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“We’re about to train people for certain death.” ~ Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator for South Carolina

Like the Bush administration on Iraq, and the Johnson administration on Vietnam, the Obama administration was ready to march thousands of Americans to war against Syria, a war for political purposes, based on lies and deceit.

Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff, told the New York Times: ‘No one with whom I’ve spoken doubts the intelligence’ directly linking Assad and his regime to the sarin attacks.’

“Following the release of the UN report on 16 September confirming that sarin was used on 21 August, Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, told a press conference: ‘It’s very important to note that only the [Assad] regime possesses sarin, and we have no evidence that the opposition possesses sarin.’  Does that sound like Colin Powell on Iraq and the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam?

But a National Security Agency (NSA) official in the Obama administration said: ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”’

And, Retired Lt. General Michael T. Flynn said that during the two years he served as director for the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration, he was never invited to meet with President Obama. “I never met with him once,” Flynn said of President Obama. Flynn was appointed by Obama twice — first in 2011 for a position in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, then as the Defense Intelligence Agency director, a title he held from 2012-14…a period which includes the dates of the sarin attacks, and Obama’s “red line” threat, and U.S. plans for war against Assad’s Syria.

The Obama administration was funding, training and arming mostly non-Syrian mercenary rebels who were fighting to overthrow Syria’s Assad.  Some of those rebels were using children as soldiers, beheading Christians and Kurds, raping as a weapon, in addition to using chemical weapons.  “The moderates, often underfunded, fragmented and chaotic, appear no match for Islamist units, which include fighters from organizations designated ‘terrorist’ by the United States,” Reuters reported in June 2013.  Jamal Maarouf, who runs the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) created by the CIA and Saudi and Qatari intelligence, said if “the people who support us [U.S., Saudis, Qataris] tell us to send weapons to another group, we send them. They asked us a month ago to send weapons to Yabroud [a city in Syria] so we sent a lot of weapons there. When they asked us to do this, we do it.”

According to Barak Barfi, a research fellow for the globalist funded New America Foundation, al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda-linked group known for summarily executing Syrian soldiers and other atrocities (including beheading Christians), receives weapons indirectly from SRF.

According to a PBS FRONTLINE documentary, the rebels are being supplied from Turkish bases and trained in Qatar in a facility near the Saudi Arabian border.  “FRONTLINE finds Syrian rebel fighters who say they’re being secretly armed and trained by the United States.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-to-train-a-rebel-army-secretly-in-seven-steps/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/syria-arming-the-rebels/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/25/the-big-weapons-that-the-u-s-may-be-secretly-supplying-to-the-syrian-rebels.html

“The U.S. is providing more arms and training to the moderate rebels in Syria, under a growing secret program run by the CIA in Jordan,” according to NPR in April, 2014.  http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/23/306233248/cia-is-quietly-ramping-up-aid-to-syrian-rebels-sources-say

New York Times reported on March 24, 2013, “With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.”

“The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/arms-airlift-to-syrian-rebels-expands-with-cia-aid.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

In October, 2011, Libya’s longtime President Muammar Gaddafi was killed after a revolution armed and supported by the U.S. and NATO.  The U.S. compound in Benghazi was destroyed September 11, 2012 and President Obama with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State were re-elected in November, 2012.  And, in May, 2013, NYT headlined a story by Reuters, “Syrian Rebels May Have Used Sarin.” As of August 13, 2016, Libya is in chaos and is a haven for ISIS.

In July, 2013 General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told “the Senate Armed Services Committee in public testimony that ‘thousands of special operations forces and other ground forces’ would be needed to seize Syria’s widely dispersed chemical warfare arsenal, along with ‘hundreds of aircraft, ships, submarines and other enablers’. Pentagon estimates put the number of troops at seventy thousand, in part because US forces would also have to guard the Syrian rocket fleet: accessing large volumes of the chemicals that create sarin without the means to deliver it would be of little value to a rebel force.”

However, “In the months before the [sarin] attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida [which the Obama administration was funding, training and arming], had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.”

Today, as a result of Russia’s intervention and enforcement, Syria has given up its chemical weapons, but the rebels supported by the U.S., Turkey, Saudis, Jordan and other countries retain their chemical weapons… some were recently confiscated by Turkey from rebels at Turkey’s border.

I am not a fan of Senator Lindsey Graham, but in this case his words were apropos: “This strategy makes Pickett’s Charge appear well thought out,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, referring to the poorly planned and futile Confederate assault at Gettysburg. “We’re about to train people for certain death.”

