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One World Order Party

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So the Saudis are mad because despite their demand for a cease fire by the Syrian rebels (aka al Nusra, al Qaeda) and the Syrian government, and Russia – there are still reports of bombs… As in no one told ISIS and the US to give it a rest and stop bombing and beheading and raping for a while why negotiations are underway.  Oops.  Apparently, the Saudis, who openly hate Assad, are the ones negotiating who shall rule Syria next.

It’s a similar topsy-turvy message when we cry Hallelujah we have liberated the Syrians from the brutality of Assad who has ‘allegedly’ been tallied with killing 11,000 – while our freedom fighters war is fully funded and responsible for the massacre of over 250,000 and the devastation of an entire country…

And we wonder why these people don’t particularly like us…

We liberated the Ukrainians of their elected President on charges of corruption… and replaced the government with a chocolate king who is more of a chess pawn than king. Corruption in the Ukraine government has now gone from a ranking of 118th in 2007 to 142nd! WOW, we really fixed that issue. Literal brawls break out during parliamentary sessions, grown men have to be carried out, glasses thrown, fists flying! Much better.

And if that didn’t scare you – the Ukraine government is in discussions with our Secretary of Defense whose resume lists him as a “Theoretical Physicist”, to help bomb Syria. Really? I feel like I’m in some sort of farcical Leslie Nielson movie in which disasters are comedy.

The US keeps sending destroyer ships to prowl the waters of China – asking for a confrontation, begging for reprisal. The US claims the seas are free – which begs the question ‘does that mean China can send its destroyers to the Florida Keys’? All the while the US claims that it is not taking sides in the dispute between China and Japan territorial rights. Spurred by McCain, an all out global war seems to be the agenda. But hey, we continue to buzz Russian airspace as well, only to get miffed when their pilots buzz our pilots back while flying over the Black Sea…6,049 miles away…

Despite the fact that the Saudis continue war crimes against rebels and civilians in Yemen, with the assistance of the UK and the US, the only admonition is a UN voice, “Please don’t do that bad stuff anymore.” But then the same UN is busily trying to figure out all the child sex abuse claims being invoked against it’s own ‘peacekeepers’ and how best to stifle the news.

Meanwhile a little boy in a refugee camp in Sweden is being repeatedly raped despite the workers asking the refugees nicely not to do it any more. For some reason they wouldn’t stop so the police were called to extricate the boy. But when the police arrived the refugees ganged up on them and scared the police so much they all ran out the back door – leaving the boy.

And the head of the EU Commission has stated that the thousands of sexual assaults committed against women by refugees during the NYE attacks involving some nine separate countries – were just boys being boys, and not terrorist related. Germany and Sweden have specifically given instructions to their police to stand down prosecuting any refugees for crimes. They don’t want to alarm their citizens or hurt the feelings of the refugees.

Hillary seems to think that all those top, top secret emails were no big deal despite the fact that they reveal extremely sensitive information regarding undercover agents. I’m beginning to wonder if she has Alzheimer’s and that’s why her debates are fully vetted for a no-audience time slot.

Reputable journalists continue to publish blatantly photo-shopped and completely fraudulent photos of events in the Middle East, without repercussions.

Erdogan is all but declaring war on Russia and despite the fact that Turkey continues it’s heinous human rights violations of ethnic cleansing of Kurds, they are not even – sanctioned… The problem? We’ve sold billions in weapons to the Saudis and their allies – including Turkey – which means we need to tread lightly and not hurt their feelings or they might blow us up.

Merkel has announced that when Iraq and Syria are back to normal, all the refugees from these countries have to go home… That’s about as logical as telling the Ottoman Turks to all go home after the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of WWI – as in – where might that be?

If our world hasn’t edged over the line into a Soros befuddled topsy-turvy chaos then the alternative perception is this is normal.

Turkey – Ethnic Cleansing of Kurds

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Ethnic Cleansing in the Middle East…

What is really going on in the fight against ISIS in – Iraq. Because despite the fact that most US bombing has been concentrated in Iraq and not Syria, Syria continues to get all the news. Why?

