IF there was even a slight ‘risk’ of war with China, we would first see US/vassal embassy/military/corporate nationals and dependents attempt to be ‘quietly’ evacuated from not only China, but SK, Taiwan & Japan.
Concurrently there would be signs of various preparatory & counter, activity in Far Eastern Russia, China, SK, Taiwan & Japan, especially. Also Vietnam/Thailand/Singapore, etc …
And the bobbleheads in your vassal AUS would be talking bellicose rhetorical BS as US Naval vessels, Aircraft/Bombers/AWACS/Air-Tankers/Cargo Transports, supply/support ships, vast materiel, Marines and Army/USAF & support/logistics troops re-located/built-up in AUS, & less so Japan, for the coming conflict. SK, Japan & Taiwan always, but Guam is now too exposed as well … IMHO.

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 17 2017 9:30 utc | 104

Some time to go yet Outraged. Aus leaders seem to be hedging their bets, but won’t be able to straddle the fence for long. Others the same. My guess, this is what NK is all about.
Fall out from whatever happens US vs NK to help turn US West against China.
jfl, if Russia has a win in Syria, it will help pull other countries out of the $US system, but other than that, Russia is not a threat to the US. So US is trying to show that Russia cannot protect small countries from the US, and will go to all lengths in Syria to try and prevent that happening, but the main focus will be on China. No doubt the will try and split Russia/China as Russian resources and tech combined with China’s manufacturing power will destroy the US as the hegemon, even if the US realises its wet dreams of isolating the two from the world.

Posted by: Peter AU | Apr 17 2017 10:11 utc | 106

On what is claimed to be Julian Assange’s Twitter page there is a photo of a man who is clearly not Julian Assange. It’s a doppelganger. Jim Stone was right, they’re trying to use a man who only resembles Julian who is in no way a double.
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange

Posted by: Michael McNulty | Apr 17 2017 11:27 utc | 108

interesting ‘tidbit’ from Syrian War Report – April 17, 2017: Govt Forces Reversed All Militant Gains In Northern Hama …

Separately, Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes against ISIS positions in Raqqah after receiving more info from the Iraqi intelligence. The Syrian Air Force destroyed a HQ of ISIS’ Hesbah (religious police) and the ISIS finance ministry building. Airstrikes also destroyed the ISIS Fatwa council inside Raqqah. Two ISIS commanders were killed. One of them is “Abu Bakr Bin Habib Al-Hakim” a France-Algerian terrorist. He was described as a military leader of ISIS in Raqqah.

… the syrian airforce operating over raqqa.

Posted by: jfl | Apr 18 2017 23:47 utc | 110

Mob killing of student by extremist groups sparks outrage across Pakistan

Viral footage showing the lynching of a 23-year-old university student by sympathizers of Wahhabism and Takfiri groups in northwestern Pakistan has sparked widespread public outrage.
The brutality of the attack, recorded on a mobile phone camera, shocked the public and led to widespread condemnation and protests in several cities over the past few days.
Journalism student Mashal Khan, who had been accused of blasphemy, was beaten and shot to death at a university in the northwestern city of Mardan on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Salahuddin Khan Mehsud, police chief of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has told a press briefing that investigators had so far found no evidence to support the blasphemy allegations against Khan
A second senior police officer in the region has accused extremist elements within police, prosecution service and judiciary of sympathizing with the attackers.
“There are hundreds of sympathizers in my force and if I take too much interest in the case I might be killed too,” AFP quoted the officer as saying

… saudi/al-cia-duh arsonists trying to torch pakistan? this kind of stuff together with tee-rump’s new bff erdogan makes me think that the cia is now in complete control of the tee-rump.

