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Appelbaum, CDC, CCC
by Georgi Guninski 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Appelbaum, CDC, CCC http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-banned-f… Appelbaum banned from Debian events after sexual misconduct charges === Appelbaum has also been asked to leave other hacker groups like the Cult of the Dead Cow, Noisebridge, and will not be allowed to attend events organised by the hacker group Chaos Computer Club. === Are journos exaggerating at least for CCC?

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[PC] How to be inclusive by exluding use of the word "man"
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

** Princeton University HR Department bans the word “man” from its vocabulary (http://theduran.com/princeton-university-hr-department-bans-the-word-man-fr…) ------------------------------------------------------------ By Alex Christoforou on Aug 20, 2016 04:38 pm princeton Perhaps by not using the word “man” the progressive left believe that men will simply vanish, and leave them to enjoy their neo-liberal wonderland. It will be interesting to see how exactly, after “men” have been vanquished, progressives will survive in a world where men no longer are a factor. It is good to see the academic elite at Princeton HR department enforcing rules that ignore the most basic principles of biology, evolution, and simple logic…in a building, classroom and univeristy built by men. Need we wonder why the United States is on the decline. John Cramer, Princeton’s director of media relations, said the guidelines are all about the need to… “reflect the university’s initiative of fostering an inclusive environment.” Inclusive environment by excluding the word “man”. Should we exclude the word “woman” as well? Of will that word be changed to “wo-person”. princeton-370x228 The College Fix reports… The relatively new policy (https://www.princeton.edu/hr/progserv/communications/inclusivelanguage.pdf) in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use words such as human beings, individuals or people. Other guidelines? Instead of “man and wife” use spouses or partners. Switch out “man made” with artificial, handmade or manufactured. Don’t use the verb “to man,” as in to work something, instead use to operate or to staff. Throw out workmanlike and replace it with skillful. The memo goes on to list a variety of occupations that typically include the word “man” in them and offers replacements: business person instead of businessman, firefighter instead of fireman, ancestors instead of forefathers, and so on. “Consistent with style guidelines issued by Princeton’s Office of Human Resources and Office of Communications, and as endorsed by the Institutional Equity Planning Group as a preferred University practice, HR has developed these gender inclusive style guidelines, to be utilized by all HR staff members in HR communications, policies, job descriptions, and job postings,” the memo states. In a statement to The College Fix, John Cramer, Princeton’s director of media relations, said the guidelines “reflect the university’s initiative of fostering an inclusive environment.” While Princeton’s language policy for its Offices of Communications and Human Resources, Princeton’s LGBT Center also offers a guide (http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56bbb7e4f8baf3d9ee6c5ed6/t/5740d623ab…) on various gender pronouns for those who identify as “transgender, genderqueer, and other gender-variant,” suggesting “ze, zie and hir,” “they and theirs,” and “Ey, em, eir and emself.” Many universities have also encouraged the campus community as a whole to use of gender neutral or gender inclusive language. Last year, the University of Tennessee’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion suggested (http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/23990/) students use the pronouns ze, xe, hir, hirs and zirs, along with others, for those who don’t identify with a particular biological sex. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Writing Center developed (http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24261/) an exhaustive list of words that contain potentially biased or offensive implications, such as businessman, policeman, and even freshman, so that students might avoid using them in their writing. Such policies regarding gender language have concerned free speech advocates. Marquette University’s Writing Center wrote a policy (http://www.marquette.edu/wac/neutral/NeutralInclusiveLanguage.shtml) similar to UNC Chapel Hill’s, and it implies that those who do not abide by it may face consequences. “When you are writing about people in general, many of your professors will expect you to use ‘inclusive’ or ‘nonsexist’ language, that is, gender neutral language,” Marquette’s website states, adding that many people find non-neutered language “not only inaccurate but offensive.” Concerns about whether or not students would see their grades suffer for not following its guide in classwork and common speech caused Tennessee’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion to issue the following statement: “We recognize that most people prefer to use the pronouns he and she; we do not dictate speech. We do strive to be a diverse and inclusive campus and to ensure that everyone feels welcome, accepted, and respected.” Cramer clarified Princeton’s policy in a similar way, saying “these are guidelines issued by HR, developed in cooperation with Institutional Equity Planning Group for communication and job postings. Students are not mandated to follow this policy. Via: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28540/

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[WAR] The Banality / Evil of American Exceptionalism
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

