The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Dishonesty Of Mainstream Media Revealed


 
Combover champ Donald Trump shows why he refuses to campaign in The Windy City (Image source)


 Since Donald Trump, frontrunner in the race to be nominated Rebpublican candidate in the 2016 US Presidental election made some unpolitically-correct comments about stropping followers of Islam entering the USA until a way can be found of identifying the ones who have been radicalised and trained to perpetrate acts of terrorism in the USA, they media have been getting their knickers in a right old twist.

While Trump's polling figures surged mainstream media, carried pushing the idiotic message that only a lunatic fringe of right wing extremists agreed with Trump and everybody else loves foreigners, especially those who intend to kill non - Muslims. Even here in Britain the story most widely promoted was that a comfortable majority of American's not only disagreed with the world combover champion but deplored what he said.

Now however the truth is starting to emerge. The poll by You Gov (not a polling organisation noted for its right wing sympathies as it is run by a supporter of the UK's Labour Party) that spawned the fifty eight per cent story actually showed that fifty eight per cent of Americans agree with Trump and a significant number did not have an opinion.

Quite a majority then are not the Islam loving liberals they lying media have said the majority of Americans are.

Another reason then to turn to alternative media to find out what is really going on. You just can't believe anything politicians say or that you hear on TV and Radio or  read in newspapers.

As YouGov reports, a majority of Americans say that they view Islam unfavorably, and even Democrats are almost twice as likely to view Islam negatively than positively.


"One week ago the United States saw the deadliest terrorist attack it has seen since 9/11, after 14 people were killed in San Bernadino by Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. In the wake of the attack Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took his most aggressively anti-Muslim stance so far by calling for Muslims to be barred from entry into the United States. Though the United States has millions of Muslims, anti-Muslim sentiment has become increasingly common in public discourse.

YouGov/HuffPost's latest research shows that most Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam. 58% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam, and just over a third (35%) say that they have a 'very unfavorable' opinion of the religion. Only 17% of Americans view it positively. Democrats (27%) are the most likely to have a favorable opinion of Islam, but even they tend to say that they view Islam negatively. Among independents (58%) and Republicans (75%) most people have a negative view of Islam."

Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge suggests Trump's remarks which caused so much consternation in the media and the political estabishment  were part of a cunning plan (Donald Trump as Blackadder? Maybe not.): to get elected president, he will become the only  to talk about the elephant in the room: that Islamic terrorism comes from Islam immigrants.  




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And Now For Something Completely Different

Blogging here for the past couple of months has been pretty bleak as events in Syria, Turkey andthe middle east have dominated the news. But the season to be jolly is almost upon us and it's time we all had a laugh, well all of us except the guy in this story:

Alligator Eats Florida Burglary Suspect Hiding From Cops

Never smile at a Crocodile (the picture is fake I'm assured) (Source)

Down in Florida, ABC 13 news reports, police have concluded that a man suspected of burglary and on the run from officers escaped justice in a rather novel way.

Matthew Riggins, 22, alleged to have been responsible for a string of burglaries in Brevard County in November 2015 was spotted with a likely accomplice by police officers on the morning of 13 November, but the crooks escaped on foot and hid in a swamp. Officers who set off in pursuit failed to find them

Police searching the area later reported hearing yelling but were unable to determine the source as night had fallen. Ten days later, human remain, identified by DNA tests as having once been attached to Riggins were found floating in Barefoot Bay lake.

Divers sent to recover the remains encountered an 11-foot alligator which had shreds of human flesh (later proved to be a DNA match with the bits of Riggins the 'gator had not swallowed) behaved aggressively towards them (or perhaps mistook them for the next meal). Florida authorities called sent an Alligator to capture the creature. Official reports say it was shot. Sources with the state police department say it was recruited and given the rank 'Termigator'.

A coroners report concluded Riggins was attacked by the 11-foot gator while hiding from authorities in the 'gator infested lake and recorded a verdict of death by stupidity.


