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Turkey, Russia & Syria Cooperate To Establish De-escalation Zone in Idlib

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Yes, on top of the two previous posts of today- I've got a third.

Give the interview a listen:
Conjuring Hitler: How Britain & America Made the Third Reich

Read about the unsigned deal between Russia and the US for Southwestern Syria- I'm waiting to see what Israel gets out of this ! 
US & Russia Agree To Ceasefire in Southwest Syria: Lavrov

Then read this item from Janes:

Key Points

  • Turkey is likely to seek a leading role in enforcing a future de-escalation zone in Idlib province to ensure its Syrian proxies are represented in Syria's post-war governance, albeit as part of a broader agreement with the Syrian government, mediated by Russia.  
  • The de-escalation zone is likely to come in conjunction with an eventual offensive by the Syrian government in Idlib province, aimed at destroying the Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist opposition coalition, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), although this is likely only after pro-Syrian government forces have stabilised other higher priority fronts, including Deir al-Zour, on the River Euphrates.
  • A Turkish Idlib intervention would probably avoid directly targeting HTS, given the risk of this triggering a jihadist insurgency inside Turkey. 
Head back to the post from earlier this week!

Ankara's Offer to Moscow or Vice Versa: Afrin for Idlib/Idlib for Afrin

 It's clear that Russia and loyalists of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are preparing for a major offensive at Idlib, as they did in Aleppo. They are telling the groups at Idlib, basically, “You have to decide if you are moderates or radicals. If you are moderates, you can either leave Idlib or comply with the rules of de-escalation. If you don’t leave Idlib and refuse to heed the rules of de-escalation, then you are terrorists and deserve to be eliminated.”
Moscow now needs the area Turkey is preparing in the Jarablus/al-Bab/al-Rai triangle for the moderates and their families who will leave Idlib. Russia also needs a reliable mediator in its relations with the groups at Idlib. Ankara can definitely be of great help in this.
  So a federalized Syria? Or a balkanized Syria? It could go either way.

Putin Notes Serious Headway On Syrian Settlement, Thanks To Turkey

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I've mentioned on more then one occasion the cooperation between Turkey and Russia with regard to Syria- Most others have not. Relinking a number of posts regarding the cooperation between Russia and Turkey with regard to the taking back of Aleppo and other cooperative endeavours, not including Astana specifically. Though there are posts here covering Astana talks
 
1-Russia and Turkey Plot The Endgame in Aleppo

2-This Is The End Of Syria (?)

3-You may also want to look at the article written by Ollie Richardson from StalkerZone.orgsubject of the post before this one: Erdogan Declares War on Syria or Just More Sensationalist Spin from Alt Media Analysts

 " Russia’s agreement with Turkey involving the latter’s entrance in the Syrian theatre did not provisionally include any definite red lines. Thus, these lines will be drawn in the sand where ever and when ever it is deemed necessary"

Onto the latest news from Tass 

Erdogan & Putin at G-20


HAMBURG, July 8. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has noted a serious headway made in the area of Syrian settlement and fighting terrorism in the country, particularly thanks to the Turkish leadership.
At a meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G20 summit in HamburgPutin said that "very much has been made recently both to expand bilateral relationship and solve a number of problems of interest for us.""Thanks in no small part to your position, Mr. President, the situation in Syria has been substantially turned around as heavy losses have been inflicted on terrorist groups over this period of time, and the settlement has largely forged ahead,"he said to Erdogan on Saturday.
"We highly appreciate your position and the position of all your colleagues, our partners within the negotiation process,"Putin added and proposed to discuss the whole range of Russian-Turkish relations at the meeting.
According to Turkish President, the joint efforts of Moscow and Ankara"are a clear example for the peoples of the region and for all countries around the world."
"The expectations are really high," Erdogan said, adding that much is being contributed to the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey as well.
The Turkish President also said that he considers the meeting with President Putin within the G20 summit to be very important. "I would like to thank you for the role you have been playing (in the Syrian settlement) from my country and personally from me,"Erdogan told Putin.
 In the context of Idlib:

PKK/YPG To “Impose Tax System” in Rojova aka Annexed Syrian Territory

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The Rojava self-administration in the Cizire canton in northern Syria has started to implement a tax income law to support public services in the region, local sources reported.

The tax income will go to support institutions and public services in Cizire canton–Hasakah province.

According to the pro-Rojava administration news agency ANHA, the tax income will be used in support of the health and education services, and to enhance the local security system and to back women rights.

The move only includes the Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria.

According to the local administration, tax laws exist everywhere in the world to back public services in the country.

Every citizen that earns a maximum income of 100,000 Syrian pound (around 200 dollar) per month will be taxed.
Most likely this will include 75 per cent of all citizens of the Cizire canton.

From Mosul to Tal Afar & Raqqa to Palmyra: Pushing Forward With Plans

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There’s a rumour going round that Mosul was taken back from ISIS.  At least the Iraqis are claiming they have successfully taken back Mosul. The US was a whole lot quieter about this alleged victory. Why might that be?  Might it have something to do with this victory, not, being one truly accepted by the US? Because it doesn’t fit cards they are playing?

WaPo is reporting, today, that fighting is continuing to clear ISIS out of Mosul
Iraqi troops fight to clear IS from last patch of Mosul: July 10/2017
Certainly not a celebratory headline.


So what is going on? Here’s what I think. ISIS, (aka Sunni Kurds/some Sunni Arabs, US special forces and mercenaries) which hasn’t been in Mosul, in any substantive form for quite a while has moved on to the next location of targeting. What has been actually going on in Mosul is the same as is ongoing in Raqqa- Ethnic cleansing and population displacement for the regional remake. Where did ISIS go when it left Mosul enabling an Iraqi victory that is not recognized by the US?

Very conveniently ISIS headed to Tal Afar from Mosul.


Islamic State moves to alternative headquarters in Tal Afar- Iraq News
In late June, a top leader in the town declared during a a sermon of Friday prayer that the town(Tal Afar)  has become a temporary headquarter for the Caliphate.

 Islamic State has considered Tal Afar town, located west of Mosul, as an alternative headquarters for its main departments, after admitting its defeat in Mosul.

A source was quoted last week as saying that non-Iraqi IS militants executed the last local leader in Tal Afar and the town is currently run by Arab and foreign members after eliminating all the Iraqi leaders.
AlSumaria News quoted a source as saying that “IS issued a brief statement in Tal Afar announcing that all the IS departments are working through alternative headquarters at Tal Afar, which indicates the group’s defeat.”

Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.
“IS admitted its loss at its last stronghold in Mosul’s Old City after a battle between its militants against security troops,” the anonymous source added.

“The shock caused by losing the Old City was hard as the militants used to call it as Baghdadi’s [the group’s supreme leader] strongest lair in Mosul for the many Arab and foreign militants and suicide attackers there,” the source added.

This move by so called ISIS from Mosul to Tal Afar mirrors the move of ISIS from  from Raqqa to Palmyra.  Can that be a coincidence? I think not!

Recall this news?

1-US/Kurds Do Damage Control After Russian Outing of Terrorist Collusion
“the Kurds in cooperation with U.S forces are setting corridors to allow terrorists move towards Palmyra and other towns controlled by the Syrian government”

“Militants seem to have been trying to use the corridors set by the U.S. to leave for Palmyra when they were hit by Russian jets”

‘for unimpeded withdrawal on the condition they will head towards Palmyra"

2-YPG/PKK to Move on Raqqa- Tribulation for Civilians to Follow

We need to consider why it is that ISIS headed to these two locations in Iraq and Syria?
 

Why has the US led coalition including it’s PKK/YPG allies given ISIS the free pass to head from Mosul, Iraq to Tal Afar, Iraq. 

While in Syria these same allies, who are supposed to be fighting ISIS, allow ISIS to leave Raqqa, Syria and head to Palmyra, Syria.
The answer lies in the fact these US proxies are simply moving onto the next battle front. It’s a progression of a planned action. They are advancing the goal.  To understand that, you should read..

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“Fabrice Balanche, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute, told Al-Monitor, The geopolitical importance of eastern Syria is twofold; two-thirds of Syrian oil is located in the area, which is also rich in gas resources. The region is also a pathway for Iran to Syria via Iraq, through the Sinjar-Tal Afar-Hasakah axis in the north and through the Palmyra axis in the south.”

Considering, reality, it IS NOT a coincidence that so called ISIS was allowed to leave Mosul and Raqqa and move onto two extremely strategic locations in Iraq and Syria. Tal Afar and Palmyra. We also should take note that the PKK/YPG are the controlling parties in Sinjar and Hasakah.

“Balanche said economic calculations for the Syrian regime, besides the oil and gas, include reopening important trade routes such as the highway linking Baghdad to Damascus”

It is literally a race for resources, territory and trade/transit routes. And, ISIS is conveniently set to appear at both locales.
That is not a coincidence and I am not a coincidence theorist.


PKK/YPG To “Impose Tax System” in Rojova aka Annexed Syrian Territory

UN Warns On Syrian Partition Risk- PKK/YPG Terrorists go to Washington

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 Sorry folks, this was yesterday's post- but- we're doing home reno work. Do it yourself, saves lots of money, but takes up time.

UN lauds truce in Syria, but warns on partition risk
Reuters
Agreements to de-escalate the fighting in Syria could simplify the conflict and help to stabilise the country, but such accords must be an interim measure and avoid partition, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference yesterday.
Federalization, then?
Speaking at the start of five days of peace talks in Geneva, de Mistura said discussions were being held in Amman to monitor implementation of a ceasefire for southwest Syria brokered by the United States and Russia, the first peacemaking effort of the war by the US government under President Donald Trump.
“When two superpowers...agree fundamentally at that level in trying to make that ceasefire work, there is a strong chance that that will take place,” he said.
So far, the agreement that went into force mid-day on Sunday was broadly holding, he added.
He also struck a positive note on ceasefire talks in the Kazakh capital Astana last week, which failed to agree on a monitoring mechanism for a Russian-Iranian-Turkish de-escalation deal but produced a lot of work “in the right direction”.  
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Turkey discussing a particular problem area yesterday, the rebel-held town of Idlib in Syria, de Mistura said, adding that it was a deal that “could almost have been announced”.  
The world was perhaps witnessing the simplifying phase of the most complex conflict of our time, the veteran mediator said, adding that de-escalation of the war must be an interim phase and not undermine Syria’s territorial integrity. It should lead rapidly to a stabilisation phase, he said. 
Asked if the war was ending after almost six and a half years and hundreds of thousands of deaths, de Mistura said several stars were aligning — on the ground, regionally and internationally.
“In that sense...there is a higher potential than we are seeing in the past for progress.”
De Mistura said he was not expecting breakthroughs in this week’s talks.
YPG/PKK Go to Washington: More Terrorists in DC? Sure, they're in good company!

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According to information ANF obtained from SDF sources, a representative of the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces will attend the anti-ISIS Coalition meeting to be held in Washington on 11-13 July with the participation of representatives from 70 countries.

The meeting to be hosted by Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, will handle the struggle strategies in the wake of the defeat of ISIS in Mosul and Raqqa.