What's depressing is how a former deputy CIA director can call for the clandestine killing of Russians and Iranians - on national TV - and this is not decried/ shouted down/ understood by North American TV commentators as fundamentally wrong and unethical. The USA regime reality show is a sad and pathetic indictment indeed... ** Peter Lavelle: The Banality of American Exceptionalism – Morell and Trump (http://theduran.com/peter-lavelle-the-banality-of-american-exceptionalism-m…) ------------------------------------------------------------ By Peter Lavelle on Aug 15, 2016 07:37 pm WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell is sworn in prior to testimony before the House Select Intelligence Committee April 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony on the topic of "The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morell's Role in Shaping the Administration's Narrative." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) “American Exceptionalism” is a bane on the U.S. and the world. Not only is it dangerously absurd and arrogant, but also it is overwhelmingly accepted among Americans without much thought. This way of thinking automatically disregards international law and any semblance of common sense. The U.S. tells the world that it is not accountable to anyone and all are accountable to Washington. The claim to be the “exceptional” country means all other countries are expendable. This is not a foreign policy, it is threat to use force at any time and any place of Washington’s choosing. A perfect example of this was an interview with former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell on the Charlie Rose TV program. Morell declared that America must make the Russians and Iranians “pay a price in Syria.” Rose: “We make them pay the price by killing Russians?” Morell: “Yeah.” Rose: “And killing Iranians?” Morell: “Yes … You don’t tell the world about it. … But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.” During the interview, Morell also says that the U.S. ought to kill Iranians and Russians “covertly.” (Rose and the American public don’t appear to have a problem with this, neither did the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Post, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) Rose and Morell made no mention Russia and Iran are actually the countries serious about eliminating (western-backed) terrorist groups in Syria – and both do legally under international law. Rose and Morell also spoke to each other and their audience as if existing in a sealed media vacuum. Their “exceptional” conversation was for consumption by the “exceptional” audience – the American public. Morell is one of the architects of America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. He has never been held to account for that disaster. Who has? In fact he has had a remarkable career for person of unexceptional intellectual skills and unexceptional opinions. A frequent guest on the Rose program, he is widely seen as currying favor with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Fine, he is politicking and promoting himself. But the world is watching. The Russians and Iranians are certainly paying attention. What conclusions should they draw from the Rose-Morell gabfest and the American media in general? It is obvious: Washington’s diplomatic and public policy rhetoric is hollow and simply lies. Washington will and does resort to murder – and war – if it suits its purposes. If Washington acts outside of international law, why should other countries feel bound by it? Calling for the killing of Russians and Iranians is an act of war. Countries have the right to defend themselves. When Donald Trump made reference to the second amendment of the Constitution (relating to personal gun ownership), the media went frantic. The criticism levelled against Trump was he was calling for violence. Well, that’s odd. There is room for interpretation regarding what Trump actually said, but there is no doubt a former CIA deputy director openly called for the killing of foreign nationals. No one really took notice, as if it was perfectly natural. This is what “American Exceptionalism” has done to the American mind, media, and the powers-that-be. Meanwhile, the world watches on. Peter Lavelle is host of RT’s political debate program CrossTalk. His views may not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

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[WAR] DCleaks.com - Soros manipulates EU elections, involved in every coup since 25 years
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

