilger, een
Australische journalist en documentaire maker.

In zijn
schrijven waarschuwt Pilger voor een komende nucleaire wereldoorlog.
Met een aantal voorbeelden geeft Pilger aan hoe de VS zich voorbereid
op zo’n oorlog…….

Lees dit
(uitstekende) bericht en oordeel zelf (onder het artikel kan u
klikken voor een vertaling):

On
the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War


By
John Pilger

The
US submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some
sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re
never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now
we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”

He
says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die,
though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.

The
war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were the
protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or
mistake. There was no victor. The northern hemisphere is contaminated
and lifeless now.

A
curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New
Zealand, southern Africa and South America. By September, the last
cities, towns and villages will succumb. As in the north, most
buildings will remain untouched, some illuminated by the last
flickers of electric light.

                                  This
is the way the world ends
                                  Not
with a bang but a whimper

These
lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The
Hollow Men appear at
the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel On
the Beach, which
left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.

Published
in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were
silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece. At first the language suggests
a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as
unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.

I
read On
the Beach for
the first time the other day, finishing it as the US Congress passed
a law to wage economic war on Russia, the world’s second most
lethal nuclear power.  There was no justification for this
insane vote, except the promise of plunder.

The
“sanctions” are aimed at Europe, too, mainly Germany, which
depends on Russian natural gas and on European companies that do
legitimate business with Russia. In what passed for debate on Capitol
Hill, the more garrulous senators left no doubt that the embargo was
designed to force Europe to import expensive American gas.

Their
main aim seems to be war – real war. No provocation as extreme can
suggest anything else. They seem to crave it, even though Americans
have little idea what war is. The Civil War of 1861-5 was the last on
their mainland. War is what the United States does to others.

The
only nation to have used nuclear weapons against human beings, they
have since destroyed scores of governments, many of them democracies,
and laid to waste whole societies – the million deaths in Iraq were
a fraction of the carnage in Indo-China, which President Reagan
called “a noble cause” and President Obama revised as the tragedy
of an “exceptional people”He was not referring to the Vietnamese.

Filming
last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, I overheard a
National Parks Service guide lecturing a school party of young
teenagers. “Listen up,” he said. “We lost 58,000 young soldiers
in Vietnam, and they died defending your
freedom.”

At
a stroke, the truth was inverted. No freedom was defended. Freedom
was destroyed. A peasant country was invaded and millions of its
people were killed, maimed, dispossessed, poisoned; 60,000 of the
invaders took their own lives. Listen up, indeed.

A
lobotomy is performed on each generation. Facts are removed. History
is excised and replaced by what Time magazine
calls “an eternal present”. Harold Pinter described this as
“manipulation of power worldwide, while masquerading as a force for
universal good, a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis [which meant] that it never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t
matter. It was of no interest.”

Those
who call themselves liberals or tendentiously “the left” are
eager participants in this manipulation, and its brainwashing, which
today revert to one name: Trump.

While
they pursue their fossilised anti-Russia agendas, narcissistic media
such as the Washington
Post,
the BBC and the Guardian suppress
the essence of the most important political story of our time as they
warmonger on a scale I cannot remember in my lifetime.

On
3 August, in contrast to the acreage the Guardian has
given to drivel that the Russians conspired with Trump (reminiscent
of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a “Soviet agent”),
the paper buried, on page 16, news that the President of the United
States was forced to sign a Congressional bill declaring economic war
on Russia.

Unlike
every other Trump signing, this was conducted in virtual secrecy and
attached with a caveat from Trump himself that it was “clearly
unconstitutional”.

A
coup against the man in the White House is under way. This is not
because he is an odious human being, but because he has consistently
made clear he does not want war with Russia.

This
glimpse of sanity, or simple pragmatism, is anathema to the “national
security” managers who guard a system based on war, surveillance,
armaments, threats and extreme capitalism. Martin Luther King called
them “the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today”.

They
have encircled Russia and China with missiles and a nuclear arsenal.
They have used neo-Nazis to instal an unstable, aggressive regime on
Russia’s “borderland” – the way through which Hitler invaded,
causing the deaths of 27 million people.  Their goal is to
dismember the modern Russian Federation.

The
threat is simultaneous. Russia is first, China is next. The US has
just completed a huge military exercise with Australia known as
Talisman Sabre. They rehearsed a blockade of the Malacca Straits and
the South China Sea, through which pass China’s economic lifelines.

The
admiral commanding the US Pacific fleet said that, “if required”,
he would nuke China. That he would say such a thing publicly in the
current perfidious atmosphere begins to make fact of Nevil Shute’s
fiction.

None
of this is considered news. No connection is made as the bloodfest of
Passchendaele a century ago is remembered. Honest reporting is no
longer welcome in much of the media. Windbags, known as pundits,
dominate: editors are infotainment or party line managers. Where
there was once sub-editing, there is the liberation of axe-grinding
clichés. Those journalists who do not comply are defenestrated.

At
the height of the Cold War, the anti-communist hysteria in the United
States was such that US officials who were on official business in
China were accused of treason and sacked. In 1957 – the year Shute
wrote On
the Beach –
no official in the State Department could speak the language of the
world’s most populous nation. Mandarin speakers were purged under
strictures now echoed in the Congressional bill that has just passed,
aimed at Russia.

