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Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western media
Assad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war
Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Especially as the finding would go against the dominant narrative about the Syrian crisis, and the media considers the unexpected more newsworthy than the obvious.
Alas, not in every case. When coverage of an unfolding drama ceases to be fair and turns into a propaganda weapon, inconvenient facts get suppressed. So it is with the results of a recent YouGov Siraj poll on Syria commissioned by The Doha Debates, funded by the Qatar Foundation. Qatar's royal family has taken one of the most hawkish lines against Assad - the emir has just called for Arab troops to intervene - so it was good that The Doha Debates published the poll on its website. The pity is that it was ignored by almost all media outlets in every western country whose government has called for Assad to go. ...
I think Ian Black gives a pretty fair report here with an indication of the complexities, and the real challenges of producing straightforward answers, even for an old Syria hand like himself.
Christians have traditionally supported the regime and seen it as a defence against sectarianism. Regime supporters often stress the danger of Islamic extremism, citing Salafis and al-Qaida-type groups, but the extent of that seems to be deliberately exaggerated by the authorities.
Black is surely a master of exaggeration and hyperbole himself. It was a U.S.-backed KLA and Qaeda friendlies who attacked government forces in the former Yugoslavia.
It was LIFG, a terrorist organization the U.K. said before June 2011 was affiliated with Al-Qaeda, that started an armed insurrection in Gadaffi's Libya and with plenty of help from the CIA and NATO.
And it is NATO's Al-Qaeda commander in Tripoli heading the "Free Syrian Army" today.
The US-Al Qaeda Alliance: Bosnia, Kosovo and Now Libya. Washington's On-Going Collusion with Terrorists Peter Dale Scott, former Canadian diplomat
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which was supported by NATO, had developed extensive ties to the Islamic terror network
Charade they are.
The Truth Behind the Coming 'Regime Change' in Syria - by Shamus Cooke
"...The Syrian government opposition bloc inside Syria, the National Coordination Committee, opposed foreign military intervention. A leader of the NCC is Hassan Abdul Azim, who wisely states:
'We refuse on principle, any type of foregin military intervention because it threatens the freedom of our country.."
Gulf States to Arm Syrian Opposition? (and vid)
"...Gulf states' opponents of the regime in Syria, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have reportedly come to an agreement to offer financial aid to Syria's flagging opposition movement for the purchase of much needed arms. A secret meeting has been conducted between opposition leaders and Saudi and Qatari officers to discuss funding for the movement's dwindling weapons supply.
Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, a professor at Zautouneh University in Jordan has told RT that the arming and funding of the Syrian opposition comes mainly from the Arab Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and from Turkey and NATO...
'It is obvious that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar are harboring an agenda of overthrowing the Syrian regime because it opposes Western political, military and cultural intervention in the region,' he said.
Dr. Alloush says that the point of the operation is to implode Syria socially so that there will not be any 'central government that is able to fend off and protect the sovereignty of the country.
This is basically a replica of what took place in Libya with only one exception - that Russia has so far prevented NATO from having its way of having no-fly zones, buffer zones and all kinds of zones that infringe on the sovereignty of Syria,' Alloush said.
(see interview)
Free Syrian Army 'captures Iranian soldiers'
Members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) say they have taken hostage seven Iranians, five of whom were allegedly soldiers complicit in the Syrian government's violent crackdown on protesters in the opposition-controlled city of Homs.
The Farouk Brigade of the FSA, an umbrella group of members of the country's security forces who defected to protect civilians from the government's attacks, say they will not release the hostages until the government frees a defected army officer and ends the prolonged military siege on Homs.
A video released by the FSA fighters purports to show five of the captured Iranians and their identity cards, which allegedly reveal that they are part of Iran's security forces. The defected troops say the other two hostages were civilians.
Syria: Are Captured Iranians Military Men or Engineers?
"...Is this proof of Iran sending military reinforcements to prop up its main Arab ally? Or could something else be happening there? On December 21, Syria state media reported that eight foreign engineers including five Iranians were abducted 'by terrorists' as they traveled on a company bus to their place of work, the Jandar power plant on the outskirts of Homs.
The men in the video bear a resemblance to the five engineers abducted in December. Their names also appear to match..."
'Assad Will Die Like Gaddafi' - Syrian Opposition
"A leading member of the Syrian opposition has threatened President Assad, his British wife and three children with a bloody Gaddafi-esque end. Meanwhile, the West continues to push for a resolution to help the Syrian opposition oust Assad.
'We came, we say, he died,' joked Hillary Clinton after Gaddafi's death. It now looks very much as if the scenario is repeating itself, with Clinton saying the US will throw its weight behind the Arab-backed condemnation of Assad's regime..."
Russia Opposes 'Libyan Scenario' in Syria (and vid)
Assad Must Go, No Foreign Forces in Syria: UNSC (and vid)
"...But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday he has no intention of telling President Assad to step down. Moscow says the new UN resolution contains a threat to 'adopt further measures if Syria does not comply with the terms of the resolution,' opening the door to a Libyan-style foreign intervention in the conflict-torn Middle-Eastern country.
Reportedly, tensions are running so high that the US Secretary of State's spokeswoman has accused Russian FM Sergey Lavrov of being unavailable by phone when Hillary Clinton allegedly called to discuss the situation.."
Article translated from the original here: http://international.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/355882, I think gives useful insight into the practical issues confronting progressive Syrians:
"Yassin Al-Haj Saleh just published this article in Al-Hayat about militarism, violence, and the revolution . Given that it falls right in our discussion, I have spent sometime to translate it to English using machine translation as a start and then performing very heavy editing. I think it is a good article coming from an intellectual who is not only on the inside, but also on the run.
Yassin Haj Saleh - Regarding militarism and violence and revolution
Little can be gained from discussing the growing military dimension of the Syrian revolution without placing it in the context of the 320 days of unconstrained and rampant violence practiced by the regime in its attempt to quell the revolt from the outset. Not much can be gained either by discussing intellectual, political, and psychological shifts that have occurred and are occurring in the society and within the revolution's own environment throughout these bloody months. The outlines are known. The regime threw the army in to confront the foci of the Revolution and It killed many in the field who who refused to fire on their fellow citizens (Human Rights Watch report in December), leading some officers and soldiers to defect and out of these defections a loose umbrella was formed under the name «the Free Syrian Army FSA». The regime directed punitive and vengeful disciplinary campaigns akin to colonialist campaigns at cities and towns in and around Damascus, Homs, Hama, Idlib, and Deir Al-Zour , which resulted in civilians picking up arms here and there to face regime's forces, albeit the regime has already pushed civilians in the conflict since the beginning and on a large scale: the Shabbeeha.
These circumstances, which are known to all, imply an authentic military component of the revolution that can't be overlooked in the context of its intellectual or political planning considerations. This dimension is neither brought from the outside nor does it possess an ideological underpinning that may have preceded its emergence.
The emergence of this armed component does not undercut, today or since its beginning, the overarching peaceful character of the revolution. The peaceful nature of the revolution is rooted in its social composition, in the type of its demands, and in its primary protest tools (i.e., demonstrations), and not in any ideological preference or political tactics. It is now known that the juxtaposition of peaceful demonstrations flying banners and shouting chants and armed groups firing bullets does not say anything about what is happening in reality, but only covers the ignorance of those making such argument of the reality of what is happening with only figurative approximations.
