Thursday, June 4, 2015

AFTERMATH OF GREED AND WARS: Mad Race to the End

 

 

 

 

How Europe has taken on 130,000 migrants already this year... and the numbers of desperate men, women and children risking everything to make the crossing will only get higher

  • Huge numbers of migrants have already arrived in Europe this year via a number of different routes 
  • Many of them have actually arrived in Europe by land, travelling through the Balkan states into Hungary
  • But the majority still come via barely seaworthy boats, arriving in southern Italy or the Greek islands
  • It is estimated that up to 300 migrants arrive on the island of Kos daily - including 6,000 this year alone
  • But the arrival of migrants from West Africa in the Canary Islands suggests new routes may be opening up

More than 130,000 migrants have already arrived on European shores in 2015, coming from countries as diverse as Syria, Nigeria and Vietnam in a desperate effort to flee warzones, avoid genocide and give their children the best chance to start a new life.

While migrants risking everything on board cramped, barely seaworthy boats bound for Italy and the Greek islands grab the headlines, a number of alternative routes - such as the Canary Islands - have emerged, highlighting locations that could see a surge in migrant arrivals over the coming months.

Italy and Greece remain the most popular destinations however, with each having more than 40,000 arrivals since January.

In fact arrivals of the small Greek holiday island of Kos have already topped 6,000 in 2015 - arriving at a rate of 300 a day - leaving its population of 32,000 wondering how many more people they can take.

In a stark representation of the the sharply rising numbers of migrants heading to Greece, there have already been 32,160 more arrivals in the first five months of 2015 than there were in the whole of 2014. The number heading to the Italy - usually through the island of Sicily and the southern province of Apulia - have stayed relatively stable this year, but have still hit 46,500 in just five months.

Another hugely popular route into Europe is actually overland, with close to 40,000 migrants travelling through the Balkan states up into Hungary, Slovenia and Austria over the past six months.

With thousands of migrants having already drowned in the deceptively appealing waters of the Mediterranean Sea this year, Europe is facing an unprecedented obligation not just to save the lives of desperate men, women and children, but also to work out exactly what can be done to ensure those who survive the perilous voyage, where often the criminal gangs trafficking them can prove as fearsome and ruthless as the sea itself.

Heading to Europe: Italy and Greece have each seen more than 40,000 migrant arrivals since January, with the small Greek holiday island of Kos having already topped 6,000 in 2015 alone. Another popular route into Europe remains overland with close to 40,000 migrants travelling through the Balkan states up into Hungary, Slovenia and Austria over the past six months

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Heading to Europe: Italy and Greece have each seen more than 40,000 migrant arrivals since January, with the small Greek holiday island of Kos having already topped 6,000 in 2015 alone. Another popular route into Europe remains overland with close to 40,000 migrants travelling through the Balkan states up into Hungary, Slovenia and Austria over the past six months

Huge numbers: More than 1,000 men, women and children have been rescued from the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean since May 29 

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Huge numbers: More than 1,000 men, women and children have been rescued from the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean since May 29

Exposed to the elements: Hundreds of migrants crowd together on board a rescue vessel 30 miles off the coast of Libya. 

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Exposed to the elements: Hundreds of migrants crowd together on board a rescue vessel 30 miles off the coast of Libya.

No other choice: Desperate migrants wash their faces with the water of the Mediterranean Sea after being rescue and taken to Sicily

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No other choice: Desperate migrants wash their faces with the water of the Mediterranean Sea after being rescue and taken to Sicily

Women wearing orange life jackets crowd together on board the Italian navy vessel Spica after being rescued from a migrant boat

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Women wearing orange life jackets crowd together on board the Italian navy vessel Spica after being rescued from a migrant boat

Once on board the Italian Navy vessel Spica, the migrants wrapped themselves in insulating foil after days exposed to the elements

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Once on board the Italian Navy vessel Spica, the migrants wrapped themselves in insulating foil after days exposed to the elements

A Italian rescue worker wearing a mask holds a tiny migrant baby in his arms as the little girl's smiling mother looks on

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A Italian rescue worker wearing a mask holds a tiny migrant baby in his arms as the little girl's smiling mother looks on

A young boy is carried to shore by an Italian rescue worker after making the incredibly dangerous journey from North Africa to Europe

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A young boy is carried to shore by an Italian rescue worker after making the incredibly dangerous journey from North Africa to Europe

Trying to sleep: Many of the boats sent to rescue the migrants struggle to cope with the numbers they encounter

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Trying to sleep: Many of the boats sent to rescue the migrants struggle to cope with the numbers they encounter

So many migrants are taken back to the safety of Europe on board the rescue boats that the decks shimmer with gold insulating foil

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So many migrants are taken back to the safety of Europe on board the rescue boats that the decks shimmer with gold insulating foil

The Italian navy ship Spica has a crew of just 60 men but was required to take more than 1,000 migrants back to Sicily

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The Italian navy ship Spica has a crew of just 60 men but was required to take more than 1,000 migrants back to Sicily

While some of the near 130,000 migrants to arrive in Europe this year have arrived in unusual destinations, the vast majority have come on long-established routes - taking advantage of lax security and corrupt officials in North and West Africa and in the Balkan states.

Perhaps the most notorious route is the one between Libya and southern Italy, on which thousands of migrants have already died this year.

With the majority of the 46,500 migrants arriving in Italy having come from sub-Saharan Africa, many have already lost their life savings and spent weeks dodging ISIS sympathisers in war-torn Libya before they set foot on the cramped, leaking vessels they hope will bring them to Europe.

Once on board the ship, their brutal traffickers have been known to lock large numbers of people in the hull in order to restrict their movement.

The motor-less boats are then taken out in to the middle of the sea where the migrants are abandoned by their traffickers and left praying for a rescue boat to spot them before their craft capsizes.

A similar method is used by migrants travelling across the Western Mediterranean, although the distance of the sea crossing from North Africa meant that only 2,808 people - the majority from Syria, Guinea and Cote D'Ivoire - have arrived in mainland Spain since January.

Perhaps more worryingly for those living in the Canary Islands, migrants have also started arriving on their shores. Although the figure between January and April stood only at 36 - most of them from Guinea, this West African route could dramatically increase in popularity should the EU attempt to crackdown on the numbers arriving in Italy and Greece.

For the time being, however, Kos is proving to be a hugely popular destination for the desperate migrants, with an estimated 300 new arrivals every day, totalling 6,000 in 2015.  It is thought 1,500 people to arrived on the small picturesque island this week along, with many now sleeping on the streets.

Photographs released over the weekend showed men determinedly paddling a dinghy through rough seas to reach the popular holiday destination - while laden with backpacks and heavy clothing. Some were later seen wandering through the streets or sleeping rough.

Syrian migrants flock onto the Greek island of Lesbos

 

Coming to land: Arrivals of the small Greek holiday island of Kos (pictured) have already topped 6,000 in 2015 - arriving at a rate of 300 a day - leaving its population of 32,000 wondering how many more people they can take

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Coming to land: Arrivals of the small Greek holiday island of Kos (pictured) have already topped 6,000 in 2015 - arriving at a rate of 300 a day - leaving its population of 32,000 wondering how many more people they can take

Pakistani  migrant men arrive on the beach at Kos in a dinghy at dawn after making their way from Turkey earlier this morning

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Pakistani migrant men arrive on the beach at Kos in a dinghy at dawn after making their way from Turkey earlier this morning

Safe: A Syrian man holds his child after being escorted into Kos harbour by the Greek Coastguard who found them drifing offshore

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Safe: A Syrian man holds his child after being escorted into Kos harbour by the Greek Coastguard who found them drifing offshore

Syrian migrants disembark a Greek Coastguard vessel after being escorted into the harbour earlier this morning

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Syrian migrants disembark a Greek Coastguard vessel after being escorted into the harbour earlier this morning

A Syrian man and his child arrive in Kos this morning, having fled Assad's brutal regime and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda militants

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A Syrian man and his child arrive in Kos this morning, having fled Assad's brutal regime and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda militants

New life: A Syrian woman embraces her daughter on the Kos dock side after being escorted into the harbour by the Greek Coastguard

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New life: A Syrian woman embraces her daughter on the Kos dock side after being escorted into the harbour by the Greek Coastguard

A Greek naval worker helps a Syrian man bring his tiny baby daughter on to the Greek island of Kos this morning

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A Greek naval worker helps a Syrian man bring his tiny baby daughter on to the Greek island of Kos this morning

A Syrian family sit on the Kos dock side a earlier today. An estimated 300 people arrive on Kos every day - a total of 6,000 so far in 2015. It is thought 1,500 people arrived on the small picturesque island this week alone, with many now sleeping  on the streets

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A Syrian family sit on the Kos dock side a earlier today. An estimated 300 people arrive on Kos every day - a total of 6,000 so far in 2015. It is thought 1,500 people arrived on the small picturesque island this week alone, with many now sleeping on the streets

Details of the routes comes as David Cameron claimed the 'vast majority' of migrants travelling in boats across the Mediterranean are not asylum seekers but people seeking a better life.

The Prime Minister told MPs the migrants have been 'tricked and fooled' by criminal gangs, with Britain's role involving action against the gangs and using the aid budget to 'mend the countries from which these people are coming'.

He faced criticism over the Government's approach to the crisis from SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, who called for refuge and asylum to be offered to those who need it. Mr Robertson said the UK has an 'appalling record' on the resettlement of Syrian refugees and had turned its back on those rescued in the Mediterranean.

In his opening question to the PM, Mr Robertson said: 'It's a stain on the conscience of Europe that thousands and thousands of refugees have been dying in the Mediterranean when many lives could have been saved.

'Do you agree that the role of the Royal Navy, of the Italian coastguard and of the navies of other European countries are making a profound difference, however, much more needs to be done, including offering refuge and asylum to those who need it?'