The
bill was bipartisan. There is no fundamental difference between
Democrats and Republicans. The terms “left” and “right” are
meaningless.  Most of America’s modern wars were started not
by conservatives, but by liberal Democrats.

When
Obama left office, he presided over a record seven wars, including
America’s longest war and an unprecedented campaign of
extrajudicial killings – murder – by drones.

In
his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study,
Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs –
three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.  Having pledged to help
“rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate
built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War.

Trump
is a wimp by comparison.  It was Obama – with his secretary of
state Hillary Clinton at his side – who destroyed Libya as a modern
state and launched the human stampede to Europe. At home, immigration
groups knew him as the “deporter-in-chief”.

One
of Obama’s last acts as president was to sign a bill that handed a
record $618billion to the Pentagon, reflecting the soaring ascendancy
of fascist militarism in the governance of the United States. Trump
has endorsed this.

Buried
in the detail was the establishment of a “Center for Information
Analysis and Response”. This is a ministry of truth. It is tasked
with providing an “official narrative of facts” that will prepare
us for the real possibility of nuclear war – if we allow it.

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On the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War

Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva…….

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Eindelijk na alle hysterie over de raketten die Noord-Korea heeft afgeschoten, heeft VS generaal Paul Selva voor een Senaatscommissie toegegeven dat de raketten van Noord-Korea uiterst ineffectief zijn, m.a.w. de raketten zijn waardeloos en kunnen geen strategische doelen in de VS raken. Sterker nog: de bewering dat Noord-Korea met raketten Alaska of andere delen van de VS zou kunnen raken, zijn zwaar overdreven……..

Jammer dat James Holbrooks, de schrijver van het onderstaande Anti-Media artikel, niet wijst op het feit dat Noord-Korea niet eens een atoombom heeft, laat staan dat ze kernkoppen kunnen maken, die een raket zou kunnen vervoeren……

Na een ondergrondse kernproef kan tot een aantal dagen na de proef radioactieve straling worden gemeten, boven de plek waar de proef plaatsvond. Deze straling is te meten met satellieten, echter tot dusver is er nooit radioactieve straling gemeld boven de plek waar de kernproef plaatsvond, reken maar dat als dit wel het geval was geweest, dit het nieuws zou hebben gehaald! Kortom: Noord-Korea heeft niet eens een atoombom. Overigens zou je dit ook kunnen afleiden uit de stelling van de VS, dat Noord-Korea moet ophouden met het ontwikkelen van kernwapens………

Deskundigen hebben al vaker gesteld, dat je met een gigantische hoeveelheid springstof een ondergrondse kernproef kan nabootsen, inclusief de aardbeving die de kracht van een atoombom aangeeft…..

Holbrooks wijt de wat soepeler opstelling van de VS o.a. aan de onderhandelingen van de VS met China over de import van Chinese goederen op de VS markt en uiteraard het omgekeerde. Zo zou Trump geïmporteerd staal uit China extra willen belasten. Bovendien is de nieuwe Zuid-Koreaanse president, Moon Jae-in, voor onderhandelingen met Noord-Korea, i.p.v. het opleggen van sancties en het dreigen met militair geweld, een zaak waar de VS rekening mee heeft te houden.

Het is te hopen dat Moon Jae-in een eind maakt aan het jaarlijkse treiteren van Noord-Korea, met grootschalige militaire oefeningen langs de grens van Noord-Korea en de territoriale wateren van dat land door de VS en Zuid-Korea……. Oefeningen waarbij ook raketten worden afgeschoten….. Vergeet niet dat de wil van Noord-Korea om een atoombom te ontwikkelen voortkomt uit angst voor de agressie van de VS, een angst die allesbehalve onzinnig is gezien het aantal illegale oorlogen dat de VS sinds 1945 is begonnen……….

The
Latest: US Official Admits North Korean Missiles Aren’t Threat to
America

July
19, 2017 at 2:24 pm

Written
by James
Holbrooks

(ANTIMEDIA) — Geopolitical
moves are being made on the issue of North Korea. A day after South
Korea’s new government offered to
hold military talks with its neighbor to the North, the United
States’ second-highest ranking military official admitted Tuesday
that North Korean missiles lack the accuracy to effectively target
U.S. cities.

On
Monday, South Korea’s defense ministry proposed that
representatives from both the South and North Korean militaries meet
at the border village of Panmunjom in North Korea for talks

“We
make the proposal for a meeting…aimed at stopping all hostile
activities that escalate military tension along the land
border,” South
Korea’s defense ministry said in
a statement.

The
man in charge of North Korean affairs, unification minister Cho
Myoung-gyon, said his country “would
not seek collapse of the North or unification through absorbing the
North” and suggested a
positive response from Kim Jong-un’s government would represent a
show of good faith.

“North
Korea should respond to our sincere proposals if it really seeks
peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Cho
said, adding that if “North
Korea chooses the right path, we would like to open the door for a
brighter future for North Korea, together, by cooperating with the
international community.”