In fact, it would not have been possible for the peaceful demonstrations to continue in most of their sites had it not been for the protection provided by the Free Syrian Army with both of its military and civilian component and had it not been for its relative deterrence of the striking arms of the regime.
Refusal to see this reality does not change it and hinders its understanding and more so the ability to influence it. And perseverance in reiterating argument against the arming of the revolution and against militarization without the slightest indication of a cessation of violence from the regime is akin to blaming the victims for their resistance to the aggressors. There are no nationalistic or humanitarian justifications for such an attitude.
There is no doubt that at abstract values level, peaceful resistance is preferable to armed resistance. However, we are not in a store shopping for this or that, but in macro-scale reality, which imposed on a substantial number of Syrians the need to defend themselves as they faced a regime whose precise composition is what breeds hatred and violence and not emergent exigencies, nor popular demands, as a massive Syrian minister had recently uttered.
What requires understanding and caution is that resorting to militarism can be associated, and today is actually becoming associated with anarchist and undisciplined practices. We can not deal with this reality with puritanical logic that refuses any armed resistance, or objects to the revolution itself under the pretext of the anarchist practices that may occur under its banners. This will not work as long as the regime persists in its own militarization. What could be useful is to work at the level of the revolution, not from outside or above, towards the direction of uniting the militant and civilians in a single concerted body and that the military component of the revolution be disciplined and directed by its general interest. This is not easy, and there is nothing that guarantees its accomplishment at the required level, but to continue singing about peaceful actions is a recipe that ensures it does not happen at all.
Notwithstanding the prospects for chaos, violence is formatively elitist and un-democratic, and expansively spread of its exercise, even if it is disciplined, may raise the threshold of identification with the revolution and weaken the participation of women and children and the elderly. Our choices, however, are not between militarization and the non-militarization, but between unchecked and undisciplined militarism, and that of a checked, and perhaps more disciplined militarization.
Furthermore, political change achieved by armed force may result in many social, political and security complexities, which is less favorable to democratic development than a peaceful transformation. But, again, our choices are not free, and the military component of the revolution is a byproduct of the intrinsic violence of the regime, not because of someone's will or decision.
The key point in all this debate is that there remains no room to restore the original innocence that predated blood, or to leisurely talk about facing the regime's violence with bare chests, especially when expressed by those who do not participate in the revolution, neither with their chests nor with their backs. What is needed instead of illusionary innocence are initiatives and work toward military, political, and moral discipline of force. We have a chaotic unchecked reality, and the intellectuals and politicians perform their duty when they work to make it rational and organized and not when they purify and distance themselves from it. This is weakness.
In fact, some of what is being said regarding militarism is driven by objection to the revolution itself and not by objection to the legitimacy of some of the practices under its banner. Revolution means the removal of the legitimacy of the regime and the denial of its national and public character, and, consequently, considering its violence a factional and unpatriotic, and the denial of any legitimacy and generality of any of its organs, which establishes the foundations for the new legitimate and popular, which is he revolution itself. While this does not confer an automatic legitimacy on all violence that may be exercised in its name or shadow, the only position that provides consistent objection to the uncontrolled violence is a position from within the revolution and with it, and not outside it or against it. Certainly, revolutionary violence is more legitimate than the violence of a regime murdering the people. It is a multiplier of legitimacy in that it is essentially forced and defensive even when it is offensive at the tactical level.
There is already a genuinely peaceful mood in the revolution that dislikes violence, even in self-defense. But the best defense of peaceful action is to participate in the revolution including on the ground, and to work hard to strengthen its civil nature. The worst defense is to sit on the sidelines and singing praise of the beauty of peaceful actions.
From the viewpoint of action, there is a need for legitimate public entity, that transcend the external embrace of the revolution's cause and the standing beside it towards engagement in the revolution and the intellectual, political, and organizational morphing in manners responsive to its evolution and growing complexity. Such a public body would have coordinated between the components of the revolution and led it to achieving its national objective. Alas, this is not available. But one of the causes of optimism in Syrian Revolution is the multiplicity of the centers of thought and initiative, which proceed without the guidance of anyone, and never stop working in order to discipline the militarization and to develop the civil and popular character of the revolution.
Yassin Haj Saleh
Syrian dissident writer and
Dar Al Hayat
Sunday, 29/01/2012"
Thanks Merowe.
revolution: we have studied in history books, biography of many of the revolutions we could not find any way to the similarity between these revolutions and what is happening in Syria, but on the contrary, what is happening in Syria, disfigured in an ugly concept of revolution, and what happens to the Syrian territory in the hands of individuals known by their communities with their behavior abnormal (real thugs), but evidence confirming the horror of what is happening and can not be the actions of real revolutionaries.
Al Jazeera Plans Regime Change in Syria (and vid)
"The Syrian ambassador to the UN has slammed the Qatari government and its state-run television, Al Jazeera, for their role in what he has called an anti-Syrian campaign of violence and interference.
Press TV talks with Conn Hallinan from the Foreign Policy in Focus, in Berkeley regarding the issue..."
What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update by Boris Dolgov
In the last two months Syria has seen a number of terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacked Syrian servicemen and military facilities, law enforcement agencies institutions, blasts on oil pipelines, railroads, murders and taking of hostage among peaceful citizens (In the city of Homs insurgents killed five well known scientists), arson of schools and killing of teachers (since March 2011, 900 schools have been set on fire and 30 teachers have been killed). ...
The armed opposition which conducted terrorist attacks in Syria is represented by a number of groups from a military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Libyan radical Islamists and Al Qaeda. According to the information we receive from our Syrian colleagues there are training camps for insurgents in Lebanon and Turkey. The officers of security services of NATO, Turkey and some Arab states are in charge for the training and armament of the insurgents, while the monarchies of the Persian Gulf provide the financing.
Congratulations to the American CIA, NATO and their Al-CIA'duh terrorist friends in orchestrating yet another 'Arab Spring' "uprising", this time in Syria. Turkey and Lebanon are the staging countries for terrorist attacks inside Syria just as Costa Rica and Honduras were staging countries for the Condoms, I mean, "Contras" attacking innocent civilians, bombing and burning schools and hospitals in cold war era Nicaragua in the 1980s. The war on democracy continues.
Syrious Rebels (and vid)
"Will the international community resort to force in Syria? What if Assad stays in power for much longer than most experts predict? And will Syrians be able to topple the Assad government without foreign interference? Is Syria the next Libya or will it follow its own unique path? Cross talking with Marwa Daoudy, Maxmillian Forte and David Pollock."
Who Is Syrian Opposition? West Has No Idea (and vid)
"...It is wrong to compare the Syrian opposition to their Libya counterparts, believes Mehdi Hasan, who is senior political editor with New Statesman magazine. The Syrian opposition is far less homogenous.
'There is this division between the external opposition figures, like the leader of the Syrian National Council, who is based in Paris, and those who are on the streets, who have said again and again to Western reporters, to human rights groups - 'We don't want military intervention.' ' We are opposed to both the Syrian president, the Assad regime, and we are opposed to Western intervention.
