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Russian President Putin knows a lot more about Syria than our President Obama does. President Putin wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times a few days ago. He presents a well-written article on his perspective of the Syrian situation. Here is a link to that article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all

I don’t want to belittle our prez when he’s in the middle of a world crisis but I don’t have to – he’s belittling himself with a lack of follow-thru regarding his “red line” comment about Syria’s use of chemical weapons – he seems to be caught in a storm of vacillation. This is reminiscent of when he was an Illinois state senator. He often voted “present” because he could not make a “yes” or “no” decision. This particular juncture of international politics is where Putin’s warrior spirit and Obama’s pussyboy spirit meet. Guess which one will win?

Now, if there was ever any doubt, the entire world knows that our President Obama is indecisive and has no concept of military strategies or tactics. His involvement in Syria is over two years late. I’m curious – I know that Valerie Jarrett is actually taking care of many of the presidential duties – but is she behind all of this presidential dithering? One thing is certain – a far-left liberal, socialistic-leaning, pacifistic, gay-loving, Saul Alinsky follower cannot a commander-in-chief be – that would be oxymoronic.

It is interesting to note that Russian President Putin is leading his country away from the suppressive environment of communist-based totalitarianism and into the refreshing atmosphere of a democracy-inspired market-driven economy. He is doing an incredible job of improving the lives of the Russian people. Is Putin perfect? Hell, no — only God is perfect. But Putin is way ahead of whoever is in third place.

President Putin is now the world leader in solving the Syrian crisis. And I think that that is a good thing. He is an expert on international policy in general and on Syria in particular — President Obama is not. Putin is a firearms expert and Obama is not. Obama has a strong domestic agenda for America but he is clueless when it comes to foreign policy. And Obama’s domestic agenda is, ironically, based on socialist principles – a political system Putin has rejected. Obama is a weakling and Putin is a he-man.

Secretary of State John Kerry and Obama are both trying to grapple with our international problems with their eyes wide shut. Luckily, Putin, who always pays attention, seems to be on the right track. He took Kerry’s bumbling comment about Syria’s giving up its chemical weapons stockpile to the United Nations, claiming it could never happen, and shoved it right back up Kerry’s ass. This situation caught Obama by surprise. Fortunately for all, Putin is a leader of men. Thanks to his lightning-quick thinking and decisive action – we seem to be on the way to a solution. Would I have preferred that Obama solve the problem with a rational solution? Of course – I’m a patriotic American — but I have been a long-time fan of Vladimir Putin thanks in part to a martial arts buddy, former UFC heavyweight champion Oleg Taktarov. I feel no animosity toward Putin – I have openly admired him for years. And the Stalin era is ancient history — Americans need to get over that.

This clearly illustrates several points: Putin is more intelligent than either Kerry or Obama who both have high-average IQs as accurately as I can tell, around 115 on the Stanford-Binet scale – the same category as JFK. I am aware that Fox News Channel pundit Bill O’Reilly claims that Obama has a brilliant mind. O’Reilly, of whom I am a fan, is flat-out wrong in this case. When asked by a friend how I know that Obama is not highly intelligent my response was, “Because I listen to what he says – not how he says it. He’s a dumb shit” And I do my own research. Obama was never a university professor. He was a lecturer and a senior lecturer.

Putin, as near as I can tell, is in the intellectually gifted category. He got his initial university degree in international law and went on to get a PhD in economics. And he has real-world experience in his early career choice – the KGB. He had to put theory aside and deal with his opponents on a pragmatic basis as he rose up in the ranks to Lt. Colonel. Once Putin entered the political arena, his no-holds-barred style proved very useful. His keen mind and strong martial arts background were the perfect complement to him. In addition to Russian, Putin speaks English, French and German.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, to his credit, speaks fluent French in addition to English. Obama, although he has openly criticized Americans for their lack of interest in foreign languages, speaks only English. This gives Kerry the edge on international issues – learning a foreign language opens the door to foreign cultures. Obama’s early Indonesian Muslim upbringing does not seem to have helped him in understanding other cultures.

I see Putin loosely as Russia’s equivalent to our President Regan. Putin is decisive and is a man of action — he lowered taxes in Russia, instigating a flat tax for both personal income and business and helped lower the unemployment rate. Now the Russian economy is improving despite global economic problems.

Our President Obama never owned a cap-gun as a child, never owned a BB gun and never became involved with firearms. He never studied martial arts and was never in fistfights. He was more of a sissy as a youth but he was pretty good at conflict avoidance. He became good at talking his way out of fights and he occasionally ran away. Because he was unwilling to confront conflict directly, he never developed the fighting spirit so common to most Americans.

