Diplomacy

Naval Intelligence And US Foreign Policies

Elaine Meinel Supkis

As China rebuilds its navy, as Russia renews all its mighty arms, as the dollar dies and Japan loses influence due to the dud yen, the balance of power is shifting! And this shows up in the military news. The US is still losing the war in Iraq, everyone is counting the days of the final helicopters taking off from the roof of the Green Zone embassy. Like Britain after WWI, the US decided after the Vietnam defeat, we would conquer even more of the world. This is bankrupting us.

From Defense Tech:

Several submarines, including at least one U.S. Navy nuclear-propelled attack submarine, will also participate. An Australian official stated, "This will be the biggest multilateral maritime exercise the Indian Navy will be involved in so far. The joint interaction will have all the three dimensions -- air elements, surface warships and submarines."

The five-day Malabar-07 exercise will see land-based Jaguar strike aircraft of the Indian Air Force participating.

A June 2007 exercise involving Indian, Japanese, and U.S. warships off the Japanese coast had evoked a strong reaction from the Chinese government. Chinese officials issued a statement to the three nations demanding to know the reason they were undertaking naval exercises so close to Chinese territory. Similar questions are expected from China concerning Malabar-07. India and China, the later a supporter of Pakistan, have long been political and, at times, military enemies.

Some Indian political parties have also expressed opposition to the September exercise, claiming that such action will pull India into alliances.

Such exercises tend to build close relationship among the participating navies. And, often regional nations not participating in them will seek to do so in the future.

For some reason, we imagine that if we just get everyone to join our little navy, we would, like Britain, still rule the Seven Seas and will remain the world's most powerful military. The foolishness of forming a military/invasion force consisting of two of China's strongest neighbors is like lighting a firecracker under a dragon who holds all our money and then daring it to kill us.

The idea of triangulation is for a power to NOT form dangerous alliances that then motivates rivals to do the same! Namely, we have to consider who is harming us and how they are harming us. And strengthening one group so it counterbalances other groups. Japan is our top international trade rival. Next is Germany who is being shouldered aside by China, who is #4 this month but probably will be #3 before fall. Both Japan and India are frightened by this rise in Chinese power. They hope they can triangulate against China. If I were them, I would do this.

But NOT if I were the US. In our case, what do we gain by all this? Japan and India are our rivals. Our economy is in increasing trouble. Do we have trade surpluses with either Japan or India? No? Well...here we are, trying to make them stronger at our own expense! Britain became very powerful by marrying her navy to the needs of the traders in London. The British Navy didn't go sailing about, trying to strengthen the American Navy, for example. Or the German Navy! Much less, the Spanish Main! Indeed, they got very bent out of shape whenever anyone started to build up their navies.

One of the biggest errors made by England was allowing the Japanese to build up a navy able to rival the great Russian Navy. In a sharp confrontation at sea which ended Russian expansion in Asia, Japan displayed her rising power. The British wanted dearly to clip that short but were already disasterously overextended trying to hold down China. The emperor was falling in power and war lords were strengthening and the chaos in China was growing worse and worse.

All this, before WWI! The fact is, after WWI, both the US and Japan became the defacto naval powers on earth and the US and Britain both decided to make Japan's navy even stronger in a bid to hem in the new Soviet Union. This is also why the US decided, despite Churchill's warnings, to allow the Germans to strengthen the Reich and to rebuild their navy.

China has repeatedly asked us this last three years to do more military things together to show our good intentions. This is fading as the US, urged on by Japan, has become more, not less, belligerent. I have many old books and here is an example from a book published by the Navy back in 1898 called 'How Uncle Sam Fights' printed by RH. Woodward. It is the official book for civilian education put out by the War Department.

This book is full of interesting stuff because the US had, until the Civil War, very little as far as naval forces were concerned compared to most other sailing nations. We ceded the Seven Seas to Europe. Because we were weak, we had all sorts of interesting rules. Here is one of them:

It is awfully funny that the War Department and the State Department were both trumped by a NY banking consortium! What this Flint organization did was, sell the Chilean ship to Bolivia who didn't have any naval treaties signed so they could break the law. The official handbook also makes clear that 'privateering'--piracy- 'is lawful'. Heh. During the Civil War, Britain allowed privateers of the South to refit or refuel at British ports. Namely, in the Bermudas. The US sued in British Courts and in 1871, won a judgment in our favor so the British Crown decided it was time to make a treaty concerning our use of the oceans.

First, neither the US nor Britain would allow a foreign warship rigged so they can harry domestic frieght, use their ports IF they were 'neutral' in a fight between the countries with the warships and the countries using international shipping lanes. Second, they were not allowed to let such ships get fuel or food and water, too. If the ship needed medical help or fuel to return home, then it was OK. Of course, this was much abused.

My point here, before we get lost in Victorian naval law is, the rule of the Seven Seas is a very complex affair. The UN is supposed to have some say about things but basically, it is a sea-dog eat sea-dog affair and except for submarines, the US rules the waves and so we make the rules. Like Britain back then, we have to accept reality and try to make some sort of treaties that make life easier for ourselves to maintain power.

But I mentioned submarines! Britain didn't create this, they were invented by non-naval powers like the South during the Civil War! For submarines are the great levelers in naval power equations. The US is very agitated about not only Russia's submarine rebirth, China is now building nuclear subs with MIRV missiles. All the naval parades we are making this year are aimed at 'shocking and awing' two rising powers who can shock us to death by simply dumping $2 trillion into the world's monetary markets! Both rocket and submarine power, the yin/yang extremes of warfare, are the two forces that will annihilate us in WWIII. Namely, all our puny aircraft carriers and all the warships accompanying them are two-bit players in the Götterdämmerung of total nuclear warfare. This is why the parades and wargames of our navy are so worthless. The US tore up the very treaties with Russia and China that would protect us the most! All the nuclear treaties bought with such difficulty were ripped up unilaterally by Bush. On top of trying to place missles on Russia's borders, we also used NATO as a global imperial invasion course.

The UN just dropped the issue of Kosovo because Russia and China won't let the UN dismember yet another country. The UN seems bent on making all small countries, smaller even as the major powers are consolidating their own political bases. In this context, the US/Japan/India naval games are a provocation.

From Ynet News:

Saudi Arabia has dropped its support for a land-for-peace deal between Israel and the Arab world over fears of al-Qaeda attacks, an Israeli official said Saturday.

"We estimate the Saudis got cold feet over suspicions of Iran and fears ofterror attacks sponsored by Iran and al-Qaeda," the official said.

"According to our information, the royal palace was frightened, withdrew from the peace initiative and threw the political ball in the court of Jordanian King Abdullah," the official stated.

The official added that Egypt's Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman raised the issue of Saudi Arabia with US President George W. Bush during a visit to Washington last week.

When Bush announced plans to hold the conference in his speech about the Middle East last week, Saudi Arabia failed to announce whether it would attend the regional meeting. Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and President Mahmoud Abbas said they would be sending delegates to the conference.

Relations with the despots running Saudi Arabia are going sour fast, aren't they? Pakistan is getting pretty angry about us pushing them into internal confrontations they are bound to lose. China has no desire to see Islamic rebellions. Yet we act as if we alone want no rebellions. This naval show of force has weakened US influence in Pakistan and strengthened Chinese influence. We keep forgetting that all countries are jockeying for power and the shifting alliances and the manipulation of American power is all part of this process. Our job is not to blunder into all international relationship shifts. Nor can we control all relations with everyone all at once!

