Met de regelmaat van de klok hoor je in
de media dat Trump misschien wel een rare snuiter is, maar dat hij
bijzonder goed is voor de
economie, zie de aandelenkoersen de de groei van het bruto
binnenlands product. Echter daar valt nog wel het
e.e.a. op te merken volgens Joseph Stiglitz, Nobelprijswinnaar
economie en professor aan de Columbia Universiteit. Het zegt niets
over hoe het gaat met de gewone burgers en duurzaamheid. Dit
is niet alleen belangrijk voor de volksgezondheid, dierenwelzijn, het
klimaat en het milieu, maar ook voor het voortbestaan van de wereld
zoals wij die kennen. Voorts moet niet vergeten worden dat de klimaatverandering een grote kostenpost is, niet alleen wat betreft een enorm aantal mensenlevens, maar ook gigantische kapitalen aan schade veroorzaakt…..
(professor Joseph Stiglitz, foto van Wikipedia)
Uiteraard zijn de zaken die ik hiervoor
noemde onderdeel van de laatste, maar het kan niet vaak genoeg gezegd
worden dat we de wereld naar de kloten helpen…… Ondanks alle
mooie praatjes op klimaattoppen, wordt er ook in de rest van het
westen weinig of niets gedaan om de klimaatverandering af te remmen
en tevens de luchtvervuiling tegen te gaan, een vervuiling die
zovelen het leven kost…. (in Nederland sterven er jaarlijks 18.000
mensen jaren eerder door de uitstoot van auto’s en dat na een akelig
ziekbed, om maar te zwijgen over het grote aantal kinderen dat
jaarlijks door diezelfde uitstoot long- en/of luchtwegklachten
oploopt….) Er worden nu zelfs praatjes verkondigd dat de nieuwste
dieselmotoren goed zijn voor het de luchtkwaliteit, ‘vergetend’ dat
de vervuiling die er nog steeds uitkomt, vooral gebonden is aan het
zwaar kankerverwekkende ultrafijnstof……
Lees het volgende artikel waarin Stiglitz o.a. ook spreekt over het aantal beloofde banen door Trump en geeft het door, dit artikel verscheen
op Information Clearing House:
The
Truth About the Trump Economy
By
Joseph E. Stiglitz
It is becoming
conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to
beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may
have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be
further from the truth.
January 18,
2020 “Information
Clearing House”
– As
the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual
gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they
overcome their infatuation with US President Donald Trump?
Two years ago, a few
rare corporate leaders were concerned about climate change, or upset
at Trump’s misogyny and bigotry. Most, however, were celebrating
the president’s tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and
looking forward to his efforts to deregulate the economy. That would
allow businesses to pollute the air more, get more Americans hooked
on opioids, entice more children to eat their diabetes-inducing
foods, and engage in the sort of financial shenanigans that brought
on the 2008 crisis.
Today, many corporate
bosses are still talking about the continued GDP growth and record
stock prices. But neither GDP nor the Dow is a good measure of
economic performance.
Neither tells us what’s happening to ordinary
citizens’ living standards or anything about sustainability. In
fact, US economic performance over the past four years is Exhibit A
in the indictment against relying on these indicators.
To get a good reading
on a country’s economic health, start by looking at the health of
its citizens. If they are happy and prosperous, they will be healthy
and live longer. Among developed countries, America sits at the
bottom in this regard. US life expectancy, already relatively low,
fell in each of the first two years of Trump’s presidency, and in
2017, midlife mortality reached its highest rate since World War II.
This is not a surprise, because no president has worked harder to
make sure that more Americans lack health insurance. Millions have
lost their coverage, and the uninsured rate has risen, in just two
years, from
10.9% to 13.7%.
One reason for
declining life expectancy in America is what Anne Case and Nobel
laureate economist Angus
Deaton call deaths of despair, caused by alcohol, drug overdoses,
and suicide. In 2017 (the most recent year for which good data are
available), such deaths stood at almost
four times their 1999 level.
The only time I have
seen anything like these declines in health – outside of war or
epidemics – was when I was chief economist of the World Bank and
found out that mortality and morbidity data confirmed what our
economic indicators suggested about the dismal state of the
post-Soviet Russian economy.
Trump may be a good
president for the top 1% – and especially for the top 0.1% – but
he has not been good for everyone else. If fully implemented, the
2017 tax cut will result in tax increases
for most households in the second, third, and fourth income
quintiles.
Given tax cuts that
disproportionately benefit the ultrarich and corporations, it should
come as no surprise that there was no
significant change in the median US household’s disposable
income between 2017 and 2018 (again, the most recent year with
good data).
The lion’s share of the increase in GDP is also going
to those at the top. Real median weekly
earnings are just 2.6% above their level when Trump took office.
And these increases have not offset long periods of wage stagnation.
For example, the median wage of a full-time male worker (and those
with full-time jobs are the lucky ones) is still more than 3%
below what it was 40 years ago. Nor has there been much progress
on reducing racial disparities: in the third quarter of 2019, median
weekly earnings for black men working full-time were less
than three-quarters the level for white men.
Making matters worse,
the growth that has occurred is not environmentally sustainable –
and even less so thanks to the Trump administration’s gutting of
regulations that have passed stringent cost-benefit analyses. The air
will be less breathable, the water less drinkable, and the planet
more subject to climate change. In fact, losses related to climate
change have already reached new highs in the US, which has suffered
more property damage than any other country – reaching some
1.5% of GDP in 2017.
The tax cuts were
supposed to spur a new wave of investment. Instead, they triggered an
all-time record
binge of share buybacks – some $800 billion in 2018 – by some
of America’s most profitable companies, and led to record
peacetime deficits (almost $1 trillion in fiscal 2019) in a
country supposedly near full employment. And even with weak
investment, the US had to borrow massively abroad: the most recent
data show foreign
borrowing at nearly $500 billion a year, with an increase of more
than 10% in America’s net indebtedness position in
one year alone.
Likewise, Trump’s
trade wars, for all their sound and fury, have not reduced the US
trade deficit, which was one-quarter higher in 2018 than it was in
2016. The 2018 goods deficit was the largest
on record. Even the deficit in trade with China was up
almost a quarter from 2016. The US did get a new North American
trade agreement, without the investment agreement provisions that the
Business Roundtable wanted, without the provisions raising drug
prices that the pharmaceutical companies wanted, and with better
labor and environmental provisions. Trump, a self-proclaimed master
deal maker, lost on almost every front in his negotiations with
congressional Democrats, resulting in a slightly improved trade
arrangement.
And despite Trump’s
vaunted promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, the
increase in manufacturing employment is still lower than it was under
his predecessor, Barack Obama, once the post-2008 recovery set in,
and is still markedly below its pre-crisis level. Even the
unemployment rate, at a 50-year low, masks economic fragility. The employment
rate for working-age males and females, while rising, has increased
less than during the Obama recovery, and is still significantly
below that of other developed countries.
The pace of job creation
is also markedly slower than it was under Obama.
Again, the low
employment rate is not a surprise, not least because unhealthy people
can’t work. Moreover, those on disability benefits, in prison –
the US incarceration
rate has increased more than sixfold since 1970, with some two
million people currently behind bars – or so discouraged that
they are not actively seeking jobs are not counted as “unemployed.”
But, of course, they are not employed. Nor is it a surprise that a
country that doesn’t provide affordable childcare or guarantee
family leave would have lower female employment – adjusted for
population, more than ten percentage points lower – than other
developed countries.
Even judging by GDP,
the Trump economy falls short. Last quarter’s growth was just 2.1%,
far less than the 4%, 5%, or even 6% Trump promised
to deliver, and even less than the 2.4% average of Obama’s second
term. That is a remarkably poor performance considering the stimulus
provided by the $1 trillion deficit and ultra-low interest rates.
This is not an accident, or just a matter of bad luck: Trump’s
brand is uncertainty, volatility, and prevarication, whereas trust,
stability, and confidence are essential for growth. So is equality,
according to the International Monetary Fund.
So, Trump deserves
failing grades not just on essential tasks like upholding democracy
and preserving our planet. He should not get a pass on the economy,
either.
Het
is meer dan duidelijk dat de coup in Bolivia alles te maken heeft met
grondstoffen, daar president Evo Morales de delving van o.a. indium
en lithium heeft genationaliseerd, de eerste, dus indium is van groot belang voor de
LCD schermen van smartphones enz. en lithium voor accu’s van deze
telefoons en andere toepassingen zoals accu’s voor elektrische fietsen
en auto’s………
(mijnwerker met hamer en beitel……)
Ook
de olie en gaswinning werd door Morales genationaliseerd, waar
eerdere protesten in bloed werden gesmoord, protesten om meer
inkomsten uit de grondstoffen ten goede te laten komen van het hele
volk, dus ook voorde meerderheid van de oorspronkelijke
bevolking….. Bij protesten in 2003 kwamen tenminste 70
Bolivianen van de oorspronkelijke bevolking om het leven, ofwel die
werden vermoord door politie en leger…….
Nationaliseringen
werken als een rode lap op een stier als het om de VS gaat en om die
reden heeft de VS al vele keren ingegrepen in Latijjns-Amerika, niet
alleen door militaire campagnes, ofwel illegale oorlogen, maar ook
door het organiseren van opstanden die dan moeten uitmonden in een
staatsgreep….. Mocht dat niet lukken zet de CIA het leger en
politie van een dergelijk land onder druk een staatsgreep te
forceren, uiteraard met de hulp van de VS, die e.e.a. organiseert en
regisseert….. Als ook dat niet lukt zoekt de VS op basis van leugens (false flag operaties) een oorzaak om een (illegale) oorlog tegen zo’n land te beginnen….
In Bolivia heeft de VS een combinatie van voornoemde zaken gebruikt, ofwel een coup door leger en politie, die vooraf werd gegaan door protesten….. Deze zogenaamde opstand tegen de
democratisch gekozen president Morales zou door het hele volk
gesteund zijn. Althans zo berichtten de westerse reguliere media,
gelul van een dronken aardbei daar het grootste deel van het volk tot
de oorspronkelijke bevolking behoort en deze bevolking heeft Morales,
die zelf tot deze oorspronkelijke bevolking behoort (‘indianen’), voor
meer dan 95% gesteund…….
De
regering Morales heeft het als eerste regering (en voor het eerst
sinds de witte kolonisator haar genocide begon in Latijns-Amerika), opgenomen voor het grootste deel van het volk, zoals gezegd de oorspronkelijke
bevolking. Door het beleid van Morales en zijn regering is de armoede
onder die bevolkingsgroep aanmerkelijk afgenomen en hij voerde daarnaast een prima economisch beleid…. Natuurlijk hebben de bedrijven,
die genationaliseerd werden (en toch nog dikke winsten mochten maken), een
grote verantwoording voor de coup die Morales aan de kant zette……
In
Washington (DC) is een arbitrage rechtbank gesitueerd,
de International Center for the Settlement
of Investment Disputes (ICSID), NB een onderdeel van de
Wereldbank….. Deze organisatie en de Wereldbank werken bepaald niet
in het belang van arme bevolkingsgroepen en veroordelen
dergelijke nationaliseringen…… ICSID heeft Bolivia gelast meer
rekening te houden met de internationale bedrijven als de
mijnbedrijven en die van de olie- en gassector….. Bolivia, Cuba,
Nicaragua en Venezuela hebben zich intussen teruggetrokken uit het ICSID en een zelfde soort arbitrage
opgezet, echter met één groot verschil, deze organisatie houdt wel
rekening met het volk en niet met de grote bedrijven die landen als
Bolivia voor een deel hebben leeggezogen……
Salon
bracht op 22 november jl. een artikel van Globetrotter (Naked Kapitalism) waarin e.e.a. aangaande de
grondstoffen wordt verduidelijkt, jammer dat men niet lithium noemde,
daar Bolivia ook de grootste voorraad lithium zou hebben….
