Saturday, June 01, 2013

Weekend Updates for June 1, 2013






 

We still have a current world economic depression. We know succinctly the causes of it. There was the world derivatives panic of the fall of 2008. Many British and U.S. banking systems have experienced bankruptcy. Soon, the 2010 European banking panic came about under the guise of a sovereign debt crisis. Austerity is still being executed by the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. The economies of Europe and the U.S. has been depressed or stagnated. That is why this slowdown is even spreading into Brazil, China, and India. Even Japan has economic uncertainty. Some in Iceland wanted to vote back the same reactionary political leaders that created the wild speculation in the first place (after Iceland's economic recovery). Today, we lived under the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party. Both movements seek to handle affairs in a populist fashion in their opinions. Ron Paul was an ally of the Tea Party movement. He acted an auxiliary knowingly or unknowingly for the Romney Presidential campaign, because his actions ended the alternative Republican campaigns to Mitt Romney. That is why some in the Tea Party pretended to act populist. Some of them disagreed with Wall Street Bailouts. Yet, they refused to call for a guaranteed annual income. They refuse to call for health care to be a human right beyond a privilege for the few. Some of them are aided by the reactionary billionaire Koch brothers. The BRICS block countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa want to form their own BRICS development bank. This could challenge the monopoly of international lending maintained by the IMF and the World Bank (both groups now are strangling world economic development and looting the world's economies for the interests of Wall Street including the City of London). If BRICS could rescue Egypt and do other things, then this could be a revolution in international affairs. So, we still have the scourges of neoliberalism, monetarism, and globalization in the world that must be opposed via strength and determination. Younger Americans have been harmed by the over $1.1 trillion student loan debt. This is higher than all forms of household debt except for home mortgages. Rock bottom interest rates are opposed by reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democrats of the Obama faction. The average bachelor’s degree is accompanied by about $35,000 of debt. Advanced degrees easily generate $75,000 of debt. Degrees in law and medicine routinely exceed $100,000. That is why some Congress people like the new Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, long regarded by anti-Wall Street forces as the most promising politician in the Democratic Party, has now come forward with a bill to cut student loan interest rates to about .075%, representing a reduction of almost 90%. She wants this debt to be paid for by the Federal Reserve System, which her bill orders to fund new loans administered by the Secretary of Education. This is similar to the other populist proposals made by some as a means to improve society in general. An economic recovery that is funded by cheap long term credit for infrastructure, agriculture, and manufacturing provided by de-privatized banking services is fine with me. The media is not reporting succinctly about the Warren proposal at all. The years ahead will be interesting. All of these events will figure in seeing if a mass strike will come or real, economic improvements will transpire in the world. Privatized prisons and the mainstream capitalist movement are linked as well. This is the shocking gun that refutes the notion that capitalism is God basically. The war on Drugs has been used as a means to have militarization, wars, and a violation of human liberties against men, women, and children. The prison industrial complex benefits from mass unemployment and crime (because the more folks in prisons, the more profit that these prisons can receive. It is a sick dynamic indeed). Some Wall Street interests are benefited with drug money as well not just violent cartels. The international elite assault nations and the American workers including its institutions. The big banks have massive influence on our political systems. The state has seized constitutional or human rights and the war on terror is big business for corporate interests (at the expense of the poor and the rest of humanity).