We saw what happened in Iraq,' the journalist says. Mehdi Hasan says the opposition Free Syrian Army, consisting of defectors from the Syrian military, may be deliberately exaggerating its might to justify a Western intervention.
Organizations like the FSA have cropped up in many other places where the West has intervened, Hasan tells RT.."
Syria Resolution Text Agreed - Russia's UN Envoy (and vid)
"...Diplomats have reportedly agreed to drop demands for an arms embargo against Syria and the resignation of President Bashar al Assad.."
Syria Resolution Part of Proxy War Against Iran (and vid)
"Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to the Guardian, believes that Russia's stance on Syria has much more international support than one may assume.."
Exposed: The Arab Agenda in Syria - by Pepe Escobar
"Here's a crash course on the 'democratic' machinations of the Arab League - rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf-Counter-Revolution CLub, Qatar and the House of Saud.
Essentially, the GCC created an Arab League group to monitor what's going on in Syria. The Syrian National Council - based in NATO member countries Turkey and France - enthusiastically supported it. It's telling that Syria's neighbor Lebanon did not. When over 160 monitors, after one month of enquiries, issued their report...surprise!
The report did not follow the official GCC line - which is that the 'evil' Bashar al Assad government is indiscriminately and unilaterally killing its own people, and so regime change is in order. So the report was either ignored (by Western corporate media) or mercilessly destroyed - by Arab media, virtually all of it financed by either the House of Saud or Qatar. It was not even discussed - because it was prevented by the GCC from being translated from Arabic into English.
Until it was leaked. Here it is in full...
The report is adamant. There was no organized, lethal repression by the Syrian government against peaceful protesters. Instead, the report points to shady armed gangs as responsible. So the current 'Arab-led drive to secure a peaceful end to the 10-month crackdown' in Syria at the UN, is no less than a crude regime-change drive. Usual suspects, Washington, London and Paris..."
Obama: UN Must Take Stand Against Assad's 'Relentless Brutality'
"Obama in a written statement said the attack was an 'unspeakable assault' and urged Assad to step down from power. 'Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now. He must step aside and allow a democratic transition to proceed immediately,' he said.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe countered that 'those who block the adoption of such a resolution are taking a grave historical responsibility' in light of the Homs bloodshed, which he called a 'crime against humanity.' The government denied the assault. It said the reparts are part of a 'hysterical campaign' of incitement by armed groups against Syria, meant to be exploited at the UN Security Council as it prepares to vote.."
Canada Slams UN 'Paralysis on Syria
"Canada is 'disappointed in the extreme' by the UN Security Council's 'paralysis' after Russia and China vetoed a resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down. 'Today's failure by the UN Security Council to effectively deal with the crisis in Syria is yet another free pass for the illegitimate Assad regime and those backing it,' Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement issued from Tel Aviv on Saturday.
The New Democrats also weighed in, calling on the federal government to 'immediately recall Canada's ambassador from Syria but also to apply diplomatic intervention.' 'We call on the Canadian government to immediately exert diplomatic pressure on China and particularly Russia in order to secure a UN resolution of the crisis,' said NDP foreign affairs critic Helene Lavardiere in a written statement."
ndp= no difference party regime-change again anyone?
Assad, this wonderful supporter of human rights, might as well pack his suitcase now, as he is on the way out, and probably sooner rather than later. It's just a matter of time. Looks like the power shift is continuing to occur in the Middle Esst. Iran, being on the wrong side of the fence, will probably be next.
Coalition forces. Where have we heard that term before?
Lies and Double Standards: Crimes against Humanity: Syria or the US?
Shortly before 1PM EST, February 4, Reuters headlined, "Russia, China veto UN resolution telling Assad to quit," saying:
The diplomatic "setback" came the day after "Syrian opposition (elements) accused Assad's forces of killing hundreds of people (in) Homs, the bloodiest night in the 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country."
Like other pro-Western media, Reuters pointed fingers the wrong way. Throughout the conflict, Assad was blamed for Western-backed externally generated violence. In fact, he's more victim than villain, but don't expect media scoundrels to explain.
Shortly before the Security Council vote, Obama called the Homs violence "unspeakable," demanded Assad step down immediately, and urged Security Council action against his "relentless brutality."
His public statement falsely claimed:Obama the war criminal wrote:"Yesterday the Syrian government murdered hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children, in Homs through shelling and other indiscriminate violence, and Syrian forces continue to prevent hundreds of injured civilians from seeking medical help."
"Any government that brutalizes and massacres its people does not deserve to govern."
Since 1991 alone, Obama, Bush I and II, as well as Clinton, murdered millions of Iraqis, Serbians, Kosovars, Afghans, Libyans, Somalis, Yemenis, and many others ruthlessly and maliciously.
Today, Obama supports atrocities in Bahrain, Yemen, Somalia, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere, as well as Israel's decades-long war on Palestine. Major media scoundrels ignore them. Instead, they cheerlead imperial US wars. Power takes precedence over truth and full disclosure.
John Pilger once called journalism the first casualty of war, adding:
"Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship (and deception) that goes unrecognized in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries...."
Our lapdog news media are publishing war propaganda which is a crime against humanity and punishable by international laws since Nuremberg. They should be strung-up by their nuts.
Deputies, if the German Government and its Leader patiently endured such treatment Germany would deserve only to disappear from the political stage. But I am wrongly judged if my love of peace and my patience are mistaken for weakness or even cowardice. I, therefore, decided last night and informed the British Government that in these circumstances I can no longer find any willingness on the part of the Polish Government to conduct serious negotiations with us.
These proposals for mediation have failed because in the meanwhile there, first of all, came as an answer the sudden Polish general mobilization, followed by more Polish atrocities. These were again repeated last night. Recently in one night there were as many as twenty-one frontier incidents: last night there were fourteen, of which three were quite serious. I have, therefore, resolved to speak to Poland in the same language that Poland for months past has used toward us. This attitude on the part of the Reich will not change.
Adolf Hitler on the SS' covert terrorist attacks at Gleiwitz and falsely blamed on Polish nationals on the eve of launching blitzkrieg over Poland.
Canada, USA & the UK - quite the group we are allied with, eh!
William Hague accuses Russia and China as Syria heads toward 'civil war' William Hague on Sunday accused Russia and China of "tipping Syria closer to civil war" as he urged the Arab League to take the lead in international efforts to force President Bashar al-Assad from power.
UN Shenanigans on Syria - by Aisling Byrne
'vicious, nasty business', 'aggressive pressure...by US diplomats', ferocious pressure on weaker non-permanent members,' the 'type of pressure that is very, very difficult for weaker countries to resist.'
That's how a former British diplomat at the UN, Carne Ross, described last September's UN showdown over the Palestinian Authority's bid for recognition for statehood. 'This is how power works', he said.
He might have added 'money', for the route to the UN Security Council in the case of Syria this week, has been one of bullying, bribery, unprecedented procedural violations at the Arab League, along with media manipulations and significant distortions of reality...
...Senior political sources have confirmed that last September Qatar 'bought' the president's position of the Arab League from the Palestinians in return for a donation of US$400 million in 'aid' to PA President Mahmoud Abbas...The presidency - along with its position as chair of the League's Syria committee - gave Qatar the opportunity to pursue Assad's fall.
