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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79304788023991321582014-10-30T22:32:47.016-07:00Ian56 https://twitter.com/Ian56789Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-42304790094627503472014-10-26T10:56:00.006-07:002014-10-27T20:13:00.170-07:00Qatari Government Denies Funding Islamic Terror Groups – All The Evidence Says They Do

Qatari officials deny funding Islamic Terror Groups
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29782291

 David Cameron urged to press Emir of Qatar on Terror Fundshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11188380/David-Cameron-urged-to-press-Emir-of-Qatar-on-terror-funds.html

Why aren't GCHQ, the NSA, MI6 and CIA doing anything to stop the flow of terrorist funds?
GCHQ operate a major spy hub in Oman to collect large amounts of electronic communications from the Gulf States and the Middle East in general.
We know that the NSA has the capability to collect online financial transactions from/to bank accounts, as well as the content and metadata of all phone calls, emails, texts etc. They are collecting the data on every American, millions of Europeans as well as spying on Heads of State and senior government officials of dozens of countries. The wiring of terrorist funds, if they are carried out electronically, should be easy to trace.
We also know that Kuwait is a major center for the laundering of terrorist funds and that large amounts of these funds are transferred to Turkey, to be picked up from there by the terrorist groups operating in Syria and Iraq (see below).
It should be relatively easy to determine which banks and/or offices are being used in Kuwait and some more investigation on the ground (by CIA / MI6) following the SIGINT (signals intelligence) leads should reveal the major sources, handlers, launderers and end receivers of large amounts of terrorist funds.
So why isn't this already being done? It's unlikely that it is being actively pursued, or treated as a priority - we haven't heard anything about such activity. The intelligence services are not likely to keep it a secret if they had broken a major terrorist funding ring. They invariably leak any successes they have against terrorist networks - they are so very few and far between. E.G. The NSA made a big song and dance about someone in San Diego wiring $8,500 to an Islamic Extremist group in Yemen. The only case that Keith Alexander could cite on the the NSA stopping "terrorist plots" in the last 12 years, during Congressional questioning. $8,500 is peanuts when the real terrorist groups are getting $m's a year, probably hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars a year.

GCHQ's Middle East spy hub revealed (Wired UK) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-06/03/middle-east-gchq-base-oman
REVEALED: GCHQ's BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/revealed_beyond_top_secret_british_intelligence_middleeast_internet_spy_base/
GCHQ operates secret Middle East spy hub in Oman http://rt.com/news/163448-gchq-secret-middle-east-base/

Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because bombing won't work. Congress approved them anyway http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html

If the NSA is actually fighting terrorism why haven't they stopped Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Kuwait funding Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra?

Iraqi PM Maliki says Saudi, Qatar openly funding ISIS/ISIL & violence in Anbar http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-iraq-saudi-qatar-idUSBREA2806S20140309

The money funding Islamic Terrorist groups in Syria flows through Kuwait http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/world/middleeast/private-donors-funds-add-wild-card-to-war-in-syria.html?_r=1&

Saudi Arabia is funding ISIS and Al-Nusra http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/alqaida-the-second-act-is-saudi-arabia-regretting-its-support-for-terrorism-9198213.html

 Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iraq-crisis-sunni-caliphate-has-been-bankrolled-by-saudi-arabia-9533396.html

ISIS Terror Group Controlled By Saudi Royal Family
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/06/isis-terror-group-controlled-by-saudi.html

The CIA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also been arming terrorist groups in Syria, from Benghazi via Turkey, using Gaddafi's weapons stockpiles.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/05/benghazi-libyan-gun-running-cia-cover.html

This Is Not Going As Planned: Iraq Prime Minister Defies US, Accuses Saudi Arabia Of "Genocide"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-17/not-going-planned-iraq-prime-minister-defies-us-accuses-saudi-arabia-genocide

We also know that Turkey is providing significant material support to ISIS and Al-Nusra from various reports E.G. this https://twitter.com/_TurkeyNews/status/478639189970673664/photo/1
And this
PIPES: Turkey's support for ISIS Islamist terrorists http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/17/pipes-turkeys-support-for-isis/
Lots of important information is left out of the above report about Syria and Turkey which is included in the link below (it is from the Washington Times after all)
Syria update - the Islamic Extremists are losing the war, so Saudi Arabia wants to supply heavy weapons
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/04/syria-update-islamic-extremists-are.html

How the USA and Saudi Arabia are the true backers of ISIS-- funding and arming them
http://journal-neo.org/2014/06/13/nato-s-terror-hordes-in-iraq-a-pretext-for-syria-invasion/

ISIS in Iraq stinks of CIA/NATO 'dirty war' op
http://rt.com/op-edge/168064-isis-terrorism-usa-cia-war/

ISIS Unveiled: The Identity of The Insurgency in Syria and Iraq
http://nsnbc.me/2014/06/15/isis-unveiled-identity-insurgency-syria-iraq/

Qatar arming Islamist extremists
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/21/Report-Qatar-arming-Islamist-extremists.html

The results of the US backed funding of Islamic Extremist terrorist groups and the US invasion of Iraq

Iraq has been a bloodbath for a decade, it's economy and infrastructure have been ruined. Over 500,000 Iraqi's have died during the US occupation, millions have been displaced. Numerous major birth defects and other illnesses are being reported due to the US using depleted uranium in Fallujah. The US also used white phosphorus, which is banned as a chemical weapon under the Geneva convention.
N.B. Iraq was never "pacified" by a troop surge as the Neocons claim. The Sunni's were bribed with billions of US tax dollars to keep quiet for a while - but this bribe money has now dried up.

The CIA engineered civil war in Libya, in support of Islamic Extremists from Benghazi, has turned Libya into a bloodbath with various armed militias shooting each other. It's economy and infrastructure also lie in ruins. Libya's oil production has nearly been wiped out.

The CIA engineered Syrian civil war has turned Syria into a bloodbath with 140,000 (on both sides) killed. Syria's economy and infrastructure also lie in ruins. Millions have been displaced and have fled as refugees.

The Islamic Extremists (which comprise almost all of the actively fighting "rebels") have been losing the war against Assad in Syria so they have now turned their attention back to Iraq with some major gains by ISIS including taking over $400m from Iraqi banks (we await further developments).

The US war against Pakistan has killed hundreds of innocent civilians with drone strikes including 170 children.

The civil war in Yemen where the US has used cruise missiles, cluster bombs and drone strikes in support of a corrupt dictator has turned Yemen into a bloodbath.

Boku Haram which is covertly funded and armed by the US proxy Saudi Arabia, via islamic extremists in Libya is murdering christians in Nigeria.

Mali's legitimate government was overthrown in a joint US & French military coup in 2012 to be replaced by a puppet President trained by the US at military bases in the US.

The Afghan poppy crop which had been reduced by 90% with the Taleban's ban in 2000 is now greater than ever. More Afghans are now subject to drugs warlords (of which Karzai & his brother are both major ones). Afghanistan remains a bloodbath and a hot civil war.

A semi stable government in Somalia was overthrown by Ethiopia in a US backed coup. Somalia is in chaos, with elements of this chaos murdering innocent civilians in Kenya.

More than 200 million more people now support Islamic Extremism than they did in 2005.

Ukraine has been turned into a civil war zone by a US engineered illegal Coup D'Etat in Kiev. Ukraine is joining Iraq, Syria and Libya in the utter misery, violence, death and poverty that comes with US "liberation".

It wouldn't be quite so bad, if the net result of all this US mega stupidity wasn't the ruining of the US economy and the very dramatic quickening of the end of the petrodollar system and the end of American hegemony to hand over the reins of power to a SE Asia dominated world, centered on China - with Russia, the Brics, Africa and South America as allies.
Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-80656725141307326632014-10-26T10:49:00.001-07:002014-10-26T10:49:08.351-07:00The fall out from the lies told about the downing of MH17 begins

Aussie PM owes Putin an apology – senior MP http://rt.com/politics/197528-russian-duma-mh17-german/

Everybody in the West was very keen to lay the blame for downing MH17 at Putin's door within a few hours of the news reports of the crash coming in. Without a single piece of evidence to back up any such claims.
 Everybody is now going to have to back track on these claims, because absolutely nobody is now claiming that Putin had anything to do with it. Not the American government, nor the CIA, nor the US news media, nor the Dutch, nor the Malaysians, nor European governments, nor European news media.
Nor the Australian government of Tony Abbott - see the above news article.

German Intelligence is now claiming that the rebels captured a BUK from Ukrainian forces and then used it to down MH17. This is next to impossible. All parties agree that the Ukraine rebels did not have any radar systems which could be used in conjunction with the BUK. In order for the rebels to shoot down MH17, which was flying at 33,000 feet at 500mph and above partial cloud cover, the rebels would have had a matter of a few seconds to turn the BUK launcher in the direction required, aim at the plane and fire. The integral radar system in the BUK missile launchers only have a very limited range and would have only seen the plane approximately 3 minutes or less before it flew overhead and became a non viable target.

BUK missile launchers are normally used in conjunction with a separate and far more powerful mobile radar system designed for the purpose. Several BUK missile launch trucks, spread over a significant, area are normally used with one radar truck. This is how the Ukraine military deployed their BUK's in the war zone in Ukraine. This extends the range of the BUK from ~40km to over 200km, thus giving adequate warning of the approach of a fast and high flying plane to enable it to be shot down.

German Intelligence have not released any hard evidence to support their assertions that the rebels shot down the plane and neither have the CIA.
 No reports or satellite imagery have been published to support any surface to air missile launch. A missile launch would have been clearly visible for miles around the launch area via the plume of smoke up to the cloud base. It would also have been clearly visible via satellite and other reconnaissance thermal and radar imagery. The CIA had blanket surveillance coverage of the entire war zone, via satellites, warships in the Black Sea and probably AWACS and military radar.
But neither the BND, nor the CIA, nor the US State Department, can produce one shred of hard evidence to support their public statements.

Evidence that we know is available has not been released to the public and is being kept secret.
 Evidence such as the tapes of the conversations between Ukrainian Air Traffic Control and the pilots of MH17, the data recordings in the black boxes, the radar data from Ukraine Air Traffic control, CIA satellite data, data recordings from US Surveillance ships, Western and Ukrainian military radar etc.

John Kerry Says the Rebels Downed MH17 In Ukraine. How Can He Know?
 Questions For John Kerry http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-kerry-says-rebels-downed-mh17-in.html

There are far more likely explanations as to how and who downed MH17 over Ukraine.
 The following link contains all of the credible evidence so far available, on what caused MH17 to crash in Ukraine.