The
defense ministry’s overture falls in line with
the approach advocated
by new South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who supports diplomatic
talks with the North led by South Korea.

Recently,
ahead of the G20 summit in Germany, Moon stated that “the
need for dialogue” with
North Korea is “more
pressing than ever before” because
the situation had “reached
the tipping point of the vicious cycle of military escalation.”

North
Korea has yet to respond to the South’s proposal.

Meanwhile,
on Tuesday, the primary driver of the “evil North Korea”
narrative, United States appeared to go against the grain and
actually downplayed the effectiveness of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear
weapons program — or, at least, one senior official defense
official did. From Reuters:

“North
Korea does not have the ability to strike the United States with ‘any
degree of accuracy’ and while its missiles have the range, they
lack the necessary guidance capability, the vice chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday.”

Speaking
before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Paul
Selva said North
Korea’s July 4 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test
showed that the country has no hope of hitting a U.S. target with
any “reasonable
confidence of success” and
that recent talk about its ability to strike Alaska or the Pacific
Northwest is overblown:

“What
the experts tell me is that the North Koreans have yet to demonstrate
the capacity to do the guidance and control that would be required.”

While
the general’s admission isn’t on the same level as the actual act
of diplomacy just demonstrated by South Korea, the fact that the U.S.
military is walking back — even if only just a step or two — a
narrative it fought so hard to establish is itself worthy of
commentary.

So
what gives? Why, in the last two days, have both the U.S. and ally
South Korea suddenly taken a softer line — again, in their own ways
— on the North Korea issue? Are all parties concerned about to
knock off the rhetoric and allow the Hermit Kingdom to continue to
fire missiles into the sea?

Not
likely. As with most other issues of geopolitical significance in
that region of the world, these moves likely have far more to do with
China.

On
Wednesday, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping
will meet in
Washington, D.C., for annual bilateral talks, this year dubbed the
“U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue.” It will be the
third meeting between the two men, after Xi’s visit to
Mar-a-Lago three months ago and their discussions on
the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany.

Recently,
Trump reignited concern over a trade war between the U.S. and China
when he said he was considering slapping
import tariffs on steel. But these kinds of tactics are nothing new
ahead of economic negotiations, as the Washington
Post noted last
Friday:

“In
1981, the Reagan administration convinced Japan to reduce the number
of cars it was exporting to the United States in a bid to boost the
U.S. auto sector. In 1984, the administration used the tactic again
with the steel industry, as it told dozens of countries to either
limit their steel shipments to the United States or lose access to
the American market.”

In
an article published Sunday titled “U.S.-China trade talks
sputtering at 100-day deadline,” Reuters outlined how
results from economic negotiations between the two countries have
been less than encouraging since Trump and Xi first met at
Mar-a-Lago. The general consensus is
that Donald Trump needs a major win with China to prove he’s
sticking to the “America first” guns that got him into the White
House.

Noting
that “North
Korea has cast a long shadow over the relationship” between
Trump and Xi, Reuters points
out that
the Hermit Kingdom and its nuclear weapons program have been a
hindrance to cooperation for the U.S. president:

“Trump
has linked progress in trade to China’s ability to rein in North
Korea, which counts on Beijing as its chief friend and ally.”

On
Tuesday, the Associated
Press also highlighted how
Trump has used the issue of North Korea as a bargaining chip at the
negotiating table with China:

“As
a presidential candidate, Trump attacked China for refusing to
pressure Pyongyang to back off from developing nuclear weapons. After
the Mar-a-Lago summit, though, Trump praised Beijing for agreeing to
help deal with North Korea. As a reward, he abandoned his vow to
accuse China of manipulating its currency to benefit Chinese
exporters.”

So
it may be that this one-two punch from the United States and ally
South Korea was a coordinated effort to ease tensions and create an
atmosphere conducive to cooperation ahead of critical negotiations
between the U.S. and China.

It
may be that the Trump administration is signaling that it would be
willing to back off on pressuring China to rein in Kim Jong-un if
China is willing to make concessions on the economic front — and
give Trump the win he needs.

Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo


Zie ook: ‘Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K…….‘

       en: ‘Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..‘       en: ‘NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea……. Ofwel: ‘fake news’ op en top!!‘       en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva…….‘       en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..‘

Qatar boycot ingegeven door Jared Kushner……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

De schoonzoon van Trump, Jared Kushner is de grote gangmaker achter de boycot ingesteld op Qatar door Saoedi-Arabië, Egypte, de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) en Bahrein.

Topgraaier Kushner kocht met een enorme berg geleend geld, op het verkeerde moment (in 2007) een wolkenkrabber in New York. Nadat de crisis in 2008 losbarstte, moest Kushner een flink deel van het gebouw verkopen. Om de rest van de schuld te kunnen betalen, zocht hij geld in o.a. Qatar dat hem een lening van 500 miljoen dollar in het vooruitzicht stelde.

Sjeik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (HBJ) uit Qatar wilde hem 500 miljoen dollar lenen, als hij inderdaad zou worden gekozen als adviseur van het Witte Huis. Ook een Chinees staatsbedrijf wilde investeren in de wolkenkrabber. Echter nadat Kushner zijn adviseursaanstelling kreeg, trok het Chinese bedrijf zich terug vanwege vermeende belangenverstrengeling.

