Life, from our perspective, is the result of all the decisions we have made up to that
point. Mostly. Sometimes, it is an agreement made between you and another party,
perhaps before the world started. We have been making decisions for millions of year;
eons. It is not necessarily rewards that we get for making good decisions, but it is most
definitely punitive if we choose to make bad or evil decisions.
98% of people alive in the free world today will avoid conflict. We won’t argue openly
with our boss. We will take a punch or a slap and refuse to hit back. We will live in a
relationship we know we should be free to walk away from, but we stay. Sometimes
events happen that break us apart like the other party no longer sees a challenge or
received gratification in owning you emotionally, so they kick you out. You cry, but
inside you rejoice and remember what it feels like to fly instead of peck for crumbs along
the ground, because you feel that is all you deserve. Or perhaps you find solace in the
solitude of emotional estrangement and security in the economics of the relationship
and the knowledge that somehow you have pleased God or the universe by faithfully
submitting your time here on Earth to another.
2% of the people will not avoid conflict. They run headlong into it for various reasons.
Mostly, they see that the other 98% of the people will just kneel, put their hands behind
their back, bow their heads and wait for the blade of judgment to slice it from their
shoulders or to slam a piece of lead or steel into the biological transducer and end your
horror on this planet.
Some seek it for other reasons. Some seek conflict out of an inner drive to rescue
others from the victimhood to which they are being subjected. We might say that there
is hero violence, and there is villain violence. The villain gets satisfaction out of
watching others suffer and die at their hand, and the hero gets satisfaction out of
dealing justice to the villain.
In my book, Remembering the Future, I discuss the peace, mercy justice, war cycle
mankind seems endlessly to repeat. This does not hold true for the individual.
Individuals have deep planted memories and scripts from thousands of existences,
mortal or immortal, that make us who we are. While we are mortal, and only while we
are mortal, we can erase script and write new script for who we are and what we are
capable of doing. The trick is to become aware that your are following a script in the
first place, and not just aimlessly wandering over a blank sheet of paper each day.
Once you figure that out, then a little training on how to develop and write new script
can be taught to you. There are countless shamans and teachers out there trying to do
this for you, but few there be that actually know what is on the other sides of mortality.
If I ever developed a workshop for mortals who want to remember eternity, I think
people might benefit from it. Right now, I choose to build electric cars.
We all think we seek peace, so let’s start there in the cycle. Conflict is over. Rebuilding
of society begins, and there is usually what seems like an endless amount of work to do
for roads, bridges, schools, water, and health care. Oh, that this was actually the case,
but actually this work is accomplished in about 50 to 75 years, usually in most societies.
Unfortunately, the infrastructure and value we placed upon these things in the beginning
create entrenched bureaucracies that internally wish to keep on existing. From top to
bottom the internal members of that bureaucracy feel no remorse in burdening the rest
of society with the support and continual expansion of a workforce 400% or 4000%
larger than is needed. They will, in effect, dig or design their own potholes, just so that
the crews have something to do at all times.
We are merciful and give them larger and larger budgets to keep their road and bridge
machine going. We tax our people higher and higher so that the bureaucrats’ lobbying
for building, or fixing, or tearing down, or redesigning to overcome some traffic
prediction that was wrong when it was originally built will be satisfied and they will allow
our municipal leaders to keep their jobs. Voters are easily swayed by the negative
press about someone who is killed by driving too fast around a curve, or losing control
after hitting a pothole.
Then the people discover, one way or the other, that the bureaucrats have been
stealing from them for decades. They charged too much for work that wasn’t done, or
they built a road to nowhere just to make a politician’s worthless land worth millions.
Then the people demand justice. Or perhaps it is a gang, or an activist group, or a
foreign power that is envious or wants to control the world, or simply wants their gods
worshipped no matter what. Maybe the enemy feels that sitting around the supper table
at night with more to eat that some villages have to eat is wrong, or that lying by the
pool with your top unstrapped to make sure there is no tan line is evil and punishable by
death because it tempts them. Or maybe your belief in Jesus drives them crazy with
rage.
At first, it is police that we hire to keep the laws upheld and peace in the society
maintained by removing the bad people from our streets. Then we need smarter, better
trained police to catch smarter evil that steals on a larger and more nefarious scale.
Then we need organized forces to repel invasions or to deter that idea that society is
easily invaded and scooped of everything that is good and precious that society has
built. And then the day comes that these forces must fight in war to reach victory and to
make the enemy disappear or surrender. And the war is fought against every instinct
we have inside of us. We kill, when we do not want to. We bomb simply to demoralize.
We turn the enemy into animals or numbers in our mind so that we do not have to think
about the pain and the death or real humans at our hands. Our bodies are wounded,
and our souls are scarred forever.
And then, there is peace again. The smoke clears. The enemies go home and are
forgiven. The creeds are reformed so that this never happens again. The bodies are
buried and roads and schools are named after the heroes or the victims. The
cemeteries are crafted to illicit remorse by all who visit with the inner message that this
must never happen again, and how did we ever let it come to this. The planes are
parked and the bombs are restacked somewhere deep underground, just in case. The
men in uniform go home, mostly. Some stay and show the world that we are strong and
that no one better dare to try this again, and to ask society for more money so that
better weapons can be designed to make man more lethal and soldiers are renamed
warfighters so that the world knows we have the terrible ability and constrained
willingness to fight. After all, there is so very much money that can be made during war.
Even from a desk in Washington, far from the danger, and the noisy chaos, and the
smell. Smell is such a powerful memory, we can dream ourselves into a drenching cold
sweat sometimes.
The Great Climate Change Caper
Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, has
written to Professor Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, in Virginia,
requesting that he release all relevant documents pertaining to his activities as
head of a non-profit organization called the Institute of Global Environment And
Society.
Congressman Lamar Smith has two main areas of concern.
First, the apparent engagement by the institute in “partisan political activity” – which, as
a non-profit, it is forbidden by law from doing.
Second, what precisely has the IGES institute done with the $63 million in taxpayer
grants which it has received since 2001 and which appears to have resulted in
remarkably little published research?
For example, as Watts Up With That? notes, a $4.2 million grant from the National
Science Foundation to one of the institute’s offshoots appears to have resulted in just
one published paper.
But the amount which has gone into the pockets of Shukla and his cronies runs into the
many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2013 and 2014, for example, Shukla and his
wife enjoyed a combined income in excess of $800,000 a year.
