Earlier this week, the Pentagon disgraced Captain Kyle Moses, commander of Task Force 56 in the Persian Gulf. It was personnel from his unit whose poltroonery in front of the Iranian Coast Guard in January led to a major international humiliation for the LGBTQ-friendly US Navy and Marines.
Stripped of its legalese, the Pentagon's report essentially found Moses guilty of dereliction of duty.
Yesterday, Admiral John Richardson addressed the media with further updates on the investigation---which has now dragged on for six months. "Our actions on that day and that incident in January did not live up to our expectations of our Navy." he said, as though that statement was some great revelation, "Big incidents like this are always the accumulation of a number of small problems."
With intellects on the level of Admiral Richardson and Captain Moses commanding the Navy, it is truly surprising that incidents like these are not more frequent. Richardson goes on to tell us that "It is clear that some, if not all, crewmembers provided some information to interrogators beyond name, rank, and serial number." Well, since the Iranian media broadcast them doing exactly that on public television and proliferated the videos on the Internet---why did it take you 6 months to reach this conclusion, Admiral?
In March, sources connected with the investigation leaked to foreign media claimed that the crew of the captured ship was under a 24-hour deadline to reach Bahrain via Kuwait. Among other of Captain Moses' blunders, the ship needed refueling at a midway-point and the crew had no training in refueling and no communications with the tanker. The source also noted that one of the captured ships had to be retrofitted with parts cannibalized off a third ship before the voyage began. The Iranians did report that one of the crew was observed struggling to fix the engine when captured.
The source noted that the GPS on the captured ships did not notify the crew that they were entering Iranian waters. The Iranian Coast Guard believed them at first to be a spy-ship. But as the Marines---according to the Iranian account---broke out in tears and groveled before their captors, the Iranians began to realize it was probably an accidental entry into their waters.
The incident should, in reality, have been a warning to Americans that our military is in substandard condition now; and a war with even a medium-level military power like Iran
would end in disaster for us. Our military is, to put it bluntly, incapable of fighting a conventional war and even a non-conventional conflict is debatable. The military's primary purpose is to defend the nation---whether they could do so is doubtful.
But has this incident led to major military reforms? Of course not. Senator John McCain said of this week's reports: "The Navy investigation confirms what has been obvious from the beginning. That Iran's obstruction, boarding, and seizure of sovereign US Navy vessels at gunpoint and the detention, interrogation, and recording of 10 American sailors was a flagrant violation of international law!"
And so, the politically-correct party-line is to blame Iran's military for behaving like soldiers, while overlooking the disgraceful conduct of ours. No wonder the Iraqis evicted our forces from their soil, and the Okinawans and Bahrainis want to. But such is the way of the New America.
Iranian Actors: Looking Just Like the Real Thing!
After the Orlando Massacre and the BREXIT vote, the American Media Cartels are busily milking the alleged terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey to throw the public into panic-mode and drive up ratings revenue. Why do we say "alleged terrorist attack"? For two reasons:
1. Nothing that comes from Turkish President Tyyip Erdogan's mouth should be believed at face value, and
2. Nothing that comes from the Obama Administration or the Mainstream Media should be taken at face value either.
The issue here is not whether or not the Istanbul attack actually occurred; the issue is whether or not it was what the authorities and experts involved claim that it was. Given some various events surrounding both Erdogan and Obama recently, we will simply note that the Istanbul attack was very conveniently timed. However, we will not engage in speculation until further details emerge from more reliable sources; but these nonetheless are matters for consideration.
Now the American media has been stoking the flames of Ameroboob outrage and hysteria over this event; apparently forgetting that even more Americans were killed in an attack in Orlando just two weeks ago. In spite of the fact that ISIS claimed responsibility for Orlando and the attacker proclaimed sympathy with the Jihad; the same Government-Media Complex who scoffed at any connection between Orlando and ISIS is now throwing up its collective hands in horror that such an event could happen here!
As a point of fact, it can happen here; it is happening here, and has been happening for some time. The postmodern Cultural Marxists have somehow created this false dichotomy in the public mind that premeditated mass-murder and terrorism are two different things. In reality, they are the same things. It's expedient, though, for the Government-Media to wrangle over definitions, motivations for these crimes, and other abstractions because they can then capitalize on the confusion. As a matter of national policy, these things are completely irrelevant. They are useful to Law Enforcement and others concerned with public safety and crime prevention---which is in many ways a science---but to public policy they mean nothing.
Anarchist street riots, lone kook mass-shooters, and Jihadist terrorists are not going to be stopped by Hate-Speech laws, gun control, increased domestic espionage, or any other political grandstanding. These things are happening because our society and culture are breaking down. We are not being attacked from without, but from within.
