Thursday, December 31, 2015

The CIA: Boiling Frogs in America



What would happen if the CIA staged a coup in America?  The CIA wouldn’t be able to stage a coup through a color revolution, kill or remove the elected leader and install a more ameliorable leader.  No, it would have to be more like boiling frogs in America, gradually increasing the heat so that by the time the people realize what has happened they are already being boiled to death. 


A recently declassified 1944 CIA manual called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” describes how to destabilize and overthrow foreign governments through bureaucracy.  The article made me think about the state of America today. 


In the CIA’s Field Manual they describe using operatives which they call a “curious breed of citizen-saboteurs” to disrupt and demoralize elected government and police eventually turning the government into a dysfunctional mess.   But what if instead of citizen saboteurs, the CIA used political saboteurs and media saboteurs?


Pivotal to overthrowing the government is controlling the media.  Looking back at the history of the protections provided to ensure an independent fourth estate in America two examples come to mind.  First there was the Communications Act of 1934 and the Fairness Doctrine of 1949.


The Fairness Doctrine was eliminated by the Federal Communication Commission in 1987 and the Communications Act of 1934 was replaced with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Since 1987 the consolidation of the media with a synchronized message has dumbed down Americans to such a degree that 30% of Republicans want to bomb a fictional country called Agrabah.


In a Public Policy Poll of 532 likely Republican primary voters, 30% would support bombing Agrabah, a fictional country in Disney’s Aladdin.  The media monopoly along with the political duopoly have birthed a government in America wherein the three branches not only violate the constitution continually but commit treason with no accountability.


For example since 2008 a Turkish religious movement funded200 trips to Turkey for congressional members and their staff, which is a violation of House Rules and quite possibly Federal law.  The religious movement is led by Fethullah Gülen, who coincidentally operates charter schools across the United States. 


Because of legislation like Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s Race to the Top, public schools have been closed to fund charter schools.  Gülen schools are the largest charter network in the U.S. and receive about $150 million a year in taxpayer money.  Not a bad return of their congressional investment.


And while American teachers lose their jobs the majority of teachers in the 130 Gulen schools are from Turkey.  Not only are the teachers from Turkey but the contracts for construction and operations go to Turkish businesses.


Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel who served as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff was pivotal in passing the Race to the Top legislation.  As Chicago’s Mayor, Emanuel closed 54 publicschools diverting funds to charters many affiliated with Gulen.  The FBI is currently investigating the nearly $1 million paid to contractors for work at three of the Gulen Concept Schools in Chicago.


Fethullah Gulen who is on Turkey’s most wanted terrorist list along with ISIS said in a sermon “You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe.”


And ripe the conditions are.  So I wonder why the CIA has declassified the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” and why now?  Is it because as Fethullah Gulen says, the conditions are ripe, or is it because the frogs are already boiling.


By Patricia Baeten



Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Can Putin and Trump Save the World from CIA Coups and Election Fraud?


What if the American government were overthrown by the CIA on behalf of the one percent?  I was reading an article at Mint Press about a recently declassified CIA manual on how to destabilize governments and it occurred to me, the CIA may have overthrown the American government in 2000 using that manual.


Excerpt:


Declassified CIA Manual Shows How US Uses Bureaucracy To Destabilize Governments


The CIA is proud of its Kafkaesque field manual and evidently still views it as an unorthodox but effective form of destabilizing enemy operations around the world.


(ANTIMEDIA) When most people think of CIA sabotage, they think of coups, assassinations, proxy wars, armed rebel groups, and even false flags — not strategic stupidity and purposeful bureaucratic ineptitude. However, according to a declassified document from 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which later became the CIA, used and trained a curious breed of “citizen-saboteurs” in occupied nations like Norway and France.


The World War II-era document, called Simple Sabotage Field Manual, outlines ways in which operatives can disrupt and demoralize enemy administrators and police forces….


Is it possible America’s government was overthrown using the CIA’s “Simple Sabotage Field Manual?”  For instance the “curious breed of citizen-saboteurs” are now a “curious breed of politician and media-saboteurs?”  The media saboteurs have been so effective in flooding the airways with disinformation that the 30% of the GOP wants to bomb Agrabah, a fictional land in Disney’s Alladin.  From The Guardian:



Excerpt:


Poll: 30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the city from Aladdin


Almost one-third of Republican primary voters would support bombing the fictional kingdom of Agrabah, according to a report released by Public Policy Polling on Friday.


More than 530 Republican primary voters were polled this week on their support for Republican candidates and foreign policy issues including banning Muslims from entering the US, Japanese internment camps from the second world war and bombing Agrabah, the kingdom from Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin….


In its poll, Public Policy Polling asked the 532 Republicans: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” While 57% of responders said they were not sure, 30% said they supported bombing it. Only 13% opposed it.


Joe Scarborough is a classic example of a politician-saboteur turned media-saboteur. From Time:


Excerpt:


Trump Brushes Off Putin’s Alleged Killing Of Journalists


Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump brushed off well-documented allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has had political opponents and journalists killed, following praise from the Russian leader for his presidential campaign.


