Oh my, what a crazy week it’s been. The
November 4th “made in America sham election” has emboldened the
election vultures like never before. Thanks
to a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court, billionaires were able to fund the elections,
purchase ALEC groomed politicians with a fealty to Monsanto, Koch Industries,
Dow Chemical, etc. and enact ALEC bill mill voter suppression laws. And, no time has been wasted for the “victors”
to claim their “spoils.”
Monsanto now is suing Maui’s citizens for bypassing
the ALEC politicians and passing their own labeling laws for GM food. The Koch Brothers’ ecologically devastating Keystone
Pipeline soon will be destroying an aquifer near you. As bad as that is, the most egregious thing
to occur so far this week is Victoria
Nuland pledging that Americans are willing to die for the Latvia trade deal,
then announcing American troops will stay in the Balkins through 2015.
Excerpt: Interpretermag.com:
Staunton, November 22
– When the Ukrainian crisis began, some commentators in the West suggested that
NATO would not in the end fight to defend the Baltic countries even though the
latter are full members of NATO by asking “who
is prepared to die for Narva?” But now a senior US State Department has given a
clear and unequivocal answer: Western countries are.
During a visit to
Latvia this week, Victoria Nuland, US assistant secretary of state for European
and Eurasian affairs, said that “when
NATO and the US as part of NATO took new members into the alliance, this means
that we are ready to participate in the defense of the security of these
countries, and this means that we are ready to give our lives for the security
of these countries.”
Yes, Nuland throws around American military
lives like toy soldiers, when they get broken just throw them away and get new
ones. Just days before the announcement,
Nuland was ushering a “once in a lifetime trade deal” with Latvia. From PublicBroadcasting Latvia:
Excerpt:
One of the stars of
the US' state department, Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, paid a
visit to Riga November 20 and took the opportunity to look forward to Latvia's forthcoming EU presidency and the
chances of moving forward a comprehensive EU-US trade deal.
Speaking after talks
with Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs, Nuland paid tribute to the
"strong example and mentorship that Latvia shows to others."
"We're also very pleased that the Latvian
government has chosen to make the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP) a cornerstone of its presidency of the European Union.
Latvia will hold the
rotating presidency of the council of the EU during the first six months of
2015.
The absolute disregard for our military
families’ sacrifices for our country is one thing, but to use future deaths of
Americans as a bargaining chip in an anti-American trade deal is another. So Victoria Nuland pledged American lives for
Latvia, does she have the authority? I
guess so, according to KAIT8.com:
Excerpt:
US general: troops staying in Baltics through
2015
VILNIUS, Lithuania
(AP) - A top U.S. military commander in Europe says U.S. troops will remain in
the three Baltic countries and Poland through next year or longer to
"deter Russian aggression."….
The U.S. has
temporarily deployed hundreds of troops in NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in the wake of the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
Hodges, who was
visiting Lithuania on Sunday, said U.S. forces had rotations planned through
next year and would "be here for as
long as necessary to assure all of our allies and to deter Russian
aggression."
That’s odd…
The U.S. has “temporarily” deployed troops to Lithuania. Hmmmm.
Seems I read something about that, oh, yeah. From RussiaTimes:
Excerpt:
Lithuania agrees to supply Ukraine with military
aid, Poroshenko says
Lithuania has decided
to provide limited military aid to Ukraine following a meeting between
Presidents Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania in
Kiev. The move aims to bolster military cooperation between the two states.
"We have agreed on the supply of armaments
for the Ukrainian armed forces," Poroshenko said,
after talks with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Monday.
Poroshenko added that the aid constituted “real
help,” though he did not clarify if it was for lethal or non-lethal
equipment.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, it’s like the
knee bone is connected to the shin bone, the shin bone is connected to the
ankle bone….
What I mean is, Victoria Nuland uses the lives
of the US military as a bargaining chip to get support for the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership. In other words, US troops are committed
to providing the military protection that should be provided by NATO troops,
but that would be illegal. So in the name of protecting Latvia, military
protection will be provided by America
while funneling billions to Lithuania to provide troops to fight in Ukraine.