The problem about our power is, we use it too much in the wrong way. Our navy isn't neutral at all, being the force everyone appeals to for balance. We are instead, acting as if we are in hostilities with everyone hither or yon. For example, we occassionally parade our navy up and down the Persian Gulf cul-de-sac in the dim hopes of awing and intimidating various players on the world stage who seem far from impressed. Indeed, they study our navy as it exposes its flanks this way and with the advances in military technology, namely, DU missiles, they will sink our navy if the time is ripe. So far, all of the Pentagon's gambles about our power versus our ability to win fights, have been duds. They have no idea about strategic goals and how one must aim for only goals one can grasp.

The 1898 book I cited above assumed we would win gloriously against Spain and 'free' the people in the Spanish Empire. And extend our own empire, of course. But the valiant resistance this triggered in the Philippines took us by surprize and it was exactly like what we are going through in Iraq.

From UPI:

U.S. Rep. Edward Markey criticized India's friendliness with Iran and demands on Washington in its talks for a U.S.-India nuclear pact.

The Massachusetts Democrat said Thursday in a statement India is trying to pressure the United States into bending on its anti-proliferation laws.

"India must understand that the legal boundaries established by the Congress for nuclear cooperation cannot be overstepped during negotiations between the two Executives," Markey wrote.

The two countries' leaders have been negotiating the deal since 2005. It would provide India access to U.S. nuclear technology and material, something banned by U.S. law since India has nuclear weapons and hasn't signed key international treaties. The deal would make an exception.

India oversteps our nuclear rules with total impunity. This is because we want India to counterbalance Russia and China. So India triangulates to its heart's content. And Congress can't change this. The president controls this business, 100%. Of course, India will triangulate with Iran. This way, they squeeze Pakistan! Who happens to also be a nuclear power. Iran, of course, is trying to form alliances with anyone who can trump American power. And there are many lurking in the shadows. We assume, everyone is up front but this is never true. After all, we are not upfront, either!

In a nutshell, China is what we were 100 years ago: the neutral power, the balance between competing empires. They offer nations some leverage. And this is where power lies: not with the party rushing about, trying to get everyone to gang up on some third party but to be the ones being courted by a pair of belligerents.

From the New York Times:

When Condoleezza Rice took over as secretary of state, the (wishful) thinking was that the Bush administration would finally get into the business of diplomacy. Ms. Rice can be as bullying and ad hominem as her boss, but she’s also an achiever and trying her hand at persuasion was probably the only hope for salvaging the administration’s failed foreign policies and her reputation.

When Bush's lover came trotting out, the spams of adoration directed to this nitwit irritated me. She has shocking little experience in the real world and she was the pet of the neo cons because she was a 'black' woman who could slip under the radar and not be attacked even if she spewed pure garbage. Powell did this too until he could no longer stomach being Bush's footman standing outside the White House with his lamp held high on the front lawn.

The NYT:

Beyond that, the administration can’t answer the most basic questions, like when and where the meeting will take place, what friendly Arab states will be coming and what the agenda is. The Palestinians want to talk about all the big things, like borders, Jerusalem and when they get the independent state Mr. Bush committed himself to five years ago. The Israelis say they can’t discuss these issues as long as Palestinian attacks on Israel continue.

All of which leads back to that perplexing refusal to do the diplomatic preparation. Officials say that Ms. Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will start filling in the blanks when they visit the region at the end of this month. But it took former Secretary of State James Baker (no slouch as a negotiator) eight grueling shuttle trips to set the stage for the 1991 Madrid peace conference.

We can parade aircraft carriers in front of the Palestinian ghetto all we like and it won't change the dynamics of this disaster. Rice's job isn't to resolve anything, it is to keep the Israeli racist steam roller running over Palestinians until the magically disappear once and forever in some funny Holocaust. Everyone hopes this will happen. Then the world will be at peace, minus around 8 billion humans. The Jews want peace talks to drag as slow as possible and since they control the US media for the most part and have an increasing grip on the US Congress and White House, they will get their way. Condi's work as their tool has its limits. Every time she tries to move anything forewards, they shove her back into her subordinate position as the house maid.

From Xinhua:

The Arab League (AL) has condemned U.S. raid on the headquarters of the Association of the Muslim Scholars (AMS) in western Baghdad, expressing hope that the Iraqi government would be able to contain the situation.

The rising irritation with the US shoving governments in Muslim lands into attacking religious foundations and leaders is causing a growing firestorm down below in the engine rooms of the Muslim nation's ships of state.

Now, the media (for example, the NYT is owned by a Jewish family) is suddenly kicking her as she prostrates herself to them.

From Raw Story, SF Gate:

About 2 1/2 years ago, when she was new in office, I accompanied her on her first trip around the world, with stops in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Japan and China. Crowds gathered to see her limousine drive past; people whistled, waved and cheered. Interviewers routinely asked her whether she was planning to run for president. One TV reporter in India told her she was "arguably the most powerful woman in the world." She chuckled but did not exactly agree -- or disagree.
How things change.

She was never powerful. She was a tool. And so long as she played the pretty puppet with the high heeled boots, she was feted and toasted. Now, she is being burned at the stake. She was inept from day one, I marveled about this constantly here. No matter how stupid she was, they all praised her. She certainly did a yeoman's labor keeping the Zionists happy! But now there is great pressure on her via the King of Saudi Arabia, for example, to do something for the Palestinians besides starving them to death. So she has meekly decided to talk to Israel and make a few tiny demands.

Slam! Not only is she suddenly ugly, she is pure box-office poison.

A few months ago, she decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer's war. No one would publish it.

Think about that. Every one of the major newspapers approached refused to publish an essay by the secretary of state. Price Floyd, who was the State Department's director of media affairs until recently, recalls that it was sent to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and perhaps other papers before the department finally tried a foreign publication, the Financial Times of London, which also turned it down.

Geeze, I can easily think about this! A certain President Jimmy Carter was abused in the same way by the exact same people for the same reason! I know her pain well: these same outlets have black listed myself and a host of other people who used to get published in the past! The fact that the media controlled greatly by Zionist supporters, are now even refusing to publish Condi Rice is both racism at work as well as destroying the power of the government to run foreign affairs. It isn't as if Condi were in some think tank! The excuse that she wasn't published because she praised Bush is a lie.

Relations with Russia, her area of speciality, have steadily worsened; a week ago, Russia dropped out of a key arms control treaty. Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has evolved from an irritant to a menace as he moves to nationalize Venezuela's oil industry. Despite many visits to Israel and the Palestinian territories, she has had no appreciable impact on events there.

I saw in the Washington Post the other day, a diatribe praising Bush to the skies, full of lies, even! So that wasn't why our Secretary of State is being universally snubbed. She should resign in protest. The President should...HAHAHA. Right. Should end this miserable administration. He should be impeached. But right now, he is helpless.

HE ISN'T STUPID. He knows that 'they' waited until Nixon stopped the Vietnam War and with his buddy, a certain 'Herr Kissinger', went off to China to make more peace, the instant this was done, he was thrown out of office! Bush won't make that mistake which is why he will not end the war in Iraq.

From Reuters:

Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker's office and adjoining hallway, authorities said.

Before police escorted her away, Sheehan, who emerged as a leading peace activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, announced what she had earlier suggested -- that she would be a candidate for Congress next year.

When Cindy announced she was leaving the Peace movement, everyone was all upset. But I knew she would come back to it because the daily stream of news was just too ugly for this woman of great heart to ignore. She is brave and I applaud her continuing efforts at trying to stop this massive machine, this wave of death and destruction. She is a hero on the level of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. May her life be preserved! The US political structure has been paralyzed concerning this lunatic war. No one can do anything excpet watch with fascination as more people die and our country gets weaker and weaker and our enemies grow legion.