The evidence is now overwhelming that the Kiev military shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/07/malaysia-airline-flight-mh71-crash-in.html

German's BND 'evidence' on MH17 tragedy looks like another disinformation operation http://rt.com/op-edge/197408-mh17-ukraine-crash-investigation/

The High Cost of Bad Journalism on Ukraine http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/22/high-cost-of-bad-journalism-on-ukraine/Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-70811397508819770822014-10-25T06:12:00.000-07:002014-10-25T06:28:02.789-07:00Why are so many Canadians falling for Harper's very obvious Neocon scam?

Why are Canadians believing anything that Harper says, when it is blindingly obvious he is lying his ass off?
Russell Brand can see that Harper is lying his ass off - so why can't millions of Canadians?
Ottawa Killings: Who Wins? Russell Brand The Trews (E174)

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Why are Canadians supporting the Neocon scam for perpetual war?
The Neocons bomb some brown people, which kills some brown people, which recruits some more brown people to become Jihadi's and terrorists so they can bomb some more brown people.
Meanwhile the arms companies are making a killing by selling $bn's of weapons to use in bombing brown people.
The government loves it. They hype it all up to make people scared so that they can pass draconian laws to spy on everyone and detain anyone they don't like. All they have to do is brand a Tar Sands protestor a "terrorist" and then lock them up. It's equally applicable for an anti Neocon or anti war protestor, or anyone else the government doesn't like or wants to control.

Why are so many people falling for such a very obvious and stupid scam?
Harper's Neocon scam in more detail http://libertariannation.com/wp/?p=174

Russell Brand can see that Harper is lying his ass off - so why can't millions of Canadians?

Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-55487704779875475822014-10-24T13:28:00.001-07:002014-10-26T12:35:46.504-07:00John Oliver Explains How Civil Forfeiture Is Legalized Robbery
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Civil Forfeiture was initially brought in to seize the assets of major drug dealers, but the police are now using and abusing it for almost anything. There are lots of cases and reports - e.g. these:-

Cops Seize Car When Told To Get A Warrant, Tell Owner That's What He Gets For 'Exercising His Rights'
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/2hvawi/cops_seize_car_when_told_to_get_a_warrant_tell/

Police chiefs arrested for impounding cars for profit
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/police-chiefs-arrested-impounding-cars-profit/

How An Obscure Federal Program Fuels Police Militarization (And Lets Cops Buy Sports Cars And Hire Clowns)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/10/22/how-civil-forfeiture-fuels-police-militarization-and-lets-cops-buy-sports-cars-and-hire-clowns/

Police seize the ill-gotten gains of criminals and sell it, use the proceeds to buy crime-fighting gear
http://reason.com/archives/2014/10/22/how-asset-forfeiture-allows-cops-to-stea?n_play=544aa4d5e4b04f184c61f427

"They Just Want The Money!" How The IRS Can Seize Accounts On Suspicion Alone
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-26/they-just-want-money-how-irs-can-seize-accounts-suspicion-alone Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-56540167789448605112014-10-24T13:25:00.003-07:002014-10-25T06:39:17.585-07:00Canada under PM Harper goes full blown Neocon FascistThe Canadian government of PM Harper was already proposing authoritarian laws, using "counter-terrorism" as the pretext, even before the recent widely reported attacks in Ottawa.
E.G. This, to "legalize" Five Eyes Mass Surveillance on just about every electronic communication and transaction by every Canadian.
Canada to pass laws to legalize Five Eyes Mass Surveillance using ISIS as a pretext http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/15/csis-to-get-more-powers-to-track-suspected-terrorists-as-details-emerge-of-new-federal-bill/

Glenn Greenwald wrote a very good article on the recent attacks in Ottawa and their underlying causes:
Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/canada-proclaiming-war-12-years-shocked-someone-attacked-soldiers/

Prime Minister Harper has agreed to collaborate with the Americans in bombing Iraq. The intended purpose of which is to STRENGTHEN ISIS and is exactly what ISIS wants the US and Canada to do. ISIS wants this so that all Islamic Extremist Terrorist Groups unite with ISIS around a common enemy (the US) as they have now already done in Syria. ISIS also wants the US and Canada to bomb them so that more ordinary Sunnis become radicalized and ISIS will get more recruits. ISIS have already gained more than 6,000 new recruits since the US announcement that they would start bombing Iraq around 4 months ago. (CIA estimates are for higher numbers of new recruits to ISIS.)

Al-Qaeda have now officially stated that they now also support ISIS. This follows Al-Qaeda defections to ISIS in Syria and a general loss of support in both Syria and around the Muslim world because of the lack of tangible results. Officially Al-Qaeda had previously disowned ISIS a year or more ago, because ISIS was "too extreme" for them. ISIS used to be "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" fighting the US Occupation Forces from 2003, before they decided to "re-brand" as ISIS in 2006.

Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because bombing won't work. Congress approved them anyway. http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html

Now we have the final piece of the puzzle being proposed:-
Pre-crime now a thing in Canada with "preventive detention of suspected would-be terrorists".
N.B. the government's definition of "terrorist" means to include many active domestic politic dissenters against, or questioners of, main government policies or narratives, e.g. environmental protestors against Canadian Tar Sands pollution, opponents of Mass Surveillance, opponents of other civil rights violations, opponents of Harper's warmongering or his cronyism and corruption, opponents of the Corporatist TPP "trade deal", opponents of crony Corporations such as big banks, big oil, arms companies, big pharma, Monsanto, GMO's etc.
Harper plans to detain domestic political dissenters for "Thought Crime" using the terrorism he helped create as the pretext
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/canada-security-parliament-attack-powers-toughen

Most Canadians seem to get that these authoritarian laws have nothing to do with stopping terrorism. Terrorism can be stopped by effective policing with the laws in place from 15 years ago (providing you don't go out of your way to encourage more terrorism). These laws are about taking civil rights away from ordinary Canadians to increase domestic political control.

Will Canadians mount any protests to try and stop these authoritarian laws from being passed?
Will Canadians mount any protests to try and stop the Neocon wars of aggression now being escalated in Syria and Iraq, that are encouraging the radicalization of Muslims and recruitment of terrorists?

There have been lots of recent articles published about home grown terrorists from Canada, the US, Australia the UK and Europe etc. going off to fight in Syria and Iraq. Various Western leaders have already said this is going to be a problem going forward. Canada has been subjected to the first attack by a madman. The governments of the US, Canada, Australia and the UK haven't said that the deliberate purpose of their policies is to create more Islamic Extremism (for obvious reasons) but that continues to be the effect of them and these people are not stupid.

If the governments of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia actually wanted to, in Obama's own words, "degrade and eventually defeat ISIL" and Islamic Extremism they would do something like this :-
How to defeat ISIS and Islamic Extremists in general - bombing won't do it
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-defeat-isis-and-islamic.html
If the NSA is actually fighting terrorism why haven't they stopped Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Kuwait funding Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra?
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/06/if-nsa-is-actually-fighting-terrorism.html

The reasons that PM Harper is trying to get these authoritarian laws passed in Canada are the same reasons that the FBI Director, Mark Comey, recently spoke out against Apple encryption http://libertariannation.com/wp/?p=55

The passing of authoritarian laws is is not just happening in Canada - it is also happening in the US, the UK and Australia among other places.
The number of laws being passed that undermine a free society is increasing around the world
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/12/several-recent-laws-and-measures-have.html

N.B. Five Eyes is a spy agreement between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to share intelligence data.
It is now being used to share all data collected via the Mass Surveillance programs of each of these countries. The data is stored and shared at the NSA's new $2bn data center in Utah designed for the purpose. Any limitations on the domestic Mass Surveillance of their own citizens is being circumvented by getting one of the other Five Eyes countries to collect and/or transmit the data to storage.
Prism: concerns over government tyranny are legitimate
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/prism-utah-data-center-surveillanceIan Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-33432361308883880542014-10-24T13:21:00.002-07:002014-10-24T13:21:58.748-07:00Leading German journalist claims he was forced to write CIA propaganda under his name

German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte says he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, adding that noncompliance ran the risk of being fired.
 "I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service," Ulfkotte told Russia Insider. He made similar comments to RT in an exclusive interview at the beginning of October.
 "One day the BND (German foreign intelligence agency) came to my office at the Frankfurter Allgemeine in Frankfurt. They wanted me to write an article about Libya and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...They gave me all this secret information and they just wanted me to sign the article with my name," Ulfkotte told RT.
 "That article was how Gaddafi tried to secretly build a poison gas factory. It was a story that was printed worldwide two days later."
 Ulfkotte reveals all this and more in his book 'Bought Journalists,' where he mentions that he feels ashamed for what he has done in the past.
Read More at http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-claims-he-was.html

Leading German Journalist Admits CIA 'Bribed' Him and Other Leaders of the Western 'Press' http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-cia-bribed-leaders-western-press.html

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, journalist and author, prior interview on RT http://youtu.be/yp-Wh77wt1oIan Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-18947384479843845072014-10-24T13:19:00.000-07:002014-10-24T13:19:09.321-07:00US jury convicts Blackwater guards in the notorious 2007 killing of 17 Iraqi civilians

Three security guards working for the private US contractor Blackwater have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a group of unarmed civilians at a crowded Baghdad traffic junction in one of the darkest incidents of the Iraq war.
A fourth, Nicholas Slatten, was found guilty of one charge of first-degree murder. All face the likelihood of lengthy prison sentences after unanimous verdicts on separate weapons charges related to the incident. Lawyers for the guards say they plan to appeal.
The Nisour Square massacre in 2007 left 17 people dead and 20 seriously injured after the guards working for the US State Department fired heavy machine guns and grenade launchers from their armoured convoy in the mistaken belief they were under attack by insurgents.
Read more of the Guardian article:-
 US jury convicts Blackwater guards in 2007 killing of Iraqi civilians | Security guards for private US contractor guilty of manslaughter for notorious 2007 incident that left 17 dead in Baghdad.

So why is the US government still giving Academi (the new name for Blackwater) many $m's a year in government contracts and still hiring their mercenaries abroad and for training domestic Law Enforcement?

Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/blackwater-guilty-verdicts/

Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Execs Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/23/jeremy_scahill_blackwater_execs_remain_free

From June 2014
 Blackwater Iraqi chief threatened to kill US government investigator http://rt.com/usa/169336-blackwater-threatened-kill-investigator/Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-29425151963314997892014-10-24T13:16:00.001-07:002014-10-24T13:16:38.658-07:00George Soros goes warmongering against Russia on behalf of his Neocon cronieshttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-23/george-soros-slams-putin-warns-existential-threat-russia

Soros's statement in the above article is the usual BS propaganda and lies issued by Soros's "Ministry of Truth" propaganda industry and media outlets upon which he spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on keeping the American people deceived and misinformed on behalf of the CFR, Wall Street, Neocons and for his own private profits.

