Everything We Know So Far About Obama's Secret Trade Deal

http://www.vice.com/read/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership-824?utm_source=vicetwitterus

President Barack Obama has been riding high these last few weeks, cementing his legacy with landmark victories on healthcare, gay marriage, and opening a first US Embassy in Cuba for the first time since the Cold War. Between the rainbow flag waving and soaring eulogy-writing, though, it was easy to miss what may have been the president's most significant—and controversial—victory: the signing of a Trade Promotion Authority bill that gives Obama filibuster-proof superpowers when it comes to negotiating trade deals.

Putin Adviser Urges Dumping US Bonds In Reaction to Sanctions

http://en.ria.ru/business/20140304/188081405/Putin-Adviser-Urges-Dumping-US-Bonds-In-Reaction-to-Sanctions.html
MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that authorities would issue general advice to dump US government bonds in the event of Russian companies and individuals being targeted by sanctions over events in Ukraine  

Sergei Glazyev said the United States would be the first to suffer in the event of any sanctions regime.


Full Sanction Program:

 Exchange controls and capital controls.  No more hot money.  You have to get gov permission to send money in or out
You have to protect the ruble against Anglo American attack using above all credit default swaps.  Probably ought to ban CDS immediately

State monopoly on international trade

The threat on defaulting on all money owed to New York and London Banks

Dumping the entire portfolio of US Treasury Securities

The central bank.  Elvira Nabiullina replaced.  Abandon current position of being a satellite of the US Federal Reserve.  Only creates new rubles when they have dollars in the vault.  You have to start issuing your own ruble denominated loans at very low interest rates as close to zero as you can get and that has to be lent for infrastructure, foreign trade financing, mfg, ag, mining, forestry, scientific research,

How Russia Can Respond to the West's Economic War

1. Exchange controls and capital controls.  No more hot money.  Gov permission to send money in or out of country.  Protect the ruble against Anglo American attack who will use credit default swaps.  Ban CDS immediately

2. State monopoly on international trade

3. Default on all money owed to New York and London Banks

4. Dump the entire portfolio of US Treasury Securities

5. The central bank: replace Elvira Nabiullina as head.  Abandon being a satellite of the US Federal Reserve.  Start issuing ruble denominated loans at very low interest rates - zero century - to be lent for infrastructure, foreign trade financing, mfg, ag, mining, forestry, scientific research

6. Put Sergei Glazyev in charge.


 1.  Increase its domestic investments
2.  Increase its investment in China , S.America and the Silk Road
3.  More military aid to Syria, Iraq, Iran
4.  Eliminate Saudis/US Terrorism
5.  Create a new oil syndicate: Russia, Brasil, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, China


Putin's Move

1. Put Sergei Glazyev in charge of the following

2. Exchange controls and capital controls.  Govt permission to send money in or out of country.  Protect the ruble against Anglo American attack.  Ban credit default swaps

3. State monopoly on international trade

4. Default on all money owed to New York and London Banks

5. Dump the portfolio of US Treasury Securities

6. The Russian Central Bank: replace Elvira Nabiullina as head.  Abandon being a satellite of the US FED.  Start issuing low interest ruble denominated loans to be lent for infrastructure, foreign trade financing, mfg, ag, mining, forestry, scientific research

How to Understand the ISIS Threat

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-to-understand-the-isis-threat/

By Philip Giraldi • July 1, 2014

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Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Americans have become so accustomed to going to war based on lies that they hardly flinch when the latest round of bellicose innuendo surfaces.

FALSE FLAGS: Past, Present and Future -

Published on Jun 26, 2014

Adrian Salbuchi and Enrique Romero of the Second Republic Project (Argentina) do a special English language edition of the International News section of "Segunda República" (Second Republic) on Channel TLV1 from Buenos Aires Argentina. They address False Flag attacks, past, present and future:
(01:35) Pres. Obama: a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan???
(02:55) The Nature of False Flag Attacks
(03:45) Historical Perspectives
(07:01) Tell-tale signs BEFORE False Flag attacks take place...
(10:00) Will a Mega-False Flag event be used to trigger World War?
(10:54) Case Study I: 7th July 2005 London Transport attack... (Psy-War)
(23:11) Case Study II: False Flag Attacks in Argentina: Israeli Embassy (1992) and AMIA-DAIA (1994)
(25:49) The "strange case" of the assassination of Israel PM Yzahk Rabin in 1995...
(27:13) Conclusions. 4th August marks 100th Anniversary of the start of World War I.
(32:00) The time has come for all peoples to take our countries back!!