Brett McGurk- Yeah,  we've all read plenty about him.
Recall this one?  Brett McGurk as Lawrence of Kurdistan


In the eyes of some angry Turkish officials, McGurk’s role in all this somewhat resembles the role of TS Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia, 100 years ago. Some see McGurk as a kind of “Lawrence of Kurdistan.” 

Chasing Profits the Pope’s Hospital Puts Children At Risk

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His fake saintliness walk and talk don’t align- Big surprise- NOT!
WaPo
ROME — Doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase pediatric hospital were angry: Corners were being cut. Safety protocols were being ignored. And sick children were suffering.
The Vatican’s response was swift. A secret three-month Vatican-authorized investigation in early 2014 gathered testimony and documentation from dozens of current and former staff members and confirmed that the mission of “the pope’s hospital” had been lost and was “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children.”
What happened next surprised many involved: The report was never made public. While some of the recommendations were implemented, others were not. And the Vatican commissioned a second inquiry in 2015 that — after a three-day hospital visit — concluded nothing was amiss after all.
The Vatican covered up for their own malfeasance- Typical globalist behaviour.
An Associated Press investigation has found that Bambino Gesu (Baby Jesus) Pediatric Hospital, a cornerstone of Italy’s health care system, did indeed shift its focus in ways big and small under its past administration. Under leadership that governed from 2008 to 2015, the hospital expanded services and tried to make a money-losing Vatican enterprise turn a profit — and children sometimes paid the price.
Among the AP’s findings:
— Overcrowding and poor hygiene contributed to deadly infection, including one 21-month superbug outbreak in the cancer ward that killed eight children.
— To save money, disposable equipment and other materials were at times used improperly, with a one-time order of cheap needles breaking when injected into tiny veins.
Doctors were so pressured to maximize operating-room turnover that patients were sometimes brought out of anesthesia too quickly.

Some of the issues — such as early awakening and the focus on profits — had been identified in 2014 by the Vatican-authorized task force of current and former hospital doctors, nurses, administrators and outsiders. The AP corroborated those findings through interviews with more than a dozen current and former Bambino Gesu employees, as well as patients, their families and health officials. The AP reviewed medical records, civil court rulings, hospital and Vatican emails, and five years of union complaints.
On Monday, the hospital denied the AP’s findings and threatened legal action. It called the AP report a “hoax” that “contained false, dated and gravely defamatory accusations and conjectures that had been denied by an independent report of the Holy See.” It cited its reputation as a center of excellence. It draws top-notch surgeons to work there and celebrity visits, including one by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump in May.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke acknowledged the Vatican had investigated staff complaints and said it welcomes efforts to improve care, “including reports of practices that might be below standard.”
“No hospital is perfect, but it is false and unjust to suggest that there are serious threats to the health of children at Bambino Gesu,” he said.
Both the Vatican and Bambino Gesu pointed to the Vatican’s second investigation, led by American Catholic health care expert Sister Carol Keehan, as evidence that all of the allegations — except one involving space constraints — were false.
“While there are many things we could have missed or been misled about, we came away from this evaluation with a real sense that on the major charges and the major issues alleged, we have been able to disprove them,” Keehan’s report said.
The Vatican’s first investigator, though, fully stood by the findings he delivered to the Vatican in 2014.
“What we wrote in that report was the exact truth,” Dr. Steven Masotti said in a June 2 telephone interview. He said the hospital has its problems but that overall it has “very good standards.”
Facts are hard to come by in the secretive halls of Bambino Gesu, which does not make public financial details or publish its mortality and infection rates. Perched on a Roman hillside just up the road from Vatican City, the private hospital sits on Holy See territory and enjoys the same extraterritorial status as a foreign embassy — making the Italian taxpayer-funded institution immune to the surprise inspections other Italian hospitals undergo. (convenient) It is financed by Italy’s public health system, but its main campus isn’t even technically in Italy.
There is no indication that the Vatican ever shared the results of either in-house investigation with the Italian health ministry, which in its 2015 recertification of its research activities reported that the hospital offered quality care “in such a way that assumes characteristics of excellence.” Provided with AP’s findings in December, the health ministry promised to investigate.
“If this is true, a myth has fallen,” the ministry’s then-spokesman Fabio Mazzeo said. “We have to verify.” Mazzeo’s successor, reached in June, said he had no further information, saying the hospital belongs to the Vatican.
All of the hospital employees who talked to the AP spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing they would lose their jobs if their names were used. Out of concern for the children, they said, they broke what the hospital’s union has called the “omerta,” the Italian code of silence.
Staff members told AP that some of the conditions they first reported in early 2014 have improved since the surprise resignation of Bambino Gesu’s president in 2015. The new administration, they said, focuses less on volume and shows more respect for protocols.
But some of the task force’s most important recommendations have not been implemented, including the replacement of the medical director. And in its July 2016 newsletter, the hospital’s main union said problems remain.
“Ten years ago, the ERs were jammed and they still are. Ten years ago, patients waited on stretchers and they still do. Ten years ago you entered with one illness and left with two hospital infections, and still do,” it wrote. “What has changed in 10 years? The machines are better, the pharmaceuticals are better, but the level of care is not.”
Pope Francis himself used the occasion of a 2016 Christmas audience with thousands of hospital staff members and patients to exhort Bambino Gesu not to fall prey to corruption, which he called the “greatest cancer” that can strike a hospital.
“Bambino Gesu has had a history that hasn’t always been good,” the pope said, jettisoning his prepared remarks to decry the temptation to “transform a good thing like a children’s hospital into a business, and make a business where doctors become businessmen and nurses become businessmen, everyone’s a businessman!”
“Look at the children,” Francis said in Italian, pointing to the young patients gathered at his feet in the Vatican auditorium. “And let each one of us think: ‘Can I make corrupt business off these children? No!’”
Apparently Pope Francis is alright with making corrupt business off of sick children....
Walk your talk. Walk your talk!

From earlier:

UN Warns On Syrian Partition Risk- PKK/YPG Terrorists go to Washington

Antarctic Ice Breaks Away. Natural Phenomena- Demonize “Climate Deniers”

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No one denies climate. Making the "climate denier" label, completely and utterly absurd. But, the climate cult adherents don't let that fact interfere with their attempt at perception management.

 One should always expect that a natural occurrence of any sort will be spun by Climate Cult and it’s indoctrinated followers- Weather as a weapon, works in more then one way. Natural, normal weather/climactic/geographic occurrences and patterns can always be spun as something tied to “human induced climate change”

  In fact “human induced” itself is a spin term often employed in several different ways.
Human induced. Human caused. Human forced.  Chose your label depending on the concept of severity one wishes to present to the sucker audience. I’m so tired of people who will not take a few minutes to look further then headlines. You annoy me!

I’m going to give you all a direct quote from a glaciologist associated with the Midas Project. The team that has been monitoring this situation

Project Midas


Dr Martin O’Leary, a Swansea University glaciologist and member of the MIDAS project team, said of the recent calving:
“Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position.This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history. We’re going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable.”
 Repeating..........
“Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change......
 Natural event- Not aware of any link to AGW

Professor Adrian Luckman of Swansea University, lead investigator of the MIDAS project, said:
“We have been anticipating this event for months, and havebeen surprised how long it took for the rift to break through the final few kilometres of ice.
Luckman "surprised how long it took for the rift to break through the final kilometres of ice" 

NASA Suomi VIIRS panchromatic image from July 12 2017, confirming the calving

If the planet was warming, one would have thought the length of time would be shorter but it wasn't -It was surprisingly long

 And despite the claims of the always lying media, sea levels are NOT going to rise. 

The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes), but it was already floating before it calved away so hasno immediate impact on sea level. 
Displacement- Ice in your glass, does not overflow your drink, as it melts.

The lying just never stops when an agenda is being pushed. It's all lies and spin all the time.
Read the article entirely, I've saved it in my blog file.

One last item of interest from the article:

 Whilst this new iceberg will not immediately raise sea levels,  (speculation- fear/fear/fear)if the shelf loses much more of its area, it could result in glaciers that flow off the land behind speeding up their passage towards the ocean. This non-floating ice would have an eventual impact on sea levels, but only at a very modest rate.
My understanding of the ice on the land is it adds to the weight of the land, sort of compressing it downwards, already displacing the surrounding waters- hope I'm explaining that correctly? Displacement, again.  Which is why we have the statement of IF land based glaciers flowed into the ocean their impact on sea levels would be "only at a very modest rate"

I don't enjoy being lied to. Nor should you. Ever. 

Adding an insight from Gallier2

One of the lies they always peddle when hyping up the calving of these Antarctic ics shelves (and Greenland shelves) is that they are accelerating, i.e. there are more than before, and that it is a sign of ice loss. This is completely bogus: growing inland glaciers, because they accumulate more ice will of course push more ice outward, which will of course make more icebergs at the edges. It's like piling sand, the more sand I throw on my pile, the more sand will go outwards.
So, when calving increases it is a sign that ice is GROWING.

The Kurds: Washington’s Weapons of Mass Destabilization....

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Sarah Abed is writing a three part series analyzing the roles some Kurdish fighters have played in destabilizing the region- OJD left the link to her first part and Sarah was kind enough to stop by and share some thoughts.

Our exchange is below:
Penny, I hear you dear... the mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion that is involved in this thankless service that we provide, can be overwhelming more often than not. Thank you OJD for linking my article and site. I greatly appreciate it.

Penny, I can pretty much predict at this point the names I will be called based on the subject matter in my article. Yesterday and today I am an Iranian spy. A few days ago..I was a Russian something or other.. and I pretty much get called an Assadist/Assad apologist on the daily. Although I have absolutely no political affiliations with anyone or anything here or abroad.

Being anti-imperialism, anti-war, anti-corruption, anti-propaganda etc. might sound fun and is certainly good on paper. But one discovers pretty quickly that you need to have tough skin in order to deal with the incredible amount of injustice you will experience as a result of writing the unadulterated truth. The costs that we pay are sometimes quite expensive, but I am sure you will agree that, there is nothing that could stop us from doing this. It simply is part of who we are, woven into the very fabric of our being.

If even one person starts to question some of the official narratives, it's well worth it.

Part II will be out soon so keep an eye out for it. I haven't added part I to my site yet but all III parts will be on Mint Press News and also my website at some point.

Take care everyone and keep trekking on,

Penny, OJD, Papa and Anonymous
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Thank You very much for stopping by Sarah. I can't even express to you how wonderful it was to read your comment.

I read your part 1 and want to feature it relinked to some of the relevant posts containing related information. And I will do it over the next couple days,hopefully? I've fallen behind due to home reno work

Name calling is always a sign of weakness. I know this. But when it is read by others it influences those with weak minds.

I've been called an Assad apologist. A Kurd hater. I'm "irrational" and "unhinged" when it comes to the Kurdish proxies of the US. A colonialist. An Israeli sycophant. An Erdogan apologist. And apparently I am on the payroll of Assad and Erdogan, both simultaneously. Oh and I was banned at a so called anti empire site called Moon of Alabama, who, disallowed a comment regarding US support of PKK and then banned me from the site

But despite all that...here I am getting to the truth as best as possible using my reasoning skills and years and years of geo political knowledge

You're quite correct if even one person starts to question some of these official narratives it's worth it.

