Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them? — Paul Craig Roberts




Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them? — Paul Craig Roberts

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Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them?
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Wolfowitz and the lies that he told in the high government positions that he held are responsible for a massive number of deaths and massive destruction in seven countries. Wolfowitz has announced his vote for Hillary Clinton. Does this make you feel reassured?
The real surprise would have been Wolfowitz’s announcement in favor of Donald Trump. So why was what was expected news? 
Trump has said that he doesn’t see any future in the conflict Washington has initiated with Russia, and Trump questions the point of NATO’s continuing existence. These peaceful attitudes make Trump into a “national security risk” according to Wolfowitz. What Wolfowitz means is that a peace candidate is a threat to Wolfowitz’s doctrine of US world hegemony. In the crazed mind of Wolfowitz and the neoconservatives, America is not safe unless it rules the world.
Hillary is a warmonger, perhaps the ultimate and last one if she becomes president, as the combination of her hubris and incompetence is likely to result in World War 3. On July 3, 2015, Hillary declared: “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m president, we will attack Iran. . . . we would be able to totally obliterate them.” http://www. globalresearch.ca/hillary- clinton-if-im-president-we- will-attack-iran/5460484? print=1 The crazed Hillary went on from this to declare the President of Russia to be “the new Hitler.” Little doubt she thinks she can obliterate Russia also.
Hillary is the one who brought zionist neocon Victoria Nuland into the State Department to oversee the US coup in Ukraine in order to create more propaganda against Russia and force Washington’s European vassals to impose sanctions and place military bases on Russia’s borders, thus provoking a nuclear power and raising dangerous tensions.
This fits in perfectly with Wolfowitz’s intention. As Wolfowitz is Hillary’s likely Secretary of Defense, the two together mean World War 3.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Wolfowitz, then a high Pentagon official, penned the Wolfowitz doctrine. The doctrine states that the principal goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of other countries that could serve as constraints on US unilateralism. This means Russia and China,  The combination of Hillary with Wolfowitz should scare everyone in the entire world. The prospect of nuclear weapons being in such crazed hands as those of Hillary and Wolfowitz is the most alarming though imaginable.
The question is whether Hillary can be elected in the face of her violations of national security rules, for which she received a pass from corrupt Obama, and her heavily documented self-dealings that have produced a Clinton private fortune of $120 million and $1,600 million in their foundation. It is completely clear that the Clintons use public office for their private aggrandizement. Is this what Americans want? Two people who become even more rich as the world is led into nuclear war?
But with electronic voting machines, the question will not be decided by what Amerians want, but by how the electronic machines are programmed to report the vote. The US has already had elections in which the exit polls, always a reliable indicator of the winner prior to the appearance of electronic voting machines, indicated a different winner than the electronic voting machines produced. The secrecy of how the voting machines are programmed is protected by “proprietary software.” The machines have no paper trails, precluding vote recounts.
As both political establishments are fiercely opposed to Trump, how do you think the machines will be programmed? Indeed, the media is so opposed to Trump, the question is whether there will be exit polls and if there are, will they be misreported?
Republican operatives, not Republican voters, are all in a huff over their allegations that Trump is costing the Republicans votes. How can this be when Republican voters chose Trump over other candidates? Aren’t the Republican operatives saying that they, instead of the voters, should choose the Republican candidate?
If so, they are just like the Democrats. Some years ago the Democrat establishment created “super delegates” who are not chosen by voters. Enough “super delegates” were created in order to give the Party establishment the ability to over-ride the voters choice of presidential candidate. That it was the Democrats—allegedly the party of the people—who first took the choice away from the people is astonishing. Much information indicates that Bernie Sanders actually won the Democratic presidential nomination but was denied it by vote fraud and “super delegates.”
This is politics in America—totally corrupt. Chris Hedges might be right: nothing can change without revolution.
The demonization of Trump by the presstitutes is proof that Trump, despite his wealth, is regarded by the Oligarchs who comprise the One Percent as a threat to their agendas. The Oligarchs, not Trump, own or control the media. So the presstitute demonization of Trump is complete proof that he is the candidate to elect. The oligarchs who oppress us hate Trump, so the oppressed American people should support Trump.
The presstitute demonization of Trump did not work in the Republican primaries. Is it working in the presidential election? We don’t know, because the polls are reported by the presstitutes, not by Trump.
If the demonization does not work, and the election has to be stolen from Trump by the electronic machines, the consequence will be to radicalize Americans, something long overdue. Perhaps the expectation of this development is the reason all federal agencies, even the post office and Social Security, have acquired arms and ammunition, and Cheney’s firm Halliburton was paid $385,000,000 to build detention centers in the US.
Those who control us are not going to give up their control without a world war. In the United States evil has seized power from the people, and evil will not give it back.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the WestHow America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.

The Trillionaire Family You Will Never Hear About From Forbes


The Trillionaire Family You Will Never Hear About From Forbes





"Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws."
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

According to the Forbes richest list Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are the richest people in the world with their documented wealth varying between $47 and about $53.5 billion dollars. And while the average 9-5 Joe just trying to take care of their family blindly believes this, researchers know there are families who amassed such wealth centuries ago already.

Enter the infamous Rothschild family, who in recent years thanx to the internet, are finally beginning to be exposed for the profound wealth they posses and their grand manipulation of history and world events.

Waddesdon Manor. The mansion was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild as an occassional weekend residence.
It is from the Rothschild family that our entire corrupt modern day banking model can be traced back to today.