Part of it is the topsy-turviness of who is on what side. And while Turkey is supposedly on our side, they are bombing our allies fighting ISIS in Iraq. Hello? Yes, Turkey is targeting the Kurds and even Iraq’s military and bombing them routinely. The Kurds are our allies fighting ISIS. So why in the heck are we allowing this?

We’re sending in Special Ops ground troops to Syria, but we refuse to give Russia coordinates of where they and our allies are stationed… This doesn’t bode very well. Not good…   Sounds like a suicide mission to me.

And then we have Saudi Arabia killing all the Shi’a Yemeni’s under the guise of fighting Sunni al-Qaeda, and Turkey killing all the Kurds under the guise of ISIS. At the same time the US and it’s allies are militarily supporting these Kurds that our allies the Iraqi’s are killing…while bombing the Shi’a in Syria so that we can ultimately elect our new and improved president because the Saudis, Qatari and Turkish governments said so.   Sound like a great military strategy?

Only now we’re asking everyone to pause while we reload… that is, we’ve sold all our ammo and weapons to the Middle East and don’t have any left…

Who are the Kurds?  They are a religious mutt – Sunni, Shi’a, Jews and Christian. The Kurds claim that the Turkish government is colluding with ISIS. The same claim Russia has recently voiced and allegedly proven.  The same claim Kerry put forth just one year ago that has somehow alluded ‘memory’.  Uh-oh…they forgot to erase that Google clip.

But, as usual, it gets better. The Free Syrian Army which was the supposedly ‘moderate rebel group’ supported by the US and Saudi Arabia, was created and rooted in Turkey. This was Turkey’s role in cleansing Syria of Kurds. Riad al-Assad was the former leader of the FSA group after he defected from the Syrian Air Force in 2011.  As a traitor to Syria, he was a hero to Turkey and quickly indoctrinated.  Turkey embraced him and helped him establish his faction – the FSA. However, just one year later, our finnicky militia commando’s replaced Riad with Salim Idris, and made him a Brigadier General (one star).   Ta-Da!  Idris, educated in East Germany, received a Phd in electronic radars. He had numerous meetings with Obama and Kerry demanding weapon support as well as food and medical supplies.  Unfortunately, in 2013, apparently Idris seems to have disappeared, as in poof, his whereabouts contentious. His replacement, Abdul-Ilah Al-Bashir, was also a Syrian army defector and was chosen to replace Idris. He lasted a few months before the powers decided they didn’t like him any more and his replacement was Albay Ahmed Berri who was captured by ISIS – and released…?  Interesting.   He was replaced by Abdelkarim al-Ahmed December 2014.  Apparently, the US decided at some point in these transitions that these guys were all losers and stopped support, shifting to the Kurds instead.

Today, the Free Syrian Army has joined the ranks of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda in the fight against Assad and ISIS.  And the ‘moderate’ have become – the militia.  But we can’t say this – in mainstream agenda, because it doesn’t further the cause as in the US was first supporting al-Nusra until the media explained to the military that al-Nusra was al-Qaeda, then they backed off and supported FSA until they fell apart.

So what we have is a bunch of traitors from the Syrian Army taking sides with Turkey thinking that Turkey, the EU, Saudis and US will potentially prop each of them up as the new and improved President of Syria when Assad is – eliminated. Only to have them lose out to the next propped up in command of the Free Syrian Army!  And then become less than enchanted…

In fact, it would appear that all commanders of the Free Syrian Army initially ‘defect’ to Turkey before being anointed into the FSA. Weirder is as weirder does – it is the Free Syrian Army that is apparently now providing Russia with the proof that Turkey has been aiding ISIS…I guess they weren’t happy.

It’s old news, but it continues – we give money and weapons to the Kurds while Turkey bombs them in Syria and Iraq, and yawn, we say nothing.  In the meantime we continue to give weapons to Turkey…to kill the Kurds with who we arm to fight – ISIS.  And as the Turks annihilate the Kurds and ISIS grows, the US is like – what???  How’d that happen?