More importantly, I have to live with myself, and I can't live with me if I'm lying or giving cover to that power which is destroying myself, my family, via the destruction of humanity and the earth.

You take care also Sarah- thanks again for stopping by and I look forward to the next two parts :)
I’ve read the first part of Sarah’s work- And will be featuring excerpts of her work, alongside links back to previous posting I've done on related topics. 

Briefly:

Sarah talks about the romanticization of these terrorist proxies. It is this romanticization, a fictional narrative, I’m sadly familiar with and have worked hard to dispel, at a cost to my self and the blog. Many of my readers didn’t want to read truth about their idols. Those they had idealized. In the early days of my writing about the Kurdish proxies readership dropped off.. And it never recovered. Somehow people had been made to believe the YPG/PKK were fighting FOR, on behalf of, Syria. This was absurd. It was never the case. These kurdish militias have always been backed by the US/UK/Israel axis of evil for a variety of reasons. The US employed them, always, to keep Turkey in check. The US colluded alongside them to take down Saddam Hussein. The US has plotted with them from the get go to destabilize Syria. These Kurds are Sunni Muslims by and large- Quite fanatical also! It’s reality time for all the‘true believers’

These same Kurds are portrayed as “victims” of the US?  Are they really? I state very clearly they are not! They benefit from their relationship with the US/Israel/UK via their criminal enterprise. They fit right into the war profiteering black market racket- The PKK and their assorted affiliates are some of the largest organized criminals on this planet. From drugs, people, human organs and blood- they smuggle it all. In the course of their criminality they reap huge profits to wage war. propaganda/PR, and grease politicians palms. There is no way in hell these thugs can engage in the level and types of criminality they do, without NATO turning a blind eye to it all.


Flashback: Three Cheers for the PKK
 

This presentation of the Kurd as the eternal victim is part and parcel of a campaign of idealization that has been promoted which not coincidentaly reeks of previous heavily applied propaganda concerning the creation of the terror state of Israel. The eternal victim status. All this alleged abuse we are supposed to believe is inflicted on those that follow the Judaic religion is the same theme presented for the Kurds. The masses are already pre-conditioned to accept this type narrative.

 The Kurdish militias know of no treachery that is to awful to participate in. That’s just a fact. I’m not talking about the regular folk who have integrated and participate in the societies in which they reside. I’m talking about the Weapons of Mass Destabilization employed in the ME and Asia.


The work of Scott at Willy Loman’s blog  will also be featured in this post. Scott has been the one and only blogger who had an understanding of what was really going on with these UK/Usrael proxies alongside myself and now finally Sarah Abed is writing about this reality also. I’ve yet to read part 2 and 3 from Sarah,  so I cannot speak to or write about their content- You’ll have to read those for yourself.


I dare say the YPG/PKK have been and continue to be the darlings of the main stream media and so called alternative "anti imperial" news sites too.
 
Sarah Abed for Mint Press News -The Kurds: Washington’s Weapon Of Mass Destabilization In The Middle East


YPG/PKK/USA
"Historical accounts of the Kurds have been a subject of mystery and perplexity for years, and have been seldom discussed by major Western media outlets until recently. Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ongoing conflict in Syria, Kurds have been romanticized by mainstream media and U.S. politicians alike to justify a Western interventionist narrative in those countries"
Flashback to some history:Conversing with Ally: Real History -Turkey, Kurds, Assyrians & more

 "In 1966, Iraqi defense minister Abd al-Aziz al-Uqayli blamed the Kurds of Iraq for seeking to establish “a second Israel” in the Middle East. He also claimed that “the West and the East are supporting the rebels to create [khalq] a new Israeli state in the north of the homeland as they had done in 1948 when they created Israel."

Flashback: Kurdistan aka “Second Israel”- Ethnic Cleansing the Indigenous of the Middle East

Flashback: The Kurds, Israel's not so improbable ally
 "For much of the conflict in Syria, several Kurdish militias have become some of the U.S.-led coalition’s closest allies within the country, receiving massive amounts of arms and heavy weapon shipments, as well as training from coalition members. Kurdish militias also dominate the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)......."
"In May, U.S. President Donald Trump approved arming Kurdish militiamen in Syria with heavy weaponry, including mortars and machine guns. Within one month of Trump’s approval, 348 trucks with military assistance had been passed to the group, Anadolu added. According to the news agency’s data, the Pentagon’s list of weapons to be delivered to the group includes 12,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 6,000 machine guns, 3,000 grenade launchers and around 1,000 anti-tank weapons of Russian or U.S. origin.





The United States’ shipments included 130 trucks, with 60 cars passing on June 5, and 20 vehicles on June 12, per Sputnik News"
 Flashback: America’s “Best Fighting Forces” Rule With an Iron Fist
"Both historical and modern day ties between Israel and the Kurds have brought benefits to both sides. In the past, Israel has obtained intelligence, as well as support, for a few thousand Jews fleeing Ba’athist Iraq. The Kurds have received security and humanitarian aid, as well as links to the outside world, especially the United States. The first official acknowledgment that Jerusalem had provided aid to the Kurds dates back to Sept. 29, 1980, when Prime Minister Menachem Begin disclosed that Israel had supported the Kurds “during their uprising against the Iraqis in 1965 to 1975” and that the United States was aware of this fact. Begin added that Israel had sent instructors and arms, but not military units"
Flashback: Jerusalem Post: Support the Kurds- Cause it's very moral...?????

I've used this exact image previously
 I hope readers understand the influence of Israeli/PKK lobbies and media in the demonization of Erdogan led Turkey via 5 eyes main stream and alternative media.
"The U.S.-led coalition of war criminals is using elements of Syria’s Kurdish population to achieve its goal of destroying the non-belligerent, democratic country of Syria, led by its popular, democratically-elected President Bashar al-Assad. Washington seeks to create sectarianism and ethnic divides in a country that, prior to the Western-launched war, had neither.
However, Kurdologists reject this characterization because it does not fit into their account of historical events that attributes a state to them at one point in time. Their estimated population is 30 million, according to most demographic sources. They also reject the idea that they are being used as pawns.
Responding to a question about where the autonomous administration would “draw the line” on U.S. support and the support of other superpowers, the co-leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), Salih Muslim Muhammad, stated “Our guarantee is our mindset. It depends on how much we educate and organize our people. If we defend our morals and ideology, then bigger powers cannot use us as pawns.”
I've never read anything historically documenting the existence of a Kurdish state.
"In today’s case, the Kurds are being used by NATO and Israel to fulfill the modern-day colonialist aim of breaking up large states like Iraq into statelets to ensure geopolitical goals. When nations are divided into smaller statelets, they are easier to conquer by foreign entities. This is a signature move that powerful imperialist nations use for the purpose of colonizing smaller and less influential nations. The Kurds have been utilized as pawns in this “divide and conquer” strategy throughout history and continue to allow themselves to be used by colonial powers"
I've stated exactly this for years. The 5 eyes alt media sites that claim to be anti imperial while venerating the Kurdish militias are obfuscating reality to cover for an imperial agenda.

 
Iraqi Kurd kissing an image of GWB- YUK!

A rough estimate found in the CIA Factbook sets the Kurdish population at 14.5 million in Turkey, 6 million in Iran, about 5 to 6 million in Iraq and less than 2 million in Syria, which adds up to close to 28 million Kurds in what they refer to as “Kurdistan” and adjacent regions.
However, other sources state that there are only about 1.2 million Kurds left in Syria due to the carefully calculated and planned imposed war by NATO and its Gulf Allies. Roughly the same number migrated to Germany during the past six years. 
 Flashback: Kurds: Betrayers Are Often Betrayed- Victims of and Parties to Conflict

It’s important to differentiate between Kurdish people who have assimilated in the countries they now reside in and reject the idea of establishing an illegal Kurdistan and those who are power hungry and are allowing themselves to team up with the West and Israel to assist in the destabilization of the region. Some Kurdish people in Syria, especially those that reside in areas that are not controlled by the Kurds, such as Damascus, are loyal to the Syrian government and have stated that they voted for Assad in 2014.
This free and democratic election saw Assad win 88.7 percent of the popular vote over the other two nominees. In the beginning of the war in Syria, there were Kurds fighting in the Syrian Arab Army, who received arms and salaries just like their Syrian counterparts. There are a small number that are still in the Syrian Arab Army in the southern Syria. But in northeastern Syria, many Kurds have defected to the U.S.-led SDF where arms, salaries, and training are provided by the U.S.  Syrians consider the Kurds who have remained loyal to Syria as their fellow Syrian brothers and sisters and the descriptions of Kurdish treachery in this article do not apply to them.

Sarah goes on to talk about the disunity among the Kurds themselves. Or as Ally states they are not "one big blob" as so many assume. This disunity has been previously discussed here. Being addressed in a particular post* explaining why the PKK was chosen as the vicious imposer of an attempt at a one state solution- It has to do with their tyrannical, abusive ways. Their ability to inflict misery and harm on the Kurds that disagree with the imperial, western agenda.

Flashback: The forgotten child soldiers recruited by Kurdish militants in Turkey and Syria

Flashback: Kurds Worried War Crimes Accusations Could Ruin Their Image

*Flashback: PKK Challenges Barzani in Iraq- One ring to rule them all?
Quoting my closing statement from that post: "It appears that the PKK is the 'unifying' force amongst the Kurds- I didn't say the agreed upon unifying force- Rather, the unifying FORCE, needed by NATO to create a Kurdish 'state' Whether or not the Kurdish population itself really wants one"

On the topic of Kurdish disunity Sarah Abed states:
 "Kurdish groups have, at times, bargained with not only their own governments but also neighboring ones – in some cases at the expense of their relations with their Kurdish brethren. The complex relationships among Kurdish groups and between the Kurds and the region’s governments have fluctuated, and alliances have formed and faltered as political conditions have changed. The Kurds’ disunity is cited by experts as one of the primary causes for their inability to form a state of their own"

The Kurds’ illegal, unjustified claims for autonomy

The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West’s persistent claim that armed Kurdish terrorist groups are trying to help Syria. The reality on the ground contradicts these empty compliments, which the West uses to save face while supporting these terrorist organizations. This false narrative was in fact used to arm the Kurds in Syria in order to create instability and division.

I will end here with excerpting from Sarah Abed's article and encourage your to read it entirely at the link. Thanks again to Sarah for her visit, her encouragement to myself and her courage in airing some of the reality around this issue in a more public manner.

Flashback: The PKK's Urban Warfare Tactics

Scott at Willy Loman's Blog has recently created a video regarding the plot to create Israel 2.0 aka Great or Greater Kurdistan, depending on the final outcome of the situation in the region of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.  Scott also wrote an interesting article to accompany his video.

Scott focuses more on Barzani, he is less of a concern in my opinion, as I see his influence waning in the region. With the UK/Usraeli 5 eyes tyranny having chosen to allow the PKK and their armed affiliates to run the show and take the power. In the video Scott entertains the thought that the creation of yet another terror state is in jeopardy. Again, my opinion differs. It appears to me that plans are moving ahead.

