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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

US Paradrops Arms And Ammunition To Syrian Rebels

As we reported last week, the USA has capitulated in the face of Russian air and ground strength, and abandoned the ill conceived (there's understatement for you) strategy of funding, training and arming islamic extremist groups in Syria fighters and using them them against the well drilled (by Russian officers) and well armed (with Russian weapons) troops loyal to President Assad. Credit where it is due, the rebels were doing OK, with US, French and British air support, until Russia intervened directly.

The Pentagon’s pledge to recruit 5,400 properly "vetted" anti-ISIS rebels by the end of the year was certain to end in tears. How the world laughed when word got out that only “four or five” of these fighters were actually still around. The rest are allegedly killed or captured, but more likely they took the monay and weapons they were given and went into business fighting as mercenaries for anti - Assad forces paid by the US (vial illegal oil trades), Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

This debacle has cost US taxpayers an estimated (very conservatively) $40 million over the last six months.

Because its latest anti - Assad initiative tirned out such an embarrassment, the Pentagon has come up with a new idea to support Syria’s “freedom fighters” as they fleeing under bombardment by Russian air force jets, planning no doubt to regroup and relaunch the jihad, possibly in Iraq, Afghanistan or somewhere in Africa.

The new plan: "helicopter ammo". No, really. The US is dropping "tons" of ammunition into the middle of the Syrian desert and hoping the “right” people find it.

No, don't titter at the back there, that's Obama and The Pentagon's Plan B.

Here’s how CNN reported it:

U.S. military cargo planes gave 50 tons of ammunition to rebel groups overnight in northern Syria, using an air drop of 112 pallets as the first step in the Obama Administration's urgent effort to find new ways to support those groups.

Details of the air mission over Syria were confirmed by a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly because the details have not yet been formally announced.

C-17s, accompanied by fighter escort aircraft, dropped small arms ammunition and other items like hand grenades in Hasakah province in northern Syria to a coalition of rebels groups vetted by the US, known as the Syrian Arab Coalition.

And here's a bit more color from a news channel generally considered The Republican Party propaganda department, Fox News:

The ammunition originally was intended for the U.S. military's "train and equip" mission, the official said. But that program was canceled last week.

"So now we are more focused on the 'E' [equip] part of the T&E [train & equip]," said the official, who described equipping Syrian Arabs as the focus of the new strategy against ISIS.

The Defense Department announced Friday that it was overhauling the mission to aid Syrian rebel fighters. After the program fell far short of its goals for recruiting and training Syrian fighters, the DOD said it would focus instead on providing "equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders and their units so that over time they can make a concerted push into territory still controlled by ISIL."

The shift also comes as Russia continues to launch airstrikes in Syria, causing tension with the U.S. amid suspicions Moscow is only trying to prop up Bashar Assad.

Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, confirmed that coalition forces conducted the airdrop on Sunday.

"The aircraft delivery includes small arms ammunition to resupply counter-ISIL ground forces so that they can continue operations against ISIL. All aircraft exited the drop area safely," he said in a statement. All pallets successfully were recovered by friendly forces, a U.S. official said.

Yes, "friendly forces." Who will no doubt be aiming "friendly fire" at Syrian Chistians, Jews, atheists and those unfortunate people who just happen to be the wrong sort of Muslim.

US aircraft just parachuted 50 tons of ammo stacked on pallets into the most dangerous and volatile place on earth with no way of knowing if it falls into the "right" hands, or those of ISIS, the PKK, Al Qaeda, Shi'ite militias or gangsters. (It goes without saying that the term "right" is meaningless there, they're all bastards). Meanwhile, the Russians are dropping bombs on the same extremists who are set to receive and use the guns and ammo Uncle Sam is dropping against Syria's legitimate government.

If it somehow falls into the "wrong hands", and it would not be the first time that happened (see Mosul, and revisit the $500 billion worth of weapons US military advisers "misplaced" in Yemen). This is of course great news for the U.S. military-industrial complex which has supported all the neo Con Obama administration's wars. Such cock ups mean more war, more profit, more promotions. And if it turns out they mean more "terrorist attacks" on U.S. "friends and allies", and perhaps even on U.S. soil, well so long as the gated communities and exclusive suburbs where the elitists live are not attacked, that's go to be good for business too.

