the burbank digest

Israel demands apology for ‘anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu cartoon
1/28/13 Raphael Ahren diplomatic correspondent http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-demand-apology-for-anti-semitic-n...

Sunday Times apologizes for Netanyahu cartoon. Rupert Murdoch, billionaire CEO of News Corp. which owns The Times, tweeted a harshly worded apology. Cartoonist apologizes for publication timing. Netanyahu cartoon Outcry over UK paper’s cartoon showing bloody Israeli oppression..One day after the caricature sparked outrage among Jewish groups for its depiction of a bloodthirsty Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with the blood and bodies of Palestinians, leading Israelis joined the chorus of condemnation. In a meeting Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tony Blair, the representative of the Middle East quartet and also former British premier, deplored the caricature, according to a press release from the PM’s Office... Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein told Army Radio the government would probably refrain from filing an official complaint with the London-based paper. However “We will think about how to act against the paper’s representative here in Israel.”The cartoon is “certainly” anti-Semitic..Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel office, called the cartoon “absolutely disgusting...makes all the talk of fighting anti-Semitism seem irrelevant,” and Michael Salberg of the Anti-Defamation League said “The Sunday Times has clearly lost its moral bearings — a spokesman for the London newspaper told The Times of Israel the cartoon was not anti-Semitic but critical of the prime minister’s policies, as it was “aimed squarely at Mr. Netanyahu and his policies, not at Israel, let alone at Jewish people.”

HQs in France:

NATO: A short history
http://www.nato.int/history/nato-history.html
It is often said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in 1949 in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. This is only partially true. In fact, the Alliance’s creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration....The aftermath of World War II saw much of Europe devastated in a way that is now difficult to envision...In addition, Communists backed by the Soviet Union were threatening governments across Europe...US-funded Marshall Plan and other means fostered a degree of economic stabilisation. European states still needed confidence in their security...the North Atlantic Treaty was signed on 4 April, 1949...with Article 5, the key to the alliance, new Allies agreed “an armed attack against one or more of them… shall be considered an attack against them all” and that following such an attack, each Ally would take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force” in response.... While the signing of the Treaty created Allies, it had not created a military structure that could effectively coordinate their actions. This changed when growing worries about Soviet intentions culminated in the Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949 and in the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. The effect upon the Alliance was dramatic.
NATO soon gained a consolidated command structure with military Headquarters based in the Parisian suburb of Rocquencourt, near Versailles. This was Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) with US General Dwight D. Eisenhower the first Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACEUR. Soon after, the Allies established a permanent civilian secretariat in Paris...

SELF-REVEALING US WAR GAME PLAN

"Remarks part of U.S. "hostile policy"
3/1/14 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/01/c_133152294.htm
PYONGYANG, (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday refuted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's recent remarks terming the country an "evil place," as "another vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. Foreign Ministry spokesman said Kerry should be aware "no pressure is workable on the DPRK. The US in disregard of international law, better ponder itself before blaming others, as it commits horrible genocide in various parts of the world under the signboard of 'liberty' and 'democracy'" ...

In case you missed this
China issues report on U.S. human rights
2/28/14 Xinhua http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/> <">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2014-02/28/c_133150005.htm
Chinese Confucian idiom: "all will follow one who is personally upright, even though he does not give orders; but if he is not personally upright, they will not follow, even though he gives orders. China's report on US Human Rights was published Friday...one day after US State Department issued its 2013 country reports on human rights practices, including China, a longtime victim of groundless U.S. accusations....The Chinese report finds hypercritical Uncle Sam a poor performer...the human rights situation in the US is worsening...grave employment situation...rampant gun violence. With the [NSA] program code-named PRISM, the U.S. government infringed on the privacy rights of people both at home and abroad....

