Geostrategie

[D'ARTOIS]

Met andere woorden: geen enkele EU maatregel (er zijn natuurlijk uitzonderingen) strekt ten voordele van de EU burger.
Er zijn dus uitzonderingen maar die zijn nodig om de regel te bevestigen.

De bezuinigingswaanzin raakt dusdanig op drift dat in een aantal EU landen waaronder het UK het ambtenarenapparaat nauwelijks weet waar het mee bezig is.
Wederom dank zij het ESP.

De Europolitici worden met de dag idioter en gekker in hun te willen nemen maatregelen.

[k9]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door zonbron

Hier gaan we nog meer over horen.

De National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) werd goedgekeurd, deze geeft de huidige en toekomstige presidenten het recht oorlog te voeren, waar dan ook, wanneer dan ook... Dit kan nu zonder toestemming van het Congres. There's a new sheriff in town !

Bekijk even de video onderaan, Ron Paul legt uit wat dit allemaal inhoud.




Ook werd de Patriot Act voor 4 jaar verlengd. Meer terreur op komst...

Je moet niet blindelings herhalen wat andere zognaamd beweren, onderzoek
het zelf eerst wat . dat ze bijvoorbeeld de tekst al niet geven waar he om gaat is heel verdacht . het bevat idd een uitbreiding op de war on terror vandaar besluiten dat de president overal met alles en gelijk wanneer en voor hoe lang oorlog kan voeren is wel een heel grote stap

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Je moet niet blindelings herhalen wat andere zognaamd beweren, onderzoek het zelf eerst wat . dat ze bijvoorbeeld de tekst al niet geven waar he om gaat is heel verdacht . het bevat idd een uitbreiding op de war on terror vandaar besluiten dat de president overal met alles en gelijk wanneer en voor hoe lang oorlog kan voeren is wel een heel grote stap

Inderdaad, een heel grote stap.

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Noord Korea injecteert brandstof in hun raket.

REUTERS - Defiant North Korea begins injecting fuel into rocket



(Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea rejected international protests over its planned long-range rocket launch and said on Wednesday that it was injecting fuel "as we speak", meaning it could blast off as early as Thursday.

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"We don't really care about the opinions from the outside. This is critical in order to develop our national economy," said Paek Chang-ho, head of the satellite control centre at the Korean Committee of Space Technology.

Once the refueling has been completed, the North Koreans will have to inject chemicals into the rocket which cause corrosion, which means the firing could come on Thursday, at the start of a five-day window announced already by Pyongyang.

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[D'ARTOIS]

De Drones kunnen met weinig moeite door andere drones uit de lucht worden gehaald.
Het is en blijft een computerspelletje.

[zonbron]

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De Drones kunnen met weinig moeite door andere drones uit de lucht worden gehaald.
Het is en blijft een computerspelletje.

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RT - ‘West uses Syria to hit China, Russia and Iran’

[D'ARTOIS]

Als ik het zo bekijk hunkert iedereen naar een WWIII .......

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Als ik het zo bekijk hunkert iedereen naar een WWIII .......

Het kan voor sommigen blijkbaar niet snel genoeg gaan.

Verder...

Army, IRGC set to stage joint drill: Iran Commander
Commander of Iran's Ground Forces says the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) plan to stage their largest joint military drills in the current Iranian year.

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The commander added that Iran's air forces plan to stage their specialized drill for the first time after the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

In February, the IRGC conducted a military maneuver codenamed Val Fajr in Markazi Desert days after the Army’s air forces wrapped up a four-day exercise codenamed Tharallah near the strategic Persian Gulf region.

In another drill codenamed Hamiyan-e Velayat also in February, IRGC forces practiced tactical commando raid and aerial combat, launched air offensive and defensive operations and carried out heliborne as well as anti-heliborne operations.

In January, IRGC's Ground Forces held the Shohaday-e Vahdat military drills in the eastern province of Khorasan Razavi.

