The Russians call it Kompromat – the use by the state of sexual accusations to destroy a public figure. When I was attacked in this way by the government I worked for, Uzbek dissidents smiled at me, shook their heads and said “Kompromat“. They were used to it from the Soviet and Uzbek governments. They found it rather amusing to find that Western governments did it too.
Well, Julian Assange has been getting the bog standard Kompromat. I had imagined he would get something rather more spectacular, like being framed for murder and found hanging with an orange in his mouth. He deserves a better class of kompromat. If I am a whistleblower, then Julian is a veritable mighty pipe organ. Yet we just have the normal sex stuff, and very weak.
Bizarrely the offence for which Julian is wanted for questioning in Sweden was dropped from rape to sexual harassment, and then from sexual harassment to just harassment. The precise law in Swedish, as translated for me and other Sam Adams alumni by our colleague Major Frank Grevil, reads:
“He who lays hands on or by means of shooting from a firearm, throwing of stones, noise or in any other way harasses another person will be sentenced for harassment to fines or imprisonment for up to one year.”
So from rape to non-sexual something. Actually I rather like that law – if we had it here, I could have had Jack Straw locked up for a year.
Julian tells us that the first woman accuser and prime mover had worked in the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and had been expelled from Cuba for anti-Cuban government activity, as well as the rather different persona of being a feminist lesbian who owns lesbian night clubs.
Scott Ritter and I are well known whistleblowers subsequently accused of sexual offences. A less well known whistleblower is James Cameron, another FCO employee. Almost simultaneous with my case, a number of the sexual allegations the FCO made against Cameron were identical even in wording to those the FCO initially threw at me.
Another fascinating point about kompromat is that being cleared of the allegations – as happens in virtually every case – doesn’t help, as the blackening of reputation has taken effect. In my own case I was formerly cleared of all allegations of both misconduct and gross misconduct, except for the Kafkaesque charge of having told defence witnesses of the existence of the allegations. The allegations were officially a state secret, even though it was the government who leaked them to the tabloids.
Yet, even to this day, the FCO has refused to acknowledge in public that I was in fact cleared of all charges. This is even true of the new government. A letter I wrote for my MP to pass to William Hague, complaining that the FCO was obscuring the fact that I was cleared on all charges, received a reply from a junior Conservative minister stating that the allegations were serious and had needed to be properly investigated – but still failing to acknowledge the result of the process. Nor has there been any official revelation of who originated these “serious allegations”.
Governments operate in the blackest of ways, especially when it comes to big war money and big oil money. I can see what they are doing to Julian Assange, I know what they did to me and others (another recent example – Brigadier Janis Karpinski was framed for shoplifting). In a very real sense, it makes little difference if they murdered David Kelly or terrified him into doing it himself. Telling the truth is hazardous in today’s Western political system.
glenn, phew. and hurrah.
richard, you’re not the only one seeing similarities.
The above on Gonks was my comment.
And Re: “Ireland exists just fine, thank you, without anything remotely approaching the military of other nations.”
i.e., Ireland, like all other states, depends for its existence on its ability to defend itself and its territory and to impose its laws by, if necessary, force, for which purpose it has both military and police.
The claim that Ireland’s military are not “remotely approaching the military of other nations” is incorrect.
Ireland spends about $2 billion per year on its military, or about 0.9% of GDP. That is more than 34 other countries including Agentina, New Zealand, Austria and Mexico.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2034rank.html?countryName=Ireland&countryCode=ei®ionCode=eu&rank=139#ei
Only Iceland has no army, a reflection of the fact that its resources of ice and larva are not much coveted. Nevertheless, Iceland has a National Police for internal law enforcement.
“richard, you’re not the only one seeing similarities.”
And, Technicolor, I’m sure your reasoning is just as cogent.
LOL
“But obviously if the United States is under attack, as on 9/11 (your example), posse comitatus is irrelevant. So on that, you seem to have been wrong.”–Alfred
I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. I cited Posse Comitatus in relation to domestic law enforcement, not 9/11.
