by Rey Flores - Wed Mar 26, 2014

March 26, 2014 (ALL.org) – When I heard that Nancy Pelosi was going to receive Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award at its annual coven this year, I was about as shocked as when I found out that President Obama “evolved” on so-called same-sex marriage last year.

Giving Pelosi this award is a no-brainer, in both the figurative and literal senses.

While past recipients have included eugenic zealots John D. Rockefeller III, Alan Guttmacher Sr., and even Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood prefers to always mention that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the very first recipients of this macabre award. Little did King know just how many black babies would be aborted by Planned Parenthood decades after his assassination, and that his niece Alveda King would one day fight against this very same organization’s black genocide.

Planned Parenthood’s description of this award is disturbing: “Our highest honor, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award, is presented annually to recognize leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.”

Imagine that, a high honor for the destruction of human life. To receive Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award is like receiving the Adolf Hitler Award for Human Rights or the Charles Manson Award for Mental Health.

What does this award look like?

The rectangular crystal monument perfectly embodies the soulless agenda of Sanger’s life work and legacy; it’s cold with sharp edges. You can see right through it as one would through a bald-faced lie.

I happen to think that a more accurate symbol for this award would be a gold-plated uterine curette, which is one of the abortion tools that has brought Sanger and Planned Parenthood so much success. One side of its loop tip is sharp—for cutting a child apart. The other side scrapes the uterus to remove the placenta.

Or perhaps the award could be a platinum pair of forceps that is used to crush, grasp, and pull the child’s body apart, or a pair of embryotomy scissors which is used to cut off the baby’s head, arms, and legs.

These medieval instruments of death are to Sanger and Cecile Richards what a baseball bat is to the New York Yankees or what Mickey Mouse is to Walt Disney. They have brought much success and money to those who use them and use them well.

Congratulations, Nancy. Given your dedication to bringing a healthcare law that destroys lives rather than saves them, I couldn’t think of a finer, more deserving person to receive this award.

Rey Flores is the director of outreach for American Life League. This piece is reprinted with permission from ALL.org.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/congratulations-nancy-pelosi

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The Truth About Margaret Sanger

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By Horace Campbell, 11 October 2012

The United Nations and other international actors must now create a different plan for the restoration of peace and decent livelihoods to the people of Libya.

October 23, 2012 will be exactly one year after the Chairperson of the National Transitional Council declared that the Liberation of Libya was complete. A few days later the Secretary General of NATO, General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared the end of the NATO mission, declaring that the NATO mission to Libya had been ‘one of the most successful in NATO history.’

Despite this announcement of success there are daily reports of fighting all across Libya with the levels of insecurity unprecedented in the history of the country with over 1,700 militias roaming. After Col Gaddafi was executed on October 20, 2011, the disinformation agencies of empire worked hard to keep the news of the militias and the insecurity out of international news. However, the competition between the differing oil companies had ensnared numerous forces. So this warfare continued with the militias linked to western oil companies through private military contractors and relevant western agencies.

Citizens of the United States learnt of the levels of insecurity of the people of Libya on September 11 when the Ambassador of the United States to Libya was killed in Benghazi, the city that was the base of the rebellion against Gaddafi. The death of Ambassador Stevens brought out facts of the US diplomatic/intelligence activities and its relationship to the militias. The differing accounts of the death entered into the presidential campaign as the Republican controlled Congress mounted hearings to get to the ‘truth’.

Prior to these Hearings reports had been coming out in drips and drabs about the US intelligence presence in Benghazi. When the US security personnel were evacuated after the fateful events of September 11, 2012, the Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagour told the Wall Street Journal: ‘We were surprised by the numbers of Americans who were at the airport. We have no problem with intelligence sharing or gathering, but our sovereignty is also key.’ Libyans were awoken to the extent of the integration between the large numbers of US intelligence and the competing militias in Benghazi.

The testimony of the officials of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the Department of State before the US Congress only created more uncertainty in relation to the objectives of the United States in Libya. This Hearing before Congress failed to bring out the important role of the intelligence community in Libya in the coordination of the present war in Syria.

In our commentary this week, we will note that the war in Libya is not over and that the United Nations and the BRICS societies will have to be more forthright in placing a different plan for the restoration of peace and decent livelihood for the peoples of Libya. Ultimately, the triggers of war that spun out of the NATO intervention in Libya are having a tragic effect on all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. The African Union will have to once again intervene in Libya as the NATO countries descend into deeper economic depression and political repression at home and abroad.

SELLING THE SO-CALLED TRANSITION

After the execution of Gaddafi on October 20, 2011 and the capture of Saif al-Islam in November, the western media went into overdrive to present the idea that a new era of peace and reconstruction had arrived in Libya. Carefully managing the news coming out of Libya, Western citizens were assured that Libya was in a ‘transition’ phase. Step one in the planning of the masterminds of the intervention was declaration of victory after the destruction of Sirte and the displacement of hundreds of thousands. Step two involved the formation of an interim government which was supposed to have been completed by October 31, 2011 with Abdurrahim El-Keib succeeding Mahmoud Jibril.

This phase of the transition was supposed to be guided through February 2012 when there was an appointment of an election commission with the adoption of electoral legislation. The farcical nature of this transition was soon made obvious when in March 2012, NTC officials in the east, centred on Benghazi, launched a campaign to re-establish autonomy for the region, further increasing tension with the central NTC in Tripoli. This push for autonomy in the oil rich region ensured that there was a flurry of activities as the executives of the oil companies and their private contractors fanned out in Benghazi to ensure that their own companies would emerge as strong forces after the redistribution of oil contracts.

It was in the midst of the dangerous squabbling between oil executives and their contractors and militias when there was the constant announcement of plans for elections in Libya in June 2012. The elections for the General National Congress were held on July 7, 2012. International news organizations went overboard to highlight the success of the elections and the ‘fact’ that Islamists and Jihadists did not come out as winners. The transitional government handed power to the General National Congress. This Congress then elected Mohammed Magarief of the liberal National Front Party as its chairman, thereby making him interim head of state.

These well-crafted versions of the ‘transition’ concealed the continued warfare that was going on all over Libya. There were approximately 1,700 militia groups running the country with each neighborhood dominated by a faction that went into the business of using weapons as a means of gaining access to resources. After the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, US citizens were alerted to the existence of what the State Department called ‘security incidents.’ But the 230 ‘security incidents’ over the past year were the tip of the iceberg of the massive destabilization and killings that had occurred.

Black skinned Libyans from Tawergha were expelled from their community and more than 30,000 displaced. Even the usual spokespersons for Western imperial missions had to speak out as Human Rights Watch joined in the condemnation of the rule of the militias. Human Rights Watch brought out a ‘Report Rule of Law or Rule of Militias’ bringing into sharper focus some of the outstanding questions of the role of these armed marauders all over Libya. In June one militia brigade briefly took over Tripoli international airport

OIL AND MILITIAS

Despite the 230 security situations in Libya, international oil companies were back in business so that by the end of September 2012, Libya was producing 90 per cent of its pre-NATO intervention output. In fact more oil was now being pumped out than in the month immediately prior to the start of the NATO war. Foreign companies had been trooping back into Libya with BP being the last to arrive in May. Even without the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, the stability of the exportation of oil had driven foreign companies to focus on who would be in control of Benghazi, especially after the noisy declaration of autonomy by the militia/political leaders in February.

US oil companies did not want to be left behind in this new insensate struggle, hence US diplomatic efforts were now directed at Benghazi. Christopher Stevens had been appointed ambassador of the United States to Libya in January 2012 and arrived in Tripoli in May. When the uprisings had started in February 2011 and the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was going into Benghazi to mobilize support for French interests, Chris Stevens was one of the first US diplomatic personnel to be on the ground in Benghazi.

He had served as a ‘Special Representative’ to the Libyan Transitional National Council from March 2011 to November 2011 during the NATO intervention. Prior to this period he had served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya from 2007 to 2009. At that time, Stevens described Gaddafi as an ‘engaging and charming interlocutor’ as well as a ‘strong partner in the war against terrorism.’

Chris Stevens belonged to that section of the US Department of State that was very knowledgeable about the movements of militia members between Benghazi, Libya, and the current war against the Assad regime in Syria. Libyan Islamists from the Eastern region comprise the largest single component of the ‘foreign fighters’ who are playing an ever more dominant role in the war being waged in Syria with the aim of toppling the government of President Assad. According to some estimates, they comprise anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 of approximately 3,500 fighters who have been infiltrated into Syria from as far away as Chechnya and Pakistan.

DEATH OF AN AMBASSADOR

Throughout North Africa, the fallout of the NATO war was being felt with the citizens of Libya bearing the brunt of the lawlessness that had been unleashed. Such lawlessness suited the short term interests of the capital equity forces of Wall Street, the oil executives and the Emirates. The proliferation of military weaponry from unsecured Libyan stockpiles — including small arms, explosives and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles (MANPADs) — expanded the availability of weapons with the border regions suffering directly. The present destruction in Mali is directly related to these forms of plunder by Western interests.

The NATO powers and Western nations remained smug because this instability temporarily postponed the questions of African integration. However, some sections of Africa were sufficiently angry for them to work for the removal of the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Jean Ping.

The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the killing in Benghazi last month of the US ambassador and three others. What this hearing confirmed was what many knew; that there was no real ‘consulate’ in Benghazi, but a vast intelligence and private contractors web for the CIA and the oil companies. It was the testament of Charlene Lamb before Congress that gave away the fact that the ‘facility’ in Benghazi where Christopher Stevens and three others lost their lives was not a diplomatic facility.

The events surrounding the death of Ambassador Stevens exposed the USA in Libya at a number of levels. First, the role of Stevens exposed the hypocrisy of the so called ‘war on terror’. Second, the evidence pointed to the integration between US intelligence and the militias. In the testimony before Congress, Charlene Lamb told US law makers that the intelligence compound depended on the militia in Benghazi known as the 17th February Brigade.

Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, told Congress on October 10 that in terms of armed security personnel, there were five Diplomatic Security agents on the compound on September11. ‘There were also three members of the Libyan 17th February Brigade’ – a reference to the Libyans hired to guard the American compound.