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Friday, December 11, 2015

Iran-backed Shi'ite militias threaten Turkey over incursion into Iraq

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia man patrols a town in Iraq's main oil region (Picture source: uk business insider


We reported last week, during our series of posts exposing the involvement of Turkish President Recep Erdogan and other members of his family in illegal oil trades with terror group ISIS and of facilitating the supply of arms and ammunition from the USA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to ISIS guerilla forces using Turkey as a conduit, that Turkish troops had invaded northern Iraq.

It is not news of course that the Turkey, under the Sunni Muslim Erdogan regime, has been conducting a genocide against Kurdish ethnicity for many years. That the Kurds, up until the recent intervention of Russia, were the most effective force opposing Islamic State. In addition to violating international law by helping fund and arm terrorists, Turkey is then guilty of an incursion into another state's sovereign territory in violation of international law and United Nations treaty and of committing an act of war in shooting down a Russian aircraft that had not violated Turkish air space.

In spite of all that, backed by NATO which seems to intensify its push for war every week, Turkey has kept its troops in Iraqi Kurds territory.

Fed up of Turkey's war crimes and the approval of its NATO allies for these constant violations of international law, Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary groups with ties to Iran have threatened to use force against Turkey we learned via REUTERS on Wednesday, unless Turkish troops are withdrawn from Iraqi territory. The Turks had previously been given a 48-hour deadline by the government, but that expired without any movement.

Citing kurdish violations of its borders Turkey deployed a contingent of troops to a camp near the frontline in northern Iraq, provoking an outcry in Baghdad, which condemned it as a violation of sovereignty and asked NATO to intervene. Turkey of course is the current leading player in NATO's proxy war against Russia through Russian ally Assdad in Syria.

The area north of Mosul where the Turkish troops are stationed is under the control of Kurdish forces and Shi'ite militias currently have no presence there, which would make it difficult for them to follow through on the threats. However sources close to the Turkish government have leaked information about Erdogan planning to annex a slice of Iraqi territory including the oil region around Mosul.

The situation puts additional pressure on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is already under fire from the same Shi'ite factions over an announcement that the United States will send a new special operations force to conduct raids in Iraq.

Badr Brigade spokesman Karim al-Nuri compared the Turkish incursion to the occupation of Iraq by Islamic State militants and said "all options" were available.

"We have the right to respond and we do not exclude any type of response until the Turks have learned their lesson," Nuri said. "Do they have a dream of restoring Ottoman greatness? This is a great delusion and they will pay dearly because of Turkish arrogance."

Ankara says the troops are there as part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State and will not withdraw them, although it said on Tuesday it would send no more. Baghdad says it never invited such a force.

Read the original report on Reuters



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Russia Sends Growler Missile System To Syria and China Unveils Hypersonic Strike Aircraft

In my wanderings around the web today I came across a post questioning why the US military for all its technical superiority did not simply wipe our ISIS and the Russian and Iranian forces in Syria, disposing of Assad in the process.
The website attracts a predominantly conservative audience so responses in the comment thread were full of Gung ho claims about American exceptionalism and the superiority of American trained soldiers(I wonder what the Vietnamese or Afghanistan's Taliban guerillas might have to say about that?). Most however reached the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. The USA does not want to defeat ISIS (correct) The USA could obliterate Russian and Chinese forces supporting Assad. (WRONG!)


S400 (Growler) Surface to air missile system (Image source - click for enlarged view with readable size text)

As tensions increased in the region after warplanes of NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian SU24 bomber and then anti - Assad rebels supported by the USA destroyed a rescue helicopter sent to find the pilots (one of whom had been machine gunned by rebels while parachuting to safety) The Kremlin ordered its S400 (Growler) Surface to Air missile system, far more advanced that anything the US Army has, to be deployed in areas where US and Russian operations are likely to overlap.