Steve McIntyre, the investigator who shattered Michael Mann’s global-warming ‘Hockey
Stick’ claim, has done a detailed breakdown of the sums involved. He calls it Shukla’s
Gold.
In 2001, the earliest year thus far publicly available, in 2001, in addition to his university
salary (not yet available, but presumably about $125,000), Shukla and his wife received
a further $214,496 in compensation from IGES (Shukla -$128,796; Anne Shukla –
$85,700). Their combined compensation from IGES doubled over the next two years to
approximately $400,000 (additional to Shukla’s university salary of say $130,000), for
combined compensation of about $530,000 by 2004.
Shukla’s university salary increased dramatically over the decade reaching $250,866 by
2013 and $314,000 by 2014. (In this latter year, Shukla was paid much more than Ed
Wegman, a George Mason professor of similar seniority). Meanwhile, despite the
apparent transition of IGES to George Mason, the income of the Shuklas from IGES
continued to increase, reaching $547,000 by 2013. Combined with Shukla’s university
salary, the total compensation of Shukla and his wife exceeded $800,000 in both 2013
and 2014. In addition, as noted above, Shukla’s daughter continued to be employed by
IGES in 2014; IGES also distributed $100,000 from its climate grant revenue to support
an educational charity in India which Shukla had founded.
The story began last month when, as we reported at Breitbart, twenty alarmist scientists
– led by Shukla – wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to use RICO laws to
crush climate skeptics.
Shukla’s second big mistake was to send the letter not from his university address but
from his non-profit, the IGES.
But his first, far bigger mistake, was his hubris in organizing the letter in the first place. It
drew the attention of Shukla’s critics to something which, presumably, he would have
preferred to keep secret: that for nearly 14 years, he, his family and his friends have
been gorging themselves on taxpayers’ money at IGES; and that this money comes on
top of the very generous salary he receives for doing much the same work at George
Mason University (GMU).
It’s the latter detail which has led former Virginia State Climatologist Pat Michaels – one
of the skeptics who might have been affected by Shukla’s proposed RICO prosecutions
– to describe this as “the largest science scandal in US history.”
Under federal law, state employees may not be remunerated for doing work which falls
under their state employee remit. As a Professor at GMU, Shukla is definitely an
employee of the state. And the work for which he has most lavishly been rewarding
himself at IGES appears to be remarkably similar to the work he does at GMU as
professor of climate dynamics.
If GMU was aware of these extra-curricular payments, then it was in breach of its own
policy on “financial conflicts of interest in federally funded research.”
If it wasn’t aware of them, then, Shukla legally may be required to send half of that $63
million in federal grants to his employer, GMU.
For many readers, though, perhaps the biggest take-home message of this
extraordinary story is: Who do these climate alarmists think they are?
Perhaps $63 million in federal grants is just peanuts if you’re gorging on the climatechange smorgasbord, but for most of the rest of us, that constitutes a serious sum of
money. Especially when we know it is being taken from us in the form of taxes.
Do they really feel under no obligation to spend it well?
Do they actually feel so sanctified by the rightness of their cause that they deserve to be
immune from scrutiny or criticism?
And so what happens when the hammer is fashioned from false data and canonized
saints of weather sweep their mighty hand over the map in the name of falling rain?
Saturday in the GOP weekly address, Senate Republican Policy Committee chairman
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
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told the story of Wyoming residents Andy and Katie Johnson who built a stategovernment approved pond in their front yard that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) then ordered removed.
Barrasso said, “The Johnsons now face fines for more than $37,000 every day until
they remove the pond. This is what’s happened to government in America. It’s gotten so
aggressive, so inflexible and so unyielding — and seemingly for so little purpose.”
Barrasso estimated that the Obama administration 2,500 new regulations over the last
six years will cost the U.S. economy “a staggering $680 billion dollars.”
Barrasso said the Obama administration overreach, “includes things like irrigation
ditches, isolated ponds — even low points in the landscape where water might collect
after a heavy rain. The consequences of this new federal authority will be severe. Local
land-use decisions will now be driven by Washington bureaucrats. And this new water
rule is only one of thousands of regulations that Washington is churning out.”
He added, “What the administration won’t tell you is that both Republicans and
Democrats in Congress oppose many of these regulations including the new rules on
waters in the Untied States. Senators Joe Donnally (D-IN), Heide Heitkamp (D-ND), and
Joe Manchin (D-WV) all Democrats joined us to change these water regulations. Yet
common sense changes to all this rule making are being been blocked by the President
and the liberal Democrat leadership in the Congress. Even the courts have dealt the
Obama administration serious setbacks to its regulatory rampage. But by the time the
courts finally act the damage is already done Those jobs are going and communities
suffer.”
Obama Administration and UN Announce Global Police
Force to Fight ‘Extremism’ In U.S.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch
announced at the United Nations that her office would
be working in several American cities to form what
she called the Strong Cities Network (SCN), a law
enforcement initiative that would encompass the
globe.
This amounts to nothing less than the overriding of American laws, up to and including
the United States Constitution, in favor of United Nations laws that would henceforth be
implemented in the United States itself – without any consultation of Congress at all.
The United Nations is a sharia-compliant world body, and Obama, speaking there just
days ago, insisted that “violent extremism” is not exclusive to Islam (which it is). Obama
is redefining jihad terror to include everyone but the jihadists. So will the UN, driven
largely by the sharia-enforcing Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the proIslamic post-American President Obama, use a “global police force” to crush counterjihad forces?
After all, with Obama knowingly aiding al-Qaeda forces in Syria, how likely is it that he
will use his “global police force” against actual Islamic jihadists? I suspect that instead,
this global police force will be used to impose the blasphemy laws under the sharia
(Islamic law), and to silence all criticism of Islam for the President who proclaimed that
“the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
What is a global police force doing in our cities? This is exactly the abdication of
American sovereignty that I warned about in my book, The Post-American Presidency:
The Obama Administration’s War on America. The Obama Department of Justice made
it clear that it was exactly that when it distributed a press release last week announcing
the “Launch of Strong Cities Network to Strengthen Community Resilience Against
Violent Extremism.” In that press release, the DoJ complained that “while many cities
and local authorities are developing innovative responses to address this challenge, no
systematic efforts are in place to share experiences, pool resources and build a
community of cities to inspire local action on a global scale.”