Davos, McCain, Soros , Podesta, Obama and Hillary Clinton connections & the NSA http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/01/davos-mccain-soros-podesta-obama-and.html

The above photo was taken at Davos, January 2014.
These are some of the people that George Soros is advocating supporting - the Azov Neo Nazi battalion

The Azov battalion is privately funded by the Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoysky.
Kolomoysky: "Sorry about MH17 – but it is a trifle" (English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrfKZUttEwE&feature=youtu.be
Ihor Kolomoysky was appointed as the new regional Governor of Dnipropetrovsk after February's Coup in Kiev.

Previous article:
 Oliver Stone nails it on Russia and Ukraine http://libertariannation.com/wp/?p=93
More about Ukraine, the February coup, the civil war in Ukraine and the current situation in Ukraine http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-winners-and-losers-from-us.html
 The above article and the one below provide the evidence for Oliver Stone's assertions and hunches.
 The fall out from the lies told about the downing of Flight MH17 in Ukraine begins http://libertariannation.com/forum/index.php?topic=83.msg148Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-2806883530784703772014-10-22T18:33:00.000-07:002014-10-22T18:33:23.699-07:00Four Big Issues Libertarians Bring to the Table At Elections

 Libertarian Stances on 4 big issues:-
 Anti Corporate Welfare, Anti War, Pro Civil Rights, Pro Marijuana Legalization

Corporate Welfare (1)
Corporate Welfare, excessive military spending and other extreme forms of government waste is now running at over $1tn a year - it should ALL be cut.
 A detailed list of items
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html

 This money should then be used to lower taxes on middle earners and below, to increase disposable incomes and get bottom up spending going again. The middle class and working poor are getting poorer EVERY year under the current system.

Proposals:-
Raise the income tax thresh hold from $9,100 a year to $45,000 - cost $500bn
 Reverse the payroll tax hike from Januray 2013 - cost $108bn a year
Set the Corporation Tax Rate at 25% for EVERY company. Zero tax breaks or loopholes. Revenue neutral.
 Currently S&P 500 companies pay an average Corporation Tax Rate of 12%, while small and medium sized business pay an average of 29 to 30%.
Make the first $100,000 of corporate profits tax free, to encourage new business start ups and additional hiring by small and medium businesses. (As Singapore currently does). Cost around $100bn a year.
What do you want to do with the rest of the money, over $500bn a year, we have just saved?
 Options would include a combination of reducing the deficit, reducing taxes on the lower paid further, spending a few $bn a year on wildly overdue infrastructure maintenance, like repairing some bridges. Around 1 million Construction workers from 2007 no longer have a construction job. What other suggestions are there?

Corporate Welfare (2)
 The big banks are currently getting $780bn a year of Federal Reserve bailouts and government subsidies. This should be stopped. It is an unfair advantage to the big banks compared to smaller rivals.
 The $780bn+ of annual subsidies to the big banks need to be taken away
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-780bn-of-annual-subsidies-to-big.html

Anti War
The US should stop embarking on wars of aggression and campaigns of destabilization.
 The current over $1tn a year of military spending can then easily be cut by 50%+ (included in Corporate Welfare above).
 The current Neocon Foreign Policy we have had since 2001 should be scrapped and replaced with a policy of non intervention (note this does not mean isolationism - which is falsely used by hyper interventionist Neocons to try and disparage everyone else).
 The current US Foreign Policy explained
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/08/us-foreign-policy-explained.html

 Current Foreign Policy only benefits the CEO's and major owners of arms companies, big oil and big banks, while making every other American less safe and poorer. America will have fewer enemies, fewer threats and have much lower risks of terrorist blow back if these policies are stopped. It will also save over $500bn a year - included in Corporate Welfare above. The current Neocon policies are making America strategically much weaker and much poorer. END THEM

The current plans for a 20 year war against ISIS are completely untenable and counter productive. They will only serve to recruit more terrorists and waste trillions of taxpayer dollars.
 Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because bombing won't work. Congress approved them anyway
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html

 The people lobbying for war on the TV and in the papers are the people that expect to make money out of war. That is not you and me.
 How to defeat ISIS and Islamic Extremists in general - bombing won't do it
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-defeat-isis-and-islamic.html

Civil Rights
The Bill of Rights should be restored and all of the following laws, policies and regulations that have completely shredded the Bill of Rights should be rescinded and reversed
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-civil-rights-violations.html

 NSA Mass Surveillance which is collecting just about every electronic communication by every American and hundreds of millions of others around the world should cease.
 The Patriot Act should be repealed and the FISA court disbanded. Nothing less will do.
 America can then go back to a system of the Rule of Law and obtaining a warrant after finding probable cause.
 The Patriot Act hasn't stopped any terrorist plots in the entire 12 years it has been in force. The purpose of the Patriot Act isn't and never was about stopping terrorist plots
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/10/mark-comey-says-that-every-manufacturer.html

Legalization of Marijuana
All drugs should be legalized, prohibition has never worked on anything - alcohol, prostitution etc. It just creates a black market for crime to flourish.
 We can start by legalizing marijuana.
 Criminalizing drug use, creates MORE drug addicts, massively increases crime and corruption and costs US Taxpayers around $200bn a year.
 Drugs : How to save $200bn+ a year from Federal and State budgets painlessly with social benefits
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-save-200bn-pa-from-federal-and.html
 Cops say legalize drugs - ask me why. The real reasons why the Federal government does not want to legalize drugs http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/cops-say-legalize-drugs-ask-me-why-real.html

The above is a good start on fixing America's problems.
 Several other things should be done as well, as detailed within and near the end of this:-
 How Big Business and Big Government is Taking Over America and subjugating Americans http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/10/all-of-policies-of-federal-government.html

One Final Thought - Does the government work for you, or does the government work for crony Corporations and nothing changes whether you vote GOP or Dems?
 Judge Napolitano's Final Word on the Last Episode of Freedom Watch: http://youtu.be/yEyTscM5Pfw
Stop voting for the "lesser evil" - you will get evil.
What would happen if the 40% of the electorate that are Independents and the 50%+ of registered Dems and GOP that are disenchanted with their parties stopped voting for evil and refused to vote Dem or GOP?Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-81841316787610350032014-10-21T23:01:00.002-07:002014-10-21T23:03:39.479-07:00For all the latest honest and accurate news and analysis check out the following linksNews and analysis http://libertariannation.com/forum/index.php?board=5.0

Most of the more important news, analysis and latest developments are on here http://libertariannation.com/wp/

E.G. this one

Surprise: Afghanistan opium production reaches record levels as US Marines protect crops
http://libertariannation.com/wp/?p=105

Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-27178738016641852682014-10-20T22:09:00.002-07:002014-10-25T08:00:48.904-07:00Saudi policy of downplaying oil prices to backfire on themhttp://rt.com/op-edge/197440-oil-prices-saudi-arabia-policy/

Saudi government finances were already on shaky ground, before this recent oil price fall.
Saudi could see budget deficit next year, risks draining reserves -IMF
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/imf-saudi-budget-idUSL6N0RP47K20140924
N.B. The above IMF assessment was made when oil prices were at least $10 higher than they currently are.

Chart of estimated government budgets break even points by major oil producer

 N.B. these estimates are highly dependent on how much oil each country is assumed to be able to sell. These estimates contain a large degree of uncertainty, particularly with current oil price volatility and the lowering of global growth forecasts (see below).
The Russian Ruble has devalued significantly over the last few months. The Russian break even point is significantly below that assumed on the chart. (The Russian government is getting more rubles at $85 oil than this chart assumes. Russia sells a considerable amount of gas as well as oil. Russian gas prices to Europe are fixed price contracts in dollars, so the Russian government is gaining rubles with ruble depreciation.)

Oil price charts http://www.oil-price.net/

While Chinese growth forecasts (which are a major indicator of the global growth in general) are consistently being downgraded. I.E. the amount of oil the world is expected to consume will be considerably lower than was being forecast just a short time ago and considerably below future oil use forecasts in place today.

Why Chinese Growth Forecasts Just Crashed To A Paltry 3.9% - And Are Going Even Lower - In One Chart
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-20/why-chinese-growth-forecasts-just-crashed-paltry-39-and-are-going-even-lower-one-cha

While future global growth forecasts get consistently lowered - simply because they are consistently unrealistic as soon as they are produced. Global economic and monetary policies are not conducive to generating economic growth, even if the IMF ivory tower planners might think they are.

E.G. this
IMF Comedy Hour: The Complete History Of The IMF's Growth "Forecasts" Since 2012
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-07/imf-comedy-hour-complete-history-imfs-growth-forecasts-2012

But people still use these numbers, e.g. to predict the amount of oil that will be used in the future, which in turn will affect oil investment.

The market has finally woken up to the fact that there is a glut of available oil and gas in the world (at anything above ~$80 a barrel). Below $80 a barrel and supplies will start to get tighter.
Saudi Arabia has opened up a can of worms for themselves by saying they will not sacrifice market share in order to keep oil prices high.

Update 10/24/14
Saudi Arabia Surprises Market With Supply Cut Announcement, Oil Jumps
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-23/saudi-arabia-surprises-market-supply-cut-announcement-oil-jumps Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-775193438929323552014-10-19T16:10:00.000-07:002014-10-19T16:22:50.595-07:00Latest Poll: Americans now realize that Obama is as bad on FP as war criminals Bush/Cheney

http://reason.com/poll/2014/10/15/poll-35-say-obama-has-handled-foreign-po

Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-34892702089286666972014-10-19T10:49:00.000-07:002014-10-19T10:49:00.891-07:00Oliver Stone nails it on Russia and UkraineThis is an extraordinary interview. We agree wholeheartedly with most of what he says. We found ourselves wondering, how is it possible, that this man, not a professional journalist or historian, understands what is going on in Ukraine and Russia and the mess the US has gotten itself into, better than the combined western media and Washington policy makers?
 One reason is that he gets his news from blogs, not from the mainstream media.
 We pulled what we thought were some of the best quotes from the article. Sorry for the long list, there were just so many of them!

"We are hurting ... ourselves. Russia will find new partners in the East and Eurasia. ... Russia will go on with or without sanctions."

"Today it is impossible to get the truth from [the American media]."

"And now with the crisis in Ukraine stories continue to be false... (the) American people are being fed by television and other media with stories about Russian aggression. This is very dangerous."