The FBI shot and killed Ibragim Todashev. Is this a man who knew too much? He was a 27 year old Chechen immigrant. He was killed after being interrogated for days about the Boston Marathon bombings and has been unarmed. The official story by the government about the attacks has been questioned left and right. The FBI said that Todashev was shot, because he lunged at interrogators with a knife. Yet, one report said that Todashev was unarmed. A press conference in Moscow had the murdered man's father Abdulbaki Todashev speaking. He presented the public with numerous photographs of his son's body taken at a Florida morgue. It showed that he had been shot six times in the torso and once in the crown of his head. “I would like to say that looking at these photos is like being in a movie,” he said. “I only saw things like that in movies; shooting a person, and then the kill shot. Six shots in the body, one of them in the head,” He added: “Maybe my son knew something, some information the police did not want to be made public. Maybe they wanted to silence my son.” Todashev was a mixed martial arts fighter. He knew Tamerian Tsarnaev or the Boston bombing suspect.  Tamerian was killed by the police on April 19. They were both ethnic Chechens and used the same gym when Todashev lived in the Boston area. The death of Todashev signifies deception or a cover up. The FBI admitted that they shot to death an unarmed man. That is why civil rights groups and Todashev's widow including his family is calling for an independent investigation into the killing. The Council on American-Islamic Relations held a press conference in Orlando calling for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to launch a probe into how “an unarmed man who had not been charged or convicted of anything was shot seven times, once in the head.” At the press conference in Moscow, Zaurbek Sadakhanov of the Moscow International Bar Association stated his belief that the case was one of extrajudicial execution and urged Todashev’s friend, who had taken the morgue photos, to return to Russia. “Being a witness in the US is not safe,” he said. Before he died, Todashev was talking to the FBI about the Boston bombing. At first the FBI and the police said that Todashev tried to lunge at interrogators with a knife. Some sources once said that one FBI agent was stabbed with a knife when he was unarmed. The questioned occurred in Todashev's apartment. He was held prisoner and denied representation by a lawyer. The FBI claimed that he was shot just before signing the alleged confession of working with the Tsarnaev brothers in creating the Boston Marathon bombings. Yet, there is another story. Todashev’s housemate, Khusen Taramov, has told the media that he had been questioned together with Todashev up until the last eight-hour session in which he was murdered. He said the issue of the murders in Massachusetts was never raised. “They were asking different questions like how did we meet these guys [the Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar], the kind of relationship we had with the guys.” Similarly, Todashev’s widow, Reni Manukyan, 24, said that all of the questioning, to which she too was subjected, was about the Boston bombings, and no one asked her or her husband about the killings in 2011. “The interviews were always about Tsarnaev and the bombings,” she said. “How did we know him and what was the relationship with him.” As Todashev’s father put it in an interview with the Boston Globe from Russia, “They killed my son and then they made up a reason to explain it.” Why would the FBI and other intelligence plus police officer lie about the murder of Todashev? The cold blooded murder deserves answers. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who survived the shootout with police, has, according to his mother, spoken with her for the first time and has denied involvement in the bombing. Dzhokhar was severely injured after a boat he was hiding in, unarmed, and was shot up by police. He is currently being held in a Massachusetts prison hospital facing the capital charge of using a weapon of mass destruction. We know one thing. Many of these events regardless if they were manufactured terrorism or not, some of the alleged perpetrators had ties to U.S. or Western intelligence. Tamerlan Tsarnev was known to Russian security officials. They alerted the FBI and the CIA in 2011 about the danger he was involved with Islamic terrorism. The Saudi authorities issued a similar warning to the States. The FBI allowed him to return from the Russian region. Chechyna is known to have Islamist separatists fighting with Russia in the 1990's. U.S. intelligence has funded Islamist separatist forces for years. They have funded terrorist proxy groups in Libya and Syria. Much of the war on terror has the FBI using entrapment or the terrorists have strange links to the intelligence community. Regardless if the Boston bombings were an inside job or not, they have been used as a pretext for the state to execute an unprecedented lockdown of an entire metropolitan area of democratic rights (that was a military coup dry run). When you look at the FBI murder of Ibragim Todashev, you see America allowing the military and intelligence community power over the rights of the people. Our civil liberties have been assaulted with these state killings indeed.