Iran maintains that the maneuvers are defensive in nature and meant to convey a message of peace and friendship to regional countries.


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[Astrodamos]

[tomm]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door D'ARTOIS

Als ik het zo bekijk hunkert iedereen naar een WWIII .......

om te beginnen moet die westerse hypocrisie eens doorprikt worden. Zoals nu in syrië, de regering moet volgens het Westen eenzijdig het plan annan uitvoeren (zich terugtrekken), maar de oppositie wordt daar niet toe aangemaand. (hoewel het plan Annan een wederzijdse terugtrekking voorziet).

Gevolg: de regeringstroepen trekken zich terug en de rebellen nemen het verlaten gebied in, en vallen regeringstroepen van daaruit aan.

IEDEREEN die een beetje logisch nadenkt weet dat, en natuurlijk is de bedoeling van het Westen dat het Syrische regime valt, en dus een vervelende bondgenoot van Iran (dat in de plaats alquaida zal komen weten ze ook, maar dat zien ze dan wel weer...). Alleen kunnen ze dat zo niet verpakken.

[D'ARTOIS]

Mijn stellingname is als volgt:

We hebben gezien en ervaren dat Islamitische machtswisselingen niets inhouden en in feite een wisseling van de wacht vormen ten nadele van de burger aldaar.
Egypte, Lybie, Irak - het heeft niet mogen baten.
De intentie van het westen omdeze machtswisseling te entameren is een daad van intens slecht politiek gehalte en denken. Zowel in menselijk als in strategisch opzicht. In alle gevallen is juist het tegendeel bereikt.

Politici zijn als regel dom en achterlijk. In het bedrijfsleven kunnen ze niet aan de slag vanwege hun falend vermogen om zaken te creeren en problemen op te lossen. Derhalve verdwijnen ze in de politiek om aldaar te falen met dezelfde waardeloze inzet als hoofdthema.
De resultante is conflict na conflict, een algemene verloedering van staat en cultuur.

[kelt]

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/deta...MF20120415_060

In het grote spel van de geostrategie is het achterhouden van een "big stick" ook niet onbelangrijk.....

Alle Europese landen zitten in besparingsrondes,bezuinigen op de strijdkrachten is direct populair.De (in mijn ogen op geen enkele manier te verantwoorden-)"democratiseringsaanvallen" op Libie toonden de "macht" van de Europese nato-landen duidelijk aan...Ware het niet dat de VS(die zelf eigenlijk niet al te zeer bezig waren eens de initiale democratisering met tomahawks voorbij was) zelf wat bommen op reserve had,de aanval was na een weekje al gedaan......

Maar ondertussen zitten de Europese landen persé nog apart te investeren in dure spullen.....blijkbaar geloven ze toch niet zo erg in een "Europese strijdmacht"...

Mooi voorbeeld is de aanschaf van topklasse jachtvliegtuigen.Nederland ,om een voorbeeld te noemen,denkt werkelijk nog vele tientallen F-35's aan te kopen en in eigen beheer te houden.....(de eerste Nederlandse F-35 staat momenteel ongeveer klaar in de VS).....


En zo zullen de Europese luchtstrijdkrachten blijven bestaan uit een ratjetoe van toestellen en installaties.Nooit genoeg gecoordineerd om indruk te maken...en waarschijnlijk dubbel zo duur in aanschaf en onderhoud als strikt nodig...

Bij de maritieme strijdkrachten is de situatie nog ernstiger.Op dit moment beschikt de Europese unie,nog steeds het tweede handelsblok ter wereld ,en afhankelijk van de maritieme handel,over één (1) grote carrier...(de Franse Charles Degaulle)...maar die valt onder orders van het Elysee....

Kustwachtjobs (relevant in het kader van het illegaal verkeer van goederen en personen) in de Middellandse Zee gebeuren nog steeds strikt op kosten van Griekenland,Italie en Spanje en Frankrijk....Drie van deze landen zijn eigenlijk blut...maar zij "bewaken" evengoed ONZE grenzen!

