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We are brainwashed that economics trumps all
Globalism vs Nationalism
Lived experience is the only thing that matters
Modern farming inherently cruel
Erdogan's own past praise for Nazis he now likens to Dutch govt
The following comment is included in the discussion following the Russsia Insider article Erdogan Calls For International Kebab Sanctions Against Netherlands (12 Mar 2017):
From the more recent linked article, Erdogan Vows to Confiscate Dutch Kebabs in Fearless Tit-For-Tat With Netherlands (13 Mar 17):
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan knows this is all a cover for a deep, dark Dutch secret; he knows that the Dutch government is jam-packed with 'Nazi remnants and fascists'. (emphasis added)
Has Sultan Erdogan forgotten that, back in January 2016, he, himself praised the Führer of the same Nazis that he is now attempting to liken the Dutch government to?:
Turkey's Erdogan Praises "Hitler's Germany" As Example Of Effective Government (1 Jan 2016) | Zero Hedge
...
Now, as Erdogan pushes to officially transform the Turkish presidency from a figurehead role (obviously Erdogan is anything but a figurehead, but this is about enshrining powers he shouldn't have into law) into a chief executive position, the President is appealing to history. As it turns out, the opposition aren't the only ones who compare the strongman to Hitler.
"There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler's Germany,"Erdogan said on Thursday, when asked whether it was possible to maintain the unitary structure of the state under an executive presidential system. "There are later examples in various other countries," he added, in an apparent effort to soften the blow. (emphasis added)
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See also Erdogan Praises Hitler: Yet Another Threat Against Russia (5 Jan 2017) | New Eastern Outlook It's No Surprise That Turkey's Erdogan Likes Adolf Hitler's Government (1 Jan 2017) | Huffington Post
Agree, very disappointing
Lateline: Counting the economic impacts of immigration
By Unconventional Economist in Australian Economy
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ABC’s Lateline last night ran a well-balanced segment examining the economic impacts of mass immigration. The segment featured three guests:
- ANU professor, Bob Gregory, a pro-immigration economist who has previously claimed
that the past 12-year’s mass immigration has provided a bigger (and
more permanent) economic boost to Australia than the mining boom. - CBA senior economist, Gareth Aird, who has recently argued that Australia’s mass immigration settings are lowering the living standards of the resident population.
- Deloitte Access Economics’ Chris Richardson, a pro-immigration economist who has previously called for Australia to lift its already turbo-charged immigration intake.
The segment covered a range of topics, including:
- Whether immigration is boosting living standards on a per head basis.
- Whether immigration can prevent Australia’s population from ageing.
- Deleterious impacts on infrastructure, traffic congestion and housing affordability.
As expected, CBA’s Gareth Aird makes the most sense, noting that the
ordinary citizen is not benefiting from mass immigration and their
‘lived experience’ has deteriorated through sluggish income growth,
deteriorating traffic congestion, and worsening housing affordability.
Aird also calls for governments to take account of these issues, as well
as productivity, when it sets the overall migrant intake, rather than
just focusing on headline GDP growth.
Importantly, Aird also challenges the claim made by Chris Richardson that Australia can “substantially offset” an ageing population by “getting migrants”, noting that this is a temporary fix since immigrants also grow old, and equates to “kicking the can down the road”.
One big positive from the segments is that even pro-immigration
Gregory and Richardson admit that immigration does have negative effects
(which are often ignored) and that “bigger is not better” for
living standards. While vigorously opposing halting immigration
entirely, as advocated by Pauline Hanson, Gregory even acknowledges that
immigration should probably be “adjusted down”.
You know you are winning the debate when pro-mass immigration
economists like Gregory and Richardson will no longer defend current
immigration levels (see below chart).
It’s now only a matter of time before politicians capitulate and cut
the immigration intake to more sensible and sustainable levels.
The sentence is not long enough
WA man jailked for cruelty to kangaroo, mate fined $10000
Kangaroo Killing Results in First Jail Sentence for Cruelty to Animals in Western Australia
Two men have been charged and one sentenced to 11 months in prison after police discovered video footage of the vicious killing of a kangaroo.
months, while Jarvis was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
order to eat the animal. As his gun licence was confiscated two years earlier, he used the crowbar instead.