ISRAEL's Fed Candidate Stanley Fischer Spends US Blood and Treasure on Israel

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d7_1388409459

The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed recent Obama administration-Israel lobby pincer move to ram approval for U.S. military strikes on Syria through Congress, avoiding such due diligence through velocity may actually be the only means for successful Senate confirmation.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d7_1388409459#sim1bI0Rs2eWirDU.99

The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed recent Obama administration-Israel lobby pincer move to ram approval for U.S. military strikes on Syria through Congress, avoiding such due diligence through velocity may actually be the only means for successful Senate confirmation.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d7_1388409459#sim1bI0Rs2eWirDU.99

The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed recent Obama administration-Israel lobby pincer move to ram approval for U.S. military strikes on Syria through Congress, avoiding such due diligence through velocity may actually be the only means for successful Senate confirmation.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d7_1388409459#sim1bI0Rs2eWirDU.99

Gates: US war on Syria like 'throwing gasoline on fire in Middle East'

Gates: US war on Syria like 'throwing gasoline on fire in Middle East'

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says a US military strike against Syria would be like "throwing gasoline on an extremely complex fire in the Middle East."

Gates, who was speaking at a forum in Dallas on Tuesday, also hinted that Washington’s past military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya showed that military action can lead to unintended consequences.

Spoof on US State Departments Position on Egypt

Spratly Islands

Beijing is encouraging Chinese firms to heavily invest in electricity, coal and gas-oil projects in Indonesia. CNOOC, China’s major offshore oil producer, has reported that its investment in the country will exceed $5.6 billion by 2011. In 2009, Chinese direct investment grew by 29 percent.

On the eve of Obama’s visit, a Chinese delegation led by National People’s Congress head Wu Bangguo pledged a further $6.6 billion of investments in infrastructure and development projects, outdoing the US financial commitments by a factor of 20-to-1.

What does Obama have planned next for Latin America?

clipped from: onlinejournal.com

Obama’s Latin American policy resembles Richard Nixon’s Operation Condor and its assassinations and covert operations.

He has deploy thousands of Marines and dozens of Coast Guard vessels to Costa Rica, more military bases in Colombia and Honduras, authorized a coup against Zelaya. He is more threatening than the benign George W. Bush.

Thee are increasing reports of political assassinations, illegal detention of opposition figures and journalists in Colombia, Panama, and Honduras.

Pinochet supporters of the Chilean Senate recently charged by Venezuela with interference in elections. Under President Sebastian Pinera, Chile has become
with Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica U.S. base to destabilize progressive-led governments.

The current doctrine is found in CIA manuals for “PBSuccess,”

Brazil’s leftist President Joao Goulart, overthrown in a 1964 coup, died.

Chile’s Eduardo Frei Montalva. PBSuccess’s “Study of Assassination” talks about the machine gun option, to kill Allende.

renewed low-key Operation Condor appears to have taken shape under Obama

And Obama’s decision not to rescind George W. Bush’s re-establishment of the U.S. Navy’s Fourth Fleet as part of the US Southern Command means that the United States can always resort to its old “gunboat diplomacy” to enforce its military might and will in Latin America.

For Obama, whose Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was a top officer in the armed forces of General Suharto, who carried out the CIA’s 1965-66 coup against President Sukarno and the Indonesian Communist Party, which saw almost one million accused Communists, as well as ethnic Chinese, systematically genocided, such re-imposition of covert activities in Latin America presents no moral dilemma to Obama, who first witnessed the CIA’s repression as an impressionable young boy of 7 and 8 years old while living in Jakarta. Soetoro was still a senior officer in Suharto’s army when Soetoro enrolled Barack Obama in 1967 as Barry Soetoro in Jakarta’s Fransiskus Assisi Catholic school. In 1967, the Indonesian army and its CIA handlers were still mopping up Indonesia’s left-wing opposition forces. Obama has studiously refrained from mentioning Indonesia’s CIA coup and has twice canceled presidential visits to the country.