The CIA factbook of all things! I see our spending is 139th out of the 174 listed, and is less than Madagascar. Harrr! You do love to argue, Alfred — you and Angry. How do we defend ourselves with a (virtually) non-existent Air Force and tiny Navy? Our navy covers drug detection, sea rescue, and prevention of gun running. Who are we supposed to be fighting? LOL!
Suhayl,
Helen McLean’s work looks fabulous. I love her stained glass and mosaics. I couldn’t find any address on her website, so I couldn’t consider visiting. I’m going home in the morning.
Glenn,
Phew indeed. I’ve always loved motorbikes but have found four-wheeled ATVs a bit more stable – especially in the Welsh mountains where I’ve scattered sheep with one. 🙂
Alfred, do carry on trying to be childishly insulting. In the meantime I note that, from originally refusing to post any facts to substantiate your opinions, you’re now posting facts which undermine them.
Abe, you say
:The election in the USA are, by the standards not only of planet earth but by democracies in general, conducted pretty well,”
Rubbish. Electronic voting machines deny transparency and facilitate fraud. No country but the US uses them as far as I am aware.
As for “especially for a country that size”
Again, rubbish. Electoral districts in the US are no larger than in other jurisdictions. There is no reason why the US cannot conduct vote counting in the time-honored manner, in public under the scrutiny of representatives of all contestants.
“no-one is offered money to vote for a political party”
More rubbish. Folks may not be offered money, although in the age of mortgage assistance even that is offered, but to quote H.L. Mencken “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
“the press in America is under no censorship such as exists in dictatorships”
No, because America is not a dictatorship it is a moneyed oligarchy. The censorship is imposed by corporate interests such as GE, which owns NBC.com, CNBC.com, iVillage.com, Scifi.com, telemundo.com, nbc.com, hulu.com (a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.), Bravotv.com, Triotv.com, msnbc.msn.com, nbcolympics.com, ShopNBC.com. Partial: aetv.com, biography.com, historychannel.com, military.history.com and, oh God, there isn’t space here for it all.
Then there’s NewsCrap, sorry NewsCorp, Walt Disney, TimeWarner, Viacom and CBS, and that’s 90% of America’s media. Call that a free press? LOL
Then take a look to see who owns book publishing and entertainment. It’s the same oligarchy.
“For America is neither a monarchy, ot an empire.”
Never heard this quote attributed to Carl Rove?
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality?”judiciously, as you will?”we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
“I am no expert on posse comitatus, but there is no question that if appropriate procedures are followed, US Federal forces and National Guard units are available for law enforcement within the United States.”–Alfred
You deliberatly fluffed that too, Alfred. Posse Comitatus is still on the books. Federal forces were only introduced – as an exception – to deal with the “war on drugs” and domestic terrorism. But frankly my dear, you can talk away now, I’m tired of this. 🙂
“I note that, from originally refusing to post any facts to substantiate your opinions, you’re now posting facts which undermine them.”
O.K. Give us some examples, Techie.
Dreoilin said,
“You deliberatly fluffed that too, Alfred. Posse Comitatus is still on the books. Federal forces were only introduced – as an exception – to deal with the “war on drugs” and domestic terrorism.”
And you think “domestic terrorism” isn’t a loophole large enough to drive a few hundred armored vehicles through?
LOL
“But frankly my dear, you can talk away now, I’m tired of this.”
Well I quite understand. The facts just aren’t on your side. By all means, let’s change the subject.
“Just think, Democratic India could invade Nepal” (Abe)
If iondia ever invades Nepal than I would eb the first to wish that India is not successful int hat and is defeated ,even though i am indian living in India and love my country but still i am a human being and would not side with exploiatators who attack other countries in name of democracy. and what democracy?
usa and britian are not democracy they are temple of shopkeeprs dictatorship where both parties serve only one function-to dserve the rich or to serve the wealthy.
yes india is democractic but was more democratic until 15 years ago when an IMF agent manmoahn siongh was isntalled as PMN withoutr being elelcted by the pwople of India.
so if India attacks nepal i am all for nepal.
the same about china
in fact the west has been inciting indians to do propaganda agasint the chinse .