Wales’ first-ever conviction for cruelty to crustaceans.
As in the previous case, this conviction was also achieved using video evidence: a YouTube video showed that a staff member hacked the tail off a lobster and then put the animal through a band saw while still alive.
Remember the Committee for Melbourne?
Yes, public housing in another guise
Sounds like public housing
Governments need to compensate displaced people
Get-up, con-artists extraordinaire
Another begging and bragging letter from GetUp.
The bastards want even more unjustified profile as they con the simple-minded that they actually represent them.
"Work to cultivate and boost GetUp's profile in mainstream media outlets and ensure GetUp is a powerful and respected commentator on Australian politics. Tell the stories of GetUp's campaign victories in the media to drown out the criticisms from politcians. Build a world class communications team to lead this work."
They've posted a photograph that presumably portrays one of their hirelings on a Q&A panel. It is obvious that Soros has infiltrated the ABC and that would account for its promotion of the growth lobby corporates, open-borders, refugees and identity politics ad-nauseum to the exclusion of any wider subject. GetUp is obviously a major inhibitor of Australian democracy, having infiltrated the Greens and the Labor Party. We should not trust it with our personal information or with public power.
RBA Chief attributes high prices to population growth & credit
Anti-globalists fight elections in the Netherlands, France, ...
In 2017, elections are to be held in Western Europe. They are scheduled for Wednesday 15 March, barely 12 days away, in the Netherlands, 23 April in France. Later on this years they are scheduled for 11 September Norway on and 24 September in Germany.
As with the United States' Presidential election of 8 November 2016, the critical choice to be faced in these elections in Western Europe is not between 'left' and 'right', but between those who stand for the interests of globalist corporations and those who stand for the sovereignty of their own people.
Two-and-a-half years ago, on Monday 31 August 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel suddenly announced that anyone claiming to be a Syrian refugee, who reached Germany's borders, would be automatically granted asylum. As a result of Merkel's actions, the complicity of other European governments, particularly those of France and Sweden, and a massive people-smuggling racket paid for by George Soros, well over million 'refugees' from North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia suddenly flooded into Germany alone. Hundreds of thousands more flooded into other European countries including France and Sweden.
Surprisingly, in spite of the outrage felt by many Germans at Merkel's actions, opinion polls indicate that Angela Merkel could still win the next Federal election on 24 September. In part, this certainly due to the fact that the opposition to Angela Merkel is split between the Social Democrats and the anti-globalist 'far right' Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
The continued acceptance of Merkel by many Germans is also due to an ongoing guilt that many of them feel as a result of the legacy of Nazi Germany.
In truth, the Germans themselves suffered even more, at the hands of the Nazis and from the war started by the Nazis, than did the people of most other European countries.
In the early 1930s, the leaders of German Communist and Social Democratic parties fought each other harder than they fought the Nazis and then surrendered to Hitler and his army of paid thugs without a fight.
Even in the election of March 1933 following the Reichstag Fire of January, which was blamed on Dutch Communist Marianus van der Lubbe, the Nazis won only 43.9% of the popular vote. In the elections of July 1932 prior to that rigged election, Hitler only won 37% of the popular vote.
So the German people as a whole can be no more held responsible for the crimes of Hitler, than can the British, Polish or Russian people.
In 2017, vested interests similar to those who paid for Hitler to destroy democracy in the early 1930's are similarly paying for the dregs of the Arab world to flood in and destroy European democracy, particularly German democracy.
On this occasion, guilt, unjustly felt by many Germans for the crimes of Hitler is causing many many of them to not stand up to Merkel and others, who are claiming the 'pro-refugee' high moral ground.
Should Geert Wilders be elected Prime Minister of the Netherlands on 15 March and Marine Le Pen be elected President of France in April, many Germans may break out of the guilt the globalists have unjustly shackled them with and the fortunes of the anti-globalist AfD could well be lifted sufficiently to allow them to defeat Merkel at the election of 24 September.
Following Americana - article on Trump
Others also found Trump's win predictable from his rallies
Trump so hated!