From the Times Of India :

The SYDNEY: Oil prices fell on Monday, on expectations of higher US refinery production and after remarks by OPEC that it is ready to pump more oil if needed. London Brent crude currently seen as more representative of the world market, slid 36 cents to $77.28 a barrel by 0444 GMT, after easing 3 cents on Friday. US crude for September traded 22 cents lower at $75.57. The...

The Saudis know that our financial ship will sink soon. They have to keep our navy afloat because they have some relentless enemies who are Muslim who are seeking their destruction. And they love money and luxury which is why their Muslim brethern want to kill them. And this is life: full of paradoxes. Everyone wants to have their cakes and eat them, too. We have to always make hard choices and the status quo as it is set today, is not a possible choice for the future. We have to chart a course that doesn't take us to the blood-red sea called 'Global Total Warfare.' Where there are no rules or treaties, just brute force.

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Bush Push To WWIII

Elaine Meinel Supkis

From day one, Bush has been breaking treaties and poking Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Muslim religious fanatics in the eye, saying, 'Bring it on'. The lastest provocation was the lunatic plan to park antiballistic missile in former Warsaw Pact nations. When one of our spy planes got tangled up with a Chinese airforce jet and landed in China, Bush talked very belligerently even though he was in the wrong. Now he is poking at the Nuclear Armed Bear. This is beyond stupid, it proves my contention that his plan for our looming bankruptcy is to start WWIII.

From Bloomberg:

Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended an arms treaty with NATO that limits the deployment of conventional forces across Europe, citing concerns that the agreement undermines Russia's security.

The president signed a decree today suspending participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, according to a statement from the presidential press service. The agreement originally sought to balance the conventional forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

The 1990 accord was suspended ``due to exceptional circumstances, in relation to the treaty's content, that affect the security of the Russian Federation and require immediate measures,'' Putin said in the statement.

This is beyond insane. I keep harping on this bizarre impulse deluded dictators have. They all wake up some fine morning and say, 'Hey, if I do a sneak attack on Russia, I will be able to rule the world, bwahahaha.' America is ruled the the Decider who Decides and he is obviously a dictator despite Congress pretending they have even the slightest influence over his manaical sudden urges to start wars and irritate other imperial powers. Not that Congress is much better! They just voted, 100%, to green light a war against a barely armed oil pumping nation that is shelted by both Russia and China.

I suspect the missile installations in Europe are all part of a clever plan hatched by someone who memorized all of Hitler's mistakes and is now going through them, one at a time. I grew up hating and fearing these nut cases. The average American was kept blissfully unaware of the possiblity of nuclear war. I clearly remember all the times my father had to rush off to the White House to discuss the results of secret spy planes violating Russian airspace. The cameras used in these spy planes was designed and built by my father.

He told us all, this was to make America safe so Russia can't do a sneak attack on us. By the time I was 11 years old, I figured out the obvious: Russia was the victim of endless sneak attacks. Above all nations, they needed to be paranoid! So I suggested we make Russia less paranoid by not spying on them and putting missiles all around their borders. Then we can begin to negotiate with them. I even suggested sending them refrigerators and TVs--this was before we deindustrialized ourselves---we would win any war of words with the Russian people. Soon afterwards, I found the short wave radio my parents kept and used it to listen to Radio Bulgaria and other communist stations. This was a good way to judge what was really going on.

I highly recommend going to services that have other points of view. The internet is the best thing in the world for this. Many people go to places that echo their pre-set ideas but this is a waste. I began to learn some little Russian using the quick-learn 10 page CIA lessons. This is how I first learned German, too. I knew all the German words for U-boot technology as well as bombing terms. Heh.

Back to today: the Bushes are part of this coven that is meeting today. They will perform a pretend human sacrifice but this is just a mirror of the real human sacrifices they perform. They have darker satanic rituals like the one Kerry participated in at the Skull and Bones. In this, they use Geronimo's skull as well as a dead child's remains, to call up the Devil that is Death. This entity is a hungry beast that loves war and merciless killing. The refusal of the press to examine or understand this worship troubles me.

The deal is, if we all ignore these magic spells by our leaders, they will make us very, very rich. All leaders tend towards superstitions because they are overwhelmed by feelings of power and control, they feel they are the true Guardians at the Gates of Death! This is, of course, a delusion. Since the first Pharoh, the first Emperor, even as they slay their servants at their own funerals, when they actually come to those gastly gates, they discover they are not the masters at all. The first state religions sought to turn these demented human rulers into gods.

The various religious revolutions that sought to overturn this always ends up in service of the state. But even with the Greetk rationalists firmly rejecting divine rule, the Roman emperors embraced it and enforced it. So it is with our rulers: they think they are gods. And Bush and Bush Jr both think they are the gods of the New World Order. This concept is also called 'The New American Century' wherein we will dominate the earth using our nuclear and military power. These budding fascists imagine Russia is fatally weakened and the window of opportunity for a sneak attack is at hand and if Putin keeps building up Russian power, we will lose this grand opportunity to dominate and exploit all the wealth of the earth while issuing only pieces of paper in exchange!

But I would suggest it is already too late. Russia's alliance with China deepens with each hostile move by the US Neue Welt Ordnung neo-Nazis. Europe made a foolish gamble in all this. They thought they could secure all the oil and gas in the Middle East using US military power and then they could spit in Russia's eye. This miscalculation is yet to play out all the way to its obvious bitter conclusion. The death wish of the European rulers is always very astonishing to me. Haven't they figured out that each world war brings them closer to annihilation?

From Xinhua:

The United States, NATO and several European states on Saturday expressed disappointment over Russia's suspension of its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE).

"We're disappointed Russia has suspended its participation for now," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in a statement.

"But we'll continue to have discussions with them in the coming months on the best way to proceed in this area, that is in the interest of all parties involved and provides for security in Europe," Johndroe said.

The security of Europe! How mad is all this? Europe is frightened by their dependency on Russia so instead of dealing directly with this, like Japan with China, they push the US into confrontations that don't even slightly benefit the American people. We had to shed blood and spend billions, saving Europe from all their self-made messes as they fought over imperial loot and tried to kill off each other over and over again as they looted the world. Battles over Africans and Asians always ended up being fought in Belgium or Poland. Arming themselves with nuclear bombs and then poking at Russia will mean more of the same. One wonders if Europeans are proof, no one learns anything at all from history!

From Intelligence Daily:

A group of Russian and U.S. dignitaries gathered Friday at the presidential residence near Moscow behind closed doors in a bid to repair shattered ties.

The panel called "Russia-USA: A Look Into the Future," led by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, declined to comment on the first Moscow session, but said it was a successful beginning to a series of high-level meetings.

"We discussed many issues. Our goal was not to get media coverage, score public relations points, or press home any propaganda messages. We came here to solve problems," Primakov said.

"We agreed to hold the next meeting in mid-December in Washington, D.C.," where the panelists will meet with President George W. Bush, he added.

Kissinger thanked Putin for his hospitality and praised the Russian leader for his realistic and open approach.

"We appreciate the time that President Putin gave us and the frank manner in which he explained his point of view.

Did Putin take a baseball bat to their heads? This seems the only way to get any information across at this point! Kissinger, the GOP capo who kisses communist assets when he must, was sent to sugar coat Bush's blunderbuss belligerence. But what did he tell Putin? 'I heard Bush Sr gave you an offer you can't refuse. You can join the New World Order and let us loot Russia or we will assassinate you'...? Kissinger always moves in secret and he always lies in public and he is a man with his own ends in mind. Note that with his rise, the US has lost power steadily.

Time to review the past again:

From the BBC, 2001:

US President George W Bush has officially announced that the US will withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty with Russia.

"I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue-state missile attacks," Mr Bush announced following a meeting with his National Security Council.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the move was not unexpected but that he considered it a "mistake".