It is already known that Pentagon officials have been shocked by the capabilities of Russia's most advanced aircraft, the SU34 and by the advanced technology used in weaponry of Russian naval vessels now guarding the approaches to Syria's coast. Warnings from US Generals that Russia would obliterate America's forces in any large scale conflict may have been overstated but they were perhaps intended to deflate overconfidence with is typical of the Washington wusses for whom it is easy to be brave as they sit in offices thousands of miles from the combat zones.

Any shooting war would not be as one sided as many American gun nuts think. And that was before China, an ally of Moscow that has promised military support should conflict break out, revealed THIS:


The Wu-14 Hypersonic Jet launched from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System travels at Mach 10 on the Edge of Space carrying Nuclear Warheads

A [Chinsese] advanced aircraft, known as the Wu-14 travels between Mach 5 and Mach 10 which is somewhere in the vicinity of 3500 and 7400 Mph. Sources say the hypersonic vehicle can travel up to 9,000 Mph! This means circling the Earth in 2.5 hours. At this speed, the vehicle can out maneuver any missile system currently active.

If the vehicle was launched from a sub or aircraft carrier in one of the oceans, then a strike to nearly any country would happen in just a couple of minutes.

The WU-14 “threatens to neutralize US strategic missile defenses with the unique capability of flying at ultra-high speeds and maneuvering to avoid detection and tracking by radar and missile defense interceptors.”

SOURCE: therealstrategy.com


Sorry America, I love your country, I really do (well my Grandad Thorpe was born in Utica NYS) but some of you need to get a firmer grip on reality.

Putin Orders Military To "Boost Strategic Nuclear Forces" As Syria Situation Worsens



NATO bosses (meeting to discuss how to provoke Russia even more (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

Earlier it was reported in the news feeds that in response to the escalation in the Syria proxy war, where German warplanes have now arrived to join the bombing campaign against ISIS, thus adding to the list of European nations already infilitrated by Muslim extremists among the millions of illegal immigrants that have flooded into Europe with the tacit approval of EU and national leaders and thus likely to be hit by terrorist attacks similar to those that shocked Paris in November 2015.

We reported yesterday that the US led coalition is planning to put troops from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim nations into Syria in pursuit of Obama's main goal, which is the removal of Assad rather than the eradication of the ISIS terrorist threat. In response Putin issued one simple command: "I order to act extremely tough. Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure on the ground should be immediately destroyed."

However, Syria was a secondary topic in Kremlin discussions yesterday when Putin told his his defense chiefs "to strengthen Russia’s strategic nuclear forces amid rising tensions with the U.S. over the global balance of power."

Bloomberg reported that Putin told the assembled military chiefs "new weapons should go to all parts of the nuclear triad of air, sea, and land forces. Action must also be taken to improve the effectiveness of missile-attack warning systems and aerospace defense."

According to Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s military will have five new nuclear regiments equipped with advanced missile complexes next year, adding that more than 95% of the country’s nuclear forces are at a permanent state of readiness".

It is known that around 56 percent of Russian nuclear weapons are new. These include modern missiles, upgraded aircraft and a strengthened submarine capacity, according to Shoigu. Russia has also increased the military’s combat capabilities by reinforcing its western and south-western army groups and building four bases in the Arctic region, he said.

Just in case there was any doubt before, it is now clear that the nuclear arms race and the cold war are not only back, but in this era of "hackers" the probability of an unauthorised launch, is so much higher that last time.

That Putin has chosen to highlight Russia's nuclear strength just days after NATO's most recent European expansion is hardly surprising. However the sabre rattling is not all on the Russian side. Bloomberg noted in the report linked above, "Putin’s moves to reinforce Russian nuclear capabilities are reviving Cold War tensions with the U.S. and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization".
It is also worth reminding people that as has been widely reported here ans elsewhere, US efforts against ISIS have been less than wholehearted (and another view on this aspect of the bigger story here ), because the terror group has been funded, armed and trained by US allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and is also supported by the USA itself as ISIS offers the best hope of defeating Assad that does not involve US forces in direct confrontation with the Russian military.