When
you look at your computer screen, or the screen on your smartphone or
the screen of your television set, it is a liquid crystal display
(LCD). An important component of the LCD screen is indium, a rare
metallic element that is processed out of zinc concentrate.
The two
largest sources of indium can
be found in eastern Canada (Mount Pleasant) and in Bolivia (Malku
Khota). Canada’s deposits have the potential to produce 38.5 tons
of indium per year, while Bolivia’s considerable mines would be
able to produce 80 tons per year.
Canada’s
South American Silver Corporation—now TriMetals Mining—had signed
a concession to explore and eventually mine Malku Khota. Work began
in 2003, two years before Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism
(MAS) won their first presidential election in Bolivia. South
American Silver conducted several studies of the region, all of which
found substantial deposits that were poised to make this Canadian
firm one of the major players in the mining industry.
A
study done by Allan Armitage and others for South American Silver,
and delivered to the company in 2011, showed that the Malku Khota
mine would produce substantial amounts of silver, indium, lead, zinc,
copper, and gallium. “The indium and gallium,” the study
noted,
“are regarded as strategic metals that give the project future
upside potential.” Gallium is used for thermometers and barometers,
as well as in the testing side of the pharmaceutical industry. There
is Fort Knox level treasure to be made from these minerals.
Resource
Nationalism
Evo
Morales rode to victory in 2006 with the promise of a new day for
Bolivia. Key to his agenda was to take control of the country’s
resources and use them to improve the quality of life of Bolivia’s
deprived populations. One of the great tragedies of Bolivia has been
that since the mid-16th century, the indigenous populations have had
to work to remove precious wealth from underneath their lands and
send that wealth to enrich the people of Europe and later North
America. They did not benefit from those riches.
Millions
died in the mines of Potosí to bring the silver, and later tin, out
of the ground. For the indigenous people who live near and on the
hill, everything is upside down—one of the most lucrative hills is
known as Cerro Rico (Rich Hill), while in Spanish there is a phrase
that toys with the idea that wealth is equivalent to Potosí (vale
un Potosí).
Morales’ message during his campaign was framed around the concept
of resource nationalism—use our resources to better the lives of
those who live in deprivation and indignity.
Morales
first went after the oil and gas industry. It is important to recall
that his opponent in this year’s election—Carlos Mesa—was the
president right before Morales won the election in December 2005.
Mesa had come to power when his predecessor Sánchez de Lozada
resigned in disgrace over the mass demonstrations in 2003 when
Bolivians demanded more control over their gas reserves (the state
repression was severe, with at least 70 people killed in the
demonstrations). In May 2006—just over three months after being
sworn in as president—Morales announced that the oil and gas
industry had been nationalized. It is important to recall that his
approval rating was well above 80 percent.
Nationalization
was not easy, since the Bolivian government could not expropriate
assets but only raise taxes and renegotiate contracts. Even here, the
government faced problems since it lacked enough technical skills to
understand the opaque energy sector. Furthermore, the problem with
the energy sector is that even nationalized oil and gas must be sold
to the transnational firms that then process them and market them;
they remain in control of the value chain. What Morales’ government
was able to do was to ensure that the State controlled 51 percent of
all private energy firms that operated in Bolivia, which allowed the
State’s coffers to fill rapidly. It was this money that was
invested to go after poverty, hunger, and illiteracy.
Revenge
of the Mining Companies
Canada’s
Fraser Institute—a libertarian think tank that is heavily funded by
the energy and mining sector—publishes an annual survey of mining
companies. This survey is conducted by asking mining executives their
opinions on a range of issues. The 2007–08
survey said
that Bolivia is the second-worst country for investment; the worst
was Ecuador. In 2010, the World
Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index rated
Bolivia at 161 of 183 countries. Heads of mining firms—from
Barrick’s Peter Munk to Repsol’s Antonio Brufau—made
disparaging comments about the nationalization program. “If Bolivia
keeps on this path,” a Wall Street banker told me at that time,
“these companies will make sure that Bolivian natural gas remains
underground.” Bolivia might be embargoed; Morales might be
assassinated.
Pressure
mounted daily on the MAS government, which began a process to write a
new Constitution that would both protect nature and insist on
resource wealth being used for the people. There was an immediate
contradiction here: if the MAS government was going to undo centuries
of deprivation, it would have to mine the earth to bring out the
wealth. A tragic choice befell the government—it could not both
conserve nature and transform the wretched conditions of everyday
life at the same level of caution. At the same time, to get its
minerals and energy to market, it had to continue to negotiate with
these transnational firms; no immediate alternative was present.
Nationalization
Despite
the constraints on it, the MAS government continued to nationalize
resources, and insist on State firms being partners in resource
extraction. Transnational firms immediately took Bolivia to the
International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID), a part of the World Bank system. The ICSID—formed in
1966—is based in Washington, D.C., and shares an outlook toward
business that mirrors that of the U.S. Treasury Department.
On
April 29, 2007, the leaders of Bolivia (Evo Morales), Cuba (Carlos
Lage), Nicaragua (Daniel Ortega), and Venezuela (Hugo Chávez) signed
a declaration to create an alternative to the investor-government
system institutionalized in the ICSID. Bolivia and Ecuador formally
withdrew from this U.S.-dominated system, while Venezuela’s Supreme
Court declared that it did not have the power to intervene in
Venezuelan sovereign affairs.
On
July 10, 2012, Morales’ government nationalized the Malku Khota
property of South American Silver. Company CEO Greg Johnson said he
was “really shocked” at the decision. South American Silver’s
shares dropped immediately; it had been trading at $1.02 on July 6,
and it fell to $0.37 on July 11.
The
immediate spur for the nationalization was the protest around the
mine by indigenous artisanal miners who did not want this
mega-project to undermine their livelihood. South American Silver had
spent a great deal of money to convince 43 of the 46 neighboring
communities to accept the mine; but they could not convince the
artisanal miners. “Nationalization is our
obligation,” said Morales.
All
that indium would not make its way in significant quantities to the
factories to produce LCDs for television sets, computer monitors, and
cell phones.
South
American Silver took the Bolivian government to the Permanent Court
of Arbitration at The Hague. In November last year, the Court ordered
Bolivia to pay South American Silver $27.7 million rather than the
$385.7 million that TriMetals (the new name for South American
Silver) had demanded.
Coup
In
July 2007, U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg sent a cable to Washington
in which he pointed out that U.S. mining firms had approached his
embassy to ask about the investment climate in Bolivia. Goldberg felt
that the situation for mining firms was not good. When asked if he
could organize a meeting with Vice President Álvaro García Linera,
he said,
“Sadly, without dynamite in the streets, it is uncertain whether
the Embassy or the international mining companies will be able to
attain even this minimal goal.”
“Without
dynamite in the streets” is a phrase worth dwelling upon. A year
later, Morales expelled Goldberg from Bolivia, accusing him of aiding
the protests in the town of Santa Cruz. Just over a decade later, it
was the “dynamite” that removed Morales from power.
Resource
nationalism is no longer on the agenda in Bolivia. The fate of Malku
Khota is unknown. The fate of your screen is guaranteed—it will be
replaced with indium from the Potosí deposits. And the benefits of
that sale will not go to improving the well-being of Bolivia’s
indigenous population; they will enrich the transnational firms and
the old oligarchy of Bolivia.
This
article was produced by Globetrotter,
a project of the Independent Media Institute.
‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ Tot het jaar 2000, waar deze eeuw intussen al meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden aan toe zijn te voegen, moorden begaan door de VS en de NAVO (deze terreurorganisatie stond en staat onder militair opperbevel van de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde…)….
CDA Tweede Kamerlid Erik Ronnes wil dat de overheid flexwoningen gaat bouwen voor starters op de koopmarkt.
Ronnes probeert zééér interessant aan de Tweede Kamerweg te timmeren en komt daarom zo af en toe met een losse flodder. Ronnes stelde dat het woningtekort (ofwel woningnood) is veroorzaakt door de crisis….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! We hebben al decennialang een expres gekweekte woningnood, ten eerste om de huizenprijs op te drijven en als gevolg van de achterlijk dure huizenmarkt, betalen huurders (die vergeleken met kopers amper rechten hebben) een kleine 10% meer voor ‘een niet geïsoleerd dak’ boven het hoofd, althans dat geldt voor de meeste huurders……. Huurders die toch al voor een groot deel tot de grote arme onderlaag van ons land behoren en door het niet geïsoleerd zijn van hun huis ook nog eens de hoofdprijs betalen voor het gebruik van gas…… Ten tweede moet die woningnood de huizenprijs op belachelijk hoog niveau houden….
Jarenlang zijn er met opzet goede, maar ‘te goedkope’ (in het oog van een fiks aantal politici en de bouwmaffia) sociale huurwoningen gesloopt, waarvoor aanzienlijk minder huurwoningen terug werden gebouwd en dan nog peperdure huurwoningen…… In plaats van huurwoningen ging men tussen de huurwoningen ook nog eens koopwoningen bouwen, al helemaal onbetaalbaar voor het grootste deel van de huurders…..
Ronnes maakt zich vooral druk om de goed verdienende eenlingen, die niet in aanmerking komen voor een hypotheek (niet voor niets immers de banken willen maar wat graag hypotheken verkopen….). Vandaar dat hij zoals gezegd een fiks aantal flexwoningen gebouwd wil zien worden….. Flexwoningen tegen een huur van zo’n 500 euro per maand en dat voor een postzegel aan ruimte, nog een voordeel voor Ronnes, die woningen mogen maar een bepaald aantal jaren bewoond worden, een jaar of vijf…… Ofwel er komt een groep huurders bij die helemaal geen rechten overhouden en na een paar jaar zelfs gedwongen moeten verhuizen…… Flexwoningen? Fleswoningen!!
Leve het inhumane, ijskoude neoliberalisme voor wie Ronnes blijkbaar als profeet werkt, wat een belachelijke zakkenwasser…..
Ronnes zou er beter voor pleiten dat de huizenprijzen worden bijgesteld, waarbij er een fikse controle zal moeten worden doorgevoerd op de bouwmaffia, zodat de prijzen ook op dat vlak niet langer door het dak gaan, voorts zullen de banken de hypotheken moeten bijstellen, kunnen ze eindelijk eens wat terugdoen voor de bevolking die hen door de crisis van 2008 met vele miljarden op de been hebben gehouden…….. Eén en ander zou ook goed zijn voor de achterlijk hoge hypotheekschuld in ons land, die de 700 miljard alweer gepasseerd schijnt te zijn, een zaak waarvoor zelfs de neoliberale schoften van het IMF en de Wereldbank Nederland meermaals hebben gewaarschuwd, maar waar Nederland niets op uit doet…..
Gerald
Celente, publicist van Trends Journal gaf vorige week
vrijdag een interview, waarin hij de wereld
waarschuwt voor het ongelimiteerd geld bijdrukken en het verlagen van
de rente, zaken die grote bedrijven met veel schulden en
aandelenhandelaren ten goede zullen komen…….
Ondanks
dat het goed is voor de aandelenmarkten en bedrijven met grote
schulden, die zo kunnen blijven uitbreiden, is de keerzijde een enorme schuldbubbel in de VS, een schuldenlast van houd je vast: 250 biljoen
dollar!! Vandaar dat Celente dan ook de vergelijking met methadon
maakt (eigenlijk bedoelt hij heroïne): ze blijven het lichaam van
een stier volspuiten, zodat deze blijft rennen, maar de economieën
elders worden er niet mee gestimuleerd en we zien nu dan ook een globale
economische afzwakking…..
