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Scarleteen is an independent, grassroots sexuality and relationships education and support organization and website. Founded in 1998, Scarleteen.com is visited by around five million diverse people each year -- around 5,000 of whom we typically speak with directly through our direct services and in-person outreach -- most between the ages of 15 and 25. It is the highest-ranked website specifically for sex education and sexuality advice online and has held that rank through most of its tenure. Scarleteen and its founder, Heather Corinna, have been the recipients of many awards for our work, including The Champions of Sexual Literacy Award for Grassroots Activism from the National Sexuality Resource Center/SFSU; The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Western Region's Public Service Award; the Our Bodies, Ourselves' Women's Health Heroes Award; the Joan Helmich Educator of the Year Award; The Woodhull Foundation's Vicki Award; the Steinem-Waters Award, and the Golden Brick Award.
Most users find Scarleteen through search engines or when provided a link or verbal referral from friends, other websites or magazines; parents, guardians and other family members; healthcare providers/clinics or other sexuality/sexual health education programs and resources. Every day, young people and adults who care about them let us know how valuable they find our services.
When Scarleteen was first created, we had to start from scratch. In early 1998, around a year after the first abstinence-only mandates began, there wasn't anything like it, online or offline, we could look to in building our model. Scarleteen was created out of an expressed need: young people had written Scarleteen's founder letters asking for sexuality information and support through a website she maintained about adult women's sexuality, and she had nowhere online she could refer them that provided direct service for young people.
Scarleteen was created and built based on what young people asked for, through existing experience in alternative education, writing, social justice activism, health and sexuality Heather and a few volunteer writers shared, with an understanding of human sexuality as a positive and beneficial part of life. We sourced sound sexuality, relationship and health data and perspectives from reliable, reputable resources online and in print and got feedback, support and help from progressive thinkers working in the field of sexuality. To date, that remains our central approach, but we now benefit from a larger network of sexuality resources and individuals working in sexuality who generously provide feedback and advice, from increased cultural conversation about and support for sex education, and from a larger and more diverse group of young people who share what they want and need with us each day.
Founder Heather Corinna continues to direct and manage Scarleteen with the help of our small but mighty team of international volunteers, most of whom are young people under the age of 30. We also benefit from the generously donated skills and talents of guest writers, educators and consultants.
Our educational model and philosophy is and has always been guided by both unschooling and the Montessori method. Our content and approach is original and strongly youth-driven but is also in alignment with current guidelines for comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents such as those suggested by SIECUS (US), UNESCO (International), the National Health Education Standards (US) and Sex and Relationships Education (UK). We also meet the standards suggested in the new American School Health Association's National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K-12. It is in alignment with the core of most current, quality comprehensive sex education curricula, such as Our Whole Lives, Advocates for Youth's Life Planning Education program, F.L.A.S.H., and is in particular accord with the newly-released It's All One curriculum, developed by the International Sexuality and HIV Curriculum Working Group.
Scarleteen and its accomplishments have been recognized by organizations as SIECUS, UNICEF, Planned Parenthood, The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Family Health International, Advocates for Youth, the International Association for Adolescent Health, The Boston Women's Health Collective, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and many more. Our content has been used or provided in many clinics, outreach programs, by numerous sexuality educators, healthcare providers, counselors and therapists and other youth-serving workers and agencies. Scarleteen is one of the few sexuality and relationships education and support resources online that is national or international and that is specifically intended and created for young people.
Scarleteen is completely independent, grassroots education and media: we are not affiliated with any other organization, nor do we receive funding or other organizational support or direction from a larger organization, foundation or governmental agency.
We feel sexuality education for young people is best guided by what we consider our core values and aims:
As with previous generations, many young people in their teens and twenties today have already begun or desire to soon begin enacting their sexuality with others, often with little to no accurate and inclusive sexuality and sexual health information. We know that comprehensive sexuality education has been proven to have positive outcomes, whatever choices young people make, including increased condom and contraceptive use, lower rates of unintended pregnancy, and a decrease in sexual debut that occurs earlier than youth may want or be prepared for. We also know the kinds of negative outcomes that are far more likely to occur without that information and support.
Ideally, sexuality education like Scarleteen will be paired with education, information, support and compassionate communication from parents and guardians, and additional accurate sex and health information from school, community services and healthcare providers. While Scarleteen is intended primarily for young adult use, it can be an excellent resource for adults who care for this population, too. Many parents, guardians and educators have used it to inform and initiate discussion with teens about sexuality. Some homeschooling parents have used Scarleteen as curricula for sex education; colleges add our articles to their sexuality syllabi often. Ideally, we love to see Scarleteen as part of a diverse sexuality education that comes from other venues as well, such as through school sex education and discussions with parents or guardians. But while we strongly support and advocate for in-school and at-home comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education, we also recognize that there are many young people without access to one or both.
An increasing number of states and schools have now rejected abstinence-only programs -- programs that are misleading, inaccurate and ineffective -- and some federal funding streams are now reopening for comprehensive sex ed, but as of 2009, around half of all 50 states in the US still provided abstinence-only sex education. Internationally, some nations fare better than others, and areas with the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease, unintended pregnancy, maternal mortality and/or sexual abuse also often lack accurate, comprehensive and/or complete sexuality education. In the United States, around 1.5 million students are homeschooled. In 2007 alone, over 6 million students over the age of 16 in the United States no longer attended (and did not complete) high school. Trans gender and other gendervariant youth, lesbian, gay, bisexual queer and/or questioning youth -- around 5 - 10% of all young people -- are rarely included or addressed in sexuality education, even in comprehensive in-school programs. Even with the best in-school programs young people can and do attend and access, the school environment itself creates limitations in sexuality education for students, teachers and administrators.
Young people at home often don't fare much better. A 1995 survey by the American Social Health Association found that only 11% of teenagers get most of their information about STD prevention from their parents or other family members. A 1996 poll found that 82% of the mothers polled believed their daughters had not been [sexually active], but only 70% of the daughters had not been; 70% of the mothers believed their sons had not been [sexually active], but that was only true for 44% of them. A national survey published in 1997 found that mothers of children over the age of 11 rated themselves "unsatisfactory" at talking with their children on several topics: 40% said they were unsatisfactory at talking about preventing HIV/AIDS; 47% on sexual orientation; and 73% on how to use a condom. ("Do As I Say ... Should We Teach Only Abstinence In Sex Education?" Chris Collins, 1997) Another national survey showed that only around 50% of parents had talked with teens about issues like contraception, STIs and safer sex, sexual readiness and negotiation, and that male teens often go without in-home discussion more often that female teens. Unfortunately, many teens go without discussion of sexuality at home at all, and many who do have talks are often not given accurate information as many parents have not had good or recent sexuality education themselves.
Young adults clearly cannot rely on school nor their families alone for comprehensive, accurate sex education.
We want the sexual choices young people make to be well-informed choices. We feel belying judgment, affording respect and furnishing teens with the facts and context they feel they need, whether or not they are or intend to be sexually active, supports them in learning to best make and own their own choices and lives. We feel humane, accurate, holistic and interactive education, made as pertinent and appropriate to the wide diversity of young people, greatly aids them in making their best sexual choices. We know that sexual choices made during this time of life can often have a particularly strong impact. Sex education at a time of life when negative outcomes can be particularly hard to manage, and in a time period in which people are often very interested in (and thus best retain) sex and sexuality information is key. But we aim to educate not just for this time of life, but to help provide a sound foundation for a lifetime of sexuality. Whether Scarleteen is a young person's only source of sex education, or whether we play but one part, we want to do what we can to provide young people with the accessible sexuality information, support and discussion they want and need now, and may very well benefit from for a lifetime.
For more information on Scarleteen and our approach to sex ed, see:
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Com. de Prensa MSRA
La DAIA – Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas – accionó penalmente contra el periodista Adrian Salbuchi (director del programa de información y análisis "Proyecto Segunda República"), y contra el sitio YouTube que lo transmite — "Canal TLV1" / Toda La Verdad Primero; https://www.youtube.com/user/CanalTLV1 — ante el Juzgado en lo Penal, Contravencional y de Faltas No. 11 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
En su querella, la DAIA hace una serie de acusaciones falsas, ofensivas y groseras; tergiversando, distorsionando e incluso (con el inexplicable apoyo de la Fiscalía) inventando declaraciones que Salbuchi jamás hizo.