Posted by: jfl | Apr 19 2017 0:18 utc | 112

An unidentified actor or actors between November 2016 and January 2017 targeted a US water and sewage authority’s network, resulting in excessive cellular charges and unusual traffic on ports 10000 and 9600, according to an FBI source with excellent access who spoke in confidence but whose reliability cannot be determined. The FBI source indicated that […]

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 19 2017 1:29 utc | 114

Trump pushes reactionary “Buy American, Hire American” plan

“For too long, we’ve watched as our factories have been closed and our jobs have been sent to other faraway lands,” Trump declared. “We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization… But this election, the American people voted to end the theft of American prosperity. They voted to bring back their jobs—and to bring back their dreams into our country.”

tee-rump makes it sound as though the chinese shanghaied these jobs … of course it was american tncs that shut the factories and raced to china and elsewhere looking for the most exploitable workers on the planet to produce ‘their’ goods.

The program, first enacted in 1990, provides three-year visas to only 85,000 skilled and college-educated workers per year, mostly to computer programmers and other high-tech employees, along with a smaller number of doctors, medical trainees, public school and college instructors, engineers, entertainers and lawyers.
Silicon Valley employers like Google, Apple, Intel and outsourcing firms, which hold the visas and determine whether to renew them for another three years or sponsor a worker for a green card (permanent residence), certainly hold enormous leverage and can exploit these workers to the fullest.

this is the program that the late, great chipnik indentified as the one that ran him out of the usa.

Posted by: jfl | Apr 19 2017 6:49 utc | 116

looks like the rebranding of daesh in raqqa is proceeding apace …
US-backed Forces Created ‘Civilian Council’ To Rule Raqqah After Its Liberation

Gharib Hesso, a representative of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) [YPG is a military wing of the PYD], said that the council consists of persons that had fled from Tabqa, Raqqa and other areas and came to the SDF-controlled area.

Posted by: jfl | Apr 19 2017 11:58 utc | 118

Proof that the New York Times stealthily and regularly revises its articles after publication — Sott.net