The U.S. warned in June that the Kremlin’s "nuclear saber-rattling" is undermining stability in an attempt to intimidate European neighbors." Against that, we have reported here as have many blogs and news websites, and even some mainstream media news publisher, that moves by NATO and the EU, in violation of a 1991 treaty, to suck former Soviet Republics such as Georgia, Lithuania and Ukraine into their western blog organisations were never going to be meekly tolerated by Russia.

And when we get down to that level we have greater understanding of at least some of the reasons why the proxy war in Syria has become a real and present danger to the entire world. And yet some people are still afraid that a little extra Carbon Dioxide in the air is the greatest threat.








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Thursday, December 10, 2015

The United Islamic States Of America Plans To Send 100,000 Troops Into Syria

this is just in via Zero Hedge

“For every seven Shiites killed, we want seven Sunnis [killed] in their place.”

That rather alarming declaration comes from outspoken Iraqi lawmaker Hanan Al-Fatlawi. Not known for holding her tongue, the Shia MP inflamed sectarian tensions with her eye for an eye tirade in the summer of 2014, prompting Diana Moukalled, the Web Editor at the Lebanon-based Future Television to pen the following sharp rebuke:

No one will be safe from the worsening situation in Iraq; and many parties are guilty. But for the prime minister [ZH: al-Maliki at the time] and MPs from his coalition to turn the bloody discourse of sectarian violence into an official language is a major moment in history, 10 years into the experiment that is the new Iraq.


now, Fatlawi contends that according to "information [she] has from inside the meeting," John McCain last month told PM Haider Al-Abadi that the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are set to send in a total of 100,000 troops to Iraq. Here's a screenshot of Fatlawi's Facebook post:


As the article notes, that may sound far-fetched but it's not at all inconsistent with what Lindsey Graham (who joined McCain on the trip said in Iraq and what McCain himself said yesterday in the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Ash Carter.

From Graham last month: “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey – they have regional armies and they would go into the fight if we put [the removal of] Assad on the table. Most of the fight will be done by the region. They will pay for this war."

From McCain on Wednesday: “A small component of American forces with international forces, which could be gathered and then go in and take out this caliphate. If we went in with a large Arab force, with Turks and Egyptians even … there’s 20,000 to 30,000 of them [ISIS fighters], they are not giants.”

Well guess what? The Turks are already there. They arrived with two dozen tanks near Mosul last Friday.

"I've personally reached out to 40 countries," Carter told the committee, which is ironic because that's the exact same number of countries Putin says are supporting ISIS.

As this blog has told you all along, Obama is not interested in beating ISIS, his only concern (apart from gay rights) is the removal of Assad so his Saudi allies can get their pipeline to Syria's Mediterranean coast.


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We Are Living Amid An Islamic Threat", French Mayor Says: "Our Country Is At War Inside Our Borders



The result of 'open doors' immigration policy (Image Source)



Wherever we stand on the issue of Islamic extremists infiltrating the western nations to perpetrate acts of terrorism, alongside Obama (on our knees with a terrorists cock in our mouths) or behind Donald Trump (oops, pardon), one thing is without dispute; the French response, which has been to impose unlimited emergency laws, is nothing short of the second coming of "Operation Gladio."

In addition to warrantless searches and raids, France's state of emergency laws allow the government to place people under house arrest, seal the country's borders, set up phone taps and ban demonstrations all without the need to show due cause to suspect malfeasance. The laws were created during the Algerian war in 1955.Why to such laws need any additions?

The French government is currently pushing through changes to its constitution to allow a state of emergency to last for six months, according to government sources. The proposal, slammed by libertarians and intellectuals who say the government intends to abuse its powers to curtail civil liberties and suppress free speech will be put to ministers on December 23, according to AFP. Main french political parties of both left and right are on record as supporting such fascistic measure as making criminal offences of criticising climate change propaganda or opposing EU integration and the 'open doors' immigration policies which have caused social crises in many E U nations.