Als reactie op die beslissing, trok ook de sjeik uit Qatar zich terug uit het ‘project’.

The Intercept meldde dat Kushner het Witte Huis adviseerde op te treden tegen Qatar, hoewel er geen hard bewijs is, dat e.e.a. met de beslissing van de sjeik te maken had, is het wel duidelijk dat het één met het ander te maken heeft…… Met andere woorden: ook hier heeft de VS de lont in het kruitvat gestoken…..

Het volgende bericht, gepubliceerd door Anti-Media, is grotendeels gebaseerd op het artikel van The Intercept (in het bericht vind je de link naar dat artikel):

Jared
Kushner ‘Sought $500 Million From Qatar for Skyscraper Bailout’

July
11, 2017 at 4:24 am

Written
by Middle
East Eye

(MEE) — Jared
Kushner, the son-in-law to US President Donald Trump and a senior
White House adviser, sought a $500m investment from Qatar for a New
York skyscraper shortly before the diplomatic crisis between Qatar
and a host of other countries, according to an Intercept
article on
Monday.

The
account raises suspicions that Trump’s foreign policy is related to
the family’s business interests.

Citing
unidentified sources that reportedly had knowledge of the proposed
bailout, the Intercept reported that Kushner tried to shore up
funding from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (HBJ) after the
skyscraper’s value plummeted from the real estate crisis in 2008.
Kushner had bought the building in 2007 – when he was 26 – for
$500m out of his family’s pocket and $1.3bn in borrowed money.

However,
the real estate crisis forced Kushner to sell off a sizeable chunk of
their office space in the building as part of a financial package;
but in order to pay back those who originally borrowed money, he must
have $1.3bn by early next year. According to a New
York Magazine report,
if Kushner “can’t find some new scheme for refinancing and
redeveloping the property by then, [he] will have cost his family
half a billion dollars”.

After
the election, investors appeared to be willing to bail out Kushner’s
skyscraper fiasco.

HBJ
reportedly agreed to invest $500m in the severely debt-ridden
property as long as Kushner was able to raise the rest of the money,
which he could do when he became a senior White House adviser,
according to the Intercept article.

A
Chinese company with ties to members of the country’s ruling party
was also willing to shore up $400m in March, but had decided to back
out in March over a “conflict of interest” that consisted of “a
company with ties to the Chinese government going into [big] business
with the family of a senior adviser to the American one”.

When
the Chinese company exited, so did HBJ.

Months
later in June, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and
Bahrain cut off all air, land and sea links to Qatar. Trump sided
with the four-nation coalition, saying that the tiny petro-chemical
nation funded terrorism.

The
Intercept reported that Kushner played a key role in the White
House’s hardline stance against Qatar, but it did not establish a
link whether Kushner’s role had anything to do with the failed
skyscraper bailout.

By MEE
staff /
Republished with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
a typo

Janet Yellen voorspelt crisis door tegenovergestelde te beweren!!! Een truc die al eerder misliep!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Alweer een verrassend artikel van Republikein Ron Paul. Dit keer neemt hij Janet Yellen de maat.

Yellen kondigde een paar dagen geleden aan dat de VS (en daarmee de rest van het westen) een lange tijd van voorspoed tegemoet kan zien en dat een crisis zoals die in 2008 zich niet meer kan herhalen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dit terwijl de VS in feite al lang failliet had moeten gaan, de geldpersen maken overuren en de staatsschuld is al bijna niet meer in cijfers uit te drukken………

Paul stelt dan ook dat de geruststellende woorden van Yellen in feite een waarschuwing voor een komenden (enorme) crisis zijn……..

Ook de banken hebben niets geleerd van de crisis, al moet ik zeggen, dat ze dit ook niet wilden. Obama heeft praktisch niets ondernomen om een crisis als in 2008 in de toekomst te voorkomen, precies als de voorganger van Yellen, grootoplichter Greenspan daar niets tegen heeft ondernomen……..Ja men voerde wat schoonheidsregels door, die het volk in comateuze slaap moesten brengen (en dat is aardig gelukt!)………..

Ach, lees liever het volgende artikel van Paul, o.a. gepubliceerd op Anti-Media, een gedegen analyse van de stand van financiële VS zaken:

Ron
Paul: Janet Yellen is a False Prophet of Prosperity

July
13, 2017 at 9:29 am

Written
by Ron
Paul

(RPI) Federal
Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the
regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would
not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.”
Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there
are few more reliable signals of an impending recession, or worse,
than when so-called “experts” proclaim that we are in an era of
unending prosperity.

For
instance, in the years leading up to the 2008 market meltdown,
then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke repeatedly denied the existence of a
housing bubble. In February 2007, Bernanke not only denied that
“sluggishness” in the housing market would affect the general
economy, but predicted that the economy would expand in 2007 and
2008. Of course, instead of years of economic growth, 2007 and 2008
were marked by a market meltdown whose effects are still being felt.