That all said. Scott has understood that the creation of a Kurdish state which happens to coincide with Greater Israel is actually occurring. It's the remake of the region I've spoken of on many an occasion.


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Scott's article:  The Greater Kurdistan Project and the G20 Summit: Now is the Winter of Their Discontent

Excerpt from the article:
"While discussions are being held inside the G20 Summit in Hamburg, outside Kurds are taking part in massive demonstrations. Flags of the PKK and YPG are seen moving down the street as thousands of people from all over the world march in opposition to the globalist nature of the summit.
Bijî Şoreşa Rojava” [Long Live Rojava Revolution] slogans are being chanted already in the cortage of the Kurds.
The “Rojava revolution” they are speaking of is in actually a U.S-backed destabilization campaign designed to depopulate part of Syria so it can be claimed by the Kurds as part of Greater Kurdistan, what Condi Rice was referring to all those years ago when she spoke of what was happening in Iraq (after our illegal invasion based on lies) as “the birth pangs of a New Middle East”
No revolution here; just some opportunistic Kurds trying to take advantage of the situation so they can become the next great client state of the U.S., Britain and Israel"

You can read Scott's article in it's entirety at the included link! 
In closing, yah, it's long. If you want to leave an informed comment feel free.
If I can take the time to compose it all, you can take the time to read it all. 
It's way past time to understand the Uk/Usrael is attempting a regional remake in plain site. 
Please enlighten others. The kool aid intoxication needs to cease.


"Russia and Syria Collude With Turkey" Claims Kurdish Annexer of Syrian Territory

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Mr Abdo gives us all a perfect example of "the pot calling the kettle black"
 "“a person who is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another and is thus an example of psychological projection”

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“Russians say if we allow the Syrian regime forces enter Afrin, they will stop the Turkish attacks,” Mr Abdo said.

“We drove the Syrian regime out of Afrin five years ago, and it is impossible to allow them back,” he insisted.

Mr Abdo fails to mention they, these Kurdish militias, not only drove the Syrian government and army out they also ethnically cleansed the area of actual Syrian citizens.

Pot calling the kettle black:

Mr Abdo said: “Russians and Turks want to create more chaos and disturb people’s lives and forcibly displace them.”

Mr Abdo was a-ok with displacing actual Syrian citizens- Persons actually resident in Syria at the time of the forced ethnic cleansing- What Mr Abdo implies, very clearly, is that he and his cohorts have no intention of returning the stolen land, homes and all kinds of personal possessions from those they forcibly displaced







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Notice the image of the cult leader Ocalan (big brother) right behind the Mr Abdo?
PKK all the way!

-You can read the english transcript for yourself

-And while you're at it, take a gander at the comments directly below the video

Kurdish Official States Baghdadi Alive- Win/Win for the Coalition

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Couldn’t have the Russian claim of killing Baghdadi stand!
Russia : We Might Have Killed Baghdadi 

Public Relations and Perception Management...........


Previous commentary “The US is investigating Russia's claims? I would think the US should have no doubt that Russia didn't kill Baghdadi because the US has already killed him several times.”

And sure enough some mouthpiece for the coalition is claiming that Baghdadi is still alive. He's 99% sure. Can’t have Russia usurp the psyop game. 

 I’ve not changed my mind on Baghdadi, the man doesn’t exist, however the mythology lives on.

Interesting the original Reuters article contained a photo of said Kurdish official- Which was revised to have an image of Baghdadi- Why the image change?

Lahur Talabany(i)
This article contains both images
 “A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 percent sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after reports that he had been killed.

"Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he is alive," Lahur Talabany told Reuters in an interview.
"Don't forget his roots go back to al Qaeda days in Iraq. He was hiding from security services. He knows what he is doing."

Take note of the fact that by quoting an “Kurdish counter-terrorism official” the media is aiding in the creation of a concept of a nation state with it’s own figures of authority. Along with giving the US and friends a reason to wage  yet more war. (Gotta get Baghdadi) Discrediting Russia. (They lied) Definitely more then one reason for this claim. 

Yesterday: "Russia and Syria Collude With Turkey" Claims Kurdish Annexer of Syrian Territory

The US Empire, the CIA, and the NGOs

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From between the lines or dissident voice

The following interview focuses on Engdahl’s latest book in German Secret files NGOs (Geheimakte NGOs).


Ludwig Watzal:  I guess we could agree upon the fact that the CIA is the world’s worst terror organization. After WW II, hardly any coup d’état or organized uprising happened without the helping hand of the CIA. As I understood your book, in the last 25 years, the CIA got quite a few so-called little helpers in the form of NGOs. Please, could you elaborate on that?

William Engdahl: During the Reagan Presidency very damaging scandals were becoming public about CIA dirty operations around the world. Chile, Iran, Guatemala, the top secret MK-Ultra project, the student movement during the Vietnam War to name just a few. To take the spotlight away from them, CIA Director Bill Casey proposed to Reagan creating a “private” NGO, a kind of cut-out that would pose as private, but in reality, as one of its founders the late Allen Weinstein said in a later interview to the Washington Post, “doing what the CIA did, but privately.” This was the creation of the NGO named National Endowment for Democracy in 1983. Soon other Washington-steered NGOs were added like the Freedom House or the Soros Open Society Foundations, the United States Institute of Peace and so forth.

The money was often channeled via USAID of the State Department to hide its origin. Every major regime attack by the US Government since then including the Solidarnosc in Poland, the Yeltsin CIA-backed Russia coup, the 2004 Ukraine Orange Revolution, the 2008 Tibet riots, the Arab Spring of 2011 to today—all have been done by this group of very select “democracy” NGOs. Little wonder that countries like Russia and China or Hungary act to ban them as “undesirable NGOs.”  

LW: You quote Allen Weinstein, co-author of the founding act of the NGO National Endowment for Democracy (NED), saying; “Much of what we do today was done 25 years ago by the CIA.” Are the US NGOs such as NED, CIPE, USAID, NDI, not to speak of the Soros network, the fifth column of the CIA?

WE: As I indicated above, I would say so in my opinion. Invariably their NGO agenda fits the given agenda of Washington foreign policy. Coincidence? I don’t believe so.

LW: Your critic focused mainly on a few US NGOs or would you include all non-governmental organizations in general? Aren’t all these NGOs driven by a good mind and noble deeds to spread democracy and freedom around the world?

WE: This is the devil in the concept of Bill Casey. Hiding very black dirty anti-democratic CIA operations behind private political NGOs waving the banner of “Human Rights” has been very effective for Washington’s global agenda of toppling un-cooperative regimes around the world. In effect the CIA has weaponized human rights. Curiously useful regimes for Washington such as Saudi Arabia go unbothered by calls for democracy. Their oil billions finance Washington’s global terrorism agenda.

Take the recent case of the fake democracy White Helmets NGO in Syria doing propaganda in intimate cooperation with ISIS, to justify the US-led war against the duly elected Assad regime. White Helmets get money reportedly from Soros Foundations, from the US and UK governments and were created by a former British Army Intelligence officer James Le Mesurier. Their atrocity videos have repeatedly been exposed as fake, staged by actors. Their alleged Sarin gas video showing unprotected White Helmets “first responders” handling alleged Sarin gas victims with no protective HAZMAT protection is a joke, a fake as was exposed widely after by a number of HAZMAT Sarin gas experts.

The Washington–or EU in some cases—political NGOs are effective because they can attract many innocent good-willed people. I recently received a very touching personal letter from a European Medical Doctor who had been 18 months working with the best humanitarian intention with Doctors without Borders in South Sudan before their US-backed independence. She was so grateful after reading my NGO book as she could understand all the seeming irrational directions their American Doctors Without Borders leader gave the staff. She quit because of burnout and now said she understands why. Honest doctors were being used by Washington for secret political agendas. South Sudan was target because China was receiving a major share of her oil from there via Khartoum.

Of course, not all NGOs are doing the work of the CIA. I focus on the ones with a hidden political agenda, who, as I describe in the book, have weaponized human rights and the word democracy for devious ends.

LW: In 1984, the hedge fund-Billionaire George Soros, established in Budapest the Soros Foundation. His first target was Poland. Pope John Paul II and US President Ronald Reagan met in 1982 at the Vatican to discuss the destabilization of the Communist Bloc. In this endeavor, has there also been an involvement of the Soros Foundation?

WE: The Soros Foundation established the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw in 1988 to train activists to ultimately topple the Communist regime. They played a major role “building democracy” and immediately after the collapse in Poland of the government of General Czeslaw Kiszczak in August, 1989. Soros brought Harvard University “Shock Therapy” economist Jeffrey Sachs into Poland to push privatization of state enterprises, create a hyperinflation and open choice Polish state assets for auction to western investors like friends of Soros for pennies or then, for pfennig.

LW:  The two chapters on the plundering of the former Soviet Union by the CIA, Soros and his Harvard Boys in cooperation with the Yeltsin clan and former KGB official is quite shocking. Please, elaborate on this Mafia-like undertaking.

WE: I have to refer readers to the book as the treatment has been cross-checked and is exhaustive. In brief, the CIA under the direction of then-President George H.W. Bush managed to corrupt several very high-ranking KGB generals who recruited a network of young Komsomol or Communist Union of Youth proteges such as Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky to become their hand-picked “oligarchs” to plunder the State assets for pennies compared to their true worth. This was the infamous “voucher” scandal that valued the entire state assets including oil and gas, machine-making companies, high-tech, all at a little under $16 billion. They literally raped Russia for personal gain. And the CIA and its network of Western banks such as Riggs Bank in Washington allowed them to launder the money out of Russia. Even I was shocked to verify the details. It was criminal. Yeltsin was their boy. Some said so long as his supply of good Vodka was guaranteed he would do anything Soros and his Harvard economists demanded.

The interesting point to note is that President G.H.W. Bush, former director of the CIA, ordered three simultaneous NGO destabilizations in the same year, 1989.  The three were Russia, China in Tiananmen Square and Yugoslavia. The book documents this in great detail.

LW:  After Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as Russia’s President, he immediately stopped the robbing of Russia. Do you think that could be one cause why the political class in Washington hates and demonizes him to such an extent, which is irrational?

WE: Putin came from a Russian nationalist faction (as opposed to what were called cosmopolitan or internationalist faction) of the KGB and its successor. They knew they had to act with stealth until their grip was secure in 2000 when Yeltsin was forced to quietly “retire” or face revelations and Yeltsin was convinced to name Putin acting President.

There has been an undeclared war against a stable nation-state in Russia since well before 1917. The founder of Stratfor, George Friedman, one of the better informed American analysts of geopolitics and former consultant to the Pentagon and CIA among others, recently gave an interview after the CIA Ukraine “coup d’ etat” which Friedman called “the most blatant coup in US history.” That if you recall was the one where Viktoria Nuland as US Assistant Secretary of State went to Kiev and handed out candy bars to the protesters in Maidan Square and telephoned her contempt for the EU to the US Ambassador in Kiev.