The American killed fighting for Syrian rebels had an Al-Qaeda flag. The terrorist makeup of the Syria opposition has been underscored by the mainstream media all of the time. An American woman and 2 other westerners were killed fighting on the side of the FSA rebels in Syria. They were found with the Al-Nusra flag or the Al-Qaeda group that killed U.S. troops in Iraq and has become the primary fighting force in the country. “TV footage showed a bullet-riddled car and three bodies laid out. It also showed weapons, a computer, a hand-drawn map of a government military facility and a flag belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front,” reports the CNN. The American woman was later identified as 33 year old Nicole Lynn Mansfield, from Michigan. The Al-Nusra connection again underscores the point that while Britain and France plan to arm rebels after an EU ban was lifted, opposition militants fighting in Syria are becoming increasingly extremist, radicalized and dominated by foreign jihadists. Jabhat al-Nusra is the now leading front force in Syria. They are commanding other rebel groups as FSA rebels defect to the terrorist group in droves. Soon after the State Department declared Jabhat al-Nusra a terrorist organization, 29 different FSA rebel outfits pledged allegiance to the Al-Qaeda group. In April, the leader of Al-Nusra formally pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda. NATO have shown their best efforts to try to portray the FSA and Jabhat al-Nusra as separate entities, but the so-called moderate FSA rebels are now mimicking Al-Nusra's behavior (like in a recent video which showed an FSA fighter cutting out the heart of a Syrian soldier and biting into it). FSA wants to see the Al-Qaeda flag fly over the White House once they are successful in the region. They made songs that glorify the CIA asset Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks and even naming their units the "Bin Laden brigade." FSA rebels have ransacked Christian churches and burning U.S. including Israeli flag in public in more than one occasion. This is not about the morality of burning flags, but the West being hypocrites (in claiming to love America but agree with rebels burning their own flags). The reality that the Syrian opposition is now replete with bloodthirsty terrorists has turned public opinion squarely against arming the rebels, but NATO powers and the United States are still seriously considering supplying heavy weaponry in light of Russia’s decision to green light the delivery of six S-300 air defense systems to Syria under a 2010 contract. The last American found to be fighting on the same side as FSA rebels was U.S. Army veteran Eric Harroun. He joined up with Al-Nusra in Syria. He was arrested by FBI agents on his return to the U.S. and charged with using a rocket propelled grenade launcher on behalf of an Al-Qaeda affiliated group. Harroun's father claimed that his son has been working for the CIA. The CIA is known to fund terrorists for decades across the Earth. In March, the New York Times reported that the CIA has been conducting, “a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad,” since early 2012. Matthew Vandyke fought alongside al-Qaeda terrorists in both Libya and Syria. He gave lectures in D.C. back in March. He originally wanted to join the CIA and later called himself a freedom fighter. “Why westerners were fighting the Syrian government alongside Al Qaeda “rebels” is not known. What is known is that tomorrow front pages across the nation will be blasting “American woman killed in Syria” and the ensuing thirst for revenge will be just the missing link needed by the administration, in lieu of having found no weapons of mass destruction, to escalate the conflict even further,” writes Zero Hedge. Turkey supports the Syrian rebels as well. Turkey has a neoliberal privatization agenda especially when it is found in Istanbul. Turkey's own citizens have protested Turkey backing NATO backed terrorists in Syria and other issues. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey wants more influence in the Middle East and the EU in exchange for their support of terrorists in the Middle East. Back then, Erdogan was having almost daily talks with President Obama while he was being wooed into the scheme. Turkish police have used water in attacking the Turkish protesters wanting real changes in Turkey. Webster Tarpley is right to mention that the West has exploited the Arab Spring as a means to destabilize the nation states of the Middle East.

 

 