Dick Smith right again on immigration
On Dick Smith and immigration
John Burke writes: Re. “Dick Smith
versus the migrants” (Wednesday)
In ignoring Dick Smith’s overall approach to the population issue, Bernard
Keane does no one a favour.
Sure migrants have built this country, sure we are all migrants or their
close descendants, sure One Nation is a redneck abomination and sure more houses
could be built if there were the will. Having said all that, it’s disappointing
to see Keane lining up with the growth-without-limit merchants; those people
whose well funded lobbyists haunt the corridors of our parliaments: the
rent seekers, the unthinking and the greedy.
As Dick has said often enough, we cannot have infinite growth in a finite
world, or in Australia in this case. Our recent rates of population growth will
see us with about 100 million people in another 100 years and with 200 million
50 years later and onwards exponentially. Now as we have grown from the
Aboriginal population to almost 25 million over some 220 years we have wreaked
huge environmental damage on our country. Think the Murray-Darling, think a huge
mammal extinction rate and so on. Think of the devastation should we pursue
growth at our current rates!
Plenty of European countries, as well as others like Japan, seem to manage
well economically with zero or negative population growth, with wealth per
capita being the relevant measure rather than GDP. As for Bernard blaming
nimbyism for traffic and such issues, that’s just silly. If you don’t look after
your own backyard then who will? The countless planning mistakes that continue
to be made in the face of community opposition are testament to the necessity
for ongoing nimby activity.
The interesting thing is that we don’t seem to be allowed to discuss the
future of our population. Keane doesn’t want to, our political and business
leaders don’t want to, out major environmental groups refuse to and so it’s left
to a few people like Dick Smith to carry that flag. If we were to agree that
population growth should stop one day then it behoves us to talk about by what
process that will occur. Shall we, being rational beings, manage our own destiny
or shall we let the rent seekers keep pushing until Australia is on its knees,
environmentally, socially and economically. As David Attenborough has said,
“There seems to be some bizarre taboo around the subject”.
Dick Smith cares about Australia and its future. He needs support and
understanding rather than the sort of facile rebuttal dished out by Bernard
Keane.
Does work have a future? Brave new workplace - video
Why are so many people - globally - so disengaged with their job? We’re all working harder and longer yet many people are doing work they feel is meaningless. So we ask what wrong with employment? In the video linked to below, Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by writer and commentator Elaine Glaser and author of Bullsh*t Jobs and anthropologist David Graeber. It's quite a good review of the subject lasting about 20 minutes.
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/377925-global-employment-people-disengaged/
Bank docs show Russia paid Clinton Foundation for weapons tech
Where's the benefits of 25 years of continuous economic-growth?
Definitions of political "left and "right"
The gridlock that is Melbourne
Human Rights industry protects imperialism
Thanks for this comment
Victorian government committing crimes against us citizens
Could be Melbourne
Don't fall for #Resist - Soros/Walmart open-borders con
Horror Movie?
More about these Syrian women prisoners
Don't trust Amnesty
Not a muslim ban
Tax-free Muslim-ban-outrage
Different media presentation
Media Bias Equals Mainstream Media
Donald Trump stood up against corrupt globalists
Jane Stillwater wrote:
But no matter if Trump loses and ends up in the tar pits of Vegas or if the Deep State loses and ends up buried in the swamps of Washington DC, hopefully democracy will be the ultimate winner.
Your article has completely ignored Donald Trump's titanic struggle, since early 2014, against nearly all the corporate newsmedia (and much of the supposed 'alternate' newsmedia including RT, PressTV and Global Research), the Republican Party establishment, the Democratic Party and massive electoral fraud.
You concede that "Trump, like Kennedy before him, also seems to be calling out the Deep State's right to rule America (and the world) with an iron hand", but then go on to say that Trump is no better than the Deep State and all those mentioned before who opposed his Presidential campaign.
Given Hillary Clinton's many corrupt business dealings, her stated intention to start a war with Iran and that she had already helped cause the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of people in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and Syria, the outbreak of World War 3 would have been inevitable had Donald Trump not won the election.
Whilst I also have concerns about Donald Trump, for example his unreasonable apparent hosility towards Iran, he has agreed to cooperate with Russia in Syria. This could well see the end of that terrible conflict which has lasted almost six years.