Celente
wijst voorts op de waarschuwingen van het IMF en de Wereldbank voor een
recessie door deze enorme schuld….. Miljardair en oprichter van Bridgewater, Ray
Dalio, verklaarde onlangs dat hij nu als Celente vooral inzet op
goud…. Ofwel de directeur van het grootste hedgefonds ter wereld
maakt zich zorgen over een grote depressie (en tegelijkertijd uiteraard een recessie)…….
Mensen
zien wat er gebeurt terwijl de centrale banken geld blijven
bijdrukken en de rentes verlagen, waar de Fed e.e.a. niet langer
quantative easing* (QE) wil noemen (waar het natuurlijk wel QE is,
immers het ‘gereedschap’ daarvoor wordt wel degelijk gebruikt..)….
Verder
stelt Celente terecht dat veel mensen die niets meer bezitten en die
alle vertrouwen in regering en financiële markten zijn verloren in
opstand komen, daarbij noemde hij o.a. Libanon, jammer want daar zijn
de CIA en de Mossad bezig de boel op te stoken, zoals de CIA dat ook
pleegt te doen in Iran, Venezuela en Bolivia, plus alle andere landen waar de VS
de verkiezingen manipuleert, of mensen opstookt in verzet te gaan……. Daarbij worden uiteraard wapens en explosieven geleverd**, als dat niet
werkt kan de VS altijd nog een staatsgreep forceren en als ook dat
niet lukt, begint de VS op basis van een berg leugens een illegale
oorlog tegen zo’n land……..
Ook
noemt Celente Bolivia en verdomd alweer is de opstand daar ingegeven
door de CIA, immers het gaat veel te goed met Bolivia en dat is te
danken aan de opnieuw gekozen socialistische president Evo Morales, kijk daar
heeft de VS de schurft aan, een links land, waar het ook nog eens
goed gaat met de economie……***
Voorts
heeft Celente wel gelijk dat het water het volk aan de lippen staat
in landen als: Ecuador, Chili, Columbia, Spanje en Hong Kong (al heb
ik ook bij die laatste zware bedenkingen, immers er wordt daar in de
eerste plaats niet gedemonstreerd omdat men het het financieel slecht
vergaat en je kan er ook daar donder opzeggen dat de CIA een dikke
vinger in de pap heeft, immers men verwacht dat China uiteindelijk
zal ingrijpen en zo kan men China afschilderen als een nog demonischer staat…) Dit terwijl
de VS de ene illegale oorlog na de andere begint…..
Vergeet bij dit alles niet dat figuren als Celente een zekere politieke macht hebben en deze macht misbruiken om zaken zo te sturen dat zij er voordeel bij hebben….. (niet alleen in de VS, maar ook in het buitenland…)
Het volgende artikel komt van het rechtse Money and Markets en werd geschreven door J.T. Crowe:
Trends
Journal publisher Gerald Celente gave a rather stark interview Friday
in which he said central banks around the world are causing “The
Greatest Depression,” and that we’ve already passed Stage 1 as
unrest builds in more and more countries.
Celente, speaking
with Kitco News,
first commented on the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate cut,
the third since July — and third since 2008 — essentially calling
it a big mistake for everyone but stock traders and companies with
massive corporate debt.
“It’s
positive for the equity markets and the huge debt that corporations
are taking in to keep expanding. But on the negative end, they’re
just building more debt into the already over $250 trillion debt
bubble,” he said. “So what it is, I call it ‘monetary
methadone;’ they’re just shooting in more money to keep the
addicted bull running. It’s not boosting economies around the world
— we’re looking at a global slowdown.
Celente
then pointed out that billionaire Bridgewater founder Ray
Dalio has
been following what Trends Journal has written about the beginning of
the gold bull run, and how he came out a couple of weeks later and
said he is bullish on gold.
“This
is the head of the largest hedge fund in the world and then just a
few weeks ago, he said now he’s worried
about a Great Depression,”
Celente said.
“So
the people see it and it’s just artificially being boosted by
central banks injecting more cheap money, lowering interest rates,
and now we have the Federal Reserve — we’re
not going to call it ‘quantitative easing,’ we’re
going to make up another story.
“We’re
pumping in $60 billion a month to buy Treasurys — oh and by the
way, $120 billion a day into the repo markets.”
Celente
went on to say that what the Fed is doing is “only temporary” and
the crash won’t be held off forever.
“You’re
seeing housing sales go back up, mortgage refis go back up because
the money is cheap,” he said. “But the earnings aren’t there,
the debt levels for the consumers are getting heavier and heavier, so
it’s artificially propping it up just like it did since the panic
of ’08. It hasn’t filtered back to society, it’s only gone to
the 1%. And I’m not making that number up. You have three people in
the United States, (Jeff) Bezos, (Warren) Buffett and (Bill) Gates,
who have more money than half of America’s population.
“And
then you go around the world and, according to OxFam, what do they
have? Twenty-six people have more
dough than half the world’s population combined.
So, no, it’s not working. It’s only making it worse.”
So
where should investors go to protect their wealth?
“I
call it the guns, gold and the getaway plan,” Celente quipped after
saying he’s no financial adviser. “Speaking for only myself, gold
is the No. 1 investment, andI’ve
been saying that since I began buying gold in 1970.”
Celente
said he’s long on both physical gold and stocks, including the
“IRA, the GLD ETFs.”
“I
have some silver, but gold is my priority,” he added. “I have
two-thirds gold.”
The
host then mentioned uprisings in a number of countries around the
world and asked what it all means, and Celente said it’s the
beginning of “The Greatest Depression.”
“It’s
signalling the people have had it. Again, the money’s gone to the
1%. When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they
lose it, and they’re losing it,” Celente said. “This is part of
The Greatest Depression, it’s Stage 1, it’s already happened.
Millions of people taking to the street, protesting that they don’t
have enough money to live while they’re getting higher taxes,
costing more for everyday living. So they’ve had it and this is
extremely important: All these movements don’t have leaders.
Whether it’s Hong Kong, whether it’s Spain, whether it’s
Lebanon, what’s going on in Iraq with the massive demonstrations,
Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Columbia, one after another, no leaders
because the people feel it. And this is part of the Greatest
Depression.
“When
we say it’s going to get worse, when The Great Depression hit,
there were 2 billion people on the planet. We’ve added 5.5 billion
more. They’re out of work, they’re living in poverty, violence
all around them, corruption. So this thing is exploding.”
** En niet zelden levert de VS scherpschutters om op het protesterende volk te schieten, om zo de schuld in de schoenen van het bewuste bewind te schuiven, het bewind dat men weg wil hebben, ofwel een false flag operatie…..
Het volgende artikel ligt al veel te lang op de spreekwoordelijke plank, terwijl het wel degelijk uitermate belangrijke informatie bevat: Avaaz is een smerige organisatie, die onder het mom van goede doelen petities de stank van lijken om zich heen heeft verzameld en zelfs aandringt op oorlogshandelingen……
Avaaz kan zonder meer gezien worden als een instrument van de VS terreurmachine, inclusief haar oorlogshond NAVO……
Zo heeft Avaaz aangedrongen een ‘no-fly zone’ in te stellen boven Libië, door politici, het publiek en de media continu te voeden met leugens over het bewind Khadaffi (al hadden die politici en media daar al geen moeite mee) en heeft zo meegewerkt aan de vernietiging van het eens rijkste land van Afrika…..
Libië, en land waar zo ongeveer alles gratis was en van goede kwaliteit, zoals onderwijs, medische zorg, huisvesting en de levering van energie. Wat betreft het onderwijs: jongens en meisjes mochten op kosten van de staat studeren in het buitenland, waar ook nog eens de huur en andere verblijfskosten werden betaald door de Libische staat……
Met behulp van Avaaz is Libië verworden tot zo ongeveer het armste land van Afrika, het ontbreekt de bevolking aan van alles en meisjes mogen niet meer naar school, laat staan studeren…… Tienduizenden Libiërs verloren het leven, niet alleen vanwege de NAVO bombardementen (Nederlandse F16s werden gebruikt om doelen aan te wijzen), maar ook door etnische zuiveringen….. Er worden nu zelfs openbare slavenmarkten gehouden in Libië, en de oorlog is nog steeds gaande…… Nogmaals: met dank aan Avaaz…..
De Avaaz topgraaiers hebben er voorts geen probleem mee om op de foto te gaan met oorlogsmisdadigers als Petraeus…..
Ook in Syrië heeft Avaaz een zeer kwalijke rol gespeeld en de VS agressie, beter gezegd: terreur, van A tot Z gesteund……..
Mensen het is even een zit het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Cory Morningstar, eerder gepubliceerd op The Art of Innihilation, maar de schellen vallen je van de ogen, wat een smerig zootje dat Avaaz en geeft het door, laat je niet langer foppen door deze verraderlijke organisatie!!
SYRIA:
AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE
September
17, 2014
Date: 27
Jan 2015
By: admin
“The
Ivy League bourgeoisie who sit at the helm of the non-profit
industrial complex will one day be known simply as charismatic
architects of death. Funded by the ruling class oligarchy, the role
they serve for their funders is not unlike that of corporate media.
Yet, it appears that global society is paralyzed in a collective
hypnosis – rejecting universal social interests, thus rejecting
reason, to instead fall in line with the position of the powerful
minority that has seized control, a minority that systematically
favours corporate interests.” — From
the article Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the
Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
10, 2012
The
organization Avaaz was instrumentalin
building public approval for the No Fly Zone for the illegal invasion
of Libya in 2011. The NATO-led destabilization/illegal war in Libya
resulted in the annihilation of a formerly sovereign country that has
since descended into brutal chaos. Tens upon thousands of Libyans
died and the most savage ethnic cleansing that the mind can imagine
has been widespread. The destruction of Libya has been nothing less
than a full-scale bloodbath.
Above
image from the Avaazwebsite: “Libya
No-Fly Zone: As Libyan
government jets drop bombs on the civilian population,
the UN Security Council will decide in 48 hours whether to impose a
no-fly zone to keep Qaddafi’s warplanes on the ground.” [Emphasis
in original][Further
discussion of the flag within this Avaaz image can be read in
the epilogue.]
Above
image: Avaaz takes credit for the implementation of the Libya No Fly
Zone. [Further
Reading: “Did
Libya’s Citizens Demand Foreign Intervention?”A
ridiculous question, yet according to Avaaz, the answer is yes.]
When
Avaaz rolled out the same rinse, lather and repeat campaign for the
seizing of Syria, the public did not fall prey as easily. The
campaign failed. Below are three separate links to the Avaaz campaign
calling for a no-fly zone over Syria.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_the_last_straw_0/(June
14, 2013) (Avaaz alleges a “rape crisis” committed by soldiers of
the Syrian army – the same tactic used to incite hatred against
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that was later discredited.)
Of
the Avaaz campaigns pressing for a no-fly zone (air strikes) over
Syria that flourished in June of 2013, at least two employed the use
of chemical weapons to incite fear and hatred toward the Assad
government. It does not take much stretch of the imagination to
consider Avaaz had inside knowledge of the upcoming chemical attack
that would take place in outer Damascus approximately 10 weeks later.
Considering Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello’s connection to the
Obama administration and its well known war criminals, it is entirely
plausible that Avaaz was churning out propaganda that would lead up
to and sensationalize a false
flag attack.