Neither did Kerry, even though, again to his credit, he was a lieutenant in the US Navy. However, he applied for and received an early discharge so he could run for congress. Kerry developed a strong penchant for conflict avoidance while in Viet Nam. He never understood that in battle, you are there to fight. He was famous for fleeing the scene of skirmishes. This may partly be due to the fact that he went to a Swiss boarding school as a child and spent a lot of time with the French who are mostly a bunch of sissies – also known as surrender monkeys.

I find it mystifying that Obama and Kerry, both of whom received their higher education in America, speaking standard American-English, cannot seem to communicate with clarity to each other. Certainly, when elements of foreign cultures are added, Obama is not the guy to get the job done. Kerry is better at international affairs than the clueless Obama. Obama is a pencil-necked geek who never made the first string in basketball, was too slow to run track and too frail to play football. His body language suggests gayness. In contrast, Kerry was a three sport athlete at Yale — soccer, lacrosse and hockey. However, like Obama, he was a mediocre player at best – partly because is a low risk-taker. But he is an excellent skier, snow-boarder, windsurfer and stunt flyer – he is licensed to fly nearly anything. On script for a low risk-taker, he did chicken-out when he attempted to fly under the Oakland Bridge. Oh, well. But, what happened to his face? My sympathies.

I suggest that our politicians stop calling Putin a thug. Do a little of your own research — speaking of Putin in that way is just flaunting your own ignorance. And Senator John McCain – just shut your yap. Even though I agree with your lovely daughter Meghan that you are a badass — you are so old school. Retire and devote yourself to your beautiful wife Cindy and listen to Meghan – she has a wonderful sense of humor and is politically savvy. But, I must give you credit for being the only politician whom I have ever witnessed giving a straight answer to an interviewer. You were on a talk show a few years ago and Letterman or Leno asked you several questions. You replied to each question with a yes or a no. Then you explained the salient details. That was brilliant. Others need to take an example from that. And Senator Lindsey Graham, whom I think is gay, is an embarrassment to most Americans. Graham has a talent for saying what his immediate audience wants to hear. He should listen more and yammer less. And he needs to take a lesson from Obama – get a beard.

Anyway, since Russian President Vladimir Putin has become involved; the situation in Syria should improve. We thank him for that. I hope he helps with Iran as well. Iran could be a huge problem with its nuclear situation. Once Obama is out of office, I hope that our next president will further strengthen our alliance with Russia – this would be a good thing for the whole world.

Note that for perspective, I’m a lifelong martial artist, have had scores of fistfights, winning nearly all of them, and I’m a handgun and rifle expert. I notice that Putin, who is a marksman, is right-hand dominant but aims with his left eye. My friendly advice to him – always keep both eyes open when you shoot no matter which eye is dominant. If you ever get to Phoenix; I invite you to go out to the shooting range with me and I’ll go over the benefits of so doing.

See Putin’s shooting stance here:

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/matt-drudge-putin-is-the-leader-of-the-free-world_092013

Ron Bryan

Ron Bryan, a CU alumnus, is a registered Independent in Arizona and he holds libertarian conservative, or, Conservatarian views. He’s a former mental health care provider — he was a councilor and designed and ran the Group Therapy program at the Boulder Memorial Hospital psychiatric unit. His professional background also includes journalism, military weapons projects, the entertainment industry, Emmy and Ace awards and book authorship

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Instead of embracing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to save Washington from another disastrous war—his plan would put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control and destroy them—influential segments of the American political-media establishment are bent on discrediting him and thus in effect the alternative to war he represents. Still worse, purportedly liberal and progressive voices are playing a full-throated role in this mindless denigration of Putin, notably on CNN [1] and MSNBC [2].

They seem indifferent to what is at stake, especially now when the Obama administration should be an eager full partner in the Putin option. Even a “limited” US military strike against the Syrian regime would almost certainly kill still more innocent people without eliminating Assad’s chemical weapons capacity; again incite Muslim and Arab passions against America; make negotiations on Syria’s murderous civil war even more difficult; undercut Iran’s recently elected moderate president; establish yet another US precedent of unsanctioned unilateral war; provoke other weak states to redouble their efforts to acquire nuclear weapons in order to prevent such an American attack; further diminish the UN as a peacemaking alternative; and worsen the perilous drift toward renewed cold war between Washington and Moscow.