..ach,ik kan doorgaan,maar als de EU er zelfs niet in slaagt om hun militairen,die al jaren gewend zijn Internationaal samen te werken,te fusioneren in "functiejobs".....hoe kan de EU "geostrategisch" nog geloofwaardig zijn?


noot :NIKS van wat ik hier schrijf moet meer geld kosten,integendeel!

[Johan Bollen]

De G77 (nu 132 landen !) beklagen zich in een statement over het vernieuwde westerse NEOKOLONIALISME (Dit om wille van de pogingen van het westen om de UNCTAD conferentie te boycotten).

Het westen onderschat de weerstand die haar superioritetisgevoelens meer en meer oproepen in de wereld. De prijs zal in de toekomst voelbaar zijn indien het westen niet van haar troon komt.

het westen doet alsof het 'de internationale gemeenschap' vertegenwoordigd, terwijl haar agressieve koers en hoogmoed juist steeds meer voor haar isolement zorgen. Het westers publiek is zich grotendeels onbewust van de werkelijke gang van zaken in de wereld.

Chanvitan's statement complains that the G-77 has tried its best to be flexible with the negotiation, but "perhaps our constructiveness was viewed as weakness, and our accommodation viewed as capitulation". The North has "regressed to behavior perhaps more appropriate to the founding days of UNCTAD, when Countries of the North felt they could dictate and marginalize developing countries from informed decision-making."

One Northern ambassador's role was singled out for being "shameful and reminiscent of the darkest days of the North-South divide".

Remarkably, Chanvitan noted that the preparatory conference has seen "behavior that seems to indicate a desire for the dawn of a new neo-colonialism". Such language has not been heard from the G-77 in decades. "Perhaps, in our desire for consensus," Chanvitan notes, "we have accommodated too much and this good faith was misunderstood, and abused. Perhaps this should end now."

[Johan Bollen]

Sommige strategen in de VS beginnen zich af te vragen of het wel zo snugger is een nieuw ijzeren gordijn in Europa op te trekken om de toenadering tussen Europa en Rusland tegen te houden. Ze hopen Rusland in het 'westerse' blok te trekken tegen China.

Maar eigenlijk hopen ze zowel Europa als Rusland te domineren op die manier.

Zbigniew Brzezinski in Foreign Affairs zo pas geleden:

It is not unrealistic to imagine a larger configuration of the West emerging after 2025. In the course of the next several decades, Russia could embark on a comprehensive law-based democratic transformation compatible with both EU [European Union] and NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] standards ... [Russians] would then be on their way to integration with the transatlantic community. But even before that occurs, a deepening geopolitical community of interest could arise among the US, Europe (including Turkey) and Russia.

[D'ARTOIS]

Allemaal wishful thinking van de Yanken. Hun politie is dusdanig kor- en doorzichtig dat niemand daarin trat tenzij hij/zij daar goedbetaalde belangen bij heeft. De Amerikanen gaan cjantage en omkoperij niet uit de weg. Een historisch bewijsbaar feit.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen

Sommige strategen in de VS beginnen zich af te vragen of het wel zo snugger is een nieuw ijzeren gordijn in Europa op te trekken om de toenadering tussen Europa en Rusland tegen te houden. Ze hopen Rusland in het 'westerse' blok te trekken tegen China.

Maar eigenlijk hopen ze zowel Europa als Rusland te domineren op die manier.

Zbigniew Brzezinski in Foreign Affairs zo pas geleden:

Rusland wil van het Westerse blok nog steeds niet al teveel weten en daar hebben ze blijkbaar hun gegronde redenen toe.

Mooi zo, laten we op onze aardkloot voorlopig maar een solide multipolaire wereldorde groeien ipv de naar rotte vis stinkende eenheidsworst die het Westerse blok bejaagd.
Dat komt iedereen zijn persoonlijke vrijheden en zelfbeschikkingsrecht ten goede.

Een goede analyse...