JIM LOVE ON NEOCON PLAYERS IN THE IRANIAN RUNUP

clipped from: www.ipsnews.net

clutch of Iraq war hawks appear to be preparing the ground, beginning after the Labour Day holiday, Sep. 6.

November mid-term elections coming up. Obama are "soft on Iran"

"By the first quarter of 2011, we will know wrote Bush's former national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, and Israeli Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog in Washington Institute for Near Policy (WINEP), a think tank closely tied to (AIPAC)

''We cannot afford to wait wrote former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb and Air Force Gen. Charles Wald.

based on Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), neo-conservative foreign policydirector, Michael Makovsky, whose brother is a senior official at WINEP, Makovsky a consultant to Pentagon office set up to find evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein urged Obama to "augment the Fifth Fleet presence in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, deployment additional (aircraft) carrier battle group and minesweepers to the waters off Iran and initiate a 'strategic partnership' with Azerbaijan

blockading refined petroleum would effectively be an act of war. John Bolton
sanctions, not sufficient

Obama waffled wrote William Kristol and Jamie Fly who direct the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the successor of the neo- conservative-led Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

remarks by United Arab Emirates (UAE) Amb. Yousef al-Otaiba, at The Atlantic magazine
retreat in Colorado. "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran," Otaiba saying in a Washington Times article by Eli Lake, a prominent neo-conservative journalist.

the Wall Street Journal's editorial board opined U.S. or Israel, to stop Iran.

Otaiba interviewed by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg

Obama Vs. Reagan: Who's More Conservative?

Who is More Conservative: Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama?

Ronald Reagan:

-Gave Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants
-Negotiated with Terrorists (Traded Arms for Hostages with Iran)
-Raised Taxes on a Large Scale Four Times (After Initially Lowering Them)
-Negotiated with the "Evil Empire" without Pre-conditions
-Made a Decision to "Cut and Run" From Lebanon After Our Troops Were Attacked

In fact, as you look at the Reagan list, it seems he is the exact opposite of what conservatives now claim they want. It looks like the caricature of what they think liberals do. There is no way that even Dennis Kucinich would be able to do all of those things; he certainly wouldn't negotiate with terrorists the way Reagan did.

Of course, Reagan also took the country further right in many ways but our political spectrum has moved so far to the right that he looks left behind by comparison. So, let's go to Obama and see what that "socialist" is up to.

Barack Obama:

-Escalated the Afghanistan War (Added 30,000 More Troops)
-Has Ordered Drone Strikes (Assassinations) on US Citizens Outside the Country
-Gave Drug Companies Near Monopoly Power by Barring Imports, Extending Patents and Not Allowing the Government to Negotiate Better Prices
-Funneled Billions into the Biggest Banks in the Country After They Crashed the Economy
-Stacked Deficit Commission with Fiscal Conservatives
-Lowered Taxes Significantly (Stimulus Bill)
-Ordered Increased Offshore Drilling Before BP Spill

Mayberry Machiavellis: Obama Political Team Handcuffing Recovery

Hardball: Mark Halperin is speaking again... like nails on a chalkboard

Cenk Uygur and Ryan Grim Discuss President Obama's Conservative Tendencies

LAKOFF ON OBAMA

policy issues: the banking system, education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America—a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss.

Obama Code. to express his moral vision indirectly, connects with “cognitive unconscious.” deepest ideas simply structure what he is saying. “code” refer to
communication or morality.

Obama Code is both moral and linguistic at once. budgets are moral documents

Behind the Obama Code are seven crucial intellectual moves
1. Values Over Programs
2. Progressive Values are American Values
Progressive thought rests on the value of empathy, putting oneself in other people’s shoes, seeing the world through their eyes, and therefore caring about them. second
acting on that care, taking responsibility both for oneself and others, social as well as individual responsibility. third is acting to make oneself, the country, and the world better. Obama has called an “ethic of excellence”, creating “a more perfect union” politically.


those values, beginning with empathy, lie historically behind the human rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Obama
provided the logical link. Empathy is not mere sympathy, but responsibility to act on that empathy—to be “our brother’s keeper and to act to improve ourselves, our country, and the world.