In spite of supporting such authoritarian measures, politicians and mainstream media have no shame about dismissing anti EU party Front National as right wing extremists. In a demonstration of how despicable mainstream politics has become, we now see socialists and conservatives collaborating in electoral jiggery pokery to deny the democratic will expressed in the regional elections. The plan is to block Front National from governing in regions where they have won a majority in a recent democratic vote.

As a result of this expansion of the French police state and the emergency legislation enacted after last month's Paris attacks, there has been a draconian crackdown on not only France's Islamic population but also on various groups the neo - Nazi government of socialist President Hollande wants to silence despite their not having brken any laws or harmed anybody, an example is the arrest of 24 climate activists before the culmination of start of the COP21 climate change summit in Paris at the end of November.

As the French press notes, warrantless searches and raids have become commonplace, a move which may violate the civil liberties of all citizens, not just Muslims.

Case in point, Daniel Bushell, the manager of the Pepper Grill restaurant on the outskirts of Paris, who recalled a police raid at his restaurant on Saturday night.

As the restaurant manager recounted to RT, "They blocked the roads with trucks, and up to 40 armed men stormed our restaurant...Saturday night's the busiest time. Children were eating. The cops had shotguns, black masks, and shields, making the women tremble with fear. Several officers rushed downstairs, then suddenly...they began breaking the doors with battering rams. The door wasn't even locked."

Elsewhere, the emergency laws, implemented after last month's terror attacks which killed 130 people and left 352 others injured, have led to thousands of warrantless searches and raids.

The Crapauds are once again proving the truth of Schumpeter's warning, that socialism always turns into fascism. L et's hope the control freaksfind Front National leader Marine Le Pen too formidable an opponent to let their authoritarian agenda abolish democracy in France.



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US 'Mission Creep' In Syria Nudges World Towards War



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Anyone who was paying attention understood back in 2011 that the United States government was supporting rebels in Syria as part of a long standing policy for the middle east that included regime change in Syria. The ultimate aim was to depose the secular, Shi'ite Assad regime and clear the way for a direct pipeline from Sunni Muslim theocracies on the Persian Gulf to oil Terminals on the Mediterranean coast of Sunni Muslim 'Republic' Turkey.

It was clear even then (to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see - borrowing a phrase from that regions historic traditions,) that Washington had backed well armed and well trained sectarian extremists to take on Assad's forces and install a regime of Imams and Princelings hand picked by the despotic monarchy in Saudi Arabia.

What US policymakers failed to factor into their plans was the resolve the Syrian government, the Syrian Arab Army, and the Syrian people themselves had to defeat this conspiracy. Though the conspiracy, and the loyalty to Assad of a majority of Syrians was revealed as early as 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in a keynote article for the New Yorker

In the text, Hersh revealed that the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel were determined to build a proxy army of sectarian extremists aligned with or sympathetic to Al Qaeda (a Sunni Muslim terrorist grouping), for the purpose of undermining and overthrowing the nations of Syria and Iran.

The fact that Al Qaeda is controlled from the main IS ally in the middle east, Saudi Arabia, does not prove the US Government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks but certainly give a lot of credibility to 'conspiracy theorists' who claim it was so.

By 2011, with Libya already flattened by a NATO-backed FUKUS axis 'humanitaran' bombing campaign, the US State Department was busy transferring terrorists armed with US weapons from Benghazi and Eastern Europe to Turkey where they would be, armed, trained, and sent Syria.