Yellen’s
happy talk ignores a number of signs that the economy is on the verge
of another crisis. In recent months, the US has experienced a decline
in economic growth and the value of the dollar. The only economic
statistic showing a positive trend is the unemployment rate — and
that is only because the official unemployment rate does not count
those who have given up looking for work. The real unemployment rate
is at least 50 percent higher than the manipulated “official”
rate.

A
recent Treasury Department report’s called for rolling back of bank
regulations could further

destabilize
the economy. This seems counterintuitive, as rolling back regulations
usually contributes to economic growth. However, rolling back bank
regulations without ending subsidies like deposit insurance that
create a moral hazard that incentivizes banks to engage in risky
business practices could cause banks to resume the unsound lending
practices that were a major contributor to the growth, and collapse,
of the housing bubble.

The
US economy is already faced with several bubbles that could implode
at any time. These include bubbles in student loans and automobiles
sales, and even another housing bubble. The most dangerous of these
bubbles is the government bubble caused by excessive spending.
According to a 2016 study by the Mercatus Center, at least four
states could soon join Puerto Rico and Illinois in facing bankruptcy.

Of
course, the mother of all government bubbles is the federal spending
bubble. Despite claims of both defenders and critics of the
president’s budget, neither President Trump nor the Republican
Congress have any plans for, or interest in, reducing spending in any
area. Even the so-called cuts in Medicare and other entitlement
programs that have generated such hysterics are not real cuts, but
“reductions in the rate of growth.”

Some
fiscal conservatives are praising the administration’s proposal to
finance transportation spending via government bonds. However, the
people will eventually have to pay for these bonds either directly
through income taxes or indirectly through the inflation tax.
Government-issued bonds harm the economy by diverting investment
capital away from the private sector to the “mixed economy”
controlled by politicians, bureaucrats, and crony capitalists.

If
Congress continues to increase spending and the Federal Reserve
continues to facilitate that spending by monetizing the debt,
Americans will face an economic crisis more severe than the Great
Depression. The crisis will likely result from a rejection of the
dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Those of us who know the
truth must redouble our efforts to ensure a peaceful transition away
from the Keynesian system of welfare, warfare, and fiat currency to a
society of peace, prosperity, and liberty.

By Ron
Paul /
Republished with permission / RPI / Report
a typo


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Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

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Het volgende artikel komt van Information Clearing House en handelt o.a. over het niet-schandaal van de ontmoeting van Trump jr. met een Russische advocaat. De schrijver Lee Perry, merkte eerder o.a. al op dat het heel normaal is, dat gekozen presidenten voor hun inwijding (inauguratie) tot president, contact hebben met buitenlandse mogendheden, zo is het al decennia de gewoonste zaak van de wereld dat deze gekozen presidenten en/of hun staf contact hebben met de Israëlische regering.

Perry merkt op, dat het verzamelen van stront over Trump door de Democraten, allesbehalve is vergeten, iets dat de Democraten wel graag willen….. Met grote bedragen werd de Britse ex-spion Steele door de Democraten betaald, om in Rusland bagger over Trump te verzamelen. Als er grote bedragen worden geboden, is de kans levensgroot dat de vergaarde informatie op z’n zachtst gezegd onbetrouwbaar is (Ap).

Lees dit onthullende artikel van Perry, daaronder vindt u de link naar het volledige verhaal, op die webpagina kan u ook klikken voor ‘een Dutch vertaling’:

Forgetting
the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

By
Robert Parry

Exclusive:
The new Russia-gate furor is over Donald Trump Jr. meeting a Russian
who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton, but the Clinton team’s
Russian cash-for-trash search against Trump Sr. is all but forgotten,
writes Robert Parry.

Essentially,
Trump’s oldest son is being accused of taking a meeting with a
foreign national who claimed to have knowledge of potentially illegal
activities by Trump’s Democratic rivals, although the promised
information apparently turned out to be a dud.

Yet,
on Monday, the Times led its newspaper with a story about this
meeting – and commentators on MSNBC and elsewhere are labeling
Trump Jr. a criminal if not a traitor for hearing out this lawyer.

Yet,
no one seems to remember that Hillary Clinton supporters paid large
sums of money, reportedly about $1 million, to have ex-British spy
Christopher Steele use his Russian connections to dig up dirt on
Trump inside Russia, resulting in a salacious dossier that Clinton
backers eagerly hawked to the news media.

Also,
the two events – Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russian lawyer and
the Clinton camp’s commissioning of Steele’s Russia dossier –
both occurred in June 2016, so you might have thought it would be a
journalistic imperative to incorporate a reference or two to the
dossier.

But
the closest the Times came to that was noting: “Political campaigns
collect opposition research from many quarters but rarely from
sources linked to foreign governments.” That would have been an
opportune point to slide in a paragraph about the Steele dossier, but
nothing.

But
the Steele dossier is a more immediate and direct example of close
Hillary Clinton supporters going outside the United States for dirt
on Trump and collaborating with foreign nationals to dig it up –
allegedly from Kremlin insiders. Although it is still not clear
exactly who footed the bill for the Steele dossier and how much money
was spread around to the Russian contacts, it is clear that Clinton
supporters paid for the opposition research and then flacked the
material to American journalists.