What happened is Mayer Rothschild taught his 5 sons about banking and the power of usury (charging governments interest that falls on the backs of tax payers).

Tring Park, Hertfordshire, 1 of a dozen of their known mansions.

These 5 sons spread out their toxic influence across Europe and began to put several major governments in debt through their banking genius and by financing both sides of wars such as France's war against England; 


  • Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855): Frankfurt, Germany
  • Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774–1855): Vienna, Austria
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836): London, England
  • Calmann Mayer Rothschild (1788–1855): Naples, Italy
  • Jakob Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868): Paris, France
Some researchers believe their agent in America was JP Morgan.


Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, pictured above and below, yet another beautiful mansion they own.


Today we are all well aware of how toxic the banking system is. Trillions upon trillions of dollars is being stolen annually and this is then placed dead square on the backs of the tax payers and their children along with the unborn to come.

Although it is true we have to get rid of this banking system first we as a society have to learn about the family that created it.

Mentmore Towers was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild

In this documentary you will learn about the Rothschild Family secrets and how they created  their empire in excess of $500 trillion.


You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Choice and Truth 

Losing the Internet one month before election

Stay focused, determined and resolute until you get out to vote Donald Trump

Losing the Internet one month before election


We should take seriously all the bombs Barack Hussein Obama plans to toss in our path on his way out of the door. Most know that his coming departure is only a temporary one, given that Hillary Clinton is poised to be Obama’s third term in office.
Next big bombshell coming down the pike at America:  At midnight September 30, Obama will cut off the access of millions to the Internet by abdicating Internet stewardship over to the control of the United Nations.
Special: 
In other words, Obama will turn the Internet over to the only world body that is more corrupt than Obama and the Clinton Foundation, and the one with octopus arms already choking the life out of Western society.
Lamenting that Obama had promised the UN would “never” take control of the Internet is wasting time now that he’s shutting the door on the average person having access to the World Wide Net.
‘You can keep your Internet’ is as honest in intention as ‘You can keep your doctor’.
While many have been waiting for Obama to impose martial law in order to cancel Election 2016, he’s effectively shutting out the Peanut Gallery instead.
Special: 
Adding to our problems will there be a complete Internet blackout one month before elections?
...”U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30.” (WSJ Aug. 28, 2016)
“On Friday Americans for Limited Government received a response to its Freedom of Information Act request for “all records relating to legal and policy analysis . . . concerning antitrust issues for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” if the U.S. gives up oversight. The administration replied it had “conducted a thorough search for responsive records within its possession and control and found no records responsive to your request.”
“It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government.
“Antitrust rules don’t apply to governments or organizations operating under government control. In a 1999 case, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the monopoly on internet domains because the Commerce Department had set “explicit terms” of the contract relating to the “government’s policies regarding the proper administration” of the domain system.
“Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”
The devil’s always in the details in government-sponsored schemes.
And the turning over of the Internet to UN control is no different:
“Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, called it “simply stunning” that the “politically blinded Obama administration missed the obvious point that Icann loses its antitrust shield should the government relinquish control.” (WSJ)
“The administration might not have considered the antitrust issue, which would have been naive. Or perhaps in its arrogance the administration knew all along Icann would lose its antitrust immunity and look to the U.N. as an alternative. Congress could have voted to give Icann an antitrust exemption, but the internet giveaway plan is too flawed for legislative approval.
“As the administration spent the past two years preparing to give up the contract with Icann, it also stopped actively overseeing the group. That allowed Icann to abuse its monopoly over internet domains, which earns it hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
“Earlier this month, an independent review within Icann called the organization “simply not credible” in how it handled the application for the .inc, .llc and .llp domains. The independent review found Icann staffers were “intimately involved” in evaluating their own work. A company called Dot Registry had worked with officials of U.S. states to create a system ensuring anyone using these Web addresses was a legitimate registered company. Icann rejected Dot Registry’s application as a community, which would have resulted in lowered fees to Icann.
“Delaware’s secretary of state objected: “Legitimate policy concerns have been systematically brushed to the curb by Icann staffers well-skilled at manufacturing bureaucratic processes to disguise pre-determined decisions.” Dot Registry’s lawyer, Arif Ali of the Dechert firm, told me last week his experience made clear “Icann is not ready to govern itself.”
“Icann also refuses to award the .gay domain to community groups representing gay people around the world. Icann’s ombudsman recently urged his group to “put an end to this long and difficult issue” by granting the domain. Icann prefers to earn larger fees by putting the .gay domain up for auction among for-profit domain companies.
“And Icann rejects the community application for the .cpa domain made by the American Institute of CPAs, which along with other accounting groups argues consumers should expect the .cpa address only to be used by legitimate accountants, not by the highest bidder. An AICPA spokesman told me he has a pile of paperwork three feet high on the five-year quest for the .cpa domain. The professional group objected in a recent appeal: “The process seems skewed toward a financial outcome that benefits Icann itself.”
“The only thing worse than a monopoly overseen by the U.S. government is a monopoly overseen by no one—or by a Web-censoring U.N. Congress still has time to extend its ban on the Obama administration giving up protection of the internet. Icann has given it every reason to do so.”
Continued below...