Mr Cameron said Mr Robertson was right to praise the Royal Navy's role, noting HMS Bulwark has been playing an 'absolutely key role' in saving lives.

He added: 'I would part company with you on your next suggestion. What we need to do in order to solve this crisis is two things: one, we need a government in Libya that we can work with so that it's possible to return people to Africa and stop this criminal trade taking place; and second, we need to break the link between getting on a boat and achieving residence in Europe.

Arriving in Kos migrants in make-shift camp speak out

 

Migrants wait to be checked after disembarking from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in Augusta, Sicily

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Migrants wait to be checked after disembarking from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in Augusta, Sicily

Some 406 migrants were taken to Sicily  after being rescued from the sea in what is known as the Sicily Channel yesterday

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Some 406 migrants were taken to Sicily after being rescued from the sea in what is known as the Sicily Channel yesterday

Starting a new life: Migrants crowd the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

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Starting a new life: Migrants crowd the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

Taken to shore: Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in Augusta, Sicily

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Taken to shore: Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in Augusta, Sicily

Hope for the future: An Italian Coast Guard officer helps a child migrant disembark from the his vessel Peluso as they arrive in Sicily

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Hope for the future: An Italian Coast Guard officer helps a child migrant disembark from the his vessel Peluso as they arrive in Sicily

Cramped: While some of the near 130,000 migrants to arrive in Europe this year have arrived in unusual destinations, the vast majority have come on long-established routes - taking advantage of lax security and corrupt officials in North and West Africa and in the Balkan states

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Cramped: While some of the near 130,000 migrants to arrive in Europe this year have arrived in unusual destinations, the vast majority have come on long-established routes - taking advantage of lax security and corrupt officials in North and West Africa and in the Balkan states

Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

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Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso as they arrive in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

Migrants are checked after disembarking from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

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Migrants are checked after disembarking from the Italian Coast Guard vessel Peluso in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

Migrants sit on the dock as they wait to be checked after disembarking in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

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Migrants sit on the dock as they wait to be checked after disembarking in the Sicilian port town of Augusta

Kos (pictured) is proving to be a hugely popular destination for the desperate migrants, with an estimated 300 new arrivals every day

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Kos (pictured) is proving to be a hugely popular destination for the desperate migrants, with an estimated 300 new arrivals every day

Migrants are seen washing on the streets of  Kos. Many of the arrivals have come from Pakistan, Syria and Afghanistan

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Migrants are seen washing on the streets of Kos. Many of the arrivals have come from Pakistan, Syria and Afghanistan

Mr Cameron said Britain should be proud of its record on granting asylum, telling Mr Robertson: 'When people are fleeing torture and persecution, they can find a home here in Britain.

'But let's be clear: the vast majority of people who are setting off into the Mediterranean are not asylum seekers but are people seeking a better life.

'They've been tricked and fooled by criminal gangs and our role should be going after those criminal gangs, sorting out the situation in Libya, turning back those boats where we can and making sure with our generous aid budget - that this Government achieved 0.7% - that we use that money to mend the countries from which these people are coming.

'That is our moral responsibility and one I'm proud to fulfil.'

Earlier yesterday, Labour continued to apply pressure on the Government to accept Syrian refugees through a UNHCR scheme adopted by many other European countries.

Currently the Government runs its own scheme that has accepted around 200 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees, but shadow development minister Gavin Shuker said it should be doing more.

During international development questions, Mr Shuker told the Commons: 'We welcome the reintroduction of search-and-rescue in the Mediterranean, it was a shameful decision to withdraw it in the first place and the Prime Minister was right to U-turn.

'But we know the most vulnerable Syrian migrants won't make it to a boat, they won't get here on a plane, they will die in a camp.

'Given that the whole world community has come together to relocate these most vulnerable through the UN - why do you insist on running your own scheme?'

Irish Naval Service rescues migrants north of the Libyan coast

 

An estimated 1,500 people have arrived on the holiday island of Kos this week, with many now sleeping in doorways or on the streets as there is nowhere else to go

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An estimated 1,500 people have arrived on the holiday island of Kos this week, with many now sleeping in doorways or on the streets as there is nowhere else to go

Migrants are seen on the streets of Kos. Many are trying to survive in an unused hotel building away from the center of island

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Migrants are seen on the streets of Kos. Many are trying to survive in an unused hotel building away from the center of island

A migrant lies on a bed on the floor of the abandoned hotel where desperate migrants are forced to stay in  Kos

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A migrant lies on a bed on the floor of the abandoned hotel where desperate migrants are forced to stay in Kos

Desperate: A migrant woman is photographed washing clothes in the sea on Kos. Her young children are seen playing in the water nearby

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Desperate: A migrant woman is photographed washing clothes in the sea on Kos. Her young children are seen playing in the water nearby

A group of migrants lie on beds on the floor of the abandoned hotel where desperate migrants are forced to stay in Kos 

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A group of migrants lie on beds on the floor of the abandoned hotel where desperate migrants are forced to stay in Kos

Perhaps the most notorious route is the one between Libya and southern Italy, on which thousands of migrants have already died in 2015 

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Perhaps the most notorious route is the one between Libya and southern Italy, on which thousands of migrants have already died in 2015

Migrants rest and drink water after disembarking from Coast Guard vessel Peluso in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta

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Migrants rest and drink water after disembarking from Coast Guard vessel Peluso in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta

Migrants do their best to sleep on the dock after arriving in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta

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Migrants do their best to sleep on the dock after arriving in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta

The majority of the 26,257 migrants arriving in Italy having come from sub-Saharan Africa, will have already lost their life savings and spent before they even set foot on the cramped, leaking vessels they hope will bring them to Europe

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The majority of the 26,257 migrants arriving in Italy having come from sub-Saharan Africa, will have already lost their life savings and spent before they even set foot on the cramped, leaking vessels they hope will bring them to Europe

Starting a new life: Once on board the ship, traffickers often lock large numbers of people in the hull in order to restrict their movement

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Starting a new life: Once on board the ship, traffickers often lock large numbers of people in the hull in order to restrict their movement

International Development Secretary Justine Greening said Britain was collaborating with the UNHCR on the Government's scheme and stressed that £800 million of aid has gone to help refugees in countries neighbouring Syria.

Ms Greening replied: 'We are working with the UNHCR, collaboratively on this. In fact we have had now just over 200 people that we've helped through that scheme... But you should also be aware that through the asylum system we have also had 4,000 asylum applications from Syrians.

'But what this also shows critically is that we need to support people where they are - 99% of the refugees in the Syrian crisis are still in those countries that border Syria, that's why the UK has put £800 million into helping them build their lives there, not least including educating their children.'

Meanwhile the head of the European Union's border agency Fabrice Leggeri said its ships are working closer to conflict-torn Libya than ever before - but will only enter the potentially potentially dangerous territorial waters to rescue migrants in trouble.

The latest migrant crisis has come at the same time that many British families have flown out to Kos during schools' half term.

Travel and tour operators have attempted to dismiss the crisis, saying people who claim it will affect holidaymakers are 'scaremongering'.

But interest in breaks to Kos appear to have fallen sharply following the report - as according to Trivago, the hotel booking website, searches for accommodation between May 26 and May 31 dipped by 52 per cent compared with the previous week.

By comparison, interest in several other Greek islands rose during the same period – by 66 per cent for Kefalonia, 28 per cent for Mykonos, 14 per cent for Crete, Rhodes and Santorini and 13 per cent for Zakynthos (Zante)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mad Race to the End

by Preston James

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We The People and the Establishment’s Top Policy-Makers are engaged in a Mad Race to the End. If We The People win, we get to survive along with the preservation of our Great Republic the United States of America.

If We lose, that is, We fail to overcome the sinister most Evil Agenda of the Establishment’s Top Policy-Makers who are puppets of a foreign power, not only do we lose our Republic forever, our Great Nation will be completely Balkanized.

And we and our families will be attacked and interned in FEMA Camps and then progressively mass-murdered by Homeland Security (DHS) the American form of the East German Stasi, set up by Marcus Wolfe former Head of the Stasi who was hired to do so and now run by foreign based and controlled PuppetMasters.

It is these same City of London based Bolshevik families which have already been responsible for creating ever ‘ism there is and is responsible for the incredibly painful mass-murder of hundreds of millions of human beings in Bolshevik Russia, Maoist China and all over the World in numerous Wars staged for Banksters profits and increased World Power.

Make no mistake, unless stopped by We the People and the Whole World they will do the same thing here in America our great Republic that they have done in so many other nations where they have mass-murdered the Populace and destroyed and Balkanized these countries.

Yes, the stakes are incredibly high.

The Establishment’s Top Policy-Makers know that they are involved in a monumental, history in the making, Final Race to complete their incredibly Evil Agenda which is powered by the City of London Banksters who are losing power by the day.

This is the struggle of the ages of Might versus Right. It is the final struggle between the Evil Aristocratic “Bloodline” Plutocrats (aka the Illuminati) versus We The People, that is, the Populism Powered Masses versus the most Evil entities that ever existed on Planet Earth who have acted as parasites, mass-murders and asset-strippers upon the Human Race.

The Establishment Top Policy-Makers know that their Evil Agenda to completely take over the whole World was supposed to have been complete by 2005. But due to serious inner conflicts and numerous setbacks their whole plan is now threatened on a mass-scale Worldwide and is crumbling to dust right before their eyes.

They now realize their greatest nemesis has become the Worldwide Internet, the new Gutenberg Press and the massive Worldwide Populism that is emerging in parallel to it.

6corps-320x3163These Top Policy-Makers used to be able to control the flow of information through their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM).

But now thanks to the Worldwide Internet, they have lost this classical control they had for about 100 years, beginning in 1913 when they illegally and Unconstitutionally hijacked the American Monetary Production and Distribution System.

The Worldwide Internet is their new nemesis and their attempts so far to control it have backfired in their faces.

