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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

U.S. Military Arms-makers Struggle To Meet Demand

We learn from the English Language news site The Japan Times that manufacturers of armament is the USA are struggling to keep up with demand as US involvement in the middle east's multi faceted conflicts grows. but when we look at the money the 'industrial' bit of the military / industrial complex puts into US politics, it is hardly surprising US Politicians are so hawkish.

This story confirms the report we posted yesterday on the beneficial effect middle east conflict is having on the profits of those corporations that supply armaments and munitions to the US Military. In his dystopian novel "1984" George Orwell introduced the concept of perpetual war, and like so much that Orwell foresaw, it seems to be coming true.

Top U.S. arms makers are straining to meet surging demand for precision missiles and other weapons being used in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State group and other conflicts in the Middle East, according to senior U.S. officials and industry executives.

Global demand for U.S.-made missiles and so-called smart bombs has grown steadily since their use in the first Gulf War. But the United States and a host of allies are now rushing to ensure a stable supply of such weapons for what is expected to be a long fight against the Islamic State group, whose rise has fueled conflict in Syria and across a swath of the Middle East.

U.S. officials say arms-makers have added shifts and hired workers, but they are bumping up against capacity constraints and may need to expand plants or even open new ones to keep weapons flowing. That could create further logjams at a time when U.S. allies are voicing growing concern that Washington’s processing of arms sales orders is too slow.

The Islamic State’s deadly attacks in Paris last month have added urgency to the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the group in Iraq and Syria. The campaign had resulted in 8,605 strikes at an estimated cost of around $5.2 billion as of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a Saudi-led coalition that includes Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates and backed by Washington is carrying out a 9-month-old military campaign against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Gulf states are also supplying U.S.-made arms to rebels fighting Syria’s government in that country’s 4-year-old civil war.

“It’s a huge growth area for us,” said one executive with a U.S. weapon-maker, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

“Everyone in the region is talking about building up supplies for five to ten years. This is going to be a long fight” against the Islamic State.

As this blog has always said, the US Government loves war because war is good for business. Read more in Japan Times >>>

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Loud Trump Resonates Throughout America.

Donald Trump says measures needed to protect the USA from terrorism, it is an issue no other candidate on eith side will address (image source)

Current leader in the race to grab US Republican Party nomination as presidential candidate, property billionair Donald Trump, did what he does best yesterday, he stirred up a maelstrom of shit by calling for a ban on Mulsims entering the USA.

The presidential hopeful and, according to polls, people's champion (because he says things the ordinary guy thinks but dare not articulate in public in a society in the grip of politically correct fascism, sparked furious outrage after he said Barack Obama should stop all Muslims travelling in and out of the country until they can “figure out what is going on” with regards to Islamic State (ISIS) inspired terror attacks. Obama is notorious for his sympathy with Muslim terrorists and his contempt for mainstream US society of course. So even go so far as to say Obama is himself a Muslim who hides his religion for political reasons.

In an articlw filled with inflammatory statements, Trump commented that Muslims have displayed a "hatred" towards the US and should be barred from entering as a result.

He said: "Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."

The comments sparked a wave of outrace from the USA's neo - fascist 'progressive liberals' who will go to almost any lengths in trying to justify terrorism and anti - American activities or find ways to support terrorists.

But "The Donald" was unmoved by the furious and disgusted reaction of the guilt addicted left, later telling a crowd: "I wrote something today that was very salient, very important," adding that it was "probably not politically correct".

He concluded:"But I. Don’t. Care."

Those who have supported Trump because they like his outspokenness and his willingness to stand up to the biulluing of politically correct 'liberalism' will lap up such stuff of course.

It remains unclear how the controversial Republican, who opinion polls suggest is on course to win the presidential nomination, believes an entry criteria based on religious beliefs could be enforced.

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Monday, December 07, 2015

US Military Contractors Happy With Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East

My friends and I have been telling you since the US led coalition invaded Afghanistan in 2001 that the USA's perpetual war on terror was not about making the public safe and secure but instead about corporate profits and political power.

If you are not convinced yet, read this:

The manufacturer makes a nice day's wages whenever one of those has to be replaced (Image source)

Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.

Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Bruce Tanner told the conference his company will see “indirect benefits” from the war in Syria, citing the Turkish military’s recent decision to shoot down a Russian warplane.