American culture has degenerated into an effete, narcissistic society where our traditions and values are derided and scoffed at; where the rights of interest groups supersede the rights of the individual; and both official law and unofficial groupthink is employed as an instrument of force to compel obedience to political correctness. Under such circumstances, envy and revenge dominate political and social discourse and mass-violence is bound to happen. Reverse these societal trends, and they will stop happening, as they rarely happened before when our society operated under different values.
When a culture believes in its ideals, when fairness for all is the prevailing attitude, when law is an instrument of justice; then mass-violence is an aberration; like a natural disaster. People join together to help the victims and things return to normal.
But Americans of today could care less about anything of these things. They prefer the passive-aggressive course, which is to lament their 'victimhood' one day and get their revenge on somebody else the next. The same attitude which is predominant in the minds of most perpetrators of mass-violence. And that's why these violent outbursts will continue to happen.
The US government, along with the self-appointed cultural elites, are doing an outstanding job of promoting so-called Exceptionalism abroad. We've brought to many foreign communities the civil unrest, political correctness, corporatism, bureaucratic arrogance, and crime that postmodernist America enjoys.
Now Saudi Arabia, an autocratic state run by Wahhabi fanatics and drug addicts, would be the natural ally of American Cultural Marxists. But the crimes committed and endorsed by the Saudi regime are causing international outcry. Even such organizations as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, though somewhat dubious in the own right, have been compelled by international pressure to launch a formal protest to the United Nations over Saudi atrocities in Yemen and their overt support for criminal activities in Syria, Iraq, and Iran; and their complicity in suppressing the Shia minority in Bahrain.
Of course, this petition is mostly for show. The US and Saudi Arabia have stonewalled all attempts to censure the Saudi government; or restrict arms-sales to that regime. This is not surprising; consider that the Saudis and their Wahhabi confederates---chiefly Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, and Bahrain---are all huge shareholders in Wall Street, and especially the US Media Cartels. The Bushmen and the Clintons likewise have huge financial investments in that region; and Obama was schooled in a Wahhabi madrassa and CIA Director Brennan is a Wahhabi convert with a residence in Riyadh. Major contractors like Halliburton and Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) are headquartered in Dubai and the Pentagon maintains numerous bases in the region.
Nonetheless Saudi crimes are real. Saudi forces invaded Yemen last year for the purpose of ethnically cleansing the Shiite and Christian populations and installing a Wahhabi regime there. Around 3,000 civilians have been killed in Saudi-led military operations. These were not collateral damages, either. At least 69 cases have been documented where Saudi forces specifically targeted civilian infrastructure: schools, hospitals, churches, mosques and markets. They have also deployed US-made cluster-bombs for these purposes.
Considering that the LGBTQ-friendly Pentagon recently dispatched a hundred or so of its so-called 'Special Forces' to Yemen to assist Saudi repression, it is likely that the Obama Administration will again ignore and block the UN proposals. That will permit the 'Human Rights' groups some political cover to ignore Saudi crimes in the future.
A similar situation is developing in Bahrain, where the Wahhabi government has begun a new series of brutal crackdowns on the majority Shiite population. Bahrain is now home to a US Naval Base---the same who stood by and did nothing in 2011 when Saudi and UAE troops slaughtered over a hundred Bahraini Shiite protestors in the streets. That was during the so-called Arab Spring. Bahraini citizens learned that regime change only applies to countries Wall Street doesn't control---not to ones it already has under its thumb.
Saudi Arabia has also been involved in Jihadist intrigues in Iraq, Syria, and Iran; but like the case with Yemen and Bahrain, all with a wink and a nod from the Beltway.
It's sad to recall that the United States once prided itself on using its power to uphold Democracy and Free Enterprise worldwide. True, we did not always live up to that ideal. But today, our country actually flaunts its disregard for both. We have become much like the former Soviet Union or the Maoist China we once opposed. And sadder still is the fact that the average Ameroboob---who couldn't find Yemen or Bahrain on a map---will not bother to hold our own government accountable for its complicity in Saudi crimes; or for its selling-out to Wahhabi interests.
Syria, Yemen, Bahrain---these are examples of why the world needs a new global paradigm, with different leadership. Russia, China, India, and possibly a post-BREXIT Britain can pick up the global leadership role we have forfeited.
The US Corporate Media Cartels have been stirring up a frenzy of anti-British hatred in the wake of BREXIT. As we predicted as well, the Wall Street freebooters and Left-Wing street thugs are fomenting as much financial and social chaos in Britain as possible.
The Foes of Freedom were bound to react on Britain with this kind of fury. The parasites who comprise the mainstream media, the financial syndicates, and the welfare class feel threatened by a system where they have to compete as equals on a level playing-field.
