Providing correct and timely information and analysis is important to me as a journalist, but as a professor, I want to teach you a few simple logical skills, so you will be able to grasp the meaning of events through the thick fog of propaganda. I don’t ask you to believe me, because the skills of seeing through don’t require faith, but rather, understanding.
Let’s talk about the temporary suspension of migrants from seven countries, or as the liberal corporate media calls it “the Muslim ban”; yet another virtue signaling statement.
First of all, if in doubt, find an original publication and a transcript of the speech. In this case it’s the text of the presidential order.
Executive Order: protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States
After you have read this text, let’s think about the subject matter of the anti-Trump protests, which is the refugees.
What do you think is needed for someone to receive a refugee status? They need to prove that they are being prosecuted by their governments. They need to prove that their governments are oppressive regimes and that they would be in jail, tortured, and killed if they remained in their home countries.
Syrian refugees are those who hate Assad, who claim that Assad is a “murderer” of his people. The Syrian refugees coming into the US are those big friends of Hillary and liberals.
To receive this status, they have to recite the entire list of the Western accusations against Assad, or against the government of Iran. Those who are being granted a refugee status by the Obama administration in the US embassies, and these are those who are trying now to get into the US.
Most likely they are people of means and have relatives here. Why are they running now to the US so urgently in such big numbers with the Obama-administration issued Visas? Is it possible that they were involved in something prosecutable, like an anti-government coup attempt in Turkey, or an assistance of terrorism in Iran. I am not saying that they were, but that it’s possible.
So, people who are able to receive a refugee status in the United State are those whom we normally call 5th columnists.
Now, what would they do after arriving to the US? They receive a significant aid package that includes a government healthcare, monthly payments, free language classes, schools for children, and free tuition in colleges.
The help that the US government provides to the refugees is very significant. Since many of these people were already involved in political struggles in their home countries, they tend to join NGOs that work against the governments of their old countries. Again, these are not economic migrants or people “running from wars”; they are refugees and this means they have to prove that they were in opposition to their governments.
When you say, “how come this evil Trump didn’t ban the poor refugees from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ” I couldn’t find any information on the refugees from those countries coming to the US.
Could it be that it’s easier for them to buy the citizenship, rather than going through uncertain process to be vetted as refugees, considering that they have to prove that they were in opposition to their governments. The Western darling Saudis is a tyrannical regime with no opposition. It’s not Syria with its Eastern type of democracy and tolerance to opposition.
Now, when the wars on the Middle East are winding down, when the societies are returning to normal function and when the money flow to the NGOs stopped, people who worked for the Western governments and the Deep State want to get out of the countries they helped to destabilize. Remember, that they wouldn’t get a refugee status, unless they proved that they worked against their own governments and likely that they were instrumental to the suffering of their fellow countrymen and women.
Do you remember all those videos of production crews staging the “rescues” in an alleged “Aleppo,” while being filmed elsewhere? The same production crews with hundred million dollars budgets whose nomination for the “peace prize” was quickly canceled due to the international public outrage? As it turned out people paid attention and collected enough evidence to condemn the “White Helmets” as a hoax.
When the news came that this hoax ran by the Obama administration and the EU won’t be able to come to the Oscars ceremony, the logic behind Trump’s executive order has become clear.
Trump’s travel ban sees White Helmets figures barred from Oscars.
For more details please see an excellent analyses of Alexander Mercouris on the subject, thanks to our commentator “Blue” for pointing it out.
- Has Sally Yates been sabotaging Trump’s ‘travel ban’ Executive Order all along?
- Donald Trump’s ‘travel ban’ Executive Order: Full text and analysis
This is a very important moment to understand, that those refugees, poroshenkos and saakashvilis, who love to start wars on their own people and who work for the globalists like McCain and the Clintons.
For them, a green card and a refugee status is reassurance that no matter how much damage they bring to their own people, they can always jump the ship to the US and taunt everyone back home from across the ocean. Not any longer.
What is needed is the same extreme vetting for refugees applying from Russia and all the former soviet republics. The 5th column will disappear into thin air.
Flying mice, not to be confused with bats.
President Trump dismissed Obama appointed attorney general Sally Yates
Trump Fires Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Daniel Ragsdale
Now, we will watch how globalists yell and scream fighting for every chair for their servants.
Those of you who like cat Motja’s geopolitical analytics, know that he calls our common enemies “mice.” Some people asked me who those “mice” actually were.
On January 30, Boris Johnson was summoned to UK Parliament over Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. Listen to this video while laying down with your eyes closed. Imagine that you are watching a theater production with life-size mice making humanlike noises, while wearing ballet tutus and pearl necklaces and ties.
Imagine them raising their triangular heads up, while they run about, pushing each other with their round bellies, and leaving behind oblong droppings on the floor of the House of Commons.
Imagine, how they stomp their tiny white and pink feet and clench their tiny white and pink fists in rage. They called Donald Trump the habitual mice names like “Hitler” and “Mussolini,” obfuscating how well those personages served the British mice pretending to bomb the island, while being paid by the British banks.
They also call Trump “a ratchet and bigoted man,” because mice have the monopoly on “everything good.”
Mice are the universal good, and anyone who disagrees with them is evil, as their liberal religion claims.
In panic they petition each other to ban Trump from coming to the UK, which Boris rejected as emotional nonsense, reminding them that only after getting Trump on British soil they can “gently” guide him away from his wrong policies straight into the “right” British mice-approved policies.
Another thing while this video is worth listening to. It gives you a clear picture who are those “suffering” Syrians and Iranians the British parliament are stomping for: all of them live in EU countries and all of them are holders of the British passports. They also mention the Canadian passports holders. There also fake refugees who hold German and Australian passports.
Those people who hold the passports of the Western countries and work against their native countries are the main target of Trump’s traveling restrictions. Listen how the British and Canadian parliaments put a pressure on the US government to make the exception for those individuals.
Why do those people need to be in the US right now? What is so urgent that they are doing in the US that causes such mass hysteria?
It reminds me of the hysteria that was staged around the liberation of Aleppo. Remember how the British and Canadian media screamed about “poor people” being “slaughtered” by Russia’s and Assad’s military? As it turned out they were trying to get from Aleppo their special operations officers who coordinated the war against Syrian government of the ISIS and other armed militia groups.
After the Western staff of the ISIS command center was arrested, the Western interest to the suffering of Syrian people disappeared.
Not a gram of the European humanitarian aid is coming to Aleppo, but only the Russian and the Syrian governments’ aid.
Lo and Behold, ladies and gents, great mice theater….
I must admit, though, that the British Parliament ritual of getting up and down, up and down, is a very good exercise for ones knees.
European Council President Donald Tusk has called the US under President Donald Trump one of the external threats to the EU along with China, Russia and radical Islam.
Listen to this great and important mouse with eyes filled with perpetual mice fear of cats: “The US is a new threat to the EU along with Russia and China.”
Two years ago these same people were screaming about the sanctions against Russia to “isolate Russia.” Now, they find themselves surrounded by enemies.
Let’s admit that everyday a small miracle takes place and a part of the mice-hoodhold on humanity loosens and every day a part of the mice fiefdom implodes.
In their fight against Trump, globalists use the same methods of operations as when they try to frame other leaders.
Per the Kulak comment, it could be that Ash Carter ordered this raid in Yemen on his way out the Secretary of Defense office. The super-secret Joint Special Operations Command raid during which everything went wrong.
We already know that that professionalism of the US special operation forces is a Hollywood myth. Yemenis were circulating a body count of combatants and civilians as high as 59, per NBC news. It was clearly, an intentional operation to inflict as many civilian deaths as possible, to smear the new president in the blood of innocent victims.
It could become a reasonable precursor to the US troops withdrawal from the Middle East.
Another example of the collapsing of globalist rule:
In Russia, the Director of the FSB Center for Information Security Sergey Mihailov and one of his deputy directors Dmitry Dokuchaev are charged with cooperation with the CIA and with treason.
According to the FSB spokesperson, four people were arrested with connection to this crime and eight other people are under investigation.
In this case, the hackers attacks and the direct treason of the country got intertwined. Some of the participants were organizing, designing, and executing the schemes of the hackers attacks, while others leaked information to the CIA.
The head of the FSB center for Information Security was arrested on January 25 of this year.
The head of the Kaspersky Labs Cyber Crimes Investigation department Ruslan Stoyanov was arrested at the end of December 2016.
ZeroHedge published a comprehensive article on this arrests
An infamous head of the Shaltai Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty hacker group was lured from Kiev to Moscow by a large payoff and arrested in October.
Russia’s parliament adopted a package of new laws addressing the cyber security of the country. Now, a cyber attack against Russia’s strategic infrastructure will earn a perpetrator a ten-year prison sentence. According to the FSB report, there were more than 70 million cyber attacks against the Russia’s infrastructures in 2016.
