Finland's acute govt crisis averted as True Finns party splinters (as planned)

Treachery is in the air. Apparently some people made a choice to put their career first and loyalty second. In short, the smallest coalition govt party, True Finns (perussuomalaiset), has splintered into two groups after the bigger coalition govt parties said that they would not cooperate with the newly elected controversial party leader and MEP Jussi Halla-Aho due to his ideology and thought crimes. The newly splintered group called New Alternative (uusi vaihtoehto) comprised of former party leader Timo Soini's ideological entourage and with the 21 and counting members of this fresh parliamentary group the coalition can form a narrow majority government and push through the highly coveted social and healthcare reforms (sote) and new county administration layout (maakuntauudistus). It remains to be seen whether the Centre Party, the National Coalition Party and  the New Alternative can pull through all the stops and form a functioning lame duck government. The opposition parties call for new elections due to mistrust over the new conditions within the splintering.

Moral outrage 101: Some people interpreted these hand signs as Nazi salutes at the True Finns convention

All in all, the Centre Party wants to solidify its rule for the next 20 or so years with the new county administration reform which would, in layman's terms, introduce 10–18 new counties, a completely new layer of administration with unknown statutes and powers. The National Coalition Party is aiming to privatize more and more of the public built infrastructure to party connected business insiders and foreign service providers. The healthcare reforms would boost private healthcare providers access to lucrative markets whereas all the non-profitable healthcare would be still in public control. My estimate is that the mainline True Finns like the longstanding populist party leader Timo Soini wants in on this financial action and by supporting these reprehensible actions to short sell our countries' assets, he intends to land a lucrative retirement plan like many previous ministers within the government.

Counter coup within True Finns to save career and future revenue

The new True Finns leader Halla-Aho enjoyed merely three days of leadership until the clic within the party decided splinter. Foreign minister and former party leader Soini didn't refer his own actions as abandoning the party he helped to rise to power. The party under Soini's lead was mired with flirting with racists as many members had expressed the unthinkable and had made some unsavory and undignified remarks of people of foreign persuasion. However, this was only a public image problems and didn't seem to warrant any concern out of the coalition partner who recently had to denounce cooperation with one of the racists who rose to party leadership positions thus triggering the unfortunate chain of events which will most likely lead to demise of everyone involved.

"The look when you betray the party you created to secure job as foreign minister." / Former True Finns leader Timo Soini flip-flop supreme

People can complain all they want. Halla-Aho is a condemned thought criminal under Finnish law and he paid the fines for the 'hate speech' he expressed. That said I feel, even though just before the True Finns party convention in early June, it became public knowledge that the conservative candidate had indeed had an extramarital affair, that Halla-Aho was in this case the more honest person of what he thinks and feels. And being overtly racist in some remarks was apparently too much the coalition partners who expressed there was too deep an ideological gap even though the actions might be more discriminating than words.

Saying mean stuff is worse than getting hands dirty

Racism, hate speech and thought crimes are very much a daily topic in the Finnish media. Recently, it was made public that the Finnish police had a private Facebook group where certain members had made racist and unbecoming remarks for public office. The moral outrage was luckily short lived but will most likely lead to an internal review by the police administration. That said, it was rather embarrassing for the police force, who by the way, is supposed to monitor 'hate speech' online, to commit some of the crimes themselves. It is true that online conversation lacks tact and is mired with racist and bigoted views. Add to that incendiary and falsified reports of fake incidents, hearsay and rumors of refugee or immigrant crimes home and abroad and that'll make a fine cesspool. Unfortunately, some opportunists like to give credit for spreading this muck to the Russian government. This kind of counter intelligent agent and pundits want to spread in turn their own biased anti-Russian views which could also be seen as 'racist' in nature.

So far the splintering and the demise of True Finns hasn't been credited to Russians colluding to weaken the Finnish democracy but to this narrative to form it will take time before some columnists figures out Putin's telepathic brainwashing powers were behind this hatchling of a crisis.

True Finns media platform Suomen Uutiset asks: Halla-Aho or Soini?

