murkka, u’r fucking sick !
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44807.htm

Posted by: denk | Jun 5 2016 17:10 utc | 103

Rahm 102 – Berlin’s Decision to Name Moscow ‘Rival’ is ‘Implementation of NATO Policy’
The PTB has the goods on Merkle to take her down in 30 seconds. The German public backlash for this sycophancy will be resounding.

Posted by: fast freddy | Jun 5 2016 21:42 utc | 105

Haiti Sets New Presidential Elections Deadline for October

New presidential elections in Haiti will be held on October 9, interim President Jocelerme Privert announced Sunday, after voting has been postponed since October 2015 over allegations of fraud.

One year later … the bastards occupying Haiti have the nerve of a Pinochet, a Marci, a Temer …
Nothing in the corporate media. Only Telesur carries bulletins of the latest outrage.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 6 2016 5:32 utc | 107

Ramadan Mubarak

Posted by: Guk Tahdar | Jun 6 2016 11:50 utc | 109

Hoarse, at 108, you are right the F are tolerant of the strikes though the media would have one believe the opposite. For ex. MSM went very far the other day, and published a poll result that claimed that 67% of respondents had a negative opinion of Martinez (head of CGT one of the stiking unions.) That no. was the non-positives, which included ‘no opinion, can’t say’ which was around 35%! (In any case, the poll question itself is silly/slanted.) Also, it is true that the F have a very healthy disrespect for authority and are not about to lose it. The strikes/actions are part of F history of course, are an outcome of the fact that F is run by a clique (Gvmt-media-Corp, under EU tutelage, the French Revolution was never really finished) in Paris. The intermediary structures are very weak or non functioning, there is no space for negotiation/bargaining/compromise.
The F won’t go down easy and may rebel in the end but imho not right now. And this is a big problem for the EU. It isn’t Greece or Portugal! (Some kind of weird non-compliant idiots, etc.) The F-German amity is a fiction.
All this is another reason why the Prez. elections are hyped and occupy huge amount of media space (just like in the US), it all serves as a distraction, like, a new prez. will change…exactly what?

Posted by: Noirette | Jun 6 2016 14:15 utc | 111

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All this is another reason why the Prez. elections are hyped and occupy huge amount of media space (just like in the US), it all serves as a distraction, like, a new prez. will change…exactly what?
Posted by: Noirette | Jun 6, 2016 10:15:12 AM | 111
Shuffling the same old deck chairs on the same old Titanic?

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 7 2016 2:05 utc | 113

Good to hear it direct, although everyone already knows.
http://moderntokyotimes.com/?p=4886
Al-Qaida and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are allies fighting alongside each other for the same cause and should not be viewed differently when it comes to toppling the Assad regime, said Anas al-Abdeh, president of the U.S.-backed National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces.
“They are all in the same trench,” Al-Abdeh told the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat on May 23. “We cannot differentiate between fighters whether they are Al Nusra, Ahrar Al Sham or the Free Syrian Army,” Al-Abdeh said.

Posted by: Les | Jun 7 2016 18:07 utc | 115

rg the ng, What a fantasy of lies you string together about the feelings and opinions of the American people. You remind me of those racist people who can only make themselves feel good by denigrating other races. Only with you, all Americans have to be portrayed as immoral so that you can believe that you are “better than.”
I won’t hold my breath waiting for your pretend outrage at injustice to attach itself to the actually guilty. You don’t even care that you are failing to criticize TPTB while blaming innocent Americans whose only shortcoming is their failure to find a way to get the psychopathic oligarchs out of power. A shortcoming you yourself share.

Posted by: Penelope | Jun 7 2016 23:17 utc | 117

I don’t normally read this site, but it looks like the US is holding back Iraq’s PMF forces from storming Fallujah as seems often the case with retaking the major cities from ‘ISIS’.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/08/iranian-backed-militias-on-the-verge-of-mutiny-over-stall-in-the-fight-for-fallujah/

Posted by: Les | Jun 8 2016 20:24 utc | 119

U.N. Blacklists Saudi Arabia Coalition for Killing Children in Yemen

The United Nations yesterday released its annual blacklist for armed groups and states that violate the rights of children during conflict. One new addition to the list includes the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that is currently engaged in a Yemen war, while killing and maiming children [1].

[1] “UN Adds US-Supported Saudi Coalition to ‘List of Shame’ for Killing Children in Yemen”, Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, June 3, 2016.
Saudi threatens to cut UN funding over blacklisting: Sources

The UN had added Riyadh and the coalition of countries supporting it in its war on Yemen to the blacklist for being responsible for 60 percent of child casualties in the Arab country last year, when it killed 510 children and injured 667 others.
Riyadh, angered by the report, demanded its “correction” and on Monday UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed to the kingdom’s proposal to jointly review the report.
“Pending the conclusions of the joint review, the secretary-general removes the listing of the coalition in the report’s annex,” Dujarric said.
Amnesty International decried the “blatant pandering,” which it said “damages the credibility of the UN as a whole”.
“It is unprecedented for the UN to bow to pressure to alter its own published report on children in armed conflict. It is unconscionable that this pressure was brought to bear by one of the very states listed in the report.”
“This is a stark example of why the UN needs to stand up for human rights and its own principles – otherwise it will rapidly become part of the problem rather than the solution,” said Amnesty.
The British charity group Oxfam said the world body’s decision to retract its findings was “a moral failure.”