Pro regime-change commentators argue that 'Syria looks more like Libya every day.' If it does, it is because the mainstream narrative on Syria is intentionally constructed to be so - in order to justify the call for external intervention. But this doesn't mean it is necessarily correct.
The extraordinary act of war by Qatar and Saudi Arabia agreeing to supply weapons to armed insurgents in a fellow Arab state in any other situation would be called state-sponsored terrorism, particularly given the evidence a majority of Syrians do support Assad..."
Syria Vote: US 'Appropriated' UN Power (and vid)
"While officials in Washington tirelessly admonish Russia and China for blocking another resolution on Syria, Rick Rozoff of STOP NATO tells RT that the UN has been hijacked by the US and NATO.
'Were armed groups to invade the territory of the United States from Mexico or Canada, I can assure you Washington's response would not be limited to a domestic one,' Rozoff said.." (see interview)
'US, Arab Puppets Seek Syrian Civil War' (and vid)
"A prominent political analyst says the UN draft resolution on Syria had been initiated by the Israel-backed US and Arab countries seeking to instigate a civil war in the country.."
Clinton Calls for 'Democratic Forces' to Unite on Syria
"US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for 'friends of democratic Syria' to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad's regime. She said the 'friends of Syria' could work with the opposition groups to promote their goals. Such a group could be similar to the Contact Group on Libya, which oversaw international help for opponents of the last deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs said the failure of the UNSC to effectively respond to the crisis in the Middle Eastern country was 'yet another free pass for the illegitimate Assad regime and those backing it..."
Harper Rejects Calls to Pull Ambassador From Syria
"The official Opposition wants Canada's ambassador recalled from Syria, but the government says he will stay in the country to blast President Bashar Assad for his attacks on domestic dissenters.."
that's why they're called a 'loyal opposition'..
Heading for War in Syria - by Stephen Lendman
"Washington's longstanding policy is regime change in Iran and Syria. At issue is replacing independent regimes with client ones and securing unchallenged control and valued Middle East resources..."
Jeez, it's becoming harder to tell the difference between the NDP and the other two parties when it comes to Ottawa's long time second-hand foreign policy.I guess they realized that some large number of Canadian voters weren't even considering the marathon US-led military occupation of Afghanistan when voting last year. And I guess Canada is doomed to never having a permanent seat on the UN war council.
I suppose this might even open doors for the NDP to all those soft and disaffected Liberal and Tory voters who could switch to the NDP next election if deciding that old line party policies on domestic and other issues affecting Canadians in Canada need updating to reflect 21st century reality and modern democracy in general.
NDP looking good for first past the post victory in 2015. And it'll prolly be a phony majority, too. It's all so unfair.
US on UN Veto: 'Disgusting', 'Shameful', 'Deplorable', 'A Travesty'....Really?
A Quick Listing of Veto Use at the UN 1972-2011
"Including Resolutions against decades of atrocities and violations often supported and/or bankrolled by the US"
Assad Ready for Talks, 'Fully Commits' To End Violence - Lavrov (and vid)
"Syria's President Assad has agreed to talks with the opposition and will follow the Arab League's roadmap, increasing the number of observers in the country, even in the most hostile areas in Syria. Russia's Foreign Ministry has announced that President Assad has agreed to send a government delegation to Moscow to meet with representatives of the opposition. The parties reaffirmed their readiness to use the Arab League's initiative to find 'a swift way out of the crisis.'
Damascus is to shortly announce a national referendum to draw up a new constitution. Officials expect the referendum to be set for March. After the referendum, the country will go to parliamentary polls, so far planned for May.
Moscow has called on the Arab League to expand its observing mission, dubbing it a 'crucial stabilizing factor for Syria'."
Imperialism or fascism? There is a third option.
In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: "If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism." It never occurred to Halliday that he could have opposed both and supported home-grown democratic struggles instead.
This was indeed a watershed moment for Arab, American, and European anti-imperialist leftists who would become turncoats, moving from a principled opposition to imperialism to a principled and financially more rewarding support of it....
The stark opposition that Halliday drew between American imperialism and Saddam's despotic rule preceded the events of 9/11 and the re-introduction of the term "fascism" in a slightly altered form to fit US imperialism's new enemies, namely the neologism "Islamofascism", which another British turncoat, Christopher Hitchens, had done so much to disseminate.
At the time, many Arabs, Europeans, and Americans (myself included), who have been unwavering critics of Saddam Hussein's despotic and terroristic rule and US imperialism's genocidal wars against Third World enemies, opposed the first US invasion of the Gulf in 1991 and the ensuing 12-year siege, which cost more than a million Iraqi lives, as well as the subsequent US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its 8-year occupation of the country, which killed another million Iraqis.
Opposition to US invasions of Iraq and Kuwait stemmed neither from any illusions about the nature of Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime nor from his alliance with the Saudi theocratic state and its smaller Gulf partners. It came even less from his military strategic alliance with France and the United States from the late 1970s onwards, in the service of which he invaded Iran in 1980 and sacrificed the lives of one million Iranians and 400,000 Iraqis. On the contrary, it was based on a sober assessment of these realities and the costly impact of imperial invasions....
The Iraqi exile opposition insisted along with its US imperial sponsors and the chorus of pro-war American intellectuals that people should make one of two choices: for or against Saddam. While the US and its Iraqi partners had their way, the subsequent destruction of Iraq, the dismantling of its state structures, and the destruction of its societal cohesion is the clearest illustration of what such a choice entailed for the Iraqi people and their country.
In 2011, we were treated to a repeat performance of the very same scenario. The Libyan exile opposition and those inside the liberated parts of the country, consisting mostly of erstwhile servants of the Qaddafi regime, began to call for a NATO invasion of Libya to help the Libyan people in their uprising against Qaddafi. Again, many anti-imperialist and pro-democracy Arabs and non-Arabs cautioned that while Qaddafi had been a merciless despot for four decades and had become an ally of the United States and Europe for the last decade of his rule, a western imperial invasion of the country would not be in the interest of most Libyans. Rather, it would entail the destruction of the country, with thousands of casualties, for the sole purpose of controlling Libya's oil wealth and not in the interest of establishing democratic rule. Again the Libyan opposition allied with imperial powers, like its Iraqi predecessor, immediately challenged any opponent of the imperial invasion to make one of two choices: for or against Qaddafi....
Like Saddam, the Assad dynastic regime has been an ally of the Saudi theocracy and its junior Gulf partners, and an agent of US imperialism in the region, especially in its major intervention in Lebanon in 1976 at the invitation of the Christian fascist forces who called the Syrians in to help them crush the leftist revolutionary movement in the country, including the PLO. The role played by the Syrian regime (in conjunction with Israeli advisors) in the horrific Tel al-Za'tar massacre in 1976, when thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered at the hands of fascist Maronite forces abetted by the Syrian army, is now the stuff of history.