Abe renee also wrote “Firstly, the Taleban are a regime unworthy of humans and deserve to be thrown out, as that of Saddam, of Syria, of Burma, of Zimbabwe, of Cuba, of Red China. This is the burden not of any race but of democrats generally. However it is generally too expensive to carry out such invasions, and probably impossible in the case nuclear powers such as China. ”
so called Pm the unlelcted prime msinter of India an agent of IMF9this IMF forced idnia to have him as fiance misnter way back in 1993 after currency manipulation by the briutish and americans agasint India) is pimping for only anglosaxons and is letting india weakened militarily and socially but also stavring the indians and he is cheerful about it!
so much democracy!! our democracy in India finished in 2004 exctly the time west started praising this stooge of the wetst inside PM post.
traitor manmohan singh, Pm of india and darling of the west lets indians starve
such are the stooges of west whom the west loves so much-unlelctavble and so depdendent on wetasern propaganda to stay in power on a population which does not like such dictators but is darling of the west.
another yeltsin i
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI11Df02.html
“outh Asia
Sep 11, 2010
Manmohan opts for the poor to starve
By Raja Murthy
MUMBAI – Should unused food be allowed to go to waste or used to feed the hungry? An unprecedented “order” by India’s Supreme Court to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to distribute food grain free to the poor, instead of letting millions of tonnes of it rot, has blown up into a core issue, raising questions about about the balance of judiciary and government, and how should a government deal with abject poverty.
“I respectfully submit that the Supreme Court should not go into the realm of policy formulation,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on September 6, politely telling the court to keep away from what he perceived as exclusive governmental turf. “It is not possible in this country to give free food to all the poor people.”
Manmohan, disappointingly, missed the point, or pointedly avoided it, during a 80-minute meeting with senior journalists a
of August 12 had directed the central government to ensure free distribution of only grain that would have otherwise rotted in godowns. The government was not asked to feed for free all the poor across the country, all year. Distribute the grain free as a “short-term measure”, the court had said.
For decades, food wastage has been a serious problem in the country (see India outsources food-waste woes, Asia Times Online, July 21, 2010), with US$12.2 billion worth of agricultural produce allowed to rot due to inadequate government-owned facilities. It was time the referee stepped in.
“Give to the hungry poor instead of it [grains] going down the drain,” a Supreme Court bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma instructed, responding to public interest litigation on the issue filed by a New Delhi-based civil rights group, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
PUCL filed the original petition nearly 10 years ago, and the latest Supreme Court order was its 58th ruling on the issue – in a shameful indictment to government disinterest in tackling both agricultural wastage and the crisis of hunger.
India is home to about 25% of the planet’s hungry poor, according to the Rome-based United Nations World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger.
The hunger crisis and food wastage could find a meeting point. About 55 million tonnes of grain rot to waste annually in India, according to Colin Gonsalves, the country’s leading civil rights lawyer who is fighting the PUCL case in the Supreme Court. “And the government refuses to give away for free even a few crumbs of it to the poorest people. Have we as a nation become so insensitive and cruel?”
Gonsalves, who in 2004 received the International Human Rights Award from the Chicago-based American Bar Association, is due on September 24 to file his response to Prime Minister Manmohan’s government rejecting the Supreme Court order.
Perhaps Manmohan has to be reminded daily that over half the children in India are malnourished, and about one-quarter are so badly nourished that they have shrunken brains and stunted bodies.
[COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]India’s[/COLOR][/COLOR] controversial Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar too bluntly dismissed the free food grain order, offering only to supply to the poor an additional 2.5 million tonnes at subsidized prices through the existing Public Distribution System.
Pawar has been a leading star in the recurring governmental incompetence for nearly 10 years. In April 2001, the PUCL sought Supreme Court intervention against the nationwide food grain wastage to use this wasted stock to feed the hungry.
The petition was filed after civil rights activists discovered food shortage so extreme in the western Indian border state of Rajasthan that families in a poverty-struck village were “rotation eating” – with some members of each family eating on one day, and remaining family members getting something to eat the next day. Just five miles away, outside state capital Jaipur, the [COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]Food [COLOR=green ! important] Corporation[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] of India godowns were overflowing with grain.