The third level was the jockeying between French, British, Italian and US oil companies over political dominance in Benghazi. Traditionally, the Italians had been a force on the ground in Libya but during the NATO operations French, British and WE operatives muscled out the Italians as junior partners in the imperial operation.

These factors did not come out in the hearings, but what did come out was the inter-agency conflicts between the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The US military has kept quiet as these inter-agency squabbles were played out on C Span.

Even before the hearings, Eric Nordstrom had engaged in a media battle to place his stamp on the events leading up to the death of the ambassador. In his testimony, the regional security officer who served about 10 months in Libya, said he sought to obtain more agents and to extend a mission for the security site team in Libya.

There was in fact need for security but as the diary of Ambassador Stevens showed, he was opposed to the presence of official State Department personnel because of the integration of the private contractors, the intelligence operatives and the militias. Earlier in June there had been an attack on the intelligence facility that was called a ‘consulate,’ a June 6 bomb attack on the Benghazi consulate, a June 11 rocket-propelled grenade attack on a convoy carrying Britain’s ambassador to Libya, and an August 27 State Department travel warning noting the threat of car bombings and assassinations in Tripoli and Benghazi. However, despite these attacks Stevens argued to the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security that the matter of security should not be entrusted in the hands the Marines who usually guarded US diplomatic establishments.

Stevens took this decision to ‘show faith in Libya’s new leaders,’ according to the Wall Street Journal, which wrote: ‘Officials say Mr Stevens personally advised against having Marines posted at the embassy in Tripoli, apparently to avoid a militarized US presence.’

FALLOUT BEFORE THE US PUBLIC

While the media was hailing Ambassador Stevens as a hero, the first major inclination of the depth of intrigue was the struggle between CNN and the State Department over the contents of the diary of Ambassador Stevens. This diary and the appointment calendar which was picked up by journalists were found by journalists and parts of this diary which exposed the multiple roles of Stevens were aired on the US network CNN.

This same network had been complicit in the disinformation during the war, but in the current ratings competition, CNN did not wait for clearance before exposing the activities of Stevens as documented by Stevens himself. These revelations displeased the State Department. While Stevens was given a public tribute by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, the three other US personnel who succumbed to the attack on September 11 were buried quietly so that the local papers from their towns would not raise questions about what they were doing in Benghazi.

CIA AGAINST THE STATE DEPARTMENT

When Stevens was killed, the US representative to the United Nations, Susan Rice, stated that the killings took place in the context of the international demonstrations over the obnoxious video about the prophet Mohammed. Soon afterwards it became clearer that the attack on Benghazi was not related to the international demonstrations but in relation to the inter-militia warfare in Benghazi. The Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney pounced on this disparity of the facts and the US Republican controlled Congress called hearings to embarrass President Obama.

However, no sooner were the hearings in session before the Republican lawmakers found out that they were opening a can of worms, exposing the extent of the CIA operations in Libya. Very early in the hearings, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was the first to unmask the role of the CIA. ‘Point of order! Point of order!’ he called out as a State Department security official, seated in front of an aerial photo of the US facilities in Benghazi, described the night of the attack. ‘We’re getting into classified issues that deal with sources and methods that would be totally inappropriate in an open forum such as this.’

The State Department official then retorted that the information being presented was available on commercial sites and easily retrievable through Google Earth maps. The State Department revealed that the material was unclassified; bring out to the US public the differences between the CIA and the State Department. ‘I totally object to the use of that photo,’ Chaffetz continued. He went on to say that ‘I was told specifically while I was in Libya I could not and should not ever talk about what you’re showing here today.’

After Representative Chaffetz alerted the world that something valuable was in the photo, the chairman, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), attempted to close the barn door after the horses had been out. ‘I would direct that that chart be taken down,’ he said, although it already had been on C-SPAN. ‘In this hearing room, we’re not going to point out details of what may still in fact be a facility of the United States government or more facilities.’

Dana Milbank from the insider beltway media poked fun on the CIA and how they were outed in the hearings. In an article posted on Huffingtonpost, he wrote:

‘In their questioning and in the public testimony they invited, the lawmakers managed to disclose, without ever mentioning Langley directly, that there was a seven-member ‘rapid response force’ in the compound the State Department was calling an annex. One of the State Department security officials was forced to acknowledge that ‘not necessarily all of the security people’ at the Benghazi compounds ‘fell under my direct operational control.’

‘And whose control might they have fallen under? Well, presumably it’s the ‘other government agency’ or ‘other government entity’ the lawmakers and witnesses referred to; Issa informed the public that this agency was not the FBI.’

The operations of the CIA in Libya had backfired. The plan of the Republicans to make political capital out of this incident had backfired and the entire world was brought closer to the multiple roles of the US military, private contractors, intelligence operatives and oil companies in Libya.

The number of CIA operatives in Benghazi was also a revelation to the ‘provisional’ government in Libya. When the US evacuated their personnel from Benghazi, the Libyans were surprised and wanted greater accountability from the US about their operations. However, for the US intelligence community, the major question was damage control.

‘It’s a catastrophic intelligence loss,’ a US official who had been stationed in Libya told the New York Times. ‘We got our eyes poked out.’

IF YOU FEED A SCORPION IT WILL BITE YOU

Robert Fisk of the Independent drew the linkages between the NATO intervention in Libya and the escalating war in Syria, warning the West of the dangers of its duplicity in the Middle East and North Africa. Writing after the death of Ambassador Stevens, Fisk commented that:

‘The United States supported the opposition against Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi, helped Saudi Arabia and Qatar pour cash and weapons to the militias and had now reaped the whirlwind. America’s Libyan ‘friends’ had turned against them, murdered US ambassador Stevens and his colleagues in Benghazi and started an al-Qa’ida-led anti-American protest movement that had consumed the Muslim world. The US had fed the al-Qa’ida scorpion and now it had bitten America. And so Washington now supports the opposition against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was helping Saudi Arabia and Qatar pour cash and weapons to the militias (including Salafists and al-Qa’ida) and would, inevitably, be bitten by the same ‘scorpion’ if Assad was overthrown.’

Fisk quoted from one of his friends in Syria who was warning against the current escalation of the war:

‘You know, we’re all sorry about Christopher Stevens. This kind of thing is terrible and he was a good friend to Syria – he understood the Arabs.’ I let him get away with this, though I knew what was coming. But we have an expression in Syria: ‘If you feed a scorpion, it will bite you’.’

This bite is now being felt even in the halls of the US Congress as the Congressional hearings backfired on the Republicans who had hoped to make political capital out of the events in Benghazi because what is emerging from the press reports is that the CIA agency was not merely conducting covert surveillance on the Islamists based in eastern Libya, but providing them with direct aid and coordinating their operations with the current war in Syria.

THE WAR IN LIBYA IS FAR FROM OVER

Libya is again dominating the news as the US government is forced to juggle lies and disinformation. There are now at least seven new books that detail the quagmire of the NATO intervention. Next month, my own contribution will be published by the African Institute of South Africa. The title of my book is ‘Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya: Lessons for Africa in the Forging of African Unity’. This book will join the wave of statements from across the world calling for corrective measures for Africa against this new plunder. NATO is now completely discredited and is being called to expand war to Syria, Iran and beyond.

After the death of Stevens, the US Navy sent two destroyers to Libyan waters. Inside Libya, there have been cries for the disbanding of the militias. Demonstrators are calling on the Libyan government to disband the forces of terrorism in Libya. However, the Central government of Libya is torn between the competing interests of the French, British, Italian, US, Emirates, Saudi and Turkey.

The continued warfare in Libya points to the need for an intensification of the calls for the UN Security Council to remove the private contractors and foreign military personnel from Libya. On March 12, 2012, the United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for one year in order to assist the transitional authorities with security and administrative challenges. This extension of the Security Council mandate was in fact assistance to the external oil companies.

Members of the BRICS societies had been angry over the manipulation of the Responsibility to Protect resolution. The anger of Brazil, Russia, India and China must be turned into concrete support for the peoples of Africa and Libya by pressuring the USA and NATO to expel the private contractors and intelligence operatives who are now using Libya as one of the rear bases for the war in Syria.

African peoples everywhere are mindful of how the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 heralded the start of World War II. The slow and escalating wars across North Africa and the Middle East pose great dangers to humans everywhere. Vigilance is needed and clear political agendas to oppose African dictators while strengthening the Peace and Security Council of the African Union.

Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University. He is also a Special invited Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of the forthcoming book, ‘Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya’.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201210121033.html?viewall=1

Christians in Libya being rounded up for torture; their heads shaved - Source 

The article encapsulates a lot of the past year on Libya but silent the ethnic cleansing of black people or Christians…the following video is a total abomination on any society:

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April Spring – Libya

• By Peter Allen March 25, 2014

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde

Reuters

Democrats are yielding on another fight with Republicans over major changes to the International Monetary Fund, this time to clear a U.S. bailout for Ukraine. Where does that leave the U.S., the IMF and the fund’s members? Here’s everything you could possibly want to know, and why it matters.

What’s the simple version? World leaders agreed to a major restructuring of the IMF in 2010 during the global financial crisis. The U.S. is the largest IMF member and the only one with veto power over major overhauls of its rules or governance. So those changes can’t move forward until Congress ratifies the deal. House Republicans have blocked legislation to approve the accord. Some are standing on principle, others see it as a valuable bargaining chip to win concessions from Democrats on other matters.

Hold up. What’s the IMF? It’s the lender of last resort for the world, created in the aftermath of World War II. It includes 188 member countries – almost all nations except a handful like North Korea — and serves as a leading economic adviser to its members. Remember when you ran up that $1,000 credit-card tab in college and your dad bailed you out, even though he warned you about spending your pay check before you got it? The IMF’s your dad.

So what are the changes exactly? The 2010 deal, the one awaiting congressional approval, is designed to double the IMF’s general resources to ensure the emergency lender has enough firepower. It would update the governing structure – how the IMF’s voting power is distributed among members — to reflect a global economy in which emerging markets are now major growth drivers and some European countries have lost their economic might.