Exactly why do we, the US and UK, Canada, and Australia, turn a blind eye? Because Turkey, which stands directly north of Israel… is used as a stepping ground for Middle East airbases. The illusion is that Turkey is on our side, when in fact they never were.  Read.  The Bible.

They are using the US to give them ‘cover’ so as to complete their own agenda – eliminate the Kurds. It’s the same ethnic cleansing that the Saudis employ while shielded by the US and NATO in Yemen.

Turkey was created at the end of WWI when the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the Middle East was virtually parceled out, lines drawn, boundaries defined. However, the powers forgot to give the Kurds their own state and instead they were left to try and assimilate into ‘other’ Middle East countries including; Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. This didn’t go over too well. These countries held to a nationalistic view in which they did not believe in multi cultural communities as did the Ottomans.

The Kurds were ostracized and denigrated, their culture squashed and even their language squelched. Miffed, they formed their own militia in the 1980’s and began demanding rights. The EU and NATO decided they didn’t have ‘rights’ and declared them a terrorist group.

Ethnic Cleansing.

In WWII, Turkey was considered neutral, but actively traded with ‘both sides’ until 1944 when they agreed that Germany and the Nazi’s were bad guys and decided not to help them any more. Besides, at this point the Nazi’s were clearly on the losing team.

Today, the Turks are supporting both sides again – the west fighting ISIS and ISIS fighting the Kurds. I suppose they thought it worked during WWII without any reprisals, it should work again. The collusion in supporting Turkey seems eerily similar to the US and EU support of chocolate king, Poroshenko, in Ukraine. Ethnic cleansing has left that country in rubble, their economy in the toilet, and a dictatorship in power.

Given Turkey’s absolute hatred of Assad and demand that Assad and his government be ‘ marginalized’, who could be in the backroom waiting to rule the new Syria?  Will he be a chocolate king or an indian chief?  Maybe we’ll find a postal worker… or the son of a government employee?  While ousting Assad has been the agenda, his replacement has been the subject of heated debates with no clear puppet available.

 

US and China – Ramping Up Military in Africa.

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US sending troops to Cameroon to fight Boko Haram. I learned this while reading a French news sight. Because, apparently it isn’t worthy of much mainstream attention.

The French publication stated that the US has no combat troops in Africa, although it has been increasing support to allies in the area. Support? Would that mean weapons? Why can’t we just say what we mean?

Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal has a different story. They say the US has had over 7,000 troops in Africa for some time. In fact we have a base in Djibouti… where the heck is that? Interestingly, it happens to be right across the Suez from Yemen, about 20 nautical miles! Coincidence?

But we aren’t alone there, France and Japan have ‘personnel’ there as well, which is convoluted speak for bases. China has recently begun creating a relationship with the government, ie, building a naval base replete with 10,000 troops, an airport, and a railway from Ethiopia’s capital to Djibouti. And apparently, we don’t like it, we are miffed.

As usual, it gets stickier. The Saudis, the same Saudis bombing all of Yemen to oblivion, are building refugee housing for Yemenis in Djibouti. In fact, Dr. Al-Rabeeah stated that the Saudis were duty bound to help their long standing friends and brothers, the Yemenis… What?

And while the UK would have us believe Djibouti is a great new travel destination for tourists, very safe!!!, in the next sentence they explain that the locals are Muslim Afar, or Danakil, a population with a ‘fierce reputation’ whose favored proverb reads: “It is better to die than live without killing.” Gee, I really want to go there…

It’s a fair given that since this is the only true base we have in all of Africa, the 300 US troops destined for Cameroon, to fight Boko Haram, on the other side of Africa, will station at Djibouti. The distance between them?  3,348 Km. That’s roughly the same distance from Salt Lake City to New York. Not exactly a hopskipandajump…

Why? According to Brig Gen Wayne Gribsy, “The purpose is to protect the US and its interests abroad.” What interests?  What does that mean?  Oil?

