[Ugnet] The Next Presidential Election Will Move The World Closer To War
The Next Presidential Election Will Move The World Closer To War — Paul Craig Roberts November 16, 2014 http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/16/ | Categories: Articles Columns http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/16/next-presidential-election-will-move-world-closer-war-paul-craig-roberts/ | Tags: | [image: Print This Article] http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/16/next-presidential-election-will-move-world-closer-war-paul-craig-roberts/print/ Print This Article http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/16/next-presidential-election-will-move-world-closer-war-paul-craig-roberts/print/ The Next Presidential Election Will Move The World Closer To War Paul Craig Roberts Glenn Greenwald has revealed that Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate of the banksters and warmongers. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/14/despite-cynicism-genuine-excitement-hillary-clinton-candidacy/ Pam and Russ Martens note that Elizabeth Warren is the populist alternative. http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/10/hillary-clintons-continuity-government-versus-elizabeth-warrens-voice-for-change/ I doubt that a politician who represents the people can acquire the campaign funds needed to run a campaign. If Warren becomes a threat, the Establishment will frame her with bogus charges and move her aside. Hillary as president would mean war with Russia. With neocon nazis such as Robert Kagan and Max Boot running her war policy and with Hillary’s comparison of Russia’s president Putin to Adolf Hitler, war would be a certainty. As Michel Chossudovsky and Noam Chomsky have written, the war would be nuclear. If Hillary is elected president, the financial gangsters and profiteering war criminals would complete their takeover of the country. It would be forever or until armageddon. To understand what we would be getting with Hillary, recall the Clinton presidency. The Clinton presidency was transformative in ways not generally recognized. Clinton destroyed the Democratic Party with “free trade” agreements, deregulated the financial system, launched Washington’s ongoing policy of “regime change” with illegal military attacks on Yugoslavia and Iraq, and his regime used deadly force without cause against American civilians and covered up the murders with fake investigations. These were four big changes that set the country on its downward spiral into a militarized police state with massive income and wealth inequality. One can understand why Republicans wanted the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it was Bill Clinton who signed it into law. “Free trade” agreements are devices used by US corporations to offshore their production of goods and services sold in American markets. By moving production abroad, labor cost savings increase corporate profits and share prices, bringing capital gains to shareholders and multi-million dollar performance bonuses to executives. The rewards to capital are large, but the rewards come at the expense of US manufacturing workers and the tax base of cities and states. When plants are closed and the work shipped overseas, middle class jobs disappear. Industrial and manufacturing unions are eviscerated, destroying the labor unions that financed the Democrats’ election campaigns. The countervailing power of labor against capital was lost, and Democrats had to turn to the same sources of funding as Republicans. The result is a one party state. The weakened tax base of cities and states has made it possible for Republicans to attack the public sector unions. Today the Democratic Party no longer exists as a political party financed by the union dues of ordinary people. Today both political parties represent the interests of the same powerful interest groups: the financial sector, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, the extractive industries, and agribusiness. Neither party represents voters. Thus, the people are loaded up with the costs of financial bailouts and wars, while the extractive industries and Monsanto destroy the environment and degrade the food supply. Elections no longer deal with real issues such as the loss of constitutional protections and a government accountable to law. Instead the parties compete on issues such as homosexual marriage and federal funding of abortion. Clinton’s repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act was the initiating move followed by the removal of more constraints that allowed the financial system to transform itself into a gambling casino where bets are covered by the public and the Federal Reserve. The full consequences of this remain to be seen. The Clinton regime’s attack on the Serbs was a war crime under international law, but it was the Yugoslavian president who tried to defend his country who was put on trial as a war criminal. When the Clinton regime murdered Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge and 76 people at Waco, subjecting the few survivors to a show trial, the regime’s crimes against humanity went unpunished. Thus did Clinton
[Ugnet] MP calls Zuma a ThiefCriminal fight breaks out
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[Ugnet] IDDI AMIN NEVER TARGETED LANGIs/ACHOLIs, THEY TARGETED HIM { ---------Series eleven }