"In my opinion, Russia is a natural ally of the United States.... it's a shame."

"I think many Americans would agree with me that the United States is on the wrong path - the path of war and aggression."

"America is trying to surround China and Russia. The prize in this fight is Eurasia where the biggest resources lie."

"The people in Washington feel that we have a right to rule the world, and so it's in our interest to destabilize Russia: divide Ukraine, to change the government in Moscow. It started a few years ago. Remove Putin, remove new Russia, and then go after China."

"I'm working with Ukrainian producers who are making a documentary 'Ukraine on fire' about the history of the crisis in that country."

"When Putin took the Snowden decision or, for example, when he made an offer to destroy chemical weapons in Syria, he really helped the world and contributed to the peace on our planet."

"I'm working on a drama about Edward Snowden. ... We hope to start shooting early next year and have it out by the end of 2015...I met [Snowden] in Moscow, as well as with many other people around this situation."

"Russians have a completely different point of view on the First and the Second World Wars. Americans don't understand a lot of the history of these wars ...I care very much about teaching history to younger people."

"The crisis in Ukraine in some way is as serious to me as the Cuba crisis in 1961-62 years and the Berlin situation. It's scary to me."

"In my opinion, the Russian destruction of most of the German military machine saved at least a million American lives."

"We had to thank the Russian for that, to be their allies and to trust them. But President Truman and business elite in Wall Street hadn't a single moment of thanks. American bankers and the rich have always hated Russia."

"In 2008...I just felt so depressed about what was happening to the United States - my country that I love. Bush distorted everything I believed in as a child and as a young man. I began to study American history..."

"...the United States had misrepresented the spirit in which Gorbachev made the agreement with Bush on the reunification of Germany, the expansion of NATO and others..."

"The United States is a strange country. Studying its history one can come to a conclusion that it always needs an enemy, whether it's a communism or something else."

"The United States wanted to make Russia a capitalist country, sending its experts, so-called Harvard boys, who advised and freed up economy. And the result was a gangster economy."

"Taking back the state back from the hands of the gangsters was a very important move for Russia. On that basis I certainly admire Putin as a strong man."

"People in Moscow ... have a deep soul, and when you spend time with them, you realize that they are warm and giving people. Certainly it's not the picture painted of Russia or Putin. I like Russian people."

"I understand why Putin could not give up Crimea. Western institutions - EU, NATO, IMF - would like to have influence, run and control Ukraine."

"It is the United States that is invasive and pushing constantly the limits of patience of Russia, as it was with NATO's eastward expansion. It's a very dangerous situation."

"For a man who went to war McCain seems to have learned nothing. In my mind he was on the wrong side of every political decision the United States made since the Vietnam war. I think something is wrong with him."

"The United States never experienced war, we don't know how devastating is it. ... We go and bring harm to others, militarize countries and regions."

Read more at:-
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_ukraine_opinion_media_watch_snowden/2014/10/17/02-55-08pm/ri_exclusive_oliver_stones_full#disqus_threadIan Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-35913067121991322072014-10-19T08:30:00.000-07:002014-10-19T14:15:18.243-07:00Propaganda 101 - How the Pentagon Is Trying to Rewrite Vietnam War History

In case you weren't aware, the Pentagon is set to roll out a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War. Personally, it's hard to get excited about commemorating an event that led to the death of over 58,000 American soldiers and more than a million Vietnamese, particularly since much of it was the direct result of well documented lies and deception, such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

What's worse, the Pentagon intends to rewrite history by whitewashing this period of civil unrest and government shame from American history. The propaganda is so blatant that it has resulted in many of the era's most well known protestors and activists to come together in order to stop it.
Read more at:-
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-17/propaganda-101-%E2%80%93-how-pentagon-trying-rewrite-vietnam-war-history

The primary purpose of the Vietnam War was to increase the sales & profits of private arms companies. The official reasons are all lies, including the Gulf of Tonkin.
A secondary reason was to protect the drug trafficking profits from Indo China and the Burmese Triangle. There are numerous stories of the CIA trafficking drugs out of SE Asia - there was even a movie made about it - "Air America".

A principal reason for the US losing the Vietnam war was the mass murder of the Vietnamese, ill treatment of the locals and the large scale destruction of villages and crops with Napalm and Agent Orange, thus alienating the population instead of trying to win Hearts and Minds.
The large scale bombing of Cambodia and Laos led directly to the rise of Pol Pot and the murder of millions in "The Killing Fields".

Agent Orange was developed by Monsanto.

Shortly after John McCain was captured by the Viet Cong, the rate of American air losses increased by about 60%. It is strongly suspected that McCain gave away classified secrets on American war plans and bombing routes in return for soft treatment - though nothing was ever proved.
John McCain - coward and traitor? http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/john-mccain-coward-and-traitor.html

John F Kennedy was seeking to extricate America from involvement in Vietnam, contrary to Pentagon advice, before he was assassinated in November 1963. Lyndon Johnson enthusiastically pursued expanding the war.

Kissinger arranged to scupper the prospective peace talks in Paris 1968, in order to facilitate Nixon's victory in the US election later that year.

The "Domino Theory" used in the official narrative to justify the war was subsequently proved to be the myth that it was when no other country in SE Asia fell to communist rule after American forces withdrew in their ignominious defeat and embarrassing evacuation from the roof of the US embassy in Saigon in 1972.

The Vietnam war cost the lives of 58,000 American soldiers in the pursuit of Corporate profits.
The cost of the war exponentially increased the US National Debt and led directly to Nixon taking the US Dollar off the Gold Standard in 1971.
The Vietnam War also led directly to the disastrous so called "War on Drugs" which is now wasting $200bn of US taxpayer money every year.

Somehow I don't think the Pentagon is going to include any of the above in their official history of the Vietnam War.

Somehow I don't think the Pentagon are going to admit that zero lessons have been learned from Vietnam to this day.

The US is still pursuing policies of bombing people on false pretexts, instead of trying to degrade support for the Islamic Extremists and terrorists and adopting policies to win Hearts and Minds of local people.

The only successful military action to defeat Islamic Extremists was by a small contingent of the SAS in Oman in the 1950's. The SAS did this by successfully prosecuting policies of not killing civilians and winning Hearts and Minds which took the support base of the locals, upon which all guerrilla fighters rely, away.

Vietnam War Pictures
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=719&q=vietnam+war+napalm&oq=vietnam+war&gs_l=img.1.9.0l10.1241.9218.0.139184.108.40.206.126.96.36.199.418.104.22.168....0...1ac.1.56.img..0.11.451.YYvWz_AChVQ

Whatever Happened to the Anti War Movement?
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=719&q=vietnam+war+napalm&oq=vietnam+war&gs_l=img.1.9.0l10.1241.9218.0.13918.104.22.168.18.104.22.168.4188.8.131.52....0...1ac.1.56.img..0.11.451.YYvWz_AChVQ#tbm=isch&q=vietnam+war+protests

An Inglorious End to an Inglorious War - Started With an Outrageous Lie
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=719&q=vietnam+war+napalm&oq=vietnam+war&gs_l=img.1.9.0l10.1241.9218.0.13922.214.171.124.126.96.36.199.4184.108.40.206....0...1ac.1.56.img..0.11.451.YYvWz_AChVQ#tbm=isch&q=vietnam+war+embassy+evacuationIan Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-5046723104672374702014-10-18T10:59:00.001-07:002014-10-18T12:41:35.615-07:00Why are US taxpayers paying for the cybersecurity requirements of Wall Street?

There's no water for the poor in Detroit, but the NSA has been given the funds to recruit 1,000 more people in Texas to subsidize Wall Street banks
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Cyber-commander-says-1-000-new-jobs-coming-to-S-A-5827450.php

Last time I looked, Texas didn't have an unemployment problem. Unlike broad swathes of the country like Chicago and Detroit.

The government is wasting $10'sbn a year on spy programs which do no nothing to protect or help ordinary Americans - they only help large Corporations who ought to be paying for their own security and the private spy contractor companies.

I am totally against any more hiring by the NSA (NSA budget should be dramatically CUT), but if they are hiring - why aren't they doing so in high unemployment areas?

Why should US taxpayers be paying to enhance the security of major Wall Street banks? Which is what this program in Texas is probably doing. Why aren't the banks and other large crony Corporations paying for whatever cybersecurity they deem necessary or by pooling the costs via trade associations?

These extra people are not going to be paid peanuts. Salaries, benefits, office costs and other employment costs will no doubt average well over $100,000 each - that's over $100m a year just for this extra funds for one program. Get the banks to pay for it, if they want it. Otherwise don't do it.

Get the big banks to pay - they can afford it.
Goldman Sachs just announced a 48% increase in profits
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/goldman-sachs-tops-estimates-on-rise-in-market-volatility/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

US taxpayers cannot afford it - they are already $17.8tn in the hole and will be $40tn in the hole by around 2025.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-sequester-is-giant-con-trick.html

The Federal budget is stuffed full of Corporate Welfare - like this. It comes to well over $1tn a year in total. It's time to stop it.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html

Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-41176335277531751152014-10-17T21:14:00.000-07:002014-10-17T23:24:58.123-07:00Keith Alexander should be in jail, not head of a company making $1m a month selling NSA secrets to Wall St

Keith Alexander touting for business at $1m a month
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-20/ex-nsa-chief-pitches-advice-on-cyber-threats-to-the-banks.html

Keith Alexander doing dodgy deals by hiring people that are still working for the NSA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/17/us-usa-intelligence-nsa-idUSKCN0I624Y20141017
Whoever authorized this deal at the NSA should be immediately fired. How anyone could possibly think an NSA current employee also working for Alexander's security "consultancy" is beyond me.

Keith Alexander should already be spending the rest of his life in jail, not head of a company making $1m a month.

 The 11 lies and 1 truth told at the NSA "hearing" on June 18th

Keith Alexander needs to be prosecuted for perjury.
Each count of perjury carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in jail.
There is more than enough evidence to put Alexander away for the rest of his life.

1) NSA Director's lie #1. Snowden's leaks didn't damage US National Security. Everybody who wanted to know already knew. Snowden's "leaks" didn't reveal anything of significance that was new.
Every foreign government and potential terrorist knew, what I knew.
It has all been widely available on the net for many years.
Snowden "leaked" very little that was "new".

2) NSA Director's lie number 2. The Zazi subway plot has already been completely discredited. It could of been foiled with a warrant after finding probable cause

3) NSA Director's lie #3. The mass data collection of Americans, does not help America's National Security. It distracts from real dangers.