Nonetheless, Putin-bashing on the right and the left, featuring mostly irrelevant, baseless or hyperbolic allegations about his political record, continues unabated with scarcely any countervailing voices in the mainstream media. It ranges from characterizing Putin as “a KGB thug [3]” whose policies at home are akin to those of Saddam, Stalin and Hitler to claiming that his entire foreign policy, past and present, consists of the “restoration of the Russian empire [4]” and “poking America in the eye [5].” (Do these commentators know that Putin did more to assist the US ground war in Afghanistan after 9/11 than did any other head of state and continues to facilitate the supplying of American and NATO forces still fighting there? That he backed harsher sanctions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and refused to sell Teheran a highly effective air-defense system? Or that his agencies shared with Washington counter-terrorism information that might have prevented the Boston bombings in April.)

There are other Putinophobic follies—in addition to mocking a photo of him bare-chested on horseback and alleging that he stole a NFL championship ring [6]—most of them trivial, preposterous and self-debasing. A Democratic senior senator tells CNN he “almost wanted to vomit” when he read Putin’s New York Times op-ed explaining his peace proposal. Republican John McCain was equally contemptuous of the article, dismissing it as “Orwellian [7]” and Putin as a “mammoth ego [8].” And a liberal magazine’s Russia expert assured viewers that Putin really doesn’t care what happens in Syria, only about his own self-aggrandizement, and, anyway, most of his supporters at home are “chubby women over fifty [9]”—this to the appreciative chuckles of the other chic women on the CNN panel. (So much for senatorial statesmanship and respect for older women.)

None of this is new, but it is now an imminent threat to essential interests of the United States and the entire international community. More than a year ago, I published a short article warning against the US media’s relentless “demonetization of Putin,” detailing the lack of facts or logic. I pointed out that “this ritualistic Putin-bashing” comes “at a time when US national security requires long-term cooperation with Moscow on vital fronts” and “makes rational US policy-making all the more difficult.” Because this is even truer today, that article is re-posted below.

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Stop the Pointless Demonization of Putin

Stephen F. Cohen | May 7, 2012

Editor’s Note: This [10] article originally appeared at Reuters [11].

American media coverage of Vladimir Putin, who today began his third term as Russia’s president and 13th year as its leader, has so demonized him that the result may be to endanger U.S. national security. For nearly 10 years, mainstream press reporting, editorials and op-ed articles have increasingly portrayed Putin as a czar-like “autocrat,” [12] or alternatively a “KGB thug,” who imposed a “rollback of democratic reforms” under way in Russia when he succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president in 2000. He installed instead “venal regime [13]” that has permitted “corruptionism, [14] encouraged the assassination of a “growing number” of journalists and carried out the “killing of political opponents.” Not infrequently, Putin is compared to Saddam Hussein and even Stalin.

Well-informed opinions, in the West and in Russia, differ considerably as to the pluses and minuses of Putin’s leadership over the years—my own evaluation is somewhere in the middle—but there is no evidence that any of these allegations against him are true, or at least entirely true. Most seem to have originated with Putin’s personal enemies, particularly Yeltsin-era oligarchs who found themselves in foreign exile as a result of his policies—or, in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in prison. Nonetheless, U.S. media, with little investigation of their own, have woven the allegations into a near-consensus narrative of “Putin’s Russia.”

Even the epithet commonly applied to Putin is incorrect. The dictionary and political science definition of “autocrat” is a ruler with absolute power, and Putin has hardly been that. There are many examples of his need to mediate, sometimes unsuccessfully, among powerful groups in the ruling political establishment and of his policies being thwarted by Moscow and regional bureaucracies. Moreover, if Putin really were a “cold-blooded, ruthless” autocrat, tens of thousands of protesters would not have appeared in Moscow streets, not far from the Kremlin, following the December presidential election. Nor would they have been officially sanctioned—as were the thousands who gathered yesterday before a small group breached the sanctioned lines and violence ensued—or shown on state television.

But consider the largest, and historically most damning, accusation against Putin. Russian democratization began in Soviet Russia, under Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1989-91. “De-democratization,” as it is often called, began not under Putin but under Yeltsin, in the period from 1993 to 1996, when the first Russian president used armed force to destroy a popularly elected parliament; enacted a super-presidential constitution; “privatized” the former Soviet state’s richest assets on behalf of a small group of rapacious insiders; turned the national media over to that emerging financial oligarchy; launched a murderous war in the breakaway province of Chechnya; and rigged his own re-election. (On February 20, outgoing president Dmitri Medvedev shocked a small group of visitors by finally admitting that Yeltsin had not actually won that election against the Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov.) Putin may have only moderated those fateful policies, but he certainly did not initiate them.

The catastrophic Yeltsin 1990s, which have been largely deleted from the U.S. media narrative, also put other anti-Putin allegations in a different perspective. The corruption rampant in Russia today, from seizures of major private investments to bribes demanded by officials, is a direct outgrowth of the violent and other illicit measures that accompanied “privatization” under Yeltsin. It was then that the “swindlers and thieves” denounced by today’s opposition actually emerged.