And this trend of failures will continue for them until their Worldwide financial control grid based on the World’s largest Conterfeiting Ring in History and its pernicious Usury and Worldwide Debt-Slavery is eradicated completely off of the face of the Earth.

Yes, the Establishment Plutocrats who are the Puppets, Kingpins and Cutouts of the Rothschild Master Counterfeiters have set up and financed lots of their own misinformation websites which specialize in limited hangout with a bad payload delivered for key subjects only. They know that unless they handle it this way they have no chance to con the public. But even so what has happened is that the public has become very hip and street smart, and accepts the limited hangout stories (as they should) but rejects the bad payload no matter who delivers it. Consequently more and more Internet Stooges, sock-puppets and limited hangout Traitors are identified and rejected every day.

Any Internet Web Site that carries this article and other Veterans Today articles is definitely on the right track.

Web users have become incredibly sophisticated and street smart about discerning truth from misinformation.

Web users have become incredibly sophisticated and because real truth resonates with their souls, they seem to have developed an almost automatic discernment mechanism. What this means in practical terms is that the Establishment Top Policy-Makers have only had limited, minimal success torpedoing the truth and their efforts have actually done more to expose their previously hidden Agenda than anything else.

They know that unless they move quickly before the worldwide emerging Populism which follows the Internet takes complete hold they will be finished and completely dethroned of all power, status and riches. They know that if this happens their extreme crimes against humanity in staged wars and asset stripping of nations, along with their abuse, torture and murder of children in their private Evil Rituals will be fully exposed.

image002777The Establishment Top Policy-Makers know they are close to failure and if they fail they face indictment, arrest, conviction and public execution for all the blatant crimes against humanity including torture and mass-murder they have committed all over the World.

They also are now beginning to realize that the stakes are very high and that if they fail they all face Execution by the Angry Masses who have gotten to the point they will not tolerate their Establishment Tyranny any longer.

Yes, they are beginning to fear the pitchforks and the heavy blade of the guillotine of the French Revolution. They are starting to finally understand all the screams of painful death that they have imposed on so much of humanity may come back at them. And deep down inside they know that Payback is always a bitch when the chickens come home to roost which is what is happening now all over the World.

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If these Banksters and Moneychangers fail in attaining their incredibly Evil Agenda, they know they are finished and will be eradicated from the face of the Earth. Even if they succeed they are now starting to understand that they will never completely win because the masses can become very crafty when awakened and some will always find a ways to get them for what they have done.

And be certain of this the masses are awaking Worldwide and are not getting hip to the World’s biggest scamcalled the counterfeiting of money and pernicious usury (aka Money and income producing debt for Nothing). Many Islamics in general outlaw this Money for Nuttin and Debt for Free scam because they know it is anti-human and the source of most Evil in the World. And they are correct in spades.

Yes, they will never be safe again once World Populism takes hold no matter what they do.

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What is their Evil Agenda and why is it Evil beyond what most can comprehend even when told?

What are the Populist Forces that are arising against them which have resulted in a final Battle Scenario between We The People and them, the Establishment’s Top Policy-Makers.

And what specifically is wrong with these Establishment Top Policy-Makers? What Force drives them to be so incredibly Evil and to work endlessly to destroy the Republic of the United States of America, tyrannize and terrorize We The People and then mass-murder us?

In this article an attempt will be made to answer these questions.

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One thing is now certain, the Federal Reserve System Banksters have been the City of London Rothschild Banksters main vehicle for attempting to take over the whole World. And now it is clear they are failing in their Evil Agenda to do so and the Whole World is turning against them Right Now!

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The USA is technically Bankrupt and has been so for many years.

As many economists have pointed out lately the USA is technically bankrupt and has been for many years, ever since 1933 when the Rothschild Banksters very craftily defrauded almost all of America’s Gold.

The two major Bank Bailouts, one under Bush2 and the other under Obama were both illegal and Unconstitutional for many reasons as has been the recent ongoing Quantitative Easements.

These massive ongoing QE’s have been viewed by many as criminal and fraudulent emergency efforts to prop up the American Monetary System which is essentially based on the largest counterfeiting in the history of the World, even far surpassing the Wiemar Republic which brought Fascism to Germany and staged it for WW2.

It’s a known but little publicized fact that Iceland indicted, arrested, convicted and jailed their Central Banksters and granted cancellation and amnesty of almost every homeowners mortgage because the Banksters defrauded the Icelanders with phony money and bad Banksters debts from poor investments. Americans have had a crooked, compromised Attorney General and are now getting another one. It’s high time we route these compromised crooks out of the US Department of Justice and get honest Rule of Law enforcement and serious prosecutions of Banksters for RICO Financial Fraud and for running the World’s largest Counterfeiting Ring.

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The Notorious Plunge Protection team, masters of stock price-kiting and fraud.

And the notorious Plunge protection team allegedly run out of the Whitehouse using state of the art trade-interception/short-stop technology which short stops all normal private trades and inserts USG trade to falsely kite up the system and keep it appearing solvent when it is not.

End of the hegemony of the Petrodollar system?Yes, the US economy is a House of cards that has been kept afloat by the raw issuance of more and more counterfeit FIAT money, accepted by Americans only because the USG’s laws require it.

Since 1971 it has been accepted by the World because of the US Petro Dollar Agreement made with Saudi Arabia and the Mideast oil producers which involved US Protection for their puppet regimes in exchange for making all Oil Sales in US Dollars and using the newly formed US Petro Dollar as the World Exchange Currency.

Now if you doubt that the US Petro Dollar is completely counterfeit, just examine any bill and it says, “Federal Reserve Note” and never states that it is a “Gold or Silver Certificate” redeemable in actual Gold or Silver like they used to be. by the way a “Note” is a loan with the note holder (YOU) as the individual who promises to pay it back with interest that accrues by the minute, hour and day. But the interest doesn’t go to you, it goes to the Federal Reserve System, which is neither a Bank or a Reserve.

The Federal Reserve System is private Corporation no different than Federal Express, except Federal Express delivers an honest work product without counterfeiting mass amounts of so-called phony FIAT money which is not real money at all, just debt-notes which obligate users to pay interest for using their own money. Now you know why this has been called the greatest scam and fraud in the history of the World anytime, anyplace.

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Doubt that this Federal Reserve System manufactured counterfeit so-called money, just consider that the US Dollar now is worth only 2% of what it was when it was first issued. Serious Inflation of retail prices accompanied by deflation of job availability and wages paid is so significant since 2007 that the American Middle Class is now evaporating and the welfare roles are increasing by about 1% per month.

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The US Petro Dollar’s position as the World’s Reserve Currency is coming to an end in 2015.

This has been a great arrangement for the Oil Companies, the criminal Federal Reserve System and the Rothschild Banksters, but a very bad deal for the average American Citizen and many folks around the World who have been asset stripped and deprived of the fruits of their labor and any wealth they have accrued because of the forced use of this counterfeit Federal Reserve System’s phony FIAT counterfeit dollars.

But despite its utility and means to transfer accrued wealth and the fruits on American Labor to these Federal Reserve Banksters and their Kingpins and Cutouts, it is all coming to a screening halt, and likely sooner than later too. How can this be?

Very simply the big Rothschild and Federal Reserve System’s massive counterfeiting scam of FIAT money is now recognized by major World powers for what it is, a big scam and fraud. And they are unwilling to be a part of it anymore and are now setting up their own Gold and commodity backed systems.

Can you say BRICS Development Bank? Can you say MINT trade Union?

brics-logo-320x116Yes, over 137 of the World nations have either already signed on to the BRICS System of have signed Letters of Intent. These nations even include the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. The core group of BRICS has been Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

MINT is new but the core group of nations starting it is comprised of  Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey with many more showing great interest in joining. Neither of these two development unions are based on the US Petro Dollar.

China holds Trillions of US Petro Dollars and is discharging them slowing by buying up assets inside America such as the Iron Range, Movie Theater chains, two large Ports on the West Coast, numerous office and government buildings. And it is claimed by good inside sources that China has already bought part of the Federal Reserve System and could soon own most of it.

Folks, it is just about over for the Federal Reserve System’s counterfeiting scheme and the predominance of the US Petro Dollar.

220px-N.TeslaBut as if that wasn’t enough, Free Energy aka Tesla “solar wind power” or cosmic wind power, or black energy power is just about to be released for consumers. the major oil companies have been scared to death of this development which has been around since the late 1800 and have murdered hundreds to prevent its development.

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Nikola Tesla and his Cosmic Wind powered Automobile

Nikola Tesla had an electric automobile running for about one and a half years on a small battery sized box with an antenna he said received power from the Aether or Cosmic Wind to power the Auto.

In fact some believe that is the main motivation for the Israeli war mongers (IZCS) and the Bush Crime Cabal (BCC) faction of the CIA for working so hard to try to set up the complete destruction of Iran. Iran is close to developing very high efficiency reactor rods which pose little contamination risk and no spent fuel issue.

These fuel rods will be inexpensive compared to what is available now and in addition they are close to developing other forms of energy, on in particular is considered “free energy”.

Yes, Tesla-style Free Energy and anti-gravity is already here and very close to being ready to market to consumers all over the World.

If the major oil Companies (The Five Sisters) are unsuccessful in stopping Iran and other nations who are very close to releasing free energy for consumers, this means the whole Rothschild/Federal Reserve System of deployed Terrorism staged wars for mass-death will quickly become a thing of the past.

And despite the now proved fact based on Russian oil research that oil is NOT a fossil fuel but a mineral that flows underground in huge rivers. And if needed, synthetic plant based oil made from Hemp and other plants can replace mineral oil in most cases if necessary and works just fine in many applications including making plastics. Once the mega oil companies lose market the International War and Mass-Death machine will screech to a halt. Want to know more about Big oil and its connection to Banksters, War and mass painful human death and maimings, just take a look at Veterans Today Columnist Dean Henderson’s incomparable work.