Al estar evidentemente alineada con – y subordinada a – los intereses de sus verdaderos mandantes en el actual gobierno ultraderechista sionista del Partido Likud en el Estado de Israel, la DAIA nuevamente procura silenciar la libertad de prensa y de opinión en la Argentina.
Esta realidad se torna particularmente evidente cada vez que periodistas independientes criticamos las políticas genocidas y de Terrorismo de Estado practicados por Israel contra el pueblo palestino, en el marco de la Ocupación Militar ilegal que Israel mantiene en Palestina, contraviniendo resoluciones de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas.
Recordemos que el Estado de Israel es una potencia militar nuclear extranjera en permanente estado de guerra, cuyo primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu procura involucrar y subordinar a la Argentina en sus estrategias ofensivas en Medio Oriente, especialmente contra la República Islámica de Iran. Así lo sugirió explícitamente durante su discurso del 3 de marzo de 2015 ante las dos cámaras del Congreso de los EEUU, cuyo claro objetivo fue alentar ofensivas militares contra Iran, tomando como excusa o casus belli los dos atentados terroristas de Buenos Aires de 1992 (embajada israelí) y 1994 (sede de la AMIA/DAIA).
Ante este nuevo atropello contra Salbuchi por parte de la DAIA, que lo viene hostigando desde hace ya casi una década, el año pasado Salbuchi apeló a los oficios de la Fundación LED (Libertad de Prensa + Democracia) cuya institución incluyó este caso en su "Informe Anual de Limitaciones al Ejercicio de la Libertad de Expresión en la Argentina – Año 2015" publicado en el mes de marzo de 2016 (http://www.fundacionled.org/ wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ Informe-LED-2015.pdf), como "Categoría 2 – Caso 71 – Abril 09 de 2015 – Hostigan al periodista Adrián Salbuchi en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires".
No permitamos que el Lobby Pro-Israel "DAIA" censure a los periodistas que venimos alertando acerca del peligro que su accionar pro-sionista y pro-Israel representa para la Seguridad Nacional de la República Argentina.
Adrian Salbuchi (Fundador, PSR / Proyecto Segunda República)
Descargo ante el Tribunal Contravencional de la CABA
Luego de innumerables amenazas, hostigamientos, agresiones y descalificaciones personales, la DAIA – Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, lobby pro-Israel y pro-sionista dentro de la Argentina – finalmente me denunció por "antisemitismo" y discriminación en un Tribunal Penal Contravencional de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires el pasado mes de febrero.
Claramente, eligieron hacerlo en ese pequeño fuero municipal sabiendo que el gobierno de Mauricio Macri es absoluta e incondicionalmente favorable al sionismo.
Veran que en mi Descargo ante ese Tribunal coloco en forma secuencial y en color azul cada una de las acusaciones de la DAIA, a las que respond en forma amplia y documentada. Quienes deseen leer este documento hallarán mucha información interesante y valiosa (con sus respectivos links), retucando las canalladas manifestadas por los funcionarios de la DAIA.
Ruego por favor divulguen este documento a quienes les pueda interesar y también sume su firma en el sitio Change.Org para que la DAIA sepa que somos miles quienes rechazamos sus tentativas de censura y de operar como "policía del pensamiento" al peor estilo orwelliano. Aquí tiene el link: https://www.change.org/p/daia-daia-org-ar-en-apoyo-al-proyecto-segunda-rep%C3%BAblica-psr-a-adrian-salbuchi-y-al-canal-tlv-1-y-en-repudio-a-las-denuncias-infundadas-de-la-daia-por-antisemitismo-que-intentan-cercenar-los-derechos-de-las-personas-al-libre-pensamiento-y-expresi%C3%B3n
Salbuchi Adrian s- inf art 65 Discriminacion
Buenos Aires, 10 de junio de 2015.
Convocatoria a las autoridades de la DAIA a un debate público
Ante las amenazas de la DAIA – Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas – contra Adrian Salbuchi, fundador del PSR/Proyecto Segunda República y sus reiteradas acusaciones infundadas, el 16 de septiembre ppdo. el PSR ha cursado una invitación a la DAIA a participar de un debate público, transparente, serio, respetuoso y equilibrado sobre las temáticas del sionismo, Israel, "antisemitismo" y otras temás de candente actualidad.
Puede descargar la carta en PDF desde el siguiente link:
La DAIA denuncia judicialmente a Adrian Salbuchi
Ante informaciones aparecidas en algunos medios de prensa que dan cuenta de que la DAIA – Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas – ha presentado una denuncia judicial contra el fundador del Proyecto Segunda República (PSR), Adrian Salbuchi, por supuestas "manifestaciones antisemitas y posible delito de amenazas", el PSR rechaza terminantemente este nuevo atropello de censura y amedrentamiento por parte de los lobbies y grupos de choque pro-Israel y pro-sionistas que operan en la Argentina como la DAIA, que públicamente apoyan y avalan el genocidio que está llevando a cabo el Estado de Israel contra los palestinos en Gaza.
Con esta nueva maniobra de la DAIA contra la libertad de prensa se pretende imponer su autoritario concepto de "delito de opinión" orwelliano contra Adrian Salbuchi.
Con nuestro abogado patrocinante, Dr. Juan Gabriel Labaké, hemos elaborado información inicial en la edición del 20 de agosto de 2014 de nuestro programa "Segunda República" transmitido por el Canal TLV1 de televisión por Internet, que puede verse aquí:
Rogamos se le dé la máxima difusión al presente Comunicado entre medios de prensa escrita, televisiva, radial y en las redes sociales por Internet, dentro y fuera de la Argentina, como así también entre organismos de defensa de los derechos humanos, la libertad de prensa y opinión, y otros.
Sovereign Debt for Territory: A new Global Elite Swap Strategy
In recent decades, dozens of sovereign nations have fallen into ever-deepening trouble by becoming indebted with the "private megabank over-world" for amounts far, far in excess of what they can ever pay back.
Is this due to bankers' professional malpractice coupled with government mismanagement on a truly grand scale? Or are we seeing global power elite long-term planners slowly achieving their goals?
It takes two to Dance the Tango
Recurrent sovereign debt crises reflect neither "over-lending mistakes" by bankers and investors, nor "innocence" on the part of successive governments in deeply indebted nations.
Rather, it all ties in with a global model for domination driven by a system of perpetual national debt which I have called "The Shylock Model".
As with the tango which requires rhythm and bravado, Argentina is again dancing centre-stage to global mega-bankers' financial tunes after falling into a new "technical default". Not just because the country is unable to pay off its massive public debt by heeding the "rules of the game" as written and continuously re-vamped by global usurers, but now with added legal immorality and judicial indecency on the part of New York's Second District Manhattan Court presided by Judge Daniel Griesa.
Griesa has shown no qualms in putting US law at the service of immoral parasitic "bankers and investors" such as Paul Singer of the Elliott/NML Fund and Mark Brodsky of the Aurelius Fund.
The mainstream media inside and outside Argentina refer to these parasitic money "sloshers" as "vulture funds"; a conceptual mistake because one might then be led to believe that other funds and bankers – Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, George Soros, Rothschild, Warburg – are not "vultures" when, in fact, the very foundations of today's global banking system lie on parasitic pro-vulture rules and laws coupled with an overpowering lack of moral values.
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Sovereign Debt
Sovereign debts are a major problem in just about every country in the world, including the US, UK and EU nations. So much so, those debts have become a Damocles' Swords threatening the livelihood of untold billions of workers around the world.
One often wonders why governments indebt themselves for so much more than they can ever hope to pay… Here, Western economists, bankers, traders, Ivy League academics and professors, Nobel laureates and the mainstream media have a quick and monolithic reply: because all nations need "investment and investors" if they wish to build highways, power plants, schools, airports, hospitals, raise armies, service infrastructures and a long list of et ceteras, economic and national activities are all about.
