$35 BILLION IN DHS POLICE MILITARIZATION PARTY PAID FOR BY MIDDLE CLASS AS BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS PAY NEAR ZERO IN TAXES

August 18, 2014 by concisepolitics

$35 BILLION IN DHS POLICE MILITARIZATION PARTY PAID FOR BY MIDDLE CLASS AS BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS PAY NEAR ZERO IN TAXES = HOMELAND SECURITY, THAT MAXIMIZES ARMS SALES, WAS A MASSIVE MISTAKEN MOVE TOWARDS A POLICE STATE!

STATE POLICE = POLICE STATE

Don’t Bring a Tank to Pumpkin Fest by David Weigel, Slate political reporter

Click for Source Slate Article by David Weigel

Tom Coburn released a report “Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending on U.S. Cities” portrayed a child-size drone flying near the Capitol; over ATV-driving Lego men; and, for some reason, over R2D2. = “If in the days after 9/11 lawmakers were able to cast their gaze forward ten years,” wrote Coburn, “I imagine they would be surprised to see how a counter-terrorism initiative aimed at protecting our largest cities has transformed into another parochial grant program.”

Police forces look like occupying armies = $35 billion in Department of Homeland Security grants.

Seattle = Spent $80,000 on a drone
Pittsburgh = Spent $90,000 on a sonic cannon used it to break up protests
SMALL TOWN Police departments buy $250,000 armored BearCats
Fontana, CA considers itself a ‘top 100 terrorist target’ — Coburn’s researchers
Keene, NH fought, unsuccessfully, its police department = BearCat purchase for Pumpkin Fest
Ferguson, MO = TANKS + ARMORED VEHICLES + SWAT TEAMS + RUBBER BULLETS + REAL BULLETS + TAER GAS = MILITARY POLICE STATE

Rand Paul published op-ed denouncing “Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars.”

“Rand Paul is right.” — Al Sharpton

Decades of WAR ON DRUGS + Tough-On-Crime Policies = MILITARIZE POLICE

Libertarian ideal = State has no more firepower to control civilians than the civilians have to police themselves, or to fight back. = Libertarian answer to crime has never been about empowering the police. = Libertarians saw it as the gun lobby saw it, the government was arming a police state while making it illegal and impossible for citizens to defend themselves from tyranny.

Liberals are up in arms about police militarization. Libertarians are saying: What took you so long? Right-wingers who’d been warning about fat contracts arming thuggish police departments are suddenly finding themselves in step with the left.

“…it seemed clear that they (Police) didn’t like being filmed. It became clear that capturing the truth of the situation might be powerful….As people start to film what they see and pursue tactics that are peaceful ultimately these incidents will continue to happen until the institution of policing, which is a coercive monopoly, is denied legitimacy. Badges don’t grant extra rights. If an action’s unlawful for me or you, it’s unlawful for anyone.”

— Eyre who co-founded CopBlock, which encourages citizens to film the police – Stop police departments from turning into shoot-first armies.

That’s further than many liberals would be willing to go.

NYT’ Matt Apuzzo published a wide-ranging study of what military equipment was making it to the sheriff’s office and how. In Morgan County, Indiana, the police acquired an MRAP because, in one sergeant’s words, “a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build IEDs and to defeat law-enforcement techniques.”

2009 DHS (MAXIMIZING ARMS DEALER REVENUES) released a report warning that the fringe was rising and that “rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.” = First big national wave of Tea Party rallies, and to the horror of progressives, some activists showed up with signs that dared the DHS to go after “rightwing extremists” like them.

Progressives still disagree with the right-wingers = Reject, as insane, the idea a heavily armed citizenry might be safer than a country where the cops have the guns.

But they suddenly agree about something.

MH-17 SHOT DOWN – WHO DONE IT?

August 17, 2014 by concisepolitics

MH-17 SHOT DOWN – WHO DONE IT?

FACTS WE KNOW TO DATE:

FACT: MH17 plane fuselage is riddled with machine gun bullet holes – Most likely from a war plane.

FACT: At least one Ukrainian military SU-25 jet fighter was in proximity of flight path of MH17

FACT: MAPS PROVE MH17 was diverted by Kiev Controllers from the normal South Easterly route over the sea of Azov to a path over the Donetsk warzone.