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Monday, October 12, 2015

China launches global yuan payment system

China aims to tip the balance of economic power to the east (Image source)

The Central Bank of China’s has launched a global payment scheme which will provide facilities for settling cross-border trades in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) signalled its intention to internationalize the yuan and challenge the domination of world trade by the US dollar several years ago.

China is backed in this project by Russia and by emerging economies such as Brazil, India and Nigeria and oil exporting states such as Venezuela whose trade had been restricted by American manipulation of currency and commodity markets.

“The establishment of CIPS is an important step in yuan internationalization, providing the infrastructure that will connect global yuan users through one single system,” Helen Wong, greater China CEO for HSBC, was cited as saying by the Financial Times. The move comes less than a year after China launched its Asian Investment Bank, AIIB to rival the World bank and IMF as a financier of infrastructure projects.

CIPS will accept payments in cross-border trade, direct investments, financing and personal remittances. The system is open for operations 11 hours a day. The first CIPS transaction was completed by Standard Chartered Bank for Sweden's IKEA. Nineteen banks have been authorized to use CIPS; eight of them are Chinese subsidiaries of foreign banks, including Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and ANZ.

Prior to launching CIPS international, transfers in Chinese currency could only be carried out through offshore clearing banks in Hong Kong, Singapore or London. While the procedure was slow and costly, the new system is expected to significantly reduce the cost and time for money transfers.

China is also trying to reduce its reliance on the global transaction services organization SWIFT.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Five Suicide Bombings Target Chad, Killing Over 40 People - Boko Haram Blamed.

Boko Haram cell in Chad

With all the attention focused on Syria, Yemen and Ukraine we tend to overlook that nasty little war against Islamic Extremists Boko Haram in central Africa. But if you are a gambler we'd suggest that now Vladimir Putin has tired of Saudi Arabian puppet Barack Obama pussyfooting around in Syria and has taken it upon himself to kick the collective arse of ISIS, Al Nusra and Al Qaeda, the min theatre of the war against extremism will move to Africa.

Could this be the beginning?

Chad (sources: Associated Press, Agencie Presse France) — A village in Chad, one of the world's poorest nations, was targeted by terrorists on Saturday. The village in a region of Chad that is home to thousands of Nigerian refugees forced to flee from their homes by the brutal violence of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, was devastated by at leat five sucicide bombing attacks which killed at least 36 people and left about 50 others wounded. Officials said the attacks appeared to be coordinated.

Authorities in Chad have blamed extremists from neighboring Nigeria for staging the attacks in the western village of Baga Sola. A communique from government spokesman Hassan Sylla Bakari claimed at least 41 people had died, including the five suicide bombers who were identified as two women, two children and a man. Some of the wounded are in a critical condition and are not expected to survive.

A group of suicide bombers, all thought to be female, hit the market in Baga Sola at its busiest time on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, the head of Chad's gendarmerie, Gen. Banyaman Cossingar said. A second group of suicide bombers killed at least 22 people at a nearby refugee camp, he said, although the final death toll from that attack is not known.

There were conflicting reports on the number of wounded. The government's official count was 48, while UNICEF said at least 53 people were wounded, including 14 children. Police spokesman Paul Manka said the attackers staged five bombings, adding that two were near the refugee camp but not in it. News agencies in Africa, prinicipally associated Press and Agencie Presse France said it was not immediately possible to independently verify the differing claims due to the extremely remote location of the attacks.

For months, Baga Sola has been home to thousands of people who already had fled deadly Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria. The U.N. says the Dar-es-Salam camp now has just over 3,000 refugees, and can house up to 15,000. The village is in the Lake Chad region near the border with Nigeria, where Boko Haram first launched its insurgency six years ago. Amnesty International says the uprising has killed 20,000 people. While Boko Haram has attacked Chad's capital before, the bombings on Saturday appear to be the largest and most elaborate staged yet in the country's lake region.

