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Cam Bangbang (David Cameron and Indonesian president General Susilo Bangbang Yudhoyono) Website for this image

"Indonesia is in the midst of a massive military spending spree, with $1.4bn allocated for major arms purchases through 2014.

"According to former defence minister Juwono Sudarsono, military officers may be pocketing as much as 30-40% of the procurement costs in 'mark-up fees'."

West Java, Indonesia.

The world's biggest Moslem country, Indonesia, claims to be a democracy.

Indonesia has the world's 4th biggest population and it has a booming economy and growing military expenditure.

Which is why it is being visited by UK prime minister David Cameron.

West Java, Indonesia

In the Guardian, on 12 April 2012, John Sidel, in an article entitled "Indonesian democracy deserves closer scrutiny", explains that Indonesia may not be any more democratic than the USA or UK.

John Sidel makes the following points:

1. Speaking at an Islamic university in Jakarta, David Cameron praised Indonesia as a model democracy.

(In the 1960s, Britain trained Islamic guerrillas in Indonesia in order to try to topple the democratically elected president, Sukarno. According to The Independent: "Cabinet papers show that British spies, including MI6, supported Islamic guerrillas in order to destabilise Sukarno." The Secret State.

(In the 1990s, Margaret Thatcher praised Indonesia's President Suharto, just before he was toppled 'by the CIA and its friends' - Aangirfan)

Citizens of Jakarta

2. The recent shift to 'decentralised democracy' in Indonesia has seen businessmen, gangsters and corrupt politicians become entrenched in parliament and regional assemblies.

3. Indonesia has "judicial mafias" and rising human rights abuses by the police.

Buitenzorg, West Java, Indonesia.

4. The president is a retired Suharto general.

(The CIA and its friends put the military into power in 1965, and many of the top military are trained in the USA - Aangirfan.)

Many former military officers occupy top positions in the government and in parliament.

The army continues to carry out human rights abuses (for example in West Papua).

The military has resisted pressure to divest itself from its business interests.

Indonesia - boy and kitten

5. Indonesia is in the midst of a massive military spending spree, with $1.4bn allocated for major arms purchases through 2014.

According to former defence minister Juwono Sudarsono (previously Indonesia's ambassador to the UK), military officers may be pocketing as much as 30-40% of the procurement costs in "mark-up fees".

Perhaps this is the real context in which we should understand Cameron's glowing account of Indonesia's "inspiring" democracy.

More here: Indonesian democracy deserves closer scrutiny

OBAMA TO BE REELECTED

The 'Powers That Be' would appear to have decided that Obama is to be reelected.

Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy have done what they were told to do - such as supporting the CIA's Arab Spring.

The Republicans will be told that they are to choose a weak candidate.

The stock market will be made to rise.

At least that is the theory.

Even Sarkozy may get back in, as he plays the 'race card' and promises to deal with 'immigrants'.

OBAMA ADOPTED BY MK ULTRA?

Will Obama Be Reelected? The Stock Market Has The Answer.

"How the stock market does in the month of January indicates how stocks will do during the year."

The stock market did well in January.

"The S&P 500 did an excellent job as an election-prognosticator technique in the past 62 years, with an accuracy rate of 88%...

"When the S&P 500 index rises from July 31 through October 31, the incumbent President ends up being reelected...."

N.B. our predictions are sometimes wrong. God does play dice.


"Is that your leg I can feel? Reminds me of Eton." (Eton schoolboys)

"We are on the side of brave citizens who are demanding their universal rights, in Bahrain, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in Guantánamo."

"We are in favour of the destruction of copies of the Koran, urinating on dead Taliban, and the massacre of civilians." (Roosevelt and Churchill / Massacres occupation)

Kennedy and the 'gay' UK prime minister Harold Macmillan. (Website)