The incident, Tanner said, heightens the risk for U.S. military operations in the region, providing “an intangible lift because of the dynamics of that environment and our products in theater.” He also stressed that the Russian intervention would highlight the need for Lockheed Martin-made F-22s and the new F-35 jets.

And for “expendable” products, such as a rockets, Tanner added that there is increased demand, including from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia because of the war in Yemen.

So there you have it. War makes everybody happy. Except the taxpayers and of course the families of military personnel who lay down their lives.

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The global political situation gets worse each day it seems for those of us who hold no stake in the industries that profit from war and simply want to liive quiet and moderately enjoyable lives.

Via Wikileaks, it is revealed that Turkish President (and wannabe Sultan) Recep Erdogan made plans to shoot down a Russian warplane deployed in Moscow's anti - Islamic State campaign in Syria six weeks before the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syrian airspace near the Turkish border, a whistleblower apparently in Turkey said on Twitter.

Erdogan is worried about the outcome of the upcoming elections and is contemplating bringing down a Russian aircraft, the anonymous Twitter user, who goes by the name of Fuat Avni, posted on October 11.

See more of the conversation on Twitter Unfortunately for us English and American leaders many of the tweets are in Turkish

Fuat Avni (probably not a real name), a whistleblower well known to Wikileaks, who has, according to the website, provided accurate insider information exposing the malfeasance of the Erdogan regime, is reported to have revealed that Erdogan personally gave the order to shoot down the Russian bomber, claiming as justification that the aircraft violated Turkish airspace.

According to information published on Twitter by Wikileaks, Erdogan had been trying to mobilize voters prior to a general election, (held on November 1), by dramatically escalating tensions with Russia. Interesting fact: Amid accusations of vote rigging and electoral fraud the Edrogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), managed to regain parliamentary majority, which it lost five months earlier in an election it was widely expected to lose.

Following AKP's victory, Erdogan, who as a president has limited powers, has pushed for a new constitution, which would grant the president significantly more powers on a par with those enjoyed by an autocrat. However, the AKP still needs 13 more votes in the Turkish national assembly to be able to hold a referendum on this issue.

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France's FN Win Regional Elections First Round. Now The Cheating Starts.

Change is the same (Image source)

We want to avoid the usual hyperbole on this story, but victory for France’s Front National in the first round of regional elections on Sunday (6 December, 2015), in which the anti EU party led by Marine Le Pen lead the vote in six of France's thirteen regions, will shake up the political landscape not only in France but throughout Europe and possibly further afield.

With the FN vote boosted by fears of further terrorist outrages following the Islamic State attacks that left 130 people dead and many seriously wounded in Paris on Nov. 13, as well as by the socialist government's abysmal economic record and catastrophic levels of unemployment and immigration, Le Pen’s party secured 29.4 per cent of the vote nationally with over 85 per cent of the votes counted, according to official government figures.

“This is a historic, extraordinary result,” FN lawmaker Marion Marechal-Le Pen told TF1 television. “The old system died tonight.”

Twenty-five year old Marechal-Le Pen, the granddaughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of party leader Marine, led the first round in southeast France with 42 percent – twice her grandfather’s score there in 2010. Run-offs will be held on Dec. 13.

With attention shifting from these regional polls to the 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections, with French politics now clearly a three-way race after Sunday’s election, ending decades of domination by the Socialists and conservatives. The election results have caused so much panic in the political establishment that traditional enemies, the socialists and conservatives are collaborating to block the anti - EU party and usurp the democratic process. In France, as in the UK and USA, voters perceive little difference between the mainstream parties, which all support globalism, politically correct policies on immigration and minorities and globalism, with the possibility of a global, totalitarian government of unelected bureaucrats being frequently raised in forums like the United Nations, the G20 meetings and other gatherings of world leaders.

While the FN is well placed to win one or more regions in the Dec. 13 run-off, especially after Marine Le Pen attracted over 41 per cent of the votes in the north, the third placed Socialist party demonstrated it's anti - democratic nature by announcing that it was pulling its candidates out of the race there and in the southeast.

The Socialist party is putting up a “barricade” to the right where it is far behind, party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadelis said. “The Left is the last shield of democratic France against the xenophobic far-right,” he said. There speaks a true effing democrat. NOT!