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 19 2017 22:21 utc | 120

Proof that “World Government” is Banker Tyranny

(left, Rothschild agent Col. E.M. House with puppet Woodrow Wilson)
We revisit the “Col. E.M. House Report”, (1919), a chilling 10-page document
which proved the League of Nations was a facade for “British” (i.e. Masonic Jewish) imperialism. “The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies.”
The report oozes contempt for Americans and reveals the “system of thought control” the bankers employed almost 100 years ago. These goals and methods have not changed. If ever we needed proof that democracy is a charade, this is it.
from June 9, 2009 by Henry Makow Ph.D
In 1919, the Rothschild-dominated Bank of England planned to trick the United States into becoming a “British” colony again by joining the League of Nations. The League of the Nations, like the “British Empire”, was the bankers’ fiefdom, and this strategem would merely formalize a colonial status which already existed.
The bankers took over the U.S. during the Teddy Roosevelt Administration (1901-1909) when Rothschild front J.P. Morgan alone controlled 25% of American business.
The “Col. E.M. House Report”, is a chilling 10-page “progress report” dated June 10,1919 which proves the League of Nations was an aborted attempt at world government and a facade for banker tyranny. The Report reveals the reality and the tactics behind the United Nations and globalization.
House writes: “We have wrapped this plan in the peace treaty so that the world must accept from us the League or a continuance of the war. The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies.”
The report oozes contempt for Americans and reveals the deceitful methods international finance employed almost 100 years ago to bring about world government. These goals and methods have not changed. If ever we needed proof of an elite conspiracy to subvert and enslave us, this is it.
PUPPET MASTER
The author is Col. Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), the Rothschild agent who secretly directed U.S. affairs during the Woodrow Wilson administration. Col. House was known as Wilson’s friend and “alter ego.” (He had not served in the military and the term “Colonel” was merely honorary.) The report is addressed to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization.
Rep. Jacob Thorkelson (1876-1945) introduced The House Report to Congress in Oct.1939 and published it in the Congressional Record (Oct. 13 1939, pp.598-604). Attempts to delete it were thwarted. The complete text is available on line.
The report details Col. House’s progress in preparing “for the peaceful return of the American colonies to the dominion of the Crown.”
“Crown” refers to the owners of the Bank of England. Their identities are an official secret. According to E.C. Knuth, the “international financial oligarchy uses the allegoric ‘Crown’ as its symbol of power and has its headquarter in the ancient city of London…the giant Bank of England, a privately owned institution… is not subject to regulation by the British parliament and is in effect a sovereign world power.” (The Empire of the City, p. 59)
Col. House continues: The “peaceful return of the American colonies” can only be brought about with “the consent of the dominant group of the controlling clans.”
Col. House relates how these classes are being taught to accept “British” leadership. He details how the universities and press are staffed by “British-born” or Canadians.
“Through the Red Cross, the Scout movement, the YMCA, the church, and other humane, religious, and quasi religious organizations, we have created an atmosphere of international effort which strengthens the idea of unity of the English speaking world.”
The Overseas Clubs, service clubs, and war charities “enable us to pervade all sections and classes of the country.”
We “hold all American newspapers as isolated from the non-American world as if they had been in another planet instead of another hemisphere. The realization of this by the Associated Press and the other universal news gatherers, except Hearst, was most helpful in bringing only our point of view to the papers they served.”
He boasts that the United States “while still maintaining an outward show of independence” is identical with other colonies in its relationship to the Crown. “Has not President Wilson cancelled the big Navy program and dutifully conceded to us the command of the seas?”
He boasts that “the Anglo American alliance” has become “the unchallenged financiers of the world.”
He congratulates “our fiscal agents Messrs Pierpont Morgan & Company” for “putting this country into the war.” They exert “widespread influence on newspaper policy” through advertising and lent $200,000,000 to Japan to build a fleet to compete with America (making the U.S still more dependent on England.)
Col. House boasts that the “Crown” used money lent by the U.S. government for war purposes to buy up oil fields in California, Mexico and Latin America.