So if the local and municipal effort to counter the euphemistic and disingenuous “violent
extremism” is inadequate and hasn’t developed “systematic efforts are in place to share
experiences, pool resources and build a community of cities to inspire local action on a
global scale,” the feds – and the UN – have to step in. Thus the groundwork is being
laid for federal and international interference down to the local level. “The Strong Cities
Network,” Lynch declared, “will serve as a vital tool to strengthen capacity-building and
improve collaboration” – i.e., local dependence on federal and international authorities.
Lynch made the global (that is, United Nations) involvement clear when she added: “As
we continue to counter a range of domestic and global terror threats, this innovative
platform will enable cities to learn from one another, to develop best practices and to
build social cohesion and community resilience here at home and around the world.”
This internationalist character was brought to the fore by the fact that the Strong Cities
Network was launched on September 29 not at the White House or the Department of
Homeland Security, or at the FBI headquarters or anywhere else that might be fitting for
a national project, but at the United Nations.
Even more ominously, the DoJ press release says that the Strong Cities Network “will
strengthen strategic planning and practices to address violent extremism in all its forms
by fostering collaboration among cities, municipalities and other sub-national
authorities.” Sub-national and international: the press release then quotes Governing
Mayor Stian Berger Røsland of Oslo, Norway, a participant in the Strong Cities Network,
saying: “To counter violent extremism we need determined action at all levels of
governance. To succeed, we must coordinate our efforts and cooperate across
borders. The Strong Cities Network will enable cities across the globe pool our
resources, knowledge and best practices together and thus leave us standing stronger
in the fight against one of the greatest threats to modern society.”
But what is that greatest threat, exactly? Remember, the DoJ presser says that the SCN
will “address violent extremism in all its forms.” It also says that it will aid initiatives that
are working toward “building social cohesion and resilience to violent extremism.”
“Building social cohesion” is a euphemism for keeping peace between non-Muslim and
Muslim communities – mostly by making sure that non-Muslims don’t complain too
loudly about, much less work against, rapidly expanding Muslim populations and the
Islamization of their communities.
The DoJ presser noted that at the launch of the Strong Cities Network, “welcoming
remarks” would be offered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City. The
involvement of New York City’s Marxist internationalist mayor is yet another warning
sign.
Assert American sovereignty and individual rights. Contact your representatives now.
Exhort them to oppose SCN now. Exhort them to keep America free – while it still is.
Firearms Update
A University of Missouri business and corporate law educator who’s taught at the facility
since 2002 has launched a lawsuit against the Columbia-based campus over its
firearms’ ban, saying it’s unconstitutional and compromises the safety of innocents.
Royce de Barondes, who also teaches a class on firearms law, said he possesses
“extensive knowledge and training on the lawful use and safe handling of a firearm,” and
has a concealed carry permit, Fox News reported.
But the school still won’t let him carry on campus. So he filed a motion to change that
policy.
“[The gun ban makes] law-abiders more vulnerable to attack by law-breakers, [and]
unlawfully and unconstitutionally violates plaintiffs’ individual rights to keep and carry a
firearm for self-defense,” the suit, filed in late September, states.
Campus officials, contacted for comment Thursday – around the same time Chris
Harper-Mercer, 26, was shooting and killing scores at a community college in Oregon,
as WND reported – declined to comment on the suit.
“We do have a policy that allows students or guests to store firearms at a secure police
facility on campus,” spokesman Christian Basi said to Fox News.
Barondes said that’s not good enough. He’s named university president Tim Wolfe as a
defendant, and accused the school was violating both federal and state constitutional
laws. Fox News found Missouri is one of 20 states with laws banning guns on campus.
When President Obama spoke in reaction to the heinous
October 1 attack on Umpqua Community College, he went
beyond his usual calls for more gun control and suggested
instead that America consider following the path blazed by
Australia and Great Britain.
In the mid-1990s Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were virtually complete
bans on firearm possession.
Obama referenced the bans thus:
We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to
craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great
Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.
And Obama is not the only one who suggested taking a gun-free approach to American
life. The anti-Second Amendment message was also pushed by Slate, Vox, and Dan
Savage.
For example, on October 1 Slate ran a story reminding readers that Australia enacted
their gun ban in response to an attack on April 28, 1996, wherein a gunman “opened fire
on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania.” Thirty-five were killed and 23
others wounded in the attack. Twelve days later Australia’s government banned guns,
period.
On October 2 Vox explained that Australia “confiscated 650,000 guns” via a “mandatory
gun buyback” program which forced gun owners to hand their firearms over for
destruction. Vox claims the result was that “murders and suicides plummeted’ and
suggested such a path might be an option for America following “the murder of at least
10 people at Umpqua Community College.”
Vox did not mention that “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” began
plummeting in America in the mid-1990s as well. But in America, the decrease in violent
crime did not correlate with a gun ban but with a rapid expansion in the number of guns
privately owned. The Congressional Research Service reported that the number of
privately owned firearms in America went from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million
privately owned firearms in 2009. Subsequently, the “firearm-related murder and nonnegligent homicide” rate fell from 6.6 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000
and finally to 3.2 per 100,000 in 2011.
Fact: Forty states, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-tocarry" states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after
the right-to-carry law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states deny or restrict the
right to carry.
Fact: Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about
0.02% of all carry permit holders since Florida’s right-tocarry law started in 1988.
Fact: After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36%
above the national average to 4% below, and remains below the national average (as of
the last reporting period, 2005).
Fact: In Texas, murder rates fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after
their concealed carry law passed. Rape rates fell 93%
faster in the first year after enactment, and 500% faster in the second. Assaults fell
250% faster in the second year.
Fact: More to the point, crime is significantly higher in states without right-to-carry laws.
Fact: States that disallow concealed carry have violent crime rates 11%
higher than national averages.
Fact: Deaths and injuries from mass public shootings fall dramatically after right-tocarry concealed handgun laws are enacted. Between 1977 and 1995, the average
death rate from mass shootings plummeted by up to 91% after such laws went into
effect, and injuries dropped by over 80%.
Fact: 100% of all mass shootings in the past 10 years have taken place in gun free
zones. 100% of the time, the shooter’s activity only stopped after being confronted with
armed resistance. 88% of the time, the shooter’s death was self inflicted. 5% of the
time, the shooter is taken into custody alive, tried, and convicted. 7% of the time the
shooter is killed by the armed resistance. In over 50% of the cases in the past 10 years,
there has been a CCW permitted person in the victim zone, but was obeying the posted
notice not to carry a weapon.
Fact:
66% of police chiefs believe that citizens carrying concealed firearms
reduce rates of violent crime.