Friends One of the reasons that it is so complicated to defend Iddi Amin’s government is because we are sitting between two criminals that are debating it. We have those that came out of Tanzania to fight a government, and we have those that still came out of Tanzania split off the Acholi and Langis and enthroned themselves into power for life. If a crime was committed by both they will never stand up against each other, so we have the UNLF high ups covering for The NRA high ups and then Iddi Amin becomes the easy target that get blamed by both sides. I am going right back into education, I have already established that the numbers of admission more than doubled under Iddi Amin government. The reason Iddi Amin gained a honorary degree was because as a president of Uganda he invested way more money in education than all past presidents of Uganda, Milton Obote included. On record every student that walked to Crested Tower to look for a government scholar ship, as long as you had the brains that it required, you got the scholarship. There is no record anywhere when an Acholi or Langi was ever rejected a scholarship under Amin’s government. And if you had the brains but the ministry of Education denied you a scholarship for you are an Acholi I need you to stand up and speak right now. Barnabas Killi had all money out there that he so required to send every Uganda student to any country you qualified for. It is important to note that Amin set up a government where you would never discriminate any one, for the moneys were pumped into Uganda through government services nearer to the people, so even if you were an Acholi you still had a local DEO and he was fully functional. If there is any DEO in Northern Uganda that failed to function for he is serving Langis and Acholis stand up and please speak up and very loudly. And that is how this debate must be carried out, factually and asking straight questions. Every country that builds education systems, must have a strategy of importance, and in that strategy you need to educate Mathematics because it is very vital to students that will take science subjects. Iddi Amin trained a very large mathematical sector in Uganda, and we were doing very fine thank you. Now fast forward to Museveni going to Luwero to fight the war come 1981, John Ogole gets sent to Luwero to fight him. After Ogole arrives into Luwero he comes back to Kampala to make recommendations to the Obote two government, and among the things Ogole needed was a pile up of Mathematics teachers. What you did not know is that teachers are actually trained as soldiers, so somehow they have the ability to understand confrontations and how to solve them. But Mathematics teachers also know a whole lot, they know calculations, they know logistics, and they know planning and compassing. Those are very vital assets into a war. The Obote two government directed the ministry of education to list the names of all Mathematics teachers in Southern Uganda, and instruct them to report to John Ogole. When that operation started it ended up including Science teachers, Geography teachers, physics and Chemistry teachers. All these teachers were shipped off to UNLA and handed a training of basic military requirements, and shipped into the war zone of Luwero. Yoweri Museveni annihilated all of them, to today I still do not know a single teacher that was sent to John Ogole into Luwero and came back. When you lose a whole whack of teachers in most valuable positions of training as such, your education system has to crumble, Uganda education system was screwed for now we had schools that had speciality abilities and now John Ogole has lost them in a second. There are still schools and there are still children being born and being registered. The education in our country was screwed from the time the Obote two government started to today, because everyone is playing catch up but Museveni just simply does not even care. There was a reason I decided to faithfully go after John Ogole, he was truly a bad man. Friends this is how It so becomes very complex to defend Iddi Amin, the friends that came out of Tanzania cannot today stand up and demand an explanation from Museveni of why he murdered the entire cream of our educational structure, because Museveni will turn around and accuse them of going into schools and picking them up to go with Ogole and fight in Luwero. I get very interested when the argument becomes Amin’s education was neither here nor there, and that is the best they can throw out, do you know why they can never go deep into this discussion? In English it is called fear of self-incrimination. Amin cared about Uganda he believed that we can do better, he believed that we can raise up and enjoy our country than Kenyan and Tanzanians that are still back ward and held by their government. Uganda was so created to be a capitalist country and Iddi Amin
[Ugnet] THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY
US withheld sat. image of MH17 downing A satellite image released by Russian media shows a fighter jet firing at Malaysian Flight MH17 on November 15, 2014. Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:49PM By Gordon Duff The Russian news service, Itar-Tass today published satellite photos clearly proving that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, was downed by a Kiev-backed jet fighter. The United States and Great Britain have had these photos for months, proving the Kiev junta responsible for purposefully downing the plane and killing 298 passengers and crew, 196 of them from the Netherlands. In fact, for months, the preponderance of evidence has indicated that the downing of MH17 was done by Kiev as an act of false flag terrorism, one of many during the conflict. However, as accusations against Kiev gained substance, the investigation was handed to the Dutch government, who tabled the entire process for over a year without any promise of a definitive finding. All the while, the US was accusing Russia of the attack and threatening retaliation, these photos were in the hands of