He has scrapped the appalling Trans-Pacific Partnership and acted to re-establish American sovereignty by enforcing laws against illegal immigration and protecting its industries against unfair foreign competition.
His victory has given encouragement to other anti-globalists around the world, including France's Marine Le Pen, who now stands a good chance of becoming France's next President.
If Donald Trump had done nothing other than prevent Clinton from becoming President, humanity owes to him an enormous debt of gratitude.
Trump Judgement
Media bias against Trump
SMH Donald Trump defends Valdimir Putin, saying US also has kill
Syrian Americans thank Tulsi Gabbard for going to Syria
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been stupidly, unfairly, and cynically criticised for her recent fact-finding and peace-making visit to Syria and meeting with Bashar al-Assad.
Here is a letter signed by Syrians and Syrian Americans thanking her for her efforts on behalf of peace.
We thank you, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, for your courageous trip to Syria
Jan 26, 2017
By Salah Zakkour, Press Release:
We, members of the Syrian American community, wholeheartedly support Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s courageous fact-finding trip to Syria in January. With this trip Rep. Gabbard demonstrated her strong commitment and determination to bringing about an end to all forms of support by the United States Government and its allies to the extremists and terrorists who have been destroying Syria and other countries of the Middle East during the past several years.
Rep. Gabbard’s trip to Syria was only a logical next step toward gathering the necessary first hand information in support of her similarly courageous bi-partisan bill, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act. We consider her trip a significant step toward ending the U.S. government’s illegal policy of forced regime change in other countries, including Syria, with the help of extremist and terrorist groups. We urge all other members of Congress to follow Rep. Gabbard’s steps in order to directly see for themselves what is really happening in Syria, instead of relying on dubious information and fake news that is being fabricated by all those who are bent on overthrowing the Syrian government. Those people are blatantly ignoring the wishes of the majority of the Syrian people and closing their eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe it has created.
As they have done so after every fact-finding trip to Syria by concerned citizens of a number of countries, including those from the U.S., Australia and Britain, the same pro-regime-change people in the U.S. are once again repeating the same worn out and baseless argument that such fact finding trips to Syria, especially the one made by a member of U.S. Congress, “legitimizes” Assad government. They further argue that Rep. Gabbard’s “Stop Arming Terrorists Act” will result in sacrificing the “moderate” opposition to Assad under the cover of fighting terrorism.
But neither of these arguments bears any relationship with reality.
As to the claim of “legitimization” of Assad government, it should be understood that the legitimacy of any government, Syrian government included, is derived from the support of its own citizens, not from a trip by a member of Congress of another country. Without taking sides about merits and demerits of the Assad government, we have to acknowledge that report after report by impartial observers has shown that the Assad government, and the Syrian Arab Army, has the support of the majority of Syrian people. These repeated reports were further confirmed by the last presidential election of June of 2014 in Syria, carried out in the presence of international observers, in which 73.4 percent of legitimate voters participated and 88 percent of them voted for President Assad. Moreover, the legitimacy of Assad government is officially recognized by the international community and the United Nations — a fact that nobody can deny. It is, therefore, upon the deniers of these facts to back up their claims to the contrary.
As to the claim of distinction between the so-called “moderate” opposition and the terrorist organizations, one does not have to look far to disprove it. First, it should be noted that these armed fighters are not the same people who were peacefully marching on the streets of Syria five years ago. In fact the peaceful opposition movement has been silenced and hijacked by the violent acts of extremist and terrorist groups like al-Nusra, Jebhat Fateh al-Sham, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and the like. The so-called “moderate” fighters have been fighting shoulder to shoulder in the past five years, and have refused to separate themselves from these terrorist groups, even when U.S. government asked them to for the sake of establishing a ceasefire. And their leaders have conceded that their members have joined these terrorist groups in droves and have turned the weapons they have received from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Qatar, over to these terrorists. Even the U.S. government has conceded that a significant part of the arms delivered to these “moderate” groups has ended up in the hands of the terrorists. Moreover, the numerous testimonies of liberated citizens in Aleppo have clearly shown that the so-called “moderates” have been committing the same crimes against innocent people, as did the terrorists.