The petitioners found the government had about 40 million tonnes of food grain in excess of the buffer stock of 20 million tonnes, with millions of tonnes of grain kept outside godowns in the open, and rotting, even as people nearby were nearly starving.
Gonsalves, who is also executive director of Human Rights Law Network, a nationwide collective of lawyers and civil rights activists, says the problem of both hunger and food grain wastage has become worse in the decade he has fought the cause in the Supreme Court.
In August, the court had asked for wasted food grain to be freely donated to feed the poor. “The core of the problem is the hostility from the prime minister and the government to feeding the poor,” Gonsalves told Asia Times Online.
Manmohan and Pawar might find their “hostile” decision worth remembering next time they sit down to eat for free at their official residences or in another of the seven-course official banquets, at taxpayer expense.
They might have responded to the court order differently if they had themselves experienced starvation, known what it is like to have no money to [COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]buy [COLOR=green ! important]food[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], and faint from hunger, as this correspondent experienced in an earlier, darker phase in life.
Like over a billion acutely malnourished people worldwide, Manmohan & Co would then know that hunger is not some intellectual condition to be measured through abstract economic theories of which the 78-year old premier is an expert, having spent 53 years as an economist. His expertise only adds to the embarrassment of worldwide reports showing his government in shockingly poor light in tackling hunger.
The latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) of 2009 ranks India a miserable 65th out of 84 countries in the Index. India marginally improved in the GHI, from 31.7 in 1990 to 23.9 in 2009, but the 2009 GHI places India worse than the likes of Zimbabwe, Uganda, North Korea and Burma in dealing with hunger.
how Indians stupidly are falling for angloag=saxon agenda of making sure that china, Russia and India never get topgether to thwart the looting of the world by anglosaxons.
Have you ever noticed that during last 17 years the ministry of defence protfolio was one which not many coveted because defence was not considered glamourous unlike finance and besides defence ministry was under thumb of PMO office not to proceed with tests and hardware acquitions because the then PM and today;s pM was afraid to hurt american sensiblity!
now the blame being put on PM is being diverted to all persons and organisations.
janaury,2007
Indian anglophile class -especially indian english language media -is a race of Coolies and traitors.
the same class of indians who are doing propaganda agasinty china today are the same people who forced rajiv gandhi in 1987 to make friendship with china(and recognise tibet as part of china) why-? because the usa had ben friend with china since 1984 and wanted india to be friend too as opposed to russia.-therefore the indian parasite class foll=made the Indian foreign policy viz china not to suit india but to suit american interests-it is doing the same but in revere direction this time because their anglo-american masters want them to do so.the same indian elite class (for example the president of ranbaxy one MR. Singh,, chairman of FICCi(mr singh of ranbaxy) at the time in 80s was vehemently opposing any defence increase or of of buying of defence equioments while asking for freidnship with china as desired by usa ain 80s). the same FICCi is making propaganda agasint DRDo and(with 6% of defence budget) and indian scintisits saying it has not kept the develpopmnet of innovations and kept the 50 yurs old mig 21 not in shape!.) These same indian traitors want india to buy 40 yrs old arms (like junk f16 and f-18) from america knowing fully well that it comes with a heavy conditions unlike almost condition free and better arms(new mig-35) from russia.-but then thse elites are agents of angnlo american interests -so no surprise here-it is high time that thse elites are killed or kicked out of india-these are allwais(iraqi traitor) of india.
british terroris released by Indians under pressure from the british war criminal bastard tonay kutta blair.
2007
“Atal bihari vajpayee took bribe and even let UK criminal Peter Bleach, just before general election in 2004, who was main guy in Puralia Arms Drop case. With corrupt neta-IAS-SCjs, UK sees no reason to give anti-India criminals to India.
By handing over Nadim, the message UK would have sent is “see anti-Indian criminals, we cant protect you anymore”. This will cost them dearly in international arena. And giving bribe to IPS-IAS-SCjs-neta is cheaper option than handing away criminals like Nadim. ”
how the taliban came into being with the blessing of fundamnetalist paksitani regime and the fundamentalist agenda sponsoring anglosaxons.