Hillary has promised to continue Obama’s policies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-rebels-islamists-specialreport-idUSBRE95I0BC20130619

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-may-have-used-sarin.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-usa-rebels-idUSBRE9891EZ20130910

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/obama-approves-military-aid-syrian-rebels-article-1.1372540

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/218248-senate-approves-obama-request-to-arm-train-syrian-rebels

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE94409Z20130505

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/middleeast/obama-seeks-500-million-to-train-and-equip-syrian-opposition.html

http://www.infowars.com/susan-rice-admits-u-s-giving-arms-to-al-qaeda-in-syria/

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

http://www.westernjournalism.com/former-defense-intelligence-chief-i-never-met-with-obama-once/

http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/u-s-military-confirms-rebels-had-sarin/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/politics/syria-us-opposition-funding/index.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/27/exclusive-obama-cuts-funds-for-the-syrian-rebels-he-claims-to-support.html

http://www.france24.com/en/20130516-video-al-nusra-rebel-executing-syria-soldiers/

“The world, including political, economic and religious, has seemingly gone mad over social justice.

However, we would do well to remember the lessons of the past century so that we don’t help to usher in the death of another 97 million world citizens. Social justice is an evil philosophy that must be repudiated at every opportunity.

The email at this Wikileak link is from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton in 2011. It reveals in simple terms that Libya was overthrown for craven, despicable, greed and power. “Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver.”…”valued at more than $7 billion.”…”This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA).” “French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues: a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production, b.Increase French influence in North Africa, c. Improve his intemai (sic) political situation in France, d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world, e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa)”

Zbigniew Brzeziński, Democrat, counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama: “The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”

“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits.”

“… Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.”

…

“This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.”

“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the mujahideen began during 1980, that is, after the Soviet army had invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the truth, kept secret up to now, is quite different: it was in fact on July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive on clandestine aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on that very day I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my view aid was going to bring about a Soviet military intervention.”

Nouvel Observateur: “When the Soviets justified their intervention by claiming that they meant to counter a secret intervention by the United States in Afghanistan, no one believed them. However there was some truth in that…. You don’t regret anything today?”

Brzeziński: “Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. Its effect was to draw the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter roughly the following: “We now have the opportunity to give the USSR its own Vietnam War”.

[Brzeziński’s unrepentant admission that the U.S. overthrew the government of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan and sold it as a Soviet invasion]

― Zbigniew Brzeziński, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era and Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power.

Here are photos from 34,000 feet yesterday, July 29, 2016, summer in the Northern Hemisphere, beginning with the south tip of Greenland and flying west to the northeast coast of northern Canada. There are not many clouds here. This is predominantly ice and snow in the ocean and on land. Uploaded in highest possible resolution so you can zoom. 

https://plus.google.com/photos/109260649524659295963/albums/6313347817393160465?authkey=CKHaybPrh7Di0QE

by Judith Curry Right about now would be a good time for people who care about climate change to acknowledge our clean energy crisis. – Mike Shellenberger

Source: Clean energy emergency

James Hansen
• “NASA scientist who is one of the world’s leading promoters of the theory that human industrial activity causes global warming
• States that “if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades … one ecological collapse will lead to another”
• Calls for taxes to be placed on carbon emissions
• Characterizes coal-fired power plants as “factories of death”

“In a June 23, 1988 speech that was a seminal event in the movement to focus public attention on global warming, Dr. James Hansen of NASA addressed the U.S. Congress and warned that unless the burning of fossil fuels were to be curtailed quickly and dramatically, the natural world suffer irreparable harm.””

“In 2001 he received the Seventh Annual Heinz Award in the Environment for his research on global warming.”

“Soon after receiving a $250,000 award from Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Heinz Family Foundation (a major funder of left-wing environmental causes), Hansen, in a move considered highly unusual for a NASA scientist, endorsed the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. He thereafter served as the primary climate advisor for Al Gore’s 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth.”

“Warning further that “our planet is in peril,” Hansen asserts that “if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades,” “[O]ne ecological collapse will lead to another.” In particular, he predicts the mass “extermination of species” and the ultimate disappearance of all the earth’s ice, resulting in a “sea level 75 meters higher.”

“On the twentieth anniversary of his 1988 speech to Congress, Hansen returned to Capitol Hill to demand that the chief executives of large fossil-fuel companies be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity and nature.”