Does the IMF need more money? It depends on who you ask. The IMF leadership, backed by the political leaders in its member nations, says it needs a bigger war chest to meet the growing needs of the global economy. “Liquidity needs can be so large, and movement of financial flows so rapid, that even stronger economies can be affected by a breakdown in global confidence,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday.

Some conservatives say the fund already has enough firepower. “The justification for enlarging the IMF has now disappeared,” said American Enterprise Institute economist Desmond Lachman, who frequently testifies before Congress on the IMF. As the global economy recovers and Europe builds its own bailout reserves, the IMF doesn’t need more cash, he said.

Many Republicans argue that more money increases the risk of “moral hazard,” when governments increasingly rely on emergency backstops rather than budget discipline. (That’s like relying on your dad’s bailout because you know he’s got you covered.) Some also question the effectiveness of the European bailouts, including the record-setting Greek program.

Where would the money come from? The IMF gets its money through funds committed by its members, either directly or through credit lines. The fund already has resources in its emergency account (a kitty called New Arrangements to Borrow). But that pool of resources requires special approval and extreme circumstances to access. The IMF changes would shift those funds from the emergency account to the IMF’s regular lending account.

The emergency pool of money must be renewed every six months, effectively giving the U.S. authority to block access to it. Some Republicans worry the U.S. would lose that veto power – an extra layer of protection for U.S. taxpayers — if those resources are shifted into the general account. Proponents say the IMF’s lending procedures have sufficient protections to prevent losses that would fall on the U.S. and other members.

So how much bailout money does the IMF actually have? Right now, it’s about $1.4 trillion. That’s from three pools of money: 1) $370 billion in the IMF’s general account. 2) $570 billion from emergency resources it raised late in the financial crisis in 2009. 3) And $460 billion the IMF collected from some of the world’s largest economies by passing the hat around again in 2012 when it was worried about the threat of the euro-zone crisis metastasizing. (The U.S. didn’t contribute anything to that 2012 fund-raising round.) The $1.4 trillion total amounts to almost 2% of gross world product, a level that’s a bit higher than historical levels.

Would the changes cost U.S. taxpayers anything? Yes. The Obama administration plans to shift about $63 billion it loaned to the IMF in 2009 into the IMF’s general account to meet the U.S. obligation to double its normal contributions. The Congressional Budget Office puts the price of the shift at around $300 million. That’s not money paid out directly from taxpayer funds; it’s effectively a budgeting exercise to account for potential risk from the lending.

Proponents of the IMF changes say it’s money well spent because for every dollar the U.S. contributes, it leverages several times that amount in U.S.-guided economic and foreign policy. It also costs far less than direct U.S. bailouts. The U.S. has never lost money at the IMF. In fact, it receives interest for the cash it loans.

Why would the U.S. want to give other economies more power at the IMF? The Obama administration says giving emerging economies more power at the IMF would encourage greater responsibility and promote global economic stability. The IMF is governed by its 188 member countries, where each country’s “quota” (effectively its equity in the organization) is supposed to be determined largely by the size of its economy. But quotas haven’t kept up to date. While countries such as India, China and Brazil have grown rapidly over the last two decades, their equity hasn’t increased in tandem. The opposite is true of a host of European countries: While their economic might has shrunk, they still maintain IMF power allocated decades ago.

All of that has undermined the IMF’s legitimacy among emerging-market shareholders, who’ve long accused the fund of a western bias. If the fund’s credibility erodes, member countries are less likely to heed the IMF’s economic policy guidance or seek financing help. “The vital role played by the IMF in stabilizing the world economy and financial system is in serious jeopardy,” said Ted Truman, a former senior U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve official now at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The governance changes would begin to address that disparity, both in voting equity and the number of seats on the executive board.

How much power would the IMF restructuring transfer to emerging markets? Including the governance changes since 2006, the deal would shift 5.3 percentage points of IMF voting power from advanced economies to emerging-market and developing countries. Most of that comes out of European countries. The largest emerging markets—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—would see their power increase by 4.5 percentage points to a total of 14.3% of total IMF voting power. (The U.S. now has 16.7% of the voting shares; that would fall to 16.5%.)

What are the consequences for the U.S. if it doesn’t ratify the changes?

The Obama administration maintains it would undermine the nation’s ability to channel influence through the IMF. “Economies may turn away from the IMF towards regionalism, bilateral arrangements or new institutions,” Daleep Singh, U.S. Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasia, told lawmakers recently. “The U.S. will lose the leverage and influence that has built up over decades at a time when our leadership on the global stages is so critical.”

The U.S. has used its IMF power to advance its international agenda from Egypt to Ukraine, though it’s not always as effective as Washington might want. The IMF’s financing can be used to encourage economic changes that promote political stability in nations such as Tunisia, or to strengthen pro-Western governments, such as the new one in Ukraine. As the IMF’s most powerful member, the U.S. influences the institution’s economic policy discussions at every level: from the IMF’s oversight of China’s economy to its advice for the European Central Bank.

It’s not just the administration advocating the changes. A host of former senior U.S. finance, state and defense officials from both ends of the political spectrum also have urged Congress to approve the quota changes to advance American economic and security interests around the world.

Do Taiwanese animators have any views about how the U.S. spreads its influence through the IMF? Yes.Take a break to enjoy a rap video about currency policy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYAhiMwd5E

Are there really potential alternatives to the IMF? Yes, though not nearly as powerful. Other emergency bailout institutions have evolved, most of them regional organizations structured like the IMF. The $690 billion European Stability Mechanism, for euro-zone members, is designed to offset reliance on IMF financing. After the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s left many countries there disenchanted with the IMF’s bailout medicine, a raft of nations in the region cobbled together a regional financing facility called the Chiang Mai Initiative. Their pooling arrangement now totals $240 billion.

The big-five emerging markets also are developing a $100 billion pool called the “Contingency Reserve Arrangement.” A number of countries also could build up their foreign-currency reserves as emergency buffers, a policy that risks fueling international economic tensions.

Someone sent me a mass email saying the U.S. might lose its ability to appoint its board member, and instead its seat would be elected. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/aid-to-ukraine-should-not-be-held-hostage-by-imf-politics   Is that right? Yes, the seats for executive board members at the IMF would be elected. But the U.S. would be the only one voting to elect its representative. That governance change really only affects countries with smaller equity shares that need to pool their votes together to form a big enough constituency to control one of the 24 board seats.

Does the U.S. lose its sole veto power on the IMF executive board? No. The deal preserves the existing U.S. veto authority.

Is there disagreement in Congress on the governance issue? Not so much. Unlike the IMF financing, there appears to be broad support for giving emerging markets more say at the fund.

So if there’s support for the governance changes, but not the financing, why not approve one without the other? Because the 2010 agreement dealt with the two issues together, and that is what has been ratified by scores of governments around the world. If the financing isn’t ratified by the U.S., then governance changes can’t be triggered. It would essentially require a new deal to be negotiated, and then approved, by more than 150 countries that require such approvals. That process that could take several more years.

That, too, would be viewed by many economists as a blow to the fund’s—and Washington’s–credibility. By failing to approve the deal the U.S. has already done “substantial, actual damage to the U.S. reputation around the world, as the leaders of many countries called into question Washington’s ability to deliver on promises made in international economic agreements,” Mr. Truman said.

Is the clock ticking? The other members of the IMF have set an informal deadline: the IMF’s semi-annual meeting April 11-13, when finance ministers and central bankers from the fund’s 188 member countries gather to discuss the future of the global economy. They say they’ll begin looking at alternatives if the U.S. hasn’t cleared its piece of the deal by then.

Is there any other solution? As with most things in Washington, the administration could do some political bartering.

“Just cut a deal,” said Clay Lowery, vice president of Rock Creek Global Advisors and a former senior Treasury official in the Bush administration. Mr. Lowery backs the changes, but says the White House should be willing to negotiate, even if it means making a high-value sacrifice. For instance, Republicans have asked the Obama administration to delay new tax rules that govern financing for political groups. Or the White House could approve the long-delayed Keystone oil pipeline, Mr. Lowery said.

How does this directly affect Ukraine? Not much in the short run. Although the changes could give Kiev a slightly bigger short-term credit line, they wouldn’t really change the size of a large-scale IMF bailout. And it appears increasingly likely Ukraine will only ask for a large-scale program.

Wait, so why were the IMF changes even being discussed now? The U.S. has been trying to secure congressional approval of the IMF changes for some time. Other attempts have failed. In this case, the U.S. has made its own direct aid to Ukraine contingent on an IMF program. So it pushed the IMF governance changes at the same time given the larger discussion about the IMF helping Ukraine.

So what happens now? Unless Congress magically clears the IMF changes in the next three weeks, we’ll have to see how the other IMF members respond when they meet in mid-April.

Senate Democrats and the Obama administration say they’ll keep trying to win approval separately. “Despite this setback, we remain committed to providing the IMF with the resources it needs as well as updating the Fund’s governance to reflect the global economy,” Treasury spokeswoman Holly Shulman said Tuesday. “These reforms, which require no new U.S. financial commitment to the IMF, are critical to preserving the United States’ leadership and influence at the IMF, and to strengthening the IMF’s financial and governance structures in which the United States has the largest share and veto power.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/03/25/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-washingtons-battle-over-the-imf/

Taxpayers (our labor) are paying into the IMF and on the receiving end taxpayers (the peoples labor) again are footing the bill since the rich parasites stash their stolen loot in cayman or basle. These elite parasites have gone from being millionaires, to billionaires, to trillionaires in a matter of a few decades. No to funding these global bankster/corporatist agents. And they’re concerned now about the US reputation because they want more money? FYI, it’s in bloody tatters already so not funding the IMF will only piss off the parasites – who cares about them. Countries will survive better without the IMF/WB since they’ll actually own their own land and resources, that said, the catch is the WTO. We’ve all become slaves to their corrupt system, high time we stopped them using and stealing our money and resources, and let them dance to our tune.

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Bottomline: Most people on earth want governments to leave them alone. Their hours should be cut to part-time, it’ll give them plenty of time to play golf or whatever, and less time to make more and and more laws, most of them stupid, and most of them we don’t even know exist leaving us open to law-breaking. We can govern ourselves.