Soon you will no longer be connected to the Electric Grid, no more smart meters designed to Mind-Control you and disrupt your sleep and harm your health.

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Just imagine this. You are no longer connected to the grid. Each home or apartment has its own small 3 by 5 foot box which contains the means to provide all their home energy needs for 20 years or more. Your car has its own box like what Tesla had that powered his car mysteriously for about a year and a half. Your car weighs about 80% less due to on board anti-gravity generators. This technology is here now and leaked NSA raw feed documents from Russian and French Intel prove it. Your criminal USG and its privatized DOD contractors have used your tax dollars to develop this for their Secret Space War Technology and weapons Systems, but refuse to share it with those who paid for it and actually own it, We The People.

And cell phone tower emissions and Wi-Fi will be eliminated substituted with either fiber optics or a new non-toxic wave form that is inter-dimensional and far more efficient and effective. Such a wave form has already been discovered and is now being used in some special forces radios.

Soon all of this technology will be made available as the American Petro Dollars is pushed out of prominence and only accepted by fools who haven’t caught on yet.

The leaders of other nations including and especially Russia and China are carefully planning payback for these International Banksters that have defrauded their people for many years.

Can you fathom this idea? Numerous International War Crimes Trials are coming in the days ahead as the US Petro Dollar crumbles, along with plenty of Executions for those found guilty? Yes, it is a solid bet that newly emerging Worldwide Populism will demand all involved in this massive US Petro Dollar Counterfeiting/War-making scheme will be brought to Justice in a World Court of Law.

What is wrong with the Establishment Top Policy-Makers?

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The American Establishment, the Stateside Puppets of the Rothschild Banksters and their Federal Reserve System are the real Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing and our Enemies within our Gates. The CMMM are their Presstitutes and the US Congress are their Political Whores.

Literally everything. It’s almost as if these establishment Top Policy-Makers and their Kingpins and Cutout are not human! Based on their notably anti-human Death Cult oriented behavior for many years, they would have a hard time proving it in any honest Court of Law.

Certainly their allegiance to a foreign power and their habitual acts of espionage inside America would be enough to get them indicted, prosecuted, convicted and executed fro Treason, Sedition, Espionage and Criminal and Civil RICO in any honest federal Court (right now we don’t even have a single one!).

There are important Vectors that are converging in 2015. The first is the continually increasing in credibility, Truth and Populism as emergent from the Worldwide Internet. This is Vector A below in the Diagram. As the Internet’s usage and popularity has increased, World Populism has emerged in parallel to it and is a byproduct of it. At present it is involved in a steeply increasing rise in credibility, despite numerous Troll and sock-puppet misinformation sites set up by the Establishment.

The Establishment’s main means of maintaining credibility (even though everything they ever state is always at least party a lie), has been classically maintained by their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM). The CMMM and the Establishment’s “Talking head” Newscasters act like Puppets on a string, just like almost every single USG Official, Member of Congress, the Judiciary and the US Justice department. This is Vector B.

It has been in major descent for years ever since the CMMM began dispensing the massive lies of the JFK, MLK and RFK Assassinations.

High_Treason (2)Add to this their continuing lie Oswald did it that over 80% of the American Public and 99% of the World’s public do not believe, and the CMMM lies about the Israeli attack on America of 9/11/01 as well as the CMMM lies about the Boston Bombing and Sandy Hook both with no dead anyone, and the thinly veiled lies of the establishment through their CMMM are beginning to lose traction in a major way.

The Establishment and their Chief Spokespersons the Talking Heads of the CMMM, true puppets on a string are losing their Credibility and it will actually crash in 2015 when the Internet Truth and Populism Vector displaces it and shows it to be the massive base of lies, misinformation and Psyops against the America people that it is.

The Establishment and its CMMM are both losing credibility in a major way because the Worldwide Internet has provided a means for millions of researchers all over the World of all ages to sift through all the evidence available and quickly expose the Establishments lies dispensed by the CMMM, which few believe anymore.

Vector A crosses Vector B in 2015 and that is when World populism takes hold in most major nations. This will means a complete collapse of the credibility of the American Establishment and their CMMM, along with the massive counterfeiting scheme of the Rothschild Banksters and their franchisee the Federal Reserve System.

This will also signal the demise of the US Petro Dollar as the World’s reserve Currency and then end of US Military hegemony as a hijacked agent of the City of London World Zionists aka the Rothschild Banksters and their puppet regime and main action-agent the Israeli Likud Party.

This will also signal the impending demise of Israel as it is presently controlled by war-mongers and those who suffer from racial delusions shown to be false by the new John Hopkins Genome Factor research which shows 97.5% of Israelis claiming to have Hebrew blood to have none, being Khazarians from the Ukraine area. with at least 80% of Palestinians actually having ancient Hebrew Blood. Now for the first time this sick racial delusion of Israeli’s has been fully exposed a their big lie.

ESTABLISMENT's Collapse 2015Who are the folks who hijacked America and why are they the World’s biggest Anti-Semites despite what they claim?

So now we know for sure they have no right to any Palestinian lands and never did because they have no ancient Hebrew blood and are the World’s biggest anti-Semites for persecuting and mass-murdering Palestinians who are the real Semites, that is at least 80% of them carry ancient Hebrew Blood. In 2015 Israel will begin its 10 year decent to non-existence and will be Balkanized as Henry Kissinger declared last year. Israel will be reconstituted and completely changed because the Whole World is now turning against them for creating an Apartheid against Palestinians and for genociding them.

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This became this when the Israel Mossad working with PNACers and Top NeoCon Israeli-American Israeli-first Dual Citizens, a few top JCS, USAF, NORAD and FAA Traitors planned and deployed the 9/11/01 Nuclear Attack on America and then nuclear blackmailed the USG into allowing them to consolidate all American Law Enforcement and Alphabets into Homeland Security, often called Homoland Security by Intel Insiders due to the perversions practices during regular office hours by the top Officials there (a major lawsuit is now being litigated for these perversions on the job, by the CMMM will not cover it).

ATT00030 (2)Have no doubt that the City of London based Rothschild WZs planned to turn America into the World’s largest GAZA two, that is, the World’s largest open air prison camp using their WZ controlled Homeland Security and hijacked FEMA organizations.

But far too many ordinary Americans are waking up and many are well armed. Any coordinated attempts to disarm the American People will quickly result in a Major Civil War and turkey shoot of these foreign based criminal invaders, our new American enemies within our gates.

Anyone in DHS, FEMA, the National Guard, private mercenary forces or the Regular US Military stupid enough to try this might just as well paint targets on themselves and walk around waiting to be shot down by their fellow soldiers or by the masses in the biggest turkey shoot in the history of the World.

Some of the young and dumb brainwashed American Soldiers, mercenaries and Police may be willing to fight the American People, but they won’t last long to the fuselage of fire that will hit them from all directions, even from their own ranks in the back while they are not paying attention.

Most will go YOYO (official DHS term for abandoning your post and going “You Are On Your Own”). This is what most top DHS officials  and Police Chief know will happen as police and Military go home to protect their families when the SHTF and it will, probably in 2015 as Vectors cross. Remember the Armed American is the World largest Army and once fully awake and activate will comprise a force that cannot be beaten.

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Conclusion:

Unless the Establishment and DHS and FEMA start backing down, they will be wiped out in the biggest Turkey Shoot in History.

ATT00027It is important to understand that when push comes to shove many inside DHS, FEMA, the National guards and even the US Military will turn on their foreign masters and appointed puppets in a New York minute if they order them to attack communities and attempt to disarm them.

The average American has about had enough of this DHS/FEMA tyranny and are close to going ballistic on many fronts including militarily like the Founding Fathers did and recommended for any such a situation that has arisen inside America like from DHS and FEMA, true Enemies of We The People within our gates.

And these domestic agents of the foreign based Banksters and their CFR Dual Citizen Traitors will never see it coming because of their long term arrogance and short sightedness.

Right now all American Intel has become porous due to allowing the massive infiltration and hijacking of Israeli Intel. All NSA raw data has been accessed and downloaded and released into the public sector by Russian and French Intel.

Russian Republic Intel has almost all of it if not all of it as does French Intel. Folks inside DHS, FEMA, the FBI and other Alphabets and Intel no longer believe in the Establishment’s Big Lies and are seriously questioning the motives of their superiors. Many are leaking Intel because they believe that massive lies and USG crimes must be exposed and stopped. the CIA is split right down the middle between the Bush Crime Cabal BCC’s secret CIA (World’s largest drug trafficking Organization in partnership with the International Zionist Crime Syndicate IZCS).

Loyal CIA Patriots are now blocking and dragging and disrupting BCC activities of the CIA and in some cases providing leaks which expose and block the BCC Agenda which is prescribed by the Rothschild Banksters and their primary Franchisee the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Bush Crime cabal has been in control of most of the USG as agents of the Rothschild Banksters for at least 50 years after Bush1 masterminded the assassination and coverup of the JFK Assassination. He was also responsible for many other assassinations such as MLK and RFK and has embedded many of his Ccriticizeutouts in high USG positions in the last 50 years so it is going to be a lot of work to weed them out. This has already started within the Military.

Examine the facts and know who your Real Enemy inside the Gates of America really is.

Many Americans are now beginning to understand that this enemy within and their puppets are truly planning to destroy America our Republic and mass-murder 90% of us Americans, even those that do not dissent. Doubt this then just examine the photos that are available of their Georgia Guidestones or take a visit there to examine them in person. then you will begin to understand what they want to do, which is to murder you, your whole family and destroy America forever. make and maintain a commitment to join your fellow American and never allow these scum to ever succeed in their Evil Agenda, ever.