But more and more people are starting to ask a fundamental common-sense question: why should governments indebt themselves in hard currencies, decades into the future with global mega-bankers, when they could just as well finance these projects and needs far more safely by issuing the proper amounts of their own local sovereign currency instead?
Here is where all the above "experts" go berserk & ballistic, shouting back: "Issue currency? Are you crazy?? That's against the "rules & laws" of economics!!! Issuing national sovereign currency to finance the real economy's monetary needs leads to inflation and lost jobs and chaos and… (puts us nice mega-bankers out of a job…)!!." That's when they all gang-up into noisy "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!" mode.
Then you ask them: What happens when countries default on their unpayable sovereign debts – as they invariably and repeatedly do – not just in Argentina, but in Brazil, Spain, Venezuela, France, Costa Rica, Peru, El Salvador, Portugal, Russia, Bolivia, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, and Indonesia?
Again the voice of the "experts": "Then countries must "restructure" their debts kicking them forwards 20, 40 or more years into the future, so that your great, great, great grandchildren can continue paying them". Oh, I see!
The truth is that countries need public spending to maintain their economies resilient and buoyant, their citizens working, prospering and happy; their nation-states sovereign, strong and secure.
OK: happy, secure and working populations cannot be defined as a formula that can be readily integrated into "expert" economists' spreadsheets. However, there's a basic truth that should be obvious by now: Finance (which is the virtual world of bankers, investments, speculation and usury) should always be fully subordinated to the Real Economy (which is the world of work, production, buildings, milk & bread and services).
All this begs the obvious question: Since governments have a natural tendency to overspend and end up getting themselves into too much debt, which is the better option then:
– that their "red numbers" (aka sovereign debt) should be owed to themselves; their own nation-states (debt in local currency that in the last instance can be written off, even if a bad bout of inflation cannot be stopped, countries can always revamp their currencies as Argentina repeatedly did over the past forty years), whereby the whole "debt crisis" basically becomes a short-term internal affair (albeit painful!), or…
– to convert those "red numbers" into foreign currency debt (US Dollars or Euro) fully controlled by powerful far-away, well-organized creditor-technocrats and global mega-bankers sitting at the FED and IMF in Washington DC; the European Central Bank in Frankfurt; or perched in eager expectation in their Wall Street vulture nests?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me…
This tongue-twister, which famously proved too much for Baby Bush to muster, is a fitting description of how the hellish sovereign debt system really works in the long-term.
Argentina's recurrent defaults and debt restructuring go back many decades. For brevity's sake, let's just point to 1956 right after President Juan Domingo Perón was ousted by a very bloody 1955 US-UK (and mega-banker) sponsored military coup.
Perón was hated for his insistence on not indebting Argentina with the mega-bankers: in 1946 he rejected joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF); in 1953 he fully paid off all of Argentina's sovereign debt. So, once the mega-bankers got rid of him in 1956, they shoved Argentina into the IMF and created the "Paris Club" to engineer decades-worth of sovereign debt for vanquished Argentina, something they've been doing until today.
But each sovereign-debt crisis cycle became shorter, more virulent and more toxic.
By December 2001, Argentina had collapsed financially sinking into the largest sovereign debt default in history. Immediately, the IMF's deputy manager Anne Krueger proposed some "new and creative ideas" on what to do about Argentina.
She published them in 2002 in an article on the IMF's website: "Should Countries like Argentina be able to declare themselves bankrupt?", in which she said that "the lesson is clear: we need better incentives to bring debtors and creditors together before manageable problems turn into full-blown crises", adding that the IMF believes "this could be done by learning from corporate bankruptcy regimes like Chapter 11 in the US".
She pointed this out as "a possible new approach", adding that "of course many practical and political obstacles to getting such an approach up and running" needed to be overcome, the "key features would need the force of law throughout the world", creating "a predictable (global) legal framework".
From the stance of global mega-bankers' geopolitical long-term planners, Ms Krueger's proposal consisted of first gradually driving countries into receivership, and then sequentially into full-fledged bankruptcy.
Then as if nations were private corporations like Enron or WorldCom – they could be broken up into as many "digestible" pieces as possible, to be gobbled up by international creditors in some global vulture-fest banquet.
These ideas were developed in greater detail in her IMF essay, "A New Approach to Debt Restructuring", and in a "Foreign Affairs" (mouthpiece of the powerful New York-Based Elite think-tank, Council on Foreign Relations) article published in July/August 2002 by Harvard professor Richard N Cooper: "Chapter 11 for Countries".
Here, Cooper very matter-of-factly recommends that "only if the debtor nation cannot restore its financial health are its assets liquidated and the proceeds distributed to its creditors – again under the guidance of a (global) court" (!).
During those turbulent years, the global press – Time and The New York Times, for example – even suggested that the immensely rich Patagonia southern region should secede from Argentina as a defaulted debt payment mechanism.
In June 2005, however, a new sovereign debt bond mega-swap was instrumented by Argentina's new president, Nestor Kirchner, and his Finance Minister Roberto Lavagna.
However, as Argentina became more and more structurally mired in debt, its sovereign debt crisis cycle grew shorter and shorter so that by 2010 a new debt crisis was in the books involving yet more debt reengineering, this time by President Cristina Kirchner and her Economy Minister (and today prosecuted Vice President) Amado Boudou.
But that too failed to hold for long, and today Singer's NML/Elliot Fund and Brodsky's Aurelius Fund have pushed Argentina again into default, this time with the legal backing of local Manhattan Federal Judge Griesa and the US Supreme Court.
The very fact that today the fate of Argentina's sovereign debt lies with the US Judiciary is an eloquent sign of things to come.
Don't kill the Hen that lays Golden Eggs!
Surprisingly, Ms Krueger recently came out in "defense" of Argentina recommending Judge Griesa and his "Vulture Nest" boys should not act hastily killing off the Argentine hen that lays golden eggs.
In an article published July 2014, she warns that the "US Supreme Court's decision on Argentina adds a new wrinkle, and may very well further increase the risk attached to holding sovereign debt and this, to the cost of issuing it."
The specialized and mainstream media – Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist – are also recommending Judge Griesa and his vulture chicks to show more restraint because in today's delicate post-2008 banking system, a new and less controllable sovereign debt crisis could thwart the global elite's plans for an "orderly transition towards a new global legal architecture" that will allow orderly liquidation of financially-failed states like Argentina. Especially if such debt were to be collateralized by its national territory (what else is left!?)
Will yet another sovereign debt bond mega-swap be imposed upon Argentina, this time with large swathes of its national territory – especially Patagonia – being used as collateral guarantee?
That would mean that in a few years' time the Shylocks in Wall Street and London will do everything they can to yet again push Argentina into default, since that would pave the way for them to "legally" take over its territory cashing in on their collateral as "compensation".
Remember: usurer Shylock drooled at the mouth whilst sharpening his knife preparing to cut deep into Merchant Antonio's heart. He didn't give a damn about the 3000 ducats owed him: he just wanted the pound of flesh "legally" his.
Is this what the coming "Sovereign Debt Model" will look like?
If we tie this all in with what the unfolding of "Act III" in the on-going Israel-Palestine crisis whereby re-settling millions of Israeli civilians into southern Argentina might be on the drawing board, we can then begin to understand how nicely Argentina's next debt crisis will tie in: The global Rothschild's, Warburg's, Lazard's, Soros, Rockefellers will be able to "legally" take over Patagonia, and then "legally" hand it over to whomever they wish without a single shot being fired!
If this is what's really happening behind-the-curtains regarding Argentina, does anybody believe it will stop there?
Beware Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Ukraine, Brazil, South Africa – the world government is marching in!
Web site: http://rt.com/op-edge/179772-sovereign-debt-for-territory/
Spanish version in RT Español: http://actualidad.rt.com/expertos/salbuchi/view/136059-israel-palestina-argentina-gaza
Crisis en Ucrania / Situación Nacional
Adrián Salbuchi y Enrique Romero (PSR/Proyecto Segunda República) estrenan los nuevos estudios de TLV1.
Analizan qué pasa realmente en Ucrania y Crimea dónde Rusia nuevamente le gana la partida a los impulsores del Nuevo Orden Mundial.