The target? Al Shabaab in Somalia. So why is this so hush-hush? Why is it mostly Special Ops?

Regime change is being whispered. You see, the relationship that the current president, Ismael Omar Guelleh, has with China would appear to be stronger than the one with the US. So the rumblings are an ousting in the next election, slated for 2016. We aren’t very popular there. Djibouti runs their own air traffic control operations that US drones, fighter helicopters and fighter jets rely on for safety. These controllers routinely fall asleep, making a bed for themselves on the floor, play video games and have no tolerance for superiors, throwing one down the flight tower stairs.  Sounds like normal behavior…

So, in all politeness, our military offered to better train the controllers with a budget of $7 million. This wasn’t received well and the program collapsed after controllers stopped coming to classes and then locked the American trainers out of the flight tower.  ARGHHH.

The problem with the Yemeni offensive is that it would seem to have the same consequences as the Syrian debacle. While the Saudis wanted regime change in both Yemen and Syria, the US used the cause to try to hit Al Qaeda and ISIS. In both instances, it backfired as the chaos that ensued as a result of the Saudis agenda, led to greater control by al Qaeda and ISIS. Which is why Putin exclaims that maybe what we claim to be our agenda isn’t really the truth at all, because we are failing. Putin asked Washington for a list of targets for Syria. Washington refused. So Putin asked where Washington wanted to avoid strikes. Washington stone-walled. Why?

The US has the best military in the world! But if we accept this truism, then we must also accept the fact that eradicating ISIS and al Qaeda is not our agenda, otherwise it would have been done and concluded.

So if we don’t want to destroy ISIS or al Qaeda, do we really want to go after al Shabaab and Boko Haram either? Or do we see Africa going the way of the Middle East – entire, debilitating chaos? In which case, our mission has been a roiling success!

Issues:

  • News media freely state that Japan has a military base in Djibouti. But Japan has no military by law. So how could they have a military base?
  • The Suez Canal keeps returning as a focal point in the Middle East uproars?
  • If the US is only providing the Saudis with logistical support against Yemen, how come our drones, fighter jets and fighter helicopters are said to routinely take off from Djibouti for Yemen in the dark of night?
  • If Brig General Gribsy claims the target is Al Shabaab in Somalia, why are there no reports at all of US excursions there, or US bombs hitting targets in Somalia?
  • Why is the Pentagon refusing to give Putin targets and non-targets and then screaming to the press that Putin is purposefully hitting ‘other’ targets?

“If you tell the Truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ~ Aldous Huxley

Refugees, War and Toxic Waste – Who Have We Saved

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Every time we bomb a country we create refugees. And then we cry foul and no one wants them. So who have we saved?

The absurdity of the cycle is that we supposedly enter a country to rid it of the bad guys, destroy the country, leave cities in rubble, and then wipe our hands, “Whew, glad we saved all those people!” Really? In actuality, what we accomplished was a tally of refugees that has grown to such devastatingly high proportions that they now have absolutely nothing and will die of hunger and disease.

In Syria, the number of refugees is now over 3 million. In Iraq since the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war and through the Gulf War, there have been over 4 million displaced Iraqi refugees. Yemen is the new Syria with estimates of 250,000 refugees, although a large number of Yemen refugees are Somali’s who sought refuge in Yemen from Somalia and now want to come back. In South Sudan, 700,000 have been displaced while 150,000 have fled and are refugees.

The UN has stated that there are currently about 50 million people worldwide displaced, seeking asylum or of refugee status. It is the largest number in history and yet we continue to add to that with every bomb we drop. We are supposed to be teaching respect and freedom, and democracy, but instead we are teaching war and destruction and devastation.

Solution: If you want to curb the number of refugees seeking asylum, stop bombing their country.

Granted, we aren’t responsible for every internally erupting country in the world. But the main categories of refugees include: Afghantistan, Syria, Iraq, Palestinian, and Somalis.

