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Bombas por um mundo melhor: Síria, Monitoramento e os Neocrocodilos — por Tobias Langdon para o Occidental Observer

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Tobias Langdon: Bombs for a Better World: Syria, Surveillance and the Neo-Crocs, The Occidental Observer, 8 setembro de 2013
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Em um mundo são, o ex-“redator-chefe dos discursos de Tony Blair” seria agora um fugitivo da justiça ou estaria cumprindo pena de prisão perpétua. Mas este não é um mundo são, e assim, Philip Collins está recebendo suas trinta peças de prata das mãos da elite hostil. Ele tem um cargo bem-remunerado na London School of Economics e escreve para o London Times de Rubert Murdoch, onde demonstra todo o poder intelectual e erudição antropológica que se esperariam de uma Blairiette:

O livro mais mal-compreendido dos tempos recentes se perdeu em um jogo de palavras. Quando Francis Fukuyama chamou seu livro de The End of History [O fim da História], ele não estava defendendo a tese tola de que a História, como 1066 And All That [1066 e tudo mais] quase disse, tinha chegado a um ponto final. Ele estava dizendo que alguma sociedade melhor do que a democracia liberal jamais surgiria. 

Com a História se desenrolando bem à nossa volta, é um bom momento para se apontar que Fukuyama estava certo. O povo da Síria, como o povo da Tunísia, da Líbia e do Egito não quer comprar segurança ao preço da liberdade. O Oriente Médio vai, com o tempo, juntar-se à liga das nações democráticas, como a América Latina tem se juntado, desde 1970. O frágil governo da Argélia não tem como durar. As reformas limitadas patrocinadas pelos reis do Marrocos e da Jordânia vão ganhar um pouco de tempo. Mas por fim, as pessoas lá e as pessoas no Irã vão querer um pouco do que nós temos, eles sendo gente igual a nós (Saving the people of Syria [Salvando o povo da Síria], reproduzido no The Australian, 25 de fevereiro, 2012).

Seria errado chamar estas alegações de “retardadas” [half-witted]. Não; estão mais para “retardadas-e-meio” [eith-witted]. A democracia liberal levou séculos para se desenvolver na Grã-Bretanha. Tony Blair percorreu um longo caminho rumo a sua destruição em uma década. Mas Phillip Collins acha que o Oriente Médio vai inevitavelmente adotá-la. Afinal de contas, os muçulmanos não têm nenhuma ligação com seus governos antiliberais e antidemocráticos. Collins acha que os sírios, tunisianos, líbios, marroquinos et al. são “gente igual a nós”. Quer dizer, exceto por um QI médio significativamente mais baixo e uma longa história de endocruzamento, tribalismo e corrupção. E uma religião totalitária que não suporta nenhuma bobagem a respeito de direitos das mulheres e impõe a pena de morte para infrações como apostasia e blasfêmia. Os muçulmanos no Oriente Médio não teriam dado o título de Cavaleiro a Salman Rushdie, como fez Tony Blair. Não; eles teriam cortado rapidinho sua cabeça. Se ele tivesse sorte.

How the media works: David Makovsky on the non-existent AIPAC 800-lb gorilla

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On my way into work today I was listening to an NPR promo spot with the catch phrase “no rant, no slant” — the implication being that NPR is above partisan wrangling that one sees on FOX News or MSNBC.  Well, that’s certainly refreshing.

The problem is that the programming then segued into an interview of David Makovsky by Renee Montagne. Makovsky is introduced simply as someone affiliated with the Washington Institute on Near East Policy. Unless the listener knows something about the 800-lb. gorilla of U.S. Middle East policy, he or she would not know that WINEP is a pillar of the Israel Lobby which is anything but even-handed when it comes to anything even remotely relevant to Israel. To say it is slanted would be to put it mildly.

As noted in my previous comment on the Israel Lobby and the Syria crisis,  WINEP has numerous articles advocating an aggressive posture on Syria aimed basically at regime change. I also mentioned an article co-authored by Makovsky on the website of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs—another pillar of the Israel Lobby. Makovsky’s JINSA article advocates a very destructive attack aimed at “sending a credible and menacing message” to the Syrian government. Not much question where he stands.