Multipolar World Means More Freedom




<sub>Recently, the global international situation changed from one of feudalism (with each feudal lord constantly trying to slaughter the other with full use of the vassal states and being polite and collegial in peacetime) to one of libertarianism. The former vassal states/serfs are now "free" to work for former masters who now style themselves as capitalists. Every small country in the world is "free" to dress how they like and do what they want with their body as long as they work for United States or European Union sponsored financial institutions.

Those countries that really want to make autonomous economic decisions are threatened by force, internationally ridiculed, or badly beaten up. We can see how ridiculous the situation would be if 200+ "sovereign" countries were actual people living in one neighborhood block. United States would just be the muscular mob boss loan shark with a crew of yes men. They would makes rounds down the street, slap people around, or drag them by the collar. Germany, England, and Japan would be the former mobsters who put away the guns (for the most part) and now try to be the corner store owners and minor loan sharks. They pay a bit of protection money to United States and tacitly support it to preserve the global system that benefits them. France and Russia (also former mobsters who got beaten up rather badly) are the ones who want America to weaken so there can be collective bullying of the world. They try to make conspiracies with Germany to that end since collective bullying and loan sharking would give them a larger share of the cut. India, China, and Brazil are too well armed to be bullied anymore and are just trying to stay out of business on the street for now. Everybody else is at the mercy of the colorful characters above for their wealth (if they don't want to lay there dying in the streets).

It's an intolerable situation internationally and intolerable domestically. Blatant use of force will have to come to an end since racketeering is inefficient and will exhaust society that practices it through logistical overextension. That has been the case for centuries and is especially true if the racketeer does not lead in making useful products. Recent American slide into a new economic depression has accelerated the process of multipolar world's reemergence. Rise of new global powers ( European Union, China) and perseverance of old regional powers (Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Iran, India, Japan), is raising macro level competition to new levels. The oligarchs ( that exercise control over most governments on the planet) cannot compete anymore by using force since it is now economically, physiologically, and politically suicidal. As such, interstate competition has to take the form of constantly raising the quality of life for citizens living inside. As much as it pains them, oligarchal elites can no longer throw the poor armed with bayonets at each other to gain greater market share.

The modern form of post-violence competition is also burning itself out. It has so far involved:

1) Overworking citizens by ideologically promoting economic libertarianism domestically, to other great powers, and within the post-colonial space. This increasingly resulted in wealthier workers growing poorer while competing with even poorer foreign workers for an increasingly shrinking and depreciating currency pie

2) Turning small nations into indentured servants (the way American former slave masters did to freed blacks in 1870s) by force. As discussed in part 1, the international community now respects states as independent autonomous decision makers. Of course that is only on paper since United States has used mass violence and coercion during the transition of countries from colonial slavery to post-colonial dollar dominated indentured servitude. Western powers are also freed from the expense of protecting their former subjects.

3) International financial manipulation of currencies, investments, and capital flows through IMF, WTO, World Bank. This allowed Western elites and their third world elite allies in creating wealth outflows from the third world and giving regional conspirators a share of the cut


older unipolar world concept

The first method of competition in terms of reduction of state power by oligarchs ( to promote economic libertarianism and profitable indentured servitude within the general population) is also overextending itself. Many oligarchs have found out (like their ancestors in the late 19th century) that if you don't provide health care and other infrastructure for your indentured servants, the rich of other countries cut into your profits with time. Many of the American rich have recently seen their worker related health care costs rise dramatically and so decided to pass on the costs to the government. Obama even admitted publicly that health reform is needed because the American worker is becoming too expensive for domestic employers. Indentured servants ( who are overburdened by costs of living and whose incomes are reduced by competition and outsourcing), are bad for domestic consumer market and bad for foreign investment. A paradox is created in which economic libertarianism cuts costs in terms of paying people less but increases costs of privately provided infrastructure. Even if private sector mimics some third world countries in not providing any infrastructure or welfare, it finds that domestic consumer market is hurt and violent insurgency looms on the horizon. Libertarian economics also reduces tax revenue to support the military as a second type of competition.