También evalúan la crecientemente crítica Realidad Nacional Argentina.
Israel's False Flagsover Argentina
The two worst terror attacks in Argentine history occurred in 1992 and 1994: the bombings of first Israel's Embassy and then the AMIA Jewish Mutual building.
Two decades on, no one knows who was responsible forthese horrendous attacks that killed almost 200. Now, a former Israeli Ambassador's explosive declarations shed new light on what were probably two Zionist-sponsored False Flag attacks.
Israel's former ambassador to Argentina from 1993 to 2000, Itzhak Aviran revealed on 2nd January that Israeli agents had already sent most of the terrorists responsible for the 1994 attack against the AMIA building "to the other world". The AMIA Mutual building also housed the powerful DAIA – Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina – pro-Israel lobby. In his own words:"those who perpetrated the terror attack against the AMIA building have been dispatched to the other world. We (Israel) did that!".
The meaning is clear: the terrorists were all egedly executed by Israel although Mr Aviran gave no names; submitted no proofs. Not surprisingly, Israel's government immediately issued a full denial:"the statements of former Ambassador Aviran, retired since fifteen years ago, are completely unconnected with reality. He made these statements without any authority or knowledge. They are pure fantasy andunder no circumstances reflect the truth behind the events he tried to describe. Israel continues to cooperate in a fully transparent manner with Argentina in investigating these attacks".
Argentina's foreign minister Héctor Timerman – himself a left-wingJew and son a journalist persecuted in the late seventies by the US-backed civilian-military regimethatusurped power in Argentina – stated that former ambassador Aviran's statements reflected "Israeli revenge and clandestine executions",and could be explained by Israel's opposition to the "Memorandum of Understanding" which Argentina and Iran signed a year ago in order to clarify once and for all who really perpetrated the 1994 AMIA attack.
Mr. Timerman described ambassador Aviran's declarations as "extremely grave" because they prove Israel "hides vital information from Argentina's courts thus hindering new evidence that could clarify this case".
The "truth" is what I say it is…
Argentine investigations into both terror attacks have beenriddled with two decades of corruption under successive "democratic" governments, beginning with Carlos Menem who was president when both attacks took place, through presidents Fernando De la Rua, Eduardo Duhalde and Nestor Kirchner; and up to Cristina Kirchner's present Administration.
Ever since both bombs went off, weak Argentina has been no match for US and Israeli meddling and interference. They immediately imposed their own geopolitical interests – keen on creating casusbelli against their Middle Eastern enemies, notably Syria and Iran – through their powerful local embassies and clandestine agencies such as the FBI, CIA, NSA, Mossad, Shin Beth and others, under the guise of "helpingwith the investigations".
Thus, inexistent car bombswere invented out of thin air; Syrian and Iranian "connections" were suitably falsified, as seven weak and corrupt Argentine judges heard these cases over the past two decades.
One judge on the AMIA case – Juan Galeano, since impeached – even allowed the then president of DAIA Ruben Beraja (later jailed for the fraudulent collapse of his bank, Banco Mayo) to bribe a shady car dealer named Carlos Telleldín to the tune of u$s 400,000 so he would falsely accuse a non-existent "Syrian Connection" that would in turn lead to an "Iranian connection…"
The AMIA attack's car bomb theory was all based on a small scrap of metal carrying a van serial number that was found inthe ground zero rubble by…. a "lucky" Israeli intelligence officer!! (…it kind of reminds you of Mohamed Atta's intact passport found on World TradeCentre's ground zero by the "lucky" FBI, doesn't it?)
Anyway, the years turned into decades and shifting US foreign policy in the Middle East – especially towards Iran – putArgentina's successive weak and structurally corrupt governments under great pressure as the combined forces of the US State Department, CIA, Mossad, DAIA, AMIA, mainstream media, and Zionist lobbies shoved and pushed Argentina around like a cork on the high seas.
An example:when George W Bush's NeoCons were desperately seeking a cassusbelli against Iran andArgentina's then president Nestor Kirchner was in New York City in September 2006, they had himwhisked to a secret meeting inthe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with eight powerful Zionist organizations that convinced him, his foreign minister Jorge Taiana and then first-lady, national senator, and soon-to-become president Cristina Kirchner that they MUST accuse Iran of masterminding the AMIA attack.
Clearly, the Kirchners were made an offer they couldn't refuse as they immediately named local fanatical Zionist Alberto Nisman as Argentina's federal prosecutor on the AMIA case. Heimmediately visitedWashington DC from where he returned with "proof" that former Iranian president Ali Rafsanjani and eight of his ministers masterminded, financed and organized the AMIA attack through Hezbollah.
That tremendously irresponsible accusation against a former president of Iran was tantamount to a declaration of war on the part of Argentina but, not to worry: Baby Bush was standing tall behind the Tiny Kirchners…
"Argentine" prosecutorNisman even gave a full briefing onhis case against Iran to the Supreme Court…. of Israel!!
That such an obscene and obvious fabrication was untenable, and Argentina would come undergreat heat was no surprise.
Obama rescues Cristina
Salvation for Cristina Kirchner, however, came when president Obama (or should we say the US Military Establishment?) decided to moderateAmerica's Iran policy, to the present desperation and near nervous-breakdown of Benjamin Netanyahu and his Saudi pals.
Early last year, Obama subtly winked at Cristina giving her a green light to moderate Argentina's gross accusations against Iran and seek "amicable dialogue" instead. She thusordered foreignminister Timerman to approach Iran, which led to the "Memorandum of Understanding" signed with Iran, in orderto find the real "whodunits" behind the AMIA bombing.
The wailing and howling of DAIA, AMIA, OSA (Argentine Zionist Organization), World Jewish Congress, Israel's Embassy, AIPAC and the local Zionist-controlled media like "Clarin" and "La Nación" has since been deafening!!
The"Memorandum of Understanding"includes setting up a joint Argentine-Iranian "Truth Commission" withrepresentatives from five countries with themissionofgetting to the bottom of the terror attack: two countries will be named by Argentina; two by Iran; and a fifth umpire country, to be mutually agreed.
The obviously big, fat question however is:if Argentina's Zionist federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, JudgeRodolfo Canicoba Corral, and all those powerful local and international Zionist lobbies have "proof that Iran is to blame", then why do we now need a "Truth Commission"?
If the enemies of Iran have all the "truth" in their handswhich they canuse as a further excuse to unilaterally attack and destroy Iran – as they did with Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria – then why don't they just come out with that "truth, evidence and proof" showing it to the world?
The ugly truth – the Real Truth – is obviously otherwise. The 1994 AMIA bombinghas all the trimmings of an Israeli false flag attackagainst Argentina that came in the wake of extreme Israeli-Zionist in-fighting triggered byultra-right-wing Zionist racist fundamentalists then bent on ousting Israel's Labour Party from power.
The authorexplains this in an October 2009 interview with Dr Jim Fetzer, co-founder of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth", within the framework of Zionist false flag tactics:http://www.voltairenet.org/article162474.html
One need only look at the timeline ofmilestones taking place in Israel at the time of both terror attacks, especially afterIsraeliLabour Party'sYitzhak Rabin became prime minister in 1993andgenuinely tried to strike peace with the Palestinians.
On 1st July 1994 Rabin allowed Yasser Arafat to return to Palestine from exile, sendingultra-right-wing Zionists climbing up the walls. Two weeks later, on 18th July the pro-Labour AMIA building was bombed in Argentina. The climax of this Zionist internal mafia war came on 4th November 1995 when prime minister Rabin was assassinated in aTel-Aviv street.By a Muslim radical? No…By some Neo-Nazi? Nope…
By one Amir Ygal, member of the fanatical ultra-right-wing Zionist illegal settlers' movement, connected to Shin Beth, Israel's internal security department which Rabin was revamping as it was out-of-control.
Forcing Reality
Buenos Aires newspaper"La Nacion" reports that a high Argentine ministry of foreign affairs official said that the government of Israel insists that"Iran's guilt has already been proven;why continue investigating?"
Proof? What proof? Mossad's? the CIA's? the State Department's? DAIA's and AMIA's…??