Makovsky was invited on to address this quote that appeared in the New York Times:

One administration official, who, like others, declined to be identified discussing White House strategy, called Aipac “the 800-pound gorilla in the room,” and said its allies in Congress had to be saying, “If the White House is not capable of enforcing this red line” against the catastrophic use of chemical weapons, “we’re in trouble.”

AIPAC an 800-lb gorilla? Definitely not news that’s fit to print (so the Times soon deleted it; see below). As an AIPAC lobbyist once noted, “A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” Best to keep AIPAC out of public consciousness. Read more

The Israel Lobby and the Organized Jewish Community Want Regime Change in Syria

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President Obama is now saying his administration has decided to attack Syria but will seek Congressional approval before doing so. This sets up a really interesting situation if Congress doesn’t agree, as seems quite possible.

The idea of Obama ordering an act of war on Syria without significant international support and without a Congressional mandate always was a head scratcher. Here’s our far left president advocating yet another war in the Middle East after opposing the Iraq war when he was a senator. The same president who has a frosty relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and has repeatedly fallen short of the demands of the Israel Lobby.

Of course the rationale is framed in moral terms—like all American wars, but there was more than a touch of that in the run-up to the Iraq war as well. Here the case for the hawks is made more difficult because the WMD story turned out to be false. Lest we forget, this story was manufactured by strongly identified ethnically Jewish, pro-Israel operatives linked to the Office of Special Plans in the Department of Defense, including Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Abraham Shulsky, Elliott Abrams, David Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, David Schencker, and Michael Rubin, with the close cooperation of Israeli intelligence (see here, p. 47ff).

The Weekly Standard’s usual neocon suspects — including many of the same people who promoted for the Iraq war — are pressing for a very large U.S. involvement in Syria. It’s mind-boggling to read in the statement of these so-called “experts” that the president must act “to ensure that Assad’s chemical weapons no longer threaten America.” Shades of how Iraq under Saddam Hussein was going to destroy the U.S. with his WMD’s. How Assad is going to unleash his chemical weapons on America is anybody’s guess. Read more

O Lobby Israelense e a comunidade judaica organizada querem mudança de regime na Síria

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 Portuguese translation of Kevin MacDonald: The Israel Lobby and the Organized Jewish Community Want Regime Change in Syria, The Occidental Observer, 1 de setembro de 2012
O presidente Obama agora está dizendo que sua administração decidiu atacar a Síria mas vai buscar a aprovação do Congresso para fazê-lo. Isto cria uma situação realmente interessante se o Congresso não concordar, como parece bem possível.
A ideia de Obama ordenar um ato de guerra contra a Síria sem apoio internacional significativo e sem um mandado do Congresso sempre foi uma coisa espantosa. Eis aqui nosso presidente de extrema-esquerda advogando mais outra guerra no Oriente Médio depois de se opor à guerra no Iraque quando era senador. O mesmo presidente que tem um relacionamento gélido com Benjamin Netanyahu e repetidas vezes ficou aquém das exigências do lobby israelense.
A justificativa, claro, é apresentada em termos morais — como todas as guerras americanas, mas também houve mais que um toque disto nos preparativos para a guerra do Iraque. Aqui, a alegação dos falcões torna-se mais difícil porque a história das armas de destruição em massa revelou-se falsa. Convém não esquecer que esta história foi fabricada por agentes pró-Israel, com forte identidade étnica judaica, ligados ao Gabinete de Planos Especiais [Office of Special Plans] do Departamento de Defesa, incluindo Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Abraham Shulsky, Elliott Abrams, David Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, David Schencker e Michael Rubin, com a cooperação estreita da Inteligência israelense.

The Gas Cloud of Western Intervention

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“Gas! Gas! Gas! Nasty, wicked pois’nous gasssssssssss!!!!!!!”

There, is your knee-jerking yet? Have you started to salivate and get sweaty palmed and developed the requisite insatiable craving for moralistic war against the media designated demons responsible for such unbelievable, unique, and unprecedented evil?