“The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings….The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..”, (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
“Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad.” (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
“Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed close relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the CIA, … Since September 11, [2001] CIA officials have been claiming they had no direct link to bin Laden.” (Phil Gasper, International Socialist Review, November-December 2001)
Highlights
-Osama bin Laden, America’s bogyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.
-The architects of the covert operation in support of “Islamic fundamentalism” launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the “Global War on Terrorism” in the wake of 9/11.
– President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1985
-Under the Reagan adminstration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic “freedom fighters”. In today’s World, the “freedom fighters” are labelled “Islamic terrorists”.
-In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA.
-Education in Afghanistan in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war was largely secular. The US covert education destroyed secular education. The number of CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000.
The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda.
The Pakistani military regime played from the outset in the late 1970s, a key role in the US sponsored military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan. In the post-Cold war era, this central role of Pakistan in US intelligence operations was extended to the broader Central Asia- Middle East region. From the outset of the Soviet Afghan war in 1979, Pakistan under military rule actively supported the Islamic brigades. In close liaison with the CIA, Pakistan’s military intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), became a powerful organization, a parallel government, wielding tremendous power and influence.
America’s covert war in Afghanistan, using Pakistan as a launch pad, was initiated during the Carter administration prior to the Soviet “invasion”:
“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.” (Former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, 15-21 January 1998)
In the published memoirs of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who held the position of deputy CIA Director at the height of the Soviet Afghan war, US intelligence was directly involved from the outset, prior to the Soviet invasion, in channeling aid to the Islamic brigades.
Robert Gates
With CIA backing and the funneling of massive amounts of U.S. military aid, the Pakistani ISI had developed into a “parallel structure wielding enormous power over all aspects of government”. (Dipankar Banerjee, “Possible Connection of ISI With Drug Industry”, India Abroad, 2 December 1994). The ISI had a staff composed of military and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents and informers, estimated at 150,000. (Ibid)
Meanwhile, CIA operations had also reinforced the Pakistani military regime led by General Zia Ul Haq:
“Relations between the CIA and the ISI had grown increasingly warm following [General] Zia’s ouster of Bhutto and the advent of the military regime. … During most of the Afghan war, Pakistan was more aggressively anti-Soviet than even the United States. Soon after the Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1980, Zia [ul Haq] sent his ISI chief to destabilize the Soviet Central Asian states. The CIA only agreed to this plan in October 1984.” (Ibid)
Richard,
I agree with your analysis of U.S. power and the constraints upon it, which is what makes your conflation of my views with Abe Rene’s egregious line of PR so bizarre.
‘Only Iceland has no army, a reflection of the fact that its resources of ice and larva are not much coveted.’
Iceland has recently put out about 100 exploration licences covering 40,000sq km of ocean.
the Corporation of the City of London, is virtually a self regulating and selfserving parasitic organisation so called this financial center has turned into into a self-regulating state like the Vatican.(ofocurse for the anglosaxon protestants only God is money and nothing else.).
The ruthless advantage-seeking was racheted up around 1980 and it may have been inspired by the fact that insiders in Lloyd’s of London were facing bankruptcy, conspired to offload their losses onto 34,000 foreigners and women and got away with it.
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A perfect example…I watched the show “Reaper” this last year. In one episode the devil is running a company whose business is the corruption of souls. When explaining to his son how his business works, this is his exact quote…
“Did you know, beginning in the late 19th century, corporations were granted all the rights of the individual, but none of the annoying responsibilities. They lack, almost by design, any kind of moral compass, conscience, or compassion. Basically, corporations are a way to enact sociopathic behavior on a grand scale. In short, they’re what makes this country so damn great.” this is what is called so called democracy in entgland-a corportocracy which has been exported all over to the benefit of parasitic english race.
In the USA, sociopathology is a prevalent cultural, economic and political value; it has long been one. It’s a “hereditary trait” from Mother England.