Blatant use of military force was the cheapest path of least resistance to be used short term. The French, German, American, and British oligarchs in the 1970s and 1980s could care less that the new violent indirect loan shark method of exploitation is unsustainable. They had a wonderful pretext in the form of Soviet power to defend their financial interests. They had the cover of the constant cold war emergency to look the other way when America frequently engaged in international violence. Now that the cold war is over with nothing to replace it with, there is no justification for enormous military apparatus to shake down poor nations for money and resources. Military action, besides being unpredictably draining as Iraq has shown, also results in increasingly earlier blowback from various populations. This type of competition was the most effectively and widely used by United States and we have seen how it rotted and impoverished the general society. Japanese, Dutch, and German oligarchs now smirk at the price and inefficiency of huge conventional war machine over the cheaper way of worker training and healthcare provisions. They are able to keep their white collar workers productive and obedient tax payers and supporters of the status quo.

International financial structures such as the IMF provide a forum and platform for the world's rich on how to peacefully exploit the entire planet.



These structures had a competitive function against communist backed international structures (such as Comecon) for courting third world power elites. Now Chinese and Russians want inside the exclusive Anglo-American/Western European dominated financial cartel and it is beginning to lose some of its purpose.

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Here's the scenario that economic libertarian internationalists actually describe for the future in hopeful optimistic terms. They want the world united under direction of a few financial institutions so capital can flow unhindered to smoothly create the flat world that Thomas Friedman talked about. Exponentially accelerating technological growth ensures that only a few million oligarchs need to employ a few dozen million super skilled white collar technocrats to oversee production and distribution. Then of course you need whatever corporate local branch staff not already replaced by robotics. The globalization proponents actually suggest that a planetary system (that doesn't need vast majority of people to work for it) will be able to constantly sell advanced products to most of the world's population at a profit!

Say it takes for example, an outrageous number of 10% of world's population to man the factories making the nanotechnology suits and flying cars and robotic assistants. Say it also takes 10% to fill the white collar positions of the planetary corporate structures to distribute and promote the goods. 80% of people not working are supposed to to buy the products and thus provide profit and wages to the 20%! Don't laugh. The fantasy being seriously promoted by many internationalist globalists. Most people are supposed to be each others bartenders, barbers, and juggler type entertainers. Yes, even with advanced college degrees. It is so logistically irrational that the world's people will reject the idea before the real starvation, violence, and hyper poverty begin. Global unification under such a corporate system is far more structurally and practically ludicrous than any socialist design envisioned in the 20th century.

Many of the world's political and corporate elites understand this and know that transition to post scarcity systems must begin at the top while they are still in control. That entails politically defeating internationalist free market oligarchs and using the government to provide vast safety nets for the armies of the unemployed throughout the Western world. That also entails pushing the government to take managerial control of strategic sectors of the economy such as car/ship/airplane production facilities as well as the land with natural resources. Agricultural land will also be taken (most likely utilizing the health pretext of making food products safer for consumption).

Of course the process in United States will rip its social and political fabric apart and it is likely the process will first be started and finished in Germany-France-Russia-China-Japan block. Once United States follows (hopefully without civil war or other violence), most societies on earth will become advanced welfare states that technology necessitates. Free market hold outs in South America will join once they see United States blatantly copying Russia in strategic asset seizure. Many countries will flip to this model not because they can now do so without facing American violence (or investment ruin) but because the former capitalist superpower now pushes the opposite. Following the transition by most leading countries, the increasing % of society that is unemployed due to mechanization will be able to receive a minimum income and goods stipend.

Such a transition is the only one that would allow most of the oligarchs to continue making a lot of money (and avoid violence and government seizure without compensation). Thus it will be done.



PART 1 of Threats to individual freedom series:




The modern international state system moved the ancient struggle between vassals/tributaries and lords from national level to the level of the individual. Similar to state vassals of the past, people don't want to pay with tribute or service for the right of personal autonomy.