“The war has made us custodians of the greater part of the world’s raw materials… [We] now largely control the oil fields of the world and thereby the world’s transportation and industry.”
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS RUSE
The pressing issue now is to “transfer its dangerous sovereignty from this colony to the custody of the Crown. We must, in short, now bring America within the Empire.”
The first step was Wilson’s plan for the League of Nations “which we prepared for him.”
“The plain people of this country are inveterate and incurable hero worshippers,” Col. House explains. They easily can be manipulated by a man with a slogan that expresses their “undefined aspirations.”
Afterwards, they will trust the sloganeer no matter what he does. Wilson has gained this trust and this accounts for “his exceptional usefulness to us.”
“Any abrupt change might startle the ignorant American masses and rouse them to action against it. And us. Our best policy therefore would be to appoint President Wilson the first president of the League… he will be able to satisfy [Americans] that far from surrendering their independence to the League, they are actually extending their sovereignty by it…”
Foreshadowing The Patriot Act, Col. House says Woodrow Wilson “alone can father an anti-Bolshevik act which judicially interpreted will enable appropriate punitive measures to be applied to any American who may be unwise enough to assert that America must once again declare her independence.”
Col. House goes into great detail about how Wilson must be massaged and manipulated. Many people think someone else wrote this Report but only Edward Mandell House knew Wilson this well.
For example he says Wilson “is easily slighted and remarkably vindictive.” The new British ambassador should be a “Wilson worshipper” and “a gentleman-in-waiting to the President.” He lists the gifts Wilson already has been given.
“OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM OF THOUGHT CONTROL” IS AT WORK
Col. House suggests staging the first session of the League of Nations in Washington.
“This will convince these simple people that they are the League and its power resides in them.”
He recommends a “series of spectacles by which the mob may be diverted from any attempt to think too much of matters beyond their province.”
“While awaiting these diversions for the vulgar, we are incessantly instructing them in the wonders of the league. Its praises are thundered by our press, decreed by our college presidents, and professed by our professors. Our authors, writers and lecturers are analysing its selected virtues… we have enlisted 8000 propagandists for the League. We have organized international and national synods, committees, conferences, convocations, conventions, councils…to herald the birth of the League as the dawn of universal peace.”
“Agriculturalists, bankers, brokers, accountants, chemists, and all other functional groups capable of exerting organized professional, business, financial or social pressure are meeting to endorse the League in the name of peace, progress and prosperity…Our film concerns are preparing an epoch-making picture…”
“In short, our entire system of thought control is working ceaselessly, tirelessly, ruthlessly, to ensure the adoption of the League. And it will be adopted, for business wants peace, the righteous cannot resist a covenant, and the politicians, after shadow boxing for patronage purposes, will yield valiantly lest the fate of the wanton and wilful pursue them.”
CONCLUSION
Thanks to the valiant opposition of Republican Senators, the United States rejected the Peace Treaty and with it the League of Nations Nov. 19,1919. The plot was temporarily foiled.
But the secretive bankers’ covert campaign to impose world tyranny has not abated. They financed Hitler and engineered World War Two. The League of Nations was resurrected as the United Nations in 1945 and the “Cold War” initiated. Many believe we are in the early stages of “World War Three.”
All segments of society continue to be propagandized with the virtues of the UN. National institutions are subverted. The press and education continue to be controlled. Politicians are figureheads.
Some of the tactics have changed. The American empire has replaced the British Empire as their instrument of world hegemony. But Americans should not think they are serving their own interests. They are building a ‘new world order’ and its master is “the Crown.” In Col. House’s words, Americans will be colonists who have to “petition at the foot of the throne.”
The references to control of oilfields suggest that oil is first and foremost an instrument of world domination. The final stage of world tyranny involves gaining complete control of Middle Eastern oil. This portends an invasion of Iran.
The threat can no longer be characterized as strictly “Jewish.” Through Freemasonry, the Rothschilds have received a degree of collaboration from the world’s financial, cultural and political elites as to render this point moot.
Lemming-like, Western elites have embraced a death-wish for civilization.