Currently, it seems that the media is for the most part rejoicing that the racist bunch was overthrown and betrayed by their party comrades. Although, some are still very concerned about the credibility of the lame duck government and how can the New Alternative splinter cell enjoy any kind of mandate in this new context. It must be highlighted that the New Alternative has twice the support as the remaining True Finns when it comes to counting the members' vote count in the previous election. The New Alternative as a name is indeed a sloppy joke since ideologically it is old, corrupted and for sale, and all those qualities can hardly be called new or alternative. Morally the govt couldn't be more bankrupt. It is also unfortunate that at the moment the economy has taken a positive turn which in turn makes it harder to pursue more austerity and advocate selling state property.

The Finnish mentality wants to project positive image and therefore partnering with a thought criminal was a no-no. The best kind of corruption is hidden and kept out of sight. Shoot the messenger. The prime minister Juha Sipilä has had a bad spring. First, he wanted to the public news service YLE to portray him and his actions in a more favorable light, and after that in early June, a local monthly newspaper Seura shed light into how he became a millionaire through insider collusion and 'organized crime' where public property and assets are sold below their true price to insiders who can later sell the assets with huge profit. Sounds like public and private sector cross over in organized crime defrauding all of the countries tax payers.

All we can say at this point is that the future looks uncertain. It is unlikely that the social and healthcare reforms riddled with legal problems can pass this year adding more pressure to the govt coalition. It is a real mess, similar to UK. Globalists have once more taken advantage. Can we fight back in time?

Immigration vs. EU-integration

The old praetorian guard is willing more or less to follow the establish coalition policy whereas the newly elected True Finns were highly critical of EU and its pro-immigration policies. It is to be noted sincerely that the True Finns even under the new leadership were willing to continue the old plan were it to be followed. It seems that the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party wanted to alter the policy at this point to accommodate deeper EU integration led by Germany.

Anti-immigration stance gained quickly lot of popularity and fervent opposition after 2015 refugee crisis brought masses of asylum seekers into Scandinavia. The overreaction was bigger than anticipated. It is expected that this negative trend will continue even after the next election, but at this point it is still too early to see whether there is a possible snap election next year.

Qatar affair – Could this be a start of a beautiful friendship?

The budding Arab NATO's end has a start

When surrounding nations cut ties to Qatar, the single Gulf nation is without support in the region. This dilemma among others things is directly reflected in oil and gas prices and speculation runs wild what will happen to this nation now accused of supporting terrorism.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-04/saudi-arabia-egypt-uae-bahrain-cut-diplomatic-ties-block-all-borders-qatar

Another interesting fact is that with Qatar's fall from grace both upcoming FIFA World Cup hosts are facing a moral setback. Russia on the one hand is frowned upon because issues like Crimea, purported gay abuse in Chechnya and vehement collusion into US and Europe's internal affairs, Qatar on the other hand, dubiously chosen as the host for 2022 world cup, is taking a beating from the neighbouring countries who accuse the nation of supporting terrorism and, what is even worse, Iran.

I personally have hard time understanding why people think this accusation should be taken seriously. For the time being, Saudi-Arabia where notorious president Trump recently visited, is the main sponsor of Wahhabi terrorism in the world. No doubt about it. Yet Western leaders pander to Saudi assets. Theresa May wants to withhold the 'sensitive' report that is set to condemn UK weapons deals to extremists funding Arab theocracy. And not surprisingly, in the aftermath of Manchester 22 and the recent London Bridge terror attacks, this sensitive information would jeopardize the Tory re-election stunt June 8th.

First of all, let me set the record strait. The objective of this Qatar affair is in Iran. That is the main purpose by all means. Trump talked the talk and now both sunni nations and Israel will expect him to walk the walk. This indeed will please many neocons around the globe and would indubitably lead to a global conflict.

UK would be set to support this plan no doubt. They need first to survive the elections, thwart peacenicks like Corbyn and set aim for more tyranny first by 'creating safe spaces online' and quelling dissent and hate speech. And the bombings and terror incidents won't stop believe me.

Secondly, there is also no speck of a doubt that Qatar is harbouring terrorists and funding sunni jihadi insurgency in places like Libya, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. I hope you can remember the time when Qatar gave shelter to infamous Abdelhakim Belhadj, now leader to Islamic state in Maghreb. In defense of him, I should say that during his stay in Qatar, he was deemed by the West as an asset, since he would leave Qatar to fight for NATO in Libya in 2011. Later he was heralded as the hero of Libya by even more notorious neocon senators Richard Blumenthal, John McCain and Lindsay Graham.