In the 1980’s, a number of European countries took advantage of the internal instability of Somalia to negotiate the disposal/dumping of 10 million tonnes of toxic waste along Somalia’s shoreline in exchange for $80million. Radiation related diseases have since become a major issue. Humanitarian?

In Syria, the chemical weapons were confiscated and then dumped. Where? Why in the Mediterranean of course where UN officials state that by adding chlorine the toxicity will be somewhat diffused. What is the impact of these chemicals and chlorine on sea life? That wasn’t considered.

In Afghanistan, the Bagram military base has a huge pit where they burn everything from televisions to computers, to all forms of electronics, waste, rubber, plastics, etc… Huge green and black plumes hover in the sky 24 hours a day. The gases are said to be causing respiratory illnesses, chronic allergies and various cancers among the Afghans as well as the military troops.

In Iraq, some estimates claim that 11 million pounds of hazardous waste was left behind when the US pulled out in 2010. What was the solution? To form a committee to analyze the problem. Ta-da! The National Defense Authorization Act ordered studies. So what the heck is this Act? It is a law that specifies the expenditures and budget for the Defense Department. So who is solving the hazardous waste problem? Not a clue, they are still assessing whether it exists while lawsuits begin pouring in.

But the burn pits took their toll and huge numbers of civilians and military are now claiming that the ‘Iraqi crud’ is causing lung cancer, anemia, and liver, kidney, and heart problems.

Solution: Stop starting wars. Let them solve their own problems while we concentrate on ours.

My father was an experiment in the Army. In the 1950’s he was ordered to Nevada to witness the nuclear tests. Officers were required to stand in the frontline while radiation consumed them. Soldiers were allowed to get some cover in bunkers but were still exposed. Decades later, my father contracted lung cancer which expanded to bone cancer, stomach cancer, a brain tumor and ultimately a very painful death.

So who did we save?

YEMEN – You Can’t Make this Stuff Up

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“Saudi airstrikes target Houthi forces and their allies in Yemen.” That was the mainstream media version.

“Paris is on the side of the Saudi’s in their efforts to restore ‘stability’ in Yemen.” That’s the mainstream version.

Reality? The Saudi’s are bombing schools, dairy farms, farms, water plants, roadways – infrastructure. They are bombing the basics of structure that support living. And they are bombing civilians – including children. The Yemeni’s want the bombing to stop. The Yemeni’s want the Saudi’s to let them use dialogue and dignity to resolve their own internal issues. The Yemeni’s have become the casualty that Hillary defines as normal collateral to any war. And the US, Europe and many Sunni Arab states comply.

Why?

Hadi, the president that fled when the Houthis took control was considered one of the most corrupt governments ranking 164th out of 182. Hadi only came to power after Saleh, the former president, was dislodged as a result of a coup and became injured. Hadi gained his military acumen while living in Britain, Egypt and Russia. He became Minister of Defense for Saleh in 1994 and Vice President until 2012. He was elected president in 2012 – although the term ‘elected’ is loose given he was the sole candidate. Normally, that does not constitute an ‘election’. But he was Sunni and thus sympathetic toward Saudi Arabia. But Hadi was incompetent, corrupt and seemingly a puppet at best. He certainly did not represent the people, nor did he seem to have any compassion for his people. More a figurehead, he was sympathetic to the Saudis, and that was all anyone outside of Yemen wanted. And hence a schism in Yemen widened further as the people felt unrepresented.

How different is it than in many other countries wherein the president is not acting in the interest of the people, but in the interest of economics and businesses and – self. We hope, we have faith that maybe this time it will be different. But it isn’t, and we share this angst and sadness with much of Europe, Canada and even Australia.

We watched Syria reduced to rubble because the Saudis didn’t like Assad. We watched Ukraine reduced to rubble as the coup was allowed and praised. Thousands upon thousands killed because someone decided the existing government needed to go. The casualties – people.

There is a haunting hypocritical aspect that angers not just the people of Yemen, but the citizens of the US, Europe and Asia, wherein one government that is ousted via coup is legitimate while in other countries it is not.