The shadowy practices of that still-only-partially reformed economic system, not Kremlin politics, has led to the assassination of so many Russian journalists, most of them investigative reporters. The numbers, rarely cited by era, are indicative. According to the American Committee to Protect Journalists, 77 Russian journalists have been murdered since 1992—41 during Yeltsin’s 8 years in power, 36 during Putin’s twelve years.

The exceptionally vilifying charge that Putin has been behind the killing of political opponents focuses mainly on two victims—the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot to death in Moscow in 2006; and a reputed KGB defector, Aleksandr Litvinenko, who died of radiation poisoning in London, also in 2006.

Not a shred of evidence or an element of logic points to Putin in either case. The editors of Politkovskaya’s newspaper, the devoutly anti-Putin Novaya Gazeta, believe her killing was ordered by Chechen leaders, whose human-rights abuses were one of her special subjects. And there is no conclusive proof even as to whether Litvinenko’s poisoning, despite the media frenzy and rupture in British-Russian relations it caused, was intentional or accidental. (Significantly, Scotland Yard still has not released the necessary autopsy report.)

In other circumstances, all of this ritualistic Putin-bashing would be merely a cautionary example of media malpractice, an anti-textbook for journalism schools. But it has made Putin’s Russia toxic in Washington, in both political parties and especially in Congress, at a time when U.S. national security requires long-term cooperation with Moscow on vital fronts: from countries and regions such as Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and the entire Middle East to issues such as nuclear weapons reduction, stopping nuclear proliferation, and preventing terrorism.

In all of these regards, the relentless demonizing of Putin makes rational U.S. policymaking all the more difficult. Mitt Romney’s recent assertions that Russia is America’s “number one geopolitical foe” and that Moscow has made no “meaningful concessions” seem to reflect widespread ignorance or amnesia. Are U.S. policymakers aware of Putin’s extraordinary assistance to the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan after 9/11, his crucial help in supplying NATO troops now there or his support for harsher sanctions against Iran? Do they know that for these and other “pro-American” concessions he is viewed by many Russian national security officials as an “appeaser?”

Many years ago, Will Rogers quipped: “Russia is a country that no matter what you say about it, it’s true.” Evidently, it is still true, but it’s no longer funny.

Editor’s Note: This [10] article originally appeared at Reuters [11].

Stephen F. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at New York University and Princeton University. His recent book, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War [15], is out in paperback (Columbia University Press).

Links:
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/opinion/gingrich-putin-history/?hpt=hp_bn7
[2] http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/53005952/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MsnbccomRachelMaddowShow+(Rachel+Maddow+on+MSNBC)
[3] http://thehill.com/video/house/308721-rep-king-obama-being-outmaneuvered-by-kgb-thug-putin
[4] http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/putin-kgb-russia/2013/06/30/id/512660
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/world/europe/snowden-empty-seat-deepens-a-mystery-in-moscow.html
[6] http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/9392090/vladimir-putin-denies-stealing-new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-super-bowl-ring
[7] http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/12/cg.01.html
[8] http://video.foxnews.com/v/2670982112001/mccain-things-are-going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket-here/
[9] http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/12/se.01.html
[10] http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/05/07/stop-the-pointless-demonization-of-putin/
[11] http://www.reuters.com/
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[13] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putins-big-election-win/2012/03/06/gIQAMxNBvR_story.html
[14] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/russias-corruptionism/2011/09/25/gIQAuCoGxK_story.html
[15] http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Fates-Lost-Alternatives-Stalinism/dp/0231148976

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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The founder of the cult of the meteorite church is strongly against the operation to bring the chunk out of the lake, claiming that as long as the meteorite stays at the bottom of the lake, it is “in a positive environment”.

“Contact with outsiders, who treat it as an average stone, can violate the information contained in it. We already see the perturbation of the noosphere from constant attempts to lift the meteorite in fomenting international instability around Syria,” Breyvichko told the First Regional Channel.

There are currently about 50 believers in the Church of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite. These days they are busy holding rites on the shores of the lake, trying to protect the meteorite by building “protective barriers” around it, LifeNews.ru reported.

“I think it won’t hurt Chelyabinsk to become a truly holy city, home to a great temple that will be the object of pilgrimage for millions of people from across the world,” Breyvichko stated.

Read More Here >>> http://rt.com/news/meteorite-church-established-russia-971/

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Read more: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601130916,00.html#ixzz2f2lr6xod

This is called “Truth in a Nutshell” or you may say also, A picture is worth a thousand words…

America is that scared of the truth?

We live in a wall surrounded lie?

The USA media is bought and paid for?

