BE AFRAID! HOW FEAR IS USED BY THOSE IN POWER

Nazi leader Hermann Göring explains how people can be made fearful and to support a war they otherwise would oppose:

"The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
This is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country." -- Gustave Gilbert (1947) Nuremberg Diary.

"One day, the war on terrorism will come to an end. All wars do. And when it does, we will find ourselves still living in fear: not of terrorism or radical Islam, but of the domestic rulers that fear has left behind.”
--from the book "Fear: The History of a Political Idea" by Corey Robin.

Terrorized by 'War on Terror'
by Zbigniew Brzezinski Sunday, March 25, 2007 WASHINGTON POST

"The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America.
The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America's psyche and on U.S. standing in the world.

Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us.

The damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound -- is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against us in distant Afghan caves. The phrase itself is meaningless. It defines neither a geographic context nor our presumed enemies. Terrorism is not an enemy but a technique of warfare

Constant reference to a "war on terror" did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue."

THAT FROM A MAN WHO AIDED REAGAN IN CONVINCING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT WE SHOULD ARM AND ASSIST THE TALIBAN AGAINST RUSSIA.
HE IS AN EXPERT AT INSTILLING FEAR, SO WE SHOULD TAKE HEED TO WHAT HE SAID.

Former Vice President Al Gore charged President George W. Bush's administration with a determination to "use fear as a political tool to consolidate its power and to escape any accountability for its use".
FOR ONCE, GORE WAS RIGHT.

FEAR...
Fear is a primal human state, an instinct, something that can save us or destroy us.

From childhood on, we fear the monsters of our imaginations, lurking in dark closets, under beds, in deserted alleyways, but we also now fear monsters in the deserts of the Middle East and the mountains of Pakistan... and the neighbors next door.

But perhaps it is possible to pause and subdue our fears by carefully observing reality — just as we might advise for trying to calm and comfort a fear-stricken child.

We might find that, in reality, the more immediate danger to our democratic society comes from those who lurk in the halls of power in Washington and other national capitols and manipulate our fears to their own ends.

What are these ends?
They are typically the protection of moneyed interests."

WORDS OF WARNING THAT WE MUST GAUGE OUR FEARS AND NOT ALLOW FEAR TO RENDER US VICTIMS OF IT.
WHO IS LISTENING TO THE WARNINGS, AND WHO SEES THE SIGNS THAT FEAR IS BEING USED TO SUBJUGATE AN ENTIRE NATION?


IT'S ALREADY BEGUN.... THE NEW ROUND OF FEAR FOR 2017, THE OMINOUS WARNINGS, THE DARK, SCARY POSSIBLE SCENARIOS OF HOW MANY AMERICANS COULD BE KILLED DURING NEW YEAR'S FESTIVITIES IN TIMES SQUARE, DURING SUPER BOWL, AND EVEN IN THEIR BEDS.

FEAR.

FEAR IS THE MOST MARKETED PRODUCT IN AMERICA.
THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYS AD-MEN AND PSYCHOLOGISTS TO BOTH "READ" AMERICA'S MOODS, SELL FEAR AND TO FIND NEW AND BETTER WAYS TO MAINTAIN THE CONTROL THAT INSTILLING FEAR GIVES THEM.

The New York Times:
Fifty States of Fear

"Bertrand Russell, writing as World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, observed that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
Even democracies founded in the principles of liberty and the common good often take the path of more authoritarian states.
They don’t work to minimize fear, but use it to exert control over the populace and serve the government’s principal aim: consolidating power.

Philosophers have long noted the utility of fear to the state.
Machiavelli notoriously argued that a good leader should induce fear in the populace in order to control the rabble.
Hobbes in “The Leviathan” argued that fear effectively motivates the creation of a social contract in which citizens cede their freedoms to the sovereign.

"...let there be no mistake about the consolidation of power in the form of the new surveillance state.

Last year President Obama brought the enemy closer to home, arguing in a speech at the National Defense University that “we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States” — radicalized individuals who were “deranged or alienated individuals — often U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
Recent revelations by Edward Snowden have shown an unprecedented program of surveillance both worldwide and on the American population.

Even Erik Prince, the founder of the private military contractor Blackwater Worldwide thinks the security state has gone too far:

"America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it’s allowing the N.S.A. to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.
I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America," Prince said.

The widespread outrage over the new surveillance state has been great enough that President Obama announced that he would scale back some of its programs, but he remained strident in his overall support for aggressive surveillance.

During the George W. Bush administration we were treated to the color-coded terror threat meter. It was presented as a way to keep us secure, but constantly wavering between orange and red, it was arguably a device to remind us to be fearful.

Similarly for the elaborate Transportation Security Administration screenings at airports. Security experts are clear that these procedures are not making us safe, and that they are simply theater. The only question is whether the theater is supposed to make us feel safer or whether it is actually intended to remind us that we are somehow in danger.

The security expert Bruce Schneier suggests it is the latter:

"By sowing mistrust, by stripping us of our privacy—and in many cases our dignity—by taking away our rights, by subjecting us to arbitrary and irrational rules, and by constantly reminding us that this is the only thing between us and death by the hands of terrorists, the T.S.A. and its ilk are sowing fear.
And by doing so, they are playing directly into the terrorists’ hands.

The goal of terrorism is not to crash planes, or even to kill people; the goal of terrorism is to cause terror. … But terrorists can only do so much.

They cannot take away our freedoms. They cannot reduce our liberties. They cannot, by themselves, cause that much terror.
It’s our reaction to terrorism that determines whether or not their actions are ultimately successful. That we allow governments to do these things to us—to effectively do the terrorists’ job for them—is the greatest harm of all."

As the Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendsen notes in his book “A Philosophy of Fear,” Hobbes already anticipated the need for the sovereign to manipulate our fears.

The state, Svendsen writes, “has to convince the people that certain things should be feared rather than others, since the people will not, just like that, fear what is appropriate from the point of view of the state. Hobbes points out that this can necessitate a certain amount of staging by the state, which magnifies certain phenomena and diminishes others.

Another such example of this misdirection of fear took place in the case of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, in which the Boston Police Department effectively imposed martial law and seized control of people’s homes and used them as command posts in their effort to apprehend the perpetrators.

The bombings were terrible (three people died and more than 260 were injured), but just two days later another terrible thing happened: a giant explosion in a fertilizer plant in Texas killed at least 14 people and injured more than 160. For a moment we held our collective breath.
Could it have been terrorists?

NO, IT WASN'T TERRORISTS, BUT MANY DIED.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
IT'S ALL IN HOW FEAR IS MARKETED.
AMERICANS ARE CONDITIONED TO FEAR WHAT WE'RE TOLD TO FEAR.
EXAMPLES:

(1) 300,000 residents of West Virginia were without safe drinking water (in 2014) after 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol leaked into the Elk River from an industrial storage tank at a plant owned by a company called Freedom Industries.

Few, if any, of the Sunday TV talk shows discussed the matter, but imagine the fear that would have been pedaled on those shows if "terrorists" had poisoned the water of those 300,000 Americans.
Of course the danger is the same whether the cause is terrorism or corporate indifference and malfeasance.

(2) In 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4,383 workers were killed on the job, and it has been at this level or higher since 9/11.
In other words, we suffer a 9/11 every year in terms of workplace fatalities.

But the problem is not limited to workplace deaths.
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. estimates another 50,000 die every year from occupational diseases. And none of this accounts for the thousands of workers who are permanently disabled each year.

In total, 54,000 Americans die every year due to work-related illnesses and accidents. This is the equivalent of 148 deaths each day; in terms of fatalities it is roughly a Boston Marathon bombing every half hour of every day.

But while we spend more than $7 BILLION a year on the T.S.A.’s national security theater in which over 58,000 T.S.A. employees make sure we are not carrying too much toothpaste or shampoo onto airplanes, the budget for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is under $600 million per year.
It seems that our threat assessments are flawed.

We are CONDITIONED to fear persons in caves in Pakistan but not the destruction of our water supply by frackers, massive industrial accidents, or the work-related deaths of 54,000 American workers every year. Fear of outside threats has led us to ignore the more real dangers from within."

"STAY HOME! DON'T TAKE CHANCES! IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS, CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT! WATCH YOUR NEIGHBORS, THEY COULD BE "HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS"! BE AFRAID, BUT BELIEVE US THAT WE WILL PROTECT YOU."

"BE AFRAID OF THE REPUBLICANS!" SAY DEMOCRATS.
"BE AFRAID OF DEMOCRATS!" SAY REPUBLICANS.

"BE AFRAID OF GAY PEOPLE, STRAIGHT PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE, WHITE PEOPLE, THE YOUNG, THE OLD, THE RICH, THE POOR, THE MEAT EATERS, THE VEGETARIANS, THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS, THE CORPORATIONS THAT DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
BE AFRAID OF CHRISTIANS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, ATHEISTS AND PAGANS.
BE AFRAID OF METEORS, FLYING SAUCERS, ALIENS LIKE E.T. AND ALIENS FROM ANYWHERE ELSE.
BE AFRAID OF CREATIONISTS, DARWINISTS, CLOWNS, ANIMALS, THE DARK, MOSQUITOES, THE SUN AND THE MOON.

JUST BE AFRAID.
YOU MUST BE AFRAID!"

AND MOST AMERICANS ARE AFRAID, SCARED OF THEIR OWN SHADOWS.
IT'S TAUGHT FROM BIRTH, ACCEPTED, EXPECTED, AND ENCOURAGED.

BE AFRAID TO FAIL, OR TO TRY, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT FAIL.
BE AFRAID TO BE UNIQUE, UNLIKE THE MASSES, TO BE AN INDIVIDUALIST.
BE AFRAID TO VOICE YOUR OWN OPINION...IT MIGHT "OFFEND" SOMEONE.
BE AFRAID TO NOT BE AFRAID.

SAYING ONE IS NOT AFRAID IS "UN-AMERICAN".
BLASPHEMY!