As
I wrote on March 29, “An irony of the escalating hysteria about the
Trump camp’s contacts with Russians is that one presidential
campaign in 2016 did exploit political dirt that supposedly came from
the Kremlin and other Russian sources. Friends of that political
campaign paid for this anonymous hearsay material, shared it with
American journalists and urged them to publish it to gain an
electoral advantage. But this campaign was not Donald Trump’s; it
was Hillary Clinton’s.

“And,
awareness of this activity doesn’t require you to spin conspiracy
theories about what may or may not have been said during some
seemingly innocuous conversation. In this case, you have open
admissions about how these Russian/Kremlin claims were used.

“Indeed,
you have the words of Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member
of the House Intelligence Committee, in his opening
statement at
[a] public hearing on so-called ‘Russia-gate.’ Schiff’s
seamless 15-minute narrative of the Trump campaign’s alleged
collaboration with Russia followed the script prepared by former
British intelligence officer Christopher Steele who was hired as an
opposition researcher last June [2016] to dig up derogatory
information on Donald Trump.

“Steele,
who had worked for Britain’s MI-6 in Russia, said he tapped into
ex-colleagues and unnamed sources inside Russia, including leadership
figures in the Kremlin, to piece together a
series of sensational reports that
became the basis of the current congressional and FBI investigations
into Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.

“Since
he was not able to go to Russia himself, Steele based his reports
mostly on multiple hearsay from anonymous Russians who claim to have
heard some information from their government contacts before passing
it on to Steele’s associates who then gave it to Steele who
compiled this mix of rumors and alleged inside dope into ‘raw’
intelligence reports.

“Besides
the anonymous sourcing and the sources’ financial incentives to dig
up dirt, Steele’s reports had numerous other problems, including
the inability of a variety of investigators to confirm key elements,
such as the salacious claim that several years ago Russian
intelligence operatives secretly videotaped Trump having prostitutes
urinate on him while he lay in the same bed in Moscow’s
Ritz-Carlton used by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

“That
tantalizing tidbit was included in Steele’s opening report to his
new clients, dated June 20, 2016. Apparently, it proved irresistible
in whetting the appetite of Clinton’s mysterious benefactors who
were financing Steele’s dirt digging and who have kept their
identities (and the amounts paid) hidden. Also in that first report
were the basic outlines of what has become the scandal that is now
threatening the survival of Trump’s embattled presidency.


Hier de link naar het volledige verhaal:

Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Zie ook: ‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘ (een vervolg op het bovenstaande bericht)

       en: ‘Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump‘ (artikel in Nederlands)

       en: ‘Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election‘

       en: ‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘

       en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘

       en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘

       en: ‘CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence‘

       en: ‘Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..‘

       en: ‘Walls Closing in on Russiagate Conspiracy Theorists: Evidence Mounts That DNC Emails Provided to WikiLeaks By Inside Source‘

       en: ‘WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Drops Russiagate Shell!!!‘ (video).

       en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘

       en:  ‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘

       en: ‘New York Times met schaamteloze anti-Russische propaganda en ‘fake news….’‘

       en: ‘BBC World Service: Rusland heeft VS verkiezingen gemanipuleerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Hoe Clinton en haar team de wereld op scherp hebben gezet >> Did Hillary Scapegoat Russia to Save Her Campaign?‘

       en: ‘Brekend nieuws: door Rusland betaalde reclames van Shell, Calvé pindakaas, AH boerenkool en Hema worst >> doel Rutte 3 ten val te brengen!!!‘

       en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ 

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Het volgende artikel komt van Information Clearing House en komt van ZeroHedge.

Ex-FBI oplichter Comey is door de mand gevallen. De topgraaier heeft zelf veel (ook geheime) documenten gelekt naar nu blijkt.

Een goed artikel met mogelijkheid tot vertaling (zie link naar origineel onder het volgende artikel): 

FBI
Director’s Leaked Trump Memos Contained Classified Information

By
Tyler Durden

Amid
the constant media outrage over everything Trump,
Trump, Trump,
some might have forgotten that in the political rollercoaster over
the past 12 months, there were numerous other high-profile
individuals involved, including not only
former DOJ head Loretta Lynch,
whose every interaction with the Clinton campaign is about to be
probed under a Congressional microscope, but the man who some say
started it all: former FBI Director James Comey.

First
loved by the Democrats when he personally absolved Hillary Clinton of
any sins regarding her (ab)use of her personal email server, then
furiously loathed when he reopened the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton
one week before the election, then finally getting into a feud with
President Trump which cost his him job, Comey ultimately admitted to
leaking at least one memo which contained personal recollections of
his conversations with the president, in hopes of launching a special
probe into the president’s alleged Russian collusion. 

There
was just one problem: according to a blockbuster
report from The Hill,
in addition to the leaked memos, Comey
also leaked classified information in gross and direct violation of
FBI rules and regulations. And
just like that Comey finds himself in trouble. Only not just any
trouble, but the virtually same trouble that Hillary Clinton was in
in the summer of 2016… and which James Comey was tasked to
investigate.