Friedman noted what I have documented in my various other books such as Mit der Ölwaffe zur Weltmacht, that the foreign policy of the United States of America for at least the past century as the USA emerged on the decline of the British Empire, the US foreign policy priority has been to prevent at all costs the merging of economic interests and cooperation between especially Germany and Russia. The world has undergone two world wars because of this unfortunate geopolitical dogma of US foreign policy, a dogma taken over from the British and from the father of British geopolitics, Sir Halford Mackinder.

Washington hates and demonizes Putin for the reason he has moved deliberately to stabilize Russia as a great nation, which it truly is as I can attest from almost 25 years of personal experience. And as a result of Washington’s demonization, Putin’s influence in the world seems only to grow stronger—first with China, then Eurasia nations, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, even the Philippines and Latin America. The world is becoming fed up with the endless agenda of overt and covert USA wars everywhere. We need to look closely behind the Trump words and very soon we find the same old, degenerate oligarchs and their so-called deep-state of unelected bureaucrats at work. 

LW:  The dismantling of Yugoslavia was a catastrophe. The Germans under the chancellorship of Gerhard Schroeder and his infamous foreign minister Joschka Fischer joined forces with Clinton to overthrow the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In this coup-like operation, were there also NGOs involved? And what was their strategy?

WE: Yes. Follow the subsequent career of Mr. Fischer. A street thug from the 1968 Frankfurt protests becomes crowned by the USA and its mainstream media as a statesman, apparently the reward for delivering the Green Party vote for bombing Yugoslavia in 1999. After office, Fischer got an honorary teaching post at my Alma Mater, Princeton. Later George Soros invites Mr Fischer on to his new European council on Foreign Relations think tank.

In terms of the toppling of Slobodan Milosevic, the US government and its select NGOs including NED and Soros foundations, organized, financed, and trained key student leaders and others in a successful coup, under the name Otpor! (Resistance!), with the now -ubiquitous logo of the threatening clenched fist. Serbian translations of Gene Sharp’s writings on nonviolent action were used and the key leaders were personally trained by Sharp’s associate US Army colonel Robert Helvey in secret meeting places to avoid police. Otpor! got by some estimates as much as $30 million from U.S. government-linked organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The destruction of Yugoslavia was orchestrated since the 1980’s by Washington, first Bush Sr. then Clinton. The aim was to create a war in Europe to justify the continued presence of a NATO whose raison d’être after the collapse of the Soviet Union was hard to justify to American taxpayers or to the Europeans who were planning an independent European Defense Pillar apart from NATO. For Washington and the influential US military industrial complex such independence was tabu!. The second aim was to establish a huge US military presence later in Kosovo called Camp Bond Steel.

LW:  When the Arab masses went into the streets of Tunis, Cairo and Tripoli, the Western media, and political class were thrilled. Finally, democracy, freedom, and human rights found their way into the Arab world. Were these uprisings spontaneous or were they organized and orchestrated from outside forces?

WE: The entire Arab Spring was secretly planned and financed by Washington and US-financed NGOs. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a key figure along with her bizarre Muslim Brotherhood assistant Huma Abedin. The RAND Corporation, which is a Pentagon think tank responsible for developing the technique of mob “swarming” like bees, as a way using facebook and social media to steer protests, played a key role.

The protest student groups in Egypt were US-trained, again using translations of Gene Sharp, they were brought to Europe to be secretly trained by the leaders of Otpor!.

In the case of Libya’s Qaddafi, a more urgent regime change was deemed necessary as the now-famous DCLeaks and Wikileaks emails of Hillary to her private adviser Sidney Blumenthal reveal. Qaddafi, who contrary to his demonized image had built up Libya with the highest living standard in all Africa, was about to unveil creation of an alliance of Muslim central banks and introduction of a Gold Dinar currency for oil sales not US dollars. He was doing so together with Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt. As Hillary wrote to Blumenthal, that had to be blocked by whatever means. The means to “block” were the illegal bombing of Libya and the assassination of Qaddafi and turning Libya into a field of rubble. The original Pentagon-CIA-State Department plan called for the immediate toppling of another thorn in Washington’s side immediately after Qaddafi, that was Bashar al Assad in Syria. That has not worked out well for the Washington planners and a great human tragedy unnecessarily has grown out of 6 years of what essentially is a US-led war there.

LW:  In the old days, the conquerors brought in its wake the missionaries. Today, the Western neo-colonial powers come with hundreds of NGOs who teach the indigenous population how Western democracy is supposed to function. Do you think the NGOs serve the interest of these people? What about the German NGOs who especially carry a lot of ideological ballast, for example, in the form of gender mainstreaming with them? What do you make of that?

WE: I think your analogy with the “Christian” missionaries of the past and the “Human Rights” or “democracy” NGOs today is very fitting. I am not competent to comment on the activities of various German NGOs. My main focus is Washington, the hegemonic power today and source of so much that is destructive, unfortunately.

LW: At the beginning and at the end of your book you refer to George Orwell’s double think that means “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Do we live in times where the original meanings of words become different contents? Do the US Empire and its vassal states wage war in the name of democracy and destroy the nation states with the same democratic rhetoric?

WE: This is why I found the Orwell quote so appropriate. His book 1984 in many ways is a description of what has been allowed to happen to our western democracies, especially in Britain and the USA.

LW: If you could give the NGOs a piece of advice, what would you tell them?

WE: For the honest persons who may have got caught up in nice rhetoric about values, human rights and such, I would suggest looking more closely at the money trail feeding your given NGO. For the NED or Soros foundations I would suggest they would all do mankind a favor by shutting their doors permanently. That you allow nations and individuals to decide their own sovereign future without your unwanted meddling. I would say, to paraphrase Cromwell to the British Long Parliament, ”You human rights NGOs, Go! You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

LW: Mr. Engdahl, thanks for the interview.

WE: Thank you for your interest and excellent questions.

Stephen Buhner Interviews : Plant Intelligence & the Imaginal Realm

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Now for something closer to my heart.

Hubby and I pretty much own every single Stephen Buhner book. He writes both medicinally  and philosophically. His website is always linked in the sidebar. Stephen Buhner

In my opinion he is a sage. A wise, wise man. Having read many of his books, with more to go, and listening to numerous interviews I'm quite sure he'd disagree with that label, however, that's my opinion based on all I know, so I'm stickin' with it!

  First, I want to share an excerpt from on of Mr Buhner’s books.  It’s a quote that resonates with me personally. And I humbly believe ‘eating wild’ is one reason I view this world differently from many others. Since I spend time foraging and wildcrafting , with the appropriate care taken and only for my own personal consumption-


Yesterday I gathered yarrow....


Why people fear eating the wild
“If we eat the wild, it begins to work inside us, altering us, changing us. Soon, if we eat too much, we will no longer fit the suit that has been made for us. Our hair will begin to grow long and ragged. Our gait and how we hold our body will change. A wild light begins to gleam in our eyes. Our words start to sound strange, nonlinear, emotional. Unpractical. Poetic.

Once we have tasted this wildness, we begin to hunger for a food long denied us, and the more we eat of it the more we will awaken.

It is no wonder that we are taught to close off our senses to Nature.

Through these channels, the green paws of Nature enter into us, climb over us, search within us, find all our hiding places, burst us open, and blind the intellectual eye with hanging tendrils of green.The terror is an illusion, of course. For most of our million years on this planet human beings have daily eaten the wild. It’s just that the linear mind knows what will happen if you eat it now.

But we’ve gone astray with this, distracted from our task. Still, it’s a good reminder. When your hair begins to grow long and you think strange thoughts, sometimes you will wonder what is happening and will become afraid.

In Nature, human markers fade, lose significance. It takes awhile to learn the old markers again, to see the path that ancient humans took before us. In kindness, learn how to comfort yourself, to hold yourself as you would a child that is afraid of the light. (I suppose you could learn the poisonous plants first if you need to; there aren’t very many.) For on this journey, you mostly have yourself for company.

It helps if you become your own best friend
and find out what is true about all this for yourself.
Open the door and take a look around outside.
The air is shining there,
and there are wonders,
more wonderful than words can tell”

Two interviews from Legalise Freedom- I've been going through the archives there listening to that which piques my interest.

Stephen Buhner – Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Part One

June 3, 2014
Stephen Buhner discusses his book Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth which reveals that all life forms on Earth possess intelligence, language, a sense of I and not I, and the capacity to dream. It shows that by consciously opening the doors of perception, we can reconnect with the living intelligence in Nature as kindred beings, once again become wild scientists, non-domesticated explorers of a Gaian world.

Buhner explains how to use analogical thinking and imaginal perception to directly experience the inherent meanings that flow through the world, that are expressed in each living form that surrounds us, and to directly initiate communication in return. He delves deeply into the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, psychotropic plants and fungi, and, most importantly, the human species itself. He shows that human beings are not a plague on the planet – they have a specific ecological function as important to Gaia as that of plants and bacteria.

Buhner shows that the capacity for depth connection and meaning-filled communication with the living world is inherent in every human being. It is as natural as breathing, as the beating of our own hearts, as our own desire for intimacy and love. We can change how we think and in so doing begin to address the difficulties of our times.

Stephen Buhner – Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Part Two

June 10, 2014



As much as I do enjoy dissecting the political machinations of the psycopathic elites, the real world is where my heart is truly happiest.

Israel's Annexation of Syrian Territory- Past & Present Day

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As it was then:

I suppose this is an Israeli leftists attempt at accountability/whitewashing for land theft and ethnic cleansing in Syria’s Golan at the time of the Six Day War.. Which I firmly believe should be returned to Syria proper. And repopulated with Syrians. 

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As opposed to Palestinian refugees, the fate of the Syrians expelled from the Golan Heights by Israel in 1967 was covered up and hidden from public awareness. Even today, most Israelis believe the area was largely empty of Syrians, and anyone who may have been there fled voluntarily.

Among the Syrian refugees fleeing their burning country to the European countries that were kind enough to open their gates, there are those who belong to a second generation of refugees. The first fled in 1967 when the Syrian Golan Heights were conquered (stolen/annexed) by the Israeli army. In contrast to the refugees in the West Bank and Gaza, the story of these refugees was blotted out of the Israeli consciousness. The facts disappeared, their story was hidden, obscured and vanished from view — as if it had never happened.

In the late 90s, I was sent by an Israeli television program to document the story of the Druze residents of the Golan Heights. I was asked to look at why they kept their allegiance to their Syrian homeland and refused to accept Israeli citizenship, despite the many benefits granted them by Israel. In the course of the investigation I was surprised to come across a completely different story. It turned out that in 1967, when the Six-Day War broke out, the Golan Heights were populated by Syrian citizens, of whom the Druze who remained were but a minority. I looked for corroboration in history books, but the Syrian inhabitants simply vanished. Only a single encyclopedia entry mentioned the fact that before the Israeli conquest the population of the Golan Heights numbered more than 100,000.

Control the information: Control reality- Is information really unimportant?
Actual, factual and true information is very important. In fact truth is so rare and priceless that it’s very nearly impossible to find. Like a rare gemstone, requiring mining conducted more deeply and broadly in hopes of uncovering some priceless treasure. This Israeli centric article, is not the truth, it is an attempt at truth while still obfuscating reality.