US Global World Order post WW2
"The United States must cultivate a mental view toward world settlement after this war which will enable us to impose our own terms, amounting perhaps to a pax-Americana."
May 6, 1942 U.S. Department of State Security Subcommittee, Minutes S-3, Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy

US Doesn't Know If North Korea Has a Nuclear Missile
10/23/14 http://www.defenseone.com/newsletters/issue/defenseone/defense-one-today...
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cold-blooded preparations for war:

Preparing for North Korean Collapse
EAST ASIASECURITYNORTH KOREA
10/31/13 http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/31/preparing-for-a-north-korean-collapse/
Report by Bruce Bennett and the RAND Corporation: U.S. must begin to consider the requirements of intervention – not to depose a totalitarian regime for the sake of an ideological crusade, but as pragmatic, necessary planning in the event weapons of mass destruction enter the calculus as a credible, serious danger. ..(digest: guess who determines ‘failed/collapsed states’ - in every sense?)...
A major crisis scenario that destabilizes the North Korean government and its mechanisms of control, no matter how unlikely, should prompt the international community to consider a multilateral framework for intervention.

digest: state terror, from institutionalized genocide to torture and state-sponsored 'news' revelations. Results: as if it’s brand new isolated events: investigations by the perpetrators. Conclusion, it’s about protecting the amarican people, e.g., for counterrevolutionary national security...despite rare individual excesses

DOD Office of Inspector General
Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse (Report No. 06- INTEL-IO) (U) August 25, 2006 Evaluation Report
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/abuse.pdf

CIA History of Office of Technical Service 1951-2001
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/D...
...MKULTRA “involved Agency funding for testing and use of chemical and biological agents and other means of controlling or modifying human behavior” (p. 19).

Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing: The Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques
Part I of the Committee’s Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody
6/17/09 http://www.levin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=588c53ab-61a2-435...
SERE resistance training techniques were turned on their head and sanctioned by Department of Defense officials for use against detainees. he DoD Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) oversees SERE training. The U.S. military has five SERE Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape schools. SERE resistance training exposes students to physical and psychological pressures designed to simulate abusive conditions they might be subjected to if taken prisoner by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions...

1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show blacks age 15 to 19 were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.
10/10/14 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335737/-Propublica-Analysis-Yo...

digest:
The US, in desperation semantically eradicated REVOLUTION and of course has declared "communism dead". Revolution, resistance, self-defense against US domination officially is "terrorism","violent extremism", to provide endless pretexts for its state terrorist death squads al-Q and clones, now including ISIS. The GWOT is one massive counter-revolutionary war, dependent on P20G operations. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK05Ak02.html>

Reality refuses to cooperate with US 'strategic communications" however. India, the Philippines, and Nepal are primary reasons why: unbeatable successes of what most threatens its survival because genuine revolutionaries are 'fish in the ocean' of the people as Mao put it
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Example: today the 'news' informed us the Maoist-led revolution that began in 1967 in West Bengal India is "India’s Quiet Role as a Hotbed of Terror" 11/26/14< http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/11/indias-quiet-role-hotbed-terror/100034/>....The majority of India’s terrorism incidents in 2013 were related to the Maoist groups operating in Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh responsible for almost half of terrorism-related deaths in the country last year. That includes the attack on a Congress Party convoy in Chhattisgarh’s Darbha Valley in May 2013, where over 20 people, including senior Congress politicians, were shot dead by the insurgents. “Police are overwhelmingly the biggest targets of Maoists..."

digest note:
US special ops in the resistance against the 'justifiable homicide' in Ferguson Missouri are based upon and serve the overall U.S. global supremacy agenda in which domination of the African continent and the US Black nation are critical - and interconnected.
The following excerpt from Zbigniew's Brzezinski's 1978 National Security policy memorandum was to be in part 3. But because 36 years later, this is still US National Security Strategy, Z. Brzezinski is still a leading strategist and Obama 'consultant' (as Carters Sec. of State, ZB planned and executed the formation, training and arming of * Afghan mujahedeen under osama bin laden to suck the Soviet Union into Afgahnistan and defeat US main rival for global dominance.
The selected excerpt below is mainly from the US v. US Black liberation movement section because the current US "race war" tactic is a higher-tech level of the 1956-1971 COINTELPRO, ** P20G operation, to kill Black Panther Party leaders and BPP's increasingly broad influence beyond the Black nation.
Most importantly: regardless of today's total surveillance/information war fascist state of US capitalism, 500 hundred years of genocidal slavery, brutality and degradation has not been able to kill the Black nation's dignity and determination for liberation. However, it has greatly increased capitalist gravediggers of every nationality, everywhere in the world whose lives, lands and history still battle the same enemy called 'humanitarian aid', 'diplomacy, development. and defense'