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 20 2017 0:12 utc | 122

Lindner owned Penn Central before that bank went down in a fog of scandal. Walt Mischer sold Marathon Manufacturing to Lindner, whose American Financial Insurance conglomerate controls numerous transportation outlets that presumably move UB cocaine, including Rapid-American Corporation and Reliance Corporation. Lindner owns an 8% share of Gulf & Western Corporation, where Carter Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sits on the board. Gulf & Western is a leader in raw sugar refining, a process identical to the process used to turn opium into heroin. Lindner sold Lincoln S&L to Charles Keating, who did business deals with Rothschild representative and BCCI Geneva operator Alfred Hartman. The Arizona Republic reported that Keating’s corporate jets, along with those of Resorts International, are frequently use by Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain married Cindy Hensley, daughter of liquor magnate James Hensley, who is an associate of Arizona mobster Kemper Marley.
Lindner’s partner in UB is Detroit mob boss Max Fischer, who was put on the UB board by Donald Gant of Goldman Sachs. Another UB board member is Carter Panama Canal negotiator Sol Linowitz who, along with Cyrus Vance, was on the board at Pan Am. UB’s corporate headquarters is in New York’s Pan Am building. Max Fischer owns Airborne Freight with the Jacobs family of Buffalo, whose Sportsystems operates twenty horse racing tracks in the US and Canada. It runs food concessions at forty horse tracks, ten greyhound tracks, twenty-four Major League Baseball stadiums and Boston Garden. Jacobs own the Boston Bruins hockey team, an Alaska-Seattle shipping fleet, fifteen airport concessions, Florida jai alai stadiums and, most interestingly, food service concessions on Gulf of Mexico oil platforms.
The Jacobs’ Letheby & Christopher caters all events where European Black Nobility are present. The Jacobs’ Emprise conglomerate got its start in Buffalo in 1916 as the Canadian Bronfman family’s aptly-named Pure Drug Company US partner. Max Fischer’s headquarters in downtown Detroit is owned by the Bronfmans. Both Buffalo and Detroit sit on the US-Canadian border, convenient for the smuggling of HSBC-financed heroin from Vancouver to the US East Coast. HSBC has a huge presence in both cities. When Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles’ findings forced Kemper Marley to resign from that state’s racing commission, Bolles was murdered. One of the final words he uttered was, “Emprise”.
The Bronfmans control Eagle Star Insurance along with the huge Canadian and British banks that facilitate the Silver Triangle drug trade. They own DuPont, Seagrams, (they got their start bootlegging whiskey during Prohibition), Vivendi, the Toronto Jockey Club and (until its demise) the Montreal Expos baseball club. [468] The name Bronfman in Yiddish translates “whiskey man”. These staunch Zionists are involved in much Mossad/MI6 skullduggery.
Fischer and Jacobs’ Airborne Freight owns Midwest Express, which has an exclusive contract with the Federal Reserve to ship canceled checks, an operation which enjoys immunity from US Customs. Chase Manhattan Executive Vice-President James Carey sits on Airborne Freight’s board. Max Fischer owns Detroit shopping malls, Fruehauf Trucking and Marathon Oil. He used to work at Britain’s largest merchant bank- Hambros- where SOE Colonel Louis Mortimer Bloomfield worked. Fischer delivered Meyer Lansky funds and smuggled oil to the terrorist Haganah which seized Palestinian land to create Israel. In 1957 he was rewarded by the Rothschilds for his efforts when the family cut him into both Paz Oil and Paz Chemical, which hold a monopoly over the Israeli oil industry.
Fischer, like Bloomfield, is a member of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, the secret society that answers to Queen Elizabeth II. Bloomfield is chair of the Red Cross Ambulance Service, an intelligence arm of the British monarchy. [469] The Red Cross shares names with the Rosicrucian secret society founded in 1188 by Jean de Gisors, a vassal of British King Henry II and the first Grand Master of the Order of Sion. The Rosicrucians expanded under German Emperor Charlemagne. Their name glorifies the blood-covered cross on which anti-Illuminati rebel Jesus Christ was hung. The Knights Templar emblem is also the Red Cross. The Rothschilds use the Red Cross as family symbol. Their family name translates “red shield”.

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 20 2017 1:36 utc | 124

@125
looks real, going by the referenced reports of the action. the diplomat report was written by Ian Armstrong, a young professional in foreign policy, so it looks like the usofa is the ventriloquist behind the diplomat dummy. here’re some more young professionals in foreign policy :
Rebecca Yael Weissburg
Michael Williams
Derek Grossman
Alexandros Petersen
Akanksha Hazari
… the sky seems black with them.

Posted by: jfl | Apr 20 2017 4:20 utc | 126

‘Mad Dog’ brags of being anti-Iran in Saudi visit, Tillerson catches up and do the same
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/19/518706/Mattis-repeats-antiIran-lies-in-Saudi-
How many wars will Trump start? These people are hysterical. And where are our media now when Trump is showing aggression everywhere?!

Posted by: Anon1 | Apr 20 2017 8:16 utc | 128

@ Peter AU 102
My thought… Watch as relations between China and the US ‘West’ go downhill.
That just did…. downhill
Trump Signs Order Granting Steel Import Sanctions On “National Security” Grounds Link

At noon, Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for a probe whether imports of foreign-made steel are hurting U.S. national security. The order will revive a decades-old, rarely used law to explore imposing new barriers on steel imports, in this case aimed loosely at China.
Trump will sign the memorandum related to section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 at an event in the White House that will include leadersd of several U.S. steel companies; the law will allow the president to impose restrictions on imports for reasons of national security. Trump’s directive will ask Ross to conduct the probe “with all deliberate speed and deliver the results to the president with his recommendations.”
An official cited by Reuters sad that there are national security implications from imports of steel alloys that are used in products such as the armor plating of ships and require a lot of expertise to create and produce.
The move is another step in Trump’s “America First” policies in which he has tried to boost U.S. manufacturers and preserve American jobs. It comes as he tries to coax China into taking a more active role in reining in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The D.C. Imperials really think The Dragon, with their horde of gold and U$3 trillion foreign currencies reserves will be blackmailed or pressured. Never mind steel. Daily essentials from China will be waivered in. Please have your gold trade note ready before the containers for Walmart et al are off-loaded.

