Ukraine Is Another Iraq

If you will recall, the chief reason Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 was that Kuwait (with assistance from US oil companies) was stealing oil from the Iraqi Rumaila oil field.

Now Ukraine (apparently with assistance from CIA and on advice from the US State Department) seems to be stealing natural gas from Russia:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/medvedev-predicts-full-scale-gas-crisis-with-ukraine/502896.html

Is this another prelude to an unnecessary huge war? That would be my guess.

And note well that in both cases the US either was or encouraged the aggressor.

What exactly do We The People get from this crap?

Update: The "better Ukrainians" (the ones who help America kill other Ukrainians) are turning their natural gas system over to the West. Stand by for some "reverse flow" shenanigans, a complete gas cutoff, and a big escalation in this particular row:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/ukraine-passes-bill-allowing-eu-and-us-to-invest-in-gas-system/502985.html

Continually demanding unconditional surrender is not "diplomacy". What are we going to do when the entire world becomes an "anti-dollar" bloc?

Locations Of The Border Crashers

Here's a site which is tracking the locations of the border crashers:

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/not-my-backyard-feds-efforts-relocate-illegal-aliens-border

As a resident of Texas, I'm not very happy about what is happening.

I will have to admit, though, that this is not over ... not by a long shot. Globally there will be many more refugees of all sorts, and too few compassionate people to help them.

In reality the best way to help them is to stop the neoliberal agenda for privatization of the world's resources, abolish the IMF and the entire Bretton Woods financial structure, encourage the resurgence of national sovereignty and self-sufficiency, and stop the downward march to hell known as the "market state".

In short, we must remove the influence of Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions, the bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent. If we don't, we'll all soon be serfs and refugees no matter where we live.

http://youtu.be/RtvlBS4PMF0

The Real June Jobs Numbers

According to this report, the net 288,000 jobs added in June 2014 had the following breakdown:

• over half a million full-time jobs were lost, and
• 799,000 lower paying, benefits-free part-time jobs were added.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/who-was-hiring-june

And in case you weren't watching, the number of people no longer participating in the labor force is at an all-time high:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/people-not-labor-force-rise-new-record-participation-rate-remains-35-year-lows

What kind of "improvement" is that?

As I have said many times before, this is not a recovery it is a restructuring. And when it's over (if it ever is), we'll look just like the former USSR: a few hundred oligarchs and about 350 million serfs.

Worst President Ever ???

According to this poll, Obama ad-Dajjal is the worst President since World War II:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/2/obama-worst-president-wwii-new-poll-shows/

I think he is the worst President ever.

Can you name any other President who obviously was trying to destroy the United States of America? Not just give up its sovereignty, but destroy it?

Well, that's what you're seeing now. And he's got a free pass from the Deep State, so the situation is just about as bad as it could be at this point.

And it's gonna get worse.

Is this the man you want to have these powers?

The White House believes the ability to rapidly expand Presidential Powers in a crisis is a matter of National Security. Because it is impossible to anticipate every possible catastrophic scenario, draft Presidential Emergency-Action Directives (PEADs) have been prepared in advance allowing the White House to fill in the blanks as needed during a crisis.

http://whitehouse.gov1.info/continuity-plan/

"Fill in the blanks"? As in "write your own dictatorship as you go"?

Geez, you people better wake up fast.

The Iraq Cash Cow

Here is an interesting take on what has been going on in Iraq:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has refused to accept a salvation government as his army continues to conduct mop-up operations against ISIL Takfiri militants. Press TV reports that ISIL forces were trained at secret CIA camps inside Jordan. ISIL uses US and Saudi-supplied weapons.

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-iraq-cash-cow/

As City of London mercenaries now known as ISIL – their previous name ISIS apparently being too obviously creepy – soften up Iraq for partition, the geopolitical energy derby continue apace.

The plan was always to seize the Kirkuk oilfields in the north by declaring a new nation of Kurdistan.  The partition of Basra in the south will also be required, for here lies the giant Rumaila oilfield – the biggest prize of all.  Baghdad and the middle of the country will be left to the Iraqis – impoverished and war torn – with the phony Sunni/Shia split fully exploited.  There is no oil here.

Estimates of Iraqi crude reserves continue to climb.  The current estimate is 112 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia and up from 97 billion barrels just a decade ago.  And much of Iraq remains unexplored.  David Mangan Jr., editor of The Oil Daily, later said of the Gulf War, “It is most likely that the US plan from the beginning was to capture Southern Iraq because that land holds the richest oil fields on earth.”

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/the-iraq-cash-cow-part-ii/

Is this really jihad and caliphate, or just more of the West's oil shenanigans? Will we ever know for certain?

Update: Here is Part 3 of the series:

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/iraq-cash-cow-part-iii/

Dump Israel ???

Here is a provocative suggestion from Dean Henderson:

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/dump-israel/

Dump Israel ???

Why not? What positive thing did they ever do for us?

Alternative Theory Of July 4th

On July 2, 1776, John Hancock and Charles Thomson signed the Declaration of Independence.

Two days later, the entire Continental Congress did something else:

Hmmm ... it almost makes sense.

For a more scholarly assessment, see the following:

The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then residing in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with London. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his earlier celebrated Negro Comrades of the Crown, by showing that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt.  

In the prelude to 1776, more and more Africans were joining the British military, and anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain. And in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were chasing Europeans to the mainland. Unlike their counterparts in London, the European colonists overwhelmingly associated enslaved Africans with subversion and hostility to the status quo. For European colonists, the major threat to security in North America was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. And as 1776 approached, London-imposed abolition throughout the colonies was a very real and threatening possibility — a possibility the founding fathers feared could bring the slave rebellions of Jamaica and Antigua to the thirteen colonies. To forestall it, they went to war.  

The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in large part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their liberty to enslave others — and which today takes the form of a racialized conservatism and a persistent racism targeting the descendants of the enslaved. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 drives us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.

http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=12075#.U7QzbfldVVY