When the US sponsored proxy war failed to dislodge Asaad from Damascus, a totally bogus case for a ground invasion by the FUKUS axis (France, the UK and the USA) was thwarted – again - when Syria’s allies – Russia, China, and Iran warned that any NATO attacks on Syrian military or strategic targets would meet united resistance. the idiot ex rent-boy Obama stamped an angry 'likkle' girlieman foot and ordered US warships to blockade Syrian ports, they arrived in the Mediterranean to find Russian, Chinese and Iranian ships already there. The Pentagon was awakened to the realities of what would happen if NATO directly attacked Syria. The US air force continued to launch ineffectual airstrikes against ISIS, but of course never wanted to destroy the force it had created (ISIS). The Obama administration's main (only?) goal was to depose Assad so the Saudis could get their pipeline to Turkey. And so things continued for a while as Obama's attempts to neutralised Russia by undermining their oil and gas dependent economy backfired with catastrophic social and economic effects for US citizens.

When Russia entered the conflict directly, the situation changed dramatically. Direct intervention by the West against Assad's forces became a non starter, the US bombing campaign was exposed as a sham, USAF air strikes had not been hitting obvious ISIS targets because these were in Pentagon jargon, 'our military assets'. So the phoney war against the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS) which had been mainly confined to hitting IS fighters trying to destabilise the 'US Asset' puppet government in Iraq (which actually wields power only in Baghdad's Presidential compound) was replaced by real Russian-led war, with ground support from Iranian troops on the terrorist group.

With Russia in the war the mystery (only to western governments and mainstream media) of who had been funding and supplying ISIS as a fighting force was quickly solved. Russia began bombing ISIS supply lines stretching out of NATO-member and wannabe E U member Turkey. The dodgy regime of Turkey's Sunni Muslim, Islamist President Erdogan had long protected by NATO but western posturing as the guys in white hats went up in a cloud of black, oily smoke from road tankers heading for ports in Turkey(there are no white hats involved in this mess - Russia's actions are unashamedly self - interested, the western allies and Turkey are equally self interested buy hypocritically claim they are working for the greater good.)

Russian warplanes and Syrian troops have likewise made significant gains near borders they once were deterred from approaching because of NATO treachery. It is rapidly becoming clear however that the USA wants a war with Russia so long as it does not involve Washington firing the first shot (US military / industrial complex needs to be able to claim the moral high ground in order to sell the sacrifices involved in war to American voters. The latest stage of escalation is therefore yet another round of provocations using Turkey as the proxy agent.

Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syrian airspace, with Turkish sponsored terrorists machine gunning one of the pilots as he parachuted from the stricken plane – a blatant war crime – and the subsequent ambush of a rescue helicopter which resulted in the death of a Russian Marine, was a major provocation to which Russia has responded with admirable restraint (so far). While the United States has tried to distance itself from Turkey’s actions, it is obvious Turkey would not have risked confrontation with Russia's military might without coordinating it with the USA and NATO.

Calculating that only a direct military attack on Assad by US or NATO forces will elicit the desired response from The Kremlin, Washington has to keep trying. As yet unconfirmed reports indicate that the US itself has struck Syrian troops near Deir ez Zor City, Deir ez Zor province. The reports also claim that the US airstrike, alleged by the Syrian government to have killed several of the terror groups soldiers, was followed by a coordinated counterattack by ISIS guerillas.

In weeks before these incident, US Senators, Principally Lindsay Graham and John McCain, openly called for US pilots to be ordered to shoot down Russian planes suspected of attacking US backed rebels in Syria. The Third World War has started it seems, unrepoted in mainstream media and without the blaring trumpets and unfurled oriflammes that signalled the march to previous wars.



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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Paris Climate conference: Scientists Debunk Global Warming Scaremongering


Yog Sothoth, of limitless being and self—not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep—the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike.
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As national leaders and self interested science whore collaborated to impose of the world a United Nations “climate regime” based on the vile and authoritarian Agenda 21 agreement, at the COP21 global-warming summit, a group of internationally respected scientists and environmentalists from various fields presented research at a separate conference in Paris that ridiculed the climate change hysteria. Essentially, the sceptical scientists said, there is no man-made global-warming crisis. The UN's "climate” efforts" have a much more sinister agenda:

The ambition of the banksters and their bought and paid for politicians to create a $1trillion market in traded carbon credits has long ben known, as have the ambitions of governments to levy green taxes on the most essential goods and services. Add in a few other nasties and you have a programme that would effectively shackle humanity in a kind of serfdom under the control of a global elite. Think I'm exaggerating or maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist'? Just join up the dots and see the picture that emerges rather resembles the guy up top, Yog Sothoth, a character in H P Lovecraft's Necronomicon

Destroying industrial civilization, propping up kleptocrats with Western tax funds, and seizing control of the global economy under the guise of regulating the immensely beneficial “gas of life,” also known as carbon dioxide, the greater goal is to push a few more steps forward to a global government of unelected bureaucrats, academics and corporate lawyers.

The top U.S. senator on the Environment Committee also offered a message of hope to climate realists, saying the “climate charade” by the UN and the Obama administration was dead on arrival.

Dubbed “Day of Examining the Data,” the numerous presentations focused on challenging the irrational conclusions obtained from 'adjusted data', and debunking multiple elements of the increasingly discredited anthropogenic (man-made) global-warming theory (AGW). From explaining the importance of carbon dioxide to the environment and mankind to highlighting the ongoing 19-year pause in warming in spite of levels of atmospheric CO2 increasing, the sceptical conference took the whole scam apart piece by piece. No intellectually honest person could have left that gathering still believing the 'imminent climate catastrophe' nonsense pushed by various governments and supranational bureaucracies.

Practically every fear-mongering narrative that will be pushed at the nearby UN climate summit was mercilessly debunked with facts, data, logic, and common sense. Later in the day, the film Climate Hustle brutally exposing the real aims of climate alarmism and revealing how much each of the billionaires promoting the scare stories has made so far from the scam, premiered at a nearby cinema in Paris, earning nothing but profuse praise from its audience.

Dr. Robert Carter, former chief of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University told the conference "Global warming is not happening." He reminded the conference that prior to the carbon credits idea long-term global cooling was predicted. Carter's presentation totally shredded the outlandish notion that CO2 — exhaled by humans and critical to life — is “carbon pollution” in need of regulation. In fact, he said, even at current atmospheric concentrations, the Earth and the plants it supports are “starving” for more CO2. And in the past, CO2 concentrations were some 10 to 15 times higher. “Attempting to stop climate change is an exercise in utter futility,” he added.

Also speaking was Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "is totally anti-science, and is harming science." Highlighting the role played by the sun in the Earth's incomprehensibly complex climate system, Soon homed in on one particular claim in the IPCC report on the issue that he said made a complete mockery of science. “The IPCC is pure gangster science,” he explained. Speaking to reporters after his presentation, Soon said the vicious attacks against his character and family by global-warming alarmists had only motivated him to work harder. Rather than launching personal attacks, he said, critics should instead focus on the data and his conclusions published in the peer-reviewed literature.

Another top scientist at the summit was University of Virginia Professor Emeritus Dr. Fred Singer, founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change told the summit while delivering a slide show comparing observed temperatures with the various bogus predictions made by “climate models” relied upon by the UN, "The models don't work. We should not use them to make policy." He also noted that carbon dioxide — "the original plant food,” as he called it — is very valuable. Plants are starving. They want more CO2," Singer added.

Like the shoreline, the climate is always changing, due to natural forces. And so the obvious hypothesis that natural forces are still driving climate change, as they always have. Therefore it must be shown to be false by proponents of the man-made climate change propaganda. In other words, the burden of proof that the recent minor changes are attributable to human activity rests on the alarmists who want to empower the UN to undertake massive geoengineersing projects (the consequences of which are completely unknown) ostensibly to control CO2, but really to redistribute wealth from rich nations to poor nations (where obviously it will fall into the pockets of the incumbent tyrant or tribal warlord). So far, though, the alarmists have failed to prove anything, snow we were told would be a thing of the past by 2012, there would be 50 million refugees displaced by rising sea levels before 2013, Polar bears would be extinct by 2015 (their numbers are increasing) and the north pole was due to be ice free by 2010. In fact the extent of sea ice in 2015 was the greatest since records began. In the face of all that the alarmists have a tough job ahead of them, Singer said.