Aside
from once again confirming that Trump may have been right all along
in his accusation of the ex-FBI chief’s motives, this shocking
revelation raises the possibility that Comey
broke his own agency’s rules –
by putting his own interests above those of his country – but far
more grotesquely, ignored
the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary
Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election, in
order to settle his vendetta with President Trump.

Amusingly,
Comey’s alleged flagrant disregard for FBI regulations would explain
why he also found Clinton’s email server transgressions to not be a
material concern, contrary to what most Republicans claimed at the
time. After all, if it was good – or rather not bad enough for
Clinton, maybe it was the same with Comey’s own abuse of confidential
data? The
only problem is that while Comey was generous enough to let Hillary
go, now that the ex-FBI chief is facing the president of the US as
his adversary, he may not be quite so lucky.

Lees
het hele artikel op:

FBI Director’s Leaked Trump Memos Contained Classified Information

Zie ook: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘

       en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘


       en: ‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia‘

       en: ‘Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd‘

       en: ‘Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!‘

       en: ‘VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!‘

       en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘

       en: ‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘

       en: ‘Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election‘

       en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘

       en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘

       en: ‘CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence‘

       en: ‘Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..‘

       en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ 

Putin laat zich weer n****en door de VS, nu middels Trump zelf……..

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Mensen ik wist niet wat ik hoorde, toen de nieuwslezer van BBC World Service afgelopen zaterdag oplepelde dat Putin akkoord is gegaan met een staakt het vuren in het Zuidwesten van Syrië.

De VS heeft helemaal niets te zoeken in Syrië, het bevindt zich zelfs illegaal op Syrische bodem!! Intussen is meer dan eens aangetoond, dat de VS Al Qaida in Syrië steunt en als je AL Qaida zegt in Syrië, bedoel je alle terreurgroepen (ja ook die ‘gematigde rebellen), ze zijn allemaal verbonden met Al Qaida!! Er ontbreekt er een en u raadt het al, dat is…… IS!! Voor al die terreurgroepen doet VS bondgenoot Saoedi-Arabië de financiën en eventuele wapenleveringen, die het nu met schepen tegelijk binnenkrijgt uit de VS en Groot-Brittannië…….

Hoe kan je overleggen met een land dat jouw bondgenoot keer op keer dwarszit als het bezig is met de bestrijding van IS of een andere barbaarse terreurgroep…….. Ja, ook in geval van gevechten met IS…….. Zoals Israël dat nu ook al een aantal keer heeft gedaan op verzoek van IS en Al Qaida……..

Het is toch godverdomme de taak van een democratisch gekozen regering, zoals in het geval van Syrië, de straten vrij te maken van moorddadig geteisem!! En precies dat is meteen de makke met de VS, immers als het over de VS gaat, spreek je wel over verreweg de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, die ongekende terreur uitoefent waar haar troepen illegaal strijden!!

Ongelofelijk dat Putin instemde met dit akkoord en daarmee in feite de VS agressie legitimeert?

De inhumane schoft Tillerson, ex-topgraaier van ExxonMobil, waarvoor hij nu als VS minister van BuZA toplobbyist is, greep het akkoord tussen Trump en Putin aan, om te stellen, dat er een pijpleiding voor aardgas zal worden aangelegd vanuit Saoedi-Arabië naar Europa (‘EU Europa’ wel te verstaan). Dit zal zorgen voor energiezekerheid in de EU (al noemde hij weer Europa)…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Energiezekerheid uit een gebied dat voor een groot deel in de fik staat, dankzij ‘het land’ van Tillerson, (nogmaals) de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS!!

Deze pijpleiding was één van de hoofdredenen voor de opstand die de VS organiseerde in Syrië, een opstand die in een coup moest eindigen……. De voorbereidingen daarvoor dateren alweer uit 2006! Die opstand en coup moesten de weg vrijmaken voor de hiervoor genoemde pijpleiding, daar Assad tegen was………

Met de door Trump en Putin afgesproken wapenstilstand, is in Syrië een gebied vrijgekomen, waarover de pijpleiding kan worden aangelegd……. Met andere woorden: Putin is dubbel genaaid door Trump!

Hoe is het mogelijk dat iemand de VS nog serieus neemt, terwijl er in feite een topman van de olie- en gasmaffia is benoemd tot minister van Buitenlandse Zaken……..

Dit laatste bericht, dus over Tillersons aankondiging, was vannacht om 1.00 u. te horen in de nieuwsuitzending op BBC World Service radio.

The US State of War >> De VS creëert terreur met de enorme terreur die het zelf uitoefent in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…..

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Een uitstekend artikel van ICH, met de mogelijkheid tot vertaling (zie link naar origineel, onder dit bericht):

“Every
country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is now a
breeding ground for terrorism.”

The
U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is now the heaviest since the
bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s-70s, with 84,000
bombs and missiles dropped between 2014 and the end of May 2017. That
is nearly triple the 29,200 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq in the
“Shock and Awe” campaign of 2003.

The
Obama administration escalated the bombing campaign last October, as
the U.S.-Iraqi assault on Mosul began, dropping 12,290 bombs and
missiles between October and the end of January when President Obama
left office. The Trump administration has further escalated the
campaign, dropping another 14,965 bombs and missiles since February
1st.  May saw the heaviest bombing yet, with 4,374 bombs and
missiles dropped.