4) "Standard for permitting query of internal US phone calls is a "reasonable, articulable suspicion"".
They have been listening in on US troops PHONE SEX when they call home.

5) "Only 20 analysts within NSA are empowered to approve targeting US-based phone conversations" There are many hundreds, over a thousand.

6) Do you feel that Fisa court is a rubber stamp? Alexander does not feel that way. Over 33,000 requests have been approved - only 11 have been rejected.

7) "we would like to release as much of Fisa court rulings as we can" They've been covering them up as hard as they can.

8) "NSA only records that are collected" under 215 "is that telephony data. That's all." Alexander. Collecting pretty much ALL electronic comms

9) NSA can't target calls or emails of any US person, anywhere in world," without an individualized court order. Verizon covered many millions.

10) Do we maintain a database of all the emails that have ever been sent? "None at the NSA." Alexander. ALL emails are now being collected. Probably all have been collected since circa 2006.

11) Of the 4 terrorist cases cited, 2 could of been stopped with a warrant after probable cause (1 and 4).
No need for Mass Surveillance. The other 2 need to be checked.

12) Half a lie
How many contractors work as system administrators? "On the order of a thousand," Alexander says. There are over 4,000 private contractors. One third have Top Security security clearance. So that's at least 1,300. Alexander will know the exact number.

Some other statements need to be fact checked, 2 or 3 other lies will probably be found.
The above is after a cursory look through the statements made and the most obvious of patent lies.

Truth number 1
With exposure of surveillance programs "We run the risk of losing these collection capabilities." Yep - they are unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment.
They are a gross invasion of privacy, don't make anyone safer and pose an existential threat to democracy in America.
They are also a threat to international relations with our allies.
The Germans have already cried foul and over 1 million people have signed the international petition to grant Snowden immunity and to stop the Prism program immediately.
The majority of the signatories are from Europe.
Let's restore the Rule of Law in America and stop spying on every American.

Nobody mentioned Boston.
How come with this Mass data collection program the Boston bombing wasn't stopped?
There was a wealth of evidence that the elder brother posed a substantive terrorist threat.
The FBI had been keeping tabs on him for at least 2 years previously BECAUSE he was a substantive terrorist threat.
That risk only increased during his 6 month visit to the Caucasus where he mixed with Islamic hate preachers.
Yet he was down graded on the watch lists - how come?
N.B Neither the Patriot Act nor Mass Surveillance was required to keep tabs on the bomber.
The FBI already had plenty of PROBABLE CAUSE to obtain a warrant.

Ruppersberger wants to know how to stop the next Snowden.
I want to know how they are going to stop getting distracted by spying on millions of totally innocent Americans and stop the next BOSTON - instead of completely failing in what is supposed to be their primary purpose.

Comment - the Senators were coaching and leading Alexander for the answers they wanted to hear.
Less of a hearing and more a piece of political theater designed to try and fool the gullible.

Bachmann asked a VERY leading question when she asked :-
Has the NSA collected every email ever sent?"
Of course not - the first email was sent in the mid 90's or even earlier.
The NSA have been collecting every American's email sent after circa 2006 and a large number from 2002.

The final irony :-

NSA Director General Alexander :- "trust us, we have internal safeguards" LOL

The dirty little secret about NSA Mass Surveillance - it's not about counter terror
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-nsa-mass-surveillance-scandal-story.html

There are a few other people that should be spending the rest of their lives in jail as well:-

FBI Director Mark Comey speaks in favor of unlimited Mass Surveillance, zero privacy and an authoritarian Police State
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/10/mark-comey-says-that-every-manufacturer.html

Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-3091286758595684122014-10-17T15:04:00.003-07:002014-10-17T15:04:48.534-07:00Only 12% of drone victims killed in Pakistan were militants : latest report

And only 4% of those killed were linked to Al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/namingthedead/only-4-of-drone-victims-in-pakistan-identified-as-al-qaeda-members/?lang=en

How to win Hearts and Minds.
 USA USA USA
 /sarc off

 How many more Jihadis, Islamic Extremists and terrorists have these killings recruited? If you had a foreigner drop a bomb on you, killing your wife, or your kids, or your friend or some other member of your family - what would you feel like doing?

 Londoners in 1940 under the Nazi blitz of indiscriminate bombing faced the same situation. All accounts of the time are full of stories that the blitz only served to make Londoners and Brits even more determined to defeat Hitler and his evil henchmen.

 I don't know why anyone in Pakistan would feel any different about American bombs and missiles. In fact the best info we have is that 92% of Pakistani's now consider the American government their enemy - up from ~25% in 2005/2006 when the drone warfare program started.

 This latest information on the number and percentage of innocent civilians killed by "precision strikes" on terrorists will only serve to make things even worse. It won't make things a lot worse because the vast majority of people in Pakistan, the Middle East and the muslim world in general already knew the rough casualty rates. It is only the Western media that have been determined not to inform their audiences about the disastrous results of the drone warfare program. Everyone else already knew.

 And it's not just Pakistan. The same thing is being done in Yemen (where the US supported government has just fallen to Islamic extremists), helped by significant recruitment to their cause by US drone strikes.
 Then there's Libya which has now descended into a failed state with gangs of armed Islamic militias roaming the streets and providing a haven, money and weapons for Islamic extremists elsewhere - such as ISIS in Syria.
 Then there's Somalia which is a hotbed of extremism, assisted by the US drone strikes and the US supported, Ethiopian Coup there which has spilled out into places like Kenya.

 Then of course there are the reports of the innocent civilian casualties in Syria and Iraq which are rapidly increasing. ISIS has already got more than 6,000 more recruits since the US announced it was going to start bombing them - it was wonderful news for ISIS.

 Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because they won't work. Congress approved them anyway. http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html

The purpose of the drone warfare program is to .... create more Islamic Extremists
 http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-purpose-of-drone-warfare-program-is.html

Drones are a weapon of terror - designed to recruit more terrorists and to make every American LESS safe http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/04/drones-are-weapon-of-terror-designed-to.html

Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-37450467907264026492014-10-17T10:29:00.000-07:002014-10-18T10:53:57.120-07:00In America, the realization is growing that the police are completely out of control

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/10/america-fear-growing-police-are-getting-out-control

As the middle class gets increasingly wiped out, more people will be subjected to the same kind of attitude that poor people have so often been treated by police in all countries in the past - poorly, with suspicion and a lack of respect.

As more people get angry at the government policies that are making them increasingly poorer, they will also get more angry at the people that they see enforcing those policies - the police.

A more brutalized and more Militarized Police Force will be a more effective tool for the Federal government to enforce the authoritarian Police State that has now been set up, but not yet deployed.

NSA Mass Surveillance for domestic political control, via blackmail and coercion to either the dissenters themselves or their family.
Indefinite detention for the ringleaders of any dissent against the Police State, crony Corporations or War.
The change of regulations to make it easier for the Federal government to impose Martial Law, whether the local authorities (Mayor or Governor) agree or not.
The supply of military equipment to domestic forces, e.g. hundreds of MRAPS to local police and 2,900 armored vehicles for the DHS.
etc. etc. etc.

All the infrastructure a Tyrant would need, courtesy of Bush, Obama and Congress
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/all-infrastructure-tyrant-would-need.html

The full list of the measures so far taken to institute a full blown authoritarian Police State are in here:-
Obama's Catalog of Civil Rights Abuses and preparations for massive civil unrest http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-civil-rights-violations.html

Obviously the more conditioned local Police Forces and the public become to abuses of people, the more readily they will accept more of them in the future.

It's like Pavlov's dog experiments, but instead of ringing the bell and the dogs salivating, the government just shouts "Terrorist" and the people immediately give up all their rights.

Or if you question what the police are doing there's a good chance of you getting beaten up, or arrested, or harassed or abused in the future (by the Police, FBI or IRS etc), or your property confiscated (even though you haven't been charged with a crime) or even getting shot in cold blood with your hands up. So people will be less likely to question police actions or support people that they increasingly see being abused by the Police in the future (or at least that's what the Federal government hopes to instil).

P.S. Why would the Police let themselves become more brutal in the future? After all these are ordinary Americans that just put on a badge and a gun.
The truth is that's very easy to arrange, if that's what the people in charge want to do.

See the Migram Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
See also the Stanford Prison Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Further conditioning can be applied, by sending US police to Israel to train them to think like a foreign force of occupation in a hostile environment and not to think like public servants
https://beta.cironline.org/reports/us-police-get-antiterror-training-in-israel-on-privately-funded-trips/

This conditioning can be further reinforced by holding joint training exercises between the Police and the military (US Marines) like this:-
Marines and civilian police conduct joint urban training exercise
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/marines-and-civilian-police-conduct.html

Which is pretty much what we saw on the streets of Ferguson, during the protests about the shooting of Mike Brown. St Louis Police had previously been sent to Israel for training by the Israeli security services:-
Israel-trained police "occupy" Missouri after killing of black youth
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth

Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-36897651956654036672014-10-16T21:14:00.000-07:002014-10-18T13:10:46.483-07:00FBI Director Mark Comey speaks in favor of unlimited Mass Surveillance, zero privacy and an authoritarian Police State

Mark Comey in his speech at Brookings on October 16th, says that encryption by Apple etc. is a very bad idea and they (and all other manufacturers of storage or communication devices) should allow back doors access. This will make it easier for hackers to steal your information - as well as allowing the government to spy on everything you do, whenever they want, without obtaining a warrant.

Mark Comey says that America is moving towards "a dark place".
True.
America is rapidly moving towards becoming an authoritarian Police state with unlimited Mass Surveillance, indefinite detention, kill lists, the effective repeal of Posse Comitatus, a Militarized Police, the increasing brutality of the Police and Law Enforcement and a total lack of respect for basic civil and human rights in general.

America is moving towards a very dark place indeed, because of people like Mark Comey.

Paul Craig Roberts says that Mark Comey is a traitor.

Who are you going to believe?

Paul Craig Roberts - Five Criminals In America. The Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/13/five-criminals-america-gestapo-replaced-rule-law/

These people are certainly traitors.

They have sold out their country for power and a few miserable bucks from people that are also traitors for money and personal power.

The dirty little secret about NSA Mass Surveillance - it's not about counter terror
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-nsa-mass-surveillance-scandal-story.html
A complete pack of lies - the government story on the NSA Mass Surveillance programs
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-complete-pack-of-lies-government.html

The REAL purpose of NSA Mass Surveillance is to undermine democracy in America & the West to promote the interests of large crony Corporations
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-primary-purpose-of-nsas-mass.html

Booz Allen Hamilton - A tale of high level corruption in both parties
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/booze-allen-hamilton-what-you-dont-know.html

NSA Mass Spying has stopped zero terror plots so why has the Senate voted to continue to fund it?
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/11/as-keith-alexander-has-already-admitted.html

Apart from the NSA Mass Surveillance programs making every American LESS safe, it also makes them poorer.