The logic is simple:

Obama has maintained “progressive” values but from his perspective, he is not a progressive; he is just an American. That is a crucial intellectual move.

3. Biconceptualism and the New Bipartisanship
4. Protection and Empowerment
5. Morality and Economics Fit Together
6. Systemic Causation and Systemic Risk
7. Contested Concepts and Patriotic Language
It’s Us, Not Just Him

Summary

REASONS FOR WAR

But in a logical shell game reminiscent of the Bush administration’s selling of the war in Iraq—you know, to get rid of al-Qaida, I mean weapons of mass destruction, I mean Saddam Hussein, I mean to have democratic elections, I mean to stabilize the country so the Iraqi army and police can take over, but we’ll keep bases and troops there more or less indefinitely—Panetta says the Taliban are giving our troops a hell of a time.

So, just to recap, we went into Afghanistan to get rid of those al-Qaida bastards who took down our World Trade Center. Now there are fewer than a hundred left, but we’re still there because their hosts continue to dislike us. And doing something about that is worth the life of every teenage kid we can suit up and drop off over there.

Any more good news? Panetta says it’s been years since we had any idea where Bin Laden is. Oh, and we continue to make deals with the mercenary dingbats formerly known as Blackwater because, despite a track record of killings and flying into mountains, they underbid everyone else, Panetta says.

A great president once said, “You fool me, ye can’t get fooled again.” Words to live by. —PZS

NPR:

On a separate issue, Panetta said that the CIA had no choice but to hire the company once known as Blackwater for $100 million to provide security in Afghanistan.

Panetta said the company, now known as Xe Services, underbid others by $26 million and that a CIA review concluded that the contractor had cleaned up its act.

STRATFOR ON THE FOURTH PHASE OF AFGHANISTAN

The Fourth Phase of the Afghan War

The fourth phase of the war began in 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama decided to pursue a more aggressive strategy in Afghanistan. Though the Bush administration had toyed with this idea, it was Obama who implemented it fully. During the 2008 election campaign, Obama asserted that he would pay greater attention to Afghanistan. The Obama administration began with the premise that while the Iraq War was a mistake, the Afghan War had to be prosecuted. It reasoned that unlike Iraq, which had a tenuous connection to al Qaeda at best, Afghanistan was the group’s original base. He argued that Afghanistan therefore should be the focus of U.S. military operations. In doing so, he shifted a strategy that had been in place for 30 years by making U.S. forces the main combatants in the war.

Though Obama’s goals were not altogether clear, they might be stated as follows:

1. Deny al Qaeda a base in Afghanistan.
2. Create an exit strategy from Afghanistan similar to the one in Iraq by creating the conditions for negotiating with the Taliban; make denying al Qaeda a base a condition for the resulting ruling coalition.
3. Begin withdrawal by 2011.

To do this, there would be three steps:

1. Increase the number and aggressiveness of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
2. Create Afghan security forces under the current government to take over from the Americans.
3. Increase pressure on the Taliban by driving a wedge between them and the population and creating intra-insurgent rifts via effective counterinsurgency tactics.

TURKEY

An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

the Iran-Iraq war was the thwarting Iranian political advancement in the Arab region by 2 decades. postponing the Iranian take over until 2003, the occupation of Iraq by Maliki, Hakeem, Sadr, Chalabi, and the rest...

American occupation achieved the Iranian role and its consolidation in the whole Arab region. Endless parroting about an imminent attack on Iran is pure BULLSHIT.

one needs to understand how Iran operates. It is by political maneuvering by using Shiism as an ideology, double political discourses and endless tricks.

Iranian occupation of Iraq by using armed militias, several armed militias in Iraq. Hezbollah is an armed militia of Iran, so is Hamas,(or some of its elements)

Iran operates in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai and Mauritania. Also, the famous Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan alliance. It operates through armed groups. POLITICAL occupation/influence. (and heavy economic investments are part of it.

Iraq has American MILITARY occupation and Iranian POLITICAL occupation. political alliances in Iraq are only made with Iran's approval first.