Former ambassador Aviran's shot-in-the-foot has hurt DAIA, AMIA, Israel, Nisman and the entire Zionist lobby who all continue to insist that Iranian officialsstill alive today are guilty for the AMIA bombing and should be captured and tried. But how's that possible if Mr. Aviran now reveals that "Israel killed them all"?
Interesting also is that in March 2010 another former Israeli ambassador to Argentina, Daniel Gazit, made similar statementsto "Perfil" newspaper on the 1992 Embassy attack saying"we (Israel) know who was behind the 1992 attack against the Israeli embassy, who organized it, who received the order, who did it, names and all…".
Experts later concluded that the Embassy imploded;thatthere was no car bomb; and that something inside the building (a clandestine Israeli arsenal in downtown Buenos Aires, maybe?) blew up with catastrophic consequences .
Like the proverbial six-year old brat who explodes into a screaming tantrum every time he can't get his way, Ambassador Aviran went ballistic.
When experts from Argentina's National Engineering Academy at Tucuman University concluded in their report to Argentina's Supreme Court that the Embassy explosion came from inside, Ambassador Aviran branded the University as Anti-Semitic, the engineering surveyors as Anti-Semites, and the Supreme Court and its president Julio Nazareno as Anti-Semites… all on nationwide TV!
Not first time Israeldouble-crosses Argentina
Argentina has a sad history of being friendly towards Israel, and accommodating to its tiny (0.5% of Argentine population),albeit extremely powerful Jewish community. When in 1949 Juan Perón was president, Argentina was the first South American country to officially recognize the State of Israel.
And yet, such friendship was seldom reciprocated by Israel. When Argentina officially invited Israeli officials to attend the 150thIndependence Day celebrations in 1961, the El-Al Bristol Britannia airplane landing in Buenos Aires brought a clandestine Mossad/Shin Bethhit squad whichimmediately kidnapped oneGerman resident in Argentina by the name of RicardoKlement – aka, Adolf Eichmann – and illegally flewhim from Argentina to Israel where he was "tried" and executed.
Argentina filed a strong complaint at the UN whose Resolution 138 ratified breach of Argentine sovereignty but – as I say above – Argentina is too weak a country to be able to stand up to powerhouse countries' Don Corleone tactics.
The case of Eichmann is very revealing. This SS officer – fluent in Yiddish and Hebrew – was intensely involved in negotiations during World War II between Germany's SS – SchutzStaffeln – and key Zionist organizations, working together on one very specific common goal: getting as many Jews out of Europe as possible.
The Zionists wanted European Jews to be shipped to British-controlled Palestine, and the Germans too! Imagine: the SS and Zionists working together during World War Two!!
How embarrassing if Eichmann had decided to write his wartime memoires… Better for Mossad to kidnap him in weak Argentina, ship him off to Tel-Aviv, and have him legallylynched.
That's how Zionism, Mossad, CIA, State Department, DAIA, AMIA, World Jewish Congress, AIPAC and other Zionist entities work in their global spider-web of power…
Why, even the very terror tactic of bombing public buildings in downtown urban areas can be traced back to the Zionist terror organization Irgun Zvai Leumi's bombing of the Jerusalem King David Hotel housing British authorities in July 1946!
The leader of that attack which killed almost 100 was one terrorist by the name of Menachem Begin, who would later become Israel'sprime minister and a Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate…
Hey! Shouldn´t we be reviewing the World Trade Centerattack under this new light?
Adrian Salbuchi for RT
Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
FED up? Hundred years of manipulating the US dollar
Monday 23 December marks the 100th Anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve System – the Central Bank of the United States of America.
The mainstream media are keeping remarkably quiet about this key milestone.
No doubt, they know only too well that growing millions of workers inside and outside the US are realizing that a century of central banking monopoly in the hands of a private clique of usurer banksters is enough. More than enough!
'Twas the night before Christmas…
…when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". These words written by 19th Century American poet, Clement Clarke Moore, aptly describe the scene a hundred years ago when the Federal Reserve Act was discretely rubberstamped in the US Congress: true, hardly a mouse was stirring either in the House or in the Senate… But the big rats were definitely there to vote in their act!
1913: Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States; World War One was but eight months away; and three years earlier a very hush-hush meeting had taken place at mega-banker, John Pierpont Morgan's, private estate on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia.
Bloomberg News described this in a February-15, 2012 article as "a secret meeting that launched the Federal Reserve Bank. In November 1910, a group of government and business leaders fashioned a powerful new financial system that has survived a century, two world wars, a Great Depression and many recessions."
That's the Bloomberg Version. The ugly truth is probably exactly the opposite: in November 1910 a group of government, banking and business leaders fashioned a powerful new financial system that triggered, promoted and imposed a century of conflict and genocide, including two world wars, a Great Depression, many recessions and systematic mega-banker bailouts using taxpayer's money.
In 1995, American investigator and author, G. Edward Griffin, published what is clearly the most authoritative book on the "FED" – as it is colloquially called in banking circles and by the mainstream media – "The Creature from Jekyll Island".Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP
Griffin's book describes how a top secret conspiracy – sorry, can't think of a better phrase – of very high-powered bankers, government officials and foreign agents met to plan the take-over of the American economy, finance and national currency, the US Dollar, to then wage global wars of conquest.
Bloomberg went on to describe how Rhode Island Senator, Nelson Aldrich, whose daughter married John D. Rockefeller Jr, "invited men he knew and trusted, or at least men of influence who he felt could work together: Abram Piatt Andrew, assistant secretary of the Treasury; Henry P. Davison, a business partner of JP Morgan's; Charles D. Norton, president of the First National Bank of New York; Benjamin Strong, another Morgan friend and the head of the Bankers Trust; Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank; and Paul M. Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and a German citizen."
Paul Warburg was the actual mastermind behind the FED. Interestingly, his main partner at Kühn, Loeb & Co, Jakob Shiff, had just financed the Japanese war against the Russian Tsar; he would later channel 20,000,000 US dollars via a Russian exile living in Brooklyn by the name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein (better known as Leon Trotsky) to ensure the 1917 victory of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Neither 'Federal', nor 'Reserve', nor a 'Bank'
Actually, it's a "system". Officially, the "Federal Reserve System" wields full control over the US Dollar, not to serve the American people but on the contrary the interests of private bankers, who hold its very special type of stocks and shares.
In practice, the FED is over 95 percent privately-owned, is not integrated into the US Government, nor accountable to any branch of government. There is nothing "Federal" about it as it lies fully outside the government system of checks-and-balances.
Nor does it "Reserve" anything. Rather it arbitrarily prints all the money the mega-bankers and power elites need to keep the "globalized" world rolling in the direction that they wish and need. This includes such things as multi-trillion dollar "quantitative easings" to keep Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, CityCorp, Wachovia and JPMorgan Chase happy and "healthy"; financing clandestine and terror operations to overthrow the governments of Iran, Nicaragua, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Syria, Libya, Vietnam and many others; waging decades-long wars against Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Africa and Latin America; unflinchingly supporting "little Israel's" genocide in Palestine and its "democratic" 400-bomb strong nuclear program; and keeping Wall Street on permanent life-support.
Finally, it is definitely no "Bank" in the sense of a financial institution promoting the credit needs of the real economy for the benefit of the vast majority of the working population's needs.
Rather, the FED supports the financial needs of the global war system, covert operations, usury, drug dealers, and the global banksters.Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
The FED answers to no one. It clearly does not serve "We the People" of the US or anywhere else. Its purpose is to serve the global power elites, regularly meeting to plan world government through entities like the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, World Economic Forum and others forming part of todays' intricate planetary web of global money power.
Straight from the horse's mouth
In a Public Broadcast System (PBS) interview on "News Hour" aired on September 18, 2007, US journalist Jim Lehrer had this Q&A session with former decades-long Fed Chairman (and JP Morgan bank officer) Alan Greenspan:
Jim Lehrer: "What is the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United States?"
Alan Greenspan: "Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don't frankly matter."
Huh? If you're a US citizen, you should re-read the above once or twice.
The FED System lies at the root of US "superpower" status. Allow me to explain how the FED scam really works from the point of view of someone living in Argentina – a very down-trodden country repeatedly made to bite the dust by the global power elites through their local agents imposed upon us through money-power "democracy".