Moreover, the Assad regime again proved most helpful to its US and Saudi sponsors when it joined the imperial coalition to invade the Gulf in 1990-91 under the US flag. On the Zionist front, the Syrian regime proved as pliant as the Jordanian one, ensuring the security of Israel's "borders", which Israel conquered and established inside Syria's and Jordan's own territories. Internally, the regime has used and continues to use draconian measures to suppress, repress, and oppress the Syrian people mercilessly (though still not to the extent of Saddamist repression, which no Arab regime has ever reached). By calling for imperial military intervention, the Syrian exile opposition invokes, without originality, the very same puerile yet insidious choices presented to anti-imperialist and pro-democracy Arabs and non-Arabs by the erstwhile bankrupt Iraqi and Libyan exile oppositions, namely, that there is only one choice to be made: for or against Assad.
Unlike Fred Halliday and his pro-imperialist Arab and non-Arab acolytes, we need never choose between imperialism and fascism; we must unequivocally opt for the third choice, which has proven its efficacy historically and is much less costly no matter the sacrifices it requires: fighting against domestic despotism and US imperialism simultaneously (and the two have been in most cases one and the same force), and supporting home-grown struggles for democratic transformation and social justice that are not financed and controlled by the oil tyrannies of the Gulf and their US imperial master.
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This conference takes place over 4 day in late July. Registration is $175/person with a $25 discount for church family history consultants. If I could just get away from work, I'd seriously consider going.
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Welcome everyone to TeaDay. Grab a cup, tell us what is in it, and see what everyone else is drinking. I don't know which is funner, bragging about what is in my cup or being jealous about what is in everyone elses.
Remember, everyone is welcome to TeaDay, so even if you are new to tea or TeaChat, please feel free to join in...it is a great way to get to know everyone and to get known!
Post throughout the day as your cup of tea changes ...
SO, today's TeaPoll and discussion topic So, what are your thoughts on the tea that seemingly started it all in the western world. Many of us started with black tea. So, share with everyone where you stand on black tea today!
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DERRICK SPIEGEL, 28, Williston, died Saturday in a Williston hospital. Funeral Thursday, 2 p.m., First Lutheran Church, Williston. Visitation Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Everson Funeral Home, Williston.
BEVERLY RUGLAND, 82, rural Palermo, died Sunday in a Minot hospital. (Springan Funeral Home, Stanley)
ARDITH STRABBE, 94, Leeds, died Friday in a Devils Lake nursing home. Funeral Thursday, 1 p.m., Leeds Lutheran Church. Visitation Thursday, one hour prior to the service, in the church. (Nelson Funeral Home, Leeds)
JUANITA ERICKSON, 77, Fargo, formerly of Kenmare, died Monday in a Fargo palliative care center. (Stakston-Martin Funeral Home, Crosby)
THOM MELLUM, 52, Minot, died March 12 in his home. Book signing Wednesday, 4 to 6 p.m., Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot. Social gathering Wednesday, starting at 6 p.m., in the Barley Pop, Minot.
STELLA TAYLOR, 83, Pine Island, Minn., formerly of Minot, died Thursday in a Pine Island nursing home. Funeral Saturday, 10 a.m., St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Minot. Visitation Friday, 4 to 7 p.m., Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot.
SHIRLEY STORBECK, 72, Winchester, Va., formerly of Minot, died Saturday in her home. (Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot)
JOAN CARLSON, 81, Minot, died Sunday in her daughter's home in Snohomish, Wash. (Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot)
DONALD HABERMAN, 80, Minot, died Sunday in a Salt Lake City hospice facility. (Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot)
DR. JOHN C. SMITH III, 83, formerly of Minot, died March 14 at his home in Minneapolis, surrounded by his family. A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 23, at 10 a.m. at All Saints' Episcopal Church, Minot, where he was a member for more than 40 years. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 301 S. Main St., Minot, ND 58701. Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot, is in charge of arrangements.
SHIRLEY IHLA, 51, Bottineau, died Sunday in her home. (Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau)
ROLAND KERSTEN, 75, Garrison, died Sunday in a Bismarck hospital. (Thompson Funeral Home, Garrison)
JOSHUA HOILAND, 31, Minot, died March 14 near Stanley from injuries suffered in a work-related accident. Funeral Thursday, 1 p.m., Bethel Free Lutheran Church, Minot. Visitation Wednesday, 3 to 7 p.m., with a prayer service at 7 p.m., all in Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot.
CAROL LENOIR, 60, Belcourt, died Sunday in her home. Funeral Friday, 10 a.m., St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Belcourt. Visitation Thursday, 6 p.m., with a rosary service at 8 p.m., all in the church. (Elick Funeral Home, Rolla)
RAYMOND VOLLMER, 86, Willow City, died Monday in a Minot hospital. (Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau)
CORA MAY HANSON TILLMAN, 85, Exton, Pa., formerly of Drake, died March 10 in an Exton hospital. (Maclean-Chamberlain Funeral Home, Wagontown, Pa.)
ANNAMARIE HANNEL, 67, Mandan, formerly of Sherwood, died Sunday in a Bismarck hospital. (DaWise-Perry Funeral Home, Mandan)


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I have seen different threads started by different posters asking for help from other TeaChat members to identify writings on wrappers, packages, tags, etc. Occasionally, I find myself in that position of needing help from the wiser participants here as well.
So I hope I am not being presumptuous by thinking that a common dumping thread for such inquiries could be useful to all interested in pu'er -- as current and future references.
With that in mind, if I can trouble anyone for your help in identifying this tag on the right, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
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The nature of the movie critic gig is that I get to see a bunch of movies, usually before the general public. Sometimes I take that for granted. Not this week. This week, I saw "The Master."
"The Master" isn't just a movie, you see. It's a Paul Thomas Anderson movie.
Anderson and Quentin Tarantino are the two American filmmakers whose movies will always be events for me. This was no exception.
As a director, Anderson paints in bold strokes — he followed up the success of "Boogie Nights" with the sprawling "Magnolia" and directed an Oscar-worthy performance by Adam Sandler (of all people) in "Punch Drunk Love."
And while Anderson's knack for not repeating himself — I'd compare him favorably to Stanley Kubrick in that regard — "The Master" is closest among his catalog to his last work, the searing period drama "There Will Be Blood."
Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a troubled World War II naval veteran turned drifter. Freddie's path crosses Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a charismatic author who is in the early stages of creating his own religion.
Certain parallels with the Dodd character and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard have given this movie an unfair reputation as a Scientology expose. Train your expectations away from that.
I, for one, was not prepared for such a gut-punch of a performance from Phoenix. His Freddie is perpetually drunk and deeply troubled. His unpredictability is positively feral, and the performance has the same wildness and danger that Daniel Day Lewis displayed in "There Will Be Blood."
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Thanks for the video Omid. Here is a link for you: La Grande Pizza Napoletana di Ciro Salvo al Massè di Torre Annunziata
There is truth to each one of those quotes. Thanks for posting that Omid.
Just a detail, but what is the purpose of the seemingly deliberate basil leaf tucked underneath the dough at just after 1:35?