It sounds like a mafia shakedown. In other recent news, Joe Biden went to take
a victory lap around Ukraine, but failed to “feel the love”. Were it not for Joe Biden and Victoria
Nuland, there wouldn’t have been a war in Ukraine and Monsanto would still be legally
banned from supplying GM corn seeds to the corn basket of the world, Ukraine. From WashingtonTimes:
Excerpt:
Joe Biden retreats from angry crowd in Ukraine
Vice
President Joseph R. Biden retreated from an angry crowd in Kiev Friday when his Secret Service agents decided the
situation was not safe.
Mr. Biden was to
meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a site in central Kiev where demonstrators were killed earlier this year during
the country’s revolution. But his motorcade encountered a large and “unruly”
crowd, many of whom were shouting “shame” at Mr. Poroshenko for failing to prosecute those responsible for the
killings….
“A crowd of about 100, mostly elderly men and women, had
gathered around a collection of photographs, placed on the ground in front of a
large wooden cross,” the pool report said. “These, they said, were pictures of
their slain children.”
The vice
president’s motorcade turned around and met Mr. Poroshenko a short while later
after the Ukrainian president emerged from the crowd.
Yes,
old Joe had to turn tail and run like a cockroach. But, Lithuania should be careful taking US taxpayers’
money to train “rebels” for war in Ukraine against Russia. Maybe they would be wise to heed the words of
the last country Biden and Nuland coerced to “train rebels” for war in Ukraine,
Poland. From The Guardian:
Excerpt:
According to a
transcript of excerpts of the conversation that was published by Wprost on its
Internet site, Sikorski told Rostowski: "You know that the Polish-US
alliance isn't worth anything."
"It is downright
harmful, because it creates a false sense of security ... Complete bullshit.
We'll get in conflict with the Germans, Russians and we'll think that
everything is super, because we gave the Americans a blow job. Losers. Complete
losers."
Excerpt:
Court
Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions
PARIS — The European
Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Poland had violated the rights of two
terrorism suspects by allowing their transfer to a secret detention center run
by the C.I.A. in Poland, where the two men were tortured.
Yes, lay down with torturers and get up “war
criminals.” After the December 12, 2000
coup in America, the U.S. backed out of the International Criminal Court, for
good reason. America under the illegal
regime is now a predator nation.
The ruling says Poland failed to prevent the two men — Abu Zubaydah,
born in Saudi Arabia, and Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen — from being subjected to “torture and inhuman or degrading treatment”
after they were brought to the prison in northeast Poland…..
Both are now
being held at the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba….
“In
stark contrast to U.S. courts that have closed their doors to victims of
C.I.A. torture,” Ms. Singh said, “this ruling sends an unmistakable signal
that these kind of abuses will not be tolerated in Europe, and those who
participated in these abuses will be held accountable.”
When they say U.S. courts, they mean FISA Court made up of
Republican rubber stamps.
The Cheney/Biden/Nuland cabal is working overtime to provoke
war with Russia over their illegal coup in Ukraine. And if you think Putin is going to stand by
and allow Lithuania to haul American financed war tools into Ukraine, well you’re
nuts. From Reuters:
Lithuania protests after Russia blocks its cars
and trucks
(Reuters) - The
ex-Soviet republic of Lithuania accused Moscow on Monday of blocking its
vehicles and goods at the Russian border, and summoned its ambassador to
protest.
Trucking and logistics
for trade with Russia are a crucial part of the European Union member's
economy, and have largely survived tit-for-tat embargoes between Russia and the
EU.
Yes, trucking and logistics are crucial to
the European Union to get armaments to Poroshenko so he can carry through with
Rand Corporation’s plan for Ukraine.
However, ties are
under strain. Lithuanian President Dalia
Grybauskaite promised on Monday to give Ukraine military aid to help in its
fight against Russian-backed separatists, after last week branding Russia a "terrorist country" for
refusing to identify troops operating in east Ukraine as Russian.
Criminy, they throw around “terrorist
country” as though it gives them absolution for overthrowing government,
stealing their gold and resources and subjecting their citizens to slavery and
austerity.
A year ago, Russia briefly blocked Lithuania's
trucks as Vilnius prepared to host the signing of a treaty between Ukraine and
the EU - which Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich's ultimately refused to
sign, setting off the mass protests that led to his overthrow.