Why? Because in the final analysis, Americans from all sectors, all races, all social classes and all occupations are waking up and are becoming notably motivated to take back their great Republic. Millions are just waiting for the Establishment to start something before they deploy hell on them from all directions in the greatest Turkey Shoot in the history of the World. There will be many civilian losses but the establishment will be brought to immediate justice and Victory will be ours, that is, We The People, and we will restore our great Republic, our US Constitution and or Rule of Law.

 

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

THE PLANNED START OF WWIII

 

 

 

 

 

We will never uncover exactly what happened on September 11, 2001, the courageous efforts of misguided researchers notwithstanding.  The extent of the cover-up extends across geographic borders, across multi-national corporations and across international government departments.  The obfuscation is huge, with no let-up in sight.  Many researchers are unwittingly aiding the battle.

Your best bet?  Accept that 9/11 was an inside job - period.

The official version of events on September 11, 2001 is one of the great hoaxes in world history, which has been used to manipulate the American people for political purposes and has led to undermining the Constitution, launching illegal wars, and subjecting the people to virtually unrestricted surveillance. Since terrorism involves the use of acts of violence and threats of violence to instill fear into a population in order to manipulate it for political purposes, the American government appears to be using terrorism to manipulate the American people.

The purpose of 911?

  • To enable the rapid introduction of police state laws under the guise of "The War on Terror";

  • To start a mass program of propaganda against Muslims and the Arab World, in preparation for the coming war between political Zionists and the Islamic World, as predicted by Albert Pike.

"We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations. Our analysis of the detailed evidence implies a staged attack employing a variety of deceptive arrangements. Indeed, every element of the September 11 attacks, including cellphone calls from fast-moving aircraft, has an alternate means of creation." - Statement by S.P.I.N.E. : The Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven.

Will Bush, like Wilson in WWI, and FDR in WWII, go all the way and deliver WWIII to those who engineer wars for their profit?  It certainly seems that way so far.

Missing Trillions

On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2 TRILLION in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

Such a disclosure normally would have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried. To the trillions already missing from the coffers, an obedient Congress terrorized by anthrax attacks would add billions more in appropriations to fight the War on Terror.

When confusion and misinformation get together in the dark, paranoia is born. Fears of war, violence, and oppression fester and grow in the minds of the populace pushing everything but a misguided assurance of certain doom into the shadows. Out of this cramped and huddled mindset we get the bastardized half-brother of critical thinking: conspiracy theories.

Claiming that World War III is just over the horizon is as crazy as it gets, but the state of the world is showing some eerie similarities to the pre–World War II global picture. And history is a creature of habit.

 

 

10An Unexpected Invasion

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On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers strapped on their marching boots and took over several airports in Crimea. As this is being written, roughly 6,000 Russian troops are moving across the Crimean peninsula and forcibly taking operational control of military bases, communications centers, and government buildings.

This is an invasion that has been a long time in the making, and it’s certainly not the first time Russia has made power plays in the Ukraine. Ever since 1783, Ukraine and Russia (for a time the Soviet Union) have played hot potato with Crimea, leaving a bubbling brew of split nationalism struggling to coexist on the little peninsula.

But the arrival of Russian troops is just the most recent step in a tumultuous few weeks for Ukraine. The country has seen its Russia-sympathizing president, Viktor Yanukovych, become a fugitive, a Russian citizen become the Crimean city of Sevastopol’s mayor, and an emergency meeting of Crimea’s parliament elect Sergey Aksyonov as the new Prime Minister of Crimea—at gunpoint. Aksyonov has declared that he will follow orders from the ousted Yanukovych, who is currently seeking refuge in Russia. The country’s politics are in tatters.

9The Ukrainian Conflict Is Reaching A Boiling Point

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Ukrainian nationalists are calling Putin’s invasion an act of war; Russians in Ukraine are calling it an act of salvation. Riots are flaring up all across the country as the two dominant political forces come to a head. This videoshows two men being beaten by a pro-Russian mob in Kharkiv, the USSR’s Bolshevik-run capital leading up to World War II—and that’s where Putin’s army looks headed next.

You can get a pretty clear view of the political alliances of Ukraine with the above map, which shows the results of the 2010 election. Blue represents areas that supported Viktor Yanukovych, so you can consider those regions comparatively pro-Russian. The purple areas voted for an opposing candidate, Yulia Tymoshenko. The darker the color, the stronger the support. Kharkiv and Donetsk are firmly in the blue, and represent two major Ukrainian cities with a strong industrial infrastructure—and both are historically Russian.

This is a group of very assertive, very nationalistic people at arms over the one issue that holds paramount importance: heritage. And historically, gray areas are reserved for the losers; it’s the inflexible, dyed-in-the-wool believers in a cause who triumph in a conflict. Russia sees this as good news, picturing much support from the country they’re invading. As one Ukrainian bitterly put it, “No one asked us. We are like puppets for them. We have one Tsar and one god—Putin.”

8Russia’s License For Aggression

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Though the UN, NATO, and the US have all gone on high alert, the Crimean invasion isn’t an act of aggression against the whole world. It’s a move to make parts of Ukraine decisively Russian, both culturally and politically. Obama initially warned that there would be “costs” to this invasion, but he won’t back it up—he can’t, not without a game of nuclear Russian roulette, which nobody wants.

The problem isn’t that America and the UN will start tossing bombs into Russia; the problem is that Putin knows they won’t. This is a man who once said that the fall of the Soviet Union was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century,” a viewpoint which harkens to the days of Stalin’s Great Purge and Khrushchev’s missile diplomacy with Cuba.

And Putin’s already on round two. In 2008, when Putin was still Prime Minister, Russia and Georgia entered a five-day conflict that culminated in Russian bombs falling on the Georgian capital. Humanitarian groups around the world cried out, governments issued strict warnings for Russia to fall back, and nobody lifted an actual finger to stop it. At the end of it all, Russia calmly strolled back home and declared that Georgia had been “sufficiently punished.” Each time this happens, Russia becomes more assured that the warnings of the rest of the world are just that—words, empty and hollow.

The situation in Ukraine may not be a match that’s going to ignite the fires of World War III, but it’s a nod to a superpower that they have a free license to do what they want. And if you give a mouse a cookie . . .

 

The Senkaku Island Dispute

F3H Demon being launched on South China Sea

F3H Demon being launched on South China Sea

In 1960 I patrolled the South China Sea in my all weather Navy Interceptor F3H Demon and often crossed paths with Communist MIG 15 Interceptors but in a similar non-combat role but now 55 years later, the times have changed, the war drums are beating and the setting for a Bay of Tonkin false flag incident on the South China Sea could well begin World War Three as well as engulf the far east, including a reluctant Japan, in military if not nuclear conflict: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

“The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don’t enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.”  ~  Michael Badnarik

To fully find the truth regarding the current conflict between the United States in China on the South China Sea ~ one must of course follow the money and realize we are really talking about the survival of the New World Order with the uncomfortable reality that BRICS has become a formidable economic power whereas the world’s biggest trading nation (China) and second largest economy will soon find it unnecessary to be anchored to a single currency, the US dollar.

Pepe Escobar in March (ICH) revealed that BRICS is where the real global financial threat to the West lies;

” The acronym that all these “forecasts” dare not reveal is BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). BRICS is worse than the plague as far as the ‘Masters of the Universe’ that really control the current – rigged – world system are concerned … The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) – a key alternative to the IMF enabling developing nations to get rid of the US dollar as a reserve currency – will be operative by the end of this year. The NDB will finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects not only in the BRICS nations but other developing nations. Forget about the Western-controlled World Bank, whose capital and lending capacity are never increased by the so-called Western “powers.” The NDB will be an open institution. BRICS nations will keep 55 percent of the voting power, and outside their domain no country will be allowed more than 7 percent of votes. But crucially, developing nations may also become partners and receive loans.”

As Pepe points out a new global galaxy is developing in the global economic universe and at its center is China ~ ” The US “pivoting to Asia” – launched at the Pentagon – is all dressed up with no place to go. Bullying Southeast Asia, South Asia and, for that matter, East Asia as a whole into becoming mere ‘Empire of Chaos’ vassals – and on top of it confronting China – was always a non-starter. Not to mention believing in the fairy tale of a remilitarized Japan able to “contain” China and Isolating the “communist dictatorship” won’t fly. Just watch, for instance, the imminent high-speed rail link between Kunming, in Yunnan province, and Singapore, traversing a key chunk of a Southeast Asia which for Washington would never qualify to be more than a bunch of client states. The emerging 21st century Asia is all about interconnection; and the inexorable sun in this galaxy is China.”

The Global elite are not taking these interconnection developments lightly as Pepe correctly predicts  ~ “Of course the ‘Empire of Chaos’(The United States ), business-wise, won’t be thrown out of Asia. But its days as an Asian hegemon, or a geopolitical Mob offering “protection”, are over.”       See Pepe Escobar article

 A Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft on patrol

A Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft on patrol

So there you have it, a deeply diminished United States is attempting to prop up its fading Empire by military threats and posturing on the South China sea and at the same time drag in a reluctant Japan to protect its flank.

As Peter Symonds reports in WSWS, the provocations are already accelerating;  “Just days after a CNN news crew joined a P8-A Poseidon surveillance aircraft over a Chinese-administered islet in the South China Sea, it is clear the flight was a calculated provocation aimed at ramping up pressure on China. American officials immediately exploited the reportage to underline Washington’s determination to challenge Chinese territorial claims in these key strategic waters, regardless of the consequences …. Just like the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the media is once again being “embedded” as the propaganda arm of the military as the US prepares for war with China. CNN made no pretense of independent reporting, painting China as the villain engaged in “a massive military build-up” on the islets ~ an early warning radar station on Fiery Cross Reef ~ and dramatically highlighting warnings from a Chinese radio operator appealing for the aircraft to “please go away… to avoid misunderstanding… US imperialism’s overriding aim is not to secure “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. Rather the South China Sea has become the pretext for a show of force intended to bully Beijing into accepting US hegemony in Asia. For this, Washington is preparing for, and willing to risk, war.”