Both Mr Bush and Mr Putin said that the decision would not undermine Russian national security.

Note that back then, Bush unilaterally and without much consultation, tore up a very important treaty. I remember that day. I yelled with rage and used my thread at the NYT forums where we could post easily back then, to talk about WWIII and how the Bushes will bring us death, doom and destruction. All this was before the China spy plane incident. Bush didn't wait six months before implimenting the New World Order conquest plans. The Supreme Court knew he had little time for another election which is why they gave it to Bush, openly ripping up the Constitution in the process as well as negating the entire concept of 'democracy.'

Putin was still courting us and hoping we would help Russia. Instead, we continued to destroy or loot Russia and despite all of Putin's best personal efforts to form an alliance, these were firmly rebuffed. Note too, that China's attempts have been all repudiated. We won the Cold War because Russia and China hated each other's guts and were in competition with each other. This is no longer true. Thinking that we won against 'monolithic communism' is pure bunkum. The neo cons who run our government all think that they know history better than us. This delusion is fatal.

Also note how Condi Rice, a woman who supposedly has a degree in Russian studies, is absent in these latest disastrous news stories. She is probably the least knowledgable people on earth when it comes to Russia. Not to mention, the worst Secretary of State, ever.

Here is an example of Bush violating nuclear treaties from 2001:

From Common Dreams:

The fiscal 2002 DoD budget request includes funds for a new anti-missile "test bed" in Alaska, which could be made operational in the event of an "emergency," according to the Bush administration. Construction will begin in August and a violation of the ABM Treaty could occur some months after.

The ABM Treaty allows for agreement on additional national missile defense test sites unless such test sites constitute de-facto deployment of national anti-missile capabilities, which is the intention of the Bush scheme. The Associated Press reports that an unnamed Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded by saying: "We will view the first cubic meter of concrete laid under the launching pad for interceptor missiles in Alaska as the United States' formal withdrawal from the ABM Treaty."

Already, Putin had his military brass warn us off. This had no effect at all. Soon afterwards, Bush and the Bush black ops people had 9/11, a total magic number job if there ever was on. The number 11 and 9 were quite prominent. Flight numbers, hours, dates, just like the end of WWI was set to happen on 11/11/11 at the 11th hour, 9/11 has the satanic ritual fingerprints of the New World Order magicians all over it.

Here is another example of Bush suddenly and with virtually no input from US elected officials, playing nuclear games.

Dr Joseph Cirincione (jcirincione@carnegieendowment.org) is the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

The deal endorses and assists India's nuclear-weapons program. US-supplied uranium fuel would free up India's limited uranium reserves for fuel that otherwise would be burned in these reactors to make nuclear weapons. This would allow India to increase its production from the estimated six to 10 additional nuclear bombs per year to several dozen a year. India today has enough separated plutonium for 75-110 nuclear weapons, though it is not known how many it has actually produced.

The Indian leaders and press are crowing about their victory over the United States. For good reason: President Bush has done what Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and his own father refused to do - break US and international law to aid India's nuclear-weapons program. In 1974, India cheated on its agreements with the United States and other nations to do what Iran is accused of doing now: using a peaceful nuclear energy program to build a nuclear bomb. India used plutonium produced in a Canadian-supplied reactor to detonate a bomb it then called a "peaceful nuclear device". In response, president Richard Nixon and Congress stiffened US laws and Nixon organized the Nuclear Suppliers Group to prevent any other nation from following India's example.

Bush has now unilaterally shattered those guidelines, and his action would violate the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) proscription against aiding another nation's nuclear-weapons program. It would require the repeal or revision of several major US laws, including the US Nonproliferation Act. Nor has he won any significant concessions from India. India refuses to agree to end its production of nuclear-weapons material, something the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China have already done.

This is where Bush is likely to run into trouble. Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are deeply concerned about the deal and the way it was crafted. Keeping with the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy, the deal was cooked by a handful of senior officials (one of whom is now a lobbyist for the Indian government) and never reviewed by the departments of State, Defense or Energy before it was announced with a champagne toast by Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Congress was never consulted. Republican committee staff say the first members heard about it was when the fax announcing the deal came into their offices. Worse, for the president, this appears to be another give away to a foreign government at the expense of US national-security interests.

So, did the Roman Senators depose the emperor? Or did he send them a horse? Obviously, this whole thing is pure lunacy. We have many reasons to impeach Bush but the Senate won't budge because they love power too and want to exercise it if they can take the Crown themselves. Note that most of the 'mainstream' candidates for President are from that wretched branch in our corrupt empire's heart. Secretly, they love this unilateral power and the Democrats hope to gab the magic wand and use it themselves.

Back to the present, the US continues to demand Iran disarm even as we arm Poland.

From Agence France Presse:

The United States said on Friday it was skeptical of Tehran's agreement to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of its to a heavy water reactor under construction at Arak.

"My understanding is there is an agreement to discuss having a visit to inspect the reactor, just like there is an agreement to have these discussions on what to do in terms of Iran answering all the outstanding questions that the IAEA had for several years," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.

"So you will forgive me for having a healthy degree of skepticism about Iranian intentions here."

The Senators voted 100%--yes, 100 fucking percent--to censore Iran for 'attacking our troops in Iraq.' This is disgusting. We invade fellow Muslims and then butcher half a million+ and we talk about Iran attacking us? What? Our State Department, Homeland Security and the entire Congress are owned by or run by Jewish Zionists. Much of the mainstream left has exiled anyone who discusses this hideous turn of events as 'anti-semites' but I would be saying the same thing if the Japanese did this...and they have done this! And I talk about their infiltration and abuse of our political system to further the affairs of Japan just as many Eastern Europeans have warped out foreign policies and then there is England: this empire has been a vampire on our own for over a century.

The media which is very much a Zionist project, has worked overtime to demonize Iran and to egg us into war there. But on the street, I see no desire for war. Indeed, there is a burning desire to get out of the entire Middle East.

Why are we there? We are not getting much oil from there! Europe is! China is! And very much, Japan is! China doesn't mind us leaving though they love having us foot the bill to protect their oil from attacks. They very much want us in Afghanistan to hold down Islamic radicals who infiltrate into China. But we get nothing except more threats of attacks. Bin Laden's group just released another tape wherein he talks cheerfully and with a gentle face similar to Jesus, I assume, about how the struggle against the 'crusaders' must continue. I often say, Bin Laden is more dangerous dead than alive.

And the caricature of him being this snarling monster is also very dumb. Over the years, I notice that cartoonists and editorialists depict him as this sneering, snarling monster. But we must look at him as he appears in reality. His pervading cheerfulness is most unsettling. And appealing. Like Jesus or Mohammed, he is a revolutionary. But he is loved because he is a cheerful being! Misunderstanding his appeal is stupid. We can't shadowbox with him when we are the snarling, cruel ones!

Many people on the left in America misgage bin Laden and his program. They think everything comes from Bush. It doesn't. Not even slightly. Bin Laden and Bush's clans intersect very heavily but they are in competition with each other. Bush didn't demolish the twin towers. But he left the door open for an attack and the black ops people assisted Atta in his planning and carrying out these attacks. The story that Bush brought down the WTC is, I suspect, a CIA plant. It drives people crazy and makes them look stupid. A perfect one-two punch.

From Raw Story:

Britain's most senior generals have issued a blunt warning to Downing Street that the military campaign in Afghanistan is facing a catastrophic failure, a development that could lead to an Islamist government seizing power in neighbouring Pakistan.