Such arguments are aimed at putting obstacles on the path of a peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the Syrian crisis. They are aimed at making a forced regime change in Syria a precondition for achieving a political resolution. And this can only be achieved through continued arming of terrorists in order to bring the Syrian government down before any negotiations can start.
It is in light of these facts that we consider Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s fact-finding trip and her Stop Arming Terrorists Act as a courageous move toward bringing a just peace to Syria. The Syrian people will be able to freely exercise their political and national rights only when these external terrorist attacks on their country have stopped.
We will be more than happy to do everything we can to help Congresswoman Gabbard in her courageous efforts to bring a just peace to Syria and the whole Middle East by putting an end to all forms of support for terrorists, especially by the United States and its allies.
Salah Zakkour
Co-signed by fellow Syrians and Syrian Americans: Rami Muamar • Micheile Muamar • Immanuel Kaplo • Hannah Youssef • Nabil Kaplo • Bairt Alkass • Malk Kouki • Ghazoah Hanna • Zane Alabdine Zakkour • Fahed Zakkour • Nahla Zakkour • Saleh Zakkour • Khaled Baram • Afif Ghalwanji • Nadeem Habbal • Simon Khoury • Shawqia Adboudan •Mamoun Alabbassi • Amen Tomeh • Rana Kouki • Mario Tomeh • Georgio Tomeh • Emanuel Wasouf • Tigram Hanonick • Lena Obied • Jamil Ibrahim • Talal Bitar • Mike Matook • Basal Rahal • Silva Barsoum
Location Julianne Bell's Funeral Service 3 Feb 2 pm 2017
Unsung hero
First Home Buyers
More about this elephant - the irony of services to the homeless
Taking our lead from the USA on refugees
Not so free
Free Trade?
Trump okays family planning funding but not for abortion
That's totally amazing!
On the subject of stolen gold
What about Gadaffi's gold? What was it, $53b? Where did that go? Got to be the biggest single recent financial mystery on the planet, and should fuel novels similar to King Solomon's mines. I'll race you to write one. You will probably win because I have so much else to write. And the Vatican, of course.
By the way, Henry VIII got a lot of cash from the new bourgeois traders who brought back the gold from the Americas when he sold off the monasteries in exchange for bourgeois cash in the 16th century. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I went into industry stimulation, importing skilled immigrants and big business. That tradition stood the Brtish royals (and their many cousins) in good stead as coal smelting technology was developed and mining towns evolved into corporate structures. Oliver Cromwell came from bourgeois stock who bought into british farms with their slave and gold money and he used a rump formed largely of his relatives to rig parliament to convict Charles I.
You can read about all these things (except Gaddafi and the Vatican) in my book, (cheapest at Lulu) DEMOGRAPHY TERRITORY LAW 2: LAND-TENURE & THE ORIGINS OF CAPITALISM IN BRITAIN By S.M. Newman
No environmental policies any more
Good article Jane. Personally
Once again the underlying
Population
Philipine President Duterte free contraception Philipino women!
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order directing government agencies to provide contraception to 6 million Filipino women who don't have access to birth control and other reproductive health-related services. http://www.smh.com.au/world/rodrigo-duterte-approves-free-contraception-in-mostly-catholic-philippines-for-millions-20170112-gtqkhg.html
Each to her/his own
It's the same way that the Victorians justified poverty & wealth
The way they operate
St Francis film: 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon', Seaford, Saturday
If anyone is interested in seeing this 1970's film about St Francis, it will be showing at Factory 1/23 Peninsula Boulevard, Seaford (Party Hire Frankston), on Saturday Jan 21st at 8.00pm. Bring any drinks or snacks you wish. Plenty of opportunity for mingling and discussion afterwards if you wish.
About the film
The title is taken from a prayer St Francis dictated on his deathbed, the Canticle of Brother Sun and Sister Moon.