Britain has recovered to itself the right of self-determination. They are free once again to determine their own laws without outside interference.
One of the main benefits from BREXIT is economic. Britain now has the freedom to engage in bilateral trade; that is, they may now negotiate independent agreements for imported and exported goods. Bilateral trade has been the secret behind China's expansive economic enterprises. The ability to buy and sell in a free market could lower inflation, create jobs, and generally lift the British economy.
Another benefit---about which numerous media lies have been promulgated---is immigration policy. Contrary to what the Establishment tells us, Britain was forced to refuse immigrants to accommodate EU demands that they accept the 'refugees' foisted upon them by Merkel and Obama. Britain now may freely ignore those demands and set policies favorable to its own national interest.
Analysts have also pointed out that many British industries driven out by the EU may now return. EU restrictions on existing British manufacturing will be lifted. Most importantly, British resources now spent on subsidizing the EU would be spent in Britain on British needs and British interests. The British Pound Sterling will no longer be tied to the more historically unstable Euro.
Britain will also be freed from EU/Wall Street military and national security entanglements.
BREXIT will prove of incalculable benefit to Britain long-term. Already nations outside the Brussels/Berlin/Beltway sphere of influence are probing trade deals and investment with the independent UK. India---the major foreign investor in Britain---has reacted to BREXIT positively. Indian investors have long complained of EU obstructionism.
The EU has no free-trade agreement with India and China---as well as current sanctions on Russia---but Britain is now free to engage in reciprocal agreements with these and other countries.
Those who opposed BREXIT never have, and have not now, the interests of the British people in mind. This ought to be clear from their post-BREXIT propaganda, financial sabotage, and instigating political instability. They would destroy Britain if they cannot control it, as they have destroyed other countries who resisted them. Britain has rejected their tyranny and now must stand firm.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank announced earlier its first series of investment projects, totaling $509 billion. The AIIB is a joint-venture established by China, Russia, and India as an alternative to Wall Street/EU controlled enterprises like the IMF and World Bank.
The AIIB was inaugurated last year in Beijing as part of Xi Jinping's ambitious Great Silk Road economic project. The principles behind the AIIB and similar Western organizations are far different. AIIB is not used as ideological leverage over member states, but is premised on funding domestic infrastructure projects that result in beneficial mutual trade-agreements. The largest project funded this year, for example, was to upgrade and expand Bangladesh's power-grid.
The upgrades, which are in tandem with upgrades a joint Indian-Chinese project to upgrade the port at Calcutta, are predicted to create millions of jobs in the poverty-stricken Bay of Bengal region. They will also increase efficiency and expansion of the Bengali manufacturing industry while facilitating the exchange of goods and services. The new Bengali power-grid will cover the entire nation with high-tech, secure, and inexpensive electrical energy.
The cost of this upgrade is less than the cost of American military exercises in the South China Sea, and unlike the latter, the former will be a net return on the investment for all parties involved. The Bengali system, when completed next year, will be more advanced and provide cheaper energy than the US power grid, which sadly has become obsolescent. The United States has invested little since the Johnson Administration on building new power-stations and have seen no significant upgrades since the Reagan Administration. The inefficiency in our system, combined with the bloated municipal bureaucracies that administer them, have resulted in spiraling utility costs over here; and increasingly frequent and longer-term outages.
The American Society of Civil Engineers have been warning for decades that the US electrical grid is in critical condition. A recent report noted that US energy infrastructure is "in poor to fair condition and mostly below standard, with many elements nearing the end of their service-life...a large portion of the system exhibits significant deterioration with a strong risk of failure."
Our system, the report noted, is also extremely vulnerable to cyber and terrorist attack. But the Ameroboobs by and large ignore all these warnings. There are no political candidates addressing critical infrastructure concerns; and Americans seemingly prefer public funds to be invested in border walls, military adventurism, increasing domestic espionage, and broader welfare handouts.
Meanwhile, though, progress is being made in Asia. Besides the Bengali power grid, other major investments include a major highway system between Pakistan and Tajikistan; and rebuilding an Indonesian manufacturing district recently damaged during a natural disaster.
Rebecca Chan, a spokeswoman for the Silk Road Project noted that "The AAIB motto is to be lean, clean, and green; and will also adopt world-class environmental safeguards." She also pointed out that AIIB marks a new era in Chinese foreign investment policy. "The old days of China recycling the export dollars that it earned into US Treasury Bonds are over...with the growing cracks in the US dollar-dominated global financial architecture, the Chinese One Belt, One Road Initiative that aims to chart a new course in the Eurasian heartland, is a much better way to invest this foreign reserve."
