Noura Erakat On Gaza And The Israeli Massacre

An articulate response to a pro Israel corporate news channel by Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat. She certainly cuts through all the bullshit

The Alternativity

If you want an alternative festive film to watch this Christmas then this is it! The story of how Britain’s favourite artist Banksy teamed up with Britain’s favourite film director Danny Boyle to put on a moving nativity play at The Walled Off Hotel, in Bethlehem, Palestine in December 2017. An interesting story alongside a fascinating insight into Israel's oppressive occupation and apartheid of Palestine

Banksy welcomes you to Gaza

Images and 2 minute film taken from banksy.co.uk/ 

Street artist Bansky goes to Gaza, entering via illegal underground tunnels, he documents the destruction wrought by Israel's 'operation protective edge'

Bomb damage, Gaza City

Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.

A local man came up and said 'Please - what does this mean?' I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.

MAKE TEA NOT WAR

MAKE TEA NOT WAR
MAKE TEA NOT WAR
MAKE TEA NOT WAR
MAKE TEA NOT WAR
MAKE TEA NOT WAR

stop the killing...and...erm...start the airstrikes!!!

Obama authorises Iraq air strikes on Islamist fighters

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28699832

.....says this morning's headlines.  So the 'rebels' that the US were backing, arming and funding in Syria to fight against the Syrian government are now called Islamic militants since crossing the border into Iraq.  If these Islamic State fighters or ISIS or whatever they are now calling themselves are forcibly taking control of Iraqi towns and slaughtering those who resist then yes it's terrible and must be stopped but then the same groups were trying to do the same in Syria and we were told they were the good guys when they were attacking Damascus.

Mr Obama said the US could not turn a "blind eye" to the prospect of violence "on a horrific scale", he said the US would act "carefully and responsibly, to prevent a potential act of genocide".

Erm..... Obama mate, are you talking about Gaza now?  No?? Oh right, yes of course, I forgot that Israel are merely defending themselves (with F-16 fighter jets), yeh you're talking about how we can't stand aside and allow all these innocent people to be oppressed and killed...... in Iraq

Too many people have died and suffered in Iraq already over the last 10 years of war so..... let's start airstrikes!!!

Speaking of the Iraq war and the million that died because of those pesky non existent WMDs.....
http://jonnybrand.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/iraq.html

Israel continue their sickening war crimes

Whilst Israel continue their sickening war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza......

• Obama and co. loudly demand a ceasefire whilst quietly but simultaneously signing off military support to restock Israel's weapons and ammunitions. links to story on antiwar.com,  RT.com, rueters.com

"The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement.  "This defense sale is consistent with those objectives."

This "self-defense capability" has killed 1600 Palestinians and counting, the vast majority of them civilians, since the Israeli operation began on July 8.  The US give Israel $3.1bn is military aid per year BUT they want a ceasefire???

• The Independent reveal evidence that British supplied arms are being used in the Gaza massacre.  The Government refuses to investigate.  link to article.
• 1600 dead, Over 8000 injured.  400 thousand are homeless or displaced. Much of the Gaza Strip has less than two hours electricity a day and medicine and safe water are increasingly scarce.  Whoever initially broke the ceasefire is irrelevent when you consider all this and how Israel have now actually intensified their attacks since the ceasefire was broken.  globalresearch.com

Why won't world leaders actually do anything meaningful to stop this?  why are Israel untouchable?  David Cameron is scared to criticise Israel too harshly, is it because he'll lose support of the wealthy pro-Israeli conservative Party donors?  He does have a big election campaign to fund soon.....

theguardian.com

The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told

Video from Storm Clouds Gathering on the Israel/Palestine Gaza attacks.....

http://scgnews.com/the-gaza-bombardment-what-youre-not-being-told

When looking at the eye opening image below also bear in mind that the US gives Israel $3billion in military funding per year and has provided military aid to Israel for the last 60 years whilst Palestinian territory is occupied illegally.  Palestine of course receive nothing.

Petrodollar Warfare

All the wars, all the corruption, the lies, the media brainwashing, the false flag events, illegal invasions, cries of terrorism, recessions, bank collapses and the road the world war 3 can be directly linked in some way to one thing - the petrodollar.
This subject is huge and has many tangents to fire off at but here's an attempt at a brief summary;

The US dollar is backed by debt, unlike other countries America has no gold reserves to back the value of its currency and instead relies on a global demand for the dollar.  The federal reserve is not owned by the country, the government or the tax paying public but is in fact a private bank, it lends huge sums of money to the government and very literally creates more money out of thin air on the basis that the previous debt will be payed back.  These debts are now so vast they are impossible to ever pay back because the trillions of dollars required simply do not exist.  The one thing keeping the dollar and the whole American economy alive is global demand for the currency due to commodities conventionally being traded in dollars, namely oil and  trade of oil between countries is quoted in and directly linked to the value of the US dollar.
Now that's the basic system with I'm sure some oversights but it sets the scene for what follows, and basically what follows is war.