Fact: The knowledge that the premise may have a trained, permitted, and armed
person will deter a mass shooting. The presence of such a permitted person has been
shown hundreds of times each year to have stopped illegal shootings before they
become mass shootings, but these are not publicized by the main stream media. In an
overwhelming number of cases, the only deaths in such shooting are the illegal
shooters themselves.
New York Daily News: State Dept Must Designate the NRA a
Terrorist Organization
On October 3–two days after a gunman killed 10 at the gun
free facilities on the Umpqua Community College campus–
the New York Daily News called for the U.S. State
Department to designate the National Rifle Association
(NRA) a “terrorist organization.”
They based this request on their belief that national security faces a greater threat from armed
citizens than from “foreign terrorists,” and they singled out the NRA as the bulwark preserving
citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. They suggested, “The NRA should take its rightful place
on the State Department list of terrorist organizations, because its influence is more of an
immediate threat to the lives of our citizens than foreign terrorists.”
To be on the State Department’s list of designated terror organizations a group has to be statesponsored for terrorism–which the NRA is not. Moreover, they do not exist for terrorist reasons.
Rather, they exist to defend the civil liberties protected by the Second Amendment. Undaunted
by these things, the NYDN simply declares the NRA a “terrorist group” and suggests it falls
under the State Department’s purview by being “nearly-state sponsored.”
The NYDN added, “Although the NRA is not an officially state-sponsored organization it is the
supporter of the state with its massive member and lobbyist donations to our elected officials.”
They remind readers that “murdered Americans killed by…lunatic gun slingers include terrified
children calling for their mothers, teachers begging for the lives of their students, students
begging for not just their own lives but the lives of their classmates, moviegoers looking for
escape, bystanders cheering for athletes, athletes trying to be the best they can be as the worst we
ever could have imagined struck them down in cold blood.”
No mention is made that the children, teachers, and students shot in schools were shot in gun free
zones by gunmen who knew their victims could not return fire. Moreover, no utterance given to
the fact that the NRA was a leading voice in calling for a change in the gun free policies
following the heinous attack on Sandy Hook–they wanted laws changed so teachers could quit
begging for their lives and start keeping a gun close at hand with which to defend their lives and
the lives of their students.
On December 21, 2012–one week after the attack on Sandy Hook–the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre
said;
…Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about
them. They post signs advertising them. And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America
that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
How have our nation’s priorities gotten so far out of order? Think about it. We care more about
our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings,
power plants, courthouses — even sports stadiums — are all protected by armed security.
We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents.
…Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American
family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly helpless, and the monsters and
predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now!
The NRA’s position is that faculty and students with concealed carry permits should have the
option of being armed on campus so they can fight back. It is that simple.
WA State Gun Owners Out in Force
At the end of the rally, gun owners burned their concealed weapons permits and signed a petition
vowing to refuse to follow the new gun control law. The petition ended with the text, “We
pledge our blood. We will not comply.”
This certainly isn’t the first large scale act of civil disobedience by gun owners in defiance of
gun laws. Earlier this year in Connecticut hundreds of thousands of gun owners refused to send
in their gun registration forms, also becoming felons. Similar numbers of gun owners in New
York have also refused to send in their registration paperwork and some even video taped
themselves burning the forms.
Fed up with the passage of an 18½-page incoherent, rambling, unconstitutional gun control
initiative that was bankrolled by billionaires, gun owners across Washington state held the
largest felony civil disobedience rally in the nation’s history, brazenly titled “I Will Not
Comply.” No one was hurt and no stores were looted. Between 1,000 and 3,000 lawful gun
owners showed up openly armed at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., on Saturday to defy the
newly passed gun control law, I-594.
Organizer Gavin Seim made the extraordinary nature of the rally very clear, “This isn’t just a
protest. We are here to openly violate the law.” Attendees publicly transferred their guns to each
other in violation of I-591’s background check provisions, and some even bought and sold guns
just a few feet away from law enforcement. A fire pit blazed throughout the rally, and at the
conclusion, gun owners lined up to burn their concealed weapons permits. A petition nwas
circulated affirming gun owners’ refusal to follow I-594, which ended with, “We pledge our
blood. We will not comply.”
As the RSVPs in advance of the rally grew to over 6,000, the police – most who probably detest
I-594 – decided not to enforce the law. The Washington State Patrol announced there would be
no arrests for exchanging guns – not even for selling guns. Seim refused to obtain a permit to
hold the rally, citing the right of people to peaceably assemble.
The rally could not be dismissed as fringe elements. Several lawmakers and lawmen spoke,
including former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, Washington State Rep.
Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) and Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting), who sported an AR-15 during
his speech. Mack advised gun owners engaging in civil disobedience to “put your sheriff next to
you to keep it peaceful.” Scott defiantly explained in her speech, “I will not comply with I-594
because it is unconstitutional, unenforceable and unjust. It is impossible to enforce this law
unless there is a police officer on every back porch and in every living room. So it will be
enforced selectively.” She noted that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said any law that
violates the Constitution is not valid, and there is a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.
Seim, a political activist and congressional candidate, wrote on his website, “Today I become an
OUTLAW! Arrest me! I will NOT comply.” He led the rally peacefully, and at one point asked
everyone attending to kneel with him in prayer. As he led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance,
he stressed, “I am not pledging obedience to the government, it is to the Republic. We don’t ask
for our rights, and we don’t negotiate for our rights. We will take America back.”
Another speaker explained what was happening this way, “We no longer consent nor comply.”
Mike Vanderboegh, whose Three Percenter movement is modeled after the three percent of the
colonists who fought in the American War of Independence, said that those at the rally are the
resistance behind enemy lines. The resistance is also taking place in a handful of other states
with strict gun control laws, where patriots are now smuggling in weapons illegally.
Vanderboegh told attendees, “This is the tyranny the Founding Fathers warned us about.
Tyranny can be voted into existence by a majority. We will not fire the first shot, but if need be,
we will fire the last.”
Gun control zealots have finally gone too far. Gun owners are now discovering that the police in
New York are using gun control laws to confiscate guns from family members within days after
their owners pass away. Hundreds of thousands of gun owners in Connecticut and New York
who failed to register their AR-15s earlier this year are now felons. Requiring the registration of
guns or requiring background checks, as I-594 does, allows the government to compile a list of
gun owners, which can be used later for confiscation.