The intelligence budgets have been increased to ~$85bn a year, 70% of which goes to private spy companies. This is a huge waste of money and just enriches the owners and CEO's of the private spy companies.

Michael Hayden is a common Mafia Hood running a protection racket for the Chertoff Group
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/01/michael-chertoff-is-common-mafia-hood.html

The NSA surveillance programs will also make Americans poorer because there will be fewer well paid jobs in American tech companies, lower GDP growth and higher unemployment.

NSA Blowback - America's rapidly deteriorating relations with the rest of the world
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/nsa-blowback-americas-rapidly.html

It is time to put the spurious arguments of the supporters of the NSA's Mass Surveillance to bed
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/01/it-is-time-to-put-spurious-arguments-of.html

The official US position on the NSA is still unlimited eavesdropping power on every American
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-official-us-position-on-nsa-is.html

And while we are on the subject of the FBI, if the FBI was actually interested in stopping terrorism and making the American public safer, why didn't they stop the Boston bombing from happening?

The Boston bombing was a massive intelligence FAILURE. It should have been prevented with standard (pre Patriot Act) policing procedures, by obtaining a warrant after finding probable cause.
Preventing the attack was actually HINDERED by the NSA's Mass Surveillance programs and the hundreds of thousands of people on watchlists.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/boston-was-massive-intelligence-failure.html

And on the subject of terrorism:-

If the NSA is actually fighting terrorism why haven't they stopped Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Kuwait funding Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra?
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/06/if-nsa-is-actually-fighting-terrorism.html

Each of the links above, contain links to external credible sources for the evidence to back up the statements.

Mark Comey's disaster of a speech today
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/10/16-going-dark-technology-privacy-comey-fbi

Other people thought Mark Comey's speech was a disaster too :-

FBI Director Continues His Attack On Technology, Privacy And Encryption https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/11531128849/fbi-director-continues-his-attack-technology-privacy-encryption.shtml

FBI Director: If Apple and Google Won't Decrypt Phones, We'll Force Them To http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-director-if-apple-and-google-wont-decrypt-phones-well-force-them-to

Ron Wyden opposes back door access
https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/522767603740442624

Have we really come down to this? Mark Comey says we have

Mark Comey is advocating that every American should be less safe from hacking and there should be unlimited Mass Surveillance on every American and Zero Privacy. Which basically boils down to advocating an authoritarian Fascist Police State - like the Gestapo ran in Nazi Germany - see above.

Update 10/18/14
Are Mark Comey's comments about encryption just a smokescreen, intended to try and make the public feel safer from Mass Surveillance? They wil not make people any safer from government spies.
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/2jgomo/fbi_director_if_apple_and_google_wont_decrypt/clbpk4e?context=3

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters:
http://youtu.be/pcSlowAhvUk
This contains a pretty good destruction of the official government narrative of "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."

Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-24313066698858586472014-10-15T10:09:00.001-07:002014-10-16T09:23:17.042-07:00You've Been Banned - the Neocon lobby are getting worriedBelow is the message notifying me of being banned from Reddit's Geopolitics board.

The censors, trolls and lobbyists are obviously getting very worried because their rationale for tackling ISIS is so obviously and deeply flawed that it can only be described as wanton insanity. If any significant debate was to be generated on the subject, lots of people would see it and their whole case and lies would be quickly undermined - in short the Neocon lobby and America's enemies would lose.

Reddit's Geopolitics board only has a small audience (probably only a few hundred readers) and the fact that they would take such measures to stifle debate among such a small audience, shows how desperate the Neocon lobby is becoming.

This was my last post to Geopolitics that got me banned:-
How to defeat ISIS and Islamic Extremists in general - bombing won't do it

This was my only other post to Geopolitics - over a month ago. The trolls for special interests didn't like this one either - it also generated a significant amount of reasonable debate.
http://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/2efk5d/geopolitics_and_the_future_over_the_next_20_to_50/

Reddit's main boards are so heavily censored and vote brigaded that it is impossible to post up any reasonable or informative articles on them, or have any reasonable debate.

The Private Message I received notifying me of my latest ban and my replies

you've been banned

subreddit message via /r/geopolitics/ sent <time datetime="2014-10-15T07:44:37+00:00" title="Wed Oct 15 07:44:37 2014 UTC">8 hours ago</time>

you have been banned from posting to /r/geopolitics: Geopolitics: Getting the Big Picture.
note from the moderators:
"Why have I been Banned?
You've been banned for xenophobic remarks as well as being polemic in nature.
We have also received multiple PMs citing you for blatant self-promotion and being a negative influence.
We've deliberated over this and made our decision. This decision is not appeal-able."

re: you've been banned

to /r/geopolitics/ sent <time datetime="2014-10-15T16:51:57+00:00" title="Wed Oct 15 16:51:57 2014 UTC">just now</time>

Who sent you the PM's complaining about me? They obviously have an agenda to stifle any debate or alternative suggestions to the policies being carried out in Washington DC and being pushed by the war lobby and other special interests.
Maybe you should be looking at banning those people and not me?

re: you've been banned

to /r/geopolitics/ sent <time datetime="2014-10-15T16:43:57+00:00" title="Wed Oct 15 16:43:57 2014 UTC">just now</time>

Which xenophobic remarks have I made? Please cite evidence for this. I have made none and there is no evidence.
I have not received multiple PM's about self-promotion or being a negative influence. I have received one complaint from one user who has a specific agenda and special interest. This wasn't a PM but was part of the comment discussion.
My last post to geopolitics generated a significant amount of interest and reasoned debate on the alternative suggestions I put forward on tackling ISIS. Somebody out there didn't like this.
You are obviously free to do whatever you want, but whoever is telling you these things is lying to you.

Reddit is merely symptomatic of what America is rapidly heading towards:-

War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery

Chomsky: "the smart way to keep the population passive and obedient is to strictly limit acceptable debate, but to create as many arguments as possible within that narrow range"

And to ban anyone from public discourse or publicity if they stray outside the predefined range of acceptable opinion or start asking awkward questions.
Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-15819654775122395892014-10-04T08:56:00.003-07:002014-10-04T09:57:36.193-07:00Terrorism and Turmoil: US Containment of China - Oil & OccupyCentral
China's oil routes from the Middle East

The US containment strategy of China would be updated and detailed in the 2006 Strategic Studies Institute report "String of Pearls: Meeting the Challenge of China's Rising Power across the Asian Littoral" where it outlines China's efforts to secure its oil lifeline from the Middle East to its shores in the South China Sea as well as means by which the US can maintain American hegemony throughout the Indian and Pacific Ocean. The premise is that, should Western foreign policy fail to entice China into participating in Wall Street and London's "international system" as responsible stakeholders, an increasingly confrontational posture must be taken to contain the rising nation.

This proxy war has manifested itself in the form of the so-called "Arab Spring" where Chinese interests have suffered in nations like Libya that have been reduced to chaos by US-backed subversion and even direct military intervention. Sudan also serves as a proxy battleground where the West is using chaos to push Chinese interests off the continent of Africa.

More recently, political turmoil has hit Southeast Asia. Thailand has only just recently ousted a US-proxy regime headed by dictator Thaksin Shinawatra, while neighboring Myanmar attempts to stave off sedition headed by US-British political fronts led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Within China itself, the US wields terrorism as a means to destabilize and divide Chinese society in an attempt to make the vast territory of China ungovernable. In the nation's western province of Xianjiang, the United States fully backs violent separatists.

Read more at :-
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2014/10/terrorism-and-turmoil-us-containment-of.html#more

Both the Xinjiang Uyghur separatists and Occupy Central protestors are funded and supported by the US via the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This US government funded organization is effectively a branch of the US State Department and seeks to destabilize any country or regime that does not support the US system of Corptocracy by encouraging, fomenting, funding and recruiting internal dissent within a target country (see above article).

The Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong did not start up in earnest until after :
The current leaders of Occupy Central visited DC, including meetings with Joe Biden in April (see 1)
The strengthening of Chinese/Russian relations (see below)
The announcements that Russian (mainly natural resource) companies would in future seek financing from Hong Kong and South East Asia, instead of London
The Moscow Stock Exchange announced it would start trading in Hong Kong dollars as well as Rubles.

N.B. There is no doubt that the 80,000 people massing in Hong Kong to protest for more freedom and a better life are genuine in their desires and I hope they get them.
There is also no doubt that Occupy Central are being used in geopolitical power plays by the US against the Chinese Communist leadership, which has set about hardening it's stance against political dissenters within China. See 15.

NED also funded and encouraged the pro Western Maiden protestors in Ukraine for many years - spending $5bn on it. Ultimately this led to the recruitment of overtly Fascist parties and their members such as Pravy Sector by the US (particularly by Victoria Nuland and John McCain). This turned the previously peaceful protests in Maiden into a bloody battleground with deliberate murder being committed by Fascist thugs via snipers, to overthrow the previous, more pro Russian, regime in Kiev. (See 2)
The US engineered coup in Kiev is strongly backfiring though, with Russia and China building much stronger relations in the face of increasing US aggression. Ukraine is becoming a quagmire and a failed State (at least economically and possibly politically). The US idea was to turn Ukraine into another Afghanistan for Russia, but it is turning more into an Afghanistan for the US and EU and one that will drain their resources for many years to come. (See 3)

The US aggression against Russia via Ukraine and sanctions is in reality a second front against China and it's allies. Russia and China have responded by agreeing a massive $400bn oil deal in May 2014 and Yuan settlement hubs in London and Frankfurt amongst other measures. (See 4 and 5)

Conflicts between the US & China will continue to hot up over the next several years.

China continues to develop and strengthen it's relations with India (see recent favorable meetings with Modi) to protect it's oil routes (see above map) and as part the economic coalition to overthrow US hegemony (see 5). India is moving away from the US sphere of influence and is doing oil deals with Iran.

The next stage of the Russian $18bn expansion of it's pipelines to China and Vladivostok may well include the facility to export Russian oil and gas to India (and SE Asia). Russia has the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world and it's just found a lot more in the Kara Sea (see 6).

The third and fourth fronts in the escalating US wars against China are set to start up in earnest and greatly expand shortly.