This means that every time Argentina needs to buy 100 dollars-worth of, say, oil, medicines or technological components, the Argentine people must work to earn those 100 dollars through exports and genuine work.
By comparison, every time the US Government needs to buy 100 dollars-worth of oil, medicines or whatever, all they need to do is tell the Fed to print 100 dollars and that's that. Let's just say that this makes it much easier to be a "superpower".
OK, the mechanism's not that simple, but this certainly explains schematically how the whole US-Dollar power system really works. It also explains why the elites won't tolerate anybody challenging the dollar.
Oh, when the Fed… comes marchin' in…
Look at the world's oil market. It is a monopoly run by three global trading centers located in New York, London and Dubai. The idea is to ensure that "petro-dollars" flow around the world 24/7, and only incidental small amounts should flow back into the US financial system.
This explains why when in late 2002 Saddam Hussein decided he would do his UN-sanctions authorized "One Billion Dollars Iraqi Oil for Food" trade with the West in euros instead of dollars, he was quickly visited by the Fed's military branch in March 2003.
Or take Muammar Kaddafi who in 2011 was about to launch a program to trade Libyan and North African oil using a new gold-backed currency – the gold dinar. He too got a little visit from Peace Prize Barack and Babylon Hillary. Do you begin to see the pattern?
But don't think that the FED's global financial enslavement system is simply aimed outside the US; it kicked off a century ago by first silently enslaving the very people of the United States it is supposed to serve.
Here's how that works: every time the US Government decides to put money into circulation – those 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 dollar bills we're all so familiar with – instead of asking the government mint to print them at a penny's cost in paper and ink, the government instead asks the private banksters at the Fed to print those bills for the Treasury, in exchange delivering to the Fed interest-bearing US Treasury Bills and Bonds, which translates into trillions of dollars' in profits funneled to the private banking elite though the Fed.
It was all so well planned a hundred years ago, that just before the Federal Reserve Act was passed on December 23, 1913, they also maneuvered to close this parasitic circle, for if the US Government was to begin making gigantic interest payments to the Fed just for printing its own money, they first needed to have a revenue scheme in place to milk the American taxpayer: the Income Tax Act!Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP
Actually, it was the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution passed by Congress in July 1909, and enacted as law in February 1913. Thus international banksters have been ripping off Americans and getting America to fight their wars as proxies for a full century, whilst most of the population haven't got a clue of what's going on.
Clearly, the FED lies so far above the US White House, Congress and Supreme Court, that over the past five decades no one has been able to have a proper audit done on its books and numbers. Oh, you Homer Simpsons!
Not that you haven't been warned. In 1923, Minnesota representative, Charles Lindbergh, father of the famous aviator, sent an early warning: "The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board which administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money."
In the 60's, republican senator and presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, said "most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of international moneylenders; the accounts of the Federal Reserve system have never been audited; it operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States." Today, former representative, Ron Paul, has been sending the same message.
Even president John Kennedy understood this when he issued Executive Order No. 11110 on June 4, 1963, ordering the US Treasury to print zero-interest public money to the tune of 4.3 billion dollars, fully bypassing the Fed. But he too ran into some trouble in Dallas barely five months later on 22 November.
Epilogue: Fed Up?
One would have thought that something as important as whether to continue to allow a private FED to operate in its present format, or revamping it, or even doing away with it after a whole century, would be something that should be squarely on the American and global public agenda… big time!
And yet all we have is silence from the US Government, Congress and politicians; silence from world leaders; total silence from the mainstream media, and from the academic world.
And so you little parasitic mega-bankers running planet Earth: come Monday 23 December you can uncork all the champagne you like and celebrate your "One Hundredth Masters of the Universe Slave Drivers Anniversary", partying on straight into Christmas Day.
Then, come Thursday 26th, just carry on crucifying the entire world. For you it will be business as usual.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
Salbuchi: "Si cae Siria, cae Irán y luego el ataque va directamente contra Rusia""Lo que quiere EE.UU. es llegar a Irán, pero a través de Damasco. Primero, tienen que hacer caer a Damasco para concentrar luego todo el fuego contra Irán", insiste Salbuchi. Las acusaciones contra el Gobierno de Al Assad sobre el uso de gas mortal son absurdas, opina. "En EE.UU. hay una actitud de tolerancia cero hacia los estados auténticamente soberanos que no se alinean a EE.UU. No hay puntos intermedios: o se está con EE.UU. o se está en contra de ellos", comenta el analista. Al mismo tiempo, advierte de que una acción militar en Siria podría desembocar en unas consecuencias totalmente imprevisibles. "Siria es un aliado tradicional de Rusia. Si cae Siria, luego cae Irán y luego el ataque va directamente contra Rusia, con lo cual estamos viviendo momentos muy, muy peligrosos. Se está jugando con fuego y el descontrol de esta situación incluso podría derivar en una confrontación entre las potencias occidentales y Rusia y sus aliados de consecuencias absolutamente imprevisibles", argumenta.
La retórica bélica de países como EE.UU., Reino Unido, Francia, Turquía y Alemania hacia Siria se incrementó en los últimos días. A pesar de que los investigadores de la ONU todavía no han confirmado los ataques químicos durante el conflicto sirio, dan por hecho el uso de gases mortales por parte de las tropas gubernamentales e insisten en la necesidad de emprender una acción militar en Siria sin la autorización de la ONU, ya que la iniciativa requeriría la aprobación por parte de Rusia y China en el Consejo de Seguridad, y ambos estados se oponen a la intervención internacional en el país árabe.
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Israel: The Missing Link in the Syrian Puzzle
As the world holds its breath, wondering when the US and its allies will attack Syria, Western governments and its well-oiled mainstream media seem to be ignoring a key player that has kept strangely quiet during this crisis: Israel.
Today, US power rests heavily on its terrifying military, its industrial-financial complex, and its global media clout. But that power is fast eroding because, in the age of the Internet, power is increasingly much more about prestige, credibility and trust, an area where the US is falling to pieces.
US interventionism has become all too blatant over the past 20 years. The Balkans War in the late 1990s, with the bombing of Belgrade, triggered initial alarms especially amongst non-ally countries because, coupled with Bush Sr.'s 1991 Gulf War, it became clear that the American global hegemon was out to get the whole world, especially with the former Soviet Union out of the way.
But what got red lights blinking really strongly was Iraq. Baby Bush's false accusations of "weapons of mass destruction" as an excuse to take out an entire country just so he could "smoke out" an uncomfortable former associate, Saddam Hussein, were blatantly obscene and proved to many that the American global hegemon was officially out of control.
Back then, America still had the excuse of the horrendous 9/11 terror attacks in New York and Washington to justify its mass war-mongering. But American credibility took a sharp fall when George W himself ended up admitting that: (a) there was no connection whatsoever between nasty Saddam and nasty Osama who allegedly did 9/11 (Alas! We'll never know because Obama later threw Osama into the ocean…) and (b) there most definitely, assuredly and unequivocally were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq… Add to that the burden of growing proof that 9/11 may have been a false flag…
So, America had to design a new system of war or, rather a new system of getting itself into war against its selected "rogue state" targets. It's no longer enough to go on TV and accuse such and such a country of being a "danger to world peace" or that it "does not have the kind of democracy that we want to see" as Hillary Clinton said when visiting Egypt only last year…
No. Something new had to be invented: "The Arab Spring", which is the code for instigating, triggering and engineering civil strife in target countries which can then be escalated, as necessary, to veritable social war. And if the ongoing leadership still don't get the message and insist on clinging to power, then US, UK, Israeli and other intel agencies can escalate the engineered nationwide mischief all the way up to fully–fledged civil war. Libya, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq… of the Islamist Syrian opposition group Ahrar al-Sham fires against a Engineering such wars throughout the Middle East basically requires:
(a) Identifying who the "freedom fighters" would be – mostly thugs, terrorists, guerrillas, soldiers of fortune and a wide assortment of violent mercenaries;
(b) Then arming them with lethal high (though not too "high")-tech weaponry, financing them to ensure they can do as they please inside the target country, and
(c) Unleashing them onto the cities of Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, just as they did (and still do) inside Iraq.