Let’s consider the prospect of an Internet blackout some five weeks before election:
Make like the proverbial busy beaver during the month of September by backing up and recording all contacts and information that you get through the Internet.
Ignore all ‘news’ sent out by the Hillary Clinton campaign, including stories about Huma hubby Anthony Weiner returning to the Internet five years later in yet another sexting scandal.
The jury was in on Anthony Weiner’s genitals gone viral last time out.
Anthony Weiner’s junk is Hillary Clinton’s latest distraction; a wind-up novelty ‘toy’ to be taken off the shelf and sent viral over the Internet every time Clinton needs a timely distraction.
Keep this in mind all during the month of October as the news that never changes and the news that matters most: “The Butcher of Benghazi is headed back to the White House.
Remember that Word of Mouth is still the world’s best form of disseminating information.
Think of all the smears against Donald Trump you will miss during October’s Internet blackout.
Stay focused, determined and resolute until you get out to vote Donald Trump.
Trump may be the only one who can give the masses back their access to the Internet.

Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017

Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017
By David Archibald
China will start its war for a number of reasons:

Regime Legitimacy
Very few people in China believe in communism anymore, including almost all of the 80 million members of the Chinese Communist Party.  The party itself is now a club for mutual enrichment.  The legitimacy of the party ruling China is derived from the notions that democracy does not suit China and that the party is the organisation best placed to run the country.  The latter is based on an ongoing improvement in conditions for the bulk of the population.  In the absence of economic improvement, some other reason must be found for the population to rally around the party’s leadership.  This may explain the sudden base-building that started in the Spratly Islands in October 2014.



China’s public debt grew from US$7 trillion in 2007 to US$28 trillion in 2014.  This is on an economy of US$10 trillion per annum.  A high proportion of the economic growth of the last seven years is simply construction funded by debt.  The real economy is much smaller.

The Chinese government is likely to see the contracting economy and realise that issuing more debt won’t have an effect on sustaining economic activity.  Thus the base-building was accelerated to allow the option of starting their war.  This is a life and death matter for the elite running the party.  They are betting the farm on this.  If this gamble does not work out then there is likely to be a messy regime change.

Chosen Trauma
Japan treated the Chinese as sub-humans during World War 2.  Before that, Japan starting mistreating China by attacking it in 1895, not long after they started industrializing themselves.  That was followed by Japan’s 21 demands on the Chinese state in 1915.  The Nationalist government in China started observing National Humiliation Day in the 1920s.  Then followed the Mukden Incident of 1931 and China’s start to World War 2 in 1937.

During the poverty of the Mao years, the Japanese were forgiven for World War 2. Mao and Deng were pragmatists and said that Japan couldn’t be punished forever.  China’s recent prosperity has allowed the indulgence of Japan-hating to be resurrected as a form of state religion.  National Humiliation Day is observed again on the 18th September.  The party has directed that television take up the theme of Japanese aggression.  Today 70% of prime time television in China is movies about World War 2.  There are at least 100 museums in China dedicated to the Japanese aggression of World War 2.

The regime generates and sustains anti-Japanese sentiment to give it the option to go to war.

Being Recognised As Number One
The Chinese are a proud nation.  They actually resent the fact that the United States is considered to be the number one nation on the planet.  China also realises that to be recognised as number one, they have to defeat the current number one in battle.  This is why it won’t be just creeping increments in Chinese aggression.  They need a battle for their own psychological reasons.

This means that they will attack the United States at the same time that they attack Japan.  Because surprise attacks are more successful, it will be a surprise attack on US bases in Asia and the Pacific and perhaps well beyond.  This most likely will include cyber-attacks on US utilities and communications.

China has structured its armed forces for a short, sharp war.  Of any country on the planet, they are possibly the most prepared for war.  They have one year of grain consumption in stock and even a strategic pork reserve.  They have just filled up their strategic petroleum reserve of about 700 million barrels.

China’s war has nothing to do with securing resources or making their trade routes secure.  Some western analysts have projected those notions onto China to rationalise what China is doing.  The Chinese themselves have not offered these excuses.  To China it is all about territorial integrity, which is sacred and not the profane stuff of commerce.

Humiliating The Neighbours
The importance of the Spratly Islands and the Chinese nine-dash claim is that it divides Asia.



Nine-dash claim  (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency via Wikimedia Commons)

China claims that the whole of the sea within its claim is Chinese territory, not just the islands.  When China gets around to enforcing that claim, foreign merchant vessels and aircraft will have to apply for permission to cross it. Non-Chinese warships and military aircraft will not be allowed to enter it.  The Chinese claim extends to 4° south, almost to the equator.

The worst affected country will be Vietnam, which will be bottled up to within 80 km of its coast.  Japan realises that its ships from Europe and the Middle East will have to head further east before heading up north through Indonesia and east of the Philippines.  Singapore will be badly affected because the passing trade will drop off.

Japan will become quite isolated because its aircraft will have to head down through the Philippines to almost the equator before heading west.

China ranks the countries of the world in terms of their comprehensive national power, which the Chinese consider to be the power to compel.  This is a combination of military power, economic power and social cohesion.  When it is enforced, the nine-dash claim will do a lot of compelling of China’s neighbours.

Strategic Window
Chinese strategists see a window of strategic opportunity for China early in the 21st century, though they haven’t publicly outlined the basis for that view.  But we can make a good stab at it.  Firstly, an air of inevitability is important in winning battles.  While China is perceived to have a strong, growing economy that is crushing all before it, that perception of inevitability rubs off on China’s military adventures.  To use that perception, China has to attack before its economy contracts due to the bursting of its real estate bubble.  This explains the current rush to build the bases in the Spratly Islands.

Another problem for China is that its aggression and increased military spending has caused its neighbors to rearm and form alliances.  China is better off attacking before its neighbors arm themselves further.