In an interview with “Morning Joe” Friday, Trump said he was pleased to be praised by Putin. “Sure, when people call you brilliant it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia,” he said.” Putin had called Trump “bright and talented” and all-but-endorsed his campaign this week.


But when host Joe Scarborough raised doubts about whether Putin’s support should be coveted, Trump brushed it off.


 “He also is a person that kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries. Obviously that would be a concern, would it not,” Scarborough asked.


“Our country does plenty of killing also Joe,” Trump replied. “He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.”


Scarborough replied incredulously, “Again he kills journalists who don’t agree with him?”


“Well, our country does plenty of killing also Joe, so you know,” Trump followed-up, before declaring that there’s “a lot of killing going on, a lot of stupidity” in the world.


The allegations of Putin killing journalists was repeated by George Stephanopolis on This Week and Chuck Todd on Meet the Press.    Trump pointed out to the media-saboteurs that they have no evidence to support those allegations.  To which the Huffington Post wrote this piece dripping with sarcasm:


Excerpt:


After basking in the "great honor" of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s praise, Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday defended Putin against longstanding accusations that his regime has carried out murders of journalists who oppose him.


During an appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” Trump said there is no evidence that Putin was behind any journalist murders in Russia.


“In all fairness to Putin, you're saying he killed people -- I haven't seen that,” Trump told host George Stephanopoulos. “I don't know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he's killed?”


Trump added that it would be “despicable” if Putin indeed had killed journalists. “But I haven't seen any evidence that he killed anybody, in terms of reporters,” he said.


Then the Huffington Post goes on to provide their “proof” that Putin killed journalists:


Since the early 1990s, between 56 and 300 journalists have been killed in Russia, according to media watchdog groups…


Which media watchdog groups, they never say.  Where’s the evidence Putin killed those journalists? 


Viewers were treated to a Sunday morning saboteur gabfest where the “Putin killing journalists mantra” was all the outrage.  Media-saboteurs along with political-saboteurs discussed the various levels of outrage against Donald Trump for not condemning Putin for “killing journalists.”


Since when have these saboteurs been concerned about the killing of journalists?  Where was all the outrage by the media-saboteurs and politician-saboteurs six months ago when the Pentagon announced they had legalized killing journalists?  From Counter Current:



Excerpt:


Pentagon Just Legalized Killing ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Part of ‘Law of War’


The Pentagon just changed the rules of war to include legitimizing the killing of any journalists they deem “belligerent.”


The new “laws of war” were released as part of a book of instructions on legitimate warfare practices approved by the United States military.


This “rule book” of sorts details what the US government deems the acceptable ways of killing those they claim are the “enemy”… including journalists whose reporting they do not approve.


The manual explains that the Pentagon considers such journalists “unprivileged belligerents,” even though they are not “enemy combatants.”


This distinction is important for the Pentagon, since the battles against Muqtada as-Sadr’s “Jaysh al-Mahdi” militia was a fight the US picked over a newsletter America did not approve of. When the military tried to stop the presses, Sadr’s army took up arms against the US forces.


We don’t hear a lot about that in the media or government these days, because those battles didn’t exactly end in the US’s favor…


Now, the American 1,176-page “Department of Defense Law of War Manual” says THAT IT IS PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE TO SHOOT, EXPLODE, BOMB, STAB, OR CUT JOURNALISTS THEY DEEM “BELLIGERENT.”


On Meet the Press media-saboteur, Chuck Todd interviewed Trump:  




Excerpt:


CHUCK TODD:


Why are you so comfortable praising Vladimir Putin?


DONALD TRUMP:


I'm not, I didn't praise him, he praised me. He called me brilliant. He said very nice things about me. I mean, I accept it--


CHUCK TODD:


Well you've called him a strong leader--


DONALD TRUMP:


He is a strong leader. What am I gonna say, he's a weak leader? He's making mincemeat out of our President. He is a strong leader. I mean, you would like me to call him a weak leader, he's a strong leader. And I'm not going to be politically correct.


He's got an 80% of approval rating done by pollsters from, I understand, this country, okay? So it's not even done by his pollsters. He's very popular within Russia. Now that may change, but I didn't say anything one way or the other. He came out with a very nice statement about me and I said, "That's very nice, I'm honored by it."


And it would be very nice if we got along with Russia, Chuck, it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. He cannot stand our President. He doesn't like President Obama. I think it would be a positive thing if Russia and the United States actually got along and they could work to the mutual good of getting rid of ISIS and clean things up. I mean, right now, we don't get along with them at all.


CHUCK TODD:


Right, but right now, Vladimir Putin is the best ally Iran has around the world and the best ally that Assad has in Syria.


DONALD TRUMP:


No, by making the horrible deal, one of the worst deals I've ever seen made in my entire life, giving them $150 billion and 24-day check periods, which don't start for a long time after that, 24-day check periods, self-inspection, we don't get our prisoners back, our four prisoners, we don't get them back.