If guns cause crime, then why wasn’t there a single mishap, considering there were 1,000 or so
guns present and hundreds of violations of felony law taking place? Tellingly, Washington State
Trooper Guy Gill beforehand, “”Most of these folks are responsible gun owners. We probably
will not have an issue.” The truth is, the state capitol was probably the safest place in the state
last Saturday.
Patriots have had enough. The Second Amendment is gradually being eroded, state by state, and
gun owners are not going to lie down and give up their arms. A handful of billionaires and
elitists in blue cities like Seattle do not respect the Constitution nor represent the vast majority of
Americans. Another rally in Olympia is planned for January 15, and another one in Spokane on
December 20. The Second Amendment Foundation, headquartered in Bellevue, intends to sue
the state over I-594, and will be lobbying the legislature to get the law changed or repealed.
Washington state is now ground zero for patriotic gun owners resisting tyranny, which is at a
tipping point since law enforcement does not intend to enforce I-594. What happens next?
The Search for E.T.
Are humans alone in the universe? A majority of people, particularly guys, in the United States,
United Kingdom and Germany say they believe that intelligent life is out there.
Fifty-six percent of Germans, 54 percent of Americans and 52 percent of people from the United
Kingdom believe that alien life capable of communication lives somewhere among the stars,
according to a new survey by the marketing research firm YouGov.
However, in the United Kingdom at least, people are slightly cautious about whether humans
should reach out to E.T. Among U.K. respondents, 46 percent said a digital message should be
sent into space in the hopes that it reaches intelligent aliens. Another 33 percent said no message
should be sent, and 21 percent said they weren't sure. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Humanity has long wondered whether it is alone in the universe, and the search is on to find the
answer. The SETI Institute in California, for example, uses radio telescopes to hunt for signals
from alien civilizations.
In July, physicist Stephen Hawking backed two new projects for the search. The Breakthrough
Listen project aims to use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes
Observatory in Australia to listen for alien radio signals. The Lick Telescope in California will
be on the lookout for light signals from lasers as part of that project. (Lasers are directed light
beams that can travel relatively far, so there's a chance aliens might use them to get in touch.)
The second project is called Breakthrough Message and is an international competition to draft a
digital message to send to the stars. (The message won't necessarily be sent, but researchers say
they hope the entries will spur thought and debate about how to communicate with aliens.)
Reaching out
Most people believe intelligent alien life lurks in the cosmos. [See full infographic]
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Between those who say they believe in alien intelligence and those who say they aren't sure
whether it exists, the alien nonbelievers are in the minority, according to the new YouGov
survey. Only 12 percent of Germans, 22 percent of Americans and 20 percent of people from the
United Kingdom said they do not believe intelligent aliens exist.
The survey also asked E.T. believers why they thought aliens had not yet made contact. More
than half (58 percent) said intelligent aliens are too far away to contact Earth. Fifty-seven percent
agreed with the notion that human technology isn't advanced enough for people to reach out to
E.T.
Of the E.T. believers, 24 percent said that extraterrestrial life knows about Earthlings but chooses
not to reach out. Seventeen percent said alien intelligence has already reached out,
but governments have covered it up.
Men are more likely to believe in intelligent aliens than are women, and also more likely to say
humanity should reach out. A majority of men (54 percent) said humans should try to contact
aliens, while only 40 percent of women agreed.
Inside 'The Martian': Movie's Sleek Spacesuits Explained
The upcoming sci-fi film "The Martian" features many real-life technologies being developed to
help put boots on the Red Planet, but the sleek spacesuits showcased in the movie were pretty
much invented out of whole cloth.
Janty Yates, the costume designer for "The Martian," originally looked for inspiration to NASA's
prototype Z1 and Z2 spacesuits. She worked with NASA officials and engineers, whom she
described as "bend-over-backwards helpful." But in the end, she and her team came up with
something new for the main spacesuit in "The Martian," which hits theaters Friday (Oct. 2)
across the United States.
"We basically had to start from scratch," Yates told Space.com. "We would've loved to use
NASA's designs, but in the end, we just couldn't do it."
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"The Martian" stars Matt Damon as NASA astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded alone on
Mars and presumed dead. Watney must use his ingenuity and engineering smarts to survive and
let NASA know he's alive, so the agency can mount a rescue mission.
"The Martian" director Ridley Scott needed great visuals of Watney's face (as well as the faces of
his crewmates) from a variety of angles, and the Z1 and Z2 — which both feature helmets that
meld into the shoulder region of the suit — could not meet that requirement, Yates said.
"Ridley needed to see his actors in profile; he needed to see them moving their heads; he needed
close-ups on the eyes," said Yates, who has worked with Scott repeatedly over the years. (She
won an Oscar for her work on Scott's 2000 film "Gladiator.")
Aesthetics were also an issue; Scott didn't find the Z-2 spacesuit visually striking enough, Yates
said.
Yates worked with concept artists to draw up a variety of basic designs for the suit worn by
Watney and his crewmates on the Martian surface, then presented them to Scott for approval.
The body-hugging, black-white-and-orange suit showcased in the film emerged by process of
elimination. (Interestingly, the movie's suit superficially resembles the Biosuit, a real space
garment being developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)
The costume-design team built the surface suit out of neoprene, the same material wetsuits are
made of. The suits weigh a maximum of 15 to 20 lbs. (6.8 to 9.1 kilograms), though the actors
wore heavy belts as well, Yates said.
Damon and the other actors wore "cooling suits" beneath their spacesuits — basically, shirts and
pants outfitted with tubes through which cold water can be pumped. Such cooling measures were
doubtless appreciated, because the cast often wore their spacesuits for 10 to 12 hours per day
during shooting, Yates said.
The helmet was the most technically advanced part of the suit; it contained systems that pumped
air in for the actors to breathe and also featured lighting and communications gear. But the movie
suit's helmets were nowhere near as sophisticated as the equipment that real astronauts use, Yates
said.
"The helmet was only technical to the point that we needed it to function," she said. "Keeping
people alive is the most technical aspect of our work."
Working with NASA
NASA officials and researchers served as advisers on "The Martian," which is based on the
novel of the same name by Andy Weir. And the space agency has been helping to promote the
film, as a way to get the word out about its own plans to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.
So, while NASA didn't come up with the surface suit featured in "The Martian," agency officials
did approve the astronaut apparel.
"As we went along, we had to submit the designs for their approval," Yates said. "And they
approved along the way, as did the [film's] art department."
