What does the US get back in return for its overwhelmingly exorbitant funding of Israel?

Here are the shocking (to the US taxpayer whose benefits have disappeared for this) facts on Israels full benefits, if it is still up for a change and hasn't been removed http://www.adc.org/IB85066.pdf

Everyone knows the United States is Israel's best friend. It has the most (or possibly only) Pro Israel foreign policy in the world. The US gives Israel billions of dollars in aid annually, consistently blocks UN Security Council resolutions condemning Israel, and backs its military offensives publicly. But why? What's the thinking behind America going above-and-beyond for Israel while leaving its own people with flailing schools, jobs and social benefits?

Well there are 3 clear factors. Each one will get its own post from me in the coming weeks.

1) Votes? The large Jewish community resident in the US?
Its not as big as you think.

This is an interesting aspect and very misunderstood, if you have read my previous post on Globalization and Anti-Semitism you'll realize I think people oversimplify their non-mainstream view of global Geopolitics by looking for Jews under every rock and blaming Jews collectively for the ills of the world. There is simply no place for that sort of myopic bigotry for any serious or amateur political analyst.

2) Israel as the regions platform for globalization.

This is where the real meat is.

3) Pro Israel Jews and Christian Neocons in the globally guided mainstream media, old Banking Houses but more realistically paradoxically capitalist types of the old Dynasties who essentially own the Western Political machine (not a sensastionalist claim in reality), who will as gladly dispose of the used husk of America as they will of Israel, to fulfill their agenda. They and their class usually parade as some or other sort of patriots of their time.

A quick look back at the recent history, perhaps 500 years, shows how this seemingly made-for-TV or bestselling novel financial backstory to history contains all the uncomfortable truths if you ditch the texbooks and folliw the money. The devil is in the details.

Here is where the scandal and mad sounding conspiracies kick in. Much of what is claimed is true and surprisingly easy to verify.

The torture reports are watered down lies. Heres why, What are your thoughts?

The torture or advanced interigation details doing the rounds dont tell the truth about the legacy of US torture in the last decade. Rape, child abuse in front of parents and the worst kind of sadism imaginable are the real legacy as pointed out by one example here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

In the wake of the latest outrage of further details of recent much milder half truths regarding CIA torture being made public we just have to wonder what we stand for in the west if these are our methods? Some people don't seem to mind, please vote in the poll in the top left of the blog body whatever your feelings may be.

More disturbing arguably are the without trial assassinations carried out on foreign soil known as drone killings.

Since 2004 (According to Wikipedia), the United States government has attacked hundreds of targets in Northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division. Most of these attacks are on targets in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Northwest Pakistan.

These strikes began during the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, and have increased substantially under  Barack Obama.

Amnesty International found that a number of victims were unarmed and that some strikes could amount to war crimes.

Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has repeatedly demanded an end to the strikes, stating: "The use of drones is not only a continual violation of our territorial integrity but also detrimental to our resolve and efforts at eliminating terrorism from our country".^[28] The Peshawar High Court has ruled that the attacks are illegal, inhumane, violate the UN charter on human rights and constitute a war crime.

Click here for a brilliant  visual representation of the fatalities, stats and timeline in Pakistan.

Of course many more Drone killings happen in North Africa, Yemen and other countries whose boundaries, innocent collateral citizens, extradition treaties for the suspects etc are not respected by the US who commits what ultimately amounts to murder for a shadowy agenda never revealed to the public.

Even pro-establishment CNN place the drone strike success rate as low as 2%

And many disastrous errors occur like this mistaken murder of 12 innocent wedding guests in Yemen

Gold is about to sink the Dollar, soon.

Following hot on the heels of Germany and the Netherlands, now Belgium's central bank has just indicated it will repatriate its US gold supplies.

This is big. Huge. It thwarts the Feds all out assault on keeping gold at such a massively undervalued level, a level desperately needed to prevent the dollars demise and its a slippery slope downhill from here for the $.

Russia and China have been buying whatever gold they can get their hands on in anticipation of the fiat dollar house of cards finally exposing its feeble foundation.

Belgium is particularly interesting because Brussels is the the EU HQ and it sends a strong sign out revealing that there is a broader game afoot.

Something's up...

The worst legislation in US history, H Res 758, summary of the problems.

Designed to consolidate the US national position on Russia in order to facilitate the the geopolitical, military and diplomatic action that will be required in the build up to war.



Here is the full PDF document:

https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=s06BVOfGMISrU4XKgOAP&url=http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141201/hres758_sus_xml%2520-%2520condemning%2520Russian%2520aggression.pdf&ved=0CD4QFjAK&usg=AFQjCNGJgZEITPUw1Prox1KS1Ynrgvt74w&sig2=PJw05n8vMXbf0GHLYnSGYw

A summary of some of the problems copied and pasted from RPI http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/december/04/reckless-congress-declares-war-on-russia/

The resolution (paragraph 3) accuses Russia of an invasion of Ukraine and condemns Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty. The statement is offered without any proof of such a thing. Surely with our sophisticated satellites that can read a license plate from space we should have video and pictures of this Russian invasion. None have been offered. As to Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, why isn’t it a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty for the US to participate in the overthrow of that country’s elected government as it did in February? We have all heard the tapes of State Department officials plotting with the US Ambassador in Ukraine to overthrow the government. We heard US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland bragging that the US spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. Why is that OK?

The resolution (paragraph 11) accuses the people in east Ukraine of holding “fraudulent and illegal elections” in November. Why is it that every time elections do not produce the results desired by the US government they are called “illegal” and “fraudulent”? Aren’t the people of eastern Ukraine allowed self-determination? Isn’t that a basic human right?

The resolution (paragraph 13) demands a withdrawal of Russia forces from Ukraine even though the US government has provided no evidence the Russian army was ever in Ukraine. This paragraph also urges the government in Kiev to resume military operations against the eastern regions seeking independence.

The resolution (paragraph 14) states with certainty that the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 that crashed in Ukraine was brought down by a missile “fired by Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.” This is simply incorrect, as the final report on the investigation of this tragedy will not even be released until next year and the preliminary report did not state that a missile brought down the plane. Neither did the preliminary report – conducted with the participation of all countries involved – assign blame to any side.

Paragraph 16 of the resolution condemns Russia for selling arms to the Assad government in Syria. It does not mention, of course, that those weapons are going to fight ISIS – which we claim is the enemy -- while the US weapons supplied to the rebels in Syria have actually found their way into the hands of ISIS!

Paragraph 17 of the resolution condemns Russia for what the US claims are economic sanctions (“coercive economic measures”) against Ukraine. This even though the US has repeatedly hit Russia with economic sanctions and is considering even more!

The resolution (paragraph 22) states that Russia invaded the Republic of Georgia in 2008. This is simply untrue. Even the European Union – no friend of Russia – concluded in its investigation of the events in 2008 that it was Georgia that “started an unjustified war” against Russia not the other way around! How does Congress get away with such blatant falsehoods? Do Members not even bother to read these resolutions before voting?

In paragraph 34 the resolution begins to even become comical, condemning the Russians for what it claims are attacks on computer networks of the United States and “illicitly acquiring information” about the US government. In the aftermath of the Snowden revelations about the level of US spying on the rest of the world, how can the US claim the moral authority to condemn such actions in others?