Bin Laden is laughing so hard, he probably died from exhaustion. Pakistan is a nuclear power. When Bush let India get away with making nuclear bombs, he also let Pakistan do the same. Iran has pointed out the obvious contridiction of the US approving and helping nations that broke international nuclear proliferation laws. And then there is Israel's huge Apocalyptic hoard of nukes! The US endorses all this. As well as extending and improving our own nuclear arsenal.

From the Guardian:

The warnings from Ashdown and the generals on Afghanistan will be echoed in a report this week by the all-party Commons defence select committee. MPs will say that the combination of civilian casualties, war damage and US-led efforts to eradicate lucrative poppy crops risk turning ordinary people towards the Taliban.

England dealt with Afghanistan in the past. Afghanistan was part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman government paid them a fee to keep the distant borders safe from India and China. As well as Russia. Starting with 1820, fresh from their astoounding victory over France, Russia began to aggressively eat away at Ottoman lands to the north. This caused the British to side with Istanbul in the Crimean War. When the Ottoman empire became too bankrupt (hahaha, a favorite theme of mine!) to defend itself, the British empire took over paying Afghanistan to stop Russia and China. China and England had begun open warfare and England hit on this scheme to destroy Chinese imperial power for good: the transportation and sales of Afghani opium to China! This led to desperate attempts at keeping Britain at bay in China and the Opium War broke the Chinese empire's own hold on their own front yard and China rapidly disintigrated.

The US and NATO joined with drug lords to take over and oust the Taliban. Now we must eradicate the poppy growing because the US and Europe is now being flooded with heroin. Fashion models who tend to be heroin addicts are now so flush with the drugs, they look like walking skeletons. This is so bad, governments in Europe are passing laws forbidding them from being too skinny. The US still has this 'war on drugs' going! But the war on terror and the war on drugs are two faces of the same coin: our empire needs both terror and drugs. The only common thread here is, both make banks and financial wizards very, very rich.

From Xinhua:

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) confirmed on Sunday that it had shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facilities after receiving the first shipment of heavy oil from South Korea.

"We have shut down the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon after we received the first shipment of heavy oil on Friday," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, citing a spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.

China wants a re-united Korea under the aegis of China's benevolent rule. They will eventually get this after we go bankrupt. But they would rather have this sooner rather than later. They don't want a strong Russia to horn in. Instead of exploiting this, we screw around Asia because the Japanese fear and hate a united Korea. They have a very long history of fighting or enslaving the Koreans.

From Associated Press:

Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney's office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules.
A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.

At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.

Thanks to the hyper-Zionist independent in the Senate, the Democrats can't talk about impeaching Cheney even though the majority of Americans greatly desire this and the Constitution demands this. All Lieberman has to do is switch direction and vote to install a Republican as the head of the Senate. So the Democrats are forced to pussy foot around him. He is personally responsible for the low popularity ratings the Congress has.

From Al Jazeerah:

Nepal's government scrapped payments to embattled King Gyanendra and vowed to nationalise royal property in a budget presented to parliament on Thursday.

Good for them! Next: the British people wake up and smell the sable manure in Windsor Castle and defund the Queen.

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Libby Free, Bush Wrangles With Putin, China Goes Forwards

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Long ago, Texas decided to make a war deserter, multi-arrested criminal and all-around coward, their Govenor. Then the Republicans and the media owners colluded with the Supreme Court to install him as President. Then he started a criminal war after his Saudi friends attacked America. Then the Skull and Bones ran a frat buddy against him and he gave him back all the power. This week, Putin of the KGB is meeting Bush Jr and Sr of the CIA just as Jr pardoned the criminal Libby who took the fall for Cheney and Bush who betrayed an undercover CIA agent. I keep saying, arrest them all. Leahy is now going to subpeana these criminals. Over a much more trivial matter.

From AP:

President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.

Bush's move came hours after a federal appeals panel ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case. That meant Libby was likely to have to report to prison soon and put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby's allies to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

The CIA crown jewels, much of which was redacted and blanked out, were released the other day. It was a long, ugly chronicle of crimes and assassinations and other nonsense such as illegally spying on Americans or working with the President to harrass and confuse opponents of the regime...oh, by the way, our government CIA plants in the media love to use the word 'regime' even when talking about elected leaders. Everyone is a 'regime' if we are supposed to hate them but the most odious, evil despots on earth are 'moderates' if they support our empire.

To review the crimes of the Bushes and how Libby was chosen to be the fall guy, one must remember that he was charged with intimidating the data gatherers and investigators as well as the professional analysts at the CIA to scare them into not revealing the many lies being told by Powell, Card, Bush and Cheney.

When Ambassador Wilson broke this silence by revealing the 'yellow cake' allegations were forged (in Italy), Bush ordered an attack on his wife. This was done gleefully by the warmongering media such as the New York Times criminals and the Washington Post gang. After Valarie Plame lost her job and was attacked with great vigor and viciousness by the media war dogs, all the CIA people fell into line and Bush was able to get Powell to lie to the UN and off we went to war even without UN permission.

Bush then famously claimed he would punish whoever broke the law and outed Valerie Plame. The investigation then died. I remember the anthrax killer. The first victim was the photoeditor who allowed the famous Jenna drunk photo to appear in public the same week Bush announced he and his wife were going to tour the nation, talking about how to raise moral children. Snicker.

Well, someone wanted him dead and I seriously doubt it was Saddam or bin Laden. Not even the Chinese or Russians would want him dead. Bush, on the other hand, is a primary candidate.

Well, the anthrax killer has vanished. No one ever mentions him. The investigation led to the secret government labs and then died. So it was with the Plame crime. When a new prosecutor was picked thanks to a lot of howling online by us liberals, he followed the trail to Cheney's cave. This is where Libby had to step in and bite the bullet.

At least Cheney didn't shoot HIM in the face too! When Libby was sentenced for obstructing justice, he was smiling until he heard the sentence. Then he was scared until yesterday when I saw pictures of him smiling.

I was betting he would flee to Israel. But he didn't have to, the top criminal in this sordid story sprung him. And so it goes: the US executes war criminals but when our own commit war crimes OF ANY SORT, they are slapped on the wrist and then not only released but pampered. If all the leaders running this sorry show were executed, we would have to escavate more than one Presidential grave and hang the corpses.

This contempt for both American and international law characterizes our Empire. We call other nations 'regimes' yet ours is more than a regime, it is an 'outlaw nation'. We solemnly swore at Nüremberg, anyone who makes ficticious charges that allows a powerful nation to unilaterally attack a smaller nation and then loot it, is illegal and the people responsible should be HUNG UNTIL DEAD.

From the Washington Post:

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday that he will attempt to cite the White House for criminal contempt of Congress if it does not turn over documents related to the firing of nine federal prosecutors.

"If they don't cooperate, yes, I'd go that far," Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This is very important to the American people."

11 Democrats want to impeach Bush and Cheney. I just want them arrested. The release of Libby so he won't sit in prison with Bubba or Knuckledragger and then rethink his lies and evasions and then confess who really done it, nope. He gets to run away and keep the secrets of this CONSPIRACY. And note that all the ruling elites sent letters begging to let their fellow criminal go free! Martha Steward didn't kill a soul and yet she didn't get pardoned. But Libby and his gang are war criminals and so far, have killed over half a million people, sent another 6 million into exile---Jews better pay attention to that number!---and killed and maimed over 35,000 Americans, all based on lies for not ONE WMD was found anywhere in Iraq.

From Associated Press:

Russian President Vladimir Putin sought anew Monday to bat down U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, proposing that the system be expanded and largely Russian-based.

Neither President Bush nor his aides reacted definitively to the surprise idea, Putin's second in less than a month on the topic that has sent U.S.-Russian relations into a tailspin.