Omid, my wife and I will be visiting Bruno's for dinner on Thursday. We are very excited! If anyone else from this forum will be around, you are more than welcome to join us.
it's a 56 liter Fork Mixer where they usually mix 145kg of dough twice a day (at 8am and 15pm)their volume 800-1200 pizza (650-700 pizza in 5 hours often on Saturday night service )The first 17-18 hours are only rising! The panielli then are used by about 10:00 (+2 hours) up to about 17 (+9 hours)The Pizza peel is made from Mahogany wood
Thanks for the missing part, I saw approximately 125 dough trays in the video, with 12 balls in each theoretically they can do 1500 pizzas ! What I've read from Marco:Another interestings threads from pizza.it Primo giorno a Napolireport las vegas expopizzaQuell'effetto leopardato sul fondo e sul cornicione della verace pizza napoletana...
. . . Also, how could you tell that your flour had gone bad? Did you have bugs in it? Best regards,TinRoof
Thanks for the informative post Omid. I hope you can switch out your recently purchased bag of flour for one that is healthy. Once again it was great meeting you last week, thanks for everything!
Fortunately, a friend of mine let me borrow some of his Caputo "00" Pizzeria flour, a healthy one, which he purchased two weeks ago. I followed the same exact recipe, portions of ingredients, and procedure. After 3 minutes and 42 seconds of mechanized kneading, the dough nicely reached my point of pasta, and I stopped the mixer. Next, I allowed the dough to rest for 20 minutes, at the end of which I formed the dough mass into a smooth ball as shown in the 2nd picture below. Significant difference! The dough had uniform flesh and skin, ready to undergo the initial fermentation. (Dear Mario, thank you for the flour.)
Hi Omid, Too bad for your flour, but very informative post, thanks! the flour probably be poorly stored, the bag was still far from the expiration date ?That's why I was afraid to order a Caputo pizzeria bag, I wish they sell 10kg bags.On the technical data of the flour we can read: temperature storage (fresh and airy place) 15-18°CI'm working on my dough procedure (still a lot to learn) I do not understand how you can knead the dough so little with your Santos.I know with long fermentation you should knead as little as possible but on the youtube videos I see often 20 minutes of kneading with fork mixer.Can you please enlighten me ? Cheers, Christophe
Sir, I have a Santos mixer also, I would like to slow down the fork speed. Would you share with how I can achieve this. Much appreciated, Vin


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Today's Tuesday's Tutorial comes from Lydia Jackson. Ever wonder how to use your Cuttlebug Embossing folders for a border on a layout? Keep reading…
NOTE: Remember to work from the BACK of the Core'dinations Cardstock because you will be sanding on the front of the paper.
Using a rolling pin and firm pressure, roll over the folder to create the embossed image.
Turn the cardstock over and sand:
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The end of the Bridger Ridge run is crazy downhill. In the last three miles, you descend about three thousand feet. By the time you get to the "M" (Montana towns tend to put big white letters on their hills), the destination of a popular hiking trail, you have about a mile and a half to the bottom—a thousand feet down, with switchbacks that don't switch often enough to make the going gentle. We could see the tent at the finish line and hear the cheering of the small, but enthusiastic crowd With less than a mile to go, Bob was starting to weaken. His knees bent too much with each stride, and I was afraid he was going to collapse. I grabbed him by the arm. He looked at me, shook his head, and issued a quiet, "No." We waited about four seconds, and he was off again with a whoop. But a few strides later he wobbled and then sat down. I sat next to him. "Just rest a few minutes," he said. "Yep," I said.
Less than a few minutes later he stood up, and in military commander voice got going. "I can take more pain than anyone," he shouted. "I am strong," he said. I said, "You are strong."
"I wondered about someone who could push himself so hard, wondered too, if the obvious closeness that he and Tom shared had always been there, or if it was a result of a mellowing on Bob's part, an acceptance of his own limits leading to a greater tolerance of weakness in others.
As we worked down the switchbacks, about a quarter mile from the finish, I said, "You're the only one who doesn't know this, Bob, but you're not sweeping." He stopped and looked at me, head tilted, smiling as always. "Tom registered you. You have a number."
He let this sink in and said, "I've been snookered." And then he laughed. Hard.He would say this about 18 more times in the next couple of hours, always with a giant grin.
After 10 Bridger Ridge Run finishes, you are guaranteed entry into this quick-filling race. Bob figured he'd had his go, and didn't want to take a number from someone else. The last time he'd run the race was three years before, in 2006. It took him 7 hours 57 minutes. He was not last.
As we crossed the line I stopped my watch. 7:09. The crowd erupted as Bob's name was announced. A guy came up to Bob wanting to shake his hand. "I'm the one who said, when I passed you, `I feel like I'm passing Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.' You're a legend."The race director, Dave Summerfield, finished the race a bit later (limping, a little bloody, but still looking good for a 61-year-old who'd just run a hard 20 miles), and came up to Bob and said "I have something for you from Tom." He took a plastic bag out of his fanny pack and unwrapped a race number. 82. Bob's age.
Bob didn't linger after the race. He had to drive three hours home to Missoula, and then, he said, he was going contra dancing that night up in Arlee, on the Flathead Indian Reservation. He'd asked me if I'd ever been contra dancing. He said it was a good workout.


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The purple floor mats used in the 1996 Olympic Games Table Tennis event are being offered for sale to the membership at the 2012 National Championships. There are 54 rolls available and they are roughly 53' x 6' and are being offered on a first come – first served basis at the event in Las Vegas. The buyer can select the rolls desired and they will need to be picked up the evening of Dec 21 or on December 22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center – Hall C3. These same rolls will be used in the 2012 National Championships and will be available at the conclusion of the event.
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Really impressed, and as for the scenery - it's Carterton what do u expect? In full: I didn't expect much, don't know why I just didn't , but I was pleasantly surprised. A good crowd considering the snowy conditions, friendly runners, well marshalled and a nice medal at the end. Excellently organised, that was the main thing for me, it had the feel of a much bigger event. All in all a cracking race, which will probably become an annual event for me. Next time I plan on smashing my pb as I feel I could have clocked a decent time if it weren't for the itbs in my knees !!!! Date of review: March 17, 2013
In short: Well organised, good value and cake!!!In full: This was my first time doing this event, and I got a PB ! Great marshalling full of encouragement, nice rural route, well organised, I could go on but it carrys on in this vein so u get the picture. Great bunch of runners and a nice t-shirt that will get used. Also, my wife and kids come with me to races and offen get a bit bored waiting for me, but as u start and finish pretty much in town center, there is something to do for them. Saying that, I think my daughter was happy to stay close to the delicious cakes ! I wouldn't class it as a perfectly flat course, but only slightly undulating in places, so still a fast course. Date of review: February 25, 2013
In short: Testing race in the snow !In full: I wasn't sure if this race would go ahead a couple of days beforehand , but luckily it did, and gave me a real good test. The snow made you feel as if you had to work twice as hard, but I thought the course was a great balance of uphill, downhill and flats, Friendly marshalling and great support considering the weather. A nice medal and choccie bar at the end was appreciated . To sum up, a good start to my 2013 race calendar ! Date of review: January 22, 2013
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I lost my starting QB (Brady) and probably second stringer (Alex Smith). I picked up Kyle Orton on waivers.
I got an offer to trade RB Matt Forte for QB Matt Ryan. Both rookies, both high scorers in week 1.
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Another hat
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Bob Motzko, coach of men's Husky Hockey, praised his team's character.