NATO leaders. From Tass: MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. Russias television Channel One said on Friday it had a photo presumably made by a foreign spy satellite in the last seconds of Malaysias MH17 flight over Ukraine. Channel One showed Ivan Andriyevsky, the first vice president of the Russian Union of Engineers, demonstrating a photo sent by a George Beatle, who had introduced himself as an air traffic controller with a 20-year working record. According to Beatle, the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by a fighter jet that followed it. First, the Boeing came under gun fire and then the cockpit was hit by an air-to-air missile, its right engine and the right wing were hit by a heat-seeking missile. The e-mail had an enclosed snapshot of a missile launch from under the fighters left wing directed right at the Boeing cockpit. We see a space shot made from a low orbit. Such photo shots are typically made in air and ground surveillance purposes, Andriyevsky said. Coordinates on the photo hint that it was made by an American or a British satellite. We have thoroughly analyzed this photo to find no signs of fake. In the ensuing months since the air disaster, the US and its NATO allies have repeatedly claimed that the flight, simply known as MH17, was shot down by first a missile under the control of pro-Russian separatists near Donetsk and then later by Russian forces along the border. The situation was further obfuscated when a Dutch report came out, cleansed of all references as to causality and then later by something even stranger. When reports by radar operators in the region indicated that a Kiev backed fighter had been following MH17, claims were made that all their planes in the area were only low level ground attack aircraft, incapable of high altitude flight. News reports, leaked from Kiev, claimed the only planes in the area were Su-25 ground attack fighters. Later it was leaked that the plane following MH17 was an SU-22 swing wing. However, in the interim, dozens of aviation websites were hacked and information on the SU-22 was altered to show it incapable of flight above 21,000 feet and of speeds in excess of 500 miles per hour. The satellite photograph showing the missile being fired at MH17, however, shows the clear outline of an SU-22. A review of the US Air Force report on the SU-22 tells a very different story of its performance. The SU-17M4 was offered to export customers under the SU-22M4 designation (internal destination of S-54K0. Production lasted from 1983 to 1990. The Su-17M4 was given a top speed of 1,155 miles per hour (Mach 1.7) at altitude with a combat range of 715 miles (1,430 miles ferry). The service ceiling was limited to 46,590 feet while the rate of climb was listed at 45,275 feet per minute. MH17 was flying at 500 miles per hour at 31,000 feet when the SU-22 opened up with 30mm cannon and finished the plane off with an air to air missile into the cockpit, as seen clearly on the satellite photo. In late July, while stories of a ground-launched air defense missile were being bandied about, it was pointed out that the only missiles in the region were controlled by the Kiev government. In order to support their assertion that Russia was responsible, the Ukrainian government released satellite photos they said proved they had no forces in the region. From an August 1, 2014 Russia Today story: Satellite images Kiev published as proof it didnt deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the MH17 tragedy, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed. The images, which Kiev claims were taken by its satellites at the same time as those taken by Russian satellites, are neither Ukrainian nor authentic, according to Moscows statement. The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by
Re: [Ugnet] PRIOSITY ONE
Friends
We are updating this piece that we believe this vote will be tabled to the
Senate floor tomorrow Tuesday morning. We strongly believe that many
Democrat senators are going to vote with the Republican senators to pass it.
But we also believe that even though the Republicans and many Democrats will
vote for it to its passage the president will stand up and veto it. Yes this
mans head simply operates that way. Watch very carefully tomorrow as this
great project gets pushed through .
One hopes that by tomorrow afternoon we will have the last word from the
Senate, then we sit , wait and watch his reaction.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko
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Subject: PRIOSITY ONE
Importance: High
Friends
Be informed that the Republican Controlled House of representatives has
passed a legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to
Texas, we strongly believe that the Senate may follow next week. I have to
mention two points {a} Let us not rejoice yet for this pipe has reached
almost this point before and it was pushed back by the president (b) This
morning before I left home, I received a twit where I was being advised that
The president that early had issued a statement that he is going to oppose
the pipe again for it is not good for United States. This vote has gone out
after his statement which he made at about 4 30 am, for I was advised about
it at about 5am. As a man that hates anything regarding job creation or
building the economy, expect a veto from him, just as a warning. We might
not get this started till when we get the Republicans in office, but we wait
to see what happens after this vote. On record The Key Stone XL pipe line is
the number one issue to be dealt with this senate and house. And I can tell
you quite frankly that we will get it done with the support of Democrats or
without it.