Saddam Hussein sealed his fate when he announced in September 2000 that Iraq was no longer going to accept dollars for oil being sold under the UN’s Oil-for-Food program, and decided to switch to the euro as Iraq’s oil export currency.  We all know what happened next of course, well we think we do anyway.  The 2003 invasion, the non existent WMD, the toppling of Saddam, the long drawn out occupation of Iraq, and the resulting 1 million Iraqis who have died as a consequence.  Anything else?  Erm... well yes actually..... In 2003 the Bush Administration implemented a switch for Iraqi  international oil sales to revert back to dollars instead of euros despite the fact that in mid-2003 the euro was valued approximately 13% higher than the dollar, and thus significantly impacted the ability of Iraq to finance rebuilding he countries infrastructure.

The Iraq war began March 2003; Baghdad fell in April; by June Iraq was now selling oil in dollars again

It is now obvious the invasion of Iraq had less to do with any threat from Saddam’s long-gone WMD program and certainly less to do to do with fighting International terrorism than it has to do with gaining control over Iraq’s hydrocarbon reserves and in doing so maintaining the U.S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market.

You get the general idea by now so apply this same thinking to many of the other US led wars, invasions, trade embargos and political interference and you'll find a pattern emerges.

Libya - Gadaffi planned to cease selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars instead demanding payment in gold-backed Dinars (a single African currency made from gold).  The regime, sitting on massive amounts of gold, estimated at close to 150 tons, was also pushing other African and Middle Eastern governments to follow suit.  The US fed us some propaganda and then stamped on Libya.
Afghanistan - Why have troops stayed so long? The US needs control of Afghanistan to exert influence over Central Asian reserves. (It is estimated that the Caspian Sea basin has $12 trillion reserves of oil and natural gas.).  Important pipelines cross through the region and Afghanistan is not only adjacent to countries which are rich in oil and natural gas (e.g Turkmenistan), it also possesses within its territory sizeable untapped reserves of natural gas, coal  and oil. The US does not necessarily intend to steal anyone’s oil but the nation remains utterly dependent on oil trade continuing in the dollar.
As the US dollar continued to lose purchasing power over time, several oil-producing countries began to question the wisdom of accepting increasingly worthless paper currency for their oil supplies. Today, several countries have attempted to move away, or already have moved away, from the petrodollar system. Examples include Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and North Korea… or the “axis of evil” if you prefer to use  the words of the mainstream media.  Additionally, other nations are choosing to use their own currencies for oil like China, Russia and India among others.
Clearly America aren't going to declare war on China, Russia or India (or at least not for a long while yet) but you will no doubt be aware of political unrest in the other countries I mention.
Venezuela - (failed) US sponsored military coup against Chavez.  Attempts to rig presidential elections after the death of Chavez in favour of the pro US Capriles against the socialist Maduro (failed again)
Syria - US funded rebels fighting the Assad 'regime' along with Israeli military interference by US proxy.
North Korea - Strict sanctions and trade embargos justified by the axis of evil story and exaggerated claims of nuclear war threat
Iran - The list of sanctions against Iran is pages long. There is a corresponding bipartisan belief by US government officials that Iranian citizens will become so inflamed by the effects of the sanctions that they will rise up and topple their government but this has not proved to be the case and Iran partly work round many of the sanctions using alternative trade agreements with certain countries such as Turkey, Russia and China.  Iran is the next big war waiting to happen and America just needs to concoct a decent reason to get in there that will carry enough public and international support.

Ultimately the petrodollar is going out of the window bit by bit and without the artificial demand for the US dollar that this system creates the whole US economy will come crashing down with potentially devastating effects.  America imports two thirds of the oil it needs and when the dollar crashes foreign fuel will be too expensive, the petrol pumps dry up and chaos will ensue, starting with panic buying then progressively empty supermarket shelves, looting, social breakdown, martial law, public uprising (this is part of the reason why the government wants to disarm the public through new gun control measures) and of course there will be significant wide reaching global economic problems particularly for those countries whose currency is closely linked to the US dollar.

There's no avoiding this scenario once it is upon us and unfortunately it is already upon us.  This explains why there is so much desperation to stir political unrest and initiate wars. The world is like a chess board with pieces being strategically moved every day and currently it's only really the pawns that have been taken off the board with maybe a rook or two trapped into a corner.  World War 3 is only a matter of time.....

Israel attack Syria

Having been fully aware of Israels air strikes on Syria over the weekend from watching news on RT I was amazed when I checked the BBC news website and found no mention of it.  I then gave it a few seconds thought and realised actually I'm not amazed at all because that's exactly why I stopped watching mainstream news.  After Syria being a big news story last week surely this was a further development but clearly Israel's illegal attacks on Syria needs to be kept a bit quiet.  The US and the west are fighting a war by proxy in Syria, there needs to be a very good reason to officially invade because of the mess made in Iraq and Afghanistan so using a third party to provoke more war in the region seems to be the favourite tactic right now.  Iran, Lebanon and Russia have condemned Israels air strikes and unless things calm down we could be on the verge of a complicated regional war which have no doubt is exactly what Obama and co are itching for.  Whatever happens remember to expect full on media propaganda.  I'm not saying RT are the authority of truth and neutral news but here's some links to the stories the mainstream have put very little emphasis on.
http://rt.com/op-edge/escobar-israel-syria-us-857/
http://rt.com/news/syria-israel-uranium-air-strike-847/
http://rt.com/news/damascus-syria-explosions-sunday-831/
http://rt.com/news/israel-syria-air-strike-842/