Photo:
Avaaz co-founder and Congressman Tom Perriello with war
criminal,
General David Petraeus (far left). Under this Flickr photo the
caption reads: “Passing the Baton, United
States Institute of Peace” [2009]
[Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan | Source]
[In July, 2011, “General David Petraeus was approved as CIA
Director by both the Senate Intelligence Committee and then the full
Senate, whose vote was an astounding 94-0,
astounding because this is a man who was deeply implicated in war
crimes,
including torture.” Source]
[Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013]
The
August 30, 2013 article “On
the Eve of an Illegal Attack on Syria, Avaaz/350.org Board Members
Beat the Drums of War” documents Avaaz links imploring a
no-fly zone on Syria – both public links have since been removed.
The article also
featured 350.org board member Van Jones calling for air strikes on
Syria. (Adding twisted irony, Van Jones also serves as co-founder and
executive director of the Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights.
The co-opting of deceased civil rights revolutionaries to advance the
goals of hegemony has become common practice within these
foundation-financed projects.)
Screenshots
of an email from co-founder of Avaaz, Ricken Patel to Avaaz
subscribers dated August 27, 2014 can be found here (1)
and here(2).
The email from Patel represented a last-ditch effort to garner
support for a no-fly zone as the US prepared to launch an attack on
Syria.
One
year earlier, in 2012 Avaaz was allegedly sponsoring
fabricated videos of
civilian massacres, to back deeper foreign intervention in Syria.
Fact-checking and videos appear to collaborate these
claims.
Jump
forward to 2014.
In
the September 8, 2014 article Pentagon
Planning Points to Possible Anti-Syria US Military Campaign,
author Stephen Gowans observes:
“Now,
it appears that Washington is on the cusp of pressing ahead with its
planned campaign of military action. The New York Times has reported
that ‘Pentagon planners envision a military campaign’ to destroy
ISIS ‘in its sanctuary inside Syria’ that could last ‘at least
36 months.’ According to The Wall Street Journal, airstrikes would
support anti-Assad fighters unaligned with ISIS, who would be
bankrolled by $500 million in US funding, and backed by a global
coalition, including the UK and Australia, that would ‘provide a
range of assistance, including humanitarian aid and weapons.’ These
countries could also join the United States in an air-war over
Syria.”
It
should not be considered a coincidence that at the same time, a
polished, sophisticated and highly financed “Save Syria” campaign
is being created in the board rooms of the Empire’s favourite
Harvard boys.
Where,
under the organization Avaaz, the public hasn’t acquiesced to an
air strike on Syria, the New York public relations firm Purpose
Inc. has stepped in.
Purpose
is a for-profit enterprise that is marketed to appear like a
non-profit. Their area of expertise is behavioural change.
“[Purpose]
has a non-profit arm, which incubates protests and accepts donations.
This is cross-subsidised by its for-profit arm, which makes money in
a variety of ways. It sells consulting services to big companies such
as Google and Audi, and to charities such as the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.” – The
Economist
GetUp,
Avaaz and Purpose co-founder Jeremy Heimans, 2010.
Purpose
Inc.: The Crème de la Crème Agents of Behavioural Change
Purpose
| Avaaz Co-Founders
Vision:
“Purpose is a global initiative that draws on leading technologies,
political organizing and behavioral
economics to
build powerful, tech-savvy movements that can transform
culture and
influence policy.”
Avaaz
and GetUp co-founders Jeremy
Heimans (CEO)
and David Madden [2] are also founders of the New York consulting
firm, Purpose Inc.
Avaaz
was created in part by MoveOn,
a Democratic Party associated Political Action Committee (or PAC),
formed in response to the impeachment of President Clinton. Avaaz and
MoveOn are funded in part by convicted inside-trader and billionaire
hedge fund mogul, George Soros.
Avaaz
affiliate James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of
Purpose at its inception in 2009.
The
secret behind the success of both Avaaz and Purpose is their reliance
upon and expertise in behavioural
change.
While
the behavioural change tactics used by Avaaz are on public display,
double-breasted, for-profit Purpose, with its non-profit arm, sells
their expertise behind the scenes to further the interest of hegemony
and capital. Whether it be a glossy campaign to
help facilitate yet another illegal “humanitarian intervention”
led by aggressive U.S. militarism (an oxymoron if there ever was
one), or the creation of a new global “green” economy, Purpose is
the consulting firm that the wolves of Wall Street and oligarchs
alike depend upon to make it happen.
Make
no mistake, the Yale (for example, Avaaz co-founder and former U.S.
Representative*Tom
Perriello)
and Harvard graduates that comprise the “Avaaz boys” (many having
been groomed by McKinsey
and Company)
are considered “the dream team” by the globe’s most powerful
capitalists, including those at the United Nations and the World
Bank. Avaaz co-founder Andrea Madden works for the World Bank in
Burma [Myanmar]. Her husband is Avaaz co-founder David Madden who has
taken up residence in Burma. [March
23, 2013: Western
Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar] Madden has co-founded a
marketing firm, Parami
Road in
Myanmar: “Our clients are mostly international companies entering
Myanmar and they demand an international standard of work.”
“After
years of isolation, Myanmar is opening up. Opportunities abound.
However international companies have little experience here and local
firms have little experience working with them. Parami Road meets
this need.” – Parami
website
Another
key co-founder of Avaaz is none other than pro-war, pro-Israel, U.S.
Democrat Tom Perriello, former U.S. Representative (represented the
5th District of Virginia from 2008 to 2010) and founding member of
the House Majority Leader’s National Security Working Group.
As demonstrated in
the 2012 investigative report on Avaaz, Perriello’s curriculum
vitae, built upon privilege within elite circles, is quite
extensive.
[*Full
profile on Avaaz co-founder Tom
Perriello: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I [Link]
The
former Managing Director of Partnerships for “Purpose” is Marilia
Bezerra. From 2006 to 2011 Bezerra held an integral position within
the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) executive leadership. As Clinton
Global Initiative director of commitments, Bezerra led the redesign
of member engagement and commitments services into a
year-round operation. From 2007 to 2008, Bezerra held the
position of sponsorship manager of the Clinton Global Initiative
where she directly managed five major sponsorship accounts, including
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Procter & Gamble, valued at
over $2 million dollars. From 2006 to 2008, Bezerra held the position
of Commitment Development Senior Manager for the Clinton Global
Initiative. In 2009, Bezerra was Deputy Director of Commitments for
the Clinton Global Initiative.
One
should note that in the case of many NGOs, on 990 tax forms it
appears as though those at the helm are paid minimally, if at all.
Rather than salaries, many founders of institutions make immense fees
via consulting services where their names are not identified on 990
forms. In the case of Avaaz, co-founder Ricken Patel does take a
salary (approx. $190,000.00 per year) plus consulting fees.
Consulting fees must be considered the bread and butter of many
“progressives” whose incomes rival CEOs of multinational
corporations. The salaries and incomes are incredible when one
accounts for the fact that many NGOs, such as Avaaz, rake in millions
of dollars in donations from well-intentioned and hard-working
citizens who are at or below the poverty line.
[Full
profile of Ricken Patel: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors
of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I
[Link]
Purpose
Inc. (with its co-founders) is a favourite of high-finance websites
such as The Economist and Forbes and sells its consulting services
and branding/marketing campaigns to Google, Audi, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
many others that comprise the world’s most powerful corporations
and institutions. In 2012, it raised $3m from investors. “Ford
Foundation, which has given Purpose’s non-profit arm a grant,
reckons it is shaping up to be “one of the blue-chip social
organisations of the future.” [Source] Purpose,
like many other foundations, such as Rockefeller (who initially
incubated 1Sky which merged with 350.org in 2011), also serves as an
“incubator of social movements.” [Further
reading on Purpose]
Heimans,
the Avaaz front man of Purpose, is a darling of
the high-finance corporate world. “In 2011, Jeremy received the
Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary Visionaries Award. The World
Economic Forum at Davos has named him a Young Global Leader, and the
World e-Government Forum has named Jeremy and Purpose co-founder
David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of
the Internet and Politics.” [Source]
“Who
are we? Three
years after the peaceful uprising in Syria, politicians and the media
have largely forgotten what the UN calls ‘the greatest humanitarian
tragedy of our time.’ But we haven’t.” — Front
page of “The Syria Campaign” and the “White Helmets / Syrian
Civil Defence” website
The
March Campaign #withSyria | Over 130 Partners
Purpose’s March
campaign #withSyria website(which doubles
as a hash tagfor
Twitter) partners
include:
Open Society Foundation (George Soros), Amnesty International,
Christian Aid, Care, Friends of the Earth, Oxfamand
many more of the largest “humanitarian” NGOs within the
non-profit industrial complex which makes up a billion dollar
industry. [Full list of
partners: http://marchcampaign.withsyria.com/partners0].
Utilizing the consumer culture’s celebrity fetish to sell war (and
the illusory “green economy“)
is a vital marketing strategy of Purpose. In the case of #withSyria,
famed street artist Banksyhas
reworked his “Young Girl” famed graffiti stencil in
support of the campaign.
On the main page of this website the behavioural change strategists
at Purpose promote a slick, emotive video of a white child (in
America) slowly becoming traumatized by the violence in Syria. No
doubt, Purpose’s marketing executives have taken this avenue
because they know that the majority of Euro-Americans with privilege
simply are not moved by images of suffering children that are
non-Caucasian. Non-White children being slaughtered by imperial
states became normalized for most Euro-American citizens long ago.
And
of course corporate
media is
not far away to promote the
cries for war peace.
Consider today, on September 17, 2014, ABC “reports“:
“What
if we could reverse the explosion of a bomb? A group of 130
organizations from around the world,
known collectively as the ‘With Syria’ campaign, released a video
Wednesday that shows just what that would look like. The campaign
hopes to bring attention to the violence in Syria. (video) Warning:
Contains disturbing imagery. In the video, the act of a bomb
exploding near children playing is reversed: The blood returns to
their heads, the children stand back up, run in reverse and continue
the game they were playing. A message says, ‘We can’t reverse
what’s happened in Syria, but we can change how the story ends.’”
Indeed
Purpose is being paid to bring about the ending that the elites have
hired them to ensure.
“Even
more impressive than her military, America has built the most
sophisticated propaganda machinery the planet has ever seen.” –
Garikai Chengu
Free
Syrian Voices partners
include Amnesty International, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Network, FIDH, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, Reporters
Without Borders and “other international, regional and Syrian
organizations” – which conveniently go unnamed.
Such
emotionally charged campaigns are critical tools for empire. They
have become critical (and successful) in building the acquiescence
required for “humanitarian
interventions”
(aka regime change with extensive “collateral damage” thrown in
for good measure).
“In
the IC
Magazine publication Communications
in Conflict,
is noted a new form of psychological warfare termed ‘false
hope.’
False hope, as a tool for subverting social movements, is
unparalleled in its effectiveness. What once was crudely accomplished
through political repression, censorship, educational indoctrination
and misleading propaganda, is now supplemented, if not surpassed,
through vertical integration of the non-profit industrial complex.
Where Wall Street once had to rely on threats and bribery to
intimidate or corrupt social movements, it now has a vast army of
neoliberal foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
social media at its disposal.” —
Jay Taber, False
Hope,
September 6, 2014
It
is important to note that Purpose is a for-profit business
strategically presented as though it is a non-profit (similar to the
Change.org petition site). This begs the question of who is financing
the Syrian campaigns. The fact that a group of wealthy elites from
Harvard living privileged lifestyles in New York City (and abroad)
decide, via glossy marketing campaigns, who will live or die on the
other side of the world is the ultimate representation of whitism and
racism – an egregious affront to people everywhere. [Further
reading on Purpose]
“If
there is any doubt concerning the nefarious undertones of
subversiveness in these NGO dealings, [National Endowment for
Democracy] NED founder reportedly said the following in the 1990s: ‘A
lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’
What was once done at night under the cloak of ‘imperialism’ is
now done during the day under the guise of ‘humanitarianism.’” —WKOG
30-point Primer
The
many facets of Purpose:
1) Purpose (tax
identification number 68-0607622) is a for-profit certified
B-corporation “that uses an innovative model to pool some of the
world’s leading experts and practitioners in order to fund, launch
and accelerate the growth of new social movement organizations.”