UN blacklist U-turn bearing fruit for Saudis: 24 US gunships by month-end

Saudi Arabia’s remaining on the UN’s violators of children rights blacklist would have jeopardized the delivery of 24 US AH-6i Little Bird attack helicopters to Riyadh.
On Wednesday, American multinational corporation Boeing announced that it would start delivering the choppers, being built at a production plant in Mesa, Arizona, to Riyadh by the end of the month.
The AH-6is are capable of being armed with Hellfire missiles,rocket launchers, miniguns, and machine guns.
Boeing was given the $234-million military contract in August 2014 by the US army.

I imagine it was the US/Boeing as well as the Saudi murderers themselves who slapped the UN into shape. The US/UN/EU are a unit now. All war all the time.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 8 2016 23:54 utc | 121

|@ Penelope | Jun 7, 2016 7:17:47 PM | 117
Serendipitous find and timing, The Guardian (one of your favourite sources) has produced this which you might find of interest re your comments. You don’t suppose there might be a relation between the article’s lead sentence and what motivates ‘rg the lg’ to hold such an extreme historical perspective basically stated: The present clique in power is corrupt to its core, therefore everything that was before it was corrupt to its core as well since ‘its turtles all the way down’ and everyone was doing ‘it’. Examine that logic and see if you can disprove what was not the case being made, something that never happened as is being claimed. Beware of confounding a certain segment of the population that have preceded the present governing clique that has historically identifiable antecedents from the remote past that may have exerted influence or held power even but had been eclipsed by the modern liberal modality until the recent several decades. Understanding requires nuance and ‘rg the lg’ will not allow your use of that devise to reach your own conclusion; a corruption of historical understanding itself. See what grows from those seeds and see if you want those weeds in your garden.

China’s memory manipulators
The country’s rulers do not just suppress history, they recreate it to serve the present. They know that, in a communist [read Authoritarian] state, change often starts when the past is challenged
by Ian Johnson

[my insertion]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/chinas-memory-manipulators

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jun 9 2016 10:31 utc | 123

Interesting news from the increasingly suicidal financial capitalists…
Bond yields fall as fears rise over global economic growth

This week the Fitch rating agency reported that negative yielding government debt globally had now risen to more than $10 trillion following a 5 percent increase in bonds with a sub-zero yield. This means that the price of the underlying bond is rising, as yields and the price move in an inverse relationship.
Initially negative yields only affected the shortest-term bonds but the phenomenon is spreading and now encompasses seven-year German Bunds and 10-year Japanese government bonds. This is impacting heavily on insurance companies and pension funds which rely heavily on positive rates on government bonds to finance their operations.
Commenting on the $10 trillion mass of negative yielding sovereign debt, Bill Gross, the former head of the world’s largest bond trading firm, tweeted: “Global yields lowest in 500 years of recorded history … This is a supernova that will explode one day.” This refers to a situation in which interest rates begin to rise, leading to a fall in the price of bonds, thereby creating massive losses for investors who have purchased them at inflated prices.
Gross is by no means the only one warning of a possible financial catastrophe. Capital Group, which manages about $1.4 trillion in funds, has warned that negative interest rates are distorting financial markets and might lead to “potentially dangerous consequences.”
The head of the Los Angeles-based bond house DoubleLine, Jeffrey Gunlach, recently described negative interest rates as “the stupidest idea I have ever heard of” and warned that the “next major event” for financial markets could be when the ECB and the Bank of Japan cancel the experiment.
Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, recently wrote in a note to investors, that there had been plenty of discussion about how low interest rates had contributed to the inflation in asset prices. But, he continued, “not nearly enough attention has been paid to the toll these low rates — and now negative rates — are taking on the ability of investors to save and plan for the future.”
In other words, out of the horse’s mouth so to speak, comes the warning that the parasitic policies which have proved so beneficial to the hedge funds and other multi-billion dollar financial speculators are undermining the central foundations on which the financial system has rested for decades.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 11 2016 20:11 utc | 125