Why do the Saudis want Yemen?

They have no use for the country itself, or the people, all they really want is the assurance that the Gulf of Aden remains a viable conduit for their oil through the Red Sea. If Yemen falls to the Houthis, they are not sympathetic to the Saudis, they are Shi’a. Revenue means everything. Without this access to this strait the Saudis are in trouble, as are the other Middle East countries reliant on the Red Sea for transport.

Most people don’t even know where Yemen is, or what part they have played in history. Yemen was home to the Queen of Sheba and can trace it’s history back to the Sabaeans of ancient time. In medieval times, it was a lucrative trade center. They have controlled the strait through the Gulf of Aden since as early as 700 BC. They were conquered by the Himyarites who practiced a monotheistic religion called Rahmanism. The Romans attempted to convert them to Chritianity around 354 AD, but the Jews rebelled. In 521 AD, a Jewish warlord of Yemen rose to power and had all the Christians slaughtered. The country ‘converted’ to Islam with the rise of Muhammad and his conquests in the mid 600’s AD. Life has been tumultuous to be sure.

Yemen was embroiled in conquests thereafter. It has been overthrown by the Mongols, the Turks, the Egyptians, and the Ottomans. After the fall of the Ottoman’s the British laid claim and ruled. The Port of Aden has always been one of the key sources of warring. The country split between northern and southern allegiances. It has been mired in civil conflict, treason, corruption and pilfering. The unification of the north and south was accomplished with the intervention of the Saudis who needed access to the strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. It was the Saudis who helped lodge Saleh in office, but relations soured. The US and the Saudis agreed that Hadi would be a better ally, and helped stage a coup to oust Saleh. It has been stated that Saleh’s victory was fraudulent and that the only other candidate, Faisal Bin Shamlan, who was the son of the former president, was the actual winner with over 96% of the votes. Saleh claimed the victory was his, and the people were not happy.

Staging a coup, they sought a new government to represent them. Instead, Hadi was instituted. He was not elected, and the people are still without representation. But external interests are seemingly the only interest.

When the people rose against Hadi, the US attempted to intervene and use more drone strikes to gain ‘peace’. But the ‘collateral damage’ created even more anger among the people. Instead of squashing the dissidents, the US and Saudis increased the animosity and became the enemy. The Houthis gathered and rose in number.

Why would the US even consider involvement in this countries unrest? Because the Saudis demand it.

Because, al-Qaeda has a huge presence in Yemen, and because the Middle East countries want to maintain their oil transit route. And we still need that oil.

In 2009, the US started drone strikes in Yemen with the rise of al-Qaeda. The drones strikes were very controversial as they took out large swathes of civilians including children. The Yemeni’s felt they had become the target. In 2013, the strikes escalated. By 2014, the US was stating that a partnership had formed between the government of Hadi and the US. By 2015, the Houthis had taken control.

Who are the Houthis? They are considered to have come from a moderate group of people who sought to re-establish their Shi’a belief system of Zaidi. The Houthis gained radical status sometime after the 2003 invasion of Iraq at which point the chant ‘death to America’ became their slogan.

Twists again… and again: ISIS is fighting against the Houthis, which means we are fighting on the side of ISIS. In March 2015, ISIS bombed a Houthi mosque killing 142 and wounding 351 worshipers. The Houthis claim that Hadi is backed by al-Qaeda, which means if we back Hadi, we back al-Qaeda. Hadi claims that the Houthis are backed by Iran. The Israeli’s claim the Houthis are backed by Hezbollah. The Saudis have been preventing humanitarian aid to the people of Yemen. And of course, this is all flanked by Obama’s new bigger and better nuke deal with Iran. Since the overthrow of Saleh, who is Sunni, he has joined the Houthis. Al-Qaeda has put a ransom on the head of Saleh. Much of the weaponry confiscated by the Houthis was actually previously provided by the US and the Saudis to Yemen.

And if this was a movie on television, no one would believe it was remotely real.