KIEV CONSPIRACY THEORY by Ukraine’s Secret Service, SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko: Russia and the Donetsk militia wanting freedom from Kiev were intending to shot down Russian tourists on a Russian Aeroflot flight AFL2074 Passenger Jet to crash in Ukrainian-held territory to start a Russian Invasion into Ukraine but they accidentally shot down MH-17. = Utterly twisted logic alleging a “false flag” covert OPERATION NORTHWOODS-style event = Mass killing of Russian tourists as a compelling argument for Russian invasion. Far-fetched to say the least as Donesk fighters have neither the capabilities nor the desire to undertake a complex intelligence operation of this nature.

Four days after being accused by Kiev of planning to invade Ukraine, Russia’s President Putin agreed with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that Moscow would not only collaborate with the Red Cross on channeling humanitarian aid to Eastern Ukraine through Russian territory, but that the agreement reached with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), had the support of the Kiev government.

1000 civilians in the Donbass region have been killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces = Real humanitarian CRISIS for intervention nothing else is needed. + US-NATO sponsored Neo-Nazi Right Sector Government national guard forces murdered 43+ people in Odessa setting fire to the city’s Trade Union building. = “May 2, 2014 – the date that fascist forces supported by the U.S. government attacked and murdered helpless civilians in the Ukraine – is a day which will live in infamy”.

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 11, 2014

Click for Source Article from Global Research

An earlier GR report said Kiev regime plan was to blaming Russia for the downing of flight MH17.

USA + EU MSM = Near Complete Silence on MH-17 = Western media has had very little to say as coverage and commentary pertaining to MH17 being blamed on Russia has disappeared. No more MSM routinely doing “Russia bashing” and demonizing president Putin. Was the MSM instructed to temporarily “put a hold” on reporting on the “revelations” of Ukraine’s Secret Service and MH-17?

Did the White House or the State Department decide that the SBU’s “fake intelligence” was visibly flawed and could not effectively be used for propaganda purposes against Russia?

Not one USA or EU MSM has reported Ukraine’s silly August 7 SBU statement, which has been officially endorsed by the Kiev government.

NOTE: Russian Media has published information about shelling of Russian territory from the Ukrainian side.

GAZA’s GAS RESERVES = FACTOR IN ISRAEL’S 7 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF REPEATED MURDER AND FLATTENING OF GAZA and ITS ECONOMY.

August 17, 2014 by concisepolitics

GAZA’s GAS RESERVES = FACTOR IN ISRAEL’S 7 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF REPEATED MURDER AND FLATTENING OF GAZA and ITS ECONOMY.

Click for Video Interview on The Real News Network

“As Israel’s energy issues become more pronounced, repeated military incursions into Gaza show that dominating and exploiting its offshore gas reserves is an increasingly important issue.” — Nafeez Ahmed, A regular Guardian contributor on the geopolitics of energy and Bestselling author of “A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization and How to Save It.” — August 17, 2014

Click for another Source = The Economist Article

ISRAEL’S GAS RESERVES FAR TOO OPTIMISTIC

Oil analysts say this Israel’s gas reserve is wildly over the top. Israel is unlikely to start exporting gas by 2020. Noble, an American company has so far dominated Israel’s production, says that gas from its Tamar field, which began flowing this year, already supplies 45% of the country’s electricity. But development of much larger Leviathan field is slow and OVERBLOWN. Asian buyers, who tend to pay the highest prices, are reluctant for security reasons to ship Israeli gas through the Suez Canal. Israel is loth to strike an export deal with Turkey at a time when that country’s foreign policy has become unpredictable and its prickly prime minister, Erdogan, could turn off the tap whenever he feels piqued. Egypt’s decision to discard a Mubarak-era agreement to supply 40% of Israel’s gas serves as a warning against doing business amid unresolved conflicts. “Without peace with the Palestinians, we can’t sell our gas to Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and—who knows?—maybe even to the Europeans,” says an Israeli former energy minister, Josef Paritzky.

Interview by ANTON WORONCZUK, TRNN PRODUCER on The Real News Network: Israeli assault on Gaza with MURDER of 1,800+ Palestinians may be connected to Gaza’s estimated 1.4 trillion cubic [feet of] natural gas reserves, valued at $4 billion.

NAFEEZ AHMED: The history of gas reserves goes back to its discovery in 1999 to 2000 by BG Group, a British company. Since the discovery of significant gas resources in Gaza, these resources have played an increasing role in determining the course of the conflict over the last 7 years. Increasingly Israel’s energy issues have become more pronounced. Israel’s repeated military incursions into Gaza appear to be linked to dominating and exploiting these offshore reserves in Gaza.