The third front is West Africa and the oil rich countries there (and Africa in general).
Angola is already a very large exporter of oil to China.
Several other Western African countries have large amounts of oil - Nigeria, Algeria and to a lesser extent e.g. Mali, Equatorial Guinea etc.
Wars and conflicts are and have already been, fought (plus some Coup D'Etats) in other African countries with oil like Libya, Mali, Sudan and Ethiopia. (See 7 and 8)
China has signed trade deals for natural resources and infrastructure building with half the countries in Africa in the last few years. Obama sent US troops into 30 more African countries in 2013. (See 9).

The fourth front is South and Central America.
The Chinese have recently announced the building of the $50bn Nicaragua Canal (See 10) to :-
Counter the US controlled Panama Canal
Facilitate oil exports from and trade with Angola, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, West Africa in general and oil potentially from Nigeria, Algeria and even perhaps Libya.

Things have been hotting up in an escalating trade battle with Argentina. A large amount of shale oil has recently been discovered in Argentina (see 10).
The President of Argentina has even accused the US government of trying to oust and even assassinate her (see 11). There have of course been numerous Coups and Coup attempts by the US in Latin America in the last several decades - see Venezuela, Allende & Chile and the most recent Coup in Honduras in 2009 (see 12).

There are ongoing battles between US favored and BRICS/Chinese favored factions in just about every South American and Latin American country.

The latest on the upcoming Brazilian elections between strongly pro US and less pro US factions and candidates is in 13.

Where this is all headed over the next 20 years or so :-
Geopolitics and the future over the next 20 to 50 years - The US, EU, China and Russia
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/03/geopolitics-and-future-over-next-20-to.html

Practically everything that happens in the world (of any significance) from now on, should not be thought of in isolation, but as another piece of the puzzle in the ongoing and escalating war between the US and China.
That most certainly applies to the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong - it might even apply down to the level of efforts for Catalan independence in Spain and other regions of Europe, for which there are escalating battles.

It most definitely applies to the renewed US wars in Syria and Iraq - see 14.
Terrorism and Terrorist Groups are just a smokescreen to carry out policies for the (short term) benefit of US ruling elites and to the great detriment of and to fool a deeply gullible and uninformed American and Western public.
The public haven't read and remain ignorant of, the information above and below.

Even most of the "think tanks", talking heads and most of the US politicians remain ignorant of what the wars in Syria and Iraq and the current and escalating battles against China will ultimately achieve.
The wasting of further trillions of US taxpayer dollars, the further decline in the US and European economies and the bringing forward of the date of the end of American hegemony.

America is sorely in need of a Jefferson or Thomas Paine, but there are no Jefferson's or Thomas Paine's in sight.

References and Previous Related Articles

1. China warns U.S. not to meddle in Hong Kong over democratic reform (in April)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/07/us-hongkong-china-idUSBREA3608C20140407

2. The storyboard of the recent events in Ukraine - videos, pictures and articles
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-storyboard-of-recent-events-in.html

3. The Winners and Losers from the US engineered Coup in Kiev V2.0
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-winners-and-losers-from-us.html

4. China and Russia sign a massive $400bn energy deal that will be settled in something other than dollars.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-21/russia-and-china-finally-sign-400-billion-holy-grail-gas-deal

5. Detailed list of China & Russia's actions to end the Petrodollar system and cause economic carnage in the US to end American Hegemony
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/02/the-greatest-threat-to-us-national.html

6. Russia Discovers Massive Arctic Oil Field Which May Be Larger Than Gulf Of Mexico
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-27/russia-discovers-massive-arctic-oil-field-which-may-be-larger-gulf-mexico

7. The Real Reasons behind the conflict in Mali. Gold, Uranium and possibly oil
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/01/background-information-on-conflict-in.html

8. An excellent article on the background to the continuing troubles, violence and corruption in Sudan
http://www.vice.com/read/the-bog-barons-0000287-v21n4

9. History does not repeat but it often rhymes. A brief comparison of the American and British empires.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-message-to-american-people-from.html

10. The escalating trade wars between the US & the BRICS over Argentina
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-escalating-trade-wars-between-us.html

11. Argentina president claims US plotting to oust her
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/argentina-president-claims-us-plot

12. The real reasons why tens of thousands of illegal alien children are entering the US
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-backdround-to-tens-of-thousands-of.html

13. Dilma Rousseff in pole position as Brazilians set to vote for their wallets
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/dilma-rousseff-election-brazil-vote-president

14. US Foreign Policy Explained
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/08/us-foreign-policy-explained.html

How to defeat ISIS and Islamic Extremists in general
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-defeat-isis-and-islamic.html

Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because they won't work. Congress approved them anyway.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html

15. Document Number 9
Chinese leadership's policy of becoming more repressive & authoritarian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4kHbeRrFs&feature=youtu.be

16. Another angle / minor front on the US and Chinese battles
Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar: Pipelineistan at work
http://rt.com/op-edge/iran-pakistan-syria-pipeline-843/Ian Shillinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-41102475883477525802014-10-03T11:33:00.002-07:002014-10-06T13:24:12.116-07:00Sweden kicked out it's Neocon Fascist government last month, will others follow?Sweden kicked out the government that included Neocon Fascist Carl Bildt as Foreign Minister, last month.

Will other countries follow suit and kick out their current Neocon Fascist governments? I am thinking in particular of the current governments of US, UK, Australia, Canada and Israel.

Neocon Fascist governments can be summarized as having the following attributes :-

Always ready to make and push for more war, even if that is directly against the interests of the people in their country and especially if that will create more enemies of their country to justify even more war spending

Always pushing for more military spending and selling more arms

Push to destabilize as many areas of the world as possible, but particularly oil rich countries outside of close US government cronies (Saudi Arabia & Gulf States) in an effort to increase the price of oil and gas - even though that means higher unemployment and more poverty at home

US Foreign Policy Explained
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/08/us-foreign-policy-explained.html

Protect and enhance the profits of large crony Corporations at the expense of other companies and at the expense of the wealth and prosperity of their own people. Particularly big banks, arms companies, big oil, big pharma and Monsanto.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/10/all-of-policies-of-federal-government.html

Pass Draconian laws at home for domestic political control and to clamp down on dissent, on the pretext of some massively exaggerated (or even manufactured) "terrorist threat".

See NSA Mass Surveillance, NDAA indefinite detention, ISIS, Khorasan, Syrian Civil War etc.

Australia: A New State of Terror
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/2hiden/australia_a_new_state_of_terror/

Syria a 'spontaneous uprising'? Here in 2005 Amanpour tells Assad that US is orchestrating his removal
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/11/archive-amanpour-and-assad-in-2005/

Sweeping new powers planned by UK government to censor the internet & prevent public protests
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11129474/Extremists-to-have-Facebook-and-Twitter-vetted-by-anti-terror-police.html

The UK government are obviously not content with spying on everyone via GCHQ and surveillance drones.

Meanwhile elsewhere:-

Obama is already spying on every American to provide blackmail and harassment material to use against anyone the government doesn't like or wants to control, (e.g. protestors against the wars, or against Mass Surveillance, or Monsanto, or the power of the big banks, or the $1tn+ of Corporate Welfare, or public figures like members of Congress and senior judges etc.).

Obama and Congress have already pretty much passed all the laws and measures for domestic political control that he needs to :-

Obama's Catalog of Civil Rights Abuses and preparations for massive civil unrest
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-civil-rights-violations.html

Other countries are doing similar things:-

The number of laws being passed that undermine a free society is increasing around the world
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/12/several-recent-laws-and-measures-have.html

The purpose of these laws and measures has nothing whatsoever to do with counter terrorism.

The purpose of these laws and measures are to produce a climate of fear for anyone that is against or is critical of the government to dissuade them from speaking out or protesting because everyone knows they are being spied upon - see Stasi and East Germany.

N.B. If the governments of the US, UK, Australia and Canada were actually serious about fighting Islamic Terrorism they would be advocating policies similar to these :-

How to defeat ISIS and Islamic Extremists in general
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-defeat-isis-and-islamic.html

Instead of advocating policies for which the only (and deliberate) result will be to make their people less safe, years of more war and more Jihadists and terrorists at a cost and waste of $tn's.

Both the FBI and CIA are against Obama's proposals to tackle ISIS because they won't work. Congress approved them anyway.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/httpclerk.html Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-25458755550577520152014-09-29T17:23:00.000-07:002014-09-29T22:36:46.109-07:00It's not working ... #ISIS
ring, ring

Hello
Hello is that ISIS?
Yes, this is ISIS
It's not working
What do you mean it's not working?
It's not working - we published those beheading videos all over the net and we really got Americans blood boiling, but it's not enough.
What do you mean it's not enough?
Then we gave them that junk you suggested last time - that Khorasan terrible terrorist group that doesn't exist, but it's still not enough
What do you mean that wasn't enough?
Well it allowed us to bomb some places and we said the war would last 20 years, but Americans are still against sending in many boots on the ground and we're still not bombing Assad.
How about if we shell Turkey?
Sounds great - we're getting desperate here in DC - we'll try anything. We'll call back next week.Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-6373095696147057962014-09-29T14:36:00.000-07:002014-10-19T15:45:04.416-07:00The Winners and Losers from the US engineered Coup in Kiev V2.0The following is an update from my article from March on the same subject. The predictions for which are all coming true (except things are turning out even worse than I predicted):-

The winners & losers from Obama's Neocon Coup D'Etat in Ukraine
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/03/putins-approval-ratings-are-70-while.html

The Coup in Kiev was never designed to benefit Ukrainians, they are the biggest losers from the geopolitical power games between the US and Russia and US aggression currently being played out. It was very obvious that this would be so.

The Ukrainian economy is sinking like a stone, as is the currency. Unemployment is going up. The IMF's $17bn loan will not be anywhere near enough to bail out a rapidly deteriorating Ukrainian economy. $3.1bn is going to paying off some of Gazprom's outstanding bill by the end of the year.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) revised it's Ukrainian 2014 Economic Forecast in September to a plunge of 9% (from 7% previously). See 1.

Ukraine is now trying capital controls to try and stem the flow of money out of the country (it won't work). See 2.

Energy bills will be higher - Russian gas imports have gone up from $325 pre-coup to $385 in the recent agreement. Half of Ukraine's gas use comes from Russian imports.

Coal production has drastically declined with the war in the East. Kiev is going to import 1 million tonnes of much more expensive coal from South Africa. A further drain on the IMF loan and Foreign Exchange Reserves.

Ukraine's main export market - to Russia, has been all but destroyed with Kiev's instigated civil war in the East. Russia does not need Ukraine's goods.