The globalists, however, fight back in the country they occupy, Ukraine.
On January 30, the decision of the Moscow court about Maidan became a law. The court issued a decision that the Maidan in Ukraine in 2014 was an unconstitutional anti-government putsch.
It makes the Regime in Kiev illegal, and the president Yanukovich the only legal head of state. It gives to Yanukovich the legal power to declare every agreement signed by the Kiev junta as null and void.
Predictably, the Kiev regime responded to this with an increase shelling of Donbass on January 30th.
RT has started an online translation of the military escalation in Donbass
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the hostilities were provoked by Ukrainian paramilitary units.
31 January 2017, Russia’s Foreign Ministry statement on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Donbass
At first, Poroshenko claimed that Donbass was shelled by the Kremlin. He even produced this image as an evidence.
In an unexpected turn, Poroshenko was grilled by German lawmakers and admitted it was SBU (which is run by the CIA) and the Ukrainian military (which is run by NATO) special operations officers who, after penetrating the Donetsk republic border, have been shooting at Ukrainian troops from civilian buildings in Donetsk, giving the Kiev armed forces excuse to start shelling the heavily populated areas.
This is something that Donestk authorities have been saying for a long time, but it is important to hear this admission from the Junta leader himself. It unknown what exactly Poroshenko was drinking before saying the truth, tap water most likely, because he interrupted his visit on Monday January 30, and left Germany the same day with significant velocity.
Kiev continues to violate ceasefire agreement, opts for military solution – Moscow
Video of Donetsk shelling by the Ukraine’s military, when the Life cameraman was injured
Footage of the Federal News Agency journalist of the rescue mission to remove Pavel Chuprina, a wounded cameraman, from a bomb shelter.
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Germany considers blaming Ukraine for the escalation of the conflict.
According to Berlin’s reading of Poroshenko, he wants to try pretty much anything possible to prevent the termination of the sanctions against Russia.
The newspaper says that every time Poroshenko visits Germany, the Kiev regime troops intensify the shelling of Donbass, and he demands more sanctions on Russia.
Using Ukraine as a lever, the globalists pressure Russia and Europe simultaneously. However, Russia, previously banned from protecting its own economy on the European markets, now is able to do so due to sanctions.
It’s fun for the Russians to watch how Germany is trying to wiggle from under Poroshenko’s dead weight.
In the statement of the Russia’s Foreign Ministry, by making provocations in Donbass, Kiev is trying to keep the Ukrainian crisis on the global agenda.
“A strange pattern cannot but attract attention,” the statement reads. “Whenever tensions in Donbass grow, the Ukrainian leaders happen to be making foreign visits. It seems, they try to keep the Kiev-initiated crisis on the global agenda.”
The president of the Donetsk republic Alexander Zakharchenko expressed similar sentiments saying that “Ukraine started hostilities only because Russia and the United States started to search for common ground. And, haveing understood that Kiev may get nothing, Poroshenko ordered to launch an offensive on the Donetsk People’s Republic.”
On January 31, in reinforcement of the Kiev military attacks on Donbass, Germany begins tank deployment to Lithuania. The German troops in Lithuania soon will be joined by soldiers from Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. They all are joining the US heavy weapons and troops build up in Poland via Germany as part of the same mission, dubbed ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’. Eighty-seven US battle tanks, 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, and 3,500 soldiers arrived in Europe earlier this month, to add to those who are already there, as part of NATO’s buildup near Russia’s borders, agreed at the NATO summit in Warsaw in July of 2016.
Is it interesting how we all can casually walk into a armed conflict in Europe, without even noticing of how we got there. With Soros moving his operations to Europe and setting up his shop in Hungary, the Western European countries are fattened up like Christmas geese and ready to have their heads cut off and gutted.
Poland is fine-tuning its new ‘Death to Ukraine!” and “Whose Lviv” memes
NOTE by my editor:
I’m not disagreeing with your logic but here are some things that you may want to note that could prove what you’re saying to be contradictory or problematic:
- “Trump’s seven countries” is not an original list penned by Trump or anyone in his camp; it is a list (which included Syria) leftover from the Obama administration. Trump is literally taking over what has already been in the works. The previous administration put forth active Visa restrictions to and from these seven countries (this was not seen as problematic because Obama is a fun, cool, liberal who can do no wrong.) Visa restrictions to and from countries like Yemen were (suspiciously) added very recently, while Obama was still the president.
- The “Muslim” ban actually does not disproportionately affect refugees, it affects American citizens. The refugee issue is blown up by anti-Trump protesters but it is not the primary defect of the mandate. It also affects Syrian Christian families. How do you explain that?
- Saudi Arabia is one of the countries which was spared from the ban; I am genuinely confused as to why Trump supporters tout Trump as the new anti-imperialist, while he staunchly continues business as usual with countries known for militaristic and imperialist ties with the United States. Will Trump continue allowing SA to bomb Yemen with American-provided weapons? Is this anti-status quo?
The following is also my editor’s note:
The MAIN issue I have with this ruling is this one:
Both anti-Trump protesters and Trump supporters agree on one thing: the “Muslim” ban is anti-status quo and anti-Obama administration. For Trump supporters, this is good (will keep us safe, new world order etc.) for anti-Trump protesters, this is bad (will increase hate crimes, demagoguery etc.) However, they are clearly both WRONG. This mandate isn’t anti-Obama admin: it’s literally FINISHING IT’S JOB. If Trump is supposedly the new, fresh American that will save the world from nuclear war, why is he using the literal models provided to him by his many predecessors? (a Muslim registry is something that goes back to the Bush-era btw, Trump invented literally none of this.)
To put it in terms you will understand: I am staunchly not pro-anyone in contemporary politics, ever, so no one will take me for a ride; it seems to me that the “cats” are taking a page out the “mice’s” book and just rebranding the same old shit that always been happening to make it look good for them.
Thanks,
Scott Humor
P.S. A featured image: there are three types of the heads of state:
- God given
- God help
- God forbid
So the head of Kaspersky lab sold his own Motherland for a better business for his AV software in the west. How many more traitors are inside Russia ? Same old story … Putin should be replaced by Rogozin and clean the swamps for good.
No,not the Kaspersky company. Only one person heading the investigations unit at the company.
I read an article last week about these guys, may have posted it here at Sakers. It said the Kaspersky guy was busted for activities in association with the busted FSB guy and these activities had no association with Kaspersky.
Congrats, you have managed to pack a lie in every of your three sentences.
Not “the head of Kaspersky lab sold his own Motherland for a better business for his AV software in the west,” but one of his software engineers.
Yevgeny Kaspersky and his wife Natalya Kaspersky are outspoken supporters of president Putin.
“How many more traitors are inside Russia ? ”
As long as they’re being caught, their numbers don’t matter.
.”Putin should be replaced by Rogozin”
Rogozin, who was at some point looking good for a presidential candidate, burned himself with the apparent sabotage in the space industry that he has not been able or willing to fix.
It’s good to know that the liberal anti-Putinists are stomping for Rogozin. Liberals contaminate everything they touch.
Next president of Russia will be Putin.
Dear Scott,
https://www.rt.com/news/375902-fsb-kaspersky-us-treason/
“Two senior FSB officers and a high-level manager of Russia’s leading cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab are facing official charges of treason in the interests of the US, a lawyer representing one of the defendants has confirmed to Interfax.
Ruslan Stoyanov, head of Kaspersky Lab’s computer incidents investigations unit, Sergey Mikhailov, a senior Russian FSB officer, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchayev are accused of “treason in favor of the US,” lawyer Ivan Pavlov said on Wednesday, as cited by Interfax…..”
Looks very serious if being charged with Treason.
Have some question marks on Rogozin – I remember how Putin was very angry over the space programme and came down hard after the delays with the launch. What is going on with this guy?
Also in regard to Yemen – you can see the Democrats are trying to lay the blame at Trump’s door:
https://www.rt.com/usa/375901-pelosi-comments-yemen-refugee/
“Democrat representative Nancy Pelosi has come under fire online for comments she made to a Yemeni refugee, blasting Donald Trump’s recent executive order on immigration and refugees as responsible for the plight of the woman’s family.
“Your family is suffering because our president is reckless and his administration is incompetent,” Pelosi told a Yemeni refugee who said her mother could no longer come to the US due to the ban…..”
The Carter line of thought could be very correct.
Scott, calm down.
Rogozin is a mirror of Putin.
Next election will win V.V.P. and after that one, will come another good man. Rogozin.
I love Putin, I love Rogozin too.
The time of Rogozin will come and it will be once V.V.P. completely withdraws.
Rogozin is very able man.
Please don’t fall for provocation.
I love depth of political bench in Russia, exactly 1! What going to happen if public tire of Putin and turn against Rogozin in a few years?
Alexander Bretchalov will come
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Gee, Scott, when Russian supplied rocket engines started failing on US rockets, I had thought it might be something to do with the breakdown of US-Russia relations!