Still not understanding?

Ask yourself this, “Why is the cover different for the U.S. version than the rest of the world?”

Oh for your information, the rest of the world is a whole lot bigger than the U.S. and worth a whole bunch more on all aspects, but we are made to cover up the truth all the time in the U.S.

Oh the “Haters Gonna Hate” over this…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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You want this Fish? Come and take it…

I thought So!

via sergeydolya

I travel a lot and take pictures. In my reports, I’m trying to tell you about this country so that you have the impression that you were there with me. I do not miss the small details and do not publish standard tourist shots. I do not write the guide in the countries, and I share with you my impressions. Often, they do not necessarily reflect the official opinion – do not judge strictly 🙂

If you love to travel virtually, I’ll try to give you the opportunity. Enjoy! Sergey Dolya

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The alleged chemical weapons use in Syria is a provocation carried out by the rebels to attract a foreign-led strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit.

There was no 50/50 split of opinion on the notion of a military strike against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, Putin stressed refuting earlier assumptions.

Only Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia and France joined the US push for intervention, he said, adding that the UK Prime Minister’s position was not supported by his citizens.

Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Italy were among the major world’s economies clearly opposed to military intervention.

President Putin said the G20 nations spent the “entire” Thursday evening discussing the Syrian crisis, which was followed by Putin’s bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron that lasted till 3am Moscow time.

Russia “will help Syria” in the event of a military strike, Putin stressed as he responded to a reporter’s question at the summit.

“Will we help Syria? We will. And we are already helping, we send arms, we cooperate in the economics sphere, we hope to expand our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere, which includes sending humanitarian aid to support those people – the civilians – who have found themselves in a very dire situation in this country,” Putin said.

Putin said he sat down with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit and talked for about half an hour in “a friendly atmosphere”.

Although the Russian and the American leaders maintained different positions regarding the Syrian issue, Putin said they “hear” and understand each other.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry will continue discussing the situation in Syria “in the short run,” Putin said.

Meanwhile, President Obama reiterated in his summit speech that the US government believes Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces were behind the chemical weapons use.

Obama pledged to make a good case on the issue for both the international community and the American people, saying many nations are already “comfortable” with the US’ opinion.

While admitting “a number of countries” at the summit stressed any military action plan should go through the UN Security Council, Obama said the US is in a different “camp” that questioned the UNSC effectiveness.

“Given the Security Council’s paralysis on this issue, if we are serious about upholding a ban on chemical weapons use, then an international response is required and that will not come through the Security Council action,” Obama said.

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The BRICS nations have decided to fund their development bank with $100 billion. The reserves are aimed at financing joint development ventures, and are set to rival the dominance of the World Bank and the IMF. “At the final stage of realization – the initiative to create a BRICS forex reserve pool – the size of its capital has been agreed at $100 billion,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said while opening the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg. Russia, Brazil and India will contribute $18 billion to the BRICS currency reserve pool, while China $41 billion and South Africa $5 billion, according to a press release issued by the BRICS on Thursday..

Kick the G7 in the mouth before the G20 starts…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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The Russian President Putin has stressed, that no matter who used the weapons of mass destruction in Syria it was a crime. A crime that has to be applied to both sides and not just one or the other…

Putin said…

“We don’t defend this government (of President Assad). We defend completely different things: we defend the norms and principles of international law, we defend the modern world order, and we defend the discussion of the possibility of the use of force exclusively in the framework of the current international order, international rules and international law. That’s what we are defending. This has the absolute value. When issues associated with the use of force are solved outside the UN and the Security Council, then there is a fear that such wrong decisions may be taken against anyone and under any pretext.”

Putin also said…

“If it is established that the means of mass destruction were used by the militants, what will the US do with these militants? What will these sponsors do with the militants? Will they stop weapons’ supplies? Will they start operations against them?”

Kind of sad in a way, that the Leader of the Free World is in Russia now. I use to take pride that we in America lead the world in liberty, freedom and justice. Looks like times have changed…

Actually I was too indoctrinated to see it when I was younger. Just like you are…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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I will take the coffee…

It is really very simple, as simple as Pie! War is money, whether it is protecting that money, making that money or spending that money. It is all as Simple as can be. There is no deep thoughts behind it all. There is no in-depth discussion necessary. In fact it is so simple that it becomes obscure to everyone trying to understand it…

War is the 7 Sins at it best (Greed, Pride, Lust, Sloth, Anger, Envy and Gluttony) and at its lowest form, war includes all the bad dredges of society at its core. Death, rape, pillaging, destruction, torture, evil, slander and a hundred other, not very tasteful things that go along with the above…