"Fear is even used to prevent us from questioning the decisions supposedly being made for our safety. The foundation of this approach in our government can be traced back to burning rubble of the World Trade Center, exemplified by this statement by John Ashcroft, then the attorney general of the United States, in December 2001:

“To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this. Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America’s friends.”

TRANSLATION?
BE AFRAID ENOUGH TO GIVE UP YOUR LIBERTY, YOUR RIGHTS, YOUR FREEDOM, OR BE LABELED "UN-AMERICAN."

"Jeremy Scahill has shown in his book “Dirty Wars” that the “war on terror”creates still more enemies.
As Scahill describes the results, the United States Special Forces kill lists of seven targets gave rise to kill lists of hundreds, which in turn gave rise to kill lists of thousands today.

"Does it not occur to the United States that the drone strikes and assassinations are creating more terrorists than they are neutralizing?
Perhaps it has, but the calculation has been made that it does not matter. The newly minted enemies can be used to gin up more fear, more restrictions on our freedoms, and so the cycle goes.

One might argue that the United States has become a government of fear, by fear, and ultimately, for fear."

But the fear must be embedded in the PEOPLE.

"Whatever their motivation, by using fear to induce the rollback of individual rights, politicians, judges and lawmakers are working against the hard-won democratic principles and ideals that we and other democracies have defended for almost 250 years.

They are manipulating our fears to undo centuries of democratic reform. And it doesn’t matter if the empowered leader is called a king or a prime minister or a president; the end result is that fear has been used to place us back under the yoke of Hobbes’s sovereign and Machiavelli’s prince.

Yet ultimately we are not powerless. We can resist the impulse to be afraid. We may not at the moment have answers to the very real dangers that we face in this world, but we can begin to identify those dangers and seek solutions once we overcome our fear. "

Or as Bertrand Russell rather more elegantly put it, as World War II was drawing to a close, “to conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

BERTRAND RUSSELL WAS A HUMANIST.
LOOK THAT UP SOMETIMES.


FEAR IS AN ONGOING POLITICAL PROJECT.

"A unity of fear, then, is not an artifact of mass psychology; it is a political project, crafted through leadership, ideology, and collective action. Like many political projects, it often fails, or at least does not fully succeed. And when it fails—dissenters question whether we need be afraid, citizens cease to pay attention to “orange” and “red” alerts, parties focus on other items of public concern—governments either try to enlarge the infrastructure by insulating it against the vagaries of public opinion, or dampen the dissent. Again, old-fashioned politics."

SAUL ALINSKY

Saul Alinsky died in 1972, but his writings influenced those in political control of our nation today.

Recall that Hillary Clinton did her college thesis on his writings and Obama wrote about him in his books.

Alinsky's books: Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY, SO YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE "STEPS" TO OBTAINING POWER BY THE ELITISTS WHO SO CRAVE IT.


RULES FOR RADICALS, by Saul Alinsky:

1- “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.

2- “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.

3- “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.

4- “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

5- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

6- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.

7- “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.

8- “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.

9-“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.

10- "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition." It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.

11- “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

12- “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.

13- “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.
Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Does any of this sound like what's happening in the United States, what has been happening for a long, long time?

FEAR, IF UNCHECKED, ERASES LOGIC, REASON, THE ABILITY TO ACT.
FEAR PARALYZES.

THE GREAT STRATEGISTS KNEW THIS.
IN MODERN TIMES, USING FEAR AS A TOOL OF WAR BECAME KNOWN AS "PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE"...THE WEARING DOWN OF HUMAN MINDS.

WHAT DOES ISIS USE MOST?
FEAR.

WHAT DO OUR OWN POLITICIANS USE TO GET ELECTED AGAIN AND AGAIN?
FEAR.

WHAT DOES OUR GOVERNMENT USE TO ROB US OF OUR RIGHTS, OUR LIBERTY?
FEAR.

IT'S A CONSTANT WAR AGAINST OUR MINDS AND FEAR IS THE WEAPON OF CHOICE."In the course of war, fear and terror are often used as weapons to distort the opponent's decision-making or break the opponent's will." -- Journal of Military Ethics
Volume 5, 2006 - Issue 4.


LET US REMEMBER: 
“The art of war is the art of deception.” ― Sun Tzu


NOTHING DECEIVES QUITE LIKE FEAR.

OBAMA EJECTS RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS, STABS ISRAEL IN THE BACK.

WHILE MAINSTREAM MEDIA CELEBRATED OBAMA'S "PUNISHMENT" OF RUSSIA FOR UNPROVEN ATTEMPTS TO "SWAY THE 2016 ELECTION IN FAVOR OF TRUMP"...

Russia, Iran and Turkey push for Syria peace plan without US or UN

Russia, Iran, and Turkey are shutting the U.S. out

THAT'S THE BREAKING NEWS THAT I'M SURE OBAMA HATED TO HEAR BECAUSE IT STEALS HIS 'THUNDER' ON THE RUSSIAN SANCTIONS, ETC.

ANYTHING BUT PEACE...SAYS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER PREZ BY HIS ACTIONS.

IN ONE OF THE SLICKEST POLITICAL "CHESS" MOVES OF THE ENTIRE COLD WAR, PUTIN DID NOT RETALIATE AND KICK AMERICAN SPIES, aka DIPLOMATS, OUT OF RUSSIA, SAID HE WILL NOT CLOSE AMERICAN FACILITIES THERE,  BUT INSTEAD
WISHED THE OBAMAS HAPPY HOLIDAYS, INVITED AMERICAN DIPLOMATS' CHILDREN TO A CHRISTMAS PRESENTATION IN THE KREMLIN , SENT A SPECIAL PLANE FROM RUSSIA TO COLLECT THE EXPELLED DIPLOMATS, AND INVITED THE EXPELLED RUSSIANS TO A NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION IN MOSCOW.

IMAGINE THE CHAGRIN IN WASHINGTON OVER THAT "CHECK" BY PUTIN !

INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES HAVE PORTRAYED OBAMA AS A PETULANT, VENGEFUL CHILD AGAINST AMERICAN VOTERS WHO CHOSE TRUMP, AGAINST BOTH RUSSIA AND ISRAEL, AND HAVE ACCUSED HIM OF MAKING A "DISGRACEFUL EXIT" AS PRESIDENT. 

THE 'AMERICAN SPECTATOR' OPINED THAT "Obama and his ideological compatriots intensely dislike this country and wish to punish it. "

IF THE SHOE FITS...

JEW-HATERS AND 'COMMIE HUNTERS' ARE DELIGHTED WITH THIS WEEK'S WORK BY THE OUTGOING ARAB SYMPATHIZER, HUSSEIN OBAMA.

Using an executive order, Obama sanctioned the GRU and the FSB -- two of Russia's intelligence services" as well as other entities and individuals within the GRU.

In addition to the sanctions, the State Department has declared 35 Russian intelligence operatives "persona non grata" in the U.S., and is shutting down two Russian compounds in Maryland and New York.

REUTERS ACTUALLY TOLD US THE REAL REASON FOR THE SANCTIONS...THEY'RE FOR HILLARY'S SAKE. 
CRY, BABY, CRY...HE'LL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. 
Obama orders Russia expulsions, sanctions for interference in 2016 election

AND THIS: Obama Targets Putin's Spies Over DNC Hack

"Since the Nov. 8 results, Mr. Obama has taken a blow torch to the Oval Office, ensuring through his last minute executive actions and agency rulings, that Mr. Trump will have anything but a smooth transition into office. 
Part of the goal here is to make sure that we have as much of the record public, or communicated to Congress, in a form that would be difficult to simply walk back,” an unnamed administration official told The Washington Post of their goal in crafting Russia’s reprisal."

SINGLE-HANDEDLY, SANS CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OR HARD FACTS, OBAMA IS STILL SQUEALING IN UNISON WITH DEFEATED HILLARY CLINTON THAT "SHE WAS ROBBED BY THE RUSSIANS!" AND HE HAS JUST 22 DAYS TO MANEUVER HER INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, OR KEEP HIMSELF THERE.

WHICH WILL IT BE?
DECISIONS, DECISIONS. "President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday to retaliate against alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, prompting vows from Russian authorities that Moscow will respond in kind.

The administration also ordered 35 Russian diplomats to leave the country and two Russian compounds are being closed.

This is the first time the names of Russian officials involved in the hacking have become public on the sanctions list.
"Russia's cyberactivities were intended to influence the election, erode faith in US democratic institutions, sow doubt about the integrity of our electoral process, and undermine confidence in the institutions of the US government," a White House statement said. "These actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE KNOW "THE NAMES"?
DID THEY SIGN A CARD AND LEAVE IT ON HILLARY'S DESK?

I LAUGHED UNTIL I CRIED OVER THIS JOKE OF A CLAIM THAT THEY KNEW THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HACKED THE DNC EMAILS.
WHY ISN'T JUST ONE MSM PRINTING ALL THOSE DNC INTERNAL EMAILS?
WHY ISN'T THE WORLD BEING SHOWN WHAT WAS IN THEM?
WHY AREN'T THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEMANDING ANSWERS AS TO HOW THE DNC, THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN AND THE CLINTON FOUNDATION ARE ALL GETTING AWAY WITH THIS WITHOUT ANY 'PUNISHMENT' FROM CONGRESS OR THE WHITE HOUSE?

BY NOW, WELL, SINCE LAST JUNE, OBAMA HAS HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO THROW TOGETHER A SCRIPT, A FANTASY SCENARIO THAT HE AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL HARD-SELL TO AMERICA IN THE LEFT-LEANING MAINSTREAM MEDIA, HOPING, OF COURSE, TO CREATE NEW RIOTS, LOUDER DEMANDS THAT HILLARY BE CROWNED QUEEN, AND DO WHAT NO RUSSIAN COULD EVER DO... INSTIGATE ANOTHER AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

AS AN ADDED BONUS, HE WILL LEAD THE CHARGE TO FURTHER DIVIDE ISRAEL'S WEE SPIT OF LAND AND HAND OVER AT LEAST A PORTION OF WHAT HOUSE OF SAUD AND ITS COHORTS (SLAVES, ACTUALLY, AS ALL OF OPEC ARE MERE SLAVES TO SAUDI ARABIA) HAVE DEMANDED FROM AMERICA FOR OVER 60 YEARS.
ALL OF ARABIA WANTS ISRAEL ERASED AND OBAMA HAS PULLED OUT THE BIG ERASER.