Okay, well, for the record, I disagree with Scott’s characterization of Rogozin just about at 100%..
For one thing, Rogozin was sent in to FIX the mess in the Russian space program and fix he did. Furthermore, he is the one who got the people responsible demoted. In fact, Rogozin is the “go to” guy for Putin when a bad problem needs to be fixed. As for Rogozin being appointed under Medvedev, if you look at the actual record (which you can find here: /book-review-the-hawks-of-peace-by-dmitri-rogozin/) he was appointed to most positions by Putin even in his ministerial position.
Scott, forgive me, but I find your characterization of Rogozin factually wrong and completely unfair.
The Saker
Rogozin was sent in to FIX the mess in the Russian space program and fix he did (he even got the new spaceport finally workind and the Angara program is doing well now) Furthermore, he is the one who got the people responsible demoted. In fact, Rogozin is the “go to” guy for Putin when a bad problem needs to be fixed. If you look at the actual record (which you can find here: /book-review-the-hawks-of-peace-by-dmitri-rogozin/) Rogozin was appointed to his positions by Putin directly.
The Saker
Thanks Saker for clarifying about Rogozin :)
Rogozin is a patriot and nationalist.
And I am not anti-Putinist or liberal.
I am hard-core nationalist and I believe that Putin did his job very well, however his time has come to retire. We enter times when tanks needs no visas! Rogozin seems to be capable to deliver this !
We are approaching 2020 and with it readiness for a big war ( no one wants one, but its the only solution to resolve crises, all other moves are simply postponements; wars are part of life on Earth)
Spot On! Viva Putin/Viva Russia
“A featured image: there are three types of the heads of state:
1. God given
2. God help
3. God forbid”
Or
1. Trim
2. Pudgy
3. Disgustingly obese
“Why do those people need to be in the US right now? What is so urgent that they are doing in the US that causes such mass hysteria?”
That’s a good question. But those people may not be the reason for the hysteria, and are simply a convenient excuse for it, instead. What I mean is the zio-gays saw an angle in the refugee order they could use to demonize trump with and grabbed the ball and ran with it. They seem to be doing that over just about anything now. I think they will act up like this over every opportunity now. Next week the tantrum will be over something else.
Sorry, supporting Trump because he was far less evil than Clinton is ***not*** the same as being an apologist for Trump’s pro-Saudi, Pro-Israeli, anti-Iran policies now he is president.
Trump is currently making extreme gestures without much care about their morality for two reasons- the first to please Israel and the second to seemingly keep each of his election promises. The ban on muslims from countries listed on Israel’s and neocon PNAC wishlists cannot be seen as anything but pure evil. It specifically targets longstanding citizens of West nations like Britain who also hold dual citizenships, and long established muslim greencard holders in the USA.
The major target is Iran, of course- but we all knew Trump was selling conflict with Iran just as Clinton sold conflict with Russia on the campaign trail. Hot war with Iran- Trump’s goal- was the lesser of two evils at the time, but now Clinton is defeated, it is the only evil and thus we should all work to oppose it.
Trump has stated his intention to throw away the hard won agreement with Iran, and begin a process designed to allow the USA and Israel to declare war on Iran. And as Trump has proven with he first days as president, Trump is a “man of his words”. But this is what we knew we were getting with a Trump win- an old school right-wing president that could and should be held in check by the resurrection of real ground roots left-right activist divide. We want the Democrat lefties to hate Trump so much, they rally against his pro-Israel and anti-Iran policies. We want the natural Democrats and Republicans to butt heads so hard they literally smash each other to pieces.
But what the hell is this “we wanted Trump to win so we must now support all his policies” nonsense? Sane people wanted to break up the cosy left-right ‘common purpose’ secret alliance in place across the West since Tony Blair first rose to real power. Sane people wanted America to revert to at least some form of real opposition between the two main parties so that the agenda of the demons could be slowed to a crawl.
For sure there’s a lot of Trump instinct that will form a really useful ‘course correction’ for the USA. But there is also a significant amount of Trump instinct we must fight against in every way, partly to train the US people in the art of real grassroots protest, and partly to encourage Trump to focus on policies that have merit. Otherwise Trump may well go so far that he alienates every possible ally nation that isn’t Israel or Saudia Arabia, and thus finding himself friendless decides he may as well go the whole hog, and launches a massive strike on Iran.
Putin could do much to save us from the worst outcome by diverting Trump’s growing bloodlust to an Immediate Russia/US operation against mutually defined ‘islamic’ terrorist in Iraq/Syria/Yemen/Libya/North Africa. If Trump is given time by Russia, however, it is very likely Trump’s Israeli and Saudi advisors will successfully move Trump’s immediate military attention to Iran- and once Trump bites down on that prey, nothing will make him shake it loose.
Agree. Trump is also very foolish at managing foreign relations, and refuse to learn.
I wonder how many trump supporter now that he show him self incapable to rational thinking, just as lack of common sense.
I feel sorry for him thinking he has some kind of mandate, while much of independent left voted for him because of democrats head in the cloud mentality.
Now he is the one has no touch with reality, and thinking the extreme right is the only one to please. Because his actions so far since election, his some what reasonable past no longer persuade anyone, and he is totally in the extreme conservative side, which is opposite polar with extreme left, and very much back wards.
Sorry my conservative friends on the site. While I agree with some of your moderate ideas, but the extreme ideology will bring us a backwards society, and extreme isolation. Trump is doing his best to achieve it for you…
I do not know this as a fact (an impossiblity) but I strongly suspect that many intelligent people here (who contribute much of real value) have been so often disappointed by lying politicians that they condemn all politics as just more lying.
They have often been correct in this assumption, making them feel certain about it as a general principle, applicable in all cases.
This is (to me) especially obvious in thinking that because Trump must deal with complex problems, where simple solutions are not immediately possible, that his incremental approach (for example, not immediately blocking immigrants from Saudi Arabia) “proves” his complicity in its evil designs.
They miss the big picture : that (like Scott Adams pointed out about any expert businessman who has taken over a new company) he begins by going after low-hanging fruit. That is, he makes easy, immediate changes that demonstrate his competence and dedication. And people see this — his approval ratings are rising as he goes.
The more of these “wins” he accumulates, the more persuasive power he accumulates, enabling him to go after bigger and bigger issues with the support he needs to resolve them.
Rome was not built in a day. Neither did Hercules dig the channel from the river to the Augean Stables and back again overnight.
People in Russia especially, I would think, could use the way Stalin manoevered against Trotsky during the 1920s as a working model. He did not provoke another civil war — he accumulated power until he was in the driver’s seat.
I am not sure what are you trying to say. A successful businessman Or that his approving rating is getting better? It seems in both case, facts can be alternative.
One can also aregu Rome was not destroyed in one day.
Trump and his super conservative buddies may well destroy the US, and he seems to be going in that direction. I had figured this is the price of not having Clinton start WW3. I can hope he will get it right but I don’t expect it. The Democrats also seem hell bent to destroy the US, though, and has been doing a fine job of just that up until now. The system is busted (has been for a long time, and always getting worse) and nothing short of major overhaul (revolution of some kind) is likely to change that — or whatever happens after the collapse. The ‘elite’ could theoretically wake up and fix it, but they won’t.
Crosstalk was asking if Trump would be re-elected, or have 8 years. I expect that in the next 4 years there will likely be such stuff happening that will so qualitatively and radically change the situation that the question may not even be answerable in those terms.
@ blue,
I agree, particularly with your last statement. However I read that Trump declared his candidacy for 2020 on the day that he was inaugurated, something considered highly unusual. (Not being American or understanding its system in depth, I have to take this on trust)
The reason given for this move is that it allows him to start collecting campaign contributions immediately.
“(5) On Inauguration Day, Trump apparently filed his candidacy for 2020. Beyond being unusual, this opens up the ability for him to start accepting “campaign contributions” right away. Given that a sizable fraction of the campaign funds from the previous cycle were paid directly to the Trump organization in exchange for building leases, etc., at inflated rates, you can assume that those campaign coffers are a mechanism by which US nationals can easily give cash bribes directly to Trump. Non-US nationals can, of course, continue to use Trump’s hotels and other businesses as a way to funnel money to him.”
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.vs52825is
There is also some interesting speculation regarding the Rosneft sale.
As the author writes: ‘Conclusive? No. But it raises some very interesting questions for journalists to investigate.’
If congress would just vote to give Trump, personally, $20 billion in exchange for a guarantee not to gather any more money from anywhere, we could be done with all this nonsense and it would be amazingly cheap compared to all the expense, waste and graft usual in politics.
The most horrifying thing about what goes on is you buy politicians for sometimes as little as a few thousand dollars, and then they cost the country tens or hundreds of millions to ‘earn their fee’, and cumulatively it ends up costing $trillions. It’s like a gang of car thieves stealing hundreds of new cars so they can junk them but sell the front doors for twenty bucks each.