How the enlgish race conspired to kill Lincoln in USA.
see this theme
published in The London Times in 1865:
“If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”
Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. According to historian W. Cleon Skousen:
“Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln’s brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.”
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Lincoln won the civil war by ignoring international bankers(controlled by London) and printing his own, interest-free, money.
By April 1862 $449,338,902 of debt free money had been printed and distributed. He said:
“We gave the people of this republic the greatest blessing they ever
had, their own paper money to pay their own debts”.
The Times was incensed. In that same year it wrote:
“If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture,
then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will
pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all
countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe”.
By 2001 there were only 7 nations left without a (Rothschild-controlled) central bank. These were: Afghanistan: Iraq; Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba and Libya.
Note that by 2003 that number was reduced to five. By the end of this year it may be down to three. Note also the extraordinary coincidence between not being in debt to international banksters and being labelled an “axis of evil”
“In the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln’s defeat of the London-backed slave-holders’ Confederate insurrection, the London-linked New York faction of U.S. finance unleashed a predatory looting of the physical assets of the territory formerly ruled by the defeated Confederacy. That operation, which was described then as “carpetbagging,” is a term that pointed to the style of the personal baggage, in which the travelling, locust-like predators carried their personal effects.
When this English edition of Professor Stanislav Menshikov’s book has been printed, Russia’s President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will have delivered his landmark May 10, 2006 “state of the union” address. The President’s address will have marked the probable close of what had been the demographically murderous, greatest carpetbagging swindle in history. The carpetbagging which Professor Menshikov’s book describes, is the post-1989 looting of the territory of the former Soviet Union, a looting that, in fact, has also been the predatory ruin of most of the East European territory of the Comecon outside Russia then and now.
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German labour minister Franz Muentefering has compared hedge and other speculative funds to locusts ravaging fragile economies and enterprises for short-term gains.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
Carroll Quigley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
quote “Writings on the Anglo-American elite
Quigley became well known among those who believe that there is an international conspiracy to bring about a one-world government. In his 1966 book, Tragedy and Hope, he based his analysis on his extensive research in the closely-held papers of an Anglo-American elite organization,[citation needed] to which he was given access.[citation needed] According to Quigley, the U.S. and UK governments were secretly controlled through a series of Round Table Groups, the group in the U.S. being the Council on Foreign Relations.[citation needed] He contended that both the Republican and Democratic parties were controlled by an “international Anglophile network” that shaped elections.
The Anglo-American Establishment was not published until 1982, five years after Quigley’s death, because of its controversial material:[citation needed] several publishers would not publish it when it was written in 1949, but the manuscript was found after his death on the Island of Rhodes.[citation needed]
The book argues that the real motive of Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler was to instigate a war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union; by deliberately encouraging and assisting in Germany’s efforts to expand in the east so that Germany could have a common frontier with the Soviet Union.
He also claimed that Alfred Milner was the chief author of the the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
C
how britian and usa looted Japan in late 80s and 90s and how they are trying to trick chinse into the same trap,but hopefully chinse are cleverer to have realised the shcmeing of thse anglos thives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
Carroll Quigley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
quote “Writings on the Anglo-American elite
Quigley became well known among those who believe that there is an international conspiracy to bring about a one-world government. In his 1966 book, Tragedy and Hope, he based his analysis on his extensive research in the closely-held papers of an Anglo-American elite organization,[citation needed] to which he was given access.[citation needed] According to Quigley, the U.S. and UK governments were secretly controlled through a series of Round Table Groups, the group in the U.S. being the Council on Foreign Relations.[citation needed] He contended that both the Republican and Democratic parties were controlled by an “international Anglophile network” that shaped elections.
The Anglo-American Establishment was not published until 1982, five years after Quigley’s death, because of its controversial material:[citation needed] several publishers would not publish it when it was written in 1949, but the manuscript was found after his death on the Island of Rhodes.[citation needed]
The book argues that the real motive of Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler was to instigate a war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union; by deliberately encouraging and assisting in Germany’s efforts to expand in the east so that Germany could have a common frontier with the Soviet Union.