No? Then, your conditioning will have to be continued, the voltage upped, so that, whenever necessary, your leaders and betters will be able to sell you another ugly little war in which the mighty hollow West can bomb some destabilized little patch of naturally-occurring chaos or tyranny back into tyranny or chaos again.

But why has gas been ascribed this holy, sanctifying, incense-like role in the lustrations of war? A little history is perhaps in order.

Although there may have been crude forerunners in more primitive times, its use in modern warfare and mass moral hysteria dates from WWI and the German attack on the French trenches at Ypres on April 22, 1915, when a cloud of creeping green gas, released from cylinders, caused thousands of casualties and created a four-mile gap in the front, which the Germans, alas, were unable to exploit due to a lack of reserves. Read more

Elysium: An all too real dystopian vision of the future

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Reviewing Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium,  Steve Sailer emphasizes the dystopian future resulting from non-White immigration. That’s  certainly there. The  bleak, run-down buildings (filmed, appropriately, in Mexico City), the garbage-strewn streets teeming with poor non-Whites.  There’s the everyday violence and the brutal robot police.

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Los Angeles in 2154 as depicted in Elysium

Along with the hordes of Brown people there are a few conspicuous Whites, including Max, the hero, played by Matt Damon. (In an interview, Blomkamp says there would have been more Blacks but they were hard to find in Mexico City. The camera work clearly emphasizes the few Blacks, and at the end of the movie when everyone receives citizenship in Elysium, Blomkamp throws in a scene filmed in Africa where Blacks are seen storming the spaceships that will take them to the promised land. One might say that Blacks were in Blomkamp’s future LA, at least in spirit.)

Matt Damon as Max, being prepared for his journey to Elysium by a Black technician

Matt Damon as Max, being prepared for his journey to Elysium by a Black technician

Unfortunately, the emotional core of the movie is that the teeming non-White masses have moral claims on the overwhelmingly White folks living in Elysium, the space station that slowly orbits above the future Los Angeles. Elysium is everything that the future LA is not: uncrowded, populated by well-dressed, well-mannered, civilized (overwhelmingly White) people with refined tastes, excellent health care, and large mansions with robots waiting on women reclining next to gorgeous swimming pools. And no tattoos in Elysium, unlike pretty much everyone back in LA.

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Vibrancy and Viruses: Free Advice for Struggling Conservatives

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It’s heart-warming how generous liberals can be. On both sides of the Atlantic, they’re giving their political opponents free advice on how to win elections. And it’s uncanny how similar the advice is:

“Conservative party’s problem with ethnic minority voters is costing it seats: Ignoring the UK’s significant non-white population could diminish political parties’ reach for a parliamentary majority”

Research … has highlighted the growing importance of ethnic minorities in British parliamentary politics, putting numbers and names to seats that could be determined by their votes. … It presents a challenge for all politicians, but for the Conservatives it is a problem they are being warned could consign them to life without a majority or worse. Even in 2010, when Labour suffered one of its worst defeats, and after the Tory leader David Cameron tried to detoxify his party’s nasty image, the Conservatives made little inroad into the ethnic vote. Data shows that the Conservatives got 16% of ethnic minority votes, just ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 14%, while Labour got 68%. This is down from the 80% or more Labour has previously won, but came against the background of its worst electoral performance since 1918 as support slumped in all voting demographics.

A 2012 study by Professor Anthony Heath for the Runnymede Trust [a pro-ethnic lobbying organization founded by the Jewish lawyers Anthony Lester and Jim Rose] showed how stark antipathy towards the Conservatives was. Ethnicity trumped usual predictors of voting behaviour such as class and occupation, and Heath concluded: “Around seven in 10 ethnic minority voters support the Labour party, regardless of social class.” Senior Tories have been baffled over the years, viewing ethnic minorities as natural Conservatives because of strong adherence to family life, social conservatism and entrepreneurship. … (“Conservative party’s problem with ethnic minority voters is costing it seats”, The Guardian, 11th August 2013)

In America, Republicans are “baffled” in the same way when Hispanics and Asians vote en masse for the Democrats, despite being “natural conservatives” just like ethnic minorities in Britain. Read more