New York Post :After back-stabbing Israel, Team Obama pretends its hands are clean.

Obama stabbed Israel in the back | Fox News

BOTH BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA HAVE OPENLY SHAMED OBAMA AND KERRY FOR THE BETRAYAL OF ISRAEL, AS HAVE MANY FROM WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

~ Even Democrats Criticize the Obama and Kerry Betrayal of Israel


~ Theresa May Scolds Kerry for Focus on Israel Settlements - The New York Times


~ Fury after historic UN vote on Israel settlements - The Australian

HE IS REALLY WORKING OVERTIME AND IT SHOWS.

HE LOOKS WRUNG-OUT.

WHY CHOOSE RUSSIA OVER ALL THE DOZENS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY HACKED INTO AMERICA'S VULNERABLE CYBER SYSTEMS?
WELL, RUSSIA PISSED-OFF SAUDI ARABIA BY ALIGNING WITH IRAN, WHICH, BASICALLY, AMERICA ALSO DID, BUT THE SAUDIS KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE CAN BE SWAYED, AND SO SWAY IT IS AND BAM! JUST THAT QUICKLY, RUSSIA WILL BE PUNISHED TO PLEASE THE WHINERS IN ARABIA AND IN THE CLINTON HOUSEHOLD.


NONE OF THIS WILL CHANGE THE FACT THAT OBAMA HAS LOOKED LIKE A MISERABLE FAILURE ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST... BECAUSE HE WAS.
EVEN SOME IN HIS OWN CAMP CALLED HIM A FAILURE THERE.

"Whether in Syria or Palestine - and even Iraq, Libya and Yemen - the United States has seen its hopes dashed, its advice ignored, its red lines violated, and its warnings and ultimatums ridiculed.

(CNN) US President Barack Obama says he's haunted by Syria; that he's daunted by a repeat of the Libya intervention (which he sees as his biggest failure); that he's troubled by Israel's settlement activities in occupied Palestine, among others.

But he remains adamant that there isn't much he could have done to produce better results in a region that, in his words, is "going through a transformation that will play out for a generation, rooted in conflicts that date back millennia".

Be that as it may, the Obama administration is now looking for ways to save face and perhaps regain the initiative in the Middle East.
But what went wrong in the first place?

The Obama administration invested huge political capital in reaching the Iran nuclear deal, but it lost pretty much everything else. It has come out empty-handed in terms of better alliances, with its credibility compromised and its deterrence weakened.

Not having a Plan B ready is bad diplomacy.
Threatening to use a hypothetical one is plain stupid.
Resorting to Plan B as a mere afterthought to save face is dangerously naive.

Unfortunately, Obama's Plan B seems to be just that: an afterthought.    

THE SKY IS FALLING!
WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO?

It's Time To Drive Russia Bankrupt -- Again - Forbes
"It wasn’t Reagan’s massive defense build-up, or his Star Wars program, that drove the Soviet Union to the wall; it was the decline in real oil prices caused by the Reagan/Volcker/Greenspan strengthening of the U.S. dollar.

The huge dollar premiums that gold and oil currently command reflect the value that these easy-to-store commodities have as hedges against dollar instability.

The high oil prices of 1980 ...were being caused by the weakness of the U.S. dollar, which had lost 94% of its value in terms of gold between 1969 and 1980.

YUP.
94%...CAN YOU WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THAT?

The timing suggests the White House may also be trying to help Hillary...WALL STREET JOURNAL.
"Russia’s hacking habits are hardly new. One question is why the Obama Administration has gone public with this hacking news now."

NO!
REALLY?
YA' THINK?

The White House maintains that sanctions will bankrupt those in Putin’s inner circle.
FAIL.

Since bottoming out in May, the RTS (Russian Trading System) Index has risen 33 percent, replacing much of the loss caused in the early days of the crisis.
For instance, the Russian energy giant Rosneft has gone up 17 percent since Obama placed sanctions on Igor Sechin, its CEO. Another energy company, Novatek, has risen 37 percent since Treasury placed sanctions on its CEO, Gennady Timchenko. Gazprom, the state-owned energy giants, is up 30 percent since March, and 10 percent on the year.

OOPS!
UH-OH!
DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES.
"QUICK!
LET'S WHIP THE SHEEPLE INTO A FRENZY TO DESTROY RUSSIA!
AT LEAST HALF OF AMERICAN VOTERS WILL GO FOR THE LIE THAT "THE RUSSIANS MADE HILLARY LOSE!", SO RUN IT!
FLOOD THE MEDIA, STICK IT IN EVERY FACE!

HURRY, WE ONLY HAVE 22 DAYS!"

WE MUST BRING RUSSIA TO BANKRUPTCY FOR SEVERAL REASONS, BUT THESE MAY BE THE TOP 10:

(1) BECAUSE RUSSIA HAS SUGGESTED "GOLD FOR OIL", GOLD AS CURRENCY, THAT THE U.S. DOLLAR ISN'T WORTH AS MUCH AS MONOPOLY MONEY AND SO, LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN (NO RELATION TO HUSSEIN OBAMA) AND QADDAFI OF LIBYA, RUSSIA MUST BE PUNISHED, DEFEATED, BANKRUPTED.

(2) ARABIA (HOUSE OF SAUD, MASTER OF ALL) SAYS SO.

(3) HILLARY BLAMED OBAMA FOR HER DEFEAT.
HE MUST MAKE AMENDS.
BLAME THE RUSSIANS LIKE HILLARY DID.
KISS A LITTLE CLINTON BEHIND.
MMMM-MMMM, GOOD!

NEVER MIND WHAT THOSE EMAILS SHOWED US, THAT HILLARY IS A RACIST BIGOT/ELITIST AND THAT THE DNC AND THE "CLINTON FOUNDATION" SELL 'FAVORS'.
DOESN'T MATTER!
DO NOT READ THOSE EMAILS!
JUST GET HILLARY QUIETED DOWN.
On election night, Hillary was straight up “Hitler-in-the-bunker”

WHAT A HOOT!

(4) TO PUT THE BOOT HEEL TO AMERICANS WHO VOTED AGAINST "THE ESTABLISHMENT" AND WHO SEEMED TO AGREE WITH TRUMP'S ASSESSMENT OF RUSSIA. DAMN THEM!
WE CAN'T HAVE AMERICANS SEEING RUSSIA AS A POSSIBLE ALLY, OR SEEING THAT AMERICA'S REAL ENEMY LIES WITHIN OUR BORDERS!
GOD FORBID!
EVEN THOUGH SIX OUTGOING PRESIDENTS HAVE TRIED TO WARN US SINCE LINCOLN THAT THE ENEMY IS US, WE CAN'T ALLOW A CLOSER LOOK BEHIND THAT CURTAIN.

(5) WE'VE ALWAYS BLAMED THE RUSSIANS AND USED THEM TO SCARE THE GULLIBLE MASSES.
IT'S JUST GOOD BUSINESS.
NEED MORE NUKES TO PROTECT US!
NEED MORE "HOMELAND SECURITY"...BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

(6) NATO SET UP A WHINE..."THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! SAVE US! GIVE US YOUR BILLIONS IN AID AND ARMS!"
WE MUST WORK QUICKLY BECAUSE TRUMP DOESN'T LIKE NATO.
AND AMERICANS ARE TURNING ON NATO AS WELL...

"80 percent agree that the president—regardless of who that may be—should be required to make its case before members of Congress and receive congressional authorization for the use of military force before the U.S. military is deployed in ANY operations.

51.1 percent of the Americans surveyed believe that the next commander-in-chief should use less U.S. military force abroad.

41 percent want European members of NATO to increase their own defense spending and start carrying their own weight.
49 percent agree with the notion that the 2003 invasion of Iraq made the United States less safe. 

51 percent don’t want any U.S. ground troops deployed in Syria. 

Over 63 percent don’t believe it’s wise for the United States to provide Saudi Arabia with more military support.


(7) RUSSIA MIGHT ACTUALLY BROKER PEACE IN SYRIA!

Syria Truce Brokered as Russia, Turkey Grab Initiative From U.S.: BLOOMBERG NEWS.

Syria ceasefire: How Russia, Turkey seized initiative - CNN.com

OHHH, NOOO!
THAT WOULD BE HORRRRIBLE, SO HORRIBLE!
THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WOULD LOSE BILLIONS, TRILLIONS!
WALL STREET WOULD CRY...AGAIN.

(8) WALL STREET CRIED ABOUT CHEAP OIL.
RUSSIA DIDN'T MUCH WANT TO STOP PROVIDING THAT, SO, ELIMINATE RUSSIA AND START SELLING AMERICA'S OWN OIL RESERVES TO THE WHINERS IN EUROPE.
$$$ KA-CHING, KA-CHING $$$!.

(9) NATIONS WHO WERE LEANING TOWARD RUSSIA AND AWAY FROM THE U.S. WILL SEE WHAT COMES TO RUSSIA AND RUN BACK TO THE U.S.

THAT WON'T HAPPEN, BUT WASHINGTON CAN DREAM.
MOST OF THE WORLD HAS ALREADY WRITTEN AMERICA OFF AS A DYING BULLY.
EVEN GERMANY AND THE U.K. HAVE BEGUN DISTANCING THEMSELVES FROM AMERICA, AS FRANCE ALREADY HAD.

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY'S OVER...ALMOST.