We gave them $150 billion. We happen to be in its own sick and horrible way, we happen to have been one of the great allies of Iran, if you want to know the truth. And by the way, just to add to that?


CHUCK TODD:


Yeah.


DONALD TRUMP:


We also handed them Iraq on a silver platter. We gave them Iraq with the second-largest oil reserves in the world. They're taking over Iraq as you speak to me this morning. So we gave them one of the best deals ever made. And by the way, they're taking that money now and they're giving it to Russia and others where they're buying armaments.


Ha, ha this is my favorite part of the interview:


CHUCK TODD:


Do you stick by the idea that the Middle East would be more stable today with Saddam Hussein and Gadhafi in power?


DONALD TRUMP:


One hundred percent, 100 percent, is there even a doubt in your mind? And you wouldn't have the migration and you wouldn't have the people coming over to this country that we have no idea who they are. And if I win, they're going to have to go back because we have no idea who they are. One hundred percent..


CHUCK TODD:


Do you let Assad stay?


DONALD TRUMP:


You know what? Well, you can't fight Assad and ISIS at the same time. You have to fight ISIS first. And I don't say Assad is good, but I--


CHUCK TODD:


That's exactly what Bernie Sanders believes, by the way. You and Bernie Sanders are in line on this.


DONALD TRUMP:


Well that's okay. And I agree with him on that. It's okay to agree with him. He's a guy, I don't agree with him on much, but if he says that, I'm okay with it. Let me just tell you: You can't fight them both at the same time. And I say Assad's a bad guy, but we don't know who the rebels are that are fighting.


Every time we get involved with rebels, take a look at Libya, all these rebels, look what they did to our ambassador and those young men, those wonderful young men. Every time we get involved, in Benghazi I'm talking about, every time we get involved with rebels, the rebels, they call them "the freedom rebels," always nice names, it ends up being far worse than the people who were there in the first place.


So Assad is not a good guy, but the people that we're backing, a lot of people think they're ISIS, that we're actually backing ISIS. So what are we doing? We have to get rid of ISIS first; Assad, we think about later on.


As if on cue the media and politician-saboteurs attacked Trump in unison:





Excerpt:


The mogul candidate, however, has faced broad criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his public genteel toward Putin, who has been widely condemned by U.S. leaders for his backing of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, his annexation of Crimea last year and for his involvement in Ukraine.


On Sunday, presidential candidate Marco Rubio continued that attack line, saying that the Republican front-runner "shouldn't be honored" by the Russian strongman's kind words.


"Vladimir Putin is a person who has killed. He's jailed and murdered journalists, political opponents," the Florida senator said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "He bombed an apartment building as a pretext to attack the Chechens. He is responsible for the downing of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, because he provided the antiaircraft weaponry that was used for that. So this is a person who's done some horrifying things on the global stage."


Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush agreed, calling Putin "a dictator" and "a bully."


"Putin is organized to challenge the United States across the world now. He views his success by pushing us back. We're losing influence around the world and Putin is gaining influence," Bush said on the same program.


"You don't brag about what a great guy he is. He's not. He kills journalists. Anybody that opposes him ultimately is pushed away," Bush added.


Media-saboteur Frank Luntz conducted a focus group of Muslim Americans to discuss the Trump proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering America.  Unfortunately some of the panel were critical of the American foreign policy, therefore those comments were edited out.  From The Intercept:


Excerpt:


CBS Edits Out Criticisms of U.S. Policy From Frank Luntz Focus Group With Muslim Americans


When a CBS News segment featuring a focus group of American Muslims aired Friday, it highlighted their relationship to terrorism, with a particular fixation on how much responsibility they felt to condemn terrorist attacks.


But in interviews with The Intercept, two Muslim Americans who took part in the group complained that CBS edited out parts of the discussion where they raised their own concerns — including critiques of U.S. militarism, surveillance, and entrapment.


They also said that Frank Luntz, the right-wing pollster who led the focus group, silenced members of the group when they criticized discriminatory U.S. government policies.


When Luntz asked the group how they respond to attacks such as the recent one in San Bernardino, New York City activist Amelia Noor-Oshiro told The Intercept she asked Luntz, “Why don’t you ask that to people who actually commit acts of terror? Why don’t you ask that to White America who are responsible for a majority of domestic terror attacks?”


That didn’t make it into the on-air segment…


Sarah Harvard, a New York City journalist…..   wrote that after Luntz asked the group whether they were Americans or Muslims first, she chose to demonstrate the offensive nature of the question by asking, “Well, are you an American or Jewish first?”


That didn’t make it on the air either.