And if all of that doesn't work, then just order several NATO fighter squadrons to bomb the damn place to smithereens and provide satellite Intel to local "freedom fighters" so they can execute Hollywood-like operations such as the live-TV assassination of Muammar Gaddafi and his family, accompanied by Hillary Clinton's chuckles on CBS TV.
But the case of Syria is different.
The world will no longer have America pulling the wool over its eyes. Growing sectors in the international community are coming to understand that those gangs of violent assassins, rapists and criminals – aka Syrian Freedom Fighters – have been armed, trained, financed and given the fullest media support by the US and its allies.
America's dirty tricks department is raving full-blast right now trying to pin recent chemical weapons attacks on Bashar al-Assad's government, but this is getting very low credibility ratings. Common sense dictates that it would be suicide for President Bashar Assad to kill his own civilians – including children – in a Damascus neighborhood, when his real enemies are the Western-backed terrorists and delinquents trying to take over his country.
Why would Assad give his enemies the "perfect excuse" for an armed attack against Syria? Common sense tells us that Assad is surely telling the truth when he accuses those very same terrorists for that "false flag" attack as a way of bringing NATO in on their side, with its jets, cluster bombs and napalm.
Every time we hear of such dreadful terror attacks we need to understand two fundamental issues: (1) who benefits from such attacks, and (2) follow the money trail…
Today, America's credibility, trust and prestige have fallen so low that even the British Parliament finally disavowed any armed intervention by the UK, at least until such time as the UN or some truly trustworthy independent entity churns up irrefutable proof regarding who perpetrated those heinous chemical weapons atrocities in Syrian last week.
sh Prime Minister David Cameron (R) speaking at the dispatch box delivering his statement to the Houses of Parliament next to British Deputy So David Cameron cannot just yet go into "puppy poodle mode" behind Obama, as his predecessor Tony Blair did so obediently behind George W. a decade ago over Iraq.
But let's look at three factors that are missing in the ongoing analysis of the Syrian crisis:
1) Israel
Ever since the two Gulf wars, America has been fighting Israelis' wars for them. In the case of the 2003 invasion and destruction of Iraq, this was so obvious that the very same NeoCons who in 1996-7 planned war against Iraq in their "Project for a New American Century (PNAC)" think-tank – Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Douglas Feith, David Wormser and others – would later execute that war in 2003 as top officers in the George W. Bush regime. The prime reason: Saddam Hussein was then the greatest threat to "democratic and favored ally" Israel.
Several of those NeoCons – Douglas Feith, David Wormser, Richard Perle and other Bushites – had already gone so far as to prepare a strategy report for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 called "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" which, again, targeted Iraq as Israel's key foe at the time.
So, the Iraq War was to a great extent a proxy war that only benefitted Israel, becoming a huge headache for America, which lost thousands of its sons.
As the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohammed, once famously pointed out: "The Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."
2) Israel
The excessive and overpowering role that Zionism plays in American politics, American finance, American universities, American mainstream media including it Hollywood "entertainment industry," and over American foreign policy, has been all but proven. This vital issue today lies at the heart of an increasingly far-reaching debate among America's intelligentsia, which is, of course, being hushed up by the mainstream media.
One of its milestones was played out by two of its prestigious academics – Stephen Walt, former Dean of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and his colleague John Mearsheimer, professor of Political Science at Chicago University – who published their groundbreaking book: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" in 2007.
In it, they show in a very convincing and well-documented manner the long reach and powerful clout that the "Israel First" lobby exercises over the US media, the banks, the Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon, whereby they are able to systematically tip the scales in favor of Israel, no matter what the cost. No matter if right or wrong.
And the cost to America has been extremely detrimental to its National Interest. Here lies one of the roots of much of the disrespect, mistrust and even hate that growing sections of global public opinion feel towards the US and its key allies.
3) Israel
President Barack Obama's problem right now is that America's military establishment is very much aware of the stakes involved in any "preventive attack" against Syria and, much more importantly, against Iran. Intervention against either or both countries will undoubtedly lead to massive war in the Middle East.
Look at a map: Syria and Iran lie squarely inside Russia's vital geopolitical sphere of interest, which is already under heavy Western encroachment. Read their lips: Russia is saying, "not one step further!"
America would do very well to think twice or thrice before doing anything rash…
But here comes the problem: ever since Israel was kicked out of Southern Lebanon in July 2006 by the well-armed and trained (by Iran and Russia) forces of Hezbollah commanded by Nasrallah, Israel has been licking its wounds; dark furor and revenge burns in Zionism's heart.
Since Bibi Netanyahu came back to power in 2011, Israel has gone into preventive war mode, using Iran's inexistent nuclear program as a pretext. For that past four or five years, Israel has been threatening Iran with military attack almost every other day, with Washington, London and Paris nervously obliging…
in Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran's nuclear program while delivering his address to the 67th United Nations
The American military, however, are painfully aware that there's some truth to former Prime Minister Mahathir's words. They don't want to fight yet another Israeli war this time in Iran. So, they have been acting as a brake which is reflected in Obama's increasing "caution" regarding Iran, going so far as to dispatching his military top brass to Israel to calm Netanyahu down, trying to make sure Israel does not launch a unilateral "preventive attack" on Iran that will drag the US into a massive conflict in the Middle East, the results of which are far from clear.
Actually a US-UK defeat in the Middle East could very well spell the beginning of the end of America as a global superpower. Russia (and China) are staring very sharply at the Middle East… They are not blinking…
The ongoing US military strategy says that if the White House must take on Iran, it should first take out Syria. At least that seems to be America's promise of sorts to keep Netanyahu's dogs of war at bay.
But the weeks have turned into months, the months into years and Zionists in Israel, the US, Britain , France and elsewhere are getting awfully impatient.
They want their D-Day now!
If the road to Tehran must go through Damascus, then, America: take out Damascus now!
For three years the US has been engineering "Arab Spring" civil war in Syria but Bashar Assad's still there. Russia stands behind him.
A UN Security Council unanimous vote against Syria is no longer an option. Britain's Parliament just said no to David Cameron, and French President Hollande's support of the US lacks clout: sadly for the French it's been many decades since France was last able to decide the outcome of any war, anywhere… Now, many in the US Congress are grumbling…
So, Mr. "CEO" of the United States of America Barack Obama: it's your call now!
US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb)
You either strike against Syria now – today, even – to the unanimous applause of Zionists in Israel, Congress, the global banks and markets, the mainstream media and throughout the world, or you stand down and your prestige, "Mr. President," goes down the drain.
Your bluff will have been called. And a bluffing president is no president at all.
Mr. Putin knows this only too well, which is why he maintains Russia's powerful fleet roaming the waters of the Mediterranean off the coast of Syria…
Once again, it's shame on you, America!
Another fine mess the Israeli Trojan Horse has gotten you into…!
Adrian Salbuchi for RT


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Easy For You to Sleigh is episode number 4.1 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.
HTF Episode Description
It's Santa Lifty and Elf Shifty coming to visit with thievery spirit! (Part 1)
Lifty and Shifty tries to bring their own brand of X-mas cheer to the wrong house. (Part 2)
Lifty and Shifty, disguised as Santa and his helper, climb down Flippy's chimney. (DVD)
It is Christmas Eve, and Pop is cooking up a meal while singing "Deck the Halls". He checks the turkey to see if it is done, but smoke pours out of the oven and sets off the fire alarm. Pop, wanting to protect Cub's hearing, gets the ladder and tries to turn the alarm off. He ends up breaking it and removing the batteries to stop the noise. Outside, Lifty and Shifty (the former wearing a Santa hat) plan to ransack Pop's house by going down the chimney with a sack. They come out of the fireplace and are about to steal Pop's possessions when suddenly, they see a Christmas tree with ornaments and a star on top. They decide to steal the tree instead, but it is too big to fit through the chimney. Eventually, they give up and leave the tree stuck in the chimney as they hunt for easier gains.