(10) EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA WERE ALL TURNING TO RUSSIA AND CHINA FOR GOODS THAT AMERICA ONCE SOLD TO THEM.
THE STRONGER RUSSIA/CHINA ALLIANCE SCARED THE BOYS IN D.C.
CHINA COULD NOT CARE LESS WHAT AMERICA DOES, THOUGH IT MAKES A FEW COMMENTS JUST TO KEEP THINGS RUNNING WELL FOR THE DESPERATE BOYS IN WASHINGTON AND ON WALL STREET.
CHINA COULD BANKRUPT AMERICA TOMORROW,

OBAMA HAS MADE A BAD MOVE...AGAIN.
NOW, WE, THE SILENT SHEEPLE, WILL PAY.

HIGHER PRICES AT THE PUMP, GRANTED TO WALL STREET.

AMERICANS ARE SCREWED AS PRICES GO UP.

HIGHER PRICES FOR AMERICAN OIL NOW SOLD ABROAD.
$$$ KA-CHING! $$$

OBAMA MAY HAVE KEPT THE PEACE PROCESS FROM GOING FORWARD IN SYRIA.
$$$ KA-CHING! $$$ FOR THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

HILLARY CAN STOP DRINKING SO MUCH, MAYBE, AND STOP SLAPPING BILL AND PODESTA AND OTHERS AROUND IN A RAGE.

HALF OF AMERICA CAN TAKE TO THE STREETS AGAIN AND WAIL AND GNASH THEIR TEETH AT THE INJUSTICE OF IT ALL.

EVERY JEW-HATER ON PLANET EARTH CAN CELEBRATE...UNTIL ISRAEL UNLEASHES HELL, AT LEAST.

WHAT A GREAT WEEK FOR OBAMA!

DID U.S. CIA DOWN THE RUSSIAN TU-154 FLIGHT ? UPDATE 12/30/2016

[PLEASE NOTE: ANY UPDATES WILL BE GIVEN AT END OF BLOG. DATE OF UPDATE WILL BE IN THE TITLE.]


December 25, 2016 ...
'CIA “Burst Transmission” From Ukraine Precedes Catastrophic Russian Military Plane Crash'

I AM NOT SAYING AT ALL THAT THIS IS TRUE, NOR, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, HAS RUSSIA MADE THIS ACCUSATION PUBLICLY.

IT'S JUST THAT, ALLEGEDLY,  CERTAIN 'INTELLIGENCE' HAS PROFFERED THIS SCENARIO GIVEN INTERCEPTED SIGNALS FROM AN AMERICAN KNOWN CIA INSTALLATION IN THE UKRAINE.

AND THEN THERE ARE THE PAST "REVEALS" ABOUT U.S PRESENCE IN THE UKRAINE:

In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia | THE GUARDIAN

The Ukraine Deception: US/EU-Directed Coup D'état Exposes Itself


AND WE HAVE THE THREAT BY OBAMA TO RETALIATE AGAINST THE ALLEGED RUSSIAN HACKING INTO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE EMAILS .

THE LUNATIC OF TURKEY, ERDOGAN, DID PUBLICLY ACCUSE THE U.S. OF BEING BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR THERE A FEW DAYS AGO.

THE REPORT OF THE DETECTED TRANSMISSION ...
"A grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report released in the Kremlin today by the Security Council (SC) on the catastrophic crash into the Black Sea of an Aerospace Forces (AF) Tupolev Tu-154 airliner at 02:40 (GMT+3) while 1.5 kilometers (.9 miles) from its takeoff from Sochi International Airport was preceded by an as yet unexplained American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) encrypted “burst transmission” occurring prior to this disaster by 23 minutes—and that “strangely/coincidentally” immediately redirected a US Air Force C-130 cargo plane from its original path over the Black Sea to the Romanian Air Forces 90th Airlift Base from NATO’s Incirlik Air Base in the Republic of Turkey.

According to this report, at 02:17 (GMT+3), a Coastal Troops (CT’s) electronic-intelligence station of the Black Sea Fleet, located in the Republic of Crimea, detected an encrypted “burst transmission” originating from Odessa, Ukraine, whose electronic technology was based on United States MIL-STD-188 military standards—that MoD experts in this report state combines a very high data signaling rate with very short transmission times, to compress messages, and that is widely used by various US military and CIA spies, who both wish to minimize the chance of their radio transmissions being detected. Most concerning, however, to MoD analysts tasked with the “investigation/examination” of this “burst transmission”, this report continues, was that its originating location in Odessa had previously been “targeted/marked” by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as being a CIA electronic listening post—but had “gone silent” after the election of President-elect Donald Trump when President Obama ordered the “urgent withdrawal” (РУС) of all CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personal from Ukraine for reasons still not explained."

NOW THIS COMES FROM A VERY, VERY SUSPECT SOURCE (WhatDoesItMean.Com), IN WHICH I PLACE NO TRUST WHATSOEVER, BUT FROM JUST SUCH SOURCES, TRUTH HAS EMERGED IN TIMES PAST TO PROVE "CONSPIRACY THEORIES" AS FACTS, AS THE TEA ROOM HAS SHOWN BEFORE.

WHY AM I PUBLISHING SUCH A "HATEFUL, LUDICROUS, CRAZY THEORY"  WITHOUT ONE REAL SHRED OF HARD EVIDENCE?

BECAUSE, AMONG MY MANY FOREIGN READERS, WHO OUTNUMBER AMERICAN READERS HERE MOST DAYS, ARE SOME WHO WORK IN GOVERNMENT JOBS, WHO KNOW A BIT MORE THAN OTHERS ABOUT HOW GOVERNMENTS OPERATE COVERTLY, AND BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN GREATLY ENLIGHTENED BY ABSOLUTELY PROVEN FACTS THAT BEGAN AS "CONSPIRACY THEORIES" BY JUST SUCH INDIVIDUALS.
A FEW SUCH READERS CARE ENOUGH TO OFFER TRUTHS AND CONCRETE PROOF NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE.

NO, I WILL NOT STATE THAT AMERICA BROUGHT DOWN A RUSSIAN AIRPLANE WITH 92 INNOCENT LIVES ABOARD, BUT IT HAS BEEN SHOWN BY OUR OWN MEDIA, OUR OWN INVESTIGATIONS THAT AMERICA HAS DONE WORSE THAN THIS, AND IF RUSSIA IS CERTAIN THIS HAPPENED, PERHAPS OBAMA HAS SUCCEEDED IN CREATING SOMETHING THAT WILL KEEP HIM IN OFFICE...WORLD WAR THREE.

IF SUCH A THING DID HAPPEN, IF WE ARE HEADED TO WAR, I'D LIKE EVEN ONE DAY'S PRIOR WARNING SO I CAN VISIT WITH OR SPEAK TO LOVED ONES, SO I CAN PREPARE MY MIND FOR WHAT SURELY WILL COME IN THE NEXT WORLD WAR.
I INTEND TO DO SO ANYWAY, JUST IN CASE.

AND I MENTION IT BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN TOO MANY TIMES WHEN GOVERNMENTS CLASH FOR DOMINANCE.
SEEMS THAT NATIONAL LEADERS WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO BE NUMBER ONE.

WHEN ONE WORLD POWER SEEKS MORE POWER, WHEN ANY GOVERNMENT OVERSTEPS ITS MORAL BOUNDS SIMPLY AS A "ONE-UPMANSHIP" MOVE, IF OBAMA REALLY IS DOING ALL HE CAN DO TO STAY IN OFFICE AND PREVENT TRUMP FROM TAKING OFFICE, THEN HE SHOULD PAY FOR THIS.

I AM DILIGENTLY SEARCHING FOR PROOF OR DISPROOF OF THIS.
I WON'T GIVE UP UNTIL I HAVE ONE OR THE OTHER.
THIS WILL BE UPDATED AS FACTS, NOT CONJECTURE COME TO LIGHT, SO NO BREATH-HOLDING...THIS COULD TAKE DAYS OR WEEKS OR MONTHS.

BUT, FOR NOW, IMAGINE WITH ME FOR A MOMENT WHAT THIS CAN MEAN FOR ALL OF US.

IF RUSSIA CAN PROVE THIS, WE TRULY ARE STARING NUCLEAR WAR IN THE FACE.

I PRAY OBAMA IS NOT SO DRUNK ON POWER THAT HE WOULD DO ANYTHING TO CAUSE ANOTHER WORLD WAR JUST TO STAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND KEEP TRUMP OUT.
BUT WE'VE BEEN SHOWN MANY TIMES JUST HOW EXPENDABLE OUR LIVES ARE TO THOSE WHO RULE NATIONS.
WE COUNT FOR VERY LITTLE IN THE MINDS OF THE MADMEN WE ALLOW TO RULE OVER US.

I PRAY IT'S ALL A HOAX, A RUSE, PURE PROPAGANDA...BUT WHAT IF IT'S NOT?  

____

UPDATE #1, 12/30/2016:

~ RUSSIA SAYS THERE WAS NO EXPLOSION.

Flight recorders revealed no evidence of an explosion on board a Russian plane that crashed on Christmas Day, killing all 92 on board, but investigators haven't entirely ruled out terrorism.

Russian air force Lt.Gen. Sergei Bainetov, who heads the Defense Ministry commission conducting the crash probe, said that a cockpit conversation recorder contained the captain's words that indicated a "special situation" that began unfolding on board the plane. Bainetov wouldn't elaborate.

But asked if that means that investigators have ruled out a terror attack, Bainetov said "we aren't ruling that version yet."

"A terror attack doesn't always involve an explosion," he said. "Along with an explosion on board, there could have been some mechanical impact."


~ WHILE BAINETOV WOULDN'T ELABORATE, SOMEONE ELSE DID.

"A source close to the investigation told Life News of the exact final words uttered there.

In the final recording of the cockpit before the crash the pilot can be heard yelling “the flaps, damn it!” followed by “Commander, we’re going down!” according to Life News, citing its source.

That has not, however, been officially confirmed.
Several theories have been put forward for the crash.
A source earlier told TASS that one of the key theories as to why the plane crashed “is that foreign objects penetrated the engine,” adding that other possible causes, such as pilot error and technical failure, are also being investigated.