"The Martian" features one other spacesuit in addition to the surface suit — a bulky white
extravehicular activity (EVA) suit the astronauts wear in space. The film's EVA suit is modeled
closely on the one NASA astronauts wear on spacewalks outside the International Space Station,
Yates said.
"We kept that very much to NASA style, but we made it a lot more streamlined," she said.
Yates said she's very grateful for the help and support NASA has provided, both during the
making of the film and its promotion. The collaboration has been exciting for her personally as
well.
"I was very lucky — I was able to go to JPL," Yates said, referring to the space agency's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "That was probably the best day of my life."
The ISIS TV Show and the Mysterious Western Producers
In case anyone is not paying full attention to the events in Syria you may want to pay close
attention now, our future may depend on it. Those of you who made it to the theater and saw the
movie 2016: Barack Obama’s America, will recall at the very end of the movie a large world
map with red lines being animated, drawn around certain countries to form what Author,
Director, and Producer Dinesh D’Souza called the Islamic State, complete with its caliphate.
Not too deep in the organization, because she dines at the president’s table almost nightly, is
Valerie Jarrett. She is Iranian born and has been working directly with Iran for many years to
develop this global presence. She also worked at the head of the negotiations while Hillary was
buffooning her way around the world raising money for her billion-dollar foundation, to lift the
sanctions and free up hundreds of billions in frozen Iranian oil money. Don’t be surprised if
some of that money ends up in the new billion-dollar Obama trust account set aside to own the
largest presidential palace and library.
Many truth seekers are aware that Russia recently grabbed the bull by the horn and took firm,
real action against ISIS by the starting definitive bombing campaigns and coalescing the aid of
other nations that want to see the end of the ISIS psyop. We’re not talking about the play acting
dozen or so daily airstrikes the US makes against empty buildings or broken down trucks along
the side of the road. We’re talking about loaded air-to-ground jets dropping cluster bombs that
level city blocks. And not just a few dozen a day. Hundreds of strikes a day and all night, using
ground intel to find and paint the target.
ISIS of course is the globalists proxy army/terror group which the U.S. and Israel need to have
succeed in order for their Middle East and ultimately their new world order plans to continue
marching forward. The West does not want Russia to complete its alliance with Assad and begin
laying the world’s richest gas pipeline that will give Russia control of the throttle for most of
Europe’s heat and factory production. Behave yourself, and you get plenty of natural gas at a
competitive price. Start attacking Russia like you have for the past two years, freezing bank
accounts, crashing currencies, and glutting oil production to drop the price to less than $50 a
barrel, and Russia will be in position to make a few turns on the gas supply valve, or raise the
price.
This clear cut aggressive action against the ISIS globalist terror group is dealing a direct blow to
the Neocon’s and Zionist’s ‘Project for a new American Century’ (PNAC) pre-9/11 strategy for
takeover of the Middle East and the world. Let’s be clear, ISIS or the Islamic State has been
exposed over and over again as a creation of the West since CIA’s mainstream media started
pushing this particularly annoying ongoing super psyop on the world in 2014. Just go see Dinesh
D’Souza’s movie if you doubt the plan at all. Why do you think Obama refuses to call them
ISIS, and uses the ISIL term, meaning the area containing the sovereign state of Israel, which is
slated for extermination in Obama’s new Islamic State. Over the past year, over and over again
we’ve seen the reports, admissions, videos and documents proving that ISIS is a tool for the new
world order. This one is owned by the Suny Muslims. Is scares the hell out of the Shia Muslims
like Saudi Arabia.
Don’t look now, but it was just last year right around this time of year (September-October 2014)
that the western mainstream media had politicians, terrorism “experts” and advisors on TV 24/7
talking about how dangerous ISIS was and how certain they were that ISIS was coming to attack
a U.S. city 9/11 style. Everyone that understands what happened on 9/11 was cringing at the
prospect of another Neocon/Zionist orchestrated monster false flag attack on innocent Americans
using their ISIS proxy army just so they can extinguish any hint of any possible remaining
freedoms from us and get their new world order. For this reason many of the alternative media,
like Webcast talk radio, has been monitoring this propaganda scaremongering psyop and hoping
something changes to turn the tides of events. Well the tides have turned and that change is
apparently here even if we don’t know what the end result will be. Know this. Russia has a
plan, and there is a good chance that if they get anywhere close to following through, it mean the
end of ISIS; the end of the Obama plan to form the new Islamic State he wants.
Apparently thanks to the globalist sloppiness with the ISIS psyop from green-screen fake
beheading videos (ironically fully exposed to the world by Russian hackers), to staged Iraqi city
takeovers like occurred in Mosul where 30.000 fully trained and armed Iraqi soldiers were told to
not fight back against a measly few hundred ISIS fighters. Why do they only kill Muslims and
journalists? Why do they not kill jews, which apparently is their stated purpose in life?
The end result? ISIS takes over Mosul and takes over whole parking lots of perfectly operational
U.S. military weapons, tanks, jeeps, and trucks. They take over oil fields and find ready markets
for their oil. No one stops their money from clearing the bank. How convenient, huh? We saw
the same ironies and suspicious behavior in the 2015 later so called fall of Ramadi. The
importance of the proxy army takeover of both of these cities was remarkably nearly prophesied
in U.S. government documents back in 2012. All of this just adds to a long list of ISIS exposed
items over the last 9-12 months. ISIS shows up with pitchforks and clubs and AK-47’s, and
trained armies take off their new uniforms and run under the burkas of their women and are
never heard from again.
Throughout the world many people have been taking in this abundance of ISIS information
freely available to anyone not stuck on western mainstream media. People worldwide are
watching and reading alternative new media and cross-referencing ISIS news with Western
mainstream media’s version of it and seeing the wide discrepancy of information being put out.
They have no navy, no air force, and no heavy armor, and yet they have the intel to avoid air
strikes and walk boldly across the open countryside, where the only cover is an occasional dead
Toyota truck, and no one even attempts to ambush bomb them, except a few rag tag Peshmerga
fighters backed up by a few dozen American and European volunteers trying their best to defend
Christians from total genocide.
It is painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that every day, western mainstream media’s
only goal is to build up ISIS. They’ve been building up their brand, image, perception of strength
and their overall magnificence. Zuckerberg’s empire has the ability to stop their online marketing
of death to America and their Jewish benefactors, but thousands upon thousands of Facebook
pages dazzle the disenfranchised that ISIS is going to do great things for the world. You never
get the feeling that mainstream media, or the online media moguls, want to see powerful
almighty ISIS go away.