Police brutality is always evil. The Florida teen was slammed to the ground by cops for giving stares. The 14 year old Tremaine McMillian was slammed to the ground and put in a chokehold over the Memorial Day weekend. The cops said that the kid gave the Miami-Dade cops "dehumanizing stares." The police didn't approve of his body language and reacted violently to his failure to obey commands. The teen's mother captured the incident on her cell phone. The teen said that his only crime was ignoring the police and walking away. "I feel that should never have happened,” he told CBS Miami. “I don’t like it. I feel sad. He got in front of me on the ATC and he slammed my hand. Then he started choking me.” McMillian said his dog was injured during the takedown on Haulover Beach in Miami. “I ran over with my son and used my cell phone when I saw my son and he couldn’t breathe,” said Maurissa Holmes, the teen’s mother. “There was no reason to slam him on the ground like that the way they did. He’s a child, not an adult. For them to jump off their ATV and do this, this is wrong. I want justice. You don’t do that to a child.” The incident occurred after police said McMillian was involved in an incident with another teen. The police “told him that behavior was unacceptable,” said Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta. “He walked away and officers followed him. They asked where his parents were. He said he was not going to take them to them. When he started to leave the beach area, officers had to get off their ATVs to detain him. He had closed arms, clenched fists and pulled his arm away.” “Once he was approaching the road, the officers restrained him. Again his body language was that he was stiffening up and pulling away,” said Zabaleta. “Now you’re resisting officers at that point and when the hands are swinging and you are resisting officers, at that point you have to be taken into custody.” “Of course we have to neutralize the threat,” added Zabaleta. “When you have somebody resistant to them and pulling away and somebody clenching their fists and flailing their arms, that’s a threat.” McMillian was arrested and charged with resisting arrest with violence, a felony,. He was also charged with disorderly conduct. This incident is how much of the police interact with the public. Many cops show the public little respect and the try to intimidate society as a means to expressed their power (which is limited as compared to global multinational corporations). Some cops will act like a Gestapo if you refuse to bow to then like a slave. McMillian did not pose a violent threat to the police. He simply refused to obey orders and when confronted, he reacted with so-called “dehumanizing stares,” a crime that resulted in a felony charge. Even in the early 1990's, some in the mainstream media questioned the militarization of local cops. Now, most of the mainstream media glamorize or even love the militarization of the police nationwide.

Old School Hollywood has much controversy and even wickedness just like the Hollywood of today. Don't get things twisted because those back in the day did a lot of dirt. It is only in our time that real researchers have exposed Old School Hollywood's evil for the world to see. Tim Adler's book on Hollywood wrote about how Hollywood factions have been allied with the Mafia (among those in the Mafia from many backgrounds like Sicilians and Jewish human beings). He wrote that the Mafia funded Hollywood studios as well and invested in some of the movies. The director of the first great mobster film, Scarface, invited a Mafioso to advise on making the action more realistic; he invited Al Capone to view the rushes. We know that Frank Sinatra was once a Mob insider. George Raft worked with the Mafia too. Joseph Kennedy was involved in the bootlegging business with factions of Al Capone. He borrowed Mafia money to set up in the movie business. Yet, when you research the secrets of Hollywood, those behind the scenes have done more evil or wickedness than the old school actors and actresses in Hollywood indeed. Hollywood deals with propaganda, and even hypnosis. Hypnosis is manipulation via certain stimuli as a means to achieve a result among the masses. Hollywood by its very definition utilize stimuli, movies, fame, celebrities, etc. as a means to culturally control as much of the masses as possible (beyond profit, which is the essence of mainstream capitalistic system today). Now, for millennia, hypnosis has been common by ancient shamans, ancient Egyptian Sleep Temples, and the rest of the occult world. Masonic Lodges love hypnotism. One of the easiest examples to get folks to wake up about the nefarious nature of Hollywood is to talk about Walt Disney. Just look at the little children who participate in Disney then and now. Look at the history of Walt Disney in real life. Walt Disney forced his workers to adhere to a strict dress code, but his life is filled with controversy. His supporters claimed that he was not anti-Semitic, but he allied with an anti-Semitic organization temporarily. He is known for funding films with stereotypical images of African Americans in cartoons and films throughout the 20th century. Walt Disney was an ally of Ronald Reagan. Both men were either Freemasons or in Masonic groups. Reagan was a FBI informant and Disney has been accused of being a FBI informant too. Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan worked together as a means to make Reagan Governor of California. Walt Disney worked in the McCarthyism scare as a means to accuse many progressives as Communists. In the final analysis, Hollywood has been ruled by the white supremacist agenda since its inception. It allowed the marginalization of human beings of color beyond just the Birth of a Nation film. Some in Hollywood have mistreated women heavily from Dorothy Dandridge, Jayne Mansfield, and Marilyn Monroe. You know full well that a wicked root can never produce a good tree. A bad tree can never produce good fruit. Its roots, tree, and fruits of Hollywood has been corrupted since its inception.

 

By Timothy

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