“In 2011 it was reported that Hansen, in violation of ethics laws that regulate government contracts, had failed to publicly disclose $1.6 million he had earned in outside income, apart from his GISS salary. This included money to cover the costs associated with Hansen’s own transportation to speaking engagements and awards ceremonies around the world; legal services that were provided to him free-of-charge; and gifts from various supporters. In 2006, for instance, the World Wildlife Fund gave Hansen an engraved Montres Rolex watch worth at least $8,000, which Hansen illegally failed to report as a “gift” on his SF 278 financial-disclosure form.”

“After the 2009 eruption of the so-called “Climategate” scandal – “Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, asserts that Hansen himself doctored temperature data on two occasions—in 2001 and 2007—in attempts to show an impending climate catastrophe.”

Lots more here: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp…especially in the highlighted links in the two pages at this link.

At the 2015 Paris climate meeting, President Obama and John Kerry pledged billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Korean NGO Green Climate Fund and a World Bank operation which will loan that money with strings attached to developing nations (some of whom have already blown the corruption whistle) under the auspices of “climate change.” No treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate. Congress did not approve the agreement or the taxpayer money (i.e. more debt) committed and down payment sent by Obama pursuant to this agreement. Kerry said in Paris, “If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions – remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions – it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

Others confirm these model calculations: “Using the same climate sensitivity modeling as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, … if you included 100 percent [emission] cuts from the entire industrialized world in their modeling, then you would only avert warming by 0.278 degree C by the turn of the century.”

Securities markets were created to trade derivative securities based on carbon emissions. The trading fees on carbon derivatives have been estimated at over $10 trillion dollars per year…or about 75% of the annual GDP of the entire USA … a huge and extremely profitable commodity derivatives market that would be institutionalized by law, government policy, and international treaties…i.e. a government guaranteed market, funded by energy consumers and producers and taxpayers. In summary, they want to regulate and tax emissions of a harmless, helpful gas which is a byproduct of energy production and enrich themselves hugely in the process.

And all of this is about a colorless, odorless commodity, CO2, carbon dioxide, which, if we emit more of it, would make the world a greener and healthier place to live.

http://www.cnsnews.com/…/john-kerry-makes-stunning-climate-…

A vote for Hillary is a vote to continue this fraud.

Dr. Judith Curry takes down the AAAS in the post at this link to her website.  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) attempts a power play on climate change but instead shoots itself in the foot. This is an example of the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

https://judithcurry.com/2016/07/04/climate-power-play-by-the-aaas-et-al/

The management of ACS is one of the signers of the AAAS propaganda letter.  I was a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for many years.  I was heavily involved with an ACS subgroup in gas chromatography in the 1970’s and early 1980’s.  There was little climatology, the sciences of climate, at ACS in those years.  In fact, I and the others involved in that ACS subgroup were teaching ACS members how to measure gases, including teaching EPA employees how to measure real pollutants.

Following the climate conferences in Rio and Kyoto, ACS references and articles especially those in its weekly news magazine C&E News (Chemical and Engineering News) were biased and political, biased towards a political scheme known as ‘Global Warming’ which converged the interests of national and global governments with academic climatology, mainstream media, banking and left wing special interest groups such as Sierra Club.  It was a collusion to control trade which would have been illegal under U.S. anti-trust laws, except the collusion was organized by the federal government.

In this same period Barack Obama was on the board of the Joyce Foundation that funded the development of carbon credit derivatives trading.  A decade before, President Nixon had put in place the bureaucracy, now known as the EPA, which created the regulations that enabled the carbon commodities market, such as the market begun as the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).  “At its founding in November 2000, it was estimated that the size of CCX’s carbon trading market could reach $500 billion. That estimate ballooned over the years to $10 trillion.” (1)

The president of the board of Joyce Foundation board became an executive of CCX and Maurice Strong, who ran the UN climate conferences, joined the CCX board.  (2) The quasi-government agency / mortgage company FANNIE MAE and a commodities broker took interest in patented systems for measuring CO2 emissions in the home, and trading systems for that, so that your home mortgage required monitoring carbon emissions which could then be traded and taxed.  Al Gore’s company, Generation Investment, “purchased a 10 percent stake in CCX and became the company’s fifth largest co-owner. In 2006, Goldman Sachs also purchased a 10 percent share of CCX.” (3)  All of that to churn a huge and extremely profitable commodity derivatives market that would be institutionalized by law, government policy, and international treaties…i.e. a government guaranteed market, funded by energy consumers and producers.