** George Soros’ NGOs exposed manipulating EU elections in 2,500 document hack from DC Leaks (http://theduran.com/george-soros-criminal-ngos-fully-exposed-dc-leaks-2500-…) ------------------------------------------------------------ By Alex Christoforou on Aug 15, 2016 01:15 pm Exclusive Interview With Billionaire Investor George Soros Going through the George Soros leaked email cache is some scary stuff. The Hungarian Billionaire and his NGOs wield immense power, and the documents that are being shared by DC Leaks (http://soros.dcleaks.com/) show how Soros topples governments and incites civil wars so he can make huge financial profits. This is an immense trove of Soros NGO minutes, white papers, excel budgets, and media plans that details how Soros and his NGOs run governments and financial institutions from behind the curtain. You can find the complete, searchable, files at the DCLeaks website (http://soros.dcleaks.com/) ., which describe Soros and his network of NGOs as having “slaves spill blood of millions and millions people just to make him even more rich.” George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He drives more than 50 global and regional programs and foundations. Soros is named as the architect and sponsor of almost every revolution and coup around the world for the last 25 years. Thanks to him and his puppets USA is thought to be a vampire, not a lighthouse of freedom and democracy. His slaves spill blood of millions and millions people just to make him even more rich. Soros is an oligarch sponsoring Democratic party, Hillary Clinton, hundreds of politicians all over the world. This website is designed to let everyone take a look at restricted documents of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and related organisations. It represents workplans, strategies, priorities and other activities of Soros. These documents shed light on one of the most influential network operating worldwide. Here is a full list of Soros NGOs (https://sli.mg/a/Rjhdx8) manipulating elections in all EU member states, complete with goals of the project, contact persons and grant amounts. . @sn0wba111 (https://twitter.com/sn0wba111) @CapuPatriote (https://twitter.com/CapuPatriote) Full list of Soros NGOs manipulating elections in all EU member states. #SorosLeak (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SorosLeak?src=hash) #Soros (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Soros?src=hash) https://t.co/h5qWX6eZCi — ⚓ Cain Raiser (@ActaNonVerba_) August 14, 2016 (https://twitter.com/ActaNonVerba_/status/764864330038771712) 3QndhG More of the Soros EU election documents in the slider below… 2 2 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2-1400x990.jpg) 2 3 3 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3-1400x990.jpg) 3 4 4 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/4-1400x990.jpg) 4 5 5 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5-1400x990.jpg) 5 6 6 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6-1400x990.jpg) 6 7 7 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/7-1400x990.jpg) 7 8 8 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/8-1400x990.jpg) 8 9 9 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9-1400x990.jpg) 9 10 10 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/10-1400x990.jpg) 10 11 11 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/11-1400x990.jpg) 11 12 12 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/12-1400x990.jpg) 12 13 13 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/13-1400x990.jpg) 13 14 14 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14-1400x990.jpg) 14 15 15 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/15-1400x990.jpg) 15 16 16 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16-1400x990.jpg) 16 17 17 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/17-1400x990.jpg) 17 18 18 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/18-1400x990.jpg) 18 19 19 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/19-1400x990.jpg) 19 20 20 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20-1400x990.jpg) 20 21 21 (http://theduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21-1400x990.jpg) 21 Zerohedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-14/george-soros-hacked-over-2500-inte…) reports… The 2,576 files were released by DCLeaks, a website which claims to be “launched by the American hacktivists who respect and appreciate freedom of speech, human rights and government of the people.” The documents are from multiple departments of Soros’ organizations. Soros’ the Open Society Foundations seems to be the group with the most documents in the leak. Files come from sections representing almost all geographical regions in the world, from the USA, to Europe, Eurasia, Asia, Latin, America, Africa, the World Bank “the President’s Office”, as well as an unknown entity named SOUK. As the Daily Caller notes (http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/13/soros-groups-get-hacked-hundreds-of-docum…) , there are documents dating from at least 2008 to 2016. Documents in the leak range from research papers such as “EUROPEAN CRISIS: Key Developments of the Past 48 Hours (http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/Europe/Migration%20and%20Asylum%20in%…) ” focusing on the impact of the refugee crisis, to a document titled “The Ukraine debate in Germany (http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/Ukraine%20and%20Europe/germany/osf%20…) “, to an update specific financials of grants. An email leaked by WikiLeaks earlier this week showed Soros had advised Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State on how to handle unrest in Albania – advice she acted on. Via: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-14/george-soros-hacked-over-2500-inte… The post George Soros’ NGOs exposed manipulating EU elections in 2,500 document hack from DC Leaks (http://theduran.com/george-soros-criminal-ngos-fully-exposed-dc-leaks-2500-…) appeared first on The Duran (http://theduran.com) .

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[WAR] Yemen, War Crimes and the Lies Nations Tell
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Setting the Record Straight: Yemen, War Crimes and the Lies Nations Tell Catherine Shakdam http://theduran.com/setting-record-straight-yemen-war-crimes-lies-nations-t… The war in Yemen is quite simply a brutal act of aggression perpetrated by outside powers - first and foremost Saudi Arabia - against a small and poor country.

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The Ministry of Truth - "Referendums are dangerous in a parliamentary democracy"
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Why of course, how stupid of me for thinking otherwise. Very glad Tony Blair's Director of Communications, sets us straight: Blair’s Former Propagandist: “Referendums are Dangerous in a Parliamentary Democracy” http://journal-neo.org/2016/07/14/blair-s-former-propagandist-referendums-a… Economic Hegemony Loss to China Looming! Powerful Investors Have Trump Call for an About Face http://www.opednews.com/articles/Economic-Hegemony-Loss-to-by-Jay-Janson-Ca… " The finest journalist, top intellectuals and historians, to a man, stick to reporting and chronicling events of human horror as if they were simply RealPolitik, as unchallengeable as the weather, never including the whole truth that they are obvious prosecutable genocidal crimes against humanity. "