It turns out people all around the world have also noticed and have had enough. Like Putin we
fear him, no one is ready to stop him from smashing the CIA’s greatest creation to bits. Even
Donald Trump has a wait and see attitude about it. Whether it’s Iraqi officials exposing the U.S.
Israeli connection to ISIS, Russia exposing the fake beheading videos, or Iran top commanders
blowing the lid on ISIS-U.S.-Israeli connection. Slowly but surely everyone is getting in on this
ugly situation and time is clearly running out for the Neocons, the Zionists, the globalists and the
war hawks that have been using ISIS to psychologically if not physically torment the world. It is
thus no wonder that even the “ISIS Czar” General John Allen decided to step down as soon as
the ISIS plans started falling apart, and how can anyone blame the man?
Awakened humanity has now fully exposed that Israel, the U.S. and their allies especially
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have all participated in sustaining the ISIS saga. Their main goal?
Prolonging, not terminating, the existence and the success of ISIS.
With all that said, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that all of a sudden the U.S. mainstream media is
ramping up propaganda world-war-2 style. Let’s not forget how these same globalists sold world
war 2 to Americans after they had their stomach turned by the atrocities of the first World War.
The war to end all wars was nowhere near to being done. Even Disney and the ‘Donald Duck’
character was used to sell Americans on the need to “pay your taxes” to “remove the axis” (of
Nazi Germany) convincing Americans to paying their taxes they would be siding with good
versus evil. The previews of every movie in every theater has motivational productions telling
the already impoverished American to buy bonds. By the way, the bonds never paid off. All the
money was squandered, and millions of American investors were cheated out as the bonds
matured with a value of zero. This same level of propaganda is being pumped into every
American household with a TV. There are hundreds of charities that funnel money to ISIS with
names like the World Wildlife Fund or the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Sharia law
is promoted as superior to the US Constitution. The Islamic State that was destroyed, finally in
1924—remember it started in the 7th century after Muhammad’s bloodbath of conversion—and
then reformed as the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. In a 85-year plan to invade with immigrants,
seal off no-go-zones inside major cities, and Islamicize those nations by force, they are merely a
few years away from conquering all of Europe and most of Asia.
So in a desperate attempt to preserve their ISIS proxy army the U.S., Israel and their propaganda
media is setting up their counter strategy-watch last week’s meeting between Putin and
Netanyahu if you doubt any of this—which is sure to succeed with brainwashed Americans
falling for these pro-ISIS pro-PNAC plan disguised as anti-Russia, good versus evil propaganda.
Here are some deceptive strategies we are already seeing put out by mainstream media:
1- Prolong ISIS existence, begin shifting to more abstract enemy
In this recent story Obama, speaking at a UN leaders summit, is careful to suggest even today
(over a year since the launching of the ISIS psyop) that fighting ISIS will “take time”. “You
cannot defeat ISIS with bullets. This is a war of ideas.” By the end of 2014 the ISIS psyop intro
and initial shock was done. The goal thus from January of 2015 on was all along to make ISIS
seem invincible and ghost-like as well as to find clever ways to prolong their existence. We are
now seeing the return of this strategy. Listening to Obama you would never guess that the U.S.,
the world’s most powerful military, has been supposedly fighting ISIS for nearly a year now with
absolutely no results to show for it. But a closer examination of his words lends some insight to
where the globalists are going with their strategy. Obama had this to say:
“This is not a conventional battle. This is a long-term campaign — not only against this
particular network, but against its ideology,”
Notice now he’s saying it’s not about ISIS, it’s against the “ideology” and this is a text book
Neocon-Zionist strategy in hopes to recreate the enemy (ISIS) and morph them into an abstract
concept. Can you imagine starting an offensive against Hitler with this kind of conversation with
the American people? Obama is implying that even if ISIS is defeated their “ideology” will still
be a permanent enemy that we’ll have to fight. Also, how can anyone ever measure a victory
against or “win” a war against an ideology? Can anyone, anywhere define and state this clear
ideology? No. This is a psyop and no one should fall for this trick. But everyone seems to be
doing just that.
2- Start creating new enemies not named ISIS then spread that propaganda
This strategy is clearly seen in the recent talk about Israel concerned about buildup “Iranian
forces” (not ISIS) in Syria. The nature of the strategy? Why not replace the enemy (ISIS) with a
fresh new enemy (Iran) then push the propaganda until someone buys it?
With Iran joining forces to help defeat ISIS you would think that Israel should be pleased that
Iran is joining their side fighting for a common enemy right? The common enemy effect has
been shown to be a real phenomenon throughout the history of humanity and the history of
politics apparently unless it’s Israel’s feeling toward Iran. You would think that Iran has a long
history of attacking other nations right? This is an old and worn out excuse used by Israeli
propaganda machine to keep their Middle East war plans rolling forward. Israel is forever an
enemy of Iran since it (Iran) apparently stands in the way of its (Israel’s) long term plans for
domination of the Middle East, plain and simple. As one of the key nations behind ISIS, Israeli
and it’s propaganda machine is now being ramped up and all they can come up with is the
illusion of a threat posed by Iran, one of the most peaceful nations in the Middle East and
particularly one of the nations NOT supporting ISIS.
3- Spawn new ideas and suggestions for possibility of WW3 trigger event.
In another stunt being pulled by the globalist to defend ISIS, John (Syria chemical weapons)
Kerry is saying that the “U.S. warns Russia about striking non-IS groups in Syria“. How obvious
is it that he is throwing out the suggestion that perhaps Russia cannot be trusted, perhaps Russia
can and will be blamed for a future false flag. Looking at it at first I’m thinking this has got to be
the super WW2 style propaganda headline of the week. I’m thinking this cannot be right? But
once you understand that the U.S. is desperately looking for any angle to stop Russia and its
allies from destroying their paid for and well trained proxy army, then this headline makes more
sense. It’s clearly a desperate attempt from a dying empire thirsty for a pretext that could be used
for world war 3. Russia and its anti-ISIS coalition has been clear about what the goals are. It was
the U.S., Israel and its allies who created this ISIS psyop to begin with and you can be sure they
will look for a reason to trigger war. Seeing this aggressive John Kerry talk should concern all
Americans.