"We want another hat, boys," shouted 1450 AM KNSI broadcaster Don Lyons, the voice of men's Husky Hockey.
With those words began the most important pep rally in St. Cloud State history.
In a packed Atwood Ballroom men's Husky Hockey players and coaches greeted campus and community supporters, just minutes before the team's departure for the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, known as the Frozen Four.
The 25-15-1 Huskies earned a Midwest Regional Championship hat March 30-31 in Toledo, Ohio. Thursday Coach Bob Motzko '89 and the team begin a quest for a second hat, a hat that would declare St. Cloud State the nation's best college hockey team.
St. Cloud State (25-15-1) plays Quinnipiac University (29-7-5) 7 p.m. April 11 at the CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh. With a win, the Huskies would play 6 p.m. CDT Saturday for the national title. Learn more about St. Cloud State at the Frozen Four.
Tuesday's pep rally featured music by the Husky Sports Band, T-shirt giveways by Husky Athletics and Drew-On-A-Stick signs promoting the candidacy of Hobey Baker Memorial Award finalist, Drew LeBlanc.
Hannah Muerhoff, Student Government president, told the players this was their moment, punctuating her call for a national title by reading the Herb Brooks locker room speech from the 2004 film "Miracle."
Heather Weems, director of Husky Athletics, praised fans who attend games at the National Hockey and Event Center (NHEC), notably those in the student-dominated Dog Pound that is Sections 108 and 109.
"The NHEC is a special place. It's a place where we have home-ice advantage," said Weems. "That is all of you, who have done that day in, and day out, week in, and week out. And this is your championship, as well."
Coach Bob Motzko returned to a theme he's discussed for weeks.
"This is a pretty good hockey team standing behind me," said Motzko. "More importantly, what I'm so proud of, is they're even better kids. You can be proud of this group behind me right now. They've been a joy to be around all season."
St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis '89, reminded the crowd that he typically uses the powers of his office to declare a day in honor of something or someone.
"I declared a week," Kleis shouted into the microphone. "This is SCSU Husky Hockey Week in the City of St. Cloud."
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I'm with Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides here in Ottawa, where we are talking to entrepreneurs, university professors and government officials at a conference our embassy sponsored along with Canada2020 about enhancing the U.S.-Canada innovation climate to spur economic recovery and create jobs in the United States and Canada.
Canada is our largest economic partner -- one with whom we share a $1.1 trillion annual trade and investment relationship. Canada is also the best case for the U.S. to highlight the success of what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls "economic statecraft."
Secretary Clinton laid out her vision of "economic statecraft" last month in a speech at the New York Economic Club, where she underscored the need to elevate the role of economics and business in everything we do. In a message sent to all American diplomats, Secretary Clinton highlighted the importance of pursuing a North American competitiveness agenda. Secretary Clinton understands how business and diplomacy go hand-in-hand. She asked us to use diplomacy to strengthen our economy at home and to use economic tools to strengthen our diplomacy abroad.
We know that cross-border trade translates into economic growth and jobs. U.S.-Canada bilateral trade flows totaled $526 billion in 2010 -- up 21 percent from 2009. In order to continue to build on that success, the United States and Canada have committed to pursue an efficient and secure border infrastructure to facilitate the secure movement of people and goods. We also have pledged to break down regulatory barriers and foster alignment of future regulations without undermining the health or safety of our citizens.
Foreign investment is vital to U.S. and Canadian economic growth. Canada is one of the top investors in the United States with the stock of its foreign direct investment standing at $306 billion in 2010. Foreign direct investment in Canada has increased by 72 percent in the last decade. U.S. firms are responsible for half of that stock. The stock of U.S. foreign direct investment in Canada stood at $250 billion in 2010.
Cross-border investments have built the bedrock of our strong trade relationship. We want to create an open environment for investment, because when companies invest abroad, they export and import goods to their subsidiaries and create jobs in both countries. So we are doing everything we can to make it easier for businesses to invest in America. And we know Canada is also considering how to encourage greater flows of foreign investment.
We talked in Ottawa about the importance of fostering innovation across the border. I learned about C100 -- a group of Silicon Valley-based Canadians technology executives. They are experienced startup entrepreneurs and venture capital investors who use their experience, expertise and relationships to help mentor the next generation of innovative Canadian companies. We encourage this because some of these innovative Canadian companies will lead to growth and job creation in the United States. Efforts in one country lead to growth in the other.
North America is a place where economic statecraft has played out to the benefit of all parties. The last generation of statesmen had the vision to negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement which eliminated most tariff barriers, fostered more efficient supply chains and supported unprecedented economic growth. NAFTA created the world's largest free trade area, which now links 450 million people producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services. Today's statesmen and visionaries need to be as bold and creative as the authors of NAFTA in their practice of economic statecraft. We need to think of ourselves as continental partners working together for shared success in a global marketplace.
John in Canada writes:
Economic state craft?
First you need the economics to craft. Today we don't have that. Around the world we use a system that people do not understand. It is manmade, extremely predictable once you understand it. Yet most walk around as if the economics are some sort of magic, something beyond understanding - NOT SO.
Success today is built on debt, debt creates poverty, poverty destroys success - What can you craft with this except further misery, loss and failure? Forget about functioning governments, civil society, innovation, life or justice while we all ride this miserable beast. If there ever was a great whore of Babylon this is it and it lives beyond all political, philosophical or religious thinking. It has no borders and takes a hell of a lot more than it will ever give. It is not even alive.
If you don't stand up and stare it in the face, call it out for what it is - How do you suppose to fix it or change it? Whatever you craft will become less and less.
The monetary system in the Americas was not our creation. We have accepted it and by accepting it; it has become our problem. It is not capitalist or communist or anything but a force of its own that infects everything.
Understand the mechanism behind the monetary system and you will understand fully why Wall Street, business, law, governments and most people operate the way they do and why we are getting screwed; even the so called wealthy.
Change the mechanism and…
I guarantee you Wall Street, corporations, governments, education, health care, law, entire nations will change overnight. No violence needed only a revolution of mind; we can even keep the money without the poison associated with it.
Every single dollar produced is debt - If I gave you 1 dollar and charged you interest on that dollar - you have to pay back that dollar and interest - if I am the only place to get that money - you become eternally indebt to me - this is the central bank or Federal Reserve's basic operation.
The national banks now take that debt money and every single debt dollar they take from the central bank or fed they turn into at least 19 more (much of it with no cash to represent it, just a printout on a piece of paper saying you have it.) If you could convert 5 dollars into 100 would you ever go broke? - Somehow the banks managed this incredible achievement - but somehow the low paid worker is supposed to pay off their debts? If the banks with such a sweet deal can go broke do you think nations, people, business large and small stand any chance? NO. No just court should hear any debt related matters.
On each of that 19 additional debt dollars produced (95 % of which has no physical representation) by the national banks; a huge amount of compound interest is applied - every corporation, investor, business, individual that borrows money is now indebted but the actual cash to pay that level of debt does not exist- societies have been convinced that debt is bad- every indebted party now acts in any way they can to stay out of or ahead of debt by hook, crook, scheme or scam. THIS IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF CORRUPTION in our lives. No amount of tax or laws will end this corruption until the source of the corruption is neutralized - things can and will only get worse. Think Enron was the only bad corp. - think again - we could not prosecute the levels of corruption out there right now. There is no will to even deal with it for the sake of the economy. If a pandemic struck - money would take precedence.