As Pop sets a fire in the fireplace, Cub wants him to read a Christmas story before going to bed. As Pop begins reading, smoke begins flowing out of the chimney and filling up the room. Because the fire alarm is broken, Pop and Cub do not realize this and they both succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Lifty and Shifty next set their sights on Mime's tent, only to find it empty. They both watch Mime pantomiming washing his face, frying an egg, and putting a bag of money inside a safe before leaving the room. They shrug their shoulders and enter the tent, pretending to steal the imaginary safe and put it in the bag. When they leave the tent, they are disappointed by how little they have accomplished.
Next, they see Flippy's house, which they enter through the chimney. Inside, Lifty and Shifty see numerous rare antiques and a huge plasma screen TV in the den, where Flippy sleeps in his armchair with a plate of cookies on his lap. They tell each other to be quiet before going about their task, but they end up knocking over a picture frame, breaking a vase, and turning on the TV while a bugle plays reveille with flashing lights. Amazingly, Flippy remains asleep through all of this, so Lifty and Shifty decide to steal everything in his house.
After they are done removing every last appliance, decoration, and piece of furniture in the room, as well as tying Flippy up and having him sit on a cinder block, Lifty and Shifty decide to take some of the Christmas cookies on Flippy's lap. As they take one, however, a crumb falls to the ground, making a tiny breaking sound which wakes Flippy up. To his horror, he finds himself restrained just like he was when he was captured during the war. He flips out in anger and breaks free from the ropes.
Lifty and Shifty try to escape through the door, but Fliqpy locks them in, forcing them to run in the other direction. While running, Shifty sees candy canes that look like stakes flying towards him. He ducks, while an oblivious Lifty is impaled in the torso. Shifty keeps running until he sees a fancy candle holder in a bear trap. He carries a bag of sand and attempts to match the weight of the bag with the candle holder's. He successfully switches the items around and runs for it. In a moment of ill-fated greed, he comes back to grab the bag, however, and the bear trap snaps off one of his hands. Meanwhile, Lifty begins licking the candy canes in an effort to escape.
Shifty continues running and narrowly avoids stepping in a snare trap made with Christmas lights. He then turns to see Fliqpy, who crushes a glass Christmas ornament in his hand and blows the dust into Shifty's eyes. The blinded raccoon takes a few steps back and gets his leg caught in the snare trap. Using one of the Christmas tree cookies as a Bowie knife, Fliqpy cuts open Shifty's torso, spilling blood everywhere while Shifty screams in pain. A happy Fliqpy takes a bite out of the blood-stained cookie.
Lifty, meanwhile, finally licks through the candy canes and falls out of the trap. He looks up to see a shadowy figure that looks like Shifty standing on a stack of boxes and pointing to an exit out a window. He climbs the pile and jumps out the window, only to discover that Fliqpy is wearing Shifty's skin and hat in order to trick him. Lifty flies into a baler and is torn apart. Fliapy drives the baler away and Lifty's carcass comes out of the machine in the shape of a Christmas present under a tree. Lights on the tree begin blinking, resembling a Christmas tree.
Meanwhile, back at Mime's tent, he turns on the light only to discover that his "safe" has been stolen.
"Give until it hurts!"
- Pop and Cub die of carbon monoxide poisoning from smoke when their chimney gets blocked. (This has been confirmed as the most painless death in the entire series so far.)
- Shifty is carved up with a Christmas tree cookie that Fliqpy uses as a Bowie knife.
- Lifty is tricked by Fliqpy into jumping out a window where he lands in a baler, brutally shredding his body apart.
- Lifty is impaled in the chest by three candy canes.
- Shifty has one of his arms torn off by a bear trap.
- Fliqpy blows powdered glass into Shifty's eyes.
- Flippy should most likely have had a co-starring role.
- Pop and Cub should not have died as quickly as they did, as it would normally take up to two hours for a room to fill up with smoke. Of course, seeing as how each episode is roughly seven minutes, time is likely sped up.
- Flippy's TV turns on, even though it is unplugged (though it is possible that it is a wireless TV).
- The crest on Flippy's beret changes its place several times.
- Flippy would not have had the time to set up the traps Lifty and Shifty are caught in. The only way this would be possible is if the traps were set up before he flipped, which is unlikely considering Flippy's normal personality.
- After Shifty's arm is cut off by the bear trap, he runs through the hallway gripping the candlestick. His detached hand is grasping the candlestick, even though it was his other arm that was originally holding the candlestick.
- When Shifty steps in the snare trap, despite being upside-down, his hat does not fall off. His wound shifts from his right arm to his left arm when he is caught.
- When Flippy first stabs Shifty, he goes from completely clean to totally soaked in blood. No further blood splashes on him as he continues to cut through Shifty's body.
- After Flippy tastes the bloody cookie he used to kill Shifty, a piece of the cookie seems to be floating in the air, barely attached to the rest of it.
- When Flippy kills Shifty and tricks Lifty into jumping into the baler, he is covered from head to toe in blood. But when Flippy is driving the baler, he is completely clean.
- When Flippy puts on Shifty's skin to trick Lifty, the skin has both hands, even though Shifty's hand was cut off by a bear trap earlier (although he could have just gone back for it). Furthermore, Flippy`s pupils are normal despite him being flipped, and Shifty's ribcage is visible despite that Flippy is only wearing his skin.
- It would be impossible for Flippy to get to the baler before Lifty did (although it is possible that the baler was on before Lifty hit it).
- Lifty and Shifty robbing houses during Christmas is a obvious reference "How The Grinch Stole Christmas!". Coincidentally, Lifty, Shifty, and The Grinch are all green in color.
- When this episode aired along with Wishy Washy and Who's to Flame? on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of segments was "Four on the Floor".
- This is so far the longest time that Lifty and Shifty have been separated.
- Many of the noises Pop makes when reading a story to Cub resemble the sounds he makes in Read 'em and Weep.
- The scene where Shifty tries to replace the candlestick on the bear trap with a bag of sand is a reference to a similar scene in the Indiana Jones movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Unlike Indiana Jones, however, Shifty manages to make the switch without triggering a trap-until his greed leads to a significantly bloodier result.
- Also, if you listen closely, the music right when he grabs the candlestick holder sounds like the theme from Indiana Jones.
- The candle holder that Flippy uses to bait Shifty into a trap bears some similarity to a Menorah, a key item for people who celebrate Hanukkah.
- Flippy wearing the dead Shifty's skin to trick Lifty is a reference to the movie "The Silence of the Lambs".
- This is the only TV episode where Fliqpy doesn't revert back to Flippy by the end of the episode.
- This is one of the only two episodes in the first season of the television series that Lumpy does not appear in, the other episode being And the Kitchen Sink. Oddly, the aforementioned episode features Pop, Cub, Lifty and Shifty in it as well.
- This is the last episode where Aubrey Ankrum voices Pop and Fliqpy.
- There are no female characters in this episode.
- Mime and Flippy are the only survivors in this episode.
- This is one of the few episodes where Fliqpy kills male characters without killing any female characters. The others are Party Animal, and Random Acts of Silence.
- This is one of the many episodes where a character makes "Puppy eyes". The other instances are Lumpy in Class Act, Toothy in Better Off Bread, Nutty in Icy You, Petunia, Giggles, and Lumpy in Stealing the Spotlight, Flaky in Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya!, Lumpy in In a Jam, Russell and Lumpy in Get Whale Soon, Fliqpy in Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow, Sniffles in Wrath of Con, and Lumpy in All In Vein and in Aw, Shucks!.
- There is a rope tied around Flippy's neck, even though it does not trap him (it may have been there to choke him).
- This is the first TV episode where Pop dies.
- This is the only TV episode which fully takes place during night time.
- This is the only Christmas episode in the TV series.
- This is the first TV episode Cuddles doesn't appear in.
- This is the first TV episode where Flippy's featuring pop-up is used. The second is Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow.
- Lifty's death is similar to both his and Shifty's death in The Wrong Side of the Tracks. More surprisingly, the "shredding" sound effects are the exact same in both episodes.
- This is the only TV episode not to star, feature or have any of the four primary characters make an appearance.
- Despite Pop and Cub dying in the first part, this episode has no blood until six minutes in.
- This is the only episode so far to be themed for a certain holiday and not premier near that holiday.