The pipes are going to go into the ground either way.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko
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[Ugnet] ISIS HAS BEAHEADED A 26 YEAR OLD AMERICAN AID WORKER
http://iloapp.igieborfreedating.com/blog/igiebor-world-news?Homepost=547 IS video claims US aid worker beheaded http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e49_1416134856 PETER KASSIG BEHEADED BY ISIS EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] WE ARE POSTING THIS AS THE OFFICIAL I TOLD YOU SO OF 11/16/2014
Russia Shows Satellite Pics Of Kiev Shooting Down MH 17 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835088/Is-moment-MH17-shot-flew-Uk raine-Russian-state-broadcaster-produces-satellite-images-showing-fighter-je t-attack.html EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] CONVICTED MASS MURDERER GETS MARRIAGE LICENCE
Convicted mass murderer gets marriage licence AP Charles Manson (AP) Mass murderer Charles Manson has been given a licence to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison. The marriage licence obtained on Monday by The Associated Press was issued on Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Afton Elaine Burton, who left her Midwestern home nine years ago and moved to Corcoran, California, the site of the prison to be near Manson. She maintains several websites advocating for Mansons innocence. The licence does not specify a wedding date and indicates the couple has 90 days to get married or they will have to reapply. Ms. Burton, who goes by the name Star, told the AP that she and Manson will be married next month. Yall can know that its true, she said. Its going to happen. I love him, she added. Ms. Burton gave an interview a year ago to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she and Manson planned to marry. But Manson, who became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a roving family of young killers, was less certain about tying the knot. Thats a bunch of garbage, Manson said in the December 2013 interview. Thats trash Were playing that for public consumption. Asked Monday about those comments, Burton said, None of thats true, adding that theyre waiting for the prison to complete their paperwork. California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton confirmed to the AP that the license had been transmitted to the prison. Thornton said each California prison designates an employee to be a marriage coordinator who processes paperwork for an inmates request to be wed. In most cases, she said, the department of corrections approves of such weddings as a tool of family reunification and social development. But Manson is a unique case. Burton said the wedding might have happened earlier if Manson did not have some situations at the prison. Thornton explained that in February, Manson had three violations for possession of a weapon, threatening staff and refusal to provide a urine sample. Burton said the prison holds marriages on the first Saturday of each month. She expects to be married in an inmate visiting room at the prison. Thornton confirmed that Manson can have a wedding at the prison and invite an officiate from outside the prison to perform the ceremony. Why marry Manson under those conditions? Ms. Burton said it would allow her to get information not available to nonrelatives. Theres certain things next of kin can do, she said. She said she believes Manson is innocent and will get a new trial. Manson has been incarcerated since 1969 in the infamous TateLaBianca murders. He was a habitual criminal before that and spent most of his life in prison. They were convicted in the gruesome killings of actress Sharon Tate and four others at her estate on Aug. 9, 1969, and grocers Leno and Rosemary LaBianca who were killed the following night. Manson would not be eligible for parole until 2027. Thé Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] US-ARMED SYRIAN OPPOSITION 'SURRENDERS' TO AL QAEDA?