By Nicolas GAUDICHET March 19, 2014

Christine Lagarde - Source - BBC Culture are besotted.

Paris (AFP) – IMF chief Christine Lagarde was Wednesday questioned for the third time by French prosecutors in a high-profile corruption case that has become a thorn in the side of one of the world’s most powerful women.

Establishment press in stunning display of spin & censorship

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 27, 2014

An incredible report!

Turkish government officials were caught red-handed in a leaked audio tape planning a false flag terror attack as a pretext to invade Syria, but the mainstream media completely buried the key aspect of the story and made it all about Prime Minister Erdogan blocking YouTube.

RELATED: Here Is The YouTube “Start A False Flag War With Syria” Leaked Recording That Erdogan Wanted Banned

http://www.infowars.com/media-buries-bombshell-admission-of-turkish-government-planning-false-flag-attack/

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A must watch video!!!

by Ben Johnson

Rome Correspondent Hilary White contributed to this report.

ROME, March 27, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In their first face-to-face meeting, Pope Francis reiterated the Catholic Church’s concerns with President Barack Obama’s policies on abortion, conscience rights, and freedom of religion.

A source familiar with the talks told LifeSiteNews that the Vatican press release on the meeting was “remarkably forthright” in emphasizing the fact that the pope raised these issues with the president.

According to the press release, the pope launched a discussion with the American president about the proper role of church and state, raising “questions of particular relevance for the [Catholic] Church in that country.” These included “the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life, and conscientious objection,” according to the Vatican.

The 52-minute-long meeting marked Obama’s first audience with Pope Francis. The divide between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church has deepened since his meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, with broiling arguments over the president’s promotion of abortion-on-demand, same-sex “marriage,” and the HHS contraceptive/abortifacient mandate.

The USCCB has spoken out against the mandate that employers provide female employees with contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs with no co-pay. Pope Francis today restated their concerns that the ObamaCare policy forced Catholics to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.

The policy even impacts American nuns. The Little Sisters of the Poor do not automatically qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s constricted religious exemption because they serve non-Catholic poor, and refuse to sign a waiver implying their approval of contraceptive use. “We believe the government’s attempt to coerce us in this manner is wrong, and that it violates our religious liberty,” the Sisters said last year.

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the mandate’s constitutionality.

Pope Francis presented President Obama with a copy of his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”), which criticizes some public figures who attempt to marginalize the pro-life message by presenting it as “ideological, obscurantist, and conservative.”

“This defense of unborn life is closely linked to the defense of each and every other human right,” Pope Francis wrote. “It involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development.”

The president said he may look at it. “You know, I actually will probably read this when I’m in the Oval Office,” Obama responded, “when I am deeply frustrated, and I am sure it will give me strength and will calm me down.”

The pope and President Obama pledged their mutual support to eradicating human trafficking around the world.

However, the Obama administration cut all federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ efforts to combat human trafficking in 2011, because the group refuses to refer pregnant women for abortions.

Some observers had expected this morning’s meeting inside the Vatican to sidestep contentious moral issues in favor of greater economic intervention. Before their meeting, Obama told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that Pope Francis gave “great moral authority” to his call to address income inequality between “those at the very top and the income of the typical family.”

“It isn’t just an economic issue,” the president said. “It’s a moral issue.”

“We hope the takeaway from today’s meeting is not a photo-op used to promote the President’s partisan domestic agenda,” Maureen Ferguson, senior policy adviser for The Catholic Association, said. “Today’s meeting comes at a time when the Obama administration is battling the Catholic Church in the U.S. over her right to be Catholic – fighting all the way to the Supreme Court to force people of faith, including nuns who care for the poor, to violate Church teaching or face massive government fines.”

International tensions were addressed, as both the pope and President Obama are deeply involved in the current tensions between Russia, Crimea, and Ukraine.

Vatican officials described the meeting as “cordial.” President Obama walked past the ceremonial Swiss Guard and shook Pope Francis’ hand, bowing slightly.

For his part, Obama presented Pope Francis with a collection of seeds from the White House garden in a chest made from the first Catholic cathedral in the United States, after hearing that the pope enjoys gardening.

“His Holiness is probably the only person who has to put up with more protocol than me,” Obama joked, referring to the two men’s respective meetings with foreign dignitaries and attendant security details.

Also present at the meeting were Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states.

The previous day, Pope Francis met with another American delegation led by Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, an outspoken critic of the HHS mandate and proponent of appropriate Christian engagement with the political sphere.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-raises-abortion-religious-liberty-in-candid-meeting-with-obama

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“Pope Francis presented President Obama with a copy of his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”), which criticizes some public figures who attempt to marginalize the pro-life message by presenting it as “ideological, obscurantist, and conservative.””

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Well done Pope Francis! Obama says he’ll probably read it as it’ll calm him down when he’s deeply frustrated. heh What frustrates him is not getting to euthanize more babies.

Club of Rome and Bilderberg member – German-Dutch House of Orange – Queen Beatrix

by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.  NEW YORK, March 27, 2014

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“This is unacceptable,” said Zimbabwe’s delegate.

Her voice broke from frustration and regret. A resolution on HIV/AIDS, championed by the poorest African countries most affected by the deadly disease, was changed after negotiations had finished. The Netherlands demanded protections for children be removed, subtly giving a nod to sexualizing children and putting people at greater risk of HIV/AIDS.

African delegates had tailored the resolution to address HIV/AIDS as a public health tragedy. The U.S., European and a few Latin countries view the disease as a platform to de-stigmatize sex in any form.

Negotiations had stretched over two weeks at UN headquarters. It was past midnight last Friday when the final resolution on HIV and AIDS among women and girls, sponsored by Malawi, was presented to the chair of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

In a surprise move, the Dutch delegate intervened to amend the resolution on behalf of the US and other countries in Europe and Latin America. They could not accept a mention of “delay of sexual debut” in a paragraph on helping women and girls protect themselves from HIV. Among the other defenses against HIV left in were condoms, gender equality, and gender sensitivity.

The draft had narrowly avoided being stripped of references to abstinence and fidelity. A confidential source told the Friday Fax that at the start of negotiations behind closed doors the U.S., European Union, and some Latin American countries insisted these be removed or there would be no resolution at all. A reference to reducing the number of sexual partners was removed later.

Netherlands’ amendments passed by a small margin.

One after another, African countries– including the primary sponsor Malawi – withdrew their support and abstained in the vote in protest.

A disheartened delegate from sub-Saharan Africa, where the AIDS epidemic has hit hardest, was especially dejected. As delegates who hijacked the resolution walked by, she said, “It’s all about sex, sex, sex, for them.”

In Africa, women uniquely bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic, in part because male-to-female transmission is much more likely than female-to-male. In the countries that asked for the removal of language on abstinence, fidelity, delayed sexual debut, and fewer sexual partners, HIV is mostly concentrated among recreational drug users, prostitutes, and men who have sex with men.

The African countries’ approach of fidelity and abstinence is based on their own experience fighting HIV/AIDS. A recent review reported that early sexual debut and multiple partners – particularly concurrent partners – are major risk factors for African women, not only for HIV but other sexually transmitted infections.

Early sexual debut and multiple sexual partners are associated with poverty. A pilot program in Malawi showed young women receiving cash transfers to attend school had lower HIV incidence because of delayed sexual activity, younger and fewer partners, and less likelihood of falling into prostitution. They were also more likely to continue their education and avoid child marriage. Other research shows partner reduction and fidelity led to HIV reduction in Kenya.

The adoption of the resolution was met with loud cheers from the “sexual rights” advocates in the gallery and jeers at African delegates and the Holy See who defended fidelity and abstinence.

One delegate could not hide her emotion as she voiced her dismay. “As a country that is one of the hard-hit areas in the HIV epidemic, Zimbabwe regrets this day.”

Reprinted with permission from C-FAM.org.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/africans-abandon-aids-resolution-at-un-after-hijacked-by-sexual-progressive

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“All meetings of the Club of Rome (CoR) are held behind closed doors’ and no public records are kept. However the Club does produce many ‘discussion reports’ that can be found on its website. The United Nations contractst he Club of Rome to prepare ‘Policy Guidance Documents’ which it uses in formulating its policies and programmes. A quick search for Club of Rome on the UNESCO publicationssite reveals 250 such documents. There are many other documents there authored by CoR members acting in other capacities. As many high ranking UN officials are actually CoR members, this is like a man asking himself for advice, and then agreeing with that advice. Not very objective! Various UN organisations also hold joint conferences with the CoR.”

http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/the-green-agenda-club-of-rome-club-of-budapest-club-of-madrid/

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The UN and the Club of Rome are in bed together… The German-Dutch House of Orange, Chatham House, Club of Rome, and Bilderberg’ Queen Beatrice (and her father) would be proud of her little serfs.  It was the first country ini the world to legalize euthanasia, today they even legally euthanize little babies who are born deformed (how different is that from Hitler?), they’ve had pedophilia parties, and also support polygamos marriages. Little has changed since their ancestor King Billy who was born in the Hague…

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“The Earth has a cancer and the cancer is man” – 1974 Mankind at the Turning point – The 2nd report of the Club of Rome

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The people in the Netherlands are told that this, mala fide House, has zero to do with laws of the land – they’re mistaken.

By Raymond Ibrahim on March 26, 2014

Far from being repentant of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again, like its Ottoman forbear, targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation.

In the early morning hours of March 21, al-Qaeda linked Islamic jihadis crossed into Syrian territory from the Turkish border and launched a jihad on the Christian/Armenian town of Kessab. Among other thing, “Snipers targeted the civilian population and launched mortar attacks on the town and the surrounding villages.” Reportedly eighty people were killed.

The jihadis later made a video touring the devastated town. No translation is needed, as the main phrase shouted throughout is Islam’s triumphant war cry, “Allahu Akbar” (or, according to Sen. John McCain’s translation, “thank God”).