USAID, through our assistance programs, plays an active and critical role in the promotion of U.S. foreign policy interests. The investment we make in developing countries has long-term benefits for America and the American people. Development now takes its place alongside defense and diplomacy as the three essential components of U.S. foreign policy.
http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are

digest comment:

Ferguson's population about 21,000, approximately 75% Black, most poor
Part 1: short chronology of media suppression, then media coverage, mostly Voice of America (VOA), lays some groundwork.
Part 2 documents the history and forces involved in Justice Dept. "Community Policing" strategic planning and tactical organizing, with military, corporate and foundation partners. Not included in these issues is deeply involved, critically important neurogenomics now dominating science, with major players Pentagon/DARPA and the NIH, now underlying and driving overall US finance capitalism in crisis fascist mode.

Michael Brown's murder was more than another white supremacist US 'justifiable homicide' history. It was a major strategic move in the US counter-revolutionary world war [GWOT] to salvage its eroding global domination. It was politically provocative, timed and organized to divide and disrupt class unity with 'race war' to 'justify' and institutionalize military occupation and deadly force against the most brutally oppressed and likely to join revolutionary class war - the one thing that potentially threatens the existence of this predatory political-economic system.
Capitalist upstart rivals are now apparently 'diplomatically' manageable, backed up with threat of USNATO.
Not genuine revolutionary wars like decades-long unbeatable Maoist-led wars in the Nepal, the Philippines and India.
US geostrategists Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger have long-guided policymakers how to deal with inevitable working class-oppressed nattionality resistance before it spreads as it did in the 60's-70's Black Panther Party-led l movement that brought this country as close as it has ever come to revolution. More from them in part 2.

"The Negro youth and moderate[s] must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teachings, they will be dead revolutionaries."

digest: US global dictatorship framework
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"- ,Henry A. Kissinger

India, like all surrogate state rulers, knows it. Well-rewarded comprador rulers must keep 'restive' masses in line by any means or US will ruin them & get another 'ally'/'partner'

High Hopes, Modest Expectations
9/29/14 by Aarthi Gunasekaran and Vikram Singh https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2014/09/29/98002/h...
...With world leaders knee-deep in the unfolding crises and Americans eyeing midterm elections at home, newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using the margins of the U.N. General Assembly to make his first official visit to the United States....and meet with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.... vitally important to the future of Indian-U.S. ties... concern about a host of issues holding back the relationship, including India’s close, historic military relationship with Russia; India’s protectionist barriers to foreign investment; and the United States’ cumbersome export-control policies. But progress has been made in all these areas. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi now have the opportunity to silence the echo chamber of skeptics by showing that they will take this partnership to the next level...
Aarthi Gunasekaran is a Research Assistant with the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress. Vikram Singh is Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center.

A major behind-closed-doors discussion will be the still unkillable, despite massive depopulation, Maoist revolutionary insurgency 'bilateral' national security threat' - see below

digest:
Ebola 'pandemic': latest in medical war front in US global counter-revolution strategy:
HIV/AIDS premise shredded by leading scientists http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/51
H1Ni and other Flu Pandemics www.burbankdigest.com/node/478
Behind the US "ISIS" Crisis: http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/500
Ebola: p1 http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/516 p2 http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/517 p3http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/518

Billionaire club bid to curb overpopulation
5/24/09 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article63503...
Some leading American billionaires met secretly May 5 to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population. Described as the Good Club by one insider, it included David Rockefeller Jr, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. Taking their cue from Gates they agreed overpopulation was a priority...a consensus emerged to back a strategy with population growth tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfree, Warren Buffett, George Soros, David Rockefeller Coming Together 'to Do More'
May 20, 2009—http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7628545
Patricia Stonesifer, senior advisor to the Gates foundation's trustees, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, told ABCNews.com. "The overwhelming reason for the meeting was need -- that was the issue that galvanized everyone to participate.This was a group very committed to philanthropy coming together to see how they can join together to do more."

Bill Gates talks about ‘vaccines to reduce population’
By F. William Engdahl, 4 March 2010 http://oilgeopolitics.net/Swine_Flu/Gates_Vaccines/gates_vaccines.html

"Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World."