WHAT SORT OF FOREIGN OBJECT CAN PENETRATE AN AIRPLANE ENGINE?


~ Sochi plane crash: Tu-154 descended immediately after take-off
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT:
A key witness to the tragedy is an employee of the FSB (Federal Security Service) Border Guard, who was on a speedboat near the Black Sea coast at the moment of the disaster early on Dec. 25, reports the Kommersant business daily, citing a source in the law-enforcement agencies.

The witness told the investigators that after take-off the plane immediately began to descend toward the sea instead of gaining altitude and that it appeared that it intended to land on the water. The plane's position was strange, said the witness: It was descending at a low speed with an unnaturally turned-up nose.

Kommersant writes that the border guard compared the landing aircraft to a motorcycle speeding on its back wheel alone. In an instant, according to the FSB source, the Tu-154 touched the sea's surface with its tail, which broke off upon impact, crashed into the waves and quickly sank.

Before the Tu-154 took off the pilots had told the flight dispatchers that the plane was "heavy." It was overloaded, something that could have led to the malfunctioning of the stabilizers and flaps, as well as to the fall of the engine thrust.


~ A VIDEO OF THE TAKEOFF AND CRASH EXISTS

On Dec. 27 Svetlana Petrenko, the official spokeswoman of the Russian Investigative Committee, said that besides the FSB employee and other witnesses' accounts, the committee has a video recording of the plane's entire short flight – from take-off to disintegration. However, the Investigative Committee has not commented on the content of the video recording


~ LARGE AREA OF DEBRIS FIELD SUGGESTED EXPLOSION.
Flight instructor Major Andrei Krasnoperov told Kommersant FM radio station, " They have even found a man near the coast who was injured by the falling debris. Which indicates that fragments of the aircraft were scattered as they were coming down, suggesting that the aircraft exploded in the air."

AS CONFUSING AS THIS MAY SEEM, WE ARE A LONG WAY FROM PROOF OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
THAT'S JUST THE UPDATE SO FAR.
12/30/2016
___

ANOTHER RUSSIAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASHES, ALL 92 PRESUMED DEAD

Members of the Alexandrov Ensemble performing in Paris in 2015 (Getty Images)

TUPOLEV-154

К российскому народу: искренние соболезнования

IT'S THE SECOND CRASH OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT WITHIN RUSSIA IN A WEEK.

THIS TIME A TUPOLEV-154 AIRPLANE WITH THE FAMED ALEXANDROV MILITARY BAND AND THREE TEAMS OF JOURNALISTS ABOARD CRASHED SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF FROM THE BLACK SEA RESORT OF SOCHI.
THE PLANE AND PASSENGERS WERE HEADED FOR SYRIA FOR A NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION.

RUSSIA TODAY NEWS REPORTS 83 PASSENGERS AND 8 CREW MEMBERS LOST.

THE PLANE WAS ASCENDING WHEN RADAR CONTACT WAS LOST BUT THE PILOT REPORTED NO PROBLEM.

[NOTE: BOTH REUTERS AND THE BBC HAVE NOW REPORTED 92 ABOARD.]

"Fragments of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian defence ministry were found 1.5 kilometres from the Black Sea coast of the city of Sochi at a depth of 50 to 70 metres," the ministry said.

Russia's news agency RIA, citing an unidentified security source, said preliminary data indicated the plane had crashed because of a technical malfunction."

"Zvezda TV channel said three of its staff were on board the crashed Tu-154 transport plane. Channel One said it also had three people on the plane: "Dmitry Runkov, correspondent, Vadim Denisov, cameraman, and sound engineer Aleksandr Soydov were on board of the plane," PR director Larisa Krymova has said, also confirming that the journalists were flying to Syria.

Early reports mentioned nine journalists on board the plane, and it was not immediately clear which outlet had sent the third team.

The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case into the Tu-154 crash, according to article 351, “Failure to comply with the rules of flight security and preparation,” TASS reports, citing Investigative Committee representative Svetlana Petrenko.

THE BBC JUST REPORTED THAT THERE WERE 92 ON BOARD.

"The defence ministry said in a statement: "Fragments of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian defence ministry were found 1.5km (one mile) from the Black Sea coast of the city of Sochi at a depth of 50 to 70 metres."

Reports in the area said flying conditions were favourable.

An investigation has been launched to determine whether any violations of air transport safety regulations had taken place.

The Tu-154 has been involved in dozens of fatal incidents since it was designed in the mid-1960s. It was the workhorse of Soviet and Russian airlines for decades, but only about 50 aircraft are now in service worldwide.

Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said the plane was carrying passengers to a New Year's performance for Russian troops deployed in Syria.
The performance was scheduled to take place at Russia's Hmeimim air base, near Latakia.

Alexandrov Ensemble is the official choir of the Russian armed forces, founded in 1928 during the
Soviet era.
The group also includes an orchestra and dancers.
It takes its name from its first director, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, who wrote the music to the national anthem of the Soviet Union."

SIBERIAN CRASH, DEC. 19

ON DECEMBER 19, A RUSSIAN MILITARY Il-18 AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN SIBERIA WITH 39 ABOARD, SERIOUSLY INJURING 16 AND SENDING 23 TO HOSPITAL.
AT THE TIME OF THAT CRASH, THREE SOLDIERS WERE REPORTED IN "GRAVE CONDITION".

AS THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED:

"The Ilyushin-18 plane — a propeller craft from the Soviet era that is still sometimes used in military operations — took off from Kansk air base, about 1,430 miles southwest of Tiksi, according to Sputnik.

A source in the defense ministry told Interfax that the plane had not given a distress signal and that the flight took place in harsh weather conditions that could have led to icing of the plane.

TASS said three rescue helicopters had been sent to the crash site, about 18 miles from Tiksi, and an investigation was underway.

The accident occurred in Siberia’s Yakutia region. The crash site is so remote it is closer to Anchorage, Alaska, than to Moscow."


THIS WAS LATER UPDATED BY REUTERS TO 32 INJURED, BUT NO DEATHS HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THE CRASH SO FAR.

SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO ALL WHO LOST LOVED ONES TODAY.
WHEN OUR HEARTS ARE ON THE GROUND FROM GRIEF AND LOSS, NO WORDS CAN BRING COMFORT.

WE REMEMBER WITH LOVE THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT US.

AMERICA, FINAL NATION TO TURN AGAINST ISRAEL

ABOUT THE U.N. , PLEASE SEE:Robert Herzstein, Historian Who Linked a U.N. Leader to Nazi War Crimes

AND: Kurt Waldheim’s veiled ties to Nazi war crimes.
AND: One Global Government | Huffington Post

SHORT, TO THE POINT...OBAMA OBVIOUSLY LOATHES BOTH NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL AND, IN HIS FINAL DAYS AS PRESIDENT, HE FULLY INTENDS TO 'BRING DOWN ISRAEL', AS FAR AS HE CAN.

IN A HUGE GESTURE OF SAUDI BUTT-KISSING, AS A WET KISS IN THE MOUTH TO ALL OPEC NATIONS, OBAMA ROLLED ON ISRAEL, THREW NETANYAHU RIGHT UNDER THAT BUS WE CALL THE UNITED NATIONS...THE U.N...BIGGEST TERRORIST GROUP ON THIS PLANET.

NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE WHAT OBAMA HAS DONE.
AND NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET THIS DAY.

"The White House’s decision to break with decades of U.S. policy and allow the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements is the culmination of years of bad blood between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Obama administration not only failed to protect Israel against this gang-up at the U.N., it colluded with it behind the scenes,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

Rhodes disputed that claim, saying that Obama only informed his national security team Friday morning of his decision to abstain from the vote. He said the U.S. had no role in drafting the resolution.

Since 1980, the U.S. has vetoed settlement-related resolutions at the U.N.

The move could backfire on Obama by emboldening Netanyahu and Trump to pursue hard-line policies toward Palestinians that contradict the president’s approach.

“As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweeted after the vote.

Rhodes denied the president’s decision would have any bearing on Trump’s policies, which he said were set long before Friday’s vote.

But he also struggled to explain how it would improve the situation in the Middle East.

Instead, the decision appeared to be one final chance for Obama to flex his muscles on the world stage in front of Trump, who has publicly taken stances on foreign policy at odds with the current administration.

“There is one president at a time,” Rhodes said. “President Obama is the president of the United States until Jan. 20 and we are taking this action, of course, as U.S. policy.”

While the Security Council resolution does not carry practical consequences, it could give Palestinians a precedent to point to on settlement construction in future talks with the Israelis.

Critics say the move could embolden Israel’s numerous enemies and invite new international pressure against the Jewish state.
It also deepened an emerging split in the Democratic Party over Israel, which many Jewish groups worry could weaken bipartisan support for the country.

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the vote “frustrating, disappointing and confounding” and said it will move Israel farther from peace.

Yediot Aharonot, one of Israel’s largest newspapers, called the vote “the lowest moment in the relations between the Israeli government and the Obama administration."

The vote also kick-started an effort by some Senate Republicans to reduce U.S. financial assistance to the U.N.

Any withdrawal of financial support would be a rebuke to the president’s vision."

HIS "VISION"?
ARE WE ASSIGNING YET MORE SUPER POWERS TO OBAMA?
HIS VISION?
IS THE MAN A SEER, A PROPHET?

HIS "VISION" HAS BEEN AND IS NOW TO SEE ISRAEL DO WHAT AMERICA HAS SURELY NEVER DONE AND WHAT NO OTHER NATION THAT HAS WON A WAR HAS DONE...GIVE BACK CONQUERED TERRITORY.

WILL OBAMA BE THE PREZ WHO GIVES BACK ALL THE STOLEN LAND TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES?

WILL THE NATIONS OF EUROPE NOW REMOVE THEIR "SETTLEMENTS" FROM LANDS THEY WON AT WAR?