From Sunday afternoon through lunch on Monday, Bush used personal charms, his family's wealth and a slew of traditional Maine treats to woo Putin and heal fissures that have the Washington-Moscow alliance at its lowest point since the Cold War. There was lobster, blueberry pie and striper fishing in the Atlantic from his dad's prized speedboat — all from the spectacular setting of the century-old Bush summer compound on a craggy peninsula.

The criminal gang running America knows it screwed up with the missiles facing Russia. Putin is demonstrating to the world and to Russia, he isn't the war monger. It is the Bush gang. So of course, Bush pardons his war criminal fall guy right in front of Putin. This shows the criminal nature of the Bush regime pretty clearly. There are no laws except for Saddam and his gang. Bush and his gang are above the law.

Putin is showing the world that Bush is insincere. His offers to let Russia protect Europe from the Iranian kitty is of course, the correct course here. Unable to crack even a small smile or even look at Bush, Putin pretends to be negotiating. He knows Bush is the decider who feels negotiations are about giving in to his will and desires. After all, he worships the Devil that is Death.

Putin cannot let the world think he is responsible for starting WWIII. It is important for the world to see it is Bush and some European has-been empires along with the Japanese Emperor who are bringing on this war. More time has to pass to see if Putin has been bribed. Personally, looking at his face, I doubt this.

From the Independent:

Berezovsky charged with plot to overthrow Russian regime
By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer

Berezovsky told The Guardian that the Russian leadership could only be replaced by force. He later issued a statement stressing that he did not "advocate or support violence," but Russian prosecutors said his remarks constituted an open call for the violent removal of the government.

See? Here it is, the 'regime' junk. Britain just had a change of rulers and did the people vote? No? Right. Blair decided, as a dictator, when to leave and he chose his successor and off he trots to collect his bribes. Some 'democracy' they have there! But then, the people of the Queen's islands are subjects, not citizens, so they accept their regime and paint it pretty to hide the reality.

Berezovsky isn't a nobody. He is very rich thanks to him looting Russia and handing over the nation to foreign powers. I agree with Putin that he should be charged with treason. I feel many of our rulers should face these same charges. Like Berezovsky and his pals ran Russia into bankruptcy, so are our leaders. Ever since Putin kicked out or went after all these parasites, the condition of the Russian people and their finances have significantly improved.

There are two kinds of dictatorships: good ones that at least keep the people alive and evil ones that kill everyone and bankrupt the country (like Mao, Stalin and Hitler). The US doesn't have a full dictatorship quite yet although Bush is trying hard to create one, but we are not a good example, either. Proof is in all the red ink. The people running our nation are bad for us. They are not leading us where we must go if we want to survive.

From Xinhua:

China and Russia can enhance exchange and cooperation between women in a bid to promote bilateral relations and stimulate substantial cooperation, said GuXiulian, president of the All-China Women's Federation, here on Monday.

Gu, also vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, made the remarks when meeting with Boris Gryzlov, chairman of the state Duma, lower house of Russia's parliament and First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.

The patient Chinese wooing of Russia continues. Hu has ordered spiffy new uniforms for the military. He is getting much stronger. We hear news in the media about Chinese workers who die in mines or are enslaved or who strike and are beaten up, etc. Student riots and all sorts of energetic things are going on there.

Unlike the US where there are no worker strikes. Not because workers are doing really well but because they have surrendered. Given up. Now they are going bankrupt and being shoved around mercilessly. There are no student riots, no strikes, no investigations of illegal aliens being used as semislave labor. All is quiet. The silence before the storm.

In the twilight of our empire, our rulers sail in their regattas with the Russian Czar. The British Crown is having parties. All is well. And then someone flicks a match on it all and it blows up into a major war. We are nearly exactly 100 years from the beginning of the death of the British global empire.

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Russia Woos Individual European Countries Successfully

Elaine Meinel Supkis

An alert reader of this news service sent me a most interesting article about how Russia this month has totally circumvented the European and American plans to isolate Russia and defy Putin. I suspect his success is why he is in America today, dealing directly with the traitor in the White House who will sell us out as usual. In today's story, I examine some rather deep roots of European/Russian history to explain what this all means in the future for us. It is not a happy picture for us except if we pull back from our empire before we go bankrupt, of course.

From the Asia Times:

When Putin flew into Zagreb last weekend, his words came to mind - instead of "digging in your heels and resisting your opponent's onslaught", you just unlock at the last minute, and your big and strong opponent, "not meeting any resistance and unable to stop", will lose balance and fall. It seems the bigger the opponent, the heavier he falls.

Look at it this way. One of the enduring foreign-policy legacies of the administration of US president Bill Clinton has been that in a "unilateralist" move, ignoring the United Nations, flouting international law, humbling Boris Yeltsin's Russia and herding panicky Europeans into a sheep pen, Washington just dismantled the erstwhile Yugoslavia. A stunned international community could do no more than watch the scale of power at the command of the United States.

This analyst is like so many I read in international politics. He cannot tell history with a straight face. Rather than struggle to understand greater historic forces, he cuts events off from the past and rewrites facts to make it look as if someone or something happened in some void.

Yugoslavia is far from a nameless chaos, it has a very long and intresting history and anyone picking a particular time in this place has to refer to the past in full for it is one of the fracture points in history, a very bloody fracture point. Like its close cousin, the Holy Land, it is the point of contention and the cause of tremendous world events and far from no longer being in this role, it continues its powerful influence on world events as empires struggle to dominate and control this vital geopolitical sliver of earth.

I wrote a lot about Yugoslavia during the disintigration of Tito's creation. How was this country born? An important question! Its birth was tremendously bloody, the bloodiest birth of any European nation in modern history. Many millions of soldiers died in the thrashings of several major empires fighting over who controls this land.

Prior to the tiny event which triggered World War I, all the major empires were in a last push to chop apart and enslave or control all of the earth. The US empire, for example, finished conquering the last of the native tribes of North America, it expanded into the Arctic and jumped the Pacific, taking Hawai'i and the Philippines in Asia and had forced Japan to begin trading and had sent troops into China in the Boxer Rebellion. Its ships patrolled Chinese rivers.

France held all of Northern Africa as well as Indochina and many islands in the Caribbean and Indian Oceans as well as some parts of South America. Russia had finally finished conquering Siberia and the Muslim kingdoms to the south and had taken a big chunk of Northern China as well. It sold Alaska to the US but unlike the other empires, was a consolidated whole encompassing vast potential wealth.

And then along came Germany, struggling to pry away from the other empires, their foreign lands. The Second Empire held the Cross Roads of Europe. Next to Germany was the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire, Austo-Hungary. This medieval empire halted the onrushing Mongols as well as the cannons and troops of the Ottoman Empire. The founders of Austria, the Babenbergers, fought back the wild horsemen of the steppes at the end of the Dark Ages.

As the Ottoman Empire rotted, went bankrupt and shrank, all the European empires fought each other over the carcass. Each in turn, took big hunks of the outer shells. Several wars broke out such as the Crimean War, over this. The balance of power was delicate and explosive as alliances shifted as each empire bit off a section of the Ottoman empire. All were very jealous of potential power and weighed this in their diplomatic scales like a jeweler assessing diamonds and gold.

The Ottoman capital is where the Romans retreated when their empire fell, Constantinople. All invading armies contesting the power of whoever sits on that fatal throne has to first take either the Holy Land or Yugoslavia. In 1914, the Austrian empire had managed to slowly conquer the Ottoman lands one acre at a time. These lands proved to be very hard to hold for the centuries of Ottoman dominance had utterly alienated these lands from their own past, changing the culture and politics of the people in subtle and gross ways.