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The Revolution Is Spreading: Now Austria Turns Against The Anti - White Leftist Elite

Migrants in Vienna have blocked railway stations and roads, demanding transport to Germany

With Sweden's coalition of opponents, formed to deny a place in government to the anti - immigration, pro - Swedish culture party The Sweden Democrats a place in government that was their democratic right, with France's Front National, led by Marine Le Pen topping polls and other parties opposed to mass immigration and the destruction of European culture riding high elsewhere, Austria has become the latest nation where voters have turned their backs on the consensus politics of Cultural Marxism.

The Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) which strongly opposes the mass migration engineered by the EU and supported by all European integrationist leaders appear to be on the verge of winning control of the municipal authority of Vienna, a city which has consistently voted socialist since the end of World War 2.

With citizens' concerns about the influx of Muslim migrants and its long term consequences growing, Viennese voters are turning to the FPO en masse. In latest polls the party is now only one point behind the city’s governing socialist democrats, within pollsters margin of error.

FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache addressing a rally of FPO supporters outside St Stephen’s Cathedral on Thursday said: "Let’s roll up our sleeves and do this, out of love for our home town, out of love for the people of this city! We will succeed, I can feel it."

In the last round of elections, five years ago, the FPO was over 18 points behind the victorious socialists. Now they are statistically even, with the momentum of anger at the unchecked arrival of illegal immigrants behind them, raising the possibility they could find themselves in control of Vienna's city government. Even if the FPO emerge as the largest party however, the socialists are likely to try to form a coalition of opposites as happened in Sweden, to make sure the status quo is preserved. Such is the contempt of the political elite for democracy, constitutional law and the people.

Whatever happens in Vienna's City Hall, a strong performance by the FPO would shake the foundations of Austria’s political establishment, with Vienna typically regarded as being so left wing and politically correct that it has often been referred to as Europe's “red city”. Unfortunately being left wing does not buy Viennese women any indulgences with Muslim extremists, if in town alone they are still considered prostitutes and impure women who deserve to be raped.

One Viennese FPO supporter told The Local she had not been able to find a “real job” for the past four years. She explained why she was voting for Strache: “This time we stand a chance of being heard. People realise that the real defender of workers’ rights is him.”

More than 200,000 people passed through Austria last month, forcing the country to reinstate border controls along with Germany, Slovakia and the Netherlands.

In June 2015, the FPO joined with France's Front National and the Dutch Freedom Party to form the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Regime Change As American As Thanksgiving

Russia's Sputnik News opined a few days ago that US President Barack Obama is someone to almost pity. For he has the unenviable task of standing before the nations of the world and blether the self — righteous lies of western propagandists, as he did again, during recent his address to the UN General Assembly.

By contrast, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address to the UN may not have displayed the same oratorical flourishes as Obama's autocue, but Putin spoke about serious international problems with words that set out Russia's position clearly. When Putin spoke of the UN charter and international law being undermined by unilateral actions of the United States (usually supported bt the UK, France and the EU, he identified the cause of so much conflict, chaos and terrorism, in so many parts of the world.

To address these problems effectively the world needs a truthful and accurate diagnosis. Putin delivered that, by pointing to US meddling in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations (to enable the spraed of liberal democracy) which has almost always resulted in a humanitarian disaster, but on a few occasions has ended with a victory for the enemies of democracy. Obama, in idiotically saying that what is good for the USA is good for all other nations added further layers of obfuscation and misinformation, and by spelling out US committment to its ambition to be the global hegemon, making such problems ever-more insoluble.

As Putin stated, illegal US-sponsored regime-change campaigns thinly disguised as humanitarian interventions subvert international law and the UN Charter and are at the heart of long - running conflicts in Afghanistan to Iraq, from Libya to Syria, throughout Africa and to into Europe where the civil war in Ukraine was triggered by a CIA engineered coup d'etat.