Cast:
Graham Faulkner - St. Francis of Assisi
Judi Bowker - Clare
Leigh Lawson - Bernardo
Kenneth Cranham - Paolo
Lee Montague - Pietro Di Bernardone
Valentina Cortese - Pica Di Bernardone
Alec Guinness - Pope Innocent III
Featuring Zeffirelli's signature lush photography in Brother Sun, Sister Moon indicates that it was conceived and executed in much the same visual manner as his Academy Award-winning adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (1968). The film attempts to draw parallels between the work and philosophy of Saint Francis and the ideology that underpinned the worldwide counterculture movement of the 1960s and early '70s. The film is also known for the score composed by Riz Ortolani. (Wikipedia)
About St Francis:
He was a Lover. He was a lover of God and he was really and truly a lover of men. St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ. Say, if you think so, that he was a lunatic loving an imaginary person; but an imaginary person, not an imaginary idea. And for the modern reader the clue to the asceticism and all the rest can be found in the stories of lovers when they seemed to be rather like lunatics. Tell it as the tale of one of the Troubadours, and the wild things he would do for his lady, and the whole of the modern puzzle disappears. In such a romance there would be no contradiction between the poet gathering flowers in the sun and enduring a freezing vigil in the snow, between his praising all earthly and bodily beauty and then refusing to eat, and between his glorifying gold and purple and perversely going in rags, between his showing pathetically a hunger for a happy life and a thirst for a heroic death. All these riddles would be easily be resolved in the simplicity of any noble love; only this was so noble a love that nine out of ten men have hardly even heard of it. (Chesterson)
Matt
One justification
Past Prime Ministers' wives
Weapons not needed
Serious development in Aleppo propaganda on SBS
Beaumaris tip-off that 200+ trees to go Monday 19th very early
People are waking up about Syria - brave British man on video
A brave British guy arguing with pro-terrorists protests in London, and they are barking on him like dogs.
We don't need to push population decline
Dick Smith Nails It!
Tim Colebatch
US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims
December 12, 2016
As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
MEMORANDUM
Allegations of Hacking Election Are Baseless
A New York Times report on Monday alluding to “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” leading the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin “deployed computer hackers with the goal of tipping the election to Donald J. Trump” is, sadly, evidence-free. This is no surprise, because harder evidence of a technical nature points to an inside leak, not hacking – by Russians or anyone else.
Article:
https://consortiumnews.com/201
The Turnbull’s population credibility collapses under Dick Smith
Dick Smith nails it!
Dick Smith nails it!
News Confr
Another cover story for Syria invasion:to save Palmyra from ISIS
On Rupert Murdoch's The Australian, republished from The Wall Street Journal where it was published at 12:00AM -5:00 Friday 16 Dec 2016 is the story US vows to strike ISIS if Syria, Russia fail to avenge Palmyra. (I was able to view the article without having to subscribe to The Australian after having removed the window which advised me that the artcle was 'premium content', presumably for Oz subscribers only).
The article commences:
The US will strike Islamic State in Palmyra if Russian and Syrian regime forces fail to push back and retake the Syrian city, says the top US commander in charge of the coalition targeting the extremist group.
Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend claimed that he was concerned that "the extremist group" may have acquired weapons including including armoured vehicles and air defence systems. Could General Townsend possibly have not been aware that his commander-in-chief, the still serving President Barack Obama had announced that he was waiving the ban on the supply of sophisticated weaponry to the terrorist groups in Syria.
The article continued:
"If the Russians and the regime don't strike it, we will," Lieutenant General Townsend continued.
General Townsend apparently expects the Syrians, Russians, Iranians and Heezbollah, at his behest, to drop whatever else they are doing in Aleppo, Idlib, Homs and elsewhere in Syria, and rush to throw ISIS out of Aleppo. If they don't then US-led coalition will, itself intervene in Syria, supposedly to fight ISIS.
The United States' claimed war against ISIS and not the 'moderate' terrorists and Townsend's supposed concern for the Palmyra world heritage site is clearly Townsend's cover story for his plans for the coalition to directly intervene and finally complete its war for 'regime-change'. That war started out nearly six years ago by the coalition's terrorist proxies.
The war has, so far, by one estimate, cost the lives for 400,000 Syrians including 80,000 members of the Syrian armed forces. The military death toll alone far exceeds Australia's horrific death toll of the First World War. In that war 60,000 Australians, almost all of them military, died.