Another consideration is the US presidential electoral cycle.  President Obama is perceived to be a weak president and the Chinese might rather attack before he is replaced.  President Obama has made the right noises, though, about Chinese irredentism and the coming war remains quite popular in the US military, in that the different services are jockeying for position, which means they have official blessing to the highest level.  President Obama does have some inconsistent policies that aid China, though, in that while a strong economy is needed to fight China, his administration is doing its best to choke the US economy with carbon dioxide-related regulations.  The two ends are mutually exclusive.

President Obama spent a period of his childhood in Indonesia and would have heard a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (the Chinese were and are more successful merchants and shopkeepers) in those formative years.  As with Valerie Jarrett’s childhood in Iran, this will affect policy.

Great-State Autism
This is a term created by the strategist Edward Luttwak to describe the fact that China is seemingly oblivious to the effects of its actions on its neighbours.  China sees itself as the center of the world and purely through the lens of its own self-interest. This has the practical result that China could not perceive the possibility of things not going the way it wants them to.  Luttwak also considers that the Chinese overestimate their own strategic thinking.  He says that China doesn’t have a strategy so much as a bag of stratagems, most of which involve deception.Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017
By David Archibald
China will start its war for a number of reasons:

Regime Legitimacy
Very few people in China believe in communism anymore, including almost all of the 80 million members of the Chinese Communist Party.  The party itself is now a club for mutual enrichment.  The legitimacy of the party ruling China is derived from the notions that democracy does not suit China and that the party is the organisation best placed to run the country.  The latter is based on an ongoing improvement in conditions for the bulk of the population.  In the absence of economic improvement, some other reason must be found for the population to rally around the party’s leadership.  This may explain the sudden base-building that started in the Spratly Islands in October 2014.



China’s public debt grew from US$7 trillion in 2007 to US$28 trillion in 2014.  This is on an economy of US$10 trillion per annum.  A high proportion of the economic growth of the last seven years is simply construction funded by debt.  The real economy is much smaller.

The Chinese government is likely to see the contracting economy and realise that issuing more debt won’t have an effect on sustaining economic activity.  Thus the base-building was accelerated to allow the option of starting their war.  This is a life and death matter for the elite running the party.  They are betting the farm on this.  If this gamble does not work out then there is likely to be a messy regime change.

Chosen Trauma
Japan treated the Chinese as sub-humans during World War 2.  Before that, Japan starting mistreating China by attacking it in 1895, not long after they started industrializing themselves.  That was followed by Japan’s 21 demands on the Chinese state in 1915.  The Nationalist government in China started observing National Humiliation Day in the 1920s.  Then followed the Mukden Incident of 1931 and China’s start to World War 2 in 1937.

During the poverty of the Mao years, the Japanese were forgiven for World War 2. Mao and Deng were pragmatists and said that Japan couldn’t be punished forever.  China’s recent prosperity has allowed the indulgence of Japan-hating to be resurrected as a form of state religion.  National Humiliation Day is observed again on the 18th September.  The party has directed that television take up the theme of Japanese aggression.  Today 70% of prime time television in China is movies about World War 2.  There are at least 100 museums in China dedicated to the Japanese aggression of World War 2.

The regime generates and sustains anti-Japanese sentiment to give it the option to go to war.

Being Recognised As Number One
The Chinese are a proud nation.  They actually resent the fact that the United States is considered to be the number one nation on the planet.  China also realises that to be recognised as number one, they have to defeat the current number one in battle.  This is why it won’t be just creeping increments in Chinese aggression.  They need a battle for their own psychological reasons.

This means that they will attack the United States at the same time that they attack Japan.  Because surprise attacks are more successful, it will be a surprise attack on US bases in Asia and the Pacific and perhaps well beyond.  This most likely will include cyber-attacks on US utilities and communications.

China has structured its armed forces for a short, sharp war.  Of any country on the planet, they are possibly the most prepared for war.  They have one year of grain consumption in stock and even a strategic pork reserve.  They have just filled up their strategic petroleum reserve of about 700 million barrels.

China’s war has nothing to do with securing resources or making their trade routes secure.  Some western analysts have projected those notions onto China to rationalise what China is doing.  The Chinese themselves have not offered these excuses.  To China it is all about territorial integrity, which is sacred and not the profane stuff of commerce.

Humiliating The Neighbours
The importance of the Spratly Islands and the Chinese nine-dash claim is that it divides Asia.



Nine-dash claim  (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency via Wikimedia Commons)

China claims that the whole of the sea within its claim is Chinese territory, not just the islands.  When China gets around to enforcing that claim, foreign merchant vessels and aircraft will have to apply for permission to cross it. Non-Chinese warships and military aircraft will not be allowed to enter it.  The Chinese claim extends to 4° south, almost to the equator.

The worst affected country will be Vietnam, which will be bottled up to within 80 km of its coast.  Japan realises that its ships from Europe and the Middle East will have to head further east before heading up north through Indonesia and east of the Philippines.  Singapore will be badly affected because the passing trade will drop off.

Japan will become quite isolated because its aircraft will have to head down through the Philippines to almost the equator before heading west.

China ranks the countries of the world in terms of their comprehensive national power, which the Chinese consider to be the power to compel.  This is a combination of military power, economic power and social cohesion.  When it is enforced, the nine-dash claim will do a lot of compelling of China’s neighbours.