That’s what it’s all about, Biden and Nuland
overthrew the elected government in Ukraine because they refused to sign a
trade deal with the EU. And now that a “trade
deal” has been agreed to with Latvia, Biden and Nuland are throwing in American
military lives as a bonus.
And Poland isn’t the only country that has
resorted to war crimes under the “new” American Government’s embracing war
crimes as the standard for success, there’s Israel. According to New York Post:
Excerpt:
Netanyahu asks US to help Israel avoid war crime
charges
WASHINGTON — Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked US lawmakers Wednesday to help fend off
Palestinian claims that his country engaged in “war crimes” while defending
itself against attacks from Gaza, one top lawmaker told The Post….
Netanyahu asked the
delegation to help Israel stay out of the International Criminal Court, where
its attacks on Gaza could come under scrutiny……..
Palestinian leaders
are getting ready to join the ICC, and met with officials in The Hague recently
to discuss the implications of joining….
Netanyahu “wants the US to use all the tools that
we have at our disposal to, number one, make
sure the world knows that war crimes were not committed by Israel, they were
committed by Hamas. And that Israel should not be held to a double standard,”
the congressman said.
My, my, my.
I wonder what Netanyahu was doing that the illegitimate U.S. government finds
acceptable, but the world condemns?
From Consortium News:
Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu knows he has Official Washington so deeply in his
pocket that he can get away with almost anything including the stealing of
Palestinian land and the slaughtering of civilians in Gaza. Whatever his war
crimes, Netanyahu will be excused, as Marjorie Cohn notes.
By
Marjorie Cohn
Israel
has commenced full-scale warfare on the people of Gaza…..
During
the past week, Israel has killed 162 Palestinian civilians and counting,
including 34 children. In addition to more than 1,200 Israeli airstrikes,
Israel has threatened to launch a ground invasion of Gaza.
Israel attacked a center for the mentally and physically disabled in
Beit Zahiya, killing three patients and a nurse. In addition, Israel has
stepped up demolitions of Palestinian homes, and administrative detentions of
Palestinians without charge or trial….
The UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 77 percent of the
people Israel has killed in Gaza were civilians. Although Hamas has
launched about 1,000 rockets into Israel in the past week, no Israelis have
been killed.
In light of “deeply
disturbing reports that many of the civilian casualties, including of children,
occurred as a result of strikes on homes,” Pillay continued, “serious doubt
[has been raised] about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance
with international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”
Yes, rather than not commit war crimes,
just abolish any court that challenges your leaders’ rights to commit
genocide. By the way, when Putin went to
the recent G20 summit in Australia, he was warned that he would be treated like
a pariah by the West bloc.
He was told
he’d be shunned, but guess what? Putin wasn’t shunned by the people of Australia
he was stunned. It was the G20 leaders who
shunned Putin. like a bunch of rich, spoiled, snobby prep school kids. From Bloomberg:
Putin Praises Warm Australian
Welcome Despite Ukraine Row
Russian President
Vladimir Putin praised the “exceptionally friendly atmosphere” at the Group of
20 summit in Australia as he shrugged off the frosty reception he received from
some other world leaders.
“I was surprised by
the warmth that regular citizens received us with on the streets outside,”
Putin told a meeting of his People’s Front supporters in Moscow today. “I am very grateful to these people, who
were the most ordinary people on the streets. In such a situation, it’s always
pleasant.”
Isn’t it amazing that the people of
Australia are so warm, I suspect that is true of most of the people around the
world, with their corrupt leaders. In
the meantime Netanyahu is pushing for racist legislation that would make
Mississippi’s racists envious. From TruthDig:
Excerpt:
Israel and Mississippi: Racist Plans for Second
Class Citizens and Religious Legislation
“A controversial bill
that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people has
been approved by cabinet despite warnings that the move risks undermining the
country’s democratic character.
Opponents, including
some cabinet ministers, said the new legislation defined reserved “national rights” for Jews only and not for its
minorities, and rights groups condemned it as racist.