Eyewitnesses say the jihadis crossed the Turkish border into Syria, “openly passing through Turkish military barracks. According to Turkish media reports, the attackers carried their injured back to Turkey for treatment in the town of Yayladagi.”

About two-thousand Armenians were evacuated to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia. Several of these families are currently living inside the churches of these towns. Ten to fifteen families with members too elderly to flee remained in Kessab, their fate currently unknown.

Syrian troops launched a counteroffensive, but al-Qaeda linked jihadis “once again entered the town of Kessab, took the remaining Armenian families hostage, desecrated the town’s three Armenian churches, pillaging local residences and occupying the town and surrounding villages.”

Reports further indicate that “the attacks of the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra organization and the Islamic Front was supported with artillery fire from Turkish artillery units. A Syrian MIG-23 war plane which attended to the operation towards the terror groups was shot down by Turkish Air Forces on 23 March.”

Bashar al-Assad naturally denounced before the United Nations Turkey’s support for terrorists—even as some European leaders, such as Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, were praising Turkey for its supposedly increased democracy and human rights, and supporting the Islamic nation’s inclusion into the European Union, indifferent to the fact that Erdogan banned Twitter in Turkey after tweets exposed his government’s corruptions. [MC->he's just banned youtube]

Nor are Armenians and others missing the significance of Turkey’s role. In a written statement, the Armenian National Committee-International condemned Turkey’s active role in aiding and abetting Christian persecuting jihadi groups:

For months, we have warned the international community of the imminent threat posed by extremist foreign fighters against the Christian minority population in Syria. These vicious and unprompted attacks against the Armenian-populated town and villages of Kessab are the latest examples of this violence, actively encouraged by neighboring Turkey. We call upon all states with any influence in the Syrian conflict to use all available means to stop these attacks against the peaceful civilian population of Kessab, to allow them to return to their homes in safety and security. In the last one hundred years, this is the third time that the Armenians are being forced to leave Kessab and in all three cases, Turkey is the aggressor or on the side of the aggressors [emphasis added].

On March 24, Samvel Farmanyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly, traveled to Syria to meet with Kessab’s dislocated Armenians: “I should say the impression was shocking,” he said. “The situation is like the one we have read about in textbooks and literature about the Armenian Genocide, in the memories of Genocide survivors…. These are tragic events, which cannot but bring forth obvious parallels with the events of 100 years ago—the Armenian Genocide.”

Video interviews with the recently dislocated Armenians of Syria further document this sentiment. One elderly man says “We’ve been here 97 years since they slaughtered us in Turkey. These al-Qaeda ‘rebel’ groups are the grandsons of Abdul Hamid” (the Ottoman sultan who committed the first systematic genocide of Armenians).

Nor were these early massacres limited to Armenians but rather targeted Christians in general. As one Syrian-American woman points out in writing to me just now: “The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896) led to the mass exodus of Christians from the Levant to the USA. My grandfather was one of those who fled persecution. His father was shot, by an Ottoman Turk, in front of their ancestral home. Seven children were left fatherless. My grandfather, the eldest son, left Syria, and traveled as an indentured man, through Mexico, to find freedom and safety in the USA. The entire family eventually joined him.”

Such is the continuity and interconnectivity of history. A century ago, Armenians, to avoid massacre, were displaced by the Ottomans and ended up in places like Kessab. Today, their descendants, to avoid massacre, are displaced from Kessab by jihadis supported by Turkey.

Years, decades, and centuries go by; names, narratives and rhetoric change; utopian ideals and materialistic rationalizations become ubiquitous. Yet the same story, the same enmity—Turkish to Armenian, or more distilled yet, Muslim to Christian—lives on, even if in different contexts and formats.

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/turkeys-latest-jihad-on-christian-armenians/

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Is Turkey/Erogan, a member of NATO, committing the massacres on  Armenian Christians/Christians, and other minorities in isolation?

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Related:

The Armenian Genocide (Warning: gruesome pictures)

Turkey: Al-Qaeda, NATO’s Timeless Tool (Obama and Erdogen speak daily on the phone..)

Google reveals sharp rise in requests for removal of political content (Turkey leads the pack)

Media Buries Bombshell Admission of Turkish Government Planning False Flag Attack (WOW)

Armenian Slaughtered for Refusing to Renounce Christ

Obama prevents Smithsonian from display of Armenian artifact on genocide

Armenian church in eastern Turkey becomes hayloft after serving as school

Ruined Site of the Old Armenian City of Ani (Turkey)

Turkish FM: 1915 Armenian deportation inhumane

“Aramaic Maaloula is gone. That’s it. It’s gone.”

Innocent motif or occult display of power?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 27, 2014

World leaders at this week’s Nuclear Security Summit wore bizarre illuminati pyramid lapel pins while gathered around a giant eye with a floating holographic pyramid suspended above.

Interestingly enough, President Barack Obama was one of the few world leaders not to wear the pyramid symbol.

Is the symbol an innocent motif designed to express unity around the issue of nuclear security, or does it represent an occult display of power?

RELATED: Shocking Video Of World Leaders Wearing The Symbol Of The Pyramid At Major International Meeting

http://www.infowars.com/world-leaders-wear-bizarre-illuminati-pyramid-at-nuclear-summit/

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I don’t know much about this stuff but do find it fascinating which is why I post it.

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The “Pyramid”

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There are two “official” Nuclear Signs: The original Trefoil, also known as “Three Blade Design”, was created 1946 by the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California in Berkeley.

The original meaning of the designed “Trefoil” remains uncertain. One theory says that it symbolizes activity radiation from an atom.

Another theory claims it represents and warns about a spinning propeller. This theory has some credibility since the Lab was close to a Naval Base and a similar sign there warned about the dangers of rotating propellers.

Another theory goes that the sign’s centered circle symbolized a radiation and the hatchets represent the radiation, called alpha, beta and gamma.

Over the years, the original nuclear sign went through metamorphoses. The first version was magenta on a blue background^[1] until the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)^[2] decided upon the yellow and black combination as the representation we know today for worldwide use.

Because of the high incidence of people getting hurt by radioactive substances, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IEAE)^[3] decided in 2007 that a new -addidtional- sign was needed to protect the worldwide population.

They setup a team of experts to design a sign which was readable even to children.

The new sign is similar to the trefoil in its triangular design. The radiating trefoil shows the presence of radiation, the red background and skull and crossbones shows that danger is near and the individual running away from the scene tells the viewer what action to take if they see the sign.

This new nuclear sign was designed by psychologists, behaviorists as well as by experts on radiation protection.

The testing for its comprehensibility was done throughout the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, next to some Slavic countries.

It was then standardized by the ISO and IAEA^[3] in 2007.

The signage is for radiation categories 1 through 3, including teletherapy machines, industrial radiology and food irradiators.

The discussion about the safety of future generations remains despite the new Nuclear Sign^[4] whether this new sign will be understood in the far future, once our cultural reference is not existing any more. As we cannot today read and make sense of most ancient symbol languages (we can only read Egyptian Hieroglyphs because of the Rosetta Stone) and nuclear waste will stay active for thousands of years.

A scientific suggestion is to form a religion around the waste areas with a “forbidden area” message, since religion is the cultural tradition and knowledge with the longest life-time.^[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skywalker89/Nuclear_Sign

Plan will impose austerity measures rivaling those decimating living standards of the Greek people

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 28, 2014

Ukraine’s Parliament at first rejected on Thursday an “anti-crisis” law proposed by the IMF. It later adopted the legislation when 246 of 321 MPs voted in favor.

Average Ukrainians want a say in plan that will decimate their standard of living.

The bill will impose austerity measures rivaling those currently decimating the living standards of the Greek people. The draft law kowtowing to the IMF was proposed by the coup government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a former central banker who runs a foundation propped up by the U.S. State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, NATO, Chatham House, Horizon Capital, Swedbank, and the German Marshall Fund.

Prior to taking the IMF deal to Parliament, Yats, as the State Department calls Yatsenyuk, said Ukraine has “no other choice but to accept the IMF offer” that will force millions of Ukrainians into poverty. He told legislators the IMF austerity package “is very unpopular, very difficult, very tough” and includes “reforms… that should have been done in the past 20 years,” prior to the U.S. funded and organized Orange Revolution and later rule by series of kleptocrats, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who went to prison for embezzlement, and subsequently Russian supported President Viktor Yanukovych, who lived a lavish lifestyle at the expense of average Ukrainians. Tymoshenko announced she will run for president on the same day the IMF plan was considered by Parliament.

The IMF plan will jack up income taxes, levy a freeze on wages, curtail old age pensions, and raise energy prices. Prior to conceding to the IMF plan, Kommersant-Ukraine noted social benefits will be targeted first.

“The Finance Ministry has prepared a plan for optimizing budget expenditures, which implies budget sequestration is to be in force before the end of March. For this purpose, in particular, it has been proposed to reduce capital costs, eliminate tax schemes and preferences and to cut social benefits, for example, 50 percent of pensions to working pensioners,” it reported.

Gas prices will lead the way in deconstructing Ukrainian society: “State energy company Naftogaz announced this week that household gas prices would rise 50 percent beginning May 1 in what it said was part of efforts to make utility costs economically viable for the state by 2018. Some analysts have estimated prices might have to double for consumers,” CBS News reported on Thursday.

“The increase in fuel and transportation prices will inflate costs of production,” notes Michel Chossudovsky. “Combined with the impact of the devaluation of the hryvnia, it will have an immediate impact on the retail prices of essential commodities. Moreover, the phasing out of subsidies on basic food staples is also contemplated as part of the IMF framework.”

Chossudovsky said the “IMF package will trigger a significant overall increase in the prices of essential consumer goods, thereby contributing to the impoverishment of a population which has already been impoverished.”

It will disassemble the Ukrainian economy and soften it up for targeted neoliberal looting. The IMF deal is conditioned on the deregulation of the foreign exchange market, rolling back regulation of the forex market based on “enhanced exchange rate flexibility” – in other words, it will open the floodgates for speculative trade in the currency markets – and devaluing the hryvnia, the Ukrainian national currency.

http://www.infowars.com/ukrainian-junta-concedes-to-imf-looting-plan/

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Ukraines leverage is now gone and all their assets are in conrol of the EU. Ukraines democratically elected president told them NO yet the Ukraines ousted him in favor of a corrupt, unelected, foreign EU bureaucracy. Now all Ukraines rich resources belong to them. If the EU tells you to lower the price of oil – you lower the price. All your oil, pipelines, gold, silver, rich land belong to the billionaires and banksters and the people are now enslaved.