Along with all this, a new force entered the world--- the Romantic Revolution: this force was the most destablizing force to ever hit any empire! Beethoven and Goethe in Germany birthed it but both were from the past. They loved rationalism and empire even as both were torn by the passions of revolution.

But those who followed were quite different! From the end of the Dark Ages all the way until the Romantic Revolution, the great masses of Europe, the peasants, the tribes, the illiterate masses were ignored while the ruling elites had their own culture which was broadcast by the Church and enforced by the State. The elites and the townfolk across all of Europe wore the same clothes and built similar churches. They even called this 'The Style' and the chivalry moved restlessly across all of Europe and the Middle East, interacting with each other and imposing a cultural uniformity upon whoever they ruled. There was no 'native dress' as far as we know. The people of Norway wore the same style of clothes as the people in France.

For 1,000 years, this lasted but during that time, peasants of various localities began to wear their own dress. One can see the International style's devolution in all this. For example, in the Black Forest where I lived in Germany, the dirndel which was the dress of the ladies, froze in time at about 1600. This was when vast wars between Protestants and Catholics swept the region and chaos reigned. After the destruction, the women clung to what was haute couture at the time of the disaster. 300 years later, this distinguished them from Northern German women who dressed from a totally different time period.

1,000 years ago there were no set languages and the chivalry married hither and yon and this kept Latin as a living language but this broke down with the advent of the Protestant/Catholic wars. After this bloody event, the cultural influence of the overlords faded as far as the peasants were concerned.

With the French Revolution, scholars began to show interest in local history and cultures. In the Black Forest, at my own University in Tübingen, the Brothers Grimm decided to walk, during their summer vacations from teaching, all over the Black Forest, listening to and writing down all the old wive's tales which they then collated and examined. They also published a wonderful book of the better stories.

Inspired by this, many other scholars did the same and thousands of Fairy Tales poured out, a river of peasant lore that feeds the imagination to this day. Inspired by this, linguists began to study the local dialects and tics of various communities. The advance of native languages started by the Troubadors who sang in dialect and not Latin, had created Italian, French, English and German, for example. So the imperials of those places spoke their native tongues even when the Germans took over England via the Saxe-Goths, within two generations, they were speaking only English, for example.

But the crazy quilt of many peasant languages from the Basque to the Bulgarian, from the Volga to the Rhein, was now studied and put into writing and the pride of place and past was explored, examined, published and praised. Instead of being part of an empire, there was a new feeling of being NOT part of an empire! So the Irish began to fight the British Crown on CULTURAL grounds and not dynastic. The Scots and the Welsh began to question British cultural dominance even as the British empire grew by leaps and bounds.

This force hit the newly-acquired lands of the Ottoman Empire. And far from being expended, they blow twice as hard today as in the 19th Century even as everyone apes the exact same culture and style, the New International Style! A paradox of extreme importance!

The collapse of Tito's nation was due to all this. Everyone wanted to have their own, unique and often slightly different empires within even as they all need major empires to exist. Thanks to the Ottoman Empire's rule, everyone was mixed up with everyone else so rearranging the population so they lived within strict soverign borders determined by ethnic beliefs or blood has been a hideous affair for the last 100 years!

As it breaks up into smaller and smaller enclaves that hate each other, it resembles post-Medieval Germany after the Protestant/Catholic wars. In my town in Germany, long after WWII, they didn't integrated the Catholic children with the Protestant ones until my time there! All the farmers knew who killed whom...in 1550! The rending of the region was deep indeed.

And it is 10X worse in Yugoslavia! I remember the massacres going on as Europe stood agast and the UN stood aside, unable or unwilling to protect the Muslims. Germany started all this by recognizing Montenegro, for example. This place was a Venician province in the Middle Ages but the influence of the Austrian Germans were very great there due to the Babenbergers, during the Crusades, marrying into the Byzantine royalty at frequent intervals. This recognition set all the other parts of Yugoslavia on fire and as in WWI, all European powers took sides. Including Russia.

Clinton stepped into all this not because he wanted to confront and humilate Yeltsin, he stepped in because of the flood of refugees from this Romantic disaster. Turkey was getting very angry because the chief victims in this destruction were Muslims. To unite Europe, the USA moved in and stopped the mayhem.

But the division of Yugoslavia continues to trouble the empires! It is a bone of contention! Like the Middle East, impossible to peacefully resolve due to the people involved being fired up by the Romantic Revolution's dream of restoring one's cultural past.

Germany has been frantically at work since they reunited at bulding a massive European New Holy Roman Empire, one that can counterbalance the power of Russia and the US/UK alliance. This is a huge menace to paranoid Russia for this invariably leads to a sudden invasion of Russia itself.

The Asia Times reporter does much better in his analysis here:

Yet when the progenies of that US operation - Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia - along with neighbors Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania held the first energy summit of the Balkan region in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, last Sunday and decided to roll out the red carpet to receive a "special guest" in their midst, that was for Putin. No matter Washington's best efforts for the past decade to exorcise Russia from the Balkans, Russia won't go away. It is back in the region that has been part of its history.

Putin arrived in Zagreb in dramatic circumstances. The day before he left Moscow came the announcement in Rome about Russia and Italy entering into a momentous partnership to build what the Wall Street Journal described as a gas "pipeline into the heart of Europe". The news came hardly four weeks after Moscow, in a series of sweeping energy deals with Vienna, dealt a coup de grace to the Nabucco pipeline project promoted by Washington with the intent of keeping Russia out of its new sphere of influence in southern and southeastern Europe.

And from Zagreb, Putin headed for Istanbul on Monday to consolidate Russia's strategic understanding with Turkey on keeping the US from meddling in the Black Sea region. Addressing the summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization in Istanbul, Putin pushed for long-term energy contracts for the Black Sea littoral states. In about 72 hours flat, Europe's energy map may have been redrawn.

I praised Putin for taking over the oil and gas businesses. He had to do this or Russia would continue to fall apart and become smaller and smaller units. I laughed when the US celebrated the 'revolutions' in Ukraine or the various 'stans' on Russia's southern flank. Bush immediately expanded our empire into these regions and foolishly established many, many military outposts there thinking we won this little game, a game Russia has been playing for many centuries.

The communist empire tried to harness the energy released by the Romantic Revolution by encouraging folk arts such as music, dance, painting and even languages while at the same time imposing imperial control over all political areas and running uniform schools. Like with Austria or Britain, this dual effort simply made holding the empire together even more difficult even as it brought temporary peace. The rebellion in Chechnya was a terrible tragedy on the scale of the scouring of the Black Forest during the Protestant/Catholic wars with terrible names such as 'the 30 Years War.' These wars last that long! Fighting still breaks out in Chechnya. Putin ascended to the throne via this war!

Like Catherine the Great or rather, Ivan the Terrible, he has shown enough brutality and willl power to be able to now court the contentious people of the Balkans as well as the ring of small provinces that were once scoured by the Mongol hordes, the remains of the Golden Horde. The business between the Mongols and the Orthodox Russians is a long arc in history. We can barely imagine the many levels to this business. For Europe locked out the Mongols and had nothing to do with them but the Russians were vassals of the Mongols.

And this is why they can deal with them better than us. There are always subterranean forces at work within diplomacy which is why a good eye and ear for history is so vital if one wishes to be a diplomat! And Putin is a brilliant despot with a very astute eye for history!

And the Chinese: they have taken the trouble to really read up on history and the do talk to historians (HELLLO!) heh. I remember those days with fondness.