But Symonds cuts to the chase on May 18th by asking the obvious Question ~ Is The US planning a “Gulf of Tonkin” incident in the South China Sea?

Excerpt: “The historic parallels are chilling. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson needed a justification for decisions that had already been made to dramatically escalate US military involvement in a civil war in Vietnam and to begin bombing targets in North Vietnam. Pentagon planners had concluded that Washington’s widely reviled puppet regime in Saigon was incapable of defeating the North Vietnamese-backed National Liberation Front on its own….Preparations for massively expanding US involvement were drawn up well in advance. In the summer of 1964, the US worked with the South Vietnamese to stage a series of provocations ~ probes by US-supplied patrol boats to expose North Vietnamese radar systems …. On August 2, the USS Maddox was monitoring one of these raids in the Gulf of Tonkin, part of the South China Sea, eight miles offshore and well within North Vietnam’s 12-mile territorial waters, that provoked an exchange of fire with small North Vietnamese boats…. Two days later the USS Maddox, accompanied by the destroyer C. Turner Joy, reported coming under fire. There was, in fact, no attack.The entirely manufactured incident, surrounded by a barrage of media sensationalism and official lies, was exploited to paint North Vietnam as the aggressor… The belligerent response of the United States was presented as justified, defensive actions to maintain “international peace and security in Southeast Asia.”

Then Symonds makes the South China Sea connection ~ “As part of the “pivot” to Asia, the Pentagon is already engaged in a massive military build-up and strengthening of alliances and strategic partnerships throughout Asia directed against China. One of the latest warships, the USS Fort Worth, has just completed a week-long “freedom of navigation” patrol in the South China Sea designed to test and challenge China’s presence…While the USS Fort Worth remained outside China’s claimed territorial waters, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has called on the Pentagon to draw up plans for US warships and warplanes to enter the 12-mile limit and directly challenge Chinese sovereignty. Undoubtedly behind the scenes, far more detailed war plans have been drawn up… But in confronting China, Washington faces widespread anti-war opposition at home and around the world, born of two decades of continuous wars including the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. No one should be surprised by a new “Gulf of Tonkin incident” suddenly emerging in order to try to stampede public opinion behind US aggressive military operations against China.”   See WSWS report

The stage has been set and now all the West needs is a militarized ally on its flank and that would mean Japan ~ and it appears that Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has already drank the Obama kool aid and is ready to accelerate Japan’s remilitarization as reported by Ben McGrath in WSWS; ” The Japanese cabinet signed off on two new bills on Thursday that will accelerate Japan’s remilitarization. The legislation corresponds to joint-military guidelines agreed to by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his recent trip to the United States. The bills will be presented to the Japanese parliament, or Diet, shortly and a vote is expected by July… The bills have nothing to do with ensuring peace or protecting the public. The Abe government, encouraged by the US, is seeking to remove all restrictions on the operations of the Japanese military, in particular its ability to participate in Washington’s wars under the guise of “collective self-defense….However, central to so-called “collective self-defense” is Japan’s integration into the US military build-up throughout Asia against China as part of its “pivot to Asia.” Speaking last month (after his disastrous fractured English speech to the US Congress) Abe explained why, from Washington’s standpoint, the present situation was untenable ~ “If there were an attack against the US [Aegis] destroyer [near Japan], Japan would not be able to prevent that from happening under the current law,” he said. “In the future, the Japanese Aegis destroyer will be able to protect the US Aegis destroyer… Since coming to office, the Abe ‘American puppet’ government has boosted military spending, redrmilitary guidelines to focus on China, established a US-style National Security Council and enacted an anti-democratic secrecy law. At the same time, Abe has been waging an ideological campaign to whitewash the crimes of Japanese militarism in the 1930s and 1940s to condition public opinion, particularly young people for new wars.” See article ~

The lines have been drawn in the South China Sea and the players have been identified between an over extended American Empire and the new BRICS economic powerhouse that economically threatens the new World Order ~ and could well replace the dollar in the near future with the Chinese Yuan.

Beijing’s response to these recent US provocations, via the Global Times; “If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt its activities, then a U.S.-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea … The intensity of the conflict will be higher than what people usually think of as ‘friction’.”

In 1960, as a Navy fighter pilot, we feared the Chinese but now 55 years later they are an economic juggernaut and a seeming financial threat which has brought the United States to the edge of purposely starting a war.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein

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Russia’s not the only country setting the stage for World War III. As is the case with most important things, World War II didn’t suddenly flash into existence; it edged its way into the world consciousness one little bit at a time, like a slowly rusting bicycle, until war was officially declared. While it’s easy to put the conflict into the simplest terms, a lot of factors combined to make up what we now view as one war.

The years leading up to the war held a lot of indicators that, in hindsight, revealed aggressive countries testing the waters of what they could get away with. Japan, Italy, and Germany were all involved in minor conflicts that the League of Nations couldn’t stop, such as Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and Japan’s chemical-infused invasion of China in 1937.

These days, China is reversing the balance by threatening an invasion of its own. The territory in question is a group of rocks known as the Senkaku islands, which are located in the East China Sea. The problem, of course, is that both China and Japan feel that the islands belong to them, and whoever controls the islands also controls shipping lanes, fishing waters, and apotential oil field.

6A Third Sino-Japanese War In The Making

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China hasn’t been the nicest neighbor recently. In November 2013, China startled the world by announcing a newly configured air defense zone in the East China Sea—a zone that they and they alone would control, to the point of
shooting down aircraft that wandered into it. But, in addition to Japan, other regions originally had claim to that airspace, including Taiwan and South Korea.

Whether or not China was planning an invasion at that point, the Senkaku islands fall inside their “newly acquired” airspace, and now they’re threatening to forcefully move Japan out of the area. Tensions have been building in the Pacific Rim for a while now, and if military action puts too much pressure on the skeleton of their current political disputes, bones could break.

And unlike the first two Sino-Japanese wars, this conflict could involve other countries in the region. South Korea quietly expanded their own airspace in December 2013, pushing back into territory that China had already claimed. Combined with both China and Japan aggressively rearming themselves in recent years, this territorial dispute has the potential to explode.

5America Is Legally Bound To Protect South Pacific Countries

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A war only becomes a World War when the US gets involved. Unlike their official policy of stern warnings and disapproving looks in response to Russia, the White House has publicly and unwaveringly declared that it will back Japan against any acts of aggression by China.

With about 50 percent of its Naval force stationed in the Pacific, the US will also be in a position to help the Philippines if China continues pressing to the south. They’re yet another country that has been affected by the airspace changes, and the US is legally bound to protect the Philippines based on the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.

This treaty doesn’t even require anything as outright as a full-scale land invasion. The Philippines owns disputed islands within China’s new airspace in the South China Sea (much like Japan claims to own the Senkaku islands). If China makes a move on any of those, the US Navy has to retaliate on their behalf, or they’ll break the conditions of the treaty.

4Unlikely Alliances

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But beneath it all, what do China’s problems and Russia’s problems have to do with each other?

Although they initially ended up on opposite sides of the conflict, Germany and the USSR went into World War II with a non-aggression pact, which lasted two years until Hitler ripped it up and sent Nazis onto Soviet ice.

With perhaps some similarities to that historic pact, China and Ukraine signed a nuclear security pact in December 2013. The conditions: China won’t use any nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and if Ukraine is ever attacked by a nuclear force—or “threatened by such aggression“—China will provide Ukraine with security guarantees.

Why would China want to create such a pact with a country 5,800 kilometers (3,600 mi) away? And more importantly, with which government is China going to honor the pact? The past two months have seen a see-saw of political parties in control of Ukraine, but it’s likely that China’s involvement will be dependent on Yanukovych’s politics, which are decidedly pro-Russian. He’s the one who signed the pact. China says its relationship with Russia is warmer than ever, with China’s People Daily describing it as “one of the most active power relationships [in the world].”

It’s been speculated that Russia is hoping to draw a Western attack onto Ukraine, so that China’s entry to back Ukraine will cement the alliance between China and Russia. That idea reeks of conspiracy theory. But with Russia’s recent agreement to supply $270 billion in oil supplies to China, and with the majority of Russia’s pipelines running through Ukraine, China would want to protect its own interests. Either way, the enemy of an enemy is always a friend, and US-Russian relations are on very shaky ground.

3Iran Is Itching For War

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While tension rises on the Eastern European front and Southeast Asia is mired in an explosive territorial dispute, rumors of war are also being whispered in the Middle East—specifically, Iran. But is Iran any real threat? Depending on the spin, it’s easy to think so.

In January 2014, Iran dispatched a fleet of ships toward US national waters. The Senate has decided that unless military action is taken, Iran’s nuclear development will continue unchecked. And on February 12, 2014, Iran’s military chief answered that claim by declaring the country’s willingness to go toe-to-toe with American forces, on land or at sea.

It sounds like a crisis in the making, but it’s not as bad as it seems. Those “warships” were a rusty frigate and a supply boat, the White House in no way backs the Senate’s bill, and while Iranian general Hassan Firouzabadi did threaten the US and the “Zionist regime” (Israel), it’s worth remembering that they’ve done so plenty of times in the past.

Another point of contention is Iran’s military force. Including paramilitaries, Iran states that they have 13.6 million people who can pick up a weapon at a moment’s notice. While that number is probably exaggerated, it doesn’t matter much anyway—World War III, if it happens, will be mostly an aerial war dependent more on long-range technologies than close-quarters combat. And that, surprisingly, is an example of why not to count Iran out of the picture. They have an air force of 30,000 men with several hundred aircraft, along with cruise missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 mi). That’s plenty of range to hit US bases in the Gulf.

But most importantly, continued attention on Iran, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries is spreading the West’s foreign resources a little too thin, especially now that Russia won’t be any help in that region.