Strategic Window
Chinese strategists see a window of strategic opportunity for China early in the 21st century, though they haven’t publicly outlined the basis for that view.  But we can make a good stab at it.  Firstly, an air of inevitability is important in winning battles.  While China is perceived to have a strong, growing economy that is crushing all before it, that perception of inevitability rubs off on China’s military adventures.  To use that perception, China has to attack before its economy contracts due to the bursting of its real estate bubble.  This explains the current rush to build the bases in the Spratly Islands.

Another problem for China is that its aggression and increased military spending has caused its neighbors to rearm and form alliances.  China is better off attacking before its neighbors arm themselves further.

Another consideration is the US presidential electoral cycle.  President Obama is perceived to be a weak president and the Chinese might rather attack before he is replaced.  President Obama has made the right noises, though, about Chinese irredentism and the coming war remains quite popular in the US military, in that the different services are jockeying for position, which means they have official blessing to the highest level.  President Obama does have some inconsistent policies that aid China, though, in that while a strong economy is needed to fight China, his administration is doing its best to choke the US economy with carbon dioxide-related regulations.  The two ends are mutually exclusive.

President Obama spent a period of his childhood in Indonesia and would have heard a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (the Chinese were and are more successful merchants and shopkeepers) in those formative years.  As with Valerie Jarrett’s childhood in Iran, this will affect policy.

Great-State Autism
This is a term created by the strategist Edward Luttwak to describe the fact that China is seemingly oblivious to the effects of its actions on its neighbours.  China sees itself as the center of the world and purely through the lens of its own self-interest. This has the practical result that China could not perceive the possibility of things not going the way it wants them to.  Luttwak also considers that the Chinese overestimate their own strategic thinking.  He says that China doesn’t have a strategy so much as a bag of stratagems, most of which involve deception.



By David Archibald
China will start its war for a number of reasons:

Regime Legitimacy
Very few people in China believe in communism anymore, including almost all of the 80 million members of the Chinese Communist Party.  The party itself is now a club for mutual enrichment.  The legitimacy of the party ruling China is derived from the notions that democracy does not suit China and that the party is the organisation best placed to run the country.  The latter is based on an ongoing improvement in conditions for the bulk of the population.  In the absence of economic improvement, some other reason must be found for the population to rally around the party’s leadership.  This may explain the sudden base-building that started in the Spratly Islands in October 2014.



China’s public debt grew from US$7 trillion in 2007 to US$28 trillion in 2014.  This is on an economy of US$10 trillion per annum.  A high proportion of the economic growth of the last seven years is simply construction funded by debt.  The real economy is much smaller.

The Chinese government is likely to see the contracting economy and realise that issuing more debt won’t have an effect on sustaining economic activity.  Thus the base-building was accelerated to allow the option of starting their war.  This is a life and death matter for the elite running the party.  They are betting the farm on this.  If this gamble does not work out then there is likely to be a messy regime change.

Chosen Trauma
Japan treated the Chinese as sub-humans during World War 2.  Before that, Japan starting mistreating China by attacking it in 1895, not long after they started industrializing themselves.  That was followed by Japan’s 21 demands on the Chinese state in 1915.  The Nationalist government in China started observing National Humiliation Day in the 1920s.  Then followed the Mukden Incident of 1931 and China’s start to World War 2 in 1937.

During the poverty of the Mao years, the Japanese were forgiven for World War 2. Mao and Deng were pragmatists and said that Japan couldn’t be punished forever.  China’s recent prosperity has allowed the indulgence of Japan-hating to be resurrected as a form of state religion.  National Humiliation Day is observed again on the 18th September.  The party has directed that television take up the theme of Japanese aggression.  Today 70% of prime time television in China is movies about World War 2.  There are at least 100 museums in China dedicated to the Japanese aggression of World War 2.

The regime generates and sustains anti-Japanese sentiment to give it the option to go to war.

Being Recognised As Number One
The Chinese are a proud nation.  They actually resent the fact that the United States is considered to be the number one nation on the planet.  China also realises that to be recognised as number one, they have to defeat the current number one in battle.  This is why it won’t be just creeping increments in Chinese aggression.  They need a battle for their own psychological reasons.

This means that they will attack the United States at the same time that they attack Japan.  Because surprise attacks are more successful, it will be a surprise attack on US bases in Asia and the Pacific and perhaps well beyond.  This most likely will include cyber-attacks on US utilities and communications.

China has structured its armed forces for a short, sharp war.  Of any country on the planet, they are possibly the most prepared for war.  They have one year of grain consumption in stock and even a strategic pork reserve.  They have just filled up their strategic petroleum reserve of about 700 million barrels.

China’s war has nothing to do with securing resources or making their trade routes secure.  Some western analysts have projected those notions onto China to rationalise what China is doing.  The Chinese themselves have not offered these excuses.  To China it is all about territorial integrity, which is sacred and not the profane stuff of commerce.

Humiliating The Neighbours
The importance of the Spratly Islands and the Chinese nine-dash claim is that it divides Asia.



Nine-dash claim  (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency via Wikimedia Commons)

China claims that the whole of the sea within its claim is Chinese territory, not just the islands.  When China gets around to enforcing that claim, foreign merchant vessels and aircraft will have to apply for permission to cross it. Non-Chinese warships and military aircraft will not be allowed to enter it.  The Chinese claim extends to 4° south, almost to the equator.

The worst affected country will be Vietnam, which will be bottled up to within 80 km of its coast.  Japan realises that its ships from Europe and the Middle East will have to head further east before heading up north through Indonesia and east of the Philippines.  Singapore will be badly affected because the passing trade will drop off.