In the course of the investigation and filming, we heard from former IDF soldiers who fought in the Golan Heights, from members of kibbutzim and villages in the Jordan Valley as well as from the Druze themselves. They all told the same story: the Golan Heights, which in the Israeli consciousness was perceived as having been empty and devoid of people, was in fact populated— just like the West Bank when it was conquered. The report was filmed and edited, but just as the promo for the program was being broadcast, the head of the Arab affairs desk demanded that we stop the broadcast for fear of being ridiculed. He stated that there had never been civilians in the Golan Heights except for the Syrian armed forces, the proof being that “everyone knows this.”(Everyone knows this- Appeal to popularity or bandwagon. Very much like the AGW cult’s  over reliance on this logical fallacy )
Druze villagers threshing corn in Majdak Shams, Golan Heights, 1967

At the onset of the 1967 War, the Golan Heights were home to between 130,000-150,000 inhabitants.The majority of them were civilians who lived in 275 towns and villages. The largest town was Quneitra, the main city of the district, where a quarter of that population lived — a minority of whom were military personnel and their families.

During the course of the battles, as the Syrian army withdrew, about half of the civilians joined the retreat to seek shelter from Israeli bombardments, waiting for a ceasefire that would allow them to return to their homes. But those who remained behind the ceasefire line were not allowed to return. Later, those Syrian refugees who tried to return to their homes were declared infiltrators; they were sometimes fired upon by Israeli soldiers in order to scare them, 
(in order to kill them and scare others who may try to return- like I said this is a whitewash, still) while those who succeeded in crossing the border were sentenced and detained.

Reminds one of the actions of the Kurdish militias present day in northern Syria.. History repeats because no one pays attention

After the fighting was over, there remained in the Golan Heights tens of thousands of people, about half of them Syrian inhabitants. They were all expelled, with the exception of the Druze. The civilian population, consisting mostly of Sunni Muslims, among whom there were a few thousand refugees from the 1948 War, as well as some Circassians and others, was transferred across the border in an orderly manner.
 I have serious, very serious doubts that the Syrian were “transferred across the border in an orderly fashion”- It’s much more likely they were forced to flee with their lives and little more. 

As you will read, the next paragraph contradicts the claim of an “orderly transfer” and reinforces the forced to flee with their lives which makes much more sense

“Ex-combatants and residents of the Jordan Valley who came to the Golan Heights after the cessation of hostilities testified about soldiers who were seated behind tables taken from houses close to the ceasefire line, andforced the Syrian residents to sign documents stating that they were voluntarily leaving their houses and moving to Syrian territory.
“It can be assumed that the lists testifying to the silent transfer that took place in the Golan are hidden somewhere in the military archives, which will not be opened to the public for many years for reasons of state security. After the end of the fighting there was widespread plunder, but no acts of slaughter were committed....”

No acts of slaughter, my arse! I don’t even believe that claim at all. So they plundered and the people they found hiding they didn't rape and kill? Or torture and kill? Not credible. Not credible at all...
“Convoys of military vehicles entered Quneitra with a message transmitted over loudspeakers warning the residents that they had to leave or else they could come to harm. After they fled, the beautiful city with its historic buildings stood empty for a time before it was razed to the ground. Dwellings, commercial centers, movie theaters, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, cemeteries, mosques, and churches were completely demolished by the Israeli military’s artillery fire and aerial bombardment”
This spin doctor would have me believe that all these buildings were emptywhen Israel razed them? I don’t believe it. This is not Israel’s normal behaviour.

A claim, as you will read that is clearly contradicted in the next paragraphs:
“The village dwellers who clung to their houses and were afraid to come out were also commanded to leave and march to the other side of the border. In subsequent days, bulldozers and tractors from the Jordan Valley were brought to the Golan Heights, and in an unparalleled lightning operation, destroyed all the villages, save for some buildings left standing for military training purposes.

Within a short span of time, the world of tens of thousands of people collapsed: educators, medical personnel, officials, managers, merchants, and farmers lost their land, their houses, and all their belongings. An old woman, whom all witnesses remembered well, remained in one of the villages for a few years until her death.
At the time, Israeli leaders claimed that it was their intent to control the Golan Heights temporarily (LIE) and that they would be returned when a peace agreement is signed. In practice, no more than one month after the war, Israel established the first Jewish settlement in the Golan, Merom HaGolan; its settlers expropriated not only land, but a huge quantity of livestock and cultivated fields. Two years after the war, the government of Israel approved a plan that included the annexation of the Golan and populating it with Jewish settlers. In 1981, the Knesset passed the “Golan Heights Law” which officially annexed the Golan Heights to the State of Israel. Today the Jewish population there consists of 22,000 settlers living in 32 settlements.
So it is today:

Israel’s new occupation zone in Syria 

I've covered on many occasions here at the blog Israel's diabolical actions in Syria's Golan attempting to steal yet more Syrian territory
"Perhaps the most woefully under-covered fact of the war in Syria has been Israel’s role, and the fact that it has been supplying armed groups allied with Al-Qaeda.
The Golan Heights is a part of Syria that has been occupied illegally by Israel since 1967; the Zionist state annexed the territory in 1981. This colonial aggression is not recognised internationally.
The UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) keeps track of violations of the ceasefire in the Golan Heights. UNDOF’s reports have for years now shown that Israel is in regular contact with armed rebel groups, including some in those areas which were at the time held by the official Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
 Israel’s official, stated, strategy in Syria is to “let both sides bleed” in order to prolong the war for as long as possible so as to weaken Syria and its allies, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran.
The latest UNDOF report confirms that Israeli aid to armed extremists in Syria is on the rise. “Relative to the previous reporting period,” it reads, “there has been a significant increase in interaction between” Israeli soldiers and “individuals from the Bravo side,” code for the ostensibly Syrian-controlled side of the ceasefire line. “UNDOF observed 16 interactions between” the Israeli army “and unknown individuals… occurring on four occasions in February, three in March, eight in April and on one occasion in May.”
 The report documents how “unknown individuals, armed and unarmed, accompanied by mules, approached the [Israeli army] position and were met by and interacted with [Israeli army] personnel. In some instances, personnel and supplies were observed to have been transferred in both directions. On all occasions, the unknown individuals and mules returned to the Bravo side.”
 A recent investigative report by the Lebanese journalist Nour Samaha shows that Israel is now pushing as much as “$50,000 a month” into a new rebel faction which is “in possession of only light weaponry, so [its fighters] act predominantly as border guards and patrol the area they’re in.” Samaha’s source for this was a rebel one. According to her investigation, Israel has a direct financial relationship in this way with somewhere between 300 and 1,000 rebel fighters. The report also names the new group’s leader as “Abu Suhaib Al-Joulani”, (Jew lani, Jew land? )  clearly a nom de guerre"

The border between Israeli occupied Golan Heights and Syria
Just a couple of many posts covering the machinations of Israel in Southern Syria:



US Increases Military Posts in Kurd Annexed Syria: Vindicated Again

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Via Elijah Magnier.  Of all people! Someone, I never read. Never refer to. Nothing. 
Had Robin Morritt at Syper not left a comment for me-  I wouldn't have even known of this vindication. So, thanks Robin! :)

It’s so very interesting to notice that as of late, due to the obviousness of what is actually occurring, more people are reporting on the Kurdish thugs and their role in reshaping the ME region. Alongside the Uk/Usrael.  But Mr Magnier went one better. Not only did he speak of the collusion between the Kurds and the US in an attempt to remake the region. And this curious synchronicity between ISIS/The US and Sykes Picot.  He touched on the fact that the US is betraying Turkey-

Robin Morritt- thanks for bringing the article to my attention

“One for Penny, I guess. Elijah Magnier talks about US plans for Kurdistans in Syria and Iraq”

My response
Penny
Hi Robin: Elijah Magnier is years behind me- If anyone would have actually bothered to read what I’ve been writing since 2014- They would have understand why I use Israel 2.0 aka Kurdistan or Greater Kurdistan. It was too bad the Israeli/Kurd PR polluted Syper in order to obfuscate the agenda

First “Islamic State” and then the US breaches Sykes-Picot with one objective: the Partition of Syria and Iraq.
“In 2014, the “Islamic State” terrorist group (ISIS) breached the deserted frontier between Iraq and Syria: its bulldozers crossed from the Iraqi borders on Sinjar into al-Hasaka province with US-made Humvees captured during the occupation of Mosul. Just a week ago, hundreds of US Special Operation Forces crossed Iraq into Syria with their Humvees in military convoy, following the same ISIS path breaching the British and French division of the Ottoman Empire secret agreement during the First World War by the two diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot.”
Why it's that remake of the region, in plain site! I've talked about that for how many years now? ISIS crossed into Syria from Iraq in late 2013. Led by Omar al Shishani

Meet the Rebel Commander in Syria That Assad, Russia and the U.S. All Fear

"The jihadi commander has recently emerged from obscurity to be the northern commander in Syria of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), an al Qaeda-connected coalition whose thousands of Arab and foreign fighters have overrun key Syrian military bases, staged public executions and muscled aside American-backed moderate rebel groups trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad"

Chechens drawn south to fight in Syria

And from this piece, Elijah Magnier, again
“All indications lead to the conclusion that the US is trying – with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq simultaneously – to see which one may succeed first in giving a shape to a state, imposing it as a fact on central governments, all the time aware that this policy will encourage Kurds in other parts (Iran and Turkey) to follow the same path of independence”

Exactly. What was obvious to me in 2014 is finally being articulated by those with more perceived authority then myself. Too late to the party, stragglers. Cause you see I crashed the party before all the guests arrived.  And I paid dearly for crashing that party.  Making vindication that much sweeter!
EM: “The US is not concerned about the Erdogan and the Turkish government’s reaction to its plan in favour of a Kurdish state in both Syria and Iraq because it is in the US’s interest to destabilise Ankara (for a number reasons) even though Turkey is a NATO member”

As I like to say in the real world when one states the obvious“No shit sherlock!” How long have I been stating this is the plan? Well let’s see... How long ago did I write the post titled Kurd/ISIS symbiosis and the impending destruction of Turkey? 
Why it was 2014! November 2014. Very nearly 3 years ago.
Kurd/ ISIS Symbiosis - The Impending Destruction of Turkey.