The media and politician-saboteurs seem to have collaborated on using the San Bernardino and Paris attacks to promote more rabidly rightwing candidates across the world from France, to Venezuela to America.  But what if those attacks were false flag attacks that any journalist or politician could easily uncover with just a few minutes of investigation, were it in their interest to do so.   From Paul Craig Roberts:



Excerpt:


Weapon Used in November 13 Paris Attacks Came From CIA-linked Arms Dealer


At least one of the guns used in the November 13 terror attacks in Paris was purchased by Century International Arms and then re-exported to Europe. One of the largest arms dealers in the United States, Century Arms has close ties to the CIA and has faced charges in America and Europe of involvement in illegal arms deals.


The weapon, an M92 semiautomatic pistol, was produced at the Zastava arms factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Last week, factory manager Milojko Brzakovic told AP he had checked its records on seven weapons that it manufactured that were used in the Paris attacks.


It delivered several of the weapons inside Yugoslavia before that country dissolved amid capitalist restoration and civil war in the 1990s, but it delivered the pistol in May 2013 to Century Arms, based in Delray Beach, Florida.


Century Arms officials refused Palm Beach Post reporters’ requests for comment, and it remains unclear how the M92 pistol was re-exported to Europe. Century Arms required US government approval to legally import the firearm into the United States, however, and whoever re-exported it to Europe would have had to submit a request to the US State Department in order to do so legally.


These reports further undermine the official presentation of the Paris attacks by governments, media, and pro-imperialist “left” parties. They insisted that the attacks were an act of Islamist terror in which the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) alone was involved and bore full responsibility.


This presentation was always a political fraud, insofar as the NATO powers were undoubtedly politically implicated. The attacks were led by Islamist fighters trained in Syria—where the CIA, European intelligence and Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms have given financial and military backing to such Islamist forces to topple President Bashar al-Assad. Though placed on watch lists and monitored by intelligence services, these fighters were somehow allowed to prepare highly complex, coordinated attacks in Paris.


Revelations of a concrete link between Century Arms and the Paris attacks, however, raise specifically whether elements in the intelligence services aided the attackers—either inadvertently, due to their reckless war policy, or deliberately, to shift the political atmosphere far to the right.


Indeed, the revelations that there’s a link between the CIA’s arms dealer and the Paris attacks raise questions about whether the intelligence services aided the attackers to shift the political atmosphere far to the right.  And did that work?


The ruling elite reacted to the November 13 attacks, predictably, by aligning policy on war and democratic rights with the views of the most aggressive sections of the military-intelligence complex. France is now preparing to impose a permanent state of emergency, effectively abrogating key democratic rights and boosting the political fortunes of the neo-fascist National Front (FN). 


NATO is ramping up support to its proxies in Syria, THOUGH THIS THREATENS TO TRIGGER AN ALL-OUT MILITARY CLASH WITH NUCLEAR-ARMED RUSSIA.


Well so much for the hopes of electing a more sane government in France, but what about the San Bernardino attacks?    From Mint Press:



Excerpt:


FBI: ‘No Evidence’ San Bernardino Attackers ‘Were Part Of Terrorist Cell’


The local and State law enforcement, in conjunction with the mainstream media, has essentially been creating a “terror plot” revolving around this couple and the attacks, based on what seems to be getting them the most attention, ratings and praise from a fearful public.


The FBI is coming clean about the San Bernardino attackers, and it is not making local law enforcement and media very happy.


For starters, the FBI head said that the media rumor about the “terror couple” texting, tweeting or “Facebooking” support for ISIS or even “jihad” has absolutely no basis in fact, whatsoever.


Reuters reported on Wednesday that this echoes “investigators’ views that the pair were inspired by, rather than organized by Islamic State.”


But in reality, the FBI has not even gone that far….


His (Comey’s) remarks came as Americans are jittery two weeks after the San Bernardino attack. Islamic State is based in Iraq and Syria, where it controls a large area of territory as it seeks to carve out a caliphate. It claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people.


Comey said the group has perfected the use of social media, and Twitter in particular, to contact potential followers in the United States and elsewhere.


“Twitter works as a way to sell books, as a way to promote movies, and it works as a way to crowdsource terrorism – to sell murder,” Comey added.


Given all that is it any wonder that Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for being brilliant enough to cut through all the bullshit of the media and politician-saboteurs? From NewYork Times:


Vladimir Putin Chides Turkey, Praises Trump and Backs Russia’s Economy


MOSCOW — Alternately pugnacious and conciliatory, with his customary swagger and salty language, President Vladimir V. Putin held forth on a broad array of topics in his traditional year-end news conference on Thursday, even throwing in a glowing assessment of Donald J. Trump.


Mr. Putin drew applause from the crowd of journalists when he lashed out at Turkey for having shot down a Russian bomber, daring the Turks to try it again with Russia’s advanced air defense system in place and surmising that PERHAPS THE TURKS “WANTED TO LICK THE AMERICANS IN ONE PLACE…”


And he even inserted himself into the Republican primary contest in the United States, speaking highly of Mr. Trump in remarks after the news conference ended. “There is no doubt that he is a very bright and talented man,” the Russian leader said. “It is not our business to assess his merits; that is up to the U.S. voters. But he is an absolute leader of the presidential race.”