He also claimed that Alfred Milner was the chief author of the the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
Critics assailed Quigley for his approval of the goals (though not the tactics) of the Anglo-American elite, while selectively using his information and analysis as evidence for their views.[citation needed] “”
Indians starving but the traitor american agent unelelcted priome nsiter of india bastard manmohan singh the vulgar is fiddling –
South Asia
Sep 11, 2010
<A India’s food inflation hardens
By Kunal Kumar Kundu
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– Despite much talk by Indian ministers and policymakers of easing food price inflation, the food price index (which has a weighting of over 15% in the wider wholesale price index) rose at an annual rate of 11.47% in the week ending August 28, increasing from 10.86% the previous week. This is nothing short of catastrophic for Indians, and particularly for the poor.
For a better perspective, it is important for readers to know that a of calculating poverty (as suggested by Professor Suresh Tendulkar) recently pegged India’s poor population at a remarkable 37% plus (a 10% jump from the previously stated official number).
considers the fact that at the time of India’s independence, India’s total population was 330 million, it’s quite shocking to think that the equivalent of the whole of independent [COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]India[/COLOR][/COLOR] is poor.
It is also clear that inequality in the Indian society has gone up manifold. The best way to understand this is by looking at India’s Gini coefficient. The coefficient, a widely used measure of a country’s inequality of income or wealth, ranges between 0 and 1, where 0 implies perfect equality and 1 connotes total inequality.
According to International Monetary Fund estimates based on NSSO (National Sample Survey Organization) data, whereas India’s Gini coefficient was at one time declining steadily, it rose (that is, inequalities worsened) during the reform period following the mid-1990s and the rise was quite substantial.
It is also important to note that poverty in India is very different from the notion of poverty in the West, where numerous state agencies and benefits can ameliorate conditions for even the most poor. In India, with such a high level of abject poverty, rising inflation will result in more incidences of malnutrition, stunted growth and death.
A deeper look into the reason for the spurt in food inflation shows that a contributing factor was the loss of production in some goods due to flooding in parts of the country.
That brings to the fore a basic question. How does the government expect a good harvest to bring down inflation? Time and again, I have talked about various inadequacies – read structural deficits – plaguing the food [COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]network[/COLOR][/COLOR], created by inadequate investment in agriculture, an abysmal distribution mechanism, horrific storage facilities and so forth. Together, these stubbornly ensure a high food price.
Only when the monsoon is really adequate (when the deviation in spatial distribution is less) is there enough production to give some relief. This year, the government is playing the normal monsoon card to persuade people that food inflation will soon be under control. I question the very concept of a “normal” monsoon.
As was mentioned in my previous article, quite a few Indian states are suffering from drought while others suffer flooding. (See Sheen wearing off Indian growth, [COLOR=green ! important][COLOR=green ! important]Asia[/COLOR][/COLOR] Times Online, September 3, 2010). Put another way, there is a highly insufficient monsoon in some states and a much more than desired monsoon in others. Statistically, India will still have average monsoon. But ask the farmers impacted either way.
Yet, the government is optimistic that a bumper food crop will bring down inflation levels. The fact is, by the time it should have had some impact, In
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Alfred: It is your comments which are egregious – about the excellent American electoral system. It works and delivers a result in keeping with the wishes of the voters. As for the quotation from Karl (not Carl) Rove, he spoke in 2002. I suspect that he would speak differently now. I suspect he would agree with me, that invasion, being as expensive as it is, is a last resort and needs detailed planning about the aftermath, and no-one has the resources to invade all dictatorships.
Abe: You are incredibly simplistic when it comes to American politics, and it appears you know next to nothing about how elections (and politicians) are bought, or how elections are conducted. You obviously know little about the staggering ignorance of Americans in general, and how appallingly badly they are served by their press (the only “industry” granted specific mention as being constitutionally protected). Have you even heard of the “Citizens United Vs the Federal Election commission” case, let alone understood what that means? I’m not trying to insult you, but you should have some idea of what you’re sticking up for, when you call on one country to invade another and overturn that people’s free choice.
You don’t seem to understand Venezuela is a democracy, probably because that wonderful free press keeps lying and calling Chavez a dictator (so has the BBC from time to time). Are you going to keep side-stepping this point?