American-led interventions have also fuelled the expansion of terror networks and extremist organizations through the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Putin's Russia has provided the most logical, response to US backed terrorism; supporting legitimate, sovereign governments of Syria and other embattled regimes, no matter how illiberal they might seem to the western consciousness, to defeat foreign-backed terrorism in that country is one such solution. It cannot be denied that Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gadaffi maintained a brutal kind of order and kept the lid on ancient sectarian hatereds that offered only a brutal kind of chaos.

Amid the farrago of violence that is Neo-Con and Neo-Liberal American administrations gift to the world, Obama tried to paint a rose-tinted view of the Pax - Americana world that was audacious in its absurdity. Perhaps as the USA prepares to celebrate it's annual Thanksgiving feast, the rest of the world should give thanks for the obduracy of Russia, China and Iran.

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Friday, October 09, 2015

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The uprisings of the Arab Spring which were prompted by an inflammatory speech Obama made in Cairo, in which he promised US support to any rebel group fighting to overthrow a tyrannical regime, hit Yemen in 2011. Then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced out of office and power was handed to Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Under Hadi the country was politically paralyzed and the rebel Houthis, who had successfully opposed Saleh mobilized their supporters in and around the capital San'a and began moving south towards the port city Aden where Hadi had set up his headquarters. He was eventually forced to flee the country.
The Saudis formed a coalition with Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates to support Hadi and counter the Houthis advance. "The U.S. provides logistical and intelligence support for the air campaign — even refueling its jets," NPR reported last week. The bombing has proved effective in countering the advance of the Houthis, who have also committed war crimes according to international rights groups, and allowed Hadi to return to Aden after months of exile.
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NATO violates treaty to support the Evil Empire

by Ian R Thorpe

Since the Russians got fed up of Obama using his ISIS puppets to attack Russia's long time ally Syria and exposed American claims they were fighting the ragbag army of fanatics, criminals, mercenaries and ragheads in the middle east and decided to kick the shit out of the rebels before their fanatical version of Islam destabilized Europe, The Ministry Of Truth (i.e. government public relations departments and all of western print and broadcast media) has turned the outrage generator up to eleven in their efforts to demonize Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin.

What is not mentioned of course is that starting with Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, every American led intervention in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations has violated a legally binding treaty signed in 1997 between NATO and the Russian Federation.

You can look at the opening paragraphs below and there's a link to the full document below the text. And if we are lucky Professor WantWar who claims he lectures in Stupid at the University of Fantasia and who has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy debate since 2008 (hey Prof, we're still waiting for that irrefutable evidence that the Russians shot down Flight MH17, or for proof of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine: Oh sorry, I forgot in your warped world view sending truckloads of food and medical supplies counts as hostile military action because Russia did it while the FUKUS axis bombing the crap out of a small nation like Libya can be considered humanitarian aid.*)

Here's that treaty:

Founding Act

on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in Paris, France

27 May. 1997
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Last updated: 12 Oct. 2009 17:48

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its member States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the other hand, hereinafter referred to as NATO and Russia, based on an enduring political commitment undertaken at the highest political level, will build together a lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area on the principles of democracy and cooperative security.

NATO and Russia do not consider each other as adversaries. They share the goal of overcoming the vestiges of earlier confrontation and competition and of strengthening mutual trust and cooperation. The present Act reaffirms the determination of NATO and Russia to give concrete substance to their shared commitment to build a stable, peaceful and undivided Europe, whole and free, to the benefit of all its peoples. Making this commitment at the highest political level marks the beginning of a fundamentally new relationship between NATO and Russia. They intend to develop, on the basis of common interest, reciprocity and transparency a strong, stable and enduring partnership.

This Act defines the goals and mechanism of consultation, cooperation, joint decision-making and joint action that will constitute the core of the mutual relations between NATO and Russia.