Japan will become quite isolated because its aircraft will have to head down through the Philippines to almost the equator before heading west.

China ranks the countries of the world in terms of their comprehensive national power, which the Chinese consider to be the power to compel.  This is a combination of military power, economic power and social cohesion.  When it is enforced, the nine-dash claim will do a lot of compelling of China’s neighbours.

Strategic Window
Chinese strategists see a window of strategic opportunity for China early in the 21st century, though they haven’t publicly outlined the basis for that view.  But we can make a good stab at it.  Firstly, an air of inevitability is important in winning battles.  While China is perceived to have a strong, growing economy that is crushing all before it, that perception of inevitability rubs off on China’s military adventures.  To use that perception, China has to attack before its economy contracts due to the bursting of its real estate bubble.  This explains the current rush to build the bases in the Spratly Islands.

Another problem for China is that its aggression and increased military spending has caused its neighbors to rearm and form alliances.  China is better off attacking before its neighbors arm themselves further.

Another consideration is the US presidential electoral cycle.  President Obama is perceived to be a weak president and the Chinese might rather attack before he is replaced.  President Obama has made the right noises, though, about Chinese irredentism and the coming war remains quite popular in the US military, in that the different services are jockeying for position, which means they have official blessing to the highest level.  President Obama does have some inconsistent policies that aid China, though, in that while a strong economy is needed to fight China, his administration is doing its best to choke the US economy with carbon dioxide-related regulations.  The two ends are mutually exclusive.

President Obama spent a period of his childhood in Indonesia and would have heard a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (the Chinese were and are more successful merchants and shopkeepers) in those formative years.  As with Valerie Jarrett’s childhood in Iran, this will affect policy.

Great-State Autism
This is a term created by the strategist Edward Luttwak to describe the fact that China is seemingly oblivious to the effects of its actions on its neighbours.  China sees itself as the center of the world and purely through the lens of its own self-interest. This has the practical result that China could not perceive the possibility of things not going the way it wants them to.  Luttwak also considers that the Chinese overestimate their own strategic thinking.  He says that China doesn’t have a strategy so much as a bag of stratagems, most of which involve deception.Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017
By David Archibald
China will start its war for a number of reasons:

Regime Legitimacy
Very few people in China believe in communism anymore, including almost all of the 80 million members of the Chinese Communist Party.  The party itself is now a club for mutual enrichment.  The legitimacy of the party ruling China is derived from the notions that democracy does not suit China and that the party is the organisation best placed to run the country.  The latter is based on an ongoing improvement in conditions for the bulk of the population.  In the absence of economic improvement, some other reason must be found for the population to rally around the party’s leadership.  This may explain the sudden base-building that started in the Spratly Islands in October 2014.



China’s public debt grew from US$7 trillion in 2007 to US$28 trillion in 2014.  This is on an economy of US$10 trillion per annum.  A high proportion of the economic growth of the last seven years is simply construction funded by debt.  The real economy is much smaller.

The Chinese government is likely to see the contracting economy and realise that issuing more debt won’t have an effect on sustaining economic activity.  Thus the base-building was accelerated to allow the option of starting their war.  This is a life and death matter for the elite running the party.  They are betting the farm on this.  If this gamble does not work out then there is likely to be a messy regime change.

Chosen Trauma
Japan treated the Chinese as sub-humans during World War 2.  Before that, Japan starting mistreating China by attacking it in 1895, not long after they started industrializing themselves.  That was followed by Japan’s 21 demands on the Chinese state in 1915.  The Nationalist government in China started observing National Humiliation Day in the 1920s.  Then followed the Mukden Incident of 1931 and China’s start to World War 2 in 1937.

During the poverty of the Mao years, the Japanese were forgiven for World War 2. Mao and Deng were pragmatists and said that Japan couldn’t be punished forever.  China’s recent prosperity has allowed the indulgence of Japan-hating to be resurrected as a form of state religion.  National Humiliation Day is observed again on the 18th September.  The party has directed that television take up the theme of Japanese aggression.  Today 70% of prime time television in China is movies about World War 2.  There are at least 100 museums in China dedicated to the Japanese aggression of World War 2.

The regime generates and sustains anti-Japanese sentiment to give it the option to go to war.

Being Recognised As Number One
The Chinese are a proud nation.  They actually resent the fact that the United States is considered to be the number one nation on the planet.  China also realises that to be recognised as number one, they have to defeat the current number one in battle.  This is why it won’t be just creeping increments in Chinese aggression.  They need a battle for their own psychological reasons.

This means that they will attack the United States at the same time that they attack Japan.  Because surprise attacks are more successful, it will be a surprise attack on US bases in Asia and the Pacific and perhaps well beyond.  This most likely will include cyber-attacks on US utilities and communications.

China has structured its armed forces for a short, sharp war.  Of any country on the planet, they are possibly the most prepared for war.  They have one year of grain consumption in stock and even a strategic pork reserve.  They have just filled up their strategic petroleum reserve of about 700 million barrels.

China’s war has nothing to do with securing resources or making their trade routes secure.  Some western analysts have projected those notions onto China to rationalise what China is doing.  The Chinese themselves have not offered these excuses.  To China it is all about territorial integrity, which is sacred and not the profane stuff of commerce.

Humiliating The Neighbours
The importance of the Spratly Islands and the Chinese nine-dash claim is that it divides Asia.