In the aftermath of BREXIT, the German government---the actual ruling power behind the EU---called an emergency meeting. Details of this upcoming meeting reveal now that the masks have finally come off the EU, and now we learn what many have suspected to be true. The European Union is simply an extension of the same German Imperialist policy which led to two world wars.
The leaders in Poland, a country occupied by Germany from 1939-1945, exposed the details of Merkel's plan, which agreed upon in Berlin yesterday by delegates of the Reich and their French and Italian collaborators. Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski called the proposal an "ultimatum designed to create a European Superstate."
Under the German proposal, member states would lose the right to maintain independent militaries, the right to internal taxation, the right to their own criminal justice systems, and their own central banks---all of these functions would be transferred to Brussels (i.e. Berlin). Consider that every one of these rights were also suspended under previous German occupations.
Now consider too that an EU military and police force will need personnel, and as we have seen with BREXIT, the native-born populations in Europe are largely opposed to such a plan. In this context, does Merkel's policy of flooding EU countries with Jihadist refugees begin to make sense? What better way to integrate and employ these millions of Moslems than in a security force? The new Wehrmacht and Gestapo and not going to be of European descent, although their leaders certainly will be.
As for internal taxation and central banking, which country in Europe (post-BREXIT) has the strongest financial network? And the same context, do the motives behind EU's anti-Russia stance also become clear? The goal of German Imperialism from Bismarck to the Kaiser to Hitler to Merkel has been hostile towards Russia---which it sees as a competitor in European affairs.
It should also not be overlooked that Britain was the EU's former leader in mass-media. Now others will have to fill the void; and with the EU's proposed speech codes and German policies on hate speech, a Ministry of Propaganda and Culture will also be needed.
The upcoming months will be Europe's last chance to follow Britain's lead and escape the clutches of the Fourth Reich. Poland is awakening to the danger, as is Austria, whose president promised a referendum this year. Poland and Austria were the first casualties of the last German attempt to dominate Europe. Let us hope that others follow and stop the Reich in its tracks.
Seven people were injured this weekend after a knife-fight broke out between two rival political gangs in Sacramento, California. The American media establishment, who've been lecturing us for the past weeks on "the epidemic of gun violence" here and race-baiting over BREXIT, are flummoxed. Two gangs of entitled young whites committing violence without firearms doesn't fit the editorial scripts.
This incident is not unlike the violence that erupted at a Trump Rally in neighboring San Jose earlier this month. In fact, a lot of the same people were involved in both, at least from what the Media calls the protestors' side. And both stem from the same intrinsic causes, although the Media will never discuss any of these. They are:
1. The Breakdown of the Family;
2. The Breakdown of Public Education;
3. The Breakdown of the Political System;
4. The Breakdown of Traditional Religion.
Naturally, suggesting any of this meets with a cynical sneer from effete Americans. But before you stop reading and head off to the Hookah Lounge, ask yourself one question: do things like lacking familial support, education, a fair justice system, and moral values ever contribute to crime?
Of course these are contributing factors to crime---and disguising criminal activity as political discourse doesn't make it legitimate. Contrary to all the media distractions over Sacramento and San Jose, what the advocates and the protestors were defending or opposing is irrelevant. In civilized countries, protestors do not express opposition by showing up to rallies wearing masks, armed with knives and screaming through bullhorns. This is what gangsters do; and those who are carrying out these violent demonstrations need to be suppressed by the authorities.
Will these outbursts of political violence continue? Of course they will. They have been increasing steadily during the last few years while Americans have been in denial about them. What we're seeing is the culmination of a social decline that began in the list above trickling down to the general public. Americans were happy to tolerate political gangsterism as long as the Bushmen, the Clintons, Obama, the Neocons, and the Neoliberals were redistributing the wealth and stabbing the other guy in the back. Now, a generation nurtured in that anarchistic atmosphere is behaving exactly how they were taught---both directly and by example---by the previous generation.
The fundamental law of any Government is its own self-preservation, and when society breaks down Governments tend to react in one of two ways. Either it becomes Authoritarian domestically or creates wars abroad as a distraction. In light of Obama's recent military buildups and Republican proposals to beef up domestic espionage and militarize the police, we see where the post-election American future is really trending.
Things will change only when our society agrees to reverse the four trends listed above; and the likelihood of that happening is practically nonexistent. All four of these mean taking personal responsibility and the Ameroboobs aren't about to give up their hard-won handouts and do that. We'll be told instead that playing the Game and being in the know means that there's personal profit in all these New Normals. The Smart Boys are the ones who know how to take advantage of a situation.
So who cares about things like the breakdown of the family? Well, just don't forget that the same generation of feral children we've produced is already producing our feral grandchildren. Studies of the generation who currently under 12 are not shaping up to look especially promising. Not to worry, though---there are pills for that.