The 20th century saw a false divide created when it came to the concept of freedom. People endlessly argued over whether it means not being coerced to do an action or whether it means being empowered to do an action. We can now clearly see that these two conceptions are sides of the same coin (like many confusing and false dualities in the modern world: right/left, private/public sphere, government/corporation, etc)


"negative freedom": Not being forced to do what you don't want allows you to do what you want.
"positive freedom" : Being given the resources to do what you want allows you to do what you want.

In the end both supposedly different variants allow you to exert more influence over yourself and your environment. As one of the most observant ancient thinkers, Marcus Cicero, noted, "freedom is participation in power". The more one's thoughts, desires, and action influence the world, the more freedom one has. Of course in the first decade of the 21st century we understand that the person also needs to be autonomous (instead of being told by the clergy or political commissars) in deciding what actions to engage in. The secular internet age increasingly takes away the desire and thought generating powers from the traditional local community and transfers it to the individual. What does it mean to be an autonomous decision maker, to not be constantly coerced by stronger outside forces, and to have enough resources to be able to make your own decisions without perishing? It means to be sovereign. A sovereign entity IS the coin with sides of positive and negative liberty.

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Lange C/P... lees verder op de blog.

[tomm]

Rusland wil van het Westerse blok nog steeds niet al teveel weten en daar hebben ze blijkbaar hun gegronde redenen toe.

Mooi zo, laten we op onze aardkloot voorlopig maar een solide multipolaire wereldorde groeien ipv de naar rotte vis stinkende eenheidsworst die het Westerse blok bejaagd.
Dat komt iedereen zijn persoonlijke vrijheden en zelfbeschikkingsrecht ten goede.

Daar gaan we zowiezo naartoe. Brazilië naast ook Argentinië, etc.) , Rusland, Indië, Zuid-Afrika, en uiteraard China worden steeds belangrijker, en laten zich steeds minder de les lezen door het Westen. Zo stond geen enkele van die landen achter de westerse aggressie in Servië, Irak, Libië, en zijn ze allen tegenstander van een militair ingrijpen in Syrië, of strengere sancties tegen Iran.

Hun mening kan niet meer zomaar genegeerd worden als in het verleden, het Westen deed dat in de kwestie Irak, een debacle dat de belangen van de VS erg geschaad heeft, zowel moreel als financieel. Het economisch gewicht van die landen neemt ook alsmaar toe, en daarmee ook hun diplomatiek gewicht.
Ze sluiten ook onderlinge economische en militaire allianties.

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Enkel China heeft Noord Korea niet bedreigd de hun raket neer te schieten...

East Asia Intel - China was only neighbor that did not threaten to down North Korea's missile



_{Pyongyang suffered a major blow Tuesday when Russia, one of its few remaining allies, joined the United States, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in announcing that it had issued orders to shoot down North Korea's missile if it flew too close to its territory. Moscow's announcement was made by the General Staff of Russia's armed forces.}

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WMD's in Natanz (Iran)... sinds 2003 ?

Global Security -
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) - Natanz (Kashan)


<sub>During a press conference by the representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran held in Washington, DC in mid-August 2002, the existence of a secret nuclear facility at Natanz was revealed. Israeli military intelligence has also referred to the site as "Kashan."

Natanz is located between Isfahan and Kashan in central Iran. The facility is reportedly 100 miles north of Esfahan, and is located in old Kashan-Natanz, near a village called Deh-Zireh, itself located about 25 miles southeast of Kashan, and falls under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of Kashan.

Officially a project aimed at the eradication of deserts, construction on the facility was said to have begun in 2000 and was being carried out by the Jahad-e Towse'eh and Towese'eh-Sakhteman construction companies. As of mid-2002, construction was not due to be completed until 2003, at which point, installation of the technical facilities would begin.</sub>

Video - Nuclear Scientist Killed in Tehran Worked at Natanz Atomic Reactor 11/1/12

Video - Bomb assassins murder Iranian nuclear scientist