We could pay every member of congress a billion dollars each for eliminating graft and we would save a boodle — with a lot of it going into the general economy anyway as they splurged on all the expensive toys they otherwise could not afford (instead of going toward bombs to blow up people around the world), while giving people jobs to make the yachts, luxury cars, jewelry, and other crap. The system we have now is not just dishonest but absurdly stupid and anti-productive. They can’t even get ‘trickle down’ right.
On Trump making extreme gestures :
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156628357041/is-president-trump-doing-management-wrong
Worth considering, IMO.
Trump will attack Iran ? possible but not logical. Military occupation of portions of Syria as of creating “safe grounds” for refugees ? Lavrov has spoken out his view on that issue. We’ll see much clearer after a Putin-Trump meeting. Personally I don’t think that Russia will accept a US led war against Iran. That wold put in danger the whole Syrian agreements and effort made by Russia. Trump will have to learn how to deal with challenges in that delicate and complicated situation in that region.
Trump would also be able to piss off Israel and Saudi in a spur of the moment.
All the current bets are off (or on).
Sure is entertaining watching elites fall out….btw you all have seen the new constitution the RF’s recommended to Syria, sane indeed, but to their ‘opposition’ surely a joke, not unlike the Minsk deal….Vlad&Lav are such good straight men….
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702011050212454-syria-constitution-text-russia/
Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. He’s a White Nationalist.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/suspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack-quickly-depicted-as-a-moroccan-muslim-hes-a-white-nationalist/5571976
“A MASS SHOOTING at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig’s head was left during Ramadan last June.
Almost immediately, various news outlets and political figures depicted the shooter as Muslim. Right-wing nationalist tabloids in the UK instantly linked it to Islamic violence. Fox News claimed that “witnesses said at least one gunman shouted ‘Allahu akbar!’,” and then added this about the shooter’s national origin:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-31-at-7.36.25-AM.png
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer exploited the attack to justify President Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
But these assertions are utterly false. The suspect is neither Moroccan nor Muslim. The Moroccan individual, Mohamed Belkhadir, was actually one of the worshippers at the mosque and called 911 to summon the police, and played no role whatsoever in the shooting.
The actual shooting suspect is 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist.
But this is exactly why no responsible news organization, let alone the White House, should rush to depict the shooter as Muslim and of Moroccan descent when so little is known about what happened. Yet not only did Fox and the Trump White House do exactly that, but worse, neither has retracted or corrected their claims long after it became clear that it was false.
The inflammatory effect of this sort of reckless, biased “reporting” is as predictable as it is toxic. All day long, people around the world cited these reports to justify Trump’s ban as well as their own ugly views of Muslims.
terrorism aimed, yet again, at Muslims by someone who has apparently been indoctrinated with a great deal of hate toward them. Media outlets and the White House led people all over the world today to believe exactly the opposite.”
And the CBC has exploited the shooter to smear Trump:
b>Suspect in mosque shooting a moderate conservative turned extremist, say friends, classmates
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-alexandre-bissonnette-profile-1.3959581
“Trump enjoys the support of the alt-right, a loosely defined political movement that includes white nationalists and white supremacists.”
S
The article i quoted above mentioned the terrorist’s approval of trump and le pen. The irony is the trump regime used the massacre as an example to justify its refugee policy and the terrorist turned out to be an anti-immigrant fan of trump (and most likely Catholic). A major self inflicted foot gunshot wound for the regime.
And also, like with the Norwegian terrorist, brevik, the terrorist is a zionazi:
“A hunter, he opposed gun control and was pro-Israel,” (From the cbc article linked.)
Seems to be a pattern…
Yes, irony noted, and it’s something of a shock to Canadians who still think of themselves as nice polite people, honest brokers in geopolitics etc.etc. Events like this just don’t happen here -but unfortunately they now do and in part because of Canada’s support for US hegemony and fascist regimes and internal divisive politics.
As for what passes for journalism and state broadcasting memes, confirmation bias and capitalising on events such as these is paramount. First mud always sticks best -it never quite washes off on a retraction..
Yet another proof on how easily can the young generation be brainwashed and manipulated by those who have a plan to achieve something. And, as the above links show, they succeeded.
US Army Orders Counter-Drone Systems for ‘Urgent Operational Need’
https://sputniknews.com/us/201702011050221704-us-army-counter-drone-systems/
“The Defense Department identified the UAS defeat system as a counter-unmanned aerial system solution required to meet the mission requirements of what it described as an “urgent operational need.”
Why the urgency? Maybe this is why:
Iran Prepares to Ditch Dollar in International Trade
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702011050220348-iran-threatens-to-ditch-dollar/
Iran to dump the US dollar in response to Trump’s travel ban
https://www.rt.com/business/375789-iran-dollar-trump-ban/
Remember what happened to Iraq and Libya who also ditched the zionazi dollar. Given the trump regime’s zionazi positions on Iran, they should expect and prepare for the cowardly worst israel-america will do.
Iran is upset about not being able to go to America for three months and the labelling of their country.
Iran however need to pick their battles – worse is to come as Trump is anti Iran pro Israel
Iran need a less emotional strategy and to start the serious defence of there country and there people.
A statement should suffice yet they start with the over emotional reactions
They need cool heads in Tehran
Iran indeed need cool heads and to pick their battles. Russia had to swallow a lot just these few years but they emerged stronger. Iran should adopt similar strategy,less emotion and clear goals to unite the people and let the dogs bark and fleas bite. One thing can possibly explain their current stance. Last hurrah from their 5th column. If that is the case then things are going well. With their emergence from the woodwork it will be easier to remove them from their positions. Hopefully before they make some irreparable damage like giving pretext for intervention.
I would like to know the extent and substance of coordination between Russia,China and Iran regarding changes in the world. Maybe the Iran’s stance have support of Russia and China? Russia have not interfered with South China issue a lot. China mostly evaded the Ukraine issue. Although they both supported each other silently and of the camera if we look closer. Is Iran having a knee jerk reaction or is it coordinating its activities with Russia and China is the question? In which case they will be the focus of battle against the Empire in the next stage. Divide the Empires forces on 3 fronts,weakening them in order to prevent accomplishment of their goals in either one. Taste of their own medicine?
We will have to wait a bit more. Wind of change is stronger now then ever in 10-20 years. It can be felt,yet it is denied by many.
Iran had a commitment to de-dollarize prior to the ban. It had sought payments in Euros last year, and has been assiduously making business deals with various members of the EU – especially Italy and Germany.
It notably was lukewarm towards France – no doubt because of its major role in the destruction of Libya (Sarkozy) and Syria (Hollande).
It has also consistently rejected any major changes – particularly re trade – following the nuclear deal with the US.
So it may be simply using the temporary ban to reinforce already-decided agendas, rather than acting ‘intemperately.’
E
Exactly. Iran has been moving away from dollar slavery for a long time now. The problem is their trading partners balked. Now that the zionazis are gunning for China, that balking may well change. Hence the lying hysterics from the zionazi trump regime today. Zionazi, inc. depends upon dollar slavery to prop itself up, every move away from that slavery reduces their power.
Vot Tak,
Here are more info along same line from SCMP, things not looking too good with trump. I hope at least we will watch him like a hawk and stop him before he start:
Steve Bannon: ‘we’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt’
“The United States and China will fight a war within the next ten years over islands in the South China Sea, and “there’s no doubt about that”. At the same time, the US will be in another “major” war in the Middle East.
Those are the views – nine months ago at least – of one of the most powerful men in Donald Trump’s administration, Steve Bannon, the former head of far-right news website Breitbart who is now chief strategist at the White House.
In the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, Bannon has emerged as a central figure. He was appointed to the “principals committee” of the National Security Council in a highly unusual move and was influential in the recent travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, overruling Department of Homeland Security officials who felt the order did not apply to green card holders.
While many in Trump’s team are outspoken critics of China, in radio shows Bannon hosted for Breitbart he makes plain the two largest threats to America: China and Islam…”
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2067457/steve-bannon-were-going-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt#add-comment
Mikhail Gorbachev is scared: ‘It all look as if the world is preparing for war’
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2066450/mikhail-gorbachev-scared-it-all-look-if-world
….And on another matter….for “religious” freaks everywhere espececially those close to home –
http://johnhelmer.net/the-wages-of-sin-er-wages-for-sin-patriarch-kirill-presents-state-duma-with-initial-prayer-offering-ipo/
….Out with the Poroschenko chocolates and enjoy the story….
Maybe Trump used the travel ban to provoke the disloyal in executive branch to come out and so he can identify and then fire them. The first strike in the Sakers words.
Dear Scott,
Thank you for an insightful Sitrep.