It's much like giving 20 starving people 1 piece of bread to live but demand that each pay a loaf back. This simple system is what fuels all of the wrong behavior from the smallest individual, governments, to the largest corporations and even the banks - this is why they lie about earnings, break laws, screw the environment, rob, cheat, steal and rip off (nickel and dime) employees and customers alike and on and on.
How can you ever get out of debt when the very system is designed to create debt? And everyone is brainwashed that debt is bad- what do you think a society that is underpinned with this sort of debauchery looks like? Look around -Think it's a just, fair, friendly or peaceful place? NO way - think maybe this system is the source of much of the nasty crap in our lives around the world.
This system is the greatest threat to Freedom, Health, business, innovation, education, national security, the sovereignty of nations and to global peace; our very existence is threatened. Right now if we had to construct something to save us as a species from total destruction but to construct it cost more than the money we have - we would allow ourselves to die - even the neanderthal had more sense and where are they?
John in Canada writes:
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Start thinking and asking the right questions. How can anyone pay debt if the cash to pay that debt does not exist? Or only 5 cents exists for every 1 dollar of debt? You would have to take 5 cents from twenty people (more when you add the compound interest) to pay that 1 dollar in debt but what happens to the twenty people - they are broke and their debt bankrupts them and anything they own is forfeited. Not a lot of healthy customers to drive innovation with this model. Eventually this model feeds on itself and will leave nothing. It has done it many times before.
If everything is valued in money but that money does not exist; how much is everything really worth? Put it this way if everything that is valued in money is worth say 100 dollars but we have only 5 dollars available; how can it be valued more than the available object of valuation; in this example 5 dollars? It can't.
Something is only worth what someone will pay or can. If we have only 5 dollars in cash total in the world, then everything we value in money can there for only be worth 5 dollars not a hundred. Most of the money people think they have - they don't and that's why with economic crashes - even the wealthy can lose it all. The largest business can fall, any government can fall.
You can quickly understand why companies, governments and people do so much wrong for money - but it's not really the money that's the problem; its debt. But the mechanisms of the money system we use tie the two together in a way again few understand. You can teach any monkey to pull a lever and make a machine work - but that monkey won't have a clue about how the machine functions. We have far too many monkeys pulling levers and few that understand the mechanism of the machine.
Understand that at the moment to be a success requires destroying a lot of people even nations. Our system is not designed for us to be all successful financially or it would die - it is however designed to make everyone indebted but then demands the debts be paid while denying most people success at the same time. Never mind the fact that the debts must be paid with something that is not there.
Given how national banks create and lend money - they are also the ones that are the gate keeper to cash- coincidentally the cash we need to pay the debts they make. The national banks are also creating far more debt than there is cash to pay that debt. What happens when they crimp the flow of cash? The debts cannot be paid - think that's just - just a scam maybe.
Success however is not the problem. Wealth is not the problem, business, the poor - not the problem… - the problem is with the mechanics of the monetary system that drives wealth and success and coincidentally poverty and corruption. Debt is used like the whips from the slavers of old. The mechanism of the money system is no different than a slave system. Frankly I think the needs, wants and dreams of people are enough to drive innovation and growth - we don't need whips of servitude, debt and corruption.
If the Americas want to do anything and survive, then changing this ungodly abomination is where it must begin. Change it in the right way and no one needs to lose anything. Change it in the right way and you will see the most thunderous change ever in human history not just in the Americas but everywhere. It is possible but it won't happen if the politicians, business and people won't face the truth.
Before economic state craft can have chance - we must first create the economics to craft. I'm not sure to many folks can craft such art at the moment- to many people have been told what to believe and what they believe is false.
Failure to deal with this will lead to a considerable amount of avoidable carnage in all our lives.
Even if we don't change and refuse to see what needs changing this system will break in two. It cannot be avoided. Natural aspects of life will see to it. How much natural disaster, disease, social unrest do you think it will take to bankrupt this system and every nation with it? Talk about castles built on pillars of salt.
The Americas are uniquely placed in many ways to make this change happen. Publicly with what our governments are talking about; I'm not very hopeful. It's not easy to admit that you got it wrong but until we do - what we all need, will never come and what you don't want will be shoveled in your face faster than you can deal with it.
There can be no solution to this until we face the problem - I'm not sure too many are willing to face this because change makes some feel they are going to lose something but when that something does not even exist what are you losing? The right change could only secure what you think you have but don't.
Lets make the economics to craft first.
W.W. writes:
Economics Finance Bilderbergs :
Who keeps their sovereign from the lapse of error, in which, by ignorance and not by intent they might have fallen, what thank they deserve, we know, though you may guess. And as nothing is more dear to us than the loving conservation of our subjects' hearts, what an undeserved doubt might we have incurred if the abusers of our liberality, the thrallers of our people, the wringers of the poor, had not been told us
Michael C. in Canada writes:
Canada: Economic Statecraft Starts Here...hummm,just reviewing this article about the Canadian-us trade and investments. Well i,m curious as to why this page dont mention that the trade between Canada and u.s. has weakened due to Canadian Govnerments menallity to shift it,s national concerns to the "New" economic power....China. Sad to say,but our economic strenght in comparison to the u.s. is because of Canadas "Stiff" banking regulations has not allowed are economy to stay in relative...stronger.
In general...both mentioned countries are really saying to both counties things they want us to believe.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
It's not that they are ignorant, John, although not all of them know the game plan, it's more a case that they have an agenda and our prosperity isn't supposed to be on that list.
You preach to the choir. If they wanted prosperity and innovation, they would stop taxing prosperity and innovation.
They would restore the Glass-Steagall Act; and our currency would be backed by something more tangible than "faith and credit"; and they would ignore UN Agenda 21 because that Agenda is not in the national interest.
I think most of the world's problems have been caused by the Rockefeller Foundation and their more or less secret Council on Foreign Relations. They decided long ago to raise third world living standards by shipping factories to them and turning North America into low wage service economy. So we are all flipping hamburgers for each other in a zero-sum game of their choosing.
The CFR is a pyramid power structure and members at the bottom think they know the game but are as deceived as the public on that point. Those who have read all of their white papers, speeches, books, and articles, can put the puzzle together much better than even some of their members.
If you look deeply enough at the money issue you have mentioned, you will find a Rockefeller or their agent at the bottom of the barrel of bankers who turned our currency into unrepayable debt. The "Federal Reserve Note" is merely an IOU and the numbers on it mean nothing to them. That merchants still accept "dollars" for goods is a matter of mental inertia.
The cure is to get rid of CFR and Rockefeller influence in government by purging their agents and fan club members, and finding some Americans and Canadians who are loyal to our countries instead of the imaginary globalist utopia they call by various names, "New World Order", "Civil Society", "Global Community" or other CFR buzz words.
And as usual, the best replies I try to post will seldom go beyond this blog's censor, so if you read this, it will be a mild surprise to me.


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