“ It seems much more likely that there is cooperation and coordination between the Kurds and ISIS. It’s a thought that has been in the back of my mind for sometime now. When one takes a look at the land grabbed by ISIS and the desired Kurdistan one can’t help but see something taking shape. Something like a new natio

 Admittedly, I prefer  the vindication over the attacks and derision. And really who wouldn't? 
It's just so interesting this broader recognition of these plans and actions I've talked about for years. I suspect Magniers' perceived authority will encourage others to write about this subject or dig a little deeper into the middle east remake. It will help those who rely on bandwagon and appeals to popularity to feel ok in writing about this topic. It will ensure they 'belong'
As for me? I'll continue on as I have been. My own thoughts. My own research.
 It's clear my instincts are pretty good. Not infallible, but, pretty solid.
 I called the Kurdish militias out for their duplicity long ago. I explained that Turkey was being destabilized and betrayed years ago. I explained the remake ongoing in plain site a plenty

Hope readers here now understand when I was writing about Turkey being targeted it’s because they are being targeted.  When I wrote about the coup as being real, and not some kind of false flag perpetrated by Erdogan,  unlike so many others, that’s because the coup was for real.  Erdogan is too independent and needs to be taken down or out. Whichever.  Besides there are bigger plans afoot and the Turks are too nationalisticRussians are too nationalistic (Code word for Globalists want to take you down) Other’s were spinning, demonizing Erdogan, that’s always something that should be watched out for.  As was explained constantly here.  Cult of personality as distraction. When I suggested the US is taking part in the destabilization of Turkey, at NATO ally, I wasn’t kidding. Recall me writing it was entirely realistic that US soldiers have already been killing Turkish soldiers- Yah, that’s a fact!


US increases Military Outposts in Annexed/Stolen Syrian Territory in Support of PKK/YPG
 
 

Read on:

Washington had set up two airbases in PKK/PYD-held Rmeilan district in the northeast of Al-Hasakah province in October 2015 and Harab Isk village in southern Kobani in March 2016.

While the Rmeilan airbase is large enough for cargo planes to land, Harab Isk base is only used by military helicopters.

While a part of the U.S. military aid to PKK/PYD goes through Iraqi border by land, the other part is shipped to the region through the Rmeilan airbase.

These “field-type” military points are usually hidden for security reasons, making it hard to be detected, according to Anadolu Agency reporters.

Apart from the military points, the U.S. also uses some other places which are hard to be detected like residential areas, PKK/PYD camps, easily transformed factories as operational points.
The U.S. forces keep the construction of operational points hidden by declaring some areas as "prohibited area" in northern Syria, the reporters say.

There are contact officers for airstrikes and artillery shelling, military consultants, training officers, operational planning officers and military units to engage in active conflicts in eight military points.

The equipment in the military points includes artillery batteries with high maneuverability, multi-barrel rocket launchers, various mobile equipment for intelligence and armored vehicles such as "Stryker" for general patrols and security.
Military points in Al-Hasakah

There are also three military points in Al-Hasakah, the latest of which was established in the northern district Tal Baydar.

According to the reporters, 100 U.S. Special Forces soldiers have been deployed to Tal Baydar within the scope of the fight against the Daesh terrorist group.

There are also foreign soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition stationed in the old farm district of Tal Tamir, which is located south of Resulayn near the Syrian-Turkish border.
There are also 150 U.S. Special Forces units in Ash Shaddadi district, south of Al-Hasakah, with a view to backing PKK/PYD during anti-Daesh operations.
Military points in Manbij

The U.S. has established two operational posts in Manbij in 2016 when PKK/PYD captured the district.

One of these posts is located in Ayn Dadad town in the district, which can be used by U.S. Special Forces for patrols against the Free Syrian Army (FSA) units rescued during the Turkish Euphrates Shield Operation.

The other military unit is located in Usariye town, west of Ayn Dadad with the purpose of protecting PKK/PYD units against FSA.

Military points in Raqqah

There are also three military posts in the northern province of Raqqah.

Along with U.S. special forces units, French special forces are stationed in a military post located in Mistanur hill, south of Kobani.

Around 200 U.S. soldiers and 75 French special forces units are also stationed in the PKK/PYD base in Ayn Issah town in northern Raqqah.

A military post in the town of Sirrin in Kobani is also used for airbornes. PKK/PYD is supplied with military equipment and ammunition through this post.

This post also serves as a communication center of the anti-Daesh coalition and used for disrupting Daesh communications.

PYD, the Syria offshoot of the terrorist organization PKK, is in control of Al-Hasakah in the east, northern Raqqah, Manbij, to the east of Aleppo, Afrin and Tal Rifaat districts.
US and YPG to sign a partnership agreement for military support for 10 years 

Apparently Andalou took this map and article down after the US complained about it
Lucky for me and my readers I had already saved the information including the map.

 US complains to Turkey after map of posts in Syria published

"The U.S. military says it has raised concerns with Ankara over the publication of what Turkey's state-run news agency says is a map of U.S. military posts in Syria.
Anadolu Agency published a map Wednesday showing 10 locations where it says U.S. troops are located. The posts span a stretch of northern Syria controlled by Syrian Kurdish forces that the U.S. supports but Turkey considers terrorists.
The U.S. doesn't disclose where U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria are, for security reasons. The Pentagon says it can't independently determine where Anadolu got the information. But spokesman Eric Pahon says the U.S. would be"very concerned if officials from a NATO ally would purposefully endanger our forces by releasing sensitive information."

Interesting about the concerned officials over the actions of a NATO ally , the US is in the process of betraying. The US doesn't express or display concerns for Turkish interests. Where is the alliance then?

Julie Payette Should Not Be Governor General of Canada

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Julie Payette Should not be Governor General of Canada

First reason? As a Canadian woman, I want to state unequivocally, that Julie Payette should be held to the same standards a man would be held to if one had been nominated for this position.

Secondly I am of the opinion, though it is claimed this position is “largely ceremonial”. It  isn’t.  Have Canadians forgotten the multiple prorogued governments granted by the so called ceremonial Governor- General   Julie Payette is very compromised making her unfit for this position.
 

Finally - I am of the opinion Julie Payette has only been nominated for this position due to her sex- Female.  Making her appointment blatantly sexist.  With consideration to her francophone status and popularity in Quebec.
"Trudeau will be hoping to get a political boost by appointing Payette, who happens to be a francophone woman from Quebec, which happens to be the key constituency for the Liberal Party of Canada"



She was involved in a motor vehicle accident which saw an individual die. One can read about the accident here-Julie Payette involved in fatal collision before assault charge laid
Along with additional information about Julie Payette’s divorce which curiously saw divorce records unavailable for public scrutiny because there is presently a motion before the courts to seal the records

“Those records should be public but the bulky files were "in a judge's chambers" Wednesday, a clerk said. A motion is before the court to seal the records”
 Ms Payette was charged with assault, the charges were dropped, and expunged from her record. It's likely Ms Payette, herself,  made the motion to seal the divorce records. 
Sealed divorce records and expunged assault charges? Curious? 
 -Narrative control. 
 -Perception management.

Julie Payette’s assault charged expunged

This charge came from a domestic assault incident- The media is dancing around it, but, it seems obvious. She assaulted her husband. Her husband was not charged and it is highly unusual for a woman to be charged with assault in a domestic incident unless something egregious happened.


Like it or not Payette's past is news
This week, iPolitics reporter BJ Siekierski learned that Julie Payette, the woman whom Justin Trudeau intends to make governor general, faced a second-degree assault charge in Maryland in 2011, apparently related to an incident with her husband. The charge ultimately was dropped and later the record was expunged.

The assault charge was reportedly discovered by iPolitics in what it called a routine background check on the former astronaut. The alleged offence took place on November 24, 2011, at Piney Point, Md and has since been removed from Payette’s record.
The record appears to show Payette was charged under Section 3-203 of the Maryland Code, with punishment carrying a jail term of up to a decade and $2,500 USD in fines. On December 8, 2011, the assault case was entered as nolle prosequi, meaning either the victim refused to press charges, a witness recanted or the district attorney sees little chance of conviction, iPolitics reported.

Second-degree assault charges are often laid when a person is accused of causing physical injury to another person or by making them fearful of harm.
Wondering if this was an ongoing issue between Payette and her then husband?
At the time, Payette was living with her then-husband, William Flynn, a retired Royal Canadian Air Force pilot and F-35 fight jet advocate. Payette and Flynn split in mid-2013, according to family court documents related to custody rights.
It sure appears as if Ms Payette has much to hide and is going to great lengths to bury some uncomfortable facts about herself! Not confidence inspiring is it?

Amazingly, the CBC had an interesting op ed about the very obvious double standards being applied in this situation


Trudeau's silence on Payette's expunged assault charge shows double standard: Robyn UrbackTrudeau was forthright in the past about unproven allegations concerning his MPs. Why so quiet now?
What makes the story exceptional, however, is the prime minister's reluctance to address the report with anything beyond a cursory "no comment."

In a thoughtful column for iPolitics, Susan Delacourt posited that Trudeau's response might not have been so nonchalant had reports surfaced of a male governor general-designate with an expunged (domestic) assault charge in his history.

"It brings up a thought-provoking question," she wrote. "Could the PMO simply say 'no comment' in response to reports about an assault charge involving a male appointee?"

"Probably not," she answers. "Let's all cast our minds back to Trudeau's delivery of swift justice against two former Liberal MPs accused of pressing unwelcome advances against two female New Democrat Mps." 

It's not a perfect comparison, but the difference in approach is striking:a couple of men were treated as guilty before we knew the facts, and Trudeau jumped in front of the microphone at seemingly the first available opportunity. But now, with a woman at the centre of the controversy, he's totally mum.

It's not far-fetched to think that if it was discovered that a male governor general had an assault charge in his past, Trudeau would seize the opportunity to evangelize about male aggression and domestic violence. Then again, I don't think Trudeau would appoint a male governor general with a past assault charge — even one that had been dropped and expunged — in the first place.

I don’t think he would appoint a male with a past expunged domestic assault charge either. 
Not politically correct in our present day male bashing society.

On the other hand Julie Payette’s nomination is all the more acceptable for the male bashing agenda ongoing present day? Payette assaulted her husband. And Trudeau plays the identity politics card very well when it came to suspending two male members of caucus based on allegations, alone. In their own ways- Trudeau and Payette are both male bashers.

Trump Cuts Aid to CIA Funded Rebels. Just More FAKE NEWS

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Fake news
Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently falseheadlines that grab attention.
Fake news is published with the intent to sensationalize and mislead in order to grab attention. Misdirection.  

So called “big news” from the other day. Trump cuts funding for CIA backed rebels.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, it seemed I had read this was already occurring.


So why this ample news coverage at this time?

 It seemed to me as if the raison d'etre  of this abundant coverage wasto spin this old news as if  it was something new and recent. And also to push the idea that Trump had caved in to Russian demands. 


Neither scenario: old news as new or caving to Russia is legit. This is just more fake news. 
More straight up bullshit.
And, even worse,  a soap box for John McCain

Financial Times
"If these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin,” John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate armed services committee, countered.“Making any concession to Russia, absent a broader strategy for Syria, is irresponsible and short-sighted,” he said"
How about this fake news headline from the Telegraph:Donald Trump ends covert CIA aid to Syrian rebels in 'win' for Russia

Independent and it's fake News headline:  Trump 'ends programme to arm anti-Assad rebels' in move sought by Russia

Let's go back FIVE MONTHS AGO. To February of this year. 2017.
#World News February 21, 2017 / 7:17 AM / 5 months ago

Exclusive: CIA-backed aid for Syrian rebels frozen after the rebels came under Islamist attack - sources

  CIA-coordinated military aid for rebels in northwest Syria has been frozen since they came under major Islamist attack last month, rebel sources said, raising doubts about foreign support key to their war against President Bashar al-Assad.