The people in the East of Ukraine decided they did not want to be ruled by a far right US puppet government in Kiev and voted for independence from Ukraine (like Scotland just voted on the same issue). Kiev (and it's sponsors the US government) refused to allow the people of Eastern Ukraine their right to self determination and invaded with Kiev's armed forces starting a civil war. Would David Cameron have shelled Scotland if the Scots had voted Yes for independence? I think not - but the Western politicians and media have propagandized that Eastern Ukrainians (who are ethnically Russian) do not have the same rights as Scots (or Kosovans).

A Monster Reawakens: The Rise of Ukrainian Fascism
The article details the 8 ministries in the "Yats" interim Ukrainian government that were given to members of Ukrainian Fascist parties.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/03/04/a-monster-reawakens-the-rise-of-ukrainian-fascism/

The Storyboard of the Coup in Kiev and the Start of Ukraine's Civil War
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-storyboard-of-recent-events-in.html

The government in Ukraine has instigated a civil war, wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on fighting that war, murdered over 2,000 civilians in Eastern Ukraine, caused the deaths of hundreds (probably thousands) of young Western Ukrainian conscripts, cut government pensions by 50%, destroyed industrial production like coal mining and steel and is rapidly impoverishing the people of Ukraine even more - they were already poor with per capita income of only $6,500 a year due to the ravages of the previous corrupt Oligarchs in power. Poroshenko is even worse as Ukrainians are now finding out - there are already calls for his head and protests in Kiev and elsewhere in the West of Ukraine against him.

Now that Kiev has lost the war (for the time being at least) and there is at least a partial ceasefire in Donetsk and Lugansk, more and more evidence is coming out of atrocities committed by Kiev's forces and/or the associated private Fascist militias such as the Azov brigade.
Unmarked civilian graves, summary executions and mobile crematoria have been confirmed, together with unconfirmed reports of even worse atrocities.

Not content with murdering thousands of Ukrainians in indiscriminate shelling of towns and other atrocities, the Kiev military deliberately murdered 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysian Airways Flinght MH17.
There is very little doubt about this now, the evidence is overwhelming and the latest reports are that Western crash investigators, politicians and media are trying to hush up the story for at least a year.

The credible Evidence on what caused the Downing of MH17
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/07/malaysia-airline-flight-mh71-crash-in.html

The US engineered coup in Kiev was never designed to benefit Ukraine or Ukrainians. It was designed to :-

Hurt Russian interests. This is backfiring as Russia is turning it's attentions to the East and building an even stronger relationship with China and the BRICS. The Coup will end up hurting the EU more than Russia and end US hegemony faster than would otherwise be the case.
China and Russia are accelerating their plans to replace the US Dollar as Global Reserve currency and replace the Federal Reserve private bank as the main aribiter of global monetary policy. See 3.

Drive a wedge between Russia and the EU (which will hurt both) with the US affected to a lesser extent for a while.

To loot Ukraine and instigate war for the benefit of US crony Corporations. US arms companies, big oil, Monsanto, Cargill (food co), Hunter Biden etc.

Winners and losers from the Coup in Kiev (largest losers first)

Ukraine and Ukrainians- see above.

EU and Europeans. European politicians are stupidly committing economic suicide by playing along with US aggression. Sanctions will hurt both Russia and the EU - see the banning of EU food exports to Russia and the potential for gas wars between the EU and Russia etc.

Russia and Russians.

America and Americans will be the biggest losers in the end.
Their wealth and prosperity will go up in smoke over the next several years.
See 4.

Cronies of the US government (Neocons, arms companies, Saudi Arabia etc.) are winners for a while. Monsanto might be.
Big oil has pluses and minors - see Exxon's relationship with Putin, Kara sea oil field, Chevron's fracking interests in Ukraine etc.

Putin and his Oligarch cronies. The Coup in Kiev has greatly strengthened Putin's support at home (he now has 80%+ approval ratings - up from 60% pre Kiev coup) and weakened the hand of other Russian oligarchs who are more supportive of the US and EU. There is a major power struggle within domestic Russian politics and oligarchs that has been going on for a number of years. The US has just ensured that Putin and the pro Eurasian crowd have won this war. See 5.

China (the biggest winner out of this).

N.B. All of the stories about Russian aggression are pure nonsense. Russia moved to protect it's strategic naval base at Sevastopol by annexing Crimea with the support of 97% of Crimeans in their referendum. Somehow the right to self determination only applies to people and governments who agree to ally themselves with the US. According to the US government and the Neocons it does not apply to anybody else.
Russia has invaded Ukraine about 67 times according to Kiev and Western media (without any evidence) while NATO countries are semi covertly supplying arms to Kiev.
Western propaganda about Russian aggression and imperialism are also clearly false (at least as far as Ukraine, the Baltics and Western Europe are concerned). They have nothing that Putin wants. Putin has refused to accept the request from Donetsk and Lugansk for annexation with Russia. He doesn't want them. The US tried to embroil Russia in another Afghanistan - Putin has refused to play ball.

Russia is also seeking to keep nuclear weapons and NATO military bases out of Ukraine. This is a natural reaction to protect Russia's security against the US's naked aggression. See Cuba and the US in 1962 for a parallel situation - with the roles now reversed.

The scenario that seems to be playing out, at Putin's instigation from the recent talks in Minsk, is a buffer zone in Donetsk and Lugansk which will have a large degree of independence from Kiev, but will not become fully independent from Ukraine. It remains to be seen if the independence militias in Donetsk and Lugansk will settle for that. The other question is whether the current ceasefire is real or false, with Kiev perhaps hoping to stock up on NATO supplied weapons before launching a renewed invasion of Donetsk and Lugansk at some point in the future. The mother's of 18 or 20 year old sons in Kiev might have something further to say about that. Poroshenko's recent pleading for weapons to the US and NATO included a statement that 67% of Ukraine's military equipment had been destroyed in the war.
Putin in turn, is playing right back at ya and has at least half an eye on turning Ukraine into an Afghanistan for the EU and a drain on their resources and economies (if they continue to remain belligerent towards Russia). The last thing the EU economies need right now is to waste more money on arms and their military - which NATO and the US is trying to insist that they do (Germany for one has refused).
See 8 for a good description of a similar scenario and the Eastward expansion of NATO.

Several US commentators remarked during the mid 1990's that continued NATO expansion towards Russia in Eastern Europe was a very bad idea and would eventually backfire. Ukraine is that backfire and it signals the end of American hegemony within around 20 years (the way things are currently going with the insane policies of the US government, perhaps sooner).

It also means a more rapid relative decline in EU economies - unless in a very unlikely event, EU leaders wake up and see sense and start acting in the interests of Europeans, instead of the interests of US Neocon Fascists to the great detriment of Europeans.
It looks like EU leaders are preparing the ground to blame Russia for their coming economic collapse, which will actually be the result of the insane policies of the EU and EU governments over the last 20 years or more.
The EU's short, medium and long term interests do not lie with being enemies of Russia and China - or in going bankrupt to protect the US/UK led banking consortium and the Petrodollar system.
Nor do they lie in supporting stupid, insane and counter productive US led wars in Iraq and Syria to make money for American arms companies and increase the price of oil for Saudi Arabia, to the great detriment of Europeans in general. (See my other recent blog articles.)

Germany is now seriously considering it's options and is doing some unilateral trade deals with China, so there is a glimmer of hope - however faint. See 3 and 4.
Hungary also offers a glimmer of hope - see 6.

The overwhelmingly false propaganda message that Europeans have been subjected to, remains that Russia is a threat to them while the US government is an ally, when the truth for Europeans future prosperity and prospects now lie in the exact opposite direction.

References and further info

1. EBRD Revises Ukrainian 2014 Economy Forecast, Expects GDP to Decrease by 9%
http://en.ria.ru/business/20140918/193038425/EBRD-Revises-Ukrainian-2014-Economy-Forecast-Expects-GDP-to.html

2. Ukraine Introduces Capital Controls
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-22/ukraine-introduces-capital-controls

3. Detailed list of China & Russia's actions to end the Petrodollar system and cause economic carnage in the US to end American Hegemony
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/02/the-greatest-threat-to-us-national.html

4. Geopolitics and the future over the next 20 to 50 years - The US, EU, China and Russia
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/03/geopolitics-and-future-over-next-20-to.html

5. A highly educational and illuminating analysis of the current battles within Russian domestic politics
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/strelkov-from-swimming-with-piranhas-to.html

6. Hungary also seems to be getting interesting. Hungary recently kicked the IMF out of the affairs of their country.
Return of the Magyars: Hungary's President Calls Out the US as Morally and Financially Bankrupt
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/return-of-magyars-hungarys-president.html

7. Brzezinski, NATO, Kiev's Ethnic Cleansing and the battles over Russia's South Stream Pipeline to the EU
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/07/whats-next-for-ukraine-brzezinski.html

8. East Ukraine - a de facto Nation
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56303
Once you have read it, take a look at the date this article was written.

9. Oliver Stone nails it on Russia and Ukraine
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/10/oliver-stone-nails-it-on-russia-and.html

Ian Shillinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930478802399132158.post-8644604428189253852014-09-26T22:18:00.001-07:002014-09-26T22:18:08.054-07:00Behind ISIS's Battlefield Gains, Battle-Hardened Chechens. Chechen, Saudi & CIA connections.

http://www.voanews.com/content/syria-chechens-islamic-state-iraq/2462711.html

The Saudi's and CIA have long funded Chechen Islamists as a thorn in the side of Russia via front organizations such as the Jamestown Foundation and the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC).

Quite a lot of the money was laundered via London. Richard Perle (Neocon member of the GW Bush administration) was involved in it.

Prince Bandar Bush threatened Putin with Chechen terrorists in 2013 if Putin didn't withdraw his support for Assad in Syria. Putin told Bandar to get lost.

Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27/meet-saudi-arabias-bandar-bin-sultan-puppetmaster-behind-syrian-war

Behind Chechen Terrorism: The London-Riyadh-Turkey Axis
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2014/eirv41n06-20140207/17-22_4106.pdf

Info on the Jamestown Foundation
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Jamestown_Foundation

Connecting the dots - The Carlyle Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, The House of Saud, The Bin Laden Family, the Bush's, Funding and Arming Islamic Terrorism, Iraq and the Clintons. A tale of high level corruption in both parties.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/06/joining-dots-carlyle-group-booz-allen.html

Boston and the CIA's Snafu - the role of the CIA's Graham Fuller in recruiting Islamic Extremists
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/boston-and-cias-snafu-role-of-cias.html

Info on Richard Perle and the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC)
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/perle_richard

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