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[RUS] "Extra-judicial killing" - US drone wars and Ramstein air base (Germany)
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Germany is still an occupied nation. When might Germany shed her yoke of North America's occupation? (And therefore no longer bear part of the responsibility for North America's endless murders all around the world?) Ramstein: The Most Important US Air Force Base You’ve Never Heard Of 57,000 Americans run this all-important hub of the empire http://original.antiwar.com/solomon/2016/07/14/important-us-air-force-base-… (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/ramstein-most-important-us-air-force-base-youv… )

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[RUS] The grand chessboard, in clear and easy terms
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/23/the-illusion-of-balkan-energy-security/ 23.04.2016 Author: F. William Engdahl The Illusion of Balkan Energy Security Column: Economics Region: Russia in the World Since strong pressure on the Bulgarian government back in 2014 caused her to stop construction of the Russian gas pipeline, South Stream, that was to have supplied Russian gas to the Balkans and on to Austria and Italy, Brussels has argued that the stop was necessary because of “regional energy security” and the risk of dependence on Russian gas. The decision has, to the contrary of what Brussels claimed, left Bulgaria and the entire region in south East EU states in a state of great uncertainty regarding its future sources and price of natural gas for their economies. The reality is that regional energy security in the Balkans is an illusion so long as the world is at war. We today in Europe and the world are in a state of de facto world war even if to date, war by hybrid or non-traditional means. How did this come about in a world where a mere six years earlier events hardly seemed to suggest such a deterioration in political relations, especially between the European Union and the Russian Federation? To answer this question it is necessary to understand the strategic military policy of the United States today. Wolfowitz Doctrine As Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared repeatedly over a period of years, Washington and those who control Washington policy are pursuing some form of what they like to call America’s Manifest Destiny, ever since the Soviet Union dissolved and with it the Warsaw Pact military alliance in 1990-1991. It is neither manifest nor destiny, rather the mad plan of some power-addicted circles. A triumphalist President George Herbert Walker Bush admitted that “destiny” or, in fact, an undeclared agenda of those power-addicted circles, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress on September 11, 1990. Bush was one of the prime engineers of the transformation of the United States into a globalist war machine of empire. In his September 11 speech Bush proclaimed that America as Sole Superpower would create what freemasons and others refer to as a “New World Order,” or as the American dollar bill declares in the Latin, Novus ordo seclorum. That new order, as is clear today, is one of war, killing, chaos, hate and vengeance, negativity everywhere in the world where there is positivity. It’s very much the history of the forty so years since Bush was Director of the CIA, and put much of those developments into motion starting with the 1991 US invasion of Iraq. In February, 1992 the Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance for 1994–99, a strategic policy for the post-Cold War era–a world with one Sole Superpower–was drafted by the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz. Known today as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, it was prematurely leaked by a Pentagon official who believed such a radical departure from US defense posture–particularly when the prime “enemy,” the Soviet Union, was no more the enemy–should be subject of a full public debate. The initial draft policy, which is actual policy today, was hastily edited and softened after appearing in original form in the New York Times. The original policy however remained until today. The original Wolfowitz doctrine stated that, “America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union.” It called for action outside the UN rules if necessary, and for the US military to wage pre-emptive wars: “We will retain the preeminent responsibility for addressing selectively those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but those of our allies… ( http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/23/the-illusion-of-balkan-energy-security/,%… )” At that time Dick Cheney was President Bush senior’s Secretary of Defense. The Wolfowitz Doctrine proclaimed that the American mission will be, “convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. ( http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/23/the-illusion-of-balkan-energy-security/,%… )” The late US Senator Ted Kennedy denounced the doctrine in 1992, declaring it, “a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine ).” That original Wolfowitz Doctrine became official, declared policy under George W. Bush’s presidency after September 11, 2001 when Cheney, Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, Richard Perle, Andrew Marshall and other hard-core so-called neo-conservatives controlled US military and foreign policy. It was made public in the media as the Bush Doctrine or formally, the National Security Strategy of the United States, in 2002. The policy justified “pre-emptive” US military strikes such as against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as well as US promotion of regime change in nations around the world not willing to tow the Washington line under the name “exporting democracy ( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chem… ).” Two Pillars of American Power Since 1944 following the Bretton Woods agreements and a year later the US decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, US power in the world has rested on two pillars. The first pillar has been, Wall Street and the US dollar as world reserve currency. Second, no other nation shall be allowed to challenge America’s military superiority. Since then US foreign policy has been a careful alternation of one or the other depending on the strength of a potential financial rival or a potential military rival. By 1989, an economic rival to the United States was emerging called the European economic Union and its new Single Market blueprint that, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, was unveiled as the Maastricht Treaty on European Union in February 1992. It called for creation of a European Central Bank and a single currency, now the euro. Little-remembered, it also called for a European Defense Pillar independent of NATO. That was not to happen. Washington took active measures to ignite the war in Yugoslavia that changed the political map of Europe. NATO was pushed on EU member states in the east including Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic. US-controlled NATO was to dominate EU military affairs and does to this day. By 2007 the financial pillar of US global hegemony was in deep trouble as the US real estate-related banking crisis began to spread into the worst financial crisis in US history by September 2008. At that juncture an entirely new challenge was presented to Washington and Wall Street in the form of an