Peppered with dozens of questions, Mr. Putin lingered, as he did at last year’s session, on those that allowed him to reassure Russians that their living standards were not imperiled…


Real incomes, he conceded, are falling, but other indications of social well-being, such as the birthrate, are up, he said…


Despite the recession, Mr. Putin’s popularity remains extraordinarily high, with support above 80 percent in some polls. While the economy is biting at home, even as Mr. Putin pursues a swaggering foreign policy, the hardship has not yet translated into widespread political discontent…


Surveys and the answers to questions posed to focus groups show that the pillars of Mr. Putin’s popularity shifted in early 2014, just before the current downturn. Russians now say they admire Mr. Putin more for a role as a “protector” from external threats than for the role of “provider,” a study by an influential Russian sociologist, Mikhail E. Dmitriyev, concluded this year.


Vladimir Putin sounds like FDR working for the good of the people of Russia instead of the one percent.  The one percent, using the CIA and NATO as enforcers has succeeded in keeping the American people in fear, willing to give up their standard of living, their privacy and their wealth just for false security.


So while election season is taking place across the world the question that should be asked is “can Putin and Trump save the world from CIA coups and election fraud?”



By Patricia Baeten

Monday, December 14, 2015

The Turkey Trot or the Saudi Swing? Can Putin and Trump Save the West from Waltzing into a Nuclear Death Trap in Syria



The people of America, France and Britain are told that we have a coalition fighting with us against ISIS in Syria but the truth is America, France and Britain are doing the bidding of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.  Turkey and Saudi Arabia call the tunes and their Washington based dance partners, the follow their lead.


The goal of Turkey and Saudi Arabia is to have the West use their blood, treasure and military to remove Assad which will bog the West down in a war in Syria to draw in Iran and Russia.  The Washington based neocons, like fleas on a dogs back, believe they own the dog.  How dangerously wrong they are. 


Turkey and Saudi Arabia are more than happy to perpetuate the ignorant fantasies the Western world has deluded their citizens into believing, all the while waltzing the West into a thermonuclear death trap in Syria.


“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” 
George Santayana in The Life of Reason, 1905



The West would be wise to remember the past as they embark on this fools’ mission in Syria.  Sadly it’s impossible to remember the past if they deny the past even occurred.  From Syrian Free Press:



Excerpt:


To this very day the Armenian Genocide, which began within the borders of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, has been vehemently denied by the Republics of Turkey and Azerbaijan. Both Israel and the United States of America have likewise refused to acknowledge the historical reality of the Armenian Holocaust. 


Why should these nations adamantly persist in their denial of such a well documented crime against humanity?  Because 100 years later in 2015 there is now indisputable evidence that the very same countries are perpetrating a similar genocide against the people of Syria, especially against the Christian communities as occurred during the Armenian Genocide… 


Only by understanding the true origin of the Dönmeh of Turkey and the Wahhabi of Saudi Arabia will the Greater Israel Project and the ongoing Syrian Holocaust be properly understood.


The entire Arab Spring — from start to finish — was planned in the capitals of the Zio-Anglo-American Axis just as each revolution was manufactured in the various Middle Eastern capitals.


Every protest and riot throughout the Arab Spring was staged, just as every revolution and civil war had been fabricated in those nations which the Axis powers had targeted for a government overthrow.


In fact, not a single Arab Spring event has occurred without the fastidious planning and precise coordination of the CIA and MI6, DGSE and MOSSAD. The Western powers not only engineered every rebellion in the Mideast, as they continue to do so, they have been very careful to execute each coup d’état in such a way that the newly installed leaders are always loyal to them, not to their respective citizenries.


Only with this understanding can the current Mideast wars and conflicts, genocides and holocausts, refugee crises and exoduses be comprehended.  Looking through the lens of history, particularly the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century, will likewise inform one’s understanding that history is once again repeating itself.


The Execution Plan for the Armenian Genocide Duplicated in Syria


And as the West carries out the genocide in Syria on behalf of their dance instructors in Saudi Arabia and Turkey they engage in a favorite parlor trick of the right wing, accuse your adversary of perpetrating the crime you are committing.  From Voltairenet:


Excerpt:


The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied Turkish accusations that Russia is conducting ethnic cleansing in Syria, saying they are groundless and demonstrate Ankara’s detachment from reality…


Turkish leaders, including President Recep Erdogan, have been accusing Russia of deliberately targeting ethnic Turks in Syria after the downing of a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border.


A Turkoman militant group killed the pilot of the downed bomber as he was parachuting to the ground, an act the US State Department claimed was self-defense, but which the Geneva Convention unambiguously forbids. Russia launched retaliation attacks on militants in the area after the incident.


Speaking at a weekly briefing, Zakharova lashed out at the ongoing Turkish incursion into Iraq. Last week, Ankara sent a tank battalion into western Iraq and refused to withdraw despite protests from Baghdad.