I always wonder why no one stops and looks around themselves and admits that it does not matter in this world, who is in charge. Be it a dictator, democracy, communism, socialism, autonomy‎, federalism, oligarchy, monarchy, welfare state‎, totalitarianism‎, theocracies, republics, caliphates and or a Buddhist government. They all are driven by the same standards and goals. Money is at the top of the list and without it you do not have a government of any type. For without money you have no control and money is the bases of all control in the world…

So now as I sip that cup of coffee and watch the west expand the drum beats of war to include all amplifiers that they can get hold of. I see that the west will play the record until everyone tunes out the song and then the west will dance the dance of death, as it destroys another country, leader and the people…

Why just look at how well it turned out in the recent years in Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan to name just a few. Why they are something to be proud of and we only killed millions upon millions of innocents, to get these countries to the state of permanent chaos! Then we spent trillions of dollars, of money that could have made people in the USA live a hell of a lot better life. In fact that money could have fed the world and no one would be starving in the world…

So now the games are being played, the bribes are being offered, the corruption is reaching the highest level of any country in the world and favors are being called in…

Yes this is the USA and it is number one alright!

Number one in corruption, war, bribery, death, hate and many other wonderful aspects of life. Just think we could be known for being a country of peace, instead we are known for demise…

By the way: Welcome to the real “Orwell 1984” – 90% of the population says no to war and the government will do what it wants to do, because you do not matter…

Move along now, nothing new here…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Hollywood and America Reek of Nazi Influence…

The studio heads, who were mostly immigrant Jews, went to dramatics lengths to hold on to their investment in Germany. Although few remarked on it at the time these men followed the instructions of the German consulate in Los Angeles, abandoning or changing a whole series of pictures that would have exposed the brutality of the Nazi regime…. At the center of the collaboration was Hitler himself. Hitler was obsessed with movies and he understood their power to shape public opinion. In December of 1930, two years before becoming dictator of Germany, his party rioted against All Quiet on the Western Front in Berlin leading to the first instance of collaboration with the American studios…the collaboration involved not only the Hollywood studios and the German government but also a variety of other people and organizations in the United States…. If this is a dark chapter in Hollywood History, then it is also a dark chapter in American history.” Ben Urwand, The Collaboration

“The receptivity of the great masses is very limited and their intelligence is small but their power of forgetting is enormous.” Adolf Hitler

Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) is a disturbing, unsettling and must-read. That Hollywood’s studio heavyweights like Jack Warner and Carl Laemmle would cut scenes and dialog offensive to the ideology of National Socialism is a tough fact to digest. But aggressive capitalists, whether operating in US dollars or German Deutsche Marks, do not distinguish between good and evil (think Allen Dulles, famed Wall Street lawyer and OSS/CIA). Siphoning profit off from the clash between good and evil, or the suffering of good at the hands of evil, is part and parcel of the capitalist enterprise, particularly in the United States. Taking a “stand” only occurs if the balance sheet prospers, legal action is immanent, or national security interests—as defined by capitalists—are at stake. How else to explain the present day US alliances with Al Qaeda in Syria, the military junta in Egypt, and the love-fest with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain?

So once the nerves settle after reading The Collaboration, it becomes evident why both Warner and Laemmle would go so far as to cut language referring to Jews in many films of the 1930’s and even approve the firing of Jewish film industry employees in Germany. As The New York Times put it, “Even Jack Warner, praised by Groucho Marx for running “the only studio with any guts” after green lighting the 1939 film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” comes in for some revisionist whacks. It was Warner who personally ordered that the word “Jew” be removed from all dialogue in the 1937 film “The Life of Emile Zola,” Mr. Urwand writes, and his studio was the first to invite Nazi officials to its Los Angeles headquarters to screen films and suggest cuts.” And at one point, Germany had the nerve to request that Max Baer (Jewish) of the Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) be recast with a non-Jew.

Quentin Tarantino, in an interview in Jewish Journal, offers an explanation—and in other parts of the interview justification—as to why the film industry of the 1930’s would bend over backwards for Hitler. “Germany is special to this day; they’re a movie-going public. To some degree, even today, where-goes-Germany, where-goes-Europe. When you have big European grosses, Germany will be one of your biggest. And [at the time] they had a healthy film industry, and our stars were really popular there. So it was a big deal. They didn’t necessarily need to hear German language; they had no problem watching American movies — they dug ‘em.”