2) Purpose
Action (tax
identification number 45-2451509), the non-profit
arm of
Purpose, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization “focused on
changing policy.” Purpose Action Board of Directors includes Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp! [5]
3) Purpose
Foundation (tax
identification number 27-3106760) is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization “focused on education and changing culture.” [6]
4) Purpose
Campaign (tax
identification number 68-0607622) “Develops social and consumer
movements.”
US
Military Utilize NGOs to Induce Pacification & Advance Western
Ideologies on Iraqi Citizens
The
video below captures highlights from the 2004 Princeton Colloquium on
Public and International Affairs and should that be at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs – The Role of
NGOs in Global Governance and Society. Attention to the title is key:
“NON-governmental
organizations in global GOVERNANCE.”
[Note the use of the term “guerrilla” (4:13)
in describing any citizen/person resisting the occupation/assault by
US military on Iraq soil.] Since the filming of this video,
accelerating regime change operations are being conducted by Western
militaries, hand in hand with Western NGOs throughout the globe.
[See
more: http://www.interventionism.info/en/Re…].
In essence, NGOs have become an indispensable instrument of
destabilization and regime change for imperial states and hegemonic
interests. NGOs also serve as the primary agents to implant
neoliberal policies and western ideologies in targeted states to
advance and protect the interests of the NGOs’ funders.
The
June, 2012, Avaaz “Good Versus Evil” campaign
for the Rio Summit.
Above: A downloadable poster as found on the Avaaz
Press Centre published
in the Financial Times. Vilification: Note the dark cast/ugly sky
behind the leaders Avaaz would wish you to believe are “evil,”
versus the light and sun shining through over the Imperialist,
obstructionist “leaders” that Avaaz is attempting to convince you
are “good.”
“‘You
have to investigate the supply of hatred,’ Glaeser continues. ‘Who
has the incentive and the ability to induce group hatred? This pushes
us toward the crux of the model: politicians or anyone else will
supply hatred when hatred is a complement to their policies.’”
— The
Behavioural Economics of Hatred
Heiman’s
work been recognized in publications like The New York Times and The
Economist.
In The Economist, Heiman states he chose his career path when “in
2001, a college student named Eli Pariser created an online
petition calling
for a multilateral response to the ‘9/11 terrorist attacks.’” Over
a decade on, with civilian deaths that amount to millions, I’m sure
the Iraqis are most grateful. It must be noted that Eli Pariser, too,
is a co-founder of Avaaz and Co-Founder and Executive Director of
MoveOn.org (Avaaz founder) PAC.
Above:
The Syria Campaign, Non-profit Organization, created by Purpose,
launched March 7, 2014.
“We
were afraid the
regime would
fire another rocket, as
they always come back to the area of attack when people come to
rescue to bomb them,
so we started evacuating people in a hurry so no more lives would be
lost. This picture was taken then! That boy holding my neck like that
was one of the moments in which I knew why I
am a civil defender!”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Purpose
Inc. strategically employs images, carefully worded text and slick
video that provoke intense emotion. Key language includes children,
refugees, regime, and their work “in the most dangerous place in
the world.”
“A
year ago today, the
Syrian government used Sarin gas against its own people killing over
a thousand, many of them children.The
world was outraged and demanded Assad destroy his stockpile of
chemical weapons. Today chlorine gas is still being used on civilian
neighbourhoods, rolled out the back of helicopters in rusty ‘barrel
bombs.’”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm, Image
by Designer : FaDi zyada whose
work is also featured on the Heinrich
Von Arabien Foundation website.
This same website features an
absurd photo of
Syrians holding up a poster that features a “thumbs up”
illustration for USA and the UN.
Exploiting
the death of Syrian children to provoke air strikes and military
aggression demonstrates that such agencies go to any extreme to
further American foreign policy. Note that the very carnage described
above: “killing
over a thousand, many of them children” is
par for the course for the U.S. military, which carries out such
atrocities on innocent civilians, including children, on a daily
basis, all over the world. But don’t expect an Avaaz or Purpose
campaign against the Obama Regime any time soon. They will be too
busy under the guise of their NGO MoveOn, working on his re-election.
The
following quote represents the real purpose of Purpose:
“The
media may have turned away from
what’s unfolding daily in Syria but today we all have the tools to
tell the world the truth. Please share widely and remember the
children of Syria in your thoughts today.”
The
lapdog media have not turned away, but much of the public has. It’s
the job of Purpose to employ netwar methods (“a form of low
intensity conflict, crime, and activism waged by actors using social
networking services”
according to Wikipedia) on the public (targeting Euro-Americans) that
will instill hatred toward the
democratically elected Bashar
al-Assad.
“It’s
past time for President Obama to present a plan for dealing with the
humanitarian crisis in Syria.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Today
we remember the more than 1,300 who lost their lives in the Ghouta
chemical weapons attacks. Let’s also remember those +150,000 who
face torture and death while being detained.” — Purpose Inc.
Marketing Firm
Let’s
not mention Guantanamo Bay, AbuGhraib
and a mile long list of the Obama administration’s involvement in
torture, shall we? Syria certainly demonstrates that the first
casualty of war (in this case a destabilization effort) is truth. The
following excerpt is from the articleFoley
& Sotloff’s Reporting Show Why the US Should Stop Its
Proxy War on Syria, which
lays bare that “both journalists documented the reality
of Free Syria Army”:
“While
in Turkey Sotloff broadcast news of Syrian rebels being found and
arrested with chemical weapon Sarin gas. He used Twitter to
send out the Turkish news report. That was in May, three months
before the August 21 2013 chemical weapons deaths in outer Damascus.
The Syrian rebels were arrested by Turkish police but quickly
released, giving evidence to claims of Turkish government support for
Nusra. Sotloff was puzzled why the mainstream media was not giving
this event coverage.”
“This
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the chemical weapons
attack that took the lives of over 1,000 Syrians. Since then tens of
thousands more have been killed by different methods. Starvation is
one. But the
international media and world leaders still haven’t come together
to put an end to it.”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Above
image: Another call for “world
leaders” to “come together to put an end to it.” Yet
while Purpose may cry crocodile tears over the starvation of Syrians,
Avaaz has asked for tough
sanctions against
Syria. Purpose and Avaaz want to “have their cake and eat it too”
– while Syrian lives are destroyed by the oligarchs that both
Purpose and Avaaz serve.
The
following video highlights human rights investigator and
award-winning journalist, Keith Harmon Snow, detailing the corrupt
NGOs and their portrayal of Africa in order to illicit funds. Snow
must be considered one of our finest Western reporters for obtaining
true independent, grassroots news from the continent of Africa.
Within the lecture, Snow discusses the psyops/propaganda
strategically orchestrated behind the “Save Darfur”
campaigns/movements which, in 2004, began to saturate the populace.
At the helm of this “movement” was “The Center for American
Progress.”
The
Center for American Progress is closely connected with the same
players that founded and financed Avaaz. Today, with Avaaz at the
forefront, the non-profit industrial complex has been appointed
trusted messenger of a grotesque and disturbing ideology; nothing
less than a complete reflection and validation of the U.S.
administration’s rhetoric intended to justify the annihilation and
occupation of sovereign states under the false pretense of
“humanitarian intervention” and “responsibility to protect.”
[7]
“The
Syrian government has been dropping ‘barrel bombs’ on civilian
areas despite
a UN order to stop, targeting
schools and hospitals. Those
too poor to flee their homes can only hope that if the bomb drops,
the White Helmets will be there to help get them out.…
Let’s tell the world about the White Helmets and help get them the
support they need.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Know
multiple languages? We
need you! Help us get as many eyeballs on the Miracle Baby video by
translating the subtitles into as many languages
possible here: http://bit.ly/1tKSmrz”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Firms
and agencies such as Purpose write and develop the scripts and design
the sets. They bring the stories to life, strategically exploit and
manipulate our emotions, ultimately ensuring we come to accept and
partake in their politically acceptable means of discourse –
discourse sanctioned (and financed) by the empire.
“Syrians
welcome Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into their country with warm meals,
giving them their clothes and in some cases opening up their homes.”
– Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
above quote is representative of perhaps one too many spin doctors,
for who is allowing Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into Syria, if not the
Assad government? Indeed, Assad’s government has accepted more
refugees per capita than any other country in the Middle East.
“In
the wake of Robin Williams’ death, the people of Idlib remember the
actor/comedian with a quote on freedom.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing
Firm
This
image takes absurdity to a new level. Recap: In the midst of being
bombed, starved, and rained on by chemical weapons, Syrians take time
to pay homage to an American actor/comedian (because the love of the
America that is destroying the Middle East is so great), by quoting a
line from a genie in a bottle from a scene in an animated Disney
movie and creating a banner in the English language.
“Understand what
this infographic says,
and you’ll understand why The Syria Campaign exists. And why you
and your friends need to join. http://bit.ly/VlYOsi”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
In
the infographic above, Purpose deliberately keeps the stats limited
to 2014. Otherwise they would have to visualize the millions of Iraqi
citizens who have been murdered due to the U.S. illegal war and
occupation in Iraq. Further, Purpose gives no attention to the deaths
in Ukraine, Honduras, Libya, Haiti, Congo (millions) and all of the
other countries being decimated by Imperialism and foreign
interference.
“Tell
Obama we need a
plan set forth to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in
Syria. bit.ly/1nITTtO”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
message is clear. Purpose wants the green light for military
intervention in Syria, well-cloaked under the guise of
humanitarianism – an oxymoron if there ever was one.
“How
were you to know you were approving posts from one of the world’s
most violent dictators? A man who’s ordered the dropping of bombs
on hospitals and primary schools?” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad has been re-elected and he can thank Facebook
for being a propaganda platform.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“It
is critical to note that the imperialist powers (inclusive of the UN)
do not criticize or demonize or withdraw their support from such
leaders on any ethical or moral ground. Denunciation of state leaders
and emotive language is merely theatre. Rather, the imperialist
states strategically set out to destroy any state leader that is
unwilling to be controlled by US interests and foreign policy. A case
in point is unwavering support of the Saudi royal family responsible
for atrocious human rights violations to which the imperialist
countries turn a blind eye.” (from Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part
I, Section I)
The
Behavioural Change Dream Team:
·
Full profile of Jeremy Heimans: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
·
Full profile of David Madden: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section II [link]
·
Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section III [link]
Further
reading on behavioural change: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
Consider
that the colour of the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya (from
1977 to 2011; The Great
Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
was pure green in colour. Unlike the one featured in the Avaaz
campaign. The green colour traditionally symbolizes Islam. In Libya,
green was also a colour traditionally used to represent
the Tripolitania region
(commonly referred to as Tripoli) that NATO forces fought to seize.
The iconic green flag was chosen by Libyan leader/brother Muammar
Gaddafi to symbolize his political philosophy (after his
revolutionary Green
Book).
On 10 March 2011, France was the first state to recognize the council
as the official government of Libya, as well as the first to allow
the Libyan embassy staff to raise the red, black, green and white
flag that would replace the green flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya. On
21 March, the “new” flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of
Libya to the United Nations and appeared on their official website …
this flag, which reigned prior to the Libyan Jamahiriya, is now the
only flag used by the United Nations to represent Libya. According to
the following UN statement: “Following the adoption by the General
Assembly of resolution 66/1, the Permanent Mission of Libya to the
United Nations formally notified the United Nations of a Declaration
by the National Transitional Council of 3 August 2011 changing the
official name of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to “Libya” as well as
a decision to change Libya’s national flag to the original.”