NATO has undertaken a historic transformation -- a process that will continue. In 1991 the Alliance revised its strategic doctrine to take account of the new security environment in Europe. Accordingly, NATO has radically reduced and continues the adaptation of its conventional and nuclear forces. While preserving the capability to meet the commitments undertaken in the Washington Treaty, NATO has expanded and will continue to expand its political functions, and taken on new missions of peacekeeping and crisis management in support of the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to address new security challenges in close association with other countries and international organizations. NATO is in the process of developing the European Security and Defence Identity (ESDI) within the Alliance. It will continue to develop a broad and dynamic pattern of cooperation with OSCE participating States in particular through the Partnership for Peace and is working with Partner countries on the initiative to establish a Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. NATO member States have decided to examine NATO's Strategic Concept to ensure that it is fully consistent with Europe's new security situation and challenges.

Russia is continuing the building of a democratic society and the realization of its political and economic transformation. It is developing the concept of its national security and revising its military doctrine to ensure that they are fully consistent with new security realities. Russia has carried out deep reductions in its armed forces, has withdrawn its forces on an unprecedented scale from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries and withdrawn all its nuclear weapons back to its own national territory. Russia is committed to further reducing its conventional and nuclear forces. It is actively participating in peacekeeping operations in support of the UN and the OSCE, as well as in crisis management in different areas of the world. Russia is contributing to the multinational forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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*If you have formed the impression that my contempt for the self righteous, fuckwitted clown could cut through the shields on the Imperial Death Star in Star Wars, you are on the right track. He does not blog at this platform so if he comments at my other blog site I'll add his words below.

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Thursday, October 08, 2015

We Learn More Of The USAs Real Foreign Policy From Wikileaks Than We Do From Washington

Most of the important information needed for understanding current events comes, not from established news media or official government communiques, but from sources that were prepared to risk breaking the law or simply being eliminated for being too troublesome in order to make know to the public certain information that was never intended to be shielded from the public. Not in the public interest was a favourite phrase to justify not making public certain things it was very much in our interests to know about.

When over 250,000 communications between U.S. diplomats that were never meant to see the light of day were made public via Wikileaks by public sector employees disgusted at the things our governments were doing that were definitely not in the public interests, suddenly the ruling elites who had had things their own way for too long were on the back foot. A number of researchers have put together a treasure trove of information and analysis that can be immensely clarifying. They are available at WikiLeaks, the nonprofit media organization that accepts confidential information from anonymous sources and releases it to news sources and the public. (The recently released book from this research, published by Verso, is "The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire.")

One of the most interesting insights to emerge from the Wikileaks documents is US State Department policy on Syria, a strategically significant middle eastern nation which has dominated international news for the past few weeks because of Russian military intervention in support of the Assad regime as well as the surge of refugees from areas taken over by the US sponsored terrorist group, ISIL (aka Islamic State) who are causing chaos in Europe as they flod into EU member states that just do not have the infrastructure to cope with so many newly arrived people.

Why were Washington's efforts over two years to halt the progress of Islamic State so ineffective, when once Russia and Iran took a hand, the ISIS irregulars were on the run within a week?

Tanks to WikiLeaks, the nonprofit media organization that accepts confidential information from anonymous sources and releases it to news sources and the public, those of us in new media who do not have careers to think of or reputations to protect (I retired at age 49, eighteen years ago) and thus are free to write the truth can now tell you the answer can be found in diplomatic communications released by WikiLeaks, which show that regime change in Syria has been the policy of the U.S. government as far back as 2006.

In spite of diplomatic advice from their own embassy staff as well as allies, The White house refused to reconsider the policy of requiring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to agree to resign before any meaningful negotiations to end the civil war can take place? Any diplomat could have told the White House that demanding the political suicide of a legitimate ruler who has the support of a majority of his people as a condition for negotiations between the USA and its major middle east allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar over which group of fanatical Islamists will replace him is not going to go far, especially when the legitimate ruler has not only public suport in his own nation, but powerful allies like Russia, China and Iran. US policy in Syria amounted to a commitment to indefinite war.