First, my apologies for the repetition. My original post at 23 had not appeared, so assuming it had been too large, I broke it up. Even had problems with some of the pieces there in the 40’s.
I believe that one reason that the ICC has worked so hard to obscure the deeds of the Crimean Tatars during the Great Patriotic War is to make their putative nationalism more acceptable. Both Kiev and Ankara look to be ennabling this behavior, and Berlin is on board to give it the sheen of Euro-acceptability.
To the degree that the facts are obscured and culpability denied, it is easier to assert a sinister Russian hand behind recent actions against the the political leadership of the Tatars.
While the goal of a nation-state is not formally undertaken, there are elements within their arguments and actions that strongly suggest it is an unspoken goal.
This article arguing for the Tatars deploys several of the common memes of our collaborationists.
It begins by falsifying history. It asserts that resolution reversing the deportation “acknowledged in 1967 that the ‘Nazi collaboration’ charges had been fabricated.”
The lie is easily refuted. As seen earlier in the thread, a good number of Tatars served the occupiers. Russian Wiki on the Crimean Tatars quotes the resolution preamble that “after the liberation in 1944 year Crimea from fascist occupation the fact of active cooperation with the German invaders of one part of the Crimea Tatars were wrongfully attributed to the entire Tatar population of Crimea…” The ability to return was subject, the decree specified, was to be ” in accordance with the current legislation on employment” and the internal passport system.”
Tatar activists at the time viewed it as neither a amnesty nor rehabilitation but rather “another step towards the Elimination of the Crimean Tatar people as a nation”
It then continues to falsify history. “The right of return was only established with Ukrainian independence. Crimean Tatars returned to their homes from 1989 onward.” The Ukraine became independent in late 1991; some 38,000 had already returned by the 1989 Soviet census. Perestroika under Gorbachev ended the internal travel restrictions that served to restrict return.
Having then denied the reality of collaboration, it seeks to add to the Tatars preferred meme of a repetition of their earlier forced relocation. A state is needed to fight this.

The re-establishment of a Crimean Tatar homeland is a matter of simple historical justice – and for this very reason, it is doubtful any major power will give it much consideration. But lacking a secure national territory, and now lacking even a patron state, so to speak, to count as an ally, moreover lacking any kind of armed movement for its defence, the spectre of the world’s short attention-span leaving them behind is what now drives the exodus.

Officially, the argument the author makes is for autonomy. I think recent events show that a number of patrons are in the offing.

Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 12 2016 21:31 utc | 127

I earlier suggested an emerging Berlin-Kiev-Istanbul anti-Russian axis. The Germans and Turks have a long relationship, dating back to the late Ottoman Empire. The Germans built railways and aided in military modernization, and the Ottomans fought with the Central Powers in the Great War. The “German miracle” during the Cold War came in part through the labor of Turkish gastarbeiter.
As you may be aware, the recent vote by the Bundestag to condemn the Armenian genocide has strained these ties. Ankara and Berlin are, however, avowing that “their critical alliance would not be broken.”
One might think this link would be useful in enabling deepening German involvement in the Middle East. Aren’t there already enough cooks spoiling that broth?
Turkey and Ukraine Are an Alliance of Misfits, united by a “rapidly deteriorating economic situation and an ever increasing danger of civil war… [and] the understanding that they won’t be able to accede to the EU any time soon…. Turkey and Ukraine have found an urgent desire to provide mutual support, in a bid to create a ‘strategic alliance of misfits’ to share their envy of Russia.” Turkey wishes, in part, to gain access to advanced missile technology and other militarily useful systems.
Ukrainian emigre journalist Alexander Chalenko, writing in Izvestiya, thinks this relationship has the Ukraine Now Reduced Back to a Turkish Vassal.
He cites the statement of then-PM Ahmet Davutoglu during a visit to Kiev in Feb. 2016. The Crimea was the continuation of a process of “expansion and aggression” begun in Abkhazia. Russia has destroyed, he said, the territorial integrity of Georgia, the Ukraine, and Syria.

Of course, the restoration of the Ottoman Empire in one form or another is out of the question. Turkish authorities aren’t thinking about that now. The point is that Erdogan’s Turkey wants to protect and patronize the territories that once formed a part of the Ottoman Empire….
…The Ukraine is weaker than Turkey, considering both its economic and military potential. That’s why it cannot be an equal union: Ankara will lead, and the Ukraine will be led, a matrix that corresponds to the former Turkish-Ukrainian relations of suzerain and vassal, as under the Ottoman Empire.

I think “vassal” might be too strong a word, though piece captures the fundamental Master and Servant dynamic there.
So there we have it — they’ve gotten the old band together again, united in their common history of genocide, back to chipping away at the boundaries of Russia. The vanguard of the EU, no?

Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 12 2016 21:40 utc | 129

ASPI think tank warns of war with China and attacks on Australia

Three weeks out from the July 2 election, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has published a research paper titled Agenda for Change 2016: Strategic choices for the next government. ASPI strategists openly advise that the Australian government, during the next three-year term of parliament, will face the possibility that the tensions in the South and East China Seas could draw Australia into a full-scale war with China and result in attacks on the Australian mainland.
The strategists and analysts who prepare ASPI reports are fervent defenders of the US-Australia alliance and supporters of American and Australian imperialist operations on a world scale. They are not warning of the prospect of war from the standpoint of opposition, but to insist that the Australian government commit ever greater resources to the armed forces. Even if the provocative US challenges to Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea do not result in war in the next three years, the ASPI strategists advise the next Australian government that it has to be prepared to join Washington in a range of other military conflicts.

Will the Aussies take a nuke, or three, for Uncle Sam?
Agenda for Change 2016: Strategic choices for the next government pdf

Posted by: jfl | Jun 14 2016 1:11 utc | 131