[Wikipedia]
On
August 24, 2011 it is reported by
yet another mouthpiece for empire that:
“As
Libyan rebels take over, embassies worldwide have been replacing the
old Libyan flag with a new one…. But
starting in February, a new flag – red, black, and green with a
white star and crescent in the center – has been hoisted at Libyan
embassies around the world, from
Switzerland to Bangladesh.
It is the same flag being flown by the jubilant rebels themselves as
they descend on Tripoli.”
In
the article, the words “U.S. funded mercenaries” have been
replaced with “the jubilant rebels.” It would be well worth
investigating who ordered, manufactured and paid for thousands of
these new flags (prior to or commencing in February of 2011) and
ensured they would replace the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya
that flourished from 1977 to 2011.
Further
Reading:
·
The Grotesque and Disturbing Ideology at the Helm of Avaaz, March
7, 2012
·
Sostenere il governo USA senza saperlo: il grave esempio di
“Avaaz,” March
8, 2012
·
SPEAKING TRUTH: A Profound Message to Avaaz from Poet Gabriel
Impaglione of Argentina, March
12, 2012
·
Argentine Journalist Stella Calloni Denounces Avaaz | Latin American
Unions Follow Her Lead, March
12, 2012
·
Avaaz: Empire Propaganda Mill Masquerading as Grassroots
Activism, June
9, 2012
·
Avaaz’s War on Syria: Soros Sponsored Sorrow Pleads for Foreign
Intervention, June
14, 2012
·
Rio Summit “Good Versus Evil” Advert Displays Blatant Racism and
Imperialism at Core of Avaaz, June
22, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section II, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section III, Sept
24, 2012
·
Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I, Sept 24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section II, Nov
1, 2012
·
Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013
[5]
Purpose Action Board of Directors: Jon
Huggett,
founding chair of Social Innovation Exchange, former partner at The
Bridgespan Group and Bain & Company; Rashad
Robinson,
executive director of ColorOfChange.org and former senior director of
media programs at GLAAD; Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp!; Douglas
Atkin,
director of community at Airbnb, former chief community officer of
Meetup, author of The Culting of Brands; Andre
Banks,
executive director of Purpose Foundation, former strategy director at
Purpose and former deputy director of ColorOfChange.org; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp! [Source]
[6]
Purpose Foundation Board of Directors: Carla
Sutherland,
research scholar at Columbia University’s Gender and Sexuality Law
Center’s Engaging Tradition Project, former program officer at Ford
Foundation and Arcus Foundation; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp!; Michael
Evans,
president of Moynihan Station Development Corporation and former
chief of staff to the Lieutenant Governor of New York State.
[Source]|
Purpose Foundation’s organizational documents and annual reports on
Form 990 can be found here.
[7]
December 29, 2004: “Over two days in early December approximately
three-dozen religious activists met at the Washington office of the
Center for American Progress, a recently formed think tank headed by
former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. The Res Publica-driven
agenda for the closed-door gathering included sessions on “building
the movement infrastructure” and “objectives, strategies and core
issues.” Res Publica was founded by Tom Perriello, Ricken Patel and
Tom Pravda. Avaaz was founded by Res Publica, MoveOn.org, Executive
Director Ricken Patel, Tom Perriello, Tom Pravda, Eli Pariser (MoveOn
Executive Director), Andrea Woodhouse (consultant to the World Bank)
Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of GetUp! and Purpose), and Australian
entrepreneur David Madden (co-founder of GetUp and Purpose). Avaaz
co-founder Tom Perriello is now President and CEO of Center for
American Progress. Perriello and Patel also co-founded and
co-directed DarfurGenocide.org which officially launched in 2004.
“DarfurGenocide.org is a project of Res Publica, a group of public
sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance and
virtuous civic cultures.” Today, this organization is now known as
“Darfurian Voices”: “Darfurian Voices is a project of 24 Hours
for Darfur.” The U.S. Department of State and the Open Society
Institute were just two of the organizations funders and
collaborating partners. Other Darfurian Voices partners include
Avaaz, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International
Centre for Transitional Justice, Darfur Rehabilitation Project,
Humanity United, Darfur People’s Association of New York, Genocide
Intervention, Witness, Yale Law School, The Sigrid Rausing Trust and
the Bridgeway Foundation. Despite the carefully crafted language and
images that tug at your emotions, such NGOs were created for and
exist for one primary purpose — to protect and further American
policy and interests, under the guise of philanthropy and
humanitarianism. Of all the listed partners of DarfurGenocide.org,
with exception of one located in London England, all of the entities
involved are American and based on US soil.
CLARIFICATION (August
10, 2018): In an earlier version of this article, a sentence reads
“Avaaz co-founder James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder
and CEO of Purpose at its inception in 2009.” This was intended to
read as it reads now: “Avaaz affiliate James
Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of Purpose at its
inception in 2009.” The article references the original researched
bio of Slezak: “Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section III [link]”.
The original research does not list Slezak as an Avaaz co-founder. We
regret the error was not caught in the editing process. Further
clarification Slezak co-foundered “Win Back Respect” with Avaaz
co-founders Andrea Woodhouse (World Bank), spouse, David Madden
(World Bank) and Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of MoveOn and GetUp!).
Win Back Respect was supported/funded by MoveOn (co-founder of Avaaz)
and Soros Fund Management. Soros Open Society Institute provided
the original seed money for Avaaz. The fifth co-founder of Win Back
Respect was Brian Vogt, Senior Advisor to the Partnership for a
Secure America.
About
the Author
Cory
Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and
environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and
political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides
in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green,
The Art of Annihilation, Political Context, Counterpunch, Canadians
for Action on Climate Change and Countercurrents.
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Opvallend de gelijkenis met Pax Christie, of zoals het tegenwoordig wordt genoemd: ‘PAX’. Ook deze organisatie die zogenaamd de wereldvrede wil bevorderen, heeft meermaals opgeroepen tot oorlog, dit nam een aanvang onder voorzitterschap van oorlogshitser Mient Jan Faber…….
De
arrestatie van Julian Assange door de Britse politie, NB in de
ambassade van Ecuador in Londen, is een ernstige schending van
internationale regels en van de mensenrechten….. De rol van de
Britse regering is al helemaal een schande voor de internationale
politiek. Men wilde Assange niet laten gaan, ondanks dat de beschuldiging van verkrachting door het Zweedse OM, op valse gronden bleken te berusten, zo werd na langdurig justitieel onderzoek in Zweden beslist door de rechter…….
De
regering May stelde doodleuk dat Assange tijdens het
uitleveringsverzoek van Zweden, illegaal in de ambassade van Ecuador
verbleef en gehoor had moeten geven aan de eis zich over te geven aan de Britse justitie…. Nogmaals: op grond van de valse beschuldiging van verkrachting, daar Zweden op die basis om uitlevering van Assange had gevraagd…..
Het
laten vallen van de aanklacht door de Zweedse justitie gaf eens te
meer aan dat Assange volkomen terecht toevlucht had gezocht in de
Ecuadoraanse ambassade en het niet verlaten van die ambassade na de
beslissing van de Zweedse justitie. Eén en ander daar de stap van Groot-Brittannië hem als schuldig te blijven zien, duidelijk toonde dat GB van zins was hem uit te leveren aan de VS…….
Assange
is niets meer en minder dan een onafhankelijke journalist die zijn
werk voor meer dan 100% uitvoerde, immers het is de taak van elke
zich journalist noemende persoon om zaken die klokkenluiders volkomen
terecht lekken, te publiceren. Al vaker heb ik me dan ook op deze
plek afgevraagd waarom de collega’s van Assange, althans figuren die
zich eveneens journalist durven te noemen, niet massaal in protest
zijn gegaan, nadat Assange als gezochte misdadiger te boek stond en al
helemaal nadat de Zweedse justitie hem vrijsprak van
verkrachting……
Vanmorgen
op Radio1 in het Mediaforum op Spraakmakers o.a. ‘crisis en
veiligheidsmanager’ Marco Zannoni. Deze stelde dat hij Assange in
eerste instantie wel als journalist zag, maar daar later zware
bedenkingen bij kreeg, o.a. door de verkrachtingszaak in Zweden en
het gaat volgens Zannoni voorts om het naar buiten brengen van
staatsgeheimen (waar hij zwaar aan tilt)…… Ja Zannoni, ook het
vermoorden van burgers en journalisten door het uiterst psychopathisch
agressieve leger van de VS, was een staatsgeheim van deze terreurentiteit, enorme zakkenwasser!!
Ook
aanwezig in de studio, één van de grootste plorken van de
zogenaamde Nederlandse journalistiek, Frénk van der Linden,
deze zei dat hij een dubbelgevoel heeft bij Assange. Waar van der
Linden aan toevoegde: dat ‘we’ Trump te danken hebben aan
Assange…… Hé van der Linden: we hebben Trump één op één te
danken aan Hillary Clinton, die misdadig handelde tijdens de
voorverkiezingen van 2016 in de VS en waar ze de nominatie voor de
Democratische Partij t.b.v. de presidentsverkiezingen heeft gestolen van Bernie Sanders….. Seth Rich, een
gefrustreerde medewerker van Clintons team, luidde de
klok en gaf WikiLeaks de bewuste mails waar men van durfde te zeggen
dat deze van de Russen kwamen……. (die leugen herhaalde Zannoni overigens
nog eens en werd bevestigd door van der Linden)
Ook van der Linden stelde zoals gezegd doodleuk dat Assange de mails van Clinton
ontving van de Russen, waarna hij even later stelde dat hij ‘t ook
niet allemaal zeker weet….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Inderdaad van der
Linden, dat is de makke met jou! Van der Linden zei verder dat
Assange een openbaarheidsfundamentalist is…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Hoewel van der Linden niets zeker weet, stelt hij dat de manier
waarop Assange de waarheid wil brengen fundamentalistisch is en deze
figuur durft zich journalist te noemen!!!
Het
is de taak van echte journalisten om de waarheid te achterhalen en
wel zoveel mogelijk, hoe kan je dan als fundamentalistisch worden
weggezet??!!!
Nog
een zichzelf journalist noemde kwezel was aanwezig in het Mediafroum:
Stephan Okhuijsen. Deze figuur stelde dat Assange geen
vertegenwoordiger is van het vrije woord, er kleeft teveel aan
Assange, aldus de belachelijke wijsneus. ‘Er kleeft teveel aan Assange, zoals het eerder aangehaalde gelul dat
Assange 2 vrouwen zou hebben verkracht, iets dat door de Zweedse
justitie als onzin is beoordeeld…. Ockhuijsen beweerde voorts dat
‘wij’ wel fan zijn van WikiLeaks, maar (nogmaals) er kleeft teveel aan
Assange…….. Even later gevolgd door: “Wij (ik neem aan
journalisten, Ap) doen aan hoor en wederhoor” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Oh, Ockhuijsen, vandaar dat je de roddels over Assange gelooft……
Nog
wat uitspraken door de 2 journalisten en de ‘crisis en veiligheidsmanager’:
Assange
is een narcist…..
Assange
voert een persoonlijkheidscultuur……
Assange
heeft (ook vanwege de vorige 2 punten) zijn baard laten staan……
Assange
had meer ‘ethisch te werk moeten gaan……’
Van
der Linden vergeleek Assange wat betreft de vorige punten met ‘de
onthullingen van Bellingcat’ over vlucht MH17, daar klopte zich
niemand persoonlijk op de borst….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe durft
een zich journalist noemende figuur Bellingcat neer te zetten als een goed journalistiek collectief, het is een stel leken die de grootste onzin
als waarheid verkopen, ook in het MH17 dossier!!!