NAFEEZ AHMED: Israel tried to NEGOTIATE for gas with its favorite parties, the Palestinian Authority run by Fatah. Now, since Operation Cast Lead, it’s my view that the control of the Gazan offshore gas resources has been an increasingly important issue.

NAFEEZ AHMED: 2007 Current defense minister, Moshe Ya’alon, wrote a policy paper explicitly calling for uprooting Hamas to begin drilling work on GAZA’s gas reserves. The scenario he put forward was TO STOP any Palestinian efforts to extract gas to benefit the Palestinian economy — $6+ BILLION — Major strategic threat to Israel desire to keep Palestinians in COMPLETE POVERTY AND APARTHEID.

NOTE: Of course, Israel says it is to keep a KNEE ON THE THROAT OF THE TERRORISTS.

NAFEEZ AHMED: There’s two dimensions here: Strategically prevent Palestinians from accessing the gas resources for their own benefit and becoming an independence state from Israel + Israel wants to ROB the energy resources.

NAFEEZ AHMED: Major discoveries of energy resources inside Israeli territory = Leviathan field + Tamar field = Many, many times larger than what is in Gaza. But over the last few years Israel has faced many bureaucratic, regulatory, and even geophysical hurdles in actually bringing these fields to production (5 years away). I uncovered some British Foreign Office files that had been obtained under Freedom of Information showing the British Foreign Office has a plan to use Gaza’s gas as a cheap stopgap while Israel is trying to bring these other fields into production.

NAFEEZ AHMED: But Hamas stands in the way of British exploitation of GAZA GAS FOR ISRAEL = Denying Palestinians any benefit in developing their own resources and moving towards independence from APARTHEID ISRAEL. So it seems clear that Moshe Ya’alon, senior position in Israel GOV, is executing his ROBBERY plan to fulfill this agenda of crushing Hamas and gaining strategic control over Gaza’s gas.

WORONCZUK: Talk about the energy crisis that Israel is facing?

NAFEEZ AHMED: Israel’s energy crisis is not widely known related to its increasing electricity crises and the inability to bring domestic gas resources to production. Many people in the Israeli oil and gas industry and USA/BRITISH oil and gas industry, are hyping how Israel is now going to be a major geopolitical force as a net exporter of gas in the region = Exporting to Jordan or even Europe

NAFEEZ AHMED: Haaretz Report on Israel develop policy committee’s two chief scientists said the forecasts of production estimates were vastly overestimated = Quantity of gas brought into production was much lower. And Israel has only two choices = Become a net gas importer or use its domestic gas for its own needs. = NO EXPORTS!

NAFEEZ AHMED: Haaretz reported this very important document was not published as part of the committee’s official reports + Left of its website until Haaretz publicized the report. Clearly there was a concern inside at the highest level of Israeli government ending any plans for becoming a major energy exporter. = They saw it as potentially damaging for the reputation and potential contract negotiations with major energy companies internationally wanting to invest in Israel. So Israel needs something as a stopgap = ROB GAZA! FCO files highlight the difficulty in bringing in these existing Israeli fields into production. So ROBBING the Gazan gas could offset this energy crisis.

NAFEEZ AHMED: THIS PARTIAYLLY EXPLAINS THE MURDER AND FLATTENING OF GAZA OVER AND OVER DURING THE LAST 7 YEARS. Netanyahu’s own personal negotiator, and representatives of the BG Group that holds the right to Gaza’s gas said the UNITED Palestinian officials were excluded from this deal. TYPICALLY, Netanyahu gave lip service was that, yes, we want to push forward negotiations with the Palestinians over Gaza’s gas.

NAFEEZ AHMED: Kerry, as part of the peace process, put forward an economic stimulus package including development of the Gaza marine gas. So Netanyahu played a typical double game, effectively, on the one hand saying, yeah, we want to have diplomatic discussions about the gas and about Gaza and about a meaningful two-state solution, and at the same time (in hindsight from Kerry officials) Netanyahu had no intention of a peace agreement = Netanyahu deliberately torpedoed the peace process because he doesn’t want an independent, viable Palestinian state, and simultaneously not allowing Palestinian officials to participate in negotiations involving Gaza’s gas.

NAFEEZ AHMED: It seems very clear that Gaza’s energy resources have certainly played a very important role in Israel’s strategic 7 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF REPEATED MURDER AND FLATTENING OF GAZA and ITS ECONOMY.