Even more horrifying, in view of the hundreds of thousands of deaths and countless lives ruined, not to mention 4 million people displaced, is the documented evidence that Washington was committed to a policy of promoting sectarian conflict in the Syria in order to destabilize the Assad government. A cable a senior U.S. embassy official in Damasus (the chargé d’affaires - the Ambasador had been withdrawn for his own safety) in December 2006 contains advice on how Washington could exacerbate the chaos in Syria and exploit certain “vulnerabilities” in the assad regime.
The vulnerabilities included "the presence of transiting Islamist extremists" and "Sunni fears of Iranian influence." (Assad and his ruling clique are Alawite Muslims, a branch of the Shia faith, ISIS, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are Wahabi, an extremist branch of Sunni, and the official relion of the Saudi Royal House and the rulers of Qatar.

Nobody in the U.S. State Department or Department of Defence could credibly claim ignorance of the inflammatory nature of this policy. The sectarian Sunni-Shia civil war in Iraq, which the U.S. military, The White House and The Pentagon claimed, was unsuccessfully trying to contain, could not have progressed beyond a local skirmish had the USA and its allies not armed and trained ISIS and Al Qaeda fighters, Assad's forces would have crushed the rag bag force of extremists without difficulty. (Similarly the local difficulty in Benghazi that was escalated by US, UK and French bombing into a regime change war that overthrew Gadaffi and turned Libya from Africas most prosperous and civilized nation to a chaotic failed state would have been crushed without US intervention on the side of the extremists.

In the U.S.A. public disgust with the sectarian civil war in Iraq that was spawned by the rundown of the U.S. and European occupation following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime cost Republicans control of Congress in the November 2006 election. The election result immediately precipitated the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. Saddam was an evil tyrant, as was Gadaffi, but like Assad they kept order of a kind and prevented age old sectarian wars exploding into the modern world and spreading through the Islamic diaspora. No one working for the U.S. government on foreign policy at the time could have been unaware of the implications of promoting Sunni-Shia sectarianism. And most of the diplomatic staff continued in their posts when Barack Obama assumed the Presidency.

Further cables in the Wikileaks hoard also show that U.S. efforts to overthrow the Syrian government beginning visibly in 2011 but heralded by a speech made by Obama in Cairo in 2009 (he promised US support for all rebel groups fighting to overthrow governments the US administration did not like) were not in response to the Assad government’s repression of political opposition, but rather a long term strategy to get rid of Assad so the USA could threaten Russia's southern border. They explain why the U.S. government armed the ISIS rebls and the CIA were instruimental on forming the rival and hostile groups into a cohesive fighting force and why, while claiming to support democracy it ignored popular support for Assad in Syria. Syrian support for Assad has survived the civil war because a cursory review of the mess in Iraq (even before the rise of the ISIS) showed that a much worse fate for their country was likely shold Assad fall.

Even now, with hundreds of thousands dead and a military stalemate (until Vladimir Putin took a hand), Barack Obama’s administration is showing some flexibility toward meaningful negotiations, if only because the alternative is for the American military to take on Russia and Iran. Unfortunately, though predictably for those of us who researched the man in 2008, Obama has surrendered most if not all of America's credibility as a superpower to the Russians and Chinese and allowed Iran to establish itself as the main regional power.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Russian Warships Launch Missile Attack On Syrian Targets, Clearing Way For Iran Ground Invasion

In spite of Obama's lies, the majority of Syrians have remained loyal to Assad, simply because he kep the extremists under control.

In was always going to happen once the Russian air force had softened up ISIS and Al Qaeda positions in Syria. With the opposition on the run (and unconfirmable reports suggesting thousands of ISIS irregulars are desterting) thanks to five days of air bombardment from some of the most advanced strike aircraft in the world, we predicted Iran would send in the Hezbollah/Shiite militia/Quds clean up crew, who will take great plesasure in ensuring whoever is left in the wake of the Su-34 strikes is swiftly eliminated at close range. If there is one thing your average Muslim fantatic enjoys more than killing infidels its killing other Muslims for being the wrong flavour of Muslim.