March 28, 2014

The radical group Right Sector could be banned in Ukraine after around 2,000 of its supporters encircled and threatened to storm the country’s parliament late Thursday, a source in Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party told RIA Novosti.

Late Thursday night, ultranationalists from Right Sector encircled the parliament building, demanding the country’s interior minister stand trial for the killing of notorious right-wing militant Olexander Muzychko, who died on Monday in a shootout with police.

Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bilyi, was wanted by Russian authorities for war atrocities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, including the torture of Russian soldiers. He had earlier accused Ukrainian prosecutors and police of a plot to kill him.

The radicals that blockaded parliament Thursday later announced they were postponing the storming of the building until Friday morning.

Following Thursday’s siege, top Ukrainian officials held an emergency meeting, at which Interior Minister Avakov suggested an outright ban on Right Sector.

Andriy Parubiy, the head of the national security and defense council, reportedly supported the motion, adding the move would allow those present to whitewash themselves of ties with the radicals.

Russia has consistently warned that the new government in the country, which came to power last month unconstitutionally, has a dangerous fascist element of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism, leading Moscow to take steps to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s parliament is due to hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss Avakov’s resignation.

Right Sector, along with Muzychko, is a major ally of the Svoboda party led by Oleh Tyahnybok, a member of the new Ukrainian government and an active promoter of the ideas of Stepan Bandera, who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II in the wartime ethnic cleansing of Poles, Jews and Russians. RIA Novosti

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The “useless idiots” are no longer useful. The deed is done and the austere measures imposed by the IMF package will cause yet more destabilization. The bankster-corporists will now add to their already heavy war chests by buying more rich land for pennies – signing their oil and mining deals, and use the enslaved Ukrainians as slave labor by increasing taxes. Taxes = labor and property. Soros has his human rights groups and international courts, Gates  has his monsanto and vaccines, Omidyar appears to have taken over Soros’ role in regards news media indoctrination and so on – all with the help of the Ukrainian/Russian billionaires. Paraphrasing Soros and Jeffrey Sachs who started this scam in the Balkans – the people will have to tighen their belts – it will hurt for a while but eventually straighten out – it doesn’t. I believe the Ukrainians will regret not listening to Yanukovych who said NO to the WB/IMF/WTO corrupt looters.

Bottomline: The unelected bozo’s currently in the Ukrainian government will now be governed by the unelected EU – this was understood by the embezzeler Princess Leia et al. Everything will be privatized and sold to their international billionaire buddies for pennies with kickbacks/stocks to themselves. Pensions are history. People are enslaved. Ukraine has lost their sovereignity and the government run by the cartel.

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The International Mafia Cartel is now established in the Ukraine.

Estaishment press in stunning display of spin & censorship

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 27, 2014

Turkish government officials were caught red-handed in a leaked audio tape planning a false flag terror attack as a pretext to invade Syria, but the mainstream media completely buried the key aspect of the story and made it all about Prime Minister Erdogan blocking YouTube.

RELATED: Here Is The YouTube “Start A False Flag War With Syria” Leaked Recording That Erdogan Wanted Banned

http://www.infowars.com/media-buries-bombshell-admission-of-turkish-government-planning-false-flag-attack/

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I don’t believe Erdogan makes plans, such as this one, in isolation. Turkey is a member of NATO. (no more than I believe they were alone in murdering millions of Armenians in the genocide) The corporate media is an established wing of the NWG conglomerate.

March 28, 2014 by Erika Johnsen

I feel like a broken record at this point, but I cannot stress enough just how deeply President Obama and his woebegone economic policies are indebted to the shale oil and gas boom that, just a few years ago, nobody even saw coming. It is exquisitely galling to hear Obama administration officials try to assign all of the credit for what meager job and economic growth we have seen to the big-government, big-spending, high regulatory environment they have created, instead of to the innovative technologies that brought about an energy revolution that took place mostly on state and private lands — i.e., completely independent of any federal action.

Currently, the United States and Canada are the only major producers of tight oil in the world (although Russia has lately been making moves to try and get in on the action, ahem), and that spectacular acceleration of production growth now has us sitting pretty at 10 percent of the world’s total crude oil production. Via the Energy Information Administration:

U.S. tight oil production averaged 3.22 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. This level was enough to push overall crude oil production in the United States to an average of 7.84 MMbbl/d, more than 10% of total world production, up from 9% in the fourth quarter of 2012. …

In February 2014, 63% of U.S. tight oil production came from two basins: the Eagle Ford in South Texas (1.21 MMbbl/d, or 36% of total U.S. tight oil production), and the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Montana (0.94 MMbbl/d, or 28% of total U.S. tight oil production). Tight oil production in the United States represents 91% of all North American tight oil production, with the remaining 9% coming from Canada.

And here’s a little more encouraging census information about the boom’s positive economic effects released on Thursday:

New 2013 census information released Thursday shows that cities are the fastest-growing parts of the United States, and a majority of the metro areas showing that growth are located in or near the oil- and gas-rich fields of the Great Plains and Mountain West.

Neighboring cities Odessa and Midland, Texas, show up as the second and third fastest-growing metro areas in the country. Sara Higgins, the Midland public information officer, has a simple explanation: oil. “They’re coming here to work,” Higgins said. …

“Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industries were the most rapidly growing part of our nation’s economy over the last several years,” Census Bureau Director John H Thompson said.

According to its data, revenue for mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction grew 34.2 percent to $555.2 billion from 2007 to 2012. It also was among the fastest growers in employment as the number of employees rose 23.3 percent to 903,641.

Boom.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/28/u-s-now-producing-more-than-10-percent-of-the-worlds-crude-oil/

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And this happened despite Obama and his strong arm the EPA.

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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas Edison

A reporter has been detained by Capitol Hill police for trying to ask a question of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy.

Bloomberg BNA energy reporter Ari Natter tweeted about being detained.

#transparency RT @AriNatter: I am being detained by Capital Police for trying to ask @EPAGina a question after her remarks. — nickjuliano (@nickjuliano) March 28, 2014 Natter was detained while covering the American Council On Renewable Energy conference, where McCarthy spoke. Also speaking at the conference was Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a staunch supporter of green energy who regularly takes the Senate floor to sound the alarm on global warming.

McCarthy spoke about renewable energy issues, including the EPA’s proposal to cut back the amount of ethanol refiners are required to blend into gasoline annually to avoid economic calamity. She also talked about the Obama administration’s view that energy and environmental policy go hand in hand.

“The energy issues and the environmental issues we are facing today are really two sides of the same coin,” she said.

Natter was eventually let go after police checked with their superiors and ran a background check on the reporter, determining he had the proper press credentials.

After consulting with his superiors and running a background check the police have let me go. — Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014 .@alexcguillen: Not the first time I have been threatened with arrest for doing my job as a reporter. Probably not the last either. — Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014

He also noted that McCarthy did not answer the question he braved Capitol Hill police to ask her.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/28/reporter-detained-by-capitol-hill-police-for-trying-to-ask-epa-chief-a-question/#ixzz2xHjBs72R

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Papieren, Bitte!

Syrian Church burned by the Globalist Paid Mercenaries September 14,2012

Turkey/NATO stop exporting paid mercenaries from your country!

AND

 Young Syrian child sends a message to NATO…

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Published time: March 28, 2014 12:52
Edited time: March 28, 2014 16:34

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP Photo / Adem Altan)

“I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey.” This leaked conversation is coming back to haunt the highest echelons of the Turkish government as it plans a provocation in Syria, while scrambling to contain social media internally.

The leaked audiotapes that reveal Turkey’s highest ministers staging an anti-Assad military intervention in Syria, have already caused YouTube to be shut down in the country, as well as leading to fevered accusations of treachery and betrayal of Turkey’s political interests – “a declaration of war,” as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu put it.

This is of course after intelligence chief Hakan Fidan suggested seizing the opportunity to secure Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict – a war that has already claimed 140,000 lives, and counting. In the conversation, Davutoğlu is heard saying that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sees any attack as an “opportunity” to increase troop presence in Syria, where it has staunchly supported the anti-Assad rebels.
Below is a transcript of that conversation in full. The video can be found below.

Ahmet Davutoğlu:
“Prime Minister said that in current conjuncture, this attack (on Suleiman Shah Tomb) must be seen as an opportunity for us.”

Hakan Fidan:
“I’ll send 4 men from Syria, if that’s what it takes. I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah Tomb if necessary.”

Feridun Sinirlioğlu:
“Our national security has become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.”

Yaşar Güler:
“It’s a direct cause of war. I mean, what’re going to do is a direct cause of war.”
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FIRST SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I couldn’t entirely understand the other thing; what exactly does our foreign ministry supposed to do? No, I’m not talking about the thing. There are other things we’re supposed to do. If we decide on this, we are to notify the United Nations, the Istanbul Consulate of the Syrian regime, right?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: But if we decide on an operation in there, it should create a shocking effect. I mean, if we are going to do so. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but regardless of what we decide, I don’t think it’d be appropriate to notify anyone beforehand.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: OK, but we’re gonna have to prepare somehow. To avoid any shorts on regarding international law. I just realised when I was talking to the president (Abdullah Gül), if the Turkish tanks go in there, it means we’re in there in any case, right?

Yaşar Güler: It means we’re in, yes.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yeah, but there’s a difference between going in with aircraft and going in with tanks…

SECOND SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Maybe we can tell the Syrian consulate general that, ISIL is currently working alongside the regime, and that place is Turkish land. We should definitely…

Ahmet Davutoğlu: But we have already said that, sent them several diplomatic notes.

Yaşar Güler: To Syria…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That’s right.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yes, we’ve sent them countless times. Therefore, I’d like to know what our Chief of Staff’s expects from our ministry.