The U.K.-based Airwars.org monitoring group
has compiled reports of between 12,000 and 18,000 civilians killed by
nearly three years of U.S.-led bombing in Iraq and Syria. These
reports can only be the tip of the iceberg, and the true number of
civilians killed could well be more than 100,000, based on typical
ratios between reported deaths and actual deaths in previous
war-zones.

As
the U.S. and its allies closed in on Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in
Syria, and as U.S. forces now occupy eight military bases in Syria,
Islamic State and its allies have struck back in Manchester and
London; occupied Marawi, a city of 200,000 in the Philippines; and
exploded a huge truck bomb inside the fortifications of the “Green
Zone” in Kabul, Afghanistan.

What
began in 2001 as a misdirected use of military force to punish a
group of formerly U.S.-backed jihadis in Afghanistan for the crimes
of September 11th has escalated into a global asymmetric war. 
Every country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is
now a breeding ground for terrorism.  It would be foolish to
believe that this cannot get much, much worse, as long as both sides
continue to justify their own escalations of violence as responses to
the violence of their enemies, instead of trying to deescalate the
now global violence and chaos.

Voor het gehele artikel zie:

The US State of War

Risk of Unleashing ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis >> Een losgeslagen psychopaat als VS minister van defensie……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

In
mid-April, after a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, President Trump
explained his thinking as he reveled in the first use of the massive
“mother of all bombs” that was dropped on an Islamic State target
in Afghanistan.

Trump
said, “What I do is I authorize my military, we have the greatest
military in the world, and they’ve done the job, as usual. We have
given them total authorization, and that’s what they’re doing.
Frankly, that’s why they’ve been so successful lately. If you
look at what’s happened over the last eight weeks and compare that
really to what has happened over the last eight years, you’ll see
there is a tremendous difference.”

That
bombing in Afghanistan followed Trump’s order to fire 59 Tomahawk
missiles aimed at a Syrian government airfield that he alleged to be
the launch point for an April 4 chemical weapons attack on the town
of Khan Sheikhoun.

Besides
the missile strike – for which Trump got no authorization from
either Congress or the United Nations Security Council – U.S.
warplanes bombed pro-government forces inside Syria for allegedly
getting too close to U.S.-backed rebels and shot down a Syrian plane
for the same reason. These attacks against Syrian government targets
represented an escalation of U.S. participation in the six-year-old
conflict. President Obama had limited direct U.S. attacks against
ISIS positions inside Syria.

Although
Mattis intentionally limits his contact with the public and the
press, some of his past statements reveal his mindset. In Iraq in
2003, Mattis coached arriving Marines, “Be polite, be professional,
but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” And in 2005, the man
who has been unleashed by the President said, “You go into
Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years
because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t
got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot
them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a
hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up
there with you. I like brawling.”

With
Mattis at the Pentagon’s helm, the Trump administration has rapidly
shifted toward a military dynamic, taking aim at many of the old
neocon targets, including Syria and Iran. Mattis’s combative
perspective seems to be at the core of these policies although – as
a military officer – he does recognize the realities of war.

In
late May, Mattis gave a rare interview to CBS’s Face
The Nation.
Speaking about North Korea, he declared that the conflict could turn
“catastrophic” and “would be probably the worst kind of
fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

The
shallow compliments showered upon men like Mattis are symptoms of a
country blindly embracing an egotistical and militaristic mindset.

Lees het volledige artikel:

Risk of Unleashing ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis

G20 – Is the West Governed by Psychopaths?

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Lees deze geweldige analyse van de G20-top door Peter Koenig!

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor g20 hamburg

“Welcome to Hell!” is the slogan with which G20 protesters greet the self-appointed leaders of the world to their summit on 7 and 8 July 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, under Madame Merkel’s auspices to discuss the calamities of our globe and how to resolve them. Never mind that the distress of Mother Earth has been mostly caused by those who represent the West, and now pretend to fix it.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor G20



How utterly arrogant – and hypocritical!

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor g20 hamburg

Nog een fraaie stelling (na publicatie op dit blog toegevoegd):

This reminds of the prominent former German Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt’s words, shortly before his death, in an interview on terrorism to the German paper “Die Zeit”, on 30 August 2007: “I suspect that all terrorists, whether they represent the German RAF, the Italian Brigate Rosse, the French, the Irish, Spanish or Arabs, are relatively modest in their disdain for humanity. They are largely surpassed by certain forms of state terrorism.” – When the journalist asked back, „Are you serious? Whom are you referring to?” Schmidt: ”Let’s leave it at that. I really mean what I say“ (http://www.zeit.de/2007/36/Interview-Helmut-Schmidt/seite-7 – in German).

Voor het volledige artikel: G20 – Is the West Governed by Psychopaths?

Zie ook: ‘EU
sluit vrijhandelsverdrag af met Japan, 4 jaar lang stiekem overleg
waarbij het woord vrijhandelsverdrag werd gemeden……. ‘ 

       en: ‘Ros Atkins (BBC perstituee) weet waarom men tijdens G20 demonstreerde in Hamburg….. OEI!!!‘