WILL ALL NATIONS NOW INSTITUTE A "TWO-STATE SOLUTION" LIKE THEY INSIST ISRAEL DO?
WILL WE HAVE A 'UNITED STATES/UNION OF INDIGENOUS TRIBES' IN PLACE OF JUST "AMERICA"?

WILL AMERICA REMOVE ITS "SETTLEMENTS" FROM MANHATTAN AND MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW "STATE" THERE?
HELL NO!
NO WAY!

WILL ENGLAND EVER RELEASE SCOTLAND TO THE SCOTS?

WILL THE OFFSPRING OF ALL CONQUERORS NOW GO BACK WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS ORIGINATED FROM?

NO!

BUT THE NATIONS WHO WON'T DO ANY OF THIS WANT ISRAEL TO DO ALL OF THAT.

ISRAEL, WHO HAS CONQUERED THE SAME LANDS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR OVER 5,000 YEARS, MUST SHARE WHAT LITTLE SHE HAS LEFT AFTER GIVING IN TO SUCH DEMANDS SINCE BEFORE SHE BECAME A MODERN NATION.

ISRAEL, WHO GAVE BACK THE DAMNED SINAI PENINSULA, WHO AGREED FOR OVER 2/3rds OF HER ORIGINAL LAND TO BECOME "TRANSJORDAN", WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEW HOMELAND FOR ALL MUSLIMS/ARABS WHO DIDN'T WISH TO LIVE INSIDE ISRAEL.
ISRAEL, WHO ISN'T "ALLOWED" TO CLAIM JERUSALEM AS HER CAPITAL EVEN THOUGH NATIONS ALL AROUND HER WROTE IN THEIR HISTORIES THAT JERUSALEM WAS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.

JORDAN'S KING STOPPED "NEW PALESTINE" FROM HAPPENING, NOT ISRAEL!

ISRAEL,SMALLEST OF THE SMALL, CARVED UP AND GIVEN AWAY TO ALMOST ANYONE WHO WANTED A PIECE AFTER BRITAIN AND THE "LEAGUE OF NATIONS" RENEGED ON THEIR ORIGINAL AGREEMENT.

ONLY ISRAEL.

ONLY ISRAEL MUST MOVE ASIDE AGAIN TO MAKE ROOM FOR A FAKE PEOPLE WITH A FAKE CLAIM TO ANYTHING.

THE (SO-CALLED) "SOVEREIGN NATIONS" THAT ARE THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES HERE IN THE U.S. HAVE ASKED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS FOR WHAT OBAMA AND THE OTHER WORLD LEADERS ARE ALL SET TO HAND THE TERRORISTS IN GAZA, GOLAN, WEST BANK... AMERICA'S "DISPLACED PEOPLE" WERE REFUSED ONE MILE OF RETURNED LANDS!

NO, AMERICA WON'T GIVE BACK ONE INCH, BUT WILL DEMAND THAT ISRAEL GIVE UP HALF HER TINY SPIT OF LAND...AGAIN.

THE DAMNED U.N. HAS MOUTHED THE WORDS FOR DECADES THAT IT WILL HELP THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES IN AMERICA GET JUSTICE, GET BACK AT LEAST SOME OF THEIR LANDS.

THEY LIED, BUT THEN THE U.N. WAS BUILT ON LIES.
AND WHERE THE U.N.'S BLUE HELMETS GO, MURDER, RAPES, SODOMY, THEFT, MUTILATIONS, SEX SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, DESTRUCTION ALWAYS FOLLOWS.

ASK ANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD TO PUT UP WITH BLUE HELMETS OVER THEM.
READ THE FACTS AS REPORTED BY THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THEIR PRESENCE.

**PLEASE NOTE**: YOU WILL FIND "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" ARTICLES IN THE SHORT LIST BELOW, BUT AS I AND OTHERS HAVE DEMONSTRATED, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ALL OF THEM, HAVE BEEN BUSTED THOUSANDS OF TIMES WRITING "BS", GARBAGE, "FAKE NEWS", SO KEEP THAT IN MIND.
AND TOO, AS I SAID A FEW BLOGS BACK, THE AUTHOR OF THE TEA ROOM DOESN'T GIVE A RAT'S BEHIND WHO TELLS THE TRUTH, MSM OR "ALTERNATIVE NEWS", LET'S JUST HAVE THE TRUTH, EVEN IF IT KILLS US.
I'LL CITE "ALTERNATIVE MEDIA" IF IT EXPOSES EVEN ONE WEE LIE.
NOBODY IS FORCED TO READ HERE, RIGHT?

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IN A PURE MOCKERY OF ISRAEL, THE U.N. ALLOWED THE CREATION OF ITS OWN "ARK OF THE COVENANT", FILLED WITH ITS AGENDAE, ITS "COMMANDMENTS" FOR A 'NECESSARY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE'... THE "EARTH CHARTER" OF THE U.N.'S AGENDA 2030, OR AGENDA 21.

The Ark of Hope, a 49” x 32” wooden chest was , created as a place of refuge for the Earth Charter document, an international peoples treaty for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. The Ark of Hope also provides refuge for the Temenos Books, Images and Words for Global Healing, Peace, and Gratitude.
The Earth Charter’s 16 principles are the guiding vision behind the creation of these books.
The Ark of Hope was created for a celebration of the Earth Charter held at Shelburne Farms, Vermont on September 9, 2001.


The Earth Charter history begins with this:

Preamble: "We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise.

To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny.

We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.

Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations."

THAT "UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS" ?
THAT DOES NOT APPLY TO ISRAEL.
ISRAELIS HAVE NO "HUMAN RIGHTS", BUT TERRORISTS DO, ESPECIALLY  ANY WHO CALL THEMSELVES 'PALESTINIANS' AND ESPECIALLY "PALESTINIANS" WHO FIRE ROCKETS AT, OR IN OTHER WAYS KILL ISRAELIS, AND THE TERRORISTS WHO WEAR BLUE HELMETS HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS TO MAIM, ENSLAVE, MURDER, RAPE, SODOMIZE AND STEAL.

ONLY ISRAEL HAS NO "UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHT" TO ANYTHING....

MURDER OF RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY

УВАЖАЕМЫЕ ЖИТЕЛИ РОССИИ, Я СОЖАЛЕЮ О ВАШЕЙ ПОТЕРЕ.

ABOVE: RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY, ANDREI KARLOV'S BODY ARRIVES IN RUSSIA TUESDAY AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION ON MONDAY.

BELOW, KARLOV SPEAKING SECONDS BEFORE HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH, HIS ASSASSIN VISIBLE DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM.

I HAVE POSTPONED THIS BLOG FOR 4 DAYS. I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO SEE WHAT I SAW IN THIS.
SOMEONE ELSE HAS SEEN IT.

WHAT HAPPENED WAS A DUAL "PUNISHMENT", AND WHETHER THE WEST (NATO) USED JUST THIS MAN OR USED TURKEY AS TOOLS OR NOT, BOTH TURKEY AND RUSSIA HAVE BEEN PUNISHED...FOR ALEPPO.

RUSSIA HAS BEEN PUNISHED FOR HELPING ASSAD.
TURKEY HAS BEEN PUNISHED FOR ALLYING WITH RUSSIA.

"The western governments issued the required condemnations of the assassination but who can believe their sincerity?

For years now the NATO governments have been attacking Russia through illegal economic blockades they call “sanctions,” have physically attacked Russia through Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine, have advanced NATO’s military forces right up to the Russian border, put out endless false stories about Russia’s actions and policies, generated a sewer of anti-Russian propaganda in the media and in NATO government statements, killed Russian officers and pilots trying to counter their proxy terrorists forces in Syria, attacked the Russian consulate in Damascus several times, fabricated stories of crimes, and during the American presidential election and its aftermath have descended into the depths of insanity by accusing Russia of trying to influence that process.

So, their regrets are worth nothing.

It is obvious that this assassination was meant to delay a Turkish-Russian rapprochement, but it was also to punish Russia for its assistance to the government of Syria in liberating Aleppo.

In light of President Obama’s ridiculous statement that he knew President Putin was behind alleged attempts to fix the US election while refusing to offer any evidence of this absurd claim, we must remember his dangerous promise to strike back at Russia in retaliation and must consider whether this was part of that retaliation, for the assassination took place within a few days of Obama making his “a time and place of our choosing” statement.

President Putin, along with President Erdogan referred to the murder “as a provocation aimed at derailing Russia-Turkey ties and the peace process in Syria.” Putin stressed, “We must know who steered the killer’s course.”

Since the only party conceivably interested in or could benefit from such a provocation is NATO and its allies, Russia is really saying that they are behind this, though caution is their watchword and the investigation has only begun. The Syrian Peoples’ Assembly in Damascus stated Tuesday that, “This cowardly act of terror is a stain on the forehead of the countries supporting terrorism and demands legal accountability at the international level.

If the Turks convince the Russians they had nothing to do with it, that it was connected to the FETO organisation whose leader Fetullah Gulen is in the United States, living under American protection, though he has denied it, or to the terrorist organisations they have been supporting in Syria, and the western intelligence and military services supporting them, then it is likely to push Russia, Turkey and Iran, closer together against a common enemy.

And, indeed, this appears to be the case as those three nations went ahead with talks in Moscow on Tuesday to forge a way ahead to a peaceful resolution of the war in Syria."

LET'S LOOK BACK A FEW YEARS AND REMEMBER THIS...

"Would NATO be willing to assassinate an ambassador?

[YES, IT HAS TRIED BEFORE.]

We need only remind ourselves of their attempt to assassinate the Chinese ambassador Pan Zhan Lin in Belgrade in the NATO attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. Five guided missiles were fired at the Chinese embassy from an American aircraft.
The one aimed at the ambassador’s room luckily did not explode but 4 other diplomatic staff were killed and 20 injured.
Various reasons have been suggested for US bombing of the Chinese embassy but the Chinese ambassador stated later that it was meant to break the will of the Yugoslav government by making it clear to its allies that continuing to support the Yugoslav government was dangerous.