2North Korea Is A Wild Card

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North Korea tends to get relegated to the back row in discussions on world powers. They’re potentially dangerous, sure, but it’s a short-range type of danger, similar to the way you can still skip away from a mugger with a knife. But turn your back for too long, and that mugger can sneak up and give you some scars.

North Korea is still firing missiles in South Korea’s direction for no good reason. The most recent launch was March 2, 2014; they fired more the week before that. With a range of about 500 kilometers (300 mi), the missiles won’t reach far—just to, say, Japan. Or China. Or South Korea, or Russia. And since they’re nestled right in the center of three of the biggest threats to peace at this time, they could—purposely or not—stir up something bigger than themselves, like dropping a starved weasel into a den of sleeping bears.

Most frightening of all, North Korea is building a nuclear arsenal. It’s unlikely that they’ll ever lead with a nuclear attack, but if there’s enough chaos going on around them, it’s not impossible that they’ll try to slip one into the mix.

1A Global Recession

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World War I and World War II were very different from each other, but they had one striking similarity. Prior to each war, economic recessions hit several of the countries involved. World War II famously brought most of the world’s economies back from the Great Depression, and World War I helped the US recover from a two-year recession that had already slowed trade by 20 percent. Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it’s worth noting which economies recovered earlier than others, which may have had a huge impact on the way things turned out.

By 1933, Japan had taken moves to devalue its currency, which led to increased exports and a resulting growth in their economy. They pumped the extra money into weapons and munitions, which gave them a decided military advantage in the years leading up to the war. Germany, on the other hand, entirely crashed, which made the Nazi and Communist parties take similar steps and earn overwhelming support among the populace.

We’re seeing some similarities today. While analysts are predicting yet another economic meltdown for Western countries, countries like Iran and Russia are looking to band together to boost their economies. Among other effects, that could lead to a second unit on Iran’s nuclear plant; Germany’s massive internal spending in the 1930s pulled it out of the Depression fasterthan America or the rest of Europe. And the global recession hit Russia less than much of the rest of the world, due in part to its exports of a quarter of the natural gas used by the entire European continent

And then there’s China. The US government is close to $17 trillion in debt, and China owns seven percent of that, or about $1.19 trillion. China recently flew past Japan to become the world’s second largest economy, and if it keeps growing at this rate, its GDP is going to match America’s in about eight years. The risk is if China decides to dump the US debt. China would take a financial loss, but it could be a crippling blow to the US economy—and much of the world, since the US dollar is held in reserve by most foreign governments.

If China and the US do come to blows over the South China Sea, the US could eradicate the debt and pump the extra revenue into military spending—the exact same monetary flow that happened in World War II, only this time the guns are bigger.

 

 

Earth's nuclear arsenal revealed: Interactive infographic lets you track growth of the world's WMDs over 70 years

  • It reveals stockpile changes in the US, UK, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea
  • Between them these countries have 10,000 nuclear weapons, around 4,100 of which are believed to be active
  • Graphic uses data from the 'Nuclear Notebook', which since 1987 has tracked the number of world's WMDs
  • Russia and the US have the most nuclear weapons, followed by the UK and France, according to the graphic

There are currently more than 16,300 nuclear weapons in the world – enough to kill everyone on the planet 100 times over.

Now an interactive infographic has been created that tracks the number and history of nuclear weapons in the nine nations responsible for many of these warheads.

They include the US, UK, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Between them, these nations possess 10,000 nuclear warheads, 4,100 of which are active.

Click on the countries below to see their nuclear arsenal from 1945-2014... 

The latest infographic uses data from the 'Nuclear Notebook', which since 1987 has tracked the number and type of the world's nuclear arsenals.

'I don't think people truly understand just how many of these weapons there are in the world,' said Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin, who publishes the notebook.

'The interactive is a way to see, immediately, who has nuclear weapons and when they got them, and how those numbers relate to each other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

China’s vast military machine grows by the day. America’s sending troops to Australia in response. As tension between the two superpowers escalates, Max Hastings warns of a terrifying threat to world peace.

Mass hysteria: The armies of Mao Tse-tung stunned the world by intervening in the Korean War

Mass hysteria: The armies of Mao Tse-tung stunned the world by intervening in the Korean War

On the evening of November 1, 1950,  22-year-old Private Carl Simon of the U.S. 8th Cavalry lay shivering with his comrades in the icy mountains of North Korea.

A patrol had just reported itself ‘under attack from unidentified troops’, which bemused and dismayed the Americans, because their campaign to occupy North Korea seemed all but complete.

Suddenly, through the darkness came sounds of bugle calls, gunfire, shouts in a language that the 8th Cavalry’s Korean interpreters could not understand. A few minutes later, waves of attackers charged into the American positions, screaming, firing and throwing grenades.

‘There was just mass hysteria,’ Simon told me long afterwards. ‘It was every man for himself. I didn’t know which way to go. In the end, I just ran with the crowd. We ran and ran until the bugles grew fainter.’

This was the moment, of course, when the armies of Mao Tse-tung stunned the world by intervening in the Korean War. It had begun in June, when Communist North Korean forces invaded the South.

U.S. and British forces repelled the communists, fighting in the name of the United Nations, then pushed deep into North Korea. Seeing their ally on the brink of defeat, the Chinese determined to take a hand.

In barren mountains just a few miles south of their own border, in the winter of 1950 their troops achieved a stunning surprise. The Chinese drove the American interlopers hundreds of miles south before they themselves were pushed back. Eventually a front was stabilised and the situation sank into stalemate.

Three years later, the United States was thankful to get out of its unwanted war with China by accepting a compromise peace, along the armistice line which still divides the two Koreas today.

For most of the succeeding 58 years the U.S., even while suffering defeat in Vietnam, has sustained strategic dominance of the Indo-Pacific region, home to half the world’s population.

Yet suddenly, everything is changing. China’s new economic power is being matched by a military build-up which deeply alarms its Asian neighbours, and Washington. The spectre of armed conflict between the superpowers, unknown since the Korean War ended in 1953, looms once more.

American strategy guru Paul Stares says: ‘If past experience is any guide, the United States and China will find themselves embroiled in a serious crisis at some point in the future.’

The Chinese navy is growing fast, acquiring aircraft-carriers and sophisticated missile systems. Beijing makes no secret of its determination to rule the oil-rich South China Sea, heedless of the claims of others such as Vietnam and the Philippines.

Expansion: The Chinese navy is growing fast, acquiring sophisticated missile systems

Expansion: The Chinese navy is growing fast, acquiring sophisticated missile systems

The Chinese foreign minister recently gave a speech in which he reminded the nations of South-East Asia that they are small, while China is very big.

Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute described these remarks as the diplomatic equivalent of the town bully saying to the neighbours: ‘We really hope nothing happens to your nice new car.’

This year, China has refused stormbound U.S. Navy vessels admission to its ports, and in January chose the occasion of a visit from the U.S. defence secretary to show off its new, sophisticated J-20 stealth combat aircraft.

Michael Auslin, like many other Americans, is infuriated by the brutishness with which the dragon is now flexing its military muscles: ‘We have a China that is undermining the global system that allowed it to get rich and powerful, a China that now feels a sense of grievance every time it is called to account for its disruptive behaviour.’

Washington was angered by Beijing’s careless response to North Korea’s unprovoked sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan a year ago, followed by its shelling of Yeonpyeong island, a South Korean archipelago.

Wreckage: Washington was angered by Beijing's careless response to North Korea's sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan

Wreckage: Washington was angered by Beijing’s careless response to North Korea’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan

When the U.S. Navy deployed warships in the Yellow Sea in a show of support for the South Korean government, Beijing denounced America, blandly denying North Korea’s guilt. The Chinese claimed that they were merely displaying even-handedness and restraint, but an exasperated President Obama said: ‘There’s a difference between restraint and wilful blindness to consistent problems.’

Washington is increasingly sensitive to the fact that its bases in the western Pacific have become vulnerable to Chinese missiles. This is one reason why last week the U.S. made a historic agreement with Australia to station up to 2,500 U.S. Marines in the north of the country.

Beijing denounced the deal, saying it was not ‘appropriate to intensify and expand military alliances and may not be in the interests of countries within this region’.

Even within Australia, the agreement for the U.S. base has provoked controversy.

Hugh White of the Australian National University calls it ‘a potentially risky move’. He argues that, in the new world, America should gracefully back down from its claims to exercise Indo-Pacific hegemony, ‘relinquish primacy in the region and share power with China and others’.

But Richard Haas, chairman of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, says: ‘U.S. policy must create a climate in which a rising China is never tempted to use its growing power coercively within or outside the region.’

To put the matter more bluntly, leading Americans fear that once the current big expansion of Chinese armed forces reaches maturity, within a decade or so, Beijing will have no bourgeois scruples about using force to get its way in the world — unless America and its allies are militarily strong enough to deter them.

Meanwhile, in Beijing’s corridors of power there is a fissure between the political and financial leadership, and the generals and admirals.

On the one hand, Chinese economic bosses are appalled by the current turmoil in the West’s financial system, which threatens the buying power of their biggest customers.

Allies: The U.S. made a historic agreement with Australia to station up to 2,500 U.S. Marines in the north of the country

Allies: The U.S. made a historic agreement with Australia to station up to 2,500 U.S. Marines in the north of the country

On the other, Chinese military chiefs gloat without embarrassment at the spectacle of weakened Western nations.

As America announces its intention to cut back defence spending, the Chinese armed forces see historic opportunities beckon. Ever since Mao Tse-tung gained control of his country in 1949, China has been striving to escape from what it sees as American containment.

The issue of Taiwan is a permanent open sore: the U.S. is absolutely committed to protecting its independence and freedom. Taiwan broke away from mainland China in 1949, when the rump of the defeated Nationalists under their leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island, and established their own government under an American security blanket.

China has never wavered in its view that the island was ‘stolen’ by the capitalists, and is determined to get it back.