Breaking news on RT ticker right now saying “Ukraine Defence Ministry admits conducting offensive in Donbass…” Ties up with your information above about Poroshenko
https://www.rt.com/news/375892-kiev-advance-rebels-position/
Also
https://sputniknews.com/world/201702011050230911-unsc-kiev-poroshenko-defense/
Poroshenko saying going to use UNSC to defend itself against Russia….
When I saw Hitlery and then Obama come out in the last few days attacking Trump for his 90 day suspension – it all again ties in to what you have said above.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201701311050212582-immigration-ban-refugees-waivers/
But hey, 872 vetted by “Obama administration” are still going to arrive in the US this week…
Just sitting back and watching this unfold.
The “refugee” (pseudo) crisis was staged by the western governments and NGOs (paid by Soros).
The media were publishing fake stories and showing photos with small children. The narrative was that the Syrians were fleeing from the evil dictator Assad. Maybe western governments wanted a pretext to bomb Syria, who knows ?
But in reality, all these millions of people who invaded European countries were not genuine refugees and only a small minority were Syrians. This was a case of asylum shopping as these people were travelling numerous safe countries to reach their preferred country (usually Germany, Sweden etc). Most of them were already living in Turkey, a safe country.
The thing is, if those Syrians who claimed asylum were fleeing for political reasons, it means that they are anti-Assad. Basically it means that they are pro-islamists and collaborationists, traitors of their country.
In addition, numerous of those illegal migrants aka “refugees” were Afghans, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Egyptians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Algerians, sub-saharan Africans. They flew to Istanbul airport, and then paid smugglers to enter Greece. When authorities put them to detention centers, they burned them down and caused riots. Hardly the behaviour of peace-loving “refugees”
These people have no legit claim to refugee status.
Now, hundreds of thousands of those are staying in Greece and they get welfare benefits, free health care, free education, and free food. Meanwhile, thousands of Greeks are unemployed, homeless, without claiming any benefits from the state, overtaxed, evicted by their private properties and homes so as to house “refugees” .
The “Greek” puppet government (under fake left party Syriza ) has made numerous Aegean islands into huge (open) detention centres, thereby destroying the tourist economies of those islands. The NGOs of Soros are in control of detention centers and get EU funding. In small islands with a low and elderly population, about 20,000 illegal migrants are currently there. And the invasion through Turkey continues as thousands more and more are keep coming every week. The EU agreement with turkey is a joke, only 200 people have been returned to Turkey since last June.
The occupational authorities have also transferred numerous Afghans into several homogeneous small greek towns around Greece but also in some working class suburbs of Athens and Salonica. In the same primary school in Athens (that i attended as a child), with about 200 students (usually 180 greeks and 20 albanians students ), they have transferred about 40-50 afghans Hazara students who doesnt speak a word of greek. This of course will cause an exodus of greek students and ghettoisation of this suburb.
What happens in Greece is quite scary. Greece is under economic and political occupation as well as an attempt of a demographic extinction of the greek population as numerous have emigrated, other are unable to form familes and raise children. There is massive transfer of Asian muslims illegal migrants many of whom are engaged in crime, burglaries, drug trafficking and other illegal activities. All these happen in a country close to economic and social implosion …..
Very good writing xcv. I think you should be considered to write articles on the migrants and Greece for Saker’s blog.
Now there is talk by Germany of deporting migrants back to Greece, it being the first EU country entered, instead of back to Turkey or their home countries.
I just wish the Greeks, like the Brits, had the courage to leave the EU.
If Greece actually left the EU, wouldn’t the migrants then be sent to Croatia or Hungary as the first EU country they entered?
If you were trying to force me to stop reading your article and, moreover, quit The Saker’s site for good, you did a great job with your remarks about Hitler and Mussolini “pretending” to bomb the British Isles. My parents were under those bombs, and believe me they were very real. Indeed there wasn’t very much difference between the German Blitz and today’s NATO bombardments. The biggest bombs have remained about the same size – 1000 kg or so – and the bombing was just about as random and unfocused.
The US mainland escaped virtually untouched during both World Wars, so you Americans can gloat about that as much as you like. But please don’t tell nasty transparent lies about the suffering and death that British people underwent. We don’t like that.
Tom,
“you Americans can gloat about that as much as you like.”
1. I’m Russian. Both of my grandfathers died liberating the Western part of Russia called Ukraine from the fascist European invasion. We weren’t invaded just by Germany. Almost every European nation sent it’s men to kill the Russians. Plus, over 150,000 Jews were enlisted in the German army. The British financed this invasion.
2. You don’t dispute the fact that the British banks financed the WW II.
“But please don’t tell nasty transparent lies about the suffering and death that British people underwent. We don’t like that.”
Who does?
1. I call the bombing of the United Kingdom by Germans “pretend bombing,” because they were arranged with the British government.
“Our old House of Commons has been blown to smithereens. You never saw such a sight. Not one scrap was left of the chamber except a few of the outer walls.
The Huns obligingly chose a time when none of us were there. ”
Winston Churchill
Telling, isn’t it?
2. It was the East End of London, the industrial center and docks as well as other working-class residential areas, that was bombed most heavily. Because, for the British elite the poor are expendable. Yes, pretend bombings, or special ops and false flag attacks, have very real victims, but not among those who organize them.
3. Since Germans were getting money from the British banks to finance their war on Russia, how would you call the German bombing of the UK?
Scott,
Where I grew up in Oldham, I was playing as a 7 year old in the remnants of bombed out mills, that still had not been reconstructed or cleared after WWII. All my older brothers and sisters lived through it. The bombing was intensive, and my Dad a brilliant engineer – not only worked under enemy fire to get the spitfires back into the air – he also helped designed and deploy the Mulberry Harbour – under enemy fire.
Where I live now – is close to an old WWII airfield. Our house is about the only one, that was not seriously damaged. We still have the original stain glass windows.
As a Professor you seem somewhat naive about the history of WWII. Maybe you should spend some time in England talking to the people who lived through it. Some of us are still alive.
I assume from what you wrote you now live in the USA. Why is that?
Why do you not still live in Russia?
Tony
I assume from what you wrote you now live in the USA. Why is that?
Why do you not still live in Russia?
Tony
That is always the argument
if we are dishonest, if we kill innocent people, if we have vassals
why do you live together with us [ in USA or UK ]?
My answer is – because with wars, dishonesty etc you have created good life for whoever lives among you.
We got example that the Americans bombed Serbia
and the Serbs live in the US or want to emigrate to the USA.
Why?
Because of it you have a good life.
Tony,
You government paid to Germans to bomb its own population, while making money on the war and assisting the Zionists in their plans for a state.
It’s a fact. You’re just in denial.
This discussion reminds of the scene from Orwell’s 1984 where Smith is rather taken aback at Julie’s suggestion that the random bombings were somehow instigated or propagated by “Big Brother” (what we would now call false-flag attacks) to maintain a certain level of fear in the population, and then to find out that in real life Orwell’s London flat was actually badly damaged by a German “doodle-bug” (V-1 cruise missile), making his novel even more auto-biographical.
Tony,
You wrote: “I assume from what you wrote you now live in the USA. Why is that?
Why do you not still live in Russia? ”
Regardless of the place of my current domicile, I want to address your assumption that Russians should only live in Russia, and have no rights to live anywhere else.
What about the British, Germans, Irish, French, Italians, Jews? Are you saying that everyone should stay on their national territories?
I”m very curious to understand where are you coming from?
To me, you are expressing an assumption of a run-of-the-mil Russophobe.
Why do you not still live in Russia?
Yeah, I get this one often too. This kind of argument is an underhanded at hominem resulting from an inability to come up with a real argument.
In this case, where Scott live is not only entirely irrelevant to his arguments, it is also none of your figging business. Let me tell you a secret: Scott lives in Japan. Or, wait, was it Peru? Oh, no, he lives in Washington DC, right across from the White House. Or in motel near Langley, VA. WHO CARES!! (I get to use caps, since it is my blog :-P).
This is such a stupid argument it just takes my breath away every time. For one thing, it assumes that Scott (or I) had a choice in our decision to live, in my case, in the USA. Furthermore, check where the Russian ambassador to the UN lives: in the USA too!! Wow, what a surprise. How dare he speak of Russia sitting in New York. What a hypocrite. Okay, we are not ambassadors, but I assure you that geolocating your interlocutor is a sign of intellectual debility. Think of Lenin, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ben Gourion or Mahatma Ghandi. They did not live in their own country for years – yet nobody would attribute that to hypocrisy. Except petty idiots like you. Sorry, just calling as it is. Stupidity. can be tolerated. Militant and arrogant stupidity cannot.
The Saker
I think Germany was “practicing” its ballistic missiles on Britain. People were killed and terrorized, but the country wasn’t invaded and the numbers Britain lost per its total population was very low compared to Russia, Serbia and many other countries.
One must remember, that despite the war, the British were seriously meddling in other countries and were a big factor in putting Serbs under communist Tito.