Posted by: likklemore | Apr 20 2017 17:03 utc | 130

Pepe Escobar provides an interesting overview of the French Election. Hopefully, likely voters will post a critique, http://www.atimes.com/article/play-france-prepares-tear-political-playbook/

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 20 2017 17:56 utc | 132

Aleksandar Vucic wins Serbian presidential elections with 55.08%
Serbia wants to buy S-300 missile systems, talking with Russia … 4 days ago

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 21 2017 0:57 utc | 134

I had to come here to post this because the perfect storm is on the horizon courtesy of Trump. Trump is coming completely unhinged and again I am vindicated in every way every day and then some.
Chelsea Manning should thank her lucky stars that Obama pardoned her at the 11th hour or she would end up leaving prison in a pine box. After Wikileaks literally helped to boost Trump in the polls when they dumped the DNC/Podesta emails, Trump is now showing his gratitude by mandating Pompeo and Sessions to prepare charges and an arrest warrant for Julian Assange. But this is not the worst he’s up to.
Trump is also reviewing the Iran deal and both he and Tillerson are trying to outdo each other war-mongering against Iran describing Iran as the biggest threat to the U.S., worst sponsor of terror and piling on the Neocon bullshit narrative that’s carrying on to Fox News where they’re calling Iran, North Korea on steroids. Trump crazy talk is infecting everyone’s brain.
However, Trump isn’t satisfied with trying to start war with Iran, he’s also ratcheting up tension with North Korea, and North Korea is threatening to retaliate with a barrage of missiles if provoked.
I’ve also been reading that Trump has been ordering air strikes in Somalia and now he’s sending in combat troops as well. What the hell is this lunatic up to?
(Of course all this doesn’t include what he’s got planned for Syria.)

Posted by: Circe | Apr 21 2017 1:43 utc | 136

Revolting thought of the day, courtesy of The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/alien-life
That the human species is the best there is.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Apr 21 2017 7:12 utc | 138

Nasty,
Macron, likly winner of French election on sunday boast that Obama called him
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/855129811144118274
A proof of what to come in France.

Posted by: Anon1 | Apr 21 2017 8:50 utc | 140

Turns out Dortmund football team attacker was a German-Russian guy having bought put options in Dortmund Football club shares.
From the memory hole: University of Zürich: Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets

n the airline sector 8 out of 15 of the selected transactions can be traced back to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Companies like American Airlines, United Airlines, Boeing and to a lesser extent Delta Air Lines and KLM seem to have been targets for informed trading activities in the period leading up to the attacks. The number of new put options issued during
that period is statistically high and the total gains Gt realized by exercising these options amount to more than $16 million. These findings support the evidence in Poteshman (2006) who also documents unusual activities in the option market before the terrorist attacks. The
separate appendix discusses in details our detected option informe
d trades before 9/11

Posted by: somebody | Apr 21 2017 10:14 utc | 142

@Circe 136
Inflammatory rhetoric notwithstanding, what is actually happening is that there have been *no* further attacks on Syria, and *no* escalation vis-a-vis NK. So far.
Trump is an ‘outsider’ who doesn’t have much of a backing in DC, and he knows nothing about foreign policy – which makes him a perfect puppet of the Neocons/ deep state/ capital (pick your term – it’s pretty much the same anyway). He’s easily manipulable by whatever info they feed him, and reacts impulsively to (real or staged) events.
Let’s hope that Xi, Lavrov and Putin did indeed have a little word with Trump and Tillerson and ‘showed them the instruments’.

Posted by: smuks | Apr 22 2017 0:08 utc | 144