One has to wonder further whether the assassination was a set up for something else, false flag operations in the Baltic or elsewhere conducted by NATO forces but to be blamed on a Russia intent on revenge for the murder of its ambassador. Nothing is beyond the pale for NATO and their secret services."

[Original article source of the above quotes: Author, Christopher Black, an international criminal lawyer known for a number of high-profile war crimes cases and who recently published his novel “Beneath the Clouds. He writes essays on international law, politics and world events, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”  http://journal-neo.org/2016/12/22/the-bullets-of-an-assassin-nothing-is-beyond-the-pale/]

LET US LOOK AT HOW THIS WAS SET UP IN TURKEY...

ANDREI (OR ANDREY) KARLOV WAS ASSASSINATED BY A TURKISH POLICEMAN.

TURKISH SOURCES INITIALLY STATED THE ASSASSIN HAD BEEN FIRED FROM THE POLICE FORCE, BUT THAT WAS NOT TRUE.

HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE POLICE FORCE.
HIS CREDENTIALS HAVE BEEN POSTED ONLINE.HE WAS BORN IN SOKE, TURKEY.

"The 22-year-old Turkish policeman, who gunned down the Russian ambassador in Ankara, called in sick on the day of the attack and promised to bring a doctor's note for his supervisors, a senior security official told Reuters.

A team of 18 specialists from the Russian Foreign Ministry and Investigative Committee have headed to Turkey to help investigate the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said."

REUTERS REPORTED: Turkish police have detained six people over the killing of Russia's ambassador, security sources said, widening an investigation to relatives of the off-duty policeman.

His mother, father, sister and two other relatives were held in the western province of Aydin, while his flatmate (also a policeman) in Ankara was also detained, security sources said.

Karlov's remains were sent back to Moscow from Turkey after a ceremony at the airport in Ankara."

KARLOV WAS ASSASSINATED IN VIEW OF THOSE PRESENT IN THAT GALLERY AND IN VIEW OF ALL WHO HAVE SEEN THE FOOTAGE OF THAT HORRIFIC MOMENT.

RUSSIA TODAY (RT) NEWS SERVICE HAS AN IN-DEPTH REPORT ON THIS AND SOME VERY DISTURBING FOOTAGE FOR ANY WHO WOULD LIKE MORE ON THE ASSASSINATION AS IT UNFOLDED.
WARNING: THE VIDEO IN THAT REPORT HAS SOME VERY DISTURBING SCENES.
RT ALSO HAS A TIMELINE OF EVENTS <HERE>.

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THE 01:11 GMT ENTRY ON THAT TIMELINE WHICH READS:
01:11 GMT

"The US State Department has dismissed claims of having had any involvement in the murder of Andrey Karlov.

Earlier on Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the US Secretary of State John Kerry that Fetullah Organization (FETO) was behind Karlov's assassination.

"It's a ludicrous claim, absolutely false, there's no basis of truth in it whatsoever," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

American based cleric Fetullah Gulen and his FETO group are accused by Ankara of staging the failed July 15 coup. The Turkish government claims it continues to infiltrate Turkish institutions, namely the military, police and judiciary, to form what Ankara calls a "parallel state".

"The secretary in his conversation with the foreign minister did raise his concerns about some of the rhetoric coming out of Turkey with respect to American involvement/support, tacit or otherwise, for this unspeakable assassination yesterday because of the presence of Mr. Gulen here in the United States," Kirby said."


ERDOGAN WAS QUICK TO JUMP TO THAT ACCUSATION AND FINGER-POINTING.
HE SEEMED TOO QUICK, AS IF THE WHOLE THING HAD BEEN REHEARSED.
IT MADE ME WONDER IF HE WAS COMPLICIT IN THIS ASSASSINATION SINCE HE WAS AND IS AGAINST ASSAD CONTINUING AS LEADER OF SYRIA AND SINCE HE SEEMS TO BE THE LACKEY FOR ANY BIG NATION WHO SEEMS INTERESTED IN MAKING IT LUCRATIVE FOR HIM TO PLAY ON THEIR SIDE.

COULD SUCH A COMPLICITY BE THE REASON THE ASSASSIN WAS ALLOWED ARMED INTO THE GALLERY, THEN ALLOWED TO FIRE AT LEAST 8 SHOTS WITHOUT ANY TURKISH SECURITY SHOOTING AT HIM OR ATTEMPTING TO STOP HIM, AND THEN WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE HIS SHORT SPEECH AND LEAVE THE BUILDING UNCHALLENGED BY TURKISH SECURITY?

NONE OF THAT MAKES LOGICAL SENSE WHEN ARMED SECURITY FORCES WERE PRESENT THERE TO SAFEGUARD THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.

LET US NOT FORGET THAT JUST OVER A YEAR AGO ERDOGAN WAS AUTHORIZING THE SHOOTING-DOWN OF RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT AND WAS ATTACKING RUSSIAN TROOPS.

AND THAT THE KREMLIN HAS QUESTIONED THAT HE OPPOSES ASSAD AND WANTS HIM REMOVED.

LET US NOT FORGET THAT SURVIVORS OF THE CHEMICAL ATTACKS IN SYRIA STATED IT WAS TURKISH TROOPS, NOT ASSAD'S FORCES WHO GASSED THEM.


++Syria Gas Attack: Assad Wrongfully Blamed | Global Research++


IT WAS THAT ATTACK ON GHOUTA THAT OBAMA HAS SAID WAS THE DECISIVE EVENT THAT LED HIM TO "INTERVENE" IN SYRIA.

ACTUALLY, NO, THAT WAS A LIE....THE U.S. SIMPLY WANTS ASSAD GONE.

IF, AS WITNESSES SAY, IT WAS TURKISH FORCES THAT KILLED SYRIANS AND KURDS WITH SARIN, MAYBE IT WAS AT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S BEHEST?

NOTHING WOULD SURPRISE ME LESS.

IT WAS ERDOGAN, NOT ASSAD WHO PROVOKED THE INVASION OF SYRIA BY THE U.S.

BUT WHY WOULD SUCH INTRIGUE PLAY OUT?

LET US ALSO NOT FORGET THAT "THE MADMAN OF TURKEY", ERDOGAN, HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF STAGING THE COUP HE CLAIMED TRIED TO DETHRONE HIM, OF USING A FAKE COUP ATTEMPT TO MAINTAIN AND INCREASE HIS POWER BY KILLING SOME OF THOSE OPPOSED TO HIM.

Erdogan is using failed coup 'to set up DICTATORSHIP in Turkey'


Erdogan Accused of Possibly Staging His Own Coup Attempt - Breitbart

Coup Was 'Gift From God' for Erdogan Planning a New Turkey

HE TRIED TO BLAME AMERICA FOR THAT COUP ATTEMPT AS WELL.

AMERICA USES TURKEY, TURKEY USES AMERICA, EVERYONE IS HAPPILY "MAKING RUSSIA PAY"?

Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup - The New York Times

[Well, if the U.S. was not behind the coup, they should have been. It would have made it about 80 such coup attempts against foreign leaders in just my lifetime.]


ERDOGAN'S FINGER-POINTING AT AMERICA AS HAVING ANY PART IN THE ASSASSINATION DREW FIRE FROM SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN KERRY:

"John Kerry's spokesman says the U.S. Secretary of State has raised concerns about some of the rhetoric coming out of Turkey with respect to American involvement or support, tacit or otherwise, for this unspeakable assassination."

METHINKS OLD JOHN DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH.


BUT, WITH IRAN EMERGING AS A BIG WINNER IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, MAYBE ERDOGAN WAS JEALOUS? 

ERDOGAN IS A POWER-CRAZED LUNATIC AND NO ONE SHOULD TRUST HIM.
HE, LIKE THE CRIMINALLY INSANE RULER OF NORTH KOREA, WOULD DO ANYTHING TO GAIN BOTH POWER AND THE 'SPOTLIGHT'.


FROM THE GUARDIAN, U.K., ANOTHER IN-DEPTH ARTICLE ON THE MURDER: "Andrei Karlov was attacked at the opening of an art exhibition in Ankara by a man believed to be an off-duty Turkish police officer. Karlov was several minutes into a speech when he was shot. Footage of the attack showed a man dressed in a suit and tie standing calmly behind the ambassador.

He then pulled out a gun, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and fired at least eight shots.
After firing at the ambassador, the man shouted in Turkish: “Don’t forget Aleppo. Don’t forget Syria. Unless our towns are secure, you won’t enjoy security. Only death can take me from here. Everyone who is involved in this suffering will pay a price.”

He also shouted in Arabic: “We are the one who pledged allegiance to Muhammad, to wage jihad.”

The chilling attack on Monday evening, which was captured on video, appeared to be a backlash against Russian military involvement in the Syrian civil war.

[LIKE THE MURDER OF THE AMBASSADOR IN BENGHAZI WAS "BACKLASH OF A VIDEO"? THAT WAS DISPROVEN, AS PERHAPS THIS WILL BE.]

"APPEARED TO BE A BACKLASH AGAINST RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT"?
WHAT ABOUT TURKISH INVOLVEMENT?
WAS THE MAN PERHAPS ANGRY AT ERDOGAN FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT?

OR, AS ONE EX-AMERICAN DIPLOMAT INSINUATED, WERE SOME INSIDE THAT SECURITY FORCE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GUARDING KARLOV COMPLICIT IN THIS MURDER?

HE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN ANKARA ALSO REPORTED SHOTS FIRED THERE JUST 2 HOURS LATER, THAT THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE WORK OF SOME "EXTREMIST GROUP", SOMETHING THAT ERDOGAN HAS BEEN TRYING TO SELL TO THE MEDIA SINCE THE ASSASSINATION.

THAT A TURKISH POLICEMAN ASSASSINATED THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SEEMS, IN ITSELF, TO BE A 'STATEMENT' AGAINST RUSSIA, BUT WAS IT?

Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the killing a “provocation” aimed at sabotaging a rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara and attempts to resolve the conflict in Syria.

Putin said that Russian officials would be dispatched to Ankara to investigate the killing. “We have to know who directed the hand of the killer,” he said.

His comments were echoed by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov who said, following a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusgolu, that those behind the shooting “were seeking to derail the process of normalising Russia-Turkey ties, primarily with a goal to prevent an efficient fight against terrorism in Syria.”

WAIT!
EXCUSE ME, BUT HOW THE HELL CAN THEY KNOW THE MOTIVATION?

THE KILLER, THE ASSASSIN, THAT LOW-LIFE SWINE, SHOT THIS MAN TO DEATH WITH CAMERAS ROLLING!
WHAT HE SAID, DOESN'T THAT SAY IT ALL?

HOW CAN WE EVER KNOW WHAT HIS MOTIVATION WAS OR IF ANYONE WAS "DIRECTING THE HAND OF THE KILLER"?
HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
DEAD MEN DON'T TALK!
HOW COMPLETELY CONVENIENT!

The attacker was killed by Turkish special forces.

Photographs from the aftermath appeared to show him lying dead on the floor.

Three other people were wounded.

His name was Mevlut Mert Altıntas and he was a Turk and he was a policeman.
He was an officer in Ankara’s riot police squad, who was born in 1994 and graduated from Izmir police academy.

Security guards at the scene had said that the killer showed a police ID to enter the gallery.
The shooter’s family home in the western province of Aydin was later searched and his mother, father and sister were detained, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency.

Altıntas’s house in Ankara was raided and his roommate, also a police officer, was also taken into custody, Anadolu News said.

The Russian president cancelled a planned trip to the theatre on Monday evening and called an urgent meeting with his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the heads of the security services.

In a bizarre coincidence, Putin had planned to see the play Woe from Wit, written by the poet and diplomat Alexander Griboyedov, who was murdered by a mob when ambassador to Tehran in 1829.

Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign relations committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish relations would depend on the details of the incident:
“It could have been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of a lone maniac.
After we know, we’ll be able to understand how this will affect Russian-Turkish relations.”

Turkish security officials and Erdoğan supporters have alleged that the gunman was linked to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom they accuse of orchestrating a failed coup in July. A spokesman for Gülen described the accusation as “laughable” and told Reuters that it was intended to cover up for lax security.

ANOTHER INCIDENT AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY LATER THAT DAY...
Later on Monday a gunman had attempted to enter the US embassy in Ankara and fired eight shots into the air.
The man was overpowered by security guards and taken into custody by police.
No one was hurt in the incident. The embassy said its missions in Ankara, Istanbul and the southern city of Adana would be “closed for normal operations on Tuesday.”

WHY DIDN'T SECURITY GUARDS OVERPOWER AND ARREST THE ASSASSIN AT THAT ART GALLERY?
SEEMS LIKE THEY OR THE 'SPECIAL FORCES' SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT, IF THEY HAD WANTED TO.

HAD THEY TAKEN HIM ALIVE INTO CUSTODY, WE MIGHT HAVE LEARNED FAR MORE THAN WE WILL EVER LEARN NOW.

The ambassador had been part of discussions with Turkey that led to an evacuation of east Aleppo getting under way late last week. Russia and Iran engineered the deal allowing civilians and rebel fighters in Aleppo to be evacuated, with Turkey acting as the brokers for the Syrian opposition in the discussion.

In the weeks running up to the fall of east Aleppo, the Russians, Turks and Iranians have increasingly been working together on Syria’s future, to the exclusion of western powers, including the US, as well as the Gulf states, normally the sponsors of the Syrian opposition.

Many Syrian opposition figures fear they will be marginalised by the Putin initiative and his new triumvirate.

In his time as ambassador, Karlov presided over a rocky period in Russo-Turkish relations. When Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane in November 2015, Moscow responded furiously, with Putin calling it “a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists”.

ERDOGAN IS NOT ONLY AN ACCOMPLICE OF TERRORISTS, HE HAS LONG BEEN ONE HIMSELF. 

THE TWO THINGS THAT PERPLEX ME MOST ABOUT THIS ENTIRE SCENARIO IS WHY A MAN WITH THE INTELLIGENCE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN WOULD ALIGN HIMSELF WITH A MANIAC AND A "NOBODY" LIKE ERDOGAN, A MAN EVERY WORLD LEADER SEES AS A "SNAKE IN THE GRASS", AND WHY ALIGN WITH IRAN?

"In 1829, an angry Persian mob surged into the compound of the Russian legation and after an hour-long battle with the embassy's Cossack guards, ransacked the place and killed the ambassador, Alexander Griboyedov.

Griboyedov's body was dragged through the streets and hideously mutilated. According to one historian's account, “he was later identified only by the deformity of the little finger on his left hand. 
Only one member of the Russian mission survived; 37 others died."

I CAN SEE THAT TIME MIGHT HAVE HEALED THOSE WOUNDS, BUT THE SHEER INSANITY OF THE IRANIAN AYATOLLAH... WHY ALIGN WITH THAT?

AND THE WOUNDS, OR AS PUTIN HIMSELF CALLED IT THE "BACK-STABBING" FROM TURKEY'S MADMAN ARE FAR FRESHER, SO WHY?
"Earlier this year, Putin and Erdogan reconciled, after Erdoğan wrote a letter of apology to Putin.
The two leaders met at a summit in August amid a distinct thaw in relations and in what resembles a loose anti-western alliance.

Russian actions in Syria have angered many Turks.

In recent days, protests in Istanbul against Russian involvement in Syria and Aleppo, including a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate on the city’s famed İstiklal Avenue, have occurred on a regular basis. The protests have often had a significant Islamist contingent.

Karlov was a career diplomat who had previously served as ambassador to North Korea.

Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici went to view an exhibition in Ankara but instead witnessed the assassination of Andrei Karlov

Ozbilici, who works for the Associated Press, describes what happened:

"The exhibition, titled “From Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, from the eyes of travellers” featured photos from Russia’s westernmost Baltic region to the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the east. I decided to attend simply because it was on my way home from the Ankara office.

When I arrived, the speeches had already begun. After Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov began to make his address, I moved closer to photograph him, thinking the pictures would come in useful for stories on Turkish-Russian relations.

He was speaking softly and — from what I could tell — lovingly about his homeland, stopping occasionally to allow the translator to relay his words in Turkish. I remember thinking how calm and humble he seemed.

The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia. So when a man in a dark suit and tie pulled out a gun, I was stunned and thought it was a theatrical flourish.

The gunshots, at least eight of them, were loud in the pristine art gallery. Pandemonium erupted. People screamed, hid behind columns and under tables and lay on the floor.

The ambassador’s body lay on the floor, just yards away from me. I couldn’t see any blood around him; I think he may have been shot in the back.

It took me a few seconds to realise what had happened: A man had died in front of me; a life had disappeared before my eyes.

I moved back and to the left, while the gunman — later identified as police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas — gestured with his gun at people cowering on the right side of the room.

He also shouted “Allahu akbar,” but I couldn’t understand the rest of what he said in Arabic.

As my mind raced, I saw that the man was agitated — and yet, he was, strangely, in control of himself. He shouted at everyone to stand back. Security guards ordered us to vacate the hall and we left.

Ambulances and armored vehicles soon arrived and the police operation was launched.

The gunman was later killed in a shootout.

When I returned to the office to edit my photos, I was shocked to see that the shooter was actually standing behind the ambassador as he spoke. Like a friend, or a bodyguard."

THE TRUTH OF THIS MATTER MAY NEVER BE KNOWN, BUT EVEN IF EVERYTHING COMES TO LIGHT IT WILL NOT BRING BACK THIS STOLEN LIFE, NOR ERASE THE GRIEF OF KARLOV'S WIDOW, SHOWN BELOW, COLLAPSED ON HIS FLAG-DRAPED COFFIN.

"ALLAHU AKBAR"?

HARDLY.
NO, THERE IS NOTHING GOOD IN SUCH MURDERS, AND CERTAINLY NO GOD IN THE HEART OF THOSE WHO CARRY THEM OUT.

OBAMA AND THOSE WHO MANIPULATE HIM HAVE LESS THAN A MONTH TO PUSH THE GREAT BEAR, RUSSIA, AGAINST THE WALL YET AGAIN AND PERHAPS CREATE THE TYPE OF CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT WILL MANDATE OBAMA REMAINING IN OFFICE, KEEPING TRUMP OUT.


I HAVE WRITTEN MANY TIMES THAT I SEE THIS PROXY WAR IN SYRIA AS A WAY FOR THE POWERS THAT BE TO ACCOMPLISH THREE THINGS:

(1) KEEP OBAMA IN OFFICE, AND

(2) PUSH THE FIGHTING IN SYRIA INTO ISRAEL, THE SAME ISRAEL THAT OBAMA WOULD LIKE TO SEE DESTROYED, OR AT LEAST SUBJECTED TO A "TWO-STATE SOLUTION", AND 

(3) BANKRUPT RUSSIA.

THAT THE U.S. ABSTAINED AT THE CURSED UNITED NATIONS' VOTE TODAY TO FORCE ISRAEL TO ABANDON ITS SETTLEMENTS SHOWED THE WORLD OBAMA'S TRUE INTENT TO HELP REDUCE ISRAEL TO CHAOS WITHIN.


AMERICAN SABER-RATTLING WILL FORCE RUSSIA TO SPEND EVEN MORE IN DEFENSE TO KEEP IN STEP WITH NATO NATIONS.

THAT AMERICA GOT OPEC'S PROMISE TO CUT OIL PRODUCTION ALSO MEANS RUSSIA WILL SUFFER LOSS OF VITAL INCOME.

ANYONE CAN SEE THE MANIPULATIONS WHO SIMPLY LOOKS.

THE WORLD HAS GONE STARK-RAVING MAD AND IS TAKING US ALONG ON THIS DOOMED RIDE. 

WHO CAN STOP MADMEN?