Opinion polls before the election had, however, shown that Le Pen could win even if the Socialists pulled out, a result which would encourage anti - tyranny voters everywhere, especially in the UK where just a few days ago we witnessed the leaders of both Conservative and Labour parties tacitly condoning electoral fraud that reduces British democracy to the levels of third world political corruption.

Sunday, December 06, 2015

ISIS Opens For Business In Afghanistan

ISIS flag raised in Afghanistan.

Long before the UK Parliament debated bombing ISIS in Syria, long before France started bombing ISIS in Syria, or the Paris terrorist outrage that triggered the French escalation of their was with terrorism, long before Vladimir Putin grew bored with watching the ineffectual efforts of the USA to look as if they were opposing ISIS while really they were only interested in overthrowing Assad, we Boggart Bloggers and Daily Stirrers were warning western leaders that bombing Syria as they had bombed Libya would only create a failed state like the mess Libya now is.

Bombs will never defeat a fighting force like ISIS because they are not regular soldiers, terrorists do not hve standing armies. Thus when things get hot, the ISIS fighters, like the Taliban in Afghanistan, like Al Qaeda in Pakistan, like Boko Haram in Nigeria and like the Viet Cong simply dissolve into the general population.

In fact as the pounding they are getting from Russian air power and Iranian ground troops puts ISIS on the back foot in Syria and Iraq, we learn they have opened a new branch of the franchise in ............... guess where ................. Afghanistan, where the last troops of the US Army of Occupation recently pulled out after ten years of fighting guerilla warfare.

"We do not accept compromise or humiliation. We will either become captors or martyrs. We either want honor and liberty or death with nobility and martyrdom. On the path of Allah, we consider imprisonment worship, we consider extradition vacation, and we deem death martyrdom.

This is the propaganda messages from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) published in Fatah (meaning "victory" in Arabic), a pamphlet published in local languages and being distributed in Afghanistan and
Pakistani, in Peshawar, a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and in Muslim areas in norther India.
The pamphlets invite citizens of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of Islamic State and join the jihad against the infidel.

In three weeks since the pamphlets began appearing, it was reported that ISIS aligned militants launched
their first offensive in Afghanistan’s central province, Ghazni alongside Taliban fighters, which left more than 100 people dead. Guerillas carrying the black flags of ISIS overran several villages, beheaded family members of local dignitaries, were involved with Afghan military personnel and police officers, and burned at least 60 homes. The attack came as a shock to many political and news reporting organisations in the region. The received wisdom had been that Afghanistan was not on the agenda for ISIS.

Why has ISIS chosen to reach out to this region, bypassing the many other nations bordering its current stronghold in Syria and Iraq?

The answer could be that the failure of secular governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver stability and security, has contributed to growing support for extremism and sympathy for alternative forms of government such as theocracy. Acceptance of a even a hardline, theocratic Caliphate — such as ISIS promises to impose across the Muslim world is seen by many among the poorer classes as desirable to the kleptocratic governments supported by the west. ISIS regularly boasts of its effectiveness in delivering justice (public beheadings etc.) in their propaganda campaign.

Additionally, over the past decade, extremist ideology and violent jihad has been systematically
promoted in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Islamic fundamentalist regional powers, such as
Saudi Arabia, Qatar. Pakistan’s powerful military establishment and their proxy groups offer a similar kind of brutal order and though such governments are as blatantly corrupt as western imposed secular regimes they use the religious angle to demand loyalty and total control of the media to suppress dissent. These countries
see violent extremism as a strategic instrument to gain leverage in regional politics.

There is also ideological proximity between ISIS and one of Afghanistan’s dominant extremist group The Taliban. Their aims, and methods are similar, although they are not affiliated. During the Taliban’s rule in the 1990s, the Taliban massacred Shia Afghans and vandalized shrines and sacred historical sites — most spectacularly the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan province. They carried out public executions, revived medieval punishments such as stoning and engaged in the kind of brutal tactics that ISIS uses today to exercise power through fear.

ISIS appears to have assessed the situation and wants to take both tactical and strategic advantage by reaching out to Afghanistan and Pakistan and possibly merging The Taliban into their own ranks. Every declaration of allegiance to ISIS in this part of the world and every battle fought under ISIS’s flag —
no matter how small or big — is a victory for their sophisticated (and on evidence western backed) public relations campaign.