So rebel funding has been frozen since January of this year
The halt in assistance, which has included salaries, training, ammunition and in some cases guided anti-tank missiles, is a response to jihadist attacks and has nothing to do with U.S. President Donald Trump replacing Barack Obama in January, two U.S. officials familiar with the CIA-led program said.
The freeze reflects the troubles facing Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels in the almost six-year-old revolt against Assad
Reuters confirmed the freeze with officials from five of the FSA groups that have been recipients of financial and military support from the so-called "MOM operations room".
It was also confirmed by two other senior FSA figures briefed on the matter.
They spoke on condition of anonymity given the covert nature of the CIA-backed program and the sensitivity of the subject.
 Another article discussing the funding freeze that actually occurred months ago

 February 2017: Confirmed the CIA is not longer aiding Syrian rebels

At least for the time being all rebels have been cut off without exception

This makes me believe there are other equally important reasons CIA aid is being reconsidered.
For one thing, such an enterprise requires the cooperation of Turkey and Jordan which is waning. Jordan has been cooling on Syria regime change for a while, while Turkey detests US military support for Syrian Kurds and has intermittently frustrated US access to Syria (and Incirlik air base) simply to get even.
 So in January of this year the CIA funding was cut  across the board. One reason is due to Turkey's non cooperation, thanks to the US betrayal by arming their enemy.


Concluding!  The whole brouhaha about this not new and non news story was FAKE NEWS, pure and simple.

Plainly rehashed to include rubbish about this being proof of Trump giving in to Russian demands-

Bottom line- the US is funding the PKK/YPG. They have ensconced themselves in annexed/stolen Syrian territory and will now direct and fund attacks on Turkey. 

Look at the map leaked by Turkish media? The US didn't deny they have forces present in those places. The US merely played the victim/bad Turkey card.

US Increases Military Posts in Kurd Annexed Syria: Vindicated Again


Julie Payette Should Not Be Governor General of Canada

Nouri Al Maliki Speaks- Condoleeza "we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam"

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Quotes directly attributed to Maliki from multiple sources
Link& RT& Sputnik 

Mosul:
“They [the United States] say, and I regret this and reject this, that the victory is their achievement because they led this war, but really this is a victory of the Iraqi army. Yes, they supported us with their aviation, but the main praise belongs to the Iraqi soldier, the people’s militia, Iraq’s air force,” Maliki said.
Recall my mention of the fact the US was quite quiet on the Mosul success claimed by the Iraqis? In this post."There’s a rumour going round that Mosul was taken back from ISIS.  At least the Iraqis are claiming they have successfully taken back Mosul. The US was a whole lot quieter about this alleged victory. Why might that be?  Might it have something to do with this victory, not, being one truly accepted by the US? Because it doesn’t fit cards they are playing?"

Maliki continues:"This victory is not final – there are still pockets where terrorists are hiding … there are sleeper cells even in Diyala,” Maliki said.
"ISIS will be unable to advance or take over territories in Iraq, but its sleeper cells remain in cities including the capital city of Baghdad" Nouri Maliki said.
Maliki said that Russia preserved the entire West Asia region from being destroyed by keeping its stance toward the Syrian and the Iraqi governments.
"I have said this before and I will repeat it again – if it were not for the Russian stance, the region would be fully destroyed,its map would be new and unusual … Without Russia’s approach to the Syrian issue which differs from the one of the US, the Syrian regime would have fallen, terrorists would have intensified their actions thanks to this, the regional map would change and in the end it would lead to the fall of Baghdad,” Maliki said.

On America creating ISIS
 Maliki said "but it is America who created ISIS in the first place and now Washington seeks to establish military bases on Iraqi territory in order to maintain influence in the region."
"IS resembles the Taliban which was created by the US administration to counter the USSR in Afghanistan. The same way, IS was created to counter the Iraqi stance, which did not agree to blockade Syria, was against no-fly zones in Syria and against American military bases,"he stated.
Flashbacks:

Recall Condoleeza Rice and her “birth pangs of a new middle east”

"We didn't go to Iraq to bring democracy to Iraq we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein… It was a security problem," Rice, who also served as US secretary of state, said on Thursday.

How anyone, anywhere could have believed otherwise is incomprehensible.

General Raymond Thomas: Cancelling Syrian Rebel Program "not a sop to Russians"

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As mentioned this past Friday, despite the Fake news spin, the cancelling of funding and support to the CIA backed rebels had zip, zero, zilch to do with Russia. Since the funding ended in January of this year!

Friday July 21/2017: Trump Cuts Aid to CIA Funded Rebels. Just More FAKE NEWS

" It seemed to me as if the raison d'etre  of this abundant coverage wasto spin this old news as if  it was something new and recent. And also to push the idea that Trump had caved in to Russian demands."

"So in January of this year the CIA funding was cut  across the board. One reason is due to Turkey's non cooperation, thanks to the US betrayal by arming their enemy."

Comment made at the Aspen Institute:
Appearing at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, General Raymond Thomas, head of US Special Operations Command, said the decision was not made to appease Russia which supports Assad.
"From at least what I know about that program and the decision to end it, absolutely not a sop to the Russians,"Thomas said. "It was I think based on an assessment of the nature of the program, what we're trying to accomplish, the viability of it going forward and it was a tough tough decision."
Someone else understands last week hype was just that!-

 It’s Good For America, Not Russia, To Stop The CIA From Funding Syrian Jihadists
 The idea that Russia orchestrated the Trump administration’s decision to end the CIA’s funding of jihadists is totally corrupt and offensive.
The author of the above piece puts the decision to cut funding, back to last month. Though he is not certain of that either. "The decision likely occurred last month"

The information contained in my post from Friday has the decision made in January 2017. 
I'm good with that- Either way, last week spin was pure fake news.


General Raymond Thomas @ Aspen

Interesting but not an overly surprising admission regarding the Kurdish fighters
General Raymond Thomas continues:
"I was personally disappointed with the Peshmerga," he said. "Again I spent 15 months in Mosul, so I knew the Kurds very well, they talked a good game, it was a pretty army, it didn't fight very well when push came to shove. So we've had to bring them up to a level of competency that you would've have hoped was better beforehand but they are now contributing pretty actively."

Over hyped to sell nation building Also plainly and straightforwardly explains the abundance of private mercenaries and US/UK/French/Canadian and many other Special Forces embedded with the "pretty" Kurdish army. The training of the multiple kurdish forces by the US and co has been addressed here 

From yesterday:

Nouri Al Maliki Speaks- Condoleeza "we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam"

Stupid Conspiracy Theorists- Ha Ha "Chemicals Making Frogs Gay"

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This is actually a meme? And an appeal to ridicule.
What's funny about this disgusting pollution and the damage to the environment?
I thought those on the self identified left proclaimed themselves stewards of the environment?
Which isn't even remotely close to the truth or reality-
(Has to be a leftist thing because this revolved around ridiculing disinfo Jones)

 Anyway..... According to Mr Corbett the "normies" are having a hey day with their meme, having their stupidity on full display for the rest of us


James Corbett did this quick video on the topic..



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Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Male Reproductive Health
Episode 094 – You Are Being Sterilized

Which of course brought to mind my abandoned series- 
Abandoned due to a lack of available time to do the necessary digging

Chemical Manipulation of Humanity 

Certainly this is NO laughing matter 

From earlier:

General Raymond Thomas: Cancelling Syrian Rebel Program "not a sop to Russians"

KurdIShIS Redux- YPG/PKK 2nd Geographical Power in Syria

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After the decline of ISIS… SDF (YPG/PKK) become the force with the 2nd geographical power in Syria- from SOHR.

A site I am largely not fond of. However, I can't dispute the information in this article
The “Islamic State” organization of which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 5 days ago its control over about 42000 of the size of the Syrian land, continued to crumble in front of the military operations against it, in the provinces of Homs, Deir Ezzor and Al-Raqqah especially, where the organization (YPG/PKK) was the 2nd most influential force in Syria, after the regime forces.
Which makes the Syria Democratic Forces(YPG/PKK) the 2nd largest power in Syrian after the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, where the Syria Democratic Forces control (YPG/PKK) 22.51% of the size of the Syrian territory, (and they are aiming for 30 percent!)they control about 42000 square kilometers divided on their controlled areas from the Syrian border to the western countryside of Manbij, through Al-Raqqah and parts of Deir Ezzor province, in addition to their control of neighborhoods in Aleppo city as well as Afrin area and villages extending from Deir Jamal to al-Sha’alah area in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, where the Syrian Democratic forces of which YPG is its mainstay have achieved most of this control with the support of the International Coalition,which supported their forces by air and provided them with military advisers and large quantities of weapons and ammunition
The Syria Democratic Forces have become in 2nd place after they were able during the past weeks and months to achieve a wide advancement within the “Euphrates Wrath” Operation, which is still taking place until now, and as a result of the retreat of the “Islamic State” organization in the battlefronts against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in recent days, where the organization is preferring the option of withdrawing and leaving large areas every a time.
As usual. ISIS left Raqqa. Free pass from the Kurds.They left Mosul. They left Kirkuk, suddenly, but then went back?  They left Manbij. (Yup, ISIS just walked away from 8 Syrian villages. US backed ISIS hands 8 Syrian villages over to US backed Kurdish militias PKK/YPG.) All covered here. The Kurdish militias come to town and ISIS just up and leaves. 
I've another post from one of the ngo/think tanks where they specifically note ISIS's proclivity to up and leave rather then fight. Making claims of Kurds taking casualties kind of questionable? Are they? And if they are, whose killing them? Could be the resident Arab population of Raqqa fighting back? I can't discount that

SOHR“the entry of the Turkish forces to Syrian territory and their involvement with the factions they supported in a military operation, all of that have blocked the last remaining doors for the “Islamic State” organization with the outside world”

Not coincidentally the Turkish forces placed on Syrian territory have also blocked the YPG/PKK from opening the their door to the outside world-  (sea access) As they had intended. SOHR can spin it as stopping ISIS, however, it's obvious Turkey intervened to block YPG/PKK
And those American bases etc.. From the maps published make very clear the US is going to assist PKK/YPG or maybe ISIS in a move against Turkey.

Take note of the US positioning- Location, location, location. So important in real estate.  Certainly the location of those US military posts are not a coincidence.
Not happenstance.



My thoughts are more along the line of... If your attempting a remake, you would leave as little as possible to chance.

                                                                          UK/USrael
Kurds...........................ISIS


I refer back, again, to my thoughts in 2014:

 Kurd/ ISIS Symbiosis - The Impending Destruction of Turkey.
“ It seems much more likely that there is cooperation and coordination between the Kurds and ISIS. It’s a thought that has been in the back of my mind for sometime now. When one takes a look at the land grabbed by ISIS and the desired Kurdistan one can’t help but see something taking shape. Something like a new nation
 Flashbacks:

All these years later their cooperation and coordination has become even more obvious 

From earlier:

Stupid Conspiracy Theorists- Ha Ha "Chemicals Making Frogs Gay"

General Raymond Thomas: Cancelling Syrian Rebel Program "not a sop to Russians"

 Yesterday:

Nouri Al Maliki Speaks- Condoleeza "we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam"

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