increasingly assertive China and the emergence of Russia from the devastation of the Yeltsin years under the nationalist presidency of Vladimir Putin. In 2008 an assertive China made it publicly clear to Washington that she would reconsider buying of US Treasury debt if the US continued to run deficits at the trillion dollar pace they were. Washington’s response was in the form of irregular warfare. She launched a series of regime change destabilizations across the Middle East starting with Tunisia in December 2010 with the Tunisian revolution to unseat President Ben Ali. It was immediately followed by the Tahrir Square ‘Color Revolution’ in Egypt, spreading rapidly across the entire Middle East with the savage destruction of Africa’s most prosperous Muslim country, Libya, and the murder of Gaddafi in late 2011. Washington’s hidden agenda behind sponsoring those revolutions was to ultimately impose Muslim Brotherhood puppet regimes as they briefly managed with Mohammed Morsi in Egypt. The strategic aim was for the US military to directly control the center of the world’s known oil reserves directly for the first time. Through such control, it could control the economies of the EU as well as of emerging China by controlling their access to energy, and Russia by controlling world oil and gas prices. It was a strategy Dick Cheney, then Halliburton CEO alluded to in his 1999 London speech to the Institute of Petroleum ( ttp://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-06-08/full-text-dick-cheneys-speech-i… ). Middle East Energy Geopolitics The geopolitics of energy—oil and natural gas—played a central role in the Washington strategy of what was deceptively named Arab Spring. In 2009, the The largest gas field in the world straddles both Iranian and Qatari territorial waters of the Persian Gulf Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani met with Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Damascus. There Al Thani proposed to Assad that Syria join in an agreement to allow a transit gas pipeline from Qatar’s huge North Dome Field in the Persian Gulf adjacent to Iran’s huge South Pars gas field. The Qatari pipeline would have gone through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey to supply European markets. Most crucially, it would bypass Russia. An Agence France-Presse report at the time claimed Assad’s rationale for rejecting Al Thani’s proposal was “to protect the interests of his Russian ally, which is Europe’s top supplier of natural gas.” In 2010 Assad instead joined talks with Iran and Iraq for an alternative $10 billion pipeline plan that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from its South Pars field in the Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf. The three countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding in July 2012 – just as Syria’s civil war was spreading to Damascus and Aleppo. Assad had made himself Enemy Number One for the US and France and Britain, joined by Erdogan’s Turkey and then by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Qatar is home today of the Muslim Brotherhood. ‘Most blatant coup d’etat…’ In October 2011 and again in February 2012 in the UN Security Council Russia vetoed US resolutions that would have sanctioned military intervention to topple Assad in Syria. Washington’s response was to hit Moscow in her backyard–Ukraine. Following months of US-backed EuroMaidan protests in Kiev, Washington forced the elected president of Ukraine to flee for his life in February 2014. The Obama Administration, led by State Department hawk, Victoria Nuland, US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, and legions of CIA operatives inside the Maidan Square protests, openly installed their hand-picked puppets, using overt neo-nazis of Pravy Sektor and Svoboda Party to do so. George Friedman, head of Stratfor, a US strategic consultancy whose clients include the Pentagon and CIA, as well as Israeli agencies, told the Russian Kommersant in a December interview, the US-organized coup d’etat in Ukraine was “the most blatant [US] coup in history ( http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/23/the-illusion-of-balkan-energy-security/%2… ).” When Washington spat in the face not only of Germany and France and the EU, but in the face of Russia and of Ukraine itself, by dictating the persons to run the new Kiev coup regime, headed by their choice of Prime Minister, reputed high-ranking Scientologist, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Germany and France swallowed hard. They groveled behind the lead of the Washington warhawks in the Obama Administration. The EU unanimously voted US-dictated sanctions against Russia after the March, 2014 referendum in Crimea. German industry protested openly at the sanctions. Merkel’s government bowed before NATO and Washington, and the German economy suffered gravely along with the rest of the EU. That US policy of driving a deep wedge between Russia and the EU using Ukraine, was the actual background to the immense pressure put by Brussels on the government of Bulgaria to halt construction of the South Stream gas pipeline that would have brought 63 billion cubic meters of gas a year to South East European countries independent of dependence on the unstable Ukrainian transit line. It would have been a step to regional energy security independent of the warzone called Ukraine. The EU Commission, itself under pressure from the Obama Administration, put undue pressure on the Bulgarian government to renegotiate its Gazprom Russian bilateral agreements on South Stream to conform to their Third Energy Package, which is little more than a geopolitical vehicle to weaken Russian gas flows inside the EU. It mandates that no single company control the full process of extraction, transportation and sale of energy in the EU. Brussels acted with dubious legality as South Stream included diverse international partners such as Italy’s ENI (20 percent), France’s EDF (15 percent http://www.globalresearch.ca/cancelling-the-south-stream-project-the-woes-o… ) and Germany’s Wintershall, subsidiary of BASF (15 percent). In the event, on December 1, 2014, as is known, Russian President Putin on a visit to Turkey announced it had been forced by the EU rules to cancel South Stream, offering instead delivery of gas through Turkey stopping at the Greek border where EU states would have to construct other pipeline options. At this point there are no other secure gas options for Bulgaria and the countries of South East Europe short of Russia and Gazprom. The gas of offshore Azerbaijan is insufficient. The gas of Qatar is in the midst of a war zone as is the gas of Iran and the newly-discovered Leviathan gas field claimed by Israel is disputed by Lebanon. For geopolitical reasons Iranian gas is an unlikely candidate for major EU dependency. The recent signing by Germany of Nord Stream II to route additional Russian gas via an underwater route from Russia via the Baltic sea to north Germany would likely at the present be the only feasible gas alternative for Bulgaria and the region until the EU states decide to lift Russian sanctions and back away from Washington’s posture of fostering a new war with Russia using Europe as the proxy. F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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[WAR] Geostrategic analysis - "The Fall of the Saudis, the Battle After ISIS"
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