“Judging by the reaction of some members of the UN Security Council, the actions of the Turkish military were a surprise even for its closest allies. Although thanks to the notorious block solidarity they refrained from critical comments directed at Ankara over those actions that blatantly violate international law,” she said.


She added: “It is becoming increasingly clear that if there is one thing they know how to do collectively in NATO, it’s staying collectively silent.”


The spokesperson said the UN Security Council will soon discuss the conflict over the Turkish incursion and that hopefully the scrutiny would restrain “hotheads in Ankara...”


So far Turkey has been bombing Kurdish forces more than those of IS, seeing them as a threat to national security. This put Ankara at odds with the US, which is leading an international coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria...


Yep, Washington’s coalition are being played for fools doing Turkey’s bidding.  And if you think there’s anything resembling a free press in the U.S. or West, you are sorely mistaken.  The Western media whores aim to please in any way, just to maintain access.  Fortunately the carefully choreographed press conferences are being challenged by real journalists from Russia Today:



Excerpt:


Iraq is furious at Turkey’s military incursion, but the US State Department doesn’t seem too concerned. Its spokesman stonewalled RT’s questions about the Iraq-Turkey row, getting personal in the process.


Turkey has sent tanks and hundreds of soldiers to a base near the city of Mosul this past weekend, and on Wednesday, TURKISH JETS BOMBED KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ. The government in Baghdad has described the actions as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, has issued an ultimatum to Ankara to withdraw, and has even asked NATO to rein in its errant member.


The dispute has compelled the Iraqi parliament’s Defense and Security Committee to ask for a review of the security agreement with the US-led coalition, as committee member Hamid Mutlaq told RT on Wednesday.


When asked about it by RT’s Gayane Chichakyan, however, State Department spokesman John Kirby first said he was unaware of Iraq’s concerns.


The US wants “any action against ISIL – inside Iraq, specifically – to be done with full cooperation and [in] coordination with the Iraqi government, and their sovereign permission,” Kirby insisted, noting that he had said the same thing months before, as the Pentagon spokesman and uniformed admiral.


“Now there is this dispute between Turkey and Iraq over the presence of a small number of troops,” the State Department spokesman added dismissively. “And we want Turkey and Iraq to work this out. And they are. You are trying to find a way to make this some kind of a divisive issue.”


Chichakyan asked a follow-up question about whether Iraq has a legitimate concern over “the situation where the US invites forces to Iraq and the US is leading this coalition… but when something goes wrong, the US says it’s none of our business – like what is happening with the Turkish troops.”


“Ah, come on,” Kirby moaned, “again another ridiculous question.” He then made personal comments about both the journalist and the company, saying Chichakyan should be “embarrassed” to ask such a question before claiming that “RT very rarely asks any tough questions of their own government.”


Is it really “ridiculous” or “baseless” to ask a question about what the Iraqis obviously consider an important issue, one that they are obviously not “working out” bilaterally with Turkey, from a diplomatic spokesman representing the country so fond of pointing out its leadership of the 65-nation coalition? You be the judge.


America spends billions arming and training Kurdish troops, then Turkey kills the Kurdish troops we armed and trained.  How do you suppose this will turn out?   From Zero Hedge:


Excerpt:


Most Iraqis, be they civilians, military personnel, or government officials, do not trust Americans.


At a base level, that makes all kinds of sense. After all, the US did launch what amounted to a unilateral invasion of the country just a little over a decade ago, and when it was all said and done, a dictator was deposed but it’s not entirely clear that Iraqis are better off for it.


ISIS controls key cities including the Mosul, the country’s second largest, and security is a daily concern for the populace. The Americans are still seen - rightly - as occupiers, and Washington’s unwillingness inability to effectively counter ISIS has created a culture of suspicion in which most Iraqis believe the US is in cahoots with the militants for what WaPo described as “a variety of pernicious reasons that have to do with asserting U.S. control over Iraq, the wider Middle East and, perhaps, its oil.”


Some of the distrust, the US contends, is fostered by Iran. Tehran wields considerable influence both within the Iraqi military and in political circles in Baghdad. When Ash Carter announced that the US was set to send an “expeditionary targeting force” to the country to assist in raids on Islamic State targets, PM Haider al-Abadi flatly rejected the proposal, saying that “Iraq does not need foreign ground combat forces on Iraqi land." Abadi rejected a similar Pentagon trial balloon involving Apaches helicopters last month.


Meanwhile, Tehran’s Shiite militias threatened to attack any US soldiers operating on Iraqi soil. “We will chase and fight any American force deployed in Iraq. Any such American force will become a primary target for our group. We fought them before and we are ready to resume fighting,” a spokesman for Kata'ib Hezbollah said.


Similarly, influential Shiite lawmakers like the infamous Hakim al-Zamili have called on Abadi to seek direct military intervention from Moscow to expel foreign forces from the country.


Now, in the latest example of just how tenuous Washington’s grip on the region has become, the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee is calling for the review and cancellation of Baghdad’s security agreement with the US.