Presentator
de Zwart, hoewel ook negatief over Assange, noemde nog even de vele journalistieke
prijzen die Assange kreeg, maar dat maakte totaal geen indruk op de
aanwezige ‘journalisten….’
Het
is in de ons omringende landen niet anders: massaal laten
journalisten zich voor het karretje van de VS spannen en maken
Assange in feite in woord af, waar ze massaal protest aan hadden
moeten tekenen tegen de arrestatie van Assange…..
Ongelofelijk
ook: er staan zo ongelofelijk veel feiten over o.a. oorlogsmisdaden
in WikiLeaks, waar de westerse reguliere media totaal geen aandacht
aan besteden, blijkbaar zien ze WikiLeaks als een door de VS verboden
site……
In Trouw vergelijkt columnist Stevo Akkerman Assange en WikiLeaks met ‘vuilnisbak journalistiek’, te vergelijken met het uitpluizen van het vuilnis dat D66 oplichter en mislukte tweedehandsauto verkoper Pechtold, wat deze hufter durft te zeggen, tart elke regel van onafhankelijke journalistiek…. Ach ja, wat wil je, Akkerman is trouw lobbyist van het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme en daarmee allesbehalve onafhankelijk…..
‘Journalistiek’
anno 2019, gadver!!!
Eén ding is zeker: een eerlijk proces zal Assange niet krijgen, hij is al schuldig bevonden nog voor één woord te hebben gezegd in het te volgen proces en dat zal in de VS nog sterker worden herhaald, daar de rechterlijke macht daar een lachertje is.
Het
volgende bericht over de arrestatie van Assange, werd door Jason Ditz
geschreven, eerder gepubliceerd op ANTIWAR en door mij overgenomen
van Anti-Media. Daarin beschrijft Ditz o.a. hoe Ecuador wordt beloond voor
het laten arresteren van Assange (werk dat journalisten als van der
Linden hadden moeten doen, althans als ze echte journalisten waren
geweest):
$4.2
Billion IMF Bailout for Ecuador Paved the Way for Assange’s Arrest
(ANTIWAR.COM) — WikiLeaks has
long reported that
the $4.2 billion IMF bailout [in
addition to another $6 billion from other U.S.-dominated financial
institutions like the World Bank] for
Ecuador was closely related to complying with US demands, in
particular on revoking the asylum of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange. On Thursday, that appeared to come to pass.
Following recent days of Ecuador’s
leadership saying Assange’s asylum would not last forever, he was
arrested by British police within the London Embassy.
Ecuador has tried to present this as related to continuing WikiLeaks
operations, and in particular a January leak of Vatican documents.
Ecuador’s economy has been
struggling mightily in recent years, and the government has bet much
on their ability to secure a bailout. In the end, the US sway over
the IMF meant that Ecuador was
required to placate the US to get that money.
Ecuador’s recent attempts to stake
out a comparatively independent foreign policy, something which the
Assange asylum move was a product of, made them a lot of enemies,
particularly in the US. As the government now tries to get on the
good side of the US, Assange was the main thing the Americans wanted,
and Ecuador seems more than willing to try to facilitate that.
While official IMF statements make no
specific mentions of Assange, the clear link between the two is
likely to continue to loom large, particularly in any US attempts to
secure extradition for Assange after having bought his expulsion and
ultimate arrest by Britain.
WikiLeaks
heeft een overheidsdocument van de VS gepubliceerd, waaruit blijkt dat
de economische oorlogsvoering van de VS tegen haar onwelgevallige
landen wordt uitgevoerd met gebruikmaking van het IMF, de Wereldbank
en de Organisatie voor Economische Samenwerking en Ontwikkeling (OESO,
in het hieronder opgenomen artikel de Engelse afkorting: OECD).
Kortom
de VS gebruikt voornoemde organisaties als wapen tegen landen waar
men een verandering van regime in het belang van de VS acht, zoals bij de
economische oorlogsvoering van de VS tegen het soevereine land Venezuela……
Economische
oorlogsvoering middels eerst nog redelijk bedekte druk op bedrijven
niet langer zo’n land te bevoorraden met hun producten, zoals VS
supermarkten en farmaceuten uit de VS in (voorbeeld) Venezuela….
Door die in feite boycot ontstaat er ontevredenheid onder het volk,
waar men hoopt dat deze tot een opstand leidt, waarna het afzetten
van een regering (of president) een stuk makkelijker wordt….. Als
de opstand groot genoeg is en de reguliere westerse media volkomen onterecht moord en
brand schreeuwen, worden er officiële sancties ingesteld, waar maar
al te vaak andere westerse landen aan meewerken, zoals in het geval
van Venezuela: Canada en de EU…….
Als
zelfs een coup in dat geval niet lukt gaat de VS maar al te vaak over
tot het opzetten en regisseren van een coup, desnoods middels een
militaire inval….. (in Colombia, het buurland van Venezuela, staan
zelfs NAVO troepen klaar om in te grijpen, bovendien stuurt de VS
5.000 militairen naar buurlanden van Venezuela….)
Het
bewuste document werd eerder in 2008 gepubliceerd door WikiLeaks. Het
is dan ook duidelijk waarom de VS de opstand in Oekraïne organiseerde
(door Hillary Clinton en de CIA) die in 2013 tot de afzetting van de
democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj leidde, waarna de zwaar
corrupte neonazi Porosjenko werd geïnstalleerd, de gewenste kandidaat
van de VS…..
Het
voorgaande daar de VS er niet kwam middels een economische
oorlogsvoering, immers Rusland steunde Oekraïne en Janoekovytsj weigerde
zijn land in het EU (en daarmee VS/NAVO) pak te laten naaien……
Eén en
ander werpt ook meer licht op de draai die de Griekse premier Tsipras
maakte en hij zijn land in feite overgaf aan de terreurtrojka bestaande uit het IMF, de ECB en de
Europese Commissie…….. (gegarandeerd dat de VS hem tevens dreigde met een coup, immers Rusland kwam in beeld als hulp voor de Griekse bevolking)
Lees het
volgende ontluisterende artikel van Whitney Webb, eerder gepubliceerd
op MintPress News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
WikiLeaks
Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional”
Weapons
(MPN) —
In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently
highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Army states that major global
financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial
“weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale
general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and
cooperation of state governments.”
The document,
officially titled “Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special
Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare” and originally written in
September 2008, was recently
highlighted by
WikiLeaks on Twitter in light of recent events in Venezuela as well
as the years-long, U.S.-led economic siege of that country through
sanctions and other means of economic warfare. Though the document
has generated new interest in recent days, it had originally
been released by
WikiLeaks in December 2008 and has been described as the military’s
“regime change handbook.”
WikiLeaks’
recent tweets on the subject drew attention to a single section of
the 248-page-long document, titled “Financial Instrument of U.S.
National Power and Unconventional Warfare.” This section in
particular notes that the U.S. government applies “unilateral and
indirect financial power through persuasive influence to
international and domestic financial institutions regarding
availability and terms of loans, grants, or other financial
assistance to foreign state and nonstate actors,” and specifically
names the World Bank, IMF and The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS), as “U.S. diplomatic-financial
venues to accomplish” such goals.
The
manual also touts the “state manipulation of tax and interest
rates” along with other “legal and bureaucratic measures” to
“open, modify or close financial flows” and further states that
the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) –
which oversees U.S. sanctions on other nations, like Venezuela —
“has a long history of conducting economic warfare valuable to any
ARSOF [Army Special Operations Forces] UW [Unconventional Warfare]
campaign.”
This
section of the manual goes on to note that these financial weapons
can be used by the U.S. military to create “financial incentives or
disincentives to persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to
modify their behavior at the theater strategic, operational, and
tactical levels” and that such unconventional warfare campaigns are
highly coordinated with the State Department and the Intelligence
Community in determining “which elements of the human terrain in
UWOA [Unconventional Warfare Operations Area] are most susceptible to
financial engagement.”
The
role of these “independent” international financial institutions
as extensions of U.S. imperial power is elaborated elsewhere in the
manual and several of these institutions are described in detail in
an appendix to the manual titled “The Financial Instrument of
National Power.” Notably, the World Bank and the IMF are listed as
both Financial Instruments and Diplomatic Instruments of U.S.
National Power as well as integral parts of what the manual calls the
“current global governance system.”
Furthermore,
the manual states that the U.S. military “understand[s] that
properly integrated manipulation of economic power can and should be
a component of UW,” meaning that these weapons are a regular
feature of unconventional warfare campaigns waged by the United
States.
Another
point of interest is that these financial weapons are largely
governed by the National Security Council (NSC), which is currently
headed by John Bolton. The document notes that the NSC “has primary
responsibility for the integration of the economic and military
instruments of national power abroad.”
“Independent”
but controlled
Though
the unconventional warfare manual is notable for stating so openly
that “independent” financial institutions like the World Bank and
the IMF are essentially extensions of U.S. government power, analysts
have noted for decades that these institutions have consistently
pushed U.S. geopolitical goals abroad.
Indeed,
the myth of World Bank and IMF “independence” is quickly eroded
by merely looking at the structure and funding of each institution.
In the case of the World Bank, the institution is located in
Washington and the organization’s president has always been a U.S.
citizen chosen
directly by
the president of the United States. In the World Bank’s entire
history, the institution’s Board of Governors has never rejected
Washington’s pick.
This
past Monday, it was reported that President Donald
Trump nominated former
Bear Stearns economist David Malpass to lead the World Bank. Malpass
had famously failed to foresee the destruction of his former employer
during the 2008 financial crisis and is likely to limit World Bank
loans to China and to countries allied or allying with China, given
his well-established reputation as a China hawk.
In
addition to choosing its president, the U.S. is also the bank’s
largest shareholder,
making it the only member nation to have veto rights. Indeed, as the
leaked unconventional warfare manual notes, “As major decisions
require an 85% supermajority, the United States can block any major
changes” to World Bank policy or the services it offers.
Furthermore, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs banker
and “foreclosure king,” Steve Mnuchin, functions as the World
Bank’s governor.
Though
the IMF is different from the World Bank in several respects, such as
its stated mission and focus, it too is largely dominated by U.S.
government influence and funding. For instance, the IMF is also based
in Washington and the U.S. is the company’s largest shareholder —
the largest by far, owning
17.46 percent of
the institution – and also pays the largest quota for the
institution’s maintenance, paying
$164 billion in
IMF financial commitments annually. Though the U.S. does not choose
the IMF’s top executive, it uses its privileged position as the
institution’s largest funder to control IMF policy by
threatening to withhold its
IMF funding if the institution does not abide by Washington’s
demands.
As
a consequence of the lopsided influence of the U.S. on these
institutions’ behavior, these organizations have used their loans
and grants to “trap” nations in debt and have imposed “structural
adjustment” programs on these debt-saddled governments that result
in the mass privatization of state assets, deregulation, and
austerity that routinely benefit foreign corporations over local
economies. Frequently, these very institutions – by pressuring
countries to
deregulate their financial sector and through corrupt
dealings with
state actors – bring about the very economic problems that they
then swoop in to “fix.”
Guaidó
hits up IMF
Given
the close relationship between the U.S. government and these
international financial institutions, it should come as little
surprise that – in Venezuela – the U.S.-backed “interim
president” Juan Guaidó – has already
requested IMF
funds, and thus IMF-controlled debt, to fund his parallel government.