The scam has always been about money and power, a delegate told online news site The New American in an interview, adding that governments had purchased the cooperation of many scientists on climate alarmism. "Science plays a small role, and mostly it's being misused. It's a matter of really trying to control things." That makes sense, control of CO2 means control of energy and thus economies and ultimately, people. What is being plotted right now at the nearby UN COP21 summit, he added, is a “direct subsidy to kleptocracies,” which are pocketing the climate loot and hiding it in their bank accounts. “It's a matter of the poor in rich countries supporting the rich in the poor countries,” Singer concluded.

Also at the summit Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore, gave a presentation debunking "ocean acidification" fairy tale. In the real world, he said, there is "no conceivable scenario" in which the world's oceans would become acidic. "It is a complete fabrication with no basis in reality," he concluded. In fact, CO2 does wonders for marine life, Dr. Moore showed, noting that the most productive area of the ocean, the Humboldt Current, is also the most “acidic.” “CO2 is fertilizing the oceans just like it is greening the Earth,” he said. Moore also identified the real agenda behind the UN climate summit: bringing down industrial civilization. If successful, he said, the lives of countless human beings will be lost as a result.



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Indonesia Tells Aussie Loudmouth Tony Abbott, STF UP Over ‘Reform Islam’ Call



This image was chosen out of sensitivity to our more gentle readers. The search for 'Indonesia genocide' included a table set with severed head, a shot of corpses hanging from trees with their intestines spilling out, an piles of rotting corpses that soldiers of the Muslim government would not permit to be buried or burned. Hey, hand wringers, are you still going to tel me it's a religion of peace?

The solidly Muslim government of Indonesia has attacked former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott after he said that Islam needs to be reformed. Sources in Indonesian capital Jakarta dismissed Abbott's comments as “unhelpful” and “divisive”. Ambassador to Austrialia, Nadjib Riphat Kesoema, delivered his response to Mr Abbott’s critique by adding that violent extremism is “common in all faiths.” (He's never heard of Buddhism then?)

“This is a time when all nations must unite to defeat the scourge of terrorism,” Mr. Kesoema said. “A rhetoric boasting of cultural and religious superiority over other cultures and religions is unhelpful to the cause and divisive.” The representative of the country with the world’s largest population of Muslims called for strong cooperation with Australia against terrorism.

"It is important for us including the multicultural societies of Australia and Indonesia to keep our focus on efforts to creating a long-term solution to the common challenges of violent extremism that we face," Mr. Kesoema continued, “Violent extremism is the common challenges of all religions: Christianity, Hindu, Islam and all faiths."

As Reuters, AP and Sky News reported, Mr. Abbott made his comments in an interview on Australian network Sky News and repeated them in newspaper opinion column to argue for a "religious revolution".

"We’ve got to work closely with live-and-let-live Muslims because there needs to be, as president [Abdel Fattah] Al-Sisi of Egypt has said, a religious revolution inside Islam, all of those things that Islam has never had — a reformation, an enlightenment, a well-developed concept of the separation of church and state — that needs to happen" Mr Abbott said.

Abbott’s time as prime minister was notable for his strong stance against Islamic State and other terrorist organisations like Boko Haram. He was deposed by his own conservative coalition in a leadership coup in September.

One hopes Mr. Abbot is sufficiently on top of his game to remind Indonesia's Muslim government of the genocidal persecution by their predecessors (also Muslim) of Hindus in East Timor and against Christians in west Papua New Guinea which began after independence in 1974, continued sporadically until the government escalated the violence in 1999 to purge other faiths and only ended the genocide a few years ago following international intervention. If the extremists in Jakarta want to be taken seriously about opposing extremism, surely they must first vote themselves out of office.



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