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Has Turkey Invaded Iraq? No More Than Usual.

Turkish tanks in Iraq? Par for the course (Image source)

You may have read yesterday that the world's newest (well oldest really, but we are not allowed to tell the truth about NATO members) rogue state Turkey had invaded Iraq. The start of World War Three? The final provocation that would prod Russia into attacking a NATO member, thus legitimizing US attacks on Russia.

Putin would be obliged to respond to any US attack, all NATO members would have to support Turkey, China have pledged their support to Russia and Iran are already involved. So how serious it it?

Well Turkey sending troops into Kurdish territory Iraq is not really a big deal except to mainstream media which is part of the psy - op which is spreading fear and panic to trick us into accepting further sacrifices of our rights and liberties, and the more excitable alternative media sites. Turkey has had among its political aims the genocide of the Kurds for decades. They also have ambitions around the annexation of a slice of Syrian territory.

You might also remember from our previous posts on Turkey' links with ISIS, Know your Enemy ... Turkey Delivering Weapons To ISIS ... NATO Tolerates Turkey Helping ISIS ... Edrogan's son runs ISIS Oil Business and that there seems to be some degree of collaboration when it comes to the laundering of ISIS crude oil into western markets. Technically the trade is "illegal" but because NATO and Washington are happy to turn a blind eye and because the 45,000 or so barrels per day that ISIS pumps are so inconsequential in the large scheme of things, it's easy for Islamic State oil to be "lost" in the much larger quantities flowing through Turkey's oil ports on the Mediterranean coast. This is great for those involved in the smuggling operation (Russia has presented evidence of what what Moscow says are other ISIS oil smuggling routes but that's for another article).

What Turkey and the Sunni Muslim monarchies on the Persian Gulf would like of course is to eliminate the Kurds. Ironically the Kurds in Iraq are to some extent complicit in the smuggling operation because the illegal sale of Kurdish crude allegedly funds the Peshmerga's fight against Islamic State. As with every other aspect of the conflict in this region, the entire craptangle is impossibly convoluted.

But Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurd territory occur as frequently as Kurdish incursions into Turkey's land. It's nothing to worry about.

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Flowers For Political Chancers?

Some readers might think this post is a waste of time (and some, we are sure, think Boggart Abroad is a
waste of space in general) but while the main task we set ourselves is to raise awareness of the crookedness and self - interest that twisted together forms the thread of corruption that runs through every aspect of modern life, some things like friendship are more important than secular or material considerations.

And so this post is a favour to our friend Evie Thompson, a florist in London who, when the blog platform she was part of along with our original Boggart Blog and Little Nicky Machivelli though she was looking at the ten years of work she has put into building her her online floristry course. Not everyone is as experience in internet idiosyncracies as I am, nor do they have as much free time. So having helped Evie move her blog to Wordpress I am using this and other opportunities to set up the inward links needed to get the new blog indexed and traffic flowing. Not asking you to visit of course, but if you are, or if you know anyone who is interested in learning how to make professional quality flower displays, the site is a must.

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Saturday, December 05, 2015

Turkey / ISIS Oil Trade? Everyone Knows What's Going On Say Istanbul Residents

Bilal Erdogan, son of the Turkish President and (allegedly) the manager of the Islamic State International Oil Company, and a new tanker (bough with proceeds from illegal oil trades?) Image source

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has adamantly denied Russian accusations of Turkey’s oil dealings with Islamic State, yet ordinary Turks question his words and are not surprised by the evidence presented by Moscow.

Russia Today’s Harry Fear asked people on the streets of Istanbul what they thought of the report presented by the Russian Defense Ministry, which claims Erdogan and his family benefit from oil products smuggled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) from Syrian and Iraqi territory. Erdogan earlier promised to step down if such claims are proven true.

“I believe that Erdogan and ISIS [have some contract between them],” one man said. Another Istanbul resident told RT that “the rumors have been circulating for a long time and everyone knows what’s going on, but nothing has been done about it.”

“Now Erdogan has to step down,” he added.

Yet many are pessimistic about such a possibility, with one young man saying “I don’t think he’s going to resign. He’s a dictator and loves being one.”