US-Armed Syrian Opposition Surrenders to Al Qaeda? http://journal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/vodac-al-kaeda-05.jpg Al Qaeda affiliates are suddenly now Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates, and entire groups of militants the US has been arming, funding, and training are surrendering to Al Qaeda, bringing along with them a large number of US weapons. Is this a failure of US foreign policy? Or is this simply a rhetorical means to explain away what appears to be an immense army of extremists the US is once again building up to direct at one of its enemies, just as it did in Afghanistan in the 1980s? Al Qaeda Morphs into ISIS In late September, just in time to aid the US in its fumbling justification for bombing Syria, terrorists allegedly beheaded a French tourist kidnapped in the North African nation of Algeria. The timing, as with previous ISIS executions, was impeccable, lending maximum propaganda value, not to the terrorist organization, but to the United States which has utilized each grisly murder as a means for direct and continued military intervention on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border. The BBC in their article, French hostage Herve Gourdel beheaded in Algeria http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29352537 , would report that: The beheading, the spokesman says, is to avenge the victims in Algeria and support the caliphate proclaimed by IS in Iraq and Syria. Jund al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate) pledged allegiance to IS on 14 September. Until then it had been known as part of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which grew out of an Algerian militant group and is now active across North and parts of West Africa. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, was directly associated with terrorist groups armed and backed by NATO in the 2011 invasion and bombardment of Libya in efforts to overthrow the government of Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli. In a 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) report http://tarpley.net/docs/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf and a 2011 CTC report, Are Islamist Extremists Fighting Among Libya http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/are-islamist-extremists-fighting-among-libya% E2%80%99s-rebels s Rebels?, AQIM is specifically mentioned as working closely with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and it was predicted most notably by geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley http://tarpley.net/2011/03/24/the-cia%E2%80%99s-libya-rebels-the-same-terro rists-who-killed-us-nato-troops-in-iraq/ , that even before NATO began dropping bombs on Libya that by doing so, they would be thrusting not only LIFG into power, but empowering a regional network of extremists, including AQIM. AQIMs presence shortly thereafter in northern Mali, flush with weapons from Libya and a new sense of purpose as well as the fact that AQIM continues to menace the region years later is the complete fulfillment of this prediction. Both AQIM and LIFG are listed by the US State Department as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) but were in fact leading the fight against the Libyan government in 2011 with NATO weapons and air support. It would be France itself http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-reviews-libya-campaign -after-france-admits-arming-rebels?utm_medium=twitterutm_source=twitterfeed that would drop weapons into the country illegally to bolster their fighting capabilities during the conflict, and clearly, after the conflict both inside Libyas borders and beyond them. In 2011, the Guardian would report in its article, Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admits arming rebels http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/29/nato-review-libya-france-armin g-rebels?CMP=twt_fd , that: Nato is reviewing the conduct of its military campaign in Libya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate. Besides the propaganda value of the September execution by AQIM terrorists now operating under the ISIS banner, the atrocity illustrates perfectly that ISIS itself is not a new threat, but rather a very old and familiar threat simply repackaged and marketed anew. ISIS is clearly a conglomeration of existing terrorist organizations apparently from as far as North Africa to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia and everything in between. In addition to AQIM, Al Nusra and many other extremist factions either allied with or fighting alongside what the US calls the Syrian opposition, are also affiliated with and fighting in support of ISIS. This is basically what Al Qaeda was, before what can only be described as a marketing gimmick ISIS was coined. US Arms Extremists Openly Affiliated with Al Qaeda/ISIS Almost daily reports surface of ISIS obtaining weapon systems first handed over by the US and its allies to this Syrian opposition. The most recent were anti-tank missiles supplied to this opposition by the United States. The International Business Times would claim in its article, Syria: Al-Nusra
[Ugnet] SO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE G20 AUSTRALIA?