Nine-dash claim  (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency via Wikimedia Commons)

China claims that the whole of the sea within its claim is Chinese territory, not just the islands.  When China gets around to enforcing that claim, foreign merchant vessels and aircraft will have to apply for permission to cross it. Non-Chinese warships and military aircraft will not be allowed to enter it.  The Chinese claim extends to 4° south, almost to the equator.

The worst affected country will be Vietnam, which will be bottled up to within 80 km of its coast.  Japan realises that its ships from Europe and the Middle East will have to head further east before heading up north through Indonesia and east of the Philippines.  Singapore will be badly affected because the passing trade will drop off.

Japan will become quite isolated because its aircraft will have to head down through the Philippines to almost the equator before heading west.

China ranks the countries of the world in terms of their comprehensive national power, which the Chinese consider to be the power to compel.  This is a combination of military power, economic power and social cohesion.  When it is enforced, the nine-dash claim will do a lot of compelling of China’s neighbours.

Strategic Window
Chinese strategists see a window of strategic opportunity for China early in the 21st century, though they haven’t publicly outlined the basis for that view.  But we can make a good stab at it.  Firstly, an air of inevitability is important in winning battles.  While China is perceived to have a strong, growing economy that is crushing all before it, that perception of inevitability rubs off on China’s military adventures.  To use that perception, China has to attack before its economy contracts due to the bursting of its real estate bubble.  This explains the current rush to build the bases in the Spratly Islands.

Another problem for China is that its aggression and increased military spending has caused its neighbors to rearm and form alliances.  China is better off attacking before its neighbors arm themselves further.

Another consideration is the US presidential electoral cycle.  President Obama is perceived to be a weak president and the Chinese might rather attack before he is replaced.  President Obama has made the right noises, though, about Chinese irredentism and the coming war remains quite popular in the US military, in that the different services are jockeying for position, which means they have official blessing to the highest level.  President Obama does have some inconsistent policies that aid China, though, in that while a strong economy is needed to fight China, his administration is doing its best to choke the US economy with carbon dioxide-related regulations.  The two ends are mutually exclusive.

President Obama spent a period of his childhood in Indonesia and would have heard a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (the Chinese were and are more successful merchants and shopkeepers) in those formative years.  As with Valerie Jarrett’s childhood in Iran, this will affect policy.

Great-State Autism
This is a term created by the strategist Edward Luttwak to describe the fact that China is seemingly oblivious to the effects of its actions on its neighbours.  China sees itself as the center of the world and purely through the lens of its own self-interest. This has the practical result that China could not perceive the possibility of things not going the way it wants them to.  Luttwak also considers that the Chinese overestimate their own strategic thinking.  He says that China doesn’t have a strategy so much as a bag of stratagems, most of which involve deception.


Julian Assange exposes Hillary Clinton’s “Libya Tick Tock” email: A step-by-step guide to destroy Libya

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Julian Assange exposes Hillary Clinton’s “Libya Tick Tock” email: A step-by-step guide to destroy Libya

The Clinton teams' "brag sheet" of all the actions that Hillary took credit for as the architect of the US involvement in Libya.
Last week in an interview with Fox and friends, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange made a bold statement.
When asked what surprised him the most about Hillary Clinton’s thousands of emails, Assange said the “most interesting and serious” information on Hillary Clinton is yet to be released.
Assange then proceeded to nudge viewers towards the direction of an already released email thread call the “Libya Tick Tock”…a stream of emails which clearly certifies Hillary’s lead position in the Libyan disaster.
The Gateway Pundit reports
Assange said 1,700 emails were released related to Hillary’s involvement in Libya but perhaps none more damaging than the ‘Libya Tick Tock’ email or Hillary’s “internal brag sheet of how she was the person behind the Libyan catastrophe”.
After perusing Wikileaks this email was located.  As Assange warned it is extremely damaging for Hillary!   In the email the Clinton team lists all the actions that Hillary took credit for as the architect of the US involvement in Libya.
The “internal brag sheet” compiled and sent by Jake Sullivan (printed out by Cheryl Mills) was circulated to Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and Victoria Nuland with a special request for those ‘in the know’ to add on to the list of Hillary’s Libya “accomplishments.”
We imagine the “toria” typo refers to Under Secretary of State and chief neocon Victoria Nuland.
this is basically off the top of my head, with a few consultations of my notes. but it shows S’ leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s libya policy from start to finish. let me know what you think. toria [sic], who else might be able to add to this?

If Libya is the central showcase of Hillary’s superior ability to lead, and proof of her exceptional temperament and decision making prowess, than God help us all if she ends up in the Oval Office.
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Hillary’s team provides Clinton credit for her many actions that led to Qadhafi’s toppling in Libya including, but not limited to: suspending the operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington; evacuating US embassy personnel in Tripoli and closing the embassy there; obtaining sanctions against Qadhafi and his family; working to suspend Libya from the Human Rights Council; appointing Special Envoy Chris Stevens to be the U.S. representative to Benghazi; engaging with UAE, Qatar, and Jordan to seek their participation in coalition operations; holding meetings with House Democrats and Senate Republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the Libya operation; and lastly, it was noted that Hillary worked to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to the National Transitional Council or NTC.
Hillary saw this email sent to her from Cheryl Mills because as noted at WikiLeaks she asked for it to be printed in a subsequent email to a colleague.
This email proves that Clinton’s team created a list to show her responsibility for being the architect behind the overthrow of Qadhafi in Libya and the subsequent horror as a result. It is now known that the NTC in Libya is no longer in charge but it is unknown what happened to the $1.5 billion Hillary pushed to prop up this group.
Hillary’s actions in Libya resulted in the eventual death of four Americans in Benghazi, including Chris Stevens.  These Americans died due to Hillary’s and Obama’s inaction when the US staff in Libya called for help while under attack in 2012 as was famously portrayed in the movie 13 Hours.
Clinton is also responsible for the thousands of violent Libyan deaths since her efforts to over throw Qadhafi. She is also responsible for the numerous atrocities in Libya over the past eight years.  Today Libya is a quagmire and ISIS’s strongest branch outside of Syria-Iraq.
You can download the original “Libya Tick Tock” PDF file here, or go to Wikileaks to access the emails sent.
We have taken the time to place the entire “Libya Tick Tock” thread in plain text for your viewing below, and have bolded various parts which we found particularly interesting.

UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05788648 Date: 10/30/2015
RELEASE IN PART
B5,B6
From: •
H
Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 10:28 PM
To: Oscar Flores
Subject: Fw: tick tock on libya
PIs print for me.
From: Mills, Cheryl D [mailto:MiIIsCD@state.gov]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 12:37 PM
To: H
Subject: FW: tick tock on libya
Here is Draft
From: Jake Sullivan [mailtc
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:40 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D; Nuland, Victoria
Subject: tick tock on libya
this is basically off the top of my head, with a few consultations of my notes. but it shows S’ leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s libya policy from start to finish. let me know what you think. toria, who else might be able to add to this?
Secretary Clinton’s leadership on Libya
HRC has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations, at NATO, and in contact group meetings — as well as the public face of the U.S. effort in Libya. She was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime.
February 25 — HRC announces the suspension of operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington.
February 26 — HRC directs efforts to evacuate all U.S. embassy personnel from Tripoli and orders the closing of the embassy.
February 26 — HRC made a series of calls to her counterparts to help secure passage of UNSC 1970, which imposes sanctions on Gaddafi and his family and refers Qadhafi and his cronies to the ICC
February 28 — HRC travels to Geneva, Switzerland for consultations with European partners on Libya. She gives a major address in which she says: “Colonel Qadhafi and those around him must be held accountable for these acts, which violate international legal obligations and common decency. Through their actions, they have lost the legitimacy to govern. And the people of Libya have made themselves clear: It is time for Qadhafi to go — now, without further violence or delay.” She also works to secure the suspension of Libya from membership in the Human Rights Council.
Early March — HRC appoints Special Envoy Chris Stevens to be the U.S. representative to Benghazi
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05788648 Date: 10/30/2015
March 14 — HRC travels to Paris for the G8 foreign minister’s meeting. She meets with TNC representative Jibril and consults with her colleagues on further UN Security Council action. She notes that a no-fly zone will not be adequate.
March 14-16 — HRC participates in a series of high-level video- and teleconferences with She is a leading voice for strong UNSC action and a NATO civilian protection mission.
March 17 — HRC secures Russian abstention and Portuguese and African support for UNSC 1973, ensuring that it passes. 1973 authorizes a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” – code for military action – to protect civilians against Gaddafi’s army.
March 24 — HRC engages with allies and secures the transition of command and control of the civilian protection mission to NATO. She announces the transition in a statement.
March 18-30— HRC engages with UAE, Qatar, and Jordan to seek their participation in coalition operations. Over the course of several days, all three devote aircraft to the mission.
March 19 — HRC travels to Paris to meet with European and Arab leaders to prepare for military action to protect civilians. That night, the first U.S. air strikes halt the advance of Gaddafi’s forces on Benghazi and target Libya’s air defenses:
March 29 — HRC travels to London for a conference on Libya, where she is a driving force behind the creation of a Contact Group comprising 20-plus countries to coordinate efforts to protect civilians and plan for a post- Qadhafi Libya. She is instrumental in setting up a rotating chair system to ensure regional buy-in.
April 14 — HRC travels to Berlin for NATO meetings. She is the driving force behind NATO adopting a communiqué that calls for Qadhafi’s departure as a political objective, and lays out three clear military objectives: end of attacks and threat of attacks on civilians; the removal of Qadhafi forces from cities they forcibly entered; and the unfettered provision of humanitarian access.
May 5 — HRC travels to Rome for a Contact Group meeting. The Contact Group establishes a coordination system and a temporary financial mechanism to funnel money to the TNC.
June 8 — HRC travels to Abu Dhabi for another Contact Group meeting and holds a series of intense discussions with rebel leaders.
June 12 — HRC travels to Addis for consultations and a speech before the African Union, pressing the case for a democratic transition in Libya.
July 15 — HRC travels to Istanbul and announces that the U.S. recognizes the TNC as the legitimate government of Libya. She also secures recognition from the other members of the Contact Group.
Late June — HRC meets with House Democrats and Senate Republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the Libya operation.
July 16 — HRC sends Feltman, Cretz, and Chollet to Tunis to meet with Qadhafi envoys “to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward, is for Qadhafi to step down”.
Early August — HRC works to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to be approved by the Security Council and sent to the TNC. That package is working through its last hurdles.
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05788648 Date: 10/30/2015
Early August — After military chief Abdel Fattah Younes is killed, S sends a personal message to TNC head Jalil to press for a responsible investigation and a careful and inclusive approach to creating a new executive council.
Early August — HRC secures written pledges from the TNC to an inclusive, pluralistic democratic transition. She continues to consult with European and Arab colleagues on the evolving situation.