Turkish mainstream media omitted to cover both the Russian Defense Ministry’s revelations and Erdogan’s offer to resign if the allegations against him are proved. Sibel Gunes of the Turkish Journalists’ Association explained that “the government created a restrictive climate for journalists wanting to report in the dangerous border regions.”

On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry released maps and satellite imagery it said proves that Turkey is the main consumer of oil smuggled by IS from Syria and Iraq, and claimed that the Turkish president and his family are involved in criminal dealings.

Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, who hosted a briefing last Wednesday (2 December, 2015), said: “A united team of criminals and Turkish elites, involved in stealing oil from its neighbors, is acting in the region. This oil is being supplied to Turkey on a large industrial scale via improvised pipelines composed of thousands of oil truck tankers.”

Despite Erdogan’s robust promise to step down in the event that the intelligence presented is real, Antonov stressed the Turkish president’s resignation is not Russia’s goal and “is for the people of Turkey to decide.”

Consensus on the streets of Isanbul was that even if a legally binding contract signed by Edrogan agreeing terms for the oil trade with terrorists is produced, the tyrant will not leave office."

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Climate Conference Agreement My Arse: Germany To Build Forty New Coal And Gas Power stations

So as the great and good, ferried halfway round the world (by private jet in many cases) have been meeting in the latest 'last chance saloon' in Paris to save the planet. We need a Green revolution the politicians and scientists agree. Carbon Dioxide is the devil incarnate and unless we accept a one million per cent tax on every penny we earn, will destoy all life on earth by lunchtime next Tuesday, they tell us.

"You buggers had better listen to us, the science is settled," they tell us.

Green Revolution my arse.

Today I saw this headline, German Brown Coal Power Output Hits New High (Der Spiegel English edition) and because the German government has been touted as one of the greenest and most committed to
~~switching off the light and heat~~converting the national economy ro run entirely on 'sustainable energy supplies'. Knowing from friends on the ground rather than in Ivory Towers in Germany that German energy industry was, until they recommissioned a number of mothballed coal plants, struggling to keep up with demands having tried to replace outmoded coal and gas stations with wind turbines (solar panels are about as much use for large scale generation in Germany as they are in Britain, then in a frenzy of panic they closed their nuclear stations because of a mess in Fukushima on the other side of the world.

So here is the shocking story beneath that headline. Once again they hypocrisy of the climate change scaremongering is exposed. And when you remember that both India and China have plans to build ten times as many new coal burning power plants as Germany over the coming years, it shows what a nonsense the Paris conference is. And it shows what shits politicians are and what a bunch of snivelling little creeps those lying statistics nerds who call themselves climate scientists are. They are whores, they will say anything they are paid to say.

Who is paying them you might well ask. Well who do you think will profit from the $1trillion market in trading carbon credits. Goldman Sachs? George Soros? Al Gore? All of the above banksters and billionaires?

Coal power in Germany (Image source)

Germany plans to wean itself off CO2-belching coal-fired power stations. But new figures show that coal power output in 2013 reached its highest level in more than 20 years. Researchers blame cheap CO2 emissions permits, and demand urgent reforms.

Energy Paradox

The increase in coal-generated power also led to a new record in German electricity exports to around 33 billion kilowatt hours. “In 2013 Germany exported more power than it imported on eight out of 10 days. Most of it was generated by from brown coal and anthracite power stations,” said Patrick Graichen, a power market analyst at Berlin-based think tank Agora Energiewende. “They are crowding out gas plants not just in Germany but also abroad — especially in the Netherlands.”

So much for Obama's sanctimonious speechifying, Cameron's shiny - faced blethering, Merkel's hypocritical humbug and all the rest of the complete and utter bollocks being talked in Paris. We can only realistically reduce carbon by reducing our rate of consumption of material goods in the developed nations. but the politicians who are damning carbon dioxide constantly tell us economic growth is essential.

And economic growth means more carbon dioxide.

Now I'm in favour of scaling down economies, living smaller, making stuff last longer, boycotting the throw away society. Do you know how many million tons of CO2 is produced by making the stuff we rip off things we buy and just throw away? I looked it up once, its a lot - but nobody is telling us to boycott overpackaged things to save the planet.

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