Yaşar Güler: Maybe his intent was to say that, I don’t really know, he met with Mr. Fidan.

Hakan Fidan: Well, he did mention that part but we didn’t go into any further details.

Yaşar Güler: Maybe that was what he meant… A diplomatic note to Syria?

Hakan Fidan: Maybe the Foreign Ministry is assigned with coordination…

Residents of Syria’s besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, stand amidst debris as they wait to receive food parcels on March 24, 2014. (AFP Photo / Rami Al-Sayed)

THIRD SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I mean, I could coordinate the diplomacy but civil war, the military…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That’s what I told back there. For one thing, the situation is different. An operation on ISIL has solid ground on international law. We’re going to portray this is Al-Qaeda, there’s no distress there if it’s a matter regarding Al-Qaeda. And if it comes to defending Suleiman Shah Tomb, that’s a matter of protecting our land.

Yaşar Güler: We don’t have any problems with that.

Hakan Fidan: Second after it happens, it’ll cause a great internal commotion (several bombing events is bound to happen within). The border is not under control…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu:I mean, yes, the bombings are of course going to happen. But I remember our talk from 3 years ago…

Yaşar Güler: Mr. Fidan should urgently receive back-up and we need to help him supply guns and ammo to rebels. We need to speak with the minister. Our Interior Minister, our Defense Minister. We need to talk about this and reach a resolution sir.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: How did we get special forces into action when there was a threat in Northern Iraq? We should have done so in there, too. We should have trained those men. We should have sent men. Anyway, we can’t do that, we can only do what diplomacy…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I told you back then, for God’s sake, General, you know how we managed to get those tanks in, you were there.

Yaşar Güler: What, you mean our stuff?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: Yes, how do you think we’ve managed to rally our tanks into Iraq? How? How did we manage to get special forces, the battalions in? I was involved in that. Let me be clear, there was no government decision on that, we have managed that just with a single order.

FOURTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Well, I agree with you. For one thing, we’re not even discussing that. But there are different things that Syria can do right now.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: General, the reason we’re saying no to this operation is because we know about the capacity of those men.

Yaşar Güler: Look, sir, isn’t MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) at minister’s bidding? Sir, I mean, Qatar is looking for ammo to buy in cash. Ready cash. So, why don’t they just get it done? It’s at Mr. Minister’s command.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: But there’s the spot we can’t act integratedly, we can’t coordinate.

Yaşar Güler: Then, our Prime Minister can summon both Mr. Defence Minister and Mr. Minister at the same time. Then he can directly talk to them.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: We, Mr. Siniroğlu and I, have literally begged Mr. Prime Minster for a private meeting, we said that things were not looking so bright.

Turkish Foreign Affairs minister Ahmet Davutoglu (AFP Photo / Adem Altan)

 

FIFTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Also, it doesn’t have to be a crowded meeting. Yourself, Mr. Defence Minister, Mr. Interior Minister and our Chief of Staff, the four of you are enough. There’s no need for a crowd. Because, sir, the main need there is guns and ammo. Not even guns, mainly ammo. We’ve just talked about this, sir. Let’s say we’re building an army down there, 1000 strong. If we get them into that war without previously storing a minimum of 6-months’ worth of ammo, these men will return to us after two months.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: They’re back already.

Yaşar Güler: They’ll return to us, sir.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: They’ve came back from… What was it? Çobanbey.

Yaşar Güler: Yes, indeed, sir. This matter can’t be just a burden on Mr. Fidan’s shoulders as it is now. It’s unacceptable. I mean, we can’t understand this. Why?

SIXTH SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: That evening we’d reached a resolution. And I thought that things were taking a turn for the good. Our…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: We issued the MGK (National Security Council) resolution the day after. Then we talked with the general…

Ahmet Davutoğlu: And the other forces really do a good follow up on this weakness of ours. You say that you’re going to capture this place, and that men being there constitutes a risk factor. You pull them back. You capture the place. You reinforce it and send in your troops again.

Yaşar Güler: Exactly, sir. You’re absolutely right.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Right? That’s how I interpret it. But after the evacuation, this is not a military necessity. It’s a whole other thing.

SEVENTH SCREEN
Feridun Siniroğlu: There are some serious shifts in global and regional geopolitics. It now can spread to other places. You said it yourself today, and others agreed… We’re headed to a different game now. We should be able to see those. That ISIL and all that jazz, all those organisations are extremely open to manipulation. Having a region made up of organisations of similar nature will constitute a vital security risk for us. And when we first went into Northern Iraq, there was always the risk of PKK blowing up the place. If we thoroughly consider the risks and substantiate… As the general just said…

Yaşar Güler: Sir, when you were inside a moment ago, we were discussing just that. Openly. I mean, armed forces are a “tool” necessary for you in every turn.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Of course. I always tell the Prime Minister, in your absence, the same thing in academic jargon, you can’t stay in those lands without hard power. Without hard power, there can be no soft power.

Civilians inspect a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Karam Homad district in Aleppo March 26, 2014. (Reuters / Mahmoud Hebbo)

 

EIGTH SCREEN
Yaşar Güler: Sir.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: The national security has been politicised. I don’t remember anything like this in Turkish political history. It has become a matter of domestic policy. All talks we’ve done on defending our lands, our border security, our sovereign lands in there, they’ve all become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.

Yaşar Güler: Exactly.

Feridun Siniroğlu: That has never happened before. Unfortunately but…

Yaşar Güler: I mean, do even one of the opposition parties support you in such a high point of national security? Sir, is this a justifiable sense of national security?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I don’t even remember such a period.

NINTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: In what matter can we be unified, if not a matter of national security of such importance? None.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: The year 2012, we didn’t do it 2011. If only we’d took serious action back then, even in the summer of 2012.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: They were at their lowest back in 2012.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Internally, they were just like Libya. Who comes in and goes from power is not of any importance to us. But some things…

Yaşar Güler: Sir, to avoid any confusion, our need in 2011 was guns and ammo. In 2012, 2013 and today also. We’re in the exact same point. We absolutely need to find this and secure that place.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Guns and ammo are not a big need for that place. Because we couldn’t get the human factor in order…

http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-phone-leak-861/

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“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — [SNIP] — angrily lashed out at his political opponents for leaking the recording.

“”They have leaked something on YouTube today,” he told a campaign rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. “It was a meeting on our national security. It is a vile, cowardly, immoral act. We will go into their caves. Who are you serving by eavesdropping?”"

http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-bans-youtube-twitter-154018281.html

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Note, he did not say that the recording was fake. Why did he ban youtube? (He censored twitter about a week ago or thereabout) And the Western cover-up is disgusting.

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But…we’re told that False Flags are a conspiracy theory and those who even question it need a lobotomy but this is NOT a theory.

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Our Globalist-owned Corporate Media is covering up this major story. Turkey is a member of NATO. If they launch a war against Syria it will draw in the US and the EU, which is exactly what the Globalist cartel want. The US/EU funded and armed Muslim Brotherhoods-Al-Qaeda wing of mostly paid foreign mercenaries are getting their butts kicked by the Syrian Army so an excuse has to be manufactured to allow the US/NATO to intervene and save their mercenary killers who are murdering Christians.

They tried last year with their Chemical weapons false flag stunt but that fell flat, thanks in large part to Putin. One of the reasons the US/EU overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine was to be able to demonize Putin in the press and box Russia in strategically so Putin can’t intervene on behalf of Syria.

Fighting continues in northern Syria – as NATO-backed Al Qaeda militants desecrate churches, displace local population, and impose “Sharia law.”

March 28, 2014 (Mimi Al Laham) – Fighting on the Syrian-Turkish border near the northwestern Syrian town of Kassab between AlQaeda insurgents Jabhat Al Nusra and the Syrian military continues for the fifth day.

Insurgents are shelling the towns near Kassab in Latakia province while the military is returning fire on their positions.

Point 45, a strategic hilltop overlooking Latakia’s countryside and Kassab, was regained by the Syrian army, initially lost to the mlitants flooding in from the Turkish side of the border.

Meanwhile the insurgents are reported to have moved through Kassab village reaching the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

No Response from the Predictably Silent United Nations

The Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations, Bashaar al Jaafari, has sent an official letter to the UN Security Council regarding Turkey’s support of the Al Qaeda offensive in Syria. Early in the battle Turkey shot down a Syrian jet firing at Al Qaeda targets flooding in from the Turkish border. In turn Russia proposed a UN Security Council statement on Al Qaeda’s shelling of Latakia province.

Armenians gathered Wednesday outside UN Commission headquarters in the Armenian capital Yerevan to protest what they saw as a Turkish-led Al Qaeda attack on the Armenian village in Kassab. Thousands of Armenians settled in Syria after the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The Attack on Kassab resulted in thousands of Armenians fleeing the area.

Image: infographic from Armenian media Emedia.

.”We condemn UN silence over this crime and believe that it is a tacit approval of Turkey’s conduct,” the protestors told journalists.

Protesters handed the UN Commission a letter that condemned the attack, describing it as a violation of international law and a breach of international commitments.

The Armenian president thanked the Syrian government for protecting Armenians in Kassab in a press conference, while on Wednesday members of Armenian parliament visited Latakia and met with Kassab Armenians to report on the situation.

Image: Armenians protest the United Nations silence on AlQaeda’s attack in Yervan

Churches Desecrated

The Al Qaeda affiliated insurgents launching the offensive have ransacked churches (as they have in other areas of Syria), removing all crosses and removing the faces from many statues. The insurgents also began seizing and destroying alcohol citing that it is now contraband under their version of “Sharia law.” Early signs of the Sharia courts have been seen in other rebel held areas in the country.

Images: AlQaeda militants tweet that they have removed all crosses from churches and that alcohol is now contra ban. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/03/natos-proxy-offensive-continues-in.html#more It reminds me of the Beeldenstorm – aka Statue Storm – by the German-Dutch House of Orange/Dutch Calvinists in the mid-1500′s, the Irish Penal Codes in Ireland not long thereafter, and the German Kaiser-Turkey Armenian Pogroms which eventually led to the Armendian Genocide.