The Russian rout of ISIS is a text book example of how to conduct a real war. No need for Wst Point graduates, Harvard guys with PhDs in political science or McKinsey management consultants chanting, "If it can be measuresd it can be managed", you don't need a university education to understand it, in fact a university education is probably a disadvantage (as it is in most things.) Russia has essentially debilitated Assad’s opposition from the air and now, Iran will stroll in (metaphorically and literally) mop up any pockets of resistance. Of course Damascus will get to claim that the SAA emerged victorious with the help of Russian air support, but in reality, there is no SAA, the ground campaign was being orchestrated from Damascus by Quds commander Qasem Soleimani. Reuters reports:

The Russian government says its Syria deployment came as the result of a formal request from Assad, who himself laid out the problems facing the Syrian military in stark terms in July, saying it faced a manpower problem.

Khamenei also sent a senior envoy to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin, another senior regional official said. "Putin told him 'Okay we will intervene. Send Qassem Soleimani'.

"Soleimani is almost resident in Damascus, or let's say he goes there a lot and you can find him between meetings with President Assad and visits to the theater of operations like any other soldier," said one of the senior regional officials.

What’s going on here really couldn’t be much clearer. Iran is simply taking over Syria with the help of the Russian air power. Russia gets to show of its SU 34s which should end any ideas in The Pentagon about US air supremacy. Putin gets to spin his Mid-East humiliation of the USA as a "war on terror." Associated Press (reporting from Beirut by the way, so just Google “Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon,” and draw your own conclusions about who’s feeding them these headlines) said:

Syrian troops, emboldened by Russian airstrikes, launch a ground offensive against insurgents.

What is left of the Syrian army is otherwise engaged of course, but there are dozens of fierce Shiite militias from Syria and Iraq as well as the Kurdish PKK and there’s always Hezbollah, and supported by Russian air power, these make a formidable military force. Now Moscow is also firing on anti-regime targets from the sea. Russsia Today says:

Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea.

“Four missile ships launched 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets. According to objective control data, all the targets were destroyed. No civilian objects sustained damage,” Shoigu said.

The missiles flew some 1,500 km before reaching their targets, probing their efficiency.

The missile attacks came from Russia’s fleet in the Caspian Sea, which borders Russia, Iran and three other littoral countries. The precision weapons hit all intended targets.

The attacks apparently required cooperation from Iran and Iraq, as the missiles had to travel through their airspace to reach Syria.

Yes, “the attacks apparently required cooperation from Iran and Iraq” which we certainly imagine wasn’t too difficult for Moscow to obtain, because as we outlined in "Russia's action against ISIS in Syria outwits Obama Again", this was the plan all along.

Still sceptical? Just consider the following out today from The Wall Street Journal:

Iraqi Shiite lawmakers and militia leaders are urging Russia to launch airstrikes on Islamic State militants in their country, an escalation that would heighten tensions with Washington and increase risks of a clash between the two powers.

Since Moscow began bombing opponents of the regime in Syria last week, Iraq’s Shiite politicians, who dominate government, have been largely united in their praise of Moscow’s intervention and in calls for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to invite Russia to join the battle. Mr. Abadi said he would welcome Russian strikes as long as they were coordinated with the U.S.-led coalition’s air campaign against Islamic State in Iraq.

“We welcome Russian airstrikes in Iraq to help hit Islamic State headquarters, target Islamic State supply lines from Syria and target the oil smuggling lines,” said Moeen al-Kadhimi, a spokesman for the Badr Corps, an Iranian-backed militia and political party that plays a front-line role in fighting Islamic State. “We welcome Russia as they have advanced military technology and can help with intelligence.”

For Moscow, any involvement in Iraq would be even more complicated than its current Syria gambit. A Kremlin play in Iraq is likely to spotlight weaknesses of U.S. policy there, while exposing the contradictions in the Iraqi government’s dueling alliances, said Anthony Cordesman, a longtime Iraq analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“It would be difficult to sustain congressional support for an Iraq playing off Iran and Russia against the U.S.,” he said. “The administration would have very tough calls to make.”

Options would include leaving Iraq or finding a way to operate in parallel with Russia and Iran, raising questions about broader U.S. goals in Iraq.