Voltaire.net gives us the nice wrap on Belhadj and the Manchester bomber:

During the Libyan war, Belhadj, who had been living in Qatar, returned to Libya, courtesy of the Qatari Emir, and commanded the operations on the ground in league with NATO. On 28 July 2011, he organised the assassination of General Abdul Fatah Younis who claimed to have joined the ‘rebels’, but who Belhadj accused of overseeing the struggle against the LIFG during the 1990s.

There we have it. I would be pleased to be given the purported information pointing to collusion with Iran. Let's feast our eyes in this picture of competing pipelines. Let's focus on the rivalry between Qatar and Iran, and the obvious role of Syria in all this.

This plan is obviously one of the reasons for toppling Assad who chose the red option. Unfortunately the project to remove Assad is failing rapidly and now there seems to be a rush for apply a plan B for the region, as Daesh and other jihadis in the Iraq and Syria are being cornered. We can already witness the redeployment of jihadi assets towards new battlefields. One of the focal points is Europe through conventional air travel through Turkey, as the case of Salman Abedi, the assailant of Manchester arena bombing, has tangibly proven. Other node of travel is through Libya. Then again undercover extremists have also infiltrated the masses of immigrants from Turkey to Greece and from Libya to Italy.

http://journal-neo.org/2013/05/23/qatar-is-funding-international-terrorism/

Other battlefields where jihadis are needed in the global war on terror include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen and now most recently Southern-Philippines.

OPEC's future on the extra time?

As alliances in the Middle East are reorganizing rapidly, the situation remains very tense. We can expect some instability when it comes to oil prices. This uncertainty would boost the prices, thus alleviating the economies of nations such as Norway, Venezuela, Saudi-Arabia and Russia. It is, however, too early to categorize this latest move as a stunt to bolster the last stages of carbon emitting assets such as natural gas, oil and shale. The peak of myth is also being kept in life support even though new sources of raw material is found each year.

It is worth considering that the stalling of the implementation of the Paris Climate Accord as seen in Trump's thumb down move for the global greenhouse gas reduction and tax scheme agenda plays into this concoction of economic jousting. Nobody can really tell, whether combustible energy sources have any role this next 20 years. In energy production, we can expect them to remain as a stable yet somewhat polluting source of energy.

Deep State Sleight of Hand

Is remains to be seen if the Deep State befuddled its own crises can trick the Trump team to jump the gun when it comes to Iran. Certainly we can expect the military industrial complex McMaster and AIPAC backed Kushner to silver tongue the president into unexpected action. However the internal crisis in Washington, chasing the Russian ghost protocol influence and ever exceeding Pedogate investigations are prone to emerge as the achilles heel of the United States political theater.

I'm willing to bet there needs to be a string of distraction when the push comes to shove. MSM is clearly suffering and being openly ridiculed. Deep State is losing the fear effect of terrorism. Despite all this, it is evident that the divide and conquer strategy is working on some levels where people and groups are being maneuvered to bash one anothers' beliefs. This can be attributed as 'culture wars' and battles can be seen social media such as Twitter every waking hour of every single day. The power to sway public opinion and appear more confident is by no means indication of righteousness these days. The most riveting and vocal demagogues can gather such strength in the field of public opinion and this is something every government is fighting against. I'm not really cheering for bigots to sow the seeds of hate even though at times they are clearly in the right and have the better arguments. It is indeed hard to be inclusive and engage people during these times of extreme divisiveness and opinionated fools.

Could this be the coveted orb of ISIS from the Simpsons?

In the scale of things and all things considered, this Qatar affair is a joke. The Saudis are clearly the biggest supporters of sunni Wahhabi radicals and blaming Iran or Qatar won't change that fact. Many Western nations are willing to kowtow Saudi brutality and human rights abuses in places like Yemen. There is no excuse. Dumb and excited public will most likely fall for it, like it does for other ploys of the deep state. However Qatar is no prize either. They could improve their own human rights situation and correct the record for foreign slave labor and horrific working conditions in the World Cup construction sites.