The bill, which is
intended to become part of Israel’s basic laws, would recognise Israel’s Jewish
character, institutionalise Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation and
delist Arabic as a second official language.”……
Netanyahu’s measure is much worse than that of
Mississippi fundamentalists who want to declare Mississippi a principally
Christian state and want to celebrate the white-supremacist Confederacy as part
of the state’s heritage.
I wonder
how closely those “Jewish” inspired laws are to the “ALEC” inspired laws in
America. So what else is going on? Let’s take a stroll over to the Czech
Republic. From ABC News:
Excerpt:
President Pelted on Velvet Revolution Anniversary
Uh oh, that doesn’t sound good.
To cries of
"Resign! Resign!" Czechs pelted President Milos Zeman with objects including eggs, sandwiches and
tomatoes as he stood side-by-side with the presidents of Germany, Hungary,
Poland and Slovakia at the university campus where a student rally launched the
revolution in Czechoslovakia a quarter century ago.
Well I suppose they have to do something with
those eggs and tomatoes since Russia’s response to sanctions imposed by the
West was to boycott produce from the sanctioning nations.
Security guards used
big black umbrellas to shield Zeman and other presidents from flying
projectiles. German President Joachim Gauck was hit in the head by an egg as
the presidents were unveiling a plaque to commemorate the 1989 events.
"Shame,
shame," protesters in the crowd of thousands repeatedly shouted at Zeman,
even as the other presidents were applauded. "I'm not afraid of you!" Zeman retorted to the crowd.
Yes, that’s the hallmark of allies of the
Biden/Nuland regime, tell the citizens of your country “I’m not afraid of you.”
"When
government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the
government, there is tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
Well, that what the Czech’s are up to, but
what about that other Biden/Nuland success story in Libya? Let’s pop in and see the utopia they left
there. Why, what’s this? From Global Research:
Excerpt:
Libya Then and Now: An
Overview of NATO’s Handiwork
In
2011, as the entire world watched the Arab Spring in amazement, the US and its
allies, predominantly working under the banner of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), militarily overran
the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
The peaceful civilian
protesters they claimed to be intervening to protect were not really what the US and its
cohorts presented to the world. Many of
these so-called “protesters” were armed, and when this became apparent they
eventually began to portray themselves as “rebel forces.”
These
so-called “rebels” in Libya were not a military force that emerged
spontaneously for the most part, but an insurgency movement cultivated and
organised before any opposition activities were even reported in Libya……
Just like in Egypt
and Ukraine, a legitimate protest turns into a CIA coup against any government
that resists NATO pillaging their country.
Business
and trade ties between Libya and the US, Britain, Italy, France, Spain, and
Turkey had bloomed since 2003 after Colonel Muammar Qadhafi opted for
cooperation with Washington. No one
imagined that Saif Al-Islam Qadhafi’s “New
Libya” with its neo-liberalism could be on a collision course with NATO…..
Qadhafi’s biggest mistake
was to trust the “new” illegitimate government in the U.S.
Oil
and gas production has been stopping. National
assets have been sold off to foreign corporations and privatised. Libya is no
longer a competitive economic power in Africa anymore. Nor is Libya a growing
financial power. Tripoli virtually transformed from a debtless country to an
indebted one overnight.
Yep, America under
the Biden/Nuland regime steals your riches and land and sells it off to their
Wall Street handlers.
There is also a great irony
to all this. The warplanes of the US-supported Libyan regime that has replaced the Jamahiriya began bombing Libyan citizens in 2014 as battles for
control of Tripoli raged.
The US, European Union, and NATO have said
nothing about this whereas in 2011 they started a bombing campaign and war on
the basis of false accusations the Jamahiriya government was doing exactly
this. The deceit of these players is more than evident.
The same game
plan, wash rinse repeat. So who were the
big lotto winners in Libya? Well,
surprise, surprise. According to The Guardian…. Drum roll….. It’s Goldman Sachs.
Excerpt:
High court judge orders Goldman Sachs to disclose
Libya profits
Libyan sovereign
wealth fund, which is suing Goldman, estimates the US investment bank made
$350m in upfront profit on nine derivatives products
A high court judge has
ordered Goldman Sachs to reveal how much profit it made on a deal that lost
Libya’s government more than $1bn when financial bets turned sour.