The BBC was pushing propaganda against the Serbs. The Brits even kept sabotaging the rescue of allied pilots downed behind enemy lines and saved by the Serb royalists/chetniks because it didn’t want them to get credit.
The Brits also forced anti-communist refugees back to Yugoslavia/Tito to be mass murdered.
Plus the Brits were dropping cluster bombs and terrorizing Serbs in the recent bombing of Serbia to help the Albanians steal Kosovo.
The Brits also supervised the murder of civilian Serbs by the KLA and didn’t lift a finger to stop it in 1999 and 2000.
The Brits and the U.S. were encouraging and aiding Muslim jihadists to go to Bosnia and Herzegovina in that war.
Scott
““Our old House of Commons has been blown to smithereens. You never saw such a sight. Not one scrap was left of the chamber except a few of the outer walls.
The Huns obligingly chose a time when none of us were there. ”
Winston Churchill
Telling, isn’t it?”
Yes it is, about you and the quality your “analysis” here.
70th anniversary of House of Commons Chamber bombing
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/may/70th-anniversary-of-commons-chamber-bombing/
“The Houses of Parliament were damaged by air raids on 14 different occasions during the Second World War. The raid on 10 May 1941 caused the most damage when the Commons Chamber was completely destroyed by fire that caused the ceiling to collapse. the roof of Westminster Hall’s was also set on fire.
Three people lost their lives at Parliament that night.”
The reason none of the “important people”, which is what I assume churchill meant by “us”, is because the bombing happened during the night, when they were normally not there. Not because of some agreement between the Germans and British. No doubt this was mentioned in the material you quoted, it is well known the Germans switched over to night time bombing raids during the autumn of 1940, long before May, 1941. Also since that raid was to be the last of the blitz, its details would be highlighted. Furthermore, the Germans were literally physically incapable of singling out a single building for a night bombing attack then.
Regardless, a few seconds of fact checking showed me the above material. Either you left out these facts because they nullified your point, or you accepted some bs from another or were too lazy to fact check. I’m finding these kinds of selective accuracy in your analysis are a real problem due to their frequency. One could say their predominance, in fact.
That sort of selective use of facts to support a misleading and fraudulent narrative is what zionazi propagandists such as rush limbaugh and mark levine make their careers doing.
Another example, though this may be more of the usual ignorance one finds in americans due to their very shallow understandings of historical matters, especially in the details, and their gullibility to nonsense.
“2. It was the East End of London, the industrial center and docks as well as other working-class residential areas, that was bombed most heavily.”
There are two main goals of strategic bombing (originally called terror bombing, btw). To create fear in the general population and to destroy the industrial capability of the country. The Germans were both trying to break the British population’s morale and destroy their industrial base to wreck their military capability.
Initially, the Germans mainly targeted military installations and industrial centres during daylight hours, when they could see somewhat of what they were bombing. After a British raid on Berlin, the Germans switched to mainly terror bombing. Their aircraft loses eventually forced the Germans to switch to bombing at night. At that point, they could only target cities, or sections of large cities, their tech ability at that time did not allow more. Often, many planes missed even hitting the city they were directed to attack altogether.
Claiming the British conspired with the Germans to have the Germans bomb poor neighbourhoods in British cities is laughable nonsense. Where did you read that, Scott?
On the other hand:
“2. You don’t dispute the fact that the British banks financed the WW II.”
This is a little better. Though it implies banks paid for the war, rather than were paid for it. Banksters of the “west” did provide loans to rebuild the German military and industry during the 30s and into the early 40s. The business connections between the nazi regime and the western corporate oligarchy were quite deep. Both the bush and rockefeller oligarchies had businesses seized by the american government in 1942 because they continued providing Germany with materials after the war declaration.
You nailed it spot on with this:
” I’m finding these kinds of selective accuracy in your analysis are a real problem due to their frequency. One could say their predominance, in fact.”
Thank you for fact checking, and comments.
Take Care
Kent
My comment debunking scott’s historical falsehoods here was trashed.
It was sent for Saker to review.MOD
The brouhaha over the temporary ‘Muslim ban’ is beginning to emerge as smokescreen for the real ‘concerns ‘ – the fact that the POTUS executive order bypassed the security agencies, including the NSC, to instruct immigration officials directly, and without prior notice.
Clearly, the ‘vetting’ procedures by the highly-politicized intel agencies is not viewed with much confidence by the new administration. Are they really acting in the interests of national security, or deploying the security apparatus to conceal other objectives, including the smuggling in of ‘assets’ among the crowds?
Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institute denounces this ‘malevolent’ order, despite being an advocate of detention without trial of ‘terror’ suspects and Gitmo torture:
http://www.lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas
Note; he and wife helped chair a secret BDS forum, sponsored by Haim Sabon, major Clinton funder. When asked why it was held in secret by Philip Weiss, no reply was forthcoming.
It seems the Brookings Institute views the exodus of Arabs from Syria as ‘a good thing’ and BDS as a ‘bad thing.’
Wonder why?
Scott,
Whilst in some circumstances your definition of a refugee “They need to prove that their governments are oppressive regimes and that they would be in jail, tortured, and killed if they remained in their home countries” is correct, and you are making a political point that I largely agree with, you are being somewhat disingenuous. To be perfectly frank, most objective non-political, non-brainwashed people would categorize the people you are referring to, not as refugees – but as terrorists and/or mercenaries. I wouldn’t want them in my country either – even if the government of my country, had been training, financing and supplying these terrorists with extremely powerful weapons and brainwashing them via propaganda. In my view the vast majority of these people are not refugees.
Refugees, are considered by most people like me, to be the victims of having their villages, towns, cities and infrastructure almost completely destroyed by foreign military forces – such as I am ashamed to admit – the UK. You can blame me if you like, but I never voted for them.
I could write a long article about the origins of this evil, and I am not claiming in any way that us British have not been evil in our history. But what is going on now, is not largely of British origin.
The world’s recent history has largely been controlled neocons – and their origins are not British.
You know where they come from and so do I and you Eastern Europeans and Russians can have them back. We don’t want them either. Why did you dump them on Western Europe, The USA and Palestine? I accept that some of it was our fault – but we considered them to be refugees. We should of course have sent them back to Russia – where most of them came from.
You may find this interesting.
“Published on Jan 30, 2017 Yesterday, President Trump picked up a dangerous implement called a telephone and called the King of Saudi Arabia. In less than one day the two leaders worked out a deal that we assume will open that existing refugee camp immediately.”
“Trump Sets Up 6 Refugee Safe Zones in One Day, 1468”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFYlkxYkoQ
Tony
You wrote: “Refugees, are considered by most people like me, to be the victims of having their villages, towns, cities and infrastructure almost completely destroyed by foreign military forces”
This is not a legal definition of a refugee.
According to Article 1 of the 1951 UN Convention, as modified by the 1967 Protocol: “Any person who: owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country..”
Refugee status has nothing to do with suffering from a war.
You are from the UK
Just read what you have to prove to be eligible for a refugee status in the US.
You have to prove that the government of your home country is after you for political (religious, sexual) reasons.
https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum/overview
https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum/eligibility
Why don’t you understand that a Syrian or an Iranian citizen has to be a part of the 5th column to be awarded a refugee status by any Western government? In their own countries these people work against their own countries for the interest of the Western governments.
To get a refugee status, you need to prove that you are threatened by your own government.
The UK government is violating the rights of Julian Assange, who was given a refugee status. No one in the UK Parliament protests against this violation, because they only protect the rights of those who work for them.
Actually, Scott, refugees, can be ordinary civilians displaced by war. Just because the zionazi quislings play with semantic faggotry to push their disgusting aggenda doesn’t mean we have to accept their bs.
Refugee is a neutral term, it is the word preceding it that determine what type. A political refugee is due to politics, a war refugee is from war. What Scott describes as a refugee is a type of political refugee.
Thanks Scott…excellent article with good resources and cogent arguments.
Many thanks Scott for this detailed review, which explains everything, on such an important topic. Appreciate the effort!
P.S. Thanks also for your comments which are as informative. Every day learn something new…
Ah, so the Mice are representative of British Parliamentarians; I had wondered: In fact I thought the Mice were Neocons/Zionists. That is very disparaging for Mice.
I gather Parliament is a Noun made by combing two French words:- Parle(speak) and Mente(lie), Speak Lies. How profoundly apt. In the UK, public respect for that institution has evaporated, as awareness has grown of malignant conspiracy between Banks, Corporations, Government(itself a corporation), and the fatally corrupted fourth estate.
As for Tusk, and Europe, More lies, more corruption, with no end in sight. If, and it is a big IF, the US intends ending its EU experiment then Tusk is right to fear for his gravy train and Grand dreams upon the back of Europeans who never desired or wanted the corrupt supranational leviathan feeding upon us, but will comprehend that the incredibly fast roll-out of a fully European Armed Forces, would not sit well with Washington who enjoys using NATO as an extension of US Corporate policy enforcement.