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March 28, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – It has been revealed that NATO has been planning a false flag attack against Turkey to justify the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, the International Business Times reported in its article, “Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria ‘War’ Conversation Between Erdogan Officials.”

Image: While the West obsesses solely on Turkey’s ban of Twitter and Facebook in what it claims are attempts to “cover up corruption,” in reality, leaks from the top of Turkish leadership revealed NATO’s ongoing plans to carry out a false flag attack to trigger a destructive, premeditated war with neighboring Syria – in what appears to be one final, desperate gambit to steal victory in the West’s proxy war against Damascus. (photo by Reuters)

It released the full transcript of a leaked conversation between the head of Turkish intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. The Times reported:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ban of YouTube occurred after a leaked conversation between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.

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The leaked call details Erdogan’s thoughts that an attack on Syria “must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]“.

In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to “make up a cause of war”.

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Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Yaşar Güler replies that Fidan’s projected actions are “a direct cause of war…what you’re going to do is a direct cause of war”.

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Turkey’s foreign ministry said the leaked recording of top officials discussing the Syria operation was “partially manipulated” and is a “wretched attack” on national security.

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In the leaked video, Fidan is discussing with Davutoğlu, Güler and other officials a possible operation within Syria to secure the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire.

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March 31, 2014

Daniel Greenfeld
The War on Women. War on Poverty. Class War. Race War.

Walk up to a union member snoozing on a bus, a Latino man crossing the street, a gay cowboy poet earning minimum wage, and community organize him along with a few hundred thousand others into the latest battle in the social justice war that never ends.

“Fight for card check, for birth control, for gay marriage and illegal alien amnesty.” Every time a battle is won and an election ends, a new source of social conflict is dug up and deployed for war.

As a domestic radical, divisiveness is his natural weapon. Obama isn’t out to unite Americans. He isn’t even out for tolerance. His game is divide and conquer, playing on fragmented identities, assembling coalitions to wage war against some phantom white heteronormative patriarchy consisting of a middle class barely able to pay its bills.

It’s governing by terrorism. The bombs are ideological. The objective is a constant state of war.

The war that never ends has been good to Obama. Its various clashes have given him two terms and very little media scrutiny. They have given him a post-American army of identity groups with few mutual interests except radical politics and government dependency.

While Obama profits from stirring up conflicts at home, making it easy for him to light some fuses and walk away, he loses from conflicts abroad.

A Reaganesque president could have turned the Syrian Civil War or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into an approval rating bonanza. Foreign conflicts pay off politically for presidents even when they aren’t involved. But that’s not true of Obama who is congenitally incapable of showing strength and reacts to a foreign crisis by playing for time while struggling to resolve the ideological betrayal of using American power abroad.

Internationally, it’s the KGB agent, not the community organizer, who profits from conflict. Putin plays Obama’s role in the world community, dividing and conquering, doing to America internationally what Obama does to it domestically.

Obama uses a phantom patriarchy, a phantom white privilege, a phantom 1 percent, to mobilize a coalition for his own agenda. Putin, like Bin Laden and many other enemies, uses the United States as a phantom enemy to organize a coalition of “oppressed” tyrants from Belarus to Venezuela to North Korea.

Administration officials scratch their heads wondering why Putin’s won’t cooperate with them. It’s the same reason they don’t cooperate with Republicans. Their coalition of black nationalists, gay rights activists, abortion-loving professors of feminism and fist-pumping La Raza nationalists, Muslim Brotherhood front men with trimmed beards and aging Stalinists urging single payer shares little in common internally except a furious resentment and a consuming sense of unfairness.

It needs an enemy to give it meaning. Without a common enemy it will tear itself apart and die.

The same is true of the anti-American coalition that Putin has cobbled together out of Marxist dictators in Latin America, Shiite fanatics in Iran, a North Korean prep school grad who starves his people to build nukes, Ron Paul supporters convinced that every war is a CIA conspiracy and radical leftists in the US who believe the same thing. Like allying the NAACP, AFL-CIO and GLAAD; it’s an odd conclave, but as long as everyone focuses on a common foe, they can all be herded in the right direction.

Obama is an adequate national community organizer, but Putin is a global community organizer.

It’s not just that Obama is weak and inept. The real problem is that he’s using a rulebook that Moscow is entirely familiar with because its men helped write it. The Russian authorities have generations of experience dealing with Western lefties. They know that Obama wants domestic revolution, not international conflict, and that when in doubt he will assume that America caused the problem by wrongly throwing its weight around.

The Communist leadership in the USSR turned the Western left into its hand puppets in a short amount of time. Its people hosted them, brainwashed them and blackmailed them. The KGB vets running the show now understand Obama intimately because they understood his mentors. The tactics that Obama and his people imagine are clever and innovative are a minor example of the tactics that the USSR was using abroad before he was even born.

Obama isn’t isolating Putin. Putin is isolating Obama. He’s doing it in the same way that Obama did it to Republicans.

What too many liberals have failed to understand is that anti-Americanism has nothing to with America. It’s not American foreign policy that’s the issue. Even individual resentments and conspiracy theories, the School of the Americas, the United Fruit Company and oil pipelines, are just a spice to give the dish flavor. Anti-Americanism creates and maintains a phantom enemy.

Osama bin Laden flew planes into the World Trade Center to increase the importance of Al Qaeda. Khrushchev’s bellicose posturing was intended to increase his stature at home and to ensure that the USSR would be taken seriously as a world power by framing its presence on the world stage alone with America. For Putin, conflict with America wasn’t a reason not to invade Crimea, but an incentive to do just that. Russia doesn’t want an actual shooting war, but it isn’t worried about one.

Putin is weakened, his popularity is shaky, the energy economy that he built up may collapse and the domestic opposition shows no fear of him despite all the beatings, arrests and suspicious suicides. Crimea polarizes his domestic debate on favorable terms, between nationalists and ‘traitors’, and increases his stature internationally as a world leader through the simple act of humiliating Obama.

This should be familiar territory for Obama who has reacted to bad economic news by finding targets to attack. The War on Women had a lot in common with the invasion of Crimea. Both were sham wars stirred up by corrupt political figures that exploited errors made by their opposition to polarize the political battleground while distracting everyone from their own misdeeds.

Obama needs a Republican enemy to keep his people in line. Putin needs an American enemy to keep his people in line. If Obama understood this, he would also understand that Putin is as likely to work with him to defuse the conflict, as Obama would with John Boehner.

Putin and Obama are both deeply corrupt men whose former popularity has waned and are badly in need of distractions. The soft distractions of photo ops with celebrities, impromptu musical performances and hunting expeditions, won’t work. So they turn to the hard distractions of war.

The threat that both men face is the same. Their people are suffering and that suffering has been caused in no small part by the culture of corruption surrounding them. Obama and Putin’s friends have robbed both countries blind and the American and Russian peoples are waking up to their crimes.

That’s why Putin isn’t going to play nice. Unlike Obama, his domestic political opposition isn’t in a position where it can be blamed for anything involving his regime. He can’t declare that his domestic political opposition is waging a War on Women or opposes raising the minimum wage. Too much power has been consolidated for too long for gimmicks like that to work in Russia.

Instead he has to seek his wars abroad.

Obama would like Putin to go away so he can focus on demonizing the domestic political opposition. Putin would like his domestic political opposition to go away so that he can focus on demonizing America. It’s the same old game by two reds with law degrees on different political battlegrounds.

Obama thinks globally and acts locally. Putin thinks locally and acts globally.

Like Al Qaeda, the Taliban and even the current loony leader of Venezuela who sends soldiers to seize electronics stores in a desperate bid to stave off public outrage, Putin is determined to score points from the post-American transition. Reducing American power and influence worldwide was a move that the foreign policy left believed would defuse tensions. Instead it has turned into a gold rush for every petty tyrant and terrorist eager to count coup by humiliating the United States.

Obama wanted a peaceful post-American transition. Instead he’s getting worldwide chaos and war.

Putin seeks out a conflict with the United States for the same reason that Obama seeks one out with Republicans; he wants an easy target to beat up on to distract from the economy and political corruption. United Russia, like the Democratic Party (MC->and many in the Republican Party), is a party of crooks and thieves, which survives by fighting phantom enemies for phantom causes while robbing everyone blind.

For Obama and Putin, it’s not really about Crimea or birth control, the Russian language or gay marriage.

It’s about power.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-world-war-of-community-organizers.html

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Russia will survive Putin but I’m not sure the USA will survive Obama.

And whether it was a self-interested ploy doesn’t matter – his protection of Christians will not be forgotten.

The unnecessary brutality on the young girl occurs around the 0.22 mark. The video captures a female student simply walking through the crowd and getting brutally knocked down by a riot cop for absolutely no reason. The event occured after a university ball game.

“Local business owners and students told the media that the cops incited the violence, claiming that “police were all dressed up for a riot and had no riot to go to,” according to the Daily Independent report. The cops declared the crowd to be an unlawful gathering and began indiscriminately firing pepper and beanbag rounds, bystanders claim.” Source

There’s no getting round the evidence of this video. This cop should be fired immediately – period!!!

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Where is this GLOBAL gestapo-style brutality coming from…

“Towards A Global Green Constitution.”

“The issues are not about if a global politics is necessary. The question is how do we achieve binding agreements in Law complete with effective programs for applying sanctions against non-compliance that would oblige each nation, regardless of size, to abide by a set of principles that are required to guarantee the survival of life on this earth. Perhaps we will find that there is no other alternative to a system of rigid controls that some would equate to a police state.

“Unfortunately, in order to save the planet from biocide, there have to be very powerful constraints from doing the ‘wrong’ things. The constraints must transcend national boundaries, be world-around and enforceable…

See - The Green Agenda: Club of Rome – Club of Budapest – Club of Madrid

under Agenda 21.

We’ve fast becoming a police state, and we the people around the globe a bunch of cowering sheep, including yours truly. Every country needs to be told by the people to STOP this oppression. They also need to be told that we’re still  in charge and won’t tolerate seeing our neighbor brutalized in such a manner. Time to take our country back from those we foolishly trusted to manage and lead!