The Libyan Investment
Authority, created in 2006 to look after the country’s oil riches, accused the
Wall Street bank of duping it into making investments that its “naive” staff
didn’t understand.
The $66bn sovereign
wealth fund is suing Goldman in the high court in London after it lost $1bn
from investing in complex derivative investments that collapsed in value during
the 2008 financial crisis.
That’s right, Goldman Sachs, took a
financially solvent country and sold a bunch of worthless mortgage backed derivatives
and securities to them and then bet they’d fail. Same scam, billionaires get richer and no one
goes to jail.
The Libyan fund
estimates Goldman made $350m in upfront profit on the trades. The bank has
never confirmed or denied this figure and argues that its profits are
irrelevant……
The legal action
against Goldman Sachs was launched in January, in the wake of new management
being brought in at the sovereign wealth fund after the 2011 civil war, when
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was toppled from power and killed.
As the loss-making
deals of the Gaddafi era have come under the microscope, the fund has launched
separate legal action against France’s third-largest bank, Société Générale,
alleging bribery. It has rebutted the claims as without merit.
There is no-one that is safe from the Wall
Street Vultures that were deregulated just three days after the December 12,
2000 Supreme Court and U.S. Senate coup in the United States.
So, let’s circle around and go back to the
good old U.S. of A. and visit another sham election vulture. November 4th
the election vultures were let loose on Americans by the most corrupt Supreme
Court in American history. So who else
was a big winner in the American Made Sham election November 4th? According to Truth Dig:
Excerpt:
Wall Street’s Takeover of American Pensions: ‘A Policy Justified Entirely on
Ignorance’
A
key part of Wall Street’s $300 million
expenditure on the recent midterm elections is the goal of moving as much of working Americans’ $3
trillion that sits in unguarded government
pension funds into “privately managed,
high-fee investments” as possible, writes Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept.
That’s right, Wall
Street invested $300 million in the midterm election for access to $3 trillion
in pension funds. Don’t you wish your
retirement funds had that kind of return?
Hussain
reports:
Illinois, Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island all recently
elected governors who were previously executives and directors at firms which managed investments on behalf
of state pension funds. These firms are now, consequently, in
position to obtain even more of these public funds.
This
alone represents a huge payoff on that $300M investment made by the financial
industry, and is likely to result in more pension money going into investments
which offer great benefits for Wall Street but do little for the broader
economy….
Hussain
concludes by quoting a former Congressional staffer with ties to the investment
industry: “There is a massive transfer of power and wealth happening from the
public to Wall Street, through pensions…
The more that money goes into private
hands as opposed to public hands, the less that it gets invested into projects
which are socially constructive.”
And it’s not just
the private sector being raped by predatory lenders, our military has been
victimized by these predators. Wall
Street’s investment in the November 4th midterm elections was just a
mob style protection racket. According
to Responsible Lending:
Excerpt:
Evading
Federal Protections for the Military; Harming our Troops. In 2006, Congress capped interest rates on
payday loans to active-duty members of the military and their families at 36%
APR. This law grew out of concern from
the Department of Defense and base commanders that troops were being trapped in
high levels of payday loan debt.
This
debt not only burdened military families, it also threatened security
clearances—and by extension military readiness.
Banks’ attempts to structure their payday loans to evade the federal law
once again puts our troops at risk.
A
Big Bank Drag on Economic Recovery. U.S. taxpayers have been supporting our
nation’s banks by providing bailouts and access to credit at interest rates as
low as 1%. This makes bank payday lending at 360% APR especially
unconscionable. Payday lending makes it
difficult for working families to stay afloat and, as a consequence, drags down
economic recovery.
Oh, and by the way
Chuck Hagel resigned, but so what?
So with all that
in mind, is it any wonder that Victoria Nuland can make the statement that
Americans (meaning American military families) are willing to die for a trade
deal with Latvia?
So here’s the big
news of the week: American Empire: Nuland Vows, U.S. Troops Willing to Die for
Latvia Trade Deal, Pledges Troops Thru 2015 as Hagel Resign
Sadly, America is
too sick, too ignorant, too broke and too hungry and too scared to care.
By Patricia Baeten
