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The Victory Against You in the Silent War is Your Silence

“Our World” Is Not For You

Tolerance & Equality?

• 23 students suspended after defying school’s ban on Confederate flag
  More than 20 Christiansburg High School students were suspended this week for protesting the school’s ban on the Confederate flag by wearing clothes emblazoned with the divisive symbol.
  
  About two dozen students arrived at school Thursday with clothing featuring the Confederate battle flag after school officials threatened students with suspension or lost parking privileges last month for displaying the image on their vehicles in the parking lot.“We’re not trying to go into school and raise Cain or anything,” junior Zach Comer told The Washington Post. “We’re doing it to raise a point that the flag is not racist. Everyone else can wear whatever shirts they want but we’re not. We just said ‘It’s time to put a stop to it.’”

Slowing Disastrous “Progress”

• Clock Ticks On US Syria Strategy As Assad Pounds ISIS Targets, Russia Sends Fighter Jets

  Earlier this week, Bashar al-Assad served notice to ISIS that the tide may have just turned in the battle for Syria. The Kremlin’s move to increase its “logistical” and “technical” support for government forces at Latakia appears to have breathed new life into the regime which carried out a series of air raids in the de facto ISIS capital Raqqa on Thursday.

  This came amid reports that Assad’s forces were using new “highly effective and very accurate” weaponry. “There are modern weapons that the regime didn’t previously have, be they rocket launchers or air to ground to missiles,” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters.

  Needless to say, Russia’s move to bolster Assad and the suggestion by Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem that Damascus may soon formally request Russian ground troops for the fight has alarmed Washington which, until now, was content to bide its time until Assad finally fell before swooping in to “liberate” the country from whatever militia managed to prevail. As we outlined on Friday, that option is now officially off the table, as toppling Assad will now mean ISIS, al-Nusra, YPG, and the various and sundry other groups operating throughout the country will need to first defeat Russia, an exceptionally unlikely outcome and one that the Pentagon certainly cannot afford to wait out. With its back against the wall in terms of explaining to the public why it seems more and more like the US would rather allow ISIS to continue to operate rather than ally with Russia and Assad to defeat them, Obama and Kerry folded on Friday, instructing Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to phone his Russian counterpart to begin coordinating anti-terror activities in Syria. Here’s The New York Times:

   As the first Russian combat aircraft arrived in Syria, the Obama administration reached out to Moscow on Friday to try to coordinate actions in the war zone and avoid an accidental escalation of one of the world’s most volatile conflicts.

  The White House seemed to acknowledge that the Kremlin had effectively changed the calculus in Syria in a way that would not be soon reversed despite vigorous American objections. The decision to start talks also reflected a hope that Russia might yet be drawn into a more constructive role in resolving the four-year-old civil war.

  At Mr. Obama’s instruction, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on Friday opened a dialogue on Syria with his Russian counterpart, Defense Minister Sergei K. Shoigu, aimed at making sure that American and Russian forces avoid running into each other by mistake.
  

  Note that this is a bitter defeat for Washington. Moscow, realizing that instead of undertaking an earnest effort to fight terror in Syria, the US had simply adopted a containment strategy for ISIS while holding the group up to the public as the boogeyman par excellence, publicly invited Washington to join Russia in a once-and-for-all push to wipe Islamic State from the face of the earth.

Politicized Peace Awards

• Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize

  Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.
  Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.
  Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Many argued he had not had any impact worthy of the award.
  Mr Lundestad, writing in his memoir, Secretary of Peace, said even Mr Obama himself had been surprised.
  “No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,” Mr Lundestad writes.
  “Even many of Obama’s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,” he says. “In that sense the committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for”.
  He also reveals that Mr Obama considered not going to pick up the award in Norway’s capital, Oslo.
  His staff enquired whether other winners had skipped the ceremony but found this has happened only on rare occasions, such as when dissidents were held back by their governments.

“Our” Human Resources

• Vatican welcomes Iran agreement, urges greater nuclear disarmament    Many around the world are not aware of the IAEA’s role in promoting sustainable and integral human development.  The IAEA helps open up interesting possibilities for harnessing the power of science and technology to address pressing problems of poverty, health, and environmental degradation.  Peaceful applications of nuclear technologies allow many States to come closer to the achievement of their development goals and are in keeping with Pope Francis’ call, in his recent Encyclical Letter, “Laudato Si’” for responsible stewardship of our human and natural resources.

BAR ASS. Plunder Is Essential

• AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
  AUGUST 12-13, 2013
  RESOLUTION
  RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association reaffirms its 1991 and 2003 commitments to
  sustainable development, and defines sustainable development as “the promotion of an
  economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for our planet and for present and future generations.”
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges all governments, lawyers,
  and ABA entities to act in ways that accelerate progress toward sustainability.
  FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association encourages law schools, legal
  education providers, and others concerned with professional development to foster sustainability in their facilities and operations and to help promote a better understanding

  of the principles of sustainable development in relevant fields of law.

  Introduction — Sustainability in Context

  Sustainable development has its origins in the conservation and environmental movements in the United States and other countries, in the laws that were adopted because of those movements, and in the lawyers that drafted and worked with clients to implement these laws. Long before the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (UNCED, or Earth Summit), for example, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 declared a national policy “to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans” (42 U.S.C. § 4331(a)).

Sharing Austerity Globally

• ‘Mega’ Agenda 21 resurrected with pope’s help

  As the choppy waters of September 2015 move ashore, all eyes will be on Pope Francis’ visit to the United States, jittery stock markets and signs in the heavens.

  Francis is expected to enthusiastically endorse a new U.N. document that promises to wipe out poverty by 2030 by reordering the world economy along the lines of socialist principles. The document, titled “Transforming Our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” also seeks to “strengthen universal peace” and usher in a new era of shared prosperity.

• Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and of equal opportunity permitting the full realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development Finance 17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
  17.2 Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries
  17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
  17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
  17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries . . .         29. We recognize the positive contribution of migrants for inclusive growth and sustainable development. We also recognize that international migration is a multi-dimensional reality of major relevance for the development of countries of origin, transit and destination, which requires coherent and comprehensive responses. We will cooperate internationally to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of displaced persons. Such cooperation should also strengthen the resilience of communities hosting refugees, particularly in developing countries. We underline the right of migrants to return to their country of citizenship, and recall that States must ensure that their returning nationals are duly received.

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  • The people know that they have created this farce and financed it with their own taxes (consent), but they would rather knuckle under than be the hypocrite.Factor VI – Cattle
    Those who will not use their brains are no better off than those who have no brains, and so this mindless school of jelly-fish, father, mother, son, and daughter, become useful beasts of burden or trainers of the same.
    
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    What Mr. Rothschild [2] had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is “when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.”

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• General Orders No. 100 : The Lieber Code

  INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIELD

Where Not Throwing Oppression Off, You Live Either Under an Occupation or by Conquest.

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