“We don’t really have a strategy, just a set of short-term engagements,” he said.

No, Washington doesn't "really have a strategy" in Iraq because they had no intention of defeating ISIS, a terrorist fightinf forced set up by the CIA with the intention of turning Syeia and Iraq into failed states like Libya and destabilizing Iran, but guess who does? Tehran. And the very same General who is running the Syrian gound war from Damascus and who Putin sent for directly to organize the entire campaign is known to control the Iraqi Shiite millitia leaders. Now, Russia - which regards Iran as a good and strategically significant ally in the middle east is apparently set to kick the USA out of Iraq (and probably Afghanistan too) altogether.

And while Russia literally takes over the Mid-East, the West is busy trying to find ways to claim that Moscow is in violation of NATO members' sovereignty.

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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

'No Borders’ Activist Gang Raped By Sudanese Migrants, Pressured Into Silence As Story Might ‘Damage The Cause'

translated from Italian Newspaper Corriere Della Serra by Cleo Hart:

Activist gang raped by a migrants: "The others asked me to keep quiet,"

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After a female voluteer working for the "No Borders" movement was gang raped by Sudanese ~~beggars and scroungers~~, she claims she was pressured by colleagues into covering up the story because 'it might damage The Cause' 'refugees'. Asked to comment on the incident officials of the organisation would only say. "The woman has been removed"

The alleged victim, a woman of about 30 years, was working for the activist group for about a month, stationed at a 'refugee' camp at the Italian-French border crossong of Ponte San Ludovico in Ventimiglia. After being pressdured not to report the incident, she told police she was raped for over an hour by several men of Sudanese origin, while under one of the showers set up in a field neighboring the camp of Balzi Rossi.

According to reports in the newspapers La Stampa and Il Secolo XIX, the woman did not report the incident unti one month after it took place explaining to the police she remained silent for so long because she was convinced by fellow activists to avoid scandals because if the story was reported in media it would harm other migrants and delegitimize the struggles of No Borders, a group formed to help deal with the refugee emergency by support the claims of asylum seekers and encouraging more to come to Europe.

Violence
The woman explained that the violence of that night, a Saturday when a party going on, was not stopped because due to loud music no one heard her screams. She declared that it was eventually decided to report the incident to the police commissariat of Ventimiglia on the advice of an acquaintance. The perpetrator of the violence, meanwhile, would have left the border camp.

Denial

Authorities are investigating the case, which has many gray areas. Since the woman reported her rape, leaders of No Borders, interviewed by Riviera24 News explained that she was not be part of the "No Borders" The group with which she was involved had its No Borders afilliation withdrawn "because of its very libertine and provocative attitudes." So, "perhaps she acted out of spite," they said, suggesting she went to police in Ventimiglia to report the alleged rape from malice. For No Borders to be in denial is understandable, some of the group's volunteers, if it is confirmed the woman was pressured into staying silent, could be prosecuted for aiding and abetting the crime and perverting the course of justice.

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The behaviour of migrants at the camp towards European women is sensitive issue, as it is in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands and Britain and a reasonavly credible allegation of rape by a migrant of a European woman is likely to further exacerbate tensions in the Italian-French border town of Ventimiglia where the emergency seems to be due more to the high handed and self righteous attitude of activists who show partisanship towards the migrants, while the migrants themselves behave as if they are still living under Sharia law in their native countries.

The Democratic Party mayor, Henry Ioculano, asked No Borders to vacate the tents and restore legality. Residents of the area have made numerous complaints to the degradation caused by the migrants lawless and unhygienic behaviour, the music and the noise at night to the area they live in. Traders near the border crossing complain that where French people used to buy from them because tobacco and liquor prices are much lower than those in France, business has fallen because of aggressive begging by migrants. Some have even dhut up shop because of the fear generated by the presence the "No Borders" camp whose residents seem to be under the impression that they do not have to pay Chrisian shopkeepers for goods. Recently the French Gendarmerie have introduced tighter border controls.

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