This has no links, but appears to speak from someone with a fair insight into the grand middle eastern chessboard. Some may be impressed. The Fall of the Saudis, the Battle After ISIS 31.10.2016 Author: Gordon Duff http://journal-neo.org/2016/10/31/the-fall-of-the-saudis-the-battle-after-i…

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Re: [PRIVATE] Re: Surveillance
by rooty 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

10 - 4. sweeeetie mmmm.... -------- Original Message -------- On Nov 1, 2016, 9:24 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: My love, I liked this music, criticizing cameras, metal detectors, etc. :) Why 'grrrrr', my baby? I will tickle you to make better your mood, hihi... ;) Oh, see it, dear! I am in love! <3 http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/26/for-this-week-only-londoners-can-catch-a-unic… OMG, isn't fabulous?! 'UniCabs' and 'UberCorns'!! (*_*) <3 On Nov 2, 2016 1:08 AM, "rooty" < arpspoof(a)protonmail.com> wrote: grrrrrr -------- Original Message -------- On Nov 1, 2016, 5:59 PM, Alejandro Ocana Jr. wrote: Surveillance - 2Mex Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance And uh, I don't want to work for DiddyF And no I'm not trying to fuck you when I say that you're pretty I just want us to get the fuck off this monitor And take the thermometer out her mouth and just Momma her Momma learned that the reason I was stagnant Could be related to a love of being gadget magnets I don't want to be controlled and die in this I don't want to be plugged into these appliances Show me mercy and kindness Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance And uh, let's go somewhere MapQuest can't navigate Mechanism free, me and you, we can have a date Sing each other songs that have never been recorded And orbit away from the static that absorbs us For us, it's not about all the traveling It's all about shaking the debris and unraveling It should be about having fun and not having things Around your neck, metal detectors just sadden me Because, in my heart, I know metal's is inside of me But it never detects the meddling things outside of me Find me walking down the streets of London So many cameras I'm in a digital dungeon Dum Dum, I shouldn't talk about this, I'm dumb 'Cause when I talk about this most leave with some comment Look me in the eyes, I promise I won't run What's done is done Take that battery off of your body and run Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance Just say the word and you will never be disturbed again, surveillance -- Alex

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