Buried at the end of the article are some of the real reasons why Palmyra fell to ISIS.
[President Bashar al-]Assad, in an interview yesterday with Russian state television network RT, accused the US of helping Islamic State retake Palmyra, reiterating his longstanding accusations that the US is backing rather than fighting Islamic State to undermine his regime.
He said Islamic State’s attack on Palmyra marked an attempt to undercut the Syrian government’s offensive to retake Aleppo.
To watch the video of the full interview with President Bashar al-Assad and read the full transcript, see
Syrian President on: How Obama helps ISIS and The Trump presidency by Sheila Newman, here on on candobetter.
As the above article shows, the United States and its allies, and not the Syrian government or rte Russians, allowed ISIS terrorists to cross the desert from Deir ez Zor in Syria and Raqq in Iraq to suddenly overwhelm the smaller garrison that was defending Palmyra and its historic ruins. That article was previously published as Australia Clears Itself of Blame in Deir ez-Zor Bombing, Watches on as Palmyra Falls to ISIS (12/12/16) by Davbid Macilwain on Russia Insider. See also from Russia Insider: Moscow Doesn't Mince Words: Lavrov Suggests US 'Orchestrated' ISIS Seizure of Palmyra (13/12/16). From the Russian RT news service see 'Decamped from Mosul ISIS fighters in Syria perfect for US narrative' (12/12/16), ISIS attack on Palmyra directly linked to US waiver on rebel arms supplies – Assad to RT (EXCLUSIVE) (14/12/16).
White Helmet lies exposed as west-backed terrorists leave safely
White Helmets latest lies exposed as western-backed terrorists evacuated from Aleppo without incident
Below is a link to RT’s live coverage of the seamless removal of the last pro-western terrorists and their families from Aleppo, contrary to claims from the White Helmets and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that the evacuation convoys were bring fired upon by “pro-Assad” militants. These false claims were registered at various media outlets, including the CBC, before the convoys actually left.
https://www.rt.com/news/370382-rt-aleppo-shooting-reports/
In this 3:54 minute news clip, it is clear that both the Red Cross and the Red Crescent support the evacuation. Lizzy Phelan, the RT correspondent, reports from right beside the highway being used as an evacuation route for the terrorists and their families.
Conclusion: we have been fed a steady diet of disinformation from western governments and mainstream media, not only about the utter rout of the terrorists in East Aleppo, but about the entire five and half years of western proxy war for attempted regime change in Syria.
It’s time now for Donald Trump, Teresa May, Francois Hollande, Justin Trudeau, and all the others leaders in NATO to call off their dogs of war in Syria and let the people of Syria determine their own future.
Shameless Change Org begging money bogus last doctors E. Aleppo
Hamza Al Khatib on Change.org, in 4 European Languages petitions
https://www.change.org/u/
The guy speaks French, English, Spanish, and German! of course! he's a doctor!
I wonder what he'll do now after the liberation and unification of Aleppo. Is he going to play the role of the "last doctor" in Idlib or Reqqa?
Sadly people are buying his lies.
Mo
Mon nom est Hamza El Khatib, Je fais partie des derniers médecins restés à Alep pour soigner les 300 000 habitants à l’est de la ville.Tous les jours, les pires ...
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Economics is incomplete because our models are incomplete.
Thanks Dennis K
How to feed an overpopulated nation of idiots
How to feed an overpopulated nation of idiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQHPNoyO7c
Contemplate the carbon footprint and energy input to food output of this!!!
How to feed people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_799770&feature=iv&src_vid=RHQHPNoyO7c&v=cqbOU07ZI2k
The second one basically reflects how cattle are still broadacre farmed in Australia.
Another few decades of unbridled immigration and we’ll be a suitably sized market to support, and require, the first scenario.
And we'll need Adani, etc., to feed the system’s energy losses.
Also interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_799770&feature=iv&src_vid=RHQHPNoyO7c&v=TfT49gaiktg#t=1257.729382523
Law favours freemarketeering via Coasian economics since 18th C
Thank you for your thoughtful article.