Iranian society with its political Shiism revivalism is reclaiming its Persian roots away from the Arabization. Iran's contempt and hatred for anything Arab is a well known.

The double discourse is presented, cloaked in Islamic jargon, where Iran tries very hard to portray itself as an Islamic country that is above any sect or race. The Iraqi experiment has proved the fallacy of such Iranian claims.

Iran's use of Shiism is not out of love for Imam Ali, Hassan or Hussein, but a political tool to extend and consolidate its political and regional influence. Shiism in itself as a sect is not a Persian invention, Qum only became the center for Shiism relatively late. Arab Nejaf and Arab Kerbala were always the centers of learning for Shiism. neither Ali, nor Hassan nor Hussein were Furs - Persian, they all came from the Hijaz today's Saudi Arabia.

Turkey has no "Sunni revivalism" aspirations. It is based on secular institutions despite its current government of Islamic coloring. It is cleverly a combine secularism, democracy and still retain its adherence to Islam - a reformed, democratic Islam, is way more dangerous for the West and for Israel than an obscurantist theocracy. what if the Turkish model is contagious ?

Iran tries to maintain this "Islamic" political discourse. it has created, backed and armed the "Shiite only" parties in Iraq with its deadly sectarianism. Iran has also backed Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The latest Iranian charade of sending flotillas to Gaza indicates that Iran is VERY worried about the rise of Turkey as Hero for the Arabs.

Iran and Turkey have issues that are cause for an underlying conflict in Iraq. Iran supports the Turkish Kurdish rebels. Turkey is very much against the annexation of Kirkuk by the Iraqi Kurds whom the Iranians fully support. The sphere of competing influence is Iraq. Iranians have the upper hand which beats a couple of flotillas

Turkey will never join the EU, it is a Muslim country. Europe is battling anti-Islamic demons. It is in no position to accept a powerful Muslim country. Turkey has been left behind insofar as Iraq is concerned,

Turkey engages in weighty moves, bilateral ties with Syria, win over Arabs by playing a brokerage role, a sort of mediator of Peace. (Syria/Israel, Hamas/PA/Egypt, etc...

The massacres on the Mavi Marmara is not a surprise after Erdogan and the Shimon Peres engagement at Davos

Since Davos, the Turkish pro-Palestinian tone has been rising reaching the Iranian one, even surpassing it. Something that Iran has not taken too well.

Turkey's new found role in the Arab world, will earn it favors from the West who will use Turkey's rising power as a balancing act against Iran, weakening Iran's spreading influence. Some seeing Turkey and Iran at loggerheads can become a reality further down the line, Most analysts believe.

I disagree. everything will be done to weaken Turkey by both the Israelis and the Iranians. hoping to see that happen U.S including Israel realize that Iran poses no real threat. Iran did bringing about regime change to both the Iraqis and Afghans as per the American plan. Iranian and American seem to be in total harmony.

The Arabs most worried are Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan now that Iraq is gone, worries have turned into angst.

Egypt is Iran's priority right now with endless political manipulations - through Hezbollah, and Hamas. Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran by co-opting
Hamas has won over the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Iran's influence in Egypt is not a threat to their peace treaty with Israel but a threat to Egypt's political stability itself.

Turkey's rise was a coup de force. And this is where the Flotilla massacre marked a turning point for Iran, and for the Arabs - who, as usual have trapped themselves by their own treason and impotence. It has also put Hamas in a tight spot, however paradoxical this may sound.

What happens next in Iraq will show who controls most of what and who has the most long term influence in the region. And Iraq shall remain the playing ground for the strongest. The one who controls Iraq, also controls the rest of the region i.e has all the playing cards to do so.

TEAM AMERICA

EXCLUSIVE! OIL SPILL IN GULF - Hand of God? Connection to Israel?

Paul Craig Roberts: Is Petraeus McChrystal's Replacement or Obama's?

Paul Craig Roberts: Is Petraeus McChrystal's Replacement or Obama's?

People elected Obama, because they were tired of Bush’s wars based on lies. So Obama gave us a new war in Pakistan and reignited the Afghan war. No one knows what these wars are about or why the bankrupt US government is wasting vast sums of money, which it has to borrow from foreigners, in order to murder the citizenry in two countries that have never done anything to us.