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/exclusive-eu-take-control-british-nuclear-deterrent
The EU bigwigs: The Commision, and top technocrats are I would guess passported into power by the US CFR. Nobody knows for certain for the reason that the Public are neither invited nor required or wanted in these matters. So that is my guess. This means that top Israelis will have a huge say in who governs Europe since the CFR is largely operated and controlled by Israel, who in turn are influenced by the “vile mile” of the CoL. Given that Merkel seems to be a US/Neocon/zionist puppet even though was an agit/prop in GDR under soviet occupation we have a very odd and often contradictary situation. As the Americans might say:- Go figure.
Excellent SITREP, Scott. As usual. Thank you.
“It’s fun for the Russians to watch how Germany is trying to wiggle from under Poroshenko’s dead weight.”
Germans are not the ones being killed and shelled by Kiev. I am wondering if Russia is just going to sit back and allow the people to be endlessly shelled and killed. No one in the NAF nor Russia should adhere to the Minsk agreements as the Kiev violates it with impunity. Kiev soldiers are moving into the neutral ground and taking it over.
I’m in contact with a lady in Donetsk right now, she has no running water, and explosions are continuing.
Also: ‘Three “KAMAZ” has brought the dead soldiers of the APU in Dzerzhinsk for burning. The DPR’s intelligence reported the arrival in the city hospital of Dzerzhynsk three cars “KAMAZ” with the bodies of dead soldiers APU for burning in the crematorium.’
Note re the ” seven countries ”
From what I understand, that list was created during the Bush administration.
A complementary theory is that this list was created as far back as the 1950’s by the 3 letter agency as assassinations were attempted on Syrian leadership in order to help a certain ((( country ))) in the region go forward. The 7 country crusade was later dust-binned as the US had other problems – JFK murder, Vietnam, Nixon, malaise, etc.
9/11 proved to be the shock that re-awoke this frankenstein and here we are today.
Every geopolitical era creates disaffected peoples, Cuban expats (Watergate coup/ JFK job), White Russians (who, some say, did in FDR)…but this isn’t only recent…it’s the natural ways of Empire. Always among the disaffected one can recruit agents…to serve dark forces. this is a truth known in pre-history…duh!
You people wherever you come from – you try and slag us British off…
Well the very first modern computers were not designed in Russia, Germany or the USA.
They were designed and built in England…
I am not going to give you a full potted history..but basically most of the original design work was done in Oldham and Manchester University and Ferranti and ICL – and even those soft southern softies in London and Bracknell
It had almost nothing to do with Americans or IBM – or the Japanese or anyone else…
Even when I got involved 10 years after my brother when I was 19 after Maths,Physics and Chemistry at University we where a Generation ahead of the rest of the World in West Gorton Manchester, Lancashire, England,UK
We not only had the first real Digital Computer Running – we had also developed and made working the concept of Virtual Addressing and Virtual Machines VME/B
Only a few years later – we not only Developed it – but I tested it The Distributed Array Processor.
It was a 32×32 array – like a Brain – and I thought well how tf do they want to me test this (the size of a fridge) against an enormous water cooled Cray – the size of 10 US tanks.
It was the most powerful computer in the world – The ICL Distrubted Array Processor – Ashton-U-Lyne, Oldham Lanashire
We Blew Them Away
The Distributed Array Processor (DAP) produced by International Computers Limited (ICL) was the world’s first commercial massively parallel computer. The original paper study was complete in 1972 and building of the prototype began in 1974. The first machine was delivered to Queen Mary College in 1979.
I worked for the same company at the same time as Conway Berners-Lee
He probably thought I was a little kid.
But I went South.
Tim did this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
So what did the rest of you do?
I’m still here and so at the age of 95 is
Conway Berners Lee
Tim’s Dad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Berners-Lee
Tony
The secret of your story is that British can be herd like sheep, that’s were your strength lies.
As an institution, you have manage very well over the centuries.
And by the way, instead talking about parallel computing why don’t you talk about stolen ideas covertly, wide spread in computing/mathematics science.
I hate to disappoint you again, Tony
But the first universally programmable electronic computer in continental Europe was created in the Soviet Union in by a team of scientists under the direction of Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev in 1948.
The computer was known as MESM Small Electronic Calculating Machine), and became operational in 1950. It could perform approximately 3,000 operations per minute.
The first BESM (Large Electronic Computing Machine) was build in 1951 and immediately became a necessary equipment for every science lab and institution of higher learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM
The Soviet Union also got the first man in space on April 12, 1961.
Tony I admire British accomplishments actually I lived there for some years but, come on, this doesn’t need to become a penis measurement discussion. Will be pathetic.
accomplishments ?
The British museums with all its artefacts from all over the world should be on top list; a loot houses on a grand scale.
For people who want to know His-Story as it actually happened, I strongly suggest reading David Irving’s books. All of them! Whatever you can find before it is too late. In my view, he is currently one of the very few honest (and as a result severely prosecuted) historians in the Western hemisphere. In short, the slaughter of British people was entirely courtesy of W. Churchill, who was simply repaying some debts of his farther to the British banking cartel. Moreover, right after world war II, some other historians suggested that studying the roots of this war can only be possible of if one would also include studying Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill ‘s debts.
I also want to say that people like David Irving are the kind of people who make me love and respect British people. I never met an Anglophobe in Russia, but I met lots of Russophobes in UK.
P.S I spelled the word History as His-Story because I believe that nothing from the past is truly factual but some things ring more truth than others.
Historian David Irving is Jewish.
http://mileswmathis.com/irving.pdf
I read your article. It is an interesting read and I’ll keep in mind your findings. However, I’m not convinced that this might, in some way, devalue his work. His book Churchill’s War is still one of the best out there. BTW, there is a typo in your article:”…. It is very posh. I was founded in 1557…”
Thank you Phil.
For those who like to go a little more in-depth, instead of merely receiving the approved wisdom, Miles Mathis has written another stirring piece, this time about Donald Trump.
Looks Like Donald Trump is Jewish
http://mileswmathis.com/trump.pdf
So let’s return to Friedrich Drumpf, Donald’s great-grandfather. Two of his sisters are listed as Elisabetha Freund and Syblia Schuster. Oi-vay! Those are both Jewish surnames. We just saw the name Schuster in my paper on Engels published two days ago. I reminded you there that Max Schuster, founder of Simon&Schuster, is now admitted to be Jewish. The Schuster in the Socialism project with Engels was also shown to be almost certainly Jewish. As for Freund, see Michael Freund, Moshe Aryeh Freund, Wilhelm Freund, Yoav Freund, Leopold Freund, and too many others to mention. So at least two of Trump’s great-aunts married Jewish men. This reminds us that his daughter Ivanka married a Jewish man, Jared Kushner. We are told this is an anomaly, but it isn’t. What is an anomaly is that Kushner admits he is Jewish.
Mathis goes on to make another important point, which though not banned at this blog, has caused some consternation.
Some will say, “I don’t care if Trump is Jewish or gay. I plan to vote for Bernie, so I don’t care.” But these people are missing my point. I have nothing against gays or most Jews. What I don’t like is the lying and the faking. I don’t like these asinine projects being run against me all the time. I don’t like my intelligence insulted day by day. I don’t like this manufactured world, sold as real. And you shouldn’t, either. Bernie isn’t as ridiculous as Trump, but he is just as fake. He is an actor on the stage they have prepared. The entire election is a big stage play, as fake as a Shakespeare production, but not as well written or acted. The office of the President is now fake, played by a bad actor or the idiot son of some billionaire. He does nothing but read from Teleprompters, scripted by guys behind the curtains. Trump is sold to you as some sort of financial genius, but like George Bush before him (the great decider) he couldn’t decide what to order for lunch without a cue from a Teleprompter or one of his other gadgets. If you can’t see through all these people, you really need to check your prescriptions and dosages.
My wife is doing great recovering from being run over by a car last November. She can walk unaided just in her bare feet – well all round the house – no crutches – blow up boot or anything…
With Blow-Up Boot without crutches – well a lot further than I though she could do after visiting the hairdressers (it wasn’t my fault – there was nowhere to park – near the shop she was determined to go to)
She hasn’t been to the pub except for a friend’s funeral – but we are going to a party on Friday..
Its about a mile away – and We are going to walk there and walk back.
They have got a brilliant band on – and they invited us to their party.
How could we not go?
Do you want me to colour this post…They will almost certainly do both a lot of Black & White Music and Colourful Beautiful People and they have invited Hopperty & Skipperty & me…(We are all blonde)
She went back to hospital today for more physio…She was told – “You will do That”
I think they think my wife is as young as she looks..and the results indicate she is.