Just last year, they told Putin about the FOREX reserve plans! Up until he became close to Hu, after Bush rebuffed him and shoved him around and insulted him over ....the Balkans...(AAARGH) he went to China where Hu rolled out the red carpet. Hu then had secret meetings and soon afterwards, Russia's FOREX reserves grew by 1,000%! To my total shock, just 5 months ago, when I did my annual ranking of the top 20 FOREX reserves, Russia was #3. Seriously, I did not expect this and I jumped out of my chair and yelled, 'I see the plan now! Russia is definitely working with China to control our currency!'

I ran off this very story which was ignored by most everyone. But this is the key, not the oil or energy but the FOREX reserves. If the oil profits were frittered away like the Arabs are doing or invested only in foreign businesses, Russia would be a province of Europe and the US to this day.

But because Putin poured a singnificant amount into the FOREX reserves, Russia moved from being a minor player on the world stage to being a MAJOR POWER. This week, by the way, they tested yet another nuclear arms system. They are preparing for WWIII just as China is.

From the article:

As per the assessment by an American area specialist, "Western energy policies in Eurasia collapsed in May 2007. During this month, Russia seems to have conclusively defeated all Western-backed projects to bring oil and gas from Central Asia directly to Europe ... Cumulatively, the May agreements signify a strategic defeat of the decade-old US policy to open direct access to Central Asia's oil and gas reserves. By the same token they have nipped in the bud the European Union's belated attempts since 2006 to institute such a policy."

After the Central Asian summit, Moscow has swung westward to the Balkans. Washington's approach during the past decade in the Balkans and the Black Sea region lay in the pursuit of certain consistent geopolitical objectives - pressing ahead with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's expansion into the region; making the region a bridge for further NATO expansion into the Caucasus; systematically rolling back Russian influence; setting up US military bases ("lily pads") in Bulgaria and Romania; promoting regional alliances against Russia; and creating strategic space between Germany and its Russian partner.

Russia has used the energy card in breaking through the cordon sanitaire assembled by Washington. Three major developments in the past month have brought Russia back into the Balkans. First came what an alarmed American specialist called Moscow's "Anschluss of Austria". The reference was to Putin's visit to Vienna on May 23-24, which has laid the foundation for an Austrian role on Europe's energy map as a "hub" for natural gas sourced from Russia.

The US lost Turkey when they let the Kurds play the Romantic Revolution game and demand to Balkanize a key region including a significant portion of Turkey. The secular Turks will not allow this to happen. They are preparing to invade Iraq if we don't stop the Kurds. Russia supports them in this suppression because Russia understands, this is bad. Meanwhile, Germany was taken over by a right wing East German who has instantly soured relations with Russia and Russia will punish Germany until they stop arming Poland or egging the US on in its verbal attacks.

This deal with a desperate Austria which has always had troubled relations with Russia going back to the Middle Ages, is interesting to me. The founders of Austria, the Babenbergers (I know a lot about them) married into the princes of Kiev as well as Hungary and Byzantia. Indeed, they married to the East more than to the West. Mountains and rivers protected them from the West but the Danube plain is totally open to anyone sweeping in from the East so they concentrated on that border when it came to diplomatic marriages. This changed once the Ottoman empire ceased attacking Austria and locked the Danube plain down with fortresses and simply stopped trading with or dealing with Austria or Europe for 300 years.

The writer here sees the most important aspect of this story about Russia's energy dealing with Europe:

Putin went to Vienna straight from the tense summit with the European Union in the Volga River city of Samara on May 17-18. Moscow was peeved that the EU was nit-picking, lacked any coherent Russia policy, and was often being manipulated by Washington.

Moscow felt it far more productive to concentrate on building up its partnership with individual EU countries at the bilateral level. At any rate, Putin found a very receptive partner in Vienna. Austria, of course, has a 40-year history of close energy cooperation with Russia. Last September, Austria entered a long-term contract with Russia whereby Gazprom will meet 80% of Austria's gas requirements of 9 billion cubic meters (bcm) annually during the next 20-year period.

One of my readers emailed me this story and I want to thank him. It has some very good nuggets of information. This being one of the best! Namely, the European Union had agreed together to bark at the Russian bear in unison. I drew a cartoon about that. Bark, bark-bark! Only some were WAGGING THEIR TAILS. My dogs do this all the time. They pretend to be tough and will bark very loudly but when I warn them to stop it, they will bark for a few more minutes but wag their tails while doing it.

So the Austrian puppy barked alongside its dog pack but the minute the bear showed up with a lovely bone, the tail wags and the dog rushes off to its new master and best friend! Germany's past leaders are grinding their teeth over this, they all focused on bringing Russia closer, not alienating Russia. For they have on their flanks that most difficult nation that was wiped out during the religious wars but revived during the Romantic Revolution: Poland!

I suspect this week's attempt by the EU to impose a more powerful constitution upon their confederation is due to Russia's success in wooing some of the eastern flanks of the Holy Roman Empire. And it is Poland who, today, has thrown in the monkey wrench by refusing to sign into the scheme they agreed to just two days ago. The Germans are seething with rage. They can't have a political machine if Poland suddenly turns to Russia again!

And they want this machine so they can deal with the decline of the US empire.

This s where all my news ties together: ALL NATIONS ARE AWARE THE US IS DYING. Europe wants to keep us alive so we can spend a fortune counterbalancing a resurgent Russia and the whirlwind of power pouring out of oil-rich Islam. Japan needs us to counterbalance both Russia and China.

Yet both are KILLING US! They are the ones destroying our economy and deindustrializing our nation. And we are the real culprits in all this, consuming oil we don't own as if the trade imbalance doesn't matter! The Western alliance is collapsing because of America trade woes. Yet our allies love this trade that is killing us and will cling to it to the bitter end even as they all will go down thanks to it. America will survive but not the European alliance or Japan! Both will be taken over by Russia and China...again.

Unless an emperor like Napoleon or Julius Caesar rises up and reforges Europe into a true empire again. And the name of the emperors of Germany is 'Kaiser' which is germanic for 'Caesar' in the first place. The Europeans would like to have what we have and are going to lose if we go bankrupt: a diverse nation of many people working together as patriots! Only they are still in the grip of the Romantic Revolution. As are we.

And the internationalists who run America are not patriots but are working for their New World Order which floats about all nations like a great vulture. Only they are the biggest paradox in this story: their very internationalism and refusal to protect the countries they rule has caused them to set up a system that is rapidly killing off the keystone nation of their imperial rule: the UNITED STATES.

They are rapidly bankrupting us as they loot our banks, dispossess our people and drive us into slavery and debt. Wolfowitz, for example, drove us into an expensive, bankrupting war and then sailed off to Europe where he sneers at us even as the Europeans eject him from his happy seat of power there.

I predict that Europe's fracticious states will not unite. If Russia has a wise ruler for the next 50 years, they will be the controlling power of Europe. The new Napoleon. The US has a lot of healing to do after our brush with world domination. If we are smart (gads) we would ally ourselves with China and thus, counterbalance the influence Russia has over Europe. And the Middle East: we are doomed there. The Jewish inspiration created in the throes of the Romantic Revolution created Zionism. And like everywhere else in the same situation, it is spawning wars and ethnic cleansing of the ugliest sort since it is right where three major religions intersect: Jerusalem. One of THE oldest flashpoints for humanity, since humans first walked out of Africa and set out to kill or shove out all other hominids.

This flash point is the spot where WWIII will be launched and will end. The Apocalypse. And this is what I worry about, have worried about, all my long life. The most beautiful thing on earth was the Romantic Revolution. I love the art, the music, I am listening to Chopin as I type. That passionate early Romantic Pole who lived in exile in France! I love all the stories, the tremendous outpouring of energy and culture from that tragic force of power and influence.

I am a Romantic. I know the heart that beats in the chest of this force. It and I are one and the same.

Which is why I fear it so much.

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