And, among other nefarious actions, the colluders want to and have already tried to use the legal system to penalize people who are skeptical of or deny this 30 to 40-year-old scheme.  Despite years of support and research funding exceeding $40 billion in the U.S. alone, the conspiracy has not been able to validate climate models which show a significant net negative result to life occurs due to higher atmospheric CO2 concentration.  Nor does geological history confirm their models.  Atmospheric CO2 concentration has already been 4 times higher than today and that occurred during long periods when life on earth was abundant and green.

Their scheme is fraud and extortion under the color of armed authority, and it appears the universities and management of science associations are also culpable.  Statements such as Dr. Judith Curry’s and many letters signed by thousands of skeptical scientists confirm this scheme is a giant power play with no redeeming value to citizens.  All of this is about a colorless, odorless commodity, CO2, carbon dioxide, which, if we emit more of it, would make the world a greener and healthier place to live.

In summary, they want to regulate and tax emissions of a harmless, helpful gas which is a byproduct of energy production and enrich themselves in the process.  Those actions increase the price of all products and services which use energy, which includes essentially everything.  Taxes, fees and cost of compliance with regulations also increase.

Conveniently, the Supreme Court has already decided that the EPA is required by the Clean Air Act of 1963 to regulate CO2 and other “greenhouse gases.”  As required by that law, the EPA made its Final Determination, which was that CO2 is a hazard to the public health.  And the Supreme Court conveniently ruled that, under the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946, agencies like the EPA can to some extent write their own policies and regulations.

We have a self-reinforcing bureaucracy that wants to outlaw free speech and resistance to its policies.  Keep in mind that EPA and its administrators have been threatened with Contempt of Congress by Democrat and Republican controlled committees for failing to produce under subpoena the data and methods it used to make its determinations and EPA’s administrators have lied in Congressional hearings.

Isn’t this a conspiracy under the RICO laws?  Isn’t this a conspiracy which is designed to control trade and extract money under false pretenses?  Indeed, it is a very elaborate, well planned and played conspiracy.  And it is a fraud conspired in collusion with some very deep pockets.

There is a very, very large class of citizens who have suffered financially significant damages.  Where are those class action lawyers when you need them?   It is a case that the government should prosecute, except in all but one problematical definition.  It is a firestorm-hot criminal case that would draw celebrity lawyers and judges and create celebrity legal careers, to be followed by a very rich and historical civil case.  Except, the government must prosecute itself, and in this case government is unquestionably biased.  The one definition that is not met by the courts is a fair trial: how do citizens in this matter get a fair trial when their opponent is making and enforcing all the rules?

If not the courts, then in what venue could such a case be decided?  Could Congress handle this case?  It could repeal or reform the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedures Act, wherein  Congress delegated most of its responsibilities to the agencies of the Executive branch.  But environmental special interests lobby and contribute to congressional and presidential campaigns; almost all of them are conflicted.  If you surmise that we have regressed to the corrupt bureaucracy of the Roman Empire, you would be correct.

The venue must be the court of public opinion.  Virtually all polls show that global warming/climate change is at the bottom of the public’s priorities, despite millions of dollars and years spent to convince the public otherwise.  Common sense rules and in this case, the public smells a rat.  We need a referendum process to re-regulate the EPA, and to severely downsize it and de-leverage it.  And who will enforce anti-trust laws on the federal government?  Congress is not doing it.  An Article V convention of the states is one possible venue.

(1)  http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/252703/rip-al-gores-chicago-climate-exchange-has-died-greg-pollowitz

(2) http://canadafreepress.com/article/obamas-involvement-in-chicago-climate-exchange-the-rest-of-the-story

(3) http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7526

If you want to go backwards to the days of mad King George of England, whom the American Revolution defeated, and back to policies of all the other despotic kings and queens, if you want to go backwards to the medieval tyrannies of Islam, Catholic, Jewish, Shinto Buddhist and other religions, if you want to backwards to the rigid caste, class-based societies still prevalent in European countries, India and elsewhere, then stay or become a “progressive, a Democrat or a RINO.  But don’t lie to yourself.

I always try to put “progressive” in quotes because in almost all cases the true meaning is regressive or reactionary.  The practical meaning of “progressive” today is counter-revolutionary, counter to the American Revolution.  “Progressives” work for your inequality under the law and your financial and practical enslavement to nanny state governments which they control.

If you want to grow to realize your self, your family, your community and your nation, and all that is possible for you in these relationships, then you will want to be free from “progressives” and that means to understand and practice the freedom expressed in this profound quote from Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States of America.  Happy Independence Day!  Don’t squander this gift.

“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” Calvin Coolidge, July 4th, 1926.

Hat tip to David Chaney for the Coolidge quote.