Hitler: Propaganda Principles Alive in 21^st Century

Urwand notes that Hitler saw the value of film for nationalist, mass propaganda long before other 20^th century leaders did. Hitler thought that “Books were worthless. A writer could never change the views of an ordinary man on the street…there was only one way to inspire change–thru the spoken word…the vast majority of people were inherently lazy and unlikely to pick up a book if it went against what they believed to be true…There was a chance that they might glance at a leaflet or poster advertising a contrary position but they would never give it sufficient attention to change their views…The picture in all its forms up to the film has greater possibilities…Here a man needs to use his brains even less, it suffices to look, or at most to read, extremely brief texts and thus many more readily accept a pictorial presentation than read an article of any length. The picture brings them in a much briefer time, I might almost say at one stroke, the enlightenment which they obtain from written matter only after arduous reading….

And as to the beauty of film for nationalist, mass propaganda, Hitler thought that “The same applies even to a movie…If movies were screened around 9 p.m., just when he and many other cinema goers watched them, they could have a powerful effect…The receptivity of the great masses is very limited and their intelligence is small but their power of forgetting is enormous….” According to Urwand, Hitler believed “people were more likely to be convinced by his speeches after sundown. They were also more likely to be seduced by a piece of theater,” in the evening.

Other Collaborations with Hitler

Wall Street, US Intelligence, American Industry: According to Christian Dewar in Making a Killing (note: the following edited for brevity). “Many Americans are probably not aware of the great extent to which U.S. corporations collaborated with the Nazi war machine during WWII. After WWI, many wealthy American industrialists, bankers and financiers invested in Germany, in part, to avoid onerous U.S. regulations and also to reap the tremendous profits from the rebuilding of the nation. Worried that there might be another war that would cause them to lose their investments, the directors of many of these companies plotted to protect their interests. Law firms like Sullivan and Cromwell specialized in helping to arrange these deals. When WWII broke out, the Dulles brothers, Allen (who was a partner in Sullivan and Cromwell) and John, helped these companies hide their assets. As a result, many Nazi industrialists and their American collaborators maintained their wealth after the war ceased.

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once stated that “The Dulles brothers were traitors.” Some historians believe that Allen Dulles became head of the newly formed CIA in large part to cover up his treasonous behavior and that of his clients. Not confined to a few isolated companies, some of America’s most prominent families and their financial empires worked with the Nazis well after the first bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor. On March 4, 1998, a woman from Belgium brought a suit against the Ford Motor Company and its German affiliate seeking compensation for the work she performed as a slave laborer for the company. Born in Russian, Elsa Iwanovwa claimed that she was abducted and forced to work at Ford’s plant at Cologne. As many as 10,000 men, women and children may have labored there, many of them from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The Ford plant in Germany played a major role in the Nazi war effort. While their American factories produced weapons for the allies, their German subsidiary manufactured troop transports, tracked vehicles, Panzer tanks, anti-tank guns and other crucial equipment for the Nazis. Providing weapons for both contestants in a world war was extraordinarily lucrative. It is alleged that high ranking American officials including Edsel Ford oversaw the German plant’s operations even during the war. Unlike most American businesses doing business in Germany during the war, Ford enjoyed significant independence and was never seized by the Nazi government. The reason for this was in large part due to the close friendship that endured between Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler. Ford was known for his virulent anti-Jewish views and he made substantial financial contributions to Hitler and the Nazi organization in its early years which may have sustained the party at a point where it might have otherwise collapsed.

Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf borrowed heavily from Ford’s book, The International Jew, a Worldwide Problem which was published in 1927. Hitler awarded Ford with Germany’s highest civilian honor, the Great Cross of the German Order of the Eagle. Hitler’s office had a large picture of Ford on the wall and stacks of Ford’s books to give away to associates. Jim Mooney, GM’s chief executive for overseas operations, was also awarded the Order of the German Eagle. Ford was only one of many American corporations that eagerly helped the Germans. Some did so for ideological reasons and others for the immense profits which could be realized.

Standard Oil has also been implicated in providing crucial support for the Nazi war machine. They helped the Germans develop plants and gave them the necessary technology for the manufacture of synthetic fuels and leaded gas. Standard Oil also assisted the Germans in stockpiling $20 million worth of petrol products in anticipation of the war. This deal was concluded with the assistance of the Wall Street investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman where the senior managing partner was George H.W. Bush’s father, Prescott Bush. It also is alleged that Standard made a deal with the Germans to thwart the development of synthetic rubber in the United States and to withhold a method of producing synthetic ammonia. The U.S. government eventually seized some of Standard’s patents. When the oil giant sued to retain them, their case was denied. A judge who reviewed the appeal stated that ‘Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships with I.G. Farben after the United States and Germany became active enemies.’

The Curtis-Wright Aviation Corporation was another U.S. company doing business with the Nazis. Their planes were well suited for dive bombing. Although the Nazi pilots used this technique as an integral part of their blitzkrieg strategy of warfare, it was developed by the US. It was so effective that air plane manufacturers were forbidden to teach this to foreigners. Curtis-Wright managed to get around this inconvenient policy by not ‘teaching’ it, but rather demonstrating it at air shows in order to boost sales to Hitler.