Strange that you think capitalism and totalitarian communism are opposites, and confuse capitalism with democracy. You might want to review such assumptions with such examples as China and Singapore, which are most definitely capitalist but most definitely not democracies.
Don’t you find it odd that China – a filthy dictatorship with an appalling human rights record, is granted “Most favoured nation status” by the US? Ah – it’s just the _little_ countries that the world super-bully likes to pick on for spurious reasons, of course. And people like you think it’s just dandy. Amazing.
Alfred; in an attempt to (somehow, for some reason) prove that Ireland is a military power, you cited the CIA factbook. dreoilin’s response, citing the same source, stands, I feel:
I see our spending is 139th out of the 174 listed, and is less than Madagascar. Harrr!
avatar singh: please stop posting all that crap. Do you think for a moment anyone is actually reading it?
Instead of reproducing a badly written website here a couple of thousand words at a time, kindly just reference the site and have done. What good do you think you are achieving with all that racist garbage?
“kindly just reference the site and have done”
I agree that this would, in cases like this, be a more constructive way of doing things. Unfortunately, the site’s set up to take a negative view of posted links. A lot of sites seem to, I’m not quite sure I understand why – something to do with the advertising robots ?
Me, I think he’s making a bid to replace tony_opmoc.
Glenn: the American system relies on freedom of the press and to vote, and that is why it works, and works well, even though common human motives (wealth, power, status) exist for politicians in any system. Venezuela is showing signs of drifting away from democracy towards Communism such as a decrease in freedom of the press and an increase in friendship with Communist Cuba, and if they go all the way, then they will have to be stopped. If I held that capitalism and democracy were straight synonyms, I would not call socialist Sweden a true democracy, nor suggest to Americans that mixing a measure of socialism into capitalism would be good for them.
Technicolor said,
“Alfred; in an attempt to (somehow, for some reason) prove that Ireland is a military power, you cited the CIA factbook.”
What’s wrong with the data in the CIA World Fact Book?
It’s their secret intelligence reports that are all crap — you know, about Saddam’s nukular weapons via their trust agent Curve Ball.
The public stuff has to be accurate or they’d look stupid.
Ah, now, I don’t think it’s fair to blame ‘Curveball’ on the CIA ? The stories I’ve read seem to indicate that they were the ones who kept yelling bullshit and trying to get his stuff taken out of the reports.
“Ah, now, I don’t think it’s fair to blame ‘Curveball’ on the CIA ? The stories I’ve read seem to indicate that they were the ones who kept yelling bullshit and trying to get his stuff taken out of the reports.”
Yeah, you may be right.
Curve Ball.
It don’t sound right, somehow. Not really professional.
“Curve Ball.
It don’t sound right, somehow. Not really professional”
I’d like to know who awarded it to him, I can’t help wondering if it was a Clue.
Abe: Your ‘Reader’s Digest’ level of sophistication concerning US politics/elections does not do the subject justice. Simplistic, sweeping assertions “it works and works well” etc. are hardly worth a reply, frankly. I’d suggest you do some proper reading up on it, beginning with how the Supreme Court put Dubya Bush in the White House, instead of the guy who actually won the most votes, Al Gore.
I like how you ignore _real_ commie bastards like China, and _real_ filthy dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the _real_ totalitarian monsters running Uzbekistan and Burma, and instead it’s Chevez and Cuba that actually get you all worked up. Likewise, the US either ignores them or treats them as their best mates.
That’s because countries like Cuba and Venezuela do look after their poor as best they can – the other countries I mentioned torture, murder and imprison anyone they don’t like. But they don’t seem to bother you or the US. Isn’t that odd? Well, not if (a) they are a powerful country like China (in which case the principle, ehem, can be overlooked). or (b) they are a convenient ally, or (c) they don’t have resources that the US wants to plunder.
But Cuba and Venezuela are actually threats because they provide a working example of how much can be done for the poor with relatively little. But never mind that! Just be a Good German, and remember the old adage that any excuse will do for a tyrant, and a tyrant the US most certainly is.