4- Make Russia (not ISIS) sound like the aggressors using pure propaganda
To understand the spectrum of the mainstream media propaganda being whipped up consider this
shocking MSN/NYT propaganda as they spin a weird anti-Russia report by presenting a third
party’s point of view:
“They are the most violent strikes,” says a man filming the grim aftermath of what he asserts was
a Russian air attack on the town of Talbiseh, in the Homs Province of Syria. “This is the Russian
criminal regime.” The voice then trials off into laments and prayers: “Oh God, oh God, oh God.
God is all we need.”
He concludes: “This is what the criminal Russian planes did.”
As shocking as this sounds, this is how propaganda works. The writer of this story ‘Anne
Barnard’ will never spend a day in jail for this propaganda crime neither will anyone at the New
York Times or MSN and that’s because we need to be reminded that propaganda is legal in the
United States.
Ask yourself, who would read this and not think that somehow Russia is the bad guy here? The
bottom line is that to the globalists Russia is the bad guy, but Medieval Putin is messing up the
plans of the globalists. They are destroying the ISIS psyop and as I’ve been saying all along, the
globalist need ISIS to get their new world order.
Unfortunately this is the reality we (humanity) are stuck in. Remember that the politicians in
Israel care about the people as much as the politicians in the U.S. care about its people. In the
end this is about a small group of oligarchs wanting to dominate the world at the expense of the
rest of humanity regardless of what country they live in. Don’t be fooled into thinking this battle
is about nation states. This is about money and power. Trillions in gas, and the power to control
an entire continent hang in the balance.
This is a story of an aggressive new world order whose plans really took off after 9/11. Not sure?
Read the PNAC agenda for yourself.
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative[1][2][3] think tank
based in Washington, D.C. that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a
non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert
Kagan.[4][5] The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership".[6] The
organization stated that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world," and
sought to build support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."
By the end of 2006, PNAC was "reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website [with a]
single employee … left to wrap things up", according to a correspondent at the BBC News.[59] In
2006 former executive director of the PNAC Gary Schmitt said PNAC had never been intended
to "go on forever," and had "already done its job," suggesting that "our view has been
adopted."[59] In 2009 Robert Kagan and William Kristol created a new think tank, the Foreign
Policy Initiative, which scholars Stephen M. Walt and Don Abelson have characterized as a
successor to PNAC. In a word, they went underground. Deep underground.
The same funding and arming of terror groups to destabilize nation states with proxy wars, and
to be used as the perfect terrorism patsies domestically to strip away our rights. It’s a win-win for
the globalist with ISIS. This was the plan all along and still is.
Will enough of us wake up and spread the word to keep derailing the globalist plans? For now
this is another failure or slowdown in the new world order plans but it doesn’t mean they will
quit any time soon. Now is the time to learn all about propaganda, how it works and how
governments use it. If you are not aware by now that you’re being lied to every single day by
mainstream media junk news then you are a victim of this information war not a student of it as
(us) truth seekers are. Let’s keep doing what we are doing and hopefully the tides will continue
to turn in a direction of hope and sanity.
France: Viet Nam, Lybia, and now Syria
France is part of the problem, not the solution, in Syria. It supported Obama’s war from
inception. It partners in all US imperial wars, a key member of NATO’s killing machine,
smashing one nation after another.
On Saturday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius lied, blaming Assad for four-and-a-half years of
war, ignoring Obama’s full responsibility and French complicity, backing his aggression on
another independent country, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists to do his dirty work.
“There has been a lot of comment in the last few days on the role of Assad and whether he can or
should be a stabilizing element in Syria,” said Fabius. He lied calling him “the main person
guilty of the current chaos. If we were to say to the Syrians that the future of Syria lies in Assad,
then we’ll expose ourselves to failure.”
“We have to redouble our efforts” to oust him – ignoring his overwhelming popularity along
with core international law, prohibiting interfering in the internal affairs of other nations for any
reason, except in self-defense if attacked.
Syria doesn’t threaten its neighbors. Assad wants peace, not war. He responsibly defends his
country and people against foreign invaders – disgracefully bashed for doing his job.
On Sunday, France partnered with America, Britain, Canada, and Australia in bombing Syria.
The objective: support ISIS terrorists. Ravage the country into submission.
Continued war assures more harm to long-suffering civilians than already, exacerbating, not
diminishing human floods fleeing for safe havens.
A Hollande government statement lied, saying: “Our country thus confirms its resolute
commitment to fight against the terrorist threat represented by Daesh (the Islamic State). We will
strike each time that our national security is at stake.”
France is using the refugee crisis as an excuse to continue terrorizing Syrians, forcing more to
flee for their lives, using the tired old national security canard, a phony reason to pursue its
regional imperial interests along with America.
The way to insure regional and European security is by ending wars, not continuing them
endlessly, creating an endless cycle of violence, chaos and instability, the opposite of good
policy – except for hegemons wanting things their own way unchallenged, no matter the cost in
human lives and suffering.
Putin’s agenda is polar opposite, criticizing Western “double standards and selfishness,” urging
world leaders to unite against ISIS, go all-out to eliminate its scourge.
Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria established Baghdad-based a joint information center. According to
an unnamed military-diplomatic source, the initiative’s “main goal…will be gathering,
processing and analyzing current information about the situation in the Middle East – primarily
for fighting IS.”
An official from each country will head the center on a three-month rotating basis. Its objective
is coordinating plans to defeat IS, waging legitimate war on terrorism, polar opposite US policy.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said “Moscow is acting within the framework of
international law, respecting the sovereignty of our county…”
“We do not hide anything under the table. We regard Russia as our friend and strategic ally
which is honest in its actions.”
Its commitment to defeating IS and restoring regional peace and stability runs counter to
Washington’s imperial agenda.
Expect no change in its permanent war policy. Ignore meaningless rhetoric claiming a
commitment for regional peace.
China: Hingepin and Financial Powerhouse of BRICS
The likelihood of a Syria WW3 scenario just increased with the latest news that China is about to
send military troops to team up with the Russians (who are getting help from Iran, Iraq and Syria
itself with a joint information center) in defending the Syrian Army of President Bashar AlAssad and targeting ISIS. The Iranians have been assisting Assad for a long time as part of their
regional alliance through channels such as Hezbollah; then on September 21, 2015, there were
reports of Russia sending troops, jets and other military equipment to Syria. With the US, UK,
Israel, France, Turkey and others already operating in Syria as a loose alliance on one side, and
Russia, China, Iran, Iraq and the official Syrian Army involved on the other, the probability is
getting higher all the time that the situation could erupt into a world conflict, and that we could
potentially witness a Syria WW3 scenario.