Several American corporations who had collaborated had the audacity to sue the American government for damage that had been inflicted on their German plants by Allied bombers. GM managed to extract $33 million for the destruction of their Folke-Wulf plant. ITT received $27 million and Ford, $ 1 million.

American banks have also been implicated in assistance to Nazi Germany including J.P. Morgan, Guaranty Trust of New York, Bank of the City of New York, Chase National Bank and American Express which turned over Jewish accounts to the Nazis. The Nazi government through Chase National Bank offered Nazi in America the opportunity to buy German marks with dollars at a discount. The arrangement was open to those who wished to return to Germany and would use the marks in the interest of the Nazis.

Other Nazi collaborators include William Hearst, the media giant. After meeting with top Nazi officials and the payment of substantial sums of money, Hearst agreed to a policy whereby his newspaper would only report favorably on Nazi affairs. Ultimately, the international corporations, the lawyers, bankers and financiers who collaborated with the Nazis prevailed. They exerted tremendous influence to thwart investigators delving into their seditious activities after the war. Many of the key players were elevated to senior positions in the U.S. government. Many of them were able to maintain their fortunes intact after the war. Officers from the Nazi intelligence and scientific communities became U.S. allies in the Cold War against the Soviets.”

US-Global Environmentalism: The Nazis had elements that were supportive of animal rights, zoos and wildlife, and took several measures to ensure their protection. In 1933 the government enacted a stringent animal-protection law. Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring were supporters of animal protection. Several Nazis were environmentalists (notably Rudolf Hess), and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the regime. Heinrich Himmler made efforts to ban the hunting of animals. Göring was an animal lover and conservationist. The current animal welfare laws in Germany are more or less modification of the laws introduced by the National Socialist regime. In 1935, the regime enacted the “Reich Nature Protection Act”. The concept of the Dauerwald (best translated as the “perpetual forest”) which included concepts such as forest management and protection was promoted….Efforts were also made to curb air pollution. Courtesy Wikipedia

US Military/Space Program: B2 Bomber predecessor the Horten Ho 2-29 made a successful test flight just before Christmas 1944, but by then time was running out for the Nazis and they were never able to perfect the design or produce more than a handful of prototype planes. Courtesy UK Telegraph.

Germany developed the first assault rifle the Sturmgewehr 44. They also fielded the first jet aircraft the Messerschmitt Me 262 in 1944. Germany also developed the first cruise missiles (V-1) and rocket-powered ballistic missiles (V-2). Though their impact on the course of the war was primarily psychological, after the war, Allied powers, especially the Americans, profited immensely from captured German technology and expertise in the development of rocket vehicles capable of space travel. Courtesy Wikipedia

Remembering the Nazi Scientist Who Built the Rockets for Apollo…According to The Atlantic, “Few figures in the history of technology provoke a reaction as quickly as Wernher von Braun. The rocket scientist was a card-carrying Nazi who built the world’s first ballistic missile with slave labor from concentration camps. As the war wound down, he surrendered to the Americans and took his rocket-building team and talents to the United States. Eventually, he became a leader in the American space program, building the rocket (the Saturn V) that carried Apollo 11 to the moon. Roger Launius, a senior curator in the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, wrote a nuanced evaluation of the man’s life. Wernher von Braun was a stunningly successful advocate for space exploration and has appropriately been celebrated for those efforts. But because he was also willing to build a ballistic missile for Hitler’s Germany, with all of connotations that implied in the devastation and terror of World War II, many of his ideals have also been appropriately questioned. For some he was a visionary who foresaw the potential of human spaceflight, but for others he was little more than an arms merchant who developed brutal weapons of mass destruction. In reality, he seems to have been something of both.”

Digital Computing: “…the computer is a German invention…the first computer was built in the living room of one Konrad Zuse in 1936. His “Z1” is now acknowledged as the first programme-controlled digital computer. Zuse also went on to devise the first ever programming language in the 1940s, and many modern mathematicians regard him as a pioneering genius. Part of the reason you’ve never heard of him is that he failed to find commercial success. Hardly anyone in post-war West Germany recognized the potential of Zuse’s creations, and he failed to get investors to help with the enormous development costs. His company Zuse KG, founded in the state of Hesse, was soon overtaken by giants IBM and Siemens, who bought him out in 1967.” Courtesy The Local: www.thelocal.de

John Stanton is the author of the US Army Human Terrain System 2008-2013: The Program from Hell available at Amazon and Kindle. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com.

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