“The government and parliament need to review the agreement signed with the United States on security because the United States does not seriously care about its fulfillment,” committee member Hamid al-Mutlaq, a senior Sunni lawmaker told Sputnik on Wednesday. “We demand that it be annulled,” he added.


Who will fill the void you ask? You guessed it:


"Soon, a meeting [of the committee] with Prime Minister Haider Abadi will be held, at which we will propose cooperating with Russia in carrying out airstrikes against IS and in the fight against terrorism in Iraq," another committee member said earlier this week.


Recall that this is precisely what we said would happen once we learned in September that Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria had set up a joint intelligence sharing cell in Baghdad.


And Iraq isn’t the only “democratic miracle” brought to you by the stooges in Washington and their allies in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.  Looks like their other “successful liberation” in Libya is looking for Russia and Iran to provide protection.    From Jafria News:



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After Syria & Iraq Now Libya Wants Russian Support to Fight the NATO & Saudi Backed Wahabi IS Terrrorists


In an interview with Sputnik, Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani has signaled his country’s readiness to coordinate efforts with Russia if it decides to fight ISIS, also known as the ISIL, on Libyan territory.


He added that Libyan authorities welcome initiatives from any country which provides support and helps restore stability in Libya.


According to him, Libyan authorities expect the arrival in their country of a large number of ISIS Terrorists who fled the Russian air strikes in Syria, with many of them already in Libya…


Libya is now undergoing through a political gridlock that came after the overthrow, public lynching and execution of Muammar Gaddafi during the armed conflict in 2011.


A standoff has emerged between the legally-elected parliament, based in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk, and the pro-Islamic General National Congress in the capital Tripoli, Sputnik said.

On September 30, more than fifty Russian aircraft, including Su-24M, Su-25 and Su-34 warplanes, commenced precision airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar Assad; IRNA reported.


Do those stooges in Washington really think Turkey is subservient to them?  Do those stooges in the State Department really think this coalition has a winning strategy?  Looks like the some of the European Union members fearing the day of reconing sure to come when it’s time to pay the piper.  From Mint Press:


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‘Turkey Acts Like ISIS Ally, Should Not Be EU Member’ Says Czech President


Turkey should not become an EU member, said Czech President Milos Zeman, adding that Ankara sometimes behaves like an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) ally, even though Turkey is part of NATO…


“It removes oil from Syria which finances Islamic State,” Zeman said, as quoted by Czech newspaper Parlamentni Listy…


Zeman suggested Turkish policy stems from the principle “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” referring to Turkey’s suppression of the Kurds, “who are the only ones who have fought effectively with IS,” the newspaper reported.


The president maintained this is the reason why Turkey should be approached with caution and has no reason to be an EU member.


President Zeman also dismissed the EU’s intention to pay €3 billion (US$ 3.28 billion) to Ankara in order to better cater for the needs of 2.2 million Syrian refugees in the country…



Tsk, tsk.  Lie down with dogs and get up with fleas, so the Czech President doesn’t trust the Washington supported NATO ally, Turkey.  How about Washington’s other major ally in their “war” against ISIS in Syria, Saudi Arabia.  Oh, oh, what’s this?  From Mint Press:


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Saudi Arabia Bigger Threat To UK Than Russia, Says Former London Mayor


Russia is not as much a threat to Britain and the West as Saudi Arabia, Ken Livingstone has claimed at a conference in Moscow hosted by the pro-Kremlin television station Russia Today.


“The simple fact is, the West doesn’t face a threat from Russia,” the former Mayor of London said. “We now face a threat from Muslim fundamentalism. Most of which has been funded by Saudi Arabia, our principal ally, which has funded the most intolerant strand of Islam which bears no relation to the teaching of the Prophet Mohammed.”


US funding of mujhadeen in Afghanistan was responsible for 9/11 he claimed.


Russia was getting a bad press and President Vladimir Putin was being demonised he also claimed. “In Britain no one is told about the discrimination against Russian-speaking people in the Baltic States, no one is told that it was actually pressure from the EU that insisted to the then Ukrainian president that they wouldn’t sign a trade deal unless they stopped negotiating a trade deal with Russia, and then when the president decided that he wouldn’t do that, oddly enough he was overthrown...”


Hmm, funny he’d bring up the paradise that the CIA run State Department and NATO installed in Ukraine when they overthrew the elected government.  Why just the other day, Veep Joe Biden was issuing warnings to Ukrainians.  “Accept the illegitimate government of Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk and the horrors that come with that or else.” From Financial Spots:


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Biden Warns Ukraine of Backsliding on Corruption


President Barack Obama sent Vice President Joe Biden there Monday to underscore that, although the West is preoccupied with the implications of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, the climate change conference in Paris and continued fighting in Iraq and Syria, it is still concerned about Ukraine's problems…


Biden also mentioned his frequent communication on a weekly basis, both with the Ukrainian Prime Minister and President. Biden Makes Trip To Ukraine In Sign Of US Support "As long as you continue to make progress in fighting corruption and build a future of opportunity for all Ukraine, the US will stand with you", US Vice President said….