This
is highly significant because it shows that top among Guaidó’s
objectives, in addition to privatizing Venezuela’s massive oil
reserves, is to again shackle the country to the U.S.-controlled debt
machine.
“Venezuela’s
previous elected socialist president, Hugo Chávez, broke ties
with the IMF and World Bank, which he noted were “dominated by US
imperialism.” Instead Venezuela and other left-wing governments in
Latin America worked together to co-found the Bank of the South,
as a counterbalance to the IMF and World Bank.”
However,
Venezuela is far from the only country in Latin America being
targeted by these financial weapons masquerading as “independent”
financial institutions. For instance, Ecuador – whose current
president has sought to bring the country back into Washington’s
good graces – has gone so far as to conduct an “audit” of its
asylum of journalist and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in order
to win a
$10 billion bailout from
the IMF. Ecuador granted Assange asylum in 2012 and the U.S. has
fervently sought his extradition for still sealed charges ever since.
In
addition, last July, the U.S. threatened
Ecuador with
“punishing trade measures” if it introduced a measure at the UN
to support breastfeeding over infant formula, in a move that stunned
the international community but laid bare the willingness of the U.S.
government to use “economic weapons” against Latin American
nations.
Beyond
Ecuador, other recent targets of massive IMF and World Bank “warfare”
include Argentina, which awarded the
largest IMF bailout loan in history just
last year. That loan package was, unsurprisingly, heavily pushed by
the U.S., according to a statement from Treasury Secretary
Mnuchinreleased
last year.
Notably, the IMF was
instrumental in
causing the complete collapse of the Argentinian economy in 2001,
sending a poor omen for last year’s approval of the record loan
package.
Though
it was released over a decade ago, this “U.S. coup manual”
recently highlighted by WikiLeaks serves as a salient reminder that
the so-called “independence” of these financial institutions is
an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons”
regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will
and even overthrow U.S.-disfavored governments.
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
Ongelofelijk, de brutaliteit van de bankenmaffia, die godbetert een welhaast wereldwijde crisis hebben veroorzaakt, voorafgaand en tijdens de banken- of kredietcrisis in 2008. Een crisis waarbij miljoenen mensen in diepe ellende zijn gestort, ellende waarin een groot deel van hen zich heden ten dage nog steeds bevindt (neem mensen van 40+ die werkloos werden tijdens die crisis en nooit weer aan een fatsoenlijke baan kunnen komen…)….
Vorige week tijdens het World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, heeft de bankenmaffia ‘dringend gevraagd’ de regels voor haar sector sterk te versoepelen, zodat ze de wereld nog eens in een enorme crisis kunnen storten, een crisis die al weer aan de ‘wereld voordeur’ klopt…….
De banken willen met name groter kunnen groeien en dat is precies één van de zaken waardoor de crisis van 2008 zo hard heeft huisgehouden >> met honderden miljarden aan belastinggeld werden banken gered, omdat ze zogenaamd te groot waren om om te laten vallen (‘too big to fail’ >> TBTF), anders gezegd failliet te laten gaan…. Als men dat geld had gebruikt om de klanten van banken schadeloos te stellen en onder te brengen in een staatsbank, om zo die banken wel failliet te laten gaan, hadden we vele miljarden uitgespaard!!
Overigens na alle beloften van PvdA oplichter Bos en later CDA knurft de Jager, dat banken nooit weer zo groot mochten worden, zijn deze banken, zelfs staatsbank ABN Amro, al weer een aantal jaren bezig hun banken in het buitenland uit te breiden…… Zelfs Klaas Knot, de topgraaier van toezichthouder De Nederlandse Bank, vindt het blijkbaar wel best, belachelijk genoeg nadat zijn voorganger, CDA kakzever Wellink, door geen toezicht te houden, de banken zo heeft laten groeien, dat de ellende in feite amper was te overzien…….
De bankenbuffer die een nieuwe bankencrisis zou moeten voorkomen is veel te laag, 3% waar deze volgens echte deskundigen minstens 30% zou moeten zijn….
Kortom de banken en de toezichthouders, ook die van de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB), hebben totaal niets geleerd van de bankencrisis die in 2008 losbrak en zoals gezegd zovelen in diepe ellende heeft gestort………. Neem ook het grootste deel van de Grieken, die in grote armoede zitten door het op de pof leveren van krediet aan haar opvolgende corrupte regeringen, door banken en andere financiële instellingen uit Noordwest-Europa, waartoe ik voor het gemak ook Frankrijk reken…….
Het voorgaande terwijl diezelfde arme Grieken nu de hoogste belastingdruk van de EU hebben….. De banken uit ons deel van Europa, die onverantwoord krediet leverden werden ontzien en dat ging ten koste van arme Grieken, die part nog deel hadden aan deze belachelijke en onverantwoorde kredietverlening……. Iedere imbeciel had kunnen weten dat Griekenland niet kredietwaardig was, althans zeker niet wat betreft de enorme kapitalen die werden uitgeleend…….
Alsof dit alles niet is gebeurd, hebben de banken al jaren weer een grote bek en eisen ze versoepeling van regels, terwijl de banken intussen al weer honderden financiële producten hebben ingevoerd, waar figuren als PvdA hufter Wouter Bos niets van begrijpen (die dit destijds als minister van Financiën zelf heeft toegegeven)…… Ook dat was één van de redenen voor de bankencrisis van 2008….. Hoe is het gvd mogelijk??!!!
Hetzelfde geldt voor de totale hypotheekschuld, die is intussen al weer gestegen tot boven de 700 miljard euro…. Een schuld die veel te groot is voor een land als Nederland (ook volgens de terreurorganisaties IMF en Wereldbank)…. De banken doen vrolijk mee met de huizenbubbel die is ontstaan door het moedwillig in stand houden van de woningnood, een zaak die vooral arme huurders treft, daar hun huren worden berekend aan de hand van de achterlijk hoge prijs voor koophuizen…….
Tijd voor een staatsbank die alleen burgers bedient. Kunnen de commerciële banken bedrijven bedienen en hen volpompen met krediet als het zo uitkomt, maar waar deze banken nooit weer hoeven aan te kloppen voor staatssteun!!
Je zou kunnen concluderen dat de grote meerderheid van het Nederlandse volk alweer in het pak van de banken is genaaid en dat met hulp van disfunctionerende regeringen als Rutte 1, 2 en 3 plus de alweer falende toezichthouders……
De hoogste tijd voor een opstand als die van de Gele Hesjes in Frankrijk!!
PS: van groot belang is het bankrekeningnummer, dat we met het belachelijke IBAN gedoe voor het leven zouden houden, echter niet als je van bank wisselt…… De banken hebben dit destijds in de EU afgedwongen (met hulp van lobbyende, dus corrupte politici), zodat klanten minder snel van bank zullen wisselen bij wanbeleid……
De Argentijnse neoliberale (‘conservatieve’) regering Macri (een goede vriend van de wolf in schaapskleren paus Franciscus) heeft na een fikse lobby bij het IMF, haar handtekening gezet onder een lening van 50 miljard dollar van deze neoliberale organisatie, daarmee is het land waarschijnlijk voor decennia in het IMF pak genaaid……
Ofwel: de Argentijnen zullen afhankelijk blijven van het IMF en na een verkiezingsoverwinning van links in de nabije toekomst, zal zo’n regering in feite zo goed als niets kunnen doen voor de grote arme onderlaag in Argentinië. Nog simpeler gezegd: het IMF zal in feite het land leiden, zoals de Griekse regering (van de ‘socialistische’ verrader Tsipras*) is verworden tot een marionet van het IMF en de EU, waar de laatste twee in feite een dictatuur vormen in Griekenland…….
Daarnaast heeft Argentinië ook bij de Wereldbank en Zuid-Amerikaanse banken een lening van bijna 6 miljard dollar afgesloten…….
De VS liet vorige maand weten dat het dolblij was met de lening van het IMF voor Argentinië….. Niet zo vreemd als je ziet dat een links regeringsbeleid in de toekomst onmogelijk werd gemaakt met die lening……. Voorlopig hoeft de CIA geen ‘regime change’ (lees: staatsgreep) na te streven in Argentinië…..
Ongelofelijk, of eigenlijk schandalig dat de consequenties van die IMF lening voor het grootste deel van de Argentijnse bevolking, niet in de reguliere media is beschreven……..
Intussen is de staatsschuld van Argentinië zover opgelopen dat deze niet in afzienbare tijd zal kunnen worden afgelost, waar bovenop de regering Macri in 2016 heeft toegezegd een in feite al afgeschreven schuld uit 2001, alsnog te zullen voldoen, alsof dit in het belang is van het Argentijnse volk……..
* Al moet ik zeggen dat Tsipras waarschijnlijk is gewaarschuwd dat wanneer zijn regering niet akkoord ging, er een militaire staatsgreep zou plaatsvinden door NAVO leider VS en haar hielenlikkende NAVO lidstaten in de EU….. Als dat inderdaad zo is, had Tsipras moeten aftreden en de zaak in de media moeten gooien…… Zeker nadat hij al wist dat de armoede in Griekenland enorm groot was en velen niet eens de beschikking hadden over kanker medicatie, of pijnstillers bij chronische pijnklachten……. Aan de hiervoor beschreven situatie in Griekenland is intussen niets veranderd….. Bovendien zijn de Griekse staatseigendommen voor 99 jaar (!!!) overgedragen aan het Europees Stabiliteitsmechanisme (ESM), dat naar goeddunken deze eigendommen voor een appel en ei kan verkopen aan buitenlandse investeerders…….
Gistermiddag hoorde ik de ‘politiek deskundige’ verslaggever Joost Vullings op Radio1 over het zogenaamd niet door Rutte gedane voorstel Zijlstra een topgraaibaan bij de Wereldbank te geven, een baan die nu vervuld wordt door PvdA volksverlakker Heemskerk……..
Volgens Vullings is Zijlstra een goed politicus, echter waarom dat zo zou zijn vertelde deze ‘deskundige’ er niet bij……….
De ‘mooiste uitspraak’ van Vullings was wel de volgende: Zijlstra is ‘niet zo geschikt’ voor deze baan, maar de baan is wel geschikt voor Zijlstra…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ‘Niet zo geschikt?’ Totaal ongeschikt zal je bedoelen Vullings!
Vullings stelde dat deze baan er eigenlijk is voor politici die beter even hun hoofd niet in Nederland kunnen laten zien, zoals eerder PvdA zakkenwasser Melkert na de moord op Pim Fortuyn, daar Melkert Fortuyn zou hebben gedemoniseerd, wat tot de moord zou hebben geleid.
Zeg Vullings: die Zijlstra was minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, het lijkt me dus zeer verstandig om deze hufter vooral niet een dergelijke internationale baan toe te wijzen, dit nog naast het feit dat alleen onafhankelijke financieel specialisten bij de Wereldbank zouden moeten werken. (hoewel die hele waardeloze neoliberale Wereldbank wat mij betreft morgen opgedoekt mag worden, deze bank stimuleert in feite het neokolonialisme…..)
Met Zijlstra bij de Wereldbank maakt Nederland zich voor de eeuwigheid belachelijk….. Rutte stelde gistermiddag iets dergelijks niet voorgesteld te hebben, echter reken maar dat hij dit ballonnetje expres heeft opgelaten, daar hij te dom is om te bedenken dat heel Nederland hier overheen zou vallen! (behalve dan de VVD en de regeringsgetrouwe reguliere media, zoals o.a. Vullings nog eens bevestigde….)
PS: ongelofelijk dat Zijlstra daadwerkelijk stond te janken toen hij door z’n gore leugens als minister moest aftreden, alsof hij het slachtoffer was en toch de waarheid had gesproken, wat een valse rotschoft!!
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