She was on her way to a dance class when she got run over and she will be very upset if she doesn’t get her Boris Pass when she is a bit older later this year.
Then she can be as old as me. Free Travel all over London – even if you are completely fit and healthy.
Boris Johnson did that – and he’s a Tory..It seems pretty Socialist to Me.
We do get older.
Tony
Tony said: ‘It seems pretty Socialist to Me.’
…….That’s because it is. It was introduced, not by buffoon Boris, but in 1973 by ‘Red’ Ken Livingstone’s GLC, before it was disbanded, when we actually had an active and organised left-wing that represented the workers still operating in this country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Pass
Scott,
Thanks for stating the obvious with regards to the real refugee situation. Whether your understanding captures all the moving parts in this situation or not, I immediately noticed that I’d seen something very similar to that list of 7 countries before.
I’m sure that the overlap between Obama’s 2016 list (yes, the most recent list is Obama’s), Trump’s EO, and Wesley Clark’s “Invasion List” is just coincidence.
See Wesley Clark talk about “taking down 7 countries in 5 yrs” here; https://youtu.be/9RC1Mepk_Sw
In a nutshell, by 2016 the grand planners realized that their plan had collapsed, and that they would have to make good their promises to their compradores in the target countries. Cheaper, politically and financially to abandon them to twist in the wind where they are.
Some, if they were part of the “hotel-based-governments-in-exile” based primarily in the EU live pretty well and can stay there. Those left behind, the boots on the ground, will be hunted down in their home countries. The Zempire never cared much about collateral damage.
The zio-gay nonsense continues:
Norway surprised by Russia’s entry visa rejections to delegates blacklisted months ago
https://www.rt.com/news/376009-norway-surprised-russian-sanctions/
“Norway has summoned Russia’s ambassador to explain why two of its legislators were denied entry visas. Though the officials were placed on “counter-sanctions” lists and denied entry long ago, Norway has somehow found the rejections “incomprehensible.”
The zionazis will use any excuse to smear Russia.
Scott I am glad to see you understand to whom the ban applies. These mainly upper caste ‘refugees’ from Syria, traitors to their own half destroyed homeland, move to the top of lists for social housing in Canada, while people born in here and waiting 15 years or more are left out in the cold.
This is actually happening in the town where I live, where after years of waiting for promised social housing a project is finally underway, only almost all of the spots will go to new arrivals from Syria, most of whom are collaborators with the Anglo-Americans. The town where I live is rural and almost entirely European by ancestry. It is quite extraordinary but we are a defeated people. No one dares to oppose it for fear of being called an extremist. Candians genuinely can’t tolerate being called unreasonable or extreme because they are possibly the most perfectly controlled mind-slaves that have ever existed. In the end it will not save them from genocide by 10 thousand cuts, as is being perpetrated right now via food, water, medicine, media and so on.
Please note yesterday’s false flag in Quebec City and the mood they have created just as Trump begins his term. Collaborators must go temporarily to Canada before eventually the most useful transfer to the United States. English Canadians should be grateful that most of these large scale brutalizations of public consciousness fall mainly on the Frenchies.
But I am not a Trump supporter. It’s all just a show. The Brotherhood will not be disbanded but merely rebranded. Suprising myself I will support some of your editor’s comments, though likely for different reasons. Frankly I don’t understand why your Editor feels such a terrible need to interject himself into your work. Or maybe I do.
I do not see anything Trump will do as in anyway different or threatening to the agenda of the Zionist Gangster Oligarchy. In fact he functions to support the invention of a new dialectic. Just as Left and Right are essentially meaningless distinctions so too will be pro Trump or anti. All of it is invented and the ‘solution’ for all that Trump does incorectly has already been introduced right here on this blog and everywhere else, in the carefully crafted persona of one Tulsi Gabbard, with a name invented in the same CIA factory where they invented Barack Obama.
Please mark my words.
The Zionist Gangster Oligarchy has decided that working with Russia is beneficial for the time being but ultimately they will not relinquish their 5 century project to destroy the heartland of humanity. Nor will they end their project to herald in a newly engineered species to replace faltering homo sapiens. I wish I were kidding. A new lukewarm war is already underway, relatively insignificant NATO excercises reminding us that the interests which represent the US military industrial and security information complex are simply too powerful to be left out in the cold. Indeed they control Donald Trump even more than they controlled B.O., if that is possible. What we are witnessing, to reiterate, is a really big show.
Let us be honest and admit the Cold War was excellent for Russia and for Russians in general. The New Cold War will be even better because now the Transnational Zionist Elite within Russia will have their cake and eat it too. Russians will benefit to the extent that anyone can benefit from Zionism or it’s derivatives. ‘Progress’ will be made. Think of the USA during the 1950’s and 60’s and you have a reasonably good analogue for Russia today. What comes after Putin will be what came after Kennedy.
If you take the points in common between Tulsi and Donald, what you have is the provisional consesus of the Zionist Gangster Oligarchy for the next several years. The USA in particular needs to make some difficult adjustments and President Trump will carry the torch. Not all of it will be bad but ultimately it does not amount to anything substantially different.
It borders on irony to watch ME and African refugees pile into the USA all the
while Wall Street oligarchs race (out of the coming chaos) for bolt holes in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Pacific islands seem the preferred destination. Otherwise, Zuckerberg may yet
reconsider Hawaii, once Fukushima particles drifting by light-up his rear-view mirror.
”What do you think is needed for someone to receive a refugee status? They need to prove that they are being prosecuted by their governments. They need to prove that their governments are oppressive regimes and that they would be in jail, tortured, and killed if they remained in their home countries.”
Having once worked in the UK’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate this definition is absolutely correct. Individuals seeking asylum had to prove that they were members of the following groups and were being actively prosecuted by their own governments. They included political groups, ethnic/racial groups, religious groups, social groups (gays for example). Living in a war zone did not entitle the claimant refugee status. Moreover, social persecution also failed to establish refugee status. Thus social persecution of gays in Jamaica would not entitle the applicant refugee status, but official government prosecution of gays in Iran would.
I suspect Trump and Putin will come to terms. They’ll figure out a mutually beneficial way to manage ME oil. Both have an interest in cooling off the Chinese economic rise.
Russians speak Farsi and the US speaks Hebrew. With the detanté the pair will have two I’s. Iran and Israel will be the local managers. The Arabs will need to get in line.
About time the true nature of these so-called “refugees” was brought into focus. I’ve been trying to tell you folks the same thing for months now. They’re nothing but criminal elements from the countries they’re supposedly to be “fleeing” from, traitors of their own people.
No different from those Cubans in Florida celebrating the death of Fidel Castro.
So, I’ll ask again, why would you want these vile creatures moving next door to you and your family? These are the type of “people” that were more than happy to throw their fellow countrymen and women under the bus, provided the price was right.
What makes you think they won’t do the same in their new country of residence?
Oh, that’s because the liberals told you that if you don’t want these cretins anywhere near you or your loved ones you’re a racist. You’re literally Hitler! You’re the poster child for the basket of deplorables. Is that it?
At the end of the day… is not that hard to spot a genuine refugee from a phony one; the hint lays in where they chose to flee to *double-wink*
Genuine refugees tend to stay close to their country of origin because they hope to return home as soon as humanly possible, they tend to gravitate towards a similar culture/language [etc] to their own and they’re generally grateful for any assistance they get in the meanwhile.
Phony refugees flee to the ‘enemy country’ that is bombing them, the country that is waging war and/or destabilizing their own government, in other words; they flee to the very countries they’re supposed to hate. Not to mention they’re not grateful about ANYTHING that’s given to them. Like for example they‘re fond of setting fire to their own refugee centres because… they didn’t get the “right spread” of foods for Ramadan, apparently… :/
But here’s another example of “migrants” and the lofty “ideas” they have about themselves…
….and what they believe they should be entitled to:
Migrants at WAR: Tensions in Paris as children attacked with knives for being ‘too rich’
“The streets of Paris have erupted into inter-migrant strife as North African youths have targeted ‘rich’ Chinese migrants amid growing tensions [..]”
“This comes amid a growing perception that recent migrants from North Africa have become “too demanding” and consider themselves “victims” who deserve pity [..]”
“While the crime rate grows, local migrants from North Africa have been unafraid to voice their prejudices. One told the programme: “That’s the way it is. I don’t like the Chinese.”
Another added: “The Chinese have become too rich in France. That’s not fair. They have nice clothes and big cars.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759995/North-African-youth-gangs-Chinese-migrants-Paris
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One shinning exception to this “refugee” rule of mne is Ukraine.
Ukrainian refugees were fleeing to Russia, the very country that according to the ‘FakeNews Lame-Stream-Media’ was invading and bombing Ukraine, supposedly! *eye-roll*
But once one learns the history of the region, and who are the true players at work behind the scenes, and the bold-faced lies being told to the public, that’s when the apparent similarities to the above rule end.
-TL2Q