Here's What Really Happened at the G20 in Australia *Western media reports of the summit are an embarrassing travesty *Far from isolated, Putin was embraced by the great majority of heads of state *Idea that he left early, upset over criticism is total, complete, sheer, bloody rot - a new low for western media who alleged this in chorus *EU leaders tried to browbeat Putin - Putin told them to take a few laps in the Brisbane river, and explained to them yet again, correctly, that it is he, in fact, who holds the strong cards in Ukraine, and that the EU had better get its act together *As before, the EU has no idea what to do about the Ukraine mess *The clinically obtuse Mr. Obama managed to insult China http://russia-insider.com/user/92 Alexander Mercouris G20 plenary session in Brisbane So what did in fact happen at the G20 summit? The short answer is that it was a shriller rerun of the ASEM summit in Milan. The same line up of European leaders joined this time by the Australians and the Canadians (Obama and Putin barely met) tried once again to bully Putin into doing what they wanted in the Ukraine, believing on this occasion that the fall in oil prices and in the rouble would make him more amenable. In order to drive the point home a media blitz of quite extraordinary intensity was also orchestrated. To their collective bafflement and anger, Putin refused to move an inch. On the contrary Putin's position has if anything hardened since Milan as he made clear in the interview he gave to German television in Vladivostok (before the summit) in which he pointedly reminded the European leaders that it is within Russia's power to bring the entire Ukrainian financial house of cards crashing down by calling in its loans and in which he also gave the clearest possible warning that Russia would not allow the rebel regions in eastern Ukraine to be overrun. The further news on that is that Russian Economics Minister Ulyukaev has confirmed that the rouble will be allowed to circulate in the rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, strengthening their integration with Russia. The European leaders have come away without a clue what to do. They desperately need an end to the Ukrainian crisis, which is hurting their own economies and which as Milos Zeman's and Orban's comments show, is creating increasing dissension within the EU itself. There is little appetite either for more sanctions or for giving the Ukraine the tens of billions it needs to turn itself round whilst there is deep reluctance to seek a restructuring of the Ukraine's debts since doing so would inevitably require the agreement of the Ukraine's biggest creditor, which is Russia, which would undoubtedly in that case link its agreement to movement on political matters. The hope always seems to be that Putin will somehow be bullied into solving the problem for the Europeans in the way the Europeans want and there is incredulity and exasperation when that fails to happen. Meanwhile the situation in the Ukraine itself both economically and politically continues to spiral downwards. A good gauge of the bafflement and anger of the western leaders is the way the western media (obviously following a tip off from the Australian hosts) was encouraged to talk up Putin's decision to skip the summit's final working breakfast. The Ukrainian situation would not have been discussed at this breakfast so the idea that Putin was somehow bruised into running away is nonsense. That the western media had to seize on this non-event to show how supposedly battered Putin is, shows in reality how completely unsuccessful the Europeans and their Australian and Canadian allies really were with him. In reality there has never been a G20 summit where media coverage has been more at variance with reality (a point Putin also made). To read the western media, Putin was completely isolated at the summit. In reality, on the first day of the summit there was a BRICS mini-summit meeting, at which Putin and Russia were put in charge of organising a future BRICS conference on investment policy, a fact you would never know about from reading the western press. In other words the BRICS front stood firm and it seems Putin also received some support from countries like Indonesia and Turkey. In fact from the way the western media reported the summit most westerners are probably not even aware that non-western leaders including the other leaders of BRICS states also attended the summit. From the lack of attention they got one might suppose they were as unimportant as they were in say 1978. So delusional has the west's perception of the world and of its place in it become. Putin also had a lengthy meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, whom he also sat next to during various plenaries, during which he would have been informed in detail of the
[Ugnet] THE VETERAN THAT WROTE THIS LETTER SADLY PASSED AWAY LAST MONDAY.
Last March, I came across a letter written to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a paralyzed and dying Iraq war vet named Tomas Young. It touched me to such an extent, that I highlighted it on Liberty Blitzkrieg http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/03/19/a-letter-to-george-w-bush-and-dick- cheney-from-a-dying-iraq-war-vet/ at the time. He died on Monday, the day before Veterans Day. If you really want to honor our nations soldiers, you should read the following and share it. RIP Tomas Young. Full letter below from http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/12/my-last-words-to-george-w-bush-and-d ick-cheney/ Counterpunch. My Last Words to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney by TOMAS YOUNG I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care. I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us allthe human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief. I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americansmy fellow veteranswhose future you stole. Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage. I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to liberate Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called democracy in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraqs oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every levelmoral, strategic, military and economicIraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences. I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration
[Ugnet] AND THE SAD NEWS COME IN
Friends The U.S. Senate has just rejected a proposal to fast-track the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Pipeline supporters needed 60 votes to win approval for the bill, but it went down to defeat by a margin of 59-41. Even if passed, the bill was not expected to pass muster with U.S. President Barack Obama, who had hinted strongly he would veto the bill, which is designed to short-circuit the White House's own environmental review process. We needed a single vote to get it passed and we have failed to get it. We are going back to the drawing board for we need these jobs for our children, and we need the pipe to be installed with Americans than installing it with China or Russia who are on the door waiting on us. Do not despair the pipe is going in, they are delaying a very inevitable. This is just breaking now so we still do not know who voted what so we are still waiting for the details EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