Beijing was infuriated by America’s recent £4??billion arms deal with Taiwan which includes the sale of 114 Patriot anti-ballistic missiles, 60 Blackhawk helicopters and two minesweepers.

When I last visited China, I was struck by how strongly ordinary Chinese feel about Taiwan. They argue that the West’s refusal to acknowledge their sovereignty reflects a wider lack of recognition of their country’s new status in the world.

A young Beijinger named David Zhang says: ‘The most important thing for Americans to do is to stop being arrogant and talk with their counterparts in China on a basis of mutual respect.’ That is how many of his contemporaries feel, as citizens of the proud, assertive new China.

But how is the West supposed to do business with an Asian giant that is not merely utterly heedless of its own citizens’ human rights, but also supports some of the vilest regimes in the world, for its own commercial purposes?

Burma’s tyrannical military rulers would have been toppled years ago, but for the backing of the Chinese, who have huge investments there.

A million Chinese in Africa promote their country’s massive commercial offensive, designed to secure an armlock on the continent’s natural resources. To that end, following its declared policy of ‘non-interference’, China backs bloody tyrannies, foremost among them that of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

'Non-interference': China backs bloody tyrannies, foremost among them that of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe

‘Non-interference': China backs bloody tyrannies, foremost among them that of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe

China, like Russia, refuses to endorse more stringent sanctions against Iran, in response to its nuclear weapons-building programme, because Beijing wants Iranian oil. Indeed, Chinese foreign policy is bleakly consistent: it dismisses pleas from the world’s democracies that, as a new global force, it should play a part in sustaining world order.

If Chinese leaders — or indeed citizens — were speaking frankly, they would reply to their country’s critics: ‘The West has exploited the world order for centuries to suit itself. Now it is our turn to exploit it to suit ourselves.’

A friend of ours has recently been working closely with Chinese leaders in Hong Kong. I said to his wife that I could not withhold a touch of sympathy for a rising nation which, in the past, was mercilessly bullied by the West.

She responded: ‘Maybe, but when they are on top I don’t think they will be very kind.’ I fear that she is right. It seems hard to overstate the ruthlessness with which China is pursuing its purposes at home and abroad.

China chose to make an example of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu by jailing him for 11 years

China chose to make an example of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu by jailing him for 11 years

The country imprisons Nobel prizewinners such as the political activist and writer Liu Xiaobo, steals intellectual property and technological know-how from every nation with which it does business and strives to deny its people access to information through internet censorship.

The people of Tibet suffer relentless persecution from their Chinese occupiers, while Western leaders who meet the Dalai Lama are snubbed in consequence.

Other Asian nations are appalled by China’s campaign to dominate the Western Pacific. Japan’s fears of Chinese-North Korean behaviour are becoming so acute that the country might even abandon decades of eschewing nuclear weapons, to create a deterrent.

A few months ago, the Chinese party-controlled newspaper Global Times carried a harshly bellicose editorial, warning other nations not to frustrate Beijing’s ambitions in the South China Sea — Vietnam, for example, is building schools and roads to assert its sovereignty on a series of disputed islands also claimed by China.

The Beijing newspaper wrote: ‘If Vietnam continues to provoke China, China will .?.?. if necessary strike back with naval forces. If Vietnam wants to start a war, China has the confidence to destroy invading Vietnam battleships.’

This sort of violent language was familiar in the era of Mao Tse-tung, but jars painfully on Western susceptibilities in the 21st century. China’s official press has urged the government to boycott American companies that sell arms to Taiwan.

The people of Tibet suffer relentless persecution from their Chinese occupiers

The people of Tibet suffer relentless persecution from their Chinese occupiers

The Global Times, again, demands retaliation against the United States: ‘Let the Chinese people have the last word.’

Beyond mere sabre-rattling, China is conducting increasingly sophisticated cyber-warfare penetration of American corporate, military and government computer systems. For now, their purpose seems exploratory rather than destructive.

But the next time China and the United States find themselves in confrontation, a cyber-conflict seems highly likely. The potential impact of such action is devastating, in an era when computers control almost everything.

It would be extravagant to suggest that the United States and China are about to pick up a shooting war where they left off in November 1950, when Private Carl Simon suffered the shock of his young life on a North Korean hillside.

But we should be in no doubt, that China and the United States are squaring off for a historic Indo-Pacific confrontation.

Even if, for obvious economic reasons, China does not want outright war, few military men of any nationality doubt that the Pacific region is now the most plausible place in the world for a great power clash.

Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute declares resoundingly: ‘America’s economic health and global leadership in the next generation depend on maintaining our role in the world’s most dynamic region.’

But the Chinese fiercely dissent from this view. It is hard to exaggerate the threat which this clash of wills poses for peace in Asia, and for us all, in the coming decades.

'It is a startling experience, looking at those comparisons.' Russia and the US have most nuclear weapons, followed by the UK and France, according to the graphic.

Pictured is the US nuclear warhead stockpile in blue, compared with the rest of the world (orange). 'I don't think people truly understand just how many of these weapons there are in the world,' said Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin

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Pictured is the US nuclear warhead stockpile in blue, compared with the rest of the world (orange). 'I don't think people truly understand just how many of these weapons there are in the world,' said Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin

The UK stockpile (seen as a thin blue line at the bottom) is compared to Russia's stockpile over the decades (red). Earlier this month Nato officials said Russia's nuclear strategy appears to point to a lowering of the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict

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The UK stockpile (seen as a thin blue line at the bottom) is compared to Russia's stockpile over the decades (red). Earlier this month Nato officials said Russia's nuclear strategy appears to point to a lowering of the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict

It creators, Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, from the Federation of American Scientists say that in the past, host countries have learned of foreign nuclear weapons on their soil from the Nuclear Notebook.

'For instance, Japan - which was the target of two atomic bomb attacks and has a law against nuclear weapons on its territory - learned from the Notebook that there were US nuclear weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima,' the authors write.

'[It also learned] about an enormous and varied US nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, US nuclear bombs stored on the mainland at Misawa and Itazuki air bases, and nuclear-armed US Navy ships stationed in Sasebo and Yokosuka.'

Data for the US on the interactive map has been compiled using declassified documents from the US government, many of which were obtained using Freedom of Information requests.

NORTH KOREA COULD HAVE 100 NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY 2020, US RESEARCHERS CLAIM

A self-propelled suface to air missile during a drill shown in a North Korean drill

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A self-propelled suface to air missile during a drill shown in a North Korean drill

North Korea appears poised to expand its nuclear program over the next five years and in a worst case scenario could possess 100 atomic arms by 2020, US researchers warned last week. 

And cutting-edge European companies could be unwittingly contributing to Pyongyang's suspect nuclear program with their equipment diverted to the isolated country via China, they said.

Unveiling the first results of what will be a 15-month study, Joel Wit, senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said some of their conclusions were very 'disturbing.'

Using satellite imagery, North Korean media reports and their deep knowledge of nuclear programs, Wit, and veteran nuclear non-proliferation expert David Albright, have drawn up three possible scenarios based on the progress that Pyongyang from 2009 to 2014. 

In the first scenario, Pyongyang would almost double its stockpile to about 20 weapons, including plutonium-based weapons which have been miniaturized sufficiently to be mounted on its Rodong-class medium-range ballistic missile, capable of reaching Japan.

In the second - and most likely scenario - North Korea continues its current trajectory and manages to produce 50 weapons by 2020. It would also make significant advances in miniaturisation technology enabling it to mount warheads on intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

In what Wit dubbed 'the worst case scenario,' the North Korean stockpile would grow more rapidly to 100 weapons and make 'significant advances' in weapons designs to enable it to potentially deploy battlefield and tactical weapons.

They combined this with figures from congressional hearings, specialty magazines, and confidential sources.

'Creating estimates for other nuclear-armed states can be more challenging because not all provide as much information as the United States,' the authors write.

For instance, Britain and France have published some information about their arsenals, but much is still unavailable.

For Russia and the remaining nuclear-armed, estimates rely on information from Western intelligence organisations, expert studies, news media reports, and satellite imagery.

Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide.

The nuclear stockpiles of Pakistan (green), India (yellow) and Israel (blue) revealed. Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide

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The nuclear stockpiles of Pakistan (green), India (yellow) and Israel (blue) revealed. Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide

The threat of nuclear war that once hung over the world has eased since the Cold War amid sharp reductions in warheads but Russia and the United States, Nato's main military power, retain massively destructive nuclear arsenals. The nuclear stockpile was at its peak in 1986 

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The threat of nuclear war that once hung over the world has eased since the Cold War amid sharp reductions in warheads but Russia and the United States, Nato's main military power, retain massively destructive nuclear arsenals. The nuclear stockpile was at its peak in 1986 

It took almost a year until the next substantial tests took place but by the mid-50s and 60s, nuclear experiments were being recorded across the globe on almost a monthly basis.

The threat of nuclear war that once hung over the world has eased since the Cold War amid sharp reductions in warheads but Russia and the United States, Nato's main military power, retain massively destructive nuclear arsenals.

Earlier this month Nato officials said Russia's nuclear strategy appears to point to a lowering of the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict.

Meanwhile a separate report found that North Korea is poised to expand its nuclear program over the next five years and in a worst case scenario could possess 100 atomic arms by 2020.

Unveiling the first results of what will be a 15-month study, Joel Wit, senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said some of their conclusions were very 'disturbing.'

Although the North Korea's nuclear program remains shrouded in uncertainty, Pyongyang is currently believed to have a stockpile of some 10 to 16 nuclear weapons fashioned from either plutonium or weapons-grade uranium. 

 

+The left image shows a pock-marked landscape which is the the result of decades of nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert. There are currently more than 16,300 nuclear weapons in the world – enough to kill everyone in on the planet 100 times over. Pictured on the right is a mushroom cloud rising above the Nevada desert in 1953