A recent poll showed only 7% of Ukrainians believe the fight against corruption has yielded any results…   


US Vice President Joe Biden said today Washington remained fully determined to see Russian Federation adhere to a shaky Ukrainian peace agreement and hand back Crimea to Kiev. He will reiterate the US' position concerning Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and its current involvement in desabilizing eastern Ukraine.


"We do not know if there is any other historical precedent for a foreign official giving a speech like this", said one senior United States administration official in a teleconference with reporters. So Biden, apparently does not want Ukraine to rock the boat. However, it is not clear if Biden will touch upon possible additional military assistance to Ukraine during his visit early next week.


The United Nations has warned of grave humanitarian problems and rights abuses in eastern Ukraine, and highlighted the continued flow of Russian weapons and fighters into a conflict that has now killed more than 9,000 people.



Yes that insignificant flea, Biden is shooting his mouth off in Ukraine, blathering threats as if the stooges are in Washington control anything.  Washington is a pawn of Saudi Arabia unable to make a move without permission.  From RINF News:


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How the Richest Man in the World Rules the U.S. from Riyadh


Saudi Arabia Leads the Jihadist Nations; U.S. Assists Them


Did you know that Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States during 1983-2005, the Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (affectionately known in the U.S. as “Bandar Bush”), had donated millions to Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks, according to the sworn court testimony of the man who had served as Al Qaeda’s bookkeeper and as the bagman who personally collected the mega-donations to Al Qaeda, all in cash?


How come you didn’t read about that in newspapers and magazines, and hear about it on TV ‘news’-reports; and why was this stunning and crucially important testimony published only at small independent news-sites, such as here? (Evaluate it for yourself there, and figure out for yourself why the man there testifying is still kept hidden away in a U.S. super-max prison, and why his testimony has been hushed up.


Even though American Presidents have changed, America’s international policies haven’t. Barack Obama protects George W. Bush, who previously had protected “Bandar Bush.” Obama, who publicly condemns torture, even privately protects Bush’s agents who perpetrated tortures.)


Americans, like the citizens of some other countries where elections are held, are told by the ‘news’ media that it’s a ‘democracy,’ even if it’s actually not. Is the U.S., really  a “democracy”?


The great investigative historian F. William Engdahl headlined December 9th at sott, “Investigating Saudi Arabia’s sponsorship of Turkish politics, terrorism, and the frenzied conflict in Syria,”  and he put together the pieces of the type of major news report about the Saudi-run U.S. operation … 


…the top priority of America’s foreign and military policies is to serve King Salman al-Saud of Saudi Arabia (the world’s richest person), and to conquer his major oil-and-gas competitor Russia, by removing heads-of-state who are allied with Russia…


…the U.S. is really just a ‘democratic’ front for the Saud family, in the final analysis. And the Sauds were aristocrats even before the United States existed…


 “The Syrian regime is finished as far as we and the majority of the Syrian people are concerned. [The Syrian people] will not allow President Bashar al-Assad to remain at the helm.” That’s a bald lie, a knowing falsehood from him...


Even Western polls show that in a free and fair, internationally monitored election, the Syrian people would overwhelmingly choose Bashar al-Assad over anyone else to lead Syria. That’s why U.S. President Obama opposes any such election in Syria, and why Russian President Putin insists that it be held.


And speaking of elections, Donald Trump has upended the entire corrupt Republican/Democratic Presidential primary.  Donald Trump, as well as “liberals” like Bill Mahr have called for America and the West to get out of the way and allow President Putin of Russia eradicate ISIS in Syria. 


Yes, that’s right, Donald Trump has come to the ball and has cut in on Turkey and Saudi Arabia and is waltzing the West out of the certain nuclear death trap in Syria and Saudi Arabia is not happy about it.  From MSN:


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Trump 'a disgrace', Saudi billionaire says


 Donald Trump is a disgrace and should pull out of the United States presidential race, Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal tweeted late on Friday.


"@realDonaldTrump You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America," Alwaleed said on his official Twitter account, @Alwaleed_Talal.


"Withdraw from the U.S presidential race as you will never win."


Alwaleed is an unusually outspoken member of the Saudi royal family, who chairs Kingdom Holding Co.


THE DIVERSIFIED FIRM'S INTERESTS INCLUDE US-BANKING GIANT CITIGROUP.


A statement early Saturday from Alwaleed's office said his tweet was in response to Trump's "anti-Islam statement".


Alwaleed is a devout but moderate Muslim.


Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, has been lambasted both in the US and abroad for his proposal made on Monday to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the US.


Trump's comments followed a shooting rampage by a Muslim couple in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 dead.


So the question is, will America take Barbara Bush’s advice and leave the dance with the one that brung ya?  Or, will America and the West turn to the new suitor at the ball and waltz away from the nuclear death trap with Donald Trump?



By Patricia Baeten