In fact there is a formal theory that causes our courts to assign right to the biggest profiteer, and the primacy of economic profit over environment and social rights is also enshrined in state parliamentary policy for interpreting laws. The formal theory is Coasian economics and pareto superiority. This was beautifully (or horribly, really) demonstrated in "Supreme Court today for the Orrong Towers and the Relevance of Residents' Objections in VCAT." I quote from my coverage of that case, below:
Economic theory behind our predicament
It takes being caught up in the undignified, expensive and painful reality of turbo development for people to begin to grasp just how mad our laws are and how weak our democracy. You can spend a lot of time trying to argue sensibly, writing submissions and getting nowhere. Meanwhile some corporation is making a lot of money out of your misery.
The economic theory behind this goes back to the 18th century in Britain, the time of the Restoration, where a particularly predacious kind of land-tenure law replaced an earlier kind that gave people more rights. Although enclosures had happened since the time of the Normans, the 18th century was particularly fierce.
“In the eighteenth century, when the British economy entered an unparalleled era of expansion, Britain’s Parliament began operating according to Coasian principles and reorganized property rights en masse. In the nineteenth century, when most common-law doctrines reached their modern form, doctrines of equity (enforced through the Chancery Court) dominated the conveyance of land. These doctrines were designed to protect beneficial interests, not to maximize productivity. Efficiency became a dominant doctrine in the English legal system only after Parliamentary intervention.”(Source: Bogart, Daniel E. and Richardson, Gary, 2008, June. "Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830."NBER Working Paper No. W14107, p.7)
Coasian economic theory was originated by Ronald H. Coase in “The Problem of Social Cost”, Journal of Law and Economics, 3: 144, 1960. The theory assigns value arbitrarily, according to the highest dollar profit probability. It takes no heed of non-monetary values and therefore is unresponsive to social cost or individual equity. [Extracts from Sheila Newman: Demography, Territory, Law 2: Land Tenure and the Origins of Capitalism in Britain, Countershock Press.]
And that is the key:
Coasian economics takes no heed of non-monetary values and therefore is unresponsive to social cost or individual equity
This works out to mean that big business can almost always claim to be benefiting the community because of large financial through-puts, and that residential or small business objectors are NIMBYs, with much lesser financial sums at stake. This method of appraisal of a situation almost completely ignores every non-monetary interest affected and lesser monetary interests of small businesses. Residents cannot claim financial costs that might be incurred, for instance through loss of sunlight rendering solar panels useless or vegetable gardens unproductive.
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Apparently the Russian news site and the Green Party candidate want a vote recount that could remove "peace with Russia" Trump and install "nuclear war with Russia" Hillary:
Small excerpts from the article and visitor's comments follow. - Ed
EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
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Stein's online campaign has spread like wildfire, and has already raised well over the $2.2 million formally needed to file for a recount in the three key states ahead of deadlines on November 25, 28 and 30. Other costs associated with the recount, including attorney's fees and statewide recount observers are expected to run anywhere from $6-7 million. Accordingly, Stein's campaign is asking for at least $4.5 million, having already raised $3.7 million as of 2 pm EST.
That figure officially surpasses the $3.509 million the Green Party candidate raised during her presidential run. Stein received 1.39 million votes, or just over 1% of the popular vote, in the election held earlier this month.
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Discussion
Justin Case
Soros has another useful idiot on the pay roll! Seeing as the machines were reported to be changing the vote from Trump to Clinton will they prosecute Killary for electoral fraud?
Rowena Millis
Absolutely, it's Clinton/Soros money Stein is using this money and being used as a decoy
It's the REAL powers behind Clinton - the globalists and US banksters/corporations that will NOT allow their pre-eminance be questioned. Soros is but one of them....
Ann Lambert · Davis County Community High School
You're a liar. Hillary made a deal with you to help her out. Go to hell bitch. You'd better never run for anything again. You want to get into bed with hillary, then you're a pariah just like her,
Stein, you're a Hillary shill. You never had a chance and you won't have a chance even IF you won a state or two, You had single-digit votes. Shut up and stop trying to help Hillary overthrow our democracy and the will of the people.
HOW MUCH DID HILLARY PAY YOU TO DO THIS? ABOUT $3.7 million, RIGHT?
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